January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

re: Sinister: pleased to meet ya
by Brandt S. Fundak 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:01:48 -0500 From: patchwurk7(a)juno.com Subject: re: Sinister: pleased to meet ya tricia wrote >i'm a film major from temple university. ya know what that means, don't >ya? yes, it means i was one of the poor belle and sebastian fans left >teary eyed after the group had to canced its philadelphia show. i still >don't think i've made a full recovery. ah, u too eh? well there was quite a few people there. i am a student at messiah near harrisburg and went out to philly for the show. how surprising that was... i am still hoping and waiting for the next chance, as are all the others here that were with me - -chris Hey at least both of you live in or near a city that Belle and Sebastian felt was privileged enough to actually play in. I guess even if the metropolis near you has over 1000000 people in the area, it still isn't worth playing there. Yes, i am bitter. And yes, I am back. And no, I am not Stan. I wouldn't use a hotmail account if you paid me. Brandt "So, how many people in this room have you dated?" --Squib +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: doozers
by Seamus Harte 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

hiya listees, im still experimenting with openings I remember Fraggle Rock, do yous remember the doozers the wee green guys with yellow hardhats who use to build everything , and sometimes the fraagle used to knock stuff down , god this was a very long time ago I think, although im not such that the fraagles used sometimes eat the doozers , or is that some weird nightmare scenario im thinking of i remember the dog , did he talk, he used to be forever chasing the fraggles and there was some old guy as well sorry about maybe i should get on to a fraggles mailing list ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 am a sensitive outsider.....and I want the whole world to know."
by Gary Done 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Hello oh list of sinister type proportions... I have something to take issue with and it was written by one Dan McKinney.... >First I should probably introduce myself. My name is Dan and I'm a >college student in upstate New York. I work as a DJ for my college >radio station and am an avid fan of most Britpop, particularly B&S, >Radiohead, Gorky's, Roses, Smiths, James, et al... I dare say there's a few people in/on here who disagree that B&S are Brit Pop, but lumping Gorkys in with the worst movement in British popular music since Benjamin Britain Pop is bordering on death penalty material. Gorkys are of the Welsh Pop variety if anything and damn fine they are. Much better than any of that Britpop rubbish. Oh and check out Topper as well cos they are pop as pop can be and bloody good at it. Lesley Jo, who is almost a B&S song title wrote.. >eek!! fluffysarah, how come it that you were confused with the adorable >doll-like personage of one sarah martin?? oops. now where did that idea >come into your head jessica?? teehee. I for one, though, can't wait for >hte day i can match fluffysarah with her image. i would say how i imagine >her but that might be bizarre and is probably totally off base. You didn't hear it from me, but think Homer Simpsons sister in laws. 87) Noooo, Fluffy is a vision of shimmering beauty, with absolutely no biased opinion on my part involved. I have some snaps of her royal fluffiness which need to be developed, so maybe if she likes them, you'll all get to see her. Dave the Jygsaw bloke wrote.... << fraggle rock was a kids show by jim henson that i, i don't know about the rest of you, watched when i was tiny. it was probably on in the early 80's and mokey was one of the girl creatures who lived in the ground in fraggle rock. the creatures were fraggles and mokey was the shy intellegnt one who knitted. there was also red, gobo,wimbly and others but i don' remember their names. i'm not the only person that thinks so, my mom does too! so i know i'm not crazy. >> >was there not a dog who scared the fraggles? My friend Tim's girlfriend looks >like a fraggle. Well, the hair is similar. You are correct sir. Can't remember it's name though, but it was the lighthouse keepers dog. I know a fraggle rock rhyme thingy... "Down at Fraggle Rock, catch a fraggle by it's cock, swing it round your head, until the bastards dead". It's to the Fraggle Rock theme tune. That's all from me, I'm going to disappear back into my cupboard for a few more months now, bye Gary +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Mick McMick
by Julian Bester 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Does everybody else call Mick McMick "Prick McMick" when they're slagging him off behind his back? ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Chatter
by Arthur Chan 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Hello everyone:) I found this web service/site called ICQ (short for "I seek you") and I think it would be really cool for all of us Sinistereens. What ICQ does is it lets you chat with the people you e-mail. Basically, if e-mail is equivelent to "snail mail", then ICQ is like being on the telephone! Example: If you set up ICQ on your computer (and it's really easy to do), and a friend of yours did the same, then whenever you wanted to chat with your friend, you would just send a message and if he/she is there, they will see a little flashing icon and would open it to respond and a "chat dialogue" box would open up on both of your screens and whala! The neat thing is that you can have multiple people in the same coversation at once:) This way, we could all talk in real time. If anyone is interested, go to www.icq.com and go to download the setup and just follow the instructions. If anyone has any questions, just write me back:) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Crush the Flowers
by Mick McMick * Sandcastle Records 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Well, it's another day in Sinisterland... Things certainly have been *active* the past few days. I got several shows in the mail the past 4 days, in fact, one a day if you average it out. So far the crown jewel of them all has to be Boston. There's a very well-preserved version of Lord Anthony on it, too bad I don't think it's any better than any of the other songs on the tape. I am pleased that "Wrong Love" was played at the show, though. It seems that no one ever mentions B&S to people who wear their shirts. My friend Matt complimented me on it just the other day, but I'm not entirely sure he's heard them, I think he just genuinely liked the Stuy-at-Stow stylings. See, I wear my Smiths shirt and bam, a waitress compliments me on it. But B&S? No... "Selling a lot of them," indeed. And badges, did I mention I wear my badge every day I wear my coat? Then again, no one has come up to me and said "Oh I love #Poundsign#!" so maybe badges aren't as attracting as shirts. Speaking of which... Dave said: > I don't wear ill-fitting baggyass pants, nor do I > like the hideous funk-metal that all the 'cool' people like. And I > read more than I watch TV. I also think and draw.. how unhip! someone > tune this boy into the fab world of American Culture! isn't he a > foaming anarchist pop-punk? Does he not hate his parents and > everything else? Why won't he buy $25 shirts that tell everyone he > likes a band enough to pay them to wear their advertisments? Um, actually I don't think people usually buy band shirts to advertise the band, I personally buy mine so that maybe someone in this town has a similar music taste, and if they do I'd like to meet them, so maybe they'll say hi. People who *used* to live here are on this list, but Athens, Ohio is not a hotbed of Belle & Sebastian-ism, at least not that I'm aware of. Anyway, I believe what you're thinking of here is Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, etc. shirts, which are essentially advertisements. Ailsa Ross had some lovely arguments, didn't she? I think so, anyway. I used to try and argue about music being subjective, but it sounds as if people didn't like that, when I did. I suppose people like thinking what they listen to is "better," and it makes them feel good about themselves. And yes, they said it couldn't be done, but yes, "Sensitive Stan" and "Tami Popsickle" have broken the world's most boring post record, previously held by...oh look, a cardinal... Anyway, this is proof that if you're going to make up an imaginary listee, it doesn't make up for not being funny. Let this be a lesson to you all. Thank you, and good night. /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick/Sandcastle Records <<->> bp224996(a)ohiou.edu \ / Sandcastle Records Homepage: ICQ#5056758 | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | -Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Black Prince
by Stanley,L 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

