December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Hooray for Hefner!
by Brandt Fundak 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Okay so I am going to see Hefner in Cleveland tonight, which means I should have fun for once. Anyway, if you are going to the show and you see a boy wearing an orange Isobel and Fox t-shirt and you feel like saying hi, please do. Lord knows I'm to shy to say it to you. Brandt "We'll be rich. Rich as Nazis" --C. Montgomery Burns +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: yes i know how to spell...
by rachel tucker 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

ummm, i can't believe i just spelt booze 'booxe'. in my defence the 'x' is next to the 'z'.... sorry paula :-) right that's it. i'm going to lurk.... love, hugs and spelling mistakes 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: there is b&s content...somewhere....
by rachel tucker 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

hey boys hey girls...and all you sinister beings.... pinch punch first day of the month and all that. i went xmas shopping today and blimey what a nightmare. i figured that on a wednesday morning all the kids should be in school, grown ups at work, and the people in between (like me) would be in bed so the shopping shithole that is oxford town centre would be empty. was it fuck?! i belatedly realised that this week seems to be mocks week, so it was full of 15 year old kappa slappers who should of been doing their practise GCSE's *bless* not hanging round street corners up to god knows what....i wouldn't like to think..... <i've just read that paragraph and i don't mean to sound *quite* that patronising about GCSE's. that was me two years ago. (though i wasn't a kappa slapper, i was your bona fide indie kid. uggh.) it's just a-levels seem so much harder now....sorry> anyway, my shopping didn't go brilliantly...at least not for other people though i did get my dad 'the good pub guide 2000' which could be rather infomative....not that i'm an underage drinker ;-) oh no....and i'm not endorsing it either....a very bad habit to get into....don't want to get like paula 'booxe explosion' cullen now.....! what i did buy was nick drake's 'way to blue' which i'm listening to at the mo. i've never heard any nick drake before, not even on this advert you're all chatting about. i have to say i'm tres impressed, i feel all snuggly and comforted with it washing round me and my 'puter. i like his voice, he sounds very.... trustworthy. that's not the word i'm looking for but never mind. aren't the best nights of your life the ones that are the least expected? not that last night was the best night of my life...blimey if that's the case i may as well give up now...but it was certainly unexpected. i was on my way back from college just after 9 p.m and i was in a very bad mood because a) i HATE having to go to a night course just because i got kicked off the maths a-level at school.... i would have handed some work in eventually....:-) b) my course is on a tuesday night, which is when oxford united play their midweek games. there is a definite conflict of interest here which the university carrot dangling ahead is winning...for now... c) the batteries on my walkman ran out while i was surreptitiously trying to listen to shrewsbury beating us while taking notes on 19th century schools. bollocks. so i was walking in the cold with a red nose up to the bus stop when this guy who could have only been about 17 (my age) asked for some spare change. he looked absolutely frozen and i felt terrible for having been in a filthy mood for really trivial reasons. we got chatting and he was telling me all about himself and he didn't seem angry at his situation, just resigned. i've got to say, it was one of the best conversations i've ever had, full of connections and truths, really refreshing. i walked him up to the night shelter and then got on my bus. i'd completely forgotton about the footy until i was halfway home , and then i did start to wonder why we weren't being greeted by streams of people coming back as we came up headington hill. it was deserted. so i got off at the ground only to find out from a policeman that we'd equalised in the last minute and extra - time (FACup game) was about to kick off. so i wandered up into the ground and on to the terraces to watch the rest (ahh the romance of lower division football!) and who was i stood next to? a guy wearing what looked suspiciously like a b&s badge!!! i was so shocked i couldn't speak. i kept giving him and his badge furtive glances and trying/not trying to catch his eye. after a couple of minutes he started giving me odd looks back. he must have thought i was such a freak, but i wasn't going to speak to him until i was sure it was a b&s badge. then, as we were craning to see a cross come over, i sneaked a quick look at his coat and YES!! IT WAS!! and then we scored and i lost him in the crowds of people going absolutely mental. so i never got to speak to the mystery guy, but hey if he's reading this can you mail me simply so i can apologise for freaking you out :-) .....and that was my very unexpected and unexpectedly cool night. ummm, sorry for you having to endure all that, i'm easily excitable.... i promise i'll reclaim my lurker staus again though the posting thrill is beginning to get addictive ;-) 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". 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by Tony Charles Green 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Seasons greetings sinister folk In hopes of bringing a little light into your day I offer you a musical advent calender: Day 1 Damien Jurado - 'Letters and Drawings' 'moments of silence, sounds of her laughing, when are you sending letters and drawings ?' Tony Green Tel: 0207 565 8744 Fax: 0207 565 0020 RARE PLEASURES: http://members.tripod.co.uk/rarepleasures/ off-kilter indie, lo-fi, alt-country, folk, rock ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Tubular Belles
by Michael Jones 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Oi ! December. December, December, December. The leaves no longer crunch underfoot, only the bones of, er, dead cattle, pattering out their hasty orisons. No, that's January. Whatever. Two prop-forwards and a propane gas cylinder to David Moore for providing the video entertainment at our Thanksgiving bash (vigorous applause and DeepGrat to everyone else who braved the iniquities of SE London transport to attend). Five minutes of... Isobel frozen in drugpanic before honking out some kind of externalised tinnitus from the front of her creamy face. Stuart M, all boy-girl-boy phonoglutamate, vox like fructose running down your back, pins the flab-spaz presenter in a flurry of stabbing sweetness. Stuart D, misshapen by gloom, picks out bass-notes like a pathologist removing skull fragments from a fatal head injury. Mick, bright as a fresh scar, playing infra-guitar like he's just discovered gravity. Richard, the RhythmMachine, sticks like integers. Chris and Sarah provide a patina of electroacoustic debris, like a coating of petals. The star is Stevie. He is head-wrecking. It's FluidMaths, it's NewTopology. The textures are adhesive, the melodyline effusive. Thiz iz belleandsebastian99. It was dead, dead good and they played a song I like. Steadz. __________________________________________________ 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: Hot news, yeah!
