Do you know they way to San Jose? Yes it's over there. Oh right. The Dairy Fairy said:
Girls are hardly ever allowed to be smutty are they? And I think they
should be, because sex is just so funny.
Yes, where *is* Archel? Brenda Milton-Bradley, did you invent Connect Four and Guess Who? I know you didn't invent Monopoly because I once met the man who did. He was living in an old boot on the corner of Old Kent Road* and was mumbling something about wanting to buy a house for fifty pounds. I gave him two pounds, just to shut up the blathering old tramp, who kept on growling, in-between the hiccups, that 'I own this street', and demanding 'rent', obviously thinking I was a sailor. I knew I shouldn't have worn those trousers in that part of town. I made hasty exit back to my flat in The Strand* wearing my shiny pork pie hat. After my comments about liking the Yellow album over the Green one, I have tried to work out what I actually meant, because I was pretty confused about it myself. I think what it is is that even though the songs on the Green one are mostly better, the Yellow one is more charming. It has a story and a funny picture and it is the colour of cowslips. And, when B+S appear on Rock Legends, this will be the "troubled fourth album", with its wierdness of songs, that preceded the "magnificent fifth album": A controversial song about rape, Stevie having a funny turn in Beyond the Sunrise, and an album being pulled apart by the twin buffaloes of kitchen sink misery and high plains escapism. And even then lots of songs that didn't make it. It's a series of experiments, some of them exploding and others fizzing, that were precursors to the inventiveness we've been hearing lately. I think it's much more *interesting* too. For example Chickfactor=boring, whereas Beyond the Sunrise=oh my god they've gone barmy. It's an angry misfit, the sounds of discontent, and, I still don't really know why, but I like it. Robin x * Americans should substitute different street names here. West Forty Seventh and East Eighty Second are two of my favourites. I doubt if it will make any more sense, though. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+