July 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Bowlied over
by Pamela Hutchinson 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

Andrew D Didn't you get my thank you? Hello well-behaved sinister people I have to stand up now and say I like Isobel Campbell, Stevie's songs and Electronic Renaissance - 'spose I just like Belle and Sebastian! I think Chickfactor is gorgeous, the way each verse anticlimaxes and then you realize that it is the 'chickfactor' that is missing! Just a very pretty tune and lovely to sing along to - like so much of the band's stuff. That wasn't meant to sound nasty - just like my saying thank you very much bleepin bleepster for not bleepin sendin me my bleepin CD thank you very bleedin much!!!* Anyway, I wanted to discuss my list crush votes. Not trying to sound vain, but I have some votes - for which I am extremely grateful and confused. Also, the divine Paula Cullen has some. One has also been registered for PAMELA (BOOZE GIRL). Either someone knows my personal habits (and yes, this is a post-pub drunken mail) or yet again I have been confused with the lovely Ms Explosion. I feel one of her votes has been stolen. I have been called paula on the list before but never BOOZE GIRL 'cept in private. love pamela theownerofabeautifulbowlietapethankyouverymuchIlovelandslidecosIlovebelleandsebastianandIlovegirlbandsasmytwofavemusicthingsever *It was partly my fault I agree +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 and panties
by Jan Imgrund 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

hello. A premiere: B&S content in one of my posts! I promise I won't do it again.. But it is not very original B&S content, just the fact that I have bought Tigermilk! Who would have thought. I was one of those people who had a digital first time, so to say, having restrained from asking anyone for a noisy tape copy.. I am one of those who likes to postpone purchases of good books or records for a long time, knowing that the pleasure of not-having and phantasizing will always be greater than the pleasure of having and knowing... is that a strange behaviour? I don't know. At least it's behaviour that can save you money. At the moment I am not buying the Godspeed etc! and the Bonnie Prince Billy albums, and I think they are worth it. But back to Tigermilk. This is so good! Incredible! The sound! The lyrics! The melodies! I think it totally blows up your standards out of proportion and you cannot listen to music from people who are just good musicians and not geniouses, and, as everyone knows, geniouses are in short-supply... Even my beloved IYFS sounds a little flat in comparison. And also my B&S-resistant flatmate is in love with "expectations", especially after I told her there is the line "lifesize models of the Velvet Underground in clay" in it... This has surely been discussed on the list already, but could one of you experts make a list of the quotes and references in Tigermilk? as i know 2 (Hal Hartley quote in I Could Be Dreaming, Felt quote "the world is as soft as lace" in I Don't Love Anyone), the intricate lyrics lead to think that there must be more buried in the trenches. On the subject of Old Tom Morris' Panties (hey, why not rename the British Open like this ;), Ailsa wrote: >> Is anyone still looking for a chalet to share with (or people to share a chalet with, if you are going to be as pedantic as I am being whilst reading over this)? I might know someone who can help you. (Privately, PLEASE!!!) << that person would be me; there's now 3 places available in a cosy little chalet, all booked and ready... just say YES! is all you have to do! Or, almost. You'd still have to pay for your place I'm afraid... :) Mail to me or to Ailsa or to both. See you there. Aloha. Jan (in the next issue, soon on your screen: crushes and sleeping outside) The Dark Site of the Moon: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/index.html Tindersticks page: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/tinderpage/tinder.html To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: CD Now.
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

Hi popetts. You know CDnow the buying music over the 'net place?.Well,they have a thing where if you like an album ye can check what else they think you would like.Try Tigermilk and it suggests "The Simpsons sing the blues"..Is that not the sweetest thing? Steve.Full of good intentions.xxx p.s To the poor,deluded divine chap/chapette who list-crushed me.Cheers! it made my day.(Showing how empty my life is) :) Showing how empty +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fox from Ipanema goes to Greenland
by Gabriela Sampaio 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

