ARS 1 Ken Chu wrote: <<There should be a love heart that says "nice arse">> At Mogwai, in Dublin last night, there was a stool at the edge of the stage. On it was written "Fat Arse". A female with short fair hair came on to play the cello for a while. She seemed to fit what was written on the stool. Between the strobe lighting and my increasing blindness, I couldn't be sure, but could it have been our own Isobel? BTW, according to my Sinister Book of Ready Rules, items in quotations don't get hit by the body parts gallery rules. And Mogwai were even louder than when I first saw them, and that was LOUD. ARS 2 Speaking of ars, Seamus wrote of <<ex-of-this-parish Joss Moorkens and his beautiful band Joan Of Arse being interviewed on Ireland's (nah the world's) premier indie video tv program 'no disco'.>> Oddly, Joss looked very sinister on that interview, whereas he didn't look sinister when on Sinister. It wasn't the kind of interview that will shift the units. But it did give a good picture of the trials of being in a band that's building up very slowly. They are well worth a listen; I keep hearing a Neil Young tinge in their music. Am I going deaf as well as blind? I recorded the interview. I don't know how to make copies but I could post it to anyone in VHS videoland who wants to make a copy. The video for the song doesn't fit though. JOA would be better served by the vomiting ballerina video for Nina Swedishsoundingname's video (Honey used to praise her). Non ARS 1 The vomiting ballerina didn't provide the subject line, though. It's from a born-again Christian bulimic former flatmate of Vodkabird, according to VB in today's digest (the last post in the weddingfeastatcanadigest) A subject line I was tempted by was Archel's <<the time i dropped villette by charlotte bronte in a rockpool in pembrokeshire>> Both would be good sillustrations? Non ARS 2 Grainne quoted from a Frames site: <<all the money that gets taken on the night [at Belfast gig] gets taken out to a large toy emporium on the following day by the bands and a pile of toys are bought for kids in need for christmas >> Considering what Ireland did to SM last time, I think he should be kept away from toyshops. I can imagine him smashing everything (is it the shamrocks or the Guinness that gets to him?) and there won't be any money left and it will be too late for those kids to get anything. In fact the safest thing is to bring him to Dublin instead to do a solo gig (under very close supervision) and let the rest of the band do Belfast. Martin C Sinister Senior Citizenry PS Those who, in their adolescence, liked both Catcher in the Rye and Carson McCullers (thanks for reminding in recent post, Dahling) would probably love Michael Collins's Keepers of the Truth. May be hard to get but is really exceptional. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+