A Summer Wasting is one of those songs that I wish did utterly describe my situation - it should have done if there was any justice - but far from the time passing easily this summer I was working full time in a stuffy library in Brighton. "7 weeks of Danielle Steel / 7 weeks of people arguing about fines / 7 weeks of standing up all day." Come to think of it, would b&s on the radio sandwiched between slices of the musical equivalent of additive-ridden white bread actually leach out the quality, highlighting the (very occasional) annoying bits and losing all the flavour? Hm. I've been thinking that it's actually a really natural thing for people to want to keep their favourite bands to themselves (despite what I said yesterday). It's like a private joke (no offence b&s), an 'our song' writ large, and a sort of calling card. At the moment, if you meet someone who likes B&S (or other non-huge band) you have a certain expectation of the type of person they are, and at the moment it would probably be quite accurate. B&S stand for certain things (I think) such as sincerity and romance and sensitivity and simplicity and difference and being interested in life and people, so sharing a taste for them is like a shorthand for sharing other things. The more people like them, the harder it becomes to guarantee this. Or am I just talking utter bollocks? Archel x ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101@york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+