January 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Beautiful Isabella
by Yummycats 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

Non B&S, but I know there are some tindersticks fans here and if you can't ask someone Sinister, well, who can you? I'm sure there are several other people. The Tindersticks' song with Isabella Rosalini makes me wonder if anyone else here knows if ol' Issy's done any other singing. I know the 'sticks wanted Ms. Rosa specifically because she *wasn't* a singer, but she does it well, and charmingly too. Perhaps Isabellandsebastian Rosalini could replace Monica's portion of LLPJ? For some reason I don't think that would fly... Besides, though I think I'm the minority here, I actually LIKE Monica Queen's addition to the song! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: my days comments...ooh i feel all like the queen.....heehee.
by Sarah 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

fascism? i'll tell youwho are fascists. librarians who charge you for education. bastards as for how many digest we're getting, a digest a day keeps the doctor away. well, it does for me. well, actually i did have to go becasue of my thumb but that was an injury not illness. ooh i forget john had to go cos of his foot. so i'm talking rubbish, ...jolly good then :-) heey! i'm halfway through digest 25 now and you're talking about insults! my friend and i had an hour long insult war today! am the *queen* of insults. All you other people are just so shallow, that if you started feeling sinister then i bet you'd start seeing other people and drown in your Sorrow 16! ha! we were insulting each other with song names. my lord, i should be shot. geez. hey, and i'm going to interview the Pastels too! oh lucky them is what i say. i will ask them um, um, uuum, ............oh heck. what can i ask? ooh i'll do what i usually do and let the feeling of the moments ruun :-) So, I have one friend listeeeey coing along to Preston to see los Pasteles, email me Martin for cgrissakes as i have lost your email address and your phone is engaged all the time you you phone man you. i forget to ask you on IRC. DOH! So if anyone else fancies coming along :-) please feel free to come to the glam Preston Adelphi on the 22nd. hmm. have i much else to say? nope pas vraiment. heehee, je peut parler un peu de francais aussi. at the moment our lovely topic is smoking, anti-fags propogand disguised as education. la tabagisme. qui donne un merde? pas moi. JE SORS MAINTENANT AU REVOIR! Sarah "It's not unusual to be loooved by anyone.." --Tom Jones, the MAN! blowing his sexual bugle in the orchestra of luuurve! and if you think i'm gona translate that you are very silly. actually: Ce ne pas unusual d'etre amouruse avec quelqu'n... oh lord. i reaally should be better at french. beleive or not i will be taking the alevel next year. but i dunno how to translate the blowing his sexual bugle bit. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Sex! Yeah! No B&S content! well, a PBS reference...
by Kimberly Rivas-Plata 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

Amanda wrote: >The people who have the most sex are those who have some college education >but are not college graduates, the survey found. People who have graduate >degrees are the least likely of all to frequently have sex. Great, and here I am applying to grad schools... Question here: Is it possible to obtain the sheet music for any b&s songs (specifically I'm looking for "Seeing Other People" and "Fox in the snow"). I know the guitar chords are listed on the web pages, but that doesn't help much if you want to try playing the piano bits. Anyone with a keen ear for music who would be able to translate them to notes? I tried, but with no success. thanx, kim P.S. A big THANK YOU to Amanda for sending me a TM tape! Haven't stopped listening to it since (driving my co-workers mental in the process). thank you x1000!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Sex! Yeah! No B&S content! well, a PBS reference...
by Amanda Bergman 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

