I have observed a long time ago how the flux of Sinister information languidishes,vanishes even during the long and now grey weekends. Those unfortunate souls as your humble servant for which week days and non-week days and even Bank Hols might be indistinguishable must account for an ethnic minority while those legions of pasty-faced mafiosi take over the pubs of the world...So here I am to alleviate the relax of your mailboxes. I have rediscovered lately'The stars of track and field' which self-quoting, it is a tune I never rated in IYAFS,stunned by (oh-so-typical) 'Get me away ...', 'Like Dylan in the Movies','If you are feeling sinister'.Not very keen in stirring up that old battle about 'epic' in music/...etc, but there is some of that about it.Perhaps it is Olympics in the air,after all. I managed to destroy my parents' sofa in the long and warm summer of 1984 impersonating Ekaterina Szabo at the bar exercises(how do you write that in proper English? Any gymnast out there?), so this sort of facts have a huge influence on my fickle personality. After a couple of years as an official expatriate, I have become used and bored of the questionnaires of the type : 'And what do you think of the British people in Spain?'.To summarise the stereotype,S&M + M&S, both with a relevant apparition in Murdoch's lyrics,curious.The mid-westernity that walks along with Lloyd Cole's persona and personae is absent from Belle and Sebastian's issues,true.Despite the fact that the geographical distance between Midlands towns and the big,shiny City is negligible in comparison to any American scale, the luggage the midlander carries with him/her to Art School in his/her way to the dazzling spheres of sophistication comes in the same card boxes...and same can be said of the Film/Media students I befriended as an undergrad in Madrid,originally from Castillan,Andalusian or Galician rural areas.It is funny how I also thought how 'American' their feelings towards their villages when I started to encounter for first time youngsters with great expectations who had not been born in the 'capital' as myself. Do you have to be real siblings to be in a duet? Yes(Webb), No (Montgolfier),you can pretend and add some token 'Brothers' to chosen family name.However,ignoring even the very basics about both of these highly praised combos and having the maybe wrong impression about this coming week performances,could any better informed soul to keep me posted privately about them? Thanks a lot. And that's use of the list,not abuse.Love Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+