the wind is blowing. the streets are silent. And yet. Laura Llew cheered folks up by saying things like

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I realize y'all expect me to be in Whoville

But surely, Llaura, only Peter Miller lives in Whoville.

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Every year I ask for a boy for the holidays and every year I'm bitterly disappointed when there's no one waiting for me under the tree.

It's a shame. Maybe you should ask the boy for a holiday, or ask for a holiday for the boys, or ask the holidays for a boy? On. The air is enough to crack one's cheeks. Fireworks explode somewhere. The other night I thought, absurdly, that fireworks were going off to mark the onset of Christmas Eve. Yet it was 23 December, 23:45. The notion was silly. The point really in hand, or at issue - a back issue of Melody Maker, I think, from February 1990; Mrs Welthorpe knows what I mean - is something else that the geezer Miller would understand. It's this. Lloyd Cole has just released his greatest LP since 'X'. That's what it sounds like so far. But I've been wrong before, as far as I know. It might just be the best since Love Story. At this stage we don't know. No, there are no absolutes even in Lloyd Ccole, for some of his material has been underpar. I read somewhere that Bad Vibes contained 'bad disco'! (I'm not sure, if truth be told, that it contains disco.) But the one absolute is that at the end of it all, Lloyd will be singing like Lloyd, and cruising, and taking it easy, with someone chiming in the background, and he'll sound better than anything has for at least 20 minutes. And probably more. A deal more, as Barry Davies might put it. It's a Marshmallow World, the world of Lloyd Cole. The night is silent. Goodbye. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+