December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: A plea for help
by Jason Andreas 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

Hiya. Sorry about this blatant abuse of the list but I'm looking for three other listees (pref from Scotland) to share a chalet with for ATP. Could anyone who's interested please contact me at jasonandreas(a)breathemail.net Please! p.s.1. Thanks to Jeanette and Elle & Mummy for caring about they guy I found. It just shocked me a little and I want to make it clear that I wasn't attacking anyone for havig a good time, because that's what it sounds like now that I read it the next day when I've calmed down. p.s.2. Who was the breast donator to the bodyparts thing? Very perfectly formed :Þ --Jason "And in the rapture and the charm Came the tranquil and the calm" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S Newts
by Honey 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

Fluffy little christmas chickies, I do like the tinsel in your beaks! You look so cute. I want to nestle you all in my arms and sing you christmassy songs about the farmyard. Interestingly that's the name of the next B&S album, the whole sentence. But it's only a working title. Below you'll find the latest B&S diary entry from the Guardian, written by the lovely and fragrant Mickolas Cookulas. He's probably put it on his band site by now, but a few people encouraged me to keep shoving it into your boxes so here it is. Thanks Katrina. Katrina also wished me to alert you to a very sad fact: the proposed Peel session by the band didn't happen - again go to Mick's site for the lowdown. Apparently Stuart David had a runny tummy, how freaky. What a bummer, in fact. For details see: http://www.myspace.co.uk/belleandsebastian/news.html I was much disturbed by Jason's mail about finding an old man dead in a cafe! My goodness, that's hardly a twee thing to find is it, little chickies. It reminded me of when I got back from the Bowlie extravaganza and found our newt Bobbie (or Thelma, we could never tell which was which) dead in our kitchen - he (/she) had made a brave attempt at freedom and crawled out the newt tank, across the kitchen floor and dried out and died by the kitchen door - I imagine the poor little thing getting slower and slower like Charles Hawtrey in the desert in Carry On Follow That Camel (Bowlie link, trivia fans). Amazingly the cats hadn't eaten Bob/Thel, which is odd because they eat everything, including raw pasta and earwax. I cried and cried after finding the newt dead honestly, you can ask Linda or Michele, I was a real pain. I imagined Jason's old man like the poor little shrivelled newt leaning over a bowl of newt soup, only in a suit and tie and possibly a newt hat, and then I thought that's a bit insulting because people are supposed to be more important than newts. You can see an artist's impression of Bobby and Thelma on the "things" photo page if you want. There's lots of other new photos too, some rude. Next week: newt bodyparts. Finally a Christmas plea. I know a make a pain of myself on this list, so I daren't do it on another one too. For two years I've jealously lusted after a copy of the Marbles list's double CD "Dustbin" and sent off three sets of blank CDs to people who've not sent me a Dustbin back and my heart is wilting from disappointment. If anyone HAS a copy and the ability to do me one, I'll be your friend forever, and you can meet Jesus in our kitchen. See, we have a baby newt now, born posthumously after Bobbie/Thelma died, so it's a sort of mysterious virgin birth newt thing, and when it grows up might well be Jesus of the newt world, which brings us back to Christmas and makes me think of the lovely Low EP, even though Jesus Newt might come to a sticky end, if newts are as cruel as people. So if anyone can send me a Dustbin set, you can be a newt Wise Man or Shepherd and bring bloodworm, frankincense and myrrh and be a star in the Newt Estament. Finally finally: for all of you going away over Christmas and the Milleniummm, or just intending to turn off your computers and contemplate celestial peace and goodwill PLEASE remember to suspend your list subscription over the holiday period. It's dead easy, you just send a mail with "set sinister nomail" in the body of your message to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net" and then send a "set sinister mail" when you get back - "set sinister-digest nomail" etc. if you're a digester. If you do, you won't get put back in the nursery, if you don't and your mail account runs over quota, I get a deluge of error messages and the list software suspends your account. If you want to see more details, refer to a mail of mine from ages ago at: http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/1999-month-03/msg00254.h… which I see is poignantly titled "Sinister: Bobby and Thelma doing fine". I think I'm going to cry again. Sorry for all the newt stuff. Honey x ************* DIARY OF A BAND 8th December 1999 Belle and Sebastian's trumpet player takes his turn to write for Guardian So we all trooped down to Newcastle to record for The Apocalypse Tube. It was not quite what we had expected. More than half of the 'live' show was pre-recorded. And much to Stevie's dismay, Paul McCartney was no longer recording on the same day as us, as was planned. The train broke down ten minutes outside of Edinburgh, so we waited an hour and a half before a new engine arrived. Richard and I got chatting with a really nice old lady, which passed the time. We ended up an hour late for the soundcheck. Stuart David had driven down with his brother, so was already sitting there on the vast stage (complete with 12 foot catwalk- it was the same stage as Robbie Williams was using) when we arrived. We had to go on quite late, because Carl Cox was late arriving. He just shuffled in, did his fifteen minutes, then pissed off again. Business as usual for him, I expect. The only other band being recorded on the Friday was Underworld, so the audience was somewhat different from the audience we're used to. Most of the women looked as though they were auditioning for a part in a dramatisation of Sid the Sexist, and one guy was even wearing see-through PVC trousers and Ali G shades. We had to tell them that this was the chill-out part of the evening. That seemed to go down okay. We recorded two songs. We did two takes of one, 'The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner'. We asked if they could show the first. They showed the second. All I can remember about that second take was me playing the wrong chord at one point, and Stevie turning to me and shouting, 'Play the right chords mate!'. Although said purely in jest, I went to pieces, playing a succession of wrong chords after that. Afterwards, in the hotel bar, our manager Neil and Tony (Doogan, our producer) did us proud by humiliating several members of Chris Moyles' entourage. Neil poured gin into Moyles' pint when he wasn't looking. Tony challenged one of them to a Riverdancing competition, and proceeded to wipe the floor with him. Comedy Dave, my arse. Mick Cooke +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: b&s bus karma
by Angel Blackwell 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

