November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: These are the best days
by Brandt Fundak 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

I've been pretty geared since I heard that Hefner was playing cleveland in a few weeks. I saw two great shows this weekend--Archer Prewitt/Quasi and the Olivia Tremor Control. I finally managed to track down a Boy Crazy recording. I bought a record player for my friend. And then I found out the best thing that could be said next to "Belle and Sebastian are touring" and having it not be a lie. The SOFTIES are recording a NEW ALBUM. When I saw that Jen had gone off with Gaze and Jen was in Kissing Book I feared the worst. But they are back. The Softies are back. And the world is a better place. Brandt "It's me, it's me, it's that D-O-Double G." --The Road Dogg +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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, georgians!
by Josh Baze 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

thank you to the kind souls who recommended what to do/where to go to buy records while in atlanta. i had a great trip thanks to you all. if you ever find yourself in atlanta, tune in to Album 88.5 FM (a great recommendation)! Without question the only station where you can hear a set of: hefner merle haggard the wedding present handsome boy modeling school thanks again. josh +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: we all live in a yellow soup turrine....
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Ok, I know I'm not the world's best speller... Hello all and sundry! I think I have to say, that Hefner are amazing. But, yeah, darren has a whiny voice. I only bought breaking god's heart because of the crap reviews it was getting, and i thought, "well, maybe somebody should root for the underdog and buy their record." And lo and behold, I did and promptly burst into tears at The Librarian. Mind you, I did have my period then (tooooo much information....). Also Gregory's Girl, is the best film in the history of best films. I first saw it when I was 10 (it was made before I was born doncha know) and I just thought it was really funny. But then I went and called my dad a prick really loudly in church, because I didn't know what it was. My, my. I have been naughty this week. I've been dogging school choir to go to public speaking and I've been dogging public speaking to go down to the chip shop. Oh, and I'm dogging RSNO practice to go to a debating competition. If anybody happens to be going, I'll be main speech for St Brides High School, and please don't ask me hard questions. I listened to ooberman for the first time today, and I think they're amazing. 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. I think that's complimentary, but I don't know how he stands on fictional characters which feature commonly in Enid Blyton stories that aren't about boarding school. Bye bye, 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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Re: Sinister: Be patient and I'll let you see my carrot rope.
by Boneboy54＠aol.com 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Hey, 'Speak, See, Remember' ... Pleasure to see that there are some *Pavement* fans out there... In my opinion, I regard "Terror Twilight" as one of the finest releases this year. "Hey little boy, would you like to know whats in my pocket or not? It's no ploy. It's no gimmick. It's the chance of a lifetime." Best, amtjr +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: with a match thats mean and some gasoline you wont see me anymore
by Tigerxdare＠aol.com 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

hello everyone, i have not written in awhile, things here have been crazy, and alot of stuff has had me confused and upset, but everything now is better, and things are looking good. i miss you all. now that things have settled down a bit i can keep up with my email and write you all back sooner...i must say, i heard the new fiona apple cd and it is completely incredible. i love her so much and i think she has incredible talent. i saw her new video and it was very cool looking, i found out more about it and it was actually shot with an old camera from the 1920's and i thought that was just really interesting... i rented the movie 200 cigarettes, i had already seen it once before in the theaters, and i felt the need to rent it again because it was just so damn good, and courtney love is fab....so me and the girl i was seeing, well me and her just didnt work out. i met a new boy a couple of weeks ago, and i really like him alot, me and him have been seeing each other and its just really confusing to me now, because i really hate it when you are seeing someone but you never know if you can actually consider them your boyfriend/girlfriend. i really hate that you know? i hate how everything is so damn casual in the 90's, i mean dating isnt even a word people even use that much anymore, its just like everyone just goes together and just hooks ups and noone is ever really caring about anything more than their own selfish psysical needs. i think that we as a sinister community are growing in numbers all the time, and strength is in numbers you know. we should start a revival of dating. i think the dates should come over with flowers and that you all should get dressed up in cute/handsome clothes and have a nice evening out. not just this random psysical shite and then goodbye. well whos with me here?? im sure some of you have got to want to do that and really care about your emotional closeness with the other person....alright well i must be going. i will talk to you darlings later. 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: how will i get her to strike a po (or a tinky winky) ?
by fiona 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

