Hm... Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. If it isn't our old friend Sinister. Where have you been all night mister? You're going to get it! Just wait until your father gets home! Spoil the Rod and Spare the Child I always say...no wait...somehow that seems incorrect. Oh well, it's probably just my mind playing tricks on me. Hm, in the wake of my Dune hyseria this weekend I tried to change my quote on my sig, but I think I forgot to save it, because there's Mr. Friendly down there, still smiling and wishing. Oh well, no matter. I must admit to being somehow surprised when I checked my electronic mailbox from afar. Small pixels reported to me that I had amassed 40 electronic letters in my electronic mailbox. They were all electronically waiting for me to open them up (electronically, of course) though I had to leave a couple of them for later. I must say, there were some very interesting and noteworthy electronic letters, words, sentences and paragraphs, such as...

i've decided that "electronic renaissance" gets PrOPs! from me -- the petshopboys-esque-ness of it is simply lovely.

which was composed electronically by Marie Elia. Evidently Miss (or potentially Mrs.) Elia is a paragon of taste, as such a comment is rare and wonderful. Perhaps the very endangered nature of such comments accounts for the low showing for said brilliant song in the official electronic voting booth. Evidently not enough people are electronically casting a good vote for such a wonderful song. Well, they say that if you sleep with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas. Not that the previous statement has anything to do with Electronic Renaissance, but it is still quite true that people say it. And who can forget when Dave electronically requested that we all electronically submit 5 songs which encompass the width and breadth of the Belle and Sebastian Experience (TM). Surely, Dave, you couldn't just place 5 Electronic Renaissances, all in tandem? Five little ages of bleeping enlightenment, heightened by just a smidgen of synth. Probably not, so in the event that you wouldn't wish to, I will electronically suggest: "Seeing Other People," "(The) Boy with the Arab Strap" "Belle & Sebastian" "Expectations" (&) "Slow Graffitti" On a totally different matter, any and all who might or might not be curious as to whether or not one Robert Wratten is a fan, or alternately despises our Glaswegian heroes, can find the answer to this burning question (and many more) in the next and forthcoming issue of Movers and Shakers. Therein, the aforementioned Mr. Wratten, who has played in bands with names like the Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, and the Yesterday Sky, will spill the proverbial beans on his feelings about B&S, as well as beans of other subjects. A cool breeze blew across your flaxen hair as Brandt electronically proclaimed:

I think this is relevant due to the fact that Belle and Sebastian is releasing a fourth album in four years as well as two side projects. > How much is too much? Is a new album, a re-release, an ep and two side projects too self indulgent or just productive? Is a double album self indulgent?

My electronic reply to the aptly named Mr. Fundak is that perhaps the point at which something becomes self-indulgent is when demand for it ceases. For example, if there was a limit to the number of songs one could release, where would that leave Stereolab? Most likely in France or England, but why, then, are they able to sell so many limited edition singles and EPs and singles comps and albums and things like that? Wasn't it once Stereolab who once said "Dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby,"? I think it was. I am a fervent believer that More is Better, and that if people do not desire such a tremendous amount of material, they are not forced to buy it, whereas those of us who lick our lips at the mention of outtakes and 4-song EPs, we can just go on being happy, which is what I am going to do, until I remember that I have all sorts of work that I am putting off, and then I will stop being happy for a time, and then pick it up again sometime thereafter. I'm hoping it is similar to riding a bike. I also hope that I am better at being happy (for a time) than I am at not writing run-on sentences. In closing, I would just like to mention that this post shatters the record previously held for the post with the most instances of the words "electronic," and "electronically." /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick/Sandcastle Records <<->> bp224996@ohiou.edu \ / Sandcastle Records Homepage: ICQ#5056758 | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | -Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+