March 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

RE: Sinister: Big Star
by PJMiller 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

-----Original Message----- De: Keith Watson <keith(a)qss.co.uk> Para: Mark Hester <M.Hester(a)ELSEVIER.CO.UK>; sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Fecha: martes 10 de marzo de 1998 18:29 Asunto: Sinister: Big Star >I don't think there's any great problems getting a hold of I am the Cosmos, >I'm not too sure, maybe Mr.Mitchell, Mr Hopkins and Ms.Kerr can perhaps >confirm a sighting of this when we were around the shops on Saturday... it >rings a bell for me anyway. You can definitely get it direct from Rykodisc ( or earhole or whatever it's called). It's even on mid price now, along with the other Big Star albums. The Chris Bell album is well worth owning for the sleevenotes alone. Undoubtedly the best sleevenotes I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Even people who don't like Chris Bell/Big Star are moved to tears. I know because I force it on people just to watch their reactions. Really, even if you don't want the record, I strongly recommend standing in a record shop and reading it. Unless it's one of those shops where they come and tell you off. It has also got at least two ten out of ten songs on it and at least one, possibly two, nine out of ten songs. Which is nice. If I had to be an album I wouldn't mind being that album. Tremendous Domingas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Satsumas, love & the eNMEy
by Alan Prior 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

hello spacebots, Yes indeed, the new Urusei Yatsura lp is truely a thing of beautious and spangly wonderment. I would advise all you classy listees to rush out and buy it as soon as time permits. If you have money, buy it. If you don't have money steal it. Hey, why not steal money and buy lots...in any case, go forth and purchase- just the thing for the young gent about town. Smashing. I too phoned the atrociously priced NME line for Urusei tickets, but have heard nothing- I fear I may have been unsuccessful or they have failed to grasp my accent whilst reciting my address, a common problem. 'Gutted', as they say... THOUGHT FOR THE DAY (one in a series of, erm, one probably): --as Madonna so delightfully informs us in her new single, 'Frozen'; "love is a bird" (specifically, a pigeon, ie. it shits on you from a great height then vanishes into the distance before you have the chance to do anything about it. Ha. Not that I'm BITTER or anything, oh no...) Yes, well, erm, anyhoo...must be off! Debbie 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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RE: Sinister: damn, damn , damn
by PJMiller 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

-----Original Message----- De: poetryplace2 <poetryplace2(a)easynet.co.uk> Para: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Fecha: martes 10 de marzo de 1998 15:24 Asunto: Sinister: damn, damn , damn >Glyn Maxwell is the laureate of Welwyn Garden City. He's published 3 >collections to extraordinary acclaim... people have called him the new >Auden, which is nice. To compound the Auden comparison he travelled to >Iceland with fellow-poet Simon Armitage a while ago, following in the >footsteps of Auden and MacNeice, and published a travelogue, "Moon Country", >which was rather good. I'm not what you would call "drunk" but I am trying to maintain a Sinister tradition by already having tucked into my second can of lager. Isn't it good? Down to business.... That's all very nice, Trousers, but did they share a room? >May he call for you in a lime-green van, > May his innermost thoughts be anyone's guest. >May his answer to 'Who's your favourite band?' > Be the only occasion he answers 'YES,' >But then may he add, 'When Wakeman was with 'em,' > And play you the evidence. May what he wears >Never again be in vogue. May his mother > Dote, devote, and move in downstairs. Trousers, is this some kind of sick joke? You made this up, didn't you? You're just trying to make me look daft, aren't you? My mother-in-law (who hasn't even got a downstairs) came to visit today. Here's an ink polaroid: This one's of me pretending to read the paper while my mother-in-law (name: Mercedes, I kid you not) talks bollocks. She doesn't take the hint and carries on talking and talking, despite the only other person in the room burying his head in the paper, reading the same sentence over and over again. My cover is finally blown when, in a rare moment of philosophical ponderence, she suggests that you can't sell thoughts. "What do scientists do?" I ask. "What do you think I do all day?" I enquire. "Oh yes, you're right" she conceeds. Victory!!! Bobby Chariot ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: B&S : Snow Patrol : Availability in Ireland : Thanks, Katrina
by Martin Conneely 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

