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Sinister: Subtitles? If I wanted to read I'd buy a book.
by mctag＠mcmail.com 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

I can't stay away today, Kristen wrote: >I think we've already talked about Truffaut and my favorite new wave >film, JULES ET JIM, but perhaps we should discuss it again. Ah... >Pretentious films. They make me happy. Pretentious? ... why?? Kristen - I do know why you said that ... but don't. Anyone who has ever professed a liking for any film or book or record that required a bit of thought has been called pretentious. Pretentious is just a word used by some people for things they're too fucking ignorant or lazy to understand. Don't listen to these people, they are wrong. Incidentally, I'd recommend you go and see "Happy Together", Wong Kar Wai's (Chunking Express) new film. The bloke in "Uncut" likes it and so do I. Stylish, moving, lovely photography, romantic ... dammit, it's got the lot. I think I waffled on about "Chunking Express" before, but that rules too. John wrote about: >I don't want to be bore, but can we cut out all this sleaze quiz stuff? >When I said it wasn't very B&S, I wasn't referring to the lack of B&S >content, but to the fact that it just doesn't match the mood of B&S >lyrics. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sure when they came up with the title "Cock Fun" they weren't thinking about chickens. I can only speak for myself here, but I'm sure Susannah will back me up (remember, you get extra points for doing that), but no-one was making any judgements about anyone, or saying anything was wrong. We just think dirty jokes are funny. 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: e-instamatics, spice girls, grannies and two bad jokes.
by Rod Begbie 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Ink Polaroids are alright, but in this electronic medium (which go nowhere near ink), I think they should be renamed e-instamatics. Here's a couple from me. The first one is off my class photo being taken. It's a cold and windy day, and we had to stand around for 10 minutes while the other class had their photo taken, and we're all a bit fed up by now. We're standing on a slight hill outside the department in three rows. Kathy's still a bit upset because Rod M threw a worm at her. Most of us in the back row have smiles on our faces, cause Steven G has just stood up again after falling over when the photographer asked him to step to the right a bit. The photographer is just about ready to take the photo, and has just counted '3..2..1..' When he got to two, though, Charles whipped out a pair of those comedy Groucho Mark glasses+nose+moustache things and is holding it above his face. The photographer doesn't seem to have noticed. This next one is off the queue for the autoteller in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh at about 12:15 on a Friday night. There's nine people in the queue. Using the machine is two burly looking blokes who are swearing at it for not giving them any money. Behind them are three girls who are freezing cold due to being underdressed for the Edinburgh night. Dave is behind them, wishing he was still in the pub. And behind him is a guy and two girls, none of whom seem to really know each other, but give the appearance of a drug deal in progress. Near the front of the queue is an old bloke trying to sell copies of the next morning's Daily Record. Sean is trying to explain to him that this is a bad place to try and sell the paper, becuase anyone in the queue is only going to have tenners on them, so aren't going to have any change to buy a paper, and besides, if they're taking money out, they're probably about to go to a pub or club, and aren't going to want to take a newspaper with them. Right... having got that out of my system... On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, jon g. wrote: > What people like Rod Begbie don't understand when they say > >In my considered opinion, da Spiceys ROOL! > is that people our age and below genuinely like the Spice Girls, Backstreet > Boys etc like we like B&S, whereas people like Rod only like them as a joke. > It is a joke, isn't it? It must be. It can't be true. If it was a joke, would I have spent �19.50 on a ticket for the show tomorrow night? No, I seriously do like The Spice Girls. For far too long, girls have had the monopoly on teeny-bop bands. I've watched jealously as my sister and her friends headed off to Take That concerts with their "Show Us Your Knobbie, Robbie" banners, and coming back with their stories about meeting the band at their hotel or at the airport. Now it's my turn. I'm going to go tomorrow, and dance and jump and scream and sing and just generally let make a tit of myself whilst surrounded by schoolgirls (which isn't a bad way to spend an evening by any stretch of the imagination). It will be exciting. It will be fun. No, it won't be deep, meaningful or 4 REAL, but it *will* be something quite unsurpassable, I am sure. Full review on Monday. On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Lesley Higgins wrote: > "oh you canny push yer granny off a bus > you canny push yer granny off a bus > no you canny push yer granny > cos she's yer mammy's mammy, > no you canny push yer granny off a bus" I liked The Singing Kettle's version of this, which finished with the chorus "you can shove yer other granny off the bus, you can shove yer other granny off the bus, you can shove yer other granny, cause she's yer daddy's mammy, you can shove your other granny off the bus." Oh, and Debbie, I love Dazed & Confused, I just couldn't place the quote when I was sat at my terminal. All I could picture was some American slackerish-style movie, and all I'd managed to acheive was that I knew it wasn't The Breakfast Club. Serves me right for being a smart-arse, really. You know how Hugh Grant was in that film about four weddings and a funeral? Well, Richard E Grant's made a film about four dogs and a blackbird. It's called (all together now) Spiceworld The Movie. A woman goes into a pub and asks the barman for a 'double entendre', so he gives her one. Later, peeps! Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sporty, Posh, Baby, Ginger, Scary. In that order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Well, Bugger Me!
by PJMiller 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

