I love you Sinister. You are my bread and butter. Something cheery to read during last week especially, which was a stressful week for me, during which my French teacher made me cry in front of everyone and I ran on no lunch or sleep but at least I had plenty of pimples. I've got until Wednesday and I'm free from school for a time at least. And each day ends at noon so I may just get flappyclap earlier than usual (a whole 5 hours, wow). This weekend was grate though, it was full of B&S (at least more than usual). 1. On Saturday I went to Vintage Vinyl, and while looking through the B&S section the lovely DJ lady put Legal Man on the PA. So of course I screamed "owww!" like the guy who sings that "I Feel Good" song and started singing and dancing like I thought a Maisonette might. I wasn't quite that flamboyant but I definitely did some damage. There were two girls in a corner doing weird 80's dances too and were as excited as I was probably. But of course I was too shy to go near them. They played Dick Slap too, which I think is the best song on the EP. I wished it had been the extended version though, because whoever said that the trumpet is orgasmic is right, I'd been searching for a word to describe it but that's perfect. 2. I had what I think was my very first B&S dream last night. I was in the basement of a mansion with some woman who was my friend I guess, and we were trying to figure out how to make fudge because we were having guests. She said she tried using 2 parts chocolate orange and I yelled at her that it was all wrong. So I poured in a box of Wheat Thins but that obviously didn't help either. So we went up the stairs, and who was in the hallway? Stuart Murdoch. So she started talking to him as if she'd known him all her life, and then turned to me and said, "Oh Stuart, this is Samantha. Samantha, this is Stuart Murdoch." And I shook his hand trying to contain myself and then I said, "I love your voice, and your songs, they're just grate." And he blushed and looked embarassed and said "thanks." But in the dream he had the singing voice of Lawrence from Felt. I don't remember how it happened, but suddenly we all were dancing, I danced with the woman and with Stuart. I think it was square-dancing. I kept worrying that he'd think my hands felt funny, for some reason. So then we went upstairs to a family room where the band was sitting on the floor, but the only people I recognized were Stuart and Isobel. And for some reason I played the bass parts, but on an acoustic guitar. We played Paper Boat, and then afterwards they argued about which song to do next until Isobel shouted, "Enough! We're playing 'Surtout'!" which was one of her own songs, and I think it means "usually" in French but I forget. It was a very quiet song and I kept worrying that I was playing too loudly. I looked at Struan, and his head looked shrunken kind of. It looked like it does in that picture they always show with NME articles online except he wasn't grinning madly. And then we all left, and it was over. That was long. Anyway, I'll wrap this up. I showed the Sinister website to my best friend and she looked through the archives, and she seemed really confused. Then she turned to me and said, "what are you people talking about?" She needs twee-training or something, she's a fan but she's got a long way to go ;) Samantha +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+