Sinister: Chuffing in the silence (between laughter tracks)

[FP]

Hello there,

Gosh, Sinister Action.  People posting once more.  It almost tempted
me to throw an oar or something in Sinister's direction.

The Pinefox recently said that he's not in a sitcom.  I was slightly
disappointed.  A Pinefox-based sitcom would be excellent BBC4
material; I can easily imagine 6 episodes of the Pinefox getting into
classic comedy scrapes.  Episode 1: the Pinefox mislays his favourite
purple jumper.  Episode 2: something involving shocking indiepop
gossip.  The season would culminate in a struggle for control of the
North London James Joyce Society (Correspondance Committee), with a
Comedy Nemesis introduced earlier in the series.  Are there any
commissioning editors on Sinister any more?

(I should add - because it confused people the last time I posted -
that there's no connection or intentional name-similarity between me
and the Pinefox.  I stole my name from a hotel-cum-golf-club-cum-spa
just outside Scunthorpe.  A lovely part of the world, beautiful when
the fires of the steelworks light up the night sky, blighted only by
the fact that it is now represented in the European Parliament by a
former National Front member who was also a self-professed National
Socialist.  Not a good reflection on the region.)

On the subject of telly, why hasn't anyone suggested a B&S sitcom?
That would work quite well, if we could imagine them all living in a
giant shared house a la The Monkees.  There could be a running joke
about Sarah's Englishness; and portraits of Isobel and Stu D looking
down on the living-room,* positioned so that when someone was standing
in the main "giving a speech" spot on the set, the two former members
look down on them like angel and demon on the shoulder.  The band
themselves should choose which would be which.  Alasdair Gray would
hopefully be willing to play their upstairs neighbour, a bearded
artist in smock and beret who regularly gets annoyed at the noise
coming from downstairs.

I wonder where that "angel and demon on the shoulder" trope
originates.  Everything in iconography originates somewhere - the
Christian halo, for example, comes from depictions of the Unconquered
Sun, from the Roman cult of the same name.  Of course, you probably
all already know that; it's hardly an obscure fact.  Angels and demons
(not the book or film) are presumably a little more obscure.

Someone also mentioned Camera Obscura recently.  I've been out of the
loop a bit recently, but I *assume* Sturan is still intimately
associated with T. Campbell of that ilk.  Given CO are playing
Indietracks this year, it would be nice to get Sturan, a camera, and a
big hulking great steam engine in close proximity.  I've only been to
the Christmas Indietracks - that time that the King of Partick did a
DJ set in the brake carriage, setting up that whole CO-Indietracks
relationship - but I did manage to get on the footplate of one of
their engines, the unique British Rail Standard 5 with Caprotti valve
gear.  I'm glad I did, because it was bloody cold on the platform and
toasty-warm on the footplate.  Not being a trainspotter, I forget the
number of the thing.  The ATP people are missing a trick now they're
over at Minehead, if you ask me; they should be calling up the WSR and
get some sort of Great Western Indietracks Rip-Off Event going.  The
WSR goes right past Butlin's after all.

That's all from me for now: I even managed to get some B&S-related
content in.  Let me know if there's any part of this post you didn't
understand.

-- 
- FP
- http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/
-- 


* much as, if you go to the Granada TV studios in Manchester, they
have a haunting painting of Tony Wilson, in stark but touching
black-and-white outline, overlooking the reception desk.
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