Forgive me, Sinister. This message contains some foul language. But mostly towards the end. I really should have posted earlier, when I had a working scanner, and could've joined the foxy ranks of D. Parker, D. Bowie, and J. Peel/D. Moore on the photo pages. I should have posted when Steve C. wrote about girls liking bad boys, because I don't go necessarily for the bad ones, but always the inappropriate ones. Which is worse? Then again I'm probably more inappropriate than anything. I should have posted when I was sad to read that Mark C. signed himself fat and sad rather than the more optimistic big and gay, and when I was happy that Laura Llew said that smutty thing she said about butter and muffins. I should have posted when I came across a defintion of Twee (c. 1850) as: to "be in a twee," to be overcome with fear or vexation. Only I was just that. I also should have posted when people were talking about Tom Baker, because he wrote a book called "The Boy Who Kicked Pigs" and it rocks. As good as "Creepy Susie" by Angus Oblong, and in the same category, though not caliber, as Edward Gorey. Has anyone else read these? Pleasantly perverse. T.B. even calls himself "the ultimate Dr Who" in the author's notes. The illustrations have the best captions--as seen in my subject line. Speaking of vicars, I realized today, while listening to a song that I don't even have to name, that I only encounter vicars in a musical context. Other than taking people to one side, giving them confirmation, and occasionally sporting tutus I'm in the dark about what they really do. And rhyming with vicar we have wicker, specifically wicker people, appearing in at least 2 songs that I can think of, and I have an even foggier idea of what that means. Any enlightened person who can answer these queries may write to the address above. And now I'm going to talk about "fucking." What made me write now was reading Whosit's rant at the enter.ie page. Gerunds can be tricky. Instead of the context of the writer's (presumably derogatory) use of it as Belle and (Fucking) Sebastian I read it instead as an enthusiastic word of emphasis. Belle and Fucking Sebastian! Hell Yeah! Turn it up! Shout it from rooftops and moving vehicles. Scrawl it on a bathroom wall. Now that would be inappropriate AND bad. I've since been amusing myself far too much with inserting "fucking" into song titles. The wrong fucking girl. There's too much fucking love. Is it wicked not to fucking care? It makes everything sound so badass. I also giggle too much when people say "effing." I'd like to say something insightful about pop music, but maybe next time that will happen. The only things I can think of now are odd bits, about how David Gedge sort of looks like my landlord. And how there's a Gap ad with a Badly Drawn Boy soundtrack. And how the other day I caught a bit of a Britney Spears TV special, wherein her mic/backing tape kept cutting out mid-song and all I thought was "hmm that seems almost poignant somehow." Since July when I last wrote I got struck by lightning and got meningitis and almost got chickenpox and have been exceedingly grumpy and profane. It's all true. And I still fucking love Belle and Sebastian. Apologetically yours, xo Sarah _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+