Dear Listees... It's been almost one month since Arantxa posting about the relation between music and weather and it was only a couple of days ago that I realised that she had even mentioned my name. I'm sorry for not answering it at the time, again I hadn't been doing my homework and reading all your lovely e-mails.Just as her, I had been waiting for an inspiring topic to write to you. Now it seems that I have several, hehe, or at least it's just my opinion, but anyway, I'm not going to write long e-mails and I'm going to post them in parts. First of all, Belle and Sebastian sound as great in the Tropics as they sound in Glasgow, Sydney or Toronto. It doesn't matter if I'm in the middle of a traffic jam in São Paulo or at the Ipanema beach. Their music takes me away (and I bet the same works for you!) from the reality I am and all its grimness and flaws and brings me back to somewhere on my mind. My favourite place. It's hard to describe how it is, like there's no translation for it. It's in my "own" language. The smell of certain types of food and perfumes, some stories and films, places in my city and music help me getting there. And Belle&Sebby are part of it. I do believe that the weather has influence on music. Most of the people here are into "happy" songs. And Brazil is known abroad as the land of samba, Carnival and football. But as usual, a few poor guys like me and probably all my fellow brazilian listees don't feel like we actually fit in this "happinness". Hehehe... Maybe it's just because we can't dance at all? LOL No... In my case I guess it's because even though I LOVE the sun and it's vital for my photosynthesis deep inside me it's always cloudy and raining. And not that it's bad. It's just like that. And I'm not sad, I'm quite a happy and smiling girl. I feel at ease with this melancholy. I feel at home and I've found it, melancholy, smut and lyricism apart from a bunch of loonies from this lovely list all in B&S. Maybe it's because I was born in the rainiest month of the year in Brazil: March. Waters of March. The rain was my lullaby. One of the things that struck me when I was in Ireland last year was the colour of the sky. So grey that it looked like led. And there was Innisfree under that sky and Celtic crosses and ruins and gingers...awww... lovely! Don't you just love the sound of thunder? It's still sends shivers down my spine and I like to be all cosy watching the rain fall, drinking tea and reading... ;)) I know I did an awful bit of digression Arantxa but I hope you understand my point of view. Of course I have no clue what is Debenham but that doesn't matter. There'll be always a nice sinisterine willing to help a tropical brother/sister , right? If "My funny valentine" doesn't work for those sunny days at your dad and you desperately need something more melancholic, why don't you try some bossa nova (Desafinado is on my mind now...)? Well... there it is! I hope you all got what I mean... xxx Gabi ICQ# 8042374 "Only the shallow know themselves" Oscar Wilde +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: some notes
by teri vlassopoulos 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

good good afternoon my luvs, i don't know if anyone has yet posted about the toronto looper show last night so i'll gossip about it... just because i realized that i *do* have email access from work (sometimes) and i want to take advantage of it since i'm bored of filing. anyway. toronto was one of the cursed cities on the belle and sebastian tour, there were plenty of people eager to finally lay their eyes on anything related to the band.. you could tell by the number of flashbulbs that were going off as soon as they started playing. i was guilty of it too, snap snapping away.. ohhh,they were *wonderful* - the screens showing those charming films, the new song about Y2K and we were all marvelling at stuart david's smooth as silk voice. he sounded better live than on the record, which is not usually the case with live performances.. but the big juicy story of the night was when Wee Karn proved that she knows exactly how to keep the audience in line.. some obnoxious photographer (he must have been from a newspaper or something..) continued taking pictures with his big flash even after stuart repeatedly told the audience that the flashes were distracting. Finally Karn stepped away from her position behind the turntables, marched up to him, attempted to take the camera from his hands and ordered him to take off the flash. teehee. Some people cheered and the photographer looked slightly embarassed. Too bad she didn't rip out his film.. so yes, the show was extremely lovely despite the fact i was completely tired. (pssst..i know someone who has a bootleg of the show, and it's not me :) christopher who asked about belleandsebastian fans in toronto needs not feel alone - there were at least 4 of us last night. and, we must have another picnic sometime soon.. one with slightly different locations and times. maybe in august? and definitely in september when debbie returns to toronto and martin and his friends visit canada. oh gee, people who work with me are realizing that i'm really not doing any work at all.. gah, i must go back to my filing ways.. teri, who can't decide if she wants to capitalize her sentences ______________________________________________________ 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: She's a Carioca
by Brian Pennington (Mick McMick) 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