It hurts like buggery to see people suggesting, even in jest, that there is anything sleazy about up the bum sex. It's perfectly normal behaviour, ask your mum. Everyone does it nowadays, it's all the rage. Even educated fleas do it. What hurts even more, makes my eyes water in fact, is the suggestion that our posts should be in keeping with the mood of B&S lyrics. What's more, I think there is quite a lot of nudge nudge double entendre in B&S lyrics, what with rude vicars and references to "where to put it", not to mention seven to eight year olds and gay sailors. Am I the only one hoping that B&S rock out soon and provide us with a crunching melodic rock anthem laden album? A final word of thanks to my reggae mentors, Natty Dread Mitchell and Tim "King Tubby" Hopkins. I bought the Yabby You album yesterday, and it does inded contain "Conquering Lion" in its entirety. I haven't listened to it yet, but the booklet is very nice. He's not a rasta, you know, he's a Jesus Dread. There's even a reading list, which includes the Book of Revelations. I've already read it, mate. Top quality prophecies. Peace List! Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Subtitles and pleasant surprises
by 95516123＠csu_mail2.napier.ac.uk 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

On April 2 Tag wrote: >Pretentious is just a word used by some people for things they're too >fucking ignorant or lazy to understand. Don't listen to these people, >they are wrong. Incidentally, I'd recommend you go and see "Happy >Together", Wong Kar Wai's (Chunking Express) new film. The bloke in >"Uncut" likes it and so do I. Stylish, moving, lovely photography, >romantic ... dammit, it's got the lot. I think I waffled on about >"Chunking Express" before, but that rules too. >> Yes Yes Yes, I second both the Wong Kar Wai >>recommendations. For maximum effect, see Happy Together >>while you are Sad Alone. (Um, that sounds sarcastic but >>it's not!) I just missed seeing WKW's Fallen Angels in the >>theater so will have to try to find it on video. I also >>recommend another film out of HOng Kong called "Comrades: >.Almost a Love Story" -- cheesy title, but good film, and >>somewhat reminiscent of Kieslowski, my favorite director. On March 31 Tara Widmer wrote: >>most people get completely wrong impressions about what people are >>going to look like before they see their picture/meet them. >So, has anybody ever been pleasantly surprised in this regard? do >tell... I'm curious >> Mmmmm, yes, very pleasantly surprised upon receiving a >>photo. I can't report on the first meeting part for >>another 9 hours or so, when he gets here. He's in a plane >>crossing the Atlantic as I write this. GULP! > B&S content? Um, the boy on the plane is the person who >introduced me to B&S and a list member, does that count? > -> Nicole .>. who also votes for the return of the happy bunny statement >which she had successfully begged HoneyP for in the first place! :-) >. . . . n i c o l i n a @ d r i z z l e . c o m . . . . >i've concluded once again that i'm too fickle for a signature file. yeah, you are all astonishingly wet and sad... and I have lost all faith...if ever there was a time to bow out... Marcus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (129.215.72.168) by csu_mail2.napier.ac.uk with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 0002792B; Thu, 2 Apr 98 22:03:12 +0000 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA23097; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:13 +0100 Received: by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (bulk_mailer v1.9); Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:09 +0100 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA23080 for sinister-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:06 +0100 Received: from drizzle.com (nicolina(a)slug.drizzle.com [207.207.67.200]) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA23076 for <sinister(a)majordomo.net>; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:02:45 +0100 Received: from localhost (nicolina@localhost) by drizzle.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA31894 for <sinister(a)majordomo.net>; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:02:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:02:54 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Elger <nicolina(a)drizzle.com> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net Subject: Sinister: Subtitles and pleasant surprises Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980402120616.26937A-100000(a)drizzle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: Nicole Elger <nicolina(a)drizzle.com> X-List: Sinister

