February 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: skinhead
by bradford 04 Feb '98

04 Feb '98

well. i purchased today what is the first bad album from a go-betweens offshoot that i've heard. i've bought all the albums (except for 16 lovers lane...does anyone know why i'm having such a hard time finding this one when the others were relatively easy to come by?). and i got some of the solo stuffs by mclennan and forster.... but today i purchased jack frost. i like mclennan solo stuff and i used to like the church even though the only really good album they had was starfish, but jack frost doesn't cut it for me. they ain't my flava. i got snowjob, the album not the action. funny name for an album. is their other album any better or more of the same? and kicking it on a b&s tip homeboy, word.....i turned on a skinhead today....wait, that doesn't sound right already. i turned a skinhead on to b&s. well, he isn't much of a skinhead but he reckons himself to be one. anyway, his listening pleasures can be found in m.o.d. or d.r.i. or the foreskins.....really shitty hard stuff. but he thought b&s were pretty nice. he wants me to tape some for him. spreading the gospel, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: daydreams
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 04 Feb '98

04 Feb '98

well, i haven't had any dreams about snakes in the cupboard or visiting the band. unfortunately, the band is as maddeningly elusive in my dreams as they are in life. i keep kicking myself for missing them when they came to new york the first time, though really i know that there was nothing i could do otherwise. and somehow, i never realized how long it would be until my chance would come again. but it will, i know. even if i have to beat up every other belle and sebastian fan in new york, although that scenario would probably be a lose/lose situation as i would end up broken, bloodied, and without a ticket. so in the meantime, i've been listening to a few other things. lately i've decided that i must get more music by the cat's miaow. their cover of "i fall to pieces" makes me do the same. i don't know how many of you have heard them, i had thought that they were fairly popular, but have never seen one of their cds in a record store. i won't ask questions about it, i have the mail order addresses somewhere. but i'd recommend that everyone listen to them, because i know i won't need to say anything more. have you guys seen those beanie babies? i have a little brown kitty cat toy named jane (for the obvious reasons). now every time i look in shop windows, i start picking out more. i've found judy and jenny so far, and both want come home with me. however, i believe my roommates think i'm cracking under the stress with all the time i spend with my kitty. but she is my computer mascot after all! okay, i'm reaching completely irrelevant territory. 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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Sinister: Brotherly abuse & Harvey Wlliams
by steve genge 04 Feb '98

04 Feb '98

> > I used to go on family picnics to the Copper Horse in > > Windsor Great Park. We used to play hide and seek and I played > > football with my brother. Surely a ball would be a better alternative? Um I had a B&S dream which involved me turning up in Manchester with B&S playing in a scout hut, me having no ticket & being befreiended by Harvey Williams from top Sarah band Another Sunny Day. Needless to say I woke up in a cold sweat. Which was weird as I went to sleep in my bed. Goodnight & godbless you've been beautiful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 Quest for the Truth - what exacty is a cutie?
by Yaz 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

>What exacty is a cutie? O dear, i feel this might be due to me using it as my siggy too many times. Well, a cutie is a common abbreviation for "cutiepie" - a growing species, and one that is closely related to the "honeypies", often found in their native Brummyland and distant cousins of the "Happy Bunnies". Distinguishing features include a vast display of technical computer knowledge and a propensity towards paedophilia. Hence, the species can be defined by the prime example of one Mr. Paul S. Mitchell, otherwise known as Honeypie Choo Choo Paulie Poos, father of Sebastiean, aged 15, and Belle, 7-8 years old........ And while I'm here, what the bollox does $& or something D mean? Sorry, just had to ask, Au revoir mes cuties, Yaz xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: sausage cat
by blink＠inexpress.net 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

