November 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Paris 98
by Tom Lee 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Good day everyone. It's my Dad's Birthday today. Happy Birthday! I came by, purely by chance, a b&s bootleg from the paris 98 concert. It's an -A grade (approx). Anyone want to trade? Reply off list. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tom ______________________________________________________ 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: Gear!
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Thanks to you all, I read the issue of Gear at the Trenton train station (don't ask) looking quite the sophisticated (i.e. too wimpy to brazenly read hard porn) modern pervert, what with the in-your-face bikini'd girl on the front. "I'm reading it for the articles on wimpy Scottish folk-rock bands, really!" It did make for an interesting contrast though. Could it be that deep down inside that chauvinist exterior lies the teenage angsty pop kid who believed himself better than the other boys because he liked girls for who they were and in terms of A, B, C and D numbers? Nah, you're right, probably not. It was most likely a favor to one of the editor's old college pals..."Can you fill in four pages about anything you want? Bella who? Well, that sounds great, is she hot?" What becomes a legend most? Stories where the writer tracks down the reclusive artist and talks to the locals. Just smacks of some kind of artsy documentary idea doesn't it? Being Stuart Murdoch...oh well, at least he didn't appear too painfully eccentric or emotionally frail. I hate that, when it seems like the only thing the artist was meant to do was create his or her art, yet they're unable to go down to the store and buy some eggs or something. 'Course, I suppose in some circles his Morrissey fascination won't win him too many points. This is not one of those circles, however. I hope B&S are aware of the fact that the re-release of _Tigermilk_ after _The Boy_ might put some pressure on them...and that they bring back the R-O-C-K in a big way. I wonder--the fourth album is bound to bring some more interesting things into the mix I'm sure. Slightly stylistically different songs, perhaps an emphasis on soul? Who knows. Hopefully they don't get too carried away with the artistry and think they have to go all avant-garde in order to stay "relevant." Fuck relevance, just stay good anyway anyhow. Back to the work I should have started, Xavier BXK bkim0(a)dept.english.upenn.edu | www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 It's what kind of hair you have on the inside that counts.--G.S. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: tigermilk, descartes, Rock Animals, .
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

In a message dated 11/3/99 12:45:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, svesolb(a)hotmail.com writes: << My girlfriend for the last two years is leaving me, but at the same time I just bought an original copy of Tigermilk for $320!!! >> First off, i'm very sorry about the breakup.. those are never fun. (obviously) Is anyone other than me surprised that people are buying original copies of Tigermilk? Did the value not decrease with the reissue of Tigermilk? Alasdair quoted someone as saying Does anyone else know of rock'n'roll animals who > have settled down to get proper jobs? one of the members of the Jam is a furniture restorer, i think. And Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs was a Hari Krishna last i heard. I don't know if you consider handing out flowers in airports a proper job or not, but it's interesting trivia either way. alasdair also said You know, temporary insanity makes for excellent posts. If only I could write things like this. Sigh. Complete insanity, on the other hand, makes for very boring posts, judging from the content of my missives to sinister. INTELLECTUAL PART Does anyone else feel that Descartes eliminated all options but solipsism when he defined the basic starting point of philosophy as "Cogito, Ergo sum"? (i think therefore i am) i didn't think so. What's the latest animal peril from Thailand? 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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response to Sinister: Gear B&S Interview...
by Kimberly Rehak 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

hallo, one of my roommates (or "someone that i live with" or whatever i should refer to them as) pointed out the same interview to me. and about a month before he also directed mine eyes towards a simple review of tigermilk--which was their choice for album in the year...or something such as that. yes, i found it a bit odd. but nice, in a way. perhaps i had too much wine that day. i don't know. i should sleep now. * * * stars for all! * * * kimberly (the girl with the talking bed) "maybe tomorrow i'll see love in your eyes and mine will dry"--the magnetic fields +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: kids, don't be fools, bet it all on the red.
by Helen 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Hey kids, stuff the higher education and the nine to five job, and be like me, become a professional gambler.( I take no responsibility for any losses occured by people actually taking this advice). But only do it if, like me, you have "the gift"... Actually I think after walking in to the local betting place I changed my mind, you know, its not all classy and swanky like the ads say, but a bunch of old men with paunches scratching their crotches and craning their necks to see what just won... But of course as soon as they saw me walk in they felt 'the gift'and turned around in awe, as any seasoned gambler knows, 'the gifted one' deserves all this and more. This is all because I won a largeish amount of money ($500Aus or probably 95p or so in England) on "the Melbourne cup" the race that allegedly 'stops a nation' which is bollocks because it didn't get me out of doing work and exams.... Anyway I bet only once a year or so and my method of choosing a horse consists of, good name, good colours, and good number. I bet $2 on a quinella and god all mighty if it didn't just come in, paying $240 for every dollar put on. Thankyou Rogan Josh and Central Park....I'm on my way from cash-strapped, to still cash strapped with a really good CD collection and a really big hangover. So the question arises.... what to do with this money? (although I think it might be useful in financing my overseas trip in January or so, but stuff it I'm going to spend some) So... I write to enquire about any Australian listees (hey I know this is area specific.)I haven't got any of the B & S EP's/singles (because as you may know the only album that has actually got release here is TBWTAS and the only way I got the other albums was through import) and I was wondering whether any of you have got any of the EP's and how exactly you got them, ie internet, import, etc and what was the cheapest for you. I would like to get Lazy Line Painter Jane and the modern rock song single, as I have heard favourable reviews but even though I have won money lately I don't really want to spend it on stuff that could be avoided. If any of you could mail me privately this would be alot of help and I would be eternally grateful. Thankyou Helen "the gift" Mclean Although after trying to predict other betting things I realised that I have lost the gift.... it has been passed onto someone else, Ah the flighty nature of the gift, it cannot be tied down you know.. ______________________________________________________ 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: t.o. meetup - FINAL details
by deb s 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

