July 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: You could fit a bus inside her
by Mark Casarotto 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Reading sinister has just given me a new lease of life, so I'm going to try and get my thoughts down quick smart before I feel shaky and unwell again. Cheers to Marie for mentioning the word "Tigermilking" several times - your favourite London-based B&S nightC!L!U!B! is back in business on Friday 13th August. Vampire fangs and ghostly moans obligatory. We may even have some Sinisterines playing their hearts out to entertain you...Upstairs at the Garage, see you there... (and Marie, see you in NYC mid-October?) Being called Mark doesn't leave you open to being name-checked much, and when you are it's usually with a small "m". I did get Mark Twain, though, if that counts...Having said that, my middle name has been mentioned simply dozens of times on Sinister lately - my parents named me after our beloved prime minister, which is why I'm honoured with the name Blair. Yes, ho ho, very funny. I hated the name so much I once lied to a close friend and pretended to be called Benjamin. My other middle name begins with D, and is shared with a famous 20th Century playwright, Just to annoy you, guess which one... Miss Vicky, whose "miss" was callously stolen from the petite but fearsome Miss Julia, now has a huge pair of tits adorning her bedroom wall. And it was *me* what nicked the Tigermilk poster in the first place...I finally got around to ordering it last night, fuzzy with much wine, and managed to bugger up the order on the Jeepster site (how come the vinyl price has risen, David?). You see, whenever I've bought myself a B&S record, I've also bought one for my mum at the same time, as she thinks B&S are superb (she also thinks the Traveling Wilburies are superb, and likes nothing more than a bit of thumping techno, but there you go). But this time I forgot ("aaaah", I hear you all say), so she'll just have to borrow mine. Tough. Should I buy the Pop Romantique album from Amazon? Gosh I just don't know. Kiss kiss to Lesley Jo - is this what they call Cybersex? :) Amanda artgirl doesn't know what she's missing - snap up Lesley *at once*, you hear me, she's a little bit special... Yeurchh - mutual bigging up. Doncha just hate it? Anyway. I once went out with a girl because she wanted to figure out her sexuality. No prizes for guessing which side of the fence she came down on (no pun intended). Has this happened to anyone else on the list? Vic and I are planning *yet another* webzine, which we intend to call It's Like Pop (and that's the way it is). Any contributions or advice more than welcome... Off to purchase an eyepatch for that up-to-the-minute B&S look, Mark Blair ??? Casarotto (Credibility consultant, Ear Confection records. Yeah, right) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: London Tonight
by geoff 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Hi kids As some of you will know there is a picnic going on in London today which us wage-slaves can't go to. So for those who just can't get enough sinister, we're hoping to meet the picnic-ing hardcore in the Spread Eagle tonight. I have no idea if they are going to be there to be honest with you. The Spread Eagle is about 200 yards up the Camden 'Parkway', just about opposite the Dublin Castle, (which for my money is a far superior hostelry, but whatever) and the FUN starts about 7pm or whenever we can get there. I *confidently* expect a turn-out of, oooh, at least 5. See you there???? love geoff (that's an order...:-) PS: why did I get chucked off the list crush, anyone? Premonition +44 (0)181 552 2212 [http://www.premonition.co.uk/] Graphic Design Photography Website Design Digital Imaging Illustration Copywriting Print Sourcing Corporate ID Macintosh Technical Support 86 High Street South London E6 3RL +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Let's kick misfits out of rock
by Nick.Dastoor＠guardian.co.uk 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Here's the Tom Cox Guardian review that should have gone in last week. Isn't he wicked? Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk (Jeepster) 3/5 stars The most irritating thing about Belle And Sebastian?s Stuart Murdoch is that, like Morrissey in the 80s, he seems to be on a preplanned mission to rescue his own misfit army from drab bedroom oblivion. Fat girls with lisps, wilting boys with eye patches, tank-top nobodies with Saturday jobs in Debenhams ? Murdoch sings to them as Wimp Supreme, self-consciously liberating his "children" ? and never more effetely than on this formerly-rare 1996 debut. As frustratingly pasty, winsome and intermittently limp as a union between Nick Drake, The Left Banke and a 1982 primary school assembly, Tigermilk is a hard record to love without a burning sadistic desire to steal its National Health glasses and kick its lunchbox around the playground. (TC) Who said the new album is going to be all Stuart Murdoch songs? I think this is not true. Wot no Winter Wooskie? It's funny all that stuff about Monica Queen being the Trio girl. I think I had always had the connection loitering in my mind, but I needed Chris Leonard to tease it out of my consciousness. Sadly, references to Trio adverts will be lost on the very young and all those who don't come from this country. But I don't pity you. Gratuitous use of late 20th century phrase and fable is not an altogether good thing, especially when it's of the 'Ooh bring back Spangles and Jamie and the Magic Torch' variety. Yet Chris carries it off with style, as always. Better than Staurtemm does with his clumsy 'Man about the House' references, if you ask me. Perhaps he could delegate TV nostalgia lyrics to Chris. It's about time the band took on another member. Nikki 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: is this thing on?
