December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: happy happy joy joy
by Ian McKinney 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Season's Greetings one and all, I had an extremely productive day today. I've been saving money strictly for years in a sock, and I blew it all today in one frenzied spendind spree! I bought a spanking new JVC micro-system with very attractive wooden speakers, a Squire jazz bass and a drum machine! I already have a guitar, an amp and a 4-track, so now I'm ready to make beautiful music for the world to hear. Stuart Murdoch better watch his back! The drum machine is a bit complicated. Your timing needs to be spot on, otherwise when it quantizes your rhythm, it does it wrong and then sounds like a free-jazz drum solo. Ah well. No relevant content, but I had to share my joy. Yours, broke but happily well equipped, Mr. Gib. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: i was made to love magic
by aconover＠optonline.net 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

i just finished cleaning out my whole mailbox -- it has 0 messages in it, for the first time in what must be years. yes, i replied to or dealt with every single message! so now i'm waiting for more mail, but none is arriving, so i am crying... but i decided to send some mail myself, and that's good, anyway. i got a guitar for christmas! oh, i am a happy lad. and i can play dan bern songs and nields songs and moxy fruvous songs and yes, belle songs! oh, i'm so clever. soon i'll be able to write something of my own... i should give myself a kiss. the girl i'm in love with just called me from scotland, but i wasn't home. i feel horrible about it, because it means that either something really important happened or she's being really really nice. because she's in love with a boy there and not me. i'm not bitter about that anymore, but i didn't expect her to call, you see... oh, well. maybe she will call later, but she won't right now, because it's 4 am over there. maybe one of you scots could rustle her up for me? her name is lizzie mccown, and she's got short blond hair and glasses and she might be wearing the nick drake t-shirt i sent her, if she got it before she left. she looks like this: http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/frugirl/images/liz6.jpg . that's a picture i took of her! enough babbling. i have lots of winter break work to do, and a great big bottle of ritalin... - adam aconover(a)optonline.net Tempus Fugit is at: http://www.i2.i-2000.com/~conover/tempus/main.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: La la la la la la la's
by Martin Robinson 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Hello everybody, Hope all your Christmas were fluffy, white and snowy. A bit like a friendly Polar Bear called Godfrey. I have the pleasure of being back at work. Actually it's not that bad as yesterday I fell asleep under my desk for a few hours, yes George Castanza is my hero, and today I have a can of Foster's in front of me as I type, obviously I wouldn't drink the shit normally but as it's in work time and it's free what the hell. I played the La's album yesterday which I hadn't done for donkey's and it was quite a pleasurable experience. I find it very funny that Lee Majors, who went on to star in the excellent Six Million Dollar Man, and John Power from the La's said it was crap at the time. Especially when the latter went on to perfect crapness with his current 3 piece beat combo Cast. For Christmas, like any streetwise kid, I got the Cast box set and also a token redeemable for mobbyfone thingys. I can't wait to get the latter as I want to ring everyone up on trains and say "I'm on the train" very loudly. As apparently that's the thing to do. Plus the one I want acts as a vibrator alert which is always handy as it can prevent many unforeseen accidents, it sends S&M messages, and has WAP, games and apparently you can even ring people and they can ring you. Wow! What fun... Actually if I can ever be arsed to walk into a mobbyfone shop and get one, it will have one health benefit as I'll doubt I'll be able to fit a pack of 20 cigarettes and a mobbyfone in my trouser pocket. A dilemma to ponder for the next century if ever there was one. Anyhow, I'm off to nick a tinny off someone. Come on, if you can't steal drink in the festive season when can you?* Te ra, Martin ear confection recordings (http://www.send.demon.co.uk) * The writer would like to inform you that no beer was actually stolen or any criminal acts committed during the making of this email. It was more acquired or even accumulated. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: this email was typed in invisible ink
by Curtis Heath 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Speaking of Brill, Don't you all think that Stuart would've really put all those Brill Building pros to shame? I mean, I love Phil Spector, but he doesn't stand a chance. Oooooh.... a lightbulb just went off!!!! Spector producing the next Belle and Sebastian album! Of course Isobelle would have to do MUCH more backups to keep in his all-girl (minus the Righteous Brothers) tradition. Another lightbulb! What if we all contributed 10 bucks to B&S, to coax them into touring to all of our small towns and sparsely populated islands? That would be ten thousand smackaroonies! Is that a lot to those guys? How about 20? I guess what I'm saying is -jesushchrist! please come to aMERICA and play a show near me!- damnit it's the only REAL thing i want. is that too much to ask? I wasn't born in time to catch the Velvet Underground, and Moz isn't the same without Marr, and I would die happy if they would just come and make me cry with these words.... LYCOShop is now open. On your mark, get set, SHOP!!! http://shop.lycos.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: Go on, Godziller!
