Sinister: Finally a face to go with your name.

Sun Jun 17 17:06:48 BST 2001

I am a jealous individual.  Providence, RI is my home.  If I were living in 
Europe, I would be having the time of my life right now.  I'd almost 
definately be at every picnic and B&S performance.  I once told someone that 
if B&S came any where in the U.S. I'd already have my tickets in hand.  Will 
they ever come here?!?!?

I bought the new single on tuesday.  Its incredible.  Mine is a promotional 
copy.  I'm not so sure it was actually for sale, but I convinced the guy 
from behind the counter that it was.

So, as I have never come across any postings from Providence locals, I'll 
tell a little about this city for anyone caring to read.  The city is small, 
its located on the east coast situated in the middle of the metropolitan 
cities of Boston and New York.  The city has become more beautiful as time 
progresses.  Our mayor is actually under endictment for laundering.  This 
really surprises no one in the state since everyone here knows that we're a 
mob run state.  So right now I'm not exactly making Providence sound too 
nice.  But it really is.  There are not so nice sections of the city 
obviously, but the city is renovating itself.  The difference of this city 
in the last six years is astounding and we actually do owe it all to our 
corrupted mayor.  There are public works of art located all over the east 
side and downtown.  There are many green parks where these artworks are 
displayed.  We have famous collegiate schools.  Rhode Island School of 
Design.  We also have the famed Ivy League school of Brown University.
We have some nice record stores here, one in particular is overrun with 
pretentious assholes.  I try not to enter that store.  Another record store 
is owned by a nice kid named Al Barkley.  Its a diy punk rock record store.  
He doesn't sell Belle & Sebastian but he does have the latest "the 
(international) noise conspiracy" record.

We have these nice Ice Cream stands that sell DoleWhip.  which was 
advertised as dairy free.  Its this soft serve ice cream that apparently is 
made out of fruit.  Well, finally someone decided to look at the ingredients 
a year later and found out that the "pasty-faced vegans" were not eating a 
vegan delicacy as it contains a sodium casinate...a milk derivitive.  It 
wasn't a happy day in mudville after that.

We have quite a few nice places for underground music performance.  The most 
common for bigger bands from out of town is "Lupo's", and its more modest 
sidekick "The Met".

The next best place to attend a great show is at Fort Thunder although..they 
might have actually stopped putting on shows.  Its an loft in a huge 
warehouse building.  The place is an incredible arrangement of anything they 
find, make, or break placed on the walls, floors, ceilings.  It is/was the 
coolest spectacular live-in art space.  I can't even describe it 
efficiently. I remember one time they hosted a halloween party with a maze 
as the entrance.  This maze was so well constructed and to top it off they 
had different people with various analog/digital synths creating sound.  the 
maze took us about 10 minutes to go through.

Due to Fort Thunder not being able to put on shows, they have another 
smaller space called Munch House.  I saw Calvin Johnson and the 
singer/guitarist of Wolf Colonel play there acoustic.

We have the AS220, its more of an theater/poetry reading spot, than a place 
for bands.  They have lots of different workshops, including a dark room, 
and there is always an art exhibit.  Although I have seen many bands play 
there.  Ida being the best.  They are incredible live.

Another place for bands to rock is in my friends basement.  Its usually punk 
rock bands but still the kids are usually very friendly.

Well...I've been sitting here writing for about an hour and the tenth time 
i've listened to "Sing Jonathan David"  so i'm going to finish up before I 
stop liking this CD.

I will end this story with my best friend jeremy, left me for Europe.  I 
think he plans on living in Brussels.  I told him that since he has the 
opportunity to see B&S...take advantage and send me something.  If you see a 
nice lad by the name of Jeremy in Brussels...tell him I said I miss him.

love,
timmyhiles
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