November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Viva Zapato!
by PJMiller 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

Evenin' all. Just thought I'd exceed our One a Day Limit in order to put Wee Bobbie's mind at rest. I wasn't offended by your Baader Meinhof comment, I just wanted to show off a bit. I do know a bit about the Baader Meinhoffers, but not much, and it's all very hazy. But it was definitely shit scary. Not so much due to what they did, but because of the apparent ease with which certain people can go from ranting and raving to "direct action". To try and explain in terms that we can all understand: imagine if the Duke suddenly decided he'd had enough of spouting sprouts about pop and got involved in some "direct action" - such as forming a group, probably with his teddy bears. It would be terrible, wouldn't it? I bet he'd do that Kevin Rowland "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" thing and have foppish hair. And yet it's such an easy move to make. Or so it would seem. I have read books about terrorism though. When I asked if they had any in Burton library they sent me to the taoism section. How we laughed, the librarian and I. If I buy "Ghetto Superstar" by Pras out of the Fugees, will you all laugh at me and call me names? Are Mercury Rev post-rock? I've been waiting for that Gene Clark compilation for ages, but now it's out I'm just not in the mood. I've just been listening to Red Snapper in concert on the radio. I've seen them, you know. I like the trumpet player. Fluffy! I got your tape. The postman left it on the stairs, due to the fact that "Sister Disco" is not written on the postbox. My lovely wife has now rumbled one of my nom-de-nets. She was pretty impressed when I played her the song of the same name by the 70s WHO. I haven't listened to the tape yet, due to the pressure of work, but I'm suitably impressed by the extensive sleeve notes and the tape cover made from a Preston bus timetable. Thank you very much. I have a feeling my life is never going to be the same again. The circus is in town! I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it! I went for a walk around the site this afternoon, it smells of exotic animal poo! It was a bit like the closing scenes of Tod Browning's "Freaks", only without the rain. And that was just the people putting the big top up! I dread to think what delights the show holds in store. I wove circwuses! Are the Lo-Fidelity All Stars shit? It's certainly a shit name. They're supposed to be treading the boards here on Thursday, and I'm wondering whether it's worth sacrificing my weekly attempt to sit through an entire episode of the X Files for. Actually, I managed it last week, but I didn't know what the fuck was going on. Brad, the Dukester is currently claiming to be unsubscribed. That's why we make fun of him so much. You'll have to go by the official channels: tangents(a)lineone.net that address is taken from THE book, so it must be right. Someone was wondering how the Duke signs his book. Mine says "to Peter, keep the faith, with love, Alistair x". Stop smirking at the back, it's true. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: various shite
by carly marcoux 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

Alright fellow sinisteriens, the word is that sandra and I have a rollerskating date on wednesday of this week with people whom i work with ... we are both debating whether or not to go... we are plum tired out from the weekend (in which we worked) and i still have to pay whether i go or not! What to do, what to do... Help us please... I suppose if we were going, sandra would wear leather and i would wear fur (i don't sound like such a shy bunny anymore do i)............... oh dear! and my dear dear donatien, huskies i know not where to buy... maybe at a smashing place like Valu-Villaaaggge or your local thrift store... they are basically sort of 70's throwback items now I believe... if you find them, feel lucky and wear them around the house with nothing on while drinking Fry's cocoa sweetened with sugar and monin chocolate mint syrup...mmmmmm! (some blueberry belgian waffles would be nice as well!) hmmm, and on the topic of the Snow Queen... couldn't our belle and seb (or maybe even stuart m and sarah? i think they're both adorable!) be the two lovers and re-enact the story line? but who would be the ice-y queeen...?! Seymour Stein, perhaps?????!!! ohhh where the time goes... and monsieur donatien, do you always make your dates pay for your macdonalds specials? or are they too busy, lovingly adoring you while you wear your michael hutchence/bjork looking jacket just so that they can sit and stare at you with stars in their dreamy eyes...! *sigh* french fries. xx sammi! (dreaming of blueberry belgian waffles and garlic eggplant and rice... boy, my stomach will surely be aching after this daydream... sort of like pickles before bed. ouch!) ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 want a man with lips just like mick jagger
by Tara Widmer 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

