Dear S,
The man who lives across the street has thick spectacles, a small paunch and
a library of books which pattern the walls of his study with multicoloured
stripes. He curls up by the record player and wiggles his toes in those
thick woollen socks. He has to open the windows to stop them steaming up in
this weather, and the sound of The Life Pursuit slinks over the sill and
dances in my bedroom. I've only heard a few of the songs, but they sound
good to me. Sukie in the Graveyard is my favourite of the ones I've heard.
It's everything that's good about the modern Murdoch sound!
I'm not too sure about the lyrics, but I'll try my best. I know you won't be
able to hear it for a while, but maybe you can sing it as you float high
seeking those tropical winds.
Although you're so small,
You're very well read,
Touching the names and the dates of the dead.
Leaving your trail,
To glisten in the sun,
A snail in the graveyard, you couldn't have more fun.
*Instrumental - Stevie "Adverb" Jackson tugs his todger, accompanied by the
sound of an asthmatic sparrow chirruping in a paper bag*
You curl up in my slipper,
Hiding in your shell,
You may be warm but it ain't so swell,
For me. If I want,
To warm up my toes,
I'll have to take you home to the mossy headstones.
*Long and absurd outro on an organ pumped by a big bottomed nun*
Isn't it great?!
Did you get much for Christmas? It was sort of quiet in Stout Heights. I
only got one card: a dainty letter from Oscar Wilde, scented like a pink
hampster and full of the most silly words. I think he makes half of them up
just to sound clever. The girls came round and pulled the cats' tails. Wendy
asked me "why did the skeleton cross the road?", and I, playing the funny
uncle, said "to buy some more bones?". "Yes", she said. "Are you sure?"
"Yes!" And that was that! I think she needs to brush up on her joke-telling
skills!
My sister bought me a letter-writing set, so I can write to you more often.
I promise to do it more than I have. The pigeon's name is Trevor, by the
way. He knows his way home well enough. Just feed him an acorn and send him
on his way.
Robin x
PS: I've hidden something special under the postage stamp, so peel it back
carefully if you don't mind being SPOILED! Where is it? At the bottom of the
letter of course, just keep on going...
*small spoiler ahead*
Although it's a few weeks
until the new album arrives,
the lyrics to the songs
have already been put on
the belle and sebastian
website. When your balloon
finally lands, try looking
at www.belleandsebastian.com
I'd post the full address but
there simply isn't room
under this stamp...
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The 1980s xmas classic playing over the utter
stillness of the figures in the Rotary Club's Nativity
display: surrealism, almost beyond Phoenix Nights.
What most interests me this time in Wilde's Complete
Letters: his gradual assumption of command at the
Lady's World, henceforth Woman's World. A gender
politics in the change of name and in his insistences
about content - yet what a strange class politics
endures in his repeated lists of contributors! 'The
Princess Christian, Lady Portsmouth, Miss Thackeray,
Mrs Francis Jeune, Lady Meath, Lady Wentworth, Mrs
Fawcett, Mrs Craik, and others have promised to
write...'!
The tender gothics who gather still outside the ghost
of their favourite record shop, as if drawn to its
absence - or rather, as though coming to realize it
was always an excuse for them to gather here.
'Santa in red', writes Robert Lowell in 'Christmas Eve
Under Hooker's Statue', 'Is crowned with wizened
berries'.
Poignancy of the department store - whose structure
makes me wonder if it is a direct evolution from the
simple idea of a market with different stalls -
classy, yet uncrowded while lesser shops teem.
Taking Sides: 'One More Time' vs 'A Thousand Hours'.
How bog standard to see Ross and Gervais, I mean,
Greavsie, trying to make something unfunny funny, and
falling into the gutter. Yet the next night Coogan and
Brydon rise above the trashy interlocutor and the dull
smut, and as they compete with each other's
impressions a warm, clever comedy flies marvellously
free.
They no doubt rightly say that the iPod can make music
newly unpredictable. But so on occasion can our old
chum the old tape. I stick on my 1990 round-up and
wait. Radio highlights of England vs Germany... the
crowd noise drifting into that announcing Dylan,
singing 'Forever Young' in Hammersmith... and that of
the Glastonbury folk as the Cure launch 'Just Like
Heaven'. 'I Won', less than a year old; Adam Ant's
final February hit 'Room at the Top'; 'The King of
Wishful Thinking'. 'A New England' reminds me how late
I discovered so much; perhaps my sense of my own
experience pop history has been planed down to agree
more than once it did with pop history itself.
