October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Spot the Acid Casualty
by Peter Miller 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

I've made up a great new game called "Spot the Acid Casualty". All you have to do is go to the Sinister photos page and spot the acid casualty... The other night I watched a great film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next", which I'd seen before, yonks ago. In the meantime someone had filled it up with really heavy shit and I ended up feeling like I'd had a meal full of lead. And it was well past my bedtime. It reminded me a lot of the list actually, especially when the boat starts going round in circles. For example, we've had the discussion about what the list's for and what it isn't for lots of times, and it usually ends up with a call for "balance", which means shut the fuck up. No it doesn't, I'm only pulling your leg. It means whatever you think it means, man. When I were a lad, and e-mail was the exclusive preserve of high-ranking soldiers, we had to find someone daft enough to listen to us if we wanted to whine on about not having a girlfriend or really fancying someone and not daring to speak to them because they showed signs of social competence and looked likely to want to go out with someone with a bit more gumption. It seems a shame that this tradition is being lost, pushed aside by rampant modern technology. Tinkersticks fans, did you shell out in the region of 20 quid to see them? They're coming here, but it strikes me as a bit bloody steep. Also a tad pricey is The Sugar Hill Records Story or is it Sugarhill? It features someone called Waterbed Kev. Is there something we don't know, DJ FatSlug? Eh? Thailand is the world's largest exporter of frozen prawns. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: cheetos will be the death of me
by Tigerxdare＠aol.com 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

well im hoping that this email will work but for some reason when i try to post to sinister lately it doesnt, so i am just going to keep my fingers crossed. i am at home today and have left the house once since monday, that is sort of sad. all i want is to go get some coffee, rent a movie and get takeout chinese, but without a car i am confined to eating kraft macaroni and cheese and the mini bags of cheetos i found. ugh cheese. prove that you can have too much of a good thing. its 11 am and there and absolutely no good talk shows on, now i have to find a way to keep myself entertained until noon. well there is that paper i could write for english. nah...i am feeling better today than i have felt the rest of the week, hopefully i will be completely non-sick by monday! woohoo! alright thats it. xoxo, lauren +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 was made to love magic...
by colin thornton 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Hello everyone, I've been sucked into your world from a small, pink moon orbiting in the distance (The Nick Drake mailing list-- Place-to-be). My discovery of B&S was accidental, but they exploded into my world with other artists unknown to me: Beth Orton, Wilco, and Jeff Buckley, whom are all probably well known to my new favorite group of people. You can imagine my suprise when the "beautiful-music" dominoes started falling. I'm struggling to keep up with the old and new of REAL pop music that doesn't sell-out. The event that brought me to this list was a package that was sent to me by a nice British gentleman on the Drake list. He sent me a free PAL copy of the B&S MTV Alternative Nation video special. I waited with this coded video for months until I could finally transfer it to NTSC, and now I can't stop watching it. I don't know why the band has to be so damned secretive (probably more so to Americans), but to actually see them be silly and have fun (and quasi-live) makes me so happy. My favorite video is Lazy Line Painter Jane; I can't believe that LLPJ is not a favorite song by most of the list. I'm also enamored with Isobel, who is my favorite member of the band. I'm a bit of a classic and childlike romantic, so Gentle Waves is a new favorite of mine (perfect for rainy days and children). I'm from Kentucky, and I'm a bit of a Belle & Sebastian loner/disciple. I have converted a few listeners at my university, and I discovered a few fans besides me. Being a fan isn't easy in America; afterall, the only things I have to appreciate are the music and the videos (and this list), which is a bit more than Nick Drake has to offer. I was wondering if the Belle and Sebastian lifestyle is big enough in Europe and other places to cause a cultural backlash? I've noticed on certain negative amazon.com B&S reviews that there are a few jerks, whom intend on crushing fragile B&S fans. How big is our sub-culture? I'm just curuious, since most people here are clueless toward any indie music (as was I). Thanks, Colin St. Clair ______________________________________________________ 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: RE: richard/snow patrol
by Kurtis, Elizabeth 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Alasdair said: >Oh, Elizabeth just said: > >> Speaking of Richard, I think Pumpkinny failed to mention that we saw > >>him posing as a member of Snow Patrol on Mark and Lardie's Pop Quiz > >>the other week. The average indie kid might well have been fooled but > not >>us! > > Well he is sort of, if you can call playing the shakers and a little bit > of keyboard being a member of the band. > Ah yes, I forgot to add that he had a name card and it was definitely did not say Richard on it. elisabeth xx p.s. Anyone else horrified and yet strangely fascinated by that Village People-esque Ambrosia custard and oats dessert advert? There hasn't been one like it since Kelly's 'what eeees thiss remaarkable antii-persspirant?' ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.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: crossing border (part 2)
by Alexandre Tobin 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Good Morning. Please forgive me if I've already asked this, but is anyone from the list going to the Crossing Border festival in the Hague (NL) today, tomorrow, or on Saturday? Please get in touch with me, and we could have a mini Sinister meet-up... Thanks! Alex win free copies of Stuart David's 'Nalda Said' at http://www.postmodern.co.uk -++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- -+++ alex tobin -+++ postbus 81-353 -+++ 3508 bh utrecht -+++ the netherlands -+++ -+++ phone +31.6.29208560 -+++ e-mail alex(a)pulped.co.uk -+++ website http://www.pulped.co.uk -+++ website http://www.postmodern.co.uk -+++ website http://www.popjourno.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: hi.
