Sinister: Blue moons, lyrics, smut, Velocette

[Lucy Munro]

Um, no I'm not new or anything, I'm just very lazy and only get 
around to mailing this list once in a very blue moon (considering the 
smut that's around these days).

Has any one except me noticed the connection between Stuart M's 
inability to rememeber song lyrics and the gradual drafting of more 
and more people to sing instead of him?  Next stop, the Sinister male 
voice choir...

Oh, and talking of smut, I've an experience that I feel I should 
share with you - well, they say it's good to talk, so unburdening 
myself on 700+ strangers must be a good thing, right?  (why are you 
all looking at me in that strange way?)  As I walked into college 
on Saturday through the Embankment Garden, as it's nicer than walking 
up the Strand. At the top end, just before joining the road I was 
looking at one of the statues, which always intrigues me -
a little mustached head on a plinth with a sorrowful nymph of some kind
leaning against the plinth in a distraught fashion, it's the smug 
expression on his face that gets me - turned round and saw a man sat 
under a bush, with no trousers on, and, um, pleasuring himself as 
only men without trousers sat under bushes in the Embankment Gardens 
can.  VERY strange.  I mean, he was obviously enjoying himself, from 
the sound of things, but...  I hurried off, because I was worried 
that he might speak to me (my friend Clare once had a bloke in a 
similar position say to her "so, d'you like what you see?" - urgh!!!) 
and then couldn't stop laughing because it seemed so unlikely.  Is he 
a regular fixture?  Do the tourist buses point him out?  I haven't 
been back to check.  Reminds me of an aunt of mine, who listened to a 
heavy breather on the phone for a minute or so, then said "Well, if 
that's the best you can do you're no good to me!" and put the phone 
down.

Fluffy Sarah mentioned Velocette - yes, Get Yourself Together is 
wonderful, and Spoiled Children isn't quite so great (and I don't 
like the new one very much, they've sacked their drummer and seem to 
have forgotten how to P!O!O!). But if you like Get Yourself Together, 
try Hideaway and Strength by Comet Gain, which (at that time) was 
Sarah, Sam, Jax and Phil (the aforementioned drummer) from Velocette 
plus a shouty bloke called David.  There was a rather good Peel 
session too (Velocette, that is) from the same sort of time as Get 
Yourself Together.

Saint Lucy is the platonic ideal to whom we lesser Lucies aspire.

Lucy

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Lucy Munro
lucy.munro at kcl.ac.uk



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