Hello all,
Thankyou, to the record number of people who e-mailed me to inform me that
the song I was searching for was Chris Isaak. (i.e. thankyou, Dylan). I was
mildly annoyed to find that what seemed like a Nick Cave/Gordon Lightfoot
song was by Chris Isaak, who, from the small amount of research I have done
seems to be a crooner and heart throb, in other words, uninspiring. (I could
be wrong though, so please don't snap at me if you happen to run the Chris
Isaak fanclub.)
Also, thankyou for the people who chided me on my dismissal of rap music, it
was perhaps a little misleading from my real opinion. Although there is a
lot of bad rap music about, I have more respect for hip-hop than I do any
other music other than alternative-type, as many artists are progressing,
coming up with original stuff and are into the music, culture and
breakdancing etc other than just being up themselves.
Also, I love it when people can actually use the decks in a skilful way,
unlike the halfwits in my school who spend huge amounts on technics decks
seemingly just to listen to the records on them. I have hip hop playing
friends who have shown me that using the decks properly is no easy task.
They also have friendly and humble attitudes, which again makes their music
more enjoyable.
Basically, what I don't like in music is processed crap simply for making
money, and because the companies know that kids and rude boys will buy stuff
to shock their parents there is a lot of rap that follows that fomula. But
then again, that's probably just on the surface. I mean, when non-indie kids
think of indie music, they don't immediately think of B&S, Tompaulin and the
like...
One other small inequality I would like to make known is that when I said "I
am a constant source of embarrassment" and made other comments as to being
ribbed about my choice of clothes, this did *not* mean I tremble and run
away etc. I wear my tanktop with pride, and am anything other than feeble!
Right, tanktops, I have just given you a helping hand in my test. They are
good fun, but quite difficult, so mine is not quite so hard I don't think.
But it's not a gift, by any means. Of course, those tacticians (?) out there
will have realised that the thing to do to impress someone would be to enter
with a false name, get the answers then enter as yerself. But where's the
fun in that? Don't worry, it is easily visible from my miserable scores that
this is not what I have been doing.
www.friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=CorduroyBoy is the place. Ken says
satan has tried his hand at his test. And we know that Saint Peter frequents
our list so if they both tried, do you think it would prove where I'm going?
Hehehe...
Lloyd Cole: I took Mario's advice and bought rattlesnakes. I think there's
something odd afoot, it was supposedly an edition limited to 500 (mine's no.
344) but I got it for £6, so maybe it's not or maybe no one else likes him!
About the black and white bits in "If....". I heard about *a* film that they
simply ran out of colour film and couldn't afford any more, but it might be
a different one. Scum, ha ha! I agree, Mr. Pancake, to say that they were
letting rip with machine guns etc few people seemed to be dropping. Maybe
they'd messed up and picked up those blanks by mistake, and the people that
did die were just tripping over and landing where someone had spilt tomato
ketchup. Perhaps.
Right, I'm off to try Mark's test and possibly ask for an online insurance
quote, in no certain order.
Tom
XXX
P.S. Andrew, your tape should have arrived this morning.
P.P.S. To the people who have voiced their coveting of a Belfast gig tape,
I'm open to swap for a tape of the black sessions. (And/or any other
sessions/unreleased material other than the Belfast gig, Bowlie or the Peel
sessions, should such material exist...)
P.P.S: Myself and another band member were discussing album names. We came
up with "the eponymously named album", as it would screw up any clever
reviews!
"I've just heard the first album from *******, the eponymously named album.
No, it's not called ******, it's the eponymously named album, oh...hang
on...no...aw, shit...."
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Hello new friends (hopefully),
First post so a quickie introduction: I'm Craig, 21, living in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Graduate of Religious Studies (people chuckled
at me in Freshers Week for that one) and currently trying to find identity
outside of full time education.
