November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Shelagh Delaney
by Ivo A P Escossia 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

Nikolas Wrote: >I was just wondering if any of you people share my passion for >writer/playwright Shelagh Delaney ? Is there any web site about Shelagh Delaney ? Please, Let me know. >She wrote the most perfect play "A Taste Of Honey" aged nineteen >I just mention her because her characters have >all very Belle&Sebastian-esque qualities,from the stubborn and rebuked >Jo in "Taste Of Honey" to the half knowing,half innocent adolescent boys >ad girls in her short stories. The dream is over but the baby is (not) real. Ivo A P Escossia escossia(a)electus.com.br "...and my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost." In my Cd Player: Astrud [Vitra Center Ep] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: hey dubliners
by Sam Norman 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

I noticed that there has been a run on listees visiting dublin and wanting to meet up with other listees. Well unfortunatly it looks as if that when i am there, otheres won't. But if there are any native dubliners on the list who want to meet a real life listee do get in contact. I'm going to be over from wednesday 2nd December until sunday 6th. sam +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Lou Barlow touched my belly-button!
by Alison Smith 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

No-one at school realised quite what an acheivement this is, as no-one knows who sebadoh are, but I'm sure that you discerning music listeners will understand. Ahhhhh! I was at their gig in Gloucester, cunningly blagged my way backstage, and Lou Barlow played Myster Man to me on his acoustic guitar! Then touched my belly button, then the drummer snogged my boyfriend. Oh yes. Oh yes. _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: boy on a bike and leftie sex
by Archel 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

i loved jessica's interpretation of 'fox in the snow'. i wrote a poem last year using the 'boy on a bike' line because ever since i first heard the song it would come into my head at odd moments in that way that i've come to recognise as meaning 'write a poem, write a poem, write a poem, you know you want to'. it's not about the boy on the bike in the song though, rather someone i know who rides off on his bike to the harbour or into the woods to write and think, and isn't always that great at being around people. he's a bit of a bastard actually. anyway, that's irrevelant. since i was the one who first claimed that lefties were good in bed, i suppose i should be the one to explain or qualify this statement. i'm not sure, but i think it might be to do with the fact that lefties have to use their right hands for some things too as the world is not ideally adapted for them everywhere. so, they can be relatively...erm...efficient with both hands. whereas righties have never had the incentive to learn to use their left hands, and are therefore sometimes more limited... i'll stop now. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101(a)york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Moose, giraffes, and other things that don't fit in the fridge
by Alex Arnold 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

Hi all, All the chatter a week or so ago about shoegazing has re lit a fire under my proverbial sneakers and I have been looking for all those wonderful cd's I should have bought back in 91'. Its been a Herculean struggle as a lot of the stuff is out of print. The used cd stores that litter the cultural ghetto known as "State street" in my town have been my only salvation. I was able to find some lovely stuff such as the Pale Saints and the House of Love. I even found a Moose cd. Now that many of you are asking "So what's your point you babbling twat?", I was wondering if one of you lovelies could e-mail me the tracklisting to the Moose cd "Son of Sammy". The store I bought it from didn't have the case for it. I even went so far as to stare at my shoes in hopes that some sort of cosmic irony would save and I would see it lying on the floor, but I had no such luck...Get it? Shoe...gaze...floor...HAH!...by jimminy I'm clever. As far as the cheese vs. giraffe debate goes...various people wrote: >>What does cheese have? Mould? >And handy little holes you can hide things in, and you don't have to be >thirty feet tall to reach it. You can also keep it in your fridge - when >was the last time you saw a Giraffe in your fridge ??? What if the cheese has Bob Mould, of Husker Du fame? I hardly think he'd fit in the fridge. B&S content: Not much really. I sat out on the balcony the other evening and listened to IYFS while trying to view the meteor shower. It was too hazy out, but B&S on the headphones during a cold winter's evening was quite pleasant. Bye bye, Alexander the not so great +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: My first post and PLUSH REQUEST anyone?
by Kin Woo 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

