August 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Re: Sinister: Poetry and bollocks
by Sleeka Sounds 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

This is a really shite letter, just delete it. I didn't write it, it was conceived by meta-chlorides. It's interesting to see Al Stewart being mentioned, especially "Year of the Cat". "Flying Sorcery" is one of my favourite songs, a lyrical masterpiece. Once you get used to the Knopfler style guitar through the album, it's great. I once met a lady who knew Al Stewart in the seventies. Apparently he was always trying to rip her virginity from her, but she was having none of it, so Al wrote Antarctica for her ("to go where no man has gone before" etc). I didn't like that story, so I decided she was a liar. Vocally, Al is quite close to Stuart Murdoch in that they both sing like poofters. Actually that's a thing I like about Stuart Murdoch. I think I'll add that into the Stuart Murdoch Fan Page Best Things about Stuart Murdoch page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~calnd/stuart/stuart.htm Genevieve, a sci-fi struan story would be nice, why don't you have a shot? As long as Struan speaks like this "twy, twy and twy again", and Stephen Pastel swears a lot, you'll be doing fine. I just had a thought that "poofter" may be offensive to some folk, sorry about that. Gypsy bastards. In fact, It really irks me how undiscussed girls taking it up the arse is. It's crazy how many of my female pals have got arses, but don't admit to taking it up them. Love, Christine ______________________________________________________ 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: Make love, not war...
by Jason Andreas 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

alt.music.belle+sebastian and the Sinister list seem to have some animosity between each other. Why? We're all B&S fans together, so why do we fight, slag each other off and other stuff along the same lines. Maybe if more sinisterines posted on the newsgroup we'd lose this 'them and us' mentality, and ditto newsgroupers joining the list... Come on, why can't we all just get along? -- -- Jason Andreas -- Anyone Can Play Air Guitar -- /-----------------------\ | Drop The Debt | \-----------------------/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Post number 1
by nickb 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

It seems that I can now post stuff so here is my first post. My name's Nick. I'm 23. I'm a bloke. I live in London. In chat I call myself spritser. Why I chose that name I'm not sure, it just came to mind one day. Generally I just lurk, this isn't because I'm the strong and silent type but simply that I can't usually think of anything to say. I got into Belle and Sebastian when I heard Century of Fakers on the radio and shortly thereafter went out and bought the 3..6..9 seconds of light EP which I thought was really great. Things just went from there really. Before that (like I think someone else here said) I'd seen the IYFS album and been intruiged by the cover but had been put off when I looked at it in the same way you can be put off old records by bands you've never heard of in the record shop because they seem unknown. I've done things in reverse a bit - as I've actually met a few people on this list in real life before being on the list. In other words, I went to the picnic at the end of July in London and now realise who some of the people I met are. I probably wouldn't have spoken to very many people as unfortunately I have a tendancy to be shy, but luckily I got chatting to a very nice bloke called John who also didn't know very many people but had actually left the list. Also, Arantxa + fella, Sarah and Trousers (and a few other people) said hello. Thanks! Playing footie was fun as well, I apologize for the goals I let in. I wanted to go to the Tigermilking thing at the Garage, but was tired from work and fell asleep. On the subject of love and things thereof. Recently I met a girl and I thought: this is the one. She was really down to earth, direct, nice, liked similar sorts of music. She was going to go to Art College to do Textiles in September but I tried not to think about that. She was into Adam Ant/Adam and the Ants and Blondie, she had an amazing Blondie poster in her bedroom and also a poster of the Ultimate Warrior. She said things like 'I couldn't give a monkey's' and referred to things as 'bad boys' ('Look at those bad boys') She had short black hair and was dead pretty. The thing was: she seemed to really like me as much as I liked her. She even talked about getting her friend who was good at metal work to make me a ring. Then three months after the pub music quiz (she'd been on a rival team and come a place higher than us), where we'd met, it all ended in Leicester Square. She'd seemed aloof all day so I asked what was wrong, then when I got hardly any response I asked again. Then I made the mistake of asking if she still wanted to go out with me and the answer was, basically, no. I'm sure she was holding out to see a film as well. Oh well. It seems very random - at least in my experience - and that was my longest relationship (the other one lasted a month.) The moral is: don't ask questions like 'do you still want to go out with me?' because the answer might be 'no' I try to be optomistic and think everyone has a soulmate out there though. Really. As for playing music at work, my colleagues must be pretty tolerant. I managed to play the whole of TBWTAS although this