Hello Sinister! Ooh it's been a while hasn't it? Like Andrea (hi!) I am now a Professional Information Goddess, having finished my MA - which seemed to take about nine years although it was really only three - in May. I don't think I'll be launching my new skills on the unsuspecting library world just yet though, as I now have a little Sinister bun in the oven hooray! *waves at all the illustrious and lovely Sinister parents* I know Mozart is the composer of choice for making unborn babies clever or whatever (my mum favoured Bach I believe so I am only moderately endowed with genius), but Belle and Sebastian seem to me to be ideal pre-birth listening for the discerning foetus. Matt might go for something a bit more bass-heavy and I can see his point because there's a lot of distracting background noise in the womb, but I also think the baby needs to be born with the melody to Another Sunny Day already hardwired into its brain. Famously, current crops of babies are soothed by the Neighbours theme tune, because when their mothers were pregnant it signified them sitting down and relaxing, which relaxation was transmitted to bubs. But I don't have a TV and the programmes I watch on DVD [Lost, 24, Alias, The West Wing] tend to raise my heart rate if anything. But B&S do make me relax. At this rate baby Archel-Matt will recognise Stuart Murdoch's voice better than it recognises ours. Update on The Life Pursuit: I now like all but one track very much, including We Are The Sleepyheads which I was unaccountably indifferent to before (Honey you were right all along!). But Mornington Crescent is still by Oasis. Red knicker picnic sounds lovely. (And I guess it's true what they say about Primrose Hill being a fertility site then...) I hope I can come - as long as Ken promises not to bring any cod roe, as merely reading his post made me want to heave. Whatever cravings I eventually get I am almost sure they won't be for fish eggs. Not sure what a Sinister picnic looks like sober though, so that will be strange... My sandwiches: humous and cucumber. Although today I will get to have a Sandwich Adventure, because I am buying one at work instead of making my own. Who knows what delights the lovely ladies in the Humanities Cafe will have to offer? I'm sure there were other things to say but they've slipped my mind. Still, if I remember them later then it might mean I'll post more than once this year. Warm fuzzies to all of you, Archel+bump xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+