Sinister: Seymour Stein mishearing?/non-home homesickness
Is it just me or is part of the lyric to Seymour Stein different to what's in the inlay? In the book it reads: North of Scotland has he seen? Won't he hire a limousine? Now to me this sounds like: Has he ever seen Dundee? Ronnie, Harold and Rosemary? Now, I think it *is* `Has he ever seen Dundee?' but I think the second line is just my fanciful (mis)interpretation. I hope the Dundee bit is really there; first mention I can recall in a song since Panic by The Smiths. I have been experiencing a very strange phenomena. It's homesickness but, well, I'm in London and I'm at home. I've always lived in this part of East London, bordering on Essex, bar Uni at Canterbury and seven months in Dundee. But ever since Monday night and meeting all the lovely people I met (mostly Scottish) I have been pining for Scotland; I think it was Keith's accent that finally did it, for some reason making me think of the hills around Dundee I used to look at on the 32/33 bus ride back to Fintry. This is a strange phenomena and I think unless I see Scotland again in the next twelve months I may flip out. I'm not fetishising Scottishness (oo-er) but something about speaking to all the friends I've met from Scotland gives me this weird sort of ache. S'funny, I suppose. I've been listening to the album loads, promising myself I will make renewed effort to think of intelligent things to say about B&S to you lot and hoping that The Boys (and Girls) with the Arab Strap might take a trip down to Exeter (where I'm moving to soon) so's I can see them this autumn. Who knows what time will bring? Take care pop kids, Jon -- ****************************************** FANTASTIC O's!!! The unofficial Leyton Orient Mailing List Sponsors of DAVE MORRISON All subscription queries can be found at: http://www.isfa.com/isfa/lists/orient/ SAVE XFM: LONDON'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE MUSIC STATION HAS BEEN MUTILATED BY CAPITAL RADIO GO TO: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~nsheff/xfm/index.html for the full story and help save XFM! ****************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
participants (1)
-
Jonathan Wren