First of all, crush+ carsmilesteve for suggesting you all let The Floyd (ESPECIALLY those of you who call them The Floyd, or even Floyd) crawl back up whichever bloated saggy rock arsehole they have temporarily been freed from. I know that, particularly among the older listees, we all have some tastes best left unshared - my passion for Kate Bush, for example, which, despite me mentioning it about 2 dozen times on this very list, has never created the kind of Bush thread I had been hoping for. But Christ, Pink Floyd. Leave it. I said, leave it... Rob and Tim's Stereolab discussion was revealing - I find it hard to understand how someone who things Peng! is god's gift can even appreciate some of the later rubbish they've come up with. I've finally come to realise that my trooping to the shop on the day a new 'lab album is released is just stupid - they left the love behind a long time ago. It's not real. It's bad pop. Just listen to "Lo Boob Oscillator", which I think was the last postcard-perfect thing they ever did (it's on the High Fidelity soundtrack), and then a random track off any of the last three or four LPs, and tell me which is more magical. Inventions. Two inventions which will be ubiquitous within the decade are the jetpack (it's just so obvious. How can it not become the biggest thing ever?) and the toilet-in-every-room. The latter one's a problem, for many reasons, but we can do such marvellous things with tubes nowadays. How many working minutes are lost each day through having to trundle off to the loo? Lots I bet. Concentration is lost, focus is dissolved, and the opportunity for idle chatter with some of the less dedicated members of staff can eat into productivity like nobody's business. So I reckon that soon we'll just come in to work, wire ourselves up via in-built tubes, and not have to move for hours. The same could also happen with food and drink, as long as the pipes didn't get muddled up, of course. Picnic. It'll be fucking ace. Be there, or like Floyd. Mark xxx p.s. guess which dickhead just sent this to missprint.com? ******************************************************************* HIT Entertainment PLC 5th Floor, Maple House 141-150 Tottenham Court Road LONDON, W1P 9LL Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500 Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 020 7224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.org ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+