Hullo again, It has been brought to my attention that the link to Richard's dirty video didn't work. Have a try with this instead: http://www.lesinrocks.com/DetailArticle.cfm?iditem=162182 . While watching this video I felt like worlds were colliding and all of our Sinister smut-sodden parodies over the years were finally being played out before my very eyes. A very strange feeling indeed. Or maybe it was all the darling honeys in the video that gave me that strange feeling. Hmm. I wonder if the video was directed by William G Stewart.. Um, that was all I popped in to say, but seeing as I'm at the bar I may as well buy a drink, take off my hat, and bore you all a bit longer. The Vicar said: << The new Belle & Sebastian album is called "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". Three words, shortenable to the initials DCW. So why are people inventing an endless succession of >10 letter "acronyms" for it? As an old person I feel that this was maybe funny for TBWTAS, but it has outlived its usefulness. >> Yeah, well I guess if it was about usefulness we could all just call it "Waitress". But I think I like making up stupid acronyms for the same reasons I like Ken Chu: because it's absurd, pointless and rude. Yeah, rude words are funny, basically. I was having another look at the dearcatastrophewaitress.com website last night, and there's all sorts of things to discover. The band bio is like worlds colliding again, with some great lines about Dennis Waterman, and about how Stuart David had a lot of spunk but a face like a bag of spanners. Erm, what else? Just read Ken's post and would like to say I agree about If She Wants Me being a great song. I think more people should write about how ace it is. The instrumentation - all those pianos and organs - is fantastic. Just came back from the shop, where I bought a scone, and read a review of the new album in Q. The reviewer gave it 3 stars, which is fair enough, but said something about how the lyrics follow their usual habit of being too "fey, shallow and smug". I understand the first accusation, but the second and third are a bit strange. Perhaps if he wants a band that isn't shallow or smug he should start listening to Robbie Williams, or the Strokes, say. I think we should start a campaign for Belle and Sebastian to play at the Duke's school. It would be brilliant, though I'd be worried that the band might get beaten up. bye Robin _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+