Sinister: makes no difference who you are...
I saw Mercury Rev on the tele (Oz TV... because I live with the wizard) the other night and they did (quite a fine) cover of 'when you wish upon a star'. And a Dylan cover as well, He was a friend (of mine?). Interesting. Does covering a Disney song make you less cool? Because I'm sure it has been done many times before. (or even covering Bob Dylan, (although almost every band has done that), to those Dylan haters out there, although I like the man myself). (I think I am the winner of how many brackets you can use in a paragraph) Maybe it makes you more cool, like a 'I don't give a stuff about coolness' cool. Soon we'll have B&S covering the theme from Pocahontas and the Beta band doing a 6 minute experimental piece of Beauty and the Beast. But is there a ''I don't give a stuff about coolness' cool' cool. And if so where does it stop? Is there a limit to what is anti-cool and therefore 'hip', as opposed to things that are so not hip that there is no way that they can become cool. Don't worry I don't understand that sentence very much either. Personally I really don't give a stuff, because: 1) coolness, non-coolness it's all relative 2) I quite liked Pinocchio anyway 3) and lastly because I'm taking the piss out of those people and establishments who like to draw lines in the fickle world of entertainment, (I mean by saying this band is cool, but that band isn't, they make it such a thin line when really there isn't one at all. Because as soon as you draw a line in the sands of entertainment, then a wave of popular opinion comes in and washes it away and you have to start again.... now you see why I never did English because my metaphors are crap. Ha.) but what I can tell you for certain is that I spend way too much time in transit every day and have nothing to do except wonder and laugh at stupid shit like this. Helen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Helen wrote:
I saw Mercury Rev on the tele (Oz TV... because I live with the wizard) the other night and they did (quite a fine) cover of 'when you wish upon a star'. And a Dylan cover as well, He was a friend (of mine?). Interesting. Does covering a Disney song make you less cool?
I once travelled to Boston, England in a little car, with my American friend, listening to his greatest hits tape. He was from California, USA, and lived out of a rucksack, and as such had only brought this one tape with him. It was a mixture of Bruce Springsteen and Disney Classics, and he sang along to it all the way. Um, this is just an anecdote really, I've just realised it doesn't actually have a point. On the way we passed a town called Elton and we wished that John had come cos it would have made a funny photo. I got some tickets for Nalda Said in Nottingham yesterday and the girl behind the counter said something to the effect that we didn't really need them because no-one was going. She was a moody tart, though. I think she'd missed her vocation in the fish and chip shop. Have I ever said how I used to think it was my vocation to be a vicar? Does anyone else think that people are really made to do certain jobs and mostly choose the wrong ones? I do. It's like hands and gloves. I bought some gloves and a hat from an honest market trader last week, after he convinced me that they were the finest quality, and selling like hot cakes, guv'nor. The hat was quite nice, so I bought them. When I got home I found I had been flogged two left-handed gloves! Honest market trader, my arse! So now I don't like the hat so much either because it brings back ugly memories of the gloves. Steve wrote:
anyone lucky enough to be in toronto today got themselves one honey of a fall day, that is for sure. boy was it nice.
Gee, Steve, that's the most American sentence I've ever seen. Sarah-san wa kawaii desu. Whatever this means, I think it's probably appropriate. Oi! Gimme back me apples! Robin xxx PS: This email might be full of strange codes at the beginning and the end. If it is, it's not my fault. We've been given a new email programme and I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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