Dear Sinisters, as the world turns...my poor Gargoyle (kitty) she is going crazy..Sausage is beating her up..... I have nothing new to say,but I'm home,and noone is home and this comforts me... >RADIOHEAD PERSON: "i love them. they're the best thing since water" > >RADIOHEAD HATER: "they suck. they're pretentious" > >RADIOHEAD PERSON: "you know...maybe you're right. i'm a loser for >listening to them." > >this ain't gonna happen. if you really think radiohead suck as much as >they do (and they do), then don't listen to them. You know when I started listening to a new wave of music,Thom Yorke was my first love! I wanted to be his 'sun and moon and stars' but now I'm afraid...if I tried to talk with him he'd probably tell me they're after me (Who's they,I'd ask) or that i'm a paranoid sheep or something...speaking of Thom...since staying home today I watched television (we have about 4 english channels and the same french one 3 times) and all there was on was The Price Is Right and Rosie O'Donnel...I thought I stepped into Thom's nightmare world for a second....Rosie sung Chumbawamba... ('my weigth goes down,but it goes up again') i wasn't laughing... >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:19:45 +0100 (MET) >From: Elisabeth Zachariassen <elzachar(a)online.no> >Subject: Sinister: I know what I want to do this summer >Katrina, you really made me long for the summer with your descriptions! >At the moment there are so much snow outside, that i can't even look out of >the window.(that's Norway for you)I actually live on the fourth floor, but >the windows are sort of eh..not straight. And sometimes the wind brings some >of the cold white material into my livingroom.(angry note to my landlord for >not fixing the >window!) >But anyway, I'm moving to London this spring, so I'm definitiely up for a >picnic or something. Should I note that I'm brilliant at Stiv Heks (formerly >known as >that-game-where-you-have-tocrawl-through-someones-legs-so-that-they-can-move >- -again - statues or something. ) >Elisabeth Z Same here! Oh..Happy Groundhog's Day to all of you...(so I'm a day late) he did see his shadow...so it's 6 more weeks of winter here....(6..they say..phhhttt..it was freezing in may last year) Except I don't get to move to London in spring. :( >Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:14:23 PST >From: "David Murrow" <dfactor(a)hotmail.com> >Subject: Sinister: Wetting my pants in anticipation > >Blimey! I learned a few B & S songs on guitar over the weekend, and I'm >gonna play "Like Dylan ..." next Saturday night at a performance. >Yee-Hee! > >Tantalized by the NHS, > >Dfactor Congratulations! now I know you all don't care,but last night I learnt 'There She Goes' by the la's....am working on B&S songs.....but what I would really like is to learn the trumpet on those songs,nevermind the face i don't play the trumpet...oh welll.... >Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:51:12 GMT >From: mctag(a)mcmail.com (Tag) >Subject: Sinister: We are family - I've got all my sinisterines with me. >Yes. Oh yes. If I don't get to read an interview with Draculette, Mr >Reptilian and the mad guy who lives down you road, I will be a very >disappointed Tag. I would have interviews with bands except...all I did was have conversations with them,but those go in anyways..i don't know if old man withers would let me interview him...well maybe he would..but i don't want to go into his arc he is building... >Oh, yes we are married after all. I remember. Who wouldn't want to >be married to this big hunk o' love? And girls, he has got a Scottish >accent. *sniff sniff*I can do Scottish accents... I had a Scottish (he had no accent though,grrrrr) geography teacher last year...he tell me Scottish school are the best in the world..see, my colouring of maps wasn't good enough for him so he took my chair and coloured it for me talking about Scottish schools...he also wondered what I saw in a Bart Anderson. EVERYONE was Bart to him..Bart Murdoch..Bart David... luv, Genevieve ;) a peanut sat on a railway track his heart was all a flutter train came whistlin' down the track choo!choo! peanut butter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: tigermilk
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

In a message dated 2/3/98 11:14:09AM, you write: << what if Velvet Underground teamed up >> et cetera..... And Cilla circa sixtysomething covering Belle & Sebastian in the style of Liverpool Lullaby. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: tigermilk
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

