Hello, My email address is now deceptive, as well as being embarrassing, I am back in the ‘burbs! And I can still read Sinister, which is a treat, however I still miss out on everything, i.e. traipsing out to bleedin’ Berkshire for a partee on the London picnic weekend. D**n! Is anyone coming out to celebrate Tigermilk day? I don’t intend to hide from everyone, honest. Instead I have been a solitary figure of tweeness in incongruous surroundings. I will insist on being clad in my stow shirt whenever I visit my local – it’s a very gruff Lahndahn boozer that serves lethally strong ale and shows obscure foreign footie on the telly – and Saturday brings the piss (in a bottle) de resistance. I am going, (cos I am a very kind girlfriend and it is my more metal half’s birthday) to the Big Day Out at Milton Keynes Bow,l to thrill to the sounds of Minstry, Marilyn Manson and Metallica and several other flavours of rawk. I quake in dread. Can anyone recommend any good earplugs cos I do want to see the make up and explosions but I think the music will be tedious – Monster Magnet anyone? On the other hand, do you think it would be rude of me to bring a book and wrap think bandages around my ears? Would I get moshed or ignored? I am preparing in advance by lounging around in my flares next to my wind chimes listening to my mum’s Love LP. Hence the title. I am merging twee and hippy aren’t I? But I am stocking up reserves of calm and beauty before the metal onslaught. If I’m begging, and this is very lazy of me, if anyone knows owt about QPR or Watford FC and would like to help me with my research for work, I would be very grateful. This seems to be a very brit-centric email, I’m afraid. Cos I was just going to say how strange it is that the music press is more obsessed with B+S than we are. This month’s Select is LITTERED with references, both in a cool name-dropping a slightly obscure but trendy band and in a short-hand for weediness way. It seriously hampers my chances of developing another topic of conversation. But hey, that’s everybody else’s problem, right? Actually in Select there is a bizarre advert for Tigermilk that seems to be advertising Mary Jo, not as a single, but simply the fact that when Tigermilk is released we will all be able to hear the song, which is nice, but unusual. I don’t remember anyone else doing that. But I don’t remember much. There’s a great pic of a little girl pulling a face, anyway. Mmmmm, one of my holiday resolutions was to write better posts, this is certainly LONGER than usual. Anyway it will be good if anyone types Monster Magnet into the archive search, won’t it (whoops, now I get seven posts referring me politely to the convoluted metal debate 6 months prior to my arrival on the list, don’t I? Sorry). Lots of love Looking forward to Monday very very very very very very very mussh indeed! pamela *Now that’s what I call enthusiastic!* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+