Yes, that's right folks, I cheated... sort of. With the near arrival of the highly anticipated (at least to me) Dear Catastrophe Waitress, I have been doing some research (including the Sinister List) as far as track list, etc. I came upon the Amazon.com website where you could pre-order DCW. Now, who would want to pre-order a CD from the web when it ships the day the CD is released? I mean, come on, that means you get the CD days AFTER release, right? Well... I found out not in this case. Amazon.com had a special starting September 14th that allowed users to pre-order the CD and IMMEDIATELY after ordering, allowed the purchaser to listen to the album IN FULL streaming from online. Now, I bantered back and forth with myself wondering whether or not I want to hear songs before they were "officially" released, but I just couldn't stand it any longer. A day after I learned of this special, I pre-ordered the CD and I haven't been able to stop listening to the new album. I recognize some of the songs from the Brooklyn, NY show in the States (at which I proudly waited 6 hours outside the gates for a front standing position, hehehe) and I am just as taken aback with hearing them on the album than I was live. For those of you that have more patience than I, I applaud you. B&S music cures my ailments and puts a smile on my face no matter what external circumstances. *hugs B&S* Anyway, I also wanted this to serve as a hello to the list as I have just been granted non-nursery status and look forward to corresponding with you all and exchanging great B&S stories. Thanks to Honey for hosting a place where we can do that! Sincerely, Tim belle-sebastian@insidemyhead.net p.s. - Anyone that went to the Brooklyn show August 19th that happened to talk to a couple from Norway and Israel, please drop me a line at the above e-mail address. I lost their e-mail and I'm hoping they talked to someone else and maybe gave it to them as well. Thank you!! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+