I've had a few beautiful belle & sebastian moments recently. One was when i was driving home from work, stuck in traffic, listening to 'women's realm' in the afternoon as the sun was going down behind the hills. That song builds up so well and by the time it got to that wonderful ending part with stuart dueting with himself... (the part that goes: 'You slept better in a sleeping train in a shed in a station with a torch and a Woman's Realm to keep you warm to keep you company' )... I was in an amazing trance-like state (sure, maybe it was the lead infused exhaust fumes) just listening in complete fascination. Even better, the two harmony parts where coming from two different speakers on opposite sides of the car. The strings in that song are like poetry. I recommend everybody goes and listens to it after reading this. If you choose not to, I'll understand. It's not like i'm hung up about it. Another really nice song is the finale to 'marx and engels' where stuart sings the first verse again and isobel sings a completely independant harmony part about the social history of feudalism. (or something...i never studied social sciences but got quite good grades in art. Now life in general eludes me). How those 2 harmonies meld together to create the perfect bittersweet melody is beyond me but it is truly wonderous etcetera. I don't think I recall ever hearing anyone from brisbane, australia on the list. If there is anyone from here happening to read this by some bizzare stoke of coincidence, then could you please let me know? (Perhaps off list so as not to entangle innocent bystanders in the inconsequential misadventures of my self indulgence.) Brisbane is such a small town Maybe it would be fun to meet up. Maybe it would be really good and quite nice. Anyway, must dash and sleep and dream of things that I don't seem to be able to do properly. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+