December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Was it just me... (and eating Battered Shoes and Colin and Zoe (The new Damon and Naomi??))
by Chris_t_opher 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

..... or did this make no sense, Tom Green?: "All the news thats print to fit for 2000: = Heres what RoTa have planned for next year: 15th Jan Stone Valley and TBC...... [Ive cut a load out, cus i like doing things like that!] ........4th March Ochre Records Showcase 13th March OH" Now, it all sounds good and i'd like to go and everything, but what/where is *IT*. Whatever *IT* is. Email privately, Mr Green, or Honey might shout at me for clogging up those Sinister Pipes. Chris_t_opher - Chris_t_opher(a)yahoo.com <Waves at everyone he knows> <Holds up a "HI MUM" sign made out of an unfolded box of Biere d'Alsace> Oooooohhhhhhhh..... And the Wunderschon, scruptious Fiona mbbx9ff2 ("duh?" in your own words Fifi :o)) said: "also, you know how fish+chip shops make deep-fried mars bars and apparently now some will deep-fry and batter any foodstuff you care to bring into their establishment. well, without being gratuitously surreal, do you think you could take household objects and have them battered? you could gradually build up a battered room and a battered house, and eventually a battered empire." Which made me think. I remember in St Andrews, back in the good ol' days of 1990, you could buy a deep-fried (and battered) pizza of your choice. And when i was there in the summer, i had a Donner Kebab Pizza, because i didnt fancy a Haggis Pizza! I also thought about a Laurel + Hardy (weren't they amazing?) film, where someone ate a battered ...... shoe, i think. I think it was Stan Laurel, but it was about 10 years ago, so dont hold me to that. Correct me if you must, but thats the image that i've got in my head now. Dammit. Colin: "So, I really am wondering (from the musicians)- can anybody tell me (technically speaking) how good Belle and Sebastian and/or Isobel is musically" Hmmm. Its not that they're amazing musicians (they can obviously make music that makes us all want to dance), but its HOW their songs are made. They know how to make a song sound special by using all the different instruments and keeping individual things simple enough, so that when they all come together it shines (I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong here but *IN GENERAL*). It's what makes a band classy and stand out from some clearance-basket effort. And thats the most important thing, right? I'd guess, with Re: to your question about how good they are live, that they're just a stripped-down version of the records (?). They can't overdub live, and that might be one of the reasons why there so damn many members. This WILL create a reaction, and seeing as i haven't seen B+S live (or own any bootlegs), i can't prove it. I'll let someone else do that. Zoe: "i've read on the B&S site that they're going to record a john peel session.does anyone have any idea when is it gonna be broadcasted?" February, i think they said, although you'd have to do a search for the article @ www.nme.com with something like "B+S The Tube" to find it. Chris_t_opher (Sorry Honeybunch, its *mostly* relevant) "Well, i was seventeen when i heard the countdown start" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sniffles...sob sob
by Angel Blackwell 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

stereolab was cancelled last night. UGH! I've been waiting for this show for a long time and they got sick. My friends saw their tour bus outside the venue and everything. They were here and they didn't play. There's no chance for rescheduling or anything. My friends spent around 40 bucks for a bus up here from London (ontario.) Belle and Sebastian did this to us as well the last time they were to play Toronto. Oh well...I had fun last night anyway. My friends Diana and Debbie were out last night at a little P!O!P! night and they looked like they had fun. Debbie even danced last night. They didn't play much B&S though, but when they did we made a lot of noise. The little Queen St West stuck up lot didn't appreciate it too much, but they work retail so they're pretty grumpy all the time anyway. Debbie and Diana waited for me before the show at the bar...they're funny. They misunderstood my post on the meetup page. Funny how they were the only 2 that did. Girls can be silly. Gotta run... 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: And the Byrds can swing
by P F 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