>Hello! This is my first post. Umm. I expect I'm the only one here that = >apart from Belle and Sebastian, also likes Mogwai, Aphex Twin, = >Squarepusher, and just about everything else on Warp and chemikal = >underground recordings? I kinda have unusual music tastes. Techno and = >Belle and Sebastian aren't very similar! Oh, by the way after about two = >messages I always descend into lurkerdom on mailing lists. I can't help = >it, I just do... > >P.S the mail probly says I'm Chris Brittain, but I'm not really :) > HEH! NO FAIR. When I wrote my virgin post, there was nought who wrote back (except the lovely Jessica) and now Not-Really-Chris gets so many posts in response to his (boohoo!):):) Sour grapes I know! But I too love a lot of techno Peter, like One Dove whom I've hyped up and ranted and raved about before in this illustrious mailing list. Have you heard of One Dove before Peter? If so, please write back to me privately at :daftpunk@tartarus.uwa.edu.au. In fact just write me anyway! Love to hear from B&S fellow fans:) I also love Air, Andrea Parker, Lamb, Ruby, DJ Shadow and Red Snapper among many other techno acts. I like Aphex Twin a lot but 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. BIG SHOUT AND FUZZY WARM HUGS to all those wonderful peeps who wrote back praising the glory of Tanya Donelly and Belly. YES! WE must NEVER forget her importance even though the cruel and fickle music press seems to have. (p.s. are you a fan of Belly, Peter?)ANy more Belly/Tanya fans out there??? Come on! Make your praise be known! errr if anyone has a copy of the Plush album ("More You Becomes You") and/or Michael Head and the Strands' "Introducing The Strands" (or is it "Magical World of the strands"?) please contact me privately at said address:daftpunk@tartarus.uwa.edu.au. Please let me know if they are good albums (as I've read they are) and teehee, could whoever has it kindly make a tape/cd copy of Plush for me? I've got loads of B&S rare stuff to trade and I've got tons of stuff, maybe some you are interested in- I've got tons of Tindersticks (all the albums including "Donkeys", plus a tape of all their early vinyl recordings up to 1995), Belly (again, lots of rare stuff), and gazilions others including Sparklehorse, Air, Andrea Parker, Black Box Recorder, Teenage Fanclub, Pulp, Beth Orton Beck, Lush, Garbage, Throwing Muses, Spiritualized, UNKLE etc, etc. so yeah all you PLUSH-ers contact me!:) seeya folks Kin Woo 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: unsubscribe sinister
by J.J. Heldmann 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

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Sinister: You can pin beanie baby heads to the walls of office cubicles
by Cynthia Someone 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

hello everybody! Charmed to see everyone. i just went to Bimbo's in SF, which was somewhat of an adventure, being on my oddy knocky and never expecting to happen on some inneresting people (Cornelius was amazing, by the way, and if you've ever found the album fantasma a bit too intense and opus-like but otherwise good, watching them live was pure fun, engaging, amazing. See them live. The sound is rougher, warmer, harder than on the album.). Bimbo's! If Belle and Sebastian ever play live in SF, let it be at Bimbo's. Great atmosphere, really good vibes, better than the fillmore (which has a funkier, older 60's thing, going on) and slims, yeah? Oh, what fun. Though perhaps I'm just enchanted and brutalized by the city, particularly so, this time around, it being fall, and feeling like every minute is somehow the only one you've got, and so I live almost in despair, that nothing lasts, not even love, which is the other subject of this email, besides a few other little things: I read a little princess too! and ballet shoes by noel streatfield, and hid in my room and made up songs about bluebirds. Another thing of note: british chocolate rocks, because it just does, and because mark C just gave me some, thank you thank you thank you, another kiss on the cheek for that boy scout. Okay, deteriorating love. Got it bad for a b&s fan, that I've fancied since before either of us liked b&s, and 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. i would have created a connect the dots for you but i guess that's next time. You slipped out. Another blown seed Drifts into the sea. Shipwrecked, mutinous, Raging at the tiny waves, I remember more than you. Passing love dreams: fall grapes, lolling on the tongue; sun, melting. I forget the taste of your mouth. Crushed, like a grape in the teeth, your kiss, the reality of you. bye bye, 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: You can pin beanie baby heads to the walls of office cubicles
by Cynthia Someone 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

