December 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: To Canucks and Yanks...
by Sebastian 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

After writing a letter to my friend in England-town (who's returning for Xmas) asking him to find the new BS ep for me...I walk into good 'ol Encore records, downtown Kitchener...and guess what I see for $12.99 This is just a modern rock song...made my weeekend... NO...im not rubbing it in, just letting you know there's hope... yahoo! ___________________________________________________________________________ My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors and they help me see That everything in this room right now, is a part of me +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Gate postmodern rock song
by T.Lilja＠biosci.salford.ac.uk 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

Hi! I'd just like to stand up and testify that i truely like (i woulden't say love after such a short affair but im defenetly smitten) the Gate Its a lovely song and thats all there is to it. About the counting acts part: I think its about remenicense of the days gone and the things that seemed so natural at the time but seems so magical in hindsight. Or maybe not but I'd like it to be about that. TIJAMRS is the song on the EP that I'm not totally pleased with but I know some of you really like it so I wont slag it of. Merry Xmas /Toby We comunicate more and more in more defined ways than ever before but noone is saying anything new its all very poor its all such a bore /Sterelab +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: bis is crap
by SPRFNK＠aol.com 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

well i love bis---everytime i hear it i just want to dance hehe---but i guess I cant really see guys listening to it--well whatever byebye kristin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Friends, we'll be friends (US vs UK chapter nth) (fwd)
by Arantxa Sanz 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

Sorry, Nick, I just sent this to you before instead of the list... xxxx A. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:22:59 +0000 (BST) From: Arantxa Sanz <pcxas(a)unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> To: Nick Dastoor <nickdastoor(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Friends, we'll be friends (US vs UK chapter nth) The list cultural influence is infinite, amazingly infinite. On Friday afternoon, it was posted that message by Ian which starts the first movement in this quasi civil war two hundred years after, but reversely, now Britons try to become a nation expulsing Yanks from their nice island... And Friday, 9pm, 'Friends'last and double chapter gives us a deep, enlightened, lucid vision about Britain and Britishness, its differences and points in common with American cosmovision, including Richard Branson as a hat seller in Westminster and Matt le Blanc enjoying his happiest moments ever when bumping into a Royal, even when it was the most plebeian of them all, gingered hair Fergie, without Massive Attack collaboration this time in her performance. Obviously, Sinister list will have to be taken into account by Anthropology and Politics students in fifty years from now as one of the most influent hot-points at the end of the millenium. Arantxa (non British, non American, do I exist , really?) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sock with eyes on
by Danny 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

Someone just made me a sock with eyes on, REAL pigs eyes, and a snakes tongue made out of christmas wrapping paper. Watch this space. Danny +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: This is just a modern life in a northern town
by João Henrique Horst - Refrescos Guararapes Ltda. 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

The Jeepster parcel appeared on my bed last friday. I had never heard any of the EP songs before. In none of the versions. As I was kind of tired, after my first DJing night ever (probably the last), the idea of hibernating for 13 hours letting the record play on, ad eternum, seemed ok. I woke up fine. I had dreamt of Sinatra and come to some conclusion: TIJAMRS is quite similar to one of my all time faves - Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town". Why not ? Jh pushing the town away -----Mensagem original----- De: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar(a)xnet.com> Para: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Data: Domingo, 13 de Dezembro de 1998 20:37 Assunto: Sinister: new EP > >The new EP arrived Thursday. > >What you get is a well-balanced, 20-minute dose of Belle and Sebastian. If >you saw them live, or if you do some tape-trading, then probably you know >at least 2 or 3 of the songs already. > >"This is Just a Modern Rock Song" is more polished than the session >version, but not especially different. It simply does better justice to >the song's potential. The playing and singing are more confident. If >someone had asked, though, I might have suggested "more feeling" (whatever >that is supposed to mean) at the start. > >I only knew "I Know Where The Summer Goes" from hearing it once at the >recent live show (Chicago), but the melody was already in my head anyway. >I wonder how many takes they did. Probably not many. The song came out >perfectly well live, and aside from the clearer sound that is coming from >your stereo (I hope) it is probably no better and no worse than you >remember either. > >"The Gate" is a worthy song. However, I would like it much more if >someone else sang it. Isobel's voice may work marvelously in the >background, but her breathy, weak, uncontrolled singing is problematic for >lead vocals. Not only that, but she'll give herself nodes if she keeps >this up. I prescribe vocal exercises and probably some coaching: learn to >project from the diaphragm, and do pitch-matching with the piano. > >BTW, Steve's voice sounds better to me when he is not trying as hard. >Compare the radio version of "Seymour Stein" to the LP version. Just >sing it, and put it on tape. > >Beyond the fact that Isobel could do serious damage in the long term, the >female voice has the potential to be so much more agile than the male >voice. So, to my ears, clumsiness sounds that much more clumsy in a >female voice. > >I also had a session version of "Slow Graffiti". The EP version is >extremely similar in the first section, and the arrangement in the second >section -- the horns/winds especially -- really gels this time. Since the >version on the Acid House s/t is supposed to be different, I will try to >hunt that down. This must be one of their strongest songs, and the lineup >on the s/t looked pretty decent as well. > >--Mark > >__ Burning Rome : SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14 > > Distributed by Dutch East India Trading, Com Four, and Carrot Top < > < http://www.xnet.com/~mkolmar/BurningRome > < MP3 & RealAudio tracks > > > >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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: Laugh ? I almost...........
by Adrian Evans 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