First off it was nice to see a trashcan sinatras quote in someone's subject line this morning. (Ummm, I can't remember who it was though, sorry eh?) I had a disturbing bus ride in. The usually busy bus I missed. Then this other bus comes screeeeeeching into the station. It said it was the express route on the outside but the crusty little driver said it was a different one. Since I knew I had too wait a long time for the next express, I jumped on. No one else did. We're driving along, TBWTAS playing in my little ears, and he's not picking anyone else up. It was like taking a large, smelly, red stretch limo. I thought for a second that he was trying to steal lil'angelic me...he kept honking at things that weren't there, I wanted to ask him if he was really a bus driver, or did he just steal a bus. I got to work a lot earlier than usual, (I actually started on time eh.) I don't think I want to have my own bus again. I should really get up the balls to talk to the 2 cute boys who usually ride on the same bus as me. Then there would be more than just lil'angel on the bus by his lonesome...and it's always good to talk to cute boys. bye the angel blackwell. ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: stuff
by rachel tucker 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

are you sitting comfortably? then i'll begin.... aarrgghh!! i know i've been a bit of a recluse lately and been to hardly any gigs, but i can't believe i managed to miss the samurai seven play oxford point on saturday. I didn't even know about it! they're like my favourite oxford band by a considerable margin (and yes, that does include radiohead), and they're so cute with their stage wear and leaping routines. i'm damn annoyed i can tell you. the sammies are just like buses, they don't play for months and then 2 gigs in a week - they're playing a covers night on friday at the point if anyone's interested, except i can't go then either!! all gigs on the wrong side of payday should be free goddamn, and bus fare and alcohol and.....i'm skint....it's not fair....xmas is too damn expensive....<sob> <sniffle> <tissue> okay, i've recovered now i've always thought that all you who have b&s dreams were freaks, no offence. i mean, i often have celebrity dreams because they invade the media to such an extent that it's hard to get away from them. this has meant i've woken up in a cold sweat with the horrendous image of ronan keating shagging fern britton. don't ask. however, last night i had a b&s dream. well sort of. admittedly none of the band were in it , but that's not suprising as i only vaguely know what half of them look like. i can't remember much , but it went something like this... i was at the top of a hill, which at the bottom sloped back up to make another hill. like in a v shape. at the top of the other hill opposite was bobby gillespie (you should NEVER listen to 'vanishing point' last thing at night). we were both sat on dogs on wheels (d'you see??) and holding those long pointy sword things (oo-err missuss), like in a jousting competition. being a dream it kind of leapt at this point, and i was hurtling down the hill and when i got to the bottom bobby knocked me off my dog with his sword. the dream tailed off after that, i'm not sure what happened next. still, i don't think i want that analysed.... right, time to rapidly change the subject methinks... so owen pulled a bird then did he? lucky bitch...oops, may have given away one of owen's list crush votes there :-) i can't believe that i am nearly 18, nearly a proper grown-up, and i still got very stressed and worried about parents evening last week. i am still experiencing the aftermath too - my mum's phoned from work twice already today to see that i'm getting on with all my overdue work, and haven't gone out or gone to bed. of course just because i'm at home doesn't mean i'm doing any work.... but no, i feel guilty. must write essay(s). lots of love rachel 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: kids, don't rat on your friends.
