Yesterday morning I gave in--to the subversive cuteness of those Beanie
Babies stuffed animals. You can hold one of their soft, floppy bodies in the
palm of your hand, but the animals scream, "Buy, buy, buy!" in a cacophonous
chorus from the shelves of stores. So, I bought; I bought a tiger. I named
him Stuart David, in honour of, um, Stuart David. My Stuart D. sits on my
shoulder and is being trained to speak. (The cats do keep me company in the
castle, but do not hold conversations well). His first words were said in the
spirit of his namesake: "Stuffed animals are for poofs." I was so delighted
to hear him speak I ignored his sentiment. In a week or two I will give him a
pen, for him to write me my own Ink Polaroids; my Stuart is not allowed to
have a "special box". Stuart D. is now sitting on the computer monitor,
waiting to pounce upon me if I type anything without the proper amount of
irony, sarcasm, and general ill humour. "Unmitigated adoration is for poofs,"
my Stuart D. told me. (I am able to write this now because he is taking a wee
nap.)
Saturday morning. I opened the window blinds to see the heavens falling from
the sky, in the guise of snowflakes, covering the ugliness and despair of the
working week I have just left behind me. I laid in bed, sipping tea, watching
the snow descend so delicately. I thought of living moments. Myself
observing the snow. The quickly pulsing beat at the end of "You Made Me
Forget My Dreams". The mighty yelp before the instruments race towards the
ending of the radio session of "Lazy Line Painter Jane". The boom of the
drums during the chorus of "Photo Jenny". Oh, and so much more. Life is not
necessarily meant to be epic, in the grand sense of the word, but perhaps
epic, in the beauty of every day.
My Stuart D. once said, "Beauty is for poofs". Ah, Stuart D., you have a lot
to learn.
Living and loving
Matthew
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howdy....
ok, so sorry for abusing the list in this oh-so-gratituos way - but
LAUREL/PYTHIA what the hell is your email address? i tried to emails
the Pythia Rap to you four times last night and got a poor ickle failed
mail each time! oh so not fair!
and i've just spoken to someone to someone i met at the mansun gig who
is on guest list to see Spiritualized on Monday. And its not fair as I
REALLY want to go!!! But its in bradford, and I am in preston.
Apparently the guest list isn't full up yet, but sadly theres no way i
could get to Bradford... :o_ _ _((((((
sad star. oh and i'm listening to laydeez and gentlefolks now. oh the
pain. oh the sadness. i may weep.
then again, this really lovely lad i know has jst bought Ladies and
Gentlemen...only thing is...he doesn't know i exist except for a few
minutes and in those minutes he probably wishes that i didn't....well,
he's scum anyway, he`s a male....but why does he have to be sweet and
senstive? but he`s such a moody get as well....ah fuck him is what i
say.
anyway - i must go now as i am halfway through cleaning the bathroom. i
wish i was lying. the high point of my saturday has already gone!!! that
would have been watching Robbie Williams on live and kicking.
Robbie is funny, Mark is cute, Gary is a twat, and Howard and Jason are
doing Simon and Garfunkel covers in Newport-pagnell (a place which
verily does define the word ROCK! i think, i have unfortunately never
been there).
Dearie me. *thinks* must justify this post by mentioning B&S somehow....
ok then. can i just point out i have a digest waiting which won't come
through??? annoying gubbins indeed. does stuart david read these? i
wonder, well he may gather that i am not his biggest fan apres all this
time. i ean, i still love B&S and Stu is probably nicer all in all, but
anyway, who cares what i think?? is my opinion relevant to fuck all? no.
i really do hate living here by the way, i am sure there are mmore
enjoyable places.
I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!
Sarah starryone!
"Gosh, life is too much..."
--Donovan
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First up, the answers to those anagrams:-
1) hot rum custard = Stuart Murdoch
2) Bogart germ tract = Robert McTaggart
3) hot senses erupt = Stephen Trousse
4) lethal lip cum = Honey
5) avid art stud = Stuart David
6) a shot Ukraine = Katrina House
7) I mock coke = Mick Cooke
8) ample bible cellos = Isobel Campbell
And finally I have enough problems for my slot (well, no I don't so I *have*
made some up)
Dear Aunty,
I want to buy the soundtrack to Jackie Brown but I want to give the
impression that I've always been into that kind of music, and anyone who
hasn't is an arsehole.
