Hello peepz, I'm, like, gonnae be totalement incoherent today (Saturday) B cos I'm feeling all those lost hours seeping through my pores... I was struck by a notion this morning as I returned to my "gaff", (actually a country manor don't you know*)that I should give ole FISHYCLAP a try again. So I pressed the spine of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in the Children's Classic Fiction section of my private library, and lo, I wiz transported back to the 1940s, replete with grey short trousers and my mate William (or Just William as he insists on being called, the bounder) holding my hand in a gay manner (before the invention of homosexuality you understand). So we gaily made our gay way through the cheerful secret cloisters of the hidden music library, stopping at the Particularly Eccentric Kate Bush section to mosh along to Violin, Violiiin, Violiieeen, Violeeeeeeen!

From here on, the gaps between the shelves grew narrower and dark shadows and whispering tomes gave the broken-mirrored alternative spider's web scenario shifted through several degrees, an eerie, if huron or perchance superior clammy sense of foreboding and (yes, you guessed it) DOOM.

It was at the Long Anticipated but Disappointing Albums section that I alighted to tease FISHYCLAP from it's hedgehog-skinned sheath. I slipped the fucker into one of the 20 CD players we have scattered willy-nilly aroond the secret library and then proceeded to roger William to the musical strains. (This was, of course pre-buggery/post sodomy, when many people were confused about their sexual orientation following rationing, and often had to made do with a sly whiff of Amyl Nitrate in the outside toilet before singing Clash songs loudly or indeed softly). Roger and William concurred: It's definitely the worst album by The Best Band Since The Smiths, mais le singe es dans l'arbre et il mange une banane. I had to disagree. After initially slating the bastard, I hummed along to IFIAW and TM, which were v.good, and could easily have made filler tracks on TWATTYBUS. The rest wiz pish man! Some ok, but just sooooooo not Stu M. He never wrote a teeth clenching lyric before this outing, and Family Tree and even Woman's Realm and That Dull One About A Frank Excess of Love, are a bloody disgrace to the B&S canon. Ha! Well, enough ranting. It's back to the ole classics for me - T and IYFS, along with a sprinkling of Elastica and JJ72 this avo. I hope you're all well, and keeping l'esprit de le passion musicale alive and well. "We live in a land of rains, where Royalty comes in gangs; shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour." "Come chaps. The sky is beginning to bruise, night will fall, and we shall be forced to camp!" Jarvis xxx *Hey, av ne'r done ane o' these footnot' things b'for, and it's acshully quite a thrill. What the footnote oracle says is: "To be stated in a posh Edinburgh lawyer's accent, ken - Crawwwford, Sinnclair, Niallll, Dahhling)" P.S. Blood on the Tracks is AMAZING kaytee! P.P.S. A tribute to Ken and his hot wok: Vodkas and Red Bulls! P.P.P.S. I'm soo sorry for this bullshit, but I've had an "Allnighter", as Justine Freshman would say, if she had the chance... P.P.P.P.S. Oooh that's a lot of "P"s! (Quoth Matthew Kelly). "You don't see Gielgud down the labour exchange. Why doesn't he retire, the bastard? P.P.P.P.P.S. As you may have gathered, Withnail and I is my fave film, and contains the most eloquent, sad and bitterly funny dialogue of any film ever. You think? ends ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+