November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: sorry. 2nd mail finding solace in Belle and Sebastian
by Vanessa R. Siegl 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

sorry I have forgotten your name .... aaah alexandra Hmmm as I am quite an unhappy person in the world normally I'd definitely think that Belle and Sebastian are very good to listen to when you are unhappy cos they aren't pentrantly (ok ok I don't thibk that this word exists but you know what I mean) uplifting but don't pull you down further so I guess you should lend a cd or two to your friend or make her a tape ... love vanxxx _____________________________________________________ Forgive me for I have not sinned csaa7950(a)uibk.ac.at _gapminder(a)yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Bipperty-Bopperty hats
by WeeJay 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

Wow have you lot been busy... It took decades for all my mail to be sorted and you know when that happens something's going on... But it wasn't. Yes, we're all interested in developments with Ahren and grammatical nonsense but only *up to a point* and that means that single line e-mails directed to one person are not a good thing. I thought Honey would have intervened by now but he's dissapeared into the black hole that certain other people have re- appeared from. This is his business and I'm not getting into it, but I suggest you go and find a mailing from him called "PLEASE READ: message from list owner" before continuing in his absense. Enough of that *unpleasantness* I just got a message from robbie that was vile and sickening but not smut. More of this please. More smut too, but you've got to have a bit of variety haven't you. meanwhile I was delighted to see: > weejay (who writes a fantastic zine called -blue glow-) wrote: oh thank you teri; A shameless plug without any rebound on my character. I'm touched. BTW, if anyone has anything even remotely interesting that they'd like to write about (music related or not) get in touch, la, I'm desperate here and you can only pad something out with reviews *so much*.... On the content front I expect this has been done before but... say B&S put out a compilation of the 3 eps called, say, Songs For Children, they wouldn't fit together in the released order nonono - Elvis & Fakers would be next to each other and you wouldn't want that, and there are other problems too. So... What creative re-ordering of the tracks would you do to produce the perfect finished ordered product? I had a list but I left it at home... New tape tree tape today, thank you Dr. Nick. Haven't had one for a while but I find that that is the fault of Fluffy. I therefore take back my crush vote in disgust, leaving her with only 7 and therefore PJ gets both silver medals, one for himself and one for his friend duncan. It's got Hazey Jane I on it which is a bit spooky 'cos the last one did too. I got another tape too, a demo from a band called CC Baxter. It's not bad - Has anyone heard of them? Ok, enough sinisterines - I want to go home and eat some tomato soup. I hope you can survive squabble-free without my catalystic presence ;-) WeeJay xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No CD player in the IT centre but the last thing I listened to before leaving the house was Hunky Dory. That last track has VERY B&S lyrics, I think. And 'Queen Bitch' should have been on my tape. Never mind, eh.... James(a)twopounds.u-net.com "I know there's a lot of bass players in the audience tonight, I know living amongst the constructions that the people in power have built doesn't feel so right" mAKE UP - "We Can't Be Contained" http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/cabaret/5523/ (Which will no longer crash your computer. Hopefully.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B & S on the radio...
by Arigreen23＠aol.com 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

If anyone in the Princeton/Bucks County area noticed yesterday, the band was on 103.3 (Princeton college radio) almost half the afternoon...first the second half of TBWTAS was played, then the first...then "sinister" (practically the whole album) and then some newer stuff again. it was wonderful. also, that morning i'd played some of the second album for some people in school...one boy thought it was "neat". that's good i guess. la dee da... ari +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: HAPPY EXAMS RESULTS! and my answer to lots of posts:)
by Kin Woo 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

