There is Lamchop playing on Radio 2, which makes me feel like emailing people. Last week, I was sat at home feeling glum because I was about to turn 22 and all my friends had gone on hiliday and nothing exciting was happening...then two exciting things happened all at once... 1. I went to see the Station Agent, which is ace, then went for a walk near a primary school where I saw a young boy sat on the edge of the football field wearing a traffic cone on his head...until two bolshie young ladies ran up to him, ripped it off his head and sneered. Our hero promptly picked it up, popped it back on and calmly continued to pretend to be a wizard. But that wasn't the exciting thing (although I also saw a Red Admiral which was pretty cool...) What happened was this..I was feeling nostalgic about college, a time when I felt vaguely clever and had an idea of what to do with my life, and remembered a moment during my final year, in the autumn. A lot of bad things happened then, which I can't be bothered to explain, but suffice to say I was listening to Jeff Buckley a lot and certainly not enough Echo and the Bunnymen. I bumped into a vague person, who I knew from being the only othe r indie person in my school and as far as I knew back then, maybe even the world, but somehow we didn't become friends. Unfortunately, I bumped into him while crying on a bench in the beer gardenn, and he kindly chatted to me for a while, telling me I shouldn't be upset and giving me good advice which I've forgotten now :) as well as slagging off the music industry. So I was vaguely (I'm very vague at the moment)wondering what happened to him, when I opened the local paper and saw an article about a student who was going to Africa for an education mission...and it was the same young man. So I'm thinking about the serendipity and wondering whether to drop him a note thanking him for being so nice on a night he probably doesn't remember... 2. I filled out a job application out of boredom and unemploymentm, anbd they contacted me the next day to go down to London for an interview...not only is this A Sign, but also means I get to go to9 another city for a few days, which is my patented cure for the mean reds...I would've done it months ago had I anyone to visit :) So I shall have to leave behind my Cheers watching, writing my Rubbish Novel and general mooching and go and tell some stranger why I'm so great. Anbd as I haven't been there for a while, I also plan to wear interesting hats and look round art galleries and Foyles. Hurrah! Suddenly, the whole world is opening up like a beautiful vagina.... ...hey, if Woody can say it, so can I. -gillian (www.livejournal.com/users/~mippy) ===== _________________________ 'i have a tendency to say hey do you remember that moment we shared in 1988,that was great, hey! 1988 was great'-milky wimpshake, yeah, it's true ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+