i'm tempted to give a semantic explanation for the oddness of the title. a superficial mental perusal of their discography and of song/album titles, in general, leads me to the conclusion that it's on account of it being a sentence. most song titles seem to be noun phrases, if one accepts that titles like 'going nowhere fast' are nominal gerunds. this is appropriate since the title names an object, albeit an abstract one.
i'm willing to agree with your entire analysis, esp the part about offering an entire context instead of merely a name...that's clever says i. however, if the fact that the title of the new record is remarkable by virtue of it being NOT a noun phrase what is to be made of 'if you're feeling sinsiter' which is not merely the album around which their entire discography spins (this is debatable but ...) but it is also a Compliment Phrase or CP. essentially the 'If' at the front is modifying an already exiting sentence being 'you are feeling sinister') and making it conditional....it almost begs one to say "well i'm not so fuck off." i'm not sure where i'm going with this but i just saw an opportunity to open my linguistics text so i suppose that can't be a bad thing (as exams are coming up). also.... hary hunt in his 'graphic porn, free pimms and world peace' magnum opus stated that:
act, sound, etc. Smell, that's different, smelling nice is dignity, not pride.
yes yes yes....i view it as actively rude of someone to appear smelly and in public. they are going to get it. also, for those new Torontonians to the list, they will be thrilled to know that there is a thriving sinister commune here in toronto (well a community maybe, commune is stretching it because we don't all live together and grow our own food) and usually things are stage managed by DebS and Diana who run things in this town. check the jeepster meetup board for deets. also, i'll be at the smiths night tonite wearing a lavender shirt and dancing my legs down to the knees, or possibly just scowling and being drunk....who knows. steven +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+