It's a shame about Roy Walker. Thanks to Pedro for sending an advert to the list. I've always thought those 'list rules' were just *silly*. I'm especially grateful to Pedro for telling us about the collection of songs by bands who played at ATP, because, as you may know, I am very keen on those bands, and spend large parts of each day wishing that I had a compact disc containing tracks by them. The kind of thing I would like to have would be - just for instance - a self-indulgent 14-minute multi-generic ramble by The Tortoises; a seemingly endless load of bleeping toss by Alultechre; a seemingly unending load of tripe by Bored of Weybridge. If you can fix us up with some of that gear, Pedro me old china, we'll be made up, catch my drift? Maria Sierra's name reminds me, come to think of it, of that Yankee beer thing called Sierra Nevada or something. And that's a *good* thing, la. Youn foxed us all again. We just don't know where she's coming from next. In that respect she is much like Remi Moses. She said that the Dastoor's appearances on sinister felt significant - and I agree. I miss him too. Jenowl said that ATP sounded good. No, no, la - it *was* good, but it didn't *sound* good. It sounded atrocious. Maria S also said that elenita99 was a good cooker. I disagree. I think she's more of an old boiler. There is something to be said about the altered phenomenology of film since video: ie, the possibility that viewers concentrated on movies more when they might not get to see another film again for another 20 years. I am reminding myself, in writing this, or the other day when Sally la M held surely the best sinister party in months. I have got to tell you about the thrills that la M laid on, along with her pals. One or two geezers found her pals a thrill, too, but that's another matter. No, the bash itself was something to behold - it was time for beer, Frazzles, red wine, Martini and ginger, and talk of the real meaning of Black Box. It was the best discusion of Black Box EVER. I really mean that - it was MUCH better than the discussions of Black Box that Reynolds and Stubbs used to have on Friday afternoons in summer 1989, when they would lounge around saying 'god, Black Box are great, aren't they?'. I mean it - to everyone that participated in this Black Box discussion, thank you. You rock - I mean, you dance. Unknown folks also derived known pleasures from discussing things that Llaura Lll had said. I think that LlllLlll would be amazed if she knew how folks in England discuss her. Or would she? Her remark about density and light started a whole scientific debate. I listened, and understood nary a word. That's because I have CLEVER friends, see. Some gal from North London acted as DJ with unusual good taste, and cried into her beer, metaphorically, when thinking about some wee bairn from somewhere up North. I don't know. Mick Jagger took notes, hoping to write another 'Crying In Your Daquiri' song sometime soon. As the night wore into morning, it once again turned out that Lloyd Cole was incredibly brilliant, and surely the most underrated artist of the last 20 years. The result was surprising at first, but we got used to it, and realized that it was accurate. Sophie in Central Park - apart from being a song that Paul Simon never quite wrote, and more's the pity - said that 'Brown-Eyed Girl' was camp. Did she mean 'summer camp'? She said that the MFs made her cry, I think; unless I am misquoting her. I wonder why? Please tell. Summer songs? Let's see - 'The Power' by Snap. That is a very, very bad Summer song. Lloyd Cole's 'Don't Look Back', on the other hand, is a very, very, very great Easter song. With that song in mind, let me wish you all a happy Easter. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+