by marie elia 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

right, right... well, i wasn't going to post, as i've been going a bit overboard of late, but hell it's friday -- oh, wait it's only thursday. well, it is sort of friday to me b/c i'm off tomorrow b/c miss KIMberly is at this Very Moment on a bus from pittsburgh to new york, and tomorrow we're going to paint the town red. mmm-hmm! looper looper looper tomorrow night! i am muy excited b/c, although the show i saw in london in march was amazing, i've heard all these tales of how stu is much more relaxed and cheerful or some such. he seemed a mite nervous or uptight at the london show, and there was that strange phenomenon where all the kids sat crosslegged on the floor instead of gittin' they groove on like they shoulda been. yo. :) um... if you haven't looked at sleeka's struan fan site, go now! and cindy, if you're out there, i agree! the way he says "lovers" in get me away from here.... is exquisite! gets me every time, too... right here... [wink] ... um, due to a dirty conversation i had with mandybeambug the other night, the phrase "tigermilking" will always have some twisted implications for me.... see, we imagined that all these sinister folks were getting their tigermilks, and some were hearing it for the first time, but regardless, well, everyone was surely Very excited... very very excited... and anyway this quickly degenerated into a vision of a transcontinental wank session... they've called it tigermilking.... oh, dear, forgive me please! anyway, it is quite nice to have an un-fuzzy digital version. but i still can't hear struan bouncing on his chair.... oh, miss KIMberly is working muy hard on a little zine she calls "you're a star," and there is this lil list we've been working on for it that is basically weird obssessive b&s-related things that fans do... so if you've got something you'd like to add to the "you know you're an obssessive b&s fan when..." list (this is all quite tongue-in-cheek, okay? all good fun), email me or kimmy <lifeinpink(a)yahoo.com> PRIVATELY of course. thanks, kids -- you're each and every on of you a star! ack! well, all you D.C. listees MUST post tomorrow (first thing, kids! get yr lazy arses out of bed!) and let us know how the show went... manana it's looper nyc, baby! um, yes. have a lovely morning. xoxo, marie === ************************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass (jds) "to me she was just marie." -mersault ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Who needs boys when there's Lisa round?
by linus＠wr.com.au 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Hello:) This is my first post, My name is Lisa and I'm from Sydney, Australia. I just bought Tigermilk today, so far I really love it like all B&S stuff. Anyways as you might imagine I'm a little curious about my name popping up in three B&S songs, does anyone know who the "real" Lisa is? A friend of Stuart's??? I really freaked out when I first heard "Beautiful". It is really strange having one of your favoutite bands sing songs with your name in it. I don't know, does anyone else share this feeling?? TTFN, Lisa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: CHURCH/covers
by Sleeka Sounds 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Dear chums, Oh what a beautiful morning! Something wonderful shall happen today, I can tell. Last night me and the little but strong Miss Julia went to see Ron Sexsmith again, this time at the cottiers theatre which is an old CHURCH. The fella is amazing, what a voice! Hooray for Ron! Spotted: Monica Queen. I wonder if she talks as loud as she sings, that would be really annoying. I bet she eats a lot of Trio's. She thinks she's saying other words, but all that comes out is "TRRRRRRRIIIIOOOOOOOOO!!". And folk say "Monica, why do you keep shouting trio, you've already had 5?", and she says "TRIIIIIIIIIIOOOO!!!". And they're like "Monica, do you fancy going to see Ron Sexsmith tonight" and she goes "TRIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOO!!!". Are we still talking about covers? Let's not forget the Hyndland CHURCH gig of last year, I'm not sure if you sing a CHURCH song it's a cover but, guess what, hoho, I don't care. They played: Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God Morning Has Broken Lord of the Dance Something about "essence" that Stevie sang Turn Turn Turn Make me a channel of your peace Light up a fire He's got the whole world in his hands Does a stevie solo concert count as Belle and Sebastian? He covered a Johnny Cash song which I can't remember the name of, and a song by one of his pals which I can't remember the name of at the "Jesus, protect this CHURCH hall with a fence charity gig" at the end of last summer. That doesn't help much. That's all I can think of right about now. Chris Leonard P.S. Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the Stuart Murdoch Fan site. If your mail hasn't been included yet, it will be soon, at the weekend anyway. P.P.S. Charlotte, if you get this can you mail me again, i deleted your mail by accident. Whoops. Have you got a new name now? P.P.P.S. Robin, Landslide was written all by Isobel, I believe. I thought it was pretty good. Especially the sax solo. =================================== Visit the Stuart Murdoch Fan Site http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~calnd/stuart/stuart.htm Visit the Sleeka Sounds Corporation http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~calnd/sleeka/ ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: tigermilk is number 15 in the swedish chart
