hello all, during a sunny day rummage through a church bazaar, i aquired a school year's worth of children's reading books circa 1974. Besides the youthful characters of all colors sporting indie gear and having wholesome adventures like 'the bus trip' and 'the bicycle ride', the content is heavy with messages of tolerance ('the odd pup' is clearly a poof), and lots of tender small word rhymes (a la Stuart M). Maybe it's been pre-ordained, or I've just got B&S on the brain, these little primers are perfect illustrations of many B&S songs. 'Gumdrop' and Judy and the dream jibe perfectly and the boy girl band in 'the hammer and the drum' have to be what the duo belle and sebastian the look like. As such, they will soon be converted into keepsake zines for distribution at the New York and Boston gigs and at the new england picnic should it ever occur. This little tale of my recent auisitions has two points. The simpler is a basic call for any sinisters to be on the lookout for similarlly precious children's books to help my collection of these great little artifacts grow (and maybe so I can have some more foreign language study aids) The second is so I can weigh in on this merchandising flap. If we all want B&S paraphernalia, why not just make some like the baltimore lass who sent me those great spring break stickers. I'm sure most people who wear B&S in their hearts can play with words and pictures well enough to fabricate something suitable to wear on their sleeves. Plus if we gift or trade them with one another, no profit results, and no jeepster artwork is appropriated, it should be on the legal up and up, and come with the added bonus of exclusitivity (should that be a desire) I'm glad to see the flaming lips getting appreciated, they were near to the heart of mystic in times past, but have recently gone unheard in these environs. Perhaps a second helping is required here. fyi about the subject header: publishing deadlines being much less inflexible than university (ie no extensions) and my last minute workstyle still prone to extensions, I was forced into that most ufortunate club of those who have literally worked the clock around with nary a hour of leisure or sleep. Though napping under the desk much more perferable than in the cop shop, which was another recent indignity but another story alltogether. last bit: should anyone have any B&S live tapes, and like the make up, perhaps we can exchange your tape for mine which features all the hits off of I Want Some and a half dozen new songs and some of snippets of my interview with ian sevionus. sweet dreams kitties mike _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+