dearest all, this is my first mailing, and in time honoured tradition will be both the hardest to write and most bland. i am new to computers as i am a self confessed luddite, but have been following belle and sebastian since first hearing 'the stars of track and field' on the mark radcliffe show. i got very emotional and over excited, and perhaps was not alone in this. anyway i've stuck around. like several other people here, i never did get married, sell my records and start getting excited by soft furnishings. it's strange how many people have written about how their lives have changed. i'm certainly not knocking marriage or ambition, but i feel no different now than in 1997 or whatever. i was 23 then, 31 now, and i still feel pretty much the same. i still play the same kinda records, still strive for happiness and enjoy a good time. it's not that i've failed to 'grow up' - god how ghastly does that sound? i was an adult at 23. i'm still the same person, with a few grey hairs perhaps, but hey. doesn't mean it's time to accept some faded notion of adulthood. having said all of this, it's gonna be very strange watching the band play '...sinister' at the barbican. the summer of 97 was a heady and peculiar time for all here. that album soundtracked so much, brings back some pretty peculiar memories. sleeping on stephen's couch and being kept awake by his constant fornication. both of us feeding earwax to his girlfriend's labrador. falling in love every second week. the unmistakable and slightly repellent taste of neat vodka. all this with 'seeing other people' or whatever seemingly always in the ether. it is tempting to slip into a hazy reminisce. i hope i meet some of you sinister types there, i'll probably be weilding a kleenex and dancing like a fool. and that'll be all for reminiscing, because there's a whole damn life to live when the lights go up. and it's there to be lived to the hilt. and there'll be a new album soon......i'm just a little excited by this. forward to the future people, it's still ours after all......... all good things james (dumbangel1) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+