November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: why can't life be like a movie?
by GretchN66＠aol.com 24 Nov '98

24 Nov '98

you know--- perfect, like any given romantic comedy from the 80's.... sixteen candles or say anything for example-- you know the feeling you get at the end of one of these movies and what about the Goonies--it would be awesome to go on a crazy treasure hunt, searching your way through caves, sliding down a million stories of water slides, finding a pirate ship, experiencing loads of adventure, only to end up with loads of $$$$$ in treasure. gosh i love that movie but anyways back to 16 candles and say anything--to add to the list, ferris bueller's day off, breakfast club, and princess bride among others-- flying kites, making art, and going to shows spending all the time in the world with your friends and/or significant others-- finding that special person and over-all feeling good about life- all we do is work, and when we are not working, we are going to school, and we spend all the money we earn on these classes to graduate to work some more for the rest of our lives day in/day out--working for that two weeks paid vacation--an allotted amount of time to enjoy the year's hard work---i don't think so-- life is run by petty things and petty conflicts if people stopped to think about what life is, and looked at the big picture- maybe they would stop spending so much time, money, and feelings on these trivial situations, and make the best of them enjoy life a little "I'd much rather sit around the library and read books all day, and come home and write all night, and go for long bike rides, and fall down on my skateboard, and write songs and all the other really important stuff. Fuck money and school and work, the kids need to have fun. Don't forget most importantly, not to take any shit. Kick ass, Gretchen. " --dan shook more to come -later -gretchen--tampa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: tongue kissing
by jessica 24 Nov '98

24 Nov '98

okay, so i got up all my nerve and kissed ahren in the stockroom. tongue and everything, and a little groping. i'm not sure how he's reacting, we worked together well for the rest of the day, he wasn't weird or anything but now the ball is in his metaphorical court, so i'll have to wait and see. but yeah, i asked him to help me bring out a rack of cargo pants, and we went in the stockroom and we were just chatting and i guess i was just standing there, and he said "okay" and went to grab the rack, and i walked over and closed the door and put my back to it and then went for him, straight towards him and put my tongue in his mouth, and after about 5 seconds he laughed and said "you know, you'll end up making me cheat on my girlfriend" and i laughed too and told him that kissing isn't really cheating (my friend matthew gets credit for that line) and he said "oh really" and i said yeah, and kissed him some more, and he said "we really shouldn't be doing this" and i asked him why not, and he said "we're at work" and i said that i knew that, and just laughed again and then we took the pants out and snuck many naughty looks over the rest of the day. this was saturday, and i was curious to see what might transpire today, but silly ahren went to a club last night and got into a fight and now has stitches and a concussion, and so wasn't at work. poo. i'm wondering if phoning to see if he's okay would be too much, if i should just let this settle for a few days and see him when i see him. i think that's what i'm going to do, i may phone him towards the end of the week if i don't see him before that. so i'm a little curious about what will happen now, my friend michelle says that i should let him know that i'm not after a relationship or anything. maybe i will. but not right away. i just wanted to share with you all the ongoing ahren saga. and i feel that i need to remind list crushes everywhere (you know who you are :)) that my kissing ahren doesn't even come close to the tingly feeling i get when i see your email in my mailbox <sigh>. but really, it's been a while since my computer has slipped me the tongue. okay, enough of this naughty talk and melodrama. let's all get back to work. i've got some twee socks to post. love and xxx, jessicaxo

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Sinister: here's some B&S content for ya
by TFertig3＠aol.com 24 Nov '98

24 Nov '98

Hello everybody, Well since the new thing to do these days is to offer B&S interpretations, I've decided to add my own bit to the Fox in the Snow, though it may be a bit wacky. Firstly, when the girl lets out a "crazy laugh", I figure she's covering up the fact that she's sad and lonely, and no one understands her. You know when you're on the verge of crying and you try to cover it up by laughing but it comes out all crackly and strange? I imagine that is the crazy laugh. They might make fun of her when she talks about how lonely and sad she is, which prompts her to want to be alone, because being with other people gets her nowhere, and she disappears.. into her house I suppose. Then she starts getting really lonely, and she misses being with people. But she keeps telling herself, when these thoughts come to mind, that -- no, she'd rather be alone with her books and her fantasies. What do they know anyway? She's happier when she's reading books. They are the only ones that understand her. Well I've possibly just created a whole new song. I'm trying too hard I guess. OOOh, I've just read the Scarlet Letter for school and I realized there is a strange likeness to it in The Boy Done Wrong Again. Really. I don't know what other people's interpretations are for this one, but it's very similar. The boy that did wrong was Arthur Dimmesdale, and now he's so shamed that he hangs his head down and holds his hand over his heart. All he wants now is for someone to share his sorrow and to empathize, and that person is Hester. And when they go to the woodland spring, their dark lives suddenly turn bright. And since they cannot live together in Boston, which is like a sinking ship to both of them, they look to England, where they will sail back to be happy again! Ahh, you all think I'm nuts. Yeahhhh, that's exactly what Stuart was thinking when he wrote that song.. Actually, I only realized it because I had an English project where I could play a song that related to the Scarlet Letter and I was trying to think of B&S songs that related.. Isn't it strange that I feel nervous talking in front of 30 people and here I am gushing like a moron in front of 819. Eek, I'll be going now. Bye bye, 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: To: "'Sinister'" <sinister@majordomo.net>
by David Moore 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

[ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. Some ] [ characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Hi All Sister Disco wrote Boz Scaggs! Thank you David Moore for the brief introduction to the world of Boz Scaggs. I shall keep a weather eye open for the album you mentioned, as I have long harboured a mild curiosity as to what Duane Allman sounds like. If you want to hear Duane either get Derek & The Dominos' Layla, as he plays all the good guitar bits, or better still, as Layla has crap vocals, get 1971's The Allman Brothers: At Fillmore East (1992 CD issue "The Fillmore Concerts" is all-inclusive) where Duane pees over all other slide players fron a cosmic height (sorry Stevie). His constant invention, passion and variety of tone just boggle. Rhythm section kicks ass mightily also. Whilst in this totally BS free ( :) ) mode, the college bookshop is advertising a new biography of Keith Moon, and a picture of Keith's mum recently appeared in a local scurrilous rag for some reason. Baba O'Reilly Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 cat's been shut under the sink all day
by Alix Campbell 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

i almost saw dundee. i applied to the university, and would have gone, if cardiff hadn't been nice to me a red sky this morning - WARNING WARNING. only all that happened was it was cold. my bus ride home took almost the entire length of tigermilk today. i was very disheartened to realise that, at the beginning of electronic renaissance, i was still at the wrong end of the city. usually, i'll have got to around tesco's on't cowley road by this point, but no, still at the wrong end, up by the police station. by the time i reached the city centre, i don't love anyone was starting. traffic triffic. not a whole lot to say really alix.c "So don't approach me if you've no more to say than what you've been doing, or how much you paid for the beer in your hand. I really don't care and I might have to kill you, which wouldn't be fair. On me" - Prolapse 'Killing The Bland' +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Is it Wicked Not to Care?
by Carmen 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

