Blimey, I go away from my computer for two days and there's SO much stuff to respond to. So instead I shall blithely ignore everyone and instead urge as many of you as possible to find out about the utterly fantastic Whistler who(m) I saw at the 13th Note last night. Despite counting one of EMF amongst their number (the "talented" one, as opposed to the one that shoved pineapples up his foreskin or whatever he was alleged to have done, or the cute one, or the other two that no-one can remember - actually I can, but that would make me Carsmile Steve wouldn't it? More than slightly anal etc etc ), they were great. A few of their songs wouldn't have sounded out of place in a Belle and Sebastian set. What better compliment can I give? Go to www.whistler-music.com and hear for yourself. Especially Song About You. I want to go Tigermilkying tonight. I really *was* going to go, but unfortunately I have rent to pay and phone bills to pay and, erm, no job, so I can't. But I'm there with you in spirit, Mark and others, honest I am. You all realise that Mark's promise of real genuine pop stars is based on the fact that the Artist Formerly Known As Carsmile Steve might be popping in for a pint, don't you? I note that not content with nicking my list-crush vote-appeal tactics, Stuart Gardiner has also nicked my "please give me a job" tactics. Has that man no shame? (well, given absinthe-and-adultery shock revelations the other day, I think it's safe to assume he doesn't). Just remember, potential employers. I asked first. And I won't kiss your girlfriend. Onto other matters I gleaned from my thorough read through the posts of the last couple of days: Stu G, list tart extraordinaire, said I should be thankful that I don;t live in Cambridge and that at least I live somewhere with a decent social life. He has evidently never *been* to Paisley :) Saying that, for anyone that has, there is a terrific old man's karaoke bar (full of Jack Duckworth-a-likes singing "Delilah") and the bloke that runs it sings Placebo songs and scares the grannies. I'm going to go there tonight in lieu of Tigermilking. They also have Urusei Yatsura songs in the list of songs you can choose for the karaoke, though to the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever sung them. I'm not joking about this, by the way. The Club Bar, Moss Street, Paisley, if you're ever passing. The Adam said:

Getting back to the subject, i fail to see the point of Celine Dion [or the anti christ as i know her...], besides the multi-million selling brainwashed ballad kind o'thing, i mean is there any artistry at work or merely an advertising budget the size of the Rawandan economy.

Er, isn't *being* multi-million-selling the point of Celine Dion that you are struggling to find? Some people want integrity and to be "4-real", but some people just want oodles of money. And appealing to a lot of people is a pretty easy way of getting it if you have the wherewithal to do it. I'd bloody do it if I had any sort of singing voice at all (I do have a sort of singing voice, it's a dreadful sort). Take Sharon Stone for example, she has an IQ of Mensa-joining proportions but she chose to make her considerable fortune by appearing in Police Academy IV and the Calendar Girl Murders, and not wearing any knickers. And good for her I say. I think we may be getting back to the "is it wrong to be in it for the money" debate, well I say no, it isn't wrong, but I'm still glad some people do what exactly they want to and not just what buys them their latest nose-job. Though maybe to some that *is* more important than artistic integrity, therefore making it what they want to do. Rob then butted in with:

Finally, where are these ubiquitous photos of Ailsa then? I haven't seen any.

Possibly because I am certainly not ubiquitous when cameras get produced. I *am* on the Sinister photo pages, but you have to look through a lot of photos. Needless to say, I am consuming alcohol in said photo. There are some truly dreadful photos of me from Bowlie, I imagine, but thankfully no-one has chosen to subject the world to them. Who said there were photos of me anyway? I missed that. Oh, and was Slow Graffiti really written specifically for the Acid House? I thought it had been around longer than that. Do you get paid shedloads of money if you get commissioned to write a song especially for a film? And where does that leave you in terms of artistic integrity, if you have to write a song to fit in with what the film bods want? DM,C,UK said:

Hmmmmmm, was that you Mark, still peering through that fringe?

So whose fringe was *that* you were peering through then Mark? I said ages ago that the blokey drumming in the Bowlie queue was my old next door neighbour, I just forgot to mention that I used to live next door to Michael from V-Twin. Fat lot of use I am then. Simon from V-Twin (tambourine chap in photo) is from Inverness, you know. Him, and Graham Kemp from Urusei Yatsura, the Inverness pop mafia. Though Jimmy Page used to own Aleister Crowley's old spooky mansion a few miles down the road, just to continue my ability to tie lots of loose ends of threads together. And one of Smokie is from Drumnadrochit. I read in the paper that he's supposed to be playing at the opening of the new Loch Ness Monster Exhibition, but he's stuck in Mongolia where Smokie are bigger than the Beatles (sold 40,000 tickets in one day, there is apparently an 80,000 waiting list for tickets for the same gig). Whereas here they do novelty records with Roy "Chubby" Brown. Fame, eh? It's Friday night, I should have better things to do than this. So I'm going to go and do them. I just don't know what they are yet. Ailsa xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+