Why this is important...well, yes, of course it's important. None of us would be on the list if we didn't think it was important in some way. I dunno, I'm not a shallow man, but I don't know what pop is, and I don't really care. I know what it isn't (deconstructing it endlessly seems a pretty good place to start on that score), and I know what it does to me and to everyone I care about. It's a see of happy faces on a Saturday night with 'Me and the Major' perfectly at home between 'Give him a great big kiss' and 'Summer Babe', some mouthing the words, some just smiling, boys and girls meeting 'oh, do you like Belle and Sebastian too', it's hearing 'Modern Rock Song' properly for the first time in the car and not being able to drive cos it made me cry it made me so happy, it's being in Glasgow in March and squeezing the hand of someone I'd been worried about, and her squeezing mine back and just knowing everything was going to be OK because they were on stage playing our song, it's a bunch of gawky kids from Glasgow, just like you and me, who know they've stumbled on the recipe for love, but are scared to talk about it in case they lose it forever. No, I don't know what it is...what I do know is we're here and it's now.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------