November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Monday poem
by Archel 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Hi listerines, Well, there were several contenders but in view of a recent list thread they were all seen off by this outsider, by "popular rock poet" of the 80s Steve Turner. Where is he now? Anyway, it's relevant if not technically brilliant (and I kind of relate to the last 4 lines). Sorry it's not one of mine Adrian but I thought it would be just a little egotistical. Oh, and I bequeath the duty to the Little Blond One, Mark Casarotto, for next week. To Those I Will Never Meet She sits over there on the bus on the train on the tube. She makes reading the Standard a difficult task. She is aware that I am reading between the lines and far beyond the margins. She adjusts herself for better presentation. I gain an interest in No Smoking signs and obscure shadows in the window. Obstructing the doors causes delay and can be dangerous. A station foreman can earn up to £X.40 -more with overtime. She notices my noticing. I give her profile left -a good one. My attitude - disinterested, harder to catch than mostmen. Do you? How far have? What is your? Have you ...ever wished introductions weren't needed? Our gazes meet like billiard balls...that fall into opposite pockets. The best jobs are always to be found in the Evening News. Wimbledon got off to a good start. A girl on the tube on the train on the bus got off at Golders Green. She left me wondering, whether I left her wondering, a poem like this, about me. Steve Turner Hope you liked it. Blessings and salutations, Archelita xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101(a)york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: list crush
by Sarah Wheeler 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

>I must emerge from lurking for just one moment to proudly announce my list >crush, albeit very late in the game > >the lovely and talented ms. sarah wheeler from glasgow rocks! > Oooooh I've gone all red!!! Ethan, now 800 people know that we are having cyber-sex! I hope my mum's not a listee. More embarrassment.....I was stopped at the door of the pub on Saturday night, and asked for identification!!!! AAAAH, I'm 25 for Christ's sake!!! And isn't it ironic (doncha think) that on entering, I noted that everyone in the pub was still at school. Mmmm, maybe I'm being harsh.....maybe everyone was, like me, 25, and had all been asked for ID, and were, for the whole night seething over the humiliation. Are Hanson in their thirties???? I like commas. Byeeee Young thing, Sarah x ======================= Sarah Wheeler Room 106 West Medical Building University of Glasgow GLASGOW G12 8QQ 0141-339 8855 ext.2860 ======================= +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I know my way down the side streets now/videos...
by Mick McMick 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Hello List, I'm sort of enjoying writing numerous posts to the list. I hope Hunny is pleased rather than displeased. I like saying Hunny instead of Honey. It sounds so much like Mummy, you see. I mean the female parental-type ones, not the ones wrapped in bandages. The other day I wrote on our dry-erase board "Hunny Nut Cheerios." I think it may be catching. Oh dear... the lovely Reid pens: (it's still not to late to vote if you think I've been slighted, you know, Reid =) > I think we should be all-out B&S snobs and just start referring > to the releases by their predominant color scheme. Or maybe not...we'd > get confused between Sinister and LLPJ and what the hell color is > Tigermilk?! Well, Sinister is red and LLPJ is purple, of course! Tigermilk is...erm...just Tigermilk. It's title short, so no need to give it a chromatic moniker. So we go Tigermilk, the red one, the yellow one, the purple one, the silver(!) one, the green one, and now the orange one. They're running low on colors, I should imagine. Still a few good ones left: the blue one, the gold one, the sky-blue one, the chartreuse one, the perriwinkle one, etc. Carmen with a "c" writes: > You know what I don't understand? Why is it that every time I check > my mail, I have 175 emails all from the Sinister Belle > and Sebastian fan club list, and usually none of them have anything to > do with Belle and Sebastian. Why is this? I end up > not even reading most of them because I know that if one is about > Belle and Sebastian, it's about how Stuart Murdoch and > Isobel might be a couple--who cares? I don't think either of them > enjoy your assumptions of their relationship. Try > keeping on the topic, please. It was with effort that I restrained myself from being mean towards both this person and "Nicky Wire." Anyway, no one has pointed out the news list. I forget the exact phrasing of the name of it. Anyway, I refer to the list which you can subscribe to for B&S news, and B&S news only. Wasn't it established for people who disliked the off-topic discussion? Info's on the Jeepster site, I believe. I am tempted to use the word pastiche in a sentence, but I can't really think of how to. Oh well. I again have a twee job this Christmas. Very Christmas-y as well. I will be photographing small children with "Santa Claus" (you can bet his address is at HotMail) 60 hours a week. Oh dear... But I've managed to capture two essential elements of B&S - photography and children. The only job I think that would beat mine would be a children's librarian. I used to work at a children's museum. I think their next song should be about a boy who daydreams by the sunny window, while children frolic and learn about him. Yesterday I had a rather interesting escapade. My friend Matt and I were driving to take a video game back to the video store. It was due at the mid of night, we left at 11:55, etc. So I was tearing up the cobblestone streets of Athens, when Matty boy noticed a police car turning 'round so as to follow us, pull me over, and give me a ticket. Bastard. What's he thinking? Don't cops realize that laws don't apply when one is worried about turning a video in on time? Well we're within site of the video store, a couple minutes 'til midnight, and Matt says frantically for me to turn onto a dark side street. So there I go, rocketing down darkened side streets, hurtling past cotes and cars, Matt shouting quick directions "turn here," etc. Matt offered to pay my late fee, but advised me not to go back to the store. It would have been late anyway. I still haven't taken my game back. I fear retribution. But not from you lot. I doubt the cop was on this list =D B&S haven't written any songs about cops, have they? Come to think of it, Stuart M's songs (for Stevie, Isobel & Stuart D's songs don't seem to be about people's occupations as much) seem focused on daydreamers, students, photographers, bussinesspeople, artists, members of Arab Strap, Line Painters(?), long- and Middle-Distance Runners, assorted Stars of Track and Field, authors, the sick, the blind, the users of medicinal drugs, and of course, children. An interesting mish-mash if you ask me. Here's a question: will the new EP have some accompanying writing a la every release other than TWATTYBUS? Hm.... Oh, and I have a question about the vids. The "Is It Wicked Not to Care" video seemed rather nice, but the RealVideo thing kept messing it up. How many videos are there, in all? I recall something about videos for the previous EPs, as well as one for Modern Rock Song forthcoming. Is there anyone in England or Europe who would be nice enough to make me a NTSC video of these? Or capable of? I have many sparkly and wondrous recordings to proffer up in trade. Well, it's so very late in the day, and me without my shower. Where is my mind. Way out in the water, eveidently. See it spinning? Must go now, give my best to the twins, and a kiss for mother. /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - bp224995(a)oak.cats.ohiou.edu - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - (same e-mail for now) | | Sandcastle Homepage - | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | - Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: poetry makes nothing happen
by Charlotte.Hall＠smlawpub.co.uk 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

