February 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Good B&S Karma
by leslie.chinea＠emimusic.com 06 Feb '98

06 Feb '98

Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk [tape] offer Author: Paige Rosella Wrote: >I have decided to make the following offer, in the name of what is >right and good and nice: >I'll make tapes of Tigermilk for the first 5 US listies to email me >privately who are still in need [whoa. Bad syntax]. Cheers to Paige for passing on the good B&S karma...(sounds corny but it's trrrrrrrrrrrue!) I must admit, I do love the B&S mailing list. Even though, like Northy, I've been ignored on this list every time I post (so, I posted a coupla Princess Di jokes...so sue me!) , it's still a lot of fun to lurk and read B&S fan spatterings. Keepin it real, Leslie C. P.S. I'd like to nominate Northy as the B&S Mailing List mascot ... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk [tape] offer Author: Paige Rosella <prosella(a)grovestocktn.com> at X-MAIL Date: 2/5/98 9:34 AM Hello. Since Leslie Chinea was kind and sweet enough to send me a lovely IYFS poster, and told me to "surprise her" in repaying her, I have decided to make the following offer, in the name of what is right and good and nice: I'll make tapes of Tigermilk for the first 5 US listies to email me privately who are still in need [whoa. Bad syntax]. If you want the 3 Eps on the other side, I can do that for you, too. I usually put Tigermilk on both sides, because it's all you'll want to hear anyway. All I ask in return is that you send me a blank 90 minute tape. Who's game? Love & Dawson's Creek, Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: senile dementia
by mctag＠mcmail.com 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

Ooops, I am a very confused young man. I'd somehow got into my head that the girls in the Blueboy video were in fact Edwyn, James and the others who I can't be bothered to remember cos I'm tired (please don't write in and tell me). Now I sound like a perve cos they *were* girls. Or were they? It's so hard to tell these days. Policeman are getting younger too. This country... This film soundtrack question is getting out of hand, but I must admit I'm pleased to see the wonderful Aki Kaurismaki getting a look in, even if it's an utterly absurd idea. Are you people just writing down the films you like? Not the same thing ... And who is going to Covent Garden tomorrow? That's all. Night-night Love tag XX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: MTV (was: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air)
by Perfection As A Hipster 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

Giuseppe Gregorini wrote ... >P.S. MTV Italy aired LLPJ. And here is a private mail from another Italian first time viewer not subscribed ... >>on NOW is a Scottish Special featuring B&S, Pastels, Orange Juice et cetera >>... hope you won't miss that ! > >Just in time! Many thanks! > >I didn't miss it, and even if it was quite a disappointment the B&S video >alone made my day! Wonderful! The concept is really genial and poetic, and >that "lines" album "Lazy Line Painter Jane" was looking at the end was >really really neat. I taped the show and re-watched the video both >yesterday and today. > >Plus they look like really nice people, "normal" in the best possible >interpretation of the term. It really clashed looking at the Urusei >Yatsura video that followed.... trendy clothes... empty music. > >I didn't like the posthumous Orange Juice video much (I always loved the >song though) ... I never liked Teenage Fanclub (ok, go on, flame me!) and >the video didn't make me change my mind. There wasn't anything else of much >interest ... Stereolab? Bah ... Not to talk about all the crap they put in >betwen (Prodigy ... ak!) By coincidence, the first ever Italian B&S enthusiast ... even caring enormously about lyrical content. §:^D > Andreas, the OJ song was just before TFC (and they were just before LLPJ). That's lovely ... Prodigy, OJ, TFC, Urusei Yatsura, Snow Patrol in Germany ... "Get me away from here I'm dying" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: competition suggestion
by andrew dean 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

someone suggested: >>Picture drawing (kind of like the Gallery on Hart Beat). Hart Beat for >>the foreign listees is/was a kids T.V. programme about art. you mean 'take hart' or, and this really shows my age, 'vision on'... 8) >>I think the subject area could be fellow listees (as the majority of us >>don't know what each other looks like). someone else replied: >oh, i really like this idea!! that would give me something fun to do during >my writing workshop class (and yes, i am in college. sad, i know). someone else pointed out that scanning the finished pictures in order to distribute them would be troublesome. but if we make it so they have to be created on computer (and let's face it, everyone has access to some sort of art package) then they'll already be digital and emailing them around would be no trouble at all... me, i liked the ink polaroids thing and don't see why people aren't still doing it. i liked the slightly artificial prose style that it enforced... she turned around and smiled at me. you get the picture? andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda long)
by andrew dean 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

