hello all- my name is margo and i was released from the nursery about a week ago. in a burst of overexcitement about fyhc (and in mad-procrastination mode during finals week) i first wrote a post just a few days after joining the list. naturally now that i am done with school spending time writing emails is way less appealing. so instead of resending my first post i thought i'd update it a bit. i am actually a very new b&s fan, it's just been a couple months. feels like longer though, given the amount of time i have spent listening/obsessing over them. my b&s experience started on a ride home from san francisco with my stepsister alice, my brother charlie, and our friend tom, all of whom were already fans. actually on the trip we were going to reinact the moment were alice and tom first heard belle and sebastian in a record store on haight and video it (we didn't though). but on the way back we were listening to a minidisc of all the singles and i was like, "wow this is such beautiful music!". that night i had a dream that was in sort of this galaxy setting with all the starts and planets and someone was saying how belle and sebastian was the best band ever. so i began to experience some severe repressive desublimation (marcusian term for the sexualizing of objects) over needing to buy b&s albums. so about a week later i went and bought tigermilk and sinister and left the store so happy, i was just bouncing down the street. i pretty much fell in love with both those albums right away. both fyhc and arab strap have taken longer to grow on me. i want to say i feel really privileged about how accomodating my local record store is of belle and sebastian merchandise in comparison to of what some of you guys have experienced. the day i went to buy fyhc (the day it was released in the us) they had this huge b&s display in the window with about a million posters (not to mention the new album was playing) and when i walked up to the counter with fyhc the guy working there said, " i had a feeling this is what you were going to buy this when you walked in, you had that belle and sebastian gallop", which i thought was really cool. i think i am building myself a bit of a reputation there. after asking on about three separate occasions if i could have a poster or two when the display came down, they told me to leave a note for them to save me one, and when i was writing it they presented me with my very own bwtas poster, which was the one i wanted. they probably just wanted to shut me up. so, that is basically my introduction. also i am going to be travelling around europe for a month, starting on monday and will be in the uk the last week of july if there is anyone who wants to meet up in london or something or even just email me to tell me the cool places to go--i would really appreciate it. -margo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+