August 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: *[delete as applicable]
by Tim Hopkins 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Honestly! Anyone who has seen the Blair Witch project and wasn't [scared / bored]* shitless is a brainless poltroon with less idea what makes a good movie than The Divine Comedy have about instinct. The film is a crock of [gold / shit]*. One's opinion on this film is not a matter of taste, it is a statement of one's political-philosohical weltanschauung. Anyone who doesn't enjoy it is [an intellectual giant / blatantly as thick as congealed zebra shite / a scumsucking bucket of pig bollocks]*. That film made me [laugh / cry / shake / want to hurl / write a poem / five pounds thirty five pence and a big chewy lovebite / a man]*. What's more the film is [a cultural phenomenon / just another piece of marketing bullshit]* because it is the first film where [internet "word of mouse" has made it a huge hit / the internet has been cynically exploited as a direct marketing tool]*. And YOU are [part of it / falling for it]*. I'm sorry but I feel very strongly about this. Now I have got that off my chest I can get on with my diary of what has been happening in Tim-land, because I know that you know that I know that you want to know. I think a "what the hell does scare you then" thread is a great idea. I am scared by big dogs, followers of rugby union and the thought of being made to listen to 'Ummagumma'. Ever. I am also scared of using the telephone, 4AD Records t-shirts and the power of female sexuality. Although of course I would tend to equate gender less directly with physique than some. So it goes. Apart from that, the only things that scare me are taking records back to shops for refunds, being looked at askance and the phrase "time gentlemen please". I was going to contribute to the five finger shuffle thread, but that scrounging git CookMS1996 went and stole my best line (shaking hands with the unemployed). Clearly football skills of that kind are only learned while living the life of a street urchin and stealing whatever you needed to eat. The skanker. You know he only puts that Scottish accent on to impress American ladies? His real speaking voice is a very thick Droitwich brogue. Imagining Scottish Grandfathers off the telly is sad. We thought up a new euphemism last night, just before Steady Mike began his accapella elbow fart rendition of 'Turn, Turn, Turn': Jazz Strumming. How can it be true that there is one true love in the world for any one person, when beer, gin *and* cigarettes exist? EH? Last week I saw the Tindersticks and this week I saw The Clientele. Both were very great indeed. Tindersticks, like B&S, have taken up some soul influences (they covered Oddysey's marvellous 'If You're Looking For A Way Out' and Anne Peebles's much more marvellous, in fact total undisputably genius 'Walking the Wrong Way Down A One Way Street'). They did them both very nicely, thank you for asking. Did I say it was marvellous? Oh, well I should have. Clientele, on the other hand, could be custom made for fans of Felt and Galaxie 500. I am not the worlds biggest fan of either of those groups (that honour goes to a stupendously fat man who lives somewhere just outside Leicester, I am told, although apparently I was close). I think that, too often, Felt and G500 hadn't the songs to underpin their fabulous noise, but the thing about Clientele is that they are really rather fucking good, although I haven't heard their records so they might be great live and terrible on record for all I know. The exciting thing is that I think I have found a new band to love. That's nice, isn't it? You are all no doubt sick to the back teeth (what a pleasant phrase...) of tales of the London picnic shindig. Much fun was had by all, except the small cabal of young men and women wandering forlornly around Primrose Hill, with lower-lips (!) all a-tremble, saying "I wish Nick Dastoor was here". The high point of the picnic for me was being regaled with rock and roll road tales from Mr David Moore Chelmsford UK's time roadieing (sp?) for Blodwyn Pig and Man. That's enough of that, I'm off to the toilet for a ham shank, a little jazz strum, a spot of executive relief, as it were, from the contemplation of my inferiority. Sex, like life, is fundamentally a big competition and once again I've lost without even knowing I was in the contest. What a pisser. Just as well having my arse kicked gives me the hard horn. Feeling kind of benign as I bask in the glory of the close-season coming to an end, Tim _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". 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Sinister: i can boogie, boogie woogie, all night long...
by Paula Cullen 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

did anybody else out there think "le pastie de la burgeoisie" was about a fucking bread roll, or was that just me being dim? paula cullen booze explosion booooze!!!! yeeeaaahh!!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: expectations?
