Sinister.
I last tried to write a post on the 30th of October, and it looked like
this:
Sinister.
Twice this evening I have heard B&S on the TV. First it was Expectations
and then a few minutes ago TBWTAS.
I don't have anything to say, really. I am at home alone for the first
time since my significant other and I moved in together back in May.
Except I started writing this over a month ago, I am now at home alone
for the second time and I haven't heard B&S at all today.
Third time lucky, it has now been almost two months since I started
writing this, and I don't think I have heard B&S since I started writing
it. As with the last two times I am home alone, this time until Tuesday.
This time, the fourth time, I am home alone but this time only until the
end of the working day. I have not heard B&S again since that first try.
I still don't have much to say. I am now in my third year at university,
and I dislike it as much as ever. I was so pleased and proud and happy
when I applied and got in to uni, especially when I found out I had been
accepted into my first choice. I am not sure what I expected to happen,
or where life would take me next. But I am certainly not where I hoped
or wanted to be. I suppose I am a little disappointed. A lot disappointed.
I liked Joe's post. It is a nice feeling, when you can listen to music
and remember the way it used to make you feel, and maybe even feel that
way again. For this reason, there are many albums I own that I may never
listen to again. I never want that music to be associated with anything
else, and I am afraid that if I listen to them again, and they can't
make me feel the way they used to, that those memories will be tainted
forever. And I'll never have that feeling again.
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Ken
Chu's puns are still inspiring. My enduring memory of Ken is his
legendary cover of Like Dylan in the Movies. And my recital a Mr Men
story to him on #sinister with him not being terribly impressed.
Sinister crushes... sigh.
I should pay a visit to Glasgow. We should have fun.
I'm on facebook somewhere, but you might already know that.
johnjohn
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The email title was a pun on the title of track 5 "The Psychiatrist Is
In", of God Help The girl: Stills EP. Featuring on the cover a rather
pretty photo of one of the God Help The Girl Girls.
Which raises the question you've all secretly asked yourself: Which
GHTGG would you? Cor. Blimey. etc.
I still haven't listened to any of it even though I keep meaning to, and
I missed the performance at the 100 Club - did anyone go? How was it?
Let's see a review? Did Neil Hannon appear?? Did anyone play a fucking
banjo? I want to hear all about it!
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Like Joe: I liked listening to B+S on the bus too - I still do really -
I switched to Daft Punk for a brief while but one time on the way to the
airport, "Aerodynamic" came on I started to air finger-tap an air-guitar
on the air-bus I got stabbed for being a mentalist, and I switched back
to B+S after that - now I just get punched in the face for being a twee
dweeb.
Like Joe: Through sharing of B+S love I have met some cool people too,
and some not cool ones, and some who were cool and then not cool and
some who are cool but weren't cool and whatevs.
I'm glad you have rekindled your B+S fire slightly though. I've heard
from some dude recently who told me how he used to hate The Smiths
because a bunch of wankers liked it, but later on he learnt during a
Take That concert that actually just because a bunch of wankers like
something doesn't mean that it's shit.
Those Glasgow folks are a bunch of dobbers though, to be fair. You
should have moved to London.
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What else?? Oh yeah, it's nearly Christmas. Anyone fancy perhaps
another Sinister Bowling? Sometime between xmas and new year? Email
me.
Red Bulls and Loves,
Ken
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Then there was this one night years ago when we were running away from Hyndland Church Hall, this girl and me. It was ten past eleven and we'd just been to see Sodastream. We were trying to get to Queen Street to get the half past train. She was off to Falkirk, I was going back to the capital. It was the first time I'd met the girl that night, and I'd never see her again in all them years since. For weeks after I wondered what would have happened if we'd never made that train.
The last time I wrote on here I was thinking about why I couldn't listen to Belle and Sebastian any more without getting a wee bit miserable, or maudlin at least, cause it made me think of the times gone by when I used to listen to them. So then a few weeks back I went into the His Master's Voice shop for something to do at lunchtime, cause there's fuck all point in sitting in the office all day. And I seen that they were doing a two CDs for a tenner deal, like they do sometimes in these places. I was looking around these CDs and the Belle and Sebastian BBC sessions CD was one of them. And I thought there was a couple of songs on there I'd not heard for years, so I decided to get it. And I'd never got round to buying Dear Catastrophe Waitress at the time, so I got that too.
Thing was, at first Belle and Sebastian was all about me listening to them on the bus, on tapes on my old walkman, going back and forward up the town. And there was something special about that. Then after a while of that it became very special to meet other folks who were into that too. But then it became about people and it felt like all them that I got in touch with through listening to this band became too cool to talk about listening to this band with. I got fed up with that, so I stopped listening to them. I couldn't be fucked with all this coolness, all this daft Glasgow shit. I'd moved to Glasgow because of meeting these folk, but the way it turned out pissed me off. And the way they'd made their own cliques, these folk who were all about not being cool, pissed me off even more.
So I picked up the BBC Sessions thing and Dear Catasptrophe Waitress. The missus had already bought The Life Pursuit when it came out, but I'd never listened to it. The BBC thing was all just nostalgia again. Oddly enough, that was especially how I felt on the last few tracks, the ones from 2001. I hadn't heard them since that time, maybe even since the Barrowlands. But Dear Catatstrophe Waitress sounded new to me. And it felt like them old times. It sounded like fantastic music that I'd never heard before. I'd heard bits of it at the time and thought it was shit, but maybe that was how I was then. But this made me feel a wee bit like I'd felt all them year back when I'd listened to the old albums. And that was odd. But it made me think that there was maybe something good about that band. It was nice to feel like that again.
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