Sinister: It hurts my head MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOGS and other remembrance of things past

[Laura Llew]

Like Sarah, I have to be careful with pixies lyrics myself. Sometimes I will 
mutter songs under my breath and, really, the last thing I want to be heard 
saying while at work is, "I was hoping to get her in the sack." However, I 
suppose if I changed "her" to "you" it might be better for sales.

For whatever reason, I happen to associate the Pixies with Spring so I tend 
to listen to them more around this time. In fact, this year I decided to 
listen to a different album of theirs each week. It was ideal to be able to 
be completely immersed in one album for days on end. I fell in love with 
them all over again and rediscovered things I had never picked up before. A 
couple of years ago I did a little poll asking different people what their 
favorite Pixies album was. Boys usually answered with Doolittle or Trompe Le 
Monde. Whereas girls usually liked Surfer Rosa the best. Only one person 
liked my personal favorite the best as well. Poor Bossanova.

Today last year, Belle & Sebastian were playing their first show in New York 
City which I was happy enough to see. Of course, I didn't see the second 
show where they played "Slow Graffitti" or I would have had to die on the 
spot from having all my dreams come true. It was absolutely the most 
fantastic weekend of my entire life as I stayed in downtown Manhattan by my 
lonesome while spending the evening aimlessly wandering the city by myself 
with my days occupied by going to the Booksellers convention with sinister 
Laurel who I completely adore. Of course, it was also around that time that 
I decided that the world should never count on me to create peace or solve 
hunger problems if I ever come across a lamp on which to make three wishes. 
Though I might feel mild regret as I sit with perfect skin and health until 
I am distracted my very own chocolate covered boy. I also told Laurel that 
she shouldn't count on me to stay with her if I had happen to lay eyes on 
Daniel Handler while at the show for I would have latched myself to his leg 
quicker than you can yell, "Count Olaf!".

The cover b&s played that night was Staying Alive.  I remember that when 
Stuart asked the crowd if he should play Staying Alive because it had such a 
huge potential to be really bad, I found myself wanting more than anything 
to hear the song. It's either a sign of devotion or a sign of a psychotropic 
drug prescription just waiting to be written.

Either way, I was happy--
Laura

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