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Re: Sinister: copyright
by jon g. 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

-----Original Message----- From: John Jackson <johnj(a)seahouses.u-net.com> To: Belle & Sebastian List <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 30 March 1998 19:40 Subject: Re: Sinister: copyright >jon g. wrote: >> >> no more realaudio >> >> ever. >> >> sorry, but I didn't realise all the trouble I could get in. >> >> Jeepster were lovely about it, but we all know how lovely the BBC is >> (teletubbies webpages). >> >> I'm very sorry katrina > >So, back to the old copyright chestnut. Come on, who's got a tape of >Tigermilk? You are all breaking the law aren't you? And surely this >setting up of a list of people who want Tigermilk and people who will >tape it, isn't that all illegal? Katrina, have YOU got a tape of >Tigermilk? > >JJ >xx No - Katrina was really nice about it - she said I could keep the files there if I could guarantee that people could not download them, which I don't know how to do, I don't think. Also, with the BBC involved, it's too scary for little me. I'm a good boy - I don't want any trouble. jong ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: the return of the Swan
by Amanda Bergman 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

my my my. where to even begin? I returned yesterday from my spring break excursion to the UK, and I was up at a hideously early hour due to jetlag, waxing nostalgic. (oh, before I forget, to everyone who asked me weeks ago for tapes of sundry things, could you please email me back with TAPE in the subject line reminding me of what I should be sending you? things were really hectic before I left for my trip, and I want to get all the tape stuff sorted as soon as possible) so...here are some ink polaroids for those of you that might be interested: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This one was taken on the train from Stirling to Edinburgh. It's of me and Chris sitting next to each other, but Chris is looking straight ahead with a look of intense concentration on his face, and I am looking at Chris, but most of my face is hidden by a huge purple bubble-gum bubble. I am smiling at Chris from behind my gum because I know why he's concentrating so hard, why his brow is furrowed and his lips are pursed and why his left hand is a bit raised, reaching up towards his mouth. If you look really closely, you can see that he's managed to breathe a bit of air into a tiny purple bubble. If this one had been taken a few seconds later, it would have shown Chris gesturing proudly towards his feeble bubble-blowing attempt, and me with a layer of gum all over my lips and chin from when my gargantuan bubble popped and splattered onto my face. Here's one of me and Susannah from Friday night, after the first list meet-up. We are at a party but we don't really know anyone, and Sus and I are sitting on this bed wrapping ourselves in blue feather boas. We are smiling and laughing cause we look so silly and also because Keith is dancing drunkenly in front of us. This is another one from earlier that night, after me and Sus and Sus's flatmate Emma have piled into a cab to go the party. Keith is standing outside the car, poised to open the door and get inside, and in the picture there is a look of horrified amusement on his face. This is because the cab had started to pull away before he could open the door and get in, and in the process the car had run over his bag, which contained, among other things, his new Blaxploitation double CD set (which suffered a direct, but not debilitating, hit by the car's tire). This one is from Saturday night, from the birthday celebration at the poetry cafe. It's of Tag and Sus wearing the funny little party hats I got for them. Except they're not wearing them on their heads, as I would have imagined. Instead they have them strapped on so that the hats are pointing out from their faces like big beaks with tinsel at the end. The picture is a bit shaky because I am laughing so hard as I take it. ----------------- more to come later on. for now, I have to go and drop off the real film to be developed! and "wrong love" is such a beautiful song. I love Stevie's singing! hoping I haven't bored everyone terribly, the Swan ------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "Don't say 'think.' It's against the law." --_The Phantom Tollbooth_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: all i wanted was to sing the saddest song...
by barzy＠networkmags.com 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

