Hello there, Gosh, Sinister Action. People posting once more. It almost tempted me to throw an oar or something in Sinister's direction. The Pinefox recently said that he's not in a sitcom. I was slightly disappointed. A Pinefox-based sitcom would be excellent BBC4 material; I can easily imagine 6 episodes of the Pinefox getting into classic comedy scrapes. Episode 1: the Pinefox mislays his favourite purple jumper. Episode 2: something involving shocking indiepop gossip. The season would culminate in a struggle for control of the North London James Joyce Society (Correspondance Committee), with a Comedy Nemesis introduced earlier in the series. Are there any commissioning editors on Sinister any more? (I should add - because it confused people the last time I posted - that there's no connection or intentional name-similarity between me and the Pinefox. I stole my name from a hotel-cum-golf-club-cum-spa just outside Scunthorpe. A lovely part of the world, beautiful when the fires of the steelworks light up the night sky, blighted only by the fact that it is now represented in the European Parliament by a former National Front member who was also a self-professed National Socialist. Not a good reflection on the region.) On the subject of telly, why hasn't anyone suggested a B&S sitcom? That would work quite well, if we could imagine them all living in a giant shared house a la The Monkees. There could be a running joke about Sarah's Englishness; and portraits of Isobel and Stu D looking down on the living-room,* positioned so that when someone was standing in the main "giving a speech" spot on the set, the two former members look down on them like angel and demon on the shoulder. The band themselves should choose which would be which. Alasdair Gray would hopefully be willing to play their upstairs neighbour, a bearded artist in smock and beret who regularly gets annoyed at the noise coming from downstairs. I wonder where that "angel and demon on the shoulder" trope originates. Everything in iconography originates somewhere - the Christian halo, for example, comes from depictions of the Unconquered Sun, from the Roman cult of the same name. Of course, you probably all already know that; it's hardly an obscure fact. Angels and demons (not the book or film) are presumably a little more obscure. Someone also mentioned Camera Obscura recently. I've been out of the loop a bit recently, but I *assume* Sturan is still intimately associated with T. Campbell of that ilk. Given CO are playing Indietracks this year, it would be nice to get Sturan, a camera, and a big hulking great steam engine in close proximity. I've only been to the Christmas Indietracks - that time that the King of Partick did a DJ set in the brake carriage, setting up that whole CO-Indietracks relationship - but I did manage to get on the footplate of one of their engines, the unique British Rail Standard 5 with Caprotti valve gear. I'm glad I did, because it was bloody cold on the platform and toasty-warm on the footplate. Not being a trainspotter, I forget the number of the thing. The ATP people are missing a trick now they're over at Minehead, if you ask me; they should be calling up the WSR and get some sort of Great Western Indietracks Rip-Off Event going. The WSR goes right past Butlin's after all. That's all from me for now: I even managed to get some B&S-related content in. Let me know if there's any part of this post you didn't understand. -- - FP - http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/ -- * much as, if you go to the Granada TV studios in Manchester, they have a haunting painting of Tony Wilson, in stark but touching black-and-white outline, overlooking the reception desk. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+