I was hoping that said identity might be found outside of the general
rat-race or the call centre culture of the North-East and so embarked upon a
journey into writing. That's been going okay but alongside it i have had to
embrace that which i was trying to avoid by data-entering for the DSS. Not
fun and not clever. So here i was expecting my first post to be full of woe,
bemoaning the lack of stimulating employment and more seriously the lack of
anywhere in Newcastle to go for a night out to hear some decent indie music.
(Stone roses is about as alternative as you get if the urge to dance bites.)
But then i only go and get myself a new job in the same week that i hear
about a new club starting in Newcastle and so things are looking up. The job
ain't fantastic but its in the design school of Northumbria University so i
should get to meet some creative types.
More importantly it looks like i'll be able to socialise once a month while
listening to the music i so dearly love, rather than sitting at home with my
rabbit (who seems to like Mogwai but hasn't divulged his tastes too me in
any greater detail - guess that's why he's called Silent Bob).
I'm guessing there must be some fellow sinisterees in the North-East so it
seemed a good topic to begin posting with. From reconnaissance so far i have
gathered that the night is called 'The Walk' (after the Aislers Set song
perhaps, who knows?) and it promises to play all the best new alternative
releases along the same lines as Offbeat in Sheffield (which i have
unfortunately never attended.) That means i should be able to dance badly to
Belle & Sebastian without being out-monkeyed on the dancefloor by Ian Brown
fans. The first one is on the 6th February, a Wednesday night i know but
this is surely a cause worth supporting so i suggest that a sinister
presence is necessary. Whaddya reckon? There's live music too!! Who's with
me?
You can e-mail iamwalking(a)hotmail.com and ask for a copy of the flyer and it
is beautifully nonsensical.
Let me know, and hello again!!
Craig.
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Hello,
I'm quite plastic-y but yet wobbly and squishy today - yes, I feel like a
bag of shit. Ho hum, waking up feeling like a teenage dirtbag, except not
teenage, so I don't even get the "aw but he's only a teenager" excuse for
being a grumpy moaning git.
I'm at work and people in the background are making jokes about sucking on a
juicy pear, and I can't even bring myself to laugh.
Please.
If you have a funny joke please send one to me. To save me from punching
the computer screen in anger and thus breaking my hand.
<insert link here>
Mark Hester said:
>Mark C innocently
>enquires:
>"How many of you can honestly say that.....
>you've cleaned the INSIDE of your kitchen dustbin?
>Huh?"
>
>I'm afraid I have to answer in the affirmative.
Is insides-of-dust-bin-cleaning a trait inclusive of all marks alike?
Possibly, exclusive to? no. Since I have been known to wash a dust bin
like there is no tomorrow once after a FLY INFESTATION in my flat, it was
the most horrid thing. My flat-mate left the rubbish unthrown out over
Easter holidays, and it turned into a shag-fest of two hot-blooded (um)
flies. And then all their children shagged each other before I came back
after Easter to find 100,000 dire-flies flying around. Arrrgh.
Speaking of 100,000 fireflies by the Magnetic Fields, has anyone noticed
that the chorus of the song ("afraid of the dark without you close to me")
was STOLEN from the end bit of the Simpsons, when there's a picture of the
cinema with a woman going "shhhh" (just before the "20th Century Fox"
thingie). Just noticed that.. and now I can't stop singing the lyrics
everytime the sad moment comes when an episode of the simpsons has finished.
Thanks for the people who did my friendtest.com quiz
(http://friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=kenchu) I am pleasantly
surprised that even SATAN has taken the time to do my quiz, a big HELL-O to
you mr. satan, hehe I bet you get that a lot, huh? But being the boss of
hell I would expect you to at least know who my favourite BBC News presenter
is, you are the weakest link goodbye.
I feel more minging than Ann Robinson.
Ken
P.S.: Does anyone want to send me some tactical crush-votes?
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Hello everyone,
it's weird being at work, being in an office with 10
other people, and have 'the boy with the arab strap'
on your pooter's cd player... people typing, talking
on the phone whilst 'sleep the clock around' is
playing.. it could have made a brill video-clip, i'm
telling you...
there's been a lot of emails but it seems to me that
things in sinister-land have been very quiet... but
then it's just me...
