Hello babies I don't know if anyone has noticed (or, in fact, if it's just me), but if you sing the beginning of "Slow Graffitti" to yourself and then speed it up and speed it up a bit more it becomes "The Laughing Gnome" by Dame David Bowie. It's possible that I only noticed this after my very drunken friend (two bottles of wine by the end of the rugby on Saturday) managed to lever "Dame David and how fantastic his new album is" into every conversation on Saturday night. Don't get me wrong, i love Slow Graffitti and I hope i haven't spoiled it for anyone :) Finished "Nalda Said" yesterday (thank you for sending it Linda) and it's lovely and really really sad at the end. Someone said it was written in dialect, but it isn't to my mind. I think of dialect writing like in Irving Welsh, all "wide-o" and "dinneas" and "saltnsoss", but Nalda... is just written with an almost poetic use of language, so one does have to stop and read slowly (I'm terrible for skim reading things) to appreciate the use of words. Good characters and nice plot on top of this lovely prose style mean Top Marks to Mr David. I also notice from the inside back cover that Mr Techno Pagan Octop-arse wanky bollox has a book by the same publisher. Apparently its about taking drugs, travelling and BEING A FUCKIN' HIPPY. Sounds grate. Is it a sign of spending too much time in the chat room when you think about your "actions"? ie waving at someone and thinking *carsmile waves. Fortunately my new exciting job <cough> (I'm an "admin team leader", i'm in charge of people which is just a little scary (especially as they are all middle-aged women)) means I'm prob'ly going to be so snowed under with actual proper work (no laughing at the back, Hopkins) that I won't have time to sit and talk about the finer details of Battle of the Planets or the merits of assorted left wing political parties or being a cowboy. However, as I have a sparkly new pooter at home (it's grey-y beige actually), I'll just end up with mountainous phone bills from sitting and discussing the finer details of Battle of the Planets etc etc. I know i've told some of you individually, but for those of you i haven't had a chance to, there is a (currently rather small) Mr and Mrs CarsmileSteve Wedding Photo album at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/5727/wedding/weddindex.html Now I have my own scanner, I shall endeavor to add more piccies sooner rather than later. Oh, I taped Rosita (hmm), Hefner (wahoo), Flaming Lips (big wahoo) and Marine Research (erm, actually haven't listened to it yet) off the radio the other week, if anyone wants a copy. enough for now xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+