hello dears, The setting: I was sitting in my common room at school, the cool kids were playing darts and the posse girls were sitting talking about who pulled them at the metropolis nightclub. Some were even taking a tally of the number of boys they snogged, one girl managed to have 50 odd or something, she couldn't remember exactly. I guess if i had a gang then some of them were playing darts and the rest were talking amongst themselves, i was alternating between putting a jacket over my head to pretend i was sleeping and reading something, i'm pretty sure it was the picture of dorian gray but it just mighta been the catcher in the rye. I had the smiths on my personal stereo, or my walkman if you will. I never liked music as a kid, i was just a reader as a kid. I loved the escapism of children's fantasy, gosh i still do. It wasn't till i was 13 i realized i loved music i still didn't know what i liked though, i found oasis and they were good but there was something missing then ocean colour scene and i liked them more but still i knew it was a passing phase, there was still something absent. Then my musical mentor,or maybe just my mentor, or maybe someone who just had similar tastes to me but the desire to search new things out, i've never quite decided on that. Anyway he gave me Nirvana and Radiohead and they were superb, that's when i realised music was going to be a major part of my life i guess, that was almost my first time but not quite, i loved it but it still hadn't all came together. So anyway in the common room i have the smiths and i haven't really listened to it but i liked what i'd heard even though i hadn't given it a good spin yet and then david walks up to me and steals it giving me a tape of what he says are a band that are sometimes described as the new smiths and they were called Belle and Sebastian. So i put the tape on and pulled the jacket over my head so no one would bother me and it was just before the start of we rule the school, y'know the talking part of i could be dreaming, rip van winkle i think for some reason. Then we rule the school started and i heard the piano then stuarts voice. That's when i had my first musical epiphany,hell maybe even my first epiphany of any sort. For a few minutes i wasn't in school but some transcendental place where it was okay to dream,in fact dreaming was important. There was no counting the number of boys you'd snogged and trying in vain to remember their names, no shouting and swearing and trying to outdo each other in some sort of slagging match, there was somewhere where everything made sense and there was something perfect, indescribable. Then the bell rang, accounting probably, i went in a daze. I knew things wouldn't be the same after that, they weren't. dannypie xxx _________________________________________________________________ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+