October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The Glasgow Update
by Jason Andreas 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Hi all, Well, in my eyes anyway, the meetup was really good fun. Everyone was really friendly and welcoming (even though I didn't have a clue what they were talking about half of the time <grin>) Big thanks and hugs to; Ailsa, Alasdair, Owen, Jamie, Jack, Jennifer, Jennifer's friend who looked like someone, my mate Andrew, Callum, Ailsa's boyfriend (Neil, I think, but not entirely sure, sorry) and anyone that I've missed, although I think that's everyone.... Had a great night folks, we'll have to do it again sometime :) g'night -- Jason Andreas -- Hailing from Glasgow, city of half a million souls and one million people ICQ: 45821217 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Grevious Angel...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Ok, Nick I stand corrected about being a year off as to when the Beatles first tripped. Their most obvious LSD record, in my opinion, is Revolver which was released in '66 and written in the second of '65 so I guess we're both right. Well, the McCartney songs are pretty much standard Beatle fare but Lennon and Harrison's tunes are more far out than anything they ever tried (especially Tommorrow Never Knows and She Said She Said, which incidentally was written about that first LSD trip). Anyone else notice half the guitars on that record sound like sitars? I'll be dodging the bricks now... I bought Gram Parson's two solo records the other day and I am just simply amazed. I thought Big Star and Wilco were really great, touching Southern Rock (tm) but Gram just blows them all to peices. Is it just me or does he write the saddest songs on earth about ghosts visiting their loved ones in their sleep, and brides dying on their wedding day and such. Oddly enough when you hear him and Emmylou belt them out its amazingly comforting and beautiful and not really as sad as you may think. I guess it doesn't hurt that I'm a southern boy at heart so I dig the overtly country tunes as much as the soulful rockers... To my good friend and long-standing Mario Kart adversary Todd Matthew Herrmann, I say follow Pam's advice and "go all the way to being brutal." Trust me, if an idiotic little minx like that claims she can dig whatever you're listening to then its probably not a good thing. A few weeks back someone insulted Stereolab in my store and then proceeded to buy the new Godsmack so it all evens out. People like that will be stupid and myopic their entire lives so its no use getting all upset over it, although she was a pretty bitchy little sort wasn't she? How come we haven't heard from Mrs. Lauren Tigerxdare in awhile? I sure she's ok after the emotional upheaveals of the past few weeks. Later Steve C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Tripe & Onions, (with no onions)
by David Moore 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Hi Perfumed Ones, Nice to see so many old codgers out amongst the yoof on the Sinister streets recently, shuffling around, hacking, & muttering about the war. Dot Allison was excellent at The Arts Centre, we'll have to buy some records. Arab Strap were too, although towards the end Aidan & Malcolm were taking it in turns to walk off-stage in a huff. This probably because of the cool dudes down the front (out on their first big weekend?) sitting on the edge of the stage/in circles, back to band, chatting through their set. Even the Middleton Mad Axeman stare couldn't scare them into realising what they were doing. Proud Dad sends thanks to Il Duce, Signor Miele, for pinning the photo of Sally & I in our Bowlie chalet on the Sinister board, coz she looks dead pretty in it. Michele - Sally thought that being a Sinistereen at second hand didn't qualify her for meet-ups, so she met up with the Super Furry Animals in Virgin & got put on the guest list for their gig that evening instead. Someone stole my copy of Don't Fear The Reaper, a long time ago Going back not quite such a long way, I couldn't make head or tail out of Damon's second poem My hand is up in answer to Mr Messent's Eifel 65 question, (which is probably why this took so long to type) Adam: Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Corot, Courbet, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, Seurat - but I guess you get the picture Randy Kalifornia's Dad was the drummer in Spirit Luckily for true Belle Heads everywhere Sir Cliff made me take out the extended comparison between Isobel & a sitar Ailsa speculated about Stuart D's motivation for writing songs for B&S: I thought it was just to earn royalties to finance all the projects he's really into. However, I agree that they do come out pretty well despite that. Approbation is the new props Sister Who Came First, what's the difficult part about a tape for me? Alasdair "Pele" Cook: Grazing In The Grass was played at the Gormless Weebles concert in London. A careful listener would also have heard it played by the DJ (Beans?) shortly after the triumphant end of B&S' Bowlie set. I love Alistair when he takes the piezo out of himself Like Trousers, Like Brain David Moore Chelmsford, 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: quickly now..
