Whew! You guys slay me! My uncontrollable laughter has *finally* died down and I can compose myself enough to compose a letter. So 'fess up: which one of you is "baby chris"? Peter? Erica? Honey? Lesley Jo? Lesley Jo is my guess. Her response was so restrained and took a suspiciously long time to show up. No reason to be ashamed...it was the funniest Sinister happening since "Hamish the Frog". Fisting?! Ha! Brilliant. And what was that bit in the "apology" letter (one of the best sequels *ever*, btw) about "didn't you read the bit where I said I didn't want to offend anyone"? I was laughing so hard I could barely pick myself off the floor. And then when "he" said "don't be so fucking anal"...well, that just about finished me off. Get it?! Anal?! Ha! Good ol' Pete Ramsdale had some things to say:
I, for one, though, am a bit disappointed that there will be no more songs like A Century of Elvis and A Space Boy Dream. Pillory me all you want, but I like 'em. Probably comes from listening to too much Mogwai, Prolapse, Arab Strap, and various other bands who occasionally like to witter on a bit over a nice tune.
Aha!! But there *will* be more songs like C of E...they'll just be in Looper form, they way they should be. I prefer my Stuart D in Looper form. It's just a little nicer, a little more in its own place. His decision makes all the sense in the world to me. Rather than trying to move B&S in a Looper direction, he saw what's what and moved on. But I'm stating the obvious now.
It will, as Fiona said, be quite interesting to hear their fist batch of stuff written and performed without him.
Yeah, except we won't hear that for a while. He's still all over the new album, I'm sure. And I think that it'll be hard to tell a difference, anyway, since B&S are likely to have changed quite a bit for the new album and will probably continue to change. And even though I definitely think that all of the band members make their mark on the band, remember that Tigermilk and Dog On Wheels had plenty of different band members than are on the new albums (DOW being mostly just the two Stuarts, right?). Anyway, point being that even though we all know that Stuart D did plenty, I think we'll be hard pressed to spot where his departure has changed them. But I really just wanted to write and say that you people crack me the fuck UP! Nappies for arse-muscle damaged gay men? Don't even *try* to top that one. ~Reid ps. If you are a really, and I mean REALLY big Magnetic Fields fan, Stephin Merrit was on NPR on Monday night in a painfully slow and awkward interview which you can hear by going to http://whyy.org/freshair/fara.html and pulling up the program for February 14. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+