December 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Hi All
by michael.cook＠mas-int.com 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

I just bumped into this not my fault after a bottle or two. But hey has any body heard of Castle Comunications?? No oh well. To introduce myself I am me Proud of it And here to hit you with some amusing anecdotes Will be contacting you soon. Has anybody heard of ELO Joking Cookie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Can I take Katrina's place?
by Jake 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

Hi there all, In the absence of our dearest David and Katrina I thought that I'd do my best to answer some of the points raised by Mick McMick about new releases by B&S and looper. I want to point out at this stage that none of what I'm about to say is guarenteed but i'll do my best to tell you what i know. In case you are wondering who is Jake (or kenny as some of you will hate me by) to start whittering on as if he knows what is going on, i'd better explain how I know these things. Basically to make sure that all of the eps reach those people who had ordered them from jeepster David and Katrina had to get them all in the post by Friday evening and seeing as it just wasn't going to be physically possible for them to do that they enrolled yours truely as an honoury jeepster boy for the day. As a result I got to hear a few secrets about the band, and here they are..... As for the new ep and album, well the band are all booked in to do some recording over the next few months, the odd day here and the odd day there, but I haven't got an idea what they are planning to record and how they plan to release it, but I remember reading a while back that Stevie said the band wanted to record the new album in as short a time as possible, and put it out in the spring, so that could be where that news is from. Also in the studio is Isobel, she is there doing her recording, with the entire band making visits to help her, again I don't know what has been recorded or how it'll be released if ever. The looper album is already recorded, and what a mighty fine mix of styles it is too. There is impossible things#2 , which is like the single only with a few different lyrics, and then theres a track which has Stu singing ( as he does on B&S's paperboat) and then he tries and suceeds at making a cracking dance tune. I would have thought that there is more info about that at the treehouse though, and I know that there are sound clips of the album there. Go and seek. And as for tigermilk. Well as we all know people out there are just drowning in the sea of pish quality tigermilk bootlegs so I think the label want to get a decent copy out to bugger those bootleggers. I think the spring 99 date is still on. And as my last role with my jeepster hat on I think that if you start putting sound clips of Lord Antony or the like onto the internet then all hell will break loose when David gets back, just waiting to start copyright laws at you so I'd suggest not to bother. So off comes the jeepster hat, and I'd like to suggest the ooberman ep, it's great, and there is even a track on it like "A century of Elvis" only it is about a rabbit and it all ends up very sad so not that much like "...Elvis". But it is spoken word and it does mention foxes. If you're still reading this then thanks for staying with me. seeya Katri.....I mean Davi..........sorry jake +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Grey skies but a bright morning...
by Steven Jay Goldman 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

Heya Sinisterines, I was all pissy when I left the apartment today, but then I opened up my mailbox (I had the itch that comes when something nice is about to happen), and lo and behold, "Modern Rock Song" had arrived!! After three consecutive listens, I have to say, it's a very nice body of songs. I haven't put the verdict out on "The Gate," 'cuz I want to give it time to grow on me. However, I already adore TIJAMRS and IKWTSG (damn acronyms)...yummy pop! That, and I finally own my first three B&S badges, which are too damn cute. ;) I had some weirdo peeking over my shoulder, with a look on his face that one gets after eating something grey and furry that's been in the back of the fridge for several decades...and he was looking at TWATTYbusiness! I turned around and inquired what his problem was, and he just said he'd NEVER heard of Belle and Sebastian, but heard the tunes coming out of my headphones...had I been in a more Warren Ellis/Irvine Welsh sort of mood, I'd have shoved him down the stairwell, but instead I just kindly let him know that his taste was absolutely crap. (If you'd seen the face he made, you'd have said so too.) Anyhow, I sit here trying to decide whether or not to accept a part in this production of Agatha Christie's "The Unexpected Guest" while I research stuff for the director who's a friend of mine... Not that you guys care, but the mitigating factors are those of distance (driving to rehearsal means 1.5 hours of sheer traffic hell through a very narrow Atlanta corridor) and talent (the folks I saw at auditions frightened me and not by how good they were)... I dunno, I suppose I'm a snob, but then again, that's what I went to school for! That's what Emory's good at teaching, by the way... Anyway, enough ranting and stuff... A quick ink poloroid: I'm standing over my car, leaning back in a fairly awkward position, mid-belly-laugh, looking at the couple of silly yellow traffic-ticket envelopes some foolish Emory traffic cop put on my car...several folks walking by are mystified by this strange boy with three B&S badges pinned to his red Hawaiian shirt.... *endstuff* --Steven ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: everything i touch is turning into gold!
by Tara Widmer 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

