Sinister: Introduction & a truckload of questions

[Reid]

Hello.  I've just joined this list, just a few short days after learning
that it existed (like I'd hoped) and just a few short months after
finding Belle and Sebastian.

The main reason I joined is to ask questions, which I have a ton of.  If
anyone has the answers, I would greatly appreciate them.

1) I bought the "Dog On Wheels" single the other day (they had
three-count 'em-THREE copies in a record store in downtown Chapel Hill.
I take back everything bad I ever said about no good imports in North
Carolina!).  So I'm listening to "The State That I Am In", and I notice
a huge scratch noise in the line "I gave myself to sin".  So, of course,
I took it back to the store, but the other two copies had the scratch
too.  Now, I couldn't not have it, so I just have to deal with that
scratch.  The question is: Is this something that other people have
found on their copies?  Or is this just a bad batch?  Should I even be
thinking about going through the trouble to try and get another one?

2) B&S's singer is Stuart Murdoch, right?

3) Did anyone else swoon when they heard about that B&S show with
Magnetic Fields (who are great on album and unbelievably beautiful live)
in a courtyard in Barcelona?  It's such a gorgeous thought, I have a
hard time believing that it ever happened. Was anyone on the list
there?  Was it as beautiful as I'm imagining?

Okay, so the questions aren't springing to mind just now...But I'm sure
some more will pop up.  

...I'm looking forward to this.

-Reid

-- 
"If the editors of the Manhattan Argus see fit to publish the rantings
of a disordered mind, then perhaps they will see fit to publish this
letter!"
J. Reid Dossinger (Chapel Hill, NC)
itstrue at earthlink.net or (alternate) itstrue at mailcity.com
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