by Archel1978＠aol.com 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

WHAT NO DISSERTATION? my my. what's this i seem to have stumbled on? a mailing list i do declare. this must mean that i haven't got anything useful to do. i return to the nurturing bosom of sinister a sadder and a wiser girl, jaded by job applications, signing on, the startling crapness of AOL, and all the other slings and arrows of outrageous real life. on the plus side, my still-a-student friend just phoned in a tizzy about some essays, and i was able to be detachedly sympathetic and secretly smug. SEX EDUCATION in my experience the term is a laughable misnomer. the essential problem seems to be that every biologically slanted lesson on the subject revolves around 'and then the man puts his penis inside the woman's vagina'. as if penetration was the only point (as it were) to sex. no wonder there's so much teenage pregnancy about (no, not a right-wing rant) - they don't tell kids that anything other than your basic hide-the-sausage is an option. and to tie in female masturbation: if girls were encouraged to do this the way boys now are, they probably wouldn't fancy sex until they were a bit older anyway. how can a spotty, prematurely ejaculating, - "i thought the clitoris was a climbing plant" - teenager compete with expertly 'stroking the kitten' yourself? put me in charge (or germaine greer - she's sensible about these things, though not about certain others.) BELL'N SEBASJUN (DIS)CONTENT(ED) i've been spending all my non-existent money on train tickets to see my absent sweetheart and go to interviews, so have not replaced my bootleg copy of Tigermilk yet. naughty question, but can someone who has the bootleg CD (with radcliffe sessions on it) tell me just HOW MUCH difference there is in sound quality. i hate to think of not being a b&s completist, but funds are short. and yet i had to swallow the bitter pill of buying my boyfriend's spoilt sister a shitty Ibitha CD for her birthday, which she turned out to already have. (georgie, if you've suddenly grown some taste and are reading this, i love you really :)) (sub-heading) ER someone ages ago suggested that we may not like ER if it were by a different band. i must agree: the heady mix of personal tragedy, gore, inpenetrable medical terminology and sexual tension would simply not succeed were it not authored by the gritty, uncompromising talents that make up b&s. isobel does all the bits where doctors are caught having sex, you know. STUMBLING OUT OF A POOR COMEBACK POST right then... you're all funny and gorgeous, you are. and trousers was quoted in the guardian today. wooooo! from sussex by the sea, archel 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: Hymn For Great Pop
by Martin Robinson 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Hello Dolly, Apparantly, according to the lovely Glampam, I can't say that Hefner were any cop. So instead I'll say that they were the bee's knees, the wasp's elbows, the hornet's armpits and the budgerigar's toenails. They were so good I gave the Purple Trousered Thing Formerly Known as Jim a big hug afterwards and ranted about it for a fair old time. Obviously I am a very reserved Englishman and I am certainly not prone to physical contact especially to those of a similar sex, at least not outside the proper confines of public school, so this is not normal post-gig behaviour for me and probably the sign of a some well crafted and well played pop songs. Actually talking of school I was in the Sinister list of subcribers looking for someone's email address when I saw that someone from my old school, Heathland Secondary School, is subscibed. So a big hello to you. Is it still the same old dump I knew and left? Actually can we all start a new thread now then of what teachers are still there and stuff about my old school as I'm much more interested in that than scary Blairy films. Is my friend Mr Patel still there? What about Miss Murphy who called me a dickhead in class once (a very astute woman)? And Is Mr Querk still a pompous arse? Oh wait you could be a teacher couldn't you and I'll have another detention and yet another talking to from that moustached maniac. Anyway, on to brighter things...The End Te ra, Martin ear confecion recordings http://www.send.demon.co.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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Sinister: Tribute to Belle and Sebastian
by Arantxa Sanz 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Hey, here I am ! No Blair Witch content, sorry.Just something very brief about covers.The question of which songs could be covered by that band which brought us together have arised quite a few times in the past. But I reckoned it's not only me the one feeling certain B&S tunes might be very suitable in other voices and so.When LLPJ is on my stereo, I nearly can hear Jarvis in his deepest /lowest pitch and 'La Pastie''s contagious and equally smart guitar-smashing could be Neil Hannon's most accesible hit. Any ideas for a future tribute album? A. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Small, but perfectly formed.
