October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Introductions and all that nonsense
by MICHAEL LIVINGSTON 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

Hi all, At last I've been allowed out of the nursery and been let in with the big kids. I figured I might as well right to you all just to introduce myself and kill some time. Actually, mainly to kill time - I've got 3 assignments due on Monday and I can't do any of them so I need something to do to keep my mind off my problems. Well, I'm Michael Livingston from Brisbane Australia - unfortunately B+S have made very little impression on Brisbane's sunny shores as yet, very occasionally the local community radio station will play something off one of the albums, but that's as far as it goes. Sort of sums up Brisbane in some ways. Let me exlain. Last night Rebecca Gates (Spinanes) and Sam Prekop (the sea and cake) played in town. I think the Spinanes have been here once 3 or so years ago and as far as I know Sam Prekop hasn't made the trip here before so you would think that all the indie kids in Brissy would dust off their dancing shoes (or maybe just their normal shoes if they're a bit self-conscious) and head out to see some of America's finest. Alas, maybe 40 people turned up and can be split into the following categories: 10 - friends of the opening band who were locals 10 - people who had paid the money to come, but were quite content to sit around and chat the whole time. 20 - enthusiastic audience members. So that's a snapshot of Brisbane's enthusiasm towards slightly obscure bands (a category that B+S (see how I worked them back in to keep it all on topic) unfortunately fit into in Oz). Whoops, my first post to the list was a big whinge. I'm really much cheerier than that usually. Honest. While I'm here: A guy called Tim <tjl(a)dmu.ac.uk> mentioned: > Lucksmiths albums: I now have some, and they are very good. Don't think > anything else needs to be said about these. Although it was mentioned specifically that nothing else needed to be said I just wanted to add my parochial support to the Lucksmiths and confirm that they are indeed very good. Ah well, the feelings of guilt are overwhelming me so I'm going to get back into the fun that my statistics assignment has to offer. Mick +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: we used to go out on the summer nights and dance in the neon rain...
by blakee 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

love me love me like a cardigans song, well i have returned home for a few days to realize what it is that i'm missing away at school. i think i'm missing a lot--my sanity for one thing. school is so frustrating. we all convince ourselves that grades and courses matter when in ten years all i'll remember about university is how the food always tasted like shite. bollocks, i'll never be content. i was just watching loveline and they mentioned fetishes--i'm not sure this counts as a full blown fetish, but i have a thing with girls and spectacles. it drives me absolutely bonkers. especially if they're the big NHS distributed kind. then i forget my name. one of these days i won't be able to remember it. getting back to my confession, my dream is being swept off of my feet by a succulent girl in glasses. it's just a dream, mind you. i have that feeling that soon here i'm going to get swept off of my feet. does anyone else ever get that feeling? like things are all starting to happen at odd yet opportune times, like things are aligning to finally throw you a break? hopefully this time it won't break my nose when it hits me in my face. hooray for vinyl, as i'm completely rebuilding my WHO collection through it. that includes 80s WHO as well. is there a good online shop to buy lots and lots and lots of new/used vinyl? b&s would be ace with the crack and pop of the turntable. i'm in the process of trying to get a more up to date pic of myself on something somewhere, but don't hold your breath, not that there's anyone who is. oh, and i'm moving to london sometime soon. if i appear at your doorstep, soaked with rain, glasses foggy, suitcase soggy and eyelashes limp, would you turn me away? i would hope not. especially if you're a girl with spectacles. love blake xx the nerdy shy eyed pacifist +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: doo da doo da
by danielle redden 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