For those listees with children. SANTA CLAUS: AN ENGINEER'S PERSPECTIVE There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (900g), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 150 Kgs. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance--this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: videoshoot
by Jarvislon＠aol.com 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

OK i was at the infamous video shoot.and let me tell you brad and robby both did some very sick things.i wont go into detail I'll just say it had to do with farm animals. it was neat to meet other people but there should have been more i suppose.but all was wonderful, and i think the farm animals liked it.well, they didn't complain. maybe they wont cut my part out(dorky guy,jumping rope,in a flea market cowboy hat)and maybe they'll leave the beastiality part in too.WAY TO GO ROBBIE AND BRAD! oh yea Sam ( or Satan) how the hell did you get on the list.pure evil you are and im sure belle and sebastian would be proud.go now members and sacrifice in the name of Sam.....bob +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Defenders of Nonsense annual Juried convention
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

clumsiness is yummy. naivete is endearing. Useless immaturity, is genius. Thus spake zarathustra, or maybe it was me, that night i ate too many strawberry newtons. A little bird chirped: one sunny Sunday dream inspired morning. In this bus driven coma, I was unable to breathe under the combined weight of B&S arse. Isobels bum may look like it would have the weight and texture of angel delight ( with a slight hint of digestive crunch) but in the dream dimesion has the weight of your granny's finest(?) fairy cakes in the pre-War Cookeen days and all the alluring aroma of one too many fried Stonhaven turnips. The rest of the band were too far too shy to pass wind in my dream. **************************************************************************** ************************************ hmmm???? alriighty then.........to use a most shameful americanism. hope y'all had fun in athens. *WAAAAAAHHHH...* anyone who can provide me with an isobel school uniform picture, or any other belle booty (it's da bomb, -g-!) will be richly rewarded, i have many extra 5X7 prints of the cello and tambourine shots if that is an alluring prospect. if not, forget i said so. i was going to put up an ink polaroid but i think now that i will use it for weejay's story tree instead. prepare for some heapin' helpin of greasy misery! I'm bitter. leave me alone with my tiggerjammies and stop being mean!!! *nuh-huhuhWAAAAAAA WHAT AWORLD, WHATAWORLD......* i'm only lucid when i'm spewing dull nonsense in case you hadn't assumed that already. i enjoy the teejammer song it's very rollercoaster ride but less sprightly and stevie's vocal turn is a nice thing. Oh and, by the way, I will personally hunt you down and paint red X's on your doors if you do not immediately and gloriously accept Isobel Campbell as your personal savior. actually it's not true, but you can think that if you want, i suppose there are worse positions to be placed in than defending a pixy princess against the senseless rabble. and BETTER positions as well, if you catch me, nudge nudge, there's your smut, you masses, now go home and watch ricki lake and stay complacent. fat, lazy, and ugly, lesleyJo ps don't humor me, please. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: XXX Scandinavian Massive Facial Cumshotz #2
by Pulpbot＠aol.com 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

blistees, i'm off to join the Anal Cunt mailing list. they have a song called "morrissey" so my love of twee has not been shipwrecked, mind. god bless Mr. Highway and his adolescent pleasures, for they blow my mind like bubblegum. they hardly jibe with his radical feminist polemics, which make Andrea Dworkin sound like yer forgiving grandmother. god, do i have to hear one more time that the raw belt of Norwegian death metal is a futile attempt by men to match the vaginal wailing that accompanies a woman's deflowering? you think I'm kidding? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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