I lately feel like those people in prison... carving
little lines on the wall to keep count of the days
they've spent in my cell... eight weeks... sorry, nine
weeks... in nine weeks i'll take my passport, my
oNe-Way-TicKet to London, my luggages, and off I go! I
can't believe that something i've been planning for so
long is going to be realised at last... moving to
glasgow feels like going back home somehow... and paul
and nicholas are going with me... and stay-c (dahling)
is going to join us in august (august stayc!! not
september!!)... I've spent last night talking on the
phone with Nicholas and then with Ruvi and then with
Paul making plans... Nicholas said we should have a
booze cabinet and I could keep the key for it!
I said it should be a golden key which i'd hang from
my belt... you remember, like in Isabel Allende's book
"the house of the spirits" where the sister and
housekeeper was having a big chain with all the keys
of the house hanging from her belt...
And we're going to have a garden too... and I'll do my
gardening with a big hat on with a veil, mind, and
gloves... and Nicholas will buy me an old rocking
chair to put in the garden where i'll be sitting in
summer days and embroider with my little cousin,
Honey, sipping ice strawberry tea and munching on
barbie candies...
it was just 2 weeks ago when everyone was here...
Paul, Stay-C and Zozo... we celebrated my birthday
throwing cake to each other and drinking a huge bottle
of champagne; actually, paul and stayc drank that
before i and zozo had a chance!!
We went to this mexican restaurant where we had
caipirinias (latin american coctails) and got all
emotional as we realised that sinister gave us the
best friends we could have wished for... i don't want
to get all corny now... and i'm not fucking twee, but
yes it's true... so we had a toast to sinister and to
our honeyioschka bambola and to all the people we
wished they were there with us to share all this...
I had to share my bed the first night with zozo and
the next with stayc... you see, i couldn't have them
fighting over me!! what a tart I am!! and we spent
half night (or more?) with stayc talking about
glasgow... and that night, after i fell asleep, she
stayed awake thinking... next day they all got into a
cab and went to thessaloniki... from there stayc would
go to bulgaria to have her visa re-newed... the cab
broke half the way to thessaloniki and paul missed his
flight! eventually and thanks to zozo he found himself
on another plane, different airlines though... so
things worked out for him... but not for stayc whose
adventures you must all have read...
in a way i think that things worked out fine for my
badass sistah! she needed a kick at that cute bum of
hers you see... so after a sleepless night, a huge
bottle of champagne, chocolate cake all over her, 3-4
caipirinias, and being deported from greece, she got
her arse in gear and decided to move to glasgow with
us! now she's in london ready to visit some of you, so
consider yourselves warned!
and i should stop ranting and go back to work, go back
to book hunting... i hate latin books!! grrr... all
these crazy uni professors!! fuck 'em all! fuck 'em
with knives!!!
take good care
vel xxx
PS(1): the PF!
"but i used to read about you/ and you oftenly would
throw caution to the wind/ and don't you know/ you
really are the sweetest thing..."
I wanted your new phone number but your editor said
you'd moved and noone had it yet... could you please
please email and give your phone number to me? I want
to ring you... sorry for using monsieur Cole to
persuade you...
PS(2): I loved Kyla's email... it was honest and even
harsh in parts but great nevertheless... Kyla, email
me... i've been a lazy sod i know...
PS(3): My Genova (pookiehotpantslove) the arms of sex
don't belong to stuart but to the boy jimmy reid!i've
spent hours and hours watching jamc video tapes and i
kept swooning over jimmy's arms! get your tutu skirt
ready... we're going to sweep them all off their feet
with our go-go dancing figures!!
PS(4): Andrew!! yes you!! email me damnit!! tis your
turn!!!
PS(5): KenKenickie, do you fancy a take-away?
PS(6): I for once agree with mr murdoch and say that
yes, the camera obscura album is one of the best i've
listened to this year! you should all buy it!!!
