There's been a lot of talk about Ribena lately, and while I'm not a fan of it, nor can I purchase it in my country, I hear that if you buy a certain amount of 2 liter bottles of Ribena you get a little beanie ribena berry with antennae. What a bargain, says Martin Robinson, yummy Ribena and a beanie berry alien. Why can you buy juice in 2 liter bottles there, and also what is a blackcurrant?? You brits are weird. Yesterday I went to see Get Over It, Kirsten Dunst's illustrious teen-comedy follow up to Bring! It! On! I wasn't expecting much, but little Kirsten didn't let me down. This movie has Shakespeare, Sisqo, and the Big Red theme song. Go see it immediately. I found out that you can play DDR Euromix on a US playstation with just the minor annoyance of it being horribly offbeat. Anyway, I have nothing to say really, I just thought you might want to know about the Ribena aliens. OH I almost forgot!! Belle & Sebastian are mentioned twice in the Smash Hits special issue for the Brits (aptly titled "Smash Brits"). 1) In an article entitled "AAAARGH!! (Uh oh! It's the bits the BRITs would like to forget...)" "1999: Belle & Sebastian's triumph. What Went Wrong? Unrecognizable duo (one in ill-fitting safari suit) beat Steps and Five in Best Newcomer award despite having sold very few records. Excuse Given: Hey, the public voted for this award. (Even though it was largely nerdy students on the Net influencing the vote in rum way) Upshot: Steps and Five both won Brits in 2000 anyway." Oooh, Honey did you hear that?? Smash Hits called us nerdy students! *sob* 2) A photo of Mick and Richard is captioned "Belle & Sebastian: Left to right - Belle, Sebastian (You're sacked - Ed.)" (Smash Hits is no stranger to the fake editorial comment!) The article says "...The Sun newspaper had found out in advance about Robbie Williams' three Brits and the arguments continued when Belle & Sebastian beat Steps to the Best British Newcomer award." Not very interesting. It doesn't seem like the pop world or the Bible Of Pop (aka Smash Hits) will ever get over that award. Hooray!! xoxo Julie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+