actually it's just long, no 'kinda' about it... Sinister: and the dream of belle & sebastian Madame Cholet (barzy(a)networkmags.com) Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:48:18 -0800 >I bet there are more people on this list who dream about Belle & > Sebastian, than anywhere else in the world... strange you should say that because i had one last night too. no cover versions of the sweeps' song from mary poppins this time though... i was in america somewhere and i was waiting for a bus with my family and i popped across the road to buy something when the bus arrived and everyone got on and left without me, wah! luckily chris and maybe stevie were in the nearby saloon bar and offered me a lift in their van. we drank whisky and ate cherries... don't ask me why. i don't even like whisky. or cherries come to that... > I'm suprised that no one was naked, considering what i've been reading > before bed... you'll go blind... > with long distance relationships, a girl's got to keep amused >somehow... right? you too eh? it's a bitch isn't it? i blame the internet and the easier access to global communications. there's just going to be more and more of this as time goes on. good for the airline companies i guess. what's he like? is he a cutie? 8) elsewhere: WesleySniper (wac(a)coventry.ac.uk) >The NME article - why did they get a dickhead to go and see them >in the first place? exactly. the mauling was, in my eyes, premeditated. >Anyway, B & S are always being nominated for best new >band, for a couple of years now. There should be a category for "Best >band that have been around for a while and been discovered". ha! ha ha. a few years ago blur were nominated in best newcomer categories everywhere despite 'she's so high' having been released in 1987 or so. ditto pulp despite being around from 1982. ha 'this year's best newcomer goes to thomas edison for "mary had a little lamb"'... >The trumpet player at the manchester gigs. I'm sure he plays >trumpet for a scots band called 'Hardbody'. They supported "james" >last year, so i think he's the same bloke. any ideas? >any answer to the tigermilk girl poser? who is she? is shee the >smae woman in the dog on wheels picture? these are both FAQs, check the archives. (yes is the answer to the first one, a single or two out on haiku records i believe, picked one up for 50p in badlands records in cheltenham just before christmas, dec 23rd to be precise. this is also the record shop that katrina phoned up and chastised last wednesday... his name's mick i believe, last seen retrieving stevie's beer in manchester) i have quite a list of people who want tigermilk and people prepared to tape it for people, will pair you all up as best i can and let you know before the weekend if possible. anybody else wants a copy then just email me - this is just an attempt to keep all the requests for copies off the list (as they are so dull to read). more people willing to tape copies would be appreciated too, especially americans. which reminds me, include a note saying where you are geographically so i can match you up with someone local. andy koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com other things that have cropped up here but are non b&s: oh, spiritualized single is out and the chemical brothers remix has grown on me. i wish that first big thump was a lot more brutal, a bit more punk, a bit more prodigy, made a bigger splash as it were but the general wibbling is kinda pleasant. it's not as good as the original but, hey, i can play the original any time i want anyway. it's good to have a choice. like the two versions of 'seeing other people'. what is inexcusable though is the instrumental version which is identical to the remix but with one of the master tracks volume turned down. lazy lazy lazy. also, the single version, track 1, is a hatchet job, editted down to nothing. um, i can just picture tim 'pinteresque' hopkins shaking his head and muttering 'pink floyd' under his breath at this. 'FUCK OFF you indie snob' is all i have to say... 8) oh, btw star, it sounded like you had a good day yesterday. did you also notice that your fanzine got a mention on the round up of zines on teletext... it didn't say much apart from listing the contents, wasn't a review as such but was stardom nonetheless. books? the little prince by antoine de saint exupery is a must for everyone here. it's one of those kid's books that's spoilt on children. and, as has been said before, he kinda looks like someone we all 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: i gave myself to sin
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