PS(7): have i told you that we're all going to visit
ARchel(licious mou) in Brighton and have a picnic
there in ApRil?? no? well we bloody aRe!!
PS(8): end of the boy with the arab strap cd... time
for some galaxie500!!
"waR is the last possible cReative act", Mick Travis,
"IF"
"true creation will rise from the ruins of the old
world..." Isidor Isou
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Hi,
I apologize for the listservers since there is no B&S content in here.
But, since everyone in this list is "in the know," does anyone happen to
know what this San Francisco Indiefest happening at the Castro Theatre on 31
January is all about? I saw it on Ticketmaster and for $20 (plus applicable
service charges), you get to go to the "indiefest" and the after party.
They recommend that persons arrive 15 minutes early?!?!? Huh?
First of all, who is in said "indiefest" and, secondly, what the hell is it
all about?
Please explain. I've lost touch with society since I've enrolled in law
school....
Cheers,
Ian
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No don't worry, the subject line was overheard on a bus somewhere between the Gateshead Metro Centre and Hexham, just after Christmas. Which reminds me of how long it is since I last posted. All of the things that happened at the end of last year which mean little now but were significant at the time, like unexpectedly seeing my boss at a Stereolab gig.
R. Dean Taylor should count himself lucky. He only had a ghost in his house. On Saturday, I discovered that I have a *mouse* in mine. Well, I didn't climb onto a chair clutching my skirt and shouting "Eek!" or anything, but it did give me enough of a fright to drop the plate I was drying at the time (having just washed up after dinner) and it fell onto the floor and smashed. Now this experience led me to embark on a frenzy of cleaning; never has so much Cif been expended in a single afternoon. It also means that when Mark C innocently enquires:
"How many of you can honestly say that.....
you've cleaned the INSIDE of your kitchen dustbin?
Huh?"
I'm afraid I have to answer in the affirmative. And I still have a job, well, for the time being at least. There is a battle going on upstairs between various members of the family which runs this firm (which has the same name as the second half of the company that makes Branston pickle, he adds cryptically) as to whether to float on the Stock Exchange or sell the company to someone else. This is the company where one member of the clan died leaving all his millions to a rare-breeds sheep farm and we shudder every time we think of what was going to be our bonus providing a nice centrally-heated barn so that our ovine friends can chomp away at the contents of their Fortnum & Mason hampers in comfort. If there's any consolation, it means I get to use the word "internecine" a lot.
The only school and uni friend (he happened to be both) whom I have met up with, as opposed to just contacted, through "Friends Reunited" was working in Human Resources for enron, so everything is relative.
Have a go at my quiz why don't you:
http://friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=marksquiz
Aren't these things marvellous? I've done two so far, Ken's and Archel's. I found Ken's vewy, vewy difficult and so wasn't surpised at the (ahem) modest score I attained.
Ernie Sanchez's list was *very* useful; well done Ernie! So they've played the eponymous song live then? I love B&S by B&S but it's so rarely talked about. It's one of the songs I find myself singing to myself as I walk down the road. I think Nine Eponymous Songs should be a game like Nine Famous Belgians. You could argue about whether to allow "(Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew", on account of its brackety bits, much as people argue about whether or not Tin Tin, Hercule Poirot and Stella Artois are kosher members of Tribe 9FB.
Chris Perriman quoted from Revelation so I'm going to quote from Jeremiah. Jeremiah 25:27, "The Lord your God says drink get drunk and vomit".
Stephen Toy (or is it Toy Stephen) wrote:
"Now,
through this exchange, we discovered epiphany. We
found the etymology for 'Ladybug' conjectured to be:
'Probably from its seven spots being considered a
symbol of the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary'."
and I thought "eh?" coz ladybugs (or ladybirds) can have have other numbers of spots too. Lot of 'em have only two. "Fly little bug, get right out of town-uh, use your transparent wings and fly away from here". Blimey, it's ages since I've listened to "The Infotainment Scan".
