Sinister: And This Long Narrow Land Is Full Of Possibility
Peter Miller did not not reply to the questions because he was being evasive. He did not reply because he was not yet ready to Report Back. I think that this has to be cleared up before any more damage is done to his name. I mean, 'Miller' - that's bad enough. Alice Virginia (what a name!) said that she was living in the wrong place and Long Island was dull. (I don't know what 'lipliner' is. I am translating Roughley, I mean, roughly). I think she should stop worrying about that. Where I come from we think Long Island is the height of glamour. It has its own sound, too, I mean, Sound. Glasgow had to work for years to get the Glasgow Sound, but Long Island produced the Long Island Sound immediately. Her other name is the Merry Prankster, which as Ciaran Carson might say reminds me of Joan Didion, whose White Album I was reading yesterday, which reminds me of Lloyd Cole (of course) and - Peter Miller. It all works out. Didion talks about 'jaycees' and I had to wonder if these were named after the editor in The Bell Jar, who turns up, by the way, in diluted and diminished form, on the last song of I Think You Dropped A Moonbeam, whose last song is named after something that Esther Greenwood says to her. Speaking of that, I have finally found that Irving Berlin record I have been looking for. Whoever can tell me what the best 5 Irving Berlin songs are wins a prize from the Irving Berlin foundation; at least, that's what they tell me. I cannot yet work out whether Berlin was a) a subtle, classy and moving songwriter or b) a sort of high-kicking sloganeer. I am beginning to think that the critics' easy coupling of him and Porter is a bit of an error. A record which is quite good is Bruce Springsteen's TUNNEL OF LOVE, which features tons of pleasures. A band who like Bruce Springsteen are Deacon Blue. The good news for pop fans is that they are back, I mean, de retour. Like B&S they are making great play with their Glasgwegian origins in between-song banter. Their set is roughly as follows: YOUR TOWN RAINTOWN TWIST AND SHOUT LOADED REAL GONE KID WAGES DAY [two or three new songs] WHEN WILL YOU MAKE MY TELEPHONE RING? FERGUS SINGS THE BLUES DIGNITY HOMESICK encore: CHOCOLATE GIRL I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN QUEEN OF THE NEW YEAR I cannot imagine why anyone would give away their copy of the Raintown LP. It is - I now realize - a pretty high quality debut. Whether it is as good a debut as Tigermilk, I am not sure. A critic who is quite good is F.R. Leavis? Or is he? I have been rereading him and am still not really convinced. I have also been rereading Lionel Trilling, but I don't intend to start that one up again. Kermode update: as far as we know, Professor Sir Frank, whose imprimature still appears on the back of The Crying of Lot 49, is still alive. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hello you fellows. Since reading (The) Pine Fox's last post I've been fighting the compulsion to lock myself in a cupboard and reel of the names of everyone who has ever influenced me. I could be there for hours, calling out authors, bands, listees, artists, critics and miscellaneous others (HOURS). The level of gratuitous referencing was, I'm sure you'll all admit, truly astounding... surely it can't be an accident, it must take a concerted effort to produce something like that. So what's his motivation? I have some theories. 1. It's an attempt to take over the list by forcing us all into cupboards where we'll sit name-dropping (in reply) until we collapse from red-bull depravation. But Mr. Fox... what fun will the list be when everyone else is gone? (note, at the time of writing, his is the most recent post. I'm worried about the rest of you. Ring/text/email your Sinister friends... if there's no reply then go around to their houses <via an offy or some other source of Red-Bull> and retrieve them from those cupboards). 2. He's trying to hide his real influences... Mills and Boon novels and Abba. (Admit it PF, living a lie is getting too much for you.) 3. He's suffering from some sort of referencing fever... Good god, get this man to a doctor. 4. It's a bit of a windup, he's seeing how far he can reference before we realise he's being silly... Perhaps it's like that shake-hands-man on Banzai. [Product placement] I managed to resist this urge to reference/hibernate-in-a-cupboard by eating half a kilogram of cold Ambrosia custard. I only ever eat it cold, no-one else agrees with me on this, they all prefer it hot. Surely there are some more cold custard people out there. Do you find it chilling that cold Ambrosia really is the food of the gods? If I eat enough will I be deified... or just grow fat? Were the Gods fat? Damn you Pine Fox... more of this and I'll go lardy (though not lame). On a sort of linked subject... It occurs to me that a remarkable number of people mention 'editors' in their posts... is there a correlation between Journalists and liking Belle & Sebastian (like the English student thing). If so,,,, what happened to those clowns at the eNeM(E)y? (Don't get me started on that publication, I bought a copy the other day and it was full of Hip-hop and dance... a big spread on Aia napa (sp?) Vs Ibiza... Judas! I threw it out in disgust). I suppose English students are more likely to have a journalistic streak. I have a plan to get rich, it occured to me as I was eating lunch... if people like croutons, surely they like their soup to crunch... With today's technology I'm sure we can make crunchy soup... people can enjoy that wet yet crunchy feel without the hassle of opening the crouton packet. (people are all for these time saving malarkies... shampoo with conditioner, soap with moituriser, soup with croutons, perhaps we can combine them all. Crunchy-soap-soup: for a shiny, healthy lower intestine). I'm running off to the patent office now... I'll be rich, rich goddamnit! Yes well... *cough*... Love and other stuff. Jonny. (is the reason we post for at least fifteen minutes so that we can get our RDA of fame?) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
well hello and welcome to my second post, i thought i would, as tomorrow i am going away to devon for a few days to see my other half, and though, hey why not clog up my own inbox, so when i get back i'll have........300+ mails to read! woo! today i am tired, got in late, 0130h from being at the garage, Corporation Blend, G-Bug (formerly glitterbug) and the fabulous Ciccone were playing, and although they seemed a bit down backstage after, they were quite good - although being my first time at one of thier gigs, i couldn't judge i suspect. took a couple of pics with my polaroid i zone thing they came out good, which was nice, most f my photos come out shite! but scanning them so people can see any kind of detail is, well, not so easy! see http://members.tripod.co.uk/room237/ciccone1.jpg http://members.tripod.co.uk/room237/ciccone2.jpg anyhow, i is off to get some sleepy poos, toodle pipski lou http://members.tripod.co.uk/room237/index.html http://www.livejournal.com/~flamingkitties +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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