there is a girl sitting next to me wearing lots of fleece. and her cell phone just rang to the tune of "campdown(sp?) races". and i laughed, well it came out more like a snort. she wasnt pleased. girls around here are scarey. uni girls with lots of money. however, i only have a way with women every third day, or that's what they tell me. i'm just a girl, so i wouldnt know. i havent contributed to the list since the few days following the bowlie where all my time was spent on the computer avoiding my work and giggling all over the 'i saw you' board. that was sometime ago. i made a little promise to never write unless i read all the messages, but i've been a busy girl these days. and you kids just keep on writing. but i'm all caught up now. oh, go on, give me a gold star. it's been a blustery day and i was carried all the way from my doorstep, down 17th street, and right up to the train station by a big gust of wind. now i'll go home and make soup and watch the sut set by the river. i may even pull out the leg warmers. hmmmmm. good news: 1.hefner is playing a halloween show in philadelphia. i live there, so you can imagine my happiness. 2. daniel johnston is also in philly next week with a band(?). i really dont understand how the man can play on stage with other people, but i guess i'll find out. by the way i am in love with daniel johnston despite the fact he is a fat man with a lisp. one more thing.... lucy wrote... But surely it's preferable to "making love", which has a yuckfactor of Michael Boltonesque proportions. i say "making love" all the time and i hate michael bolton. it is a bit silly i guess. but 'having sex' just sounds off, 'fuck' sounds like rape, and if i was to say 'shag' in the states everyone would think i was trying to be austin powers.when i was in london a few weeks ago i was conversing a bit with some non-hearing kids about the differences between american sign language (which i know a little of) and english sign language (which i know nothing of). the sign for "sex" in ESL is poking your index finger of your left hand into a hole made by your right hand. in ASL the sign for "sex" is signing "i love you" with both hands and making a circular motion with your hands one on top of the other. (i hope you can all visualize this) i found this little cultural difference fascinating. oh course from my own experiences i have met very few american boys who 'make love', but i wont go on about that, since this e is already entirely too long. go make some love, danielle Whaat!!! Have you tried The Doghouse??! Get your FREE WEB-BASED EMAIL account at: http://doghousemail.lycos.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Funkyseb & the Cottage of doom
by Funkyseb 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

Honey wrote: >Everyone knows this is a Thai-based B&S list, and I was very surprised >to see the following news a bit ago: that the American sitcom "Joannie >Loves Chachi" was banned in Thailand, because Chachi means "penis". It was the title of an episode of Mork and Mindy. Apparently it was the idea of the very hairy Mr Robin Williams, who liked "slipping" "rude things" "in", and there's an episode with a "Mr Bollocks" in it that's never been shown in Britain. ABSOLUTELY TRUE, according to The Grauniad. So probably not really. Anyway, I thought I'd tell you about my strange experience today. Like many sad men, I use my penis solely for pissing. It's not fair, I know, but there we are. Anyway, I was wandering prettily through London's louche and fashionable Bromley by Bow, when I realised that my bladder was absolutely bursting. SO imagine my delight, as I saw the welcoming steps of a lovely old lavatory. I dashed across the road, knees straight, buttocks clenched, rushed down the steps and, with an ecstacy of fumbling, found my trouser sausage just in time. ROCK ON! It was only as the last drops of willy beer gurgled away down the drain that I noticed what I'd walked into. The air was smoky, the atmosphere close- all the lightbulbs removed, bar one. The room was tense with men, huddling away from the light like anti-moths. From one of the stalls came the sound of ernest moaning- two men finding their natural rhythm, intuitively responding to each others moves. I was confused- lost- but strangely transfixed. They reached an orgasmic climax, and then, it all went quiet. And then the saxophone solo kicked in. For twenty minutes. Freeform. I fought my way out, but the Gaulois laden air was like jam, or maybe treacle. Finally, I reached the door, and gulping in the daylight, I turned for one look back. The cubicle door opened. "Well I think that went quite well", said the first man, the spit of Jules Holland. "Aye, it did," said the other, his red haired friend. "Now can you move your boogie woogie piano, I'm trapped behind the cistern". I thought of my encounter for the rest of the day- a brief glimpse of a furtive, underground world. A world of roll necks, and horns. And Bongos. I also saw Stuart M rimming Whispering Bob Harris in a superloo in Spitalfields, but that's another long winded not very funny story. B&S swearing? Well I've got rather witty subtitle for Stuart David's book. It's "The (Diamond)Ring of Truth" Hahahahaha! Ring, like an arse. D'you see? Oh well, please yourselves. Great! P!O!P! thing that book. But it's rather sad, so don't read it if you cry easily. It's got a fox in it, mind, which almost makes up for the sad bits. Oh I'll piss off now. seb +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: and my favorite color is orange
by Cynthia Someone 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