hey kids, today was meant to be a good day. i knew this because i awoke to the sound of the boy with the thorn in his side being played on simon mayo's mystery years, the smiths seem to crop up with alarming regularity on this programme, but i musn't grumble. can anyone (in the uk, sorry to bore everyone else, but these things plague me) who was awake at this unholy hour confirm that the mysteryu voice was terry hall? because i had to leave before the answer was played. today, in fact, was a good day, although it managed to do that without anything actually happening, but i made mashed potato with real potatoes, got my ticket for the upcoming gorky's gig and had an afternoon nap, which was only interrupted by a horrible nightmare about ex-boyfriends and ugly girls. i have to agree with whoever it was that said they don't like girls (erica?) somehow i just always seem to get on better with blokes (and i don't even shag all of them). i always feel like when i meet a girl they are looking me up and down to see what features they can bitch about to their friends in the toilets later on. i think i'm paranoid denurr nurr nurr (shakes head in a rawk stylee) on the subject of meeting people called sebastian, my old head of sixth form called her son sebastian and she got really excited when she saw me wearing my people in flares t-shirt because it said sebastian, and apparently its really difficult to get things for your kids that have sebastian written on them. back to my productivity... .... i did some writing today - about parks in the autumn. this is because i walk past two parks on my way to uni. they're probably quite scary places, but at this time of year they give me a desperate longing to walk hand in hand with someone pretty, through the fields, kicking at the golden autumn leaves. sigh, now i feel lonely, but poetic, thats kind of a nice feeling, like a dull ache. one more thing, i write to you about all the crises and adventures i experience (well not everything, but you get the gist), and sometimes some of you reply. i make one passing comment about JAM and i'm bombarded with mail bellowing JAM JAM JAM!!! what does this say about my beloved sinistereenies? i'd rather not imagine. stay beautiful, fiona ++ fretting about whether i'm a sheep or a goat +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: speak, see, remember
by KIRWAN LOUISE 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Good lord, it's been one of those days. ( weell, not really - but hey, it sounds far more dramatic like that...i think) nah, it just took 20 minutes of my life to get into my inbox today. not fun. ( insert exhaling slowly sighing noise here.....) I got to pretend i was a real photographer last night. hurrah! i was taking photos for the college paper at a gig in town. i hope they get put in ( they were in focus....mostly anyway). oh - i also ended up on the stage with the band. by mistake though - not cos i was invited or anything. i was backstage, poking around, looking for stuff to do, when i found a black curtain ( "what's behind here?"). anyway i ended up on the stage, looking desperately for the curtain (" crap, crap, crap - where is it?"). i found it in the end - i don't think too many people noticed me either :) only 2 weeks 'til i get to go and see Eddie Izzard. yay! he's about the only genuinely funny comedian out there and he's got such nice shoes. i've seen most of his videos and his stuff on ch4 - i'll die a happy girl if this show's half as funny as any of those. here's hoping...and one of my favourite lines; >>and they have this new improved thing, with cat and dog food, new improved, and who knows? Who checks? You have to give it to your dog, and say "is it new improved?" And the dog goes "I don't know, I'm a dog". << i don't know why that's so funny. it just is. no b'ns content today. only vaguely b'ns like events - like watching Dave ( editor of college paper ) from afar. i dunno, i feel silly getting of the bus, seeing what direction he's heading in and going the same way. i should really do something, but what? As my friend ben would say - toughen up bitch ( damned aussie :) hmmm. anyway...that's all that's in my head today. see ya round mishter bond.... louise (ps, don't you wish the keyboard had a sarcasm button. the text would come up as red perhaps) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sheep and sex
by Honey 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Hello, Looks like it's me again, I always seem to turn up round here in the end. /me flops on your sofa for a bit. Thank you those who have done their little bits to revive the list after it had its near-fatal heart seizure, and been brave enough to post thoughtful things in the midst of the raging inferno. No thanks to the few who haven't bothered, and just followed the dictates of their flying egotistical fingers (good name for a band? no), and not really added to our collective consciousness. This list seems to be dividing nicely into sheep and goats. I can't remember whether we're supposed to prefer sheep or goats, someone biblical will remind me, but lets say the sheep CARE because I once knew a sheep called Boris in Normandy who ate apples out of your hand at the table. So I'm pleased to see there are very few goats, if you're following me, and their numbers might drop a little more in a bit. I said I would do something if anyone tried to start up that ridiculous non-debate again, and my god, there's nothing original in it. No disrespect for goats. Just please remember, if you send a mail to the list trying to start up the debate all over again of who's posting what, criticising others posts, picking people off with your big penis-shaped gun, you'll be getting a mail from me. And the rest of you, please know that although Mummy gets a little angry, she loves you, especially those who take more than 5 minutes over what they send to us all. And those who've mailed me I'm *still* wading through so don't take my lack of reply as anything other than being like a squirrel with too many nuts. I fully expect a mail from Peter Miller (sheep of this parish) about big penis-shaped guns now, hopefully. Did I dream or did someone called Spencer Lloyd send a mail a month or so ago about doing the business in a park and his "colleague" humming the theme from "Cats - The Musical" as he did? More of that please Spencer, it was a delightful treatise on sex, love, music and power in the 21st Century. Or was it another list I was on? How embarrassing. Has anyone else bought the Magnetic Fields triple, put it on, thought "ho-hum" and put it in the cupboard, only to find it leap out and whack you on the back of the head a bit later? There's something fabulous about a single piece of work (because I think it is) which is so long that by the time you've got to the end, you can't remember the beginning again, and when you get to it you think, "oh yeah THAT" and like it all over again. I think it's clever and nice and cosy and scary and I don't care if bits sound a bit like the Divine Comedy, Tim. Oh and thanks for those who've told me that the latest messages page on the archive site seems to have some messages from January in it. They're actually from November, and I was the first to give Jeff, who runs the site, the bad news that it had happened - he's looking at it. Jeff's doing a wonderful service though, for free, and makes a lot of people happy, so he gets a big round of applause from me. A bit like Spencer. In lighter news, I'm going to start up a new photo gallery for Sinister, and see if anyone dares send me anything. If anyone sends any, it's going to be called "Squishy Bits", or "Gimme Some Skin" or something, and what you have to do is send me a close-up of a part of your body, in focus or not, and I'll put them up on the page. If any particular theme starts to dominate, I might call it "Breasts and Penises". If I get enough bits to make up a person, I might turn list management over to it. Oh and Katrina's just sent me another B&S diary. To follow. Unless you can anonymize your mail yourself (you can and it's most acceptable), it's likely I will know whose bit is whose, but you can always start a new hotmail account and send it me from there if you're shy. I promise that I won't ever divulge who owns what, and your bits will be labelled like in a morgue. This ain't no list crush. But please don't send me stupid cuttings out of Freeman catalogues (say) because if I find people cheating I'll go in a sulk and close it down - genuine you-bits please, I won't be accepting "funnies". I'm hoping Peter sends me a picture of his big penis-shaped gun though. Brings a different perspective on "put a bit of you in your posts to the list". I like sheep. Honey xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: If you're feeling like a minister
by Pamela Hutchinson 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

