So, *finally* my life has some Belle and Sebastian style content to it...Thankfully it hasn't been filled with whatever they do fill hotdogs with (veggie ones please) 'til or since the aforesaid B&S content...but it's been a hoot and a holler for the first time in, well, awhile... So, two of my very best friends in the world got married in what has to be the most fun and freaky wedding ceremony that I've ever had the pleasure to witness and take part in. My husband was in the ceremony too, so that was 14.9 kinds of cool. To give you a sense of the freakyness: the bride was actually *disappointed* when I didn't wear my Strawberry Switchblade costume and wore the "too normal" 18th c. style taffeta and velvet goth dress instead. A 5 year old said he'd be their ringbearer if , and only if, he could be dressed as "rat boy". The flower "girl" was a man in his late 30s dressed in a gold sequined Mexican wrestler outfit, replete with pvc horns. First B&S moment: My friends from Seattle (the ones we *were* going to visit and see the show with...snif!) brought me an ampersand shirt! I'd say that rawks like Slayer, but really it rawks like Belle and Sebastian doing a Slayer song. The Venn Diagram between the bride's musical taste and my own is quite large in the middle, so the dj'd music chosen by the couple is the best mix of music I'm ever likely to hear outside my own home... 2nd B&S moment: The strains of "Johnathan David" begin ...and the wedding couple and aforesaid Seattle pal all join me (no coercing! I feel so blessed!) to do the various kinds of Charlie Brown kids' dances. The bride and I did the dance of the kid who looks like Frankenstein's monster, with his arms out in front of him, the Groom was Snoopy, and Seattle pal was the 'knees turned in, hands put out at right angles to the body' kid who does the kind of angular charleston. Then , the song segued into Japan's "Quiet Life", Cocteau Twins' "BlueBellKnoll", and Laibach's "Maggie May" wherein we all formed a giant freak conga line. Life is good, my friends, GOOD!! Alright...off to bask in the thought that marriage is really amazing, when you marry your freak partner in crime... Congrats to Sinister couples everywhere! Lisa from Texas +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+