Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I posted. Not that anyone remembers me, I only posted twice and my emails weren’t memorable. However, although the rest of my life around doesn’t seem to be going along so well (the paranoia because of a threat of layoffs at work *hopefully layoff doesn’t have a different meaning to any non-Americans, it sounds like something Archel would be into, if the smutty accusations are true*, a cancelled trip to San Francisco to see Sleater-Kinney play with Aislers Set which was truly heartbreaking, and my credit card number being stolen online and used for pornographic websites on the internet), I thought I should do something positive and write to Sinister. First, I would like to announce my divorce from the Wills team, due to “irreconcilable differences” (in true divorce style, well, at least in America). I will no longer be involved in the mix tape challenge. It was great to be a Will, hope this doesn’t cause panic within the Wills United structure (it the Wills even exist). Of course we can “still be friends.” Just the lack of “activity” and the fact that I’m cheating on the Wills team already by preparing solo mixes for other people has forced me to reconsider my relationship with the Wills. A sad departure, although I think that I’ll keep the Cloves surname for now. I saw a strange thing the other day. My local library has various posters throughout the building, of celebrities holding a book and pretending to be reading. They have lame slogans such as "get caught reading" in order to encourage people to read. I doubt that seeing a photograph of Rosie O'Donnell holding a book would encourage me to read, but strangely one of the posters in the series is of Michael Bolton. Not that I was inspired, but after seeing this poster, I read "Pride and Prejudice" the next day. In other news, glad to know that Rachel Fruitloop and Ben Apps had such a wonderful time together! Being one of the few listees who has met Rachel in person, she was so nice and I’m looking forward to hearing more about them. ***Southern California listees*** With Storytelling coming out in LA next Friday, we should have another meetup soon! I’ll bring along some B&S videotapes if we stay in the film watching mood. *** Ok, this post has just been full of random thoughts, but I will post again on Sinister soon, to give a list of songs that B&S haven’t performed live. Would anybody be interested in such a list? Of course, it may not be completely accurate, but perhaps we can begin a campaign to see “Beyond the Sunset” performed live... or maybe not. Alright, I should go now. To anybody that has read this far, congratulations, and I’m sorry for my lack of writing skill. Perhaps with more reading, I will aspire to be list crush-worthy. Cheers, Ernie Cloves _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+