February 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: "...the way she puts her fingers in her mouth..."
by Snowinsumr＠aol.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

dearest "lost and terribly scared" diary... my kitten has torn down the curtains over every window...spilled a glass of milk all over mum's magazine...we're having a busy night...so when i try to lecture him on the fine art of being pleasant he stares me down with his greeny-brown kitten eyes and i have to give him kisses and snackies...:::sigh:::... anyway...i am terribly excited as i am going to see smog in march and i think that is something to be rather excited about...and the new hal hartley film is coming out in april...which will, in every way, please the masses...good lord, there goes a pile of smiths cd's...time to go and have a talk with the minature cat...morrissey is not someone you knock around... kisses, m. elise +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Let's all give Dave's mum a hand, shall we?(round two)
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

here's what my friends have to say.. <<<I am a mum too and would be interested in the picks of the list Pattie i think that "dirty dream #2" always draws people to belle and sebastian... :) megan elise>>> hopefully the choices will be posted to the list.. so far Megan Elise kindly suggested Dirty Dream #2.. I like this a lot too, so it may be there.. however! The "Dirty Dream" aspect of it may cause my mother nightmares.. so. dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Brits on TV in the States
by Mew817＠aol.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Hi everyone!! It's so nice to have sinister back and running. Someone had posted that the Brits would be televised in the States on ABC so I did some research. They will be on Saturday, March 6 from 11:30pm-1:00am ET. I've checked the ABC web page, you can go here to see it: http://abc.go.com/primetime/specials/index.html I'm very very excited about this!!! Set your VCRs!! I thought of all of you on Monday because we had our first snow of the pseudo- winter here in Atlanta, GA. It was so pretty driving to work, seeing beautiful white snow on all the trees and grass. I even played fox in the snow as I was driving (silly, I know) I didn't see any foxes though, just some big, black crows. Crows in the snow just does not have the same ring to it.... ;) Of course it all melted by the afternoon and it was 70F here today! I hope you all have a great time at the Bowlie weekender, I'm so jealous that I can't go! It would be so cool to meet those of you that will be there. I just don't have the money right now and started a new job, so I'm stuck here. I hope you all will report back to us! I don't even have to ask you that though! Thanks Honey for all of your hard work getting the new list together! mew x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Let's all give Dave's mum a hand, shall we?
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Well, I for one am very glad that the Sinister Nation is back in action. I feel like I should go pop open a bottle of champagne or something.. I did feel lost without this online list, Honey, and I'm very glad that it's up and running. Now: a question for the group. I'm making a tape for my mother, as she's heard some Belle and Sebastian playing in my room and liked it a lot. I'm going to put five songs or so, plus some Nick Drake, and some classical. The question is this.... what Belle and Sebastian songs are the ideal ones to introduce someone to the sound we all know and love? Yes yes, they all are good. I know. But a brief smattering of tunes will be easier for my dear mum to process, and if it's kept short she'll be able to learn the lyrics sooner, and improvise a little dance to go with it.... So, I toss the gauntlet to you, my sinister friends. What five tunes are the edge of the deep pool of music that is Belle And Sebastian? Not necessarily the "best" tunes, or your favorite tunes. I just want to find five songs that will show the scope, the spectrum, the many hued rainbow of delight we lovingly call B &S..... let me know.......... my mum thanks you in advance. love, dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Buckfast
