i think that everyone(mick and pf penned the only missives i read) is missing the point when it comes to the belle and sebastian v. magnetic fields piece on tangents. tangents is the most wonderful site on the web and in my eyes can do no wrong and this is because it is a fanzine, highly sophisticated and literate but still filled mainly with highly emotional thoughts of passionate fans. mick attacked it as a critical piece with arguments against its logic but alistair was once likely as big or bigger a fan of b&s as anyone here has been, for me what he succeeds in is explaining his feelings instead of dictating his "truths" as is often done on "objective" sites. AT happens to be obsessed with stephin merrit at the moment, this is the point of the article and surely not to diminish belle and sebastian for anyone else. i think i might share a lot of his opinions on pop democracy but maybe i think , currently, that i harbour stronger feelings for belle and sebastian than he does. i email alistair and thank him for his website and beg him to write the article about rodney allen he once hinted about and truly if there were more people like him i would be so much happier. keith m __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+