November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: fashionable snogging to melismatic melodies in colorado
by CMD 18 Nov '99

18 Nov '99

City slickers, Emily (wherever I may find her) baited me out from my mountain cave with this unconscious query: "{my fave is}.....those little bits of songs in which SM drags out what he's singing: "...dream of ho-o-o-o-o-o-o-orses," etc. There's probably some musical-type term for that, but I don't know it." which leads to the ...... (can you stand the excitement)..... ------>Musical Term of the Day<------ * Melismatic * A melodic style characterized by many notes sung to a single text syllable. I do believe above word is precisely that for which Emily sought. Found! Now you can ace that intro to music test. I also believe that Mr. Murdoch is right up there with Vivaldi, and surely, centuries from now, Belle and Sebastian will be in the computer chip music text books. (will those computer chips be implanted in the brains of babies at birth? imagine: instant lyric proficiency....hmm....but none of the amusing mis-hearings.) ------>Colorado Quandaries<-------- I am at school in Boulder, CO presently. Do any of you Sinisterines reside nearby? Do send an electronic message my way (not the list way)! I am small music student in big (read: very big) school - and you know, I look for those badges, but haven't seen any. There must be some of you out here... ------>Universal University Fashion Fair<------- Is there the clothes brand Abercrombie and Fitch outside the US? I want to know! Their labels are ubiquitous here, and the gigantic sporty/sexy posters they put up in the store windows disturb me. But granted there are more disturbing things in this world. For instance, the image of Anne Geddes and Isobel fighting it out. I couldn't 'member that woman's name (who does all those pics of babies in flower pots) until I followed George Dickie's link. Props to you, sir, for augmenting the list of things I'll surely forget again, but enjoy knowing for the time being. ------>Parting (Naughty?) Query<------- Snog music! Have you favorites, theories, equations? I'm quite interested, so email me (not list) if you care to share. How do you come up with that late-night date-night programming? What usually makes the cut? Perhaps I'll post a summary, or write a book, or something, should response will it. Now I go to kick some leaves around. Waving bye at the coquettish rockers, Kate ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.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: she sleeps around
by BradWhiddon＠aol.com 18 Nov '99

18 Nov '99

hello folks i went and saw the wonderful david berman (he of silver jews fame) give a poetry reading tonight in athens from his new book (called "actual air" if you don't have it. get it) and it was really terrific. "and i wonder if she loves me only as a favor to god" that line is gonna stick with me for a couple of days. that was in one of his new poems. anyway, he told a joke....well, a couple, but here's the funny one the joke is set in 1974 at the white house with richard nixon taking a shit. so he's sitting there grabbing both sides of the bowl and straining when finally something pops out. he goes about the usual routine of wiping up and all, but when he looks at the toilet paper he notices that his shit has glitter all over it. "what the fuck?" he thinks....so he wipes again and looks at it again and still he's got glitter covered shit. so he's sitting there wondering what the hell is going on...then he remembers... david bowie had eaten his asshole the night before. and there was another one. celine dion walks into a bar and the bartender says.... "hey, celine. why the long face?" -brad +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: aww christ, not another one
by Will Porter 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

