Sinister: recording birdsong, and other stories.

[Michael Grant]

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careless talk costs lives
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i got myself a copy last week, and although this topic is a tad old now, i 
thought id just say what i think of it. it is very pretty. and the writing 
is on the whole quite good. it does focus on the music most of the time. BUT 
it is very self-referential. you cant quite read it as a mucis magazine. 
you're constantly reminded that 'this is careless talk costs lives. its 
written by everett true. i live in brighton. i know famous music types. we 
hate the nme.' it doesnt exactly spoil my enjoyment of the articles, but id 
rather it concentrated on being a good music magazine (which is it) rather 
than how crap the rest of the industry is, and how much better they think 
they are than it.

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recording birdsong
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i was listening to IWUTU the other day and when the bit with the birds 
singing in ILMC came up, i had the mental image of stuart murdoch sitting on 
a branch ('Up A Tree', if you will!) with a dictaphone trying to record the 
birds himself. dont know why i thought of it, but it does seem like 
something i can imagine b&s doing. very twee. :o)

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UK tour
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yipee! :oD i've never been to the usher hall before. does anyone know if 
it's good? i have a couple of friends who went to see travis there in 
december, and they said it wasnt the best. but they were sitting up the back 
with all the ol' folk. i have ordered standing tickets, so it should be ok. 
i am a bit annoyed though. i didnt think they'd be playing uk dates, so i 
was wanting to make a holiday out of it and go see them play abroad. i like 
the idea of a few days in stockholm. but now i have no reason to justify 
spending more money i dont have. YAY! to b&s. BOO! to no holiday. this will 
be the fourth time ill have seen them in the space of a year (barrowlands in 
june(x2), qmu in dec), and i feel a bit greedy. there's people who wont have 
seen them at all, and that makes me feel bad. sorry. :o(

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london village
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i am travelling down to london village on the first weekend in march to 
visit a friend of mine. does anyone in that neck of the woods have any 
suggestions of things to do, places to visit, record shops to plunder? id be 
very appreciatave of any suggestions. also, if anyone would like to meet up 
for a beverage or two, id be happy to oblige. :o) i should be down from 
sat.02/03 til the monday or tuesday.

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america
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nobody (so far) seems to have taken particular offence to my comments. that 
pleases me. i meant no offence by it. well, not to any of you, that is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,642108,00.html is a very good 
comment on the speech, if anyone is still interested.
on my final (honest!) point on this topic, id just like to say this whole 
'not with us is against us' thing seems very mcarthy-esque. if anyone even 
questions the actions of america in this 'war', you're shouted down as that 
automatically commits you to being anti-american, un-democratic, condoning 
of sept.11th. etc. it wouldnt surprise me if the americans started rounding 
up anyone they deem 'un-american' and put them on trial, or even better, 
putting them in cages exposed to the elements, starving them off their 
senses, and denying them the right to a trial at all. in fact..... 
http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patriot/index.asp




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