Hello, sinister. Unfortunately, I have a few thoughts which I absolutely *must* share. [pause] [longer pause] Damn, I can't remember what any of them were. Earth-shattering, I assure you. Never mind; you'll just have to make do with whatever's on the top of my head. MUSIC THAT GETS REMEMBERED Lawrence Mikkelsen recently said that 80s music wasn't that bad, really, but all we remember is the stuff that was in the top 40 all the time, and gets on to "Best of the 80s" compilation CDs. Does that mean that B&S's pre-Legal Man stuff is all going to be forgotten except by a small flame-burning minority of fans? (pessimists might, of course, claim that this is the current situation.) PAEDOPHILES AND THE MEDIA I didn't think much of the News Of The World's actions, and aren't going to buy it until I forget to remind myself not to buy it. Since I never buy it for myself anyway, this isn't going to do much harm to Rupert Murdoch's personal fortune, but that's hardly the point. I do think it's a shame that nobody has published their editor's address yet -- or, for that matter, that of her Partner In Sexual Congress, Mr. Ross Kemp ("...this man has committed terrible crimes against acting! OUR CHILDREN have been forced to watch him 'perform' ON NATIONAL TV!"). I am a fan of Natural Justice, but not of lynching the neighbours. (note to non-Brits: Kemp was an actor in the UK soap "Eastenders". His acting "talent" is limited to one thing: Doing a Menacing Look.) EDINBURGH is a bloody awful place to be at this time of year. Far too many tourists. Last Sunday, I went out, forgetting about the Festival Cavalcade, and had to spend an hour sitting in Princes Street Gardens just because I was waiting to cross the road. OK, OK, I could have gone round. But it would've been a long way. And that's not the point. BEING MISTAKENLY THOUGHT TO BE FEMALE Happens to me all the time. I try not to shave too often, which reduces it somewhat. I suppose I could shave my head. THE SUBJECT OF THIS MESSAGE Just the other day, I bought a copy of the sheet music for FYHCYWLAP -- I was walking through Edinburgh, passing the music shop on Queensferry Street, and remembered that it should be in the shops by now. And it was. Anyway, I bought a copy, and noticed that it's all printed in the same font as the album itself, which in turn is the same font used for several other B&S productions -- Tigermilk, for example. Anyway, the question that has been bugging me since is: what font is it? it looks a bit like Century Schoolbook. It also looks like Computer Modern, but the stems of the letters look *slightly* too thick (at least, to my eye). Does anybody know the answer to this? (OK, I'm going to stop now. Sorry to take up your screen.) -- Will Salt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+