friends, minisisterines, country-rockers, lend me your eyes... (guess all this post-erection oratory is making me more roman than usual. i'm hot for your bauds...) took me another three days to catch up on the last week. tweensters are voluable beyond any conception i've ever had! (i had to get some sleep before finishing the read and felt that i should be able to get through the last thirty or so this morning...and another 30 show up!) so i feel justified in using half my time on posts and the other half on jabbering like a monkey...butler superfurrygrrrrl wrote about her affection for the gorkys? is that name short for zygotic mynci as well? if so, i second that emotion: classic prog in an alt.rock vein. anybody that covers kevin ayers gets a place on my permanent playlist. cbrown wrote: Someone mentioned Grandaddy, they?re ace, I?d say that they?re in the mercury rev, flaming lips (not that good but you know what I mean?.I hope), Scott 4 sort of mould, not only that, I?m going to see them on Wednesday and they?re on the Jeepster Christmas album with a lovely little ditty about Alan Parsons (who he? Producer type fellow?) yeah. beatles engineer on last albums. and has his own series of concept albs dating back to mid-70s. they wrote a SONG about him? JENOWL, i hate to give advice on such a breif acquaintence...so how about a suggestion? teflon body armor and helmet. oh, and steel-toed shoes. several mentions of allan moore have prompted me to say: omigawd! PROMETHEA! this could be the best thing for anthology story-within-story writing since SANDMAN! has anybody on the list seen any of his legendary live performances? i've heard a couple CDs and they are mindblowers. content: i have the feeling that this must've come up before, but it's been on my mind for some time. it's about stuart's falsetto voicings. we all know about the level of androgyny in the lyric (i think i needn't cite chapter and verse to the faithful), but when coupled with the high register, the wistful quality doubles the effect. that whole thing about the boy trembling on the edge of manhood and all, that underscores the searching, tenuous quality of the storylines... even sonic youth had an early alb called 'confusion is sex' and hendrix's song 'love or confusion' sort of says a lot: when we don't know what we are, we are most likely to be shaped by that which we desire...even reflecting the other in ourselves... (i apologize for the scattered nature of this transmissive. i'm trying to stay in the 15 minute ballpark figure. and failing.) and it's not as if i'm saying the boy lacks testosterone; we all know that some of the greatest lovers in song were famed for their near-castratii range. think of marvin gaye, smokey robinson, stevie wonder, curtis mayfield--and, you will note: all soul singers. ok, motown. mostly. but that's a minor distinction. if you doubt, ask pauline l. shivers...if she really IS the same PLS who's realplayer song i checked out from a link on this list (princess honey, can you confirm?) oops. i digress again. no. wait a minute. i do NOT digress. what i wanted to say is as i am a USAer, my knowledge of the phenomenon called 'northern soul' is somewhat limited. so i'll put it to you scots et al who do know this genre. is 'struan' a soul singer in this tradition? (i mean, i'm not saying rick astley--he's the only one i'm halfway sure of, but, well. you know.) ok, b&s rock--granted--but... oh no. this is really ALL over the place. first i'm making an arguement for sexual indeterminacy and then i stray into whether or not he's a soul man... (yeah. told you i was roman...roamin' all over the place!) enow. eeyow! happy trails, carle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+