Sinister: "all i wanted was to sing the saddest song"

[Marie Elia]

hello, sinisterites... okay, post three.  see?  i can keep track b/c  
it takes so much for me to get the guts to post....

anyway, perhaps someone already mentioned this, but i was reading  
Rolling Stone today (which is absolute crap, and even though i  
haven't renewed my subscription, they keep sending it...), and there  
was this interview with Pavement, about their new recording, and they  
said they produced "pretty much hard rock, with a couple wussy songs.   
That way we can still reel in Belle and Sebastian fans."  this sort  
of makes me... well, unsettled... i haven't listened to a whole lot  
of pavement, but i've pretty much liked what i heard, but this  
comment irks me quite a bit.  like, "hey we can tap into a fan-base  
of senstive indie rockers if we tack on a few sappy songs" or  
something.  i detect sarcasm, but why joke about these things?  


anyway, i am languishing away here in western pennsylvania...  
although it was very sunny and quite lovely today -- an oddity for  
february...  kids were wearing shorts!  


now i will sign off... but first, kisskiss to the always-more-often  
poster here in meadville, kimmy!  incidentally, kimmy and i went to  
see "she's all that" the other night, and it was very sad.  as in,  
pathetic -- don't do it!  you will only lose faith that there might  
still be awkward, shoe-gazing, collage-making, book-reading kids out  
there... ones that DON'T harbor a secret desire to become "popular."

okay, i will mercifully end now.  for real.
take care,
marie

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
      +---+  Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list  +---+
 To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". To unsubscribe
   send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
 "majordomo at majordomo.net".  For list archives and searching, list rules,
   FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister
          +---+   "legion of bedroom saddo devotees"  +---+
 +-+  "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list"  +-+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+