November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: please help
by triumphant loser 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Hello fellow sinister upstarts, i beg a favor of anyone who may be able to help me. I play guitar as a hobbie but i have the damndest time finding accurate tabliture for belle and sabastian tunes.I beg please help me if you can. thank you +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 twee shall inherit the earth
by fiona 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

hey kids, you wouldn't believe how many lost souls are queing up for computer use at twenty to one in the morning, somehow i find that comforting. yesterday i nearly tripped over my flares getting off the bus. the price we pay for trying to look the way we feel, eh? today the same thing happened again. i just never learn. there really does seem to be a link between b+s and the autumn, everyone seems to be feeling it. if i remember rightly (and its not necessarily likely that i do) it was in the autumn that i first got into b+s in a big way. i had previously heard the sessions on mark+lard and stuff, but my friend gave me a tape of iyfs and llpj, and ever since, the sight of falling leaves around this time of year has made me fell warm inside. sigh (but in a good reminiscent way rather than an upset way) a word of advice to all of you out there who are still in possesion of the tonsils you were born with; if you get tonsilitis, do not under any circumstances smoke. it may look hard and sophisticated (don't even bother arguing with me, it makes me feel like an old time movie star and thats all there is to it) but, before my throat just ached a bit and now it feels like i've been trying to swallow razorblades, but without any of the messiness. my contribution for potential album title, 'case sensitive' all written in little letters, to reflect the way we have embraced this wonderful technology, not that any of us are at all inept in matters of computer use!?! although now i think about it, that sounds a bit more looperish. hmmm... i'll give it some more thought. JAM update - no, not really and another thing, i'm afraid i can't claim to be a paid up member of the GEORGE DICKIE fan-club, he terrifies the life out of me, i've always been wary of loud people, i'm never sure how much they've actually got to say. (marvel at the way i insult millions of people in one easy step, but nothing personal to anyone) ok kids my bed is beckoning, which is quite an impressive feat, seeing as it doesn't have any hands, so i must leave you now my darlings, stay beautiful, fiona... ... flirting with mediocrity +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Stuart,stuart the serving wench.
by Genevieve Wesley 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

Hello hello mes chums! JenOwl wrote: >Does anyone else feel slightly disturbed by the idea of struan in a pixie >outfit. I definately think that mick cooke should dress up as a pixie for >next halloween though, because he has a pixie face. Splutter! It cant be just the FACE,it has to be the whole personality..the whole aura,the whole JIVE that is given off.Mick has considerable assets,true,very true,but does not give off the mischief elf-king glee.Struan is just a little,slender thing that I can picture dancing around and clicking his heels and throwing pixie dust on people and hanging from trees and releasing flocks of squirrels as his military defense and posing riddles to Wandering Forest Girls who have to make it across the bridge to get to the castle.He's got the jive! Certain people belong in certain uniforms. I see Mick Cooke in a military uniform of some sort.Uh oh..Mick reads the list now doesn't he so we better just stop it RIGHT THERE. I see Stuart David in a big,lovely,rounded pumpkin suit. Don't you love big,rounded,roly poly things? I think of lying in the autumn fields,the leaves falling all around and dipping my arms into this orange,heavenly Pumpkin-Man.Then the Pumpkin-Man turns to you and whispers 'My little cherub' *sigh* Presents for Popstars:I could make Struan 7 pairs of widdle-widdle y-fronts for every day of the week.In daylight,it would have 'No.' written all over them,but at nightime,they would glow in the dark and have 'Yes!' written all over them.With glo-in-the-dark squirrels also. Goats...sheeps? What are we talking about... Oh Honey Honey..I fear for you,my delicate one...are you sure about this extreme close up of body parts? There are some weirdos out there you know.Fair maiden...your innocent nature could be tainted forever. "who reports that Stuart David is doing his thang at the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh TONIGHT." And I go "Gasp!" He does his thang so well,doesn't he. you're my hero, love...genevieve ______________________________________________________ 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: butter
by tylee2＠hushmail.com 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

