June 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Re: Images
by Justin Williams 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

Hello those out there of a sinister nature, I hope this post is not met with too much conflict, but I feel I must make a comment about the recent string of shallow posts on the relativeness of B&S's popularity to their appearances. Come on people, is shallowness really what B&S fans are all about? I'm not into name dropping, but I have read "I would hate them if they didn't look the way they did" and other such things and it uneases me. Hopefully there are more people on the list who don't care about things like appearances than there are that do. I have seen too many people like a band just for their image, and eventually they all start looking like the band which I think is absolutely funny and ridiculous. It's one thing to admire their looks in conjunction with their music, but rating appearance over sound?? I don't know, I don't mean to offend anyone, but if B&S are about an image, I think I will stick to just listening to them rather than go to see them (which if they are not, I would give up my first born to see them live). I sincerely hope there are people out in sinister land that agree with me, but if not, se la vie or something of that sort. Take care everyone, again, no offense intended... Justin W Felonius Monk "Often I tried the frightening way of "reality," Where things that count are profession, law, fashion, finance, But disillusioned and freed I fled away alone To the other side, the place of dreams and blessed folly." - Hermann Hesse, Wanderings +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Up my own arse
by Robert Foster 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

Just thought you might like this http://www.nme.com/newswire/19990521145028news.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: crossed arms
by foxinthesnow 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

so this is my first official post, i think... i have just been sitting along the wayside, trying my hand at patience...reading all of this mail... but i am in a predicament, and was hoping you all could help me out, and it does have its belle and sebastian relations, slight as they are... there was a boy i casually dated a few months back...he was very much into making me say that i would be his 'girlfriend', that there would be something exclusive between us, meowmeowmeow...well i couldn't tell him that and he gave me the 'let's be friends' spiel. sometime before that he lent me a few cds,3...6...9... and lazy line painter jane were among them. and since the speech that i was naive enough to believe was what he wanted, he has ignored me completely. (let me say too that he is one of those people that poses as having emotions, listens to the smiths and b&s, likes incredible music like the lilys and the apples in stereo, and whathave you,but all around, he is a one dimensional square, i don't understand it at all, but hey...) well he prpposed that if i give him his cds back, he'll make me a copy with his cd burner....i just don't know if i should comply....what do you all think? let me know. i hope all is well in the worlds of the listfolk. andrea get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.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: Zen And The Art of Guitar Playing
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

WARNING: GUITAR GEEK SPEAK AHEAD. I think what Mick-cubed was trying to say Youn (btw that's my mom's name as well...uh, anyways) is that Stevie Jackson tries to emulate Steve Cropper who is the guitarist for Booker T. and the MG's...you know, the instrumental combo from the '60s who not only played on most of the Stax recordings (Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, etc.) but had their own hits like "Green Onions" which is a very popular tune to put in commercials. If you are an oldies listener like I am you can hear Sam--or Dave--say "Play it, Steve!" in "Soul Man." That's Steve Cropper. Basically his playing was a kind of funky rhythmic choppy half-chord, playing the top three strings. Obviously he did more than this (and that's what separates him from most of the session guitar players in the '60s who did that rhythmic choppy thing on the 2 and the 4 for every single song imaginable...the intro to "Soul Man" is sublime, as is his work on "Dock of the Bay") but that's the kind of style you can hear Stevie emulate, esp. on "Dirty Dream No. 2." I have no idea what Arthur Lee's playing is like. Sadly I have not yet been introduced to Love. Soon, my pretties, soon. But as for Maurice Deebank...well, the man was a monster. Classically trained and *very* nimble-fingered. Dare I say the Segovia of indiepop? His style was usually made up of very intricate fingered lines that require superhuman ability to play ("The World Is As Soft As Lace" is jaw-dropping from a compositional *and* technical standpoint). I bow down to Steve Cropper and Maurice Deebank. I hope this has been somewhat helpful, though it's probably waaay more than you wanted to know. Ask me about my beatiful new acoustic guitar, 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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Sinister: Time to say goodbye
by Power15755＠aol.com 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

Hello, I will soon get a tape of the gig B & S played in Munich last year. It's a radio recording and really good quality (I've been told). Should anyone be interested in a copy, mail me your offers (except Jordi, who will get a copy anyway). Is anyone willing to share a chalet with me and my friend at All Tomorrow's Parties? Preferably someone who can either speak German or doesn't mind putting up with the worst German accents in the world. But of course you don't have to talk to us if you don't want to! We won't bother you. I will the one who buys the tickets. Can someone please tell me how long it takes to go from the South of Scotland to Camber Sands in a car? Please mail me privatly, I will leave the list right after posting this. And I won't be at home for the next 2 weeks, so please don't expect a reply too soon. I will write to you as soon as I'm back home. Youn said: > Why doesn't Lesley Jo leap to Isobel's defense? Has her art student > become serious? Do you think that these sorts of crushes (the Isobel one) > go away when someone real turns up? I can't speak for Lesley Jo, but yes, they do go away. Although I don't understand why people think of people in bands as not "real". What are they then? Visions? (Well, some of them seem like they are ... :-)) Robots? They are people like you and me ... more or less. Anyway, have a nice summer, maybe I'll be back with you one day. But I know you won't miss me. Bye Antje +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: don't look forward...
by Archel 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

