Sinister: Mum and Dad and Uncle Bill don't realise

[Mark Casarotto]

Yesterday, /me bought not one, not two, but THREE swinbeat/r'n'b type
singles yesterday. What's happening to me? I even felt the need to make
excuses at the counter - at least I had Joni Mitchell and Hefner to give a
bit of perspective into my warped musical taste.

Okay, one was "No Scrubs" which is one of the finest songs of the last 10
years, but the other two...A prize (okay, a guest list spot at the next
Peasantfolding, as I've just this minute renamed Sinister's top P!O!P!
extravaganza) for the first person to guess what they are...

Which reminds me, I don't think I bigged up Youn for sending me a Venn
diagram of Catholics, homosexuals, uncle Tom Cobbley and all, which won the
prize even though (or perhaps because) I couldn't figure out what the hell
was going on. More maths in pop!

My first cup of coffee tastes like overpriced corporate heaven in a
cardboard mug. Not Starbucks though.

Okay, hardcore book recommendation (which I think I've suggested before, but
Laura quoting Steve quoting Zardoz reminded me) - "Orlando Furioso" by
Ludovico Ariosto. Okay, so it's a thousand pages of densely-packed medieval
Italian poetry (so Lucy Alder'll be okay then), but if you can find an
English prose translation, you'll be overwhelmed and amazed and astonished
in equal measure. It's like every tale of magic and chivalry ever, all
intertwined into a narrative which resembles a bloated, magnificent soap
opera, only with more blood. There's a lot of blood. For the Belle and
Sebastian fans among you, it's a bit like an epic medieval Italian courtly
version of "I could be dreaming".

Yay! Jessica and Jygsaw Dave are back! Roll on the sinister old people's
massive!

Np: on repeat, Old Orchard Beach by Magnetic Fields

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