June 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: pretty in pink...isn't she?
by ian 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

(mental note to self..when maintaining a split personality it is best to remember which part of it is in control at any particular moment.) erm....apparently some part of me thinks it is sarah cracknell. i think it is just my fingers. and maybe my bottom. it does keep wiggling rather. but you don't want to hear about my bottom i'm sure. although i'd be quite willing to tell you. anyway. that last email wasn't from an arm-wavey-hipswingy-maracashakey-type-of-girl but was infact from me. i have no idea where that sarah c thing came from. honest guv.) right...PART WITH A VAGUE RELEVANCE TO DISCUSSION. mark asked: ~. Do bands/record labels ~deliberately change the lyrics in the CD book bit to keep fans on ~their toes? I think we should be told. morrissey does. but then the clever get would, wouldn't he? someone was discussing pretty in pink, and i was just talking about it, so here's my final comment of the evening before i haul my sorry ass off to bed. how the hell did that boy send molly ringwald a picture of himself and a message across the room when she was in the middle of something else? did he have e-mail? and if so, where did he get it from? was he just a technical wizard, very advanced for his age? or (and this is my favoured explanation) was he just a wizard? in which case it makes perfect sense. and....molly ringwald...poor? own car? phone? okay, nasty line in clothing but apart from that she seemed quite comfortable to me. and erica...? songs with pink in? (blushes...whispers..."pink sunshine" by fuzzbox) if you don't remember it i don't suggest you go back and rediscover it. ian (three in one night for the first and last time. i'm talking about e-mails by the way. unfortunately) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the boy in the arab's lap
by sarah cracknell 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

ohh...i've got a headache. the last few days are a blur. of the hazed variety rather than the indifferently talented but stunningly sexy singer variety. i found myself lying on the steps of my cellar, holding a tambourine and a signed photograph of elvis. on the back of the photo were the words "kind regards from sarah". i have no idea who sarah might be. i tried to stick the photo up my nose but i think that was just some ridiculous notion i got from somewhere. permission to ask a couple of questions.... actually, i'm going to ask them anyway.. somebody was writing about m.e. if that person would contact me, i'd be grateful. ditto with the person who was talking about getting rid of ants without killing them. two extremely disparate subjects i'm aware but both quite important in my rather small world. also...when i get a confirmation code from ticketweb, does that mean my chalet for bowlie 2 (as i'm stubbornly persisting in calling it) is booked even if it says something about "unreserved"? last time i did this over the phone and it was soooo much easier. this time i got cross after i'd heard that "thankyou for calling ticketweb" message for the ninetieth time. erm...onto things that might actually interest someone...maria said: here's a task: find the dirtiest of all of stuart's "characters" -- is it jane? or the track star? judy, who "did it with a boy when she was young"? the one who's having dreams in which s/he "couldn't see her face, but... everything else"? hmmm, perhaps this is a mite inappropriate well...i can't answer that...though i have my suspicious about that minister in iyfs.... but i'm wondering how people interpret the dream of horses...freudian? with the horses representing sexuality? my friend sam said she thought judy was just dreaming of being free and escaping. i definitely went for the sex angle. but then i would. maybe its best not to ponder these things too much. but then i've already pondered. and unpondering is notoriously difficult. and also, while we're at it...was bob dylan actually ever in a movie? or are we talking about dylan the rabbit? apologies if the latter has been asked before. enough now. i'm not at my most inspired tonight. the world is too wavy. ian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 'Like Dylan In The Movies' promo cd auction is over
by John F. Monroe 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

Sorry to all who didn't even get to make a bid, but the auction is ended. -John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: running for cover, it looks like its going to rain
by sarah cracknell 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

