Hello, I like this whole 'posting' thing. It's fun. I'd never classify myself as a lurker. I would classify myself as someone who is extroverted yet too lazy to post often. So I'm not just posting for posting's sake. Honest. Cross my heart. I have been listening to B&S a lot this week. In fact I brought Sinister along with me on Monday, a thoroughly irritating day in which I worked far too many hours. But I was struck by how distinct it was from FISHYCLAP for the first time. It feels all acoustic and timid in comparison. FISHYCLAP is confidant and lush. I find myself liking it a lot more just now. It's funny though, when I first listened to it, it really didn't sound that different. But after you let it sink in maybe. Who knows... I like the inferences people made about my last post. Let's just say the jury is out. But I don't believe in happy endings anyway. Anything that ends isn't happy. Happiness should be ongoing. Continuing happiness. Endings are for books and films. You know, meeting Struan was a bit of a two-edged sword. While the good reasons ought to be obvious, the bad reason is now I keep thinking of things I *ought* to have said. Maybe I should make a small list and keep it in my hip pocket for any occasion that I might run into him. That wouldn't look odd or anything would it? I realized that I came *this* close to wearing my Study at Stow t-shirt. That would have been awkward... And is that picture on Amihotornot actually him? Does this mean Struan has a weiner dog!? Or maybe it's someone else's weiner dog. I like them. Weiner dogs, I mean. Whoever those weiner dog-owners were, their rating wasn't all that bad when I looked at it. I listen to a lot of music that doesn't sound like B&S. Lately I've been listening to albums where people seem to aurally throw their guitars up into the air, and wait for them to come back down. Takes quite a while though. They just flit languidly about up there, echoing bemusedly. The band doesn't really seem to mind either. They just keep on singing for the most part. I think I'm going to try & go see the Go-Betweens again on Thursday. I sort of doubt Struan will make a second appearance. Although...he has to discuss their impending 10-LP deal deal with me, apparently. Or so I hear. Hm, so a curious instance of life imitating song, I'm going to be taking some photographs of the object of my furtive glances this weekend. I'm quite excited at the prospect. After hearing "Photo Jenny" it sounds like quite the thing to do. Except I'm not having trouble getting her to do it and I don't need any drugs to help me out at all really. But it still all fits together in my mind. Photographs are fantastic things for a bedsit sentamentalist. There's something inherently romantic about them. Like placing the needle of turntable on a warm, crackly record. Clicking the shutter, adjusting the aperture, and especially developing the film. The romance of that wears off quick though, after too many hours spent in dimly lit rooms with the sound of water running, and the smell of the chemicals. Not only have I begun to ramble, but I think I'm finished rambling. If you're expecting an e-mail from me it will be just the slightest bit longer. If you're not expecting an e-mail from me, you should be feeling fine just now, and wondering why I haven't stopped typing. -- 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+