by Steve Kado 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

ah, christmas time...this is sort of an anniversary for me where the band is concearned. last year my mum bought me a copy of sinister to replace my shitty tape copy. and so to me the festive season and 'get me away from here i'm dying' go together. maybe we should make it an official christmas carol, after all, i'm sure jesus must've said something like that while he was nailed up there. although maybe that makes it more of an easter carol..... speaking of christmas, i picked up the low xmas record yesterday. its sad. for sad christmases. i think i'll save it till something terrible happens on christmas. then i'll crank it out real loud and cry and cry and cry....maybe there are seals being clubbed somewhere, that's pretty sad isn't it? also, i find i'm listening to alot of ODB. gawd, what a fine piece of work! it makes me wonder if crack would make me as cool as ol' dirty himself...damn! hey, and i mentioned b&s right off the bat. hooray for me. also, i had two votes in the list crush! damn, hey, if you're around chinatown in toronto you two mysterious types are always welcome to come over and look at the agnes martin book i have on my coffee table, or watch degrassi or something. m.c. steven kado +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: megan is a big, fat FREAK of nature
by **Megan Lehar** 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

so i'm a big loser, but i'm sure you're all glad to know about my illicit correspondance with jordi. sigh. i swear that's the first time i've ever done this on my over two years with the list (when in doubt, throw in senority). so, um, yes. so sarah said: >The other day I had a Sinister-ish dream. Tim Hopkins was in it. We went >to the >pub. But then Tim started shouting going "We're not going to this fucking >over-crowded commerical pub, let me take you to a real boozer", and he led us >to a place where the main attraction was that when you went in, the staff >handed you rubber truncheons, and you could beat up as many police-people as >you wanted, for the price of a pint!! Crackin'! And one policeman was naked. >Urgh. The others were fully uniformed. Honey was there, sneaking peeks. > >Analyse THAT, Megan Lehar! so always up for a challenge, i will do so. it's been awhile since i took psychology, so lemme think back.... ok, it's all about sex. first off, tim hopkins was in it, and being the stud that he is, any dream about him must radiate hot man sex. his disdain of commerical pubs for "boozers" stands as a metaphor for his disdain of conventional sex for kinky shit involving, most likely, hoses. when you get to the rubber phallic symbols to beat policemen with, i think that means that you want to give it to authority figures up the bum. it's quite phallic. though lacking a phallus yourself, you must use something big, hard and rubber. why do i bother? so ellen said: >christmas has come to sweden. it's lucia today. girls in white >nightgowns walk the streets of sweden singing songs, and we're all >drinking a warm, cinnamon-tasting wine called glögg, and therefore we're >all friendlier and happier and..cozier. i had my first cup for >breakfast, now it's time for dinner and it isn't over yet... and somewhere, not sure where he is, but whatever, i know that tag is reading this and wanking off. i love you all, megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu are we not men? we are magnetic fields. http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ updated 8/5/99 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Yoga is good, really it is!
by jane gadsby 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

