I saw Dandy Warhols the other day......they were cool.... Yes, they are, aren't they? Good source of e-mail titles too. 'Bohemian Like You' is especially ace, puncturing that whole Bohemian myth with just the right amount of affection and yet another killer pop hook. I'm starting to
I I know at least two people here have read Infinite Jest, 'cos it was being discussed when I was a nursery grub, all of three weeks ago, so I thought it might vaguely amuse these people to know that I'm currently writing an essay called "Sweet let me see your face" - Veiled Heroines in Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' and Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' " for my nice new "You can write anything as long as it's loosely to do with Shakespeare" English teacher. Who almost certainly hasn't read Infinite Jest. But that's fair enough because I haven't read 'Much Ado'. At all. Ah, wacky sixth-form jinks (Jinx? Jinxs?)... II Sigh, two whole posts and not one list crush vote :P Still, I'm really not that bothered, for I have finally abandoned my very Belle Lettres crush on the heart-stoppingly P.G.O.A.T blonde girl who likes U.K. garage, and it has finally occured to me that the way the lovely Ada who likes Abstract Jazz and Britney Spears and Squee keeps holding my hand may not be entirely platonic. Which is nice. III My twee-est friend Alex (he has a Marty the Martian watch, for crying out loud) celebrated the fact that I no longer stand in his way to /her/ (so that's only half the school that does, now :P) by lending me a Billy Mahonie CD. Which is atrocious - very tedious and largely emotionless post-rock clichée. But it's the thought that counts. I think. I may give it back tommorow and demand his Kid Koala CD instead. Kid Koala rocks my world - Napster 'Barhopper 1' today.... IV Absolutely fantastic, on the other hand, is Ella Fitzgerald, in particular "Sunshine of your Love". Sure it's famous, or at least she is (My Funny Valentine, popkids?), but it truly is absolutely unbelievably soulful, and is currently clocking in at my second-and-a-half favestest track on Earth. The half is because live tracks don't really count, and Mogwai/Arthur Baker's masterpiece 'Our Father Our King' is as yet unreleased. It will be soon, maybe hopefully, though. V Top pop stomp, still, though, and probably forever is Century of Fakers, which I'm sure must be true of anyone who got into B&S through 369 being played on the radio. Is everyone's first B&S sound their fave (excluding LLPJ, which seems to be wuvved by all, including me)? My dad agrees Century's the bestest B&S, so nyah, but that's prolly 'cos I was careful to play it to him first... VI Still on the subject of monder patental parent, who is instilling in me a taste for John Baez that makes me feel young fogeyish and a bit guilty, he asked me what sort of people B&S fans were, and I said they were the smart kids who had nothing to rebel against. Is that maybe a bit harsh? I wasn't meaning to be - B&S seem to have a higher proportion of happy fans than any other bands I can think of... it's our whole twee lifestyle, I guess :) VII So, whatcha think of this Mercury business then? Nice to see the Delgadoes get some recognition, nicer still to hear Stuart Delgado laying into Richard Ashcroft, Coldplay and Doves on Xfm. No B&S, though, which is a bit of a pity - maybe they'll get a Brit again. VIII think they may be the only good, post-1980, pure indie/rock and not folk or experimental or whatever-influenced band, like, ever. IX Oh yeah, the Pixies. X And radiohead, sometimes, if we're going to be pedantic. XI Hefner, Trail of Dead, Pulp, some Oasis, some Blur, ummm... okay. I was wrong. I blame the government. XII You know those posts that say: "I doubt anyone's read this far down"? I wonder if there's actually anyone on Sinister who really does just think: "Naaah, this is too long..." and gives up on posts halfway through? If so, could they reply to this and confirm their existence? Ahhh... It's funny because he knows it's obvious and appears to hope it will squeeze into the category of "funny because it's not", but in fact the very artifice of the manouvere drives it out of that category, yet it simply bounces into the "funny because it's not funny because it's not funny" category, and lives there and is happy and makes purring noises and is funny. XIII Finally, some smut, to keep Honey and maybe some other similarly scary popsmutters happy. Whenever someone mentions the mentions the painter Constable, my friend John told me he can't help hearing: "C*nt stubble.". And now nor can I. And now nor will most of you. For the rest of your lives. Hope no-one's doing any Art courses :) Well, that took 1.5 hours of caffeinated essay-time. Byeee! @^Greg^@ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+