November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: As the lorry marked 'Struan' pulled away from the lights...
by Tim Gardner 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Afternoon Sinisterines, danielle redden said: >in small steps something is trying to tell me if i should stay in the land >of the free >or sail to the old world where a twee boy loves me. Nick isn't very twee, not very twee at all. In fact I'd go so far as to say that he isn't twee at all*. I was called a twee goth last week. By a hippy. I can understand the twee bit but not the goth part. "Why am I a goth?" I queried, "Because you have a long black coat" was the reply. I tried to explain that I only wear my long black coat because it is warm and I was cold but it was to no avail. Perhaps my Cramps badge also affected judgement but it was right next to a Belle & Sebastian one so they should have cancelled each other out. Perhaps the Caberet Voltaire badge on my bag is doing something unexpected... I went to Glasgow for the very first time last weekend, we stayed in a flat that, apparently, is only a few doors down from Mick Cooke. It's also underneath a flat owned by the keyboard player from Del Amitri. We kept him awake by playing 'name that (obscure) tune' with our kind host. I got 'Mongoloid' by Devo and precious little else. Our kind host - Glasgow's premier pedantic person - offered to take us to a cafe on Sunday morning where "Belle & Sebastian sit and be twee" but we didn't have time. On Saturday night at The 13th Note Cafe I thought I saw one or two of the Sinisterites who'd been to All Tomorrow's Picnics but I was too busy to go and say hello. I picked up the latest issue of Papercuts last month courtesy of the ubiquitous Monsieur Trousers last month, a very good read it was too. Better than 'How To Tell If Your Missus Is Turning Into A Lezbo' in the Sunday Sport anyway. Tim * - Of course, I may have the wrong person. In which case sorry. ______________________________________________________ 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: wedding song
by tanja stahlhut 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Hello Sinisterines straight out of the nursery and straight to the point. i'm getting married tomorrow. nervous as hell and can't wait for it all. it's a beautiful bittersweet feeling that won't let me sleep all this talk of depression and autumn ? it's spring here in australia, i'm living by the beach (and getting married there tomorrow, have i mentioned that already ?) a little question to ask a survey of sorts on our first wedding dance do you have any thoughts? we've thought long and hard and we both concur but is there really nought better than "tender" by blur? Michael +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 snow emerges..
by ThisSuffering＠aol.com 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

dearest sinisterees. i cannot sleep, and thought i'd let you in on my belle and sebastian moment of the evening. (considering it's 4:15 am) i was wondering what all of you think of belle and sebastian touring the u.s. soon. i think that should see that we want to see them here in the states, because i'm sure there's a great following here that really wants to see them play a live gig in a town near them. so let's all let them know how much we love them cheers carlos xoxox +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Eighth is in my Body
by Sleeka Sounds 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Hello, I thought I'd 'touch base', Baby Melonballs pondered: >oh, yeah - I wondered - do people think of b&s as a >'stoner band' . Well, Murdoch gives me more of a semi stiffy, rather than an out an out total stoner. I suppose a real stoner band would be one with a right dirty woman in it, like Shania Twain (but she's not a band). How about the Dixie Chicks, they're a stoner band. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~calnd/stuart/stuart.htm Coming to think of it, I haven't written for ages. Me and Julia went to Spain for a week, that was good. But we didn't bump into Mr. Miller. There was loads of gypsies though, and some monkeys. And, I have now seen the Braille Witch Project, and I thought it was really really fucking scary. I've seem some pictures of that Heather on the internet, she's really beautiful in real life, but she looked a bit rough in that. I reckon if it was me I would be too busy trying to drill her in the tent to bother about the witch. Anyway, I'll write a story when I get the chance, I hope you are all well and happy, and I'll maybe see some of you at the Meanies gig tomorrow. I'll be doing the towel dance. Cheers, Mistopher Chris ______________________________________________________ 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: worries
by Ellen Jernström 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