Someone mentioned seeing Olivia Tremor Control....mmmmm......me too!! They were fantastic. I hadn't been to a show in ages, and it's the best when they absolutely blow your socks off. (i've twisted sayings there somehow, now haven't I?) Mmmmmm. Yesterday I trod on a dandielion. Seemed odd to me, cause I haven't seen one in ages. It was all flattened out, perfectly, like a little kid had picked it earlier in the year and stuck it between two pages of a school book for safe keeping. And then **FLASHBACK** I couldn't help seeing myself at eight, when we used to pick dandielions and shove them under friends' chins and if they glowed yellow we'd shriek with laughter and shout "YOU LIKE BUTTER!!" like that was a bad thing...or was this just something from my rather secluded childhood? It doesn't matter. I've forgotten half my life anyways it seems. Maybe that's one reason I like belle and sebastian soo much. Sometimes they bring back little pieces of it. Like riding around town on my bike, going up and going down....argh...well, that's what the dandielion did for me. Wooo! Hefner are coming here soon! They make me feel 18 again. I mustn't like being where I am now, as I love to feel eight or eighteen all the time. Well la-dee-da. I'm off to make mud-pies! luv ty x Get HushMail. The world's first free, fully encrypted, web-based email system. Speak freely with HushMail.... http://www.hushmail.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: Drizzling night
by zoe charaktinou 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

It's been a while... I don't know,but I just didn't want to write.I felt a bit numb after that incident with the list and I felt intimidated and scared.I thought it would be wrong if I wrote,so... Anyway.It's been a long,nice week.I went to Manchester and silly me I did not think of saying anything on the list-as if you'd care... Today I got my bus B&S t-shirt and the Sinister t-shirt and 3 badges.That made me happy. I'm going to see Nick Cave on Sunday 21/11 in Warwick.Anyone going there? Ellen said about Naxos.Beautiful island.Went there summer 99 for the first time and had a fabulous week.Ellen if you ever go back to Greece go to this island called Folegandros.It's pure magic this place. While in Manchester I found this cd that was a recording of the B&S Bowlie performance and anotherone from a Paris gig.If I find these again should I buy them or not people? Until this summer one of my biggest dreams was to see R.E.M. live.This happened.Best gig ever.Now it is the turn of Belle & Sebastian.I hope this is going to happen someday. I cried a lot today 'cause I got a letter from my mom.I've missed her.It's hard being in another country but I got used to it and going to Manchester made me realise that I actually consider little dark rainy Dudley as home... Well,that's it.Library is closing down so I have to go. Curry on... Zoe "Lay down your arms,and surrender to me..." ______________________________________________________ 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: fucking autumn and what comes with it
by Rebecka popgirl 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

hey I am really wondering this, why do autumn always seem to be the season of bad news?..geeh I hate the dull season does it makes u feel better when your boyfriend calls u and says he'd rather be your exboyfriend than boyfriend. *fukc*.. efter 6 months he realizes of think we are not that alike..hmm well theres not much to do about it than to cry and well go to sleap with an aching head and then try to realize that there is more nice chaps and that this is not always what is supposed to happen to me,though it seems like it is bound to sometimes.. maybe I want to many hugs from people and they cannot give them to me...hmm maybe I just want to be loved and to love someone back.. hugs becky oki give us a hug then pleeeezeeee # go and have a peek at my page it's constantly developing, http://www.angelfire.com/me/Mizzy # ______________________________________________________ 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: in and out in dublin and limerick
by KIRWAN LOUISE 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

i'm gonna die - i'm so bored. i'm stuck here until 7.30 when, joy of joys, i get to take pictures of a sinn fein debate ( there isn't a way i can type that to show just how much contempt i feel at this moment for that). blah. there's a million and one things i could be doing right now. eating for example. i have no money to buy food on me right now though. the only thing i can afford is the free water in the student bar and going in there on my own right now, would only tip me ever so slightly more towards total blahdom. but god, i'm hungry! hmmm...the only positive thing about right now is that i'm listening to burt bacharach and Elvis Costello's"i'll never fall in love" really loudly. actually i'm going to turn it down now, cos it's hurting my ears. ow. actually, today wasn't all bad. i got a free lollipop which is always nice and a lecture was cancelled, which is also always nice. oh - i was told today that there might be a chance that i'll be going to take photos of the chemical brothers next saturday when they play in Dublin. that should be good, i've always liked them and i'll get my expenses paid for the whole thing. i was going to go anyway but i never got round to buying the tickets. so plus one point for me! wow - two mails in two days! they really must be putting something in the water down here. another thing - i've been wearing B'nS t-shirts and badges around college for two years now and in all that time not one person has ever said anything. i've decided that if i ever see anyone with anything vaguely B'nS related, i'm going to march right over to them and introduce myself. forward i know, but the likelyhood of this ever happening are non-existent,so really i've nothing to worry about. now, i've got Nina Simone on my computer. yay. i'm sorry about this mail - it's so downbeat. oh well, thanks for reading down this far and to hell with you too if you didn't louise +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sleazy Salakites
by Dave Simpspoon 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

