BASFOTD
In the winter of 1996, Belle and Sebastian, trapped in a snowstorm on Kangchenjunga—the highest mountain in India and the third-highest mountain in the world, with a name that translates roughly to “Five Treasures of the Snow”—were confronted with a Bengal fox, disgruntled, out-of-place, and hungry, as Bengal foxes feed on rats, reptiles, crabs, termites, and melons, mostly, none of which are easily found in snowstorms on high mountains between Nepal and Tibet, and the band, who had little to defend themselves with except for Sarah’s violin and Stevie’s guitar, killed the starving thing, allegedly out of sympathy but much to the frustration of keyboardist and vegetarian Chris, who convinced Stuart to write a piano-heavy tribute to the animal, titled “Fox in the Snow,” considered to be either one of the band’s greatest songs or one of its silliest, and included as track five on the group’s second album, If You’re Feeling Sinister, which also carries tracks titled “Mayfly” and “Judy and the Dream of Horses,” suggesting a rather consuming preoccupation with living creatures but, notably, no interest whatsoever, not even in “Fox in the Snow,” in the beleaguered status of Tibet.
[This has been a Belle and Sebastian Fact of the Day, now with some fictional elements, as previous BASFOTDs have been critized as being “really lame.” Belle and Sebastian play the Paramount on March 25.]
I liked the one about them being virgins better.