meant having to listen to George Michael and Leanne Rhymes the rest of the night and a few of them commented they couldn't believe that this band'd won a Brit and laughed at the lyrics to 'It could've been a brilliant career'. Colleagues just don't get it. I managed to play a whole Sonic Youth album and noone said a word, however. The power of Thurston Moore. On the subject of books to read to the person who wanted ideas, I would read Generation X (if I hadn't already) by Douglas Coupland. It's a shame that the phrase has so many connotations that might put people off reading this. It's basically a book about three people in their late twenties who leave their old lives behind for various reasons to live in a small desert town (Palm Springs.) To me it's a book about friendship and the attempt to find something serene and meaningful in life, it's about trying to start over. And despite all the hype, the endless media references, I think this is a beautiful book - my favourite in fact. Very puzzling, but also very wonderful I think, is The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. City of Glass which is the first of its three stories will probably play on my mind forever. It's one of the strangest things I've ever read. 'Knulp' by Herman Hesse is wonderful, if you can find it. Sorry I've rambled on so much - in a first post as well. Oh well, I should really get some sleep (even though it's 9:38 am) spritser +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Poetry and bollocks
by jarkko frantila 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Wohoo, today I'll see Lemonheads live!! Well not exactly: Drug Buddies plays Lemonheads, Kurtvana plays Nirvana and... erm, some band plays Pixies today at the Semifinal club. I sincerely hope that they Really can play, I've been to these tribute-things a few time before and frankly, the bands have been awful, these 16- year old kids who don't even know how to hold their instruments doing bad stuff to my favourite bands, smiling like idiots 'cause they know that at least one girl there wants to "get to know them better" just because they are in a band. Then those bastards drink beer after their gig and fondle their nonexisting groupies ever so gently, like all teens do, hand on their arse and sticking their toungues into their mouths. ... Who, me jealous because I can't play anything? Naaa.... This reminds me of something. I once was in that same club to see Candy Darling (one of the best bands in Finland, but you don't care, do you?) play Velvet Underground and Lou Reed songs. Well I thought so. Never mix Vodka, beer, cider and wine together. They just don't make you feel good. So after they start their first song, I'm off to the loo. I come back 45 minutes later to hear the last notes they play. Never mix your drinks, I say. But that was two years ago, and I haven't done it since. Ok, and now, for the sake of pissing people off, here's my VERY B&S-influenced lyrics to my friends band. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it. And this is actually a true story, you know. She said: 'Boy, you're still a child So cheer up and smile. Let us be friends do not fantasize about anything else we had fun but it's not our time...' Well she had a femalefriend who had a crush on her she took her by the hand while dancing to The Cure 'It's ok, I'm just a little confused She's nice and all but I'm more hetero than gay (and besides, I'm only happy on saturdays other days im so very very bored ...) but if I could choose I'd go to Spain on my holiday...' Well the thing behind it is she had a fling with a gigolo about three years ago in a seaside town in the disco downtown drunk as hell and only a teenager Did it do any good for you? It didn't or did it? Wee. @--->--- Jake ______________________________________________________ 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: An OPen Letter to the Creators of "Lunchables"
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

hello to all the weirdos and freaks out there and yeah i love you all, or most of you anyway. just wanted to sign off before i hit the glamorous Highway Strip. sure wish i had 69 love songs to tide me over out there in the fucking desert. maybe i''ll see some antelopes roaming or some such thing. so i'm leaving in a couple days. i have to turn off my cpu and pack it in. will be listening to a lot of nick drake, abba and LSD and mabye even some Tigermilk. i'd like ot see stuart pester his nanny, anyway, who else? Belle and Sebastian is the new Abercrombie and Fitch. Stuart murdoch is the new Al Stewart. when iw as little his "year of the Cat" album was my favorite album cover of all my dad's records, cos it was of a dresser vanity and all the things on and around it had to do with cats, like it was a cat's bedroom. anyway. i bet you'll miss my big lesbianism while i'm gone won't you. i just got randomly icq'd by someone whos name was "TBone" and email was "weener11" a winner, yes? he asked me "do u have a pic" never trust anyone who talks like Prince, they're either 13, or an idiot, probably both. i said if he's looking for a date better look elsewhere, then he says "so you're a lesbo, got any pics of you with another girl?" needless to say i killed him. sometimes i hate how much i have to try to be clever. i think it's my first line of emotional defense, right after complete withdrawal from reality that is. sometiems i hate how ridiculous i sound. sometimes i get to be pretty bitchy. it's okay isn't it once in a while. the