I note with interest Steady M's report on finding the traces of B&S in unlikely places. Very much the same phenomenon happened to me. The other week I was round at his 'manor' house at Greenwich's fashionable meridian when a private screening was arranged of an obscure performance by the Rolling Stones. Asked if I was up for watching the old devils, I couldn't but wink: 'It's only Rock'n'Roll - but I like it!!'. The show had various Belle and Sebastian lookalikes on stage, plus two special guests: Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue, and Marianne Faithfull, back in the big time and occasionally striking a tambourine. But the aural warpquake that is The Stones was unmistakable as they loped through a track from side of 1971's Sticky Fingers elpee. Most amazingly of all, even Brian Jones was back in the line-up - a comeback to put Tom Jones, the Sundays, Nat King Cole et al in the shade of a tower block. Halfway through he belted into a veritable swimming pool of a solo, and never mind that he thought he was still playing 'Heart Of Stone'. All in all, it was great to see them back where they belonged - no less than the irreplaceable, irresistible, irrepressible GREATEST ROCK'N'ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD. 'As the saying goes': We salute you! ______________________________________________________ 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: A Half of Big BK Whopper Stella Artois
by Sarah Clarke 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

Dear Sinister, Second time lucky. Yahoo just caused my first mail to disappear so lets try again. Stupid yahoo. When I start up my own internet e-business startup commerce pentium IBM iMac e-information super-highway, just like Alan McGee and David Kitchen, pioneers them all, I will start up a fantastic, reliable and unstupid web-based email. I will. So anyway. When Elles subject line was "A Pint of McGuiness", did anyone else think it was the shock revelation than McDonalds had taken over Guiness in a corporate takeover, and were now going to start McGuiness Happy Meals? I'd like that. Four chicken nuggets, a medicore portion of soggy fries, and a half of stout. Top banana chief and chiefettes, what? I am listening to Magnetic fields LIVE songs, from the LIVE arena. I'll swap you mp3s if you buy me 69 love songs please. Or Get Lost. In fact, I only still have one Magnetic Fields album, and thats on tape too. This song is called "Its A Crime", and they are doing good impressions of ill-done by Jamaicans with chips on their shoulder, and they're probably STONED on DRUUGS. Bad! Wicked! Evil! Listees with photographic memories will remember when I mentioned the Best Spanish Song in the world EVER, "Por Que Te Vas", which featured in the Best Spanish Film that I've seen for oh, days, "Cria Cuervos". Well fetch me my monkey and allow me to wank it! Kahimi Karie, a Japanese popstress the like of which there are bluddy loads actually, has only gone and covered it! Fans of "Por Que Te Vas", which you all should be else you smell - will be disappointed to hear that she does nothing spanking new and bouncy and mysterioso with the song. And even more sad they spent £5.50 on a single, for one song. Which isn't really worth it. It also has a song about Mike Always Diary! Its seems everyones on a Bridget Jones kick these days! It has Momus on it too. Momus. What a stupid name. I always mix up Moby and Momus. These days I just try to remember, "Goths like Moby, Momus wears an eye-patch", and everything seems to become clear. But I wouldnt bet on it. 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! Then again...do I want that analysed? I supose it was my own fault, due to my eating a huge hunk of cheese and PATE before I went to sleepy-byes. Sayonara, Sarah-San xx ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: when it's not raining all these streets are filled with students
by marie elia 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

