It's a long time since we heard from list hero Lenny Waronker, isn't it? I'd almost forgotten about his very existence until the other day, when I was quietly perusing the booklet that accompanies the excellent compact disc release, "The Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks". Track number eighteen is a pleasant ditty entitled "Malibu U", performed by Harpers Bizarre. It is produced Lenny Waronker. Yes, that's right, I said "produced".. It would seem that the song comes from a television programme hosted by Rick Nelson (phwoooarrrr!) set in a summer school, where one could enjoy "such subjects as surfing, sunbathing, girl-watching and a field trip to a bikini factory". Top one. Sounds a bit like the Bowlie Weekender. According to the Jeepster website, the Camber Sands shindig is for "the intelligentsia of the alternative scene", or something like that. I wonder if there'll be an exam on the way in, or whether everyone has to clutch their exam certificates, Linda Kerr style? Anyway, I can't go. I don't go to places that don't allow women in (apart from public lavatories), so I can't go to places where non-intelligent people are banned either. Because they won't let me in. I love the Genital Waves website! The best bit is "Things I Like", in which Isobel lists a few of her favourite things, so that we can get to know her a little bit better. These are the ones I liked best: Going to Brownies; Telling the time; Dougal and the Blue Cat; Stork SB Margarine; Tying my own shoelaces; "I'm Only a Poor Little Sparrow" and "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by the Wilfred Bramble School Choir; Playing with my belly button. Mister Moore, I hope you and your daughter have got your jim-jams and johnnies packed. With a bit of luck, I'll get that tape off to you this week, so you'll be able to back me up in my deluded theory that Looper's "Ballad of Ray Suzuki" sounds like Denim's "The Great Grape Ape-Hangers". Speaking of which, John Johnstone, I think you should borrow a copy of the Looper album, or get someone to tape it, to see whether you like it enough to justify shelling out loads of cash for it. I think it's good, but I've only listened to it once so far. I guess that's the trouble with spoken word things, not enough to get your teeth stuck into (the exception that proves the rule is TV's Jason King, of course). Keith, what's the biggest selling spoken word album of all time? The only birthday I'm interested in is Lenny Waronker's, and possibly the Queen Mother's hundredth. By the way, was it Mister Murdoch who found those secret medical reports about the Queen's piles in a ditch in Ayr? I bet it bloody was, you know! Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+