Sinister: Ian Botham on Bad Acid

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De: susannah <susannah at tormentor.clara.net>
Para: B&S <sinister at majordomo.net>
Fecha: lunes 2 de febrero de 1998 1:36
Asunto: Re: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream

Ian Botham wrote:


>
>2) Then I'm going to go from Lands End to John O'Groats doing forward rolls
like
>that Indian bloke once did, except instead of saying funny mantras I'll be
>chanting 'we were sitting on the sofa the wrong way round' over and over
again.
>


Excellent idea, Ian, and very much in keeping with the general tone of
Sunday's messages. Robert, Alistair and David remind me of a cross between
the Why Don't You Gang and a man whose enthusiasm for all things pop enabled
him to buy a farm and go horse-riding whenever he feels like it, top Radio
One disc jockey Simon Bates. "It's very easy to criticise, not always quite
so easy to find something  positive to say", as Batesy used to say about the
much-missed Poll Tax. Not to mention my own dear mother, whose catch phrase
used to be "Why don't you make your own entertainment?" Nowadays she says,
"Just as long as you're getting paid".

Richard, it's not nice to call Porky Spice a "fat ugly whore" like that.
She's a very nice young lady whose mother is from Huesca. And she's getting
married to someone from Manchester United, a regular Busby Babe.

As far as being inspired to go do something a little less boring instead
goes, a long time ago some friends and myself had the bright idea of writing
a fanzine. It was going to be great, it was going to have a top ten clubbers
feature, we even got round to doing excruciatingly embarrassing interviews
with top pop stars such as the charming Throwing Muses and kindly uncles and
aunties of Sonic Youth. It was really good, I thoroughly enjoyed it and
thought "what a great way to spend your time" but then everything went
horribly wrong. Some of our correspondents were dispatched to the gruesome
opium den of the Spacemen 3 dressing room, hoping to get some illumination
from some of the greatest minds in the late eighties indie rock
galaxy......"Mister Boom, if you were a pizza, what flavour pizza would you
be?"...... About five fragrant minutes later Sonic spoke...."That's
a.....stupid question." End of interview. End of fanzine. End of enthusiasm.
I do like Sonic Boom though. Very entertaining fellow, should be on all the
chat shows.

Peter

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