December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Man. United six, Nottingham Forest one. They scored!
by jarkko frantila 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Props up ya' all. Did you hear the latest about the band Europe and their "The Final Countdown 2000"- single? This is a true story: They printed 60000 copies for the swedish market of the new version of that hairy song. Too bad they printed it wrong: It became "The Final CUNTdown." Tells you something, doesn't it? Now they have to do it all over again. HA! Brad, you and your asses and knees and elbows... The nation still laughs. Let me know when you post those photos, so I know when to close my eyes. Like the boobies in the photosection, as you might have quessed, though. Erm... Honey, I don't have to send pics of those bodyparts, do I? I just repeated what Braddyboy said. Spank my ass and call me Charlie. SLAP! Ooh, a bit harder. SLAPPETY SLAP. Ok, you can put that down now. Ooh, winter is here. Almost. What definetely will be here is THE meeting tomorrow. Tony Blair will be there. And the guy from France who has something to do with politics. All the other big shots from around Europe will be here right next to the building I work in, some big EU- meeting going on right beside our officebuilding. I have to carry my ID's so I can get to work tomorrow: they have policemen (and policewomen too, I'm sure) on the exits so they can keep track of us. Orwells' "1984", anyone? What else? There's this Swedish band Kent who held their recordlaunch-party (how the hell you spell that word?) here in Finland. After interviewing their guitarist and bassist I got an invitation to that party. FREE BEER! FREE CHICKENSALAD!! (and some lame salad with beans and god-knows-what for all you carrotpeople). Now tell me, what the hell is the point of those parties? They invite people from magazines (krhm, that would be me), TV and radio to eat and drink for free. I went in, ate, drank, the guys from the band came in to the club, they pressed play on the stereo and then we all listened to the album. And then we fucked off. Are they trying to kiss our asses so we would like them? Well it worked. 10 out of 10, Kent's new album Hagnesta Hill. Now thank you very much, when is the next party? On to some more serious stuff now. As some of you might know (one person knows), I'm going to Brighton for the new year (no, two people from the list know I'm going there, sorry). And that bloody Tigermilking party is on the 7th of January. Which is not that nice, since I'll be heading back to Finland on the 5th. So, I'd like to ask now, any good B&S- parties going to happen on the new year's eve? London or Brighton, thank you. E-mail please, if you have some ideas, 'cause I've never been to London/Brighton and I don't have any idea what those cities are like. I've heard that London is fairly big, but that's all. So again, PLEASE e-mail me if you've got some plans. Me and my friend Maria will be there, I promise. Well, I'm going to ask this same thing on the meetup- section on the Bleebster pages, so.... Now I'm off. Thank you for your co-operation. @---->--- A rose, love and other stuff that makes you feel funny in your tummy, Jake ps: Did you know that I look like Tim Burgess? Neither did I, but apperently I do. ______________________________________________________ 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: You Were Just My Inbetweener
by David Strange Strange 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Good day sinister people, I hope this post finds you all in good health especially the girl who kept falling over her skateboard ouch. We have nearly finished college for the term hurrray and I think our tutors are taking us to a public house on the final day, I've never drunk with teachers before I wonder what we will chat about. Although one of our lecturers is quite interesting he was telling us how to get away with having an affair good excuses etc., so if any sinister people need this advice go to Guildford College and inroll in an English or History course. My friend wants to set me up on a blind date this weekend I said no chance unless Cilia Black is in attendance and 'Our Steve' of course. I tried to introduce B&S to the publicans at the pub where I work and they all hated it, it wasn't lively enough for them not even Electric Renaissance, bah! they have no taste, and I was forced to put back on the dodgy pub tapes (Stereophonics, Ocean Colour Scene and the dreaded OASIS AAAAAAAAHHHH save me now). But I wear my Fox B&S T-shirt underneath my white work shirt and I spit in the drinks and give all there beers huge heads to all those who bad mouthed the mighty Sebastian, I may tomorrow try and slip Looper in the tape player Mission Impossible style, wish me luck. I've never dreamt about B&S but i used to dream that Louise Wiener (ex-sleeper lead singer) was my sister, and i used to record her voice because she has the sexiest speaking voice ever. I'm off now so cheery-bye (I hope Honey doesn't shout at me for lack of B&S content but I've had a very trying few weeks) DAVID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 'As if each speech was a beautiful arrangement of notes never to be spoken again' PS thank you to everyone who mailed me back after my 1st ever mail I feel ever so welcome now and also HUGE thanks to Jen she knows what for! ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.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: shit shower shave