by Jeremy.Simon＠jwt.com 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Look what I happened upon this morning! The world's smallest picture of Belle & Sebastian, but you can still tell Isobel is cute. http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Rodeo/3739/bspage.html Lucky sound engineer, I say. Thanks to everyone who gave away the ending to the Lionel Blair Which? Alan Parsons Project. Now I don't have to see it :) I am going to stand in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London next week to watch Keith Moon partially obscure Bonnie Langford. I think you'll find it is VIMTO that the rivers run with. Kind of puce in colour, and effervescent. And foul tasting. If "Nestle Quick" is the American Nesquick, is "Tang" the American Tango? Yours sincerely, J. D. Salinger, increasingly disorientated... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "you take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac - with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: gigligging
by Pamela Hutchinson 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

HELLO To the members of the Sinister List AND HELLO To all the non members of the Sinister List who are increasingly reading my posts. Does anyone else get this? I spose you do, but I find it quite, quite strange. Never mind, what was I going to talk about? Oh yes, MUSIC. If you are free tonite in Lahndahn I recommend you go and see The Vertical Smile at the Bull and Gate - featuring Amos from 'The Picnic' in an illustrious starring role. I say this cos I can't go. I have a prior engagement with some experimental disco goth metal opera at Dingwalls - all involving shellfish apparently. If you're there you'll see me either a - sober 'sighing and clapping politely' b - pissed 'bouncing about saying "yeaahh I get it now"'. Do YOU like being nasty to clams? Also on the 19th August a band called Rosita are playing at Club Panda in Kentish Town. I haven't heard a single note they have played but they feature Emmy Kate and Marie from Kenickie (ten points - go to the top of the class!) and are heavily influenced by The Shangri-Las (get a gold star and graduate with merit immediately!). So they will be good and I am hoping to go and see em. Anyone else fancy it? I LOVE The Shangri-Las!! Sigh Oh and I missed Hefner in the end, please don't say they were any cop PLUS Black Box Recorder are playing again soon. Now that Sarah Nixey is a lovely lass. She used to work in the very same office that I am ensconced in right now - and yes she was bored brainless too. Maybe I'll be an ice cool pop icon in a few months. It was cool when she was here - we kept getting faxes of lyrics from Mr Haines and phonecalls from various members of the Mary Chain. When I first heard 'Child Psychology' on Xfm I taped it and brought it into work and we played it constantly - that kept the clients at bay! Work is very dull at the moment, which is not really a problem - in the last two weeks I've got through glamorama, Anna Karenina and the Selected Poetry of John Donne. But yesterday they repossessed the water cooler, which was a bad thing indeed. You know who I'd also like to see live? Belle and Sebastian. Well, unfortunately that is not to be in the near future, but I will make up for that by going to Tigermilking on the 13th, which should be fantastic, but sweaty and sardinelike, surely? All the better for it, I say! Lots of love glampam xx *!!Now that's what I call enthusiastic!!* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Foul, two visits, free table
by ScoDog1441＠aol.com 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Havent posted for a little while, so i should have lots to say. I like the idea of headings, but i bet the novelty wears off as each paragraph become devoid of content and un-headerable (whoah, what a word !). ATP I have, for a long while now, been persuading my mates that they'd love to go to ATP. Im not a master of persuasion though, and especially not arm twisting (a couple of breaks and a few fractures) and so the full line up so far is: 1) Scottydog and 2) mate not on list. This is not good at the moment. I shall resist from spare-two-places-in-chalet-begging for a little bit longer. FOOTY What i forgot to mention in promotion of ATP was that it wasn't really a music-fest but a 5-a-side footy weekend. Although its a bit much like excerise, i love a kickaround, so look out of me - tall striker berating the lack of heading opportunities in five a side - and my mate - short goalkeeper thankful to not be playing in proper goal with high crossbar. Dream team - i think not. Those picnic kickarounds sound good (and dangerous), i'd trundle on down to one but weekends are taken up with the following paragraph £10 A FRAME On good advise i have it that Camber has a nice lil pub with a nice lil pool table. I hearby announce my residence of said pub at ATP. For exhibitions and money matches see my new 'hustling' manager, Miss P Cullen. She'll be standing near the bar and will be happy to take your money/alcohol. ACCENTS I was in the pub the other day and this girl had a really strong Scotish accent, but her mum had a really thick Lancashire accent. Whats all that about then? MORE FOOTY With the new football season around the corner, maybe all listees should make it known who they support so we can have some away-day-footy-picnic-pub-crawl-meetups. Improve the image of the british football fan no end i feel. The summer has been a good healer, so i can say Northampton. Div 3 beware. ELDORADO Christ that was a crap TV programme. That'll do for now, Scottydog Hey, i managed to use headings all the way through!!!!!!!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Kiss and make up in a Spanish house
