October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: We�re the knights who say NI ! NI NI NI NI NI NI.......
by Jordi Trenzano i Vilar 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

And also Aidan Moffat is. Maybe. The last issue of the spanish magazine Rock de Lux features an interview with Aidan Moffat, and shows some interesting parts. I donŽt have the magazine here with me, but I think that it goes this way: The interview is coming to itŽs end. And I havenŽt asked about Belle and Sebastian. "You shouldnŽt", says Aidan. B&S and Arab Strap are from the same region, and various members of B&S have collaborated on Arab StrapŽs albums. But in fact, B&S latest album, "the boy with the arab strap", contains what seems a clear attack to Aidan "YouŽre constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks". "The only think that I can say is that the drummer is a nice guy". Laughs. Well, IŽm willing to know if anyone can tell me how can we have this situation a year after half B&S played on "Philophobia". It doesnŽt look really good. IŽm going out for the next three days. IŽm really excited about it, but I wonŽt be able to check my mails. ================================================== Jordiet Sinistre - jordi(a)belleandsebastian.org (for personal answers use this adress) ================================================== Tu E-Mail Gratis en http://www.mixmail.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: Flatlands, U.S.A.
by Catspaw1＠aol.com 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

Talk of pubs and city streets gets me down, as I have to climb in my car and drive twenty minutes to find both together at the same time (they exist on select corners in downtown KC). It's the kind of thing I do on rainy, overcast evenings, shoving just that particular B&S CD into the stereo, punching up just that particular track that works just so on rainy evenings (works best with Brilliant Career and perhaps The State I Am In, although you never know). B&S is mood music of the highest order, and that's my passion. A rainy night means Nick Drake, Van Morrison (Astral Weeks, natch), Miles Davis, Richard Davies, Jeff (or Tim) Buckley, Sinatra, whatever ... and some nugget from B&S. So I've sprained my ankle playing basketball, can't seem to get my brains together enough to write some things that must be written, and I have friends crashing this weekend, traveling to a football game and raising havoc at a dandy bar (once a gay haunt, but sadly no longer) called the Peanut. So I'm scanning the darkening skies for signs of rain, Sinister sounds clutched to my breast. B Clay type your pet's name into your browser and see what happens. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i don't love anyone
by kerry 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

so i rediscovered my favorite form of escapism today: hiding behind my eyeglasses. see, i didn't wear my glasses much for the past few weeks because i didn't like them very much. they weren't very interesting or even very flattering, and they were too tight to wear all the time. sure, they didn't fall off my face when i read, which was nice, but too much and they hurt. anyway, yesterday i went shopping with the oh-so-sexy miss teri zuckerman (poor thing is suffering from an upper respiratory viral infection, so everyone hope for her better health) and we went to target (swanky, i know). anyway, i found a pair of cute little tortoise shell frames that i liked an awful lot for under $100 at the appropriately-named target optical center. so today i come back from an unsucessful lab trying to do time-lapse videography of exodermal cells detaching from sea urchin embryos as a result of degradation of the hyeline layer by hyeline extraction medium. anyway, to make a long story short nothing happened. so i was disappointed and hungry and went home. when i got home i found a joyeous message on my answering machine from the fabulous folks at target telling me my new glasses were ready. so i grabbed my friend steve (who was looking for a toy for a lady-friend) we jumped in his car and drove to target where i got my new glasses. the point of this whole story is that since i put them on some 7 hours ago i remembered how easy it is to distance myself from the rest of the world simply by adding a layer of plastic lenses. everything looks a little more crisp and a little less 3-dimensional, and things tend to warp at the corners, and it seems like i'm watching my life on television, like it's not really happening. i first discovered this at the end of this past summer when jon and i were breaking up. i went for several weeks only taking my glasses off to sleep, even if i didn't need them and my head hurt and my eyes were tired. i didn't want to deal with the outside world, so i hid behind them. and since jon and i got in a fight the other day about our stupid relationship (which i've given up on, btw), these glasses provide such pleasant respite from the real world. *sigh* and the only song i can listen to without feeling depressed is "i don't love anyone," even though it's not really true. oh, and i'm awful sad that i've never been voted list crush, not even been suggested for the list of folks to vote for. :( so if any of you are harboring secret crushes on me, please let it be known and suggest my name or something, because i've been on this list for like a year and a half and nobody's voted for me. there's pictures of me on the sinsiter site, even. i'm not *that* funny-looking, am i? i'll stop whining now. -kerry "if acquired characteristics can not be passed on . . . man lives and suffers in vain. whatever he might have acquired in the course of a lifetime dies with him." -paul kannmerer -- in defence of lamarck +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: for all gybe! fans with cd burners...
by B.E. Hamilton 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