by Mark Casarotto 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

I don't *think* this has been posted yet, so props to M!E! for this essential piece of info: The Belle and Sebastian song to be featured in the film of "High Fidelity" is Seymour Stein. I'm a bit miffed at this, cos I thought it was the perfect opportunity for a new exciting Struan composition to be aired, but no. Still, it's B&S onscreen in a big budget Hollywood flick, which can't be bad. It's a pity that, according to the script, B&S lilt across the record shop, only to be slagged off by Barry ("what's is this?" "It's the new Belle and Sebastian, Barry" "Well turn it off, it's shit" appears to be the gist of the discussion). But then in the Acid House they accompanied up the bum sex, sort of, so perhaps it's just a continuation of the scatological theme. Paula Cullen, you're not being nearly filthy enough. Pull your socks up, chicken! That Icerink compilation mentioned by Nickie Creuzfeld Jakob Dastoor - is that the one with a certain ex (and hopefully future) listee playing on it? It sounds rather good, but no doubt unobtainable. Melody Dog, a proto-B&S if ever there was one, rock. Can I have a copy please? I couldn't actually guess which was Archel's and which was Billy's poem. They're both rather good. Which makes Archel as good as the best of them. But then we always knew she was :-) I used to be able to knit - I once made, um, a bit of material, which I suppose could have become a scarf if I'd had the persistence (and if it hadn't mysteriously widened with each line of stitching), but didn't. I can sew, mind, and I've got a pencil case made of felt with a fish on it to prove it! Your bum chum, Mark xxx ******************************************************************* The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 020 7224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.org ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I�m not George Dickie, even though we share the same name
by Jordi Trenzano 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Hi: IŽm the usual Jordi, with the only difference of using a new e-amil adress. I guess that I wonŽt be punished for using one one of those from the NME. As itŽs usual in me, iŽll make a request. But this time it has some B&S relation: Does anyone have a copy of this article of the american Gear magazine ? (sorry if the name is wrong). If anyone is able to send me the article or at least scan it then I could made him/her some copy of the Barcelona/Bowlie gig. IŽm looking forward to hear the new version of "Loneliness...". IŽm also asking myself if Steve Genge (Sandcastle Records?) is still on the list, as I promised him to send a copy of my zine and I didnŽt, which is really bad from me. The record label from Migala has setup a books label too, which is good, as it may be a link to have "Nalda Said" translated to the 2nd most important language in the world. Bye. ______________________________________________________________ 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: Stories of Polar Bears Frolicking in Forbiden Snow
by ELZober＠aol.com 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

hey all.... perhaps this should be limited to just Colin, but it seems that quite a few folk aren't all that familiar with this fabulous band.... Snow Patrol, as they are now known and signed to Jeepster as such, were originally called Polarbear, but they had to change their name because some one from Janes Addiction (i think that is the right band) already had a band in America name Polar Bear....so they changed their name to Snow Patrol not too long after Stow College had released their single "Star Fighter Pilot" which was put out the year after Tigermilk. Starfighter featured three songs - with Gary on vocal & guitar, Mark on bass and Richard Colburn on drums and keyboard.... also the third song "Safety" featured Stuart Murdoch on wooden flute, Piano and vocals..... i am a LONG time Patrol fan and was fortunate enough to see Stuart play this with them live once... and it was grand.... my favorite lyric goes...: "I hold back just for a second or two then i go down on you It's so sore Sore like the sweetest thing when i go down on you and all i have is so sweet so sweet" it's a beautiful ballad.... for the first few months of the Patrols "existance" (while Gary and mark were going to college in Dundee) Richard played with them - including the makeshift gig - the first "Longest Day" in Kelvingrove Park that was moved to the QMU due to rain... it featured Polarbear, Astrid, The Bathers, The Pastels.... i can't remember who else, but there were a TON of bands and then Belle & Seb closed the show.... after that their 'real' drummer finished his college work and moved to Dundee from Belfast..... Richard was just filling in..... i think they have a new guy who spins records for them now... i don't know his name... Snow Patrol are a GREAT band - it's a bit more electric (i don't think that's the right way to say it) and 'hard core' than the Belle's - but Gary's lyrics are extremely visual and, in my humble opinion, truly great... Ireland has been banging on about these boys for nearly two years or so now, and with good reason... if you get the chance to see them or buy their LP you should... if you don't mind things that aren't all twee and whatever... they are a great band.... hm.... i think i've said that enough now. anyway, hope this bit of info is helpful.... snoggs elle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: If you've got cheese, you've got choice.