I stand corrected. Sorry - I'll do my research better next time. (Say, we've been doing time-travel in philosophy and the consensus is it's logically possible. So why don't we get a packet of "Immodium" and transport it back to the 1300s?!?!?!?!?!!) Louise l.stanley(a)lse.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fraggle Rock and someone who was asking after MLS stuff
by Stanley,L 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Hmm... yes, I remember the dog in Fraggle Rock too, there was some song or other where I always think they're singing about Fraggles (much better than other Jim Henson stuff, I used to be very jealous of Red because she was so cool - bear in mind that I was about 7 when it was on and I was the gawkiest kid in school for much of the 80s) but I can't remember it. I think I read somewhere that someone was asking after My Life Story stuff. Today I am wearing a black blazer I bought about 2 1/2 years ago which has a whole heap of badges in the pocket, including most (if not all) those that "Sex and Violins" - the MLS fan club/newsletter - sent me with news of every new single. I'm sure there's Strumpet, but the last ones I got were in 1997 with the release of "Duchess" (which doesn't seem so long ago), and I lost touch with S&V so I would be grateful if anyone could tell me if MLS have done anything since then. I know they released Mornington Crescent about a year ago but I have a tape of said album (it was last year's "Tigermilk") and the extra tracks I mostly had taped off mates....I hope Jake hasn't hung up his spangly boots. I had a very Belle and Sebastian experience last night: "We went out to a discussion last night and I heard of a lot of old friends that I'd not been in touch with. This guy Alan was dishing the dirt on some of them, revealing who was gay and who was bisexual; and the one who was bi was someone I fancied very much. But it didn't faze me, because it made him more attractive in my eyes. We went into a bar for a drink and had a long, meaningful discussion on the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity and my ongoing battle to open the minds of some evangelicals at college while still respecting their rights to think like that, as I want them to respect my views. The guy I was talking to knew someone in a powerful position, so I asked him to get me in touch; someone asked for a job with him as well, but Daniel told them that he only employed his own friends. Daniel took the rip out of him, camping him up, but I had to call time at ten o'clock. I went home listening to David Bowie and thinking of my lust object; falling back into Sartre's "Nausea" when my batteries ran out. I went home and made a compilation tape, encapsulating the highs and lows of the past four months, and went to bed, safe in the knowledge that my love was just that. I woke at 4.30 am after a nightmare about Martin Clunes and the House of Lords and couldn't sleep. I realised that I hadn't had anything to eat, and it was too early to go and get some chocolate. So I finished my tape and left my room in the same squalor it was in last night, and headed out in the cold and grime of London, on the way stopping for a huge fry-up and a read of an American comic book - sick to the stomach because of my prolonged fast. This meant I was early for my Government class, but I took a hike through a park and across Lincoln's Inn Fields before lurching into class. And that's how I got here." OK, so it's not as good as something B&S write - how about the "Ballad of Tindersticks"?!?!?!?! (Off their excellent LP "Curtains": my father quipped that it made "Leonard Cohen sound cheerful".....) Louise Stanley l.stanley(a)lse.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Tape tree type thing
by Holgate, Michael T. 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

