Hello. It seems that my identity still remains a source of confusion. It is tricky to be any more explicit so I suppose I'll just have to live with it. I've been thinking a bit about the mailing list as several of you sweethearts have expressed consternation about the lack of B+S content. Is this the point of the list? I guess a priori for us to be on the list we all must think they are smashing and thus the rest of the debate (as it seems to have been recently) is to categorizing which of the songs fall in to the following categories - marvellous, good or less good. I think that is as critical as I can get with B+S - if you don't like it it's because you don't understand it. The other topic would be B+S trivia and if Isobel is gorgeous or not (or somewhere in between). I was strongly swayed by Magda's point about just enjoying pop music qua pop music - singing, dancing in your bedroom, drinking beer, kissing girls, driving, feeling sad. Making life more bearable and helping us all to rise above things and 'keep it light'. I hope I don't sound like an Englishman trying to pretend to be an American with that last comment.....! The reason I enjoy reading the list is just to hear whatever others have to say - however trivial or disagreeable it may be me personally. Perhaps there will always be an element of narcissism to lists (I am sure everyone has realized the structure inherent in the way we all write our mails) in that the link of B+S 'fandom' probably contains several other similarities between us - perhaps when we speak all we here is an echo. I hope this is not the case. I still think there is genuine communication sometimes. What is the opinion of Stephen 'I used to be called Tintin' Duffy? Yours, Music In Colours. _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+