Hi 'lo bless me sisters, for i have sinned--NOT LURKED! it's just that it takes soooooo much time to read the voluminous volumes of your mail. so if i repeat themes and schemes of tired and tried odds & ends, i seek forgiveness in advance. re: jason mckinnon To quote the Great White Duke himself in All the Young Dudes. : "Who needs TV when you have T-Rex." And. yes, that was originally a Bowie song that Mott the Hoople covered. actually, it's "i need tv when i got t-rex"...lending itself to two possible interpetations: 1) the requirement of the show "marc" that ran on english tlevision in the mid-70s concurrent with the song's major heyday of airplay; and/or 2) that said individual requires the services of a transvestite or needs to try transvestitism as a condition arising from t-rex. whether this is simply the use of a feather boa or an entire ensemble is unclear. cheers to mr ian nicholson for his interpretation of mark e. smith and isobel collaboration. abs. spot-on terif! And while the idea of Isobel on a Fall song is intreguing, surely Narky Mark on a Gentile Waves record is far more exciting. "ACTRESSESS ON CUPBOARDS-UH! IT WAS THE TIIIIME OF THE GIAAANT BUNNIES-UH! IN THE NEIIIGHBOURHOOD OF INFINITYYYYYY!" Etc. With extra glockenspiel and recorder. Maybe even a video - Mark skipping through a poppy field or something. By 'eck, the possibilities are endless! Remember, kids, when it knocks Westlife off number one, it was my idea! and speaking of the fall... cheers to mr go-go-gron and fall meditation. speaking for one who's idea of season comes from window dressings and waiting for the scent of camphor to fade from woolens, quite sensate to say the least. and more: why is it that the word pine evokes such a flood? sap, needles, tar... definitely, fir is fun. and yet, to pine for, to pine about, to repine in a pine box, in a pine fox... (where am i going with this?) mmmmyew---CONTENT?!?! i am quite content with a table of contents, or so much for my incontinence. howsomever, there is a local eatery called WAI cafe which i portune for portions on a regular basis. (guilt here is that they contain said viands in non-recyclable plastic instead of the thai place's tins or the chinese paper cartons...yet they work so much better than tupperware, i can't bear to toss them!) their angel-hair pasta and crabmeat with slivered asparagus notwithstanding (someday i must really pry open that compound noun and see what it's about), it seems that everytime i go in they have such grate (my bow to the lingua anglica of sisternines) music, like b&s, tindersticks, nick cave, nick drake, t-rex, beatles, scott walker... it just makes take-out feel so serene. and yes, that's another thing: the idea of being in this astral plane community wherein sonic solace in !p!o!p! (ok, 2nd concession stand) is so consistent as to be of a like mind to the extent that if i took to swanning around said cafe in a swoon i would not be considered half-daft or a fully closet queen with a bad latch... annnnd seeing as how i am utterly fascinated by the US elections, my addo comments should be seen in this light. one has to posit a world like the above (i.e., my Why Not cafe) in which a shared sense of value makes you feel at home. that is why, when i look askance at the map of states for shrub (overwhelmingly middle and far west and the south) and for al (the north east and new england and the west coast) i despair for the immediate future here. we are nearly as riven as the civil war, but much more civil, especially civil court law, now. so that's why i take this virtual community over a nation-state any day. oh yeah: orange, syringe best pen in the whole fucking world: Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens for the totally awesome expressive nib ciao and marquis cha-cha! the whatever ©@®L* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+