Hi All, (or at least the 3 people reading this today) It was washing up that got me into all this Belle and Sebastian nonsense in the first place, as I used to listen to Mark'n'Lard's Graveyard Shift up to the edges of my marigolds in the suds back in '96, yelling at Sally to tell me "Who are this band again?" as they played The State I Am In or somesuch. Ahhh. Belle and Sebastian/On the radio/Playing songs for parents. Stevenage, oh town of cycle tracks and my birth. Zooming through the underpasses swerving past scared early morning shoppers on the way to work at the Lister Hospital. Walking the flying bridge from the railway station through the Leisure Centre to the pedestrian only shopping precinct with futuristic clock tower, cars flying underneath like some torrent in the St Gothard pass. Cycling again, this time a demented 3 a.m. ride to the Maternity Hospital in Hitchin, so as not to miss the birth of second child. New Town, good songs. I think the Eiffel Tower is called that: with a definite article, implying something singular. One is invited to view it as a unified structure, albeit definitely composed of 18,000 metal sections & 2.5 million rivets. It is not called "12,000 girders". I do think however, that an album calling itself "69 Love Songs" invites the listener to regard it as a project composed of separate elements that should be able to pass scrutiny on an individual basis. Indeed, that may be the only way to examine it, for if viewed as single piece of architecture it undoubtedly collapses. Paul Verlaine used to take detours to avoid seeing the Eiffel Tower, once describing it as absolutely fucking awful. Peter: am I blind, because apart from not being able to see the Emperor's new clothes, I couldn't find out who the 5 o'clock hero was in the Duke of Harangue's piece? I also had to re-read your last post a few times as you followed up tongues up backsides with Struan's "rectorial campaign", & you had me going for a while. Happy Birthday to any lovely people that have one today. Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+