At long last, here is my ink polaroid: This was taken on Saturday at
Brackenridge Park. Boyfriendish Ian sits on a white carousel horse whose
saddle is decorated with stars. His decision to sit on this particular
horse, on the outside circle of horses on the carousel, was a result of
my horse choice: a white filly with charcoal mane and tail. Her head is
reared triumphantly, her saddle blanket striped. All you can see in the
picture is the back of my head and shoulders, but my alert body posture
and tipped head lets you know that I'm smiling, maybe even laughing,
under the shade of the carousel. A backlit Ian rests his head against
the pole, smiling with his mouth closed in the sun. He looks rather
handsome in his blue Yo La Tengo shirt and khaki pants. One hand is
wrapped around the pole, above his head. The other rests on his knee.
Behind him is a crowd of people wandering through the park, going to the
paddle boats, to feed the ducks, to ride the train or the skylift, or to
visit the zoo. All of these anonymous folk look strangely happy, very
beautiful. Looking at this print, you can't help but feel a trememdous
sense of well-being.
Enough mush.
I have to write a lot of final papers. Ick.
Love,
Kristen
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Just in case any of you Londoners didn't know, Douglas Coupland is doing a
reading/signing thing at Books Etc on Charing Cross Road on Monday evening
next week at 6.30pm. There are no seats left, but apparently we can stand
at the back.
If any of you need more persuading to read this book (did you see Tom
Paulin on Late Review?), it really is one of the most inspiring books I
have ever read. It is Atlas Shrugged for cool kids.
It also contains (aside from the twenty or so Smiths references) the very
first Belle and Sebastian reference in a work of literature. Towards the
end, Jared the ghost tells of how he used to jog around the streets in his
terry underwear. Or is this just a coincidence?
Anyway, when you have finished reading it, you will believe again that the
world can be a better place. Which is always nice to know.
Lots of love
DAVID-not-ruth
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Umm, after almost a week away and a fistful of digests I was kind of hoping
to have lots of things to reply to, but don't have too many. I would,
however, like to say that we are not all hopelessly wet and sad, or whatever
it was that dry and happy fellow said while signing off. I suspect *some* of
us are hopelessly wet and sad, and all the better for it.
Mister Miller said:
>Chris is in good company, just
>look at this list:
>Andrew Dean, Michael Roddddddd from Screen Test, Lenny Henry, Jesse
James,
>Ben Elton, Elton John, Rodddddddd Stewart and George Michael.
>Mitchell Fraser, on the other hand, is a member of a much more
exclusive
>club:
>Wilkie Collins and, erm, Brad Pitt.
I am in a state of consternation. Is All Creatures Great And Small star
Christopher Timothy a 'two surnames' or a 'two forenames' fellow? Does
famous 'statesman' Warren Christopher have the distinction of haveing a
forename and a surname, but in the wrong order?
Mr and Mrs James must have had a fetish for this sort of thing, since their
other son was named Frank, after Anne, one supposes. But Frank James is a
double surname while Jesse James is a double forename. Hmmm. What's more,
Jesse was shot in the back by another double surname, Charles Ford. If only
the Fords had had the foresight to name their other son Robertson rather
than Robert, the whole thing would have been perfect.
Miller also wrote:
>Horace Andy feels like a bit of a letdown. So my question for
reggae-ologists
>everywhere is: What could possibly top Yabby You and The Congos?
Which Horace LP is it, Petey? If It's the Blood and Fire one, then I would
tend to agree that it's not his best. Try 'Dancehall Style', his showcase LP
on Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes's Wackies label. The very best reggae LP ever
to come out of the US, I contend.
For the record, if it's deep roots reggae you're after, some of my
favourites are:
Prince Far-I: Under Heavy Manners (Joe Gibbs)
Big Youth: Dreadlocks Dread (Virgin) and 'Screaming Target' (Trojan)
Heptones 'Party Time' (Island)
Culture 'Two Sevens Clash' (Joe Gibbs).
Upsetters: 'Open The Gate' (Trojan), 'Super Ape' (Island)
Jacob Miller 'Who Say Jah No Dread' (Greensleeves)
These are all well-known classics, dead cert bankers. If you ask me.
Blood and Fire squire Steve Barrow reckons that the best reggae LP in the
world ever is 'Songbook' by Bob Andy (Studio One), and that's a fairly good
call, I say. Don't even think about buying the Studio One CD reissue though,
since it has been reissued with lots of nice nineties keyboard overdubs.
Which is like opening a ?10,000 bottle of wine to cook with.
I bought the brilliant 'Flash Forward' by Cedric 'IM' Brooks at the weekend,
which is an unimaginably beautiful instrumental reggae LP on Studio One.
Oooh, gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
Um, what else? Travelled from Rugby to Lincoln at the weekend in search of a
football game which never was. Arse. However, the good folk of Lincoln are
clearly poltroons (or perhaps spend their time in awe at the beauty of their
admittedly very beautiful cathedral) since the town seems to have record
shops which are stuffed with bargains which, in any true civilisation, would
have been snapped up long before. I even found a copy of 'Introducing Jane',
a 1990 single by The DeBuchias (featuring Johnny Dangerously), after which I
had been lusting for, well, 8 years. The cost? 20 new pence. Weird.