hello baa baa mmmmmmm... gigs are a good thing aren't they? Amos, formerly of this parish, or mr lemonmelon to most of us emailed me something of interest to those of you living in London. > > see that band tompaulin yeah? > > i had something to do with them. i think i told you that some time ago. = > debut single out now!! (theres a better one on the way in january, oh = > yeah, i know....the debut is awkwardly poppy) > > but i thought i'd just let you know about this little soiree: > > > the smith garrett band & tom paulin ***LIVE!*** > > monday 29th november 1999 around 8-ish pm-ish > > the tattybogle club > kingly court > a secret street just off brewer street, soho. right in the boom boom = > heart of the capital. > (you wont find kingly court in the a-z, but you will find kingly street, = > which is v v v close) to find out more about Tom Paulin, no not that nice irish man round our way who gives lectures on the 'accoustics of poetry' but the 'awkwardly poppy' one you can all surf to: http://www.action-records.co.uk/cgi-bin/tame/Action/action_f.tam apparently. Strange things have happened to me. Firstly I arrived back at college to find that the entire student body was bellensebcrazy so I don't have that authentic lost and lonely alternateen thing going on anymore. My feeawnsay has just turned into Stanley Kowalski. And, a fellow sinisterine, currently of this parish and bleating away like a good un, is singing opera round here on Monday nite and I am going to watch - my very first opera. 'Cept for die fliedermaus (or summat like that) on the tv years and years ago. I'm taking my brother to see Napalm Death - he's a big fan. I'm a very loving and dutiful sister. Pre-gig meet-ups seem to be popular round here, so anyone fancy it? Sunday 28th November, Oxford Zodiac? anyone at all? even those of you in Toronto? really? Oooh I say, hurry home to your hefner seven inches, then. being a very pathetic and malleable person the influence of my school work has convinced me that I am living in the 16th Century. I am reading Malory, Donne and the Chester Mystery Cycles this week. I've forgotten how to use the telephone. I keep myself on the lookout for witches and strange coloured knights. Most of all, thanks to Donne, I keep fancying vicars. oooh, I'm such a leighster! love pamela ^go on, it's fun! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: everybody makes mistakes
by ThisSuffering＠aol.com 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

hello sinisters i dont know how many shoegaze rockers there are on the list, but a new album from the band starflyer 59 is about to be released. its very good. recommended for you MBV, and Slowdive fans. its on Tooth and Nail Records, and available from : <A HREF="http://www.velvetbluemusic.com/">Velvet Blue Music</A> You can listen to some of it on there... I hope people agree with me 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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