July 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Brassed Off
by ParisStarz＠aol.com 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

hi, Mick Cooke, trumpet player with the Amphetameanies played to his biggest audience last weekend, at T In The Park. The Amphetameanies were the only Scottish band playing on the main stage at T In The Park, Scotland's biggest festival. Mick also plays trumpet in B&S. Glasgow newspaper The Evening Times ran a 2 page feature on the band, which I'll pass on text and pics if anyones interested. Amphetameanies formed a few years ago, and have released 2 singles: Last Night and Around The World in 5 1/2 minutes. A third single is due out soon. You can give them a listen at www.redfoot.force9.co.uk/meanies. My cousin Jenny Divers plays sax for The Amphetameanies (and has been in the studio with B&S playing on a couple of tracks from the forthcoming album) so I'm biased, but if you can, buy their records and go see them play. Delbert +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 could be eating/drinking/generally being merry.
by James Thorniley 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

But I'm not. Even though I try, really I do. James Thorniley wrote. Then he realised his mistake. I do have to apologise for apologising that I sent an unsubscribe to the list, which it turns out, I did not. I did laugh a bit, I have to say. Things aren't going great for me, so I'd better avoid whinging too much. I did plenty of whinging in my last post. Just to let you know, my email system seems to have sorted itself out, resulting in reems of messages from the last week. Anyhow, I'd like to forget that, I hope you can forgive me. Seems though, that most of the people on this list are not having such a great time either. I'm not going to complain anymore now I know that I guy with a murder next door is among my audience :-( On a lighter note, school finishes for me next week. Hurrah, no more working on pointless stuff that I'm just going to forget anyway. Now for what I really would have liked to put in my "I've just got my voice, so..." post (actually, it's lucky this wasn't my first post, it's not that interesting, don't feel compelled to read on): I've just got my voice, so I thought I'd say a bit about me, because I'm egocentric like that. I'm doing my GSCEs down here in sunny England, I have a bad hair do, and a problem finding anyone who seems similar to me. It's not that I don't have any friends, it's just that none of them are really like me. I guess that's why I joined this list. I know that none of my freinds like B&S, so that's what makes me a freak really. So I thought I'd talk to some people who are also freaks. B&S started for me when my brother bought "If Your Feeling Sinister". I forget when. My brother and I play an unhealthy amount of computer games. Because most computer games have bad sound tracks, my brother leaves a load of his CDs round the computer, because most games will take the music off any CD you put in. I listened to Sinister as backround to games as a result, and I liked it. My favourites being "Me and the major" and "Get me away from here I'm dying". One day the CD disappeared from the vicinity of the computer when we went on holiday and we took it along to listen to in the car. When we got back, the CD never went back to the computer. The next I heard of B&S was Modern Rock song playing loudly from my brother's speaker system. I took very little notice of this, so I didn't listen to B&S until TBWTAS, which turned up unannounced by the computer, where it remains today. I made a recording of some of the tracks. The next I heard of B&S was the funny CD with a straight copy of a Tigermilk vinyl and the radio 1 recordings as bonus tracks. I made a tape of this, and after listening to it virtually non-stop, I though F*** IT, and went out and bought a copy of IYFS on CD. I promptly downloaded the guitar chords from "Sinister" and worked out the bassline to "Get me away from here I'm dying". Which is basically it, until now. Apart from the Tigermilk re-release, which I bought during a school trip to Oxford last week. Phew. That's what I call long. -- James Thorniley "We know all men are not created equal" -- Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: T Bags
by David Moore 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

Hi! Belle & Sebastian trivial artefect collectors desparate for Mary Jo postcards can now lust after... Tigermilk carrier bags! (Cover pic on one side & Mary Jo "nostrils" shot on the reverse.) Local indie shops seem to have some each. I too have been struggling to find "T" acronyms. I couldn't even type a t upside down, so moved to anagrams instead. However hard I try, though, I always seem to end up with one consonant too many. So, kids, waste your life improving these in order to make the perfect TIGERMILK anagram: GRIM LIKE T T GERM KILT TRIM LIKE G M LIKE GRIT KITE GIRL M K GIRL TIME Best one wins the prize...........of knowing you're the best! Bigger Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: B&S for the Insane Completist
by Shawn Krueger 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