hello dears. we have a popstar in our midst! okay, we have quite a few popstars in our midst, but i'm going to embarrass the pants off steve c. by publicly giving mad props to his band, which i am listening to Right Now. it is tres good. the boy can "hit things with sticks" like no other. jenowl brought memories flooding back to me when she talked about littering her bedroom floor with her school uniform. i suddenly got all nostalgic for shedding my plaid jumper, peter-pan-collar shirt, and silly tie after school. damnit, those jumpers were too hot in may and june, and not enough in february. which resulted in the trousers-under-skirt look, which -- although it may be cool now -- was definitely a dorky thing back then. but i've lost my point, which was that this just proves that memory is indeed selective when i can remember private school fondly. sort of. my millennium plans do indeed include being dead for most of it. [ree collapses into giggles] last week two of my friends -- people i Live with for goodness' sake! -- confessed to acts of, um, self-fulfillment while listening to b&s... one for the first time, and one in the car! while driving! in daylight! i am officially apalled by the bodyparts page. i mean, good lord people, surely more of you can send photos!! (mummy, i'm working on scanning my knee...) of course we can still call chris crystalballs "baby" even though he's 17 now. although i have to say that the "chrystalballs" part always sounds dirty to me, and combined with the boy only being 17 makes me consider the legality of such thoughts. sheesh. i have a crush on a 16-year-old boy. i'm almost 22. is that wrong? let me see if i've got everything: props, school uniforms, masturbation, b&s, body parts, death, sexual harrassment of a minor. yup. i got it covered. mercifully ending this ramble... xoxo, marie ===== ******************************************************* "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass "to me she was just marie." -mersault ******************************************************* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.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: passed me by
by sweetie 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

has it? yes i believe it has oh well. i feel like a piece of music and it thrills me i feel like a regular poster nothing special i feel like flying and it kills me --------------------------------------------- i visited the list crush site and i have 2 and i smiled muchly suddenly i have an urge to stick things around my moniter but the blue tak would look messy like my hair and my floor so i wont bother snow snow snow snow snow we had snow up here in bonny scotland and it was pretty under the artificial light that open curtain night and it made me happy as it always does because u can cry into snow and remember white christmas's before they made u realise and grow up and now you crave those days of innocence and ignorence but shouldnt it still be like that? anyway it rained and now there is no snow i like to write sometimes poetry and sometimes stories no tho not very often and why, when i write about my life, does it, to me anyway, always read like one of my fictional stories? the sun didnt set fire to the sky it painted a fantastic image for a lost passer by +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: one all!! wicked!
by rachel tucker 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

howdy partners, how y'all doing? blimey, i seem to have stepped into some hard drinkin'/talkin'/shootin' western. best step out again rather quickly. right, that's better. YESSS!!! the mighty yellow boys of oxford united held nottingham forest to a draw last night, to force another cup replay back at the manor. we're on fire.....well, actually we played shit ;) and my throat is raw due to shouting too much and smoking too much to relieve the stress of the shouting and the shit playing..... commiserations with the poor smoker whose parents *still* don't know. mine do, but that is almost worse cos i could never smoke in front of them, and i can't cough in my house without accusatory looks and lectures. me and my mate tom who is worried about his alcohol dependency problem (he's 18 for god's sake! all 18 yr olds drink too much! and 17 yr olds for that matter....) realised on thursday that the only reason we spend so much time in pubs is because it's the only warm dry place we can smoke. how sad is that?! three things will probably happen when i have a place of my own: 1. i'll never leave my flat 2. i'll stop drinking 3. i'll be on 40 a day maybe i shouldn't move out.... on the subject of my mate tom, he is depressed because the only time he ever goes out is to sit in a pub. the same pub. he needs a hobby, can any of you wonderful people help? (and no lee&herring hobby guy ideas!! what was that guy's name?) after a 3 hour alcohol fuelled discussion we still couldn't come up with anything and he seemed mightily insulted by my suggestion of kite flying. i LIKE kites....oh, and he doesn't want to watch football. freak. btw, i subbed off the list for most of the summer/beginning of term. what happened to alisa ross? is she still about anywhere? her posts were wicked, i really miss them. if you know her can you give her a shout from me, and get her subbed on and posting again? cheers my dears. oh well, i'd best go and write essays on the education system. great. have fun and safe sex.... 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: a hymn to the postal service...?
by Archel1978＠aol.com 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

