Sinister: When I am king, dilly dilly, you can be queen
Blimey, that lovebug business was a bit nasty. Work closed down our email and internet for two whole days last week - shudders! I don't know how I coped. I got a lovely little flyer for 2000 troubled teenagers in the post yesterday. It's got some grubby urchins on the front and the one in the middle bears an uncanny resemblence to Nick Dastoor. Speaking of which, he enquired thus:
Was Isobel's biker jacket made out of little foxes?
What a fantastic guess! Yes, indeed, it was made of little foxes. But did you know that her slippers had real bunnies' heads on them too? With blood dripping from their eyes? I'd heard she was a shoe fetishist but these would make Imelda Marcos green with envy. I wish I'd asked where she got them from. Billy Bragg was on telly the other night. It was a programme called New Labour On Trial and he was having a big argument with a politician. I'm ashamed to say I only switched over and caught the last minute or so, but he looked mighty het up. He was red in the face and almost crying. Billy Bragg - he cares. It's funny how he seems to be invited to take part in political programmes more and more these days. I can't remember it happening 10 years ago, although maybe one of the Braggarts on the list will put me right. My friend has done a terrible thing. She sent me a present and I'm sure her intentions were good, but it's turned me into a girl on a mission, which is not pretty. Every evening, I make my way straight to the newsagent and procure ten packets of... Panini Euro 2000 stickers to fill the book she sent me. Really, I should have finished this phase many years ago, but God! It's addictive! I already have a big pile of swopsies and am looking for swoppees. Is anyone else collecting or am I the only poor sad loser around these parts? Postal swops are most definitely acceptable. Look, I'm desperate, right? Ahem. What HAS the doctor prescribed Jason Andreas? These days, he seems to <grin> and <giggle> like some mad old loony. Or perhaps he's in lurve? Completely unable to decide what to wear to the picnic... Juicy Lucy Beeee-eeeeen, I posted your tape this morning, honest I did. I even got you a brand new jiffy! -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Luscious Lucy has prompted me again to pack something into your mailboxes,so she is the one to blame if you dislike this.I have decided lately to rely more and more on the destiny's arms, the inmorality of publicity and the declive of the educative system as responsibles for my failures and mistakes in life.Responsability is over... Right after the selling-out trend has become old-fashioned,different messages,including hers,seem actually a sort of catalogue for brisk marketing junior assistants ready to decypher what the market demands nowadays.It won't be long,if there is any of them crouching in Lurkerdom,that Belle and Sebastian twee,girlie collectable stickers and albums ad-hoc would be ready at any self-respecting cornershop in the country,together with assorted jellies in the shape of green Isobel's heads and pink Struan's bare torsos, probably some range of lollipops should become available too,anything else?Lucy would not have troubles to do her swappings at the coffee break,everybody would be rushing to get one copy to start the game.Go figure,Pokemon! Not to talk about the infinite possibilities suggested by the UNIFORM's followers.Hot pants in dark green with a smart pattern of golden B&S's printed all over in Louis Vuitton/Loewe style for the most sophisticated, Miss Selfridge's version of 'the Foxy jacket', or socks with little buses and trams. Sure these commercial operations would provide the needed boost into this household name to support the fanciful footwear shopping.When will we find 'I' at the newsagent? I reckon there will be some foxes featured in the first cover. Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Lucy Alder, grinning like a monkey, said
Every evening, I make my way straight to the newsagent and procure ten packets of... Panini Euro 2000 stickers to fill the book she sent me.
When I was just a little boy, I had a motorbike sticker album. I used to spend all my pocket money on motorbike stickers, fascinated by the sight of all these men in rubber suits, pulling their throttles and whizzing away. Once, I accidentally stuck one sticker in upside down. I thought this was very funny, because the man was riding his bike, but, like, upside down! So, I stuck in all the other stickers I had upside down too! After a day or two, the sight of upside down motorcyclists somehow didn't seem that funny anymore and I realised I had made a terrible mistake. So I gave up collecting stickers and threw the album in the loft to join my Johnny Ball Chemistry Set and Beginner's Magic - 100 Easy Tricks. Easy, my arse. There's a moral in this I think. No, actually I just think I'm stupid. I missed Steve Lurpak last night. But that's no loss really, I can never listen to him without being distracted by the thought of his funnily shaped head. I looks like it's made out of cardboard. Whatever he's saying all I can hear is "Hi I'm Steve Lamacq, I've got a cardboard head". It's terrible, really. Er, bye Robin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Alder, Lucy -
Arantxa Sanz -
Robin Stout