Sinister: The Golden Treasury of Drug-Addled Nonsense

[PJMiller]

People tend to forget that the Beatles crammed a lot into their few
years together. Their crap 70s period started in about 1966. Besides
which, I like it when bands have a crap 70s period. They're often
perfectly OK, it's just that some of the excitement has gone, which is
reflected in the reviews from the time, which in turn get treated as
BIBLICAL TRUTH and humanity spends the rest of eternity thinking
everyhting was crap in the 70s. Plus the junk was kicking in. I've
noticed people are a bit wary about admitting to liking the Beatles.
I've been to that Beatles shop too. It was in the pre-CD era. They had
Bulgarian editions of George Harrison albums, and a button badge of
John and Yoko as nature intended.

There was a lot of talk about Johnny Marr and Oasis, but no one
mentioned Noel's new haircut. Blimey! Hope it catches on.

I'm looking forward to the Exeter picnic. For me, Exeter will always
be the epicentre of my sinister inner landscape because of all the
fantastic listees that come from there: Duke of Harringay, Alistair
Fitchett and  Piezoleptic Unit to name but three. Plus the human
whoopee cushion, Adrian Evans, and Ted Hopkins.

Do you think we should put an age limit on boasting about drinking on
the list? I think 14 would be about right. Of course, Ted Hopkins
would be exempt from any ruling. Hey! Exempt from any ruling! Get it?
That was an accident.

THAILAND NEWS: an elephant called "Motola" is receiving treatment
after stepping on a land mine on August 15th, but they need some more
money.


In the end, I did watch a bit of that Benicassim festival programme.
No Arab Strap, but Damon from Blur was wearing a t-shirt with the word
"NORTHY" written on it, and Brett from Suede did a bit of lassooing
with his microphone.They both did that thing where singers hold their
microphone out so that the ecstatic crowds can sing along. I wonder
why they do that? Does it make them feel less ALONE? Is it lesson 46
on Rockschool? Or are they demented? If anyone ever does that to me,
I'm going to shove their microphone so far up their arse that we all
get to hear the amplified sound of a ruptured spleen. Mercury Rev were
on it. I don't think their singer's ever going to get the chance to be
a deserter, to be honest. The contrast between this whining ninny and
the partcipants in the world 100 m dash championships earlier in the
evening was more than my fragile mind could take. The wobbleboard was
missing too. The guitarist was good though, he's a rockabilly rebel,
from head to toe, gotta keep a-rocking everywhere he go, everybody
come join in, we're good company, be a real cool cat, be a rockabilly
rebel like he. Well, that was the message I was getting anyway.

I think I must have been attacked by a cross between a mosquito and a
woodpecker.

Peter


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