It just seems sort of disappointing to me that even in 2001, and even in a community as ostensibly open and intelligent and feeling as Sinister, one can claim
SO LONG, LUCKY AVENUE Today's has-been's old hat is Ricky Lee Jones. Plus, Robert Johnson, and probably - well, how could it be otherwise? -'Robert' "Forster". OH! TO BE / LIKE EMILY!! Emily of the List said: that women are still either attractive or intelligent, with no middle ground. I, for one, think many of the females on this list are proof positive that that sort of thinking just doesn't hold. Oh, golly, yes, dear. But spare a thought for those of us who are desperate just to get put in one or other of those reductive pigeon-holes. We (I speak for a legion, or just for myself) have spent out lives occupying the imaginative, many-sided, 'fuzzy-thinking' postmodern *both / and* position of being *both* unattractive *and* dull. We want to get back to simplistic binary oppositions for once, and have something going for us. (YOU'RE SO) That word 'ineffectual' is getting on for 6 centuries old, or something. That's what I heard. No kidding. FOX IS POLYSEMIC TOO Carsmillie talked about Wembley rumours still needing to be made up. He made me chuckle, or something approaching it - I mean, I thought he was a funny geezer, when he said that. But he did immediately, and surely knowingly, raise the problem that once he had spoken of the rumours not being made up, he'd begun to make them up. Still, they do need more elaboration, it's true. I DON'T THINK I'LL GO BACK TO NEW JERSEY Mooro, or somebody - I *think* it was Mooro - talked about B&S recording that soundtrack. Again! He was right, though. You see, I gave up on the idea of getting Ally96 and The Care Bear to play on the soundtrack. The idea was class, but the money-men just weren't having it. I decided to ask this guitar player 'Stevie Jackson' instead. Watch this space. A PICTURE OF HER AT THE PYRAMIDS I have long maintained that fans of les Go-Betweens are not good at coming out of the woodwork and *justifying* their love. And this week has done little to change my mind. A little, but not that much. JESUS, JUST READ THE GODDAMN BOOK Does anyone read Salinger *other than* The Catcher in the Rye nowadays? I suppose the answer is yes: but me, I have taken a good old time, my own sour time you may say, getting round to it. Does Franny & Zooey have any fans? That's what I'd like to know. And is all this Glass-Family-Menagerie stuff a 'break' from Caulfield, or an 'extension' of it? I don't know - the first section of F&Z still lands us in that East-Coast college-kid world, but is that a set-up to be knocked down? There seems to be something a little stranger, a little more ambitious, about Salinger, than I'd quite managed fully to realize till now. Mainly, I didn't realize that the books were connected up as they are. Is it true, by the way, that Pynchonians just don't like Salinger? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.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. 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+