Don't forget "Matchstick Men..." from the Manchester Town Hall: 28th Dec 97, snippets of "Its Hard to Be A Jew On Christmas" from DC: 30th Oct 98 and snippets of "More Than A Feeling" from Boston 21 Sept 98. These should all be easy to find. just my two cents....Shawn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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're such a pretty thing
by Lana622＠aol.com 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

Has anyone else noticed that the opening three cords of "I could be Dreaming" are the exact same as the starting cords in "Change" by The Lightning Seeds? Just something I picked up while listening to Tigermilk for the 8th time today (I just got it, that's my excuse, what's yours?) Put your foot down and drive, you silly thing, Lana --Who is quite bothered by the line "the only things I'll read are faces" in "a summer wasting". I quite like to read books in the summer. PPS. A special welcome to our new Toronto boy, but I quite disagree with the bad review of Ontario Place. I went there when I was 8 and had a kick-ass time at the Lego displays. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 shave your legs when they're covered in mosquito bites
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

howdy nectarines, just having seen the new b/s web sight, and c'est chic. love the "Hi-tech" b&s logo. and the funny picture of weechris. and muchrod's new entry. yes teh blair witch thing is a big fake story, so dont' freak out, children, it's all tales. i'm doubting just HOW scary the film could be, alhtough it looks really interesting and cheap. i just really like the way that girl screams in all the promos, it's beautiful. what a great scream. I like screamers. fella you are ill......i should have known it was cursed. my life is turning into some fucked up soap opera. i feel abandoned, strung along and despised, yet i'm still sexually frustrated, go figure. maybe she's born with it, maybe it's maybelline, who knows? but it's made my life into a living nightmare. sorry to go on, but it does irk me that sheseems to prefer guzzling malt liquor in cornfields wiht a bulldyke, than even spending time with me. *WHO* loves ya baby?? never mind, what a load of rubbish. but it's all good, because i am a witch, and i'm putting a hex on all of them what wronged me. a pox on you, BOO! all the ppl that hate the gentle waves, is it because they dont' like her voice? in more pleasant veins, i have made another belle convert just last night. listen......i'm hanging out with a gay boy who i met cos he's a friend of artgirl. (by Jove....!) i ran into him one night and attended a soiree,a nd we became fast confidants and partners in cryme, namely and chiefly the cryme of figuring out what the hell is the deal with artgirl pullin gmy strings. but anyway, so i was showing hin my photo album which had a couple pictures from DC of the belles and stuart M. at the sight of Stuey's Arms of Sex, my gay boy friend was entranced. "He's cute......he's so sexy!" andf other compliments. i began sighing about the many virtues of this band, and offered to pull out my tape of dog on wheels/3-6-9. and my friend enjoyed it so much he wanted to hear more of them. i do believe he's in lust with stu. "He'd be a credit to our race," he observed. tee-hee. stuart hath charms to persuade boys and girls alike. still, i wish he could have sighed over isobel with me. how strange!! i realized how fun it is to have gay boys as friends. they were looking thru my sketchbook, and i didn't mind at all for them to see my *ahem* selfportrait, cos i knew they wouldn't leer at me, they think girls prts are icky!! *hehe* still i refused to let the straight boy look at it, that just wouldn't be right. no sir, i dont' like that at all. i just wanted to tell y'all about that cos it made my day. weathershow kicks my ass. stevie rocks out!!! dreaming of DC, see you at loooooooper!!!! *aw shucks!* LJ http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange "why take a trip on acid when you can read the Bible?" --PJH 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: out of the nursery with bad news
by Christopher Mayo 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