hello. we're getting flooded here. and next weekend i'll be in glasgow which is also getting flooded, i believe. it's like the flipping old testament or something. where's the SNOW?? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ah... that's better. WHAT I HAVE GAINED FROM MY LEAFLETING JOB 1) a bruised knuckle from those particularly vicious letterboxes which are made up of layers of metal, wire brushes and plastic. some people just don't deserve post. 2) an introduction to some of the very worst house names in the world. twee doesn't even begin to describe it. i think 'villa lobos' may have topped the lot, although 'dyke nook' was amusing and i imagine wholly unintentional. (unless there are in fact some previously unheard of out-and-proud lesbians living in the sussex village of plumpton green, which i doubt.) 3) a new appreciation of doormats. there is a plethora of those ones saying 'welcome friends', which i find disconcertingly medieval. they might as well add: 'but if we don't know you from adam, or if we know you and don't like you, you can fuck off'. COMPLETELY RANDOM INFORMATION the last few times i have visited my local (ie. still 15 miles away) record shop i have been inexorably drawn to a single labelled 'glasgow gangster funk'. i cannot imagine what this sounds like, but as it only costs 20p i may well purchase it and put myself out of my misery. B&S CONTENT (ADMITTEDLY TENUOUS) i was thinking this morning that the bit in 'century of elvis' about stu and karn: 'first we got to know each other, and a while after that we met' is the perfect way to describe most sinister friendships. and i think that's kind of cool. i can't remember the rest of my train (or more properly, several derailed carriages) of thought. probably because my head is full of peru sex, battered teaspoons and haemorrhoids. sinister is a very strange place to live sometimes. luv archel xxx ********** Rachel Playforth archel(a)iname.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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by Adam Chapman 11 Dec '99

11 Dec '99

Went through my tapes of last years 'festive fifty' the other day which only serves to make me wonder, as in these, the prospect of a B+S session is mentioned as imminent i.e. March [that is the March of 1999], which, given their no show makes me a wee bit cynical of it ever getting recorded [may i hopefully be proven wrong]... Anyhow, with reference to erica's pink tights - wasn't Courtney Love wearing something both pink, and tight like in appearance at this years Glastonbury? I know her status as a 'grunger' is possibly a bit dubious, but, none the less? Perhaps i've been lucky,but all the grunge fans i know are scrupulously clean and have never been spotted with a copy of Mr Cobains suicide note on their persons. What with all the sew on patches, there wouldn't be room anyway - its quite incredible that when they take their jackets off, they stand up for themselves when dumped on the floor. My school nickname was fairly criptic - being *Duncan* [my email address derives from my little sisters inability to pronounce it properly], and i've never yet got a satisfactory explanation; creative suggestions welcome... Adam ______________________________________________________ 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: as others were- i have not seen
by sweetie 10 Dec '99

10 Dec '99

this morning was good i thought when i was getting dressed, ill wear my boots, but i didnt and wore my trainers, and i went outside and the ground was slidey, and i thought 'i wish i had worn my boots'. but i didnt fall or slide too much, and i can bounce in my trainers, so i was glad i wore my trainers. and i breathed out and watched my breath, it was fun, so i did it again and i was running late, but i didnt mind, i always make it on time i pondered over whether i should take the street, the road or thro the schemes i looked ahead at the sky and went thro the schemes the sky was fantastic and i wondered how it could be so beautiful it reminded me of the power station as u r coming back from dunfermline or glenrothes towards kincardine on your right, at night it is one of the most beautiful images i have seen the sky like that enchants me half way down the very narrow path between 2 fields i wondered where the sun was coming up perhaps in front but i looked around, almost directly behind and i was hypnotised and the sky between my fantastic painting in front and the brush behind was blue but once i was down the path and the hill i couldnt see it so well and soon i was at the main road and there was lots or people and i wondered if they had seen what i had seen and marvelled at its beauty i doubted it i beg forgiveness for i cannot be trusted and it pains me so +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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