darling, darling sinister, first of all, the maddest props to everyone who's written to me to tell me to stop kekking myself about cambridge - i'm still scared, but not quite so scared as i was before, so thank you ;) you're all lovely, lovely things. i've been panicking today because i don't actually have a bank account at present to pay my scholarship and parental contribution cheques into, and so quite how i'm going to pay that eight hundred pounds bill waiting on my desk in cambridge at this very moment is beyond me... fuck it, i'd better get drunk and hope it disappears. spread eagle, tomorrow night, seven thirty - does that sound good? see you there martin and lucy, and (hopefully) lovely matt and geoff. let me know. anyway, archel (who i almost always agree with) shocked me with 'i bloody hate french rapping'. i dunno, i think it sounds really unbearably cool - if you want to hear shitty rap, try swedish, czech or russian. and some german rap is appaling too, but some of it (kinderzimmerproject [sp?]) is rather fine. i dunno, i think french rap sounds really suave and sexy, like i could just mosie up to some supermodel in a parisian bar and whisper in her ear and impress her like in that kronenbourg advert... and to this day i still choose kronenbourg. whereas in fact in a parisian bar i'd get mocked (a) for not being head-to-toe in gucci (b) having no bank account, an unshaven face and silly hair (c) sounding and looking like an englishman trying to fit in in an alien atmosphere. oh well. i dunno, i think that french rap, like rap in most other languages, works best when the rapper just constructs complex plays on words, and puns away for a while (à la tribe called quest) rather than just boasting about how big his dick/ car/ 'prop'/ rolex/ bank account is, or how many 'niggas'/ 'bitches' he's beaten up. but that's just me. the parisian suburb slang, i believe, is called 'versl'en', which is 'l'envers' backwards. sort of. and it's very hard to understand, but when you get certain words it can be rather funny. a policeman is apparently known as a 'kuf' - boom boom indeed. but i might be wrong - my french is pretty dire. and i was told about it by a french aristocrat who made rude jokes about arabs, so quite what he knew about the industrial edges of paris i'm not quite sure. what else... yes, reading the new-enhanced-politically-correct-might-be-homo-then lady marian's comments on her winter shoes, i started to think... ever since i started cutting off my laces just above the holes and tying knots there instead, so i can slip them on rather than having to bother with things like laces, i've stopped snogging boys. this hasn't been through any deliberate choice, i don't think, but maybe... hmm... could my footwear customisation choices be a subconscious echo of my changing sexuality? while reading martin's additions to the 'mothers in pop' thread, i was listening to 'machine screw' by that famous band 'type o negative', a song which features the noise of a woman orgasming (or pretending to do so). and so, having a sick little mind, i was wondering if anyone else could think of any songs that feature the noise of people orgasming. i wonder if there are as many orgasm songs as there are mummy and son/ daughter colaborations? didn't think so. does anyone know anything about kid loco? i got a couple of his songs on a tape, and they're rather fine. as is his remix on the mogwai record. are these isolated incidents, or is all his stuff this much fun? i used to sniff lighter fluid, and i think that anyone who knows me can confirm that it hasn't done me any good, love to all of you, you wonderful, wonderful people, Marcus XXX [from saturday] mjmo2@cam.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+