hi, i'm a new girl who's been sitting around on the list for a while without the time or motivation to write anything...until now. my excuses for this are final exams and a trip to alaska - so i'm back in seattle after three weeks of learning about oil drilling in the arctic and watching herds of caribou and muskoxen wander through the wilderness, and i'm finally able to post a message: i'm not really sure how i discovered belle & sebastian, but they immediately rose to the status of "my favorite band" (err, except for the beatles). besides a few friends, most people seem to think i'm weird, because i listen to "some scottish band that they don't play on the radio..." (what they don't know is that b&s is played on the radio - non-profit, college radio (university of washington), not corporate-mainstream-shit radio.) anyway, i'm happy with the self-proclaimed label of "dork", which is the short-answer explanation of my music tastes for everyone who doesn't understand..."oh, you're a dork. that explains it," and they walk away singing "underneath your clothes..." or "what's luv..." i'm not sorry to say that i don't understand or appreciate rap. however, if anyone does, please, enlighten me. i'm happy to report that the u.s. made it through independence day without any attacks by scuba diving terrorists. whew, what a relief; i was worried for a second (i apologize for any undue sinicism, but the press and that genius president of ours have left me with no choice. as a side note: i realized today that i don't think of george w. as president, but rather as more of a mascot - representing the u.s., and serving no real purpose other than showing up at public and political events and giving pep talks...but enough of the negative side of things. i love kraft macaroni & cheese and jell-o pudding snax. yum. sorry...) b&s could almost be described as an addiction. something about the voice of stuart, the lyrics, the instrumentation, and the music as a whole compels me to listen over, and over, and over, and over again to the point where i lose my desire to be social and hole up in a corner with my diskman - there are few bands whose music i can loose myself in...maybe you know the feeling. between that, eating, sleeping, hunting for quality lps at half-price books, and crew, my summer is complete. now that you're sufficiently bored (not my goal, i assure you, but i have a feeling that may have been the result of slogging through this whole thing), i thank you for inspiring me with your own posts :) for now, morgan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+