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Sinister: Natalie Imbruglia, Dali and Glasgow
by Martin Conneely 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Espadrille wrote >some of us are considerably older than 12 or 13, and yet are still partial >to certain bits of natalie imbruglia... (sigh) Every time I hear "Torn", I think it would make a great video to have her singing it in front of Dali's picture of Christ crucified, which got quite a rip at some stage, in Glasgow's Museum of Religion. 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: dairy milk buttons
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

> Sorry, but i was just eating a packet of buttons...oh, and incidently, > the > sheep on the front was purple, not black. Maybe someone dropped their > beetroot sandwich into the sheep dip... > FAVOURITE NURSERY RHYMES PLEASE!!! This isn't mine, but i can't get it > out > of my head just now. > "Au clair de la lune Mon ami Pierrot; Prete-moi ta plume Pour ecrire un mot; Ma chandelle est morte Je n'ais plus du feu: Ouvrez-moi la porte, Pour l'amour de Dieu." I apologise for lack of proper accents and most likely wrong spellings, but this is my favourite nursery rhyme. An odd one, perchance, but I like it. Anyone else? ByeBye, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297(a)kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) ********************************************* Those who are heroes are known Such as this man, son of that other; Thou hast no mother and no father: Thou resemblest a bastard child, God. ********************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Everything
by jon g. 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

-----Original Message----- From: Nick Dastoor <nickdastoor(a)yahoo.com> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 03 April 1998 11:02 Subject: Sinister: HMV / NYC >jon g. said: > >>bethey was in HMV (a cd shop for those who don't know) > >Truer than you might have meant, jon. Although Our Price is perhaps >an even better example of a CD shop for people who don't know. What? I think you've lost me - I wasn't sure if they had HMVs outside the UK, so I was just explaining what they were. I don't think I quite understand all this. Our local HMVs sell about 3 vinyls and 2 tapes, but the rest are cds, therefore it is a cd shop. I'm really confused. Our Price only sells Peter Andr�, so we ignore that. A group of Belle & Sebastian fans could be called a gaggle. A Coven. A convent. Who knows. Someone with a thesaurus should find something exciting. ----Original Message----- From: afoley(a)csc.com <afoley(a)csc.com> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 03 April 1998 10:32 Subject: Sinister: A few torts and tings ><Pigeon Street> >I must be far too old to remember this, as it doesn't ring any bells at >all, however I should >be far too old to remember another programme, but I do, and that one is >Trapdoor. Yes!! Trapdoor? Was that the one where kids walked through this computer-generated maze with all these scary spiders and things trying to kill them? Or have I lost it completely? >These are all fuc... (oops, I almost swore then, must remember there are >youngsters about!) >excellent tunes and very moving. Ho ho ho. Us 15 year olds causing more chaos. The thing is that we feel really old, but you think we're really young and we're somewhere in between, I think. >And another thing to our young friends jo(h)n and bethey - You make me feel >so old!!!! But I'd >like to think if I was 15 today then I'd still be here as I am now, if that >makes any sense! >There was none of this email malarkey in my day you know! Ho ho ho ho ho. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho. Ho ho ho ho ho. More intimidation. -----Original Message----- From: Keith Watson <keith(a)qss.co.uk> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 03 April 1998 10:23 Subject: Sinister: Sleep the clock around >Not often prone to writing things about Belle and Sebastian here but yes >"Sleep the Clock Around" (or "Slap my cock around" which I'm prone to >calling it) is one of my favourite songs.I only hope the final recorded >version comes out as brilliant as the session, as I don't believe I can say >that for Dylan in the Movies. > I think probably what it misses the most however is some extended guitar >workout at the end, a bit of tapping, artificial harmonics and perhaps some >whammy bar work too. NO! That piano is just the best thing ever - even better than the one on Like Dylan In The Movies. Is it Chris playing? Probably - but Stuart M does a bit of piano doesn't he. However, it sounds like Chris - cos it's almost as cool as his flares. I don't think the extended guitar workout is necessary at all - but being a piano artiste, I think I appreciate these fabulous things more than guitar people. He's got about 108 keys he could press and he just presses the right ones at the right time. Nothing short of genius. However, I could be wrong. Right, well I'll see you all later, for my regular second message of the day. Tara luvs 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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Sinister: A few torts and tings
by afoley＠csc.com 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Here's a few tings in answer to recent treads: <Pigeon Street> I must be far too old to remember this, as it doesn't ring any bells at all, however I should be far too old to remember another programme, but I do, and that one is Trapdoor. Yes!! <songs (sad/moving/whatever..> There's been some classics mentioned so far: from Adrian Evans: Joy Division - Atmosphere New Order - Elegia from Tiago Andre' Figueiredo: Nick Cave - The Ship Song These are all fuc... (oops, I almost swore then, must remember there are youngsters about!) excellent tunes and very moving. I'd like to add to that by suggesting a few more: John Martyn - Couldn't Love You More Nick Drake - Way to Blue U2 - Drowning Man and Tomorrow Radiohead - Lurgee and Exit Music Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Captain Beefheart - Bluejeans and Moonbeams and Further Than We've Gone <films> Nothing pretentious about foreign films, especially where Truffaut is concerned, so it's a thumbs up for Jules et Jim. Thanks for re-awakening my interest whoever you are! Also recommended are My Life As A Dog, which is an absolute classic - I love that film! The Slingshot, and of course Cinema Paradiso, there's more, but my memory's not there! Also, I noticed that someone else was at the good ol' Bully for Animal House the other week!! Quality gig or what? I must admit, my memory's not quite as good as I thought, can't remember as much detail as "Harry Lime" though. All I know is that I really enjoyed the gig, although i felt sorry for the support, Shuffle who didn't get quite the reaction they deserved. One thing that I thought was well funny was as Shuffle took the stage, I heard a girl say to her friends "So which one was in Ride then?" - Laugh, I nearly cried my eyes out, it was so funny!! And another thing to our young friends John and Bethey - You make me feel so old!!!! But I'd like to think if I was 15 today then I'd still be here as I am now, if that makes any sense! There was none of this email malarkey in my day you know! Well, that's enough guff from me, so goodnight and god bless. Ady ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: HMV / NYC
by Nick Dastoor 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

