Now I am all self-conscious from the weekend and wondering whether this is really B&S content. I would not be writing it if it were not for the band's existance, so is not that justification enough? Yesterday I drove home from work through the town, instead of the back roads I prefer to travel about on; I had errands to do. I noticed that one young man directing traffic bore a certain resemblance to Stuart M., or at least what I suppose he looks like (he looked frightened). I think he was attempting to disguise himself because he was sporting a slight beard. Now since I live in the United States, I thought this would be news; it is like seeing Elvis, only this supposed Stuart was alive, and Scottish. Has the pressure of stardom already had its toll on Stuart that he has to moonlight in manual labor and contruction? Now that I think back upon it, I should have stopped the car and asked him to have tea with me. We could have brought a table out into the street, sipped our tea and nibbled politely on scones. We could have read each other our favourite passages from _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_. And all around us would be traffic, honking horns, yelling curses at us to move the tea table from the street; we would not though because we would have been discussing delicate matters. (If Genevieve has her own Stuart David, why can't I have my own pretend Stuart M.?) Why doesn't everyone on the list meet at Primrose Hill on the longest day of the year, officially change their names to Belle and/or Sebastian there, and have a group marriage ceremony there. That would certainly be newsworthy, at least to some put off Druids who wanted the hill to themselves for the summer solstice. If we didn't make the national press, we could always make "Druid Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my street. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
PKHINTZ@aol.com wrote: (snipped a lot)
self-conscious from the weekend
the back roads
sporting a slight
pressure of stardom
moonlight in
contruction
I should have stopped
politely on scones
And all around us would be
delicate matters.
Why doesn't everyone
change their
ceremony
for the summer
I found fifty
children on my street.
pretend
Stuart M.
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i loved matthew's post... by the way, hello everyone! nathalie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
PKHINTZ@aol.com wrote: some gorgeous things, but then wrote:
Why doesn't everyone on the list meet at Primrose Hill on the longest day of the year, officially change their names to Belle and/or Sebastian there, and have a group marriage ceremony there. That would certainly be newsworthy, at least to some put off Druids who wanted the hill to themselves for the summer solstice. If we didn't make the national press, we could always make "Druid Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my street.
thinking about it, arranging a date now is a fine idea, except, the longest day is aslways glastonbury week, and though we may slag it into the mud from which it came, i bet a lot of people will go and our picnic would be scuppered. any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the first one (May Day)? david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David & Katrina wrote:
thinking about it, arranging a date now is a fine idea, except, the longest day is aslways glastonbury week, and though we may slag it into the mud from which it came, i bet a lot of people will go and our picnic would be scuppered.
any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the first one (May Day)?
david
Isn't the longest day on a Saturday this year? Which would make it perfect, we can all congregate in London or Glasgow or wherever on the Saturday lunchtime, and just stay there till Sunday lunchtime without anyone missing work! (Oh, and on a more selfish note that's the weekend between my end of term and graduation so I'm free ;-}). Have the dates for Glastonbury been announced yet? Mayday would also be good (and sooner...), but people will have to leave early to get back for work the next morning; how about the day before, and just keep on partying until Monday? Also, if we're going to sort out a date now, we'd better have a location (or at least a city) as well. Of course we all know who we'd like to provide the music... maybe that's asking a bit much... The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
i can't look at the subject line without thinking of retsina, that nauseating (sorry any fans) greek wine. reminds me of a certain occasion..... aaaaanyway, i haven't been posting much, so just imagine me dipping my intimidated lil toes into a pool of big bad pop professors and lit crit curmudgeons. david, i implore you i beg and plead (and you won't see this again so get a good look) not to hold the picnic on may 1. pleeeeeeeese with clasped hands and sorrowful glances, can it be scheduled in june or later? sorry as this is a completely selfish request but i'm sure a couple of other traveling lassies will add their own pitiful requests. and don't anyone dare be anything less than charitable and lovely to honeypaul, or you'll deal with ME! (paul honey, you and teddy can come out from under the couch now, s'ok.) oh and i just figured out something last night. from what i understand the band chat will require spectators to be logged in to two rooms at once - sinister and jeepster. i regret to inform you that people with some strange (older?) version of globalchat will not be able to do that, so UPGRADE. i think you can get a better version from links to david's page, if i'm wrong i'm sure he'll post a correction. *phew* what a relief, post done, signing off, now i just hope someone actually reads it, or reads it and doesn't immediately strike my name from their 'people in the world that i might someday want to know' list. and of course, i'm leaving off posting only to return to chatting......see you all in sinister. love and nervous little kisses, laurel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Laurel Girvan wrote:
aaaaanyway, i haven't been posting much, so just imagine me dipping my intimidated lil toes into a pool of big bad pop professors and lit crit curmudgeons.
david, i implore you i beg and plead (and you won't see this again so get a good look) not to hold the picnic on may 1. pleeeeeeeese with clasped hands and sorrowful glances, can it be scheduled in june or later? sorry as this is a completely selfish request but i'm sure a couple of other traveling lassies will add their own pitiful requests.
i won't be doing just one picnic silly! there's no reason why we can't do several, i mean the whole summer doesn't have to start and end in one day, there's months of it. so we could do a trail run picnic in may (one in scotland, one in london, and does anyone else have a location in mind? (it would be nice to represent the us if a lot of people were in one area). then come june, we try and organise one big spectacular picnic, a day or two of heaven, with a maybe a few small ones in other places so people don't miss out. suit everyone?
and don't anyone dare be anything less than charitable and lovely to honeypaul, or you'll deal with ME! (paul honey, you and teddy can come out from under the couch now, s'ok.)
since when am i anything less than charitable, he's a doll.
oh and i just figured out something last night. from what i understand the band chat will require spectators to be logged in to two rooms at once - sinister and jeepster. i regret to inform you that people with some strange (older?) version of globalchat will not be able to do that, so UPGRADE. i think you can get a better version from links to david's page, if i'm wrong i'm sure he'll post a correction.
perfectly right, but if you 've seen another chat program you'd rather use than that's fine too. nearly every chat program is available on nearly every platform by visiting ftp://ftp.undernet.org/pub/irc/clients/ which you can put into your browser and just go through normally (providing your browser can use ftp, which most can)
*phew* what a relief, post done, signing off, now i just hope someone actually reads it, or reads it and doesn't immediately strike my name from their 'people in the world that i might someday want to know' list.
as you can see laurel, you're efforts were not in vain, cos here is one person who paid attention enough to even reply. :) david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
David & Katrina wrote:
any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the first one (May Day)?
pumpkin, don't you have to work bank holidays??? :) sorry to everyone for the personal nature of this mail *sigh* oh, content! just to remind you all (Tag especially!) that it's Sarah Martin's birthday next Thursday 12th Feb ... all love poems and marriage proposals to either the fanclub (po box 14153, london, sw11 4xu) or, just in case you want to make sure she gets them before or on the special day send them here to me at jeepster (217 canalot, 222 kensal road, london, w10 5bn). AND, it's honey paul's birtday next Friday 13th February, so hopefully someone will divulge his address (am i allowed to paul?) so we can all send him pressies and love letters. i'm going ... cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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