by Chris_t_opher 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

..before the backlash. I said that we covered a Goo Goo Dolls song. Im trying to save you all wasting energy by laughing at me... It WAS NOT my idea, i hate them, but the others wanted to do one cover. I made a comprimise in taste by saying Rebel Rebel by Bowie, but they were having none of it! Like i was saying, i have NO influence for some reason. NOT MY FAULT Chris_t_opher ps. To Conclude, IT WASNT MY IDEA!!!!!!!!!!! The East River Pipe Community - Http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/EastRiverPipe You've got to go - its only natural. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Serpent's Kiss
by PJMiller 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

WHAT'S A GRECIAN URN WORTH? Surely Exeter City's new DUKE STAND is a tribute not only to the Duke himself, but also a tribute to the combative stance he takes on issues such as Manda Rin's refusal to do swaps, as well as a sideways nod to the Dexy's Midnight Runners classic DANCE STANCE. I SEE A SITAR AND I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK I like sitars. It is a beautiful instrument with a centuries long tradition of making beautiful sounds. I'm particularly keen on that BWOOOOOOOING BWOOOOOOOOOOOING BWOOOOOOING sound, like the first rays of the new rising sun, but I'm also partial to that DIDIDIDIDIDIDIBRRRING sound, acheived by consummate mastery of fretboard wankery techniques. Someone, possibly Nick Nolte in his book AWOPBOPALOOBOPAWOPBAMBOO, called it curry powder when used by The Beatles. I like tablas too. I look forward to hearing the B&S sitar experience. I've got a Miles Davis live album with a sitar on it, but I'm buggered if I can hear it. YOU SPECKY PUFF! "What," thought Alice, "would be the point of inventing a world that already existed?" I agree that Murdochland exists only in the imagination of Britain's finest folk-inflected singer-songwriter, the bard of barminess, Stuart Murdoch himself, but I fail to see the problem with that. Just imagine if we all took Daz from Hefner's attitude. There'd be no "Planet of the Apes" for a start. TODAY'S SERIOUS POINT Nice to see the Harvey Wallbangers making an appearance at the Po Caff. Perhaps the Stutz Bearcats can be coaxed out of retirement as support? Nice one Trousers. PROPS I've looked it up, but it's not even in NEW WORDS. Propellerheads is though. Hands up if you're a propellerhead. On second thoughts, take a step forward instead. AGENT DOUBLE-O FAT SLUG I've got tapes for Fat Slug and David Moore. Now comes the difficult part. lots of love, Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Who'd Piss in a Pilgrims Pot ?
by Mr Beaker 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Peter Miller enquired... >WHAT'S A GRECIAN URN WORTH? Six birds in a bush with beer and skittles please. >Surely Exeter City's new DUKE STAND is a tribute not >only to the Duke himself... Blah blah Blah... I heard they were going to name it after Mr Tim, but Hopkins Stand is a contradiction in terms. boom boom. i think Katrina should start a list-collection so that we can buy out one of the less well off footy clubs in Scotland. Rather than the somewhat dead Poetry Parrot sketch, we could take it in turns, week in week out, to manage the team. Bagsy Peter Withe up front. I wrote to the Rt Hon Tony Blair MP and his friend Ben Bradshaw today. Only because the RSPCA asked me to do so. Having just got to the bit about hunting with dogs I realised i should actually have been watching the road and not writing a letter and ran over three foxes, two stags and a tescos bag. silly me. Now the good bit... Bye. Adrian, "not always what he was cracked up to be" Evans. ===== __________________________________________________ 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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Sinister: Tall tales - by a tall person...
by Chris_t_opher 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Tra la la.. MY NEW BAND I know, i know, that heading should be followed by the standard request to come and watch my band play in a pub in Blackburn on Sunday night... but i dont care. My (new/old but with less people in) band started today and already, im not into it. We happily played away, in a musty cellar for 4 hours. Got through 3 song's 'n' all. One was a Goo Goo Dolls cover, to give you some indication or sound. The problem was, there wasnt a spark in it. We ALREADY sound like your standard issue boring rock band. Like Embrace and Oasis, but with EVEN less *whomph*. Impossible, i know, but we somehow managed! Oh how i long for a band with a difference. A catchy, not stolen song. A change in tempo. Something that makes me want to play it 20 times. ANYTHING! I cant do anything about it cos im the bass player and am never seen as the creative influence - im just ignored when i make the most blatently obvious statement about the song "Desperately needing a break right there" Oh well. Anyone know any good 4 Tracks that i can do *my own stuff* on? AND, IN GENERAL... What makes something good? Like Belle and Sebastian. What makes us get all obsessive about them? Why are some people soooooo inventive and others, just your standard-issue copycats? I try to be a genius, but i know i never can. Everything ive ever done, whether it be a sport or even just learning to drive, i've never got past the point of being "good". At chess, i was ranked 788th in Scottish schools, but why not any higher. So, to end, there is a chance that i really excel at something, but there are so many *things* out there, i will probably never find it. Why is God so crue? This was as pointless as an orange. Chris_t_opher - the eternal never-genius and athiest. ICQ:44383377 The East River Pipe Community - Http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/EastRiverPipe You've got to go - its only natural. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ease a mint into your mouth
by pamela berry 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

