hello, kids. i just found out a weird thing: one of my brother's best friends from high school is in mercury rev. my brother hadn't talked to this kid (jason) in a few years, and he was flipping through rolling stone, and there he sees a pic of his old friend, accompanied by an article about the band. weird, eh? i mean, i knew the band were sort of from kingston, ny (a town not too far from here), but i find this very strange. so anyway, my brother told me about all this, pointed out aforementioned article/pic, and then added, "oh and there's a review of an album by that band you like... belle and sebastian?" ah, and so there is. and since i'm bored and aol keeps giving my friends the boot, i will type up the article for y'all: _______________________________________________________ *** (3 stars) Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk Effete Scottish rockers finally reissue rare first album. Most Belle and Sebastian cultists would pick 1997's If You're Feeling Sinister as the enigmatic, literary Scottish swish rockers' finiest moment. Others insist the band has gotten even better since, as evidenced by the cheery fluff and girlie vocals of 1998's The Boy With The Arab Strap. Both factions could probably use a chocolate malted and a kind word now and then, but the odds are better that this reissue of the band's wicked-rare 1995 debut, Tigermilk, will be the only nice thing to happen to any Belle and Sebastian fann all summer. tigermilk offers a rough sketch of the band's virtues: acoustic guitars, zippy melodies, strings, horns and the sullen schoolboy with of Stuart Murdoch, who torments his nanny with a breathy voice that evokes Al Stewart of "Year of the Cat" fame after a proper clawing from Morrissey. Tigermilk will never be anyone's favorite, but it's prime Belle and Sebastian -- the beautiful music of shut-in roues stung by the pangs of youth and taking it out on us. _______________________________________________________ huh? tigermilk no one's fave? chocolate malteds? tormenting nannys? and who the hell is al stewart? and what do "effete" and "roues" (with an accent over the "e") mean???? ummm... "swish rockers"??? who the fuck writes these things? clearly someone from massachussetts, as evidenced by use of "wicked-rare". weird. what a weird night. anyway, i have not seen the acid house b/c i'm too poor to scrape up trainfare into the city (nyc). and on thursday morning i'll be all packed up and on my way back to school in western pennsylvania. (i'm coming kimmy! soon!) thank goodness for sinister; how else would i have passed 8 hour work days and friday nights??? i wish i could have milked tigers with all you kids. my kitty has tiger-ish markings. i'm looking at him funny now. he's looking at me warily. he just left. i'm going to go watch 120 minutes and hope for matt pinfield to be back. he's always annoyed the flying fuck out of me, but since he's not been on the past 2 episodes, i kind of missed him. 'night all. xoxo, marie === ************************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - buddy glass "to me she was just marie." -mersault ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+