Okay, Yesterday I wrote to this wonderful list for the first time in a long while... and, okay, I was bad-tempered, and I know some people don't like bad-tempered people. Well, anyway, sometimes you have one of these days that you just want to forget as quickly as you can, when you wish every single person that comes near to you to go to hell, when the only thing you want to do is sit down, relax and listen to some damn good music, which actually is what I did last night, listening to music I mean, not wishing people to go to hell. Like I said, yesterday I read some more of Kafka's "Das Prozess", a difficult book but certainly worthwhile reading it, because it is so well written, while listening to Sonic Youth's "Goo LP". Don't you just love Sonic Youth? I mean, these crazy old wankers are 45 years old, Kim and Thurston are married, they should be living a life like my parents life! But, noooooooooooooonononononono...no they still make crazy music for slightly crazy people with slightly twisted minds. Anyway, imho Sonic Youth's "Goo LP" is their best ever. It's their most "commercial" album, what the heck,... it's their breakthrough album. But, it's absolutely grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat and sooooo yummy: Kim's sexy voice in "Goo", the fucked up noise at the end of "Mildred Pierce", the best instrumental ever written and a real mind-blower at parties, the brilliant pop-melodies in "Dirty Boots", ... and a million of other reasons I cannot think of right now but that make me say this is one of the best albums of all time (imho, of course). Anyway, new B&S stuff coming up... This makes me so excited ... because I always wanted to hear what a B&S soundtrack would sound like, what kind of movie they would make a soundtrack for,... And... a tour coming up.... which makes me even more excited .... because I've actually never seen them live. They came to Belgium once, I bought my tickets... and then I got illl, so I couldn't go. So, please, if any of you members of B&S sometimes write to this list, take note of my cravings... and play a gig, if even one song, in Belgium. CCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOLDPLAY What's all the fuzz about this band. I like them, there, I said it......... They have a bunch of good tunes, they don't have a shitty attitude like the Gallagher brothers, they are absolutely brill' live... And yeah, of course they have this dull-indie-image,, and of course they will never be the better of Radiohead, or B&S or... but I like them. And I think all the people who don't like them just can't stand it that a band that once had a lot of indie-credibility started selling millions and trillions and gazillions of records. Admit it, you wankers... you're just jealous. I bet you all play in a band and want to be famous too but you can't be because you're singing or guitar playing is worse than my neighbour's cat's. Anyway, cut the crap, I like Coldplay, especially "Don't Panic" NEW RECORDS Stephen Malkmus, Tortoise, Jim White, John Frusciante, G-Stone book (Kruder and Dorfmeister anthology), Sybarite, Bonnie Prince Billy, Motorpsycho, Low, Japancakes, Tarentel, Halifax Pier, Sophia, Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Tahiti 80, Ladytron, all Bedhead albums rereleased, Leonard Cohen's live album, Arab Strap, Reissue of Marvin Gayes "What's going on", My Morning Jacket, etc... all these albums are equally worth buying and are already released or will be released very very very very soon. Go out and buy them, or if you don't have any money, use your credit card, or your sisters credit card,... or just steal them CONCERTS. I'm so excited. "Why??" you ask. well, I'm going to see three of my all-time favorite bands in concert over the next few weeks. First up is Low, like I sead yesterday, imho the best pop-band of all time, then Tortoise, together with L'altra and 'the Sea and the Cake', this will be a very good post-rocky, arty farty night with lots of beautiful indie, hippie kind of girls and lots of pseudo-intellectual guys (interesting), and third is Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billie aka Palace (Songs or Music, or whatever), the best and saddest and happiest and sickest and most talented troubadour of the moment. I'll be trying to tape these concerts on MiniDisc, not very good quality though... WORLDLY INJUSTICE Sometimes the world makes me so sick and at the same time i think that I should do something about it, make a difference, start a rebellion, whatever.... I watched the news yesterday: people losing their jobs, earthquakes in India and El salvador without the western world giving adequate support and help, Palestinians dying in Israël due to Sharon being stubborn and just an utter fool, hunger and civil war in Guinée,etc.... I mean, there's so much injustice and all we do here in our perfect little rich western world is sit back and relax and listen to music and do pointless jobs that just gain more money for our rotten capitalist system. But, hell, I think I don't have the courage to get up and do something about it, anything.... go to Africa for Doctors without Frontiers, the Red Cross, Oxfam, Amnesty,... But, when I grow iup there will be a day that I will get up and do it my way!!!! Enough diversions... back to the music... . I am asking anyone on this list again. Please send me a "Felt" tape, any "Felt" tape... I heard so many good things about them, downloaded some of their songs from Napster,and of course absolutely adored them. I could download more, but in one way or another trading tapes seems a cooler and a less anti-social thing to do. Anyone who can send me a "Felt" tape will get a reward, not just any reward... but some very good mix-tapes. Okay, I have to go now. Going home, eating, music, down to the pub, watching Anderlecht-Leeds, drinking, and then sleeping... (not very exciting, but anyway) Take Care K-man who doesn't care what people think of him as long as he can do what he wants, smoke what he wants, listen to the music he likes and love who he wants. Still, too many cigarettes will kill you, but they taste so good. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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