Hellooo Having lurked on and off for just over a year now, I feel compelled to SING OUT in praise to the mighty Sinister and its many farmyard animiles. I am Dave, I live in Glasgow, I am a student, I am a stereotype. Last night, I went to see Salako and was a bit disappointed. I don't know- I really, really want to like them but everything I've heard by them, inc. stuff at the gig, I just don't enjoy. (w/ the definite exception of 'go on then!...'). Sorry. They were damnably tight and accomplished but I think I am too impatient for their meandering tunes. Support was OK. Fonda 500 were v. lo-fi by numbers w/ Casio keys and songs about monkeys. Late Night Foreign Radio made some booful music, though, I thought (tho' the faster stuff was quite untight). Luckily, I only live across the road, so I stayed 'til the end w/out much fear of being mugged or battered by taxi drivers. Hoorah! Sorry if I have been -ve. Dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Cool Baby
by Curtis Heath 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

this is a true story One evening, when I was just an infant, we welcomed an interesting guest into our house. You see, my parents were once "scenesters" and would've been "rockstars" if it weren't for the drugs. This particular night, My father was forced into the forest by one of his ex-hippy friends who had concocted what seemed to be a brilliant plan to catch loads of trout by the moonlight. My mother stayed in town to catch Iggy and the Stooges with her girlfriend... And CATCH him they did. Iggy came home with my mom after the show to do whatever rockstars do. "Cool bungalow," Iggy said as he entered my house. "Where's your old man?" "Trout fishing." my mom said. "Cool," said Iggy. She took him to my crib where I had been sleeping. "Cool baby," he said. Can you believe that? Iggy Pop said I was a Cool Baby! Anyway... After doing whatever rockstars do, Iggy went through all my dad's thousands of records and selected just three. He put them in his bag and left. A few hours later, my dad came home from his fishing trip to find my mother in her usual post-concert condition. Upon hearing her story, my father exploded! He was filled with jealous anger. He grabbed his hippy friend and cried, "Why!? Why!? Why did you think fishing by moonlight would make us catch more fish? We could've met Iggy fucking Pop! The fish don't care what fucking time it is!" My dad ran over to his record collection and started sorting them in a frustrated manner. He sat there 'til sunrise... 'til he found what he had been looking for. Three albums were missing. Many years earlier, my grandfather gave my father three of his favorite old Big Band records to listen to, and my father had never returned them. Dad's record collection was, and still is very impressive. He simply has EVERYTHING. And all Iggy Pop wanted were my grandfather's BigBand records. Hmmm.... So that's my legacy... Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.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: Mmmm yeah
by Honey 11 Nov '99

11 Nov '99

Hello sheepies, Graham sent me this from the nursery - thought you might like to know. You remember when Stuart was recording this a month or so ago in Glasgow with Bill Wells? Well anyway, it's surfaced - someone who saw it tell us what it was like and if he had a little goatie beard. Also - Linda tells me that she was speaking to someone reading "Nalda Said" on a train to Glasgow this morning (yes! really) who reports that Stuart David is doing his thang at the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh TONIGHT. I can't verify any of this, nor if the aforementioned hippy's going too, so if anyone's going, pack sandwiches and don't blame me if you don't ring them first to verify. People on trains can be nice, but they sometimes dream too much. Oh and the new list rule is that anyone who mentions a part of their body in a list message (e.g. "with thighs like mine I could play for Brazil", "everyone was looking at my breasts, it was awful" etc.) aren't allowed to do it until they've sent a picture of said piece of flesh to the photo gallery. Damon Seils will be responsible for enforcing this policy. Honey xx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham <grstephen(a)bigfoot.com> Hi Your computer threw back the message I sent, must be because I've only been on the list for ten days. I think it might be of interest, as it is genuine > So you're sitting flicking through an endless stream of Sky Digital > channels, all crap. By chance you tune in to BBC Choice who for one hour a > night seem to be taken over by Scottish performers. The programme is The > Beat Room featuring a discussion on 20th century songwriters like Gershwin, > Porter and Carmichael. Cut to a frail looking figure who starts to sing > Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered ( including elaborate intro verse) > accompanied by a piano player. Who? Yes it was Mr Murdoch and he was > stunning, I almsot spilt my cocoa. Later he did Hoagy's Skylark. Wow. At > last digital TV wins. All I want to know now is how many times I might have > missed him on previous shows. > > Graham > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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