hello all folks young or young at heart: everything here wonderful or not too dissappointing anyway. I'm in the mood for adventure or at least a ride on a bicycle. I don't have a bicycle but i certainly feel like I should be on one... something about the rhythm of my life; wind on face, a short-lived feeling of exhiliration, a short-lived feeling of sadness... and in general a sort of gladness to just be alive, even if it goes on unrecognized, pedal pedal. Even though I'm really sitting in an office, wondering if my plant needs watering. Nothing is going on in my life, just living. I feel like arranging a group of flowers. I feel like making a mobile of colored paper. buying a nicer pair of headphones going home. the new pair of headphones because I've noticed that the music that I like the most brings me to a different place in my many pictures of life, like looking through life through different prisms. and it makes me think of new things. and how can you do that with a lousy pair of headphones that makes me ignore the music? because whatever I make out of the music takes on the qualities of what I'm hearing, and if the music is crystal than the world I make up in my head is crystal, and if the song is full of hope than the world is full of hope, and if it's full of boy wonder (b&s) than the world is full of boy wonder. and if it sounds faded in my headphones, then I get nowhere, and i feel like i should be washing dishes or something. Does anyone in the california bay area know of the stanford radio (90.1)program That Pop Thing? it used to be on last year, and now it's on thursdays 6-9 am again now school's in, and today they put a song on called King of the Bongos and it made me pretty happy and a little bit silly. that show makes me happy. it's good to listen to, openminded, playing everything from jesus and mary chain to sleater kinney to the lilys... makes me want to hug him. byebye cynthia ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ontario meetup
by deb s 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

Oi, Maybe that is being a bit too broad, Toronto better? Sorry to *abuse* the list this way, but hardly anyone seems to read the meetups page. We've been asked to give plenty of notice for possible meetup dates, so out of towners can arrange to come in, if they are so inclined. I was speaking to Teri the other day about organising something in the absense of Songs for Children, and since we had planned awhile back to have an October meet. How does the weekend after the cancelled SfC sound? That's early November, past midterms and such. I believe it is the weekend of the 5or6or7th. Something like that? I've even got an old sinisterite transferring my b&s video tape so that it's acceptable for canadian viewers. That can be my lure. Anybody want to see ALL the b&s videos....come to our meet up...meet lots of lov-e-ly people. Don't be shy. Like I used to be. Anyhow. All we have now is a *possible* date but still no real plans. Picnics are out, so what is left? An old pub that has but two frequenters? I don't know. Mail me if you have suggestions, or are interested in coming along. cheers deb xxx ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: American in Glasgow
by MM_KULIK＠ACAD.FANDM.EDU 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

Hello everyone... i think i have probably posted maybe 3 times ever on the list but i have been receiving it for quite some time...therefore, nobody knows me, so i will introduce myself. my name is Moira and i'm from America (outside Philadelphia, incidentally), but i am in glasgow until christmas studying at the university of glasgow. this is the funny thing i have discovered...when i talk to people around here about music, when i mention belle & sebastian, they say something like, 'oh, yes, i've heard of them,' or 'i know one or two of their songs,' or, most surprisingly, 'who???' granted, none of the people i've asked have actually been from glasgow but they're all scottish (or sometimes english) and i would have thought they would be more familiar, but i know more americans who listen to them than scots, so far (of course, most of those americans are my friends who i've forced to listen to my b&s records and eventually converted into fans, with very little effort on my part...but it doesn't matter!). i find this all a bit strange. and when i went into fopp's yesterday they had only TBWTAS and tigermilk...no EPs, no sinister, just those two. i was very upset about this because i had intended to complete my collection by buying dog on wheels, but i will have to wait until i find a record shop or go back to america. i did pick up the divine comedy's 'fin de siecle' on sale for #7...they are having a huge sale on lots of quality items so if anyone is in the market for cheap records i would suggest stopping in and having a look. anyway...since none of my friends here can help me by alerting me to upcoming b&s-related events in glasgow, i would be most appreciative if you all would let me know when things are occurring because i would be most excited to attend...i always get very jealous, reading about picnics and club nights and things from my computer in the states and now i can actually join in, yay!!! so please keep the updates coming, and let me know of anything else in glasgow and the surrounding areas (i.e. the UK) that i may be interested to know. p.s. brandt, yes, you are absolutely right to feel the way you do about your mother's situation (sorry i can't quote the original message here...) -- i would feel the same way. but it's always a precarious situation to try and give advice to your parents about their personal lives, especially when they know you're right and they're wrong -- they don't like to hear that from their children. but every once in a while my parents ASK for my opinion and it is quite refreshing. THANK YOU one and all!!! this city is lovely and i don't want to leave in 9 weeks. xoxo moira ===== Moira Kulik Queen Margaret Hall 55 Bellshaugh Road Kirklee Glasgow G12 OSQ Scotland 0141.334.2192 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: It was a fix!
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