I'd be able to copy CD's for the tape tree. I don't own the black sessions or any other unofficial B&S stuff, but if anyone wants to send them to me I will happily copy them. My postal address is 155 Gairn Terrace Aberdeen Scotland AB10 6AX. Cheers, Michael. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Listeria
by Michael Jones 29 Jan '99

29 Jan '99

Dear Lovelies, Ooh, it's been ages since I wrote to you lot. Chiefly because I couldn't think of anything to say. Thankfully, this doesn't appear to be a prerequisite for posting thesedays, so I'll just press on. Or 'Send', rather. I'm joking of course. Or am I ? Without wishing to fall head first into the murky pond that is Discussing Sinister On Sinister, I would like to alert any UK listees who've recently been tempted to subscribe to OnDigital (by their consistently amusing and clever ad campaign, no doubt) to a new Premium Channel which begins broadcasting on Monday. It's called Sinister Gold and features a series of lively constructions of Old List Debates performed by professional actors and introduced by Tariq Ali. I've had a sneak preview; the exchange between a woman who was once Third Helicopter Crash Victim (DOA) in 'Casualty' and a chap whose chief claim to fame was Abusive Moustachioed Barman in 'Soldier, Soldier' on the nature of Sixteen-ness is particularly affecting. Comic relief is provided in the form of animated interludes - witness Cartoon Leonard Rossiter and Cartoon Tony Hancock discussing Yabby You. It's worth a look, though, for �15.99 a month, I was kinda expecting Antoine De Caunes and Jeremy Clarkson to be slugging it out. (Btw, if any grammar scholars out there would like to suggest a shorter and more readable opening sentence to the above paragraph, perhaps they can mail me privately and I can ignore them in my own time). Is 1999 the International Year of the List ? Tom Cox suggests as much in today's Guardian, so it must be true. Now, lists are, of course, the refuge of the scoundrel (or is that badger-baiting ?); I only peppered Sinister with Top 10s last summer to Make A Point about how appalling and loathsome they are. Of course I did. However, in Tom's piece in the Friday Review section he's made a laudable attempt to compile an 'alternative' Top 100 Albums chart. He's polled a selection of Pop luminaries (including our own B&S) for their favourites, but has prohibited voting for any of around 80 yawnsome acknowledged 'classics' ('What's Goin' On', 'Pet Sounds', 'Sgt. Pepper', etc). The results ? Well, Sinister Darling Nick Drake cleans up basically - 'Bryter Layter' is #1, 'Five Leaves Left' is #5. Elsewhere the likes of Jane Siberry, My Bloody Valentine, Laura Nyro, The Millenium and even bloody AR Kane (check out the Simon Reynolds ding-dong on Sinister Gold, kids) pop up. Now, a list is still a list and, as such, should be reviled and shunned by all good Pop folk but what *might* be interesting is if this process was repeated a number of times. The same (or different, sexier) people are polled but this time they can't name any of the 'alternative' Hot 100 either; and then they're polled again - excluding the list entries they came up with last time. And so on, until eventually all you're left with is 'Hot August Nights II', a bunch of Happy Hardcore and The Fire Engines. It's a thought. Not a very good one, mind. Enough yammering already. Mike. _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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