hello again sinisters Will Salt touched on surrealism, no actually Will Salt grabbed surrealism and ran with it:

"I could write someone else's autobiography, I suppose." Remember this next time you meet him kids, he wants your brain! or something.

His 'My Pictorial Life' thing (he should of course call it 'My So-Called Pictorial Life') reminded me of an idea put into my head by an ex-girlfriend, that we should live our lives as if it was gonna all be turned into a future biopic - of course it was all a pass-the-time type game, but it was fun finding stupid symbolism and metaphors in everything, and worrying about location. Even to the extent of when she told me she was getting back with her ex, all I could think of, looking round and thinking, was "why here?" Ugly looking college canteen, and they'll never let me film this crap here anyway! Five minutes later, and we were in a idyllic wooded area, sitting on a stone bridge, laughing our asses off. I ended up sleeping on her couch for 6 weeks after that. Surreal maybe. Weirder still, I think my very first attempt to woe her was with loveheart sweets too, but she just ate them one after another, there was a whole bowl of them in front of us at a party, I must of at least given her six [cutie pie]'s and four [marry me]'s. So I wouldn't give up yet Johnjohn. Rusdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' is supposed to be the modern 'Alice in Wonderland'. Well it made me smile a lot anyway. Whatever happened Peter Miller's "reporting back" on Salman Rusdie's 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'? (his rock'n'roll novel) Half a year later, according to the archives,and nothing, and the Pinefox even got a copy too. Maybe there's gonna be an extensive collaborative post focusing on untangling the parallel worldly bands and songs in the book. (you'd have to read it really) I better tell the sinister massive of ex-of-this-parish Joss Moorkens and his beautiful band Joan Of Arse being interviewed on Ireland's (nah the world's) premier indie video tv program 'no disco'. Is this "reporting back" I wonder? The weird thing about was that it was on at 11:30 on Halloween night. So flick through the channels and you get 'The Shining', 'Friday the 13th', 'Bride Of Chucky' and then JOA. Anyway it was a good interview (how do review an interview? help!), I probably should of taped it, out of the possible interest to all those list crush voters he had back in 1999! Anyway more important than all that is the quality of the music, there's a beautiful mp3 to download from their website: http://www.thumped.com/JOA/ go do it! Other recommendations: the last Sigur Ros video (the football game one) is/was the single greatest piece of cinema I've seen since I last posted - that'll be two years then. ps. I hope I might be doing my Christmas shopping in Belfast this year! pps. I don't think anyone's mentioned Stevie Jackson's 'the List' article that been up on the official b&s site for some time now. Seamus. _______________________________________________________________ The last sentence of the red notebook reads: 'What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook?' +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+