Hello lovely listees:) YAY! IT'S PAID OFF! What you ask? Well, listening to B&S for good luck music before exams of course! My exam results came back today and compared to my previous efforts were actually pretty good. (Ta to Jessica-GENEUS(a)aol.com for enquiring so nicely all those weeks ago) Now all those nights of 2-3 hour sleeps are behind me and it's summertime! So fellow B&S fanatics at uni, listening to B&S can boost your mark, although you gotta do *some* study for it too:) This is sorta a replying-to-many-posts at once err post. To S Sarkar, yeah I do love Mono and Tricky before he became self-indulgent. But Mono are a different kettle of fish altogether. Though they are unfairly lumped with the rest of the trip-hop gang, they sometimes make lovely Bacharach-ian 60's pop songs ( not unlike the legendary St Etienne). To whoever liked Calvin and Hobbes, yeah I love that comic too. Pity he stopped making them. It was so evidently the BEST comic strip along with "Cathy" and "Modesty Blaise":) I've got TONS of C&H books and love every one of 'em. It was a class above the rest. I pity you Americans, especially Evan Gregg (this is in response to his postings about Sparklehorse). I mean Sparklehorse are an American band and yet Americans will hear their latest album ("Good Morning Spider" not "Waking the spider") SOOO much later than the rest of the world. What an outrage. Even here in "backward" Australia, I've had "Good Morning Spider" for a good few months. Well at least you have the very considerable compensation that at least you''' get to see them live, while the chances of them ever coming here are *sniff* nil. Go Jason-same-name-as-Richard Juzwiak for championing "Buffy". It's a great show. They showed it over here in Australia over last summer hols and I loved it. It's not kitschy at all- merely very well written and acted and gripping. Unfortunately though it rated well over here, evidently not well enough to beat horrible 'homegrown' Aussie stuff like "Blue Heelers", "Australia's Funniest Home Videos" and AHEM! "the Footy Show" (about guess what? Football!) and embarassingly poor American pap like "JAG" and "Stargate". (Rich if you're reading this sorry for repeating myself!) Hence the second season has not shown yet. What a travesty. Any Buffy fans out there? On the same note, any "Xena" fans out there? (I LOOVE that show too!) What has happened to our darling resident French wit, Philippe? I guess he must be really busy earning the title of "Doctor Philippe". But I and I'm sure many others do miss his surreal and hilarious postings. Come back to us, Philippe! That's all for now folks, hope to read some responses to my postings from my lovely fellow listees soon Seeya Kin Woo p.s. welcome back duke!!!:) and i'm gullible and easily misled but was that really Stuart Murdoch who wrote a while back there (Karen David was the sender's name but the letter ended with his wondrous name!) I'm probably being foolish and lots of peeps are tittering but give me a break! I'm naive alright!:) With A Star Upon Your Shoulder Lighting Up The Path As You Walk ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: no grammar content here!
by TFertig3＠aol.com 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

Hello list, Holy butterfinger, slow down your belles and sebastians; I've got too many posts too read! This makes a young girl sigh.. Oh baby! Remember when I said I was expecting Stu M to write in any day and give a lovely apology for the cancelled shows?? Well look here! And what a nice little letter it was.. what a poo poo. Here's my Top Ten List (OHH NOOO!) of what I've noticed about Sinisterines after being on this list for over a year: 1. We have weird and unusual names. (Reid, Weejay, Anastasia, Brier, Honey, Kevin who spells his name Kevan, just to name a few) 2. We like the Simpsons. Bart especially. Yes? Well I think so anyway. 3. A lot of us like to sign our names like this: xoxo or xxxx 4. We have all seen the infamous movie Gregory's Girl, except for me who is an uncultured scum-poo and has not yet bothered. 5. We like cheese. Well, at least I like cheese, and I think others do to, since I started that string of cheese content a bit back. For some reason it died out though. That's a shame. Cheese is beautiful. 6. We like making top ten lists. But we don't like reading them. 7. We are not all cardie-wearing biscuit nibblers. Some of us are punk rockers, you know. 8. I can't think of a number 8. Go on for number 9. 9. Oh boy.. give me some time. Go on for the next. 10. Oh oh yes! We like Belle and Sebastian! Well, yes. I almost forgot that one. But you wouldn't know it from the content of our posts.. :) So I've been at this party for over a year now, and it's hard not to put faces to posters after this long. So.. you know on Whose Line is It Anyway, the frequent comedian John Sessions I think his name is? That's Peter Miller! in my head I mean. David and Katrina are the couple from the Sundays, Harriet and David I think their names are. D&K are actually probably much cuter, but I will probably never know it.. :( I can't think of anymore right now. More later. Lots of love Tami +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Want to join my band mister!
by Mb00EN＠aol.com 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

