February 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: B&S: still here/B&S moments
by Charlotte.Hall＠itps.co.uk 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

hello list, Thank you someone for your kind query as to my whereabouts. I'm still on the list but have subscribed to the digest as I nearly got sacked because of the deluge of mail (this reminds me tangentially of a headline following the death of Daniel Arap Moi, Kenya's longtime dictator: "Apres Moi, la deluge"). I have now changed my biographical details due to the pressure of time. I am 14 and I have never left Valparaiso. B&S content: I would be most happy to see the revival of the long lost "B&S moments" thread. I can start with this: 1. the bit in "Photo Jenny" where Stuart sings "I don't do drugs, all my friends are on their holidays". The sweetness and pathos in his voice. How does he do it? 2. that rather anaemic sounding recorder piping away in "Judy and the Dream of Horses". Call me sentimental. 3. "It doesn't mean that I'm getting boring - you tell me!" Charlotte ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Rod the Mod
by Keith Watson 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

>Could be worse. Scotland's official Euro'96 anthem was Rod bleedin' >Stewart. Thank god for Primal Scream & Black Grape's alternative anthems. And what the fuck's wrong with Rod Stewart? Call yourself an Englishman who pretends to be a Scotsman... I don't know. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk auction
by iles＠boreas.leeds.icnet.uk 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

Dear Belle and Sebastian Fans, This may well have been posted to the list already, but since I'm on the digest I don't know... just in case here it is, anyone want to join the bidding for Tigermilk? Mark >>From shop(a)roughtrade.com Tue Feb 10 15:41:01 1998 >Sender: shop(a)roughtrade.com >X-Sender: rtrade(a)pop3.demon.co.uk >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:57:07 +0000 >To: shop(a)roughtrade.com >From: Rough Trade Shop <shop(a)roughtrade.com> >Subject: belle and sebastian-tiger milk for auction > >a friend of mine that over spent at xmas has decided to part with their >beloved belle and sebastian album...pretty perfect condition as they're a >record lover...bids to start at a hundred pounds please........ > thanks sparrow > >p.s. apologies to those who have no interest in b and s....... > > >web site : http://www.roughtrade.com > >please let me know if you'd like to be on our emailing list for new >releases (unless you're already on it in which case don't worry!! you >still are!!) > >email: shop(a)roughtrade.com > >phone: 0171-792-3490 > >fax: 0171-221-1146 > >write: Rough Trade shop >130 Talbot Road >London >W11 1JA >U.K. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles(a)boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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:Re:Acid House
by MATTHEW JON MILLER 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

Hi everyone! Acid House was a wonderful collection of short stories - did anyone see the dramatisation of The Grantham Star Cause on Channel 4 a while back? - though my favourite would have to be 'The Two Philosophers'. Anyway, The Marabou Stork Nightmares is a rather surreal read from Welsh's pen which explores all sorts of themes from unusual perspectives. Good stuff but different to Trainspotting. And vaguely with a B&S theme... Perhaps this is a bit way off, but, can anyone empathise with the connection I see between the music of B&S and themes of 'unrequited love' explored in Thomas Hardy novels? Cheerie-bye, Mat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk for auction ...
by Eric Fauquembergue - Softools 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

>From the RoughTrade on-line shop mailing list : /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////::: a friend of mine that over spent at xmas has decided to part with their beloved belle and sebastian album...pretty perfect condition as they're a record lover...bids to start at a hundred pounds please........ thanks sparrow p.s. apologies to those who have no interest in b and s....... web site : http://www.roughtrade.com email: shop(a)roughtrade.com //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// That's all I know... Eric // Eric Fauquembergue // Softools (France) // efauquembergue(a)softools.fr // http://www.softools.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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by Iain A E Anderson 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

