Sinister: My sadness

[Alexis Petridis]

Blake wrote:

>Why?  It's that painful thing known as song association.  I just spent my
>xmas break laughing, playing, and dreaming, and now, i'm at school, and I'm
>depressed, and I miss my friends.  All last month we'd be driving around,
>singing along to B&S, with the windows down, and the wind was everywhere.  I
>can't imagine how bright the sun was those days, for it might have blinded
>me instantly if I had glanced into the yellow core.
>
>Now, as I lay in my room, and listen to Slow Graffitti, I become a prisoner
>of my own sadness.  It's all I think about--how it used to be, and how I
>wish it was again.  The fault doesn't lie with B&S, but rather, with me.  My
>own legion of sadness comes from this association with B&S--happiness.  I
>think that's why they make music in the first place.
>

Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what you mean, but but but!!!! There's a really
good way of looking at this as well. If listening to Slow Graffitti totally
churns your head at the moment, because you associate it too much with time
passed, that means that song is burned into your head, it's part of your
memories of that time. And, hopefully, in five year's time, you'll listen to
it and be totally transported back to your bright sun shining/car
driving/wind driving xmas break of 1998/9. Which is a lovely thing to
happen. I do it all the time, there's loads of records that are really
heavily associated with certain great eras in my life, and even now, old and
decrepit and revolting as I am, all I need to do is hear, say, 'Strawberry
Wine' by My Bloody Valentine and I'm back there again at THAT PARTY when I
was 17 and we sat in the garden at dusk and we got drunk and I snogged...

Enough. It was just totally magical stuff at the time, you know when you're
17 and the whole fucking world is in technicolour and everything, your
emotions particularly is so fucking VIVID...

 ...and the ability to relive it at will is just... just, you know?

 
 
Then he said:

>Has anyone wanted to tell someone honestly how much they mean to you?  But
>you didn't for the reason it might sound silly, or sad, or strange?

I've just discovered that I should have done exactly that with someone two
years ago. Great. Happy new year. Life pisses in my soup once more.

What's all this about Hefner bloke doing a solo gig next week? Where's the
Poetry Cafe? Is it a private party? Can I come?


Lousie Stanley wrote:
>check out "Rising for the Moon" by Fairport
>Convention - especially track 8, "Dawn"

It's good, yeah? Fairport were my band of the Summer - 'Unhalfbricking'!
'What We Did On Our Holidays'! Leige And Leif! - but I never got any further
than 1970 with them, so I never heard the later stuff Sandy Danny did with
them.You're right, her voice is just beyond belief. I've never heard anybody
sing like that in my life, it's just so totally perfect, totally pure,
clear... I think 'angelic' is the word I'm groping for. And does anyone
around here like John Martyn? 

I don't think Belle And Sebastian are going to win a Brit. Time for RIsing
Damp.

Take care,

Alexis xxxx

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