Hi, Well the rain's certainly falling hard on this humdrum town today, but with our favourite rock behemoths rolling in tomorrow with juggernauts, private jets, hairdressers, liggers, dealers and roadies, I though I'd treat you all to one of my rare (and highly collectible) despatches. God knows how little old Perth will cope with the RAWK carnage that always attends the hard-gigging, groupie-shagging, satanic riffing monsters that are Belle and Sebastian. Especially after Thursday's election recount. If the Tories had won, we'd have none of this decadent rock 'n' roll nonsense here thank you very much. (It's at this point that I should warn you that this post will be quite random and indeed shite, but on the plus side, I won't write again for another few blue moons.) I agree with the sentiments of Mark Cassarole that it's difficult to get the requisite FLOW, so I thought I'd try the old subject headings in capitals style. FRIED FOOD (containing a lame joke) My loverly big brother is home for a few days, and he is proving preferable to the cringeworthy tv version. I made him a top-notch soft white bap with bacon and eggs and brown sauce for breakfast today in the greasy spoon style. As we both munched contendly on the artery hardening deliciosness, we composed a lame joke which I think should appear on Chewin' the Fat (Fwightfully Scotch comedy, dahling). Customer: Can ah have sausages on a white roll wi' broon sass please? Greasy spoon proprietor: Aye, no problem. Link, sliced or silly? Boom, boom. NEIGHBOURS IN PRODUCT PLACEMENT SHOCKER Has anyone else noticed that Tad Reeves has been drinking an inordinate amount of 500ml Sprite this week? At least twice in the kitchen at number 30 there was a gratuitous guzzling shot, and once in the coffee shop 'n all. Ramsay Street should be free of such corruption. GLASGOW GIGS Plaudits to Ally "Organised" Cook for the picnic arrangements. If someone could sort the weather out, that'd be grate. I'm going to be travelling from Perth on my lonesome (sob), so I'd welcome some company for anyone going to Friday's. If interested then sent me a message. Ta. I hope that Saturday's will feature a sizeable drunken mob to go en masse, post picnic. As I've said, I'll be bravely going on my own, so please feel free to give me a big hug, especially if you're a girl. If a bloke, then a manly back-slapping moment reminiscent of Iceman and Maverick in Top Gun will suffice. "You are still dangerous, Mav!". God, I used to love that film. Has anyone seen Pearl Harbor? Apparently it's got a really AWFUL bit (no, really) when flyboy Matt Damon or whoever whines, "Please don't take away my wings." Oh, the fromage is pungent. SORRY FOR BANGING ON, YOU MUST BE BORED See above. Righty ho, I'll boog raff soon. Think I'll get the horses saddled for a ride round the estate. Shoot a few animals while shouting "Save our Pound" in a Yorkshire accent. Johnathan David's a "grower" n'est pas? I thought it was a bit haphazard at first, but it's really rather nice. B&S do seem to have had a bit of a 60s obsession in their songs recently. MDR sounds good as well, but could do with more throbbing organ. (sorry) Hope to see some of you soon, enjoy the gigs all that are going. Luv, Iain. x _________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+