Sinister: Pre-recorded laughter in the Air

[Walkn10 at xxx.com]

Bon soir tout le Monde,

I've been trying to swear off the internet as much as possible because I 
don't like how it controls my life when I'm not working, so thats why I 
haven't posted in ages (not that anyone noticed, but I need to feel 
self-important for a spell).  I kinda want to get back into real 
grit-and-dirt-and-trees-and-sky kind of life instead of what I'm picking up 
on my monitor, which is how I saw the past few months anyway.  I took a few 
trips, bought a new car (one that driver does not do justice) and I feel alot 
better, but that might be the Ginseng talking.  Anyway, I'm back for a night 
because I'm off and its raining so I can't be playing hockey. 

Will Salt (if that is his real name) asked us:

<< you'd think that the customers I'd come
 across would be intelligent people able to find their own books with the
 minimum of effort.  Are they?  What do you think?  Of course bloody not.
 Every five minutes I have to stop what I'm doing and answer some stupid
 question, then take someone halfway across the library to find a book that
 they have walked past five times already. >>

The customers in my record store, though this is probably expected due to 
their THC intake and naturally low-level intelligence, do the exact same 
thing.  They bustle through the door, ram their mugs straight into my three 
feet of personal space and spout off "Do you have the Austrian Import of Jeff 
Beck's Blow by Blow on CD, cassette or LP?  How about that American Bad-Ass 
Tune?  How much is Papa Roach?  You still sell Queen?",  and so on and so 
forth, like a three-toothed gattling gun of inanity.  These people must think 
record store employees are required to memorize the entire inventory on our 
days off.  The very "special" ones will say something like "You don't carry 
Matthew Sweet?  I just looked all through the M's and I didn't see it."  Work 
retail long enough and you will come to question how we ever climbed out of 
the primordial cesspool to begin with.
I can't add much to the Pink Floyd debate because I always stayed away from 
them until recently.  Alot of my band members are Roger Waters' disciples, 
but I could never penetrate their mystique so I shied away.  All this talk of 
Tony Doogan's inadequacies behind the mixing board has me a little upset I 
might add.  I love the way TBTWAS was recorded: a touch muddy, a little 
reverb-y, extra warm...:sigh:  IYFS and the new album seem way too cut and 
clean, but then again thats as much the band's fault as Tony's.  They could 
have stepped in and said "We want this...we don't like how this is 
sounding...change that," but evidently they were happy.  Engineers and 
Producers really have little or no say on indie projects because the emphasis 
is on creation and originality as opposed to perfection and sales.  To assume 
that Tony was deviously imposing his own will upon B&S albums seems a bit 
far-fetched to me.  The way that man records drums and vocals still amazes.
No shows til 2001?  Whats being done in the meantime?  If all the members of 
B&S are visiting the states as they usually do each summer, they should let 
us know where they'll be in advance so we can welcome them and buy them 
drinks and dresses and cars and houses and such.  Its to their benefit, trust 
me.
I think hockey should become the favorite pastime of the Sinister Nation.  
Its fast, intricate, violent and it brings out the primal urges in everyone.  
A more violent football, a more fluid rugby.
Well, I hope everyone is having a very nice summer and that they get away 
from the offices everyone now and again...

Steve C. 


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