Hello new tall elegant rich kids, All this talk of czech weather and soft-core pornography has inspired me to speak up and introduce myself... so here's a story: It was the end of February and I was on a bus in Poland the first time I heard Belle and Sebastian. The sun had finally come out after days of rain and I could lean my head against the window because for once it wasn't cold and dripping with condensation. I was leaving for the last time a town in the east where I had spent 3 months with a Canada World Youth group (lots of active citizenship, sustainable community talk, yes we will grow up to be good citizens, oh but the world can be nasty... It's another story alltogether, all about my early 20s and the cultivation of cynicism). Ten minutes out of town, the project leader (who is actually named Sebastien!) handed me a package from a friend, "oh, something came for you today", and inside were three tapes, and on the A-side of one was TBWTAS. When I heard "a mile and a half on a bus takes a long time�", I kind of jumped a little in my red polyester seat. When I heard "in a town so small there's nothing left to do�" I knew this music/listener relationship was meant to be. Usually not a walkman-obsessed person, I had those headphones on for B&S for the next week, sitting on buses for hours, writing in my journal in a hostel in the Polish mountains, flying home to Canada. So B&S came at a significant time in my life, became a kind of soundtrack music for closing a chapter and beginning a new one. Anyway, so now I'm in Vancouver and can�t stop listening to Tigermilk � I�just�can't� It's so good and whoever said it�s hard to listen to other music, I fully understand. I�m starting to return to the rest of my collection though, bit by bit. Oh, I too saw "Eyes Wide Shut". Saw it in a big new theatre with sloped seating so you don�t see anyone's head and the screen seems really really big (b/c it is�) Yes, it made me think, but then don�t you think about concepts of deception, fantasy/reality and truth/lies often and don't other movies also make you think of these things? Yes, but this was Kubrick and it was great to look at (no, not b/c everyone's naked, which they aren't. Geez, all the media fuss about nekkidness, I mean c'mon america, you're so porn it's not even funny.) Anyway, Nicole Kidman is really good � the movie should have been about her character more than Tom Cruise's (which is yer usual white, rich male being naive and power hungry, etc.) Anyway, lots to say about it, but this is a B&S place. It's good, it's worth seeing. But also see the movie "Rushmore" (which is now on video and I saw it yesterday) because it is sweet and weird and good. That's all the rambling for now. Have a good weekend everyone! I�m going swimming...! Back to "I could be dreaming" P.S. Hey nick, I will write back when I have more time. Plus, Vancouverites, where are you?!! Robyn === I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+