POLICEMAN! That uniform is excellent. Sorry, TJR was quoting Yummy Fur lyrics and I couldn't help but do the same. I know, I know, if he jumped in a river etc etc. Now, call me observant, but I've noticed the fashionable thing to do round these parts is to put little headings in your post. Who am I to go against the grain? PORTUGUESE I put one of those Portuguese messages into the translation thingy at babelfish.altavista.com and it came out with this: How it will be tomorrow? It had, certain time, a very wise man. It was capable to answer all the questions that they were made to it. Its fame spreads for all the neighbouring regions e of very far they came people to consider questions and problems to it. Sergio liveed in the same city a called boy. This boy, when the time of the birds arrived to make its nests and to create its younglings, the nests were capable of discovered all of that region. He was xactly at a time thus, that it decided to look to the old scholar and to make a question to it. But, this question, would have of to be most difficult of all. It would make with that the scholar errasse ba reply. E planned following: I go to present itself to the hidden scholar leading in my hand a youngling of bird. When it will be ahead of it, I will extend my closed hand and I will ask: " What I am hiding in my hand " If it to say me: " a youngling Does that make sense to anyone? TINDERSTICKS The new album is quite different to curtains/second album. It's a little more upbeat, with slightly shorter songs. The main thing that I like about the new one is its *soulfullness*. Lots of soul backing vocals and a kind of middle-of-the-road feel to the arrangements (that's not as bad a thing as it sounds, honestly). It's not as different from the previous two albums as the first album, but it's more of a progression. Still a band to die for, if you ask me. TOM WAITS Anyone heard Blue Valentine by Tom Waits. Not *that* is a fucking magnificent album. My previous favourite of his was Frank's Wild Years which is completely mental. Blue Valentine is more sane, but more moving. SHYNESS Don't worry 'bout shyness. Come to the picnic. It'll be lovely. Like I said last time, if anyone wants a quiet drink on Friday, get in touch. Actually, it might not be that quiet, but still. BELLE & SEBASTIAN (sarcasm) NME taking the piss out of B&S? How dare they? (end sarcasm) Now don't get me wrong, B&S are one of my favourite bands ever, but if anyone deserves a bit of piss-taking, surely it's them. Or the Tindersticks. Or any of my other favourite bands for that matter. In fact, any band who doesn't deserve a piss-take doesn't deserve to exist. Take the Stereophonics for example, how exactly would you go about taking the piss out of a band who are so DULL? HOLIDAYS See you in a week. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+