November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: i just had to add something.....
by heather mcdonald 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

hello all of my fellow sinister kids. i just had emerge from lurkdom to address a few rumors flying around the list about me right now. for instance, this thing about me grabbing sarah's tits to get mick's attention. what sarah forgot to tell you was that before we hit the dance floor, she whispered to me, "let's go dance next to mick, and when he looks over at us, you reach out and feel me up. he'll love it." to be honest, i was really uncomfortable with the whole thing, but i like sarah and didn't want to hurt her feelings. unfortunately, it was all for naught. we don't even know for sure if he noticed. and the socialist thing. well, sarah is again confused, because it was she who kept yelling while stuart was talking. i think she was making him mess up. and see, it couldn't have been me, because i've lost my voice. and sarah and alasdair are being too hard on stuart, because they were afraid to ask where to buy tickets at. i had to ask, despite 1)not having a voice and 2) not even being scottish. it was the scottish socialist party convention, after all. too bad chris didn't turn up, but thank goodness mick didn't come in his place, because then i'm sure sarah would have wanted me to grab her boobs all over again, and i bet that would have really distracted him. but, i have to say, all in all, i give stuart credit for not laughing during the question and answer section. sample question, "do you think selling out is like remixing?" unfortunately, the rest of what sarah and alasdair had to say was the honest to goodness truth. we did scare waitresses this weekend. it really wasn't very nice. i used to be a waitress. i would have hated us. but i'm pretty sure it was ailsa's fault we drank so much. we also saw a teddy bear with huge tits over the weekend. it was some sort of theme. anyway. you'll forgive me of i've made a lot of typing mistakes, right? i'm sick and i'm medicated. i'm going back undercover now. love, heather ______________________________________________________ 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: You like Belle and Sebastian too?...Cool! Ow!
by Lana622＠aol.com 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

Hey there, Wow! It's been a long time since I posted (waiting for someone to acknowledge her absence) (still waiting) Well, anyway...I'm back, and I'm not going to ask a stupid B+S question that everyone else asks like I used to. I'll tell you a humiliating story about B+S instead. I've been at college since August now (Carnegie Mellon University, if you want to know) and I have not seen *one* person with Belle and Sebastian badges on their bookbags or person. It's been quite upsetting. But I was walking out of bio class on Friday and ran into a guy I knew who was talking to his roomate. He stared in shock at my bag, and then said "josh, josh, she's got the pins!" It took me a second to discern that "the pins" wasn't some disfiguring facial abnormality, but when I saw josh eagerly showing me his bag (which had all nine badges on it) I quickly figured out what he was referring to. Well, to make a long story short, neither one of us had ever met anyone else on campus who like Belle and Sebastian, let alone someone who would put badges on their backpack. So everything's just going really great, and I'm walking and talking very enthusiastically to this (awfully cute) guy who likes my favorite band in the entire world, and I just get the words "what's your favorite album?" out before I walk right into a pole. Oh, the shame. Being the nice guy that he is, he didn't laugh...his eyes just wrinkled up in a show of (hopefully not fake) concern, and he said "are you all right?" And I had to say that yes, I was, and it would have been all right if some jerk behind me hadn't yelled out at the top of his voice "DID YOU JUST RUN INTO A POLE?" ha ha...very funny. Possibly the most embarassing thing that's ever happened to me, and it was B+S related. Nobody on this list can probably relate, but hopefully you can all either feel bad for me or laugh at me behind your hands. I think Jen (the owly girl) and I should start up a Belle and Sebastian related injury club. Wow, I'm even laughing at myself now. That felt healthy. Oh, and one more thing...even though I ran into a pole while I was talking to him, josh lent me the amazing dog on wheels single. Does anyone else think that the first guitar riffs off of track 3 are exactly the same as that offspring song "the kids aren't all right"? Does anyone even *know* that song? Okay, just checking. Watch out for poles, Laine +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: penis shaped guns
by danielle redden 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

my mum, your mum, our mum wrote: >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 this happened to me after i returned from a magnetic fields gig on sunday evening. on opening the cupboard for a tea-cup i was whacked on the head three times. of course it was on the front of the head rather than the back. painless indeed, but i stumbled to my cd player, put 'em on, and was is a dizzy silly state late into the evening. on a bed a peacocks and roses - for contrast. i woke up monday morning with my clothes still on, amazingly enough. sitars make me conscious of my posture. and b&s make me speak in accents. if the rumors are true next spring will be a season of staight spines and expatriotes from the old world slapping me upside the head for my mockery. i apologize for my former post (the one prior to this one.) i was drunk. i hallucinating about all the unbrellas in london. my lips were chapped. i was longing to buy a buffalo bank from a truck stop in nebraska. danielle Whaat!!! Have you tried The Doghouse??! Get your FREE WEB-BASED EMAIL account at: http://doghousemail.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: Tommy Sheridan on a t-shirt....you've got to be joking
by Sarah Wheeler 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

