January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

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by Martin Horsfield 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

After a full and frank Christmas and New Year, Matinee Mart is back in this parish. Belle and Sebastian undoubtedly a success, Salako AA side marvellous, new Matinee demos fruitful, club and fanzine projects well under way, AC/DC and Them albums totally smart, £2.99 Best of The Box Top (sic) even better, latest freelance job promising (well ace, really), semi-secret acoustic gigs underway, Jeepster's 'Search For A Star' contest on. Good luck to one and all of us in the new year. ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: belle & sebastian childstory!
by Rebecka popgal 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

hey belle fans out there.. happy new year i wish you all.. I'm just back after a nice and cozy holiday with my boyfriend..and what do we find in his parents video drawer..yes..you guessed right .. The belle &sebastian story on video...cartooned very sweetly..it was pretty nice..but a small minus is that the language is translated into swedish it would be better in french i recon..it was sweet.. I did not know earlier that belle was a dog..sweet again.. so I guess you guys can envy me bigtime now then..:) teehee.. hugs &kisses Becka # go and have a peek at my page it's constantly developing, http://www.angelfire.com/me/Mizzy # ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: suck it up/jessica's new year's escapades
by jessica 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

happy new year, sinisterines! this message is rather dull (not a good path to start on in a new year) unless you're interested in some new year's smut, in which case, read on. actually, it may be dull anyways, but not as dull as "stealing beauty". yeccch. does liv tyler not have the most distracting lips? i went to a friend's party on new year's eve...his name is craig, we've known each other for ages. we sat around and drank a beer each before other people started coming. i'm the cheapest date ever, probably because i'm kind of small, so i was feeling wobbly after that one beer. so people came that i hadn't seen in a while, all the good looking guys brought their girlfriends (foo) and people brought champagne and snacks and more beer and craig had a bottle of jamieson's irish whisky that is absolutely brutal...but i'm getting ahead of myself. actually, i'm probably not because the only stuff of note that happened was that we were all dancing in our drunkenness to craig's 6 hour tape that he put together for the party, he recorded music onto a vhs tape so there would be no flipping or anything. it was neat. but over the course of the evening/night, i had 2 beers, a glass of champagne, and i think 4 shots of that vile whisky. oh, and some pot. so the last people were trickling out at about 3:30am, and in my drunken state i was under the impression that i would somehow be able to get home with the subways not running. but craig had already said that i could stay over if necessary, which is fine because he's a nice guy and non-threatening. so i lay down on the couch that was in the kitchen to sober up a little and rest my dancing legs, and all of a sudden the room was spinning and my head was all big and i was way too hot. so i took off my socks and my glasses, and then all the people had left (and i had received a drunken semi-kiss from a friend) and craig came in and started rubbing my feet, which was nice and relaxing and took my mind off the fact that i was floating quite speedily around the room. i complained that the couch was too hard, so he got me a pillow. i moved to let him put it under my head and all of a sudden i totally felt like i was going to throw up. and craig was so nice about it (he was also drunk, mind you, but not as much as i was), he tried to help me up the stairs to the bathroom but there was no way i was going up any stairs, so i just stopped at the sink and leaned over there and pressed my forehead against the cold metal of the basin and bit my lip and prayed that i wouldn't throw up. craig was standing right behind me, rubbing my back and asking if i was okay. well, i didn't throw up, we were standing there for i don't know how long, me on the verge of passing out (and perhaps actually doing it - i'm not really sure) and craig rubbing my back which turned into craig rubbing my belly which turned into craig rubbing my breasts. to spare you the gory details, the night ended at 5am with us making out, and craig carrying me into bed and giving me his shirt to wear. i woke up this morning at 11am with one lovely groggy feeling which turned into a hangover at about 12:30pm, after i had a shower and was sitting in the kichen amid strewn clothes eating nachos for breakfast. i got home at 1:30 and mostly disguised my pathetically hungover self from my mother, who attributed my grumpiness to lack of sleep. i'm a bit disappointed that craig does not share my love of b+s, i was talking about them and he said "i heard one of their songs...how can you like them, they're just awful! they're like simon and garfunkel." oooh, and i'm reading the whole of the graham greene book about the captain (i think it's called the captain and something or other, i'm darn cold and a bit too lazy to remember the whole thing) rather than just skimming it as i did last time, it's so nice and mellow. even the more urgent parts are relaxed and not hyper at all. does anyone know where i could find the violin or piano music for the rachel's band? truly, jessicaxo in my cd player: takako minekawa "cloudy cloud calculator" in my pants: nobody (ha!) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Name Droppings
by Brier Random 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

