Quote of the "month"
October 2006
"I still cry everyday," she says softly. "I think about Mary all the time. We've been to all these places with her," she says looking around the venue in which we're sitting. "Now we have to establish new memories without her and it's really hard."
"This album is many things, but it is mainly us turning our backs to the non-life that might be death or to depression turning your back to that. Not blocking it out because sadness is there and there are things that have happened that can take a long time to heal. It's not denial but certainly looking forward."
"Once you're in this process there is no going back. And there is no point anyway." - Laetitia Sadier, on recording the album Margerine Eclipse following the death of fellow Stereolab member Mary Hansen, from Umbrella Music interview, 8 May 2004.
Office stuff
You know you've reached a new low when you're forging signatures on a birthday card. The "book department" gave the store manager a book (so, you know, our supervisor picked it out and bought it on a procurement card or something), so we all had to sign the birthday card. Unfortunately, by the time she got the card around, two members of the staff had left. So, we got two people who could copy their handwriting styles to sign again with the other peoples' names.
