good morning, sweet sinisters! As I sat here, drinking that first cup of coffee (which only tastes like washing up if I worry that it will) and quietly despising my cat, I decided I would say hello for the first time. I've been unreasonably nervous about it, as if I were orating to a stadium full of restless Belle and Sebastian fans, but that's silly. You all seem like wonderful and supportive people. So hello! My name is Joanna. Pleased to meet you. A lovely boy once told me, "if you want to make friends with someone, tell them the second most interesting thing you know." So here is the 2nd most interesting thing I know today: On Neptune, the pressure in the atmosphere and on the surface of the planet are so high that the carbon is formed into diamonds, which are swept into the air and rain back down. Diamond hailstorms are actually quite common there...the image they used in Discover magazine was "diamonds raining through honey," because the atmosphere is so thick and gooey. I'll have to make a stopover there the next time I'm hitchiking through the galaxy :). I'm so glad I found this list...I was desperate enough to meet B+S fans that I had begun to whistle BWTAS and JAHDOH loudly in public places, hoping that someone would recognize them and introduce themselves. The list method is more fun and much less obnoxious. I first fell in love with B+S when I read the story on the inside cover of Tigermilk. It was as if their happiness at finding each other was somehow my own, and even if their music had been terrible (which it is certainly not!) I would have loved them just for telling me their story. Speaking of stories, Robert Smith (that can't be your real name) wrote:
I hope you liked [my story] and didn't think it too self induldgent. Not self indulgent at all! It was wonderful, I'm looking forward to the next one. That's about all I have to say this time, I don't want to tyrannize your attention span any longer. Thank you for listening! np: "sometimes" by Spacemen 3 Till next time, Joanna PS. What's up with the tape tree? Haven't heard anything from you yet.
"If songs were lines in our conversation, the situation would be just fine."--Nick Drake +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+