Recently spotted in Mo-Jo Magazine was the following letter: 'I'm a subscriber to your excellent magazine so please bear with me. I'm not sure whether at the ripe age of 43 I've lost the ability to spot a joke. Your recent review of the Clangers CD refers to a vinyl edition in a pink knitted sleeve. Is this serious? If so, where do I get a copy?' Sadly it was not from Big Dave. Thank you, Big Dave, for pointing out that new article by Stuart. I thought it was complete rubbish. I'm glad the Grosvener Café is being sold, because it's HORRIBLE. Stuart says nothing bad could ever happen there, but the owner, who is a right miserable CUNT, once told me off for eating a Mars Bar. And I wasn't even eating it. If it had been a Twix, I would have stuck it up his nose. I hope the Grosvener becomes a Starbucks with piped Missy Elliott. I also spotted some inaccuracies in what Stuart said about *that* (they weren't bearded, were they?), Brazil (Catholicism was imposed and is only one of many religions, some of which are a bit like voodoo; it isn't free and easy, as far as I know) and the crusaders (if you write The Crusaders it looks like the jazz funkateers, and they weren't the first to use slap bass - that honour goes to Mark King from Level 42, beating the Style Council's 'Money-Go-Round' by just two weeks! - from 'The Guiness Book of Made-Up Bollocks'). REPORTING BACK This comes from the sleevenotes to Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Crystal Days' box set (which could profitbaly be reduced from 4 CDs to 4 songs, but's that's another REPORTING BACK): IAN: 'Seymour Stein saw us at the YMCA gig with Joy Division in 1979... I think he wanted to shag me. Which he didn't, but he signed us anyway.' ME: I think I can see a pattern forming here. and: 'They have just signed a worldwide deal as Echo and the Bunnymen, while Ian is signing a separate solo deal to an alternative label.' ME: Ha ha. END OF REPORTING BACK I bet Putin had to read those books at school. It's like Tony Blair mentioning Dickens ('the works, not the winder!') or George Bush saying, "Yes, Ralph Waldo, a great American." I am impressed by the judo though. Didn't Putin judo somebody on television once? He maintained his icy expressionlessness throughout, IIRC. I am reading a huge book called LONDON THE BIOGRAPHY. I'm glad Robin is reading 'War and Peace'. I remember the landlord from 'Cheers' had to read it once, to impress the barmaid ,and then someone let slip that there was a film and the landlord said, 'What, you mean I could have gone and seen it at the pictures?' Those were not the actual words used, that was the Bolam Boogie Likely Lads Remix. Sister Disco +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+