Hello happy bunnies Ha! I'm in a good mood today - we've managed to get our house for next year, but the best news is that all seven of us bar one are B&S fans, so we will have the ultimate B&S community. You can all come round for picnics and wild parties on long summer evenings. Has anybody got the lyrics to 'The loneliness of the middle distance runner'? I got a copy of this a few days ago (cheers Stuart!), and I was trying to work them out, but there are bits that still make absolutely no sense the way I hear them. Is it going to be on the next EP? Hope so, it's become one of my favourite B&S songs. Speaking of which, I was listening to '...Sinister' yesterday, and it dawned upon me why I hadn't voted on the fanclub site... as each song started it instantly became my favourite song on the album - for different reasons, the title track because of the lyrics, such wonderful lyrics like '...' oh there's no need to write them down, you know them as well as i do. And the gloriously sad but beautiful 'the boy done wrong again', 'all that i wanted was to sing the saddest song, and if you will sing along, i will be happy..' The emotions i go through in one hearing of the album range right through tears and elation - there's a song for every mood, and it all combines to create a masterpiece of unimaginable beauty. Sorry, i'm blathering now, it's just something really beautiful only comes along every now and again, and sometimes this album hits home so much that i'm just in awe of it. Can anybody tell me about Serge Gainsbourg? - I got a couple of CDs of his a week ago - 'comic strip' and 'le jazz dans le ravin', and I am very impressed by them - it's just I've heard his name mentioned on the list before. These two albums are compilations, I think, but I was wondering if there are any other records that I should get by him? Ah well, I'll be going now then Love, Rob xx P.S. a couple of amusing belle and sebastian anagrams, if you like that sort of thing: Intense baseball ad Absent slain beadle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------