last time i promise, alright, final details, done, this is it. saturday november 6th we will meet up at the HORSESHOE TAVERN. a few of us will wait around there from 5pm-ish to 7pm-ish. that gives you a bit of lee-way. from there, we will all head together to angel's apartment for the video viewing. if you can't make it between 5&7 then email angel privately for directions to the apartment. once we are there we'll decide on the rest of the evening's plans (which pub basically). for all the uk listees that have emailed me about coming to this meet up, i'm sorry to inform you that t.o. stands for toronto ontario. should'a made it more clear(?). if you don't know the horseshoe, it is practically right at the corner of queen & spadina (north east side). look out for me (i'll prolly be wearing the blue study at stow shirt) and diana (tall girl always in all black). i think that is it. i hope it is anyway... see you soon deb xx ______________________________________________________ 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: Hopeless German basts.
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Why do those Bayern types turn up? Hola troops. I know that it's been mentioned beforebut the "Radical voice of politics" Tommy Sheridan is holding a socialism thing at Glasgow Caledonian Uni from 7-30pm on Friday.According to his column in the Record "Top Musicians" Belle and Sebastian shall be discussing the music industry. You'll probably have to sit through mucho Communist Republic of Scotland stuff but as a chance for hero-worship it's un-rivalled.See ya there? Steve S +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: my bum your bum our bum
by danielle redden 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

i met a boy this weekend on this march i was on whose name was sebastian. upon hearing this i oooohhhed and aahhhed and asked, of course, if he had ever heard of b&s. he said, "yes, i have. i dont like them much, but i did go on a date once with a girl named isobel." my eyes were wide with interest, my mouth turned in curious knots..... tell me what happened please!! well they went to the opera and i think he quite liked her but she never called again and he was a bit upset by this. end of story. hhhmmmmph. i was so diappointed i forgot to ask why he didnt like b&s. tonight i am going to one of these brit-pop-indie-rock-nights which pop up now and again at various places around philly. some good, some bad. so i'll throw a coin into a fountain and wish i dont get scowled at for wearing all the wrong clothes and dancing all the wrong way. sometimes philly pretends it's new york, which i wish it wouldnt, because it's philly's humility that makes it so nice sometimes. 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: who's afraid of ky too?
by ian 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

