Wotcha list. 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' sounds like a stupid anagram, and I love stupid anagrams. So I am NEARLY excited. Although my CD budget has been whittled away to nothing by the evils of DEBT. So, kids, if you want to be enjoying Belle & Sebastian in your old age (much like Carsmile and David Moore for example hoho), don't take out loans. Just work really hard and try to live somewhere with low rent, like a cardboard box. Summer is a very busy time here in the language school. I am unable to do all the appropriate things such as ease my feet in the sea, have picnics, go on holiday and get pissed on Cosmopolitans. Also I have improving books about libraries to read. So I probably haven't posted to Sinister for a good long while. Here I am, though. I am drinking Ribena as we speak. And I found time to add Ken's latest effort to http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pastiches which Ian and other interested parties may like to revisit for their pastiche fix. Plug over. (Not smut.) Hm, what else is there to say? I am moving house again, to be the proud owner of a Patio (which offers all kinds of possibilities for seaside Sinister gatherings, of course.) I was thinking the other day about the 'gang' I had at university, a group of friends and acquaintances more or less on tap, who could always be relied on to congregate in one bar, or one person's house, or whatever. Nowadays there are things called jobs which seem to interfere in a most unattractive way, meaning that the simplest social arrangement between even TWo people, let alone 20, takes weeks of planning. Whose door can I knock on at 1am now, eh? This made me sad. But then I realised that there IS still a gang I belong to, one whose members DO always know where to find each other. The names and faces change, but whatever time zone or mood you're in, someone's out there. Thanks Sinister, love Archel ******* Rachel Playforth Resources Assistant Sussex Language Institute University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+