jon g. said: >bethey was in HMV (a cd shop for those who don't know) Truer than you might have meant, jon. Although Our Price is perhaps an even better example of a CD shop for people who don't know. My friend Ross works in the big Oxford St HMV store (which perhaps caters for those who do know too), but he has to deal with lots of people who don't know all the time. The other day he was manning the listening desk place and some bloke came up with some CDs to try, one of which was Lazy Line Painter Jane. Ross got cross because the man was obviously dithering so he said "Look, just buy it. You won't regret it". There is a an army of B&S fans working at the Oxford St HMV, and they spend their tea breaks discussing the wonder of the glockenspiel in "Get me away from here, I'm dying" and such things. Perhaps 'army' is the wrong word for a group of Belle and Sebastian fans. What would be an appropriate collective noun? A woos? Right, now for the real point of my post. I'm going all the way to Brooklyn, NYC on Monday for a ten day holiday. Would any of you lot who live over that way like to meet up for a drink or something while I'm over? I'm quite nice, really. I realise I've left all this a bit late now, but I can always check my clever yahoo mail in some internet cafe over there. nick d. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: yo
by bradford 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

this is my my goodbye to blue eyed sinisterines i've got to go to news only. this is getting a bit much. it's been fun. thanks for all those people who have turned me on to a lot of new bands (trembling blue stars, go betweens, the sarah stuff, etc.) i'll leave you all with a couple of facts i've always been scared to admit. 1. unlike tag, begbie has rocked me from the backside, shafted me up the ass, took the 7:00 to browntown, tamed my manpussy, however you want to refer to it. and not only does he pitch, he also catches, if you get my drift. 2. the song that makes me cry is "the man in the mirror" by michael jackson 3. according to that sleaze quiz, i'll see some of you in hell. i'll be the one in the t-shirt that says "official bikini inspector" goodbye all. -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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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