a great man, answering to "dirk", wisely wrote: << crackbabies,>> too well put <clears throat> ahem, well now down to business! With 3000 mostly unread digests in the old in-box I'm winging it, but have to agree with whoever said they were disappointed by the new version of MRS. Only lucid when he's writing songs, is it? so i guess now the hotshot pop star is too busy jetting to and fro a flashy mercedes or limo or gremlin or whatever to be bothered with taking buses like us normal folk. Man, that is so WEAK, the one common link i had with Stuart Murdoch "being lucid while on buses" and he ain't down with that no longer. Weak, I said, weak... *sigh* Isobel's songs are..cute I guess, but her work just seems slightly immature. <hides from lesley jo behind the couch> there is nothing inherently *wrong* with that but especially alongside Stuart's work, it's like she needs time to develop as an artists/singer/lyricist. "and who the hell do you think you are?" you ask, "I suppose you could do better? have YOU ever tried writing anything?" As a matter of fact, yes, I write songs. Okay, wrote. One song. Once. When I was 12. like to hear it? here it goes: "Baby Don't you care for me?/ if love is blind why can i see/ I've got to know, because I love you so/ I want a new contract on love" It's imaginatively titled "Contract on Love". You can see why I never wrote more after that. Kind of a hard standard to follow. And please, don't use any of the lyrics without obtaining proper permission first. As far as Stuart M being in MM without permission, well is it really *that* surprising they did it?? it's hardly like they're some bastion of journalistic integrity... there was an interview in Select a couple months ago, the interviewer was instructed one thing only: not to bring up Mike D's marriage, so naturally the first question asked was "so, how's married life?" typical. A couple of months ago, I wrote in begging for companionship during my two week trip to England, and a few of you who really didn't know any better were kind enough to respond, so, if you are still available please get in touch and let me know!! I will be over (london/glasgow) from 12/27 to 1/10 and am left totally without plans. Except for seeing New Order at AllyPally on NYE (some of you are going?? write me!! i need someone to kiss at midnight! oh yeeah) and the Brighton Sinister meet-up, if it's still on. (?) Saint Etienne!! tonight!! you'll be there or be square! or just not be there!! Time to go back to work... here's a predicament: there's a new guy who started here, and well, we didn't really get along at first. And twice now I've accidentally discovered him looking at <whispers> "rude" photos on the internet. Seems the poor fellow is completely oblivious to the fact that our employer monitors all internet usage. Should I bury the hatchet, tell him and save him from a potentially embarrassing situation before it's too late? or just continue in my current mode of doing nothing but thinking, "well, DUH, doesn't he realize they'll find out???" tata for now, Tara Some of you remember the girl (Julie, right?) who wrote about her experience on the "love Bus" in San Francisco not long ago?? Bad news, mes cheries... The singing bus operator.... who spread the message of love and togetherness to his frustrated and weary commuters through the gift of music, has been ordered to stop his singing. There is some ordinance or code that says bus drivers can only use their intercom for announcing upcoming stops and similar nonsense. the world has just become a little less kinder :*( +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Isobel Defenders then, maybe
by IndiaRubb＠aol.com 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

<< Agh! As a leading member of the Gate Defenders, this isn't what I had in mind at all... Is It Wicked Not to Care?! You're talking about the best song on TBWTAS there, matey... :) >> I figured as much...I don't have anything against Isobel, though, I just really don't like Is It Wicked Not to Care? How about this: when it cames to actual defense, I'll be the guy nodding off in the Gate House :) gwt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: someone who wants to trade tigermilk tape for a century of Elvis t-shirt?
by Katarina Karlsson 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

I'm ill, but I believe in the healing power of B&S (do you remember that cd-player miracle some days ago). Maybee someone kind would like to help me and send me a tigermilk tape. If anyone helps me with this I will send that kind person an unique "A century of Elvis" T-shirt. And he will be the only one on in the world whos got it. It was made two daysago when I was painting t-shirts to give to friends and family as xmas gift and Iwas listening to B&S and got very inspired. Then when I had finished the t-shirt did I remember that I had no friend that I could give a B&S t-shirt. So if anyone has some kind x-mas feelings please mail to me Katta trarvild(a)swipnet.se +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: record stores
by Janine Papp 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

Just for the record (heh heh), if anyone ever needs a list of record stores in any city in the U.S. I can help you out. I have a VERY big database of record stores. Also, if there's any stores in your city you'd like to recommend (to add to my list), you can e-mail me as well. 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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Sinister: trippy
by r. h. 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

hello, o.k., i'm going on my east cost tour starting the 28th. i'll be in ny the 30th and the 1st but after that i'm going to boston and buffalo and montreal then detroit then cincinnati. oh, and the 29th i'll be in d.c. i'd love to meet as many of you as i can. it's kinda like a goal of mine now. if not, let me know what there is to do in one of these cities if you live there(personaly please). so everyone is getting there ep from jeepster already, where's mine:( i'm not to worried, i have faith in them. oh, by the way, brad recorded me hefner with his new toy he got and let me be the first to say that they have one up on belle and sebastian so far this year. but i'm sure TIGGERJAMMIES will change my mind. robbie ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 my MTV
by Anne Ward 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

Hello All Can some kind soul please tell me what's going on with MTV? I always read Katrina's posts saying when to watch and then I do and there's nothing. Where is this cowing video? I sat through the whole of Will Smith Day yesterday hoping for a glimpse of cute boys in kilts and there was nowt. Where was Up For It? I'm starting to think someone's nobbled my cable, or I'm in a different time zone or something and I'm going to shoot Sara Cox if I have to see her prancing like a tit again. Is this still the video with Sarah up a tree? I'm getting a bit confused. Has anyone seen that Cassius video? It's ace, but they only seem to show it in the middle of the night, the rotters. Another thing. Do you get extra photos with the CD of the new single? No fair. What about all the good people trying to keep vinyl alive? I bet it's that Andrew Smythington's fault. I'd much rather look at the fountain in Kelvingrove Park than some dodgy picture of Alan Horne with a gommy hair cut. Just a thought. Love Anne xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Because he liked the sound of it
by Bill Moss 10 Dec '98

10 Dec '98

Reid asked/said: >Stuarts voice sound a little weird to anyone? Stevie's voice sounds >phenomenal. My favorite part is when he starts singing. > >Slow Graffiti is still one of my all-time favorites. The horns sound >fantastic, and I love the way Stuart tweaked the vocal melody. I like the horns in Slow Graffiti too. Are there horns on the 'clink clink' guitar parts (when the song starts picking-up) or is that just a clinky guitar - do you know what I mean? I don't think Stuart sounds weird on TIJAMRS ...my favorite part is when he says 'I suppose she needs a holiday.' I play the guitar and am a lefty - but I play righty. Sometimes I sing too. Bill http://www.geocities.com/~billmoss/main.html ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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