this is my first post in a while, and i'm still a bit green as far as posting here. oh well. anyway. I just got back from my fake-job, where I don't really work, I just fill in. it pays very little, but it's very easy and I can't get fired. hell, i don't work there! then I popped in on my friend closing up at the expensive chocolate store down the street. he bought me some expensive grand marnier fudge, but he gets it cheap, and i'll pay him back some time. lord, it was sweet. I didn't finish it, but that's okay cause it was half a pound to start with. now I feel ill. anyway, there was a modest mouse concert in toronto a couple weeks ago which I said I was going to try to go to. I couldn't get a ride. damn. that really drives me, because so very many people on the list have said so many good things about them. oh well. I have decided that I really really really really love belle and sebastian. I know, I know, what's to decide? but I go through phases; I'm never uninterested: I always love the band. I'm just back in my drooling phase now. anyhoo. last weekend I went to toronto for the ontario universities' fair. which was dull. my plan after that was to wander around toronto until I found soul food and a place to eat, which I did, eventually. I was getting hot and worried until I found queen street, which is more or less what I was looking for. I went into a couple record shops and immediately my blood pressure sank, much like a very heavy weight with an even heavier weight attached to the bottom of it. I decided that for a person who, as I recently discovered, is a big fan of indie music -- indie was one of those terms I used to just throw around, until I realized that the only difference between me and most big indie people is a) a lot of them are fake indie people (whereas I didn't know I was an indie person at all, though I was suspicious when I noticed I didn't like any of the music on the radio and preferred relatively unknown "independent" bands) and b) I buy very little music and don't know much about very many bands, I just listen to suggestions from reputable sources (like sinister)) -- anyway, for a person who is a big fan of indie music, I needed to actually *own* some velvet underground albums. basically the only albums (altogether) that I have are all my b&s stuff, The Queen Is Dead, and the best of the velvets. I don't have much. so I bought a copy of the velvet underground and nico. the guy looked at me like i was from another planet when I wanted to buy it on cd. he said, of people buying cds of the velvets etc. over vinyl, and of cd's of pre-80 stuff in general, and I quote, "It Burns My Ass". I liked that. I told him I would much prefer it on vinyl. what I didn't tell him was that, considering I have so few albums, I haven't had a working turntable in a long time. I was ashamed to admit it, so I didn't. but anyway, he discovered he actually didn't have a copy of it left on vinyl. I was about to buy a vinyl copy of White Light/White Heat, because that had been a dream of mine for a really long time. plus there was one of the Live 69 records. I'm not sure why I didn't buy it. that would've been better. basically I don't have a turntable right now. so I would have had to wait a while. but I bought a cd of the banana album. and you know what? now I know what he meant by "It Burns My Ass". Hearing this album on a cd really BURNS MY ASS! It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I will get a copy on vinyl as soon as I have some money (and maybe even a turntable). I ate an eggsalad sammich on a bagel at union station and went home. I saw a friend on the train going back. she was with her sister and we talked about whether we were really back in stratford or whether we had somehow gone into stratford without really being there -- coz for some reason it didn't seem like stratford. anyway, this is getting very long and boring and intimidating looking, and probably no one will read it because of that. so I'll cut it off he +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+