You guessed it: another list neophyte posting just because I can. I was hoping I'd be a little interesting, but I think that's more than you or I can hope for. It has been bothering me for some weeks now that I don't look like David Bowie. I was surprised and excited to hear that someone else came to discover B&S via the Old97s. I found 'em via a six-degrees-of-amazon.com sort of thing, beginning at Too Far To Care and ending at Tigermilk. (mmmm... tigermilk) All of this talk about autumn and winter and cold has got me missing the cold. I haven't been cold in a year, and it's really bothering me. Incidentally, the trouble with Texas (aside from just being to damned warm) is that it's full of Texans. I am awash in a sea of y'all. I don't like Austin much at all. Though, to be fair, I should say that I miss my native pacific northwest terribly and I probably haven't give Austin a fighting chance. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that there is already a Will and already a Porter on this list. I feel so insignificant. I don't remember who, but someone mentioned Adam's Curse, which is a mighty mighty good poem--one of the only poems I ever memorized just because I liked it and wanted to be able to think about it anytime I felt so inclined. The other one is 'Meditation at Lagunitas' by Robert Hass, which I'm going to tack onto the end of this hyah message (gotta make my first intrusion into your inbox count for something). Do you ever find yourself listening to TBWTAS and thinking about how most of the songs on that album sound like a whole different band than the one that made Tigermilk and IYFS? I'm going to see GBV this weekend, and I'm excited beacuse I've never seen them before and lots of people say that they're incredible live. Ooh, I have a question (I nearly forgot). Any American expatriates out there? Particularly in the UK, I'm wondering how hard it is to get work, what hoops you have to jump through, etc. I'm curious because a lot of the time, I don't like Americans very much, but I'm a little afraid to live abroad, because if I discover that I don't like anybody, that might just mean something about me. Any thoughts? uhm, bye Will Porter PS: The poem I promised you: Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the other notion that, because there is in this world no one thing to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds, a word is elegy to what it signifies. We talked about it late last night and in the voice of my friend, there was a thin wire of grief, a tone almost querulous. After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you, and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. I must have been the same to her. But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, the thing her father said that hurt her, what she dreamed. There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 I wanted was a 3-4-3
by P F 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

hey, hey, I just saw a reference to 'Every Picture Tells A Story': perhaps the first on the list. Naturally, I agree with every word. Of the e-mail, if not the song. Supplementary question. What was the song that everyone, especially Scots folk, were jigging up and down to at the end of Sky's Wembley coverage? I had an idea, but have forgotten it; and I never thought it was accurate anyway. ______________________________________________________ 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: oh no...t.o
by deb s 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

IF ... anyone wants to meet up before Songs For Children tomorrow/tonight (thursday) a few of us will be hanging around from 9:15/9:30pm-ish. we'll try the downstairs at Rancho first, and if there isn't really hangy-outy space avaliable, we'll head over to Oasis (as i've been told it's like a 70's basement) and wait for gatherers there. quick question to any UK listees still reading...is the 'who wants to be a millionaire' you're watching the same shite one i'm watching...with regis as the host and all? just wondering... ohhh...and anyone else round here, hefner are playing for free next tuesday! free! hefner! FREE! right, see you there then. (horseshoe) cheers luvdebx ohhh and remember .......one tequilla two tequilla three tequilla floor! (laura needs us to drink alot tomorrow or she has to pay the owner extra...so rest up...!) ______________________________________________________ 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: not margarite
by triumphant loser 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

Sorry about that mix up, i should have been more clear about my gender. My name is Zach and i am male, i guess my email addy could give the wrong idea. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: yet ANOTHER introduction
by Derek Porter 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

Hi Y'all, Sorry to clutter up the list with yet ANOTHER introduction, but I've been waiting patiently in the nursery for a few weeks now, and I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't at least say hello to all of you, especially after reading all of your posts 'n stuff. Hello. My name's Derek. I'm a pretty new fan of Belle & Sebastian, only having heard them for the first time a few months ago, but they became an instant favorite. I was listening to a radio interview of my other favorite band, the Old 97's, here in Seattle, and when asked what records they were listening to, two of them mentioned how much they liked B & S. Since I am a blind sheep and will do whatever rocks stars say, I ran out immediately and bought TBWTAS. Thinking it to be the greatest thing I have ever heard, I went out and bought IYFS, and finally Tigermilk. Each new purchase would have the hairs on my neck jumping up just a wee bit higher. Having grown up in the land of "crunchy power chords", angst, and flannel, you've no idea how refreshing it was to hear a song as beautiful as Seymore Stein or Judy...Horses. I'm now hard at work locating the singles, and hope to have my collection complete and on vinyl before the end of the millennium, when the fiends & felons will no doubt come marauding and attempt to abscond with them. By that time, however, I should be well fortified on bourbon and good cheer, and plan to put up one hell of a battle. I've also stockpiled what I feel to be a sufficient amount of canned goods and firepower, so I feel I've at least got a competitive chance. Let's see, what else. I've yet to have a dream about or involving anyone from B&S, but that could be because I've only ever seen two photos of Stuart Murdoch, and I don't think I've seen photos of anyone else in the band. I suppose I wouldn't know if I had or not because, as the recent Gear article mentioned, the girl holding the dog on wheels isn't even in the band. You all probably knew that ages ago, but I thought it was inspired. I love public transportation, and miss living in New York City for that very reason. Nothing's been quite as exhilarating as my first solo subway ride, looking entirely bewildered as someone with no legs rolled by on a skateboard begging for change. The bus system in Seattle is fine, but lacks the cast of characters I grew accustomed to. Busses & subways also make for an instant music video if you've brought your walkman along. I recently made a brilliant video in my head while listening to Johnny Hit & Run Pauline by X on my headset, and watching the large gentleman sitting to the left fall asleep on the bus. It was very modern and would surely win some kind of award, even though the Backstreet/Brittany fans would never understand it. Ok, I feel I've rambled on quite enough. Once again, hello to anyone who's made it to the end of my missive, and if you're ever in the Seattle metropolitan area, shoot me an e-note as I'd love to meet another B&S fan for coffee or drinks sometime. And if you didn't read all the way down, lick me where I pee. Good luck, and Godspeed, Derek dporter13(a)earthlink.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 time draws ever closed
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

