dearest Sinister, I feel strangely compelled to post, if only to correct the (erroneous, of course) impression that i joined the list only to pick up [Aus, vernacular, eqiv. to UK: pull]. So I thought the best way to do this was to summon up all of my higher faculties, wherever they had got to, and flood all 1500 of you with lyricism and erudition. It would have been a deluge of wit and wisdom, I'll tell you. But somewhere between my lyricism reserves and my fingers I took a detour and ended up at a petrol station beyond the black stump [Aus, vernacular, middle of bloody nowhere, cf. Woop Woop], spilling bad coffee on the maps and swearing, while it got darker and darker outside. (Or did was I stuck in the Doldrums? Have any of you read the Phantom Tollbooth? I love childrens' books more than life itself). It really has been a dull week - enlivened, of course, by all your wonderful posts from everywhere. There have been some very beautiful ones recently. Aside from reading them and being touched by how heartbreaking and lovely they were, I have been a bit lost in the Doldrums. I've spent all my time doing things related to art (like painting walls, hanging shows, delivering invitations, posting slides) but I haven't used my camera in a couple of weeks and I feel slightly empty. Richard Avedon put it more eloquently: "If I go through a day without doing something related to photography, I feel as though I have neglected something essential to my being; as if I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of being a photographer has made my life possible". Maybe the reason I'm not working is that I'm fundamentally a lazy perfectionist. Can other lazy-no-more perfectionists share the solution to this problem? I need to get rid of my perfectionism somehow. Perhaps some kind of ritual, an exorcism maybe, or psychic surgery where they wave your hands over your belly (where does perfectionism reside anyway?), slop around some fake blood, and shout "AH-HA! YOUR PERFECTIONISM IS GONE FOREVER" while holding up a bloody piece of gristle they bought from the butcher's last week, & which was just starting to turn. I bought "The Geometrid" last week, and have been listening to it a bit, but it didn't have the song about someone who doesn't believe that people landed on the moon. Is it on another album? Does it actually exist, or was I misinformed? If it does exist, then I'm convinced that it was written for my ex-boyfriend. There are many reasons we aren't together today, some involving being dumped over e-mail while travelling, being stranded at Heathrow with 25 kilos of luggage and £4.72 in my pocket, and the like, but the real clincher was that he didn't believe that people really landed on the Moon. I didn't catch the entirety of his mutterings, but they had something to do with the Ruskis, or possibly the Reds under the bed, and black helicopters, and closed-circuit television, and the spooky similarities between the seven-headed beast in Revelations and the United Nations, and definitely the World Zionist Conspiracy. On the list of things not to say to your half-Jewish girlfriend, I'd say that anything involving the World Zionist Conspiracy (or ZOG, as those wacky survivalists call it) ranks in the top ten. I will personally send some matzoh ball soup (or a flat-packed, customs-friendly equivalent), to the sinisterian/s who can offend me more! Oh dear, this really has been an outpouring of whinge. So sorry to vent my spleen at you all, who really don't deserve it. So here's something non whinge-related: Several people mentioned ice cream trucks. Where I used to live, in the nearest thing London has to a ghetto, ice cream trucks used to go by at 2am, playing music and everything. As a wide-eyed first year, I was very confused by this. Who buys ice cream at 2am, I wondered? Then someone told me they sold DRUGS (cue collective gasp from audience). I saw three of them, parked outside someone's house near the tube station. Didn't the police know about this? Or did the driver buy them off with lemon ice lollies, flakes and chocolate sprinkles? When I do start living the life of the beautiful people, I promise to tell you all about it - love & apologies, sophia X _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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