here we go again. i could be bored but i'm not. too busy worrying. over this and that, anything and everything. it isn't really like me to worry, but - i'm nineteen, live in stockholm which actually is quite a nice place to live in. i've got two great jobs that pay very well and i'm gifted with a fantastic taste in music. also, i'm rather short, looking kind of troll-ish..and i've got this irish friend in london who thinks i'm gorgeous, and i think he's gorgeous too. it's just too good to be true. yes. i'm leaving for london in less than a week and i still havn't heard from my friend and what if he's fallen off his motorbike or been kicked to death by a gang in a dark alley somwhere, or..well. what if he's just not considering me gorgeous anymore? then what am i supposed to do? i'll probably never hear from him again, and i'll end up in london with nowhere to stay, noone to cuddle. yesterday they were playing "the state i'm in" in h&m. h&m is the most mainstream clothing store you can find here..now i don't know if i'm supposed to be worried or happy. my favourite b&s song at the moment should be "is it wicked." not so much because of the song, as of the solo in the middle of it. beautiful. always makes me feel like jumping up and dowm. it is november. dark and grey. i'm dreaming about may, about june. about walking up and down the paralia in naxos town, about diving from the rocks at mikri viglia. ever been there? it's paradise on earth, i tell you. that's it. thanks for listening. i'd love it if you'd send me how-to-live-my-life-advice..or perhaps suggestions of great music in times of confusion. or invitations to stay in london? ; ) *rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum* ( as in winnie the pooh, yes..an absolute favourite of mine) /ellen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 good humour man, he sees everything this way
by Steve Kado 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

this is shocking: i actually mention b&s in this post. (and robots too) why is everyone so down on autumn all of the sudden? for a while the autumn rhapsodies were coming thick and heavy and now everyone is whining about the oncoming winter. i think autumn is "the shit". if turn of the century vienna was a season it would be autumn (turn of the century vienna was also 'the shit' in a decadent sort of way). and i;m not the only one who digs fall. all my friends agree. especially my friend amber who came in second in a butter sculpting contest yesterday. she did a nice one of an old lady sitting on a bench with pigeons. yesterday was one of those bitterly cold but very sunny autumn days and i was riding my bike around with IYFS on my walkman. i realize that riding a bike (especially the way i do) is dangerous if you can't hear the cries of the irate pedestrians and motorists but the day demanded it of me. [robots] also, the batteries were going to by the end sturan sounded like stephen merritt, which was kind of novel. and i picked up some brilliant stuff: from the pretentiously architectural architecture library (ooh i am so very eloquent) i picked up this book called 'garbage housing' by this pawley fellow, which is a joy to read. and i picked up the first feelies album which sort of summed up all the bands i'd ever wanted to be in. it got me going on a post-punk kick and now i've already done the joy division thing, and now i'm on gang of four. next up pil. its not sunny anymore and i guess i'm feeling more streamlined and twitchy now. i guess this ties in nicely with the gothic belle and sebastian thing eh? seetkvnado [robots] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: only slightly mental.....
by The Trainspotter 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