How great is your job when you spend the first two hours on Monday reading Sinister digests? Or should I ask, how boring is your job? Donovan: <<Hey you were the girl on my PULP list who just chewed me out days ago for liking dubstar over st etienne and mono over portishead.>> yes, sorry, that wasn't intended as a chew-out, i was only trying to explain why you're wrong... portishead never figured into the conversation, but indeed, they *are* better than mono now that you mention it. Who cares, it's only my lil opinion, nobody likes me anyway so forget it. And I don't look like Liz hurley - that was just another of my many misguided attempts at humor; truth is that I'm a dead-ringer for Barbara Windsor. Steady on, boys. Martin: <<What length of time do you estimate it takes for a 'Study At Stow' T- shirt to make it from Jeepster in West London to Martin's house in South London.>> It took exactly one month to reach this wee kitten in California, I was only on the verge of sending some hate mail to a mr david kitchen, demanding my money back you filthy thieves calling yourselves "jeepster recordings" ... when it came in the mail!!! viola. I knew they'd come through, just a matter of patience:-) Surely it's something to do with backorders or the jeepster people being really very busy right now, but have faith, it'll come... for those who don't know, the t-shirts have these cool little tags that say "Belle and Sebastian Fashion wear" which is kind of a neat concept. "House of B&S", they can start making cardigans and flares, even SILVER trousers with runway shows featuring the band sashaying up n down the catwalk... "this season, FEY is all the rage... nothing screams "'beat me up I'm a momma's boy!' more than brown corduroys and faded trainers" ....I'm just kidding, as surely you all have impeccable fashion sense. brad: <<just read in this week's OUT magazine that... >> stop right there. can this mean...brad?...I mean, reading OUT magazine...?..but...but... <look of devastated confusion> *sigh* Scratch one off the crush list oops you didn't read that. Whatever happened to Mark Cassarotto? Word had it that he'd flown to America for the NY shows, but we've yet to hear him recount his debaucherous tales of an Englishman in New york. anyway, i'll leave with the recommendation that anyone who's into pure stupid fun pop music check out Material Issue... not exactly underrated, i don't think they were ever even rated, but they were lovely while they lasted! ta! tara palmer-tompkinson-widmer (hmm did I just plagiarize? it really wasn't intentional!) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dirty dream #115
by r. h. 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

look if we're going to be talking about belle and the boy dreams i've got one but i really shouldn't share it...i'll just tell you it involed me and isobel her bow and mr. ed. you figure it out. robbie ...but you can call me "daddy". ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sinister : Denzil, shoe-gazing, and bowling.
by Neil Dewhurst 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

Denzil was alive and well and in Manchester when I was lucky (?) enough to witness a fine two-star performance from him (although a performance of eighties wonder group 5-star would have been a treat) in the Hop & Grape, Manchester University Students Union. I think he may have been supporting Mr R Hitchcock of surreal story and spotty shirt fame. I thought I would always remember Denzil's set for one line, which was something to do with Sid James, but as I've clearly forgotten even that little detail, it would be slightly rich of me to make that claim. Anyway, having been charmed by the man's subtle wit, it was to much delight that I found a copy of his excellently titled album "Pub" in Vinyl Exchange in the same city. Even more exciting was the realisation that the cover featured, in glorious cheap technicolour-substitute, a foaming pint of beer. For £1.99 it was actually cheaper than a pint in London. If anyone wants a copy I suspect there are still about three trillion or so left in the store, although they may be used now to keep the door open on hot summers days (in Manchester?), along with several Blow Monkeys albums and a rare but still worthless copy of an album by The High. I hate to be party to anything involving lists, but as people have mentioned shoe-gazing, I thought I'd mention that The House of Love just could be the best band of that era. In fact I named them in a pressure-question-in-the-pub scenario a couple of weeks ago as my all-time indie band. B&S aren't vulgar enough, although as soon as they introduce what the unique Gary Crawley would describe as 'buzz-saw guitar' sounds into their music, they may fall under the majestic umbrella that is Indie. I have made an intriguing ten-pin bowling discovery. I can only bowl to certain types of music. At the beginning of the third and final game of a gripping contest on Saturday, the bowling alley people switched the music to a toe sliding finger waving seventies medley, during which I scored three consecutive strikes. Celine Dion (remixed) came on and I totally flunked. More seventies grooves were accompanied by a spare and a strike, and eighties stuff resulted in a disappointing end to the game. Does anyone know of any seventies theme bowling alleys where I can strut my ever so funky bowling flavas? Thanks to all those who cheered me up with crap jokes the other day. They were crap. But they cheered me up. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: various shite
by Sandra Duric 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

