Hullo Sinister Siblings!!! The weather is rather dreary but a ray of sunshine has appeared! I caught "I fought in a War" thanks to Bertrand posting the link to the French radio program. Standard B&S openning, slow with just Stu's voice and then the rest of the band joins in. The song itself is nice but nothing new and it'd be hard to judge the rest of the album from it. I really wish I had been able to hear "Legal Man" as I'm interested on how that sounds. But the song is solid and you'll all love it since it's right out of the B&S mold, I simply can't wait for the new album. I've notice the tendency of reviewers to be rather self-depreciating in their reviews of B&S, especially at the college and non-professional levels. They feel the need to apologize for listening to *wuss* rock and dissing it while they at the same time praise the genius and beauty of it. A rather strange mixture, indeed. On a personal note I am flying high because I've just been accepted to Clarion 2000 which is one of the most prestigious writing workshops around. Only about 17-20 students nation wide are tapped for it and somehow I made the cut. I am near shock so I hope you'll all excuse me for going on about it. I feel like dancing right now and I believe I shall go listen to LLPJ a few dozen times. Oh, and cheers to all those who responded to my last post way back when. You know who you are and you're all brilliant! Especially Emily for turning me onto Nina Simone and Jeanette for the AP article. Cheers to the Jeff Noon fans as well! "Goodbye Rag! Goodbye Tag! Goodbye Bobtail!" Jim "We're all out there somewhere, waiting to happen"- Jeff Noon, Vurt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+