http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/1999/05/04/bowlie/index.html by douglas wolk, who also wrote a bang-up piece (in SF Weekly and others) on belle & sebastian around the time TBWTAS appeared in the US....and it's done in the style of _ink polaroids_, no less. i think he gets the awkward and achey parts of the weekender just right while somehow not entirely buying into the essential loveliness of it all...which, as anyone who went and is often pressed-upon to explain to friends who know nothing about b&s and frankly think the whole thing a bit odd knows, is hard to do...so i'm glad he didn't. "This photo shows the inside of our "chalet," which came with the $140 tickets. As you can see, the ruthless efficiency barely holds the sofa bed for two, the narrow pallets, the miniature kitchen and the bathroom. (Electricity and hot water cost extra.) On the table are the two keys provided for the four of us. Why? "That's our policy, sir," said the matron at the front desk. We can't figure out if the idea is to prevent people from hooking up or to make it inevitable." (ah, douglas! i think it was the latter...not that i'd know....) sorry for the dangling sentence. me, i'm still glowing. ian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+