Hello Sinisterines, Today I returned from New York. I was supposed to return from it yesterday but I missed a plane. Very stressful experience, that. So I caught a very early flight and slept through the Trembling Blue Stars Peel Session and a Very Important Phone Call. The phone call I can call back about, even though it was from people who are thinking of paying me money to do things on a regular basis, but the TBS Peel Session is truly a loss. Maybe someone recorded it... Mr. Pinefox has asked some questions of me. I will answer them in the form of a story. Here goes... THE CAST RHODA: A craftswoman who makes the most fantastic oaken desks, she spends her days at work and her nights clubbing. Her darkest secret: she is really only six years old, despite what her ID says. Her favorite drink: vodka with an orange juice chaser. She's not as young as she looks, but whoever is in this day and age, in this day and age? Or at least that's what she tells admirers, or people who listen to her song. NAPSTER: A sagely Durian, he is a postman whose personality is as prickly as the spines on his gourdlike body. He spends his spare time surprising people by dropping from trees. His favorite drink: 7 and 7. Also, he tastes like an onion, only worse. So I am told, anyway. MP3: The world's dullest robot, MP3 (or empee three as he is referred to more commonly) is an engineer who makes bridges. In his spare time he sighs a lot and bores people to death by talking about bridgebuilding minutiae. He's also very fond of the Dave Brubeck Trio. He also has a short barrel-looking sidekick who speaks in clicks and whirs, and whose name is DBT, or Deebee Tee. His favorite drink: oil can. There are some more supporting castmembers, but this has already gone too far. For the record I didn't eat any durian at the New York Pick Nick, but I was very curious as to their proper spelling, and now I know. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun. I still need to get the pictures out of my camera, actually. A random pink-haired girl knocked on Megan and Julie's door while we were in their dormitory room, and she was on a quest for pulp products (not to be confused with Pulp products). She saw my B&S shirt and asked when they were going to tour again. So if any members of B&S are listening, your casual non-Sinister-cardholding members are starting to get restless. Best do a tour of duty to keep the troops' morale up, like Yamamoto would have done. She also had heard about the picnics we have. Are these picnics universally known to people who like B&S but aren't on the list? Years later, if I tell B&S-liking strangers I went to one of these picnics, will they say "Oh, you went to one of THOSE?" Only time will tell. Actually, if one of you knows the answer you can tell me as well. Or compose the answer in the form of a novella, featuring Rhoda, Napster and Empee Three. Or not. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky@mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+