Sinister: the long hot post of 2001

[Rachel Playforth]

it is kind of long, i'm afraid.  i'm the type who stores it up then spews it
out, i guess.  <archel inc. do not guarantee that perseverance with this
message will pay dividends.  the value of archel's posts can go up as well
as down.  your sanity is at risk if you do not... well, it just is at risk
actually>

CONTENT (out the way first)
i think it was pez who mentioned the jd 12"... matt had a copy in his shop
for me but i kept forgetting to collect it and now don't want to mention it
again as it's probably so embarassing having a b&s record in a specialist
hip hop outlet that they've 'lost' it in the basement.

and can someone please send me a tape of the peel session?  call it a late
birthday present.  or a hard-nosed business deal, i don't really mind.
(though i refer you to the fact that under the terms of my laziness, archel
inc. can't give you anything but love, baby.  i suppose the company coffers
might stretch to a mix tape, though the last sinister recipient of one of
mine has been ominously silent on its merits...)

(the following paragraph is apropos of something, but i'm not sure what now)
there must be something about b&s and youth hostels... i well remember my
solitary trip to the lakes last year... the kitchen staff were playing
fyhcywlap  v. loud and every so often i could see them dance past the
doorway, singing along... i was too shy to say hi.

MALCONTENT
tom wrote:
Why oh why do people think
that putting marmite on toast permits them to omit the butter on that
slice? The marmite and butter are unequally symbiotic, the butter may
exist without the marmite but without butter the marmite fails to
satisfy.

exactly.  this boy knows his stuff.  some people are so odd though - i have
actually had an ex-boyfriend shout at me (in genuine horror more than in
anger) for buttering a slice of toast before applying his precious bloody
peanut butter.  because, apparently, 'it's already in effect buttered -
that's why it's called peanut BUTTER'.  twat.

madeleine: simon armitage has a great poem about wisdom teeth which i can't
find to quote but i'd recommend most of his stuff really. his collection
'cloudcuckooland' is quite shimmery.  ( i think my literary recommendations
would have more weight if i could remember if 'recommend' has 1 'c' or 2.)

i'm going to drusillas zoo park with various bits of my family and random
small children on saturday.  i mention this only because drusillas (as i
remember it from my childhood anyway) is more than a little twee.
everything's so small scale, and there's a miniature train complete with
tunnels and junctions, and all those kind of not-really-proper-zoo animals
like llamas, tortoises and meercats.  it's probably got it's own mcdonalds
these days, but hey.

then next weekend i might go to the picnic.  i can combine it, you see, with
witnessing the swan song/last gasp of the now defunct comedy troupe formed
by university 'friends'.  these 'friends' damaged my view of human nature
(well, male nature in fact) quite considerably.  but i might go anyway just
to gloat.  will i regret it and feel bad as their egos engulf me once again?
or will i regret the baseness of my impulse to gloat and feel bad because of
that?  who knows?

getting rid of stuff: my mum got rid of my guitar while i was at university,
thus depriving the world of a great talent.  heartbroken, i was forced to
channel my genius into writing instead, so really we have my mother to thank
for the towering force in contemporary poetry that i am today.  <note to
self: sarcasm when directed at oneself isn't as funny - in fact it just
hurts, doesn't it?  don't try that again.>

right, i've even bored myself now.  i might go and throw kitchen knives at
these bloody seagulls.

luv archel xxx

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Rachel Playforth
'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson

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