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***B&S FOR JUNTA***
hi folks.  this message originally contained lots of political stuff, but it
was meant pretty much for stuart gardiner, and since i just found out that i
accidentally sent this post to stuart's address (sorry stu!  cheers!) i will
remove the political stuff, it was just sort of a discussion with him
anyway.  the orginal title was "Vote: Kim Gordon wants you to" and basically
all it said was that i think it's better to vote than to refrain.
but it did inspire this scenario of a sinister revolution, which has now
been extrapolated...

***SINISTER REVOLUTION***
Cardigan-wearers of the world, unite and take over!
  A plethora of indie kids mumble shyly into megaphones, heads bowed,
shuffling down the street to the sounds of "Panic" by the Smiths.  their
placards, extolling the virtues of corduroy, are upside down.  they are
flanked by hundreds of vespas and those little bottle-green cars with white
racing stripes on the top, but most of them are just washed along on a flood
of tears.  indie record store assistants from around the country stand and
watch with their arms folded, cos they're too cool.
  the line of stormtroopers blocking the children's path wave their batons
menacingly, but there is something niggling at the back of their
(collective, cos they are police) mind.  it starts having flashbacks to when
it was at school... and what it sees causes it to go against years of
training and divide up into its original constituents!  the pigs' visors
start to fog up as their individual minds return and memories flood back:
some of them were picked on at school... some of them were the dickheads
throwing the rocks... DISSENSION IN THE RANKS!  one half starts beating the
other half up, as their highly-trained bully instincts revert to just plain
bully instincts.  meanwhile the indie kids just shuffle past, and the
inflatable Stuart Murdoch and Morrissey figures float overhead in a
charmingly revolutionary manner.  once the state is toppled, the very next
item on the agenda is to destroy ibiza.

***JENOWL ROCKS***
i'd like to offer support to Jen, whose posts i have loved and
eagerly anticipated since i joined less than two months ago.  everyone knows
that the highest levels of indie hipness are only reached by those who had
it rough in their school years.  i can't imagine you ever giving in or
selling out or whatever, but still... don't.  you're GRATE.

***I AM A MISSIONARY MAN****
and i'd like to congratulate myself for creating my first B&S-luvvin friend,
simply by lending her TBWTAS.  hopefully before long her love will turn to
an obsession.  hope it works on my girlfriend too, who has the cd now when i
reelly feel like leestening to it.  also i will soon be a part of a tape
trade, so i can spread the soft word even further.  has anyone ever
considered a sinister tape trade?  that'd be BIG.

***O COME O COME.  O COME.****
what was that address where you could hear the come song?

*(political stuff removed here... if you really want to hear why i think you
should vote, email me:)*

it's hard not to be extremely concerned
about political things if you live in australia at the moment.

love ben, who hopes australia's "left" party doesn't continue
down the path it is treading, lest we end up like america.  and who spends
his spare time hanging DJs.  xo

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