what a strange mixture of happiness and sadness my life is at the moment. (don't worry, i'll force some b&s content in later to make up for that start.) it was my birthday last saturday - this was a good thing because i got attention and presents and we picnicked in a park with a jazz band playing. (isn't frisbee great? but why do we only play it in summer? i think frisbee in the snow would be gorgeous.) but it was also a bad thing because i am now 21 and have no excuse to behave immaturely any more, i guess. plus my b'friend is still 19, so i feel like mrs robinson. it is summer, which is a lovely thing, full of strawberries and long long sunny evenings with friends, and wimbledon. but summer also means the end of my university career, saying goodbye to most of of my closest friends (including my b'friend who has gone to france), returning to the arse end of east sussex, and exam results (which i get on tuesday.) cue the Real World, where as yet i have no role, ie. no job. and less than no money. so i have words to say about depression music, too. i went to a party on wednesday where someone started playing How Soon Is Now, which nearly finished me off completely. at that moment i wanted to hear madonna, abba, even steps, anything in fact with a beat and minimal emotional content. i thought i was of the school which shunned catharsis/wallowing, basically. however, at times recently, in the privacy of my own room, i have had an inexplicable urge for The Boy Done Wrong Again, for BlackEyed Dog, for I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine, etc. For Leonard Cohen and The Smiths. And I played the The Sky Is Too High by Graham Coxon the other day, which is one of those bleak, pared down albums guaranteed to sharpen your depression to a fine point. i think, on reflection, that while we might need cheery music in public, just to survive, there is definitely a need to open up to emotions in private. listening to sad music (oh, i forgot to mention Elgar's cello concerto and bach's cello suite no. 1) is like lancing a boil. unpleasant but necessary. plus, it can really help to imagine that someone else has been as miserable as you are. actually, i find listening to b&s comforting in a different way to either happy or sad music. it's a mixture of familiarity, of that caressing tone in stuart murdoch's voice, and just of the feeling of *rightness* you get from hearing such perfectly created songs. okay, ramble over. i intended to be pretty, witty, sparkling and brief, cos people might love me then, but never mind. watching friends playing in the dirt, archelita xxx PS: lesley jo, you are a *. :) and i'd just like to say now, although you have been ominously silent on the subject, that i for one do not support sarah's outrageous anti-isobel stance AT ALL. PPS: york uni's student planner/calendar thing has an ad for Tigermilk on it. life can't be all bad. PPPS: on the other hand, i can't ****ing go to either the london or the brighton meet-ups this weekend, because although i have nothing to do and would LOVE to head south for a bit, i have, as previously mentioned, no money. PPPPS: but on the third hand, neil and oon just made me laugh like a tit. PPPPPS: someone buy me a train ticket and i'll shut up. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth do something pretty while you can don't be afraid rap101(a)york.ac.uk skating a pirouette on ice is cool http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you look great from there though i don't care
by Kimberly Rehak 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

hello kitties! it's friday! i'm in love! actually i'm not... and i never have been... i'm just happy because i don't have to slave at job #3 this weekend (though i *need* money terribly--any donations would be appreciated!) and this one movie i really want to see, the loss of sexual innocence, is finally coming to a theater near me! sidenote: laaa! er, is this one really as good as it appears to be? please, any opinions would be appreciated, though i'm going to see it even if you think that it's merely a pile of shite slapped on film. i'm also quite excited because i'm meeting a friend for lunch today whom i haven't seen for about six months. obviously, it doesn't take much to make me giddy. er...well, i don't know if this is still on-topic or not, but i don't think i would hate b&s if they were ugly (though they are ALL beautiful to me, yes, even isobel. i think she's a fox, hubba hubba.) in fact, i don't think that i even knew what they really looked like until after a year+ of me loving them when late last summer i had some extra time at work and free access to the internet. i didn't even know that that was stuartm on 3..6..9..either. call me ignorant, it doesn't matter. i'll just burrow myself into a little hole and cry. i remember conversing with a friend about a similar topic and i told her "i love this band belle and sebastion, i love their MUSIC, i have no idea what they even look like, i don't CARE." it was in reference to the fact that any band this friend liked she would have a crush on one of the boys in it. for instance, me: "do you like soandso?" her: "yeah, their drummer's hot." (is this making sense?) it was frustrating anyhow. so there's my two cents. pick it up, you'll get an extra day of luck. onto other things: is anyone on the list familiar with voodoo dolls? if so i have a favor to ask of you: would you make a doll of me and perform acupuncture to it??? bitte? please? i'm just feeling awful and dizzy. if you do it and it works, i'll bake you some oatmeal raisan cookies. yum. well, if i was to say something else, i've forgotten it. tootoo, KIMberly xx ps. hello to all of my sinister friends! please write, i'm bored! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Love Love (and other ramblings)
by Mick McMick * Sandcastle Records 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