oh...its a poor pun.. ooohhhh...its a poor pun.. and its poorer still to return after a month's absence with such a pun and expect people not to hit delete immediately. nevertheless i shall do so. hello again. i have finally read the 527934 messages that amassed while i was on holiday and have probably got things to say about some of them but for the moment i forget.. first purchase on touching the soil of this beautiful, cold little island was looper's new ditty. it seems that it has not exactly met with universal approval from these quarters. i must leap to its defence i like it. it makes me smiley inside. although at the same time i'm aware that it might not be all that good. the jesus jones comparisons ring a little too true. and scarily enough i liked jesus jones at the time as well.. still, for the moment, it holds a special place in my heart. there is something about looper's music that lifts me. it makes me feel more hopeful about being alive. perhaps its because the child-like quality appeals to the (seemingly ever-growing) child within me. and bugger it if that aint a good enough reason to call it marvellous. still on the subject..martin robinson said: >Is it just me or does part of the verse of Looper's Y2K sound like >it's going to turn into the Whole of the Moon by the Waterboys? Not >that this would be a terrible thing, I once went to see Mike Scott's >gang in Oxford for some reason. I was a lot younger and innocent then >though erm... well, having listened to both songs (especially the latter) rather a lot, i can honestly say.... its just you.. a bit of the whole of the moon would by no means be a horrible thing but i can't see it somehow. i'm jealous of you getting to see the waterboys, don't make it sound so sordid... (insert smileyface disclaimer here) and while i'm saying unhip things like "i'm jealous of you getting to see the waterboys" and "i quite liked jesus jones"... i may as well hammer a few more nails into the coffin of my credibility.. i've just watched top of the pops 2. it seems that freddie mercury and david bowie have managed to come up with a new version of "under pressure". damn, that freddie guy is clever. what is it about people called freddie and their ability to exist beyond the grave? the man has managed to be more prolific since his death than he ever was during his life. okay, so most of it is bilge but this particular song is fantastic. perhaps i'm turning into a rock-monster. time to pull out that studded leather jacket, grow my hair and get some blonde highlights. attempt to re-salvage some cool...i'm off to see moz in nottingham on thursday. anybody else going? off to play my megadeath album and do a bit of headbanging hard rocker ian ps. my boyfriend and several of my best friends are currently watching steps at the n.e.c.. curiously they feel no shame about such activities and invited me several times to accompany them. i thanked them politely, but declined. if i want to see talentless gits miming to abba songs i can stand in the middle of a gay club any saturday night. perhaps that was a little harsh. it is my new hard rocker/dirty den image coming through. i'll shut up now. promise. ian "sort of like a gay dirty den, really" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 I'm a Vulcan, then how do you explain my boyish smile?
by Alasdair Cook MC1996 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Quite a good week for TV. New series' of Deep Space Nine and Buffy, and a couple of grrreat rugby world cup semi-finals. These are the things I live for, call me sad if you wish. Better still, call me a cab! Take my wife, etc. I could be the new Bob Hope, you know. I was invited to a party last week, in Inverness! Even more bizarrely, the invite came from the lead singer of Toaster, a band I have never actually heard. Apparently it was going to be fantastic, as there would be "loads of coke, loads of charlie". Now coke I do like (I've always preferred it to pepsi), but I have absolutely no idea who this charlie fellow is. If there's loads of him I suppose he must be quite fat. Maybe he's a comedian, like Bernard Manning. Or maybe he sells turkeys like Bernard Matthews. Sadly though, I had to work, so we shall never know. I've discovered over the past 2 minutes that if you say 'Trousers' in the voice of Unlucky Alf from the Fast Show, it's quite funny. Probably only to me, though. Anyway, here he is. Stevie, not Alf: > Does anyone else know of rock'n'roll animals who > have settled down to get proper jobs? Well quite literally actually, as Animal from the Muppets is actually my local hairdresser. As some of you may have noticed from looking at my barnet, he's not the best there is but, hell, he's cheap. Sinister Minister: > I have now decided that when I finnish uni...etc etc blah blah (rest of sentence not required for piss-poor joke which follows) I have decided that when I scottish uni I'm going to make exams easier so that even dullards like me can pass with flying colours. Louise: > y'know when you 've got a cold and you go around with your mouth > open, a la bob the evil goldfish, for days... BUT THEN the cold starts to go > away and your sense of smell and taste start to come back , only really > slowly, so for a day or so you go around surreptitiously smelling > everything, wondering "will i be able to smell this time?" (hoping that > nobody else has noticed you doing this). then sooner or later everything > comes back and then you can taste and smell everything and then..... you > discover that that milk you'd been drinking really was sour (you'd > suspected, but you weren't sure and were too lazy to go down the shops). i > dunno, you forget how nice stuff tastes sometimes..blah, blah,blah You know, temporary insanity makes for excellent posts. If only I could write things like this. Sigh. "Bottle of": > Mark mentioned that one of the boys from Gregory's Girl > looked like Struan. I think I know which one you mean. I also think > this was the one Arantxa thought looked like Alasdair Cook. He did, > you know. I tried to persuade her that it was because Alasdair has "a > Scottish mouth", but I think I've made that up. I'm not sure which one he means, they're all a bit on the ugly side so it could be any of them. I want to be Kelvin, though. "Don't tough that ravioli, it's garbage". Hey, wait a minute, I just realised this means I must look a bit like Struan. And everyone fancies Struan. Hmmm, something's not adding up. I do have a Scottish mouth, though, here it is now.....haggis. See? Pants again: > May I suggest that Sinister adopts Keith as its official Scottish non-league > football team? I went on holiday to Keith, when I was about 8. It was freezing cold in the middle of July and we stayed in this big stone house on a farm. The only entertainment came from listening to the exhaust on the car batter against the ground every time we went up the hill leading to the house. And my cousin got to name a sheep. Oh, and Scotland captain Colin Hendry comes from Keith. But none of that is of any interest whatsoever. > It looks like there will be a social at the Poetry Café this Friday, bands > still TBC, but it seems possible that those spangly jangle-merchants The > Foxgloves will be making an appearance. Bugger it, I want to go. Issues of distance, and money unfortunately prevent this. But everyone down there should attend. Apparently my brother and his friends were out and very drunk as usual the other night and they met a guy from Philadelphia. So anyway, someone introduces him to my brother's friend as being from Philly, at which point my brother's friend immediately breaks into the theme from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and doesn't stop until he's done the whole thing. This is one of the funniest things I've ever heard, I wish I'd been there. I'm of to watch Rangers give those arrogant German bastards a lesson in something. Losing, most probably. So enough of this nonsense. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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