Steven Wells will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!
And who amongst you bunch of victims is going to risk damaging your cardigans in a revolution? None of you, and thank god, because any revolution that even insincerely targets a writer, simply for not sharing your taste in music/lifestyle, as an enemy of the new republic, is going to struggle to find support amongst sane people. How ridiculous, yeah I (i if you prefer) think Belle and Sebastian are great (means the same as grate but is the grown up spelling), but if Swells prefers the prodigy then that's up to him. Any victimisation of belle and sebastian fans in the press is due to people like some of those on this list, who take it too far. Just as a past generation of kids took manics fandom too far, when they all started carving 4REAL in their arms. If you behave like a dick then your gonna get slapped. If you genuinely want to wear cardigans and stuff then good luck to you, but if you're doing it because you want to be *like* belle and sebastian then snap out of it. They are original, you are just clones. Can't you just enjoy the music? Its fine to relate to stuff, if you are an indie kid at school and you dress a bit trampy then the townies are going to pick on you, but don't intentionally alienate yourselves further just so that you can feel like a beautiful and unique snowflake, don't gaze at flowers and clouds just to then think how sensitive you are. And don't go around declaring how twee you are, because that implies some sort of self-conscious alienation from society and even Stuart M says its bad to be self-conscious. Twee is fine if you genuinely are a child and hop-scotch and riding your raleigh chopper up and down the street is what you do for kicks, even nostalgia for your childhood is reasonable enough but once you are old enough to fuck (sorry about the language), and you do fuck (sorry again), then you have to accept that you have left that part of your life behind, and have no business calling yourself twee. Fine skip to the music with limpen wrists at the star and garter, not fine taking the whole thing too seriously and turning it into some sort of alternative to having a personality. I'll get my coat... ________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+