Speaking of homies: It's damn dangerous to listen to Belle and Sebastian in the ghetto. I was dropping off my date from last night at her building in DC and we decided to share a romantic cuddle + smoke on the hood of my car and I'd had "The Boy with the Arab Strap" in the CD player which I left playing with the windows down, which was good and perfect for a little while until I realized that I was in fact in the middle of the ghetto listening to the whitest music imaginable, getting stared at like a Martian in pedal-pushers. I half expected some seven-foot-tall fellow to stride up and say "Do you mind if we dance witcho dates?" It was at that point that I thought it perhaps wiser to pop in Canibus or Lauryn Hill but didn't want to really wreck the mood so I settled for K-Ci and JoJo (not really, but I did turn it way down). I must apologize to David K for flying off the handle about the indie-solidarity comments; my oversight was not realizing that Woolies demanded the super-distributor discount SO THEY COULD PUT INDIE STORES IN THE GRAVE FOR GOOD I'd like to think. Not that they're really actually selling the same merchandise, I mean, indie and big chain stores have somewhat overlapping but usually quite different target markets (i.e. bedsit obsessives/casual listeners). Indie record stores, I think, definitely have it a lot easier than, say, independent clothing stores or the like which are selling to pretty much the same people who buy their clothes at Big K. I don't think there's really any need to worry about Belle and Sebastian getting too famous, their music isn't really garish or danceable or radio-ready enough to make any kind of real mainstream impact, I don't think..... and I pray to someday swallow those words. We should all hope for a cooler world and want to share, not hoard, something this priceless.... I sometimes feel that people who want a band they love to "stay indie" or stay un-famous or something are only into the music because it makes them feel cooler than their fellow human.... I've met too many of them, and they're the ones who really cheapen the experience for me. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+