FAULTY POWERS I would like to recall Mark Casarotto. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK AT ALL Thanks to all those who answered my question re. 'Give Me Back My Dreams'. Yes, that means you. Luckily, I went to see an under-the-weather pop star this week and she told me that the answer was 'What If God Was One Of Us?'. It's a very bold and suggestive guess, but I'm still not 100% sure that that's what I had in mind when I first heard Sally T sing it for a few seconds at Shepherd's Bush, before the security people shepherded me out, and I thought, golly, this is familiar. Any more takers? Give me back my mullets, Mooro. TEENAGE WINTERLUDE Miller, you bore me. You and your CostadelCrime vignettes of encouEnters with Baxendale. Like you know them. as If!?! like, every girl around wants to know baxendale!? and you reckoon you do? Like, no way. !!!>? plus also i know thatyou are not really scotish, and you have neve5 left woking.# yake me off the listr. likw, now!!? HE SCARES THE HEALTH OUT OF ME Tim Hopkins may be long gone but he is still making me ill. Really. Well, possibly. That's my theory. It's a long shot. But they worked against Gary Plumley. GIVE ME BACK MY GARY STEVENS I see that people are begging for the return of favourite characters from the childhood TV programme called 'sinister'. So, I want Steady Mike. Or failing that (and it will be), Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) had better post *properly* soon, or her fans are just going to give up. THURSDAY EVENING My long-term project re. discerning who are the best contemporary songwriters, and what to do about them (dynamite, shark repellent, mysterious flying accident, marriage and children, etc), has led me back to the Clientele. The Clientele have gone in steps, or waves, or some such, for me. The first time I saw them, back when the world was only a little way behind us, I was not overwhelmed, though others were. Then many months later, a day came when they somewhat overwhelmed me. Then months passed again, and I felt the rain on the autumn breeze on the Holloway Road, as you slowly drifted into the night. And as time passed I came to feel that the Clientele might have been talked up a tad by one or two aforementioned folks. But in the last 3 weeks or so I have been listening, belatedly you may say, to their 'album', and I have come right back around to the contents. I have come to find it, however temporarily, virtually indispensable. And somehow that really impressed me. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+