off sick from work today .... migrane. mmmm .... head pain. Anyway, time to muse over a few things, inbetween spells of blinding pain. ***NEW B&S STUFF*** Two things strike me as good. Note that on the band's site it says the band will hopefully release the songs as *singles*. Plural. It would be nice if they rpeated their summer '97 thing, and released three or four non-album singles or EPs this year. Here's hoping. (AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE PUT "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" OUT SOON!) Secondly, keen-eyed readers will remember someone (can't remember who) mentioning he ran into band members at a Go-Betweens concert in New York, who were there for a reason he couldn't really discuss. I say SPILL THE BEANS! I can only assume this was the film soundtrack thing. Hal Hartley is based in New York ... so putting two and two together ..... OK, it's a strong lead, anyway. I wounder if it will be an instrumental score, or actual songs. Or a combination of the two .... ***SPEAKING OF WHICH*** Wasn't Air's "The Virgin Suicides" s/t one of the best albums of the year? Course it was. Can't wait for their new album. and onto .... ***JEFF BUCKLEY'S MOTHER*** (Motto: "I'm the new Metallica") I've been a Jeff Buckley fan for ages, and missing his obnly Auckland gig is a source of heartbreak for me. Oh well. Anyway, the insideous control with which she has taken control of his legacy frightens me a little. I have been subscribing to the JBIN e-mail neweletter for a while now, but unsubscribed a week or so ago as I found it's tone was getting more and more annoying. I don't like how she (Mary G, his mother) get's "fan" letters, and I certainly object to her stance on Napster, getting people kicked off for trafding unreleased Jeff songs. Personally (and here we delve deep into 'Lawrence's personal opinion) I *think* Jeff would have LOVED Napster, being such an obsessive music fan. I'm sure he would have relished the opportunity to find alternate live readings of songs by Nusrat Ali Fakan, The Smiths, Led Zep etc. But then he dies in a stupid accident, and suddenly he mother, with whom I believe ghe had a fairly major falling out with just before his death, decides people shouldn't trade his songs because he felt "religiously protective" of them. I don't know .... it just kinda gets to me. I mean, it's not like he's losing out finacially because of it, because .... well, he's dead. All the obsessive Buckley fans I know have all of his stuff. Anyway, I could go on for ages about this ....... ***NARNIA*** After my headache went away I read "Prince Caspian". Brilliant. I also read the stuff on the Looper site. I've pre ordered the book, but wonder how much I'll like it. As another listee pointed out, *way* too much swearing. Not even clever swearing, which is tolerable, but just swearing for the sake of it. I could put some here to make the point ....... But I can't be bothered, and my spell checker will just try and make me chane it to "funk" and "count" or something ....... (Bloody Bill Gates) Well, once more unto the bed. Stay beautiful, B&S community. Lawrence Mikkelsen PS - for those of you interested enough to wonder how my first gym sesion went, I can say only "I can't feel my knees" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+