Hello Sinister Siblings! A bit of B&S buisness first and then the useless stuff. Having listened to the Black Sessions and some other Live stuff I'm even more impressed than ever with the group. The live stuff sounds *perfect*, not a small achievment as I'm usually disappointed in most bands upon seeing them live. *sigh* Now if I could only see them live instead of just hearing them. Century of Fakers and Sleep the Clock around from the Black Sessions are amazing versions, I almost can't listen to the CD versions of those songs anymore. The mid-song piano rif in Sleep the Clock Around from the Black Sessions gets me every time. Of course, I was able to hear Paper Boat for the first time. Would anyone happened to have Paperboat tabbed or chorded out? It's not up at the Sinister chord page. I can usually do a half-decent job of chording a song out but I'd trust somelse's version better. Lotsa bootleg stuff on ebay I notice, the last Black Sessions video I saw on there was going for well over $100, which strikes me as excessive no matter how much you like the band. Missed the SNL B&S interlude, who knew SNL was worth watching anymore? Listened to The Magnetic Fields Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees for the first time yesterday and now I'm hooked and I've fallen in love with Susan Anway's voice. Most of you listees are prolly already familiar with The Magnetic Fields, if you're not than march right out and pick up the Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees album. It's brilliant and I kick myself for not knowing about them prior to this. Oh, I've got the 69 Love Songs collection, but this is far, far better. Also heard a song by the Lucksmiths and am now busy hunting down CD's by them, if you like B&S then give them a try. I was looking through a friend's copy of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and discovered he has the American version while I have the British trade paperback version. The funny thing being that the publisher 'americanized' the accents and references in the NA version of the book. Which cracks me up to no end. I mean, do British publishers fiddle with American works so you Brits can understand our slang and funny accents? Anyways, onward and downward... Joseph had this to say: "We sat around, expounding on the brilliance of Frank Miller and carrying on about whether or not "Watchmen" was REALLY better than "Dark Knight Returns". We're such nerds." Watchmen of course, though V for Vendetta dances widdershins around both of them and Authority and Planetary piss on all of them from a great height while the Invisibles look on. This is the Sinister list dear boy, we're all twee nerds, didn't you read your contract? (well, except Mark. Billionaires can't be nerds, they're absolved of that the lucky bastards) Oh, and props to Rachel for writing a very true and very sad post. Your recommended reading: Riverrun Trilogy by S.P. Somtow In the CD player on repeat: Magnetic Fields-Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees Be Sinister children... Jim "We're all out there somewhere, waiting to happen"-Jeff Noon, "Vurt" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+