dear pop people, i am free! free to be once more a hipswingy-armwavey-maracashakey-type-of-girl, to roam the planet spreading my message of funky coolness to all those whose ears are open to the music. i stayed in that cellar for days. i sat and hoped he would free me. i pondered the spiders as they weaved their webs, i peered under the cellar door and thought of my fans, missing their international babe. i tried to ignore the fact that i was sharing the cellar with silverfish. i told them i thought they had split up, but they didn't answer. i tried to reason with the boy that lived in the house. i sang him quiet songs of shiny starlets, beautiful tales of dancing girls in spanish sunshine. he didn't listen. eventually, i had to get out. yesterday he was bringing in a star bar and a bunch of carrots for my dinner and he let a scrap of paper fall from his pocket. i crept quietly across the floor and concealed it under my stylish swishy hair until he had gone. when i read it, tears rolled softly down my cheek and fell like rain on hobart paving....this is what the paper said _101 things to do with sarah cracknell:_ 1. invite her to be my friend, ask her to take me to america with her and let me join the band (problems: last time i spoke to her she attacked me with a can of hairspray) 2. sell her. a little bit capitalistic but the money could be used to bribe a publisher somewhere or buy a spanish bar. (problems: a lot of people don't take care of famous international rock stars once they've bought them. i'd feel guilty if she didn't get fed properly) 3. cut all her hair off and make a stylish range of cracknell cushions with it (problems: none that i can think of) 4. ask her to stand with her arms at jaunty, rakish angles and stand her in the window as an attractive ornament (problems: someone might break the window and steal her. if the glass fell on the carpet, i might have to tidy up) 5. ask her to stand with her arms at a slightly less jaunty, rakish angle and use her to hang my washing on (problems: not enough arms..maybe a transplant?) 6. put her in a boat, set it adrift and disguise her as tom selleck. maintain my appearance as sarah, continue to appear at concerts and wave to my adoring fans. several weeks later, arrange for her to be rescued, but laugh at her in public when she argues that she is the true sarah c. (problems: she looks more like her than i do. my tom selleck disguise isn't very good. rather untwee) 7. tell selected people she lives at my house and charge them ten pounds a time to come and look under the cellar door at her (problems......hmmm....nothing springs to mind.) 8. tell the antelopes you have their leader and you're going to tickle her with dusty feathers until they whisper the darkness away and sing the world back to light (problems: emily will lose her voice again) 9. forget about it. go out. get pissed. she'll go quiet soon enough... that, my fellow fancy-dancers, was the end of the list. i don't know what the other 92 things he had planned for me were but i formed a plan. i told him he could be in my band if he brought me some maracas. i told him i would teach him to play them. and i hit him over the head with one of them. now i run through the streets of wolverhampton. my feet are bare, but i don't care, the wind she brushes through my hair. now i really don't care that i'm here and he's still there. no i really don't care but its okay.. in my solitary wanderings i notice that the best looking boys are taken and the best looking girls are staying inside. so, sarah, where does that leave you? wandering around sodding wolverhampton with a tom selleck moustache stuck to my face, that's where. fortunately i found this computer in a skip round the back of netto. i sang to it softly until it was energised enough to connect me to you. my cosmic groovers. remember me. mark...the story was true. tara, we must smash the robot. bob? bob? are you out there? sarah 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: Get your stinkin' paws off me you damn, dirty ape
by Scott Plagenhoef 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

Hi all. Long-time listener, first-time caller. My name is Scott and I am currently slaving away at -- get this -- and American soccer magazine (not only is that an oxymoron to most of you, but incredibly un-twee) andAARGH; OK, sorry for the lapse into neat biography. I must have been having first-day-at-school flashbacks or something. As for the increasingly tired tales of frats and sororities, I was hoping that someone could help me out with a curiosity regarding the Greek system that always puzzled me in college, but I had forgotten about until now: Why don't African-American frats and sororites have houses? Are they not allowed? Where I went to school -- University of Michigan -- they did not have houses and therefore had to hold Greek-sponsored functions in campus buildings rather than on their own residences (therefore under the administration's thumb and rules governing alcohol and drugs, curfews, etc.). Was this true elsewhere? When "High Fidelity" is released, if you look carefully in the club scene you can see the girl that broke my heart. The film adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel "High Fidelity" is being filmed here in Chicago (yes, not in London) and my friend (yes, we're still friends because I am a sap) is working today and tomorrow as Sara Gilbert's stand-in. I know, I know -- oooh, big Hollywood movie and all that crap, but John Cusack is the star and he is more than OK with me -- and I did enjoy the book (music/pop culture obsessive has difficulty being taken seriously by some because of an inability to fully embrace proper adult life; how ever could I realte?) I was invited as an extra but the workaday world calls: Boo to the business world. Anyhow a stand-in job will be terribly tedious anyway -- she'll have to do all the set-up crap for shots that big stars like Sara Gilbert wouldn't possibly touch. Who is Sara Gilbert? Roseanne's opinionated daughter on the TV show, or for the international audience possibly uninitiated in America's brief fascination with blue-collar TV ("Home Improvement," "Grace Under Fire," "Marriedwith Children") the girl whose supposed friendship Drew Barrymore uses in the mouth-gapingly, spittle-inducingly poor film "Poison Ivy" to get to her dad, Tom Skerrit, so she can sleep with him. On the hood/bonnet of his car. In the rain. Sorry. I would apologize in great detail for the length/crap content of this missive except that would only lengthen it further so I am going to go now bye. scott. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "Like Dylan In The Movies" US Enclave 1 track promo at eBay
by John F. Monroe 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