unless you have some sort of overtly sexual sex/B&S thing going on, which is entirely possible... in any case. More reasons to drop out of school! And more reasons to watch PBS, even though the B&S session seems to be a moot point now. The following article appeared in our uni's daily newspaper today, and I found it most amusing. So here it is for any of you who might be interested: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- More time in school means less time in bed, study finds (Television watchers, jazz enthusiasts, Jews and agnostics are the most sexually active, the University of Chiacgo study shows.) If you want to get the most sexual pleasure out of life, drop out of college[=university]. That's the suggestion from a new study of sex habits to be published next month in American Demographics magazine. The nationwide survery of 10,000 people found that the greater their educational attainment, the less sex they had. The people who have the most sex are those who have some college education but are not college graduates, the survey found. People who have graduate degrees are the least likely of all to frequently have sex. Michael Bailey, a Northwestern associate professor who teaches Human Sexuality, said he ws somewhat surprised at the survey results. Men with lucrative jobs, such as doctors, lawyers, and businessmen have the most sexual partners because women are attracted to men with high earning potential, Baily said. But men with Ph.D.s may not be so lucky. "The Ph.D. effect for men when they're in graduate school--it's not a high-status position," Bailey said. "And when they've graduated, they don't make as much money as people with lesser degrees" such as MBAs, making them less attractive. Lyle Davis, a Northwestern graduate student who is married to a Kellogg Graduate School of Management graduate, said business students do seem to have more active social lives than students in other graduate fields. "Most graduate students are single and not dating," said Davis, 25. "They're involved in their studies pretty intensely, so they wouldn't be so active." Dropping out of school, however, is not the only way to increase your sexual activity. The survey found that people who work long hours and watch a lot of television are more sexually active than average. The best channel to watch: PBS. "Who would have thought that National Geographic specials or Ken Burns' history of baseball could get people in the mood?" the survey said. Jazz enthusiasts are 30 percent more sexually active than the average person, the survey found. Liking other types of music, such as rock, seems to be unrelated to sexual activity. While Catholics are slightly more active than Protestants, both Christian groups are 20 percent less active than Jews or agnostics. People who identify themselves as liberals have a higher sexual frequency than moderates or conservatives. "Extreme liberals" are most sexually active. However, sexual activity is also above average for "extreme conservatives." Apparently, people who are passionate about politics are passionate about other things, too. The survey was conducted by social scientists at the University of Chicago. As for their own sexual activity? Dumb question. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "How do I offend you, when I only mean to put beauty in my mind and not my mind in the beauty?" --Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: matador deal info release
by David & Katrina 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

you may be wondering what we've been up to if we can't even give you the info first as we always promise to, well, we will! except in this case the matador deal, although in it's final phases of being done, can not yet be classed as a 'signing' or 'done deal' as the band's signatures havn't yet been scrawled across the bottom of the ever important contracts. so yes, matador look like they've clinched the us deal, but... ...we'll let you know exactly when this is confirmed beyond doubt, up until then the deal is near finishing, but not yet completed. an official release will follow at the time when it is confirmed by the band (having signed), and jeepster having confirmed the action of passing the contracts back. david & katrina on behalf of the fanclub and jeepster records (for the first time in ages). -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Multiple mails (again) and fascism
by Honey 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

OK - veterans of the list (the ones who can remember the broccoli debate, say) will also remember this happening before. For some reason I can't fathom, a remote mailer goes bad and repeatedly throws back mails from the list TO the list, which bounce back to the remote mailer ad infinitum. Good plan. The tell-tale sign is multiple footers. Personal mail to/from the site wasn't affected last time. Words fail me as to the remote mail software that can be so stupid as to do this, if indeed my diagnosis is correct. If anyone has a clue about how this happens please mail me (once). The offending remote mailer was "webtv.net" (ho ho). What a surprise, not a Unix/sendmail location. Thanks to people who alerted me. I saw this late on last night, stamped on the heads of the subscribers from WebTV (who I am copying this too and must emphasise is highly unlikely to be their fault - it's their ISPs), and made mails from this location "taboo" on the list to stop the bouncy-bouncies. I can't tell which of the two WebTVers caused it so I'm afraid I've had to remove you both. Am happy to experiment privately with you for a limited period and in a controlled way that people on the list won't see - we can do this - mail me. But, to be honest, last time we didn't find a solution so, erm, if anyone else has any experience of this please let me know. Life is short, I still love you all, and sorry for the hassle. Two more things: STOP SENDING UNSUBSCRIBES/SUBSCRIBES TO THE LIST! Can I write this any bigger? Read my FAQ on the WWW pages. This is a B&S list. I hope you have all changed your middle names by now. Please keep a focus - sure talk about other bands but let's not go off in a spiral. Let's not have any more "Radiohead are crap/good" stuff - I mean, lord, I have strong opinions about this and if I can keep schtum so can you :) Just because it's not very entertaining. If you're going to post, please: 1. Either (a) talk vaguely about B&S, Murdoch's underpants, Glasgow or who we like to listen to; or (b) post something very very funny about your nose - funniness overrides the need for relevancy but you have to have a certificate in rib-tickling. Oh and swearing's good too. Tag, Susannah, Keith, Peter Miller and Chris Leonard have carte-blanche to post stuff about their hamsters because they make me giggle. They have earned their spurs. 2. Don't slag off people. I get angry at this. Be nice. Mailing lists often degenerate into mindless boring feuds. Stating strong opinions is fine, in fact a necessity, so don't think I want to make this the Magic Roundabout. 3. Don't quote a huge message and then say "Yeah". Take some time to use your editor. 432 are receiving it the other end so make it easy to read. 4. Remember who speaks for who. I speak for no-one but me - nothing to do with the record company or fanclub although they are chums. David also doesn't speak for the record company. Katrina sometimes does and sometimes doesn't. They are both doing a wonderful job so send them flowers every day please. 5. Don't tell me I'm a git. Remember the mailing list is run on borrowed resources from my employer, in my spare time. If it explodes into something too big it might have to go one day so that I keep my job. It needs a focus. Some of you will not agree with this and indeed hate me, but let's just watch and see. 6. Keep posting. Don't let me put you off. Do it now. Right that's me off your birthday presents list. I'm off to practice being Mr SweetnessAndLight again. Dina will now take over as Hit Man. Be afraid. HoneyGrump -- Smithers, release the hounds. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Levis ad (no B&S content)
by John Stuart 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

