Hello fellow sinister-people. So I subscribed to the regular non-digest version of the list about a month ago hoping it would inspire me to post more, or at least once since this is my first post, but it didn't seem to. Other than maybe that sad songs thread a while back. But lookey! I've finally found something I can respond to, or maybe I'm just in one of my phases where I go around posting utter shite. On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 Teri wrote:
i love belle and sebastian with all my heart and i've been making as many people as i can listen to them so that they see how beautiful they are, but there are sometimes when i wish they were just *my* secret.. you all know what i'm talking about, yes? when you love a band so much that sometimes it sucks that other people like them because you don't think they can -understand- how you feel, or you just think that they're not allowed to like what you like because it's *yours*?.. i know, i know - i'm being selfish and immature.. the more fans the better! i'm not talking about any of you sinisters though! but having just found out that someone i'm not very fond of likes b&s, i'm kind of wishing they didn't know who they were. although, i suppose it's a starting point to actually liking this person, but boo! i don't care.. hehe.. i guess i should just grow up..
I am exactly like that! Not so much with Belle & Sebastain, since besides me I only personally know one other person who even knows about them at all. And he's more or less ambivalent about them. But that does happen with every band I like, or at least the ones I LOVE, I want them to be successful and I have visions of me being at this nice-sized sold out concert place and everyone there just loving and worshipping the band as much as I do. It would be like some sort of commune I suppose. But then I realise that would probably never be. And I think sometimes I want a band to be MINE and *only* MINE, well, not literally, I mean, I think people on this list and others are super-groovy-cool, I just mean that...I guess like Teri wrote about how some people, I hate this term but I guess it would be "casual fans" wouldn't understand what I feel like. Which I'm sure it sounds like I'm being one of those snobby fans who doesn't want "the kids" to ruin my favourite bands. Okay, I do think that, but the only time things like that is when a band gets played hours on end on MTV, but fortunately I choose bands that don't get played on MTV at all. At least not here in America...but that's a different thread/rant/topic altogether! And...ummm...I guess the entire point of this was just that I agree, wasn't it great that I actually wrote other stuff also? Yeah. Okay, now I'm off to lurking again unless I happen to become inspired to respond to something else, because I can almost never think of threads on my own, but oh, well. Cheers & love, Stephanie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------