Sinister: MTV (was: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air)

[Perfection As A Hipster]

Giuseppe Gregorini wrote ...

>P.S.  MTV Italy aired LLPJ.

And here is a private mail from another Italian first time viewer not
subscribed ...

>>on NOW is a Scottish Special featuring B&S, Pastels, Orange Juice et cetera
>>... hope you won't miss that !
>
>Just in time! Many thanks!
>
>I didn't miss it, and even if it was quite a disappointment the B&S video
>alone made my day! Wonderful! The concept is really genial and poetic, and
>that "lines" album "Lazy Line Painter Jane" was looking at the end was
>really really neat. I taped the show and re-watched the video both
>yesterday and today.
>
>Plus they look like really nice people, "normal" in the best possible
>interpretation of the term. It really clashed looking at the Urusei
>Yatsura video that followed.... trendy clothes... empty music.
>
>I didn't like the posthumous Orange Juice video much (I always loved the
>song though) ... I never liked Teenage Fanclub (ok, go on, flame me!) and
>the video didn't make me change my mind. There wasn't anything else of much
>interest ... Stereolab? Bah ... Not to talk about all the crap they put in
>betwen (Prodigy ... ak!)

By coincidence, the first ever Italian B&S enthusiast ... even caring
enormously about lyrical content. §:^D

> Andreas, the OJ song was just before TFC  (and they were just before LLPJ).

That's lovely ... Prodigy, OJ, TFC, Urusei Yatsura, Snow Patrol in Germany ...

"Get me away from here I'm dying"

Andreas

The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella
But more upon the just because 
The unjust steals the just's umbrella

(Charles Baron Bowen)

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