today i'm going for content, oodles and oodles of content. i will be very factual and not wander away from the facts. well, i guess not. but i've come to enjoy posting mildly off topic letters to the list and can't stop myself. ah, the joys of addiction. lady jillian said: >>ohmigod. my computer spoke to me today. i swear! there was nothing in the cd rom and i wasn't on the internet or anything but there was this little sound/voice? coming out of the speakers for about 2 seconds. it freaked me out. it sounded like a walkie talkie/alien signal coming thru... *CHHHKKK* i dunno what it said but i think it spoke chinese!<< personally, i think it was the influence of belle and sebastian. after hearing their music fly up into space the alien races banded together and are trying to make first contact through the list. unfortunately, it seems they miscalculated and are no better at working computers than most of us. then stevie said: >>David's picnic sounds like a jolly good idea. In the meantime, for those of you in the London area, a few of us are meeting up at the Poetry Cafe on Betterton Street in Covent Garden on Friday after 7pm, if you fancy coming along. Even you, Northy!<< i do not recommend that anyone do this without a detailed map of covent garden and directions. bring the number for the cafe and make sure to arrive properly and not get lost or it is quite possible that he will blacklist you forever.... (not that i speak from experience or anything). so genevieve asked: >>Sinister people,tell me some good books I should read!<< geek love by katherine dunn has been out awhile, but i always recommend it right off because it's such an amazing book, and everyone should read it. it's hard to describe, because trying to condense the plot to a couple lines is quite impossible. it's about a family of freaks, but they aren't really outcasts. the whole book is complex and simple and totally amazing. hmm, sorry if this doesn't make sense, but you really must read it. which prompted gordon to say: >>Picture drawing (kind of like the Gallery on Hart Beat). Hart Beat for the foreign listees is/was a kids T.V. programme about art. I think the subject area could be fellow listees (as the majority of us don't know what each other looks like). Suggested ideas could be: - Genevieve flirting with Record Shop Boy. - HoneyPaul in his legendary dwarf pose. - Sarah strangling the Duke of Harringay with some sixth form poetry - Tag saving Northy's bacon - And whatever else<< oh, i really like this idea!! that would give me something fun to do during my writing workshop class (and yes, i am in college. sad, i know). so sarah replied: >>I am currently reading the Rebel (in English) by Camus and L'etranger (in French) by the same dude. I'm not sure which one is easier to read actually. On State Terrorism and iirational Terror now methinks. Ooh its hard work.<< that's odd, as a friend just loaned me the plague by camus, which he swears by. and he thought it was light reading. should i be worried? thus matthew concluded: >>Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my street. << and really, isn't that what we're all sort of aiming for anyway? at least, i am. especially the 50 cats part! xox megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Two Sinister Lists
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

In a message dated 2/4/98 9:11:29PM, you write: << Northy (Well done to the people who slagged off Swells in the NME letters) >> Yes, it was lovely to see such beautifully structured arguments that in no way made Belle & Sebastian 'fans' look like the satchel-carrying, scarf-wearing, bicycle-riding knee-jerk-offs that the 'meeja' (whoever they may be) will no doubt condemn us/you/ whoever as, whilst simultaneously digging out their old files on Talulah Gosh for suitably 'amusing' reference points no doubt. Jeesh. Those letters were pants and the gussets were ragged. SHAME!! Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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R: Sinister: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air
by Giuseppe Gregorini 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

Tag wrote (about Hal Hartley): >The boy's right. Anyone who can cast the luscious Isabelle Hupert as >a 'choosy' nymphomaniac porn writing nun, have Pavement songs on the >soundtrack, and direct a dance scene (to Sonic Youth) .... and direct a beautiful scene in a NY train station (I can't remember which one) with Elina L. listening to a Bettie Serveert song and........... anyway, one of my favourites BandS related movies is "Palookaville". The first time I listened carefully to BandS lyrics, the three lovely characters of the movie came to my mind as next heroes in a BandS song. Another good idea could be BandS composing an alternative soundtrack to all Antoine Doinel's movies. I'm thinking about Aki Kaurismaki too, but I'm not fully convinced. I believe he wouldn't like the idea. Ciao Giuseppe P.S. MTV Italy aired LLPJ. Andreas, the OJ song was just before TFC (and they were just before LLPJ). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: more Felt
by plaird 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

the Beautiful, Mad Mad Sarah shrieked: >And to everyone who didn't know this, OK so felt fans will know, so Felt >fans don't read this....you know the line in I DON'T LOVE ANYONE where >it goes 'he said the world is a soft as lace', that as actualy from a >Felt song! Actually, I think Stuart was just name-dropping the track (listens closely to "The World is as Soft as Lace"). I don't even think Lawrence (Felt) sings the title name in the song. It's similar to the way Felt is namedropped in the liner notes to "Sinister". I don't know if it would be such a good idea to just snap up Felt back catalogue, as the albums vary immensely in quality. HoneyPaul said (over a pint) that a tape he had of them didn't really do much for him - I, on the other hand think they were excellent. And B&S would seem to agree! If you want a tape or tapes of any Felt stuff (this means everyone) drop me a mail. >There are lotions, there are potions >On the NHS that should be paid for privately Vastly superior to the Teletubbies nonsense - and me sides are now sore :o) The Lairdster, "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Captain Zep
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 05 Feb '98

05 Feb '98

In a message dated 2/4/98 4:28:03PM, you write: << >I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad >students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was >a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving >mysteries. > >Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. >> He most certainly did exist. I won a Captain Zep sticker for correctly solving that particular week's riddle circa 1982. He had gelled back hair and a Blake's Seven air to his proverbial 'proceedings'. I also won a Blue Peter badge when I was nine, but that's probably far too B&S to be true. Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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