In a message dated 2/3/98 11:14:09AM, you write: << just like, what if Velvet Underground teamed up with the Byrds and covered Nick Drake doing a cover of Me And The Major? david >> Marilyn Manson doing Le Pastie Boyzone doing Seeing Other People REM doing Expectations Ant & Dec doing Dog On Wheels JAMC doing Mary Jo Vanilla doing Fox In The Snow Sound a'right for yer? Stephen Duffy doing any B&S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: to dream the impossible dream
by susannah 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

on 01 Feb 98, Tag wrote... >Enough is enough, > I like the idea of people getting inspired by Belle >and Sebastian, to write and move and do stuff instead of sitting back >and digesting, expecting to be entertained, just saying 'oh, aren't >they good' or 'this is pop!' isn't even good enough. This could be >beautiful - we've got a whole load of people from around the world and >it's a cause for celebration and doing something a bit more creative - Tag, I know exactly what you mean, I have been moved by belle and sebastian and am going to proceed to do the following and wonder if any listees would care to join me? : 1) I am making a lifesize model of Manchester Town Hall out of matchsticks in my front room. I have got through two packets of Swan vestas so far, can anyone get me some more? 2) Then I'm going to go from Lands End to John O'Groats doing forward rolls like that Indian bloke once did, except instead of saying funny mantras I'll be chanting 'we were sitting on the sofa the wrong way round' over and over again. 3) Lastly I'll be growing my fingernails until they reach the exact width of Chris's flares and then presenting them to him in a glass case. Thats going to be AFTER I've done the forward roll bit though, as the two might not be compatible. There. Susannah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: WARNING, avoid crap charity shops for wk experince THEY DO THIS TO YOU!
by Sarah 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

These things appeared in a mail writen by Tag the geyser. As is life.=20 =46anzines. LOOK LOOK LOKK ITS THOSE BLOODY NUMBERS AGIN WHY WHY WHY! There was no =20 on my post! Why do they appear what purpose do they serve and WHY AM I GETTING VErY DISTurbDIED AboUT theM?!"?!?! Yikes help i'm cracking up due to the sheer dullness of being in a cArity shop for wk xperience teehee. Hair mascars if I see ONE MORE trendy dude in town wearing them and thiking they are so wacky I will punch them. Oh fuck fuck fuck we are suposed to keep the list reasonably focused and stuff. Oh well then.... Wh said POP IS DEAD cos they are talking shit. POP is alive so ner! Why are Pearl jam alive? I found a bootleg of Peearl jam at Brixton '93 in me charity shop today. I bought t for 10p and am doing a Sarah ALTERNATIVE records tape for my friend Claire and I would also do a funky pop tape for the duke but I have no records that he wouldn't have probably heard already. Doh. I will buy more next week when thank fook I am back at college. There seem to be two thkgs whic contrast for most people, fantasy (Pop) and reality (having to leave your bad every day). Do some people manage to transcend that? Why am I asking you? Why is babar the elephnt called that instead of being called John Travolta? I feel like talking but as I am typing instead its not working out too well, if anyone would like to ring me and discuss sweet nowt, tuff cos you aint got me number :( Well, perhaps I don't know what I mean in fact no I don't. I will finish with a short piece of writing that I will make up on the spot. buuuuuuuh! (hheeeheee!) Incidentally that is a quote from Stoppit and Tidyup. I'm going mad, save me. Someone, anyone please! And everyone on list ses to be getting married. Well, aint that nice! looks like I'm being the old maid down the road then *sniff* but I don't care cos I will say I don't. AAAAAAH? WHY? I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah 'Ooh look, its Art Mallek!' Smitta Smitten, the SHOWBIZ KITTEN! (miaow!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: RetroSinister
by Simon Collins 03 Feb '98

03 Feb '98

This whole BelleandSebastian being a sixties sounding band. They always get labelled, even on this list as a retro band, but this misses the point. The whole 'what type of film would suit them' thing; well lots of flares and lava lamps and the whole groovey caboodle misses the point. They convey a feeling, an emotion first, and their sound comes second. They are so much better at this than so many other bands - It's just that they are actually so fresh to listen to, so up to the minute because of the feeling the songs convey. So they could in fact do the soundtrack to any modern film, if it was suitable, not necessarily the next Austin Powers. For instance, 'Get me Away from here I'm dying' could be used in Reservoir Dogs, and work, because First off people would recognise it as suiting the scene, and second as sounding perhaps a bit sixties. I've failed to articulate myself here, and perhaps shot myself in the foot with the choice of Reservoir Dogs ( perhaps something like Nil by mouth or Leaving Las Vegas would've been better ) But I hope someone out there gets what I'm saying. Simon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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