Sinister: feeling unimaginative

[Feather Boa]

dear sinister,
like mr moore, i also know where i will be on the two nights of chickfactor 
@ bush hall.  there is a reason for this, as some of you know, i work there 
(bh not chickfactor, sigh).  the bonus of this is, of course i get to see 
you when you turn up there and prolly tick you off some kind of list.

we've had more than our fair share of b&s related gigs - camera 
obscura/trashcan sinatras being the one that really sticks in my mind, 
because it was the first time i was on the door, and it felt like about 
three quarters of the attendees were people i knew through sinister.

of course it's not all fun and games.  this weekend there was a uriah heep 
convention.  uriah heep! it featured the band demanding copious amounts of, 
er, red wine.  could have definitely been worse.

i stayed up and watched the 12:34 thingy (i'm underemployed at the moment 
and can just about afford to spend most of my day asleep).  i found it 
strangely moving.  there were no actual what you might call shots of struan, 
the camera lingered on the view out of a train window going from (i assume) 
glasgow to london.  nonetheless it was interesting to hear what he had to 
say about music and his favourite songs.

i saw him in a restaurant in brighton, oooh, ages ago.  it came as some 
surprise to walk up from the toilets and see his face.  i spent the rest of 
the meal all a-quiver, over-excited and slightly jittery like i'd drunk too 
much coffee.

post-student life is treating me fairly well, i have at least got my masters 
now (dissertation title: 'music journalism and the weblog phenomenon', i was 
going to put you in the acknowledgements, but decided not to put any in 
after all).  i regretted using the word phenomenon when i came to have it 
bound - £2 it cost me to have that printed on two copies.  i could have just 
called it 'music journalism and the weblog' and saved my money.  but i 
wasn't thinking of frugality when i named it.

i am pretty bored though - daytime telly is only interesting for so long.  
i'm considering going on work experience again, but i find it somewhat soul 
destroying.

i cried quite a lot about jp.  i thought about the night described here 
[http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200106/msg00261.html], and a 
hundred other such nights, and i was horribly sad.

for a long time i had sinisterine's block, it's like writer's block but 
subtly different (in a freudian slip, i wrote that it was like writer's 
blog, which of course is the real reason for my recent silence).

let this be an end to it.
pip pip
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yorksini - big up to the york sinister 
massive.  innit


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