Sinister: How will I get her to strike a pose?

[Brian Pennington]

Hello,
    I like this whole 'posting' thing. It's fun. I'd never classify 
myself as a lurker. I would classify myself as someone who is 
extroverted yet too lazy to post often.

    So I'm not just posting for posting's sake. Honest. Cross my 
heart. I have been listening to B&S a lot this week. In fact I 
brought Sinister along with me on Monday, a thoroughly irritating day 
in which I worked far too many hours. But I was struck by how 
distinct it was from FISHYCLAP for the first time. It feels all 
acoustic and timid in comparison. FISHYCLAP is confidant and lush. I 
find myself liking it a lot more just now. It's funny though, when I 
first listened to it, it really didn't sound that different. But 
after you let it sink in maybe. Who knows...

     I like the inferences people made about my last post. Let's just 
say the jury is out. But I don't believe in happy endings anyway. 
Anything that ends isn't happy. Happiness should be ongoing. 
Continuing happiness. Endings are for books and films.

     You know, meeting Struan was a bit of a two-edged sword. While 
the good reasons ought to be obvious, the bad reason is now I keep 
thinking of things I *ought* to have said. Maybe I should make a 
small list and keep it in my hip pocket for any occasion that I might 
run into him. That wouldn't look odd or anything would it? I realized 
that I came *this* close to wearing my Study at Stow t-shirt. That 
would have been awkward...

     And is that picture on Amihotornot actually him? Does this mean 
Struan has a weiner dog!? Or maybe it's someone else's weiner dog. I 
like them. Weiner dogs, I mean. Whoever those weiner dog-owners were, 
their rating wasn't all that bad when I looked at it.

     I listen to a lot of music that doesn't sound like B&S. Lately 
I've been listening to albums where people seem to aurally throw 
their guitars up into the air, and wait for them to come back down. 
Takes quite a while though. They just flit languidly about up there, 
echoing bemusedly. The band doesn't really seem to mind either. They 
just keep on singing for the most part.

     I think I'm going to try & go see the Go-Betweens again on 
Thursday. I sort of doubt Struan will make a second appearance. 
Although...he has to discuss their impending 10-LP deal deal with me, 
apparently. Or so I hear.

     Hm, so a curious instance of life imitating song, I'm going to be 
taking some photographs of the object of my furtive glances this 
weekend. I'm quite excited at the prospect. After hearing "Photo 
Jenny" it sounds like quite the thing to do. Except I'm not having 
trouble getting her to do it and I don't need any drugs to help me 
out at all really. But it still all fits together in my mind.

     Photographs are fantastic things for a bedsit sentamentalist. 
There's something inherently romantic about them. Like placing the 
needle of turntable on a warm, crackly record. Clicking the shutter, 
adjusting the aperture, and especially developing the film. The 
romance of that wears off quick though, after too many hours spent in 
dimly lit rooms with the sound of water running, and the smell of the 
chemicals.

     Not only have I begun to ramble, but I think I'm finished 
rambling. If you're expecting an e-mail from me it will be just the 
slightest bit longer. If you're not expecting an e-mail from me, you 
should be feeling fine just now, and wondering why I haven't stopped 
typing.

-- 
Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky at mac.com | ICQ# 39021436
Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/>
the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html>
"Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne
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