Sorry for my bizzarre outburst about Brazillians, it's just that when asked why Brazillians are so good at football the only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they all learn to play using coconuts instead of proper footballs. Toughens up your instep. Yes, I do like Tom Jobim, lovely, lovely, lovely, especially in Portuguese (which I can't understand), but quite nice in English too thanks to Jobim's voice which is not that of a professional singer (it says here). I think "Off-Key" would be most appropriate for Stuart Murdoch's charmingly wayward vocals. I also like "How Insensitive" very much. It's the song that roped me in, thanks to a version by those pesky Monkees. You have to be careful when purchasing Jobim albums as Sting seems to use them as a Trojan Horse type device to make his way into unsuspecting record collections. I've picked up that Peanuts album many a time, but I've never actually bought it. Time will tell whether or not Mussadiq's eloquent piece will persuade me to take the plunge. I have to say that this list is a much more effective marketing tool than the NME. Only an unfortunate lack of funding has prevented that Paul Simon album from entering my boudoir. And I don't like Paul Simon very much (at all), but the description was very intriguing. Which I suppose is a roundabout way of saying thanks for all the information and entertainment this list continues to provide me with. I tried to download the necessary software to come and play in the chatty room, but the little box said it would take an hour and eighteen minutes for the little cybermen to shovel it off the back of a lorry and wheelbarrow it into my computer terminal. So I thought you can stick it. This song is very nice too, Valsa De Porto Das Caixas, which must mean Waltz of the Port of Boxes. Am I right? It's definitely got more of a ring to it in Portuguese. Oh and by the way, I had a go on the magnetic poetry thing, but there's some strange force at work that turns every line into a pile of filth. And another thing - some friends of mine insist that they heard an instrumental version of Judy and the Dream of Horses as part of the piped music in a clothes shop. Not as unlikely as it sounds, I've heard such way out sounds as Teenage Fanclub in the same shop, but I said that there was no such thing as an instrumental version of JATDOH. I didn't want to call them dirty liars before being completely sure. So - could they be right, or are they mental? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------