by Sarah Clarke 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Dear you lovely lot, What words sum up your Christmases? Or New Years? Sinister tells us so much about culture, doesn't it? For example, I didn't know that in Greece you open your christmas pressies on New Years eve! And I didn't know...well I don't really understand what Archel wrote, but Pete Miller talked about hampsters? For some reason I now think that Archel roasts hampsters and Pete Miller goes ice skating. I went ice-skating in Streatham once. No hampsters though. Just child molesting. Heehee....hamPsters... I find that awfully funny. Skellingtons are funny too! Clang! I seem to have strayed from my original point. The words that have summed up my Christmas so far are "Godzilla is GRATE!", cos he is! Today I watched "Godzilla Raids Again", and I'm taping "Godzilla vs. Hedorah" and "The Revenge of Godzilla" tonight! Yay! When I grow up I'm going to be a japanese kung-fu girl popstar monk time travelling meerkat Godzilla! Dressed in bacofoil of course! Grr Arrg!*, I will grr, as I rampage through the streets of Tokyo and Osaka! Rooarrr!, I will wail, as I trample you feeble underlings under my foot! Splish-Splash! I will do, as I dive back into the water to await my doom via means of the OXYGEN DESTROYER! Grrrr! Alex someone Borgia wrote: > Isobel Campbell can do no wrong. She is who she is and that is why we > like her so. One must accept the lovely miss exactly as she is, and love > her dearly. I agree. Completely. No, really, I do. She's BRILL isn't he. I'll make sure I avoid her house, when I rampage through the streets of wherever poncey place she lives. I'll defintely make sure that I don't deliberately stomp my foot through her house. Imagine the screams! It'd be like a sneak preview of the next Genital Waves record! But with more BLUD. Good job I won't do that then! I wonder if Stuart Murdoch has been watching Godzilla too? I like Godzilla. Love, SarahZilla xx * Possible names for our two kittens? Answers via email please, a postcard would be silly, cos you don't know my address! If you DO know my address, you're very welcome to send a postcard though. In fact, please do. Getting post is GRATE! ____________________________________________________________ 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 undead 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.missprint.org/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: Turkey Sandwiches
by Robert Brennan 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Cold turkey salad, turkey stew, curried turkey. Yes another Chirstmas passes uneventfully. Doesn't it seem like the Queen's Speech is on every year? Oh well - The Royle Family Christmas episode was ace. Much fun had moving to my comfortable new flat here in sunny Portsmouth yesterday. I had to swiftly uncover my copy of Tigermilk to calm myself down while sorting through endless heavy boxes. I'd love to invite you all to a housewarming but I fear the effects of static from all those cardigans in close proximity. Plus my downstairs neighbour may complain and call in the tweeness abatement society on my ass. Ho hum. Only the Willenium to deal with now before my life returns to normal. I intend to spend it mildly drunk watching the all the films I have taped and hoping the World doesn't end. Hope you have a fun one too. Rob ____________________________________________________________ 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 undead 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.missprint.org/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: Hogmanay Balls
by Jason Andreas 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Hi all. If anyone's at the Amphetameanies gig and spots me wandering around, come up and say hello, 'k? Quite an eventful little time, as times go <grin> No more dead bodies have been forthcoming, but relatives' noses have been broken, people have been crying and generally sulking in every way. Yes, that's right. It's the festive season!!! Hurrah! So, I won't be in my custom-built cardboard bunker come midnight 1999/2000, instead I'll be wandering around in the open, watching the skies and humming TIJAMRS until someone recognises the song. Then myself and that person (it's got to be a girl though) shall re-populate the planet with lots and lots of tiny little twee people. Soooo, if you wanna repopulate the Earth, give me a call <grins> Apart from that, I'll be praying that my video recorder's timer actually works for once and I can tape The Tube. I'd use the living-room one, but Only An Excuse will be gracing that old beast ;) God I waffle on about bugger all, don't I? And I must announce that, no, I am not a woman, so the breasts are not mine. The person who mailed me asking knows who he/she is <grin> Anyway, I've taken up enough of your time. Happy New Year everyone!!!!!! --Jason "And in the rapture and the charm Came the tranquil and the calm" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: All the quotations in the wrold and all you need is a wafer thin mint
