April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: B&S...you should've guessed....
by McDougal 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

Hello to all gentlefolk, punkrockers and indiepopsters alike, I am currently very bored........so I'm going to go and develop some pictures. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Lazy Line Painter Queen
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

The organ bit in Lazy Line Painter Jane sounds like the organ bit in I'm Going Slightly Mad by Queen. Just a thought, although admittedly not a very deep or interesting one. Oh, link: Monica *QUEEN*. Coincidence? Or... evidence of an insidious glam-rock conspiracy at the heart of our favourite popsters? I think we should be told... ByeBye, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297(a)kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) ***************************************** Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain ***************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk CD!
by John Newman 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

Finally! >Dear sir > >We shipped your two copies of the Belle & Sebastian CD - >Tigermilk (SSRCD-023) today. > >A total amount of $32 including postage has been charged >to your VISA card. > >Cheers >Raymond 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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Sinister: its ME, so guess whats it about! cheers!
by Sarah 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

hey hey we're the Sinisters! everybodeys Sinister-ing around i don't know the rest of the words boy i need to have a pound... (dadadaddaadaddaada drum fill) to buy the en-Em-me, because its a groovey read and if i could only get it i wouldn't feel so peeved... (daddadadadad drum fill) dont you just looove making up songs on the spot? to be sang to the tune of hey hey we're the monkees if you didn't gather. i'm going to make up a cheer for the Sinisterine chairleaders, so-called cos we get to sit on chairs, and cheer. occasionally we may stand up! and we have SPAAAARRRKLY! pom poms we get to wave about! woo! and as for megan who talked about feminist principles, well c'mon! did you think this was a NORMAL chairleading squad? we have boys as well as girls, and even a monster! so, we have ME! (RA!) Paige (RA!) megan? (ra!) debbie? (ra!) blakDWARF! (who didn't give me a name!) (RA!) Honeymonster (RA!) see, boys, girls, monsters, WOOO! what more could a pretty dedicated squad of chair based cheerleaders need! nothing i say, nothing! Gimme a S! Gimme an I! Gimme a N! Gimme an I! Gimme a S! Gimme a T! Gimme an E! (oo-er) Gimme an R! And what do you get? S!I!N!I!S!T!E!R! woooo! shake the sparkly pompoms! i ned a life! i can't stop with the exclamation marks! WOOOOO! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah calvin -"is it possible to refuse to inherit the world?" hobbes -"i think if you're born its too late." http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Gender bending - The Happy Death of Robert McTaggart
by poetryplace2 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

Vice Corporal Miller wrote: > on the plus side, all this has given me time to think about people with two > christian names or two surnames, the freaks. Chris is in good company, just > look at this list: > Andrew Dean, Michael Roddddddd from Screen Test, Lenny Henry, Jesse James, > Ben Elton, Elton John, Rodddddddd Stewart and George Michael. > Mitchell Fraser, on the other hand, is a member of a much more exclusive > club: > Wilkie Collins and, erm, Brad Pitt. Indeed. I was intrigued to read the "great" Douggie Coupland debate between Ruth "No I'm a boy really" McCurry and Alan "No, really, it's Debbie" Prior. What are the chances of that happening, eh? It makes me all misty-eyed for the days when Petey came on as P Miller/Arantxa Sanchez Viccario. I used to think that was his drag name, and that he had a comely alter ego who looked a little like that Margarita Pracatan woman from Clive James. Keith "what kind of computers do you use then" Watson wrote: > > I'm surprised to see that we haven't had a mail from Sweden from Tag > >yet, although perhaps he hasn't got his "plastic pal" with him, that's no > >excuse though cause Trousers managed to send an anonymous mail from an > >Internet Saddo Cafe this morning to the list. I think it's about time we > >received a postcard from Sweden. I think I know the answer to this little conundrum. Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed an advert for the film "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs" in last Friday's Grauniad. I always hoped that Tag had simply imagineered this film, but it seems like it's fer real. And who should be quoted on the ad? "Deliriously absurd" - Robert McTaggart. I'm not sure who he's describing there, but he obviously spontaneously combusted at the sight of it. At least he died a happy tag. Oh and Miller, this week's poem really did end like that, I just forgot the fullstop. The saddo cafe had a defective keyboard, but other than that I can heartily recommend it. As you were Trousers xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: further interpretations of sinister dreams - a dissertation
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