by Keith Watson 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

>Which reminded me. Apparently on channel 4 next saturday night >at 9pm it's the ALL TIME HEAVY METAL TOP TEN. Keith, >are you listening? Oh aye JJ don't you worry, I'll be watching that, rocking my socks off. If AC/DC are good enough for Stuart Murdoch to rock his socks off to, they're good enough for me. Another metal fact - we were talking about stuff the other week, the day the Sun headline came out, and it turns out that Tony Doogan, the Ca Va Engineer and producer of B+S and the Delgados (and Slartibartfast on chat), his fave track is Motorhead's "We are the road crew". Top stuff indeed, although I personally like "Built for Speed" and "Killed by Death" more, as choice Motorhead cuts. Did any UKers watch John Peel's visit to Lanarkshire? Quite good, although Duglas Stewart was still going on about Buckfast wine Readers should check out the Newtown Grunts who are this Punk band from Glenrothes, and who now replace the deceased Japs Eye as Fife's finest. They're great, they're got a song about buckfast too, called "I drink buckfast", where the singer leaps into the audience and rams buckie down people's throats. They've got loads of great songs, most of which are "dedicated to anyone working in the drinks industry", and their signature tune which goes "You're a cunt, you're a cunt, I'm a Newtown Grunt". Fun for all the family. They often wind up playing with the Amphetameanies, so maybe the Sinister crowd will be lucky enough to be able to check them out. That program was OK JJ, I quite liked it, although a bit too much emphasis on Sean "Stig of the Dump" Dickson perhaps. His contribution to the world of Scottish music hasn't been tremendously huge. I was talking about that picnic thingy we had last April in the last message, and I figured why don't we have another one? Why not indeed, and in fact, why don't we make it a bit before the Bowliefest. Anyone up for that? Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shag? Or Kebab?
by Fluffy Sarah 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Hello! Sorry for the FOR THE LADS!!!! style title there! But I went to see Murray the Hump last night and boy! Did they rule or what. That Shag? Or Kebab! song consisted of Gang of Four style agit-pop (what the hell IS that anyway) and then a gangly fella saying SHAG? OR KEBAB! It's marvellous! Of course then I drank too much and was ill the next day *sighh* I wouldn't have minded but I was with 2 stone cold sober people, and I was....urrgh. Dear. So! Sinister is back! SINISTER IS! THE ONE AND ONLYYYY! la la lallalalaa lalalaaaaa....what is that song? Its a bad song, but I feel t'is apt. Oh MY what is it! This will bug me... Anyway aren't toasters great? I love toast! It's the best thing ever, lightly toasted toast with just melted butter, ooooh almost as scrummy as our darling list mummy honeypie :) I love tea as well. I want to have a pint of tea sometime, just for the experience. I dreamt about you lot! Well, I dreamt about some of you. I was punting down the river on a pogo stick - it made sense at the time - and then I saw a boat, and went, I'm in Oxford! I recognise that boat from the train! And then I had to avoid some white water rapids! next thing I know, I'm in the Sandcastle in Blackpool swimming towards the end wall. And THEN, I'm in a pasta resteraawnt, with Andy Nicol and Holly! And the waiter comes over with the phone, and says, phone call for you all. And we go, oh, ok, and it was keith who was phoning! Except that Keith looked like that nasty bloke from 'Queer as Folk'. I don't know how I knew that considering he only phoned us, but he DID. And THEN we looked at the people on the next table, and it was HONEY and LINDA! Except Linda had blonde hair...and was dressed like....you know office-working women in 80's films? Like one of those. She was eating spaghetti and can't remember what honey was eating. I know, get a LIFE. I missed Sinister when it was gone. I kept thinking, oh I must post to the list about *this*, *that*, and then thinking... but its gone....but now we are back. IN BLACK. YEAH! Yawn. Its 2mins past midnight, and I'm off to bed! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Fluffy Candarel http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I L I K E K I T E S ! :o)