by BradWhiddon＠aol.com 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

so there i was, rubbing the morning snot out of my EYES with my fat fucking FINGERS, when i thought about my ASSHOLE and how lonely it must get down there with only my BALLS and my SCHLONG to keep it company. so i got onto my FEET and walked to the bathroom to do the three esses, and i look down and on my right KNEE CAP there was a bit of blood. i thought "where the hell...." then i looked in the mirror, and i saw my NOSE had been bleeding, and it must have got on to my KNEE since i sleep curled up in the fetal position. so i rubbed my BELLY and thought "fuck it....it'll come off" and got in the shower. whilst scrubbing my ABNORMALLY HAIRY ARMPITS, i felt a clump of yesterday's deodorant clinging for dear life. so i yanked it out and thumped it against the cold shower wall, only for it to ricochet into my GAPING WIDE MOUTH (cause i was singing that right said fred song). so i coughed and gagged and in the process i slipped on the bathroom floor and busted my HEAD wide open (and lasted ASS first onto a shampoo bottle (at least that's the story i'll tell the doctor)). -brad p.s. i think i have HEMORRHOIDS. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The SSP
by Jordi Trenzano 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

So, If I understood well, then he thinks that the major labels make great bands sound worst. I donŽt want to start to discuss about it, but I think that "Strangeways, here we come", was released through EMI, isnŽt it ? and itŽs a great album, indeed. ItŽs a bit complicated to generalize those things. Health, love and peace in Northern Ireland Jordiet Sinistre ______________________________________________________________ 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: Sealed with a dream
by Roderick Brannan 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Hey people The bars of the nursery have been prised apart for me, and I have to admit to being a little nervous about my first mail to sinister. <italic>Its like my first day of school all over again. I hope I dont vomit in dinner school again. </italic>Perhaps a brief introduction would suffice, followed by my one and only B&S dream to date. I am studying English Literature and Philosophy at Glasgow University, after three years of nothingness and working in John Menzies when I left school. They were bleak days, but Menzies did introduce me to the musical bliss that is Belle and Sebastian, for I picked up a copy of If You're Feeling Sinister in the christmas sale for six pounds. Thank you for that John. <italic>Tell them about the dream and then depart, goddammit! </italic>The aforementioned B&S dream I had involved a game of two-a-side football, in the concrete football pitch of a Glasgow housing scheme. In my team was the lovely Isobel, and we were facing the might of Sinead O'Connor and one of the bints from S Club 7, who were playing under the name of Sporting Lesbian. Sinead kept hacking Isobel for the entire match, then I woke up. I will leave you with a poem by one-day poet laureate John Hegley called Dog Love Poem: I saw you in the park I wanted to be your friend So I tunnelled my snout up your non-barking end. Until we meet again, Young Roddy <nofill> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Scottish Socialist Party
by Stéphane Buron 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Hi List ! I thought you would be interested to read this small article... which is on http://www.scotsocialistparty.org/VoiceContents.htm Stuart Murdoch Belle and Sebastian Before I was in a band I would look at the likes of Francis and Douglas*. They were doing their own thing long before we came on the scene, and I was quite in awe of someone who could work in the music industry but do exactly what they wanted to do. There's a lot of examples of people like that, especially I think in Glasgow where there's a good collective feeling. I think the likes of Francis and Douglas are examples of being a complete success. They do pretty much what they want and suit themselves. I certainly thought that of people who ran their own labels or their own venues or simply made a record at all. I though that was it, if you sent off to Czechoslovakia and got a thousand cheap copies then you were a success. The selling out question, I'm not sure about. I'd be in favour of bands selling out all the way, depending on the quality of the music they came up with. My favourite band is The Smiths. They made the