Hello Sinister. Ive been quiet of late. I would say Ive had writers block, but that would involve me being classified as a writer. Ive just had *block*. A few weeks ago, Mark Casarotto asked for some of the list veterans to start posting again. Im sure he wasnt thinking of me, but I thought Id try and write a little something anyway. After all, I did recently celebrate my own personal 3rd Sinibirthday, so what the heck. ///AUTUMN\\\ I tend to find that B&S are far more of an end of winter/beginning of spring kinda band. Its more or less the same kind of weather, but when the ground is crunchy beneath your feet in late February, theres the anticipation of summer just around the corner, and that seems to suit. The Delgados (The Great Eastern and Hate) do autumn quite well, as do Lambchop (particularly Is A Woman); its all the warm melancholic orchestration and wistful lyrics that do it for me. Sorry. ///FEELINGS\\\ If theres one thing that autumn does do to me, it makes me feel strange. I cant put my finger on it, but I always feel a little stressed and highly strung, as if Im being watched and assessed and prodded and poked and checked for authenticity. I think it could be some sort of emotional hang-up related to autumn always marking the beginning of the school year, and anxiety about that. But I dont really know. Its just a seasonal thing though. ///THE YORK SINISTER MASSIVE RETURNS\\\ After more than a substantial absence from general list conversation, the start of term has prompted me to mention the burgeoning YSM. Last night, at the York University Indie Society (http://www.indiesociety.co.uk) club night, I had the pleasure to bump into James Thorniley, of this parish. He is now a York student, which takes the total number of people associated with York University and with Sinister nearly into double figures. Cmon kids York Uni is *obviously* the place to be. York sinipicnic details to be announced very soon. ///MÚM\\\ There was talk on the list a while back about the Múm LP, Finally We Are No One. Half of Múm are on the front cover to Fishyclap. The other half arent. I bought it the other day, and for what its worth, I think its a great record. In true lazy, wannabe journo style, think Bjork meets Boards of Canada in the rusty shack in Montreal where Godspeed! record their albums, and you might be there. Its a great record. Love, Asm.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+