June 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Re: Sinister: I think the shaking stopped...or rather started
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

as regards the sounds of the documentary: it's in brit format: namely. PAL. i think it's called. Some places can convert the tape for you. Look in your local phone book. I don't think it would be too pricey. I was going to ask for a copy of the documentary, but then i remembered the format wouldn't work in my VCR. maybe if some nice listee gets it converted they could make me a copy. I figured I would post this to the whole list, in case someone else has the same problem. if you think it's bad posting private mail to the list, consider my plight. I've been posting letters that should have gone to the list to a retired grandmother in Florida. I think the smut content has nearly unhinged her. people don't say crikey enough in conversation 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". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: hello. im new to the list.
by .gibby. 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Hello everyone... my name is gibby. I'm 21 and i live in cambridge, just across the river from boston. oooh. what to say? I love belle and sebastian, but then if I wasn't a fan I wouldn't have taken the time to do all this email stuff would I? I enjoy lots of music, you can also find me on the indie-pop and panic lists, or walking around town with my hands in my pockets, or behind the counter of an espresso bar, where I waste away most of my days and nights serving coffee to the quirky inhabitants of my beloved town. we have many regulars, but there are a few who's names i've learned. sometimes i also remember what they like in their coffee, things like that. my favorite song right now by belle and sebastian is "ease your feet in the sea". it just became my favorite as it got warmer out, because it reminds me of the first time i heard "the boy with the arab strap"... it was around the end of last summer, and it was a hot day... a friend and i drove out to the rockport quaries for a swim. my favorite song in general at the moment is "sugar hiccup" by the cocteau twins... that song scares me to death for some reason, but i love it all the same. it is about a horse named sugar hiccup who died. it reminds me of being very small and sneaking into a tiny abandoned horse-stable in the woods near my house growing up in missouri. it was all ivy-covered and falling apart. and the stables still had the horses names written above them in chipping, faded paint. it terrified me and gave me nightmares for years. this song comes and goes on my favorites, but right now im listening to it a lot again. my favorites have been changing frequently as of late. I've been doing a lot of staying indoors. But tonight i went to the movies alone for the first time in my life. i saw rushmore at the 5 dollar theatre in davis square. i loved it and walked home in the wind with a new sense of self. i like spending time alone, it is something new to me. goodbye for now, and i hope i get to know some of you. <3 gibby. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Big Apology
by robhalcrow＠lineone.net 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Dear all, I'm very sorry that my last post was sent 4 times. I sent it once and my computer wouldn't admit it had gone at all so I gave up. Sorry again. Yours Rob +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: And now a message from our sponsor...
by boyon abike 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

i am terribly sorry, but i just could not resist: how about that one where....springfield is overtaken by the most dreaded and heinous arch-enemy of the simpsons yet....FRAGGLES!! the fraggles team up with sideshow bob in a wicked plot to kill bart via forcing him to o.d. on dr. pepper! of course, grandpa would end up lost underground complaining that "the elves took my underwaaare!", and homer's international underground coke cartel would rise and fall in half an hour as marge uses her fame as an underwear model to start a new "crack down on drugs" campain. oh that would put me on the floor for days :) mmmmmm...fraggles do you all agree? (homer: do Iii know what rhetorical means!?) on another note (d-flat, it i am not mistaken). when i first started listening to B&S i knew my life had changed. beforehand i had completely given up on ever finding a band that could produce such music; a band like......well, belle and sebastian! i can still listen to them at any moment and be exceptionally glad, Buuttt..i do sense that the familiarity i now have has caused a waning on the songs immediate ability to take me out of whatever unpleasant mood i might happen to be in and instantly place me right in a fuzzy dream-world filled of horses, foxes, and bicycles and buses where nothing could ever go wrong, and even if something did go wrong: it would still be all right because stuart would be there to comfort!!! lerv, edwin _______________________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: My Life As An SAB.......
by Elish Hope 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Hey All! Note to Ailsa - there are plenty of people who never even get a crush list vote to start with - so don't go complainin' that no one's voted for you in a week - boo~hoo! :) Too funny that Ailsa should mention The Gyres. They stink like old banana's.... Here's a little harsh reality for all those SAB's out there (Sad American Bastards :)). The UK records their videos differently form us and we are unable to play ANY video here on our VCR's - I used to know the logistics of it all, but I am hopeless for technical detail. A talent I find extremely proficient in my new vocation as a computer technical engineer, but nevermind.... There are video players that you can buy which will play either at the flick of a switch. I have one on my wish list for my wedding. I have a lot of B&S stuff that I can't watch - music videos and stuff like that. There are places that will transfer UK to US for you - but it is COSTLY - and that is why we are SAB!!! :) Sorry for the bad news, the truth usually stinks. Hope all is well out there in Sinister land.... Snoggs, ell +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I think the shaking stopped...or rather started
by Walkn10＠aol.com 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

