hello everybody! hope everyone in sinisterland is good on this fine day. things have been very hectic lately, what with Isobel calling it a day and the new album being really rather good... well, maybe not hectic, but eventful nonetheless. I think the band have changed a lot recently, in very subtle ways. But at least the new album was good; i was worried that they'd not have done so well when they were making music for someone else. so, i went to London to try and forget the project, which, wouldn't you know, i now have to repeat. (I'm sure the evil perpetrators of computer programming languages will eventually get their comeuppance, but until then I'll have to stick to my voodoo dolls... oh, and therefore many thanks to Cay, Simon, and the badly drawn girl for keeping me sane, relatively speaking of course.) London, as ever, was quite fantastic, and the vast amounts of bookshops kept me grinning as i sauntered about with my London-mates in tow. but carnaby street has turned into a tourist trap, and they took the really big spider out of the Tate modern... grr! aside from my weird obsessions with strange art and books however, i was also introduced to the quite fantastic Mr Chu and Miss Longmire, both of whom were very personable, amusing, and didn't take the proverbial too much when i'd had a lot to drink at the utterly wonderful Track and Field night in Farringdon. apparently one of the blokes from the trembling blue stars was there, and idiot here didn't realise. But speaking of music, i was wondering, not to start a thread, if anyone else had noticed that pop, that dreaded little freeze-dried commodity, has become much, much worse of late? i only noticed when my mate Ron compiled a rather thorough 'best of kylie' compilation, and crap though much of it is, it's nowhere near as bad as some of the utter bilge we've heard of late... maybe it's just me. I felt that the pop-idol people should have been imprisoned, at least! Well, sorry for going on, sorry if i should have written to you and i didn't, and thanks for listening. or reading, I'm never sure which is quite right... James +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+