Sinister: Guthries and the Old Soviet Republic...

[Kim]

It's been some time since my last post... though there's not much on which to update any of you, even if you did give a rat's petard... sometimes I wonder why I love this list so much, but then I remember that it's because everyone here cherishes Belle & Sebastian and uses words like "squidgy."  Thus, despite the ever-present notion that more than half of you will only lightly skim this post, as it appears to say nothing and looks none too artistic and/or creative, I post anyway.
I did find it odd that Marybeth mentioned Arlo Guthrie (well, not odd, really, because I certainly have no concrete reason as to WHY she WOULDN'T mention Arlo Guthrie, as most posts are generally random in that nature)... Still, it made me cock my head to one side like a confused spaniel, seeing as how I was thinking about relating my latest B&S plug to the list, and it happens to involve Woody Guthrie.  See, I met this adorably dark-haired, artsy-pantsed boy wearing a red "CCCP" T-shirt at a party a while back, and watched in amusement as every drunken ass in the house came to him at some point, pointed at his shirt, and said, "What does, 'Kuh-kuh-kuh-puh' mean?"  He finally sat on a futon in what seemed to be mildly inebriated frustration at the low level of brain activity going on around him, so I decided to lower the quotient even more by speaking to him... turns out I'm not so stupid, and he wasn't too frustrated to speak.  His name is Nick.  We waxed philosophy for some !
time, and ended up talking about music (most of my conversations turn that direction anyway), and when he told me he liked Wilco, I asked him if he knew Billy Bragg, and he said yes.  Then I asked him if he know Woody Guthrie (I was thinking of the Billy-Bragg/Wilco tribute albums) and he actually knew who I was talking about - which in my "quaint" suburban American neighborhood is quite rare... And so I decided he was worthy of the Belle-and-Sebastian plug.  I recommended Tigermilk, simply because of its chronological placement as #1.  This was about five weeks ago, and I speak to him on the phone periodically just to chat (his adorable features and quick wit apparently make him out of my romantic-league, being that I am, comfortably, rather plain and unnoticeable).  It turns out that Tigermilk was really beginning to grow on him, until a friend of his came along and said, "You can't listen to that one.  That's one of their happy albums.  You have to hear their sadder stuff t!
o really know them..."  Thankfully, Nick is too smart to completel
l-thought-out judgements of musical material... Can any of you classify any of the B&S albumsin their entirety as either "happy" or "sad"?  If you can't, I'd love to be let in on your path of logic... 'Cause I don't see it.
Anyway, that's my story of how I made another B&S fan.  The moral of the story, really, is that you should never approach someone at a party, point at their shirt, and say, "What does 'Kuh-kuh-kuh-puh' mean?"
Hugs to you all, even the ones who don't feel like being hugged -
Kim

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