Hello, I seem to have deleted the message I had intended on replying to. Drat. Uh, well it's a few days old, and the person in question had posted about how he thought that the Dog on Wheels EP reminded him of Love. I wanted to report that I had similar thoughts about the title track sounding like Love, although not the whole thing. Also, it should be pointed out that "Expectations," from Tigermilk sounds quite a lot like Love as well. Nothing against Stevie, but sometimes I wonder how the band would sound if the fellow from the Dog on Wheels session played guitar in the band now instead of Stevie. Other times I wonder what the band might sound like if Maurice Deebank played guitar, and those are probably the most pleasant imaginings of the band I have. I have also wondered what the band would sound like if they roughed up Stevie until he relented and always played like he does on "A Century of Fakers." That's quite nice as well. Not to say I don't like B&S as they are now, it's just that... sometimes I wonder what they would sound like if Stevie didn't play like Steve Cropper nearly all of the time. By the way, I don't think I posted anything about the Nick Drake tribute I mentioned in an earlier post. It was quite pleasant, and we got to see two fo the people who'll be singing on the next Magnetic Fields album. Didn't find out that they would be doing those vocals until after the show, but we liked them all the same. Yeah, I don't really have any interesting anecdotes for the day...but maybe it's better that way ;) /"\_/"\_/"\ Brian Pennington, a.k.a. Mick McMick; Sandcastle Records \ / bp224996(a)ohiou.edu ICQ#5056758 | | Sandcastle Recs Homepage: http://www.frognet.net/~mick/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | -Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sinister: beatleas: hardrock pioneers or...
by P68d6ern＠aol.com 25 Jun '99

25 Jun '99

In a message dated 6/24/99 8:43:28 AM Mid-Atlantic Daylight Time, i_love_moon(a)hotmail.com writes: << ok so i was at a local pub for a brief period yesterday and me and my pal richard was talking about how "helter skelter" must have been the first ever hardrock song. we agreed on this >> I would have to agree with you and your pal. Helter Skelter is most likely the first "true" hardrock song. If I am correct I think Ozzy Osbourne has made the same comment; and he should know. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Nostalgia's for the lame
by Stuart Gardiner 24 Jun '99

24 Jun '99

Long time, no see... Well last time I posted about my absinthe-induced debauchery, it seemed to provoke quite a bit of interest. So now that the last couple of weeks since then have been even more eventful, I felt it my duty to keep you all up to date. So if you don't care, you may as well delete now... OK, the story so far: Stan, who is a friend of a friend from another college, was going out with Laura. For the second time, after splitting up painfully a couple of years ago. Stan's two best friends in college are Chris and Evie (despite persistent rumours, Stan and Evie have always claimed that nothing ever went on between them). At a party 2 1/2 weeks ago, I got rather too intimate with Laura (not that intimate, you smutty-minded fools) whilst Stan was in the next room. Now, last Tuesday was the night of our college May Ball (free drink and food all night, comedians, a hypnotist (yes, I did it again...), dodgems, Boy George DJing, and Roland Gift (who used to be in the Fine Young Cannibals) playing a great set, including all the old hits, like Suspicious Minds and She Drives Me Crazy). At this Ball, Stan's friends Chris and Evie got together, and as far as I know they still are. Also at the ball, I got together with Evie's best friend, Emma. Also at the ball, Stan and Laura conspicuously failed to get together, and subsequently split up three days later. Are you still following this? Good, because on Monday of this week, Emma and I split up (possibly the world's shortest relationship!) because she's graduating tomorrow and won't be around after that. And now this afternoon, in a pub by the river, I resumed getting intimate with the now-single Laura. Who, incidentally, is also graduating this weekend and leaving Cambridge on Monday. Oh, and I forgot to mention, Evie and I are currently planning on travelling around South America together for a couple of months at the beginning of next year. Even though I haven't been in contact with her since I split up with Emma, since I'm sure she had something to do with the splitting-up process. The soap operas couldn't come up with a story like this. It's typical, you wait months for any gossip to happen to you and then loads comes along at once... Anyway, I'm currently debating in my mind whether I want to spend so long with Evie or not. If you've got any opinions on the subject, I'll be amazed that you've managed to figure out what the hell's going on... In other news, I'm now working 6 days a week in a local pub, so I doubt if I'll be making it to many picnics for a while. But then, everyone knows that the only thing we do at picnics is discuss Genevieve's heaving-bosom prom dress. Well, that and taking the piss out of Mark C's ever-receding hairline. Oh, and while I'm here, the new Shack album is good, but not as good as Michael Head's last album (The Magical World Of The Strands) which you should all have bought by now. And I can't listen to the Shack single 'Comedy' without it reminding me of Sheryl Crow's 'All I Want To Do'. Which is not a good thing. Oh no. I still haven't found out which 4 people have been voting for me as their list crush, but I'd like to... Big Stu (List Tart Extraodinaire...) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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