Sinister: I wish I was at home with a big bag of potato chips ... mmmmm ... potato chips

[Lawrence Mikkelsen]

righto, it's been a while, so goes everything I've been musing over in the
last few days.

***ELECTRONIC RENAISANCE***
It's BRILLIANT. One of my all time favourite B&S songs. People slag it off
a lot, and I don't really know why. Sure, it's deritive, but in all honesty
I think prety much all of "Tigermilk" is. Not in a bad way ... (it's my
favourite B&S album), but it is definately an album which wears its
influences on it's sleeve, whereas I think that on subsequent releases B&S
have developed a very unique sound of their own. With "Tigermilk" you have
your Smiths songs ('The State I Am In' and 'I Could Be Dreaming'), your
Velvet Underground song ('You're Just a Baby' - surely the most UNDERRATED
B&S song ever!), Love ('Expectations', 'She's Losing It') and the English
Pastoral Folk-meets Simon and Garfunkel songs ('Mary Jo, 'We Rules the
School'). And of course the New Order song - 'Electronic Renaisance'. Dont
get me wrong though ... I'm not saying "Tigermilk" is pastiche. Far from it
... I think that, as a debut album it is a clear statement of intent. It's
Stuart Murdoch saying "when I say 'nobody writes them like they used to so
it may as well be me' - the this is what I mean!". And it works a charm.

That was a little incoherent, on hindsight.

Probably nobody but fellow New Zealander Ian Halliday will appreciate this,
but the Member of Parliment with the eyepatch here made a joke in parliament
yesterday about Nation Party MPs engaging in beastiality. It was a beautiful
moment for New Zealand politics ...... Cheers Grant.

***NICK DRAKE AND EBAY***
I use eBay quite a lot, grudgingly. I really hate the whole idea of
"bidding" for something, but picked up the entire Lilac Time back cataloge,
super cheap, as well as an original Postcard LP od Josef K's "The Only Fun
in Town", so I can't really complain. However, I come from a western
country, where haggling is frowned upon, and have been bought up believing
that the price on the tag is what you pay, no arguments. Anyway, I was
looking at Nick Drake stuff there the other day, and saw some guy selling a
Nick Drake CD-R of demos for US$55.00. He then had at the bottom of his ad
"I have a few of these, so if you don't win, e-mail me". ie. I can make as
many copies as I like and flog them off at $55 a piece. Anyway, something in
me snapped. I don't usually like complaining, but I thought "this is
exploitation!" and complained to eBay, because selling CD-Rs is against
their rules. So they removed the ad. So some bastard in England somewhere
will be cursing me for robbing him of untold riches of the back of Nick
Drake fans.

Which brings me to my next point ....

***BELLE & SEBASTIAN LIVE AT THE SUPPER CLUB, NYC***
I see this advertised on eBay quite a bit. I was under the impression that
Jeepster normally contacted Ebay and sellers of bootlg items and had them
removed. But this CD always seems to slip through the net. Does that mean it
is an "official bootlg" or some sort of promo or something? Secondly, does
anyone know where I could get one from? Reading between the lines, it looks
like most of the ones being auctioned on eBay are CD-Rs, and I really object
to people making a profit from merely duplicting their CD collection. Thus,
if I'm going to spend money I want a "real one". If anyone could help me in
this quest, I'd appreciate an e-mail off list. Thanks ......

***FREAKS AND GEEKS***
Have we talked about this??? (I'm assuming it hasn't ben on in the UK?)
American fans ... do you not think this is the most brilliant, realsitic
look at college life ever? It is the complate opposite of Dawson's Creek and
their ilk. The teenagers are actually liek teenagers. They are not
"beautiful people" and they do not tak like 30=somethings with 10 years of
intense therapy behind them. And "issues" don't get solved in an hour. it is
brilliant brilliant brilliant. But I believe it was canned after one seasn.
Am I right?

(phew)

Long one tonight.

Goodnight kids .... and if anyone can help me with the Supper Club thing,
please get in touch.

Lawrence Mikkelsen
http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme
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