Hola. Didn't you just bloody know that we would get England in the Euro 2000 play-offs?.I mean granted if we qualify at their expense it'll be yay! and dancing in the streets,but what if THEY win?.(I'll reach for the razor-blades and end it all).On a more positive note,we could have a sinister Scotland/England thing...poetry and lyric reciting,singing and dancing rather than thugs jumping on each other's heads.Imagine. Steve S xx. I'm really rather excited. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A message for poor Dan Hooper
by Brandt Fundak 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

I was touched by Dan's message, but I think the reason he got into the situation to get the bruised heart was because there is really no way to accurately judge how someone is going to be *in person* by lengthy e--mails and phone calls. Too much of the context of living is divorced from those situations to accurately judge how perfect someone is going to be (and no one is perfect.) I think at times , especially among the #sinister folk, I have alienated them by saying how stupid internet long distance relationships are. Well, I have changed my stance. It can work, but only when the people meet initially and use the medium to communicate cheaply. Because then you knew what they were like in person before you went on your best guess as it were. I mean, I guess the other is possible too, but it's not as likely and is certainly not a situation I would get myself into. Hmmm. This message was to reassure Dan, but I have a feeling I have opened a can of worms. Sorry. Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Terminator Roolz speaks with his hands
by mctag＠bigfoot.com 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

Hello Little Ones, What a thrilling week it's been. I was overjoyed to read Nick's updates on the new found celebrity status of Sinister's answer to Garry Bushell, Stephen "Column Inches" Trousers. What a woolly bloody liberal you are, Trousers, talking to the Independent. Or did you just think that the Indie was a fanzine? Personally, I only give interviews to "Living Marxism", "Hustler" and "Country Life". It's the perfect balance. Oh, and Trousers....where's my sodding "Papercuts"? Aside from Poetic of Rotherhithe, I'm pleased to see quite a few other bids for stardom from our little group. We already know about Funky Seb interpreting Moby via the medium of dance, and are relishing Keef and Klur's reinvention as Mr and Mrs Stringfellow. But how many noticed the fragrant Miss Wumpkinny totally upstaging Kirtsy Young on last week's "Stars in their Eyes" Celebrity Final, with her "Britney Spears unplugged" routine? It really happened, apart from the Britney Spears bit. Talking of Britney, which I was and you all should be, I was late for work this morning, so engrossed was I by Zoe Ball's interview with the Thinking Man's Isobel Campbell herself. She said very flattering things about boys with ginger hair, so I reckon she fancies me. The Britney-Wump connection continued when Ms Spears revealed that her birthday is just one day after my live-in lover's, so I think we should have a great big party in their honour. Oh yes, the Ambrosia ad. Is that Tim Hopkins riding a moo-cow from London to his native Devon? And is that Andy Dean and Steady Mike disguised as the Village People in the background? And do Tim's fellow Devonians, Adrian Evans and Piezo Erotic Unit, really "like it with their oats on top"? I think they do. I am now the proud owner of my very own Pissing Boy, courtesy of Madame Oon and her exotic palace of soul. Thank you very much, Madame Oon, bathtime is even more fun than usual, even though Pissing Boy's, shall we say,"Yul Bryner" is giving me an inferiority complex. Can someone explain to me why that Maria Carey video features an old lady sitting on the toilet with her panteloonies round her ankles? It's good to see "Gregory's Two Girls" getting good reviews. I was a Doubting Tag when I first heard about it, but now I'm full of hope that this could be a "Stolen Kisses" to "Gregory's Girl"'s "Les quatre cents coups". Apparently, only two of the original cast are in the new one. One is obviously Gregory, so if there is a god, please please please let the other one be Phil Menzies. At this week's meeting of the South Manchester Sinisterines DIY Society, Warrander John and myself decided that we would happily kill for a copy of the "Gregory's Girl" endearingly Eighties soundtrack. So if you have such a copy, send it to me this instant or you die. That's your lot. Just be grateful I speak to you at all. Love tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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