Hello, After reading Grace's post about not spending a proper summer wasting, I realized that I'm doing an excellent job of it. No job (haha, no pun intended), just finished uni, writing songs, getting probably the closest I've come to being drunk on my birthday (blame my little brother), going swimming, driving about and taking photographs. Summer's not so bad when you have centralized air-conditioning and live with your parents. As long as it's only one summer. One real summer...no that was last summer. I wonder if every summer from here on in will somehow connect to an excellent popsong... Next topic, Television Personalities. Whatever happened to Dan Treacy? Last I heard he disappeared off the face of the Earth! Was it just a fitting stunt, or did he really go missing? Did they find him? Meanwhile, back on topic...no singles 'til 2001 either, eh? That's a bit of a shame, I was hoping for a Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner single as much as many of you. I recall somewhere reading Struan thought it was the best song they'd written up until that time. Oh well, patience is called for... I don't think this isn't the 'indie' thing to do, apparently it's the 'Belle & Sebastian' thing to do though. Hey, at least they aren't Kevin Shields after all. We as fans have no right to clamor for quicker release of songs. They're artists (like Koons, Monet and Dada) and let them take their time. Besides, I got a mailorder package today, and I must say this is turning out to be an exceptional year for music and for new-ish bands. Stars & Clientele EPs, new Trembling Blue Stars single, and I'm aquiver waiting for the next Montgolfier Brothers album. Mmmm. What's more, they just put out an album and single you know, it's probably better to get the EPs to fill up the holes between albums than it is to have them come out only when the albums do. Like all of the prior EPs did. Am I the only one looking forward to the impending tabs/piano music/lyrics books? I probably can't manage the guitar parts but I think I can handle some of the piano parts. How many bands put out books with piano parts? None I can think of that I like, anyway. On come allegro, on come piano, on forte, on pianissimo, on sfortsando (never knew how to spell that so I probably butchered it, but it's the little sF). I'll be waiting with bated breath. Felt very productive today. I woke up relatively early for my slugly summer-wasting ways, got a haircut. I think that's what it is. All that hair's off my head so I can move it around quicker and think faster, therefore getting more done. Must be it. And then on top of that I got that package of records. John, I hope this Noonday Underground 7" is good... and anyway, after seeing all the stylish sleeves, premeditated prose introductions, photographs of Japanese poptstars and hearing all the pop (dare I say P!...no I don't dare) music, it just inspires me to get off my rear end and make something. That and my hair being much lighter, of course. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky@mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+