Hello Sinisterines, If anyone can cleverly find all sixty-seven reasons to eat breakfast within this post, I'll give you a lollipop. What I've actually done is written out sixty-seven reasons, then taken all the letters and formed this post with them. So it's sort of like a giant word jumble. Good luck. Someone mentioned the Field Mice...hm...difficult. I mean, it's easy enough to say they're one of the most fantastic bands ever, and lots of B&S fans like them. But whether you should buy a 2xCD set just because we like it...dunno. Why don't you buy Her Handwriting by Trembling Blue Stars, because it's the same main fellow from the Field Mice, and it's one of the best albums ever. Also, it's cheaper than 2xCDs. If you like it, THEN buy Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way. Plus the title is from a Go-Betweens song, and it doesn't get much better than that. But uh, as one of the biggest Field Mice/Robert Wratten obsessives, I'm 99% certain that 14 Iced Bears were in no way related to he Field Mice. Other than the fact that each put out a record on Sarah Records. In the meantime, ex-listee Magnetic Megan is hard at work assembling binhex colors, templates and other webpagey things for her webzine, which will include an ancient mail interview with Robert Wratten conducted by yours truly. If you're curious about some obscure details, and whether or not he likes Belle & Sebastian. I'll mention when it's up, if Megan is still ex-list. Actually, I don't think Judy Is a Dickslap is Belle & Sebastian's Stereolab knockoff. That would be Sleep the Clock Around, when they play it fast enough (i.e. not on the album, but on the session), which I am very fond of. Personally I have an inverse reaction to Stereolab material as compared with Mr. Mark Casarotto. In other words, I love the past few albums, and I think Peng! could be summed up by the phrase 'bweep bweep bweep blooooooop (repeat ad in finitum).' But McCarthy were fantastic... I don't think I've ever been to Wellesly, sorry to disappoint everyone. Is it in Kentucky? A friend of mine from Kentucky said all the little towns there had a festival of some sort or another in celebration of a food or food product. Apple Butter Festival, Green Beans Bonanza, etc. And yes, Ree, before you ask, I do wear shoes...although I don't have any on right now...hey, I'm still in my pajamas! Yes, so obviously I should go take a shower, so goodbye for now. -- 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+