Balloons being filled with hot air, blasts of flame pushing them off the ground, pilots and passengers crowding in the baskets. My image of them refreshed: in the very-first-thing light they seem lighter and sweeter than ever, bright colours and nothing but wind. No commentary, just real live noise of people, many people really, gathered at six o'clock to watch hot air balloons take off. The veteran balloon-watchers, the ordinary folk taking an interest and their children, the cuties in woolly things lined up against a fence taking me back about 18 imaginary years. In the morning's wind most craft seem to rise suddenly and whizz over the horizon, but the Scottish piper, who slightly reminds me of RJG, his feet bigger than people, who last night was packed away to the strains of a bagpipe lament having failed to fly, gets off the ground and floats away into the blue, slower than anything else in sight. Sister Disco wrote:

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I think perhaps Tim was riffing on the idea of Island Records.

I thought he was, in a way, but I couldn't work out the way.

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For the record, Tag had read the Keith Moon book.

Is this the ultimate Sinister Gold line? Which record was it?

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Helter Skelter had to close their shop on Denmark Street because the rent was too high, or something. I got a book for half price during their closing down sale. It was about the Beach Boys. I hope to sell it for a vast profit one day.

I predict it will go for �18.

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I feel strangely violated by the fact that there is a B&S book coming out and that it appears to be 'authorised'.

Is that because it may quote private letters from you? I feel strangely violated, also, on St*phen Tr*uss*'s behalf, for, as I said before, he was going to write the book, but left the proposal in the pocket of his other Lemerre, I mean, Jacquet.

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I suppose this opens the floodgates for unscrupulous scandalmongers, though. Also, it might be interesting to read.

Good point. It had better mention THE SARACEN HEAD. You know, over the years many have written to sinister saying they wanted information about B&S fandom and what not. So, why has the author of the new book not done the same? Or were all those posts from 'Kenneth Chu', from him? Cousin Clubnight __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+