Jim Taylor popped his head above the parapet, which reminded me that he was one of the first people to greet me in Glasgow. So once again, Jim - hello. Anyone would think that David Moore didn't have 3 jobs to go to. Peter Miller laid into the new 45. I was glad to see that. He's right about the guitar solo if nothing else. And maybe other things too. In Glasgow we heard stories about him. Has anyone read The Great Gatsby lately? Tony Tanner's Penguin intro is a marvel. Golly, there are some great lines in that novel. The cabs in the 40s on the way to the theates; the streets of men, women and machines; the valley of ashes seeking what Tanner calls 'negative transcendence'; Gatsby and the green light across the bay; the moment that Carraway tells him, you're better than the lot of them put together; the stunning finale, on the edge of a mysterious, new, old, modern, sad land, in the spray of time and the sea. It makes me wonder why my editor doesn't like Fitzgerald more than (I think) he does. Talk about the understanding of artifice (let alone the artifice of understanding). Going to see B&S in the flesh reminded me of the silly theme that comes up now and again, re. Isobel's rear end. It reminded me to write to sinister and say: it is terribly obvious that people who go on about it the way they do - in what is meant to look like a daring and satirical way - are really just beating the bishop while sitting at the keyboard. I am quite convinced of this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+