'Outside, the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs
shone smokily through the tranquil rain. It was late
afternoon and the streets were in movement; the
bistros gleamed. At the corner of the Boulevard des
Capucines he took a taxi. The Place de la Concorde
moved by in pink majesty.... Charlie directed his taxi
to the Avenue de l'Opera, which was out of his way.
But he wanted to see the blue hour spread over the
magnificent facade, and imagine that the cab horns,
playing endlessly the first few bars of Le Plus que
Lent, were the trumpets of the Second Empire'.
Merry Christmas, sinister!
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5 September 1868
Portora School
Darling Mama,
The hamper came today, I never got such a jolly
surprise, many thanks for it, it was more than kind of
you to think of it. The grapes and pears are delicious
and so cooling, but the blancmange got a little sour,
I suppose by the knocking about, but the rest came all
safe.
Don't forget please to send me the National Review, is
it not issued today?
The flannel shirts you sent in the hamper are both
Willie's, mine are one quite scarlet and the other
lilac, but it is too early to wear them yet, the
weather is so hot.
We went down to the horrid regatta on Thursday last.
It was very jolly. There was a yacht race.
You never told me anything about the publisher in
Glasgow. What does he say and have you written to Aunt
Warren on the green note paper?
We played the officers of the 27th Regiment now
stationed in Enniskillen, a few days ago and beat them
hollow by about seventy runs.
You may imagine my delight this morning when I got
Papa's letter saying he had sent a hamper.
[illustration: 'Ye delight of ye two boys at ye hamper
and ye sorrow of ye hamperless boy'.]
Now dear Mamma, I must bid you goodbye as the post
goes very soon. Many thanks for letting me paint. With
love to Papa, ever your affectionate son,
Oscar Wilde
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Hello,
How is everybody coping with this season of indulgence? Not that it is the
official term but that's what I and everybody I know, and their pets, seem
to be doing. Even the pigeons on the roadside are fatter than usual (and
they are usually already quite fat).
I'm doing well, I think, hanging on just on the side of the express booze
and food train as it speeds past December over its vomit laden tracks. Two
more working days and work is finished for a couple of weeks, when the real
indulgence starts. All the preparations of going to the gym in the past few
months didn't go wasted, all the extra metabolism and muscles, soaking up
every sip of alcohol - you can feel it every morning through the little
aches as they cancel each other out.
However, as much as I'd like to indulge it seems there are barriers stopping
me from doing so. See, as well as wining and dining, I would also like to
spend lots of cash on seeing Belle and Sebastian live, in places such as:
London, Glasgow, and Cambridge.
However, it seems loads of people have already beaten me to this rampant
lavishness and those gigs have now been sold out.
So I ask, you lovely people - do you have a spare ticket to the B+S gigs in
either London, Glasgow (on the Sunday p'haps), or Cambridge? Do you? Do
YULE? You know yule do.
Happy wobs
Ken
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Some weeks ago, I was at our local church listening to our music group
singing hymns and spiritual songs, and as I listened, I couldn't help
but think what a fine Christmas album Belle and Sebastian would make
if they put their minds to it.
I've spent the last fifteen years half a world away, where the sun
shines brightly at Christmas and a white Christmas is a preposterous
idea.
So it was that I had missed the joyful session from Peel Acres three
years ago and in fact had no idea that such a thing had ever been -
until this week. I have been fortunate enough to acquire a copy of it,
and it's made me feel quite festive.
Though the year has been a very difficult one, it's good to be here,
and to share a Christmas in the northern hemisphere, where the nights
are cold, dark and long and the lights are bright and cheering.