*sigh* despite my apparently hugely scientific and wildly popular original dream interpretations, i got a B- on my psych test. it should have been an A++++++, i know, but some teachers just don't understand progressive thinking if it bites them on the ass (though for the record, i haven't). oh well. regardless, i have decided to return to the patients who really love and need me, you all. my lovely sinisterines. and of course, the lovely stuart david, who a great many *unnamed* people would like to give "help" to. At 12:18 AM 2/27/98, Amanda Bergman wrote: >But like the Partridge Family on Prozac, B&S still have their dreams. "Last >night I dreamt that my wife Karn became a bellydancer in Glasgow," says >David. "I guess this means she's going to run away and join the circus >soon. That's what comes from eating eggplant." why are they like the partridge family on prozac? wouldn't that just make an excessively happy partridge family? sounds more like the danielson family than b&s to me (i think this interviewer is just trying to sound cool, what a poof). but anyway, this dream is probably just some sort of wish fulfillment on stu d's part. knowing his fascination with porn, this is probably just an extension. or it could be eggplant, nasty vegetable. At 11:52 PM 2/27/98, PKHINTZ wrote: >Dr. Minka, > > So I had this dream a few weeks ago. Belle and Sebastian moved >across the >ocean to Washington DC to become a certain listee's* neighbors. I was very >jealous--I threw a fit and squealed like a piggy. She soon joined the band to >sing backup vocals. Yeah, it was great to hear her on the songs, but is not >the house next to me good enough for the band? Can not I stand on the stage >and sing?--no one would probably even notice me with the other hundred members >of the band. Hrrumph. > > *(Name withheld not to give B&S any ideas; I do not like to be a >piggy). well mr. hintz, this seems to be the opposite of wish fulfillment, a sort of worst case scenario dream. did you eat eggplant before going to sleep by chance? otherwise, this dream could be a premonition of things to come. i suggest buying up any houses in pam berry's neighaborhood that may be for sale in order to avoid making any unpleasant animal sounds. At 11:47 AM 3/2/98, Thaian N Ton wrote: >well beautiful listees; > >it's finally happened, i've finally had my first b&s (wet) dream. no, >no, not really. > >so i won't ramble, i'll just put it short & sweet: > >since i have been going to graduate school interviews , i've been fed >exceptionally well, and i dreamt that due to the lovely cakes and lovely >food i've been scoffing down, my waist was lost and grew larger than my >hips and i was walking about with big saddle bags on the sides of my >hips. then i checked my e-mail in my distressed state and found this >e-mail from a dj friend in montreal, and it was a list of the top 10 >singles in germany. ooh ooh and get this, b&s was #1 and #4, with >singles i'd never heard of before. one, i distinctly remember called >"he's so heavy" ... > >ah well, any psychoanalysis on that one? perhaps this is a literal translation of your relationship to the band's music. i know that i love the lyrics because they tend to reflect my life in a more eloquent manner than i could ever articulate. in your dream, they seem to be doing so for you, by writing songs about weight gain. apparently, your subconcious has a good sense of humor. At 6:51 PM 3/4/98, JOSEPH FOSTER wrote: >OK, here is another B&S dream related thing! >Last week I had a dream where I was casually looking through a copy of >the sun, and they had a top 20 albums poll and Tigermilk was no.1. Could >someone please tell me what the frount cover looks like, I don't know. >In my dream it was a black pattern on red, and may have looked a bit >like the cover of 'Gold Against The Soul'. Ok Bye. the cover you imagined sounds like the sinister cover. a wish-fulfillment dream again, i think. btw, the tweenet page has copies of all the album covers. At 12:23 AM 3/11/98, ooon wrote: >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... oon, i, too, had a dream about honey. luckily, it was not so psychically damaging as yours seems to have been. normally, i would diagnose this as a pedophilliac dream aimed at the six year old honey, but due to the list's obsession with sex and porn star names, i'm willing to let this go as just another example of the sinister list slithering into a innocent listee's dreams. the next honey sex dream, though, won't be so lucky. At 11:46 AM 3/11/98, Nicole Elger wrote: >OK, I've got more proof that this list is infiltrating my dreams. I didn't >have another B&S dream, but did have one about stripping which must have >been inspired by all the porn star posts. > >So I was a stripper in the dream, except I wasn't _really_ a stripper, I >was only doing it for a few hours so I could do some kind of investigation >at the club. I remember that my intentions were good, but I don't remember >what exactly they were. The music wasn't great, but I remember thinking I >was pulling it off quite well (ha, no pun intended) and no one was >suspecting a thing. But then I looked at some of the faces and started >thinking, "Oh God, what if I see someone from work!?" > >Suddenly I was out of the strip club and playing in a band with my best >friend from high school and a bunch of other people. Her cute younger >brother was the singer and I had some ridiculous role like cymbal or >tambourine player. (No offense to anyone dedicated to those instruments!) >We played one song and were astonishingly good. Right then, when we were >on the verge of stardom and having a mailing list dedicted to us ... my >15-pound cat jumped on my stomach, like he always does when things are >getting good in my dreams. Grrrr. ok, i'm not sure that this can be entirely blamed on the belle and sebastian list. have you been watching naughty movies or hanging out in times square? At 9:34 PM 3/13/98, blink(a)inexpress.net wrote: >AH! B&S dream... >I was sitting in a theatre watching a documentary on Stuart Murdoch,he was >very tall and it showed him in plaid shirts walking down beaches and >skipping stones,I kept going "stuart stuart you're the only one who >understands me" and people kept hushing me..anyways after that came the Dog >On Wheels video which consisted of fast moving,awe inspiring shots of land >(from above,like shot in a helicoptre) and great rivers except at the very >end of the video it was just shots of lots of sad homeless starving looking >puppies...as i walked out,this tall chin length blondish hair boy wearing >silver rings and quite cuddly muddly stopped me to talk about B&S when >suddenlt some girl appears and he starts kissing her and I feel quite >uncomfortable so I run off and he's like 'Where you going!' >and then I dunno..I'm walking along some desert like place with train tracks >and I see my friends wave me over and I try and ignore her and then she says >something but I take it as something insane cos I'm usually very >mild-mannered cos I went >crazy and started throwing rocks at her mother's head and they mad me get in >the van with them and we are arguing and my friend said soemthing like >'FINE! GO BACK TO YOUR BELLE AND SEBASTIAN THEN!' so I jump out of the >van,and magically I am somewhere else,and this guy (this other friend) is >leaving somewhere and I'm like 'oh I'll walk you there' and for some reason >my mom appear and she's like 'Oh! *wink* yes,I understand you can WALK with >him' and she thinks she is helping me cos she thinks I want to get this boy >alone and i'm like 'no it's not like that' and i start running and i'm back >at those dusty traintracks and suddenly i realize i'm all alone... ah genni, you're giving me something to work with here. as with chris' dream in the previous dream interpretation email, the fact that you are *watching* the events shows a dissociation from the band, a sort of powerlessness and passivity in your life. the fact that you're speaking, and being hushed could mean that you're trying to develop more control over your life, and others are trying to repress you and hold you back. the whole dog on wheels thing is weird. i could sort of interpret it as how you feel about the song, the mixture of stirring music and sad lyrics. but then, i'd probably be full of shit. so nevermind. the boy who stopped you... i really don't have anything to go on there. could that have something to do with a real life event at the time? or maybe you see yourself as the girl that boys will be friends with, but not be attracted too? again, i'm clutching at straws here. perhaps i deserved that b after all. the whole throwing rocks thing could be a manifestation (sorta) of your rebellion. i know that b&s doesns't seem terribly rebellious, but i assume that when you live on a farm in canada, and you're in high school, that's a divergence from the norm that's not really appreciated by others. so you're rebelling against friends and parents and running toward a music that represents perhaps a bigger way in which you are different from other people, one that maybe they want to minimize. and the rest.... misunderstanding, and wandering and aloneness, boohoo. oh dear. At 10:55 PM 4/4/98, blink(a)inexpress.net wrote: >Oh I had a list member dream... (just their name cos I don't know what he >looks like) anyways,this one friend of mine,she was telling me about this >wild and wonderful one night stand she had in London "oh yeah we went out >and got everthign pierced and then spent the night together" me:"oh who was >this?" her:"his name was tag" >weird baby,i say weird.... as if the last dream wasn't enough.... all i can say is, um, well, there really isn't anything to be said to this one. allright, that's enough for this one. this email is longer than most of my papers for class. and sickly lil me needs her beauty sleep, so goodnight. xox megan ps - star, my feminist side doesn't like the idea of being a cheerleader. however, if you get sparkly pompoms, i *may* be persuadable.... 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. . 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Sinister: tom jones at blackpool, 21 quid! who's coming!!!
by Sarah 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

