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[Youn J. Noh]

Hi there Sinister,

Props to Alasdair for posting the transcript of the press conference.  
This is my favorite part (and the part about the bus pass).

> SM: The album title actually came from a piece of graffitti written on
> the back of a toilet door. It was 1986 and I was new to the college and
> new to the city and I thought: "Why should somebody write that? Is that
> from a book that I should have read?" I was very impressionable at the
> time and it seemed like a really smart and serious thing; it really
> stuck in my head.

Isn't it nice to imagine Stuart wandering around the university, looking
grave and impressionable?  I like the way Stuart recounted it; clearly
everything I said in my previous post about Stuart not being reconciled to
his past is nonsense.  Most everything he says seems full of good sense
and not pretentious and gentle and friendly.  Even when he curses.

I ordered "Legal Man" online.  I haven't been to any record stores in my
neighborhood.  I think it's because I feel too old.  Young people today
are too cool to be awkward like indie(?) kids used to be in the past.
That's what happened in the transition from minority to majority status:
the difference between the eighties and the nineties.  And in the aughts
will it get any better (or no worse)?  On Sunday, I went to the store and
saw a really nice looking boy.  He was carrying a carton of orange juice.
He had on a navy blue jacket and an orange T-shirt.  He was really pale
and had dark hair and the nape of his neck looked really delicate.  It
would be like kissing the creamy petals of some flower.  Oh, if I could
seem him every Sunday, how happy I would be!  

On Monday, he officially called her "my girlfriend".  Is it incredibly
naive to have believed that he could live alone with her and not be with
her?  

Robin's posts always seem to be out of the twenties or thirties when
people rode bicycles with one huge wheel and one small wheel and most
everybody lived in a small town and there was this grocer boy and a
village green and bright sunshine and walking by the river, sort of like
the "Rico and Fergus in Ayr" picture.  Fergus - a very proper name.

All right.  Good-bye for now.  Youn




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