hello list I'm new, well kind of. I was on the list whilst i was at uni, but i forget to unsubscribe, so i bet theres a PC worth of post up-there, oops! Anyway that was a while ago now, so whats happened since then? Well i've grown up and got a job in the 'real world', i've joined a new band, i've no debts anymore, i now prefer pepsi to coke, and i know what belle and sebastian look like. I went to the Nottingham gig, all on my own. If you went i was the one desperately trying to look as if i was part of a big gang, i did this by standing close to the gang in question and nursing a pint of lager, and occasionally i would look around at individual members of this gang and nod. It did'nt work as i just got funny looks of them, this was before they moved away. Usually being alone at a gig would'nt bother me, it's just that the crowd was static and i stuck out like a sore thumb. This gig was the one time that i needed the list, i bet you all met up and had a picnic in the rain or something. I wanted to stick around for the disco thing but i thought better of it, i felt like the sad geek without a date on prom night. I see there's a new EP out soon, you'll never make top of the pops like that. I guess this grounds already been covered but this new music law thing is a really bad problem for 'real' indie bands. I also see there's some new sort of list, (sha-la-la or something). Whats all that about then, friendly or elitism? Thats about it for the time being, grammar never was my strong part, nor is hair dressing. PS I have'nt had chance to tell belle and sebastian that i like their new record, espicially 'sleep the clock around', so i'm telling you know. PPS The sound at the Nottingham gig was very quiet, but it made a nice change from coming away with my ears ringing. Also Elliot Smith was very good, i had'nt heard of him before and i saw him in the crowd afterwords, i presumed he was a local Notts lad, so i was going to ask if he'd be interested in joining my band, luckily i did'nt as he was talking to some people. That would have been embarrasing! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: grandmothers are neat
by r. h. 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

wow! i know everyone is in the middle of doing what ever they do today but i'm in the middle of thanksgiving dinner. well guess what happend....my grandmother just started choking on a piece of bone that was in here turkey well of course my mom thinks she knows what to do and starts patting her on the back but apparantly that helped except that my grandmother shit on her self right there in front of everyone. of course we couldn't see it but there was this ungodly noise. you know, the universal noise that lets you know that someone has just shit themselves. the whole room got quite and everyone looked at her to wait for a reaction. she was picking the bone from her mouth then she turned to look at her backside and said "wow, i really had to go!" we all burst into laughter and gave her a hug in our understanding that these things happen when you get older and we weren't going to let a little shit get between our thanksgiving dinner. she is now, as i speak sitting at the table in fresh new clean pair of drawers. wow, you got to love grandmothers huh! gobble, gobble robbie ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: RE: what about these cuts?
by John Stuart 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

> annastasia saffrone wrote: >i missed on most of the "mullet" chat and am too lazy to go back and >find it. i'm just curious, can someone describe what this cut looks > >ike and who has one??? > A mullet cut is short on top and sides and long at the back. Check out the Beastie Boys song 'Mullet Head'. They had an artice about the style (of haircut) in Grand Royale magazine a year or so back. It featured loads of pictures of victims of the mullet. Cheers, Nhoj +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: she and me
by Vanessa R. Siegl 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

how about he kissed me and she was watching?? ok that is me and she and not she and me but still love vanxxx _____________________________________________________ Forgive me for I have not sinned csaa7950(a)uibk.ac.at _gapminder(a)yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Belel & Sebastian for the heartbroken?
by Alexandra Duric 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

hello listees, Right then, this is one of those delicate subjects, where you either really get it and your heart stands still for a split second, or you really don't have a clue and hit delete. A co-worker, don't know her too well, but nice emotional Piscean girl, with OK taste in music (haven't had a chance to introduce her to the wonderful world of B&S) phones the other night, sobbing, because a boyfriend of SIX years did the unceremonious, classic telephone dump the other night. They had plans to get engaged in March next year. He visited her this weekend and decided during the tain ride home to do this. No, no, no, we're not looking for boy-bashing - much, much too easy. This morning she declares that Radiohead's OK Computer and Nick Hornby's High Fidelity are NOT exactly the most uplifting listens or reads whilst bogged down in this mental state, unless you really want to wallow in self-pity. She's utterly heartbroken and constantly on the verge of tears. I've noticed listees casually mentioning finding solace in the music of Belle & Sebastian and I'm wondering if I give her one of the albums, IYFS or TBWTAS, if maybe I'll be pulling her down even further, a fate I don't wish to tempt (believe me, this is the worst I've ever seen, and "suicidal" flickered into my head). Other than "wise" words, and an open ear, music is the only other thing I've turned to. Unfortunately, or fortunately, all my B+S listening experiences have been rather happy, so I cannot tell if I'll be doing the right thing. And if not B+S, then who? alexandra, at my wit's end trying to help a friend ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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