Hey there babies I'm safely returned from the big apple, having had a simply wunnerful time. Meg and I were super-touristy, we went to the empire state building, the statue of liberty, museum of modern art, radio city music hall, central park, bloomingdales, macys and, of course, other music where we pushed our way through the heaving crowds of lumberjacks to gaze in awe at the picture of a certain foxglove which adorned the wall (is this the coolest man in poetry?) Contrary to other reports the picture *is* still there, so i suggest all sinisterines on the east coast of america book their pilgrimages now. We also has the priviledge of visiting the Fez club where we witnessed possibly the first post-baxendale band called the plantains, who despite singing in an english accent about the jubilee line and the millennium dome were actually american... crazy world. But now i'm back in dear old blighty, working my arse off at the moment (apart from tuesday when i went to a conference (and delivered a penguin)), and toying with the idea of going out and getting horribly pished and dancing with styoodents or just going to bed as i am rather tired. Remember there's still time to bid in the auction, unless you want richard or mick, hands off they're MINE, i'm planning a boozy weekend in glasgow you see, curry with mick on the friday, snooker with richard on the saturday (and if i had stuart to drive me about it would be even better, but he's getting a bit pricey) i would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you very much to the noo yoikians who showed us around and took us for drinks and food and stuff, even though i think that there is only one of them currently active on the list...I'd be better off going and changing the topic in #sinister to "steve says thanks" Inevitably there will be photos of the trip at some point... I know it's possibly a bit early for this, but is anyone else thinking of going to All Tomorrows Parties in April, apparently tickets are on sale now, so we might get like chalet 103 and only have to walk about 20 yards to the pub if we book soon... MMMM, HELLO GHD GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK (hello big stu too) xoxo CarsmileSteve ps i have a drew t-shirt and you don't, so ner! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+