Hello chickens, The other day I was feeling a bit depressed, because I was bored and lonely and all the rest of it. And normally if I'm feeling a bit down I'll play melancholy records. I like to listen to music that reflects my moods, y'know. So I was really mad with myself last night when I drove my friend and my brother to Sheffield because I was feeling happy and I wanted to listen to Supergrass, but my friend detests them and made me choose something else. Afterwards I really hated myself for caving in to what he wanted. Whoa, I've gone right off course there. So I was feeling depressed the other day, and rather than pick out something sad, I put Tigermilk on. This is my point here, ready? Right: Belle & Sebastian records reflect any mood I'm in. It's weird, most music is sad or happy (or middle of road, but that's boring), but B&S sound sad when I'm sad and happy when I'm happy. This obviously makes them fabadocious, which is a word I'll now be campaigning to get in the dictionary. I've just read the new (May) Select, and a little B&S bit reminded me of something I read. I think it was the manager who mentioned the use of a mellotron. This is good, because mellotrons are great, grate and even gr8. The only good thing about the new Oasis album is the heavy use of a mellotron. That's all I have to say about that. Oh, and the new look Select is hideous. It looks like some god awful lad's mag. Right down to the easy to clean (sorry) extra glossy pages. Also the Slipknot video on the CD is about as scary as Thora Hird and about as offensive as Toy Story after heavy censorship from Mary Whitehouse. It was all I could do to stop short of pissing myself with laughter. I really would like to go to a Slipknot gig and just storm the stage, cut all the power to the PA and say "Oh do stop being silly, you're tea's getting cold". I bet they'd cry, the wusses. Update on Sinister saga - my second visit to #sinister was even more disastrous than the first. Although at least I have started to master mIRC and it's command thingies, I did however wander off at one point to park my car properly outside, rather than in the middle of the road where I'd left it, and forgot to tell anyone. So if you were on #sinister on Sunday afternoon, I wasn't ignoring you, I was just being stupid. Adios, Mike smiley@rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk http://www.rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk Post Script: I realise there might be a bit too much B&S content here for some people, and I promise that my next post will have no relevance to anything at all. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+