What should I do?
Bobby Chariot
Dear Bobby,
It seems from your letter, that you're just trying to buy into 'cool' and
perhaps not interested in the music at all.
Trying to bluff being 'into' something aint easy as you'll soon find yourself in
deep water with a real fan and end up looking like a twat.
It is distinctly better to achieve credibility, not by being into something but
OVER it. When the subject of early 70's black soul is brought up in
conversation, simply apply any of the following phrases to attain instant
coolness:
'Used to play that stuff all the time. Liked it at first but take
it from me, after a while you get bored of it.'
'Sold all those records years ago and exchanged them for something decent.'
'Oh god , not YOU as well, seems the whole worlds suddenly into soft soul. I'm
glad I'm over that phase.'
Alternatively Bobby, don't be such a sap. Trying to keep up with the trends at
your age is just laughable. Give it up.
Susannah, i have a problem. i talk too much shite
Sarah.
Sarah, I can't say I haven't noticed, but don't we all?
As long as you don't start typing 'peace man' at the end of your posts you'll be
alright.
Dear Aunty,
I find Keith Watson devillishly attractive and I wish to "make love" to him.
The trouble is, I don't know whether he is gay, bisexual, homosexual or
"straight".
How can I find out without resorting to idle speculation?
Frustrated, Brighton.
Right. If you don't want to mess about with the softly softly approach to this
you've just got to get right on in there I'm afraid.
Suggest a late night walk in Kelvingrove Park to 'see the stars' and then take
him up the arse. He'll see stars all right.
Sorted.
Dear Aunty,
I am an arrogant miserable wanker and whats more, I relish it. Wheres the
problem with that?
Anon, Glasgow.
Well, there's nothing inherently *wrong* with that except like attracts like and
anyone who isn't a wanker themselves will be quickly repelled. So unless you
wish to spend your life in social isolation, which come to think of it is maybe
the best thing for you, you've got to sharpen up your image. Practice by
repeating a hundred times 'I want to have your babies'.
Thats all for now.
xx
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Good Bok recommendations: Tibor Fischer -" The Thought Gang" is an
excellent book also anything by Loius de Bernieres ( I think that's how
you spell it).
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In a message dated 98-03-13 11:27:40 EST, you write:
<< There is nothing interesting about the music, lives or personal mores of
the like of George Jones, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson. Ernest Tubb,
Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Jeff
Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Dolly Parton, Iris DeMent, Junior Brown,
Alison Kraus, David Munyon, Richard Buckner and loads of other n'er do
owts. >>
turt is bang on here. you can find records by these people most of the time
for really cheap, and if you'll listen, they will change you. as far as new
stuff, the saddest songs I've heard in a while are being done by a "band"
called Songs:Ohia. Songs and emotions that sound like they are from a long
time ago. acoustic guitar, brush drums sometimes, sax occasionally,
heartbreaking vocals. they have a couple of records on Secretly Canadian.
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Dear lovelies,
I just read some of the chat....aaaa Stuart David,he seems like he would bite!
Oh well,first time hmmmmm...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Portishead WAS SO GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD! it really was
amazing... I want to be a dj when I grow up! The opening dj was so good and
the big screen with all the trancey purple bubbles going by..
And Beth was so beautiful voice perfect and fragile..it looked like a strong
gust of wind might blow her away,the crowd..for the first time I didn't get
any bones broken! I could actually move...and move i did,oh Over was so good
when that huge dark bit comes in I just wanted to slam myself across the
room....AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!Geoff ...those hands moving across the
vinyl!!!!'to hold you,enfold you never enough render your heart to me
*siiiiiigh* all mine you have to be....'
and beth used my lighter to light cigarette and she said thankyou i didn't
know what else to say so i'm just like 'beth you rock!' and she smiled...she
really is sweet and shy..not this cold nasty person some people make her out
to be....
there was a rather sour turn at the end of the night,but it had nothing to
do with the band..grrrrrr....damn him.. (oh and the hipsters there!'avid art
studs' of all kinds! Hair out to there,flares miles wide...eyeliner out to
there,big glasses n fishnets..and there i was huddeled in my lil corduroy
pants while all these glamazons swagger by...didn't exactly match them!)
but i get some lovely photos we weren't allowed but i am short and silly(?)
so security think i'm innocent so they search the OTHERS hee hee...
AH! B&S dream...
