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[duke of harringay]

"Blake E. Hamilton" wrote:
> "Oh, that would be Beth, Beth Currasco"

hey, i know Beth. she used to turn tables round in the Clubhouse bar,
before they closed it down. i used to go in and talk to her nights, she
had this dress shot through with silver thread. i tell you it's true,
it's the same girl. i always found that 'hello beth, my name is [insert
nom de plumme here]. how are you?' worked well. but hey, what do i know?

what was it the media were trying to say about belle and sebastian fans?
something about them being shy and retiring and something else? couldn't
talk to hostesses? that must have been it.

sorry, i don't mean to be mean... i know the score. been there, done
that, hopefully will never do it again too. write her a poem on a table
napkin. or some of stuarts lyrics if you want... worked for me in New
Orleans, but that's another story entirely.

attentive long term readers will remember that this time last year i was
sending you all mail from a room in a Cornish hotel. this year it is
from my trusty back room... we just tried to have a party but the
duchess got ill and so now it is a non party, i am here typing this and
the duchess is downstairs feeling poorly. the duchess is watching
something on cable and i am listening to Spies of Rota by Appliance. it
is very good, naturally.

we don't seem to have very much luck with parties in this house. a
couple of years ago our next door neighbour was murdered whilst we
carroused. i think there's a curse on me to be not very social... i even
tried playing some belle and sebastian earlier to appease the gods but
to no avail.

bugger.

i hope everyone is all aquiver at the prospect of the bowlie. chalet
shenanigans sound like they should be a lot of fun... certainly more fun
that watching the pastels, but then again what isn't?

sarah: you should never, i repeat NEVER have made public your ideas
about shirt slogans. you know what these record label people are like,
they eavesdrop on conversations, hear lovely ideas and than prey on
people's lack of resources and/or concern about turning ideas into
realites and before you can say 'pish', they've gone and made the
t-shirts themselves and have made a tidy profit on it all. then they get
uptight because they think that 'we', the punters are having a go at
notions of independence and such like when in all reality we're just
having a self-deprecating laugh in the face of notions of independent
identity in this post-modernist and pre-dissolution accelerated cultural
society.

perhaps.

and on the subject of shoddy marketting devices, anyone coming to Pam's
pre-bowlie bash at the betsey trotwood on thurs, the advice is get there
early in order to receive your limited edition Piezoelectric Unit
booklet, titled 'the ballad of the duke of harringay'. there's only
going to be around 20 copies, so if you are going to be there and you
want to 'reserve' your copy, send me a private mail pronto. there's also
going to be maybe 20 new edition Belle Lettres packs, complete with
colour cover and some colour prints inside. wahey! again, mail me
private if you want to put one aside for you. the belle lettres edition
is £2.00... there may also be artwork or postcards to buy too, so bring
some cash and/or sexual favours to barter with :-)

shoddy marketing device over.

one more whisky soda, Galaxie 500 now on the system. 

i have to go

keep the faith,
the duke

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