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I never realized how much i missed the sinister-ness daily. i've been very disoriented lately. I WISH i could see the gentle waves tour! better yet, me and jess's girl group, The Buxoms, would open with our own delightful brand of bratty girlie indie-pop and amateurish melodies. it would be a fabulous line-up! maybe if she gets famous enough, they will shell out the money to send her over here on a stadium tour or soemthing. i'll be sure to bring my lighter. OOOH another round of jealousy, served up to all the evil folks who are able to attend bowlie weekend, you cheeky monkies. including YOU, christa "ms jackson if your nasty" chaffinch. who supplied me this past week with a ripped up magnetic fields poster which DOUBLES as a puzzle and provided me, in my sickbed, with hours of ungodly amusement. i'll be checking into the sanitarium tomorrow. AND let me nominate said ms jackson for the title High Priestess of Mix Tapes. of interest to the interminably Tw** among us (dont' wanna say the dirty "t" word), is a little song called "Kites are Fun" by a group apparently named Freezone. sounding like something out of a 70's feminine hygiene commercial, replete with flutery and mindbendingly saccharine/mundane sentiment, it is guaranteed to melt the heart of any sinister bunny and prescribed to grumps in repeated listening to induce proper tw**ness. At least it woudl be if i were teh king of the world. anyway, it beats out paper boat any day. i've been listening to tijamrs on a loop these days, except for tijamrs the song CUZ i dotn' like it that much. but the rest of the ep, i wish would last for hours. why can't slow graffiti be like a day long? so i could live in it. SHOCK HORROR!!! i've heard from a secret source that the band have decided to change the artwork for the uh reissue of tiggermilk. don't breathe a word of it to anyone, but i've got the image right here. (please dont' kill me, it's all in fun) http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4967/tigg1.htm Francoise Hardy is dreeeeeamy. her records are a very fun way of learning some french in your spare time. i know a lot more words than i did before i got those cd's. huh huh i'm like smart and stuff!! je soufrirai plus que toi.... etc etc (and she's so beautiful as well!) ugh....i feel so fakey today! i apologize, this is really boring. i've been trying to update my page lately. soon you will be able to see more isobel things, more poems, and a photo album of jess and i's non-b&S adventures on our DC trip. it's fun when it's fun! well that's it for my uh, self-gratification party today. OH MY! i just remembered. i have plans. if i can work it out, if i'm in fact talented enough with the needle (not THAT sort of needle!!) I think that I may plan to make a Beanie Stuart. i have this silver fabric...... and next, beanie isobel with tiger ears!! could it get any cuter?? maybe i can be featured in my gramma's Beanie World magazines. if i ever figure out how i can make one, i'll let y'all know about it. Today, it hailed golf-ball size hail all over my house!! it was very exciting! Any sinisterines in the southwestern area of the UNITED STATES? I"m planning to go to sKooL in Tempe AZ. it would be amusing to know some B&S kids out there once i arrive. i'll be bringing plenty of sunscreen, and my guitar. well i'll stop boring you. i'm off to play my tambourine and write some indie pop songs. next time, my top ten albums of the year. please don't kill me. LJ if you want me i'll be there a boy to deal with all your problems but part of the deal is for you to feel something http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange "Everyone begins to get desperate and panicky, and all of a sudden, everything they never understood, they want it all explained" --Ms. Buffat, my HS chemistry teacher +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: feeling just ideal.
