hello sinisterines as usual i am in a state of complete disarray and cannot remember what i told who last, so to clear the record, i'm going to be m.i.a. for the next ten days or so before reappearing in my missed new york city. four months but it took more time to get used to not being there than to get used to being there, but whatever. it's been a good summer, and i love all of you that i got a chance to meet, if i haven't already said that 7 or 8 times. but there is a point, for the first time in a long time, someone has had a sinister dream (that they've reported to the list, i think some of you have been holding out) and from another new yorker oddly enough. At 11:25 PM 8/18/98, Carrick C Blair wrote:

And I'm now going to claim to have the first dream with a song from the new LP contained within. I was in a school gymnasium sitting at a table, when off in the distance I hear the faintest strains of Rollercoaster Ride emanating from what I find out is a tiny transistor radio. When I get to the table with the radio everybody is smiling, and for some reason my chair gets real small and the table in which the radio is sitting on gets real tall. Then I woke up smiling. At least that's how I remember it.

well, i'm not sure about being the first one to dream with the new lp in mind, but i think this one is pretty straight forward. if your years at school were anything like mine, than the school gym probably represents some unpleasant scenes involving failure at sports and torment by peers (i actually mispelled that as pears, which is pretty funny. i mean, who would think that pears would be rude?) so as such, it could represent the world. the classmates represent the citizens of the world, and the transistor is symbolic of belle and sebastian as a relatively small group of people in a remote section of the world. (and yes, scotland is remote to most of the people who don't live there). the table growing in proportion to the chair's shrinkage symbolizes the realization of the paltriness of one's own problems in relation to those of the world as a whole. so basically this is a really happy world peace dream which seems a bit reminiscent of the small world ride at disneyland with better music. can you believe i only got a b in psych? allright, before i cause too much more damage, i'd just like to say, good night and saint lucy bless. xoxoxoxoxo megan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+