A: he was bi-satchel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! anyway, hello folks. how is everyone doing? i just turned on the radio to be greeted with the sounds of rufus wainwright. what a marvellous surprise. Radio Scotland on a monday night really is quite good. :o) [midway through writing this post, the dj was talking about loudon wainwright III having written a song for his infant son rufus back in the day, called 'rufus is a titman'. the dj then came out with the line "and that turned out to be anything but true". comedy genius. i'm guessing you had to actually hear it, but i was wetting myself.] [the dj man is actually playing a set of related songs. rufus wainwright -> martha wainwright (sister) -> loudon wainwright (father) -> the roches (loudon had a child with suzzy roche after splitting from kate mcgarrigle). cool. and there may even have been more before i turned on the radio.] i have a flat now. should have the keys by the end of the weekend. fingers crossed. this does mean that i will permanently be saying cheerio to the glasgow sinister massive and joining the edinburgh sinister massive. will they be able to cope? i'm not really sure. it's a lot for anyone to take. miss stacey dahling arrived at the end of last week. at first, she seemed like such a charming nice little girl, american though she may have been. but now i just think she's a violent little bitch. she just keeps hitting me. it's not very nice, y'know. i'm only kidding. i do like stacey. cos she says i'm "street" and "ghetto", which is pretty bitchin'. i think i might be coming down to london village at the end of september to see the mighty camera obscura play chickfactor. which would be cool. they really are a great band. musically, at least. i think we're going to get the train. i like long train journeys. they're always good fun. like going on a road trip. or going on school trips when you were a kid. where all you did was eat sweets and chat to your friends for hours on end. and play the gameboy. family guy is one of the funniest television shows in the world. it has jokes about necrophilia, hitler, jewish people and catholics, a talking baby AND a talking dog. try and think of something cooler than that! i dares ya. everyone should read 'the troublesome offspring of cardinal guzman' by louis de bernieres. in my opinion, the best book of all time. it's hard to describe, either in terms of plot or themes. i'll just say that it stands for everything i find important in life. love, individuality, intellect, purity of heart, strength of mind and character. and it makes me smile, in the way that belle and sebastian do. in that indescribable way. (i just wrote that, cos i sat for about ten minutes trying to think of a way to describe that smile. and i can't. well, not in any concise coherent way. and probably not at all electronically.) take care of yourselves and each other, michael.xx ps- just a few music recommendations thrown in at the end for a larff. the danielson famile - the fantastic smith family from new jersey, making gospel music with steve albini. (http://www.danielsonfamile.com and also http://www.secretlycanadian.com/secretlycanadian/danielsonfamile). the polyphonic spree - a lot has been said about them on here before. just want to add my praise to that already given. orchestal, choral pop music. in robes. (http://www.polyphonicspree.com). ben kweller - ex-singer with teenage punkers radish. just released his first solo album at the age of 20. features moldy peach kimya dawson. very good. (http://www.benkweller.com). geographic records - pastels-runs, domino-affiliated label. release records by teenage fanclub and jad fair, maher shalal hash baz, nagise ni te, future pilot aka, bill wells and others. (doesnt really have a comprehensive website. there is http://www.dominorecordco.com/news/geographic/geographic.html, but i would just suggest going into your local record store and buying any cd or vinyl with a catalogue number starting in GEOG. there's a reasonable chance it'll have a member of b&s on there somewhere.) kimya dawson - of the moldy peaches. has made three solo albums, all of which will be coming out on rough trade in the uk in the next year, the first one (i'm sorry that sometimes i'm mean) is already out. lovely, simple, beautiful songs. go and buy, one and all. (http://www.moldypeaches.com and http://kimyadawson.diaryland.com) "get out of your apartment. meet a member of the opposite sex. stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. quit your job. start a fight. prove your alive. if you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic." - tyler durden. _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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