most fantastic music and they seemed to do it from such a righteous background. But, I'm kind of sure that if they signed to a major label, they'd probably take as much money as they could and be an entertainer and be manipulated. As long as the music is produced, I think that's the main thing. I think that things are happening all over Scotland. These initiatives that happen, the underground, just keep at it, you know what you're doing is good. The major guys, the major labels, are in trouble. They know they haven't got a scoobie and they're panicking. You know what's going on so just keep doing it, they'll come to you and you'll have the upper hand. * Francis McDonald, Shoeshine Records, and Douglas McIntyre, from Creeping Bent, who says : "I think Belle and Sebastian are the best example that's ever come out of Scotland of a band having their own autonomy and creative independence allied with popularity. It's very difficult to attain that, you need a degree of talent and luck and timing. But if there's any musicians in the audience my advice would be don't sign for a major record label - stay on the dole." Hummm... Discuss !!! Stéphane +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: mobilephone melodies
by jarkko frantila 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Short one: If any of you have a Nokia cellphone with some B&S- sounds on it, please e-mail me (or the list). I tried to compose "Fox in the snow" to my phone but it ended up like a John Zorn- free jazz/noise bleebhell. So there. @--->--- A rose, love and other stuff that makes you feel funny in your tummy, Jake. ______________________________________________________ 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: wimbledon 5 watford 0 hahahah
by Paul Arathoon 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Dear everyone i am in an interesting position what with still being drunk at 9.20am and a tutorial on the french revolution to contend with. Anyway- the B+S content herein is that last night I was at Club Tropicana (the greatest 80's night ever.... apart from perhaps 31st Dec 1989 when the book was closed on that sordid decade) and couldn't understand why the DJ wouldn't play Century Of Fakers. The Bastard. So I had to buy more vodka and coke- obviously. yours not entirely with it Paul ______________________________________________________ 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: Out of the nursery!
by GRAEME JOHN ANDERSON 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

I was released from the nursery a week or so ago but didn't have anything interesting to say. Come to think of it still don't have much to say but I thought a brief introduction would go down well. Having been reading your messages for the past few weeks, it appears as if I'm one of the more 'muture' listees - I mean I have a real job and I'm no longer a student (oh how I remember those days when the heating would break down and all 3 of us would huddle around the Calor gas fire to defrost the ink in our pens). I'm currently well disconnected from the music scene at the moment having now spent a few years down in the Caribean - but had the opportunity to visit the land of B & S this summer to stock up on my CD collection. All this talk of winter made me realise that although winter goes on for months in Scotland - it has it's charms, those cold cold clear mornings are excellent. Down here we only have the wet season and the dry season - much more predictable. Well, I think you've probably all had enough of my ramblings by now so I'll stop here. Graeme P.S Not sounding much like B&S but I highly recommend the Buena Vista Social Club CD. Buy it for Christmas! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Dictionary
by COURTOLY＠aol.com 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Matthew Fletcher of Heavenly apparently was on some committee at the Oxford English Dictionary and got riot grrrl officially added to the English Language as documented by the Oxford English Dictionary. I even double checked this trivia in the Oxford dictionary of New Words or something like that at the library, but it didn't identify the contributor except to quote "the first printed use" or whatever in a newspaper article. But I did see "twee" used in a British craft magazine once. The journalist emphasized the word had a bad connotation and it shouldn't be applied to the crafter in the article. Love Courtney << so tonight a friend asked me what "twee" meant. i tried to explain, and tried to tell her where it came from, but having no true definition or any of that, i sucked it up and looked at the merriam-websters dictionary that resides on my NeXT computer (which sits in our living room). sure enough, there it was. said something about it being excessively cute or something like that. said it was used primarily by the british and is baby-talk for "sweet." sounds good to me. >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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