by Marie Elia 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

oh, sinisterites! i HAVE been wandering aimlessly for about 2 weeks now, or whatever. i had that feeling, like when you are young, and yr best friend goes on summer vacation, and for a week or two you just roam about waiting for her to get back... well, two wonderful things happened during the sinister exile: (1) i turned 21! my friends made it one of the best birthdays ever... highlights include a little postal hodgepodge from a friend in london, and a collage from kimmy (kisskiss! kim!), and.... (2) my best friend suprised me with a dubbed copy of tigermilk. it is at least a 7th generation tape, but if you turn the volume up pretty high, stuart's sweet voice drifts through the speakers just fine. mostly i am just excited to finally hear all these songs that everyone keeps talking about. "we rule the school" is definitely beautiful and precious, and "expectations" and "she's losing it" rock my world, but i've decided that "electronic renaissance" gets PrOPs! from me -- the petshopboys-esque-ness of it is simply lovely. i'm doing my best to secure a ticket to the march 24th looper gig, as i will be in london that week! (it is our spring break)... take care, xoxo, marie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: me very happy now
by atremp＠vub.ac.be 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

aaaaaahhhhhhh... i would say it's nice to be back but then again this is my first mail to you all. i've only been on the list for a couple of weeks but i still felt i was missing something for the last couple of days. it was quite a scare actually because at first i thought i'd been kicked out of the list for some obscure reason, and was ready to disturb honey with a desparate message when i got the explanatory mail that saved me from going mad. anyway, i'm a very polite girl so i'm gonna introduce myself now. i'm annie, and i'm from brussels, belgium, i'm a biology student, i'm 19, euhmm ...that's about it. i guess the tickets for the bowlie weekender will be sold out by now. i seriously considered asking one of you to smuggle me in (i'm pretty sure i could fit in a big piece of luggage) but then i remembered the reason i can't go (apart from having no dough, that is): at my otherwise ok university we have EXAMS at easter, don't you have those in the uk? so to all the people who'll be feeling miserable that weekend, you can console yourselves with the fact that there'll be an even more miserable person out there revising her biochemistry. feeling a bit better megan? enough feeling sorry for myself. i'll try to talk about something else. it actually started snowing the evening i subscribed to the list, i liked that. and the snow stayed for more than a week, i can't even remember the last time that happened(i decided to take this as a sign, sign of what i don't know). don't you just love the feeling of fresh snow under your feet? i always try to resist at first because it's so much prettier when noone's walked on it but i usually crack after five minutes and jump on every little space of 'unwalked-on' snow i find. you can imagine the looks i get from people. about some B&S content, well... i'm listening to 'you made me forget my dreams' right now, does that count? and last week i ordered some stuff i didn't have and can't wait to get it. i'll leave you all now, sweet dreams, annie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Let's get the show on the road
by Keith Watson 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

OK Chums, here we are again on a new list. Hopefully we'll have just as great a time from now on as we have had over the last few years. Here's some of my personal favourites... All the people - you know who you are - and their posts to this list that make it bloody funny, and make it worthwhile reading. Meeting everyone at gigs, and getting horrendously pissed up for a laugh. Manchester in particular last Christmas was bloody hilarious, seeing cause and effect, with Chris Geddes being razzled up to the eyeballs, and apparently then hueyed into a bucket at the concert the next day. I didn't make it, too hungover Stevie Trousers visiting Glasgow, getting out of the CCA for the second week in a row without paying for the meal Meeting Roddddney Begbie in London. I gave the chap lines at school once, but he grew up to be a lovely chap. Seeing David McCarthy shocked as fuck when we all went for a picnic in Glasgow, when he realized that for about half an hour he'd been talking to Stuart Murdoch without realising it. 10 Roddington Place Peter Miller noticing that I was subliminally quoting 10CC song titles in my message subjects, after only 2 of them! With Tag in London, on a bus getting "No sleep till Hammersmith" and singing "Mirrors" by Sally Oldfield Meeting the Duke in London and realizing that he's just as vulnerable as the rest of us :). Seeing Belle and Sebastian win at the Brit Awards legitamately as a result of lots of fans voting because they love the band. Seeing Pete Waterman fucked off cause it was the only award the industry didn't control, and they didn't win it. Pity in some ways, I've always sort of liked Pete Waterman, plus I thought he'd be dead into Belle and Sebastian. Never mind eh - how your heroes fall. A few weeks ago when me and Chris Leonard decided to have a "drinking competition" which involved trying to drink as much as possible without lifting our pints off of the table. This seriously escalated and we wound up having to have a bloody good wash in the bogs. Northy's "mate" posting to the list to tell everyone what a chod he was. At Brighton Beach in Leeds with B+S and loads of the list posse, wound up signing an autograph for a lovely chap on the list for fun myself, he posted to the list next day having recognized my stupid drunken scrawl. Christ I'm going to have to stop now, there's just too many. I could write a book on the subject, sorry about the other people not mentioned in name - it's purely for the amount of typing I'd have to do. Love you all, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". List WWW site back soon, I promise. +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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