I too have been out-raged by the lack of interest in Stuart David leaving the band. Anyone would think the kids just *didn't care*. I know you all think he smells of piss and everything, but imagine how hurt he'd be if he found out how expendable he's considered. I'm starting to think Sinister is a bit freaky after all. There's this hilarious scene in 'American Beauty' where the daughter and her starey-eyed saintly boyfriend have a showdown with blondebitch and scream something like "You're so ordinary. We're freaks. We'll always be freaks so ner." It's a bit like 'Misshapes' but with less panache. OK, so I did take time out from emptying the bins to remark upon the latest news, but I didn't have much to say, did I? Why can't we think of anything much to say? Maybe it's because it was such predictable news, even when Carsmile Steve started the rumour. Or maybe it's because everyone thought A Space Boy Dream was an 'ill-advised excursion into leaden-booted funk'. Oh no, that was 'Barbarism Begins at Home'. I think he's an important member of the band, even if he just plays bass and writes a mix of cutesy singalongs and breakbeat babblings. I can't put your finger on why, but his presence somehow matters. He's the Bez of Belle & Sebastian. I do like 'Winter Wooskie'. I think it's his best song he's written about him and wee Karn's terrific romance. 'Paper Boat' is a just a bit *too* wet, even for me. I don't mean any of this very much. Well anyway, if no one is inspired to talk about the latest news, I'm going to revert to replying to messages from the archive. This week, late October 1997: Walter [jacques.buron@wanadoo.fr] wrote:

I've just read this in a french fanzine (Crême Anglaise, there's also an interview of Stuart David and Chris Geddes in it...) Stephen, of The Pastels, is answering a question about his hobbies :

" I'm working in a library. I'm doing some writing also. I'm actually qoing to do a book with Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian. We're going to tell the story of Glasgow music from Orange Juice. It may be a book, but it will probably end up as a pamphlet! To both of us Orange Juice was a really important thing. We are very close to each other in Glasgow, we have so many things in common..."

Whatever happened to this idea? It sounds like a surefire bestseller. Maybe they fell out over whether 18 Wheeler warranted a chapter all to themselves. ****** Johnston, John CT wrote:

The thing about Monica's bit on LLPJ is that it's so not Belle & Sebastian. Which makes it all the more great. Like the crazy keyboards on the as yet unreleased (how cool am i??) Tigermilk [the track not the mysterious lost album of the Incas] when they played it at Oxford; it was like a new texture or new dimension to their sound. Suddenly the band were rocking, or even rockin' (blimey!). That's what I love about B&S - so much variety yet with a clear common thread that keeps their work coherent.

Phew yeah - and whatever happened to the rockin' Tigermilk. I never heard it myself. When did they last play it? Scottish bands like doing this 'track named after previous album' thing, don't they? 'The Scream' (I love it when rachel says this) and the Jesus the Mary Chain have done it as well. ****** Commenting on Stuart D's 'Little Ink Movies', Andy Dean wrote:

duke:

...

Chris is wearing 'metallic sky blue nail polish'. Nice to know that others are following the manifesto as set down by the Living Room Collective back in April ;-)

chris was wearing nail polish at the borderline gig last november.

Has anyone been keeping track of what Belle & Sebastian members have been wearing on their nails since then? ****** Last and least, Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta wrote:

I suggest breaking an egg into the back of the broken computer. It usually works for most things.

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