SHUFFLE IN THE GRAVEL First of all, I feel the time has come to point out that I was "in character" when I said I like having a ham shandy along to "Beyond the Sunrise". I'm sure that Stevie's gruff and manly tones would...erm... tear my playhouse down before...erm... karma could be achieved. Thanks to Dave for pointing out that botshot of Isobel, I'm going to have to invest in a bigger monitor to truly appreciate it though. OUR PICNICS ARE BETTER THAN YOUR PICNICS So Jordi phones me up and says there's a listee called Dave in town and I thought "Dave Jigsaw!" and immediately put my red jumper on. It wasn't Dave Jigsaw but we had a GRATE picnic anyway with Dave and Molly. We talked about Mr Godfrey's Black Empire, the peculiarly deranged B&S fanbase, the wisdom of not talking to the press, robots, the foul disgustingness of English coffee, airlines, whether Lego is a countable or an uncountable noun (it's countable in America, would you bloody credit it?), the NME's NME-centric worldview and some other things. A conversation about football was brewing in my head ("so Jordi, what do you think of Barcelona these days?") but I didn't have chance to unleash it. Perhaps it would have felt more urgent if Barcelona had done anything spectacularly bad lately, but they've been almost acceptable. Dave unwittingly made me homesick by using the word "mardy". We were just beginning to get in the swing of things when I had to shoot off and see Nurse Betty. TORTELVIS WILL NOW TALK ABOUT CHRITMAS ALBUM....CHRITMAS ALBUM? The NME website features reviews of the crappy Jeepster Christmas album and The Clientele's gig in wherever it was last Tuesday. They make them sound like a shoegazing band. In fact I think they just took an old review of a shoegazing band and changed the name. But some of you might be interested. You never know. Peter PS: What's Santa bringing you all for Christmas - a sore helmet? PPS: Did Edna Welthorpe rate Nurse Betty higher than Charlie's Angels? I did. Do. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+