>It is with the deepest regret that I announce that my littlest >friend, my >dear hamster, Thurston, has gone to hammy heaven. I >converted a hair dye >box into a little hammy coffin and laid him in it and covered >him with >woolly hammy bedding and buried him under the rosemary >bush in the back >garden. And shed a little tear. I have such happy >memories of him rolling >around a home-made hammy assault course in his plastic >ball and if I shut my >eyes I can still feel him crawling up my arm, over my >shoulder and down the >back of my cardigan. I'll leave a decent period of mourning >(two weeks) and >then go out and buy Thurston II. I completely forget who just posted this, but my condolences on your loss. Happy news is that Rosemary is suppose to symbolise rememberence so you may have years to come of lovely Thurston thoughts! I do think Thurston may be a unlucky pet name though, as once I had a Thurston kitty and I went out, with my window and door locked, and when I returned he had vanished for good, sponateous combustion I suppose because their was no trace of my beloved. So sad. Such a lovely name, such a lovely kitty! um, now I am saddened. Okay no B&S content at all, but I am listening to Beautiful so that does count right? Last week I was informed that this should be my theme song, which was quite flattering for two seconds, until I remembered the mental, tempermental bit, not to mention the part where they let her go blind! "Not that part just the beautiful part!" i was told, but then they retracted that and said they were joking! But that is the smallest part of the song really isn't it? Oh life is cruel! I am developing a tempermental complex thouh especially since someone last week was on about how they were feeling disturbed or something,( Not at all these word, but I have no memory!) And then they said they should take up yoga, or maybe not take it up but something about Yoga, which made me all paranoid that I am deeply disturbed , because my greatest love is Yoga, there I have confused! It all began just after Thurston really, so hamster griever beware! Um, I hate to ask but what is going on with the North American tape tree??? Okay well Happy thoughts for everyone! I am off to love my sticky mat! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Art and the need for fodder on the list
by Catspaw1＠aol.com 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

I'll be up til three a.m. or so doodling greeting card illustrations... listening to the B&S eps... it occurs to me this list needs a healthy chunk of new B&S to smooth out the rough spots... ...and a few of these Britkids get pretty rough when (in fits of youthful exuberance) they reach just a bit too far for the words they want to abuse... B Clay thinking aloud... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sorry, but I need some help...
by Jordi Trenzano 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

Hi everyone: I have to write about 25 pages on the controversy of violence in cinema, with an special part about the release of "Fight Club". If anyone could help me, IŽd be reeaaly grateful. Mail me privately, and to jordi(a)belleandsebastian.org , not here. On the other hand, IŽve been visiting the Napster community, and depending on the cour that youŽre connected youŽre able to download more or less songs. The fact is that I got some songs from the black sessions, and their sound is great. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: snow patrol
by orbitat 13 Dec '99

13 Dec '99

i thought that someone wrote about snowpatrol asking how they sounded. found the cd used at dimple records, and was very disappointed, if you like sound alike alternarock of lit, eve6 and those other alternative rock bands you will love this. if not stay as far away as possible, so you dont get infected with this ugly disease like i did. im glad i only paid 6.99 or would of been pretty pissed. i try to load and mp3 if you dont believe me or want to find out for yourself. just go to www.napster.com and download the program and then search for snowpatrol. thanks, orbitat +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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