Greetings Sinister, THE ACID HOUSE Watched this the other night, mainly to hear the B&S song in it, although it's a bit daft watching a film to hear a song I've already got, but nonetheless I watched it anyway. It's a bit fecking wierd though. I liked the first two parts but the third part with him out of Trainspotting as the baby was total shite. I thought Slow Grafitti was the perfect song for the part of the film it was in though, I'd never really appreciated the lyrics before but it was like they had been written with that scene in mind. Was the song written for the film? If not, then Stuart Murdoch must have read the book... EDINBURGH Somebody on the list was talking about the Edinburgh Festival recently. There's something I've never liked about Edinburgh and the Festival seems to sum it up. There's this whole image that its the cultural centre of the world, look at their Hogmanay thing for example, but whenever I've been there aside from the tourist bits it's been a total dump. The festival in particular really pisses me off. For three weeks or whatever every night we (in Scotland at least) get the likes of Muriel Gray presenting shite called Edinburgh Nights or something equally inappropriate on the telly every night. Shouldn't a programme about Edinburgh be more like Trainspotting or The Acid House and less like Notting Hill or 4 Weddings and a Funeral? I wouldn't object to the whole festival thing if it was related in the slightest to Edinburgh or even Scotland but its not, it's full of luvvies from London or jugglers and midget street performers. And as for that Scottish Parliament, don't get me started.... EXAMS I always have to laugh at news coverage of exam results being released. Wouldn't it be nice if just for once they took their cameras to some no-hopers house to watch them open the envelope. Reporter: "So Bob, how did you get on in your exams?" Bob: "Failed the lot" Reporter: "Aren't you gutted that you won't have the chance to go to University then?" Bob: "No couldn't care less." Instead every year we have to watch smug bastards opening their envelopes looking so surprised when they pass all their exams with flying colours knowing full well that there wasn't a snowballs chance in hell that they would have failed. Grrr.... LONELINESS OF A MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER Thanks to all those who sent me feedback about the MP3. If anybody missed it, I've put an MP3 of this song as performed live on the Apocolypse Tube show on my site. If you haven't already you can download it now from www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk BIG BROTHER Whoever asked, yes it is the most infuriatingly addictive television show ever. I don't know why, it's not that exciting, it's just one of those shows that once you start you can't stop watching. That's all for now Dave david@belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+