>> > Message text written by ahalter >> > >does anyone else hear songs that they absolutely love and yet cannot bear >> > to listen to because the songs make them too sad? and which songs are >> > these?< > >more often I can no longer listen to a song because it becomes so heavy with >memory for me that to listen to it again is to find myself back in that moment >of time from which I was trying to distance myself. and under that description >I would have to say "My Old Friend the Blues" by The Proclaimers, REM's >"Strange >Currencies," anything on Marvin the album by frente! (except "Accidently Kelly >Street"), and Suede's "The Wild Ones"all these songs take me back to a past I'd >just as soon forget. It's funny but some songs, even from bands i'm not really into can kill me sometimes...."Sunshine On Leith" by the Proclaimers is one....and yesterday...I was driving down the 101 with my sunroof open (only because it was WAY cloudy) and it started to sprinkle, just as Loreli by The Pogues came on..and as the song got sadder and sadder...it started to rain harder and harder..and i'd never noticed what a tragic song that was....never thought twice about it.....must have looked funny....me driving in the rain weeping my eyes out with my sunroof open, in rush hour traffic with Tinky Winky grinning on my bumper......*sigh* the onslaught of insanity me thinkest. two straight jackets please...it's been cold lately..... *sigh* beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: NYC picnic weather forecast: not promising
by Mike Appelstein 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

I just checked the Weather Channel web site, and the forecast for next Saturday is rainy, high 49 degrees. Hardly the luscious summer weather we're experiencing in NYC at the moment. So we could always keep our eyes peeled, but I wouldn't be surprised if the proposed B&S picnic in Central Park would have to include umbrellas and rain slickers... mike (generally a lurker) ciflux(a)aol.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: copyright
by jon g. 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

no more realaudio ever. sorry, but I didn't realise all the trouble I could get in. Jeepster were lovely about it, but we all know how lovely the BBC is (teletubbies webpages). I'm very sorry katrina bye jon g. jon.g(a)btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: all i wanted was to sing the saddest song...
by Johnston, John CT 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

> Message text written by ahalter > >does anyone else hear songs that they absolutely love and yet cannot bear > to listen to because the songs make them too sad? and which songs are > these?< There aren't any songs that have that affect on me but I knew as soon as I'd finished reading "Captain Correlli's Mandolin" that I had never read anything so fantastic and that I could NEVER EVER read it again. I always read books I love over and over but this was so intensely moving, so vivid and glorious and yet tragic at the same time that I can't imagine putting myself through the emotional mangle again. But I'm so glad to have read it once. xx John > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: All I wanted was to sing the saddest song...
by Francisco Alberto Wong 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

since we're all sharing our moments together i am moved to chime in songs which reduce this street carnival strong man to tears include REM's the Wrong Child (back when they could write them), Lennon's My Mummy's Dead, and embarrassingly enough that song off Les Miserables where Jean Valjean's dying and all these dead french folks show up and sing SING DAMMIT!! boo-hoo-hoo. and Belle-bot, Sebastatron relatedly: walked into Other Music in fair NYC and not only saw the legendary set-list mentioned in previous postings, but also heard... Electronic Rennaissance! You bet the ears lit up and I rushed to the counter asking if they had the lp... but all for nowt as it was a very nice dubbed cassette (no doubt provided by Amanda Bergman...). Still nice to hear it. 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: We rule the school/My sellotape days aren't over
by poetryplace2 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

