if how you spend new year = how you're going to die, i'm very worried. watching edward woodward being burnt alive is not in my top ten of 'things to do with my final moments on this earth'. i don't think this has been mentioned yet - the january issue of careless talk costs lives includes the following b&s content: 1. spoof news item on the band being deployed to afghanistan. sample sentence "we need a morale booster - and what better than the thought of these fey, mimsy little milquetoasts fetching up against the ruthless, battle-hardened zealots of the Taliban?" they obviously don't know about struan's boxing skills... 2. non-review of the september washington gig by a jonathan richman fan. 3. (best bit) a two-page brazilian journal by stuart murdoch, bless him. plus of course the usual spattering of music journalese references in the rest of the magazine: "belle and sebastian on <insert drug here>"; the lovechild of <insert band name here> and belle and sebastian" etc etc i really don't like the music press. including so-called saviours of it such as ctcl. (it's significant that the best writing in this issue was by struan.) i don't feel that any of these writers are talking to me, that's the problem. i hardly need to mention the nme, but even magazines like uncut and ctcl which purport to have some kind of intelligence and integrity make me feel like a hopelessly uncool outsider - everett true is in bed with all the artists for a start. i begin to think that if you're passionate about music, the last thing you should do is write about it, because you will inevitably disappear up your own arse before you can say 'i hate starsailor, me'. blah, anyway. lots of deep thoughtful posts lately, something guaranteed to make me feel dull and mentally feeble. perhaps i should retreat to #sinister, where paragraphs do not exist... luv archel xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+