Hello again. I decided after posting for the first time, to wait until I had something interesting to say about B&S or my life, before posting for a second time. Well, I can't guartantee that this is going to be interesting, but I've started now and I don't intend to stop. Last week I took my first trip to Scotland. My family and I stayed in Ediburgh for four days, and one of those days I had been looking forward to for a long long time. That was the day I would take a day trip to Glasgow. The town I live in back home (Eugene, Oregon) always sounded very similar to Glasgow, from what I had heard about GU and the places around it. I always thought, "Take away the great indie scene, the scottish accents, and the old buildings- and I'd be right at home." Maybe it was the quirkiness in Stuart's short stories that gave me an idea of what it might be like, or maybe it was the idea of standing in the same city where all those words and notes were dropped into microphones and played to me thousands of miles away. All I knew was that I wanted to go there. When Stevie put up the article he had written welcoming students to Glasgow my imaginary Glasgow sort of started to seem like it could be what the real Glasgow was like. Before I even first arrived in London in early december, I begged my family to let me take the train up and see the gig on the 20th. They decided it was too close to Christmas, and the same day one of their friends was coming to stay with us, etc etc. But in return I was promised that I would get there sometime within my 4 months in the U.K. Well, I went to Glasgow. And I loved it. I followed Stevie's instructions almost to the letter (I didn't need to know everything was going to be allright, I was already having the time of my life, so I didn't down a large orange juice in a oner) and had the veggie breakfast at the Grosvenor cafe. I shopped at some great record stores (much to my delight I found both the 'Eighties Fan' and 'Your Sound' Camera Obscura singles). I walked around the University campus. I had coffee at Beanscene and was reminded of my favorite coffee house back home, the place where I have the fondest memories of being with the friends I'm away from now. I could go on and on about how those simple things made me happy, but I think that's enough. My best friend, the one who introduced me to B&S, is coming to visit for 10 days on Saturday. I'm looking forward to it imensely because he's exceptionally flaky, and is incapable of writing much in an email, so I haven't heard much from him since I've been here. But when he's around we ramble on about music and books and girls and how shitty high school is for hours on end, and I'm in need of that just about now. I'd like to thank a lot of people on Sinister for telling stories that remind me of things I've done, and talking about B&S the same way I would, and recommending such wonderful things to check out for myself. When talks of The perks of being a wallflower were highly afoot my interest was sparked and I wandered into a bookstore, picked it up, and couldn't stop. It was just perfect. Youth In Revolt and The Catcher In The Rye- only twee... I also want to thank Tom Pettinger for introducing me to more delightful indie bands that can occupy my cd player for hours on end. "On a bus stop in the town, 'We rule the school.' Written for anyone to read, and to see." Thanks for your time, - Andrew _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+