February 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: re: The Christgau Files
by Francisco Alberto Wong 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

:: Greetings fellow Sebastatrons and fella Belle-bots :: By golly and by gum! Christgau has done it again!! Mad-boy Genius! Robert Christgau of NYC's notorious Village Voice has printed his "Consumer Picks" for this month and guess what? tha's right, Belle and Sebastian's IYFS passes muster and scores a whopping A Minus! He raves on about Stuart Musgrave's foppishness and twee lyrics (to paraphrase). Waitaminute... Stuart MUSGRAVE?!!? (slaps forehead) *sigh* Well here's to Stuart Musgrave and the gang--congrats! francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: the best lookin boys are taken
by Silent Kid 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

'ello. Well, I too am a new one here. My nickname for years now has been Silent Kid (even my mum has taken to calling me that...)but ever since i picked up Sinister, I've been dreaming of the beauty of being mayfly. but one can't just change their names on whim, can they? but in dreamland i am allowed to do whatever i please. hmm...perhaps i judged the High Llamas prematurely...i'm actually enjoying this song i have of theirs on this sampler. I saw them open for Stereolab and wasn't too blown away, but i'm beginning to suspect now that the sound system of the crummy venue fooled me... Anyhow, I joined the list thinking it'd be a good place to learn about news of the band and trade info/music with others, yet i seemed to have stumbled on quite a social scene here. oh, and how you all are working so hard to convert others and draw them in..hehe...My proudest moment was the other day when i sat some of my "hardcore/punk" listening friends down on the waves of Le Pastie de la Bourgeousie, and they really loved it, and one wanted a copy of the song and wanted to borrow Sinister! Andy S.: yer page is very exhausting and clever. brad: i found yer dream to be very beautiful. the way belle and sebastian's spit was all rainbow colored..... Have you all not seen Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown? Oh, its funny, cuz when i first heard Robert Forster was gonna be in it I thought it was the Go Betweens fellow, which caused all sorts of chaos...ah, but I've seen the film and Tarantino places very opposite actors in a playpen and must expect them to have chemistry. They all try to play and get along, but you can see that they are out of their elements and at times its rather awkward. Yummycats@aol: oh yes, i did see that parody of davy and goliath! Goliath's voice was even more ridiculous than ever. Possibly the funniest thing i've ever seen on there. Yes, I used to watch the Belle and Sebastian cartoon and the little Prince religiously...I was a cartoon fiend. Possibly still am... Well, I'm quite a nomadic little soul, and currently am living in Atlanta (looks like it may be ending in some months...), but if any of you are in this area of the states, please get in touch. I'm very alone with my musical tastes and open mind at this suffocating college. Thanks for reading this rather long rambling. Love, *mayfly* (won't you aid my dreams?) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But he doesn't understand and he doesn't try He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I We're the younger generation, we grew up fast All the others did drugs They're taking it out on us They're taking it out on us ---Belle & Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: dog on wheels
by David S Mccarthy 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

I'm just new to this list thing whatever but I've been a huge fan of b+s for about a year now. I discovered them about a week after they played the QM and not going to that is one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Apart from the music, which was the soundtrack to last summer for me I find it dead exciting living in the same city as b+s and experiencing things in everyday life that apear in their songs Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Has anyone else noticed that the photographs on the dog on wheels cover where taken in the kibble palace at Glasgow botanic gardens. I might be wrong but it looks very like it to me. Also in century of elvis when it talks about being near a park and seeing foxes. Does anyone know which park? I suspect it might be the botanic gardens again because it looks more likely to have foxes in it than kelvingrove. Does anyone else have any idea? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Not really very lucid
by Nick Dastoor 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

Bah, a new job and I'm not getting enough time to waste hours joining in the list anymore. And I'm very scared of installing an IRC program on my PC. An element of disharmony seemed to creep into the list whilst I was been away. Just all close your eyes and dream of horses in the Czech Republic, the first flush of Spring and games of kick the can in Kew Gardens and you'll soon feel much, much better. Another thing I recommend doing next time the sun is shining is starting your day with the session version of 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' at top volume, windows wide open. The neighbours won't complain. I know it's too late for questions to the band, but I've got one that maybe you lot are better equipped to answer anyway. I just thought I'd step back from it all a minute and ask whether or not I'm being hopelessly blinkered in thinking that Belle And Sebastian really have inspired the most fanatical, excited following of anyone in years. And if I'm not, do you think the band _know_ that they have? It must be very hard for anyone who suddenly 'makes it' in any way for the first time in their life to be objective about just how successful they are. I know they're not selling out two-week residences at Wembley Stadium just yet, but it strikes me that it _must_ all explode fairly soon. Or is it just that they are extraordinarily appealing to a certain section of the population and its just that that section happens to consist of us and all our friends? I just get so excited when I hear of converts like that Wall Street analyst brother in law someone mentioned a while ago. It's the sheer perversity of things like that that thrills me. I'd have little interest if it were just some sell-out businessman with a vaguely 'indie' student past who buys Oasis CDs. It's the thought of people who don't really listen to contemporary pop and rock at all but hear this peculiar band from Scotland and find themselves hooked almost in spite of themselves. I never got all this stuff about them being charming in an amateurish, lo-fi way. I know they can be that at times (I was there on Friday night in Manchester) but when I put on 'If You're Feeling Sinister' for the zillionth time, I'm still struck by how musically accomplished, immaculately arranged and yes _well-produced_ it is. "Nobody writes em like they used to so it may as well be me" - oh the utterly warranted cockiness. They'll never storm the world with a 4-track demo of 'Hurley's Having Dreams' (much as I love it) but I think its extraordinary how they lost none of that charm, and added a whole lot more, when they made such a 'proper' sounding album. I know I'm ranting, but I think rants (nice rants anyway) have their place alongside biscuit/bar tomfoolery. I still haven't decided whether SM was taking the piss with that. Was it really Danny Baker in disguise? [For our non-UK friends, Danny Baker is an old man who wrote for the NME in the 1970s and is now part of the Chris Evans media mafia that took trivial male conversations out of the popular-culture obsessed clever-clever ghetto and turned them into a mass media industry. A bit like Tarantino films without the violence and good soundtracks. The original perpetrators of such mental masturbation then saw themselves for what they were and became a bit embarrassed with the whole thing. This may have inadvertently led to last year's abortive 'new seriousness' movement in UK indie music. The problem with which was, of course, that most people who like to act all serious and troubled are not deep or artistic but just boring.] But having said all that, it is still fun to talk about biscuits and bars and children's TV. Just don't let it take over your life. Or you'll end up calling a Danny Baker phone-in. I should divulge at this point that I am a regular listener to Danny Baker's Sunday morning GLR show. But I like to pretend that it's only to hear Laurie Pike talking. Shall I stop now? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: the rice is cold
by dina passman 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

