I thought I should do something for Valentine's Day. I stopped in at Woolworth's. I looked at the records. REVOLVER cost �15.99. I thought, I'm not sure I'd pay �5.99. I was going to head on out when 'Take On Me' started. I couldn't leave during 'Take On Me'. I picked up a Spider-Man video and put it down. I wandered across to the Pick&Mix. One day I may have to recount the days when I would lock my bicycle on the edge of the market in autumn's early dusk, wander into another Woolworth's, and under the bright lights pile up a bag of mixed sweets that would cost more than I'd expected. I thought I would pay tribute to such memories for Valentine's Day. I decided to be careful. I only picked one of each sweet, in most cases. Cola fizz bottles. Blue bottles. A monochrome shark. strings of black and yellow, loops of orange and green. A shrimp. A white mouse. A strawberry. Red lips. By the time I'd reached the counter, 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)' was finishing. The total cost was 78p. I considered that reasonable. As I walked out on to the street, I put the white mouse in my mouth. It cracked open in an instant of snowblind rapture. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+