May 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Chicago - With her hair a shining shade of bus-conductress blonde...
by Sam Devere 10 May '99

10 May '99

Dearest Poptarts - I'm heading to Chicago Sunday through Thursday. What are the names of the musical venues of interest? I checked out Centerstage.com but there was way too much junk in there. Previously, I mentioned that a local DC rave event was shutdown due to ecstacy abuses. Well, during this whole sordid affair, city officials discovered ecstacy is LEGAL in DC due to a typographical error in the city's books. So it's been legal every since city officials thought they banned it -- typical DC government theatrics. I wonder what else is legal... On a B&S related note, over the weekend I heard Looper's 'Treehouse' used for an ESPN extreme ad... Sammy NP: 'Carolyn's Fingers' by Cocteau Twins _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Chicago - With her hair a shining shade of bus-conductress blonde...
by Sam Devere 10 May '99

10 May '99

Dearest Poptarts - I'm heading to Chicago Sunday through Thursday. What are the names of the musical venues of interest? I checked out Centerstage.com but there was way too much junk in there. Previously, I mentioned that a local DC rave event was shutdown due to ecstacy abuses. Well, during this whole sordid affair, city officials discovered ecstacy is LEGAL in DC due to a typographical error in the city's books. So it's been legal every since city officials thought they banned it -- typical DC government theatrics. I wonder what else is legal... On a B&S related note, over the weekend I heard Looper's 'Treehouse' used for an ESPN extreme ad... Sammy NP: 'Carolyn's Fingers' by Cocteau Twins _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm leaving home, bye bye....
by Blake E Hamilton 10 May '99

10 May '99

My fluffs, my gents, my lasses.... As I try to understand how indeed to express the immense joy flowing through my veins concerning my departure for London, (which are blue veins, by the way) I am remarking on why this room is so hot and coincidentally my feet are so chilly. Bizarre. I just spoke with my friend's mum who informed me that we are staying at a 'hotel' somewhere in South Kensington. It begins with a G and it's a bit long. Anyone know where this is? Well if anyone has any tasty info about this area, places to go, things to see, you know, yes well. I am still jealous about Bowlie. I understand jealousy is a relatively fruitless sin/vice, but alas, I cannot help myself. To see my brother's eyes light up when i tell him, "Jarvis was there, we could have spoken with him!". Oh the horrors, the destitution. All we have over here is Woodstock 99 (bleh!!). What a sh*tty assortment of "popular" bands. Though there are rumors of my boys The Who playing, however I'm afraid an appearance by them would only lower their credibility a little more. Soon they'd be whispered in the same sentence as CSN&Y, and we wouldn't want that, would we? I also am going to be in Paris (a trip, yes it surely is) on Friday and Saturday evening. Besides Funky Seb, I've had nobody out there wishing to meet up, so here's to you French birds to pick up the slack! Well Seb and I will have a jolly good time in spite of you dissenting sinisters! Boo and hiss, Bye with a kiss, Wrapped up in style, I'll stick with this smile.... love, blake +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S (fwd)
by Honey 10 May '99

10 May '99

This in my inbox this morning from a friend down the corridor. He knows not of the land of Sinister, or at least hasn't dwelled in its sunlight-dappled woods and murky underground bogs, but it seems infections just keep spreading. A competition then: youngest fan. Must be able to speak and/or write so it's demonstrably true. I reckon Steve's little Catherine's going to win it, but prove me wrong. More photos have gone up on the WWW site from Bowlie and the Primrose picnic: thanks Vicky, Tom etc. Catching up catching up, please anyone who's waiting for mail wait sweetly. You're all very good and I'm slooooooow. honey xxx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Paul, Haven't seen you for a while. Hope you are doing ok. I misplaced the B&S album but found it again at the weekend. It just gets better everytime I listen to it. Gill thinks its brilliant too. Even Catherine likes it. We were eating dinner together while B&S were playing and she said "You know dad, I think Belle&Sebastian are great". Does she count as their youngest fan at aged 6 :-) Steve -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: study leave
by Graham MacArthur 10 May '99

10 May '99

Sinisterines, Today started off so well, the sun was shining, and I walked along roads jammed with cars, the angry people inside sweating and pulling at their collars. I felt smug. I felt happy. But now the drizzle has set in outside my window, and I wanted to play mAKE UP, but the builder is in....and I fear, being a bit of a melody fm man himself, it wouldn't quite be his cup of tea. I'm avoiding him. He scares me. He has a beard. On the lyric analyising thread, I think alot of the time, the lyrics stand for what they mean to you personally, the way you interpret them rather than their actual meaning or intention. I was convinced 'Mis-shapes' by Pulp was a song about suicide because of the line "we'll use the one thing we've got more of, thats our minds", which I thought was "that's our LIVES" as if they would all kill themselves as a big dramatic statement, which somehow made the song seem more serious. but it's altogether morbid.. and my cd player won't play sinister! grrr. It will play any of my old rubbish, even at their most scratched, but sinister, no. I found a libary book stamped Sept. 97 in my room last night, then dreamed I I had fines of 2 billion knicker and would be forced to work in Hertford Library with the grannies and well presented young ladies with their pearls for the rest of my life. Working in a library wouldn't seem so bad if it wasn't so quiet....imagine if you farted. Could you *ever* live it down? Oh! the sun has just come out...rain AND sunshine...I'm going to have a look for a rainbow. This would have more belle and sebastian content. It really would. If it could. Erica 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". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Harvey
by Tony 10 May '99

