...carry on! Anyway, my British chums, I thought I'd write and give my two-penneth on recent things. As for the Mark & Lard thing, yes they were great, then they were alright on the breakfast show, and now they're great in parts in the afternoon, but nothing will beat Simon Armitage, "fancy a brew", them playing TSTIAI and my mate getting his name read out on it when he was 14. Yes, I was **that** cool - I had a mate whose name the boy Lard had **said**. So yeah, they were brilliant. But now they're not. Oh well. I was walking down Oxford Street by myself on Monday evening, about to meet a certain listee when I noticed a very stange thing. The dummmies in the windows of different shops appeared to be of totally different, how shall we say, umm... proportions. Some have bigger chests, some have tighter waists, some have broader shoulders etc. It's very bizarre. I'd like to think that it's something to do with the type of person the shop is trying to appeal to, but it's probably just luck whether they get a B-cup dummy or a C-cup one. Has anybody else noticed this or am I just imagining this? Onto Mr Carter's point about mediocrity or whatever. Please, please, **PERRRLEEEASE* don't sully my inbox with this kind of crap, and I quote: "I'd argue that in a lot of ways [Kings Of Convenienve's album] is ground breaking". Sorry Pete, it's not. It's beautiful, sleepy, rather wonderful harmony-tinged, startlingly good Norwegian folk-pop, played with two instruments which have been around for centuries, and using simple but effective lyrics/harmonies about troubled relationships of whatever sort. See here: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=groundbreaking Groundbreaking, it ain't. I take the man's points, but there are limits to which you can stretch such things. Then again, everybody's entitled to their own opinions, not that many people them (their **own** opinions, that is). Anyway, does anybody else think it a bit strange to hear 'Pyramid Song' played on daytime Radio 1? I certainly do. Chris Moyles played it on Wednesday, and it was very bizzare. The Radio 1 jingle comes in, then the song, and then SClub7. Now I'm not complaining, because that's two great songs in a row, but if Radio 1 are playing this, shouldn't they be playing more hautingly captivating angst with no time signatures? It's just strange hearing this wonderfully anti-radio, desolate song flanked on both sides by p!o!p. Perhaps it's just me again. Oh well... I think I've said enough again. I volunteered to be Picnic Mummy for the Albert Hall thing, but the number of responses I've had could be counted on the finger of one stump, so I'll stop shouting... Right then, a big biggedy-biggedy-bong in a twee Scottish style... love s.X _________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+