Good morning/afternoon A short story........................There was once a chap living in Portsmouth in the UK (well someone has to) who fell in love with Belle & Sebastian, discovered a wonderful mailing list which in turn grew and developed an extra limb in the shape of a chatroom (not sure what type of limb that would be?) This chatroom introduced the chap to a lot of cool people but one in particular stole his heart and after a couple of years of phone calls at strange times of the day the chap left good old Portsmouth, moved to America and got married where he's currently living happily ever after (pause for ahhhhhs) Now as is the tradition at the wedding the couple was presented with money from their kind and generous relatives and after purchasing a plethora of toasters and oven mittens they thought we know we'll release a CD of bands we love and thus began a process that lasted almost as long as the couple's relationship............ Among the bands who kindly gave them songs were several with strong Sinister/Belle & Sebastian connections including The Lucksmiths and three song featuring Sinister listees themselves. These are Callow who gave them a song that sounds like the precious offspring of a romantic union between Stuart Murdoch & Joe Pernice, Ireland's finest The Dudley Corporation with a song actually about the couple's overseas love and Aberdeen featuring the very lovely Beth Dean now of The Trembling Blue Stars and their better than the original version of Biff Bang Pows' She Never Understood. Add to this wonderful songs by the likes of The Aislers Set, Lovejoy, Jordans, Watoo Watoo & White Town and you can just imagine the joy the couple felt when all these boxes of CDs were deposited on the doorstep of their Hoboken abode. But the couple soon realized that much like when you find an abandoned baby Polar Bear it's not fair to keep it locked up inside it should be allowed to run free and find others of it's own Polar Bear kind and so the couple decided it was only fair to do the same with their CDs. So they felt they should turn to you dear fellow Sinisterines to help nurture their CDs and let them meet your no doubt inspired CD collections where they can have rich and fulfilling lives. Do you want to help? I'm sure you do and for the price of two pints (roughly) of your favorite beverage you can!!! Just click here: http://www.redrosesforme.com Thank you, you've been a wonderful audience steve x red roses for me po box 1118, hoboken NJ 07030 USA www.redrosesforme.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+