Sinister: Beguilingly Twee

[Alder, Lucy]

Morning backwoodsmen

Thought I'd pass on Craig McLean's opinion of Nalda Said from The Face...

David, bass player with Belle & Sebastian, first flexed his nib with his
booklets Ink Polaroids and Little Ink Movies - quietly illuminating captions
to non-existent 'images' from B&S's early days.  They were lovely.  Then,
with his Looper album, he mixed beats and (probably) autobiographical
stories about meeting his missus and a kid who liked 'Burning Flies'.  His
first novel draws from both these strands.  Nalda Said is a lad's gradual
unfurling of a bizarre, precious secret.  After an itinerant, lonely
adulthood, he finds love while working in a hospital garden.  Then, as is
the way of things, his problems realy begin.  Beguilingly twee and ever so
slightly unsettling, this is the insular terrain of The Wasp Factory and The
Butcher Boy compassionately revisited.

Positive it may be, but friends, behold the drawbacks of the 125-word
review!  Only one sentence to let us know what he thinks of the novel and
even then, he feels the need to describe it in terms of other books.  But
then, this is The Face we're talking about.  

More exciting by far is the review of Tits-Out Teenage Terror Totty by
former NME journalist Steven Wells.  With a title like that, I'd say it's a
vital purchase.  Reminds me of the blithe days of my own delicate youth
(snarf!)

My recommended CD of the week is Hanna & Barbera - 48 Classic Theme Tunes,
which includes all your favourites - Hong Kong Fuey, Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy
Doo version), The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Top Cat, Touche Turtle, Penelope
Pitstop, Wacky Races and many more.  Sorry to the people I bored with it on
Saturday night, by the way.

Bobbin Stout said:

My dad used to spot birds when he was a lad

My own dad was a trainspotter and a morris dancer.  He persuaded me to do a
talk on morris dancing once at school.  Slightly ill-advised, especially the
demonstration of how to wear a flowery hat.  I still think the sword dances
are rather exciting though.

He also wrote:

I have a friend who's into running, 800 metres mostly, and he's 
really committed, to the point where he doesn't really understand 
what's going on in the rest of the world.

That'll be the Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner then.   

Juicy Lucy

 
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