Anyway, in search of football, I moved on to Nottingham, which was good in
so far as it enabled me to visit yet more fantastic record shops.
Selectadisc came up trumps for me again by purveying not only the
aforementioned Cedric Brooks LP but also (for 50p) a copy of Marlin Greene's
mystical country rock masterpiece 'Tiptoe Past The Dragon'. Including the
original lyric sheet.
The point of all this, you ask? Well, none really except to ask for your
opinion on the following conundrum....is it strange that, when I visit a new
place I always seem to find piles of amazing record bargains which never
turn up in NW Lancs? Or am I the only person in the world with such bad
taste? As such have I just purchased all the rubbish from the local record
shops, leaving the shopkeepers rubbing their hands in astonished glee at the
happy faced Hopkins walking out having paid for unsaleable crap?
Answers on an ink polaroid please.
The other point is to send a message to the list which does not insult Petey
Miller. He says that we're not having an affair. I still think we have a
chance at happiness, given a lot of hard work.
Ta ra
tim
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Hello~ My pal on the earth.
I tell you how much I earned in city of LOST ANGELS?
"2 sodas"
< Alicia in Clueless >
As if!!
< /Alicia in Clueless >
We flew to LA with my band "MittoChill" (I play drums.But we broke last Sat).
I asked my girl friend lives in Dallas to come and play with us. She said
Cool! We played in "The Smell" like, all ages club. Soda is not this club's
fault. ( You know Ara! I really like this club even toilet in here never
flashed. ) I think we could get MONEY if we played in "Space land" or the
other clubs. But my girl friend played last year, the system or law for under
21 was irritate us soooooo much. As you know, law in CA was totally bugged. My
19 years old lovely girl friend can't get in to the club even she's gonna play
in this club tonight!!
This is distinction is just coming from the alcohol ? Shaiten!!
So, CA state doesn't want bands to debut under 21? Nobody can interrupted us
to express ourselves.
Agree with me all musician!?
AyaXX
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There is one position I am found in most often--laying on my back, on my bed,
reading. Inert, yet with a mind moving twice as fast as the body ever could.
I had left the _Dog on Wheels_ ep on repeat; the words on the page were
glanced under the eyes' sight, then passed over in pursuit of the next line,
the next paragraph. Madeline the cat curled herself into the folds of the
blanket; she likes to be near me. Listening to the ep I remembered listening
to those songs on a train to the sea, to Dover and its cliffs. I had
concentrated on the music more intently that morning, to ignore the people in
the seats behind me. The book was set down; I had lost myself again,
recalling looking out the train windows, at fields and spires, at the blur of
the journey itself. Taking a cue from Madeline, I closed my eyes for a
minute. An hour later, the music still playing, I woke to the telephone ring
and my mother saying "He did!". Yes, I did--I had slept late and was not at
the train station to pick up my father. As I tied my shoes and picked myself
off the bed and off my back, I noticed Madeline had left my bed. Cats never
stay with you when the trouble comes.
Living and loving
Matthew
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Don't feel bad for not developing into a clarinet player. i've busted my
ass for several years and even got to play with the University of Texas
Symphony band, but i've made exactly $35 in my whole career by playing at a
church i'm not even a member of one Easter. That bought a box and a half
of reeds.
Other than that, I've been playing acoustic guitar for over 2 years and
when i try to get with a band, I STILL don't have any credibility. Austin
isn't exactly the hot bed for B&S type bands. I might try being a singer
or something, but there are 5 million of those around here, too.
s.s.
oh yeah, I read the digest which makes me too lazy to cut and post the
original message.
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Umm...Hello
today was strange.
having planned to get up at 9 am, to go and work in the library so i don't
get thrown off my course, I rose at half one. The dissapointment of
missing out on a fabulous career was not apparent to others living in my
home, as they had all buggered off, so I had a shower, only I forgot, or
subconsciously chose not to shave , as I can't remember making any sort
of decision about it.
It was sunny, so I took my dog for a walk, choosing today to go up
arthur's seat instead of round the meadows, as usual, coz it's starting to
get boring. As I entered hollyrood park, it started snowing, but it was
still sunny? As i was wearing a coat i kept going and, forgetting how
unfit I am started to climb the beast, in what seemed like a blizzard, got
allmost to the top, sweating a bit, too many clothes, listening to
stereolab, stopped.
The veiw was amazing, I could see loads of fife, lots of mountains with
snowy tops, easter road (eugh), north berwick law, the bass rock, my
house, it was beautiful, then i realised my dog had pissed off, but I
found her again, and we went ome with a smile on my face, inside at least,
and her tongue hanging out.
Library tomorrow.
On the subject of people with 2 surnames, when I was about 6 i had a
freind called Campbell Steele, as my name is colin campbell, we decided
that if we ever got married he would be called campbell campbell!
cool, huh.
sorry, but I need to post at some point in my life.
colin, alternatively known
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hey everybody. does anyone know all the lyrics to "she's losing it?"
and is it about a girl who's just losing control in her life?
eskim
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a message for you all from mick cooke (trumpet in b&s!), i hope some of
you can attend as his gigs are always fun no matter which band he's
playing with :)
david
Thanks for the insight into the cds. i'll look for your
suggestions as soon as possible -
-angela
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