hey sinister people, are you all well? I'm not so bad, it's Saturday night, way past 11, but it's still sorta light here. Kids is on TV, but I really couldn't bear to watch it again. I'm doing my best to be happy. I was flicking through the Sinister site and came across the bit on swearing. I was intrigued. Bear with me. I was doing a job for my pal Andy yesterday, and I was sort of hungover when I got up, so I gave him a bell to let him know I'd be a wee bit late. You know how people moan about mobile phones and stuff? I've never really had an opinion till yesterday. Andy answered the phone sounding distressingly flustered, and said "Mouche? Can I call you back? I'm doing a jobby." If this is where mobile phones are leading us, I'll stick with the landline. Sheesh. Anyway, my point was... jobby... vintage swear word, an old classic. There's slight B&S content here, because the start of "If You're Feeling Sinister" reminds me of this. I'm amazed that there's not loads of swearing there. The only phrase I can really make out is "C'moan! Free kick!" but kids have terrific swear words. I went to my niece and nephew's sports' day a few weeks ago and I heard the phrase "johnny bag" for the first time since about 1984. It brought a tear to my eye. Incidentally, if anyone wants results of individual races, please email me direct. I have a little proposition... would anyone like to help me put on some sort of club night in the west coast of Scotland? I really need some help with venues and stuff... I mean, does anyone know if any of the universities in Glasgow have rooms with decks and stuff that you can hire? I really miss dancing. I really, really miss it. Really bad, drunken, shambling dancing to The Field Mice and The Fall and Belle and Sebastian and Tindersticks and stuff like that. We can collaborate in underground bunkers and come up with blueprints and plans. Anyway, let us know what you think. I was listening to Hand In Glove by The Smiths today, and I realised with complete shock that the line Morrissey mumbles after "I really don't know and I really don't care" is "Kiss my shades". You know, the run-out groove message on the single? I've listened to that song at least two thousand times and I'd never heard that before. I can't overemphasise my amazement. Is this common knowledge? Am I as slow as syrup? Oh, and I've got one little B&S question... when I saw B&S in Nottingham in 1998, the DJ played a record before the band came on that sounded almost exactly like Dog On Wheels- does anyone know who it was? She Comes In Colors by Love has a dead similar riff to Seeing Other People, I know, but this was the whole song... an anally retentive, mouche +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+