i'm getting kinda scared. well, not scared. worried. i've always been a fanatical album collector. i won't brag about how many albums i have. i'll just say it's probably too much for someone who doesn't own a record store. well, i guess that's a way of bragging, isn't it? oh well. "hey what are you getting at?" askes you.....well, i'll tell you. i've always had the theory that the reason i spend every penny on a new album or single is because i'm always in search of the perfect song. the perfect band. the perfect emotion stated in the perfect way. and i knew it would happen one day. one day my search would be over. it's kind of saddening. enter belle and sebastian. i don't have tigermilk. i've haven't got dog on wheels(yet). and i just recently in the past three weeks purchased sinister. i go through phases, as i'm sure all of you do, where i get a new album and i may stop listening to my favorite-band-of-the-moment for a while. or i'll listen to nothing but a band that i'm about to see in concert and after the show, i hang em up for three or four months. it all depends on what i want to hear when i wake up. but since i've got sinister, none of those other albums mean anything. sinister is everything i ever looked for in an album. b & s are everything i ever looked for in a band (and i don't know a damn thing about them). and i listen to nothing but sinister all day every day for three weeks now. and that's not all such a good thing. remember when stone roses "stone roses" came out? i listened to nothing but that album for months upon months. and i'm sure a lot of you on this list did the same. now i haven't picked it up in a couple of years, but i still know what perfection it was and how it made me feel. i'm worried that sinister one day will become "stone roses". and i know i should listen to other things so as not to wear it out, but i can't. today i bought the new cornershop and i only got through the first three songs before i decided i'd rather be listening to sinister. "why are you wasting my time by making me read this?" askes you agayn. i dunno. i guess because the people on this list are the only other people i have some sort of contact with (no matter how feeble it is), that would understand. now i feel like some elitist fanboy. the type i've always hated. oh well. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------