Sinister: Power, Corruption and Leeds

[Peter Miller]

Thanks to The Pinefox for calling out to me in my hour of loneliness. It's
nice to see a bit of goalmouth action, even though the pitch is weblogged.
If you can't beat them, join them. I've got a weblog now, devoted to
day-to-day apparitions of The 70s WHO. It's called My 70s WHO Loghouse
Project, and it's pretty much cornered the market, I think. So come on, 70s
WHO, Let's See Action! So far the only action has been George W. Bush trying
to scupper his own chances by using "Won't Get Fooled Again" on the campaign
trail. Top one. Jordi Cruyff scored the other day. A goal, it was. I think
Barcelona should have bribed Leeds to lose instead of bribing Milan to win.
Winning's much more difficult. I had a listen to the German Wrens on a
listening post the other day. My word, Isobel's quite the ice maiden, isn't
she? She could make Paradise Lost sound like a shopping list. That's
Paradise Lost the big poem, not Paradise Lost the death metal group. I must
admit I didn't listen to much of it though, I was worried in case some
fellow B&S fan came up and tried to talk to me. It had nice strings on it,
but man cannot live on strings alone. If I want strings I'll listen to the
Krankhausen Quartet. There's some very pleasant musical sequences in the
film "Oh Brother!", if you like that sort of thing. Let's face it,
Jeepster's new web-unfriendly approach simply puts them on a par with just
about every other record label. And no, I wouldn't have thought that
Christmas album would make a great deal of profit, due to the wilful
exclusion of The Eurythmics. I also found it a bit ironic that the press
release for a Christmas charity record should slag off Band Aid. It would
seem that indie aesthetics stretch to charity work as well, making it uncool
to make loads of money. But what would we do without Jeepster? We'd be lost.
Pinefox, I don't know if I'm in Papercuts or not. Trousers is too busy
hand-rotating the top of the Post Office Tower. But I'm working on stuff,
I'm working on stuff. Based on the homosexual gangster orgy in
"Performance". Someone asked about Go-Kart Mozart. It's got some crackers on
it, like "Sailor Boy" and "Drinkin' Um Bongo" and another junkie song and
some other stuff that doesn't really wear as well. In short, better than
"Novelty Rock" but not as good as the others. There's a strong tragic
undercurrent to it. I would try and download it for free instead of coughing
up for it, if at all possible. I hope Lawrence doesn't go back to his Felt
ways, that would be a terrible waste.

Peter

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