worst feelign in the world is wanting something you knwo you shouldn't want. is the sick lurch in your stomach when you look into the eyes of someone who should be a friend and nothing more, and you jsut want to cry out I LOVE YOU for no reason at all, and you dont' understand anything of what's happening, and you try to think of reasons not to like the person, and nothing seems to get them out of your mind. crying yourself to sleep knowing how stupid it really is but being unable to rationalize. listening to them quietly sing bob dylan songs and just freezing in your chair wanting to sink into the smallest speck of earth because the longing and the distance are unbearable, being unable to look them in the eye without a lump in your throat. all of that stuff SUCKS ASS BIG TIME so BUXOMS is update, you can now vote for the buxom you want to snog, in a real life survey. go to the crush page you will be sorry, but i dont' care! haha. http://members.tripod.com/rebelstrange/buxoms.html ***THE BUXOMS: Svengali-free since 1998!!*** those of you who enjoy grammas discussing tight butts can also have a gander at this comic strip: http://members.tripod.com/rebelstrange/sassy-grammas.jpg you WON:T be sorry. everyone i owe emails to, robert foster, jygsaw, teri, uh weejay, James, all the tweedykes crew, and many more, i'll get back to everyone when i am settled and online again in my new home, i've beens o stressed out lately i just dont' knwo what to do, it really sucks, and there is too much to deal with rt now. but i love all of you like my own children, much like Honey would. check back later when i re=subscribe, maybe wiht a new email address, but till then you can mail me at the same old place, trollopinpaisley(a)fcmail.com kisskiss, i dont 'know why the press is so nasty to B&S, they must be threatened by anything that isn't macho like Kid Rock or KoRN. *vomit* or buxom like Jewel. maybe if isobel got implants and started wearing daisy dukes and singing Shania Twain songs, they would sell more records. eh? Note to stuart: wear big stupid hat, start rumors about your alleged Satanism and week-long heroin orgies, smash more guitars. drawing comic books is the new getting high, LJ "Hags, crones, witches, bitches, whores, prisses".....the BUXOMS have it ALL http://members.tripod.com/rebelstrange/buxoms http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Tweedykes *Free to be twee, free to be you and me!* Why do you think little dogs yap so much? get stepped on a few times and you'll figure it out.... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: This is Just a Modern Work Song
by Gasgano421＠aol.com 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Greetings Sinisterites, 'tis I, Alex-Balex Catfish! It's been a while and most of you are probably wondering who I am but oh well...what can a newbie do? Anyways, I thought a share a little tidbit of my love for Belle and Sebastian: I work at a local bar and grill called Boulder Junction. I am part of the kitchen staff and it's normally an okay job but to was apparently "Get Everything Really Really Really Wrong!" day. We ended up throwing out a lot of very expencive food due to screw ups and confusion and everyone was in a hussle. Since all the chaos was happening in the kitchen I was getting pretty upset and fussy and what-not but guess what got me through the evening! give up? humming the "This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" EP to myself the whole night. I've discovered that "the Gate" is a very nioce song to sit outside and smoke a cigarette and just relax to. Of course, I had to whistle it to myself but hey! it's almost as good as the real thing. Okay, enough of my rambling. One last note, anyone in the Chicago area: Bis is playing soon at the Metro and the following night are the Manic Street Preachers! I forget the dates but they're both in early September. I'm excited. Being a fan of the new Manic's LP I'm looking forward to seeing them and Bis. I want my own Sci-Fi Steven! The Incredible, Edible, -alex. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Hot Buttered Day
by oon 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

yes everyone. apart from being steaming hot day over here in the land of no more flood, today is the happy birthday of Mr.Issac Hayes. Hot Buttered Miller must be jubilant. i am quite happy too. because i've found something fun to play with. it's very cute little monkey boy keyring. it pees. quite strongly. Steady Mike is soon having the pleasure of pissing it because he was born this month. maybe Miss Honey will find some use of it in our second aniversary celebration? Miss Honey also said: > Has anyone taken chinese medicine? Apparently it's all to do with my > spleen and my internal dampness. Tastes like cold curry powder. > Yuck. > i have. believe me, like Dr.Strangelove and the bomb, you'll learn to love it. it's also like a drinkable s and m practice. good of you to give it a try honey :) happy weekend to you all, oon xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: jiggle em,you smooth operator