hello everybody! Charmed to see everyone. i just went to Bimbo's in SF, which was somewhat of an adventure, being on my oddy knocky and never expecting to happen on some inneresting people (Cornelius was amazing, by the way, and if you've ever found the album fantasma a bit too intense and opus-like but otherwise good, watching them live was pure fun, engaging, amazing. See them live. The sound is rougher, warmer, harder than on the album.). Bimbo's! If Belle and Sebastian ever play live in SF, let it be at Bimbo's. Great atmosphere, really good vibes, better than the fillmore (which has a funkier, older 60's thing, going on) and slims, yeah? Oh, what fun. Though perhaps I'm just enchanted and brutalized by the city, particularly so, this time around, it being fall, and feeling like every minute is somehow the only one you've got, and so I live almost in despair, that nothing lasts, not even love, which is the other subject of this email, besides a few other little things: I read a little princess too! and ballet shoes by noel streatfield, and hid in my room and made up songs about bluebirds. Another thing of note: british chocolate rocks, because it just does, and because mark C just gave me some, thank you thank you thank you, another kiss on the cheek for that boy scout. Okay, deteriorating love. Got it bad for a b&s fan, that I've fancied since before either of us liked b&s, and 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. i would have created a connect the dots for you but i guess that's next time. You slipped out. Another blown seed Drifts into the sea. Shipwrecked, mutinous, Raging at the tiny waves, I remember more than you. Passing love dreams: fall grapes, lolling on the tongue; sun, melting. I forget the taste of your mouth. Crushed, like a grape in the teeth, your kiss, the reality of you. bye bye, 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: Flaccid casuals
by Martin Horsfield 21 Nov '98

21 Nov '98

Glam Heather asked "what is a casual?" While I'd hate to export this grimly British phenomenon to the US, I think you are owed an explanantion. Casuals emerged in the mid-80s and were characterised by a taste for sports casual clobber: think pastel shades, Pringle V-necks, Lyle & Scott sweaters, polo shirts, white Taschini tracksuit tops, white Puma State trainers, Farah slacks, lots of hair gel, wedge haircuts, crimped mullets, bum fluff, one ear ring. Bizarrely, rather unthreatening, effeminate look was sported by all the hardest kids in school. Unsuprprisingly it also took hold on the football terraces, with trips abroad to see English teams often degenerating into smash and grabs on Italian boutiques. To an extent, it was an oddly Thatcherite youth cult, which prided itself on the cost and exclusivity of the gear, and it had reactionary values to boot. At my 6th form college, these people were called 'football casuals', but being a right-minded football fan, I didn't give that label much time of day. The arrival of E at the end of the 80s is credited with the terraces getting a bit more 'loved up'. The casuals stopped trying to beat the shite out of students and, oddly, the studes made the most of this hiatus in hostilies and started, well, dressing like casuals (Oasis were culpable here). These days, I may occasionally sport an Ellesee ski jumper or a Lacoste V-neck as an ironic throwback to the casual era. At least everyone didn't dress the same back then. Someone like Damon Albarn could be seen as ironic casual, too. Indeed for a short while, it was suggested that the kids who frequented Blow Up, circa 1993, were 'modules' - a cross between mods and casuals. Actually, they were a watered down, middle class, pastiche of both. Dont you just love this stuff? PS/In common with everyone else, I too misheard the intro to 'Stars Of...' I thought it was "Make a new coat every day to suit your affairs", which made a certain amount of sense. Martin Horsfield, anthropologist +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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