Sinister: Ve Haff Ze Teknologie

[ELIZABETH DAPLYN]

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> From: 	ELIZABETH DAPLYN
> Sent: 	14 January 1998 12:39
> To: 	'sinister at majordomo.net'
> Subject: 	Ve Haff Ze Teknologie
> 
> 	Hello all you people.  I am extremely worried about certain
> members of the list who appear to be showing symptoms of technical
> competence and awareness of mechanical issues in relation to music
> recording systems:
> 
> 	<<A CD player reads a single circuit on a CD and the sum of all
> the bits on that circuit doesn't match the checksum stored at the end
> of that circuit then it will skip. All oversampling CD players do is
> attempt to read the circuit a number of times in an attempt to get it
> correct before actually playing it, they will also skip if unable to
> match the checksum.>>
> 
> 	This is very scary, and should be stopped as soon as possible,
> preferably by electro-shock "therapy".  Or with huge amounts of
> psycho-repressive drugs.  Or something.
> 		On the subject of mental health, did anyone apart from
> me and my friend Charlotte watch or remember the series Taking Over
> The Asylum which was on a couple of years ago on BBC 2?  For those who
> didn't, it was about a double-glazing salesman who was also an amateur
> radio DJ who got relegated to the post of spare-time Station Head at a
> mental hospital in Glasgow, and the various japes (suicide, job loss,
> Spike Milligan) which ensued.  I just mention it because
> 	a)it was fantashtic;
> 	b)it had a kind of B&S feel to it, now that I come to think
> about it, in the sort of hopelessly grim romanticism which we all know
> and love.
> 
> Regarding the Albert Hall:
> 
> 	There are also choir seats and some really bad sightline seats
> which you
> 	can't really sell.
> 
> >>I KNOW!  I was in the Schools Prom in 1996 (ah, when I was but a wee
> A-level student.  How time flies) and the choir I was in was placed in
> those selfsame choir stalls (not unnaturally) which proceeded to
> terrify us: we were very high up, we were next to the bass organ pipes
> (pretty fuckin' loud, since you ask), the leg-room is cripplingly
> absent, and we were all in permanent danger of leaning too far out
> while standing up to sing and falling right out of the bastards.
> These pieces of furniture are NOT comfortable places to be, take my
> word for it, darlings.
> 	Having said that, however, the Hall itself is a lovely place,
> although I'm not quite sure what purpose the giant ceramic mushrooms
> suspended from the ceiling serve.
> 
> 	Hmm, I really do think that Radiohead fans just don't like music
> 
> >>Thank you very much, mister.  I personally hate all tunefulness,
> truth and beauty.  I only like eardrum-shattering squeals and strange
> clankings sounds, and would much prefer it if all pop music vocals
> were done by the computerised voice from Fitter, Happier.  Then, oh if
> only, the world would be a much better place.  Oh, and it goes without
> saying that I revile Belle & Sebastian too.  Obviously.  I'll just go
> off and drown some kittens now shall I, with Pablo Honey playing in
> the background.
> 
> 	  If one must decide which cartoon characters the members of
> Belle and
> 	Sebastian have a resemblance to, then it recently occurred to me
> how much
> 	Stuart M. reminds me of Tintin, the reporter.
> 
> >>No no no!  Stuart is the cartoon Sebastian from the 80s series,
> still looking for his mum and getting into amusing situations with
> circuses and the like, 
> 
> 	and the Dog On Wheels is
> 	Snowy
> 
> >>OBVIOUSLY, it's Belle, the Pyreneean Mountain dog from the series.
> Good grief, have you no soul?
> 	People have written to the list about a 70s live-action series
> called Belle & Sebastian, which I, not being born until 1978, did not
> glimpse.  Was the later cartoon series based on the live-action one,
> or is it a particularly spooky coincidence?
> 
> HoneyPaul, great online photties of the band at Manchester.  Mmm, I
> never knew looking up La Murdoch's nostrils would be so alluring...
> Are there going to be more pictures?  I particularly want to see the
> lauded vixen Mick, and also Wee Chris's pantaloons.
> 
> Anyway, I believe I'm supposed to be going down to the darkroom to
> develop some pictures of a wall or something, so I'd better go now.
> 
> Oh, can anyone recommend a starter album of Scott Walker?  Neil Hannon
> does sound awfully like him, doesn't he?
> 
Sorry, I just realised I sent that off without my name or anything on
the bottom, because the arseing AutoSignature on the college network is
buggered.  I've just had to create a new one.  Ho hum.

          ByeBye,
                 Liz.
                (edaplynr3n00297 at kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk)

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

                                    Robert Frost

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