X Old Nick Deathsdoor muttered: "why doesn't someone give Steadymike some kind of prize?" Oh, but they have, Nick, they have. In fact, I first met Mike in Antwerp in 1989 when I was sent to cover the shooting of "Anti-Oedipus!", the Lionel Bart musical adaptation of Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic classic. One of the leading lights of the Belgian moog-gazing scene, Mike had been hired to provide "rhizoliminal digi-glitch" on the soundtrack. Despite falling out with the director (a youthful Alec Empire) before the film's completion, Mike was later awarded the highly-coveted Golden Phenome prize by Gothenburg's "Planckspenker" magazine, for his contribution to cinematic esoterrorism. IX I wonder if anyone has taken Stewpot up on his plaintive offer to help people with their problems. I ask, because it looks like he's being left behind in the popstar Agony Aunt stakes by Scandi-pop weirdnik Stina Nordenstam. If you go to her website (http://www.nordenstam.com), after navigating through a Borgesian cyber-labyrinth, you end up at a dialogue page where you can ask lickle Stina questions, and she replies to them in her own eccentric ice-pixie fashion. It's all very sweet. VIII I say! Have I been smoking crack again, or did Honey say he imagined Jason Andreas' old chap to be like a shrivelled-up newt? VII Thai news: "A dream holiday in a sunflower field in Lop Buri turned into nightmare for a young female tourist who ran into an attack from an army of bees". (Bangkok Post, 13 December 1999). VI Watchauptoo this Friday, then? If you're in London Town, why not come along to Covent Garden's seminal Poetry Cafe and dig da new soundz of The Pines (featuring Pam "She's a little bit country" Berry and Joe "He's a little bit rock and roll" Brooker) and Harvey Williams vs Josh Gennet? You also get to see me do my Paxman impression ("hurry up!") in the exciting new quiz game, Sinister Challenge. Contact me via that there tapetty lightbox for further details. V Forget your Blair Witch Projects, your Sixth Senses and your Funkyseb in the BT ad, the scariest thing I've seen all year is that creepy-looking woman who sings with the Wamdue Project. But what on earth is she going on about? "Must be a reason why I'm free in my trestle?" "Must be a reason why I'm free to mud wrestle?". Or what? IV Are you doing anything on Tuesday 21st of December, then? Cos that lovely Baxendale band are playing at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon. Ask me nicely for more details. III Denim news: It's been too long since we last heard from Lawrence-out-of-Denim, but I have it on very good authority (ie Tim from Baxendale, who's just been recording in the same studio) that he's about to stun us all with the greatest come-back since Lazarus. Apparently his new band is called Go-Kart Mozart and the forthcoming record includes tributes to Um-Bongo ("they drink it in the Congo") and Wendy James. I can hear Peter Miller salivating from here. II Talking of Peter Miller, anyone expecting a copy of papercuts should receive it before xmas. I'm sorry about the delay, but I am very lazy. Incidentally, Peter, I just had a gander at your website (http://www.perpetualocean.com/bio.html) and it's very impressive. Do you have any copies of "Gremlins of the Clouds" for sale? I They showed Logan's Run on telly the other day, just to rub in the fact that I will be 30 tomorrow. Flowers, condolences, etc to the usual address, please. Merry Cliffmas Stevie Troussé xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+