1. Claire Timmins wrote: > Porn star name.... Bambam Keen. No lies. It's atrocious. It's better than Daisy Coyne. > Also, does anyone know if Snow Patrol have had their stuff distributed in Ireland? Thanks to Katrina of Jeepster, I know that there's only a week to go. I had trouble finding the B&S EPs and Katrina told me of Road Records at 16b Fade Street, Dublin 2 (near Hogan's pub, South Great George's St) ... phone 01 6717340 fax 01 6747342. They had all 3 S&B EPs, none of which I could find anywhere else in Dublin. It's a new shop - not in the local phone books yet. Plus, the woman there is a B&S fan and is confident they will get a big attendance _when_ they come to Ireland. She told me they sold a lot of B&S before Christmans. And they tell me they will have the SP single in about a week. Thanks, Katrina, for info. about Road Records: it's a bit off my beaten track. 2. Lucy Munro wrote: > Not much B&S content, except to say that I made my Dad (50 this month) a >mix tape with "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying" on. I think he liked it, >but then he did see Simon and Garfunkle (Garfunkel? can't spell today) at >the Royal Albert Hall back in the 60s. Great to see the ages creeping up and there's nothing to cheer up us old folk like songs about dying. Like me, he probably loves that little piece by Paul Simon, too, on the "alternative" version of The Boxer where he sings: "I'm older now than once I was I'm younger than I'll ever be again" :-) Martin C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: peas
by Sarah 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

ok you lot, just ignore what i said before about sending emails to : intense_intensity(a)yahoo.com 'cos the nice people at Demon fixed my internet and i am a happy bunny. anyway. WOW! some really cool B&S things have happened to me. 1. manchester on sat, i gota 3....6....9 seconds of light poster! YAY! its absloutely ace and me is a bit chuffed! 2. Today at college, i dropped in on chat.....and who was there..... CHRIS GEDDES!!!!! wow! my life is officially wierd. i'm glad cos it makes up for the SHIT day i had yesterday. my friedn left and i was still in a good mood, and then, er god knows what reason, i just crumpled and felt like hell for the rest of the night and couldn't sleep....annoying biscuits. but today, woke up, happy! even paid my mate a tenner i owed her (which is completely unfair as to the reasons behind it, need i only say i was fucked about?) and still smiled, went to meeja studies and STILL was happy?!??!? lunch, i met CHRIS GEDDES ON IRC!!! wooohooo! (and then my pooter crashed so sorry about that tim...) and then i did my spanish homework which was great, 'cos i invented that went to a disco in Spain and saw the pet shop boys and |TOM JONES! (by the way has anyone heard of la Buena Vida - this spanish band? as i fucking know them from somewhere and on NME chat a bit ago i was talking to someone else who knew of them, in fact said he WAS in the bad, but i dunno, and its buging me about them now....can't think how i know them but their name is written on my file of bands...will explain later.) ANYWAY! and fter that went to English, yay, good lesson, then had spanish, then typed up really fast email to a ceratin someone on this list :o) and then came home to find my HOME EMAIL is again working! ate toast and then typed this! and soon my dad will come home and i will cry. pooh. we are c;ashing even more at the moment (get a fucking job - piss off is my articlute response, real world? me arse...) anyway. live long and eat toast. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah starryone! my fave insult of the day has been..... "YOU....are the bag out of bagpuss!" ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound and A5 SAE * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: another B&S/honeydream + boxing queen
by ooon 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

