Hello everyone, Someone was making a film in my road on Saturday. There were lots of people dotted down the road, all wearing eyepatches. I would have hung around to find out more, but I was in a hurry to get to Oxford station to meet some friends for a ramble around rural Oxfordshire, which was very, very muddy, as is now evidenced by the half a field on the soles of my poor battered reeboks. What does the Rector of a Scottish uni do? Is (s)he like the Chancellor of an English one? I was quite disappointed that at my graduation ceremony in Bristol my degree was granted to me by the *Vice* Chancellor - monkeys & organ grinders come to mind (oh dear, too many jokes). The VC in question (a he) used to wear quite a lot of make-up at the ceremony, which was not a pretty sight. Pinefox - I love your posts. Have we met? If so you couldn't have introduced yourself as Pinefox. I *do* like Joy Division as it happens, and like you I'm looking forward to the 24hr Party People movie, although the casting of Steve Coogan as Anthony H. Wilson is just too bizarre.... NME are raving about the Strokes...well they would, wouldn't they? I saw them on Friday and didn't think they were up to much. Not quite sure about the V.U. influence - I didn't spot it. Too much posing and not enough musical effort and it is HARDLY A GOOD IDEA to harangue the crowd for an insufficiently enthusiastic welcome..... January was a real gig-fest and February looks like it's going to be more of the same. Trembling Blue Stars and the Clientele on Saturday, which I'm really looking forward to.....Clientele's album is the only thing I have ever bought online, incidentally. Consulting my newly acquired copy of Oxford's music rag "Nightshift" I learn that we have Arab Strap and Grand Drive to look forward to, as well as a band called the Afternoons who, we are told, are b&s influenced, so I'll have to go to find out how much..... The other notable feature of this month's nightshift was a review of a demo by my colleague Jamie's band, Vehicle Derek. Jamie has been out of the office today on a training course, so there couldn't be a better time for passing said music rag from desk to desk, so everyone can read how Vehicle Derek are "absolute mindless trash" which "sounds far more like the true spirit of punk than the polished turd that is Blink 182". mark. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+