Sinister: the p[rodigal daughter of twee

[Gillian Kirby]

> Hi Sinisteriniinos,
>  
> I wrote to the list aaaaages ago, then exams and the
pressures of 
unemployment meant I haven't kept up[ with you for a
while. But now I have 
this nifty wee temp job that not only attempts to
quell the tide of 
nasty letters from the bank (who seem to have
forgottent hat people who 
have recently graduated are about as broke as
students, and there's no 
way I'll be paying off my overdraft overnoght) but
also means I can surf 
about on the internet inbetween typing the odd letter.
Mmmm, slacker 
lifestyles. And it's soo much cooler than the library,
because I can make 
cups of tea and sit on my own desk rather than being
watched by smelly 
old men reading the newspaper (apologies if you are an
old man who 
reads the newspaper in the library, I will presume you
are not hygenically 
challenged...)
>  
> But I think the main reason why I haven't been
participating much in 
Sinisterness is that my life hasn't been at all twee
or indie lately. 
It's been the end of the year and finals,m which has
meant giving up my 
job on the proviso that it means more time for work
(hah!) but what it 
really mean was -gasp-no money whatsoevcer. No more
trips to Smile or 
CD buying, not until I get my studenty debts sorted
out anyhow. I could 
download music once I sort out access at home (oh,
yeah, I don't have a 
CD burner...) but if home taping is killing musioc
then downloading is 
probably bludgeoning it to death with a big stick.
Naaah, I'll just 
isten to 6music over the web and save up my pennies
for the Hot Hot Heat 
album.
>  
> Anyhow, I managed to get my 2:1, don;'t know how but
it happened. 
However, in the past few weeks I've been turned down
by many companies, 
including telesales...being refused a telesales job
must make me 
officially unemployabl;e. So now I can either
prostitute myself to the temp 
agencies, become a 'charity mugger' or...live in a
yurt maybe? Not sure 
yet. i did see Jeffrey Lewis recently so I'm tryingt o
be al indie and 
twee, and I nearly wore a Hello Kitty top to work
today so you can't 
banish me from the twee club just yet :-) See  I long
to be an indie 
princess liek Idleberry, but I listen to Radio 2 too
much....in nobody's book 
is Wogan an indie icon*
>  
> less rambling,
>  
> -gillian
>  
> ps-if Chris from York is reading..pop me an email!
It's been ages....
> *Jeremy vine though....playing 'Leave the Capiutol
on daytime radio! 
Playing smiths songs that weren't even singles
invbetween debating WMD! 
Yay!!



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"Obscurism:  The Practice of peppering daily life with obscure 
references (forgotten films, dead TV stars, unpopular books, defunct countries, 
etc.)as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education and one's wish 
to diassociate from the world of mass culture"

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