Sinister: By the light of the moon, the big baboon was combing his auburn hair
It rains here a lot. If your days are spent like mine, gazing out of a window, it can make the perfect backdrop for not getting anything done. Sometimes I'll be sitting in a meeting and no one has seen the forecast or brought a parapluie, and haven't noticed the falling raindrops gradually filling up the sky. Then, it falls a little harder and people start to hear and everyone looks up, and even the person giving the presentation puts the cap on their felt-tip pen. It's one of those natural phenomenons that, if I were an observational comic or a misty-eyed drunk I could make a lot of capital from, wondering how no one notices the rain until it reaches a certain pitch, just like no one pauses on the path to look down a mysterious hole, until reaches a certain depth. But I'm neither of those things, so I have to keep those thoughts to myself. Yeah, we have plenty of rain here. You're quite welcome to it if you want. It's of a particular vintage if you're in a tent at the seaside with good company and yesterday's smudged crossword. Having missed the rest, I managed to catch Struan on the radio on Thursday. I was going to the dentist in the morning and managed to hang around long enough to hear him. He played Take the Skinheads Bowling, and waxed somewhat lyrical about how this song was where the term Bowlie came from and how the song summed up Indie for him. Struan seems to have a different idea of what indie is to most people I meet. I like how he cherishes these modern slurs, Bowlie, Twee, Indie, Hipster, Christian, and lives in a world where all of these things are as holy as he wants them to be. Most people disagree, but then I don't think most people have a clue. Did anyone see the Animal Games on BBC1 last night (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3558212.stm)? It was the most extraordinary telly I've seen in ages. Apparently a bug can run so fast that photons don't even have time to hit its eyes. John Motson says so, so it must be true I guess. Marisa said, charmingly: <<There are two frontmen in the whole world whose voices I know intimately...who I can identify by the way they pronounce certain consonants...for whom I freeze when I hear the timbre of their speaking voice...the first time I heard both these bands, I *felt* the music rush through me and I knew something big had happened in my life...I feel what I imagine hollywood-style love to feel like.>> And I wondered who the second frontman could be.. R x _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I think it may be because of the animated film of that name, c.1978 (?), that BBC's programme was called THE ANIMAL GAMES and not ANIMALYMPICS. Or was it ANIMOLYMPICS? Someone, preferably called Peter, should write in and clarify. 'The Nile Crocodile, not one to announce his entrance in advance' 'Let's see if the Roo is threatened by the Skipper' 'Well, really ... an *embarrassing* result for the mammals, to be honest with you' 'He did it without breaking sweat. Do kangaroos sweat?' 'Well, <heh> actually, Jonathan, there's some news on that which I'll bring you in a moment - but first the Mudskipper's going to have a jump' 'The judges are obviously in a good mood, they're going to let the King Penguin have a second attempt!' It's true, the programme was magnificent. That is, the programme was magnificent - no-one else has said it yet. I am a large fan of good parodies of John Motson, but until last night perhaps I had not fully credited that Motson parodies himself better than any of us. I don't mean that he's unwittingly, foolishly yet endearingly self-parodic, but that he very deliberately, cannily, thoughtfully, hilariously parodies himself, on THE ANIMAL GAMES. It was so astoundingly good that it will have to be Issued On DVD, preferably with Commentary By John Motson. DE YE KEN, late call: yes, Murdoch did get them to play 'Take The Skinheads Bowling'. I had never heard it before, and have not heard it since. I could see what he meant about it being indie, if that's the way he wants to play it. I cannot see, though, how the word 'Bowlie' derives from it. I listened relatively carefully and did not hear the word 'Bowlie' at all. That is like saying that the word 'Skinhead' derives from the Sundays' 'Skin & Bones'. About the rain: today, another 5-minute shower, out of nowhere, like a pushed button in the clouds, and stopping as suddenly. Later, c. 4:45: gentle light over the green suburbs making me feel momentarily in touch with momentous long waves of sweet time, as though someone in April 1990 had just handed me a cup of tea. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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