January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: keeping up apperances
by Graham MacArthur 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

Errica - I assume that > was you drinking the coca-cola. What a well brought up and well behaved > girl you must be. I know if that had been me and a friend at sixteen we > would probably have been trying to drink beer and smoke like the big kids, > and would have ended up looking like a couple of pissed-up and green faced > idiots. michel, appearances can be decieving! who were you? I was the ones drinking coke, because like you say, I have a choice, try to drink beer and look silly and out of place, drink coke, as I would actually must prefer, and just feel in the right frame of mind to experience the gig. It's nice to know i was noticed even if i did not utter a word to anyone except trousers and koogy, who caught me on the stairs. If anyone else was wondering (humour me) I was the youngest person there with the shortish goldy hair tucked behind her ears and a sheepish smile on her face, with her smaller friend hannah, with long blonde hair. I'm sure all who attended were lovely, but I was intimidated. i'm just not ready to play with the big kids yet, my mummy said so. Hefner are stunning and all who disagree must be missing something! I can't understand how a person could not be moved by Darren Hayman, with all his emotion and grit. it's wonderful! the gig on friday was brillaintly intimate, like sitting in your front room, give or take wanting to stick a fork in the girl sitting in front of me laughing. I wondered home after school, looking at my feet, wondering if I should make more of an effort with my school friends, even if they aren't quite the same as me. They just can't understand why everything seems so complicated, why i can't be content doing school work and fancying the boys like them. If you had seen the boys in my year, I don't think you'd shout "stud!" ethier. My hormones go the smith's loving diary writing way, and theirs in the boy crushing beat-popping way. Thank goodness for pop music, where would i be without you, my bright hope? anyway, all sing praises for hefner in all their greatness and to the postal service (while you're at it could you ask them to hurry with my looper badges and Ink movies in new york book?!) Erica +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm a notherner and I've lost my keys
by AL Corby 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

Firstly I lost my keys on friday and I've run out of places to look any suggestions? And although I currently reside in loughborough I am from Rochdale. I tell people I'm from Manchester though, partly cos Rochdale is so shit, partly cos Manchester is cool and mostly cos when I say rochdale they say 'where'. Then people say you don't sound like your from Manchester so I say 'eh eh our kid's mad for it' and they believe me. Although someone asked me if I was from Manchester last week, but then today someone asked me if i was from Ireland. Loughborough uni is full of sporty southerners who think that Loughborough is up north. I hate sporty people (this is not strictly true one of my best friends is an athelete and she's nice) and I hate purple tracksuits. So there you go.(This is apparently one of my things) BYE BYE Andrea +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "My mom goes out, she's out of control" J Springer
by J. MURTAGH 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

Sorry, this is gonna sound really crap right but I'm gonna say it coz I know that alot of people out there agree with me. This list in my opinion and others is getting painful to be apart of particularly the mega long messages that really do seem to say nothing except that the authors are in fact in love with their own zaniness and personality. Now I've jumped but I'd prefer to get the old digest consisting of interesting and not superfluous descriptions of our lives as fans of the band. This sounds really dictatorial and judgmental but I'm only saying this because I'm starting to dread getting these digest mails because they consist of nothingness, and I don't want to leave because I'm a fan and I want to be with you lot: the fans, and not bored people Oh bollocks, I've said enough already, I'll prepare for the missiles now. I shouted I love Belle and Sebastian on top of the castle overlooking Scarborough, Anne Bronte heard me too. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: vic chesnutt, etc.
by polanski 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

to james/molly?!! speaking of old vic chesnutt... for a somewhat strange interview i did with him in 1997 check out my site at http://come.to/polanski. the interview's not much content, but rewarding nonetheless... oh - and for those living in holland, belgium, or germany - a few of you had threatened to get in touch. but where the blimey are you now?!! come on, inundate me with your mails... alex +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Hotmail SUCKS!
by Rory Mackie 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

