(I bet someone else used this subject first!) Hello, Sinister! Hope everything is alright! Last Saturday I went to this shopping center in the downtown area, the so called Rock Gallery. This is a very famous place here, some people say it's the largest agglomeration of rock'n roll related shops in the planet. There are lots of CD shops, tattoo studios, etc, etc... whatever you can imagine as related to rock music, you will find it there! But it's more a place for heavy metal, hardcore and gothic fans, there's nothing related to indie music. I went there just to buy a pair of shoes, but what I was really looking for was a few meters away, in another music mall, and this other one does have an indie section! And guess what I was looking for? And found it! Belle and Sebastian Live at Free Jazz Festival! The audio record of the happiest day of my life! And... it sucks!! It was recorded from the audience, the sound quality is horrible! It only works as a souvenir from that day, along with my SM autograph. My SM autograph reminds me the story that Astrid told us about her party with the band... GRRR!!!! Isn't anybody else as jealous of her as I am?! All I have to remember from the day I met Stuart Murdoch was that I was fighting with other 20 guys trying to get his autograph! And it wasn't necessarily a fair fight, it was push and pull and punch and bite and kick... more or less like those cartoon fights! And when I finally reached Stuart I couldn't see him because of that huge crowd! And I felt that someone was trying to take my ticket from my hand! I was getting furious, I was thinking that when I finally got to get near him my only paper to the autograph (the ticket) would be stolen! Eventually I could see who was trying to steal my ticket.... it was Stuart himself! He was looking at me with a very angry aspect like saying "Hey! If you don't give me that bloody paper you'll get no fucking autograph!!". I felt so embarassed, I just grinned and let him take it... and I was so ashamed I couldn't even talk to him. So all I said was "You're great, man, you're great!". He looked at me and grinned back, and I just turned around and let another guy take my place... What a shame! What a shame!! Anyway... Last night I had the oddest dream of my life! My dreams are always so boring, nothing really happens, it's just like someone sitting on a chair, someone saying "Hi"... nothing more complicated or sophisticated. But this dream... I woke up in the midle of this street, with lots of people passing by, some staring at me... I was dressed with only a t-shirt and my underpants. Then I saw myself taking breakfast on the hood of a Brasilia (a very old brazilian car) that was parked at the sidewalk, it was like the car's hood was a table, and I was there, eating half naked, in the middle of the street! After my breakfast I walked home, which was right in front of the car. My house was crowded with college students, and I had to ask them to leave because I didn't know them at all! People that I've never met in my whole life were using my house to hang out, like it was a park or something! So whilst I was walking in the house I had to keep saying "Could you please?", "Please?", pointing my house's gate and asking them to leave. This part is quite interesting, when I think that I would love to (be able to) make new friends and that I don't have anybody I can really call a "friend". But instead of calling them to have a beer or a cup of tea (not really!), I simply expelled them! Then I walked around my house, maybe I was checking if there was anybody else there. But all I found was a very old doll without its head, lying on the grass. And when I found it my dream was over, I woke up, had a laugh and returned to my sleep. Everything in my dream was in grey tonalities, my whole dream was in black and white, but I'm sure the old car was red or orange. But there are no red Brasilias as far as I can remember... Now, Mable! So you were on the tube looking at a B&S CD cover?! Did you know that this is the magic pose you use whenever you want someone to fall in love with you?! I wish I could take my B&S CDs to the clubs & pubs where I hang out, these places are full of cute girls and I'm sure they'd love to talk, kiss, whatever, with a B&S fan!! But it would be kinda weird, you know, take my own CDs to a discotheque! Now, guys, listen carefully and please do not tell this to anybody else that's not a Sinister: A Belle and Sebastian CD is like a puppy, girls love it!!! But be careful when you make your looking-at-a-B&S-CD-cover-pose when the CD you're looking at is "I'm Waking Up To Us", this can be really dangerous! It's is like going out with a basket of puppies or... I don't know what else can be that seductive! Be ready to say "no" to priests, nuns, nazis... all these people will fall in love with you as soon as they see you, in your irresistible pose, holding the most powerful aphrodisiac ever invented! OK... I think that's too much BS (aha!) for only one post, I'll save some for the next one! Kisses and Hugs! Fernando Brito +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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