Hello there, Well, I've just spent roughly an hour reading precisely 75 posts, and I would have been entirely let down if it hadn't been for Genevieve's post. When you think about it, though, that's pretty good, I mean it's about 1.25 posts per minute! I really shouldn't take all the credit, after all, I couldn't have done it without Keith's shape post and those posts which quoted a big long message and added 3 lines of text. Thank you everyone. Well, I had some content occur to me today. I was in my local mom 'n pop record store, Haffa's (pronounced Haff-az, Hyeahf-az by Clevelanders ;) and immediately upon entering, the fellow who works there (for all intents and purposes we'll call him Eric, because that's his name) pointed out to me the new Belle & Sebastian CDs in the glass case. There I beheld two sparkling copies each of Dog on Wheels and PAJAMAJAMMYJAM. I felt kind of bad when I told him I had both, but I thanked him. Later, as I was taking my purchases to the register, Eric was saying to the other fellow there "I wanna listen to Belle & Sebastian, I haven't listened to that since we got it, and we sell so many copies." Well, I nearly asked him to write down the name, address & phone numbers of anyone who bought the album, since I only know one of them, but I decided against it. Earlier today I had my political science class, in which my professor made special mention of the names of Scottish political parties. Apparently there's a Let's-Go-up-the-Creek-and-Have-a-Party party, or something like that. Several other funny ones, but I didn't jot them down. We now return you to your regularly scheduled post: Lately I, much like Brad, have not been listening to much Belle and Sebastian. However, I've not been listening to anything Brad appears to be listening to lately (big surprise, that). I have been listening to a lot by the Wake, who sound nothing like B&S, though quite a lot like the Field Mice (in fact they toured together). I decided, whilst in my car, that they sounded like "a smooth sea of synthesizers with sparse ripples of jangly guitar overtop." I think I must be a closet record reviewer. But also oddly I haven't really been listening to the usual anorak fare these past few days. I'd best watch myself, or there could be a coup in Sha-La-La. Whatever happens, I want to be on the side of the Left, so the headline can be "Leftist P!O!O! Dictator Deposed - Militant Religious Fanatics Take Over." I also have it on good stead that the Looper album is amazing, and very "now" (those are not my words). This is coming from the man whose every recommendation has been excellent, in fact if hadn't been for him (and 4 or 5 of my other friends) I probably wouldn't be on this list, and Eric probably wouldn't be mentioning those EPs to me. Just now I'm listening to a song called Isobel, but it's spelt Isabel. Nonetheless, I decided to postpone the paragraph I was just about to write, and instead throw in this utterly pointless one. What I was going to write...yes, anyhow, I almost didn't write that bit about the Wake. I was thinking, you know, they have absolutely nothing to do with B&S, why should I mention them? But then I thought "Barton, you've had some content in your post already, and it's not as if your post is a dissertation solely on Tom Waits, is it? And furthermore, you're not writing about pants, "indie rock" glasses, cardigans, bassieres, monkeys, monkies, Monkees, round ovally things, bathyspheres, hemaglobin, Reece's Pieces, or pubic hair, so what have you got to lose?" Often times I disagree with the voices in my head. I have not killed my mum, for example. But this time, I can't kid myself, they were right. My favorite sort of bathysphere is those kind with all the knobs and levers on the inside, and three thick, glass portholes. Personally I think the sort of people who have a bathysphere just to look cool, rather than needing a strongly-built diving sphere used for deep sea exploration and study, are idiots. Obviously they plop the thing in their carport and over the summer tinker with it, but I very much doubt they actually take it to sea. I suggest you all go to <http://user.aol.com/chines6930/mw1/beebe7.htm> and have a look at myself and my friend Beebe standing next to our Bathysphere sometime around 1930. Did I mention that my Christian name is Barton? 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