So, I guess some people are interested in knowing more about me (well, probably not, but everyone else talks only about themselves, so why can't I?) This is going to be shocking to many and will probably irk even more people than I have already irked, but, I am a punk rock goddess! I know, calm down. I sure this is most shocking to the kid that wants to scold the Northampton punk with coffee. So, you're probably all thinking, "Then why are you on this list," or "How do you like Belle and Sebastian." Simple: Belle and Sebastian (I hate to say this) like the Smiths or the Velvet Underground, atract all kinds of depressed, socially outcasted people (or whatever else). I was drawn to them when my boss (I work at Strangeways, affiliated with Spinnaker, but in Provincetown, MA. I'll write more about my shitty little town some other time) gave me "...Sinister" for my birthday. I didn't listen to it for awhile, even though he had written a long letter along with it explaing what a sensitive person I am and how the album is perfect for me (I know many will disagree). But then my once friend and mentor forced me to listen to it. I couldn't get into it because she's, how should I say this...insane, overly-talkitive, a bit creepy in her infatuation with my boss. She started working there just to get next to him. Any way, I finally listened to it alone. I thought it was so great. It hought, 'WHy isn't this huge?! This should be so huge that I shouldn't even listen to it.' I'm very much against main-stream. Oh, too bad, I have to go. I'll continue this at some other time, unless people complain (and I know they will). ...CARMEN... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: You dirty so-and-so !
by JonnyKat＠aol.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Hello Sinisterines! *MWAH!* to all 818 of you! Honey, is there a big prize for the 1,000th member to join Sinister? Or does the site just explode into a million little pieces of peanut brittle? I'm frightened... Someone hold me? Lex Popscene added: "i just joined too. but i have had nothing to say. i'm from canada." Although I know she didn't mean it that way, that really made me giggle. Most Canadians I know have lots to fabulous things to say! : ) Anyway, a warm welcome to Alexis and all the other recent victims. Several days ago, Denise offered: "Everyone knows the words orange, month, purple and silver can't be rhymed." Well, I just can't resist a good word challenge. So I've sent a little poem to Charlotte. Have you? I believe the deadline is tomorrow, and I can't wait to see what you've all come up with! Hee-hee... The Wee Yet Studly Mark Casaratto showed us this: "It's come out a bit bleached, as the flash is too powerful, but you can just about perceive the elation and anticipation hanging in the air, there, just to the left of Jonnykat, whose eyes are drooping as he stifles yet another cough, poor lamb." Ba-aaa-aaa-aah! I guess I was sicker than I remembered! Mark, could you be a dear and cut me out of that one? Or scribble a funny hat on me or something? It's a beautiful Polaroid, but I look like death warmed over. eeek! Oh, yeah... The Magnificent Michele Decreed: "The NY Sinisterines will come in a gypsy goat cart. Jonny will teach us the secrets of making mead. Holly will weave and sew bright costumes for all." Just a quick update on this one. I have begun making the mead in preparation for our little self-sufficient community. Basically, what I've done is put a bunch of roasted barley in an open vat in my basement, dumped in some pure water from a mountain stream, a dozen green apples picked from the orchard of a very friendly giant, and two liters of exotic honey supplied by Mx. Honey herself. (Something about honey made of wildflowers from Uranus, I'm not really sure...) It should be fermented and ready in about two weeks. On Friday, November 20th, The Most Humble Cynthia Said: "I wrote a poem, but glanced at it this morning and found it unfinished. Smut level: 2. maybe three. I invite you all to finish it for me." This poem was absolutely gorgeous, and sure looked finished to me! If you missed this one, check the archives now! Good show, Cynthia. Kin Woo, who apparently travels light, expressed: "I must confess Squarepusher is like the techno equivalent of Throwing Muses. You know they're excellent but that doesn't make listening to them any less hard- bit like maths really." Agreed. Squarepusher is a wonder to me. It is indeed a bit like maths... in the J. S. Bach sense of the word. I wish I could play bass at 200 BPM or whatever he does! Anyway, I think I'm disjointed today. I should stop this. God Bless, Jonny (thanks for voting for me you singular mystery of a crush) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: joke
by Tjonrr＠aol.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

as the the long winter nights are fair drawing in and im stuck out here in the country with only the sheep for company, i thought you would appreciate a Christmas joke: Q: how can you tell an advent calender from Dundee? A: all the windows are boarded up. okay, so it was just an opportunity for another cheap shot at Dundee but hey, im a man of simple pleasures. hence the sheep. only joking. honest. from tjohn. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: carry on regardless
by Tara Widmer 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Tjohn: <<Actually thats the second nearest chip shop to my house, but we dont go to the one down the road ever since the fat kid that works there was caught by his boss... to paraphrase a hefner song... making himself go blind.>> This is very worrying... I have heard several examples of this sort of thing going on. Apparently it's not terribly uncommon practice. I read about a bagel shop where the male employees (as opposed to the females who could do so?) would take turns um, hmm how to delicately put it, wanking into a bucket of bagel mix. The resulting "special" bagels were then kept separate from the regular batch, and any time a rude customer came in, or anybody the bagel boys just plain didn't like the looks of, they would get served one of these as revenge. Reason number 1 why I am nice to food service employees... Jim "patiently awaiting his black sessions tape" Schmidt: <<was wondering if anyone else on this list likes the beautiful south (and the housemartins, of course)..>> Of course, I have used TBS as a description to people who ask me what B&S sound like. There are a lot of parallels... the bands both use this very sweet lovely music often coupled with caustic or sad lyrics, trade off between different male and female vocalists, seem to have a cross-generational appeal and erm...perform concerts blind drunk & fighting mad(?). The session version of "Seeing Other People" in particular strikes me as something the Beautiful South could/would do. But I've always been hesitant to bring up this comparison here, as I generally tend to be completely wrong about this sort of thing, which someone is surely going to point out... <<why can't i be happy being alone, and why isn't that okay with everyone else? not everyone is meant for someone.>> that was a really lovely e-mail.... you're certainly not alone...in fact i wouldn't be surprised if you were even in the majority... rainy days and mondays, *sigh* ta, taracita +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: beautiful south
by Jim Schmidt 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

was wondering if anyone else on this list likes the beautiful south (and the housemartins, of course)... i was listening to "choke" last night and a couple of the songs reminded me of b&s musically, especially the bits with horns and strings..."i think tonight i'd rather love myself" really hit me after i listened to IYFS...maybe i was just way stoned...hmmm. am i alone? probably. what else is new? and to philippe...if you are still around, please contact me about b&s black sessions...i am curious. he is curious. she is curious. we are all so very curious. cheers.jim. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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