I was sitting in a theatre watching a documentary on Stuart Murdoch,he was
very tall and it showed him in plaid shirts walking down beaches and
skipping stones,I kept going "stuart stuart you're the only one who
understands me" and people kept hushing me..anyways after that came the Dog
On Wheels video which consisted of fast moving,awe inspiring shots of land
(from above,like shot in a helicoptre) and great rivers except at the very
end of the video it was just shots of lots of sad homeless starving looking
puppies...as i walked out,this tall chin length blondish hair boy wearing
silver rings and quite cuddly muddly stopped me to talk about B&S when
suddenlt some girl appears and he starts kissing her and I feel quite
uncomfortable so I run off and he's like 'Where you going!'
and then I dunno..I'm walking along some desert like place with train tracks
and I see my friends wave me over and I try and ignore her and then she says
something but I take it as something insane cos I'm usually very
mild-mannered cos I went
crazy and started throwing rocks at her mother's head and they mad me get in
the van with them and we are arguing and my friend said soemthing like
'FINE! GO BACK TO YOUR BELLE AND SEBASTIAN THEN!' so I jump out of the
van,and magically I am somewhere else,and this guy (this other friend) is
leaving somewhere and I'm like 'oh I'll walk you there' and for some reason
my mom appear and she's like 'Oh! *wink* yes,I understand you can WALK with
him' and she thinks she is helping me cos she thinks I want to get this boy
alone and i'm like 'no it's not like that' and i start running and i'm back
at those dusty traintracks and suddenly i realize i'm all alone...
can i send actual money to jeepster (it would be in pounds!) or is it only
cheques?my friend told me that if you are here and you send a cheque there
there is a very high transaction cost or something? is this true?
xoxoxo
Genevieve
'...should i feel a moment with you
to softly whisper
I crave nothing else so much..'
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>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:25:54 +0000
>From: Neil Hargreaves <9607129h(a)student.gla.ac.uk>
>Subject: Sinister: I need your help
>
>OK guys.... what should I do....
>
>Last night (the 11th) I'm walking back from seeing Steve Coogan at
>the Royal Concert Hall. It's not bad. Then this guy comes up to me.
>he is Australian and smoking a menthol fag....
>
>Here mate- he says- I've got this flatmate and she's seen you around
>town around three times. And she's just chickened off down the road
>OK?
>Me: (kinda worried ina nice way) OK
>Well what I'm going to do is give you her phone number and mayve you
>can call her. Her names Natalie....
>
>So I took the number. Now I *know* I would never forgive myself if i
>didn't make the call. But how? When?
>And what do I say do I arrange to meet? Where? And what if (gulp) we
>meet and I really don't like her....
>
>On the plus side the guy seemed really nice so she can't be that
>bad....
>
>This is the most Belle and Sebastian thing that has ever happened to
>me.... And my love life really does need sorting out....
>
>Yours,
>(belatedly pornstarnammed)
>Pipkin McMillan
oh you sweet and delicate soul!!! yes call her and who cares what you
say,just make sure you do call....cos one day I guarantee a crowd will part
that you have been walking from... and you will see this lovely one,all
freespirited and sexy and touseled and lovely on a bench,and yes right in
front of you! But what's that...ahhh! alas there is someone else curled up
under the lovely ones arm..jsut because you
didn't...make...that....damn...call....
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<< 2. Could someone reccomend some really sad and slow country? >>
Assuming I've interpreted your idea of "country" as music and not
land-mass correctly, you may want to try Lambchop, Palace, Silver
Jews, Vic Chesnutt and/or Smog which are the closest interesting
music gets to being country (in my opinionated opinion).
John
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hey.
this talk of new order got me to remember something.
i have always, always wanted to hear a band cover thieves like us. does
anyone know if anyone has. i tried to in my last band but it was such a
pain trying to teach everyone everything i said fuck it.
but, in my opinion, thieves like us is one of the top ten best songs
ever by anyone.
still flooded,
-brad
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Oh, I can second the vote on "A Prayer For Owen Meany! " It is a wonderful
wonderful book -- with that magical shimmer...
Another couple of books I liked a lot recently were "The Book of Ruth" by Jane
Hamilton. Can be very brutal and heartbreaking sometimes, but beautifully
written.
"The Rapture of Canaan" by Sheri Reynolds was also really good. Yeah, now I
think, these are pretty B&S... kind of moments
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