Hello Sinister. Well, I *have* heard DCW a couple of times, and I reckon it's pretty good. Maybe their best? Maybe, for it's sheer audacity. I enjoy a bold step (See Kid A, or Lambchop's Nixon etc) even if it's not as strong in content as previous forays. Certainly, it's not their best as far as tunes go, nor as far as lyrics go either, in my opinion, although I reckon "Step...", "If...", "Piazza..." and "I'm..." are among my favourite B&S choons. I don't really have much to add to the cornucopia of opinion surrounding the record. Simply, I concur completely with Archel (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200310/msg00000.html) about the band not holding the same position in my life anymore, and also with The Duke (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200310/msg00015.html) about DCW being so good because it's such F!U!N to listen to. And now, some more threading... Chris mentioned Scrabble. I've been getting highly addicted to it at the moment, leading to me learning all my two-letter words and the like. My personal triumph of recent games was "quashing" going through a triple word and a double letter somewhere, too, which earnt me about a gazillion points. He also spoke about tape trees, but I'll come to that later. Ken then said:

Or is it a scent thing that when you rub the plate of food you get the smell of the food coming out?

...which reminded me of my copy of Jollification, by The Lightning Seeds. I had a limited edition release with strawberry-scented packaging, and I was most surprised the other day when I dug it out that, 8 years (maybe 9? Lightning Seeds officianados step forward now) down the line, I could still distinctly smell synthetic strawberry. It was obviously potent stuff. I was even more surprised to discover that Jollification is a far finer album than I remembered, incorporating the same kind of joy as DCW, in fact. Go on, have a listen to it again. "Perfect", "My Best Day" and "Punch & Judy" are still up to the task, for sure. And then Mark started banging on about Rhoda, and online petitions and the like. I whole-heartedly agree Sinister's finest twee-baiter, and so here is my attempt at non-violent, direct action: http://www.petitiononline.com/Rhoda/petition.html. Enjoy. And now, tape trees. (For those who don't know, tape trees are more like tape circles - everybody makes a tape, and then sends it to the next person in the circle. A fortnight later, you pass the tape you recieved on the person next to you. Eventually, all the tapes go round the circle, and you hear everybody else's tape. Everything ends when yours comes back to you). Right then. I may live to regret this, but I'd be quite up for being a tape-tree mummy. Here are my suggestions: 1) From previous experience, tape trees with pratrillions of people on them inevitably crumble under their own weight, and your tape never gets the whole way around, so I reckon an upper limit of 15 people would be a lot more practical, and easier for me to manage too. 2) CDs are allowed, too. 3) No B&S songs, because we know about them already* 4) Non-UK residents are more than welcome. Sound reasonable? Okay then, well email me your name and address, and say whether you're willing to post abroad, and we'll go from there. Hurrah. Hmm, a bit of an epic, I'm afraid. love Asm.x *unless it's "Rhoda". P.S. Don't forget: http://www.petitiononline.com/Rhoda/petition.html ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+