by Robyn Fadden 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Thank you dairy council of canada b/c I had thought choice was something of an illusion ever since they started airing volkwagon ads with hip songs. It all started with fluffy little clouds... and then i was stuck in a 5-year lease, i became my car, my car became me, i lost everything but me and my keys were the only thing that turned me on. Hi everyone, i'm sorry, i'm just a little disturbed these days and commercials and capitalism are only the tip of it all. I read the new Adbusters mag from cover to cover last night. Things like this make my head spin even more than usual - and it's a lot of work to get it logical when you question logic. Maybe see what I mean at http://www.adbusters.org - though it's different in print. I've got my black indelible marker, have you? I saw Stereolab on Sunday and I also saw all the indie-cool kids in Vancouver too. Wow. Stereolab, amazing show and good and loud too. They played in the newly refurbished Commodore Ballroom - a wonderful centrally-located venue w/ good sound and lots of room and air. Could have done better w/ the paint job, but whatev. Hey you bands (and I mean one in particular), the Commodore is a good reason to come to Vancouver! Oh, and they played b&s before and after the show - only stuff from tbwtas and only on rotation with 5 other cds, but hell, it sounded so good in a big room. Speaking of the lovelies, here's something from the local a&e paper from an article on stereolab: "Considering that Stereolab helped invent the genre (ambient-French-futuristic-lounge-pop), it's only appropriate that Cobra and Phases finds the band eager to show it won't be outshone by upstarts such as Air and Belle and Sebastian." Um, what? What the *hell* is that? Mike Usinger, silly old arts journalist, yr a wanker and a know-nothing-know-it-all name dropper. Just thought I'd share. And lastly, (yes, lastly b/c i'm trying to understand what concise really means), I almost melted my brains this weekend watching 25 minutes of a Spice Girls "documentary" on Muchmusic (the nation's music station). At first it was funny to joke about them, but then our eyes glazed over and we forgot the simplest things (I believe they were sucked into the black hole of spice girl logic) until we made a quick getaway during a little posh spice crying fit (they all had their noses in pocket mirrors.) But I'm... okay... now. I now believe sushi really can cure anything. Love Robyn p.s. Wilco - Summerteeth, a must have. "You could be anywhere, but you're not. You're here." Sporty Spice, in a more profound on-tour moment ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ 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: Insert favorite Hefner lyric here
by ASpawnyGit＠aol.com 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Wee, I personally think that nick drake is about as equal to the average TV consumer as that stupid Honda commercial that played the Jim Carroll songs. Maybe Im stupid but I hope I make it onto a car commercial someday cause then I will be able to know I am famous. Is it a sell out? Or me just paying my rent...who is to judge such things but me? I dunno nor do I give a hoot. Is anyone else into mid 60's garage punker rock? If so let me know cause I have had the worst time finding British derivatives of that era.....besides the obvious. If anyone knows such info I would probably poopey in my pants first and then send an email of appreciation. If any Americans like such musical antics,,,,i suggest the crypt records Back from the Grave compilations. Another bit..for all you Americans, neutral milk hotel have made onto the all time top 100 spin list. So what I spent my thanksgiving in Athens Georgia and the guy rode by on a wizard of oz bike saying "hello" meaning...you wish you were as cool.... He had on a nice sweater ..the punk. the japancakes could have whipped him..so that town is so damn driven by India rock it is scary. I expected Beck to climb up on some downtown tower excaliming his cooleness way before everyone else was cool dammit. But alas..that was my interpretation of Athens GA USA...go usa you know..i would like to see USA Vs. Arsenal in some kind of decrepit soccer game. We have all those kids with dreadlocks you know...they must have some kind of extra kicking power. Go usa. I often wonder..by default how many of you automatically delete my posts, since they are usually beligerant..like this one. See you in Stirling....new years shall be grand. Bradley. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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