Hello then. JOE STRUMMER HAS MANKY TEETH. But you can't hold that against him. He was in the Clash after all. Well, it seems that my friendly GP has finally scuppered my plans to drink until the wine actually came out of my ears. He showed me a chart of a naked person who only had half of his skin, and there were big arrows pointing to all the gloopy things inside, along with helpful explanations on exactly how they would break. he also said he wouldn't be held responsible, which I thought was a bit off. I thought that GPs were supposed to be very responsible. Now the evenings go on for aaages. What do the ordinary people do with all this free time? I think I'll just sit here and play with this bit of string. Elvis Costello is a funny man isn't he? Is it just my imagination or does he look an awful lot like Steve Wright? The best thing about having a job is taking a day off, like I did today. My head was all chock full of cool and wonderful things I was going to do, but I just ended up wandering around town in a sort of daze wondering where I could buy a Birthday card for my brother. Apparently now that it's November the only greetings card one can buy are Christmas cards or cards with I AM 9 badges and a wishy washy pic of a kid in a flat cap playing golf. Well phooey to you Clinton Cards. Luckily, I have a backup plan - I'll just pretend I forgot. Fiendish. And don't even get me started on Frank Black. The Pixies were MY IDEA you thieving POP GURU BASTARD. Someone sent me a lovely email today and it really cheered me up. When I see him tomorrow I'll thank him personally and offer to buy him a coffee. So I reckon each and every one of you should take 5 minutes to send off a quick mail to someone you haven't spoken to for a while. Or phone your mum. Go on, it'll make you feel better. There'll be a nation (world?) wide Sinister Glow. Kieth says...

i bet if i said bad things about tom waits i would see a counter right away, so i will not

Kev says : God bless Tom Waits :) But that doesn't mean I want to go out for a drink with the guy, no way. I bet you could strike matches on his palms. I still reckon he should get his own show on Radio 4 though. Imagine - an afternoon in contemplation with Waits. Tom discusses the spiritual and physiological benefits of bashing the hell out of bin lids and singing like there's a dead rat in your throat. Followed by Gardeners Question time, where he could have a guest spot talking about keeping chickens. It'll happen one day, you mark my words. Um, I'll go away now. I've got about 5 hours worth of nothing to do. Interspersed with hoovering and uncontrollable weeping. Love and, well, more love really. Kev. ps. If anyone has read and enjoyed Ihiguro's The Unconsoled and can recommend something along the same lines I'd be everso grateful. Ta. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+