well, the subject line says it all... i have a really simply request. ok i have over an hour of new, that's right, new godspeed you black emperor mp3s (ugh) and i think it'd be dandy to have them on a cd. but i have no cd burner, and i have no tape player in my car, so it'd be kinda worthless, so if anyone has a cd burner and would like to do me the biggest favor ever (and if you have icq or aol IM so you can get these files) and make a cd, as in just putting tracks back to back (there are 6 of them i think) then please email me, i'll repay this kind soul in whatever way he/she wishes. and of course, they can grab a copy for themselves, if it floats their boat. well, just a request, someone, anyone? love blake xx the nerdy shy eyed pacifist ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials." - Jarvis Cocker +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Joss 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

Firstly, I am drunk beyond sense. The B&S DJ thing in Dublin is now delayed until the 19th of November. Here's Ms Paula.(she of the booze) aiight? as joss so eloquently said, we are quite "tired". to all who found me disappointlingly sober in london, i can truly say that i am as pissed as rwo farts at this moment. joss looks like my living room carpet tonight. well, his jumper does, at least. joss looooooooooves george michael. im gonna send this b4 he sees it...... loves, paulawaula. x x x . +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: FEEL FREE TO POST SOMETHING RELEVANT THOUGH.
by GEORGE DICKIE 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

THANKS MISS WOODLAWN I THINK I'LL READ A BOOK BUT WHICH BOOK???? MMMMMMMMMM I'LL FIND ONE HOW ABOUT THAT LOOPER BOOK OHHHHH HOW RELEVANT OF ME LOVE AND TEST TUBE BABIES ______________________________________________________ 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: I'm going to hell because of Belle and Sebastian
by James Gilmer 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

To Hell and Back What a week, to start it off I was walking past Wells Hall on Campus humming "If you're Feeling Sinister" to myself when a young man pressed a leaflet into my hand and told me in a sad, yet accusatory tone that I was going to hell. It took me a moment to realize that he was not telling me this because I was whistling a B&S song but because he was part of the family of evangelists that camps outside Wells and passes out leaflets and shouts at people that they're going to hell. So I'm going to hell and I don't have a thing to wear, does anyone know if they have a post office in gehenna? I'll drop you all some lovely postcards from my trip. Hippies revisited Yesterday as I was holding the door open for two A&F wearing gents at the mall one of them glanced at my hooded knit black and tan baja pull-over and sniffed,"so all that hippie shits coming back again". I have yet to figure out how my pull over in any way is considered *hippie shit* Breast milk In my developmental psych class the prof spent an hour and a half discussing breast milk. Yes, it was as exciting as it sounds and I really want a tall cold glass of milk and I'm not sure if that's a healthy psychological reaction. But after all that I get home, check the old email and what do I find!?! >***Laura Llew's List Member of the Week*** > >That member who I've never had any contact with but I think is just the >tops.... Randomness Really.... anyway, hush hush... It Is > >James Gilmer...... *scoffs his pennyloafers and with a shy grin tugs his forelock (that's forelock, as in my strand of hair hanging on my forehead you sinister, sinister people)* Gosh, I don't know what to say really. It's an honor just to be nominated. I would like to thank my momma and elvis though :-) It's suddenly a much , much nicer day despite the fact I have to go to work so I can take classes and learn all about breast milk. I hope all you sinister people have a nice day now.- Jim "We're all out there somewhere, waiting to happen"- Jeff Noon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens
by Ian McKinney 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Hi folks, I haven't posted in a while being so busy settling back into college life and all but, er.. , I can't think how to end this sentence. urngh. Anyhoo, I must share with you all the absolute sense of frenzied joy I experienced last saturday night. I went to see ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION (they deserve capitals) and it was quite possibly the best show I've ever seen. I know that their jungle-thrash mayhem is probably the furthest you could possibly get from B&S, but it nevertheless has a unique appeal. Once again I bumped into list-lurker Tim McGregor, but was too smashed to have a proper conversation. My companion Barbara sadly got a bit carried away on the gin, went completely berserk and was nearly ejected from the venue for pulling over one of the monitors and knocking people over. For the record, I don't condone that manner of behaviour in any way, and I took it upon myself to administer a stern talking-to the following day. I was delighted last week when my Isobel With Fox t-shirt and b&s badges arrived. I still haven't decided where to attach the badges. To the lapel of my leather jacket? To my satchel? My eyelids? My nipples? Anyway I'm all excited cause I'm going to wear the t-shirt out tonight for the first time. I will act as a magnet for all the b&s fans in the place. We will gravitate in a dark corner and plot conspiracies. Finally, why don't more of you use the sinister irc channel? It's tremendous fun when there's a good crowd in, but usually there's only 2 or 3 people there. I drop in most days, there is a small contingent of regulars but I say the more the merrier. That is all. Until next time, take care of yourselves, and each other. Yours etc., Ian (aka gib) ______________________________________________________ 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: All the bright young things are talking
by Graham MacArthur 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