Yes, thank you! I have nothing against furry parkas, but the idea that there are people out there imagining me in one, ewgawds! Give me leather any day. But I do assure you that sammi looks absolutely cuddable in this coat. And now she walk can around smiling in all her furry glory instead of incessantly asking me if she'll be committing a fashion faux pas if she wears it too early in the season! :-> And if anyone listened to our show Friday night... thank you. Alexandra -----Original Message----- From: carly marcoux [SMTP:idoruzine@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 3:46 PM To: sinister(a)majordomo.net; nostromo30(a)hotmail.com Subject: Re: Sinister: various shite Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 16:57:22 PST Reply-To: "donovan nuyen" <nostromo30(a)hotmail.com> alexdra duric wrote: Speaking of smiles... i was ear to ear with mine today when i got to take something out of the closet for winter! My fantastic faux fur long fuzzy black hooded parka!!! I felt like having a nice sled ride in the morning but alas, there was no snow! Is it as cold everywhere else as it is here in ontario canada? ****mais, beau monsieur donatien, c'est moi (sammi), the shy bunny who is alexandra's flatmate who wrote this! sandra only gave the fashionable advice that maybe i should be wearing my white bikini and husky's (husky's being white furry boots) and nothing else underneath it... i've been bothering everyone for like a month now asking if they thought it might be cold enough so i could wear it... and frankly when i have it on, i feel like a siberian princess... did anyone ever read hans christian anderson's "the snow queen"? a lovely winter story...! >yes i have this white parka with a fauz fur collar that i think was originally my sisters...it screams bjork/ micheal hutchence when i wear it....i like to go my local mcdonalds in it. --+****might i ask what you order? *sigh* pooka. xx sammi! & alexandra who are off to make chocolate chip cookies for a friend named seifker. ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: janine and the dream of...
by Janine Papp 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

OK I had a belle and sebastian-related dream too. It's all a bit fuzzy now, but here goes: I dreamt that one of them - I'm not quite sure who- somehow accidentally took my atm card and withdrew $60 from my bank. So, I found out when I tried to go to the bank and I had someone else's card. I wasn't mad, just confused. Then the person from belle and sebastian somehow found me and gave me my card back, paid the $60 to me, and introduced me to the rest of the band. they all apologized profusely and said it was a mistake and it would never happen again, and that they would never steal money from me. Of course I forgave them. :) queen bee janine +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Boy Done Wrong Again
by SPRFNK＠aol.com 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

it is stevie cause they sang this at the nyc show +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Shoegazing is not dead
by Aranzazu Sanz-Garcia 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

Thanks Lorelei to rescue such a descriptive word as shoegazer. Yes, I was one of them, though I don't stand anymore in the dancefloor staring exactly at the floor and shaking my bobbed hair ...Some of my all time favourites are in your list, My Bloody (the Kings), or Pale Saints, but Ride used to be too, and Adorable and Swervedriver Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 was 17 and stupid, thought i was 22 and cool
by Carl Polgar Jr 09 Nov '98

09 Nov '98

hello to all. i have a question. the other day, i called up my friend to ask her if she wanted me to include any particular songs on the mix tape i was going to make her for her birthday. at first, she couldn't really think of anything, but then she asked me for more stuff from denzil, which i included in a mix tape i gave her three years ago. which leads me to my question: what the hell happened to denzil? to the best of my knowledge, he released one album in the u.s. called "pub" (and quite a good album, i might add), had a very small mention in a rolling stone article a short while later, and disappeared forever. does anyone know what happened to him? does anybody else have that album? is he on the list? that's all carl. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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