Paul Healy wrote:
"also go to see Ballboy(strange friut at the spitz) on Friday"
and I certainly will. Vermont are playing as well. And Major somebody. That's if he doesn't get posted.
Mark.
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What do you do when New Years resolutions decide to break themselves?
I mean, when you have the best intentions in the world to keep them and
you really
honestly intend to keep them; but some malignant force, call it fate, call
it chance,
strikes at you like you're a character out of a Thomas Hardy novel,
leaving you to stare
at the stars and the sky and scream out loud, "God bless pathetic
fallacy." "So why
the pessimism now Miss Cola-Cube?" I hear you all cry. I have my
reasons.and I find
them to be pretty damn valid considering the situation I am currently
finding myself in.
I'm having problems at the moment and they're akin to being hit in the gut
with a
sledgehammer, or at least that is what it feels like to me.
I don't want to go into much detail, as I've never been one of those
people to want to
load her woes onto a thousand or so people. I don't know you and you don't
know me
so why should many of you hear the collected woes of a woman living (to
many of you)
thousands of miles away?
So please enlighten me as to what to do when the one resolution you really
wished
that fate would let you keep.i.e. being happy and for those around you to
be happy, no
matter what the situation, are smashed right in front of your face? When
words are
said and the only thing you can think is "Oh my God, what am I going to
do?" and the
only emotion you feel is an icy current running through your blood and
settling right at
the base of your stomach that no warmth can thaw.
I'm sure Miss Llew would have a gloriously witty Dorothy Parker-ism to
alleviate the
storm clouds in situations like these, or Mr. Chu would have a pun to
bring a smile
when your expression feels carved in stone. Then again, I only got 30% in his
personality test so maybe I don't know him as well as I thought I did. (I
got 0% in
Gneissy's, but that's my fault for not knowing that he can fit into size
10 dresses.)
I can only say to those on this who know the situation that I'm currently
in and for all
their kind words, smiles and phone calls leading them to get locked out of
their
workplace a big thank you. You know who you are, and you know I'm
grateful. As to
the lovely (and seriously mushy!) Ben Apps, tank choo for the sweeties.
They're going
to come in useful.
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* * * * * * * *
Isn't it nice when your gig is promoted without you even having to breathe
a word about
the forthcoming event? I was going to bore you all with the details and
death threats of
"Be there or I'll kidnap your teddy bear and send it back to your in
stuffing-ridden
pieces," but thanks to the lovely combined efforts of Mr. Carsmile and Mr.
Apps, my
stage has already been set, so I'll enter stage left.
My gig is on the 11th (That's a MONDAY, not a TUESDAY) somewhere in
Oxford.Mr.
Carsmile and the lovely Matt Wilson (who is also on the list but lurks I
the shadows
like the wee lurky thing he is) know more about the venue than I, because
I'm merely a
London girly and therefore ignorant about all things outside Zone 6. But
yes; do
come. It will be fun!
My band are called the EndlessCityLights and we sound like what the Velvet
Underground, Mogwai and The Shang-gri-las would sound like if they all
held hands,
kissed in public, got drunk and indulged in illicit insemination with only
a turkey baster
and a rather glamorous young girl with a clarinet (that being me). Support
comes from
Welsh shang-a-lang drunken wonders "The Loves" who not only have the fact
that one
of my best friends is their guitarist in their favour, but also the fact
that they're on Track and Field records which can only ever be a good
thing. Main act are Delicate AWOL,
post-rock lushness with a bitter aftertaste. And there should be a club
afterwards and
stuff too with me, Matt and some of our friends' dj'ing.
I don't usually shamelessly promote things via the Internet.but this one
involves me and
it's just after the Brighton Weekender too (which I shall be gracing with
my presence. )
and it's only £2 and it should be immense fun. Oh, and everyone should go to
Carsmile's night too because that should be fun-filled-frolics galore.
