people: how come stuart actually sounds scottish when hes singing 'pocketbook angel' (listen to "books" and "looks") and yet he doesnt at all now? it must have been a conscious decision. or are there lots of recent b&s songs where you can tell hes scottish? almost similarly (but not quite), the felt album 'me and a monkey on the moon' has a track called 'free'. the first few notes are pure unadulterated b&s. download it and see. i love how some (particularly american) politicians can look smug as they talk about war and death. boring old blair always puts on his sombre voice and straight face whenever he does it his seriousness is losing him popularity, i reckon. id love to live in a country where some jolly chocolate-eating fat man is the leader and he always smiles and chuckles as he informs his people of natural disasters etc. like something from a bank holiday film but with a surreal twist. manchester continues to burrow deep back into the heart of me. last friday was a night of irish (non)dancing, the worst £5 buffet ever, simian (the band) in a dark pub and then a stop-off at 'love on the march', manchester's irregular b&s night. sorry to any mancunian lurkers who were there, i think i took up more of the dance floor than is allowed - i wore strange shoes. and no, ken, they werent extra-long clown shoes. i shall be one of the few (it seems) not participating in the weekend's leisure activities in glasgow. instead, i shall be juggling revision (thats "study for exams" for our american friends) for my forthcoming four weeks of hell. random sentence im reading right now: "a negative feedback loop makes for much more stable systems". well, duh! good luck to everyone else surrounded by pro-plus, biscuits, vitamin pills and piles of notes. cos you are either a student or living your life very strangely indeed. finally, if youre one of those people who goes to a quiet gig then stands around near-shouting at your friends, please stop it. its not a very nice thing to do. it happens a lot in manchester but i havent been elsewhere enough to decide whether its worse here or not. speaking of which, the hidden cameras *and* mogwai are both bypassing this place (must be the water...) on their respective tours. if they werent so goddam good, id consider boycotting both from now on. any distraction will do, c. ps. for anyone not familiar with it, the aptly-named dosomethingpretty.com is a great website. several sinisters and sinister-relatives write for it so go have a look. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+