hello all, it's been ages. what's the word? it's thunderbird. I know that, I was just making conversation. anyway... don't despair, todd herrmann. I had your exact job at the university of maryland many moons ago. this kind of thing will put hair on your chest. worked for me. if I'm not mistaken and the job hasn't changed too much, aren't you pretty much the mailmeister for the dorm? no time for crying over music differences when you've got that much power. it would be a damn shame if chickyboom lost her keys and that care package full of sweets and money from mom and dad in the same week, wouldn't it? back in my days at university, when dinosaurs regularly hogged the front row at the hoff's midnight flick, the mail system there was incredibly reliable. I once wrote a friend's address on a sock with a magic marker and dropped it in the mail just to see if they'd send it. I was not disappointed. oh the stories I could tell! christopher told us about his good friend robin williams. I have that kind of relationship with steve buscemi and steve martin, both of whom I've yet to meet. so I've never had my picture taken with them, but in one of my many many spy dreams steve martin and I were being chased by the baddies, and while hiding underwater in a swimming pool together, he asked me to marry him. imagine my involuntary giddiness when I watched that omnibus on him the other night and found out he's single again! alas, I'm not. doesn't that just figure? our timing's always off, me and steve. we're like two ships. the lambchop and pet sounds box set stuff on the soundtrack of that show helped check my spiral into depression. I'm with trousers, the royle family is indeed fantastic. sometimes I can't make out immediately what ricky tomlinson's saying. on this week's show I'm sure I heard him exclaim 'mick cooke's grazing in the grass, my ass.' he's not wrong. that fabulous song was originally made hugely popular by hugh masekela in 1968, it's sold millions of copies. in 1969, the friends of distinction did a cover of it that stayed in the charts for weeks, adding crazy groovy words, like 'grazin' in the grass is a gas baby can you dig it!' this version with lyrics is the one I'd really love to hear mick and friends do. can I get a witness? to kick off october, the hubby and I went to audition a chi-chi turntable at a hi-fi store yesterday afternoon. after the salesman doesn't recognize the records you bring (what!? no hotel california? good god man, where's the pink floyd?) you get to sit in a big room by yourselves. there's a big black leather couch, a coffee table with a bigass bowl of mints on it, and a door with windows so the salesguy can keep an eye on you and his overpriced stuff. and way up there ahead of you sits a turntable and an amp and some speakers, apparently at the optimum distance away to hear it all perfectly if you're sitting exactly in the middle of the couch (knowledge that will come in handy if mike and I ever move to a park or a large auditorium). the stylus cartridge alone was £800, which doesn't really meet my needs. after a boozy night out sometimes I need to drop the needle on the mat a couple of times before actually finding the edge of the record. naturally we took along some of our favorite records. we listened to 'ease your feet into the sea' really fucking loud and then that thing happened where everything was perfect and right in the world, and I said to myself, self, you should post to the list that brought you and the hubby together in the first place and introduced you to lovely and hilarious people and paved the way for you to have that sexy dream about peter miller. awwwww. and then someone, I'm not naming names, ruined the mood by putting a 15-year-old seven inch on by everyone's favorite Effeminate Futurists. From The Eighties. the salesguy, not passing up his only opportunity to bond, stormed in with an excited 'hey I have this album!' our makeout session on the big black couch was over, just like that. next week: we test-drive a porsche armed only with a fourth generation tape copy of tigermilk! I'll let you know how it sounds. xopam +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The dream state (and Richard Stillgoe)
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Hola amigos (amigas?) Look,I may have dreamed this because I got up and checked my mail really early this morning,but were people asking abt a Richard Stillgoe tv prog?(I bloody hope so or this mail will be total gibberish)(well,more gibberish than usual) LEAN CLOSER KIDS It was called "Stillgoes On"and did indeed feature that battleship game also amusing anagrams,limericks and the bearded one playing self-composed tunes on his upright organ(Ooer!).Is this Britain's most versatile man?.Am I sad posting on a saturday night?Who shot JR? Steve S xx. Q.What happened to Jesus when he went to Mount Olive? A.Popeye kicked the shit out of him.Arf!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: B&S Bowl Cut
by E. A. Hostetter 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Oh hoo hoo I found this hilarious quote in an article about called "FUCK NEW YORK, PARIS, MILAN, AND LONDON Seattle is the Fashion Hotbed of the World!" "In another sublime development, gym-pumped party boys are becoming rarer than hens' teeth as men make a dashing turn toward the always-enticing scrawny little boy look. Any hipster worth his or her martini knows that nothing gets you laid like skinny, and the lines to the bench press are shrinking as Seattle's most nubile male flesh eschew their muscles for that oh-so-sexy speed freak chic! Topping off this look is an uneven Belle and Sebastian bowl cut, a belly-revealing undersized vintage tee, and a heavily creased pair of tweed plus-fours and/or polyester cigarette pants with high-ankle monk strap boots by Bulo. Luscious!" There is a young man who lives in my building who had what I thought was a B&S bowl but in the end he looked more like an indie pop boy transplanted onto "That 70s Show." You can find the article it at: http://www.thestranger.com/AE/artlead.html bye! off to pack my precious few possessions ea p.s. thanks for the list-crush votes, boys/girls...i will be off to Montreal with 'l'amour' on my mind... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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