Well. Then it’s time again. More than six months has passed since the 28 of March, my birthday, and the reason of me posting at the list. The time has passed so easily. It’s so long ago, that I have to look at my unsent letter from the week after. Ah, yes. Astrid had answered to my second letter with the suggestion that I should go with her and her friend to the soundcheck they have before each concert, I asked my sister, and she wanted to come with. So me and my sister went down on the 28 to the München Brewery, where they where going to perform. Astrid did not come, and beside two trucks and a big buss there was no sign of anything special. We walked around the building, still without out seeing anything special. We stood where we had begun and did not what to do. A guy opened a door and came out. My wonderful sister walked up to the guy and asked him if we could come in and watch, since I was too young to see the concert. He went away and was away for a while. He then came out again, waving his hand as a sign to us to follow in. We did, and there they where! Belle and Sebastian! We stood at the back of the hall for a while, until a voice from the stage asked for some chairs for us. They played about four songs, I remember(ed) two, “Dirty Dream no 2” and “Step into my office”. And there was a song that my sister recognized, but I did not. That puzzled me a bit, since my sister is not as big B&S fan as I. Anyway, after those four songs the band stopped playing, and walked away from the stage. A guy, whom I later recognized as Stuart Murdock, came toward us from the stage. He asked us what we thought and explained that all equipment had not arrived yet and because of that they did not play as long as they would have done otherwise. Strange how all English I have learned was just gone. My sister said something about my birthday and he said “Happy returns”. Then we left. Too bad I did not ask for an autograph or anything. Anyway, at dinner my sister gave me a wonderful present; “Lazy Line Painter Jane”, “3…6…9…Seconds of light”, “Dog on wheels” and “This is just a modern rock song”! What a gift! And that’s why she recognized a song I did not! Hah! While we’re at it, I have a question. I have a gift certificate at a record store, and I wonder what I should buy with it. Which of the B&S records should I buy for it? I have, beside those mentioned above, “Tigermilk”, “If you’re feeling sinister” and the wonderful “The boy with the Arab strap”. What do you 1400 sinsters recommend? Or something else than B&S? It’s for 200 SEK (14,12 GBP or 26 USD) which is enough to buy one full CD. And life passes on. This time during the least summer-like summer I have ever seen. Not only because of the rainy weather. And now, when everything’s back to normal, or as normal it could get, it feels quite strange. Just strange in general. Well, right now a bit more strange than usual, because I have been acting today. I played Smirnov in a scene taken from Anton Tjechovs’ “The Bear”, and played on a stage on a big square in central Stockholm (Sergels Torg if you’re interested) along with other members of my theatre group. The whole thing went quite well and I have reason to be pleased. Actually I am. Time to close. Farwell. Johan _________________________________________________________________ Lättare att hitta drömresan med MSN Resor http://www.msn.se/resor/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+