Oh I am becoming too regular. Doctors say it's healthy. essentially a note to Scots listees. It's a book I bought and read today called 'Without Day'. I bought it in a place which featured a big cartoon horse leaping from weird orange territory with a black plastic bucket over its head. There was also the sight and sound of artificial rain made by coloured plastic balls shown on a wee stereo TV set, and some photos, one of which makes a multi-storey car-park look GRATE. All glowing, like, through the concrete at night. Anyway, this book deals with the issue of the new Scottish Parliament. The title of the book refers to the terms of the dissolution of the old one; i.e. the last parliament in Scotland hundreds of years ago didn't exactly ever stop, but just agreed to not arrange another meeting. Until recently that is. Anyways, seeings as I'm in a (very) small capacity involved in the building that will house the new parliament, this book is fascinating reading, for it contains all kinds of wonderful and profound proposals from artists and writers and poets about things they'd like to be part of this parliament-of-ours-thingy. Happily, I reckon they have a kindred spirit in the now departed architect of the building to be but, what the book implicitly suggests is that here is an opportunity of a wee and seemingly now rather culturally liberated and not half bad too country to do our stuff... it's fun and optimistic and more 'singing and dancing in the rain' than drowning in the drizzle. OK, not Belle and Sebastian and, if you read the book, no isolationist or parochial tract either... I just thought I'd recommend it. For example, it contains a proposal for an open kitchen. There is also a proposal for democracy by way of attracting exotic birds to party-political bird tables in the gardens. Nice, hopeful things :) Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+