I am cursing the fact that I missed the use of 'Stars of Track and Field' on the World Athletics coverage recently. I tend to think that you haven't really made it in the word of rock and roll until you've been used as background music on a major sporting event. Look what it did for Hurricane One Pound, after all. If there are any tv producers on the list can I suggest that 'Seeing Other People' would be good music to play over one of those jokey montages they do of snooker players being rubbish, and 'The Rollercoaster Ride' would be nice to hear on one of those hilarious shots of it raining at Wimbledon. And, of course, they could use 'Is it Wicked no to Care?' over footage of the English cricket team. 'There is nothing quite as pleasurable as mild illness'. Who said that? Someone French, no doubt. I was poorly last week and it gave me the opportunity to stay in bed for days eating chocolate and reading. I read 'The Ground beneath her Feet' by Salman Rushdie (for which big thanks to Pythia-Laurel, who should grace us with her presence more often). It is quite entertaining, and as a portrayal of the rock industry it is right up there with the Spice Girls movie. Did I dream it, or was Roger Daltry once in a film with Chesney Hawkes? Talking of films, I went to see Rushmore last night. As you may have heard, I star in it, and if I do say so myself, turn in a very creditable performance. Actually, it really is terrific, and I will never doubt Tagatha's opinions on anything, ever again. Do you know what else is adding a spring to my step at the moment? The new Badly Drawn Boy single. For some reason I had him down as some kind of lumbering post-Beck gibbon, but this new song effs the ineffable in no uncertain terms. Oh! I knew I had something worthwhile to say... Some of you might remember how the night before Bowlie, the elegant Pam Berry organised a shindig at The Betsy Trotwood pub, with the Jinx Minxes and the Electric Pizza Unit playing. Well, there's going to be another party, at the same venue, the night before ATP (ie 16th September). This time The Clientele and Baxendale will be playing. The whole shebang is also a kind of joint party for the new issues of Papercuts and Chickfactor. If you would like more info, directions etc, email me here (poetryplace2@easynet.co.uk). Until the next time Stevie Trousers +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+