by Genevieve Wesley 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Hi sweet-peas! Warrander John wrote: and I suppose I'm sort of >speaking from the horse's mouth being a giant of a man (not that you'd >guess from my slender frame) with a fiery bush of red hair on my head >and a plethora of "foreign" notches up and down my bedpost. Och!This is fabulous imagery...I have such a craving to be a big,lusty,lump of a man sometimes.I too would have a whole plethora of foriegn women feeding me grapes,all the time.By the way,when I was speaking of `benchpressing` I wasn`t referring to intimate relations.I actually meant when you raise someone over your head and lift them. John also spoke of dancing breasts! This is one of my favourite attributes of the Sinister List..we always are breaking down the barriers on taboo subjects.Well,when I feel lonely,and when the weight of the world is too much? I simply make my breasts dance,(and leap! and pirouette!)and am instantly taken to a Happy Land.All the boys on the list should admit they do this too...no-one will judge you,don`t worry.Stuart Murdoch does it too,so that makes it ok. I must tell you of my strange Belle and Sebastian out-of-body experience.I was in a suburban mall in America,in the department store Sears,trying on many pairs of jeans.This is in the MAINFRAME section,which is very hip-and-trendy and targets young girls as their buyers,so right next to the jeans is a `WIN A MILLENIUM SHOPPING SPREE AT SEARS WITH YOUR FAVOURITE BACKSTREET BOY` and if you go down,a little further,the lingere section which makes me shudder.The type of lingere there is like the kind the girl in Expectations mother is always threatens her a career in.Bins overflowing with tan-couloured mammoth sized underwear,you know? So there I was coming out of the dressing room,and I heard the familiar strains of Dirty Dream #2...they were showing the video! Right there in Sears in the MAINFRAME section.It was really weird...I mean,I REMEMBER when there was invitations posted to the list to be in that video.Anyways,very nice work.Some attractive boys in the video too, so bonus 10 points. That whole experience caused ME to have a dirty dream...over Ricky Martin.I am not even attracted to him.I don`t even like him in an ironic way.It was very surreal...he was my math teacher,and I was very sick,and when all the students had left,he put these drops of medicine in my mouth and I was instantly healed.Then we went underneath a blanket,and to fool any passer-bys,talked math equations in normal voices. (I always practice math equations under-neath blankets with sex symbols,don`t you?)Anyways,I was trying to be sexy or something so I tried to give Ricky Martin a back massage,and the tease,he removed my hand.Hmmm.And then he made his breasts dance. I saw half of Chasing Amy.The girl is too deep for me in the movie.Really makes you think,doesn`t it? (~)But that`s it..I`m going to resist the temptation to talk about this movie.I watched all 3 Karate Kids in a row.I didnt watch The Next Karate Kid though,which has that fiesty chick.Is there a 4th Karate Kid,with Ralph Macchio? My brother had a good idea for one...in the year 3000, Mr.Myagi,who is a cyborg,travels back in time to stop himself from turning into a cyborg..so its Myagi Vs. Myagi. Mister Christopher hasn`t wrote and Stuart stories.I do so wove them! Perhaps there could a sci-fi ish one ,with some cyborgs? Ryan Phillipe is a good actor too. lots of love, your friend... genevieve thank-you for putting up with me.Birthdays..pah!A load of disappointment is what they end up in usually.But it`s ok..I should be grateful (as mama says) I`ve got my health,and happiness and What Would Jesus Do bracelet.Erica...I am concerned..Playgirl subscriptions? Now now... ______________________________________________________ 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: email masturbation (not really)
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Aloha Tarts de Pop. Another shockingly shitty day.However my tedious job was somewhat beneficial because it made me pay attention to the radio which announced a B&S dedicated prog,it's on Central FM (Sheepshagger FM to us locals) and I'll post when I hear the date. I was also going to comment on the Richmal Compton/Richard Adams thing but I thought that I had missed a deeply subtle and/or ironic joke and would be all crap and make an arse of myself mentioning it. The last point I would make is to all peeps as rubbish at techy stuff as me.It's basically a warning to all luddite list-crush users:Whilst checking my votes in a vanity exercise I accidentally voted for myself and have been walking about all day feeling rather sheepish (not to mention narcissistic) Yay!.Finally conquered my irrational fear that typing more than 100 words means that Honey steals your soul. Steve S xx.(and B&S content too!) There's nothing cushy about life in the Womans Auxilliary Balloon Corps. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Why are we wise in our heads?
by jarkko frantila 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Two questions: a) Can you make music so intelligent that it just turns against you? I mean, isn't Momus suffering from the fact that he's trying to be so Wittgenstein that some people find his stuff a bit too philosophical? I like him, though. b) Why is it that popmusic differs so much from real life in one thing? If you play simple, semiacoustic music with beauty, its considered fairly (here's the word again) intelligent and touching. The less notes you use, the more you "tell things without using unnecessary words and/or actions." But try to act that way in real life, and people think you're a bit slow in your head. It's a funny world. Did that make any sense? @--->--- Jake, serious for a while ______________________________________________________ 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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