I've been listening to too much old Elliot Smith recently. My lovely
friend Marianne
leant me nearly all of his old albums, so I've been sat here back at home
in the
sunshine, relishing the fact that I have nice food, a clean kitchen and
lovely parents to
indulge in and listening to songs which shimmer in the sun like beautiful,
poisonous
flowers.
Apologies for the self-indulgence before, but whilst I'm on a roll I may
as well add to my
tally. Dammit, everywhere I go all I see are people holding hands and
being all couply in
the Winter Sun. I either want a Sinister romance or more people to be
bitter with, as
me and my friends are getting a bit fed up with being the only ones now.
Even Saint
Peter seems to be on a bit of a roll now, and he's a bloody archangel. Any
takers for
either position?
Right. This is perhaps the most self-indulgent post I've ever sent so I'll
bow out with a
blush and the shuffling of my feet.
Oh but LIST CONTENT!! Jordi-If on the Benicassim Belle and Sebastian show
you hear
a mad English girl and boy jumping up and down and singing rather
loudly.that'll be me
and the boy in the tree. I can only hope and pray they've not broadcast my
interview
with MTV yet.
Love and Fizzy Love-hearts,
Cay Cola-Cube
xXx
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your Revolution..."
-Emma Goldman
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Hello sinisters,
I shall begin by quoting from the end.
my misslindseylou said:
>>and finally. a final word about love.
it's there. and here. just wait, patiently, and the pregnant feeling of
wating will one day break and then. <<
miscarriage. Cripes I'm feeling pessimistic today. Maybe I'm just let down
by the fact that I stayed up for the hollioakes late-night special last
night, and there wasn't even any shagging. (Well there was but you couldn't
see any of it).. and I only caught the very end of "Designer Vaginas" on
Channel 4. Ho hum.
Speaking of which (love):
Rachel Pancake said:
>>P.S.I _LOVE_ SIMON and GARFUNKEL. But which one is which? Answers are to
>>describe them as either "the taller, blonde one" or "the shorter, dark
haired one". Thankyou v. much<<
Simon is Paul Simon and Garfunkel is the one who isn't Paul Simon. i.e. the
one with the bad hair is Art Garfunkel and the other one with bad hair is
Paul Simon, wait, I'm not being very helpful here am I?
I want to have Garfunkel's vocal range, then I could sing like a bird..
speaking of North Carolina........
Andre Agassi said:
>>And that Laura Llew and I are not meant to be, since I got a big, fat
zero....*sigh*<<
Guess who got a whooping 100% on Laura's quiz? My place or yours Llewie? ;)
Woo, I haven't used one of those ;) thingies on sinister for ages, and now
I've used two, such is the magic of Laura Llew, she just caused me to start
rhyming, too.
And still speaking of North Carolina... Hello Aruni, who said I'm
encouraging to Strangers, it's true. Until they get to know me then they
start to hate me.
Find out how much you hate me on
http://www2.friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=kenchu
Yay! I've got one of these too!
Wow, this e-mail flowed so well. Check list..
1. talked about love - check
2. flirted in public - check
3. added a friendlist url - check
4. can't remember.. feck
Tenuous Links and Red bulls.
Ken
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unfortunately, archel's super-helpful information service has already
been rendered obsolete by rob brennan, but the theme about the lightning
tree is indeed the one from follyfoot. i never really watched the
programme, but the follyfoot farm books were great. i am trying very
hard to read some adult books these days, but still fall back on joan
aiken, ursula le guin, susan cooper, philip pullman and j k rowling.
oh, and lemony snicket. (i am quite traumatised by 'a series of
unfortunate events', to be honest.)
racheljoe pancake said:
British Hip-hop is actually quite good, i have discovered.
