There's a train outside making a very weird noise.  Kind of like wind whistling down a tunnel.  Only there isn't a tunnel....

Ian Rivamonte said that Tim Booth of James is no more!  But the black armbands are premature, for he has merely quit the band.  I seem to remember somebody on a message board somewhere commenting in response to my expressing disappointment with the last Durutti Column album by saying that there was only so much Vini which you needed.  Well, I think there's only so much James which you need.  "Ring the Bells", "Come Home"...I almost said "Sit Down", but then shuddered when I remembered *just how much* it was played when I was a stoodie, and how some people would always take the lyrics literally.  Usually when I was walking towards them with a pint in my hand.....

My cousin Tim met Tim Booth in Manchester once.  E-mail has that wonderful attribute of shielding you from sarky "Is that interesting"s?.  For a while, at least. 

I also had the shock of my life yesterday when I got an e-mail from someone called Kate who had remmbered me going on about how I liked Paris Angels (again on a message board, I really must be careful how I put myself about) asking me if I knew where she could get a copy of their album, Sundew.  Unfortunately, all could think of was to tape my copy, which being on a tape which is ten years old has a bit which goes BLOOOR.  Fortunately, and not at all typically, it then starts playing again normally and isn't just a precursor of a sudden halt and the extraction of a thin brown concertina from the stereo.  Unfortunately, the Wendys "Gobbledegook" album, of similar vintage which I thought I'd send her as a bonus sounds very strange indeed, far stranger than it did when purchased, and so she'll have to settle for New Fads'  "Love it All" instead. 

I loved Robin Stout's bit about office life...I can really identify with it.  One of my colleagues has taken it upon himself to order all our stationery and so we call him the Stationery Master.  A huge box of his purchases turned up whilst he was on holiday and so he returned to find a box with "Thank you for Shopping at Fetish City" on on side and "Contains Live Animals: Do Not Eat" on the other.  He took great delight in finding out that the Stationery catalogue contained decidely non-clerical items (tubes of Pringles, for example) but I pointed out that his order for these would be unlikely to get past Management.

[quick look round]

Can't see anyone who looks like Ricky Jervais though.....


Mark.

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