Good evening sinister, I've only written once before to say hello and then ran away too soon, though I read mostly every post! Really, I do! Now I'm saying hello again, but also thought I'd share something too: I just finished reading the latest copy of Magnet(no not the one that you had to read to keep yourself occupied as I nursed my hangover into far too late hours of the afternoon, mmm skyscraper!) and for anyone who has not had the chance to read it yet, Belle and Sebastian take home #5 of the top 60 albums of 1993-2003 for 'If You're Feeling Sinister'. There is a write up that goes along with it and I thought I'd share in case anyone was interested in some late night/ early morning reading. here goes! " With a wink, a sigh and a bucketful of gallows humor, these six Glaswegians coaxed a small army of wilting intellects away from their dogeared copies of Baudrillard and back into the record stores. If You're Feeling Sinister�was such an epoch-marker that other pop-culture zeitgeists can be traced directly back to it: an upswing in Nick Drake album sales, the quiet is the new loud phenomenon, cardigan sweaters. This was no small feat for a band that went to great lengths to shield itself from the public eye, politely shunning interviews and photo shoots. �Yet what remains so compelling about Sinister is that it has none of the cliches that would come to typify its imitators. Stuart Murdoch's characters are neither timid nor frail. They're restless and horny and pissed-off, flipping fingers at the loutish football hooligans clogging the local pub. Other twee twerps are all flinches and shivers, but Belle and Sebastian has nothing but confidence-the kind of big-balled, brawny braggadocio that comes from knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that everyone else is beneath you. Even the tracks that lay bare� Murdoch's sad-angel voice ("The Fox in the Snow," "The Boy Done Wrong Again") feel like comforts rather than complaints. The songs possess an elegance that is almost baroque, ornamented with stately strings and gilded with glittering piano. Combined with Murdoch's earthy humor, Sinister effortlessly manages the same marriage of cunning and class as Voltaire and Swift. "Nobody writes 'em like they use to," Murdoch brags regarding pop songs, "so it may as well be me." And for one full record, that's exactly what he did." (JEK) Magnet Sep/Oct 2003 pg.82 If at least one person enjoyed reading this, then these little�hands being all tired now are worth it! Have a lovely rest of the night wherever you may find yourself. Me? I'm going to watch "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" for the 700th time. It's like a sickness really. michelle "My mind is filled with silvery stuff Honey kisses, clouds of fluff Shoulders shrugging off My mind is filled with radio cures Electronic surgical words Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable..." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+