i nearly posted on saturday night when i got home from a night of b52s and latin jazz, drunk and extremely happy in a sickening, hippyish, 'i've just walked home through the silence of a beautiful starry night in the city i love best with only the b&s tunes in my head for company' kind of way. so count yourselves lucky that i've had a whole rainy sunday to sober, and toughen, up again. i'll leave the tender touch to dimitra, astrid and will, who do it so much better. yesterday i had to negotiate police lines to get to my favourite restaurant. there were about 4000 protesters outside the conference centre and elsewhere, and about 5000 armed police... some very good (if utterly utterly pointless) speeches were made about why we shouldn't go to war, but i found it a bit annoying the way every grievance and agenda was crowbarred into the protest. i'm sure we're all very upset that baby seals are being clubbed, but... i have listened to dead media now, and can imagine the studio conversation going something like, 'hey guys, we've written all these cynical, bittersweet rock songs like we normally do, but you know what? those daft punk chaps are doing terribly well, why don't we play around on this equipment and see if we can sound like them'. cheers darren. i say lock them in a garage with nothing but some saucepan lids and a banjo. i've been reading ghost world. it's very good, and reminds me a bit of jenowl (sorry if that's a bad thing.) can't wait to see the film, especially as steve buscemi's in it. i'm going off to convert a japanese oasis fan to belle and sebastian now. wish me luck... luv archel toast (although today i've been mostly archel bagel) *************************************** archel@iname.com For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+