I've decided to keep up my regular weekly posting to Sinister even when no one has questioned my virtuousness lest I inadvertently set a precedent of only speaking up when someone insults me or insinuates that I might actually stoop low enough to do something like k-i-s-s a b-o-y. Archel hardly needs an excuse to start yelling, "Bow to the queen of slime, the queen of filth, the queen of putrescence!" as it is, much less just to get my attention. I actually meant to write this yesterday but I was busy with two houseguests. Yes, I'm all about eating pancakes which they've made for me, or waiting on them as they wash my car or take it to get its oil changed, or picking out which color of paint (tea green) that they are to buy so they can paint my room. This hosting thing is so involved and I'm just plum worn out. Thus, I shall keep this short and snappy (the opposite of me) with only two semi-sinister related tidbits. The first is that Stuart David's Nalda Said is finally being released in the US in April of this year for the mere price of $14.95. Previously it was just published by Independent Music Press but now Turtle Point Press is putting out an edition for the twee US population. For the record, the cover on this edition is HEINOUS. I shall scan it in at some point and link it in my next post so it can haunt your sleep as well. However, there is a picture of Sir David looking all cute and glazed eye on the back cover which well makes up for the front. I like how they act as if he still is the bass player for b&s instead of it being past tense. They also go into how b&s were voted the "Best British Newcomer" and called "the new Smiths" before they ever get around to mentioning Looper. Of course, they ended the whole blurb with how the book has been translated and received excellent reviews in both Italy and Germany so perhaps they were just desperate. I quite liked the orange book which I received from twee Dannypie, read, sighed, and promptly passed on to GayJay. This isn't confirmed but rumor has it that Jay sleeps with it under his pillow beside a stuffed Dalek which he received as a Christmas present back in 1989. Or at least this is the scenario which I like the best. The second book blip has to do with a new book written by Will Self which is a retelling of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray with all of the original's characters mutated into modern day counterparts. Thus, Henry Wotton is an open homosexual with a nasty heroin habit and his protegee is a video artist. Naturally (or unnaturally I suppose), all of the three main characters are HIV positive and the novel is more of an examination on gay life as it "skewers" British society and is full of lines like, "I want my sins to be like sushi - fresh, small, and entirely raw." Personally, I don't ever plan to touch the book but the summary was my afternoon's amusement - mwahaha. Well, I'm at the bookshop now so I suppose I ought to get back to helping the dark eyed dwarven creatures from the underground who still brave the light of day in order to buy the new Robert Jordan book before they try something desperate to get my attention - like talk to me. Heaven forfend. xo, Ll ps - Don't trust Miss Maddie Minx for a second about her being busy with schoolwork. I know for a fact that whe she says "I have to spend all day on the computer typing my paper" she means "I have to spend all day being distracted from my paper by googling old boyfriends." pps - I made another roadtrip up north last week and stayed with Miss Laurel and Willzebub Porter in the lovely hamlet of Jersey City again. She didn't make me grout her bathroom, refurbish any of her furniture, or paint any rooms but it was still a cozy stay replete with fantastic chili which I had been craving all day. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+