well, the university network is down AGAIN. am compelled to type random sentences... may self-destruct with boredom otherwise. ian (or was it st peter?) wrote: as the buddha once said "fuck me with a long hot baguette, i'm buggered if i know what's going on". which sums it all up really. i'm reading 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' at the moment, which means that i can be found sitting lost in thought on the train every morning with a furrow as deep as the grand canyon between my brows. is it, i wonder, possible to STOP THINKING? i know hannah brown was going to give it up for lent - let me know how you manage hannah. i'm sure there's an interesting zen point to be made about the process of trying to obtain belle and sebastian tickets. it stands to reason that something so complicated must contain the meaning of the universe within it somewhere. personally, i decided to prove to myself that i am not a sad obsessed fan by, er, not buying a ticket. didn't work - now i'm just a sad, obsessed, GRUMPY fan who's �20 better off. i just noticed, however, that i've got a whole WEEK AND A HALF off work at easter, and have formulated a vague plan to head up to scotland, whore myself around glasgow a bit, and then somehow acquire a ticket for edinburgh. whaddya think? the lovely featherboa made me feel less alone in my phone phobia, which was nice. i wonder if imagining the person on the end of the line naked works? or would it just make it much worse? toy stephen, the word is palindrome. the first words spoken by a human were in fact palindromic: 'madam, i'm adam'. (this is the kind of pointless game that keeps me busy for hours on end. i spent all morning (in a break from zen) doing cryptic crosswords and listening to a programme about whether pontius pilate really said 'what is truth'? not the best way to switch my mind off perhaps...) last night i did relax properly, or tried to, by putting one of those fizzy balls in a hot bath. but what they don't tell you is that as it dissolves it releases loads of petals and shit into the water, so you can't relax fully because you're worrying about how you're going to get all this floating matter out of the plughole later... sometimes i think i have enough free-floating anxiety to power a small country. luv archel xxx ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+