I am fairly wallowing in trepidation. I'll bet I'm not the only one, either...there's got to be SOME good reason why no one's writing anything. Well, I'll take my chances that this is a stupid post, as it's for the good of the list! Yes! I will go down in a blaze of glory, singing "Ode to Joy," or else "We Are the Champions..." I'm feeling a little revolutionary and wild-eyed today, yes indeed. Okay, enough of that. I just wanted to say that, although it's true that this list is not a forum for people to delineate their personal philosophies, I for one joined the list in order to meet some like-minded people, and read about what they were interested in writing about. I imagine a lot of people signed on for the same reason. I mean, I think that the list probably really would die if all that people wrote were astute and well-reasoned essays on Belle and Sebastian. Don't get me wrong--I _want_ people to talk about the band, and I most emphatically _don't_ want people to post without thinking about it. But there's no use in making people afraid to write anything, for fear of unpleasant consequences. Plus, my favorite posts so far (I'm new, admittedly) have been the ones where people write about their lives, or what they like besides Belle and Sebastian, or stories that they've dreamed up. Am I alone in this? I don't mean to sound like a vitriolic axe-grinder, but I feel pretty strongly about this. Better a lot of posts with a certain percentage of irrational crap than only a few posts with a certain percentage of irrational crap. Okay, I'm pushing "Send" before I revert to my usual demure state. All of you write! Come on! Melissa 'There was something they meant to say, but didn't: "And if we put the statue of the rhinocerous next to the tweezers, and walk around the room three times, learn to yodel, shave our heads, call our ancestors back from the dead--" poetrywise it's still a bust, bankrupt. You haven't scribbled a syllable of it.' --James Tate, 'Dream On' ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+