Sinister: I could be eating/drinking/generally being merry.

[James Thorniley]

But I'm not. Even though I try, really I do.

James Thorniley wrote.

Then he realised his mistake.

I do have to apologise for apologising that I sent an unsubscribe to the
list, which it turns out, I did not. I did laugh a bit, I have to say.
Things aren't going great for me, so I'd better avoid whinging too much.
I did plenty of whinging in my last post. Just to let you know, my email
system seems to have sorted itself out, resulting in reems of messages
from the last week. Anyhow, I'd like to forget that, I hope you can
forgive me.

Seems though, that most of the people on this list are not having such a
great time either. I'm not going to complain anymore now I know that I
guy with a murder next door is among my audience :-(

On a lighter note, school finishes for me next week. Hurrah, no more
working on pointless stuff that I'm just going to forget anyway. Now for
what I really would have liked to put in my "I've just got my voice,
so..." post (actually, it's lucky this wasn't my first post, it's not
that interesting, don't feel compelled to read on):

I've just got my voice, so I thought I'd say a bit about me, because I'm
egocentric like that. I'm doing my GSCEs down here in sunny England, I
have a bad hair do, and a problem finding anyone who seems similar to
me. It's not that I don't have any friends, it's just that none of them
are really like me. I guess that's why I joined this list. I know that
none of my freinds like B&S, so that's what makes me a freak really. So
I thought I'd talk to some people who are also freaks.

B&S started for me when my brother bought "If Your Feeling Sinister". I
forget when. My brother and I play an unhealthy amount of computer
games. Because most computer games have bad sound tracks, my brother
leaves a load of his CDs round the computer, because most games will
take the music off any CD you put in. I listened to Sinister as
backround to games as a result, and I liked it. My favourites being "Me
and the major" and "Get me away from here I'm dying". One day the CD
disappeared from the vicinity of the computer when we went on holiday
and we took it along to listen to in the car. When we got back, the CD
never went back to the computer.

The next I heard of B&S was Modern Rock song playing loudly from my
brother's speaker system. I took very little notice of this, so I didn't
listen to B&S until TBWTAS, which turned up unannounced by the computer,
where it remains today. I made a recording of some of the tracks. The
next I heard of B&S was the funny CD with a straight copy of a Tigermilk
vinyl and the radio 1 recordings as bonus tracks. I made a tape of this,
and after listening to it virtually non-stop, I though F*** IT, and went
out and bought a copy of IYFS on CD. I promptly downloaded the guitar
chords from "Sinister" and worked out the bassline to "Get me away from
here I'm dying".

Which is basically it, until now. Apart from the Tigermilk re-release,
which I bought during a school trip to Oxford last week.

Phew. That's what I call long.

--
James Thorniley

"We know all men are not created equal"
-- Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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