'afternoon, Just wanted to say 'hello tiger' to all the lovely new (to me) sinisterites (sinisterines? pish-heids?) I met at the Halfner gig at wee Stevie Trousers front room in Covent Garden, especialy Alix (with an I) who is as deadpan in the flesh as she is in her posts, sometimes even acheiving 'the full Buster Keaton' which is no mean feat. She also accused me of sounding as though i should have a beard, which is the secondmost surreal thing anyones accused me of all week after the person at work whoasked me how my jewellery stall in Exmouth market was coming along (eh?) Hope you got back to Isling OK Alix. Thanks also to Kevin being so friendly and affable when meeting me and somehow restraining yourself from smashing a lamp over my head after I'd buggered up the tape tree so spectacularly. Apprieciated. Hefner themselves were lilting and gorgeous, although my lovely Linda did try to chat up the lap-steel player 'cos she dug his crazxy pickin' action. Grrrrrr. Other things.. Why is Isobel's solo album named after a feminine hygiene product? And why is hotmail so bloody shit? I had a speedier connection when I surfed the web with my ZX spectrum, a mirror and some string. GRRRR. Lady Penolope. Don't go! We'll miss you dreadfully and who's gonna find me somewhere to stay in NYC by making up flattering lies about me next time? I think we should all mail Lady P privately to demand her remaining here, let's not make the same mistake that Lou Carpenters friends in 'Neighbours' did. I think we all know how *that* turned out. Grrrrr. StayLuckyRoryxxx (Wearing the first of his virtual shiny silk boxers from M&S, only 364 to go!) Tigermilk out in may? Coooool! Can you make it May 4? 'cos thats my birthday! ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Paul's Special Day ! (NBSC)
by PJMiller 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

According to the Catholic calendar, today is Saint Paul's Day! If your name is Paul, you get a free sin! I suggest gluttony, to avoid any trouble with PC Plod in the Botanic Garden bogs. Off to the cake shop, Linda! Have a great day, Big Tackle! love from, the entire Sinister mailing list xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Look at ME, i'm special
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

>>matching B&S underwear for the sinister shop. On the front of the guys Y fronts could be a nicely drawn picture of a bus, and on the ladies undies, a Bus Garage could be emblazened on the front.<< Mandatory bitch session: I thoroughly oppose the concept of my nether regions being reduced to a parking space for you Boys' big(sic) shiny buses. there, i said it, i feel better now. simon says:>>n't the re-release of "Tigermilk" a pain in the arse ?? My copy's gonna plummet in value now. Maybe I should sell while I can.......nah, never. Umm.....anyone else think that remark is...well....vaguely EVIL??? tsk tsk, you money grubbers!! would you sell it anyway? didnt' think so. enjoy it. dont' wrap it in plastic and leave it in an airtight safe, all lonely until you'r 70 years old and decide to use the money to buy a shiny new walker. you feebs! unwrap it, and kiss it all over, and take baths with it, and use it to keep your arse warm on camping trips, and incorporate it into your sexual pleasures, only then will you fully appreciate the joy of your copy of tigermilk. actually i'm only jealous i can't do that, cos i don't have one. Well. i think we nearly all can rejoice, now that the plaintive yet sultry vocal stylings of one isobel will gracing an entire album. everyone should stock up on smelling salts, cos the swoon factor of the earth is bound to be doubled, at least. lads and lasses will be dropping like flies. and thanks to the luvverly david kitchen for pointing out to me, cos i needed to check out the jeepster site again, and that's how i found out! hooray, hooray, how excited i was. OH. i was wondering, would anyone like to ask a question to the All-knowing apple core, Corey. corey will answer any question and print them in my new Tiggerjammies zine issue. Corey you may remember, used to be a shiny apple, but now he/she/it is a half of a shriveled apple core, and sees and knows all wisdom. humor me here. just ask, "Dear Corey" for love advice, predictions, science wizzing, and the removal of minor household stains. guaranteed to be both totally insane, annd obsessively scary, especially to stuart murdoch. Corey is a special for commemorative issue on the DC adventures of jess and I, it would be empty without a wisdom-dispensing dehydrated apple core whose skin was polished by Stu. come to think of it, most publications suffer from the lack of the same. Spin, for example, is going down the drain even more quickly than i expected. someone in there said her album was disappointing. but they won't live to explain why...... poor misguided jessica, you can't mess around with stuart m, he isnt' even composed of flesh, we all know that he is made of pure light, and such as that. it wouldnt' be proper. cheers to lee for her winsome evocation of love woes for the er, reserved among us. a pain i know all too well and know some of you out there understand too..... and cheers to erica "not Graham" for being just generally cute in posting. just cos. I checked out ginger's photos, and though the day looked gray, i'm still insanely jealous! I'm hoping to acquire a 4-track and churn out some more poorly-created lo-fi musicks of my own. i'm sure it is what the world needs most, me going on and on in my boring voice, but i just ache to do it. i got a new guitar yesterday. my other one is a strat copy, i've had it for a number of years and liked it, but it always felt....dull to me. so heavy and sharp and unintuitive. i have always wanted a hollow-body gibson 335 cherry red type, with the violin sound holes on it and all that. so i found one that is in that style, in the local shop, for $100, i tried it out, and they fixed the little tone knob, and i took it home yesterday. it's rather like a scruffy little pup that no one wants, everyone takes a look at his mangy coat and bad form and thinks he'll die within the week, but when he looksa t you with those soulful sad eyes, you wrap him in your coat and you are in love by the time you get home. it's lacquer is all cracked from age, and it has so many scratches and dings and chips in it, and it looked dusty and dirty, and there are 2 little holes drilled in odd places on the body, i can't imagine what they are for. the metal plate on teh back says made in japan, and the brand Kimberly is something i can't find mentioned on any music info places. so a guitar person would probably tell me it is a piece of crap, but you just have to hear the sound of it! so beautiful. it feels so nice like my other one never has, like it's joined to my body. hah. you could make a bad joke there, but i'll resist. and its' so beautiful it has one of those tailpieces on it i think a tremelo bar is supposed to go there, but it didn't hav ea bar with it so i'm not sure, but it looks exactly like i always wanted, like pj harvey's old days cept hers had a black pick guard. hehe. i just spent forever looking at it from all angles and dusting it off and examining it, and playing it unplugged, i even named her Margaret because it was the first name i thought of and it was a necessary cliche to name my guitar. my car hasnt' got a name so i thought i should name some inanimante object of mine. anyway maybe i should just forget about finding a pretty girl, and stick to my guitar, it looks like this will be the closest i'll get to love this year. *sigh* I can't wait to play Dirty Dream on it, it has just the right sound for it. lala. that's a fun song to play, kiddies, nother fun one is Belle and sebastian. maybe i can serenade some lovely lassie on it, one starlight night. oops i went on too long again lesleyjo http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange No bachelor has ever experienced such desolate loneliness as does the spinster; for the bachelor is a man, and the older spinster but a male-like woman. --Dr. Joseph Tanenbaum, _The Riddle of Woman_, 1936 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". 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Sinister: just my spiel about songwriters
by James 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

