Dear Sinisterines, So, it is again the time when writing posts with content contained therein becomes an option. Rumors and confirmed rumors are again springing up everywhere. So since no one I have seen has mentioned it, the band updated their website, confirming the Pet Clark producer-involved single recording action, mentioning 25 musos in the studio (images of that party used for the recording of a FISHYCLAP song which never saw the light of day pop into my head). So if anyone at all remembers my post a month or two ago, where I mentioned running into Stuart Murdoch at a Go-Betweens show and I refused to reveal the reason they were in town, they have now revealed it on belleandsebastian.co.uk. That being that they are doing the soundtrack to a movie. So whoever directed this movie is based in NY apparently, Stuart didn't mention who it was, but he said they'd come to New York to see a screening of it and see if it was something they'd be interested in doing. Guess it was. Perhaps we can look forward to more random New York Struan sightings. So I've got some more content, even. Earlier in the week my friend and I trekked into Manhattan and I picked up a copy of the 12" version of Legal Man. Only because I'm a sad, sad record collector and the 12" version of Judy Is a Dick Slap is different, dammit. Sooooo I listened to it and some thoughts came to me. It's not much different from the first bit of the version on the CD, but that lovely lovely Felt-sounding quiet piano bit at the end of the CD version was nowhere to be found. So....is it part of of Judy... at all? Is it a Songs for Children-type interlude bit? I am inclined to think it is. I like it a lot. I have actually put just that bit on two mixtapes now. It makes an excellent final song when you only have a tiny bit of space. But to me, it would have sounded really really nice in with the album instead of the single. I love little instrumental interludes and reprises and the like. Some of the best albums ever feature them quite prominently. It's as if they separate an album from a simple collection of songs. A good example being Her Handwriting by Trembling Blue Stars. Speaking of which (segueway. note you) I also observed this week some exciting new by my other favorite band, the aforementioned TBS. That being that they're playing here in New York. Which is incredibly exciting as I never expected to see them ever. I've already seen B&S so if I manage to catch this show that will mean I will have managed to see both my favorite bands. Quite an achievement if you ask me. This has been a lovely weekend of late nights in late night diners with late night diner fare and conversation, warm places on cold nights and walking through freshly fallen snow at 3:30 trying not to fall down or let my friend do the same. I hope all of yours were equally nice. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky@mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+