November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Diamonds Aren't Forever
by Michael Jones 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

---Jason Brent <jbrent(a)callisto.uwinnipeg.ca> wrote: > he said everyone knows that cd's are going to turn to dust in 25 > years! Instant anxiety attack insued!!! I think this belongs in the same category as 'Polo mints make you sterile' and 'Power Showers destroy your immune system' - mythological scaremongery that is difficult to conclusively disprove. CDs have been around for 20 years now (in wide commercial circulation for 15), and there haven't been too many reported cases of them decaying away to nothing. Those that have been found to deteriorate have been traced back to pressing plants with dodgy operational practices. Such as employing too many people with ginger hair. > He said most of the TRUE music > fans he sells to have all switched back to vinyl. Well, to put things into perspective, it's worth bearing in mind that vinyl records begin to deteriorate after their very first play. What's more, the thermal deformation of the groove wall that occurs as a natural by-product of stylus-vinyl friction takes some hours to completely dissipate - so, if you're in the habit of playing your favourite LPs more than once in an evening, you're accelerating their demise. (Actually I may have pulled that last factoid out of my bum - I certainly can't remember where I got it from.) Still, not to worry eh ? Loads of people have a strong preference for black plastic, despite (or perhaps because of) its inherent limitations and distortions. Then there's the whole question of cover art - if CD had come along a decade or so earlier, the world might've been spared Roger Dean. I like vinyl because it's sex-ay. Mike (a FALSE music fan). _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sad muppets
by poetryplace2 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Hello boys and girls A TURNIP FOR THE BOOKS Phew, what a busy weekend I've had, flying to Spain just so I could hang around in Mr Miller's local supermarket (Peter! I was behind the tins of Alphabetti Spaghetti!). I can exclusively reveal to the list that Peter spends a great deal of time in the vegetable section, choosing his potatoes, cucumbers, marrows etc purely on the basis of how they amusingly resemble saucy bits of the anatomy, under the mistaken impression that Esther Rantzen's "That's Life" is still gracing the airwaves. There was one particular moment when he picked up a turnip and seemed close to tears. I can't be sure, but it seemed like he was saying "Oh Tim, Tim, will you ever return, my darling?". TAKE A SINISTER SLEIGH RIDE WITH ME Some people have asked when the next social is at The Poetry Cafe in London. I did mention this before, but it was buried deep in the bowels of an email of mine that made Marcel Proust seem like a snappy, to-the-point kinda guy. To reiterate: December 18 we will be having a Sinister Xmas Party from 7pm onwards at the PoCaff on Betterton St, Covent Garden, London. I'm still pondering whether to provide jelly and ice-cream, in which case their may be a small entry fee. I will put details on the jeepster notice board when I can be arsed. MUPPETRY REV I can only join everyone in applauding the new MercRev Lp. However, I have a fairly fundamental problem which means I find it very difficult to listen to now. Someone once wrote a review of Neil Young, where they said they had always been a great fan until they heard that song - is it "Helpless"? that's the chorus anyway - and the line "Big bird flying across the sky.." They immediately had a mental image of the large yellow resident of Sesame Street gliding across a beautiful sunset, and found it impossible to take poor old Neil seriously again. It's similar with MercRev... I was trying to think who the singer reminded me of for days, then all of a sudden it struck me: remember how Kermit the Frog would sometimes introduce his little nephew, Robin, to sing a song about being halfway up the stairs? Well, as a result I can no longer listen to the lp. Curses. To add insult to injury I cant listen to The Stooges anymore, either. I put on "Raw Power" the other night, only to find myself haunted by the leering face of Jim Henson's most fearsome creation, Robert "son of a manic street preachers' fan", McTaggart. What can you do? SMOKING IS COOL A number of people expressed interest in a bunch of Paul Auster books I got sent, so I thought I would set another competition. As the previous competition tested your powers of poetic creativity, I thought this time I would set a scientific question, to really see who the renaissance lads and ladies are on Sinister. It has been said that Dear old Christopher Leonard is a bit of a renaissance man, what with his computer skills and his mellifluous voice, but judging by his sloping forehead, I would place him a bit earlier. A cro-magnon man, perhaps*. But anyway, the question: Mr Auster once made a film called "Smoke" with the famous french director Roman Polanski. Now, Sir Walter Raleigh once proved in the olden days that it was possible to weigh smoke. On scales. But can you tell me how??? The correct (or most ingenious wrong) answers will be put in a hat, and five winners will receive books. Answers to me privately please before Friday. Stay pressed Stevie Trousers +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Worrying Aloud
by Jason Brent 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

