Damn that little butterfly Boy from MSN. Damn him and his short subject lines. I am loquacious, by gad, even prolix. I need my space. Fortunately, I seem to have enough of that of late. I moved, you see. Across town to a proper little house in Durham. It's quite cheap and very nice. Even the cat likes it, he's all picking fights with the new tomcats. Probably losing, as he is my cat, and consequently well, short and pretty twee. For a kitty. He's been sporting a little badge on his collar -- along with a bell -- that has MERGE RECORDS on. Merge is the label than M Bond and Essex Green are on. Also the Magnetic Fields used to be, but they moved. Anyway, M Bond and the Essex Green rock. Or rather, they Pop. You should look into them. Alex went on about the new Lucksmiths. I think that's great. I'm in my "I Love the Lucksmiths" phase right now. I listen to "Off with his Cardigan" every day as I get ready for work. It makes me happy even before my 4 or 5 shots of espresso. I can't wait to hear new stuff. Speaking of Great and New and Australia, there's this band called Architecture in Helsinki. Two of their songs were sent to me by that noted World Traveller, Phil-two. They also pop quite hard. Go also and listen to them. I am currently preparing my little new place for the arrival of one Laura Llew. The cat will be decked out in all his finery and waiting to stare at her. They're close like that. She's coming to see the Delgados. Well, she says that, but I think she's here to stock up on booze and boys. Or at least hang out in bars and look at boys. Like Gordon the Bartender or Damon Who Never Looks at Me. Speaking of not looking at me, there's this boy who comes into my shop who is hott, hott, hott and I finally realized why. He's a dead ringer for Jeff Buckley. AND he has a twin brother (who doesn't look quite as much like Jeff -- it's the hair, I think). I am of course quite in love. Though THAT always turns out badly. Except for Mark Cassaratto (Which is similar to the actual spelling if not the actual spelling) who sent me BUS PORN! That's right, actually adult pictures of the No 22 Bus to Putney Common. It was so much I had to stop blogging for days. Days, I tell you. Well, this has gone on quite long enough and it is very late. Today's payday, so I have booze to drink and debts to pay. Later, yo l'Autre (Gay) Jay This post brought to you by New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle" from their new Retro comp., "Poor Boy, Minor Key" by M Bond from his Transfiguration of Vincent album, Lazy Line Painter Jane, "By the Sea" by the Essex Green from their album The Long Goodbye and "Brittle Women" by Glass Candy from their disc "Love Love Love". PS: Whoever did something inappropriate with me and Miss Crush better 'fess up quick-like. That ain't decent, yo. PPS: Speaking of "yo", be very careful of the sites you visit at work. I went to the blog of a certain person on the list who frequently says "yo" and the boss walked in. "Um, no boss, I SWEAR it isn't porn!" I said when he chastised me for looking at adult sites. "Then why is there a picture of a boy in dishabille?" he rather reasonably enquired. "Umm." I said. "I know that's your thing, Jay" he said sternly "But NOT AT WORK!" Now I'm all confused if by "my thing" he means being gay, gay porn, gay porn at work, or gay porn at work of Sinister Boys. -- "The Posby falls into a Trance In which it does a little Dance." Edward Gorey _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+