November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: something for you to do with your spare time
by azriel 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

so i just thought i'd introduce everyone on the list to the wonderful art of making belle and sebastian-related latch-hook wall hangings/rugs and embroidered patches. so far i've made myself a (crappy) wee chriss patch, a very nice patch of the two dancing kids (in full color!) and am currently finishing up a smallish latch hook wall hanging of the green school bus design. it's loverly. i strongly suggest you guys use your spare time with these activities. they're wonderful. just ask teri. -kerry "red usually means caution. or beef if it's a bullion cube." -"toys" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: New York Sunday show
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Re: the Noo Yoik Sunday show... what a glorious venue! Beautiful, and hardly mental in the slightest. Big hugs to Shirley! xxxxxx. So, the set list:- The State I Am In Belle & Sebastian Slow Graffiti Chickfactor She's Losing It Lazy Line Painter Jane Arab Strap Spaceboy Dream Lord Anthony Dirty Dream No2 Seeing Other People Turn Turn Turn The Boy Done Wrong Again Simple Things Some observations: We were seemingly the only people clapping along to Arab Strap (ya, boo, sucks ta you!), Stuart M made a joke about how Monday's set will be identical (hee hee - he also apears to be growing breasts, but that's another story), Isobel/Edie looked very bored (but beautiful - I so regret not having ripped one of the posters from the wall. Aaron, ye are a braver man than I), I laughed a tad too loudly at "Marks & Spencers" being substituted with "Sears and Roebucks" in The State I Am In, and Lord anthony is one of the most delightful things I've heard in a very long time. Charmed, I'm sure. Goodnight! Stephen. Caroline, if you're reading this.... xxxxxxxxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: New York Sunday show
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Re: the Noo Yoik Sunday show... what a glorious venue! Beautiful, and hardly mental in the slightest. Big hugs to Shirley! xxxxxx. So, the set list:- The State I Am In Belle & Sebastian Slow Graffiti Chickfactor She's Losing It Lazy Line Painter Jane Arab Strap Spaceboy Dream Lord Anthony Dirty Dream No2 Seeing Other People Turn Turn Turn The Boy Done Wrong Again Simple Things Some observations: We were seemingly the only people clapping along to Arab Strap (ya, boo, sucks ta you!), Stuart M made a joke about how Monday's set will be identical (hee hee - he also apears to be growing breasts, but that's another story), Isobel/Edie looked very bored (but beautiful - I so regret not having ripped one of the posters from the wall. Aaron, ye are a braver man than I), I laughed a tad too loudly at "Marks & Spencers" being substituted with "Sears and Roebucks" in The State I Am In, and Lord anthony is one of the most delightful things I've heard in a very long time. Charmed, I'm sure. Goodnight! Stephen. Caroline, if you're reading this.... xxxxxxxxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sadly I know
by Sean McVeigh 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

In response to the description below, i would like to say CHris was singing a song from SOuth Park "Im a jew on christmas" 4. a silly little christmassy thing that made me think of Chris Leonard's little story about Stuart, Steven Pastel and the Christmas pies for some reason -- Isobel and Sarah's voices manipulated.... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: a very happy bunny
by Cynthia Someone 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Dear Sinisteriners: I wanted to tell you, i was a very happy bunny for halloween. Literally, a five foot seven pink fuzzy bunny. Inspired partly from list bunnyhood, i really got in tune with my true bunny nature. i feel as if I have fulfilled an important part of me. I saw my friend's band grasshopper in sanjose, which is an evil place . Really bad vibes. Grasshopper was simply beautiful but ... before hand i saw this awful fight, two girls and a boy, throwing each other to the ground, running at each other like maniacs, i felt so bad for it. The atmosphere was like an freakish carnival sideshow. i decided that halloween was really a strange time, a day of the dead, everyone was releasing such frightening parts of themselves. i released bunniness, and danced very cheerfully, but still felt disheartened somehow. i still do. But on the way home, i sang along to rollercoaster ride, to help clear the air, and ward off evil spirits. Cynthia ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The embittered cow rides again
by Suzanne Schroeder 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

