Hmmmm... It's odd that so many authors discussed on this list lately are ones I've actually read! Previous book threads were too far removed from my fanatical fantasy tastes. Yes to C.S. Lewis, yes to J.R.R. Tolkien, yes to Susan Cooper, yes to Lloyd Alexander, yes to Ursula K. Leguin (though I can't remember a stitch of A Wrinkle in Time for the life of me) and especially yes to Frank Herbert. Right now, I'm reading his Children of Dune, and I've been moved to take a quote from it, potentially to replace my eloquent Mr. Friendly qutoe. And I quoth: "You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were." - Paul Atreides. Whaddya think? Quoteworthy? Anyway, about C.S. Lewis, I have a friend that I've known since elementary school. I began reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe back then, and my friend took it upon himself to read it as well. My friend then began to attempt to read through the series faster than I did, and bragged about it every chance he got. I tried to keep up, but oh this boy just must have done nothing but read! I ended up quitting somewhere into A Horse and His Boy, and haven't picked it back up since. I've quite taken to reading lately, though, having not done much of it in the past 4 or 5 years, and having it once been such an integral part of my life. I found a lovely kitty bookmark the other day, and at work when there's nothing to do I just sit around with my nose in my book (figuratively, of course) playing with my kitty bookmark in my off hand. Okay, next topic... The indiepop-list-loving, goodbye-message-despising Ben Kim writes:

I can't remember who wrote it...Robert? Someone found a lot of records in a store including the Pastels, House of Love and Felt...and > proceeded to call all of them 'twee.' If I may say so, I disagree with > that assessment. I think that Felt are one of the most un-twee bands > *ever* to be embraced by the indiepopnoscenti

Well, I think I learned the hard way that nit-picking about what is this and what is that is just silly. Twee can mean to you something very different from what it means to me. Felt at their jangliest sound a lot like what I think of when I think twee. Of course, not all their songs do sound like that, but neither do all of the Field Mice's. Thank goodness for a little variety now and then. So lets not jump on a new subscriber for thinking to call Felt twee. and John Warrender writes:

The lovely Anne from Glasgow sent me the URL for a top pop web site called "Ready Steady Go" which has lots of nice pieces about many wonderful bands including the truly magical "Sagittarius" and "Millennium". These were the brain childs of pop genius Curt Boettcher with the multi-talented Gary Usher lending a helping hand. If you haven't got any Sagittarius or Millennium records and you love "Pet Sounds" then I'd have a quick read of the Curt Boettcher article then swiftly make your way to CDNow who have reissues of "Present Tense" and "Begin", both of which are absolutely sumptuous and a snip at whatever price they're selling at. The site's well worth a visit and can be found at:

Ah, I love the Millenium, and it's nice to hear someone mention them, though I was surprised it was John, there. I must whole-heartedly agree, the Millenium are wondrous and magical, though they harp a bit too much on the "transcendant" bit sometimes. I put a song of theirs on my tape tree tape, wherever it may be. I really need to check out Sagittarius, but I should also check out Ballroom. A friend was telling me about them after the 1st NYC B&S show. Apparently it's the band Curt Boettcher was in before the Millenium, and some of the Millenium's songs were originally performed by Ballroom. Supposedly some of their material was released by Creation's re-issue arm, Rev-ola. Somehow I think I misspelled that. Oh well. So, someone was saying they got the new EP in a shop today, how is it? I'm dying to know... Eh, well I'd talk more, but I have to wake up at 6:45 for a 13-hour work day with a whopping three 15-minute breaks. Oh hold me back... /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - bp224995@ohiou.edu - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - (same e-mail for now) | | Sandcastle Homepage - | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | - Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+