----------. It was a _joke_. Maybe

not a very good one after all, and of course jokes that fall flat are worse when they are in print (well, not print, but you know what I mean) because they just sit there lurking in their irretrievable, semi-permanent state.

i thought it funny, it reminded me of this US comedian ( and i am blocking on his name! ) who had this stand up routine about meeting morrissey, and he goes into this morrissey-esque sing-songy voice " Did i tell you i lied / and then i cried/ and then i lied... did i tell you i cried? oh, ok"

The lines I wrote where supposed to be a piss-take of some of the more obvious, recurring themes in Stuart Murdoch's songs (esp. the earlier ones). Such as:

I'm not remotely suggesting that these 'sum up' Belle and Sebastian -

yes, i think you spotted them alright! they're

the kind of things that if taken to extremes would make for a very dull, formulaic twee pile of rubbish. Of course I think there's infinitely more to them them than that - they wouldn't be my favourite bands for years if I didn't.

agreed 100% there. i really didn't think you were trying to put the band down. so, it was silly, but i find parody humorous. One can make any line into a song by the Fall, by adding '-uh' to the end of every other word :) well, maybe that is only funny after having a few drinks and singing old bob dylan songs as if Mark E. Smith was singing... 'hey-uh, mr tambourine man-uh, come play your song-uh for ME!' you get the picture. ( side note - when MES recently sacked the band, it was reported he wanted to go on stage solo and do beachboys songs, oh i wish it was true... ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------