Comrades. Thought I'd take a plunge into the slightly frightening and sinister world here as I got out of the nursury a week or so ago. Yes...yet another babe. I suppose I could chime in about the whole Floyd thread, but you all seem to be doing quite nicely on that front. Instead, I think I'll just tell a little story about how B&S found me (or vice versa). If you get annoyed at silly stories, please skip this post. About three years ago, I was sitting in the vulgar and shady backyard of my friend's parents place (she had just graduated college or something and we were all celebrating). I didn't really know a lot of the people there and those that I did know, I tried to avoid. Another friend of mind (Josh) was there and so we retired to the corner of the yard with our beverages and started to shoot the proverbial breeze, etc. The night wore on and on and Josh started to tell me of this wonderful, shiny new CD he had bought (B&S of course--IYFS). When he went to go get the CD from his car or wherever he had the thing stashed (perhaps I'd rather not know this) and retrieve a portable CD player, a few other folks wandered by. One of them (Jay) was one of those morons who don't quite know they are morons, but somewhere deeply buried in their psyche they have a vague sensation that they actually *might* be. Does that make sense? Like he feels slightly goofy for being so thick-skulled, but he does nothing to stop it (if you feel I'm being overly judgemental please read on). So there we were. Sitting under a large oak tree, drinking and (eventually) listening to Belle and Sebastian. It was wonderful. From the first tenative "Make a new cult everday to suit your affairs" I knew this was special. Until Jay began to get rather sloppily drunk and decided he would do a shot of something or other and light it on fire. Jay took his bottle and poured a very full shot and a bunch of the alcohol spilled onto his hand and arm. He giggled and took out a lighter (I tried to warn him I swear). Well, of course, phoof. Right when I was really digging "Like Dylan in the Movies"...Jay's waving his flaming hand in the air fueling the flames and they grew and grew and we yelled at him to smother the flames (Oh how alcohol burns!) and he's just got this kind of bemused look on his face like this is the coolest thing he's ever seen and not really worried that the flames are starting to dart up his arm toward his shoulder. Finally I jumped up and took off my shirt (not for the faint hearted) and smothered the flames. It took a few seconds and Jay is laughing 'cause he's so drunk and rather a moron anyway (do you see now?). Well...the drama really added to the music (not that it really needs it). But we sat back down and I thought how nice it was to have "found" a new band that was soooo fey and silly and beautiful and not at all like Jay and his singed hand. That's all for now. Love, sinister giggles, and hugs (or pats on the backs for any who shy from physical contact), Bill H. PS--Jay was fine. We got him to the hospital and they wrapped up his 2nd degree burns and that's the last I saw of him. PPS--Am in Chicago now, but will be moving to Seattle in mid-August. Any sinisterees in these parts e-mail me (not the list of course) and maybe we can set something up. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+