by Derek Wuenschirs 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

<note: the following may sound like a desperate cry for help... it probably is> dearest sinister listees, Teri said I shouldn't be scared to introduce myself.. so.. here I go: In any case.. I'm Derek, a transplanted Torontonian sinister listee, now living in the thriving metropolis that is London... Anyone care to play with a crazy canadian who has an all-too-unhealthy fascination with b&s? please feel free to drop me a line. Hello to Vince R., whose number I've somehow misplaced, please e-mail me.. Hi to Debbie and any other Torontonian listees... I'm living in Shepherd's Bush, it's nice. that's my story, I hope you like it. sweet Christ, if this isn't the most fantastic city on earth... not really sure what else to write, besides the fact that I have no idea what to do in this city for fun.. oh, and this is me: http://members.home.net/durkw (it hasn't been updated since the day I left Toronto) luff, derek --- [derek wuenschirs] [durkw(a)home.com] [london, uk] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 wrapped up...
by Robyn Fadden 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Hello you lot, Death and Smiths and drinking and appearances. Sometimes I am overwhelmed with all the topics, but isn't this life? I would rather be overwhelmed and/or confused than bored - and boring this list is not. I read it all and I am happy. Well, I found and bought Belle & Sebastian live at the bowlie bbc cd. I think I can hear some of you yelling and whooping it up. Ah. This cd makes my heart flutter like I've got a crush on someone. Occasionally, it fools me into thinking I really do have a tangible and here crush, but I don't. Maybe it's just Stuart's voice, the way he says, "(flaming) lips". I haven't yet seen American Beauty or anything else "mainstream" because the Vancouver Film Festival has been going on and, being the poor/cheap bastard I am, I volunteered (free movies!). By Sunday I will have seen 15 films in about 2 weeks. Yow. Only price to pay was that of having to deal with self-important film-school types. Anyway. I saw "Get Real", a British film about a 16 year old boy who is gay and wants to fall in love and be loved, like all teenagers (and everyone?). That's an over-simplification of the plot, but I don't want to give anything away. This film is so good and sweet and smart. Makes me want to be in super-love. Everyone who is sinister should go and see it. I also saw "The War Zone". Bleak. I'm not quite sure what I think of it. A lot of rain and wind. A messed up family. Made me feel like something terrible had just happened in my family and I'd just gone and sat in my room in the middle of winter for days on end, blocking thoughts and stagnating. I don't know whether this is good or bad, just that it is something that happens in life. Of course, the film did not last for days on end, but for only about 2 hours. The Netherlands' "One Man and His Dog" was good (though no Arling and Cameron in the soundtrack). As was Canada's "4 Days". And lots of others. So many movies. It puts me into a bit of a state, very visually oriented and always thinking that I am being entertained or merely an observer rather than actually *in* my life. Levels of reality. I did the Keirsey test. I am labeled as an INFP. Pretty bang on. The descriptions of personalities are quite good. I never want to fall for believing it all though, like I wouldn't want to accept the facts of my fate if they became known to me. On that strange note, infp (in nothing for parentheses) yours, Robyn P.S. Thank you Laura for putting your lit list up on the web. My film-strained eyes await its launch. P.S.x2 I don't know why I'm speaking in such a weird tone today. Maybe it is because my hair is extra messy - must be the rain. My hairdresser (sorry, "stylist") calls it "a controlled mess", but today I forgot the control part. ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.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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by Cynthia Someone 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Hello all: DOODLe Today I drew a picture of a bird. I was slightly surprised how it came out. I drew it on a yellow postit with a blue ball pen, and it's kinda cheerfully inspecting a phone number for a word. It actually looks like a bird. As i said, I am surprised. LUNCH was bad. bad lunch=bad day. A NICE THINGAMABOB I would like to have nice thingamabob underneath my name on my emails. a picture of tigger, an eloquent "Fuck!" from such characters as that Jarvis one, but I really can't think of a thing. *thinks* nope,not a thing. when it's gray out I lose liveliness. all I want is a hot chocolate and some appropriate music. maybe something with