by Bertrand Caron 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

I just read it in the free newspaper that we have in the tube in Stockholm... Well I am not quit sure of what chart it is as I still don't speak and understand swedish but well... MAybe some swedish people may be able to tell more. beb +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: It was as long as my arm
by Robin Stout 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

hello my lovelies Mick McBrian's not the only one who likes all these tasty morsels of info. I've been doing a bit of sniffing around myself. Someone mentioned that they'd heard there were only going to be Stuart M tracks on the new album. Well, I was about to go to bed but this started a few bells ringing in my tired head, so I had a look through the archive to shut them up. I found something by Chris Leonard from January after he'd spoken to Mick Cooke. This is what he said; "Mick said Belle and Sebastian had been in the studio all week and they had recorded some songs. One is written by Stuart but Isobel sings it and one is a duet between Stuart and Isobel." So perhaps Landslide is written by Struan? I hope not, I thought it was a bit smelly myself. And another thing; Mick wrote ages ago that shortly after forming B + S played a bedroom gig and one of the songs was called Your Idea Of Fun. Has anyone ever heard this? It seems to have sunk without a trace. So there you go - if you need to know something, ask someone called Mick. Robin xxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A sleep kisser...a pretty waltz
by Walkn10＠aol.com 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Obviously I'm not the first to have noticed this, but Erica looks absolutely ravishing on her List Pic. She is a worthy recipient of every list vote she has gotten and many many more. Even slightly blurry she makes me lightheaded and slurry-worded. You can be my Isobel Campbell any day of the week! (if you want that is). I'm not much of a Stuart Murdoch but someone once told me I looked like Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I think that was meant to be a compliment. Anyway I was so moved by her Hellenic beauty I felt I had to ramble for awhile... Love 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: She's a jar with a heavy lid...my pop quiz kid
by Walkn10＠aol.com 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

I've been witness to the recent bashing of two things I happen to fancy quite well, one being Saving Private Ryan and the other being Evan Dando. I believe someone implied that Private Ryan was a boring film. Hopefully this was some tongue-in-cheek sarcasm I totally missed (as usual) because I can't think of a single film thats kept my attention for 3 hours other than this. The plot was half decent, but Spielburg's directing was incredible and the dialogue and screenplay knocked me out as well. I guess the whole success of this kind of film depends on the audience member forging some kind of bond or interest with the characters and if this isn't there then I can see how it could be contrued as boring. But if this film didn't move you in the least you might wanna check for a pulse. I know everyone hates Mr. Dando, and as a person I'm sure he's pure goats arse, but I think his music is quite great. The first couple of Lemonheads' punk albums did kind of suck when that other guy was singing but I openly profess my love of every Lemonheads record since he took the helm. I dig his voice alot just because its so smooth and deep and manliesque and he does have a neat way with a turn of a phrase (i.e.- "patience is like bread I say, I ran out of that yesterday"). He is a cocky sonofabitch, thats for sure. I read somewhere that he got thrown out of a B&S show in NY and then arrested afterwards because he refused to leave. I agree that he's probably 100% pure bastard and thats probably why I can't develop any deep affection for a Lemonheads album, but I'll give the guy his credit as an ace songwriter. Is this Kennedy Tragedy stuff depressing the living hell out of anyone else? I never really knew too much about the guy beforehand but now that every second of his being that was caught on tape is being replayed every 5 minutes, I'm starting to dig him. He really seemed like a nice, modest, sweet guy that was just existing as we were. Having to watch him salute his father's casket over and over, and seeing him wrestle with his wife and nephews at the Kennedy compound is just too depressing to focus on for too long. I feel worse about his death than if he was like his asshole uncle Ted, drunk all the time and using his last name like a badge. I guess the easiest remedy would be to change the channel, but hey! I'm pretty weak when it comes to celebrity tragedies I suppose. When Di was killed I couldn't leave the TV for a week. Call me a vulture if you will but my life is pretty dull.so what else am I gonna do? Any other people who feel somehow fascinated by these things please post so I don't look like a total arse. James Taylor is soooo good. Sweet Baby James reminds me of B&S in some places. Happy Hemingway birthday! 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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