Comrades Yes, I too attended the Socialism 2000 thingymajig. It was interesting, if not a bit scary as we walked past people having indepth conversations about 'issues', and 'fighting the cause' etc etc. And it smelt really bad too. Alasdair pointed out that Stuart was going a bit grey, although I think it was just the light, or possibly the effects of Alasdair consuming vast quantities of methylated spirits over the previous two days. Anyways, if he is going grey, it would help to explain the (unfortunate) overuse of red hair dye earlier this year. In true Belle and Sebastian style, the workshop did not start until about 45 minutes after it should have, and Stuart's, ahem, speech was short, but not short enough for him, me thinks, who did not seem to know what to say. He looked as if he had just been taken from the Clairol Loving Care aisle in Boots and plonked on the stage. We still think he's great though, don't we, Heather??? The whole fiasco was most enjoyable though, despite the non-appearance of Chris Geddes, who was probably in the pub drowning his sorrows over the football. Oh and Heather embarrassed me and Alasdair by cheering and yelling and clapping and stamping her feet every time Stuart said something[1]. This following the blatant attempt to get Mick Cooke's attention by grabbing my tits on Friday evening at the Bedsit[2]. Ttutt, you just can not take some people anywhere! Anyways, I had a simply sinistertastic weekend. Cheers to all involved. Oh yeh, while I'm here.....I'll be moving to London in 2 weeks. If anyone can help me out with accommodation, either a room, or advice on how to go about getting somewhere, can they mail me privately. I'll love you to bits, I really will. Actually, I love you all. Comrade Sheenee xxxx [1] and [2] - one of these is simply not true +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: guardian band diary (fwd)
by Honey 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

Here goes. Enjoy - Katrina tells me it's on Mick's band site anyway, if you've been there today but if not, well, it's here too. Honey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- DIARY OF A BAND 27th October 1999 Stuart Murdoch passes the baton on to Chris Geddes for the next Belle and Sebastian diary Being a Guardian columnist has afforded me a lifestyle I could previously only have dreamed of. After my first one was published, my friend Andrew Divine and myself were invited to DJ at the London girl-group night Da Doo Ron Ron. The night went pretty well, if you'll pardon my unchecked egotism, even though Andrew wouldn't let me play the Roxanne Shante record I had with me. It was probably fair enough. Most folk there were pretty 60's doing that London mod dancing. We dragged them right up to date though, with a set ranging from 60's female soul right through to 70's female soul. Somehow they kept the roof on, but the night was livened up with the presence of a fair Glasgow contingent. Among them was Stevie Jackson who along with Richard had been at an awards dinner the previous night. Also at the dinner was living legend Ronnie Wood. Woody was allegedly too inebriated to speak, so Stevie, ever the gent, gave him a glass of champagne as he was leaving. A typical evening for both of them, obviously. I briefly attempted record shopping this afternoon, but my head was too sore to do much so I went for the train to see my parents. Mum is going to Canada with her sister to visit their other sister at the weekend. I've not been down here since Christmas so I thought I'd come through to see her and Dad before she goes. The upshot of all this jet-setting about is that this time the deadline catches up with me in Essex. It's not all glamour, though; I missed the 'History of Pornography' to write this. Anyway, I'm going to have to submit this by electronic means which is quite a leap forward considering I walked into the office with the last one scrawled on a reporter's notebook. Times change fast. Chris Geddes +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: a plea
by Thessaly1＠aol.com 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

hey there kids! i was browsing amazon.uk in search of a copy of "nalda said" and alas, they have it, but with the cost of shipping (about 5 pounds for a wee book) i would end up spending 17 bucks for it! i am sure it would be worth every cent, but if there was a kind soul out there who could purchase and send the book to me for less moola and would have a happy day! see, i am a teacher and all and horribly underpaid and don't have much dough to throw around. well e-mail me privately if you are feeling generous and want to help out an american lass. :o) toodles, jennifer juniper +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: stash the tea, stash the tea- the british are coming
by Poppixxie＠aol.com 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