Mr Dean wrote: >and the comemrcial as well, someone mentioned, the levis >white tab jeans commercial with the herse. cool. so cool >that i went and tried a pair on (trousers were so much >better in the 60s, i see cliff richards on that bus and...). >button fly though. 8( oh, and they mentioned it was the >lilys providing the music. well, my american, er, friend >who's good at these things told me she thought it was the >apples in stereo so... I really like this song too, but it's definitely by The Lilys. Still don't know the title though. I guess it's 'Nanny in Manhattan', but I'm probably wrong. Anybody know if the singles out yet? John. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: matador deal / shameless begging
by Nicole Elger 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

My first response to the recently announced Matador deal was to join Amanda B. in her "not-so-understated dance of joy" (hmm, reminds me of the Snoopy dance, yet another Peanuts reference for you!) But then I read an article from http://www.allstarmag.com and got a bit panicky when I came to the part that said "On the touring front, it's hard to make a full swing around the States with cellos, harps, and a string section in tow, but the band does plan to play approximately eight to 10 dates in major markets closer to the release of their spring album." Hmm, what exactly are the major markets in the US and is Seattle one of these even though it's a bit out of the way? Ok, if the band is indeed reading this list from their office, I'll ditch the pride right here and resort to begging and other sad tactics. ATTN STUART MURDOCH: After the NYC shows you mentioned how great it was to see your friend Steve who lives in Seattle. Well, local rumors have it that Steve is missing you terribly and would give up his cherished umbrella and single tall lattes if only you'd visit. You see, he still doesn't have a proper boyfriend and needs a second opinion on the scores of potential improper boyfriends that are milling about Capitol Hill. Keep in mind, Seattle is as lovely as a song in the Spring and worth the long journey across those fat square western states like North Dakota and Montana. Oh, and we've got poetry on our buses here. Just say the word and I'll start scoping out all the holy places in town and sending you ink polaroids so you can choose your favorite. - Nicole, still dreaming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: nme review of manchester
by rcoleman＠husky.co.uk 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I am amused at the frequent references in the nme article to 'twee' 'mumsy-wumsy' and 'warm and happy-clappy cosy'......after all, here is a 'writer' who submits his work to a rag that needs to translate FUCKING into F-ING for him. with that in mind, presumably he was dispatched to the matine so as he could avoid those nasty dangerous manchester streets after dark. why is wells' writing so well regarded anyway? that article reads like the work of some retard sounding-off in my local 'cauliflower-ear' boozer. what a f-pig. -Rod ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Them Featuring Stuart Murdoch
by Jarrett Frankel 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I didn't really mean for my first post to the list to be quite so strange, but I thought I'd share. Yesterday I picked up the just issued Them compilation, "The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison." Quite a two disc set, highly recommended! Anyway, the reason I mention it is because, while looking at the liner notes and their accompanying photos, I couldn't help but notice the uncanny resemblance(in my mind at least) between a *young* Van Morrison and Stuart Murdoch. PErhaps I'm WAAAAY of here, as I've only ever seen Stuart M in person once(at the Sessions taping in NYC), but take a little of Van's pudge away and I think you have a pretty decent match! Hmm, yes, way off, I know. I'd also like to take this opportunity to state that "Pocketbook Angel"(or whatever it is really called, it's untitled on my cassette) is a thoroughly perfect pop song and should be on the new album and also be it's first single. "I seen her write it all down...." One last thing(and forgive me if it's been covered here ad nauseam): In "I Don't Love Anyone", what is the lyirc that begins, "If there's one thing that I learned when I was still a child it's to ________."?? And it's not the part that finishes with "be alone." Normally lyrical mysteries don't irk me so much, but I simply love this song too much not to know exactly what is being said. Any ideas are much appreciated! Nice meeting you all! rendered, rainforested & rolexed: jarrett frankel jfrankel(a)intr.net p.s. God bless Matador Records. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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