10 May '99

Not the Pooka and friend of Mr Dowd but the son of Mr and Mrs Williams. He made me think of Randy Newman, Plush, and maybe a touch Jimmy Webb. His voice was a little hushed but he performed some great songs for those patient enough to listen. A number of Bowlie T-Shirts were also present but we were half-way through the second bottle of champagne at that point I was incapable of anything other than a wave and a smile. Ant @ The Poetry Cafe on Friday was magical, definately worth catching if you can get the chance. I believe his single comes out today though having already heard it I prefer the B-side. Thanks to Trousers for the tip. On a sadder note (in both senses of the word) my wristband finally lost the war of attrition with my rough and tumble lifestyle and broke away from my wrist - so no biscuit cardigan for me :-( I was shocked at my friends suggestions to cheat and use sellotape to maintain it. Made me think of all those people who'd resort to ever more devious methods to win at conkers when I was a bairn. Tony ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Stephen Dalton, you're just being silly...
by robhalcrow＠lineone.net 10 May '99

10 May '99

Hello Sinsiterines everywhere. Did you see Stephen Dalton's hilarious NME Bowlie thing where he said the bands embodied "the whitest, wettest, most sexless and soulless trends in guitar music"? OK, maybe he doesn't like "wet" music, whatever that is. "Sexless"? Don't really get that. Isn't intelligence sexy in a way? "Soulless"? I find more soul in B&S and The Delgados than in the vocal histrionics of Whitney Houston, for instance. But the worst criticism was "whitest". Are white people not allowed to sound white? Should they try and sound black? (Like Ronan Keating?) Jamaican? African-American? Chinese? And should black people try and sound white? I'm confused but I suspect Mr Dalton is just being silly. On the subject of emotional response to music I find ""The Boy Done Wrong Again" one of the most affecting in terms of lyrics. Stuart just sounds as if he's had enough. (I also think the 'wrong' notes enhance the song, to refer to an older topic. Isn't that one of the charms of lo-fi music? the imperfections? the ramshackle nature of the music?) (Isn't "ramshackle" a brilliant word?) More often it is the music itself that gets me, such as the instrumental into last verse of "Get Me Away..." where it seems to take off. It's all subjective though, isn't it? I was near the front of the Mogwai set at Bowlie and found the wordless "..Helicon" incredibly moving, especially when they got very loud and the lights strobed etc. A couple of days later I read Stephen Eastwood (B&S type at C4's Planet Sound) dismiss the set as "slo-mo metal guff". Hmmm...(to be said in a Marge Simpson voice, with a furrowed brow if possible). I'm with Katrina (not literally, obviously. I'm on my own): the best bands at Bowlie were B&S and Mogwai. I've got a sore throat now and I'm playing a gig next Sunday. I need Locketts. And sympathy. *cough* *splutter* *generally offensive guttural noises* Love Rob "on Saturday I was an angel shining fair..." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: got the relegation blues
by rachel tucker 10 May '99

10 May '99

hey everyone, i'm tres miserable today :( so obviously i want to inflict my depression on all you lovely people. why am i miserable? i hear you cry (or not, as the case may be). well, yesterday the inevitable finally happened. the mighty oxford united were relegated back to divison two, though we did go in style (5-0! wahey!). and then i got disgustingly drunk to drown my sorrows/celebrate - the lower leagues are more fun anyway, weekend trips to bournemouth and blackpool, no horrible rich clubs flaunting their money and stealing your best players, etc. (honestly, i'm not clutching at straws!) - so having wasted sunday evening i'm now attempting to write an essay before 1o'clock on whether the family is universal or not with a hangover. a rather nasty one. it's not fair. but soon i'll have tigermilk. well, in just over 2 months. and i will be able to listen to i don't love anymore without the sound of tape being chewed or having to leap to the rescue as soon as mary jo starts to falter, or have an odd swooshing surround sound effect all the way through as my poor old copy of a copy of a copy is stretched beyond all recognition. ooh, i'm so excited! has anyone else seen/seeing prolapse on their current tour? if you get the chance GO! i saw them on saturday and they were mind blowingly fantastic. and very very loud. is the new album out yet? is it any good? i want it! but i am truly skint. i have £7.27 to last till the end of the month so any donations would be gratefully received... anyway, i have delayed my essay for another half hour now, so maybe i should go and write something. less than 3 hours to go.... lots of love, rachel xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Wanking ned
by jarkko frantila 10 May '99

10 May '99

Richard Connell wrote: >If you can watch divorcing jack, spanish prisoner, zero effect and >listen to stina nordenstam, deus and stereolab. Not a recommendation, >an order! Well I'm listening to dEus quite often. And Stina nordenstam! I thought I was the only one in the whole of Europe who liked her music. Not a chartbreaker, her. Anyone else into her? been trying to get some of her singles, but it seems impossible to order them from anywhere. Not that good music to listen to when the sun is shining, though. Perfect while sitting at home while its raining and the thunder is roaring outside. Very relaxing the old stuff. New stuff is so claustrophobic it's almost scary. And I'm just waiting to get my new "Study At Stow"-shirt through mail. The old one looks horrible now because of my sweating (see my previous post). And I ordered all the 9 badges too, although I already have 3 of them. And mind you, I dont have the money. Well i have, but I COULD spend it on food and such. But that's what sinisterism does to you. -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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Oops
by ar981611＠student.paisley.ac.uk 10 May '99

10 May '99

I just said: http://www.geocities.com/~jnovotny/concerts/bellelive2.html Describes them as a "low-quality Sonic Youth" which is pants, as it actually describes the support band as a low-quality Sonic Youth. I am a fool and I'm going to go to my bed now. Ailsa xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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