HI!!! glasgow seems such a cool place. if there was anywhere in the world i could live it would be glasgow or new york, both cities just exude (sp?) a certain quality like if they were film stars they'd be errol flynn and clark gable, just the coolest you can possibly be. both have incredibly rich musical heritages, i suppose it's like billy connoly's theory about why certain cities are funny, the mix of races and cultures. manchester's jewish and irish populations, newcastle's scottish population, london's mix of everything. new york is, i suppose, just a huge mass of different cultures all alien to where they are (exvcept the native americans but i don't suppose you get many of them walkind down broadway or wall street). i have been to neither cities but i will have a manhattan loft sometime in the future (a boys gotta dream). actually i've heard that american tv shows use toronto to film in coz it looks more like chicago or new york than chicago or new york do!. i have been to toronto though. great place, all i can really remember though is the heat (40 degrees c) and the posters everywhere advertising the sex pistols reunion tour that rolled through a few days after i left (which i was bummed about as i was 16 and had just been introduced to punk through a friends brother) what was i talking about? oh yeah other places but home. i *need* to get out of the parental home, it's driving me nuts. i suppose thinking about moving out made me think about moving to glasgow or other cool places but i suppose newcastle in't that bad, it's pretty cool actually but very insular. edinburgh, 100 miles north, or leeds, 100 miles south, are the nearest civilisations of any real size or importance and although i do have friends there it's nigh on 20 quid for a bus or train ticket and even that is way out of my budget. god i'm rambling but i havent done it in ages so i'm allowed. the french have no word for double entendre, but they call a rugby player 'le rugbyman' so we're both to fault. by the way, who are wheatus? they are like, top 5 in the charts and i've never heard the song. and they seem like the kind of band i would like to have heard of (if that made any 1sense) i don't mind if i haven't heard the latest britney or steps offering but they seem like a proper band with proper instruments and they've even been in the NME so why no airplay? man, i'm campaigning for a band i've never heard, so i'll stop and campaign for a band i *have* heard... ...but i carnt think of anybody worth mentioning at the mo, 'cept belle and sebastian, heard of them?, i hear they're touring soon, you should all go see them (like there's any chance of *that* not happening) OOOOH thought of one, calexico. fantastic zoe charaktinou said she'd ordered the new album, have you got it yet? what's it like? mark and lard have been playing the new single constantly. i saw them at the leeds festival during the summer. after crowd surfing to the gloriously triumphant primal scream, who were second last to oasis on the final night, i shot off up the hill to the tiny little tent where the new bands played (partly to miss the *dire* oasis) and cought the first two songs calexico played but i had to leave coz the sweatline round my neck was actually around my waist and the soundcheck took forever and standing in a draughty tent wearing soaking clothes is not good for your health and i couldn't hear coz of my chattering teeth and i thought hypothermia was coming on, (but *only* those reasons) i went back to the campsite to get warmed up by the fire. i liked the irony of my choice of clothing that night, my bright red 'kill all hippies' t-shirt and a pair of huge mud-encrusted flares. somebody mentioned harry potter. if you havent read the books yed then do so now. the first book was reprinted with a more adult cover coz so many people were reading it on the train to work or whatever and were getting embarassed by the kids cover. i liked the touches that teletext gave the interview with stuart, stuff like 'ease your feet into the music news, page 563' and 'i could be dreaming of the charts, page 567' completely naff but funny all the same the meek shall inherit the earth. but then we'll sell if for a fortune, buy mars and rename it 'the fantabulously red planet of fun, fun and belle and sebastian'. bye pez* www.pez.com - the wonderful world of pez ;0) ivorytowers.8m.com - ivory towers records _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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