Sinister: another newbie

[Margo Schubert]

hello all-
my name is margo and i was released from the nursery about a week ago.  in
a burst of overexcitement about fyhc (and in mad-procrastination mode
during finals week) i first wrote a post just a few days after joining the
list.  naturally now that i am done with school spending time writing
emails is way less appealing.  so instead of resending my first post i
thought i'd update it a bit.
i am actually a very new b&s fan, it's just been a couple months.  feels
like longer though, given the amount of time i have spent
listening/obsessing over them.  my b&s experience started on a ride home
from san francisco with my stepsister alice, my brother charlie, and our
friend tom, all of whom were already fans.  actually on the trip we were
going to reinact the moment were alice and tom first heard belle and
sebastian in a record store on haight and video it (we didn't though).  but
on the way back we were listening to a minidisc of all the singles and i
was like, "wow this is such beautiful music!".  that night i had a dream
that was in sort of this galaxy setting with all the starts and planets and
someone was saying how belle and sebastian was the best band ever.  so i
began to experience some severe repressive desublimation (marcusian term
for the sexualizing of objects) over needing to buy b&s albums.  so about a
week later i went and bought tigermilk and sinister and left the store so
happy, i was just bouncing down the street.  i pretty much fell in love
with both those albums right away.  both fyhc and arab strap have taken
longer to grow on me.
i want to say i feel really privileged about how accomodating my local
record store is of belle and sebastian merchandise in comparison to  of
what some of you guys have experienced.  the day i went to buy fyhc (the
day it was released in the us) they had this huge b&s display in the window
with about a million posters (not to mention the new album was playing) and
when i walked up to the counter with fyhc the guy working there said, " i
had a feeling this is what you were going to buy this when you walked in,
you had that belle and sebastian gallop", which i thought was really cool.
i think i am building myself a bit of a reputation there.  after asking on
about three separate occasions if i could have a poster or two when the
display came down, they told me to leave a note for them to save me one,
and when i was writing it they presented me with my very own bwtas poster,
which was the one i wanted.  they probably just wanted to shut me up.
so, that is basically my introduction.  also i am going to be travelling
around europe for a month, starting on monday and will be in the uk the
last week of july if there is anyone who wants to meet up in london or
something or even just email me to tell me the cool places to go--i would
really appreciate it.
-margo 
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