I read somewhere (was it here?) that there are four words in the English language which don't rhyme with anything. They are month orange silver purple This seems like an irresistible challenge - to write a poem with one of the above words rhymed somehow. - don't send it to the list, send to me - Belle and Sebastian must feature - semirhymes are acceptable (they have to be) If I get two poems, looks like it's a Trousers-style competition. Unfortunately I have no lavish prizes. However, I do promise a beautiful hand-decorated tape of Tigermilk with a painstakingly transcribed lyric sheet taken from the LP and toiled over by Tibetan monks for years in the darkness. Or something. I've just written mine. It may well be the worst poem ever written. But don't be fainthearted, give it a go... Charlotte +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: MTV 120 Minutes premieres B&S video stateside tonight?
by Etienne008＠aol.com 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

THE VIDEO FOR IS IT WICKED NOT TO CARE.. WAS.... SO GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!!!!!!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: MTV 120 Minutes premieres B&S video stateside tonight?
by OLDSCHREC＠aol.com 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Waiting for the video tonight as well as a new Mercury Rev vid too. Sitting patiently with the tv sound down on Primus, Fuel, Semisonic, etc.. with the stereo up blastin' the new 3cd set of the best of Alec Empire entitled "The Geist Of Alec Empire". Loud technorama ambient noise as I watch the boring vid flix waitin' for the B&S. This seems like the longest 120 minutes I ever spent I think except for years ago when they plugged the Auteurs video for two hours and it ended up being the last one of the night. This one may end up the same way. For all the recent smut list contributors, such waiting like this may compare to the longest climax that you may have ever had. Pete G. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: query of mine.
by Thessaly1＠aol.com 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

