Hello, I've been reading your goings on for two weeks now while I waited in purgatory to be given a voice. My name is Kevin Parker, I know Kevin is not a particularly great name, though I suppose Kevin Shields and Kevin Rowland have given it back some dignity. My mother wanted to call me Luke!I am from Shrewsbury in England but I live and work in Tokyo where I think B&S are reasonably popular the reissue of "Tigermilk" seems to have sold really well HMV had these really cool promotional stickers aswell. Did you know there is a BMX Bandits tribute band here? Anyway Belle and Sebastian content I love them they remind me of when I heard Kid Jensen play "This Charming Man" or how excited I used to get when Janice Long would say "Tonight in session we have Felt". Yes I am old Is 30 old? but I mention this merely to say that B&S make me feel really young when I hear them or maybe they just make me feel warm and hopeful and you really only feel like that when you're young don't you?I could go on about The Go-Betweens and The Pastels and Felt but I suspect everyone on this list has similar taste in music books etc which is why people sign up in the first place.Regarding the censorship debate you've been having I think either people ought to admit that censoring is always a subjective process and always subject to personal prejudice.For example I would dearly love to dump the Cure and Suede in the dustbin of history and solder the lid shut for eternity. Or people should decide never to censor anything and I mean anything, one or the other.People can't simply pretend that censorhip is based on objective judgements as the Daily Mail would have us believe.If any of you are in the vicinity, I mean Tokyo way, send me a message It can get a little lonely out here my flatmate likes Poison the band not as some sort of after dinner drink.The cafe where I am is playing Kiss "Crazy ,Crazy Nights" and I think I like it. I need a drink. Love to you all. Kevin. "Once,long ago, you were mine for ever, so if I should reach into the past and touch you with invisible fingers don't move away" Spike Milligan. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+