hey there! for those of you in the washington, dc vicinity please find it in your heart to come down the the kaffa house (u street between 12th and 13th) tonight to hear pam berry and i spin some viscious tunes at cold rice. festivities begin at 11pm, to be realistic. toodles > dina ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Honey's mad dad
by john wigham 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

er..quick..unsubscribe, subscribe. There, Mr Pleasantness Police, do I get the threatened free night out with your 'mad' Dad for this heinous offence? As one of a very small number of sinistrons to have met Mr Honey Senior, I'm shocked at your description. What ingratitude! A more erudite and engaging man you couldn't wish to meet. And so well travelled. To think of the years he spent at the chocolate factory earning the money to get you through the Wirral Finishing School for Middle Class but Nevertheless Uncouth Scouse Boys. It must have been soul-destroying, all those hours spent finely carving the word 'cadbury' onto each bar. And the effort he went to, saving up all the shavings to feed to you and your brothers. OK, so it clogged up your pores for a decade or two but it was better than starving to death, wasn't it? Please forward me details of my night out asap. johnny xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- john wigham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Suuuurprise!!!!
by Richard North 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

Yeah List! I got thrown off the course for putting rat poison in my Lefty-Trot-Commie Lecturer's muesli. So I'm back!! I imagine how you've all been missing my vibrant youthful and Conservative angle on all things MODERN and MUSIC (I can't forget TAG, my special pal). And my girlfriend (guess what - I call her Judy) is new on the scene... someone said she looks like 'Takes-it-from-behind-Spice'. which one is she?? what's all this BISCUIT malarkey, anyhow? My dad used to work for Nestl� and he knows all you need to about confectionary. And he wants to assure you all that a bar is for sucking, (unless you're washing with it) while a biscuit always leaves crumbs in your lap. End of discussion. Yo! Got go now. Uncle Dud's got a position lined up for me in his cool china-figurine importing business. Respect to the Dole Massive Northy Get your FREE, private e-mail account at http://www.mailcity.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Pleasantness Police time...
by Patrik Adamsson <pad＠swipnet.se> 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

"It's Pleasantness Police time." Yes Sinisterons, and make sure you ask a whole bunch of people if you are funny. If you qualify, send them anything that you have written in e-mail format. If you qualify once again, maybe you could consider beeing funny on this list, however with the risk of qualifying to a special bore-bulletin run by Mr. P. Mitchell himself. This will ensure the future of this list since he will have such a good time putting the weekly bore-bulletin together. The list will be reset every week, since it would grow very fast otherwise. But beware, writing boring stuff too often will inevitably give you a resident status. Maybe, maybe, this mail will make me qualify to the bore-bulletin. P. bore-bulletin If you then write, but it turns out to be no fun at all, I suggest more police work, and publishing before writing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: rebels without a clue
by Barrett R 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

Regarding the appearance of Robert Forster in "Jackie Brown", it is apparently some veteran American actor rather than the ex- Go Betweens singer. So now you know... ---------- From: mctag To: ronbarrett; sinister Subject: Sinister: rebels without a clue Date: 24 February 1998 16:56 <<File Attachment: TEXT.TXT>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: "Piddly Pooh"?
by PJMiller 25 Feb '98

25 Feb '98

Yesterday I went to the pictures and I saw a film and it was really good. It was called "Jerusalem" and it lasted for ages and was about religious nutters, my favourite subject. I heard it on the grapevine that McTaggart has been pounding the Glasgow beat, and the mean old piddly pooh hasn't shown us his ink polaroids yet, and neither has Keith. I am having a Byrds day to see whether or not I want that book. Belle and Sebastian content: What do we have to do to join in the bunfight tomorrow? Just turn up in the sinister room, or is it more complicated? I've got a brand new nickname for the occasion. Northy, nice to see you back again. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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