Hello Sinister, One time, long, long ago, Ken Chu rode in my car in Chicago. This is so far my only true brush with fame in this world. Gayjay, I think Isobel's lines from Marx and Engels are as follows: "The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a revolutionary part to all feudal, idyllic relationships. It has resolved personal worth and in place of freedom is exploitation for profit alone. There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion. We could learn much from the past." With that out of the way, welcome Leah! Sinister is a sleepier place these days, content to let the time drip by with a fit of activity every so often. Still, it's a pleasant place and I dare say things would pick up quite a bit if there was a new album by B&S anywhere on the horizon. My first experience with Belle and Sebastian was courtesy of a boy named Dmitri. He played Boy With The Arab Strap for me at an arts and crafts party that I was at. It was twee as fuck, of course, both the college age kids cutting and pasting construction paper as well as the music. Being a poor college kid I loved the music but only bought the one I knew was good when I was at the store. A little bit later, I was checking out somebody's illegally shared music collection and found "My Wandering Days Are Over" off of Tigermilk, and it was a prophetic song. My musical wanderings were certainly over for some time as I dove headfirst into as much of the B&S catalog that I could find. I read Sinister regularly, and was a much more frequent contributor to #sinister. Now much of that is just fond remembrances of my undergrad days. I moved back to my college town when I took a job with my alma mater, but by that time Sinister had grown into the grand old dame that she is now. I think it's a fitting development, but at the same time, it's always fun to see these periodic fits of activity. I never really spoke to Dmitri, or thanked him for introducing me to Belle and Sebastian. I'd see him around campus from time to time. He was dating a boy from my dorm at one point. But I had only met him once or twice, so it felt odd to go up and reintroduce myself over such a seemingly small thing. I never knew his last name, so I can't even google stalk him. Oh well. I guess playing a CD doesn't necessarily warrant tracking somebody down to thank them. Thanks for listening, I hope all is well :) Jason +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+