How many weeks has it been? It's been over a week since I returned from Boston. I came home and saw the pile of digests in my in box and did what any sane person would do: I deleted them. But, of course, not without seeing that Isobel had fallen ill and the backlash resulting. Then, I went into a coma again, and came out of it by enjoying life a bit, then getting bored all over again. It depends on my mood, and as I sit here reflecting on my somewhat disappointing halloween (all I got was blisters on my feet from the shoes and a headache from the wig) balanced with the fun of playing an acoustic set decked out as Sally Jesse Raphael, I thought maybe I could actually say a few nice words about something. Boston was a very strange experience from the minute I hit the city limits. For the days before, I was being spoiled by tiny towns in the New England countryside. People had all day to get somewhere because it was just down the road. Your life isn't eaten up sitting in a car. That's why I was shocked to find that the Bostonians drive like bats out of hell. The roads were so poorly planned probably stretching back to the days when everyone had a horse and had plenty of time to decide if they were in the right lane or not, that I freaked and got turned around. I looped around and found the University, but ah, the parking....... To cut it short, I finally did make it to the show. I stood in line and became aware I was surrounded by true diehards. Just the snippets of conversations told me right away that people around there followed them as well as I did. I thought this should make for a very lively show. I walked in and was left with the seats in the back or balcony. I almost went for the balcony remembering the last show I had gone to with such seating and how I kicked myself for letting Ticketmaster pick out the "best" seat, but they wouldn't let me cut across and I didn't feel like stepping over people. I took the chance to turn lemons into lemonade since my real camera had died that morning and I had to make due with a tiny disposable camera, so I thought I could sneak it in. I didn't know if they would search, but I look like an innocent.....just ask the cop who pulled me over outside Logan airport for running the toll booths, but I digress..... Containe took the stage. That's about all you can say. I don't remember much of what they did, and I think it ended up boring the audience. The audience was paying attention at the beginning, but other conversations slowly started to filter in. I can't even remember what the band sounded like at this point. Technically, yes, it worked, I think, but still..... We were waiting for the real band. With the shortest turn around in history, Belle and Sebastian took the stage to a surprisingly mute audience. The only people who really stood were the ones who couldn't get a good look from where they were standing. This reaction was totally peculiar considering just a few minutes before, people were proudly showing off their new t-shirts to their friends. Is that normal for New England audiences? I can't tell, since I know it's a different planet up there, but in Austin, if you had a group of diehards together like that, they probably would have been body surfing before they had a chance to play a single chord. As for me, well, I didn't mind as much as I should have. I was way too tired (since I have a habit of overexhausting myself when I travel to the point where I nearly collapse) and I knew I was enjoying their music, so it was a choice of me standing there and tapping my toes, or just kicking back. The whole set sounded almost like an album. It was that pristine sounding that nothing was added or deleted to the mix. There were no unexplained glam riffs, etc. Happily, they pulled "Judy and the Dream of Horses" out of the moth balls even though Stuart made a couple of failed attempts at the chords, which I laughed when someone started to shout them out to him. If I was near the stage, I probably would have too. Much of the humor that night wasn't really from jokes, but just from the band's personality. For example, I couldn't figure out where the hell Stuart disappeared to halfway through the set. You heard a voice, and nothing else. As I say this, I realize it's one of those things you had to be there for, but when the other members had to ask him a question and his head suddenly popped up from behind the keyboards, it was the idiosyncraticy of the whole thing to leave the stage completely void of the lead singer when they could have easily turned the keyboard sideways so people could get a look that I found amusing. They nearly played all of my favorites, and when halfway through "The boy done wrong again" I heard a low singing all throughout the hall, it truly provided a warm moment. But the atmosphere of the band was like that of one in a soundcheck. Maybe because they didn't have the luxury of growing up in bars and clubs where they were 4th on the bill and fighting for people's attention from an indifferent audience they didn't have the chance to develop a stage persona. Suddenly, they are being asked to perform to halls with 700 people in them. Most acts with some staying power know how to get the audience involved, but this group is different. They made a complete cult around people who heard their albums first and saw them live second. Not once did they really feel the need to fight for fan loyalty or see the faces of the people buying their albums, so to them, I suppose the live show is nothing more than an unneeded aftereffect. True, it's hard to rock out on violin, but there's got to be some energy somewhere that can be tapped. Sadly, there was no encore, and by the way they questioned the audience to whether they were enjoying themselves, you can't help but think that they saw the show as a failure. It's hard to get a coffee house crowd out of their chairs. It's just not cool. I don't know what anyone else was thinking, but the T-shirts definitely sold out. s.s. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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Sinister: i cloud-nine when i want to
by Genevieve Wesley 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

hello... oh my,i get so much sinister digest all clumped together,i can check it hardly ever with the internet problem,so i apologize if i'm replying sometimes to things that are from while back... >i'm a little excited as a certain west virginian is flying in tomorrow!!!! >not to mention b&s this weekend. one way or another, i'll have some smut >to talk about later. > >xox >megan and i want to hear more from megan,she's so lovely! i just saw your defend-genevieve post and it makes me happy..maybe if ..if i talk more smut will they like me more? anyways,i'm like the buck-toothed , split-ended kid and megan defends me and then we go play in the creek,it could be a b&s song... Peter Peter Miller..I wanted to see herring with Mr Sparkly Orange too,very badly..but the wicked witches keep me home to clean,i don't even have funds to take the bus down there,to do a proper escape..but i was watching Cornation Street and Toyah hitchhikes to London (London! Much bigger than Toronto yes?) and she's fine,she gets all these kindly truckers who are like 'I wish you well on your journey,love' I don't even have an excuse to be sympathised tho... "I want to play pranks on Mr.Sparkly Orange" these belle and sebastian couples make me sniff,they're so sweet,they treat each other right,which is so rare today i still think the belle and sebastian toronto show is going to happen..maybe in a few months from now? it is god's will!! i've noticed cancelled shows are kind of like when you fail a test...i keep dreaming of stuart singing sly& the family stone....speshiallly HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME ahhh yes... high high high high...there genevieve p.s elisa,i sent you a letter,did you get it? p.p.s are there anymore ottawa fans out there,(lovely Cathy...it could happen!) i know it's chilly now...but gold courses..ski lodges and riding stables surround me...it could be such a lovely picnic (you can always try can't you?) and in the summer...there's always Mont Cascades! ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Ticket for 12/1 show for sale
by Maria Kokiasmenos 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Sorry about the previous (extremely unclear) message. I have a ticket for tonight (sunday's) show that I will sell for $22 (face value + Ticketmaster charge) to the first person who e-mails me. Sorry for the short notice! Maria +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: mysterious picture
by Helena Lauren 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

about that picture page on the mailing list site- who's that darling boy in the picture titled "chrispoof" ??? Is he on this list?? very curiously, Helena, a new sinister girl *********************************** chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickclick.com http://www.chickmail.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: Who Are B&S?
by Ant.And.Dec＠relay.clara.net 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Just who or what are Belle & Sebastian? Are they a Romanian delicacy? Possibly a brand of Argentinian Beer? Please tell us because quite frankly we have no idea, because we can't even spell plasebo correctly on our show. Ant and quite possibly Dec. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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