I am auctioning this off, from my personal archives. It does have a nice different insert, it is sort of few different shades of blue. It is the album version of the song, not a remix. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=114366440 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: me and my madness
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

Everdelectable Arantxa: .'And tonite, Isobel Campbell is going to be France Gall'.Then, be ready for pastel-shaded night dresses and 'sorry because my French is bad' in a captivating child-like tone at the end of the song. ooh baby you know just what i like!! hey--maybe i should think up some UH b/s wallpapers of my own. i'd offer them on my site. well i guess if you wanted you could just steal them off my page anyway, but i'd feel mor especial if i had a nice zip file. OH yes. soon i'm going to have to update the infamous Wee World. AND i'll have a couple B&S themed FONTS that i'll let anyone have for free if they're willing to put up with my incompetence. i'm working on this for v. 3.0 of my homepage. Yeah! "Mark Ollerenshaw" says: Also, Mr Strong by Roger Hargreaves - in my opinion the best of the Mr Men books. Watch out for the twist at the end, though - it took me by suprise. thank you mark for my second big laugh of the day. the only Mr/mis book i have is Little Miss Wise. from which i will now quote at the terrible risk of unleashing another Fraggle upon the list. Be warned. "Mr. Nonsense's airplane doesn't have any wings, an engine, or even wheels. It's just a doormat! have you ever heard of such nonsense?" ...Where's Wee Stwuan when we need him? i'd like to thank MarkCasarotto for bringing up th Faith Healers. it reminded me of the little blue vinyl promo seveninch i had bought in Pittsburgh and forgotten. "Oh Baby"/"My Loser". it was fun as always. i never knew why i liked the faith healers, i just dooooo. i must admit i should listen to Lido more often. i got Imaginary Friend first, so i had more time to get used to it. I like the spaciness though. MMMMM Bowlie two: Stereolab, Laika.....DROOL........ you all have fun then will you?? there are some cute girls in stereolab. Yeah baby! HEY Christa. MagneticStephinandClaudiaFields bulletin has been received and processed duly. STAND BY for details.......... *drool* Who wants to join my revolution? write and let me know. i need dedicated foot soldiers. YAYY.... i can't wait to go off to the big big city. SW look out. turns out my road trip will pas thru Albuquerque, Oklahoma city, Flagstaff, and the panhandle of Texas. it's too bad we should be zipping by at warp speed so i can make residence hall check in. otherwise i'd stop anywhere sinister and yell "where's the party?" Do the Gentle Waves have a video?? boo. i wish i had MTV uk, or europe or whatever. so recently i saw Beth Ortons' video was directed by Hal Hartley. so is stuart gonna ax him to direct a b/s video as well?? has anyone seen hal hartley movies? i haven't cos i never watch movies. but if someone could fix me up wiht the Book of Life i'd be ever so faithful to your dark biddings. there are people i need to write. i'll be there soon. it's just i have everything on earth going on in my mind right now and it's MADNESS!!! dirty dreams about art girl have been keeping me up nights and leaving little else on the brain except for my thoughts of e s c a p e . . . if i were napoleon, you could be my josephine. if i were sebastian, you would be my belle. LJ http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange they were like those gauche youths who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark corners in chaste disdain, driven by the naive, vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie. SAVE MST3K!!!! http://www.mst3kinfo.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: news update - b&s related 07/06
by katrina house 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