goodness me its been a long time since I mailed anything to you lovely lot. as i remember it i got disillusioned because no-one ever spoke back to me. but i'm willing to forgive you. as you all seem to be on the subject of beautiful songwriters i thought i'd just drop a quick line to put a word in for Vic Chesnutt whose gorgeous weaving disjointed misanthropic southern drawls sent my psyche spinning off into fantastic new territories when I was fourteen and have been messing with my soul ever since. also to pledge my support for nick drake and will oldham (the bonnie prince reigns supreme). and to make sure you don't forget kurt wagner. i do like elliott smith - xo is good, especially waltz no 2 (or is it three, i forget) but i do think elliott fever is getting just a touch out of control. the lad's vocals sound better live - on the record's they're a little sugar-coated for my taste. i haven't heard much rufus wainwright yet but he has a beautiful voice. carole king has been giving me strength lately. and kristin hersh. (the girl's don't seem to be be getting much of a mention - oh god, if anyone starts on about bloody alanis morrissette or tori amos now i'll be sorry i said that.) are we talking about greatest living songwriters or do dead ones count too? if they do i have four words to leave you with - Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Berlin. i don't know whether i'm stretching the parameters of this list a bit, but some of these writers have been more than important to me. that's my lot. love from molly xxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Never trust a hen
by Claire M Timmins 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

Ivor Cutler 'I am nothing like a football match' sat. 23rd Jan 1999. Glasgow Royal concert hall. And boy was he right. For those who don't know this immensely talented, kinda bonkers man, he is an old schoolteacher who gave up the lessons, wrote mental poetry and songs, got friendly with John Peel and released albums. He is Scottish, about 70 years old and if you ever get the chance to see him perform then please do. As a little taster, here is the song Tomato Brain.. A man sits on the grass. He is on the grass. He is eating a cheese and tomato sandwich, His torso is the cheese, his legs are the bread and his brain is tomato. He tries to get up, but he can't cause his legs are bread. hahahhahhahhahhhaaaaaaa. I am actually laughing aloud. OK, so you had to be there and maybe I didn't get all the words right. But this guy may not be around for much longer, so while you can get his records, sing his songs, and never trust a hen. and I bet B&S like him. thank you for listening. Claire***** ---------------------------------- Claire Timmins Leverhulme Research Assistant, Department of English Language, 12 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S giglet
by Honey 25 Jan '99

25 Jan '99

Well sort of: the band, minus Stuart David, who probably has another niece's birthday party to go to, are backing Evie Sands at Hyndlands church in Glasgow (not the church hall) on Wednesday 3rd February at 7pm. Price 6 quid, it's non-profit and I think the money goes to the church or something. "Sources close to Stuart" (I quite liked saying that) tell me he's a huge fan of Evie's - she's a 60s singer, but ask Tag because he knows. The band won't be doing B&S songs I don't think, just backing Evie. If people don't know where the church is, I'm pretty sure there's full instructions on getting there in the archives, back when the band (minus Stuart David :) ) did the notorious Kumbaya gig there last year. If I can't make it, which is looking likely, will someone say hello for me to that nice lady who showed me where the toilets were last time? honey xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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