Continuing the dream stories... During the weekend I had this dream that everybody listened to Belle & Sebastian and the world was a happy place. Then I woke up and switched on my radio only to hear bloody O***s. Oh well, it's good to dream I suppose. -- Iain Anderson Bored out his tits at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: we all have a laugh
by Yaz 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

the slightly homicidal sarah said: >Oooh, still don't think I'll be able to make it 'cos it is very expensive for me to come all the way down to london and then head back same day.......so, um, anyway, lucky you is missing out on me. And other 6th form people and perhaps students too. :( Dunno 'bout everybody else, but as a student, i know that three weeks before exam-time, we all start having multiple panic attacks and drink puke-inducingly large amounts of coffee and cram - so i guess that's, oooh, 99% of this list out. But, the idea of all 447 of us playing Twister simultaneously on Primrose Hill with lots and lots of strawberry icecream in the summer is wonderful. But i think we should remember to stock up on sweeties first: say oooh, 7 kilos of astra belts and a good 11 kilos of mini coca-cola bottles (i love them, i do). then after having dreamily watched the sun set, i think we should all march down Parkway and INVADE the Good Mixer, yeah all 447 of us. Together, we could rewire the Jukebox so that it's doomed to playing only The State that i am in over and over again, ransack the bar and then get up and dance to belle and Seb on the pool table....Whaddya say? 'Cept, you'ld all have to promise not to touch Mark, the Australian bar man - coz he's mine, alright? Shit, i hope he's not reading this. ah well. BTW, i'm interviewing The Unbelievable Truth on Wednesday for my fanzine (YIPEE!!) and then maybe Mover later that night (if by that time my friend who does the fanzine with me hasn't reached the completely, totally and utterly legless stage). so has any one got any good questions, because that's gonna be the second day in a week that we've done two in a day - and i'm runnin' dry. For anyone who doesn't know what the bollox i'm on about (shame on you) they are Thom Yorke's little bros' band, and as much as i love Radiohead i have to admit that i'm more into the UT right now, coz thy're more poet than paranoid. i mean they do sound like Radiohead in High+ Dry / Stop Whispering mood - ie at their finest (with the possible, no definite, exception of Black Star) Sinistereans, my life is officially beautiful: Last night after we did the Stereophonics and the Bluetones i walked home so damned cold that i could't fell me fingers, but i didn't care, for i was truly a happy bunny. I love the Bluetones - they are my babies, (yes, i've decided i'm going to adopt them.) It's always the nicest surprise meeting them, because like my friend (who i SWEAR doesn't subscribe to this list) said, "He's such a cutie." Kelly (isn't that a girls name?) from the Stereophonics was, i decided, a very nice young man, fascinatingly long eye-lashes though. Warm JEts man surprisingly looked very yummy indeed, but apparently he's going out with Zoe (sickenly happy everyf***ing morning) Ball. Sigh. Bye bye Sinistereans, YAz xx **************************************************************************** ***** And i could have told him that to know and love another human being was the root of all knowledge. **************************************************************************** **** Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead (but spoken by the GORGEOUS Jeremy Irons, who's old enough to be my father, actually, scrap that, old enough to be my GRANDAD, but would that stop me? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Carver, Wolff and Ink Polaroids
by Jonathan Wren 10 Feb '98

10 Feb '98

My first posting to Sinister! I've been (sort of) lurking, althought this is mainly due to the fact that I'm currently living 400 miles away from my computer doing voluntary work (or slave labour as it currently is) in Dundee. Anyway... Good to someone recommend Raymond Carver. I've got a mate up in Dundee who really recommended Carver and I was reading his Where I'm Calling From collection of selected stories on the train back to London yesterday. Very impressive and very human. Even better is Tobias Wolff. I got The Stories of Tobias Wolff before Christmas and was totally hooked. The man creates stories of everyday lives in America which are perceptive and deeply beautiful. I write stories myself and if I come NEAR to writing anything as good as Wolff, I'll be a happy man. If anything, his latest collection of stories, The Night in Question, is even better. Ink Photographs and Little Ink Movies. I ordered both of these in the week between Christmas and New Year and haven't got them yet. Can anyone give me some idea of how long it might take for them to come. I'm desperate to read them given the quality of the ones I've read and, of course, the wonderful CD booklet stories. Speaking of waiting, I ordered LLPJ and DOW singles at Virgin over 4 weeks ago and I'm still waiting for DOW! Still, the glories of You Made Me Forget My Dreams and Photo Jenny kind of make up for it. All the best for now, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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