as rachel noted, the SF treasure wasn't found until the day after the show. it wasn't that the clues were hard, i think, just that the final resting place of the treasure was in a very large building with a bunch of stores, and the clue itself didn't really give much away. the clues are here, if you'd like to see them: http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-08-20/garrett.html/1/index.html but ah, you should've seen kevin and i last wednesday, running around town to each and every nautical or pirate-themed venue trying to get to the bottom of clue #2. il pirata, the buccaneer, trad'r sam's, the pirate store on valencia - i did them all, and with no success. pirates aside, we certainly swearing like a couple of sailors that evening as we brainstormed over whiskey and pool. once we'd figured out the final clue and put the letters together to spell FAIRY (this was on wednesday), kevin wanked around the newly re-opened FERRY building but couldn't find anything even after asking around and around and around. at the show on friday, he cornered deborah and solomon and interrogated them, frustratedly, until he knew he had almost been in the right place. he'd been there weds, thurs, and fri and still not found it! that's a certain strong-headed devotion. then, perhaps a bit hungover on saturday, he trekked down there again, through hordes of people looking for organic tomatoes and expensive cheese (there's quite a good farmer's market at the ferry building on saturday) to find it. the treasure itself was excellent - copy of the new dvd (sadly unplayable on region-limited machines), cd of the belfast show last year, and decidedly twee trinkets like a shiny necktie, book on How To Make Things, a toy Jaguar, spoon from a scottish exhibition of sorts, etc. unclear if the tickets included will be good for the band's next show here, but he's hoping. did anyone listen to the band on KCRW? if so, relive it again! if not, try it now: http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/mb/mb030826Belle__Sebastian they played: lord anthony women's realm step into my office, baby scooby driver (?) travellin' light judy & the dream of horses the state that i am in others have covered the berkeley show better than i ever could. it was marvellous. ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+