A/ Ally96 has returned to Scotland, and London is a poorer place. He emerged from his specially-sealed time capsule in the year 1996 to warble: "Pinefox on the beach, pinefox making women gasp". And we wondered to ourselves : what could the Pinefox possibly have been up to? We can only imagine it refers to the sight of the Pinefox in Shorts that graced Camber Sands earlier this year. There is possibly evidence of this on Mr Carslimes picture page. Yes, ladies, he IS still available. B/ Bow, Shiva take a, Shiva take a The strangest bit of actual content has come to our attention. Older readers may remember Sushil Dade, who was once a Soup Dragon and is now a driving instructor and a Future Pilot. His new cd, on Big Steve Pastels new label, is a charming mixture of Glaswegian geetar classicism and Indian devotional music, and blow us if that isnt Mad Dog Murdoch, on a track that translates as Bow down to Shiva", chanting away like George Harrison in his prime for over ten minutes! And thats not all, cos C/ Content (continued) Isobel is on there too, crooning along with Katrina Mitchell and Mrs Future Pilot. Its all very lovely. Theres even a track featuring what sounds like Aunt Sadie belting out "Beautiful Dreamer". We suggest you investigate, forthwith. D/ Dr Who Sarah Garret Sonner crashlanded into our list of top ten posters the other day. Among other things she mentioned how Tom Baker refers to himself as "the ultimate Dr Who", which is peculiar as we had the misfortune to hear Jon Pertwees Christmas single recently, and he also refers to himself as the ultimate Doctor. They cant both be right. We personally side with Pertwee, not only for his dandyism, but also because his surname suggests he is both pert and twee, a combination we find irresistable. E-F/ Examine Foxgloves Hoo hoo! If youre a lumberjack at a loose end, why not pop along to www.chickfactor.com where the photographs of Queen Gail OHara are currently appearing in a ghostly fashion. If you get three pictures of Foxgloves 1 in a row, apparently, you win an evening out for two in the Muji store of your choice. G/ Gorey, Edward Sarah GS also mentioned Edward Gorey, a couple of whose books are being republished for the festive market and would make ideal stocking-fillers for the morbid fantasist in your life. We recently discovered that Mr Gorey roomed at college with the happy-go-lucky New York poet Frank OHara, a notion which boggles our poor noggins. H/ Hewitt, Stephen mentioned the cover version the Genteel Daves did at the close of their set the other day. Supposedly called "and the beat goes on" the one goes that goes "la da dee da da, la dee dee dee dee" that isnt that one about the homeless lady. Somebody, possibly Mark Casarotto, claimed that this was a Sonny and Cher b-side, but this sounds dubious to us. Who can put us right? I/ Isobel Campbell Words cannot properly express how impressed we were with the Mental Lathes the other night. The arrangements were all lovely and Isobel sang very nicely, and well we were quite charmed by the whole thing. One point of contention, however: with her new longer hair, does Ms Campbell still qualify as a "gamine"? And how does one define a gamine, anyway? Elucidation, please. J/ Jackson, Stevie As Julie coyly hinted the other day, we also had the pleasure of sharing a urinal trough with Stevie J that night. We didnt peek. But we think that he might have. K/ Kado, Steve said "by the way, if anyone wants to help me understand later wittgenstein's thought with an eye towards what would make a good/useful essay...and if you can work Mikail Bahktin into it too, that would be so rad." The world, mused Ludwig, is all that the case is Mikail thought this a discouraging basis Preferring the charms of the dialogical, The carnivalesque and the scatalogical. L/ Love, Oscar from our Dublin brother magazine, Blather, kindly donated that last poem. M/ Miller, Peter mentioned the film of Charlies Angels, which is quite entertaining, and makes one want to learn kung fu, and answers the question of what Crispin Glover is up to these days. Strangely, it is a rare example of a pretty good film in which Bill Murrary is pretty bad, when the opposite is usually the case. We give it 7/10. Only two films have scored better this year. We will leave you to speculate what they were. N/ Nou Camp Peter also advised Jordi not to pretend to be a cat in the Nou Camp stadium. Which is sage advice;. the last person to pretend to be a cat in a football stadium was Peter "The Cat" Bonnetti in 1970. And look what happened to him. O/ Owl, jen Said "I just gave him a bog frown" and we wondered what she could possibly mean. Is it like a brown study? P-Q/ Pop Quiz! Ally96 scurrilously mentioned people nicking poems to put in their pop lyrics. Can you name the pop songs and poems these words appeared in? The first person to mail us privately with the correct answer wins a mystery prize. 1) She walks in beauty like the night 2) Twilight turns to amethyst, then deep and deeper blue 3) Butterflies with gilded wings R/ Runion, Philip Used the expression they knocked boots until the sun came up" in a lewd fashion with reference to an Isobel Campbell song. Bravo. S/ Select magazine is dead, apparently. We shed a quiet tear. It has been terrible for ages, of course, but of all the UK music mags it had seemed to be nicest about B&S. And of course it did that 5-page feature on 200 hundred troubled teenagers a couple of years ago, and featured an interview with the dear departed Duke of Harringay. Talking of which, Tangents looks like it is dead at the moment too. Is the flame of P!O!P! to be so easily extinguished? T/ Twee interlude A wee kitten is playing with a ball of knitting wool and getting in a frightful tangle. U/ Um V/ V-twin Did anyone go and watch them being filmed the other night? Did they turn on the charm for the cameras, those loveable rogues? W/ Wells, Bill What a cool-looking troupe! They have a member who looks like Catweasel, another who looks one of those scary potato men out of Dr Who and a gamine flautist who looks a bit Amelia Fletcher - all in the same band! You cant say that about many groups - except Sportique, of course. X/ XFMAS Hmmm. Does anyone else remember when the Sheepster staff were leading the fight against the great Satan that is the evil XFM corporation, way back when? Or did we dream it? And why does no one on this list talk about the Fortuna Pop Christmas lp which came out this month, and features the Ailsa Set! Saloon! And the Pines! Y/ Year end polls People always send these to the list in December and it can get a little tiresome. Can some eager beaver step forward to compile the End of Year 2000 Sinister top ten singles/crushes/greatest wanks etc? If no one wants to volunteer we dont mind doing it ourselves, but we cant guarantee impartiality. Compared to us, Jed Bush is one honest injun. Z/ zzzz ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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