Hello Sinister. We had a Superbowl party last night at our house. There were about 15 of us. We've had one every year we've been at Uni together. It's something of a tradition, and I've no shame in sitting into the small hours watching plenty of VERY LARGE men in TIGHT LYCRA beating seven shades of shit out of one another. But last night's party was special because we had REAL LIVE AMERICANS in our presence to explain the rules to us. It was most fun, and we now understand the subtleties of the "unnecessary roughness" penalty too. It was a pretty good game, although I was rooting for the Panthers, if you want the truth. I thought they had it sewn up one stage, too, but you have to hand to that guy who kicked the 41-yard field goal for New England with 4 seconds to go; he certainly had nerves of steel. Anyway, I'm sat here listening to DCW, and I can happily say that it's really standing the test of time, in my ears at least. "...Cuckoo" is an extraordinarily good song, in my opinion. Bordering on perfect B&S? Could be. See, I recently experienced a bit of a messy break-up with my girlfriend of 9 months or so, and I haven't heard quite as good a break-up song as "...Cuckoo" since I ended the relationship less than mutually. Anyway, I just think that it's absolutely magical stuff. "Wrapped...", "Step..." and "...Loose" are also gems, for sure. But since becoming suddenly single about a week ago I've been trying to take pleasure out of the little things in life: I've been enjoying the sound of Paul O'Reilly's rather good "First Thing In The Morning" through headphones against a muffled backdrop of gently clacking keyboards. I've been compiling a list of my favourite non-musical sounds*, and I've also been noticing those wonderful, comfortable, easy silences that you enjoy in just the right company at just the right time. I also saw Lost In Translation, too, talking of the simple things. Sure, I know I'm late with a review, so I won't bother with one. I think it's a very Sinister film though - I can imagine a lot us enjoying the little moments in it. I certainly did. Heck I nearly cried at one point, but then I stopped and remembered that I'm a DOUBLE-HARD BASTARD. Another good film is American Splendour, which again I can imagine a Sinister population really digging. One thing that's far from simple though is a Justin Trousersnake concert. Carsmile may concur. I had the pleasure of attending one with my now-ex-but-then-current girlfriend about two weeks ago, and I was just absolutely bowled over. He is an ugly man, but he sure can move, and I don't think I've ever seen anything as slick and just brilliantly professional in all my life. I mean it when I say that B&S could probably take a leaf or two out of his book. Really. Anyway, I think that's about all. It's quite quiet around here at the moment, isn't it? Asm.x *the crunch of snow under foot; the clunk-roll of balls being released from a pool table; the pop of a cork coming out of a bottle; the flap-thud of letters coming through the door in the morning; the sqelch of laser on compact disc etc. ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+