Someone wrote on Amazon: 'After reading about it for what seems half a decade, "The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner" is a bit disappointing - i find the melody weak and meandering -- but perhaps no actual song could trump the "lost masterpiece" I had in my head.' And I have to say that this person is dead wrong, and it's absolutely one of my favorite B&S songs ever. I'm listening to it right now and it's so brilliant I want to scream. I also have a couple live versions of it because a very nice Sinister fellow by the name of Ernie sent me some CDs (and I was never kind enough to return the favor--apologies!). Ernie sent them to be because I had never heard a live version of Seymour Stein and was desperate to. Ben Apps is my new hero for making a pun about that song recently. And he got married to another local LA Sinister lady in Santa Barbara, which is coincidentally where my bride-to-be and I got engaged at the beginning of the year. Yes, the future *is* looking colorful--I'm getting married in late September. If we were playing six degrees of Sinister I imagine I could link up to anyone in Scotland through Mrs. Fruitloop to BApps to whomever (maybe even KChu in London or wherever--thank fuck for that). And speaking of blogs I was reading one (from NYC) the other day when I realized the author's good friend worked at the same company as a good friend of mine. Unknown connections coming out of the woodwork. There's a poll on Morrissey-Solo for the saddest Smiths/Morrissey song, but they don't even have Jeane there. No other song is quite as soul-crushing to me, but of course beautiful at the same time. "Jeane There's ice on the sink where we bathe So how can you call this a home When you know it's a grave ?" When Sandie Shaw sings the song I think it's even more sad somehow. Maybe because she's a Buddhist. Or maybe not. m. -- "Behold, Sheriff Pony! The flashpoint of all creation!!" "Woo-hoo!! More tabasco, God!!!" -- http://www.wigu.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+