Well, I've now endured what seemed like months in the nursery, only to get my voice in time to announce that looper are playing in toronto tonight and I can't go. Some foolish promoter decided that it would be much more appropriate if looper was a 19+ show, so all of the unfortunate looper-babies like myself (a fresh-faced lad of 18) have nothing to do but sit home and sulk. humph. It feels a little odd having a voice now. It's as though I've been listening to an intimate conversation between a group of people I don't know, only to suddenly reveal to them that I've been eavesdropping for the last two weeks. Oh well, I suppose you're used to it. What a silly tangent... I feel like I should introduce myself, but It seems somehow inappropriate; you probably couldn't venture much further away from B&S content. But I will attempt to introduce myself by relating my life to B&S (an absurdly tottering stretch at best). I will be attending the university of toronto next year to study music, where I will attempt, and likely fail, to write music as beautiful and marvelous as belle and sebastain (it seemed more worthy of typing it out that time, for some reason). I work at ONTARIO PLACE, a vile little hole of an amusement park aimed at freely-urinating six year olds. I sell ice cream, a terrible job. But when my supervisor isn't looking, I slip on my hadphones and listen to tigermilk, which, incidently, has become my favourite B&S album. Well before I bore all the rest of you to tears, I'll ask a couple quick questions. - Is there anyone on the list in the toronto area? I've had trouble finding anyone else in the city who like's b&s, and all of my friends hate them with a passion (a little disconcerting). ...well actually only one question, but It's an important one. It's a little upsetting when even your best friends hate your favourite band and make fun of you for having such wussy taste in music. ah-well... goodnight from a sleepyhead ______________________________________________________ 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: Eyes Wide/Marine Research/Beautiful Portland, OR
by McQuain, Chris 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

I absolutely have to agree with Dawn who wrote: >>>>I'd have to disagree completely with the Eyes Wide Shut review. After watching almost his whole catalogue last week, I would have to say this is one of Kubrick's best. Primary colors have not been used so well since Goddard's Weekend. The suspense builds slow and the story is more one of infidelity than sexual obsession. I liked the music; it added flavor. If you like Kubrick, you will see many scenic views that can only be called Kubrickian. I can't recall which critic said it, but it was said that if you expect to see a movie that will require a cold shower after, forget it, the movie is a cold shower<<<<<< A girl who loves Kubrick, actually knows Godard's Weekend, and into Belle & S? I normally play for the Pink Team, but Dawn- will you marry me? Yes, the use of colors, yes the lovely, leisurely pace of the film (it savors each moment, however excruciating, beautiful, or both), yes to Tom and Nicole whipping each other around emotionally (ESPECIALLY Nicole's disturbing confessions) and NOT consummating, and YES YES to a final line to equal Alex's "I was 'cured', all right" from Clockwork Orange. Eyes Wide Shut is a good kick in the teeth to anybody expecting a Tom Cruise movie, or Basic Instinct-style 'erotics'. All of it is an identifiably STANLEY KUBRICK FILM! HURRAH! The bright, piercing light coming in through every window and crevice, the cold, harshly observant camera leading and/or following the characters down stark corridors, the stately grace, it's all too perfect. I'd say it's a truly great film, and I'd also say that 95% of the audience (in America, at least) will be there for all the wrong reasons, and will not like the film at all. But I loved it. I've been reading Kubrick's biography, and it turns out he was heavily influenced (and good friends with) famed photographer (who committed suicide in the 1970s) Diane Arbus- in fact, the "Twins" scenes from The Shining seem directly inspired by a particular Arbus photograph of twins. The close-ups of the menacing masked characters in Eyes Wide Shut also seemed, to me, a very Arbus moment. I'll probably be seeing Marine Research twice later today- once at an in-store promo appearance at local uber-indie record shop Ozone, and then later at their show here (opening for The Make-Up). Does anybody have any info on the Marine Research discography? As far as I know, they just have the "Queen B" 7 inch. Any info greatly appreciated! If any Sinisterines ever visit Portland, OR, I would highly recommend popping into Ozone, and also across the street to Powell's Books, the largest independent book store on the West Coast and full of goodies- everything from their 300 copies of Catcher in the Rye to the first-edition Iris Murdochs to most any kind of 'zine or (literary) porn you can imagine. Anything you want, they're bound to have- we're talking massive floor space with shelves to the ceiling. I'm so proud of mah town sometahmes, ah could just burst, ah do declare! Beckoning with Open Arms and Open Fields of Eucalyptus Westward Bound to Portland- -Two or Three Things I Know about Chris (and I know Dawn knows where this little moniker comes from....) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: heaven knows i'm miserable now
by Marcus Omond 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

