Jumbo jet vignettes to y'all for being so great! My spidey senses just tingled and assured me that yesterday evening, in a quiet, bluish-green part of the city, the following event occurred: puffy-haired man, possibly trained as.. a mercenary, threw a bomb right out the cargo hold of a lost woodland ambulance. Then, an older man reluctantly cried, "Brrravo!" in a Siberian accent.. it gets blurry from then on, somebody maybe warbling, "He ain't heavy, he's just confused." Time for another spidery check-up, I think, because ignorance and spiders should of course be given a second chance in Pop, as a wise person once said. Or was that a Yiddish saying? Lawrence from Felt was interviewed in Select a while ago, and his evocative cheekbones were bound to touch upon the subject of his most famous follower, sooner or later at least.. if anyone's interested: You must be aware of Stuart Murdoch wearing a Felt T-shirt on stage. "Yeah, I thought it was great, because people always come up to me and tell me how much they like Felt, and people like Death In Vegas drop our name in print, but it was so nice for someone to really stick their neck out - particularly as Belle & Sebastian are a really good band. I think Stuart Murdoch is a better song writer than I've ever been." Have you ever met him? "Yeah, it was funny, because I was just sitting in the ICA bar one afternoon and this guy I know came in. He told me how the Tindersticks were playing the ICA the next night and how the support band were huge fans of Felt. So I went to the show and it was really odd because Stuart Murdoch was changing some of the lyrics to Felt lyrics. I met him afterwards in the bar and he was saying, 'I don't know if you noticed, but I was fitting in Felt lyrics.' I'd certainly noticed." Personally, I love that last thing he says and like to endow it with a kind of reflective tone. Thanks to Dave for posting the Lord Anthony MP3, it's a bit crackly, yet to this first-time listener it was audible enough to inspire some dugong-like internet research, whereupon I found this site, and a song called "Swarm Me": http://www.ireggae.com/anthonyb/swarmme1.htm Here is an excerpt (taken for my purposes and thus wholly unrepresentative!) to highlight some striking similarities in theme to the B&S song. This may be a cheap gibe, but.. that's nearly as good as expensive pathos: Lord, Lord, Lord, Anthony B. is very polite, But dem say dis boy too bright. Remember we don't live in a communist country. Yuggo yo. And on that note, we degenerate into sweet dreams, Ant X +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+