G'day everyone. Today I was visiting one of my friends in a local record shop, and we were bantering around all the new music we were listening to, with him throwing on all his current faves. Now I realize that I bought the wrong Mogwai album! I thought some of you were delusional! Anyways, I noticed that he was playing all his choices on vinyl. When I asked him why, he said everyone knows that cd's are going to turn to dust in 25 years! Instant anxiety attack insued!!! He said most of the TRUE music fans he sells to have all switched back to vinyl. Is anyone else aware of this? Do you people buy cd's, or albums? Needless to say, I grabbed the only vinyl copy of TBWTAS, and headed home to hug my decaying heap of aluminum! Later JASON (who hates his new "flying V" keyboard) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 article
by Martin Horsfield 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Tara said <viola>. Shouldn't that be voila? A viola is something which Isobel might play. Anyway, in the glory days of Britpop, I used to write for a Scottish pop mag called Bigwig and looking through an old issue last night, I spotted a rare interview with those reticent Belle and Sebastian types. It dates from November 1996, is by a chap called Roy Moller and is only about 300 words long. But if anyone wants me to reproduce it here, just say the word. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 am the Black Gold of the Sun
by PJMiller 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Due to the imminent danger of being set on fire, I have to clarify a point I made last week which appears to have caused untold suffering and claimed numerous lives. Warrender John did not send me a child's birthday party invitation. Why on earth would someone from Aberdeen do that? What he actually sent was a kind of notelet, with a picture of a young lady on it, and lines for writing on so that it doesn't go all wibbly wobbly. It's very nice, and I like it, but it should in no way be taken to infer that Warrender John is some kind of international sick pervert. Far from it, he is a fine upstanding Aberdonian, and probably talks Banffish. His tapes are mighty fine. As indeed are Fluffy's. I have now listened to side one, and lived to tell the tale. There's a couple of funny bits, including someone's mum telling her noisy kids off, which I like very much. I must also mention the very fine drawngs that accompany the extensive sleeve notes. It always helps to know what a group looks like, Bod on acid in this case. Special thanks to the human whoopee cushion, Adrian Evans, for a suitably saucy Monday Poem. Mullet Man, I only got two votes last time, and I've got even uglier since then, as a quick glance at the photo page will reveal. By the way Paul, your website looks lovely when it isn't there. You sound like Ronnie Corbett. Also, I have been pondering your theory (or Tim's theory) that the worse a soul LP cover is, the better the music. That certainly applies (at least the first bit) to the Gamble and Huff output in the seventies, some of the covers look truly atrocious, quite smelly in fact, like something you found in the mate's loft, next to their dad's porno mags, towards the end of the school holidays. I'm just beginning to get the hang of the music, it's very BIG, and not that easy for a PUNK like me. Rotary Connection, on the other hand, are SHIT HOT, so much so that I have named this message after their finest hour. Speaking of Tim, the envelope Flufy sent me originated from Ed Mason, yet I could find no trace of Tim's famous underpants. Magnetic Fields Megan henceforth shal be known as simply Magnetic Megan to avoid any confusion. Unless anyone objects, of course. Has anyone heard any top anecdotes from the returning troops that took over New York last week? Well, we've had one or two, I know, but too much of a good thing can be wonderful. I now owe two people tapes, but have no idea what they might like. Speak now or be subjected to 90 minutes of high octane Krautrock. Cheers, Peter James Miller PS: Lesley, what's your J? PPS: Carrick, that wall sounds fucking 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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Sinister: Re: Smut, Xfm, dogs
by Stephen Garland 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Hello there, 1. Dog on wheels Did anyone see last Friday's London Evening Standard Magazine? There was a picture of an alsation with no back legs, but wheels to replace them. It looked a pretty happy dog, too, buy hey, who wouldn't be if they could freewheel down hills? The most curious thing was that it had a Tax Disc attached. The article said that dogs don't need Road Tax, but Snow ploughs do. So everyone out there with a snow plough be warned. 2. Snow patrol I think I accidentally heard a song by these on Sean Hughes' radio show on Saturday afternoon. Does anyone know of Xfm is any good these days? I stopped listening when it became part of Capital but didn't even try it out, so I can't judge. Hughes seemed to be playing some decent alternative stuff, and Lamacq on R1 does a good job, too. Not the same as 24hrs-a-day alternative, but there's some there. 3. Smut The bit you were waiting for, eh? Rumour has it that a, erm, friend of mine allegedly was doing 'it' to TBWTAS, and reached his peak of excitement during the album's trough - ie Chickfactor (the CD must've been on Random play, because he could never last that long, surely?). This follows on from a similar incident with the Pulp Fiction soundtrack playing, and Captain Kangaroo being the trigger. Romantic or what? Catchya later, llama fans, Stevie -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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Re: Sinister: Wot no smut?!? nope sorry, only Salako news ...
