Hello, Well, Sinister, you may be quick but I am determined. It took me a long time to catch up with you, but tonight I finally did. And about time, too! The NYC picnic is this weekend! Woo! Mind you I'm still in rural West Virginia. However, tomorrow evening I will arrive in New York. Not explicitly for the picnic, but I'll be attending nonetheless. In fact, I'm going to move to New York, so if you're there and bored send an e-mail my way, I'm sure I have room for some new friends. Or better yet say hi at the picnic, I'm on the pic page after all, I should be easy to make out. Notice there was no 'with' at the end of that sentence. Speaking of smut, Chris has put us a step in the right direction. I demand more sauce! Be it ragu or some other boy sauce. Yes, we need more of it. And Beatles discussion. Well, for the time being. Myself I don't know that either Lennon or McCartney was a larger genius. I think possibly my favorite Beatles song would be by Paul (Your Mother Should Know) but a larger portion are my favorites. But as to Abbey Road being arguably their highest point? I would be the person who would put arguably in that sentence. If you ask me it was Magical Mystery Tour. But Abbey Road is also lovely. Enough of that. In a more relevant topic, it was interesting to see individuals from Felt and the Go-Betweens comment on Belle & Sebastian. Especially Lawrence. For some reason Felt and the Go-Betweens form the Dynamic Duo of the 80s in the world inside my head. I don't know if they're really all that connected, other than the fact that I love them both, they're both B&S influences and there's at least one vaguely Felt-sounding Go-Bs song. I was just flattening my Go-Betweens poster today, well today and yesterday. I'm getting it put in a frame because it's signed and I worry about it becoming dilapidated. Poor poster. That brings us to autumn. I'm not sure why, really. But in my list of things to talk about in this post it was next. So now that we've cleared that up, can I just say autumn is my favorite time of year? I don't listen to Isn't Anything at the start of it, I listen to Souvlaki. Not the food, the Slowdive album. But they're both shoegaze, maybe there's something about shoegaze being autumnal. I like autumn, especially the first day with a cool breeze. For me that day was earlier this week. I didn't listen to Souvlaki, but I did drive around in my car with the windows down. Do Belle & Sebastian have an autumn album? Well, everyone associates albums differently, but for me Sinister was always wintry, Arab Strap summery, and beyond that I don't know. I think both of them came out in those respective seasons so it could explain that. Tigermilk is such a random collection I doubt I could ever associate it with anything other than chaos. Fishyclap is...I suppose a little summery. Maybe the next LP will come out in the fall. Fall 2008 with our luck... Speaking of our dear Belles, I'm not really that fond of this whole other-songwriters thing, and I've already made that abundantly clear. I think I would never have complained about it, honestly, if Sinister and Tigermilk hadn't been all-Struan affairs. I mean I love some of the songs he didn't write the main bits too, especially Waiting for the Moon to Rise. But I loved the way the songs fit together in an album when it was all Struan. Sadly that day may never come again. Still, the new stuff is good too. I'm just being negative... On a positive note, I found a nice MP3 of Rhoda on Napster. Well, the beginning bit was cut off but I was happy someone else had taken the time to encode it, I'm pretty lazy with making MP3s of old tapes. Maybe now that everyone can theoretically hear it I won't feel like such a trainspotter mentioning it? It's not that great anyway. But it's decent. Sometimes I think it was intended as an album opener. You know, how the album openers all begin with some acapella Struan? Well it does too. And all the recent albums have had excellent lovely openers, so it got shelved. I could go on, but if you've read down to this point I owe you the favor of saving you from any more torture. Thank you, and goodnight. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky@mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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. 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