Hello there Sinister. How's your day going? Yesterday I picked up W.A.L. (doesn't quite have the ring to it that FISHYCLAP did, now does it? I have a lot to say defending that record btw, but I'll save my breath for now and not try your collective patience quite yet) and had my first listen. It was on my ipod though, post-rip, as no proper cd player was available to me at the time. For that I beg your lossy-format forgiveness. I also had an epiphany, during my listen. If we were to play Six Degrees of B&S, Norah Jones (Chexxx Mixxx) now ties them to The Lonely Island, and thus, to T-Pain and countless others. Food for thought. Also, the fact that Sunday's Pretty Icons mentions six-degree connections sent a chill down my spine upon listening to it. An omen! Another random thing that's always tripped me up, although I'm a bit late in mentioning it: The horn line in Judy and the Dream of Horses always always always makes me think of the old theme song to America's Funniest Home Videos. North American readers, care to weigh in on this? Anyway. I am frustrated that WAL (feels too close to Wal*Mart, shudder..maybe BASWAL is better? BALSA? BASMATIRICE?) has vinyl- and download-only bonus tracks. Chasing down songs across various formats is something that's frustrated me with Camera Obscura in the past (but something I've been happy to do since they're a trifle less prolific). I do intend to pick up BASWAL on wax at some point, but having to fire up itunes for one extra song, well. Tsk. Whine. Complain. "You've given us a brilliant new album, and I have to put in some effort now? Waaaahhhh." Well, it's nice to have finally stopped lurking, I'd like to thank you all and say that I hope I passed the audition. Also, I'll see you at Bowlie^2. [Squeal.] --jon. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+