The Vicar said that most of what I had said about going to Dublin was true. That was true. Unfortunately I cannot write a follow-up for Ms Wesley unless I start making things up. Perhaps the Vicar could start us off on this process. Elsewhere I have enjoyed (where) the Vicar's ex cathedra pronouncements on the results of debates on late B&S. They were correct also. Chu went to Hong Kong to hear his song. That is going the extra mile for a piece. Stout Robin, of whose regular sinister appearances I in principle approve, averred that rude words are, or were, inherently funny. (I don't suppose he used the word 'inherently'. Perhaps I am traducing him; save that I am not.) I think that he is wrong. He does not even trouble to register the REAL LIFE DEBATE we once had on this question. I think we were in Greenwich Park (at the time). I think that finding rude words funny as a matter of course is lame. But so, I suppose, are some horses, which is also a matter of course(s). Like others I have been struck by the names which have popped up on sinister lately. One of them was the Duke of Haranguey (stet). He said something about SW UK place names being appropriate ingredients for pop songs, eg. by B&S. I (q.v.) agree. As I have already told him [private communication], and will now weary him by saying again, my equivalent of this occurs on ALADDIN SANE, where 'Paris or maybe Hell' ought to be, and was initially thought by me to be, 'Paris or maybe Hull'. I imagine that you can see the superiority of my version, and the way that this confirms the Duke's fiefdom of wisdom. I have not heard the new B&S record. But I did in fact hear some tracks at the house of Jerry the Nipper. My judgement on, or of, them is not reliable. For one thing, the Nipper's computer transforms the way that records sound. It makes David Bowie sound like David Jones - of the Monkees! It makes Elton John sound like Reg Presley - *his real name*. It makes Ken Bruce sound like the comedian Ken Dodd, or possibly the comedian Martin Heidegger, offering you a cheese and onion crisp. Only the one, mind. For another, I am not sure whether what JtN played was the actual content of the forthcoming record, or something else. For another, my listening was distracted and inprecise. For another, I disapprove of listening to music in that fashion, so I am battling to repress whatever it was I Heseltine, I mean, Hurd. To that extent I have not Douglas the new record yet. Is it out? JtN has somewhere said that it sounds like Squeeze. They are a band that it is quite fun to call 'Sqeeze'. I like The Squeeze, as PJ Milner has in the past appellated them, quite a lot. I am not though sure whether the B&S band should attempt to sound like them. A record that is quite good is Roger McGuinn's 'Friend'. I think that its 'lyric' may have been written by Jacques Levy, who also co-wrote 'Hurricane'. Another record that is quite good is 'I'm So Restless', on which I think that Dylan plays harmonica like Dylan in the 70s. I am occasionally doing battle with a rogue copy-editor. Perhaps I should say no more for now about this fell figure who strongly feels that the word 'keynote' should be altered to 'cornerstone', the fetching' to 'winding', and 'Strasse' to 'street'. Dav[id] Jones of the Monkees (stet) has been gearing up to release a new record about dangerous driving, called 'New Killer Car'. I wonder if anyone, possibly called "Peter", would like to report back on how it sounds. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+