so b&s have recorded 'pop songs'. in inverted commas. and here we all were thinking that they manufactured frozen chickens. tch. and i wouldn't describe the springfields as dusty springfield's backing band. i was in a very nice pub on saturday, called the great eastern, which i don't think is a delgados reference. they played tbwtas though, which was fun. *i* don't even play tbwtas any more. i have also found the coolest shop, devoted to all things francais. lots of lovely musique, livres, babar, boules, and Best Of All extravagant amounts of petit prince merchandise. i covet their cute lunchboxes but can only afford the pencils... (no sexual subtext intended - this is the little prince we're talking about, people.) all the submissions i've had to buzzwords this year have been from people called greg. really. i've never even met *one* person called greg before. anyway, thanks to greg and greg. for top extra-sinister literary action there's still only one place to be..... would some nice person like to send me a tape/cd of 'the friends of rachel worth' because i *still* can't afford to buy it (given that my local record shops, or thieving bastards as i prefer to call them, think £16 an acceptable price) and my boyfriend's stereo is out of commission so i can't scrounge tapes off him like i usually do. i ask this in the knowledge that there are at least 4 go-betweens evangelists out there who won't see this as flagrant blagging but as an exciting opportunity to spread the (ageing) word of forster and maclennan. fools... umm... i can't ride on city buses for a hobby any more, as i've started to get dramatically travel sick on anything which doesn't go on rails, a phenomenon last seen on family holidays to cornwall (8 hours in a mini, 7 of which were spent vomiting). i fear this is all part of the general regression initiated by bagpuss all those months ago... since i can't travel any more, we're going to have to have a brighton meet-up. i've been meaning to organise this for a while - anyone interested enough please mail me. well, must go, job applications to avoid, washing up to leave for someone else, you know how it is... archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+