When I heard them say your name, that's all it took. That's all it took to make me yearn for your embrace - I guess I might as well admit no-one can take your place. Yes, that's what I would like to say to Robin Cook. How appallingly he has been treated. What a brave face he must put on saying 'I was pleased to be summoned back to perform this nugatory role as Leader of the Commons'. Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary - jeez, we might as well bring back Douglas Hurd, jumpers and all. The jumpers, they might be the good bit. I've nothing against jumpers. I saw two Cary Grant pictures last Saturday. MY FAVOURITE WIFE starred Irene Dunne. Then I saw YOU CAN COUNT ON ME. This slow, understated film was fabulous. Its rootsy soundtrack made me want to go out, I mean, in, and write a rootsy soundtrack. My editor suggested writing an imaginary musical which doesn't exist. So we both went ahead and did it. It took no time at all. SLM said:

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the quality of the posts iand the niceness of the people is what has made sinister strong.

That's very true, except re. Peter Miller. In his case, it's the poor quality of the posts and his essential lack of personality that have made sinister weak over the years. In some ways, I feel that the one thing holding the list back from greatness since 1997 has been the mixture of slackness and unpleasantness so regularly displayed by the geezer Miller. He has let us all down time and time again. I have never understood why Honey didn't chuck him off years ago.

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Oh, I had another listen to Jonathan David and maybe I was too harsh.

How did you listen to it? I didn't think it was out yet. I knew I was behind, but I didn't know I was as behind as that. Come to think of it, I thought I was more behind.

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Honey says it sounds like a Stuart song? So when Stevie sings it, it sounds odd.

I don't know why you say that. When Stevie T sings Stuart Adamson songs I always find it strangely appropriate. It's the mixture of Celtic bellow and Canadian aestheticism that does it. That does it.

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Or is it Stevie trying to write like Stuart? He needs tying down, that boy.

What boy? Lloyd Cole's 'That Boy' needs not so much tying down as flinging out there so that everyone hears it and understands the genius of Lloyd again. Rhapsodic, that's my word for 'That Boy'. You can check the archive if you don't believe me. I always call it 'rhapsodic'. I don't know whether the geezer Stuart Murdoch needs tying down. I think he needs winding up. I am becoming slowly appalled at his apparent lack of output. How many songs has he written in the last year or so? Probably about 5 and a half. Feeble. Oh, and if he's reading this and doesn't like it, I'll be waiting for him with a feather duster outside the sub post office on fashionable Milngavie's high street tomorrow. Choose your weapons. I'll take Miller on too, while we're about it. Mucky pups indeed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+