I haven't posted in a long, long time. Today I was forced against my will to listen to the Jpop group "Tampopo," which is a group of 4 14 year old Japanese girls all wearing frilly black and pink burlesque-style outfits and big pink top hats, so they kind of look like the Mad Hatter if he was a stripper. Their first song was pretty horrid, something about frilly girly things and skipping through Kyoto and flowers and crap. The second song was pretty much the same, and my friend who was driving in the car was grinning her big bad-teeth grin and chuckling and saying something in Japanese that ain't in any textbooks (my friend is from Osaka, if anyone cares, and she's a strange girl). Then the third song came - - and the both of us swear that the girl in Tampopo started singing about "Okama" -- male homosexuals, and "resubian" -- lesbian. And that got me thinking -- what if B & S were 14 year old Japanese schoolgirls singing about the same subjects that they do now. The exact same songs. Would they be as popular? Or would people think that they were complete freaks? Would we all be writing to each other on the list, and meeting each other in clubs, and wearing silly T-shirts, and walking through the grocery store singing "dirty dream number two" at an audible level, or screaming every time Chris or Stuart or Isabelle or Mick or Etc. got on stage, or pissing off the annoying people who live in the house below yours by cranking "woman's realm" at 3 AM? Or would they fade amongst the obscurity of Shinjuku BDSM clubs and Toxitown Junky Queens? would they end up in a smoke-filled club stinking of booze and body odor while 50 year old business wanked off to them while they gyrated and twisted and pranced on a rounded stage, their arms and legs bruised and holed with needle marks, their septums burned out and trickles of blood dripping down their face? Sorry. I am on a weird tangent right now. I just finished reading the book "Coin Locker Babies" by Ryu Murakami, which is about transvestites and drug addicts and male/female whores and rock and roll stars and pole vaulters and a fashion model with a pet crocodile. And Shinjuku, where I went one before, and will go again when I'm in Japan this summer. Toodles. Your Pal, Rob ======================================================== "If your engines aren't revved up, then what you need is a holy ghost enema right up your rear end!" -Suzanne Hinn "And remember, if New Jersey was made out of neutron star matter, a teaspoon of New Jersey would weigh as much as New Jersey!" -- James "Kibo" Parry http://home.earthlink.net/~rtoad ALL SORTS OF THINGS FOR YOUR REAR ======================================================= +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+