goood evening all. i guess some of you shall be reading this in the morning but well i hope you then had a good evening or will have one tonight. incessant rambling must be put to and end- i shall accomplish this task with a period. zombies yes! i am quite bedazzled by that lovely band. they are a quintessential sixties group...and when you get sick of the beatles, byrds, beach boys and simon and arty the zombies is what you have to run to. nick drake wouldn't be too shaby either. lately i've been really into video game-like sounding music. my dearest friend seth accidently lended me his soundtrack to final fantasy vii....which actually means i placed it into my cd case while we were on holiday a few weeks ago and never gave it back. anyhow, i've been parading around my house to it all the day long. fabulouso!! so in continuing with the trend i purchased takako minekawa. she's cute. spunky. though i also purchased the minders "hooray for tuesday" and tortoise. very diverse trip to the record store yet all yummy nonetheless. some sad news though, i found out today i am allergic to nuts. yes, my jaw locked and my skin felt as if i had a sunburn...very peculiar. and yes i am finallly going to work some content in....and here it goes.... okay, also on a sadder note gigmania.com tried to fool me today and i fell for it's wiles. although i know them not to be on tour as of now, i typed in belle and sebastian just for kicks. the screen proceeded to act according to response of glad tidings- belle and sebastian are playing, i exclaimed! however the screen followed up it's rising action with a grave disappointment- nothing. a blank computer staring straight at me with it's dread-awful glow. hmmmmm....... i think it's time for me to do some homework (dread). farewell, shawnee +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: think yer 'ard mate?
by Walkn10＠aol.com 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Who taught you to cuss like that Eran? I like a good profanity every now and again, but your missives read like sensory overloads of explitives and curses. I've never heard "fuck" or "fucking" worked into so many sentences and still have them read half coherently in my life, which is a compliment I suppose. I'm not saying you don't have the right to say whatever you feel, but I just find it pretty damn funny that amongst the largest collection of soft boys and twee kittens on earth we have the world's most prolific and brash cusser ever. I think you should name the next B&S record "Fucking right mate this is new Belle and fucking Sebastian album you bloddy fucking cunt rag." I think Stevie might like it...hows about it Mick? 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: falling falling with my heart still broken
by danielle redden 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

good evening kids. someone wrote: >ps...is it really silly to actually be >considering flying over to england >just to go to ATP? i flew over to england for the bowlie. and for the cancelled ATP. silly? yes, very much so. worth it? oh indeed indeed indeed. someone else wrote: >I love getting lost. It's impossible to do in >a tiny place like England. >That's one thing we've got, here, in America, >a whole lot of the =middle of >fucking nowhere=. >It's easy to feel exceptional when everything >else for miles around is 187 >cm shorter than you are. 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. the other day i was in a used book store and randomly pulled a kay boyle book of essays off the shelf, opened the book and started to read. read her story of how she was living in europe during the mc carthy era and all her european friends advised her "don't go back to america now, it isnt your country anymore." because fascism was rearing its evil head in america, her european friends did not want her to go home, for fear of her life, her freedom. in the end of the essay, boyle says "(i decided) no, this was the time to return....this one of the times of history when one must go back and speak out with those of the other america clearly and loudly enough so that even europe will hear." so of course my situation is different. but i am torn. he wants me to come to england where "things arent as bad" and he can love me close instead of stay here in the states and work and speak out and act and get lost and be far away from him. a dilema indeed. and the suggestions keep coming. soft and quiet. "maybe things will look better there because they couldnt be much worse........" (did you all notice how i nicely slipped in my b&s content? there is more where that came from...) i walked into my apartment yesterday to find my roommate in tears, sitting on her bed. she was listening to the first track on IYFS. it was her first time ever listening to b&s. it was by accident. my cd just happened to be in her cd player....but my friends, she IS a track and field star. has been for years. will be forever. and another falls in love again. danielle Whaat!!! Have you tried The Doghouse??! Get your FREE WEB-BASED EMAIL account at: http://doghousemail.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: think yer 'ard mate?
by Corpora Arenacea 09 Nov '99

09 Nov '99

Okay, can I be the first in line to mention that GEORGE DICKIE FUCKING ROCKS? CAPS AND ALL. Ha. Actually second in line. You've got fan(s) already, e-kid. As someone whose voice is a yell at its softest, I have an appreciation for someone so damn EMPHATIC. Especially about MOZ. Especially having spent a few months under the thumb of a strict Morrissey-suppressing relationship. But I shan't start that. Fuck everyone who ever sobbed about their Sad Sack fucking love life on the list. That's what the records are for. You know, the Belle and Sebastian ones. It's embarrassing reading that shit. Half because you know you've been in the exact same pathetic fucking boat, half because it's embarrassing watching someone so shamelessly begging for sympathy. Well, you've got my sympathy, but I'll never tell you so. This world sucks. Ghost town of lost list crushes. Where's the wit, where's the fire. Where are all those assholes that made me feel five fucking inches tall when I joined, those endlessly stylish and cruel cunts who more than anything else made me want to be =better at it=. And don't you give me any shit about being list-referential here, Paul, I'm trying to get these fuckers to start writing again, too. Whew! Where am I. Oh yes. Texas. Lest y'all think that I paint my whole canvas in shades of dung and chitin, I'd like to give a big fucking SHOUTOUT to all the warm-hearted Texsterines who sent me greetings and salutations and made me feel so damn =welcome= in their huge, Clyde Scrubblefield-ass state. Two years in DC and I didn't get half as many "Howdy"'s as I got from just one week in TEXAS. Hooray for TEXAS. I even got advice on which songwriter I really want to fuck next time I'm in Austin. JAMS, no? Love's a pile of shit. Long live love. Kiss kiss- -Eran ______________________________________________________ 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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