I recieved my copy of the B&S documentary yesterday (from Rob, who I think we'll all agree is aces) but theres a slight problem. Ok, there's a huge problem. I can't view the darn thing. Its continual squiggles and the sound is quite reminscent of the Chipmunks (if you thought Isobel's voice was cute before, wait til you hear the Alvin version of 'Is it Wicked Not To Care.' Truly a brillant moment). I'm no expert when it comes to VCRs, hell I barely qualify as a novice, so being that I live stateside and Rob on the Isle, is there an adaptor of some sort I need to view the tape? I know a few other folks in the US recieved tapes from Rob so I'd really appreciate it if someone who can watch their tape could tell how I could do the same (hopefully for pretty cheap). I'm sorry I couldn't cram some smut in here but after Nick's last message I see there is no need for anything more than the walking ball of glorious smut that is Mr. Dasto(o)r. Cheers. Joel and Ethan Cohen are highly underrated...Fargo and the Big Lebowski were tops. Steve C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: 11 Roddington Place
by Mark Casarotto 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Nck Dstr wrote (when he wasn't talking about his chopper): Hollywood, however, has already heard of me, as I never tire of telling people. Luckily, I was only thirteen at the time and so had an excuse for not having a huge cock. And Mr Spielberg didn't ask me to show it to him anyway. But if he had, what a story it might have been! If you look for me on imdb.com you'll find my surname had only one 'o' then. I have a policy of adding one letter to my name every few years. Nick (who I don't need to sexually harass these days - check the archives - as everyone else seems to do it for me), that was perhaps the best self-promotion of the year so far, mentioning your halcyon days working with Mr Spielberg (Stevie to you, natch). And yes, I did go and look you up, "Paul" - do you realise some poor sweaty fucker had to data-entry you, right up to <h1>Nicholas Dastor</h1>? Still it's pretty cool. Anyone fancying beating that? Mad Dog Murdoch is pretty clued up about his own songs, I reckon - and though I don't want any of his stuff to remain wilfully obscure, if he ever *did* release "London has let me down again" or its demo chums, there'd be sighing posts a la "The Gate" moaning about how precious record space was used up with substandard material. And it is. But then "A Summer Wasting" made its way onto Thrustybratwurst, after all... It's sad that we won't see piccies of Christa's woodland ablutions on the internet. There's an alarmingly lurid photo of me in existence relieving myself (matron) out of a first floor window thanks to the size of the queue for the loo at a party (possibly CarsmileSteve's dream do - I don't get invited to ones in real life). Unlike Nick, however, I am so well endowed that in the photo one end of my member is crystal clear while the other is way out of focus... And by the way, Mr Spoon, I think you'll find that there were tons of girls at Tigermilky! But maybe you're right - perhaps we should do like the really classy clubs (ahem) and let the laydeez in free of charge next time...Nah, don't think so. Think of the riff-raff we'd have to put up with... Pointlessness quotient = 80%. Just the way I like it. Mark xxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Godard, Seberg, BBR
by McQuain, Chris 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Greetings, fair ones- First off, to all you poor, ignorant people who are sniping at Black Box Recorder (sometimes without ever even hearing them, and always without understanding them) I say: I would give you a severe spanking if it weren't for the fact that you would probably enjoy it, and in fact your anti-BBR effusions were probably just a ploy to receive said paddling. The more YOU hate them, the more WE love them. This is to Tom Newth in particular and everyone in general: I am also SO glad to see the infernally iconoclastic Jean-Luc Godard is being resurrected on the list (although I can't stand the thought of the far inferior Quentin being mentioned in the same breath). My fave Godards in order: 1. My Life to Live 2. Contempt 3. Masculin/Feminin (for some reason, this strikes me as the most B&S-like, don't ask why just see the movie) 4. Pierrot Le Fou 5. Alphaville 6. Breathless 8. Two or Three Things I Know About Her ...and I believe those are the ones I've seen. Please, everybody, write in with YOUR favorites (and I'm only half joking about that). I am currently working on a book about underappreciated '60s actresses, including Anna Karina (in most of the films above, married to Godard at the time), Liv Ullman, Bibi Andersson, Gena Rowlands, AND Jean Seberg. There is a movie called "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" available on video, it's quite interesting even for non-Godard/Seberg fans. It's a feminist take on Seberg's bumpy career, with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt. It features Hurt as Seberg after her death, looking back with wise hindsight at all her ups and downs and how terribly unfair the world was to her. Highly recommended. Au Revoir- Two or Three Things I Know About Chris +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: P.s (calling all ruder boys and girls)
by Graham MacArthur 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

P.S Elvis Costello has been mentioned. I am a slave to Elvis Costello, in that I have to listen to his music at times, without choice. Blake, you have to hear Girl's Talk (it's a b-side, but i'm sure you'll find a way. My favorite album is Brutal Youth, the elvis c comeback with the attractions, but I don't know Very Much about the many albums costello has done. 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Calling All Rude Boys and Girls
by Graham MacArthur 16 Jun '99

16 Jun '99

Dear sinister, uh. I'm all ska-ed out. There is a limit to how much ska one girl can take. but it was worth listening to a whole tape of it, with the promise of a ska version of the James Bond theme in there somewhere. or was it? I feel a bit like the man from High Fidelty who has bags of tapes so big he turns down invites to the pub, because he's got so many tapes to get through. So I learn Jace le petit would like to become a wall. A wall? for heavens sake man use your imagination. You could prentend you were a wall sitting down on a bench quite easily, couldn't you? you'd get to watch people walk past. I watch people walking past from the same cafe in Hertford most days, I always sit in the window with a nasty coffee (they don't make nice coffee because it's not a nice cafe) and scowl at townies. If any object could talk to me, I would like it to be a plastic braziliphant, because they look like they know how to have a good time. I've finished my exams you know. They're all gone. I have a whole summer ahead of me and no plans except the probabilty of being dragged off somewhere remote and dusty with the ma and pa. Why can't I live in Happy Days? I mean the actual series. I want to live with the cunninghams. It was never boring there. So what did you do in the holidays, when you were younger? I need ideas. I have a small list, but it consists mostly of books I Really Should Read. I thought I might go and see Top of the Pops one week, (note international readers, this is a british pop music telly programme) you know, live, and look really silly when the camera looks in my direction. Erica X (you know, the pouting S!T!A!R) ahem! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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