by Tom Lennox 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Never, since the Reading festival of 1997 when I woke up with my face in the dirt, money stolen and my dreams shattered, have I felt like such a piece of shit. It is one thing to raise hell at uni but at home and at christmas, well that's just sacred isn't it? I dunno, but here I am this morning and I feel like I could be sick at any minute (but then that's probably cause I tried to induce it last night when I was on my hands and knees) and even this `soothing` cup `o` tea seems to be making my wooz like anything, which has to be a drag cause I've fallen over twice already and it ain't even 9:00am yet (well actually now I look it is and I probably won't send this mail till much later anyroad continuity fans). In short or many series of dad's shots in me (checking through this email and even I don't understand this pun really) that is how I am the way I am now, quivering beside myself, basicaly drunk still, but more shell shocked and I've only really just found myself when I woke (thankfully on my own bed) and Morrissey's I Am Hated For Loving Going round in an eternal loop in my brain which just maybe had something to do with the stereo which has clearly been looping it all night - oh damn do you think anybody heard? So me and my man/friend/idle plaything got wrecked on a combination of every conceivable substance and then seemed to make a meal (just a pasta experiment which seemed peppery but in it's own cute way on fire) which was clearly nice as I keep tasting it every 20 seconds even now - or perhaps that's the crisps and coleslaw and potato salad which I managed to steal from the 24 hour Tesco at 2am when we slyed in there to get away from my parents coming home... actually most of that shit seemed to end up on a park bench if I remember cause my mouth couldn't direct it. Get me wrong here, please do but I'm no thief, clearly an unarmed drunk but no kind of thief cause I got busted in Tescos taking the first tub of coleslaw so we had to sneak round again - oh the indignity just keeps coming back into my mind. And, as I sit in this room I really hope I hid the evidence of dad's cigar butts that we smoked to high heaven, otherwise he'll start thinking that we should be going to his gentlemen's club together. But no, cause men who play footsie with their `idle plaything` friends don't belong in the Satsuma lounges of this world. Shit Mum's on the move which worries me as it might well worry you when ever you see the word Mum it always starts with a capital `M` - well so long as she keeps away from my room then I might just get away with it all my life. You should see the state of me... no ammount of early morning lavender soap can take off the tramp, collapsed look of a night dressed in old clothes passed out. Now perhaps would be the time to check out that original message I wrote with THe MAn last night to see what I had to say to you all when I was still optomistic - give them shit and they shall lap it up seemed the order of the day but `you guys` are too damn cute for that so I'll see if there were any key points in last nights email bashing session that you NEED to know: Well here is how that mail that I just had to write opens - please keep track of the quotation marks or you'll be confusing me with when I was an alltogether different person: "Xmas result Clean your lungs [sleep] Don't be ashamed to have friends Cough discreatly on my eye-da-down I want to explore your face like a typical ADE Drink yes drink and be with me I left the dope behind coz the bastard kept saying suck my cocaine like it lipped your windowsill and my cartel wasn't ready for his shabby bitch attiude. Bitch. Bitch came so closely.. Or is this a nothing off-hand belong. Of coure it is so just dismiss my desire. If you make sense of any of my grudges then I challenge you to a sword fight with our proud irregualarities. Some men know the full extent of my distress." Ok that's the first part and really it doesn't say anything does it, but what I do remember is at this point I shout to the man (Lee) that he really needed to stick a bit of B&S content in the mail. What's B&S he choked so I played him Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying and I relayed this Lancastrian Black Metal fans reactions to our beloved group of minstels into that mail: "My friend lee comments on Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying: like any other song it's weak with nothing to say. Don't even quote me it's cheap FUCKER" You know that was just poor wasn't it but I sorta get his bad attitude cause I don't see the need we all seem to have to divide up our emails and say B&S content NOW - here, look 2 lines on your favourite band... I mean we're cut from the same chords so at least we should ooze (like a straw ozzes, straws ooze) Belle & Sebastian out of every orafice, shouldn't we? You can tell from the sound of my voice that I love Belle & friend as I tell you how we hid in the closet last night (how ineptly inapt our hiding place was for those so comfortable with their own sexuality that they can hide in closets with male friends and never question - it took years to get to this YOU KNOW) just to avoid dad looking for his cigars and Mum wondering who emptied the vodka down their throats. You know a believer when your spaken to, spak. Lovely cruddled spaks the lot of yous. When you clean up a mess it seems to just go but when you destroy a mess it's urban warfare - like a spot that needs wasting (on the face) the mess just seems to get bigger as you `deal` with the finer points of it. So my only saving grace last night was that me and the man managed to bag up the evidence eventually and at least get it to the bin outside - lest anyone should ever look in there - and that was like bagging a body piece by dirty piece I can say - so you just do it and to see the man's face as he realised the cloth I'd given him to scrape the raw meat of the kitchen floor was actually Mum's knickers was a joy that no ammount of headaches and hangover (oh you knew how gone I was and I never get gone do you hear) will