Winter - there are lots of great things about it, like getting to wrap up in my PLO scarf, simultanaeously keeping warm and showing my solidarity with The Struggle. Other great things are the way I get to walk around in my long coat, indulging my Joy Division fantasies. And it's very important to eat lots of food in the winter, something I always like having an excuse to do. Certain aspects of the winter are less excellent. Like the way it pissed rain all day today, and because of my rub shoes my little feet got all wet. Hopefully my new shoes will solve this annoying problem. I also don't like the way it's dark before I leave work every evening. This is distinctly not good. Perhaps I shall move to a country further south where there is less of an imbalance between day lengths at different times of the year. I wonder will The Great Band Of Our Times decide to tour this winter? Last time they played up in that Belfast and I went up to it and met loads of the Irish Sinister posse. Great days, but will they be repeated? Musically, it's all been a bit action packed lately. Popular American band Fugazi played here on Friday, and I went to see them in the interests of science. They were a lot less humourless than I thought they'd be, and the one who looked a bit like the Pinefox jumped around like a little muppet. But while thinking they were a pretty good band they haven't become my new favourites or anything, and I don't really get why so many of the people there think they're the best band in the world. The next day I met a Sinister subber called Robin who was over to see Fugazi. Small world, eh? Meanwhile, I was taken to task for suggesting that The Other Place was doing something cooler than us by having a big meetup in Manchester. All I really meant was that no one had organised a monster get together of all the Sini-subbers of these islands in the time I've been subbed to this list. But I've learned my lesson, and I will not mention the Realm Of Darkness by name again. and now I must go. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+