Afternoon All, I'm feeling more than a bit ill at the moment. Ailsa you're not the only one. But me, I'm having some sort of allergic reaction to something in the air. I have fun stuff like an upset stomach, coughing, asthmatic wheezing, my sinuses ache, you know, all that good stuff. I'm trying to keep myself from collapsing or leaving work early by listening to the Field Mice and Slowdive. It's worked so far... Anyway, enough about my petty problems. Meganelise mentioned Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, which is something you all ought to pursue avidly. I've got a "Best of" which is lovely. My favorite song is a goergeous piano-laden instrumental by Jobim called, you guessed it, She's a Carioca. Imagine combining a jazz pianist and a samba guitar player & rhythm section and you have it. Also, there's an amusing article on Dave the Moonman-style hypothesizing on Wired.com at <http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20820.html>. Perhaps it will complement or replace the documentary Andy Dean mentioned. And lastly, with all this talk of Mary Joe/Tigermilk paraphenalia I'm growing jealous. I got a Tigermilk postcard, but I doubt we'll get much more this way. Will they ever be available on the website? Awww, please? Mick McMick at work +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: commitment is a ten letter word.
by Snowinsumr＠aol.com 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

dear sleepy-eyed dreamers... today maeris and i are trying to decide if we should brave the sunlight...as we both hate it so...and also because i have acquired a taste for sergio mendez and the brazillian 66 (thank you thom)...and yesterday when i went vinyl shopping at the local st vincent de paul...i found two of their albums...two claudine longet albums...some herb alpert & the tijuana brass, eydie gorme, ed ames, petula clark and the carpenters...so we've been relaxing all morning in our room listening to these...sprawled out...deciding how we will get maeris across the ocean if we ever decide to move to england...i hate the thought of putting him in a pet carrier in the first place...but knowing that he'd be locked in the bottom of a plane for all that time...it sends shivers down my spine... i haven't been out much lately...as i believe that the state of human kind is tragically overrated...it's very sad to me that people are so involved in worrying about what other people think...which leads them to bad-talk other people...especially their friends...rather than being honest...i find it all rather disheartening...and cuddling with maeris all afternoon while listening to claudine longet and looper is far more precious to me than some cheap conversation while drinking cheap liquor... i suppose that my ever-dropping faith in human kind was also cemented when i arrived home to detroit from chicago- (i traveled to see looper...i stood front row and cried during the whole thing...silent tears...and danced a bit...karn smiled at me outside before the show...so from that point on i was in a bit of shock anyway...i was so moved by their chicago performance that i arrived to the detroit show, bought my looper t-shirt (as they had been out of my size at the chicago show) and left before the opening band...knowing i couldn't handle seeing them again...as it's just too close to home...and i know that at least one person knows exactly what i mean...) sorry, slight intermission there, back to my story= so i arrived back home to find that five of my little friends (including my best friend, timothy) had been attacked by a gang in detroit...one of them, a girl no bigger than me and sweet as apple pie, was left with blood coming out of her ear, a broken jaw that had to be wired shut, teeth chipped to all hell and a concussion...not to mention all the other cuts and bruises on her body...i'll never understand it...i truly never will...and the worst part is that it happened about 100 feet from our friends house...and the gang members all live four houses down...but to prosecute would to be putting all of my friend's lives at stake...sad, really...the injustice of it all... i'm sorry this letter is so choppy but i've been in a pretty emotionally clouded state of mind these last few days...I've never done this kind of thing but if I kill all those gang members now, who's going to miss them? shy hugs meganelise +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: SMILE STUEY!!!!
by Frank-Aloysious Madrid 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

