Hello... So I 'did' the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday. Julian Opie's minimal prints of The Blur are there in their full-sized glory. I studied them closely looking for any signs of blemish or process. Nothing. Extraordinary. Perversely, I bought a book of landscape photography in the bookshop with some beautiful black & white shots of rural France by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lovely. Remaining with the Br*tp*p theme of a couple of paragraphs ago, I bought the new album by The Pulp. It's playing right now. First impressions are good: The Walker-enhanced arrangements are very Pulp; sometimes almost too familiar with shades of I-Spy and Something Changed 2.0 creeping in here and there. Jarvis sounds more political and angrier. A few years ago he 'didn't want no trouble', now he wants to 'fight to the death for the right to live your life'. Lordy. Rich wrote: "I read 'the great gatsby' earlier this week. a guy I know insists it is about an escapologist." Which made me laugh but it could be worth a thesis too. Archel no-toast said of semi-colons: "a tutor once told me that i was the only student she knew who knew how to use one correctly," which floored me cos I regard semi-colons as a grammatical offside rule; ask people to explain it and they start confidently, then hesitate before backtracking and starting again. Did I do that right by the way, Archel? Pinefox mentioned me in his last post so I guess it's ok to mention him now. There. Robster ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+