Sinister: Easy on the sweet n sour
Dear Sinister I haven't written for a bit and I promise to write more soon. I just feel like writing a little tonight as our Glaswegian darlings are going to be on the radio soon and I'm getting quite excited about it. I've been listening to Belle and Sebastian recently after hardly listening to them at all for ages, and they still give me all the old feelings. I've just been lying here on the bed listening to Marx and Engels and I really wouldn't rather be anywhere else. Joanne and Holly both said how much they like FLAPPYFLOPS. I do too, although some of the songs make me wince a little. I think The Model is great, for instance, and I Fought In a War and Don't Leave the Light On. You could never call it as consistent as Sinister or Tigermilk, but sometimes it truly dazzles. I also *love* I'm Waking Up to Us. Maybe that one would be a good one for your mum, Jen. At least, it doesn't have any rude bits in it. +++ My mum isn't very cool, although I wouldn't really want her to be. She's much more fun just being a bit daft. Me and my sister had great fun at home during the holidays asking mum questions to see how in touch with the modern world she is: "Name ten famous football players" "Erm, Gazza!" "Yes!" "Erm, Gary Lineker!" "Yes!" "Ooh, I don't know. I like Gary Lineker, he's brill! That's what you children say, isn't it?" "MUM!" +++ Ken wrote about Hong Kong and Lord of the Rings and this reminded me of a little conversation I had with Nick from the Chinese takeaway down the road last year, as I waited for my Crispy Duck in Plum Sauce (number 74). N: Have you seen Lord of the Rings? R: Yes I have. I thought it was really good, actually, although, to be honest, the book bored me to tears. N: Do you know how I first hear about Lord of the Rings? R: No, tell me Nick. N: When I first move here I live in a flat with landlord and other lady. One day I come downstairs and I see a note from the lady to the landlord lying on the kitchen table and it says "You are the lord of my ring." R: Oh. Er.. N: And I think, what does this mean? And then, last year, I find out Lord of the Rings is a book! You know, I couldn't understand until then. Crispy Duck in Plum Sauce? R: Er, yes, bye! +++ It's time for me to leave this joint too. bye! Robin x ps: Dirty Vicar, in Deutsch Plus today we saw the episode when Nico got thrown out of his house. It was very funny. Arm Nico! I'm going to write to Deutsch Plus and try to get a signed photo of Nico. He is my hero. [ by express delivery : http://www.superatomic.co.uk/blog ] << look! my blog!! this week robin has fun looking out the window and talking about german dogs. really, you may as well just watch some telly or eat some cornflakes or something. _________________________________________________________________ Worried what your kids see online? Protect them better with MSN 8 http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=186&DI=1059 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
As this morning has been a bumper one for good Sinister posts, here's my twopennorth (sure there's meant to be an apostrophe in there somewhere, God knows where...but anyway) I went to inspect a prospective builder's previous work last night (oh the glamour!) and then went to The Pub afterwards to talk about it and put as much Motown as possible on the jukebox. What a jukebox! It had Dusty's greatest, Sally Cinnamon, Van Morrison, loads of Motown, and the song by the Rolling Stones that contains the line, "Ian Watson, you're to blame". I drank too much and laughed too much. "Why are you laughing so much?" asked Mike. "Because you're being funny," I replied. He was. He was telling me about a radio station in London run by the London Musicians Collective or somesuch. Think its called resonance.fm. Mike is a free jazz avant guard saxophonist and the station has loads of bizarre shows that feature stuff like that. My favourite is called Taking A Life For A Walk. Over a half hour show, a woman straps a mic to her forehead then takes her baby for a walk in its stroller. While playing the saxophone. I am not making this up. They closed the curtains in the pub. I like it when that happens. Good thick curtains, drawn with a purpose. There was only about six people in there. Me and Mike. Two guys on the table next to us. A couple at the bar. But rather than chuck everyone out come chucking out time, the guy just drew the curtains. Like it was a point of principle. I got home, drank wine, because, you know, the damage had been done anyway, watched TV (no idea what), and stumbled into bed, trying not to wake Her Indoors (or Her Inbed). And I woke up this morning - der-ner-ner-ner - to sounds of someone opening the front door to our flat and then...well, I wasn't sure what. My girlfriend had already gone to work, so it wasn't her. I could be dreaming (content!!). Or I could be being burgled. It was bizarre. I raised my hungover body out of bed, opened the door to our bedroom expecting to see no one at all...and there he was. A man on his knees, with a screwdriver. "I've come to fix the bottom lock on your door. I did shout out." "Sorry, I didn't hear. I was asleep." "That's alright mate. We all need our sleep." How right he is. I'm going back to bed. x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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