Subject: Apology I reckon I owe a couple (if not three, possibly four) apologies to various people all connected with Sinister, so if youll allow me I will make them and be on my way. Humbled. The order of my apologies is in no way representative of the relative importance of the respective apologies merely a signal of which apology comes to mind first. Well, first: Danny. I guess I owe you a pretty big apology for my utterly disrespectful and unwelcoming e-mail. I guess I should point out its flaws and say sorry. 1. My introduction served merely to justify my little rant to myself by disguising it as a gentle chiding. Pah. You are totally correct in using inverted commas in your riposte; my e-mail was no more a gentle chiding than Hitlers tousmache was attractive. You are entirely correct in pointing out the subjective nature of my use of the term. And I apologise, it was a mask behind which you obviously seen. The first e-mail you sent to the list should have been welcomed with open-arms (I know I feel sad when I see peoples first posts go by unnoticed). Thats not what sinister is about; my take on it is that were a community (however, not in the Amon Duul 1 sense of the word) and that we should be civil and welcoming (but not to the point of Christianity The only thing wrong with Heaven is that its full of Christians, Atheist, 4:19). 2. My pompous declaration that your description of the 13th note was an inferior piece of description was totally arrogant and self-adulating (self-serving?) I think that it wasnt meant as totally sincere but I can see how it came across as pompous, and I guess at heart it was verbosity-as-showing-off. Sorry. Such verbal wankery I shall leave to proggers from now on. I even reckon my comments about being Sinister Junior Reporter were implicitly Ha ha, Ive been here longer than you; youll never reach my status. I feel so ashamed. Sorry. I guess I can be a little smug at times. I am sincerely sorry; and would not blame honey is she stripped me of the post as it would be deserved. 3. My comments on Camera Obscura were unjustified as well seeing that Ive only heard three of their songs; as were my comments on Baxendale (although quite why youd want to). However, I do stand by my opinion that they dont sound that much like B&S (more like Felt, High Llamas, Idlewild at their poppiest perhaps) but that is no excuse for jumping on your comments; thus, I apologise, again. Again, my comments regarding Hefner were ego-serving and arrogant. Sorry. 4. I guess I just felt threatened and when threatened Male persons (or possibly just me) tend to retreat and show their fangs. You are the first person I really know on sinister (as if anyone can really know anyone but thats a whole other discussion and probably apology); and I guess I, sorry I know, that I wanted to assert my membership upon you without appearing too much of a prat to sinister (hence the gentle chiding disclaimer). I know that those feelings were silly and irrational; and Id like to welcome you to sinister (God, I sound like a Scientologist). 5. Friends? Please? Now, I said I had some other apologies didnt I. Well, the first is to Sinister itself. I apologise for writing such a self-indulgent mail and Im sorry you had to read it. I know sinister is about Well, what is sinister about? Certainly not anything contained in my bellicose e-mail. I know saying sorry may not be good enough; but I hope that youre as forgiving as you are nice. Third apology: Honey. My handling of the whole e-mail address, although not bellicose, was dithery and dozy and transformed a two minute job into a 7 or 8 e-mail job. I guess Im just a bit slow sometimes, and if some of my e-mails appeared abrupt or irate then Im sorry. I wasnt irate but I can see how it might have come across that way; sorry Paul (and Linda). Fourthly? Mathematics? It seems I am unable to count. I guess Ive said all I can say on this subject; I apologise. Now onto the subject that were here to discuss: anything. No, only kidding. Belle & Sebastian. I too am absolutely delighted that they're releasing Middle Distance Runner (told you so, teehee). I've never heard it live but I did hear it on the tube when they played it and it does contain the best guitar fill ever, no? Do you think that Paper Boat is amazing, Danny? I think its Stuart Davids songs (for B&S) Im not sure about them (see: Winter Wooskie, Seymour Stein). Ive heard Poupee De Cire on a nasty thirtieth generation mp3 or something; but it is still pretty good. I agree Isobel is pretty damn perfect; oh, and on the song. I think its the paranoid strings (guitars?) that tend to scare people to the quick. Very Forever Changes-era Love. Anyways. Thats my fifteen minutes. Thank you, David. PS Danny if you want to talk or anything (about music, anything) just e-mail, please. PPS My new sinister reporter e-mail address (dependent upon whether I get to keep the tag) is sinreporter@missprint.org Report all your sins to me. :) PPPS Should I send the lyrics of Take Your and Big John Shaft to the list? Neil? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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