Hello there. What a lovely weekend meeting the sinister gang in London. In a desperate attempt to top Tag's ink polaroids I was forced to devise a new form of technology. By simply sellotaping together a red pen and a green pen, taking the picture, and then reading it while holding appropriately-coloured Quality Street chocolate wrappers over each eye, I developed the first ever 3D ink polaroid (patent pending). This allows you to make out the stunning depth in this picture of the group of us rampaging through Covent Garden at closing time blowing those funny unfurling party kazoo thingies. If we had a recording you would be able to tell that we were actually paying homage to the weird-beard improv jazz people we had been sharing the cafe with. I look a bit thoughtful in this one, because I'm worried that the expanding gorilla which Swannie brought me in lieu of Sea Monkeys, and which was supposed to grow to twelve inches when placed in water, will never grow up. Anyhoo, here's the Monday poem, almost on time for a change. It's by the Irish poet Paul Durcan. It's from his 1993 collection, "A Snail in my Prime", which is published by Harvill Books. Paul Durcan My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout When in the heat of the first night of summer I observe with a whistle of envy That Jackson has driven out the road for a pint of stout, She puts her arm around my waist and scolds me; Am I not your pint of stout? Drink me. There is nothing except, of course, self-pity To stop you also having your pint of stout. Putting self-pity on a leash in the back of the car, I drive out the road, do a U-turn, Drive in the hall door, up the spiral staircase, Into her bedroom. I park at the foot of her bed, Nonchalantly step out leaving the car unlocked, Stroll over to the chest of drawers, lean on it, Circumspectly inspect the backs of my hands, Modestly request from her a pint of stout. She turns her back, undresses, pours herself into bed, Adjusts the pillows, slaps her hand on the coverlet: Here I am - at the very least Look at my new cotton nightie before you shred it And do not complain that I have not got a head on me. I look around to see her foaming out of the bedclothes Not laughing but gazing at me out of four-legged eyes. She says: Close your eyes, put your hands around me. I am the blackest, coldest pint you will ever drink So sip me slowly, let me linger on your lips, Ooze through your teeth, dawdle down your throat, Before swooping down into your guts. While you drink me I will deposit my scum On your rim and when you get to the bottom of me, No matter how hard you try to drink my dregs - And being a man, you will, no harm in that - I will keep bubbling up back at you. For there is no escaping my aftermath. Tonight - being the first night of summer - You may drink as many pints of me as you like. There are barrels of me in the tap room. In the thin daylight at nightfall, You will fall asleep drunk on love. When you wake early in the early morning You will have a hangover, All chaste, astringent, aflame with affirmation, Straining at the bit to get to first mass And holy communion and work - the good life. Trousers xxxxxxxx The Poetry Society Website: http://www.poetrysoc.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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re:Fun for the Family!
by Hugh Rabagliati 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

-----Original Message----- From: jon g. <jon.g(a)BTInternet.com> To: Belle & Sebastian List <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 30 March 1998 15:01 Subject: Re: Sinister: Fun for the Family! That's also why I appear and disappear - I'm normally too busy >in term time - I have to look out of my window for an hour and then do a bit >of homework, so that takes up lots of my time. > >I hope that this totally irrelevant post has helped you remember your youth. >Does anyone remember Pigeon Street? It was a wicked cartoon, but no-one >apart from my Mum can remember it. > >Well, I suppose I should do some revision for my GCSEs now (!). > >See you all later, >jon g. Hmm...i remember pigeon street...it used to scare me for some reason...i always had problems with things that weren't human...like the muppets...i used to be so scared of animal...and the incredible hulk as well....i shouldn't really be telling u this, but im on holiday now, and ive actually done the first bit of holiday revision i have to do :))) so im bored out of my skull now...maybe i ought to quote a B&S song here...that can be my B&S bit...oh no, i got a better 1... i tried introducing B&S to some people at school....but they all told me to turn it off cause it was dull...so they could listen to something annoying like symposium... umm...anything else? no? ok byebye Hugh davidrab(a)btinternet.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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: all i wanted was to sing the saddest song...
by Alan Prior 30 Mar '98

30 Mar '98

Message text written by ahalter >does anyone else hear songs that they absolutely love and yet cannot bear to listen to because the songs make them too sad? and which songs are these?< oh wow, yes...all the time. especially spiritualised's 'broken heart'. it's the most beautiful song i have ever heard, yet makes me want to cry every time i hear it <sigh> but the sad songs are always the best (eg. manics, b&s). i have so many home-made compilation tapes of sad songs. somehow they always seem to make me feel a wee bit better...though listening to your favourite song when you are really, really sad can sometimes ruin it and that is a bad thing. am i making sense? probably not...but i'd better go before i start making you all feel sad too. love always, 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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