Hi there Sinister, Props to Alasdair for posting the transcript of the press conference. This is my favorite part (and the part about the bus pass).
SM: The album title actually came from a piece of graffitti written on the back of a toilet door. It was 1986 and I was new to the college and new to the city and I thought: "Why should somebody write that? Is that from a book that I should have read?" I was very impressionable at the time and it seemed like a really smart and serious thing; it really stuck in my head.
Isn't it nice to imagine Stuart wandering around the university, looking grave and impressionable? I like the way Stuart recounted it; clearly everything I said in my previous post about Stuart not being reconciled to his past is nonsense. Most everything he says seems full of good sense and not pretentious and gentle and friendly. Even when he curses. I ordered "Legal Man" online. I haven't been to any record stores in my neighborhood. I think it's because I feel too old. Young people today are too cool to be awkward like indie(?) kids used to be in the past. That's what happened in the transition from minority to majority status: the difference between the eighties and the nineties. And in the aughts will it get any better (or no worse)? On Sunday, I went to the store and saw a really nice looking boy. He was carrying a carton of orange juice. He had on a navy blue jacket and an orange T-shirt. He was really pale and had dark hair and the nape of his neck looked really delicate. It would be like kissing the creamy petals of some flower. Oh, if I could seem him every Sunday, how happy I would be! On Monday, he officially called her "my girlfriend". Is it incredibly naive to have believed that he could live alone with her and not be with her? Robin's posts always seem to be out of the twenties or thirties when people rode bicycles with one huge wheel and one small wheel and most everybody lived in a small town and there was this grocer boy and a village green and bright sunshine and walking by the river, sort of like the "Rico and Fergus in Ayr" picture. Fergus - a very proper name. All right. Good-bye for now. Youn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+