Hi again, Sorry for posting so much. It's just that I'm driving myself a bit mad lately. Hurray for Fiats. You've got to love them. Boxy cars are great, much better than the inflated balloon-like cars of today. (What I mean is that Fiats seem to adhere to an older standard.) And GREEN. What style! They have all these neat compact models in Europe that they don't have over here. I beat down Maria Sierra's inbox requesting a translation. Maybe I've not given her enough time to respond, but maybe the incredibly generous Spanish speaking members on the list could do a joint translation - one paragraph each? I think there was something about discos in the article. Yesterday I listened to Eleanor Rigby and was amazed by the strings. I'm glad no one reads my posts that carefully: I claimed contradictorily to dislike the strings in There's Too Much Love but to like the chord progression type thing in it, which Nick had said was in the strings. I think I'm straight about that now; but the strings don't seem exceptional, just the normal way they're used to 'wax ecstatic' (yeah, that sounds lame). But on Eleanor Rigby, it's like you can feel the bow against the strings. It's lovely. I hope you listen to it. Kevan wrote in his occasional post, of much more use than an occasional table: brian, i definitely remember you complaining that stevie is always doing that choppy steve cropper guitar thing. it's good to hear "there's too much love" proving that he's learnt to do seventies stax guitar sounds as well as the sixties ones - and on the same song too! no wonder everyone loves it. I guess the seventies stax stuff will just be the parts that aren't choppy steve cropper, which is like in You're Just a Baby, right? I'll have to listen for that. But sixties guitar sounds fine by me, and it looks so good when they play that way. I think I just like abrasiveness - I was thinking of the affinity between playing the guitar that way and the violin. I think I get Family Tree now. It's supposed to be a humorous light song, but Isobel's mincing tones don't exactly come across as funny. And there's nothing wrong with babies. Sometimes I think I would just like to keep house and daydream while dusting bookshelves. Slow laborious movement and filmy curtains. Much love, Youn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+