Partly as they have tunes, and don't rap about how "tha ******* ho's and
tha
niggas in da **** hood is all **** gonna kill y'all ******" but about
how
they're gonna go to the library and then go to the supermarket and
afterwards maybe go to the pub... it's sort of "twee-hop" really. Rather
good, too.
i am now exposed to hip hop on a daily basis and am pretty much a
convert (despite fainting at the roots manuva gig in brighton). but
it's not only british hip hop that can do that charming 'went to
safeways, had some cheese on toast' thing. archel's recommendations for
blingbling-free, nearly twee hip hop:
1/ buck 65 - canadian lyrical genius, raps about his mother's death and
how tough it would be if you were a centaur and actually hung like a
horse (albums: vertex, man overboard)
2/ ty - british MC, raps about being bullied at school and being a bit
crap with girls (album: awkward)
3/ slug - part of the group atmosphere, sweet confessional material
about a failed relationship, tattoos which come to life, and the
gorgeous 'nothing but sunshine' (albums: lucy ford, music for the
advancement of hip hop)
(atmosphere appeared at atp last year, and curators tortoise have
produced them - just in case anyone needs proof of their indie
credentials...)
even you will like some of this, tom, i guarantee it!
that said, i still managed to insinuate a large helping of CHEESE into
matt's purchases when we went vinyl shopping the other day: betty boo -
doing the do; peter gabriel - sledgehammer (dance mix); simple minds -
don't you forget about me. the latter doesn't stop being shit just
because it's from the breakfast club, of course, but the sleeve photo of
the kidz was too tempting...
other news:
1/ i missed the belfast gig on radio 1 and please someone do me a tape
(will exchange for cheesy mix)
2/ i am finally holding a Buzzwords summit meeting tonight so the site
should be updated and lovely very soon
3/ brighton meetup in 17 days!
luv archel xxx
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<screechy microphone noise> greetings and salutations, sinister!
my name's aruni and i'm a first-timer. (hello, aruni!) i was inspired, or
perhaps incited, to post by the illustrious Ken Chu. so if you all despise
the post...well, you can still blame me, but it'll teach Mr. Chu to be so
encouraging to strangers.
i suppose what finally brought me to break the lurking barrier was the wave
of newbies (i am a sheep, i admit it), and the various and sundry
interesting things that people have to say. (i wish i could promise the same
for you. truly, i am in the presence of genius.)
let's see...i'm a med student living in north carolina (hi to everyone in
the southern united states), and currently preparing for my neuroanatomy
final. couldn't you tell?
by way of actual content, i have little enough. my favorite thing about b&s
is the way their songs build (but isn't that everyone's favorite thing?).
and oh! someone said way back that "I Love My Car" smacks of the Beatles
when they were fooling around, and i shook with wholehearted agreement!
something about the way SM sings "the day will come soon when i look in your
eyes but i won't see you" sounds very beatles-esque to me. sorry for the
lateness and probable obscurity of this reply; i was still banging on the
nursery bars at the time.
so oh yes, the things that people said:
Pez asked: so did anybody try my recipe then? its tasty, i promise.
i did! last weekend, and thanks for the suggestion. my mother used to make
something similar for me when i was a little girl, and a comparison with my
mother's cooking is high praise, from me at least. i approve.
Toy Stephen mentioned the serendipitous beauty of Sri Lanka, and i just had
to respond. my parents are from Sri Lanka! it was a lovely little island the
last time i saw it (10 years ago), but sadly, a troubled one as well. still,
maybe the turmoil makes that beauty more striking.
Ben expressed confusion over the fact that "CAMERA OBSCURA was formed in
August of 1998 in San Diego"
this amused and confused me as well. what with all the talk about camera
obscura on this list, i set out to find out more about them on cdnow.com,
and came up with...west coast agressive rock (or at least that was my
impression)? with more digging, i found a blurb stating that "Eighties Fan"
was produced by "Stewart Marduk of belle & sebastian."
all right, who else knew that SM is an ancient Babylonian god? i'm so out of
the loop. but thanks muchly to those of you who recommended camera obscura
and their record--it has brought me gladness of heart and auditory nerve.
and with that, i join the ranks of the post-first-posters! (i'm going to go
cringe and hide now.)
~aruni
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