Heya there, all you hip-hop boys and heavy-metal girls. It's me. I'm listening right now to the B-Sides to Spaceman by Babylon Zoo, for I think the first time. There are three of them, and they are, of course, terrible. Except the bizzarre remix on the D-Side, entitled "Spaceman - The Fifth Dimension", which is actually pretty good. When I stop listening to Bowie-influenced flash in the pans, I'm going to listen to 'Since Yesterday' by Strawberry Switchblade, because Tangents is back up, and I was browsing some old articles to celebrate this fact, and Alastair said that was a fantastic song. And it is. I really, really like Tangents, especially the way they don't link to the shop in shop in any way from the main page, and you have to click on gallery to even get to it. It's 9.48AM, and I haven't gone to bed yet yesterday. On other news, I have decided to run the... Sinister Adverb Of The Year, 2000 contest. A simple idea, but a necessary one. The way it works is this. First, you pick an adverb you like. It can be real, like "creakily", which is my personal fave, or made up, like "Sofia Coppola-ishly" or even "Perfudgonishly". And then you e-mail it to me. If it's a made-up one, of either sort, you can enclose a meaning too, or not, depending on how you feel, the day of the week. The closing date is 18:00 GMT on Sunday, this Sunday, so get those votes in. After 6PM on that Sunday, one of three things will happen, depending on events. Possibility One will occurs if no-one votes. The poll will disappear into obscurity, and I will hang myself from a beech tree. Possibility Two will occur if a handful of people vote. In this case I will write another Sinister post, saying "thank you" to the people who entered. I will also feel happy. Possibility Three will only occur if more than ten people vote, which, lets face it, isn't going to happen. Still, you never know, how cold my toes, are growing, so I'm writing this anyway. In this case there will be winners. There will even be prizes. Yes, real prizes. Sent by post. EU only, unfortunately, but everyone everywhere should still submit their entries, for the glory such a victory would bring unto their household. Remember, all you have to do is send a one word e-mail. This does not take time. I am a dog, head lolling to one side, begging you to vote. On still other news, Steven Kado got all huffy just because I got him confused with Sexy Cris 'Sexy is my middle name' Lampien, and then I felt a bit a bit silly. But then he said "besides, cat power isn't that hot" which completely invalidates his point, and brings shame unto his family with the brash brashness of this brash errr brashosity. Thought the festive fifty was pretty good (which links because Cat Power were in it, would be the reason for this jump), bit shocked by some of the results, though. Who are these people who think Polly Harvey made the single song this year? There are many of them, and they are wrong. The Neko Case victory was a lovely surprise, though, it's a great track. Me, I voted for Black Box Recorder, but I guess they weren't Peel enough. Please can someone solve this bloody puzzle (http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/aali/puzzles/water/watermelon.htm) and e-mail me the result? It's driving me mad. Thanks. 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+