Hullo Sinister children, I trust we have all been sinister this past week? Well, I have a confession, I haven't been very sinister. It is far too hot to be sinister this week. There will be an announcment about the Great Lakes Picnic in a day or two, be patient. At the moment it looks like the best location is South Bend, Indianna. I will have more info when it becomes available. Firstly, anyone interested in some pictures from the Aberdeen and Perth gigs can go to: http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/jgilmer2001 There's a really nice photo of Stu on-stage that I'm quite fond of. There's also some other photos from my vacation. You can scroll down and hit 'Show All' to see all the pics on one page. Onwards... In the midst of all this list tension and anger Lacivious Lucy and Saucy Sally started talking about their knickers, this is a good thing, a very good thing. A good knickers convo beats an east-west arguement every time. And who can stay mad when talking about sinister knickers? Craig had a good point, male underwear is completely boring, and that is as it should be. Give me a nice comfy pair of boxers any day over some of the uncomfortable (but lovely looking) knickers the poor, put upon lasses must wear. Speaking of knickers, I'm siting here listening to "Cherubs" by Arab Strap, for those that haven't heard it, it sounds a bit like a pretty blond with dirty knickers, that is to say, it sounds sexy and wrong and heathen and I love it. It's the kind of song that makes me want to be dancing in some smokey basement club crushed up against raver boys and girls. On the subject of dirty knickers and pretty girls, I have to say again that I think Angelina Jolie singing with Belle and Sebastian is nothing less than sheer brilliance. I'd buy that record. Hell, I'd pay to see the live show. Of course, the tabloids would be the most fun. The rumours of love triangles and a jealous Billy Bob and sex scandels and drug scandels. Oh, it'd be too much fun. They must do this for the amusment factor alone. Billy Bob and Angelina Jolie, American's white trash royalty. A man who beat his last wife with his Oscar statue on awards night and a woman who snogs her brother and thinks knives are sex toys. I love this country...sometimes. Othertimes I become a bit tired of it. Especailly after being in Europe and London and seeing the diversity there. One of these days I'll post about the differences I saw, and why I'd kill to live over there as opposed to here. Going back to the topic of smokey basement clubs, spending a saturday night at the Baptiste Club (monthly at the hard to find Tatty Bogle Club in Soho) with my friends from London was one of the highlights of my visit across the pond, right up there with catching B&S play. They play brilliant indie tunes all night and charge far too much for drinks, it's ace. Ken Chu said: "I have won this EXCLUSIVE world record breaking fuck-saying competition" I think I'd win in a cussing duel, my fuck-fu is mad deadly, but I won't call Ken out this time, because his "Stan" sampling post was nothing less than pure brilliance. If I ever meet Ken I'll buy him a Red Bull and vodka for the chuckle that post gave me. I'm drinking an energy drink called Whoop Ass at the moment, from the same people who bring us Jones Soda, it's no Red Bull, but what is? The only complaint I have about Red Bull and vodka is that the vodka buzz wears off on me faster than the Red Bull buzz, this is especially annoying at four in the morning when your vodka buzz is gone and the bar is closed and you just want to get some sleep and those seven or eight cans of Red Bull are still working their way through your system. Red Bull tastes like God's piss with caffine added, but it makes me want to dance. Methamphetamine in a can, you gotta love it. Recommended reading is "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. The cd for this week is Drugstore's "White Magic for Lovers" because it is brilliant and I'm madly in love with the lead singer's voice. Jim "I don't know what I'd do with myself if I had to be on the lookout for the Antichrist all the goddamned time." - Fiddlegirl +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+