well, i really don't think many people would want to know about this. but i hope speaking out would help it go off my head a bit. it was very early this year and goes something like this... i was watching tv. in some chat show. Honey was a guest. (this Honey is in reality a famous model(nude sometimes i think)/singer/actress in thailand) the host asked her why she disappeared lately. (in reality she got married and have 5 kids or something) she said she was busy running a belle & sebastian mailing list. the host said 'ahhh what a fabulous band'. much exciting noise from studio audience. Honey reached into her handbag and brought out her vinyl copy of Tigermilk, revealing that actually the girl on the cover was her (laughing viciously) then jumped up and sang her tiger song. ('Tiger/Tigress' was her first hit single 7-8 years ago. she's no good singer but interesting to look at in those tiger outfit) at this point i was waken up, to my immense relieve that it was just a dream. i can't really tell in english how rather sordid it all was. it haunts me until this day. everytime i read Paul's message, Honey's face will pop up in my head saying those words. makes me feel funny in both sense of the word. i know how stupid this is and i sincerely hope Paul won't get offended! i swear i've been trying to replace her face with your baby photo but it's not fully successful yet. SIGH... ok, now that i'm posting something i might as well tell you another story. i remember Stuart M was a boxer? this sounds very much a B&S story to me anyway. a headline news over here recently was about a boy who loves boxing and quite good at it. 17 knockouts out of 20 matches, if i remember correctly. he happens to be gay. what makes the news is that he is a very girly gay person, ie. wearing full on makeup/perfume every fight, spending 2 hours in the shower, giving interview hugging his favourite fluffy toy, etc. never saw him fight myself but i was told that once in the ring he turns out to be quite beasty, very good with his feet and knees. i cannot imagine the abuse he must have been through doing what he does. at least he's got support from his mother. nice to see people doing things their own way and happen to achieve something out of it! i'll shut up now. muchlove, oon (no middle name, sorry Paul :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Dullest porn star name?
by LUCY C MUNRO 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

A bit of a late entry in the porn-star name stakes. The first pets I can remember owning were a pair of guinea pigs called Pewter (as in the metal) and Fred. My mum's maiden name was Evans, so one version of the porn star name would be Fred Evans. Which sounds more like a building contractor. Admittedly Pewter Evans is a bit better, but still not an all time great. Is this what I get for having Welsh ancestors? If you go on middle name and road where you grew up it's Catherine Gravely, which is also rather pants (to use the word du jour). I suppose I'm just not cut out to be a porn star... Not much B&S content, except to say that I made my Dad (50 this month) a mix tape with "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying" on. I think he liked it, but then he did see Simon and Garfunkle (Garfunkel? can't spell today) at the Royal Albert Hall back in the 60s. Lucy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: SINISTER: NO B&S AT ALL!!! IN FACT DON'T EVEN READ ME! YOU WON'T LIKE ME!
by Adam the Fool 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

> > > Shawn Wrote: > > > My name is Shawn and I am a huge Morrissey from Vancouver, > > > > Sorry. This just makes me laugh uncontrollably. > > > Please don't be sorry. When I wrote it I realized someone would > imagine a sumo wrestler with a quiff. I was thinking more of a king-kong sized moz wandering around the streets of vancouver crushing cars accidentally and looking very apologetic. David S Mccarthy wrote: > What I meant to say about ch 5 is that its might be dross but its > watchable dross. Apart from the unwatchable sunset beach which is > without being too classy or brilliant or anything. Take Xena, watch > it once and it seems dire, second time its not as bad as you first > thought then 3rd time it becomes good in a taking the piss way. Sure you want tv to be good, but this just goes to show that it doesn't have to be, it just needs to be on. Insideous eh? I say smash your tv and play on your playstation instead~ Love Idi Amin the fool ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Earth spins faster on its axis due to deforestation. Just as a figure skater's rate of spin increases when the arms are brought in close to the body, the cutting of tall trees causes our planet to spin dangerously fast. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Big Star
by Keith Watson 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

>I know I speak with all the zeal of a recent convert, but there is no >denying the power of these guys' music. Do any of you know what has >become of Alex Chilton? The sleevenotes tell how Chris Bell died in a car >crash but other than saying that Chilton was demoralised and out of >music by the 80s nothing more was said. Alex Chilton does gig occassionally nowadays, played about 8 months ago here, my mate went and apparently he kind of just played a load of jazz stuff and no Big Star stuff which pretty much pissed off everyone who went. Except Kevin the hipster. >I'd like to hear I am the Cosmos but if any of you have a copy it is >probably so valuable that you wouldn't play it, let alone lend it out. I don't think there's any great problems getting a hold of I am the Cosmos, I'm not too sure, maybe Mr.Mitchell, Mr Hopkins and Ms.Kerr can perhaps confirm a sighting of this when we were around the shops on Saturday... it rings a bell for me anyway. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Inrockuptibles
by st�phane buron 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

Katrina wrote : " There are two rather interesting promos around though, one is a cover mounted cd for the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles " What??? Are you sure it has already been released? One of the compilations made by Les Inroctuptibles has "The Fox in the Snow" on it, but it's not different from the album's version. So do you mean there will be something else that WILL be released/offered by this magazine later??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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