strings? and sometimes all I want to do is lie in bed with the lights on at night and sort of think about things. anyway, it's a bit like mix tapes. what comes next? (after a signature) it's an aesthetic thing. or it could be, anyway. MOO, JOSS, MOO I like Joss. I like to throw cows. it reminds me of the beautiful piano catapult on Northern Exposure. STUART DAVID I watched tv with him in a dream. I read chapter one of his book in a non-dream, and liked it. a bit "watermelon sugar"-esque in the simplicity of his words. i think that trying to stay innocent in these cynical times keeps you an outsider, and the book seems to be about that. It makes me want to curse at tim. do we get double points for the "innocent curse"? whatever that might be. cyn ______________________________________________________ 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: TO ALL THOSE WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES
by GEORGE DICKIE 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

HELLO LOVERS AND NON-LOVERS AND OTHERS AND STEVE C YER I DON'T HAVE THE GP TRIBUTE THOUGHT ABOUT IT MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM FAV MARIO CART PLAYER PROB TOAD BUT THE QUESTION IS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HARD OH AND BABYCHRIS but is this really a forum for discusion of b&s anymore, or is it not more of a community of like minded people who get along and like to chat and share their problems. Or have we been abusing it? THE LIST IS ABOUT PEOPLE PEOPLE CAN NOT TALK 24/7 B&S AND AS THERE IS LITTLE NEWS OF B&S AT THE MO OUR MINDS WILL FLOW THIS IS WHY COMMUNISM DID NOT WORK CAN YOU HAVE A COMMUNISM WITH FREE MINDS I HOPE SO *I'M HIGH IN THOUGHT LOW IN LIFE* LOVE AND GIVING A CAT DOG FOOD TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS 'CAUSE YOUR SOOOO BORED ______________________________________________________ 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: small willy style
by Joss Moorkens 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Aiight, homies. In the style of Dr Pants: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Don't think I've ever mentioned them much before, but Robin Stout's talk of TV's obsession with sex and violence made me think. I reckon part of what I like about B&S is the... umm... innocence of the songs. It feels like some respite from the world of sex and violence flung at us from most other forms of media. I mean.... I imagine Struan's idea of 'a dirty weekend' in Seeing Other People involves going rock climbing and getting your cuffs a little muddy. I can see how this little world could be a little cloying for some, like Mr Hefner, but maybe he just isn't as naive as me. Of course, I do swear like a navvy, but hey... I'm a victim too. Can anyone tell me what a navvy is? The latest outlet for my swearing is: THE ALL NEW TERRY AND JUNE SHOW I've decided to cash in on the fact that alternative comedy means cussing a lot by writing an updated version of Terry and June for Channel 4 or another miscellaneous fringe channel. Current episodes in the pipeline are Terry Suffers From Tourette's Syndrome, June's Herpes, Terry's Warts and June Comes Out. The last one features a top notch lesbian lovefest as the show's climax. So to speak. I feel a winner coming on.... June Whitfield hasn't been returning my calls, but Terry came on board after I agreed to pay him a tenner and a pack of fags per episode. THE POETRY PARROT As you will have gleaned by now, I am not the most literate gentleman in our illustrious clan. Therefore, I accepted the help of one Amanda Bergman in providing you with your parroty poem. Props to Genevieve's washing line for sending the fellow my way: Destroying Beauty a rose red sunlight: I take it apart in the garage like a puzzle: the petals are as greasy as old bacon and fall like the maidens of the world backs to floor and I look up at the old calendar hung from a nail and touch my wrinkled face and smile because the secret is beyond me. That was written by the late, alcoholic and antisocial Mr Charles Bukowski. On which subject, may I quote Megan's Sinister Manifesto: "proclaiming joss as the mighty king of the party to which there is no end." Ooo. I've never been called mighty before. Unfortunately, the party I dragged some sinisters to recently was far from mighty, so they might just disagree with you there, Megan. Charmed, though. Lucky charms to Birthday Tim (your Zappa LP is in the post, hippyboy), moving EA & John and Emma WarranderJohn. COWS Throw some cows for me. http://www.mediafarm.no/forsoksgard/kukaster.asp love yerpointlessunclejoss xx PS. I now command the parrot to poo upon.... Ms Giita. Yes yes, I know.... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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