hello all you folk, thanks to everyone who said they enjoyed my last e-mail. it made me feel warm. i'm afraid that not so much interesting has happened since then, but here goes. on thursday i saw godspeed with natasha at the union chapel, and it was a beautifully eerie experience, leaving me filled with a bubbling sensation of wonder (even though we left half way through the half hour encore). when i was queueing (yes, indeed) for the men's room (no queue for the ladies) i saw someone in a stow t-shirt, so i said 'i like the shirt' and he went 'um... thanks. were you at bowlie?' to which i replied 'no. are you sinister?' and he gave me an odd look and went off to hide in his corner. i also saw one of my brother's dealers/ friends, who was very stoned and made disparaging remarks about tigermilk - 'tigerwank' i think he called it. which was nasty. on friday i saw the lovely geoff again - seeing him is the high point of any day. he is SO gorgeous - hopefully some photos of the london picnic are being scanned to go on-site soon. geoff's the gorgeous one hugging matt... ah yes, matt... as you may have read in my last post, matt poked me in the chest just after i had been accosted by the gay man at tottenham court road tube. imagine my horror, then, when THE NEXT DAY he is on the same platform at the same time at baker's street tube... which has about ninety million platforms. at first he hid his face, like the criminal stalker he may well be, and pretended he hadn't noticed me. but i had... i know you're watching me, matt... and i'm not scared... i would, however, be scared if my stalker wasn't the affable matt but was in fact one of geoff's friends from friday. i can't remember his name, but when geoff said he'd seen a performance poet the friend said 'i hope you fucking glassed him, mate'. but no! our hero admitted to his hard-man friends that he thought the poet (opening for the lucksmiths) had been 'actually quite good'. he's gorgeous, open-minded, cultured, and he's got a good job. what more could anyone want? i haven't seen the tony blair project, eyes wide shut or star-bores (not what i called it - i overheard someone describe it thus in a bookshop), so i can't really say anything topical or interesting. sorry. anyway, must go back to dreaming my life away, love to all, and a snog for geoff - will you be my list-crush? Marcus XXX ______________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: blair witch/eyes wide
by Iangstl＠aol.com 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

SinListers, I'd have to disagree completely with the Eyes Wide Shut review. After watching almost his whole catalogue last week, I would have to say this is one of Kubrick's best. Primary colors have not been used so well since Goddard's Weekend. The suspense builds slow and the story is more one of infidelity than sexual obsession. I liked the music; it added flavor. If you like Kubrick, you will see many scenic views that can only be called Kubrickian. I can't recall which critic said it, but it was said that if you expect to see a movie that will require a cold shower after, forget it, the movie is a cold shower. Kubrick was always about the possibilities beyond our actions. He didn't fail me here. European viewers will also have the opportunity to see it without the flawed digital editing required by the stodgy MPAA. His decision to obscure the sex scenes does play nicely into the concept of lust unfulfilled. I just want an unedited version, a bottle of scotch, and the time to dissolve with this master's final piece. Summer of Sam was a good watch but left me with not much to contemplate. Southpark makes me laugh still. Tigermilk is as sweet as I'd expected. It hasn't left my cd player once. The rough of Tom Waits and the tumble of B&S; what more could a girl want? dawn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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