Sinister: Getting back to basics... what's wrong and what's right.

[duke of harringay]

not going out to northy cos i don't care about him, i care about YOU....

> This list stinks
>
> all I have encountered from this list is hate.

to love something you need to hate it's perceived opposite... if that's
not evident to you then i don't really care.  Pop is about
confrontation, about drawing (personal) lines and standing by them.  So
those lines might change frequently, but that's not the point.  it's
having them that counts.

> Just ask members of the Catatonia list.  They think this list stinks
> as well.

i'm glad, because to me Catatonia are a load of irrelevent nonsense.
they have bugger all to do with my Pop life, and that's fair enough.
I'm glad that they think this list stinks because i think B&S are so
massively removed from the Catatonic dirge of theirs...

> Roll on Conservatives.  Probably needn't bother now looking at
> Labour.  Still, people should realise that both traffic jams and
> hierarchy are essential to a thriving economy.

who gives a toss about labourconservative any more.  it doesn't take a
seer to know that there's no left and right anymore, just subtle shifts
in the murky middle ground.  to say roll on conservatives is pointless
because when you stop and look around, what the fuck has changed?  what
the fuck will change?  just more and more governmental controls designed
to keep the nation under the rule of the few.  why bother hoping for the
return of the tories?  it won't change a thing, not in the current
guise... only if they go loony right wing will they be threateningly
different.  i want to know why you are putting any hope in politics at
all?  if you're so pissed off why are you not organising demonstrations,
why are you not rioting and burning property?  apart from the obvious
reasons i mean...

this goes out to everyone actually... i mean, what's wrong and what's
right.  What do you love, and what do you hate?  do you even know?  or
are you content to go through the rest of your life in a cloud of
consumptive manipulation?  Surely one of the things that the rise of
Belle & Sebastian have told us is that if you want to do things on your
own terms, you CAN DO IT. if all B&S end up meaning is a bunch of
records and people consuming the product, than it's a failure, at least
in my eyes, and that's all that matters.  I don't really care what the
band say about it.... it's in my/our hands now and it's what we do with
the spirit that's what matters.

And where did the spirit go anyway?  Why don't you listen to B&S and
want to SCREAM and go and create and draw lines that say THIS IS
BEAUTIFUL and THAT IS HATEFUL.  i  know it makes me feel this way...

but i'm just a dreamer, a poor righteous teacher.

keep the faith, kids.

the duke


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