Sinister: on novel writing, the joys of waldo and that gig

[Christopher Johnson]

Hi guys,
not that i'm a frequent poster or anything but I thought i'd been lurking in 
the shadows a little too long.
Preperations are continuing for my assult on California.  Thanks to everyone 
who mailed me about UCSB and the surrounding area, i can't wait for the 
exchange and its been great hearing of all the cool stuff you guys have been 
filling me in on.  I do hope there'll be a picnic sometime while i'm over.
(To anyone puzzled i've been lucky enough to get on an exchange to carry out 
a year of my history degree in Santa Barbara.  How i'll cope leaving the 
sunny climes of south west scotland!  if you live in the area please do 
introduce yourself)
I thought the edinburgh gig was pretty special.  The band seemed really way 
more focused and serious than they had been the previous times i saw them 
but it was still really fun.  Some of the set lists coming in from elsewhere 
in Europe sound amazing though.  has anyone on the list gone to the extreme 
of following the entire tour?  That would be awesome.  It would be cool to 
hear what was the best, surrealist, hippest etc. moments of the tour.  I 
wonder if enough crazy stories will materialize over time for the tour to 
take on the same sort of mythical status early rolling stones tours had, or 
if theres been a show shambolic enough to rival Joy Division at Preston.
I was assigned to do a report of the Usher hall gig for my student newspaper 
but its really difficult.  I guess i should try to be objective but i've 
really no idea what a B&S show must mean to someone who casually likes them. 
  i'm afraid any report i do come up with would read like a teenebopper at a 
smash hits tour.
Also while i'm thinking too, thanks to Michael and Lindsey (I think) who 
were so good as to share a taxi ride with me to the gig from Waverly 
station.  I'd like to nominate them for sinister members of the month, it 
was really good of you cheers.  On Michael's recommendation i got the Monica 
Queen album which is just perfect for lying in bed reading before sleep.  
I'm currently reading Gutterson's short story collection "The counrty ahead 
of us, the country behind" or whatever.  Its really good but so similar to 
Raymond Carver its a little uncanny.
I was trying to work out what length the average novel was with my flatmate 
and he reckoned about 40,000 words.  So should this be the case, assuming 
you had enough prolific days to draft and ammend 1000 words a day, it would 
only take 40 days to write one.  So theres a challenge for anyone with an 
idea.  Best one wins a big doughnut or bun of your choice!  What actually 
consititutes a cake by the way? being a model of domesticity i recieved a 20 
pence off cakes voucher with my tesco clubcard.  So i went to the general 
cake area and bought some smartie cookies and caramel shortcake and when i 
got to the till it wouldn't accept the coupon.  How literaly am i expected 
to take these vouchers?  alright cookies are debatable but caramel 
shortCAKE? weird eh?
moving on...
So on hearing Rolling Stone's announcement that the Velvet's White 
Light/white heat was the coolest album ever i naturally had to attain it.  
not to dissapointed either, what a legend Waldo is.  Here is a man who 
encapsulates all those naive qualities of young romance and dying for the 
cause.  A martyr for a better cause you'll be hard pressed to find and i 
would dearly like to see some greater recognition of his efforts.  Maybe we 
should shut all business and cease working for a morning to honour this.  I 
hope i'm not mortally offending anyone with these queen mother references 
but when tesco shut its doors the other morning i was a little suprised.  
And as a lecturer pointed out it did beg the question what were republicans 
with bare cupboards meant to do?
Your guess is as good as mine.
well work beckons, so i'll be off.  best wishes
Christopher


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