by jarkko frantila 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Which B&S song would you like Weird Al Yankovitch to "cover"? Just a thought. And have you heard that Chris Rock Version of that Baz Luhrmann song "Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen)"? "There is no sex in the champangeroom". And am I the only one who thinks it was absolutely hilarious (at least when I heard it for the first time yesterday)? Sample line: "If a homeless person is holding a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for long. A real homeless person is too hungry to make funny signs." Oh, went to that play yesterday. Actually, it wasn't that bad, now that I think of it. It was about this 17- year old girl who was a lesbian and who was really unsure about herself, who loved her best friend who had no idea about her feelings. Well, it all turned out fine in the end of course, the girl came out and her best friend turned out to be a bi-sexual. Except that the best friend married this guy who she had found while in Greece, but the main character found herself a lover too. Some parts of the play were pretty good, but some parts were so underlined with those "men are bad, women are good, every person is equal, eating meat is wrong, religion is bad"- themes that it just made me close my eyes and feel pity for the person who wrote it. Every now and then these guys dressed in black came to the stage, wearing these black masks. For the first twenty minutes I wondered what the fuck they were supposed to be, but then I realized they represented her mixed feeling about herself. What a dumbass I can be sometimes. A few things were waaaaaay over my head, though. Like when the girl and her friend kissed for the first time, the "mixed feelings" came to the stage again and poured ketchup on tampons. Eh?????????? What the...? And the ending: the girl falls asleep, her best friend comes to the stage, wearing a mask like those "inner feeling" dudes, climbs up to her bed, spreads her arms and poses as Jesus on the cross. WHAT????? And yeah, like I said, it was a bit too underlined, but then I realized it was made as an educational play for 13-18 year olds, so maybe it would work better with them. You just didn't give a rats ass about that one, did you? Well I'll shut up about the play then. And move on to footie. Fuck you, Glasgow people (not Celtic supporters, though). Rangers beating FC Haka from Finland 3-0 in the secong round Champions League- qualifying match last night. Made me feel sorry for myself for some reason. Stayed up over midnight because of that butchering. Thats just not very polite, making me have nightmares like that, now is it? Footie, Weird Al and plays about dykes. How useless can a post be? @--->--- 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: i would go out tonight but i haven't got a stitch to wear
by alexis 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

i've finally got my voice and i've decided to use it. i'm alexis, a girl (it's a boys and girls name) from toronto. i've been a b&s fan for less than a year, they don't get much press in canada and it took a friend in california to shove me to the record store and buy if you're feeling sinister. "get that first, it's the best" he insisted, while all the others told me that the second (well, third--tigermilk didn't count at that point) was far superior and far less pretensious. the californian was right, as IYFS remains my favourite to this day. on the subway home i read the lyrics to seeing other people and fell in love with a song. i have the lps and eps. i love them all. HEADINGS i like the idea but alas, capitals scare me. for the one who asked about le pastie.. it's in the b&s faq at jeepster. it was supposed to mean the apathy of the upper class (i think) but the translation was fucked so it ended up meaning nothing, really. and the blair witch project ending: (i'll probably ruin something here so skip down if you haven't seen it) mikey's standing in the corner because the house they were in is the one in which the 7 children had been murdered: at the beginning when they're interviewing townspeople one mentions how the killer made one child stand in the corner facing the wall (like mikey) while he killed the other. so one is probably supposed to assume that josh is being killed and mikey's waiting his turn when the girl gets down there. and it was josh's teeth, not fingers, in the bundle of wood. and in toronto, at least among my own private circle, a scottish accent goes over well. xoxo alexis oh and someone's email said that they called sinister(a)Majordomo.net secret lemonade drinkers. i salute you. that song has long held it's spot as my favourite song to rhyme drinker and wanker. -- luminous(a)home.com http://members.xoom.com/languor and the head said that you always were a queer one from the start for careers you say you want to be remembered for your art your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange making life-size models of the velvet underground in clay expectations~ belle and sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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