Sinister: Happiness

[Carrick C Blair]

(Was titled Happiness Stan, but I think there 
has been a block on Stans for awhile. Or a thousand 
apologies if your getting this twice.)

Hi

I better get this all out before the spirit leaves me 
yet again and I let another week slip by without sending 
out any words of any sort. There's been a few things 
that I've meant to respond to so, here it goes...

Let me see, to start....

St. Etienne
The best thing about the show in NYC was the lack of 
beats and the back up singers.

JAMRS (hey that's almost JAMMS, wasn't that a group of
some sort?)
Wonderful, beautiful, and only a month and a half old. Almost 
two months. Best moments so far have been waking up after  
a short evening nap to hear its beautiful melody wafting  
through the air and hearing it on repeat as we drove 
through the Pennsylvania countryside cautiously drinking 
our Newcastles. (and yes we were merely passengers on 
this particular journey, and we weren't going very far 
actually, just down to the pub, I guess I should say bar, but 
it did feel somewhat like a pub; ale, darts, a fire, etc.)

The Pastels
Might as well start at the beginning, or almost the beginning 
and get Suck On. Its still available in all its two versions of Baby 
Honey glory.

Tshirts
The boy/girl cartoon one is the only one that works. Why do you 
think those were the ones stolen in Manchester? They were 
looking to score with the sensitive boy/girl set.

The Stans
Sorry Tag, your wrong just like you were wrong about Daft 
Punk.  And Keith, your wrong just like you were wrong about.... 
erm, I can't think of a time when you have ever been wrong. 
That's kind of frightening.

No, not very funny, not very funny at all. 'Sensitive' was kinda 
cute in vague sort of way. And it would have been a little 
funnier about five-ten years ago, but certainly we've gotten 
past this whole sensitive, not sensitive, anorak, not anorak 
and actually I'm really HARD so SCREW you! attitude. But 
buy the end, especially how it ended with all sorts of cheap 
shot meanness directed at one Mr. McMick (someone who 
I haven't heard say a mean word about anyone, except maybe 
Lord Anthony, and that was just a average word) and his 
lovely pal Megan, it all sort went sour.  Worst of all, these kind 
of posts remind me of the Indie-Pop list, the later years. 
Very sad.

Actually the only part that was actually truly laugh out loud funny, 
was a reply by one of the Jessica's, though it might not have 
been a Jessica. The one about boys who think going out on a 
date means going record shopping, etc. That was funny, true to 
life, clever way to poke fun at the whole sensitive boy issue. Its 
something that will stick in my head, and didn't take cheap 
shots at other peoples expense. The other stuff was just lazy 
humor. 

And just how we will not tolerate lazy comparisons to 
Nick Drake, or lazy POP music in general, we should not 
tolerate lazy humor.

End of lecture. Sorry about that, I usually don't get involved in 
these sorts of squabbles, and I went a bit over the top there 
at the end. Honey, feel free to write me to say I'm out of line. 
You see, I'm feeling somewhat fired up, having just received 
a book by the Duke. That's fired up in a good, positive way.

bye
sorry about the length, blah blah blah.

Carrick

ps Soon to follow, hopefully. A story about B&S, a 16 year old 
girl, and THE WHO. 

pps and, by the way, what every happened to Jon G and his 
sister? They disappeared around the time of the UK gigs the 
best I can remember.


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