"Ello little old ladies" Wilson Philips? Ne moi pas. I was in a very unsuccessful metal bashing industrial outfit back in the mid 80s (weren't we all) who seem to have been more influential than I thought judging by the new Strongbow cider ad. In fact has anyone else noticed the increasing number of TV ads that pastiche bands that the company either can't afford or who won't do ads? I only mention it because the soundtrack of the new Kodak ad sounds a bit like a popular beat combo we all know and love. I bought the Flaming Lips CD (Soft Bulletin) last week without hearing it first - after all everyone on the list says how good they are and my favourite band like them so how wrong could I go? Well fair to middling wrong. They're OK but the words are far too clever monkey for my taste and the tunes are a bit ho hum. According to their web site they do "stuff" live so perhaps someone who's seen them will tell me different but they just sound like early XTC to me - much prefer the miserably magnificent Mercury Rev. The religion thing is a bit odd really. Everyone who's posted on it either thinks its all bad or all good. To me that's the problem. Religion makes you think in black and white. When people do bad things the religious tell us its down to free will. But how can you have free will under an omnipotent god? Maybe the problem is that some people want to ascribe so much to a god that they end up creating a world view which is the same as if there were no god. What omnipotent, omniscient beings are best at creating is contradictions. I'm not sure that makes any sense now but I was on the train to work and got distracted by a fox. I hope the picnics went well and the lettuce wasn't too damp. I almost got on the train to Sheffield but I had a bad back, no money left and it was raining so I had peanut butter sarnies in front of a nice warm stereo instead. To make up for it I'm off to Scarborough tomorrow to look at second hand books, paddle in the sea and do other twee stuff.* So if you see someone there in a daft hat and a B&S t-shirt buy him a 99 and say hello. *I'll get my self in a Gentle Waves song if it's the last thing I do.** **A Day in the Life of Mart's Shoes? Martin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+