I finally picked up my pictures from the photo shop. I procrastinated about developing them, even though I've been so excited about seeing 'em. It is one of two rolls of film I took at "This Ain't No Picnic" w/Sonic Youth & Looper etc. The ones I took of the main stage are terrible, you need a magnifying glass to see anyone. BUT, there are two photos that make this all worth while. These would be the ones I took with Stuart David & his lovely spouse Karn. They turned out kinda funny b/c I look funny and Stuart shut his eyes in one & turned his head in the other. Karn looks darling of course!! I look like a tubby dork in both. I swear I'm kinda cute in person. Anyways, maybe I will send one to mummy Honey. By the way, Stuart is wearing that blasted t-shirt of his. I wonder if maybe he owns 7 of them for every day of the week? Oh well, I'm off to a stupid baseball game my brother is forcing me to go to, I hate baseball. I wish you all a lovely, lovely Tuesday aftrenoon. Luv, frankie. "..now we're photogenic you know, we don't stand a chance.." _______________________________________________________________ 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: Blair Witch and why I am sad
by bfundak＠bgnet.bgsu.edu 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

I haven't been keeping up with the list as much as I should be, but my second modem blew up and it has really cut down on my online time. In the interim I have discovered something wonderful called real life. But I still love all of you on the sinister list and with the release of Tigermilk last week, you've all been in my thoughts. Anyway, Blair Witch. I have seen it and I will make this blanket statement right now: The Blair Witch Project is THE movie of the summer. I don't want to blow anything for anyone, but as I watched the film, I was slowly sucked in and by the end I was so frightened I couldn't get rid of the anxious feeling I had for at least two hours. It even went so far as to ruin my dinner that night. I simply couldn't eat after watching that movie. I even tried listening to Tigermilk in an attempt to get my bearings and be sure of the world around me, but to no avail. So long story short, you must see it. Now to my sadness. I am still in love with the same girl I have been in love with all summer, but a combination of different fears have kept me at bay. My friends tell me how good we look together, and I agree with them, but I fear that they are telling the wrong person. Anyway, I got this great idea and was wondering what you romantic types thought about this. At my school there is a huge stadium. the really cool thing is that you can go out to the stadium whenever you feel like it and just hang out. It's kind of cool, because even though there is a major highway nearby, no one bothers you and no one cares that you go out there. Here's the plan. I have a very needy friend who always has to hang out with the girl I am in love with, and she has gone so far as to try and figure how much time is being spent with her by other people. And because she is always around I always feel this wierd pressure that I would be breaking some unspoken rule by pursuing my friend romantically. That all ends next Friday, when our timekeeping friend will be moving to Nebraska on a permanent basis, leaving me and Liz alone for a week. This is what I want to do...(keeping in mind that the road to hell is paved with good intentions) I want to walk out to the stadium with Liz and just hang out and talk and tell her again how I feel and then kiss her under the stars, since you can see them when you are in the stadium. It's cheesy, I know, but do you think it would work? Let me know. Go see Blair Witch. NOW. Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: muzik rocks me like a hurricane
by Juliebean 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

has anyone heard "the aluminum band"? i think they are from chicago. they are SO good. plano (by said group) is the first tape since TM i have left in the car player for weeks and not got sick of. his voice is strong and almost a tiny bit loungy but so yummy and there are xylophones and horns in the background. any other bis fans out there? i was pretty pleased with social dancing. i wonder how big they are in scotland??? also, i just got momus' "little red song book" and it is perversly wonderful, unlike Arb Strap's "Philophobia" which is perversly creepy. just thought i'd share that with my favorite lil monkeys juliebean +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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