Hullo Ah, I was supposed to be writing my belle and sebastian review today, but i don't think i'll get the album till tuesday, and seeing as i haven't heard it i can't possibly review it, can i? I think If She Wants Me will be a really good song. I think that Sharon might be spot on with her Morricone comparision for the title track, too. I hadn't really thought of that until she mentioned it. There have been lots of reviews of the album in the press, though. Most of them pretty good, too. Look: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1055915,00.html The Pinefox traduced me thus: << Stout Robin, of whose regular sinister appearances I in principle approve, averred that rude words are, or were, inherently funny. (I don't suppose he used the word 'inherently'. Perhaps I am traducing him; save that I am not.) I think that he is wrong. He does not even trouble to register the REAL LIFE DEBATE we once had on this question. I think we were in Greenwich Park (at the time).
I think the conversation was actually about whether certain words are inherently funny, or appropriate, or, indeed, have any intrinsic value at all. I think I argued that TROWEL was a funny word, as was PAMPHLET, and I probably said that BOOB is a good word because it both looks and sounds like what it describes. I might even have made absent-minded grabbing motions in the air when I said this. I dunno, I was probably just being obnoxious anyway. I think the thing with the absurd album acronyms is that it's All A Bit Of Fun. They're rather surreal, really. I mean, what is a twatty bus? What's a fishy clap? Whatever they are, I think someone should call a doctor, and quick! r o b i n x _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+