erase. That was probaly the same time I ripped my hand apart, but like I said it was blitzkreig last night in that kitchen... please note all the while during our grand clean dad's Hits Of the Movies cd on the go with old classics like Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love from Back To The Future and The Heat is On from Beverly Hills Cop --- oh yeh and Tublar Bells and then I think I stuck on Hunky Dory and the world just lit up as my bleeding hand dripped alover the man. Oh bliss which was good as we ran away from my house at that point before we could trash it, only coming back hours later to rip away his harddrive, still hanging off my emaciated machince like a horrible featus and also to stop The Sting from recording all night - oh I get to watch Paul Newman today! Now please think of all the Tesco's employees who I explained the finer points of decent animalistic fisting to last night - I'll think of them now as I realise that probably half of my old school works at that late night conveniance and the other half can't cause they have babies to fob off on relatives or drown. Why did the man want to go to his old house - it was sweet wasn't it. I always thought of him as a Chelsea hard bun, a rude dog to us dweebs but he's soft isn't he.... he, himself was responsible for this section of that email I was gonna send you last night - I probably shoulda... anyway: "I love. Indulge me. In layers of acrylic. Ok I am an 8 year old and this is the sentance of a 9 year old. Never exhume. Ignore everything" Now I think if Suede has a vacancy the man who scribed that should aply his talent that way. Well this seems to near the obvious conclusion and you just know your inbox will never be the same again so I'll conclude while the goings hot. Now I leave you with my original sign off from last nights mail: "love Tom Please don't worry Please don't grope a cheerleader in bushes" The love stands but don't grope - a stroke will do - take your victim to a park hut at least. love Tom +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: it far too easy to blame it on the drinking
by George Ducker 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Yes, I don't write very much so you'll have to bear with me at least for tonight (or this morning techinically), besides there have been so few posts recently, I thought I might add my cent and a half just so's things keep going on around here. I am now enjoying the sticky pleasure of listening to BandS in my car as I drive around and look at all the trees of this tiny little southern town I've come home to for xmas break. See, thats all there really are here--trees and an occaisonal farm animal and oh yes my parents and such like that. Quite a change from living in Chicago for the past seven months and its strange b/c im actually homesick for the city and the sounds of the city at night that help me sleep better. A good feeling: when your'e driving and you see a kid looking out the back window and you wave at him and he waves back A not so good feeling: then you think, god I'm getting old. okay...that's enough out of this boy for one night hope you all sleep well--if not, you can always come sleep next to me ove george ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list"......
by Chris_t_opher 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

..... Do they still sell cardigans? "triumphant loser" <margarita(a)cybrzn.com> said: >the continued popularization of 80's songs in car speels and movies....i.e. >How soon is now, Please please let me get what i want, and others has a >disturbing trend to it.I think before too long everyone will know about long >gone bands because of the persistant need to use them to sell something. The >fact of the matter is that new music(with the exception of a few bands) is >very substandard, and companys have to dig deep to find something that will >appeal to people.So say buh bye to the songs you hold near and dear....intel >or microsoft is going to rape it for all its worth. ...on a similar note, i bought a sweater today and it fits pretty well. I dont see what all the fuss is with Microsoft. They are happily making money by selling us useful software. Unless you're in business (and you'd have to be in a little business), the prices are negligible [is that a word? i hope it is. my mother keeps telling me to use a dictionary, but i always refuse siting "But it's a BOOK, mother!" as my reason. Is "siting" a word? I'm fairly sure that isnt when you sit. I think it should be siteing, perhaps. I dont think it's like a UFO *sighting* anyway. Who knows? Maybe i should ask someone]. Where was i?.... Oh, Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft is good, Bill Gates is a genius. blah blah blah. And anyway, us Young-Folk havent heard most of those old songs more than once or twice, so at least we're getting exposed to the music. Like my dog, Patch always says, "It's better to hear old music than none at all!". I dont own a dog (he owns me). Chris_t_opher "He may be evil, but is that such a bad thing?" Ps. My Inbox has been a bit empty recently. Is everyone too fat to type or something? I hope not or Sinister IS doomed. :o( Pps. I love January sales. I get to buy so much. This year i just asked for money for Christmas so i could spend days wondering around Manchester in the sales, waiting for a good mugging. My brother gets mugged regularly in Manchester. I think he secretly enjoys it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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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