hello all, i've been listening to the Hives recently. they're GRATE. in fact, they are my new favourite band (well, not really, but it was too good a line to waste). they're coming to dublin in may, and i will be there, admiring their impeccable dress sense. i like bands with a sense of humour ... but not joke bands, which are completely different and somewhat annoying. as usual i've left it too long between postings and all the mails i'd intended to say something about are too old. gah. i have read every mail, though, and basically yer all fab. just one or two things that i can squeeze in (missus) before i go home for my tea: stewie louie ratatouille's mention of Singles Awareness Day and Commodify Your Love-Life Day made me laugh -- I also am in full support of open hostility to manufactured holidays. personally i'm looking forward to Patronise Anyone With A Set Of Ovaries Day ... oh wait, that was last friday wasn't it? i enjoyed robster's photos, stacey dahling's too, and liz's. brighton looked bluddy cold. welcome to oscar (nice dramatic intro to the world of B&S there!), and gudmundur too. and anyone else who's new. astrid is very lucky indeed to have snogged all of the strokes. do they appear black and white in real life as well? i suspect they do. hannah reminded me of how fab Underworld are. their first album (with darren emerson, not that scary-looking mid-80s one) is still my favourite post-club chilling-out album. mmmm skyscraper ... i've just read sophia katrina's mail about australia's sins. i saw a bit of a program recently about aborigine children who were taken from their parents and reared in horrible-sounding orphanages. the program tracked down some of the children, now adults whose lives have somehow never worked out and who have never got over the trauma of being (often brutally) taken away from their parents for no other reason than that they were aborigines. as the camera followed them, recorded their conversations, there was such a sense of lost potential and lives wrecked beyond repair, which i found terribly sad. ken and carsmile mentioned horse racing, which reminds me of my night out at greyhound racing last week with my workmates. in the first race there was a dog called - wait for it - Sebastian's Earl! ah hah, i thought, this must be lucky. so i put two euros on him to win .... and he came last, the pathetic pooch. bah. don't go gambling, my friends, it is a mug's game. i'll try to write more next time ... begob, here's me bus! rener ===== "Do not teach the world to sing. They'll only start singing" -- Jane Bussman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+