kids, dont believe a word this boy says.. he plays no bass, and spends his days ridiculing the boy scouts but secretly ogling their uniforms in the hopes that one day he can be head scout with the USO and dance with bob hope with Mary Tyler Moore looking on. Not only that but he tried to get me to send a pervy message to Isobel - all the while dancing around in kiddy zip up pjs he found in my laundry bin. in his spare time he tries setting me up with momus. alas, he is a nice ol boy and clues as to possible whereabouts of a study at stowe t-shirt for his coming up soon birthday should be told how to get one (kerry's birthdays is coming up too.... yay for the girl who is kidnapping her flatmates to some scarynamed place that sounds like dwarfplayland for this occasion). oh and to nick et al., jake was kidnapped by katrina! (yes that e-mail that i wrote was sent to her instead - with a note sent back saying he no longer handled the merchandise - as i could believe such a thing...) who was el boy con b/s in boston who babysat me when i was lost and kerry thought i'd run of with my ex-bf to molest him? and the reason you have problems with your computer is you've been making fun of my new ibook which hates me. and are there any sinister listee love stories like they're are on e-pop? ok, and then i'm going to bed - to roar tommorow when i go to get my car from the place where they take your car cause they feel like it, and go to school for the first time in over a week since they finally found my advisor/chair who had been MIA (yes, kerry can you believe it? joan finally turned up... they said be here by thursday or we cant pass you - and yes i still have an outstanding grr). can we have a boston listee tally? i guess you can e-mail me directly and i can post a final tally or something to see if its worth the while to have a wee tea gathering of sorts or an indoor picnic on my new ikea rug. or perhaps a meet up for whomever is going to see the mag fields next week... though perhaps if they pull another 3 1/2 hour show like last year - i might go barmy on sir meritt. -t.e.r.i. http://come.to/teri "she had the moves, she had the speed, it went to her head" > Hello list- > > My name is Nick and I'm new to the list (well, a nursery > hatchling). I'm 19, and a junior at Boston University where I major in > Computer Science and maybe math too. I'm originaly from CT, where the > amount of B&S fans (to my knowledge) is next to nothing, and the ones I > know of are people I've forced into listening to them. I play bass during > my free time, which is rare, in a few local bands of various genres. I got > into Belle & Sebastian a few years ago from a friend of mine. He'd play > Sinister whenever I was over and I fell in love. I quickly got as many B&S > records as possible, and, last year, I had the privilege of seeing them at > BU's Morse Auditorium. Twas one of the best concerts I've ever attended. > And now that my old laptop is about to crash, I'll send this before I have > to re-type it. A quick hello to the girls from Toronto and Motreal I met > at the Montreal Belle & Sebastian picnic/gathering this past May. Feel > free to e-mail me privately anytime. > > -Nick > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: belle and sebastian? gothic?
by kerry 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

i feel like a dork posting this to the list, but i'm a dumbass and erased the message about belle and sebastian being listed as gothic on the UBL, and since the post hadn't hit the archives yet when i discovered this person's error, and figured that others of you may also want to read this, here it is. i checked the UBL about that whole gothic listing thing. i think what the person who noted this failed to recognize was that there's two belle and sebastian listings. more concretely, there's a listing for "belle and sebastian" and another for "Belle & Sebastian." the listing for belle and sebastian is indeed listed as gothic, and they are signed to 4AD and have no websites. however, for Belle & Sebastian, they are categorized as folk, and some the loverly webpages for our beloved B&S are listed there. so, basically, there's more than one belle and sebastian in the world, and one of them is gothic. makes me want to order some of this strange gothic belle and sebastian's albums. it also makes me wonder why there hasn't been any legal nonsense about it, especially since they're signed to a "real" label, not just making CDs in their garage or something. okay, so i suppose they could be making CDs in their garage. still, it's weird. -kerry +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Gothic?... Gothic?, really now.
by James Gilmer 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

So while trying to look up tabulature on the UBL website I ran a search on B&S. The odd thing was the genre it was listed under. That genre being my subject line, said subject line being Gothic. Now, no offense meant to any good little gothic boys or girls who may be on the list but how pray tell does one classify B&S as *gothic*? It reminds me of when a few of my friends and I were enjoying an evening out and I slid a tape into the car's deck. Ignoring the cry of; "So Jim, is this going to be another angry chick band?" from the backseat I turned up the volume on Tigermilk. Three or four songs later that damned voice from the back calls out; "So Jim, it seems we're going for depressed, whiney guy bands now?". This from someone whose idea of party music is Leonard Cohen and a Roger Waters *theme* album about the end of the world, christ! Screw you too Josh!:-) Seriously, is it me? Do I just not understand these things? Firstly, I don't find B&S all that depressing, let alone gothic. It is a bit difficult to pin a label on B&S (and that my brothers and sisters in the sinister order, is a very good thing) but really now, gothic is a bit much don't you think? Alternative folk-pop maybe? Damn, it is rather difficult. Though I do think they should make a special category for B&S and use danielle's title; "songs by wimpy scottish kids" Now that is a genre label I can get behind. Be Sinister dear ones!!! ...and to all those sinister kids with broken hearts and clouds over their heads, tomorrow's a new day and the world isn't half as dim and cold as it seems. Cheers!!-Jim "Bruce Lee didn't need a gun"- Grant Morrison, "Invisibles" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: thanks
by triumphant loser 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Thanks for the tip, however i have checked it out already. I was hoping for a more complete tab....ie notes tabed out with solos +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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