Thanks Ken Chu. I was somewhat humbled that you were somewhat moved. Let the snarking begin! Let the John Wojcik johnnythreeb@yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Original Message ---- From: "kenneth.chu@uclh.nhs.uk" <kenneth.chu@uclh.nhs.uk> To: sinister@missprint.org Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 1:48:56 PM Subject: Sinister: Ghost Write about Love Hi! I bought the new B+S album today! At the new Fopp on Gower Street, in fact, several doors down from home, strolled in on the way to work, the song "Write about Love" was playing in the shop but I couldn't find the actual album anywhere so I asked the lady there "Hello, er.. Do you have a copy of the new Belle and Sebastian album?" without acknowledging that it's being played quite loudly all around the two of us, so she probably thought I was a noob. She was nice enough though, found the album and handed in to me, then we both walked back to the counter, and I handed it back to her, and paid with my card, and she handed it back to me in a bag. I feel this is the start of a new romance. There, I just wrote about love. Very sad that there were no photos of Sally Sparrow on the inserts of the CD, but beans + gf reading books in the mountains is sweet. I'm still kind of sad that Belle and Sebastian albums no longer begin with Sturan whispering a line of melody, but I like this album! John Wojcik wrote: "Things changed, I changed." This moved me somewhat. I think about this perhaps every time B+S release a new album. Their music accompanied a significant part of my life, afterall. Things changed, I changed. The band have changed, too. I think it would be unfair/selfish/weird to expect the band to make another "If You're Feeling Sinister". I mean, really, I still listen to the red and the blue and the green albums like always, but I would feel strange to hear a new song that's about some kid being bullied in class, or having self-identity issues. It would feel.. contrived? To quote the song: "and it's dumb, thinking of you like the way that you were" The new album is lovely. I listen to it and get the feeling like meeting up with an old friend, one whom I don't often see nowadays because, we both live busy lives, and perhaps we no longer have much in common except for our shared fondness for one another, and for the past. But it's still good to see them holding well, and share a bit of the memory. I don't think my life signed with Rough Trade at quite the same time as B+S did, I probably still whispered first lines to albums until perhaps 2007. But now I'm writing about love, perhaps. Writing about writing about love. "I'm not living in the real world" is a complete rip off of "Everything's Turning Out To Be Alright, Everything" by MJ Hibbett though. Fuck that. Laters Ken P.S. "I want the world to stop" is totally "Knives Out" by Radiohead, but it's really good!! P.P.S. Looking forward to BOWLIE WEEKENDER 2 at minehead in December!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is confidential and is intended solely for the person or Entity to whom it is addressed. If this is not you, please forward the Message to mail.administrator@uclh.nhs.uk. We have scanned this email before sending it, but cannot guarantee that malicious software is absent and we shall carry no liability in this regard. We advise that information intended to be kept confidential should not Be sent by email. We also advise that health concerns should be Discussed with a medical professional in person or by telephone. NHS Direct can also provide advice. 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