hi all! Keefy wrote... <<we can all have a vote as to whose website was the funniest, Chris Leonard's, or Rodddddney's. I can see it now, it'll be like pistols at dawn.>> *coughs* Well. Theirs might be FUNNIER (huh, cheap laughs), but MY website : www.elsato97.demon.co.uk : has a fucked up picture of Richey Manic (YEY!) pretentious writings from me, Declaring WAR! on CHOCO KRISPIES- um, NO, and the best thng of ALL! ....... A GUESTBOOK! its even got poetry by honeymonsters in it! YEY! its the best thing happnin', so GO SIGN IT, ah go on, please i am begging! its reeeally cool, HONEST! Our Keefy also mentioned Tag, and "plastic pals"....CRIKEY! now that idea makes me VERY nervous! even though, Tag is a *wonderful* man... a specimin of greatness not seen in many... who is going to St Etienne in Manchester....and surely remebers a chat in Sinister when he almost promised he would take a nubile (ok might be lying) listee along with him! :) i'm sure he'd looove that! huh, ooh yeah.... only kiddin' Taggers. Oh gosh, that sounds remarkably like "cheggers"....and i don't want that in my head. aaaaah! Oh and tell me about this Arab Strap interview. My college paper is telling me that *i* as the hardened veteran of music journalism, (HAH! pissing in da wind with a zine no-one buys, sorry i'm feeling pessimistic today!), has got to interview them when they play Preston. And....i am not at all happy 'bout this! I only want to see the bloody support, ELECTRIC SOUND OF JOY. arab strap...crikey. anyone got any info about them? if so , muchly appriciated :) And all you SInisters are BACk in favour, as opposed to Back In Black, which i thought of for no reason at all.... I now have SIX! cheerleaders! including me! we can all sit in chairs and cheer on the active Sinister-ians, while we munch on good luck choclate and toast, and drink good luck beverages. personal crisis - we've run out of orange juice and i might cry. we have no choclate and i have no pennies. i AM CRYING. ta. heehee. all this talk of Roddddddddddd, has got me thinking of Roddney from only fools and horses. thanks for that. and now i'm remeering the episode, where whatsherface who married Del and had his kid had to sing "crying" for this mafia bosses mother or something, and she had to sing it with this guy who lisped..... ah yes final comment - i'm doing my representation project for meeeeedia studies on representatio of women in music press, for simple reason gives me an excuse to get loadsa mags really..... i've just looked through the NME, NO WOMEN. anywhere. first page PJ Harvey. then NOWT, untill a Kings of Infinite Space AD. then women in a few ads...and then a women band member...then a pic of Candida from Pulp....thats IT. geez. this is gonna be my coursework. women AREN'T represented. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah "They can't paddle me! I'm a girl! Girls have more delicate heinies" --Susie http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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; Girlfriend in a coma
by Alan Prior 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

