Sinister: just like a miniseries, or it's all over but the re-counting, courts, lawyers, shouting....

[carle groome]

friends, minisisterines, country-rockers, lend me your eyes...
(guess all this post-erection oratory is making me more roman than
usual. i'm hot for your bauds...)



took me another three days to catch up on the last week. tweensters are
voluable beyond any conception i've ever had! (i had to get some sleep
before finishing the read and felt that i should be able to get through
the last thirty or so this morning...and another 30 show up!) so i feel
justified in using half my time on posts and the other half on jabbering
like a monkey...butler

superfurrygrrrrl wrote about her affection for the gorkys? is that name
short for zygotic mynci as well? if so, i second that emotion: classic
prog in an alt.rock vein. anybody that covers kevin ayers gets a place
on my permanent playlist.

cbrown wrote:
Someone mentioned Grandaddy, they?re ace,  I?d say that they?re in the
mercury rev, flaming lips (not that good but you know what I mean?.I
hope), Scott 4 sort of mould, not only that, I?m going to see them on
Wednesday and they?re on the Jeepster Christmas album with a lovely
little ditty about Alan Parsons (who he? Producer type fellow?)

yeah. beatles engineer on last albums. and has his own series of concept
albs dating back to mid-70s. they wrote a SONG about him?

JENOWL, i hate to give advice on such a breif acquaintence...so how
about a suggestion? teflon body armor and helmet. oh, and steel-toed shoes.

several mentions of allan moore have prompted me to say: omigawd!
PROMETHEA! this could be the best thing for anthology story-within-story
writing since SANDMAN! has anybody on the list seen any of his legendary
live performances? i've heard a couple CDs and they are mindblowers.

content:
i have the feeling that this must've come up before, but it's been on my
mind for some time. it's about stuart's falsetto voicings. we all know
about the level of androgyny in the lyric (i think i needn't cite
chapter and verse to the faithful), but when coupled with the high
register, the wistful quality doubles the effect. that whole thing about
the boy trembling on the edge of manhood and all, that underscores the
searching, tenuous quality of the storylines... even sonic youth had an
early alb called 'confusion is sex' and hendrix's song 'love or
confusion' sort of says a lot: when we don't know what we are, we are
most likely to be shaped by that which we desire...even reflecting the
other in ourselves...

(i apologize for the scattered nature of this transmissive. i'm trying
to stay in the 15 minute ballpark figure. and failing.)

and it's not as if i'm saying the boy lacks testosterone; we all know
that some of the greatest lovers in song were famed for their
near-castratii range. think of marvin gaye, smokey robinson, stevie
wonder, curtis mayfield--and, you will note: all soul singers. ok,
motown. mostly. but that's a minor distinction. if you doubt, ask
pauline l. shivers...if she really IS the same PLS who's realplayer song
i checked out from a link on this list (princess honey, can you
confirm?) oops. i digress again.

no. wait a minute. i do NOT digress. what i wanted to say is as i am a
USAer, my knowledge of the phenomenon called 'northern soul' is somewhat
limited. so i'll put it to you scots et al who do know this genre. is
'struan' a soul singer in this tradition? (i mean, i'm not saying rick
astley--he's the only one i'm halfway sure of, but, well. you know.) ok,
b&s rock--granted--but... 

oh no. this is really ALL over the place. first i'm making an arguement
for sexual indeterminacy and then i stray into whether or not he's a
soul man...
(yeah. told you i was roman...roamin' all over the place!)

enow. eeyow!
happy trails,
carle
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