Sinister: belle and sebastian in the laundry room

[**Megan Lehar**]

so on sunday i was doing my laundry, after a fairly prolonged absence due
to business and a lack of desire to hang out in the laundry room.  which i
ended up doing.  so while i was leaning against the washer, waiting another
washer which i could pounce on, i looked around.  the decaying condom
machine (now honestly, who wants to get their birth control from a machine
that looks like it was put up around the '50s and has survived numerous
floods, but only just barely) to the bulletin board, sponsored by interview
magazine.  next to a sexy photo of an actor named paul rudd, who i don't
think i know, but may as he was looking so sexy he managed to cover his
face, there was a quote wherein he said something along the lines of, "you
can be masculine if you watch john wayne movies or masculine if you listen
to belle and sebastian.  and i do both."  aside from the lack of proper
grammar or anything, i was surprised.  i mean, the magazien chose to quote
this line, assuming college students would recognize b&s almost as easily
as john wayne.  then i was in a bookstore today, looking at a copy of the
acid house.  as i was reading the back, where they had the credits and
whatnot, some of the bands from the album were named.  belle and sebastian
were named fourth, before primal scream.  at first i was glad, but is it
wrong to feel a little sad?  i loved having something beautiful for myself,
something that i could share with a few people and wonder about.  the band
certainly haven't been corrupted or anything, but there's something
wonderful about stuart murdoch coming to mailing list picnics, and having a
group of people who know a band and can share it's name amongst themselves
like a secret handshake.  i don't mean to offend the new people, you all
are probably quite easily as lovely as any other listees i've met.  but
something about the first few is the sort of thing that probably won't
happen again.  do i make sense?  maybe it's all the work and the grey day,
i don't know.  time for bed.

xoxo
megan

mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu

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