ahoy there, me hearties! actually i've just stepped in my office, or at least the unviersity's computer lab because i've been feeling a little melancholy today, and i've always found that catching up on e-mail to internet radio really helps AND don't worry, you can read on, because i've just finished going through all of the sudden flood of sinister posts (thanks y'all!) and heard stephanie says on the radio ( so i'm not feeling nearly melancholy enough to vent it on all of you... but don't let me put anyone else off - i like fancying myself as a cold shoulder to cry on. btw, i was only barely aware of the existence of stephanie says, and it has now suddenly overtaken i'll be your mirror as my all-time favourite velvet underground song EVER - and to add to recent discussions, i see is described as "chamber-pop" in one amazon.com review. and to add my little 5-cents worth, i agree that many of the bad things about tweeness DON'T apply to b&s, but i'd like to meet anyone who can look me in the eyes and tell me "family tree" isn't twee. in fact, isobel seems to have been the twee one (the first gentle waves album in particular really is twee as fuck though isn't it?) and in fact i'm sortof dreading that her departure will have caused the balance to swing a little too much to the rawky side, but then i haven't heard any of the new stuff and it'll all be excellent anyway, i'm sure ooh wait, though content: i can't remember it being mentioned on the list (and it was interesting seeing pitchforkmedia reviewing stay loose, because on amazon.com, "step into my office, baby" is already on sale as the first single, on sale 23rd september, for anyone interested (at $5,98) well, so that's it except to let you know: it's snowed here for two days in a row. normally we would get maybe snow once in an exceptionally cold winter, and some of the hills haven't had snow on them for decades. anyway, it's all rather pretty. bear in mind that i'm heading into a summer that's going to be the same temperatures and hotter as the heat-wave in europe now - but for 3-4 months, so understand my pleasure. lots love to you all JohaN +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+