Magnetic Megan, I'm not bored at the moment. It has been known to happen though. Today I am writing to report on the exciting rebroadcast of the Black Session on Spanish National Radio 3 last night. It was shit, a complete load of bollocks. They had a half hour slot, so one might have expected them to do a bit of editing, select the best bits and erase the embarrassing gaps. Too much trouble. Instead they played the first thirty minutes and talked bollocks over the gaps. Now I know lots of people talk bollocks about Belle and Sebastian, some people even write bollocks about Belle and Sebastian, but none of it could compare to the bollocks beamed out last night. Apparently Stuart Murdoch has been taken prisoner by literature and thinks that the world is too antiseptic to fall in love. Pah! He could have fooled me with that look he had on his face when I saw him scurrying away from the public lavatories in the park the other day! I'm sure he had a beamer. But I digress. The only good thing about the radio extravaganza was the chance to hear "I Know Where the Summer Goes" (I sang that bit), which was originally obscured by the latest developments in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was good. It struck me that "The Wrong Girl" is a bit like "The Laughing Gnome" by David Bowie. Or it could be, if they put their minds to it. I saw "The Boy With the Arab Strap" in the ethnic music department of my local superstore, no doubt because of the word "arab". Didn't think of that, did you Murdoch? Ha! And now you've lost a potential customer, or gained one, depending. Well, no you haven't, because we put it in the right place, next to the Beastie Boys and Bob Dylan. B for Bob, it's like that here. Who would like to laugh at me, and point and call me rude names? Now would be a good time. I bought some Cuban music, in a desperate attempt to like ten types of music before New Year. It's a double CD and I got CD one twice. Heavy bummer, not least because CD two contains a version of "There's Only One Derby County" the unofficial Cuban national anthem. All right Megan, guilty as accused. I don't know what a Romulant is, I'm afraid. But I would like to rediscover The WHO's Quadrophenia all over again. But what I would most like to rediscover all over again is the two albums on one CD Gram Parsons "GP / Grievious Angel" thing - it always makes me inexplicably jealous when I see it in shops, waiting for someone to buy it. Strange but true. Here's a question from the trivia game I have the pleasure of translating: What did Jimi Hendrix do at the 1967 Monterrey Festival? a) burn his guitar b) nothing, he wasn't there c) hold a meeting in favour of the Ku Klux Klan Goodbye, Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+