Ian
--
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Ho-Bloody-Ho and any other festive sayings that may accompany such
nonsense!!
i was just wondering if any Glasgow based sinisterites were plannin on
headin to the Liguid Lounge on 28th Dec as there will be an exclusive dj set
by B&S(not sure which members). you may already know about this, if so, then
i apologise for wasting your valuable time. flyer attached.
anyways, the gig is for charity with proceeds going to the British Heart
Foundation. and the band thats also playing, SDA or Sound Development Ageny,
are a damn fine band from my hometown of greenock. they played glastonbury
and the wickerman festivals this year and have also played a couple of
nights at the QM. they're very upbeat, pretty fuckin funky and you will most
definitely be able to dance along to them if you so wish rather than sit in
a dark corner like me away from eye contact with the rest of the club.
aaaaaaarrgh dont look at me!!!
anyhoo, have fun
davie
find more info here:
www.sounddevelopmentagency.com/index_ie.htmwww.theliquidlounge.co.uk
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Hello there!
I am Donna. I am what you might call a bit of a lurker on the list, but I'm
willing to take as much abuse as might be thrown at me for this
post.....only posting when I want something etc etc etc.....
But this is important. Because I well as being a lurker I am also a bit
stupid and *forgot* I had B&S tickets for Glasgow on January 15th, and
booked a flight to go and visit family abroad from the 10th to the 16th.
Having not been able to get tickets for both the Perth and Castlemilk shows
I can't miss them again in January so if anyone has 2 tickets for the 17th
that they'd be willing to swap then I would be most grateful.
You can contact me at donnavico(a)hotmail.com.
Merry Christmas
Donna x
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Have you got hundreds of photos of Stephen Pastel
lying around in your drawers? If so, you can join an
exciting project to create the world's most
comprehensive archive of Stephen Pastel photos on the
visually exhilirating Flickr web community:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stephenpastel/
Older viewers may remember Warrender John, who likes
nothing better than to drop milk crates full of empty
bottles from the top of tower blocks. Well, he has set
the ball rolling with some lovely shots of Stephen
Pastel and the rest of The Pastels, as well as some
pre-Bit Torrent advertising.
I heard Funny Little Frog on the Tom Robson show on
BBC Radio 6 - totally legit, straight-up. I think it
is well-classy and I hope it comes with some corking B
sides.
I was wondering what the panel think about getting
Push Barman when you've already got the singles.
And I was wondering about that Let's Stay Up Late With
Belle And Sebastian album that somebody lunk to
recently.
Thank you for your attention. Please join Stephen
Pastel.
Peter
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Yo sinister.
The "Another Sunny Day" download is completely legit. It's from
Matador. So download without fear of pangs of outdated 20th Century
distribution model guilt.
Speaking of which, does anyone know why Matador is releasing The Life
Pursuit in America, and not Rough Trade? Does Rough Trade not have a
distribution network in America any longer?
I have already listened to the album, but I won't say anything more about it.
This IYFS at the Barbican thing hasn't appeared in the U.S. iTunes
Store yet. What's up with that?
I could write other stuff about me, like how I'm starting library
school next month, and I'm going to have Burger King for lunch, but...
eh. I'll leave this post as is.
Best,
Eric "Cheesybun" Johnson
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Hi All,
PJM said:
"I have seen an advertisment in the traditional music
press for the Belle and Sebastian Civic Pride tour and
I was wondering who the people in the photograph are.
The geezer looks like Sam Mendes and the ladies look
like the usual B&S street urchins after a wash and
brush up. I say Sam Mendes because I am following a
new policy of saying the first thing that comes into
my head if I can't find the right words. I did of
course mean Ken Livingston AKA Red Ken."
In Another Place someone who might be close to the
band's management said (& I hope he doesn't mind me
repeting it here):
"The ladies are, from left to right, Ms Katrina House
(of course), Ms Natasha Noramly (of Glasgow group Fuck
Off Machete, playing with Architecture in Helsinki in
Glasgow tonight) and Ms Marisa Privitera (you just
didn't recognise her with her clothes on - Sorry,
Marisa).
The gentleman is none other than Dave Anderson, who
apart from being a Scottish theatre great, is
Gregory's Dad in Gregory's Girl."
The answer to his other question is available in the
band's site's Q&A section, I think, but this is really
hard to do on my webmail so I can't be arsed to find
it right now.
WARNING: "THE LIFE PURSUIT" SPOILER BELOW!
... I got Chicory Tip too! I hope that's not another
20% of the royalties I can hear whizzing away there.
Yours in anticipation,
David
(OK, PH?)
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