Message text written by Ruth McCurry >Just in case any of you Londoners didn't know, Douglas Coupland is doing a reading/signing thing at Books Etc< he's doing one in Edinburgh too, at the West End Waterstones on the 23rd, i think, but yous probably already knew that... not sure if its 'sold out' (of free tickets), yet, though... Probably. lets all go and steal everyone elses free glasses of wine...hehehe. sorry, think am still bit drunk from last night/ this morning...need sleep! must have some, NOW! eyeballs on stalks... love, Debbie xxx. "The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition" - Henry Miller. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: aaahhh'm bored...
by Andrew James Bonar 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

Awlright, sinister types, I'm trying to get some folks together to play music and generally make a nice noise with. If there's anyone out there from Glasgow or nearby, send me a message. Dunno exactly what kinda thing it'll be, I just have a bunch of tunes in my head which would quite like to get out for a bit. I play guitar, piano, violin, mandolin...erm...kazoo...just whatever I can get my mitts on, basically. Oh yeah, and I've apparently got a lovely singing voice, too (not my words!). As far as influences go, I'm not really bothered, but I like Teenage Fanclub, Syd Barrett, The Go-Betweens, The Karelia, Orange Juice...stuff like that. So if anyone can be arsed with this, please get in touch before I implode from Terminal Boredom.... Tatty-bye, A.J. "WHEN YOU'RE UP A TREE.....YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF WHY." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: my little ink polaroid
by Schaffenberger 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

At long last, here is my ink polaroid: This was taken on Saturday at Brackenridge Park. Boyfriendish Ian sits on a white carousel horse whose saddle is decorated with stars. His decision to sit on this particular horse, on the outside circle of horses on the carousel, was a result of my horse choice: a white filly with charcoal mane and tail. Her head is reared triumphantly, her saddle blanket striped. All you can see in the picture is the back of my head and shoulders, but my alert body posture and tipped head lets you know that I'm smiling, maybe even laughing, under the shade of the carousel. A backlit Ian rests his head against the pole, smiling with his mouth closed in the sun. He looks rather handsome in his blue Yo La Tengo shirt and khaki pants. One hand is wrapped around the pole, above his head. The other rests on his knee. Behind him is a crowd of people wandering through the park, going to the paddle boats, to feed the ducks, to ride the train or the skylift, or to visit the zoo. All of these anonymous folk look strangely happy, very beautiful. Looking at this print, you can't help but feel a trememdous sense of well-being. Enough mush. I have to write a lot of final papers. Ick. Love, Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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