more wisdom about Careless Talk.../Everett True from the dirty vicar - very accurate appraisal. i think i'll stay loyal (as far as my loyalty to any music magazine goes) to Uncut, flaws and all. (though i suspect that some of the really good writers from melody maker didn't even end up there, but retired gracefully when they realised that slagging things off for a living made them depressed.) ian wrote: "archel said something interesting but i can't remember what it was." i can't remember either. he then wrote "DILDOS!" but i don't think there was a connection. rachel fruitloop tickled my vanity and spoke wisdom when she said i would show you a good time in brighton. (she also made me swoon and sigh at a great sinister romance. though i am ever more glad that my beloved lives in the same country, town, and now house as me...) half of another great sinister romance also tickled my vanity re. my website, even praising something i'd written myself. so he's welcome in brighton anytime :) speaking of which, james danson hatcher suggested 31st february for the meetup. when i worked out what that meant i was quite offended - just what is wrong with brighton that we can only meet there on a non-existent date? although in a way it would be cool to commandeer the town for sinisterines in a bizarre lapse of space-time and rampage through the amusement arcades in our flares and cardies... though brighton can be quite bizarre anyway. as our flat is on the top floor of our building we have a birds-eye view of the street below, and the things which go on down there would fill a novel (or a post from kirsten at least). there's the old man who keeps a stash of coats and furniture behind some boards on the new building site - sadly busted a few days ago. there were the two teenage girls on the porch steps across the road, drinking cider and self-consciously playing hissy speed folk (at least that's the only way i can describe it) at top volume from their ghetto blaster. the bmx stunt guy risking life and limb by the parking bay at all hours of the day and night, and the skate kids teaching younger skate kids kerb tricks with surprising care and patience. the woman screaming into a mobile phone, the man asleep on the pavement next to her car. i love it all. this is for rebecca: someone *has* invented a backwards dictionary for you - it's called 'descriptionary' and it's by a guy called marc mccutcheon. 2nd edition out now, rrp �15.99. luv archel xxx ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.org.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.com <nb: site undergoing maintenance> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+