hi peoples! okay here is what i want to know! why is it that on weekends especially the sinister list is not able to be downloaded on my computer and viewed? this is really starting to piss me off because i can't read what all you fine people are posting on the weekends! if anyone else with aol (god i hate them) has had this problem because sinsiter downloads as a winfile instead of as the normal notepad default let me know. also i wore my "boy with the arab strap" t-shirt today and got two guy's attentions. one was reading the select piece on them next to me at the virgin megastore, and the other was at the movies seeing "elizabeth" today. i am sure if i had the stow t-shirt (which is what i wanted but they just sold out of in medium before i could get it) i would have had more admirers. but two in la on the same day was quite nice! :) also has anyone else seen the movie "elizabeth" and found it funny that eric cantona the footballer is in it? i know i chuckled! :) another revelation of mine is that stuart m is actually "sinister" because he is left handed. this is what the word originally meant and only later did the evil connotation become applied. (because lefties can't be trusted) we also are considered to have bad taste, ie. being "gauche" means left in french. numerous other misnomers have befallen us, landing lefties in asylums and the oval office! i think i am going to start the revolution against the right hand world right now, starting with the where the mouse is located on my computer! i urge all other oppressed lefties to do so as well! :) the ever rebellous, sinister and gauche, jennifer +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: what's fun in glasgow
by GaoBest＠aol.com 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

In a message dated 11/15/98 07:41:47 AM, billmoss(a)hotmail.com wrote: <<Could anyone recommend good record stores, clubs/pubs (where I might meet sinister people), things to do, etc. in Glasgow? >> I was there in May for St Etienne and i loved going to Blob Shop across the street from the Garage - drinks were like 1.30 or something ridiculously cheap (OK, not as cheap as Mcr's Lazy Pig where drinks are 85p). also Fopp has a nice selection of stuff, even though it's all new. and I enjoyed Kelvingrove even though most people probably think it's lame, but I enjoyed visiting the museum there not to mention just walking through the grove, it's very pretty and picturesque. Not sure if this is helpful, at the worst you can hang out at Blob Shop and get locked for a very cheap price :-) xox mike +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: fonts are fun
by Martin Horsfield 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

In today's Observer, there's an article on 'What the fonts you use say about you'. Well, having seen the artwork for the new single, B&S' fonts appear to be saying 'THIS RECORD WILL APPEAL TO SMITHS FANS'. What happened to the understated lower case of TBWTAS? Or the compact captals (Impact perhaps?) of IYAFS? Perhaps the worst offender was the the florid handwriting font sported by 'Dog On Wheels', which made it look a little like an Interflora advert. I'm not asking for a bog-standard 48pt helvetica italic logo like Oasis', just a bit of typographical consistency and record sleeves which don't add too much fuel to the lazy 'they're the new Smiths, you know' theory. Martin Horsfield, critic +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: wot no mail !
by Niceaction＠aol.com 15 Nov '98

15 Nov '98

whoa.. no sinister mail for over 6 hours.. I think Honey's lovely words may have hit home quite hard to some people. Anyway, as there's no mail i thought i'd post a little something about when i went to see B&S in New York. I was milling around outside the supper club at about 1pm on the first day of the gig. The roadies were all unloading the gear and i was being sad, hoping to catch a glimpse of some of my heroes. Anyway, after about half an hour of nothinness a man came out of nowhere and started to walk towards the side entrance, i wasn't really paying attention, but was wondering who it could be. It was then that he turned around and it was MadDog.. !! OMG i thought.. he looked at me, and not an inquisitive look, it was a hmmmm whats going on here look, and then looked at me again as if he knew what i was doing. I had my camera with me and a pen and piece of paper and thought i would get a nice piccy for my outings. But i just didnt have the courage to say anything. I just looked at him, gave a smile, and looked away shylie. How could i do that ! The only opportunity to give the "i just wanted you to know how much you mean to me, and what your music has done to me" speach and i chickened it.. I shall never forgive myself, and will hang my head in shame for being gutless :o( I shall now write on the board 100 times, "I am the most foolish person in the world, and deserve never to see Belle and Sebastian live again" Jamie xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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