Sinister: "The next station is VICTORIA. Change at VICTORIA for: The VICTORIA Line..."
Sini-stars, My favourite Tube line for announcements is the Circle Line. The voice sounds like a little girl who was forced to speak the names of stations and connections without fully understanding what any of it means. By far the greatest bit is when she says: "Please mind the... GA-AP between the train and the platform" like someone nudged her with a rifle during the recording. I can't believe these recordings were considered usable and that they've been used for as long as I've lived here, so in case they suddenly disappear, as of today I shall be taking my minidisc recorder on the Tube to preserve these aural artifacts for future, puzzled generations. Anyway, let's get topical: Easter A fine four days, despite having to work on saturday, whilst still drunk/very ill from Sally's excellent party the night before. I eschewed further socialising and expenditure by staying in and eating loads. And watching Flash Gordon. Thus becoming the only person in the country not to see The Aislers Set last week. Today, I bought my easter egg, as I don't receive them any more (half price at the Co-Op, Greenwich people...) Klaus Kinski Was amused by Gordon's reference* as I'm reading his autobiography at the moment. Has anyone else read it? It's amazing, like a 'Confessions..' film, but true. (*The film with Nastassja is 'Hotel New Hampshire,' not that I've seen it though) Celebrity stalkers Like Pez, I used to see Johnny/Pete X all the time in Newcastle, too. Then, I used to get followed around London by the singer from Gomez. Then it was Danny Baker. It seems to have stopped now. PJ Harvey came into my work the other day, though. Perhaps she's the latest agent they've sent... Bobby & Larry Living with Bobby the 'cockroach' and Larry the 'frog' has opened me up to the possibility that I have the ability to see things as they really are, like in They Live or The Invisibles, as neither creature resembles their alleged form, to me. Rather, they're freaky space monsters who control our will to consume and conform, in preparation for their masters inheriting the planet.... I'll, er, let you know if the situation worsens... "Who wears the blank badge...?" Mike. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Mike (MIWinship@aol.com) said he got followed by celebrities... this prompted me to remember a story from my past... Me and my friend were going to a GYBE! gig... I was only just getting into them at that point... the gig being the place I really found out how good they are. When we got to Manchester (where the gig was) we found out that my friend had lost his ticket and panicked, not knowing we could buy one at the door. We tried buying a copy of the NME and ringing the hotline number for the gig... but it didn't work. We walked around re-tracing our steps but couldn't find it. While we were re-tracing our steps we saw two guys walking around who seemed to be going everywhere we went. We joked that they were following us. A while later we decided the only thing to do was to hang around outside. After about half and hour three guys came out, tow of them the guys we'd seen before... stupidly we assumed they were something to do with the management, told them what had happened and asked if we could buy tickets. They said they'd put us on the guestlist. We stood around chatting for a little while, till my friend said, "Hang on... are you the band", at which point they said something like, "Smelly clothes, bottles of beer, Canadian accents... of course we're the band". At this point me and my friend just stood there, me saying the word 'wow!' in the most inane fashion possible, for about a minute before walking of, stunned. We left for a while, to do some shopping in Manchester and, about an hour later, as we were walking through the same section we'd seen the GYBE! members before, we saw them again, walking the exact same distance behind up, in the exact same place. Anyway we went to the gig and it was brilliant. That's it really. Silly story. Oh, and I'd like to announce a complete the sentence competition. The task it to complete the sentence: "........................ and only Kevin Costner can save the world". Entries can be sent to p.carter@bathspa.ac.uk or onlykevincostnercansavetheworld@akooka.demon.co.uk which is the address of the guy who thought up the idea... and, incidentally, the guy who introduced me to B&S. Admittedly the competition is not a blatant attempt to get free stuff... but you can't have everything can you? Peter NotMiller +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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