by Katrina House 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

oops! sorry stuart ... Stuart Gardiner wrote: > On a completely unrelated note, is anyone going to the Salako gig in > London on Thursday? And if so, anyone fancy meeting up before hand? > (Actually a more important question is does anyone know if it'll finish in > time for me to get the last train home at midnight?) Salako go onstage at about 9.45 - 10.00 pm-ish and the curfew is a strict 11pm, so hopefully that should be enough time ... it should be a great night, i promise! several listees should be able to testify for that too ... (steady mike, pam, trousers et al ...) oh, it's The Borderline just in case you'd forgotten ... doors at 8.00pm, Electric Sound of Joy support with DJ Tony and his Magical Disco too. You can get a free Salako sticker too! and we're so confident that you'll love Salako, that if you're a bit hesitant with forking out your £6 (six pounds for all of you who that turns out like a A=30 or something) to see them, there's a special deal on offer (no steak knives though, sorry!) If you mail me back before 11am on Thursday (12/11) and say you want to go, then we'll put you on the Jeepster £3 (three pounds) guest list, which means it'll only cost you half! But we do need your names in advance, so please mail me back asap ... go on, you KNOW you want to :) shameless plugging yet again ... cheers, Katrina. -- ************************************************************************ jeepster recordings ltd. - mailto:a-and-r@jeepster.co.uk 217 canalot, 222 kensal road, london, w10 5bn, uk phone - 0181 964 9432, fax - 0181 964 8600 http://www.jeepster.co.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: Where The Dukes He Gone?
by Warrander John - FML 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Oh my god, I'm devastated. The Duke's not here anymore. I voted for him as my list crush too, him being my hero and all. Can I vote again please? I want to vote for whoever has seven votes already. They're obviously a bit of a knock-out, stunning looks and perfection as a hipster personality. I think we should all have a list hero. Can we vote for that too. Send your votes directly to your hero and you may well make their day. Maybe not though. I send one to MY hero several times a day and he just tells me to "piss off". Anyway, Mr Robert McTaggart pointed out to me that: >Peter Miller and I both signed ourselves Petey-Wetey >and Taggy-Waggy after the great Sarah row of '97. So I do apologise for being criminally late with my Johnny-Wonny moniker. Anyway, I like being late so has everybody stopped talking about Breakfast At Tiffany's yet? Good, then I'll have my say. Actually, I just wanted to say that Charade is better. Did Truman Capote write that too? Did they change the end? Bastards. They changed the end of Oscar and Lucinda. It was absolutely awful what they changed it to as well. Up until that point I had rather enjoyed the film and then I left the cinema quite angry. The book is wonderful though and Peter Carey's latest effort (I think it's his latest) Jack Maggs is wonderful too. He pays homage to Dickens and has all these cute and clever nods to Dickens characters and Dicken's life itself. Not being particularly well read when it comes to the Dickens fellow, I missed all this and I still really enjoyed the book. Oh, and the scene in Charade where Audrey Hepburn turns to Cary Grant and says "You know what's wrong with you...? Nothing" is my most favourite cinematic moment ever. And as for all this Baader-Meinhoff talk. Jolly good show. We should all write and tell Steven Wells about this. It'll crush his preconceptions of B&S fans and he'll probably implode. Do we still hate Steven Wells? Now my computer's just told me it's 1972. I knew there was something wrong. I was wondering why I was wearing flares too. Fuck, does this mean the internet's not been invented yet? Cheerio chums, Love...John PS It's the most incredibly beautiful Autumnal day in Manchester. The sun is up, the sky is blue, there's not a cloud to spoil the view. Marvellous. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Bands etc
by T.Lilja＠biosci.salford.ac.uk 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Hi! Hope you are all well. I just wanted to tell you all about the bands i love. Becks new album is good, i bought it last week and i quite like it. Stereolab is really great, they seem to have the same uncompromising style as B&S with different sounds. And I have to confess that i bought and like the Oasis masterplan album. At least it is better than be here now that i just can't belive i bought in the first place. And of course Electronic is really great too. By the way. Is Chris's jacket (in Seymore Stein ) a leather like the one Johnny Marr has one that famous picture where he hugs Morrissey? /Toby +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: peace would I know
by Oliver Hall 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

~sigh~ :( I cannot compose my thoughts well enough to be interesting on the list due to the flowing melodies of B&S trapped with happiness within my bruised head. you are all lovely and i hope yr well luv ---------------------- Oliver Hall University of Exeter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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