Hello sinisterines! How is everything? I'm mad about the Scotland result, and I know it's going to be worse tonight. Also, it's interupting who wants to be a millionare which I am addicted to, trashy though it may be. Guess what? Yet another person wants to beat me up! Isn't that just fabby? This time it's for accidentaly getting an A+ in my RE project. I've been wearing a poncho to school and taking stick for it, but I like it a lot, it keeps me warm, and I bought it in logo, so it's not that naff. I think. Today, in school, I was looking up stuff on the guardian/ sunday times CD rom for stuff on GM food. Actually, I was supposed to be doing that, but instead I found all these articles on belle and sebastian, and spent the whole period printing out b&s stuff, until the school librarian caught me, and I couldn't manage to convince him that belle and sebastian had anything to do with GM food. Also he noticed my badges, so I couldn't say i found it by accident. There's a girl in the year above me who looks and dresses just like me. It's spooky, but if she wasn't older than me I'd probably be her friend, since we seem to have a lot in common. I'm still knitting my scarf, it's almost long enough to wear now. Happiness and hugs Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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's Afraid Of Will 2 K?
by William Messent 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

Hullo. I've just rediscovered " flying saucer attacks" cover version ofsuede's > "the drowners" ..it beats the pants of the suede original ...genius. Nice. Anyone who digs Flying Saucer Attack should also check out anything at all by 3rd Eye Foundation, especially the 'You Guys Kill Me' LP which is stupendous. Did anybody catch the 1 hour darts special on telly a couple of weeks ago? Phil 'The Power' Taylor vs. Ray 'Barney' Barneveld, a real clash of the titans. Taylor, with the English crowd behind him, absolutely slaughtered Barneveld which I though was a shame. When it comes to darts, I always support the Dutch. Unpatriotic, I know, but that's the way it is. I've yet to figure out why darts matches aren't on telly more often, they're a bloody sight more fun than football to watch. So Stuart says 'cunting'. Good luck to the boy. He'd have got a higher word score with 'wankshaft' mind you. Can anybody help me to ease myself back into society now that the current series of 'Millionaire' (as I believe 'insiders' refer to Mr Tarrant's show) is drawing to a close? Any help would be apprieciated. Love Will x ===== Visit The Remote Viewer homepage http://www.members.tripod.com/remoteviewer/ ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 10 Roddington Place
by Peter Miller 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

I hope Isobel doesn't do any currants while she's in that rabbit hutch. Will, I like Mister Dirty Bastard too. I haven't got his new record though. Or his old one for that matter. Melt Banana played here last night. It was fantastic. I didn't go, because it was well past my bedtime, but the twenty minutes or so I spent thinking about it were so fantastic that I didn't need to go anyway. Could this be the future of rock'n'roll? Stuart David said: Besides, I can't stand the sound of my own voice! Which is a step in the right direction. Someone was wondering why Staurt M spent so much time writing about Mr Funai. I believe Mr Fuani represents Morrissey, the game of chess represents the music industry and the other chess club members represent all the other Smiths rip-off bands doing the rounds. The "you're effed!" incident represents Jeepster rigging the Brits and the "terrible piece of road" represents Looper. 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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