I've been trying to compile a definitive list of all the names B&S have dropped in song. Besides their own. If I've forgotten any (like from the unreleased stuff which I'm not as familiar with), let me know. Rip van Winkle is the only fictional one. And Elvis is questionable because they MIGHT not be referring to Mr. Presley (although I know that they ARE). (Bob) Dylan Paula Wilcox Sid James Seymour Stein Johnny (Marr) Rip van Winkle George the 3rd (Jack) Kerouac Elvis (Presley)? Doestoevski Mark Twain (Her Majesty the) Queen And OH, content on celebrity spottings: I was promenadeing on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica last night, and Alanis Morrisette was shopping at Urban Outfitters at the same time I was. Not that I'm a fan, or that anyone else here is (ahem, ur...) but it was cool anyway. No one noticed her, she looked so plain. And she's really short. She kept looking at me (or so my friends said; I wasn't looking at HER) and then we left the store and she was standing outside and I took a picture of my girlfriend so I could get Alanis in the background. Are you afraid for me? Who was Cana? Besides the start of something Big? Another true story: My cousin Melanie has a boyfriend named Sebastian. I call them Mel & Sebastian. Totally fucking true story. Is the book "Belle & Sebastien" hard to find? Anyone have it? I hope all that unsubbed for the holidays are back and happy and posting again. Love to all. Brier +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Hogmanay hoots
by Mctaggart, Robert 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

Listers, Well, I trust you had yourselves a merry little Christmas, and that Santa emptied his sack and filled your stockings. And that you didn't turn up riotously drunk at someone else's flat at Hogmanay and force people to listen to David Bowie "making a funny noise", then hurl abuse at the List President down the phone. Now I come to think about it, someone on this list did exactly that. I'll mention no names, certainly if I was to say "Chris" and "Leonard", I'd already have said too much. I haven't made any new year's resolutions because I'm perfect. Why do I have to work today? It's crap. Wumpkinny is poorly sick at home and I really should be demonstarting my bedside manner. Still, the two of us have had a smashing time, she got to meet her in-laws, my mother accused us of laughing at someone's "nether regions" and then rambled incoherently at the dog. We also had a stream of Sinister visitors - not just fellow Chorlton residents JJJ, Princess Rachel and Warrander John (who makes a fine cheesecake), but also Andrew Dean and Beth (formerly of this parish), which was nice. And we went to the Po Caf shindig, where Trousers roasted his chestnuts on an open fire, Tim H!O!P!kins announced that he was a "chocolate consultant", whatever that means, and I met Vicki and Funkiseb and Kevan for the first time. Northy didn't show up, perhaps he's been reading the archives. I notice that Trousers has been slow to blow his own trumpet (though Christ knows he's tried, he says it's the extra rib that gets in the way), and plug the Sinisterzine which was available that night. It's called "Papercuts" and various listees write stuff in it, so I think you should inundate Trews with requests for it. It's got Belle and Sebastian in it, sort of, if that helps. And Keith writes about how Television make him think of summer days and bicycle rides with girls in flowery dresses. Or words to that effect. We went to Loch Lomond on New Year's day and then went back to Glasgow cos it was cold and I had a headache....I read some of the Duke's book. It's got big words in it, but I think the butler did it....Mrs Murdoch, you are my list crush....Does Sarah Martin know, I wonder, that she was only thirty seconds away from seeing me naked? But that's another story. I think that just about covers everything. Love tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: In defense of Pastelism
by DavidJ2502＠aol.com 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

Hello. This is my first posting, so please be nice. I've just read the new Melody Maker readers poll results. Not one mention of B&S anywhere! I was shocked and apalled and shocked again. This is usually the bit where everyone goes "awards dont matter anyway" and for the first time in a while I'm in agreement. Voting Cerys Matthews sexiest woman is such an injustice it hurts. I suggest before next year's poll we should round up anyone wearing a Manics t-shirt and lock them in a cellar (present company excepted) then set things straight. Maybe. Anyway, to change the subject a bit, it seems that everyone has sprung to the defense of Tindersticks (remember that? cast your minds back...) but no-one has said anything nice about The Pastels, so here I go... ahem. Evan Katz wrote: >I agree with whoever said they all sounded the same and weren't anything special. How can anyone say that The Pastels' songs all sound the same? I will admit that there isn't a great deal of difference in their songs, but if it aint broke... The Pastels have made some of the most downright fantastic music of the last 10 years. They have been one of the most influential bands of the 80s and 90s (where would B&S be without them?) and have set the tone for much of the "indie" music that we know and love. I suggest that anyone wanting a good introduction to The Pastels should buy "Mobile Safari" and "Truckload of Trouble" (the singles & other stuff compilation) at the same time. Start with "Yoga". As for the remix album, whatever next? Perhaps we will have multi-format CD singles, albums produced by William Orbit, the long awaited collaboration with Robbie Williams, maybe even a single in the charts. You may scoff at their bid to "make it big" but Aggi will have the last laugh when she is sitting beside a pool in LA with Phil Collins as Todd Terry remixes the B-Side of the new single "Oh Baby (yo' Sweaty Body '99)." Mark my words. David J. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Waddingtons
by Adrian Evans 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

