did I mail in to tell you how I'd got myself a record player? It's great being able to play all my old vinyl records now. They sound so much nicer than stinky CDs. I've decided that as Jazz sounds best on vinyl I'm going to become a Jazz aficionado. So I got myself a Blue Note complilation - "Blue Break Beats vol. 4". It's GRATE, with loads of extra tracks exclusive to the vinyl release. And while the whole thing is so very like the kind of thing you hear at B&S discos, two tracks have extra special B&S magic powers. First up there's 'Three Is The Magic Number' by Bob Dorough. Older listers might remember how at the Bowlie Weekender the DJs played this every ten minutes. The other magic track is 'The Beat Goes On', sung by Buddy Rich but composed by Sonny Bongo. As you know, the Gentle Waves played this towards the end of their gig in Dublin a while ago. Rener and I are getting all excited about going to London at the end of the month to take in Track & Field and have a good time all of the time. It will rock. Elise mentioned how haikus are meant to have a five-seven-five syllable structure. But a poncey friend of mine who lives in Japan maintains that actually they're meant to have a five-seven-five *sound* structure, which is very different. Although he wasn't able to say how, so maybe with your studying Japanese you can help. Incidentally, I've also read and enjoyed Bill Drummond's "45", but I find Drummond's relentlessly analytical nature a bit insufferable. I reckon he must be completely hellish to live with, and is completely incapable of enjoying music in a purely aesthetic sense. Have you reached the bit where he's driving back from Northern Ireland carrying a work of art by Zodiac Mindwarp called "Nazi Arseholes"? It sounds like it would make a great cover for the next B&S record. I found John John's long walk story very evocative. Not really evocative of anything other than long walks and having things on your mind, but it was evocative of that and I'm glad I read it. Oblique Chu bit: Rachel Cornflake says: "Ken Chu, will you be MINE? I have fantasies of this mild-mannered asian by day, DDR sexpot kung fu fighter by night. How close am I? " I say, what's all this DDR stuff about? I'm maybe being a bit slow, but in my day DDR stood for Deutche Demokratishe Republik (or something like that), so it conjures up this image of Ken working for the Stasi, which would be nice. I've been thinking a lot about Toasted Heretic lately. They're this lost Irish band from the '80s, actually from Galway. They released tapes and records and stuff, but their best thing is their first cassette only release, "Songs For Swinging Celibates". It's got all the classics on it, well they're classics round my way even if no one else on list has ever heard them. finally, isn't the problem with Nick Drake documentaries that there is no footage of Nick Drake and hardly any photographs? And that he never really did anything apart from make great music? time to go! party on. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+