hello peeps, babychris said: > rude thing to say if you ask me. Maybe that's what > fame and popularity did to her... :) Well, I have to say chris, it's getting beyond a joke these days. I went out to buy this week's TV Quick last night and there was a gaggle of cardi-wearing indie boys shuffling around on my doorstep. They didn't say hello or anything, just looked at their feet, and made small muttering noises under their breath. I was spying on them from my window a few minutes before - they were opening their flasks of weak lemon drink, but kept getting their specs steamed up which gets them all flustered. Last night I was woken up by the sound of cats having sex in my back garden (again) so I slipped on my fluffy mules and tottered over to the window to have a look - there was a boy standing on the patio with soot all over his face. He cried "maam, maam, I've swept your chimmney, now could I request the honour of a kiss?". I shouted "Not on your nelly, you dirty ned!" and he ran off into the night, his ragged clothes flying about his bare feet. In the morning I found a card on my doorstep. It said 'Chris Junior sweeping services' in a smokey smudged scrawl. I'm taking the mickey. You knew that, didn't you? I'm now getting a job in a place called Barney's grill. Barney owns the joint, though I havent had the honour of meeting him yet. Greasy Caff tales to follow! No waitrose brown padded guillets for me, oh no, *I* get to wear a little red sailor (as in, looks like the ones you make out of paper) hat and pinny, and take orders off all the colourful types. Just give me the wink, and I'll make your day. Chips-wise. It's my birthday tommorow, so I looked at my cake today, sneaked a peak while my mum was outside having a fag. It's really naff. I'm getting one of those clever cameras, that has it's own brain for my present. I hope it has artificial intelligence, and starts writing country and western songs when I leave it turned on. right. have to go and spend hours getting ready to be fashionably late. I'm wearing my swanky pants! Those townies better watch their step, I'm wearing spike heels and I feel like a dancin'... Erica x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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's a scary scary place...
by M.J.M. Omond 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

well, chaps, i'm here now. and it's not nice at all. well, that's a fib, the people are lovely, and they're all really friendly and kind and fun to be with, and they cook me supper, but... the work is an absolute bastard. ok, i'm reading english, so i'd expect a bit of english work, but TWO THOUSAND WORDS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY BY PROUST to translate into english... now that seems a bit fierce. anyway, i'm back on sinister, so i should be getting fun stuff from you to cheer up my days. god, it's such hard work here... maybe i should have gone to, i dunno, croydon college to read kite flying and makeup management. anyway, i haven't really got much else to say. people at cambridge must drink shitloads - i was boogying on down at the 70s/80s night last night, and i was called 'the man' several times. and ANYONE who has ever seen me dance knows that i'm very much not the man. in fact, i'm about as much 'the man' as isobel is. wasn't there all that discussion on the list a while ago about how 'the shit' means not shit in the states? so maybe all the students here are american, and so that's why... fuck, this doesn't make any sense, and i need to read dryden's essays... whatever anyone tells you, english students ARE NOT slackers - it's still freshers week, and we're all dying of exhaustion... anyway, enough of all this bullshit. the person i care about most on the list has already had to suffer it once today... i'm off. hopefully the work'll quieten down in a bit, and then i'll be able to be apposite and amusing again, love to all (and especially to the girl whose e-mail address i've left in my room (a way away), but i've been thinking of you not stop since we talked, and i haven't been able to work...) Marcus XXX +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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