Hello. I've just joined this list, just a few short days after learning that it existed (like I'd hoped) and just a few short months after finding Belle and Sebastian. The main reason I joined is to ask questions, which I have a ton of. If anyone has the answers, I would greatly appreciate them. 1) I bought the "Dog On Wheels" single the other day (they had three-count 'em-THREE copies in a record store in downtown Chapel Hill. I take back everything bad I ever said about no good imports in North Carolina!). So I'm listening to "The State That I Am In", and I notice a huge scratch noise in the line "I gave myself to sin". So, of course, I took it back to the store, but the other two copies had the scratch too. Now, I couldn't not have it, so I just have to deal with that scratch. The question is: Is this something that other people have found on their copies? Or is this just a bad batch? Should I even be thinking about going through the trouble to try and get another one? 2) B&S's singer is Stuart Murdoch, right? 3) Did anyone else swoon when they heard about that B&S show with Magnetic Fields (who are great on album and unbelievably beautiful live) in a courtyard in Barcelona? It's such a gorgeous thought, I have a hard time believing that it ever happened. Was anyone on the list there? Was it as beautiful as I'm imagining? Okay, so the questions aren't springing to mind just now...But I'm sure some more will pop up. ...I'm looking forward to this. -Reid -- "If the editors of the Manhattan Argus see fit to publish the rantings of a disordered mind, then perhaps they will see fit to publish this letter!" J. Reid Dossinger (Chapel Hill, NC) itstrue@earthlink.net or (alternate) itstrue@mailcity.com AUTOFAC reviews: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/8002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------