hi everyone, sorry these are so frequent at the moment, but there's loads happening, so just thought i'd share :) *LOOPER* i've had loads of people mailing me regarding the July 4th gig, the show is at Oak Canyon Ranch as part of the Sonic Youth "This Ain't No Picnic" mini-festival. it starts at 12pm and tickets are $25 + booking fee. there is a site with info at http://208.242.114.231/nopicnic/ sorry about all the change of details with this one ... *BELLE & SEBASTIAN* we finally have a release date for 'tigermilk' in the u.s. through Matador, they're heading for Tuesday 13th July (after the UK release on July 12th and Japan on July 8th), so no matter where you are in the world you should be able to get a copy the week of release. Matador and Virgin Japan are releasing only on CD, but are distributing UK copies of the LP so if you're a vinyl-junkie it shouldn't be that hard. We're still taking pre-orders though in the Jeepster shop - http://www.jeepster.co.uk/ ... there is another B&S inspired club night coming up in London this Friday 11th June, it's called 'Tigermilking' and it's at Upstairs @ The Garage. here's the blurb ... on June 11th you are all invited to a club night extraordinaire. there will be bands, DJs and plenty of like minded people listening to music your mind will like. It will cost you just £5 to get in or £4 for concessions, or the wearing of a B&S t-shirt or badge. Tigermilking starts at 8pm and ends at 3am. Bands will be on between 8.45 and 11pm. so be there or be in watching C4 telly ... which is good, but not *that* good ... that's it for now ... cheers, katrina. -- ************************************************************************ jeepster recordings ltd. - mailto:a-and-r@jeepster.co.uk http://www.jeepster.co.uk/ po box 14153, london, sw11 4xu, u.k. tel: 0171 924 2324, fax: 0171 924 6161 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: trying DESPERATELY to be cool and nonchalant
by Pamela Hutchinson 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

Hello, I just went to my first sinister picnic. You've already heard about the sordid details (well, some of them). It was good fun if poorly attended, so more people next time, please? I'd like to say to everyone who was there, just patricia arquette in the movies: 'thank-you for being a sweetheart, when you could have been a real dick.' love pamela xx PS So YOU didn't drink the Tigermilk, Liz? Good luck for tomorrow! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: dont want acceptance, dont want tradition
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 07 Jun '99

07 Jun '99

erika balsom wrote: well, i'm not american, but my (canadian) high school has been compared to a bad american sitcom many, many times. not only do we have completely segregated cliques of people, but there are also names put on the places Hey! If you were Canadian, couldn't your high school also be compared to DeGrassi as well?:) Although that might be a bad comparison--most kids I knew who watched it loved the show and thought it was actually good. Very fascinating to read Mark C's dream of living in an American suburb. Yeah, it was kind of idyllic, but then again, when you live like that, there's no need to confront any views on race or class really. I lived in a place where everyone had a boat on the lake (man-made lakes for my subdivision, yeesh). And it's funny...money has a way of erasing racial barriers. If everyone's just as rich, everyone's pretty happy and harmonious together. Kinda. We weren't as rich as the other kids which meant we had no boat of our own, we had no scooters (before driving age many kids zipped around in scooter gangs, though they weren't mods by any means), we had no Nintendos, shit like that. It wasn't the worst thing in the world but it was still strange to live in a place like that. And my high school saga: well, I started out in life (middle school I guess is where the hard-line divisions start to form) as a preppy, hanging out with the popular kids, wearing my boat shoes with no socks and wearing shirts with their brand names (very important then!) emblazoned across them: Coca-Cola (remember their awful clothes anyone?), Bennetton, etc. etc. Then I gradually drifted to the indiekid thing--my first show was quite punk rock, Naked Raygun, so much slam dancing (back when that's what it was still called...I sound like a fogey don't I?) but maintained "ties" (sounds so diplomatic doesn't it) with the "popular kids" (not to be confused with popkids) and also knew some metalheads, and the misfits who were into metal and D&D and kung fu movies and whatnot but looked slightly more clean-cut. Come to think of it they could've been our own Trenchcoat Mafia but without the Nazi bullshit. My musical obsessions in high school went thusly: Beatles, Led Zeppelin (I never got long hair and distinctly remember walking around high school inwardly sneering at the longhairs wearing their Zep t-shirts and thinking "I bet I know more about Led Zeppelin than they do...they probably can't even play Jimmy Page's guitar parts!"), Smiths/REM and then onto full-blown "college rock" stuff. So I never really had to experience full-on outsiderdom, I could float between various factions and have a satisfactory-to-great time. Unfortunately high school is a bad time for making friends and having romantic relationships. Unless you fraternize outside of h.s. you are really stuck with whatever you have there. So you might have to endure crushes on people you really have nothing in common with and maybe (realistically, this isn't John Hughes here!) never have a chance with. Real life is better... Xavier BXK M o t h e r , M a y bkim0(a)dept.english.upenn.edu I S l e e p http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 W i t h D a n g e r ? X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---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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