Hullo, Firstly I must say that I almost posted last night about all this philosophical counterculture stuff, but I counted to 4 or 5 as I was about to begin writing and I decided "Nah...." Having said that, to the fellow who suggested we be nice to one another in an attempt to be the opposite of punk, I must point out that quite a lot of good things came out of punk. Someone already mentioned DIY, without which I would wonder if labels like Jeepster would even exist. Plus there's loads of great music, not to mention loads I don't care for.... but I digress. The Boy Done Wrong Again from Indiana U. (I wonder if you know my friend Danny, he used to be the md for a radio station there...) asked us all what does "twee" mean. I don't think anyone answered him, but I didn't read each message word for word, letter for letter. Twee was a word used by the British music press initially to describe Talulah Gosh. It was (and is) a bastardization of the word sweet (imagine sweet said by a 3-year-old) and was used to describe Talulah Gosh's overly cute and yes, overly precious sentiments, oft-recalling childhood. The term seems to have then been used to describe a lot of bands similar to T. Gosh, if not just in spirit. Now it seems to pretty much describe either a) music that is (too) cute, or b) a lot of music that was made in the 80's. Anyway, all that historical stuff was not first-hand, so I'm more than likely wrong on a couple points. *Awaits corrections with a cringe* Okay, and this business with TIJAMRS...that's very very silly. I don't know why people make up lengthy acronyms for such things that take 5 minutes to work out until you realize what they finally are referring to. People have been calling it the Modern Rock Song EP for quite a long time, and I don't think there is anything too lengthy about this. It gives me less of a headache, anyway. It's not as if there were multiple B&S EPs with "Modern Rock Song" in the title, like "That Over There Is a Modern Rock Song," "Watch out for the Modern Rock Song," "Modern Rock Song Gonna Getcha," and "Cold As Ice." Or, you could follow Mister Kitchen's creative example and go with TEEJAMMERS (a la TWATTYBUS). If you're going to use some weird-ass acronym, at least be creative and nonsensical! =P Strangely enough, I think David read my mind, except he got the 2nd E in place where I had an A. In my Sha-La-La inbox: A thread on the TVPs /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - bp224995@ohiou.edu - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - (same e-mail for now) | | Sandcastle Homepage - | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | - Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+