Following the theme of Belle and Sebastian board games, I firmly believe it was Ms Campbell in the recording studio with the recorder and not Admiral Leonard in the bathroom with the bog-brush as may have previously been suggested. New Years Resolutions ? * Get rid of the pot-belly. * Unsubscribe from Sinister * Be generally nicer to people. My New Years Resolutions ? * Get Fatter * Stay inebriated all year * Receive more hate mail. Happy Mahogany. Yours Captain Waddington. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Questions... always questions...
by Jeanette 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

Howdy, friends. This is your new Texas correspondent, checking in for the first time. I'm new to Belle & Sebastian, but fell in love with the very first song I heard. I haven't fallen so hard for a band in quite awhile! I have a couple of questions: Is anyone out there over, say, 25? Sounds like most of y'all are high school/college age (I certainly mean no disrespect in asking... just curious if there are any other old geezer B&S fans ... other than Paul). Trust me, after you hit 30, it's hard to find people who listen to new music. Most of my friends are stuck in the 80s. (Please be careful: Most people never get past the music they listened to in high school/college and stay with that for the rest of their lives... Don't fall into that trap! Keep your minds open and keep exploring the possibilities!) .... Sorry, didn't mean to start preaching right off. Please forgive. Anyway, one more question: I'm traveling to Ireland later this month, and would love to know of some cool live music venues. I'll be in Dublin for a couple of days, but mostly in the North (Derry, Belfast). Any sweet Irish B&S fans who could take the time to make a few suggestions for me? Happy New Year to all! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: What am i like!
by John Johnston 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

Sorry list - god how long have i been on here yet when I come to resub after the holidays I send it to the list not the majordomo. I can assure I have put on my roughest undergarments as a penance. Sorry. Joyeux new year to you all and I promise that I will finish the orange/purple/silver/month poem (aka Charlotte Hall's competition) webpage soon for everyone's delectation and edification. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: re: peel's festive 50
by andrew dean 04 Jan '99

04 Jan '99

this is kinda off topic, for which i apologise. anyway, johnfm mentioned Peel's festive fifty so i thought i'd post the rest of it... 50. PJ Harvey - 'Is This Desire' 49. The Fall (Session) - 'Shake Off' 48. Autechre - 'Fold 4 Wrap 5' 47. Ten Benson - 'Evil Heat' 46. Sportique - 'Kids Are Solid Gold' 45. Soda Stream - 'Turnstyle' 44. Rooney - 'Went To Town' 43. Hefner - 'Pull Yourself Together' 42. Derrero - 'Radar Intruder' 41. Boards Of Canada - 'Roygbiv' 40. 60ft Dolls - 'Alison's Room' 39. Quickspace (Session) - 'If I Were A Carpenter' 38. Delgados - 'The Actress' 37. Melt Banana - 'Stimulus For Revolting Virus' 36. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Hush The Warmth' 35. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Sweet Johnny' 34. Elbow - 'Powder Blue' 33. Male Nurse - 'My Own Private Patrick Swayze' 32. Freed Unit - 'Widdershins' 31. Billy Bragg - 'Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key' 30. Super Furry Animals - 'Ice Hockey Hair' 29. Fatboy Slim - 'Rockafeller Skank' 28. Clinic - 'Monkey On Your Back' 27. Belle & Sebastian - 'Sleep The Clock Around' 26. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Turn A Blind Eye' 25. Melys - 'Lemming' 24. Solex Session - 'One Louder' 23. Spiritualized - 'Oh Happy Day' 22. Massive Attack - 'Teardrop' 21. Evolution - 'Copyright Violation For The Nation' 20. Solex - 'All Lickety Split' 19. Boards Of Canada - 'Aquarius' 18. L^�Augmentation - 'Soleil' but that's where it stops (according to the radio 1 web site anyway. they also had some very obvious errors in there (male burse anyone?) so...). i do (did?) have a recording of most of the rest of it and can tell you that 'The Boy With The Arab Strap' was at number 3 (behind mogwai and the delgadoes). i'll post the rest of it when either myself or the radio 1 web page guy has transcribed it... ('widdershins' btw john, is old english for 'anti-clockwise') andy um, strange christmas. it was bookended by trips to heathrow, the latter being more successful than the former (when the girlfriend i was surprising arrived 40 minutes earlier than expected and had already left for guildford with some burly police officer). spent most of the rest of it (seemingly) on trains to manchester (staying with two of the nicest people alive, one of whom ended up with my secret santa present that i took to the Sinister Social the night before. what are the chances?), birmingham, ashchurch (for tewkesbury), hemel, brighton and london and in a graveyard lopping the heads off various members of the undead... back to work today to find they've put the price of coffee up by 50% in the machines and that part of beth's christmas present had finally arrived hours after seeing her onto her plane. looks like she won't get to find out who eventually volunteers to help madame cholet pick blackberries until next christmas... == andrew dean (koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com) _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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