Sinister: Canada Wouters

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Police sirens flash by somewhere. We seem to be in for a bit of a spell, as 
they used to say in 'Porridge'.


Steady Mik' swallowed (properly):

>>There have been mumblings about the Decline Of Belle and Sebastian.
[...]
>>If we scale up these little barrels of
fructive goodness to, say, the approximate size and complexity of a
Scottish pop band, we see the gap between Lithe and Frowsy expands
to, ooh, about four years.


I don't think that he was saying that Bananas & Sebastopol (Road) had 
declined. I *think* he was saying, in a clever and witty way (which I've 
just deleted from this account), that people's perceptions inevitably change 
and weary, in an unfortunate fashion that can't be helped. But you know, now 
I'm not so sure. Maybe he really *was* jumping on the rag-and-bone wagon of 
'decline'. His 'model' (incomplete) seems to imply a change in the object 
itself rather than just in some external perception of it. You see, you 
start trying to reply to one of these things and, after 20 seconds, you're 
no longer sure what it was actually saying in the first place. It's like 
taking a bounce on the iterated flip-board of uncertainty.

Under seashell clouds and gilded sun I went to a quiz yesterday, in Quebec, 
SE London. The Belmondoes fought the Sebergs to a tie-break with serves, 
volleys, headers, backhands, bungs, lobs, blobs, aces, jacks, straws, 
tic-tac toe, tic-tacs, iron maces, mace, Macy's, JC Penney, Woolworth, 
Woolco, Wilco (hence 'Dreddie'), banana kicks, avocado shakes, strawberry 
switchblades, orange crushes, pear shapes, partridge families, five gold 
rings, girls from Ipanema, Girl Talk, cherry bombs, sherbert dips, EMF 
records, Sandrine stones, UK CDs, Brazilian mistakes, aisler diagrams, Venn 
setts, badgers' houses, necking swallows, Santangelis faults, seconds 
alight, the sweetest punches, left hooks, right cheeks, middle distances, 
long shots, short order cooks, 96 tears, ring roads, black orchids, Flakey 
almond slices, the bride's trousseau, fifer's lanes, les bouts de souffle, 
paris kisses, glasgow smiles, london eyes and ears of (sweet)corn, with 
tuna. Cuba and Argentina were involved. It was high noon in Iceland. As the 
two teams staggered to their feet one last time, DJ Michael Wood of the LRB 
played 'Paradise City', and the tie-break question was announced: which is 
the best Belle and Sebastian ep?

Stevie T saw his chance and took it. 'This Is Just A Modern Rock Song', he 
yelled, as Popkins leapt across the table in slow locomotion to try to stop 
the catastrophe. It was too late. Les belles Sebergs correctly announced the 
winner as '3...6...9', and the grand prix was theirs. We had to be content 
with 'Bandwagonesque'.


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