Sinister: Of Content and Off Content

[Brian Pennington]

Dear Sinisterines,
	So, it is again the time when writing posts with content 
contained therein becomes an option. Rumors and confirmed rumors are 
again springing up everywhere. So since no one I have seen has 
mentioned it, the band updated their website, confirming the Pet 
Clark producer-involved single recording action, mentioning 25 musos 
in the studio (images of that party used for the recording of a 
FISHYCLAP song which never saw the light of day pop into my head).
	So if anyone at all remembers my post a month or two ago, 
where I mentioned running into Stuart Murdoch at a Go-Betweens show 
and I refused to reveal the reason they were in town, they have now 
revealed it on belleandsebastian.co.uk. That being that they are 
doing the soundtrack to a movie. So whoever directed this movie is 
based in NY apparently, Stuart didn't mention who it was, but he said 
they'd come to New York to see a screening of it and see if it was 
something they'd be interested in doing. Guess it was. Perhaps we can 
look forward to more random New York Struan sightings.
	So I've got some more content, even. Earlier in the week my 
friend and I trekked into Manhattan and I picked up a copy of the 12" 
version of Legal Man. Only because I'm a sad, sad record collector 
and the 12" version of Judy Is a Dick Slap is different, dammit. 
Sooooo I listened to it and some thoughts came to me. It's not much 
different from the first bit of the version on the CD, but that 
lovely lovely Felt-sounding quiet piano bit at the end of the CD 
version was nowhere to be found. So....is it part of of Judy... at 
all? Is it a Songs for Children-type interlude bit? I am inclined to 
think it is. I like it a lot. I have actually put just that bit on 
two mixtapes now. It makes an excellent final song when you only have 
a tiny bit of space. But to me, it would have sounded really really 
nice in with the album instead of the single. I love little 
instrumental interludes and reprises and the like. Some of the best 
albums ever feature them quite prominently. It's as if they separate 
an album from a simple collection of songs. A good example being Her 
Handwriting by Trembling Blue Stars.
	Speaking of which (segueway. note you) I also observed this 
week some exciting new by my other favorite band, the aforementioned 
TBS. That being that they're playing here in New York. Which is 
incredibly exciting as I never expected to see them ever. I've 
already seen B&S so if I manage to catch this show that will mean I 
will have managed to see both my favorite bands. Quite an achievement 
if you ask me.
	This has been a lovely weekend of late nights in late night 
diners with late night diner fare and conversation, warm places on 
cold nights and walking through freshly fallen snow at 3:30 trying 
not to fall down or let my friend do the same. I hope all of yours 
were equally nice.



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Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky at mac.com | ICQ# 39021436
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"Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne
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