September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: I could only make you cry with these words...
by Ramon Garcia 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Hello, sinisterines! Hi there for the first time, since I've been given a voice in the very last days.. I've been reading through all your postings during my improvement-time, and, first of all, I've noticed that I should improve my english, you know, since I have some problems with lots of stuff you wrote. So, I guess I must apologize for any mistake you could find in my messages, from now on. You know, I had a sad dream last night... I dreamt I was so old and so ill, I was stuck in a wheel-chair, and I was feeling so sad, so terribly sad about being with nobody, while watching my friends, walking around me, and laughing, "Oh, stupid old kind of person, if only we could leave him here, he will surely die.. nobody will notice"... and I tried to move, I did my best to move, even my fingers... and I wasn't able to talk as well... So, I started crying, and then I heard that B&S song.. "Ooooooh, get me away from here I'm crying..." and I cried a river.. But in my most crying time, I saw that girl I was once in love with (and that girl I will always be in love with), and she came over to me, and started singing... "I could kill you sure but I could only make you cry wwith these words", and then she kissed me, and she begun to cry as well, and while I noticed her tears falling down all over my face, and I kissed her eyelids, you know, I felt happy, so happy I wasn't able to control my weeping, and I cried as if I was a few months old, and, (I'm not sure about that), I guess I woke up while dying... And then, in the darkness, lying in my bed, I actually started crying.. And I thought about that girl I was once in love, and cried for a moment while listening that song, and thinking "nobody will ever kill me, or even make me cry, with any word". But maybe last night I died a bit. Sorry about such a sad first posting... But you know, that's the state that I am in. Yours, Mon. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: All about my mother
by Alexander Runchman 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Hello again everybody, As I am about to be catapulted into another enforced silence I thought I might share a few aspects of my life at the moment. That's if anyone's interested...... I have a new mother. And a new father too. Which is all slightly odd. I've not met them yet, I don't know what they're like. But I got a letter from my mother today telling me who she was. Quite considerate I suppose. It's not that I've abandonned or carelessly lost my current parents, it's just I've got some more to go with them. It seems a good idea in many ways. You must have your work cut out for you being a parent. I have a new brother and sister too, who I'll enjoy meeting I hope. Eh, what is going on? you might ask. Well, it's quite simple. I'm about to embark on university life, and they reckoned I might need some parental love and care to protect me from the wicked lures of my demanding tutors. Rather kindly, one of them wrote me a letter too, a very nice letter of introduction, rather usefully suggesting that I should write an essay about George Eliot - I can't remember the exact title, but it was about how her novels progress from the abstract to the concrete, and how her characters eveolved from the moral consciousness - before I go up. It's nice to know I'll be able to find some use for my brain again, and if Mum (#2) would make me cups of tea to stimulate me it might help. (In an ideal world there'd be a Mum #3 too, who wears maternal pink pyjamas.) So that's why I'm going to be quiet - I'm back to my computerless place in England to muse over pastoral carpenters, and rose-cheeked maids while trying to get to know my parents. Surely scope for a Belle and Sebastian song in that? I'll be back on when I'm more settled, and have discovered the university computer room. B&S content? Erm, I remember a while ago someone talking about Lisa and Chelsea going to a school where the boys go with boys and the girls with girls, and thought in the light of Marcus being mistaken for a lesbian that it would probably be an abortive experiment (because some boys look like girls and vice versa). Do I make sense? I knew a girl once who said that homosexuals should be allowed in the army, but should be separated from the heterosexuals. Struck me as odd. I had visions of a Gay Pride pink air craft carrier floating on the waves, and fun and games with rifles..... Not of course that they couldn't serve a purpose in a heterosexual relationship. Sorry, that was a bit sick. I'd better go. Alex ______________________________________________________ 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: The brutes! The swines!
by Erica MacArthur 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Sweetest Poppets, Hey look peeps, my dad's not putting his name to my filth anymore. Erica MacArthur, gosh, it seems almost out of place. The election results came in today, and I lost. Yes, you heard me. It appears I'm too weird, too controversial, and I wouldn't be approachable to most people. Oh dear. You know, I try my best to be nice, but if you're the girl in pink tights, you're the girl in pink tights, and theres always going to be someone who gets a bit dizzy and confused. Why wear ties, and glittery scarves and white tights with dolly shoes when you could wear dirty trainers with jogging pants, with big neon labels on? Why indeed. Well excuse me for indulging my librian fetish, but surely I'm nice enough for people to come and say "oi, the common room kitchen is filthy! get it sorted". Townies. They have power in numbers. Jarvis said: "We won't use bombs, we won't use guns", but I've tried using my mind and failed miserably. Bastards. At Tigermilking on saturday night a particular darling played 'Just for a Second' for me, by Orlando, and, to follow tradition from my previous attemps at requests at various dives, the floor cleared. Leaving me painfully aware of the space around me as I shook my thing. I felt naked, I tell you. Talking of naked people, I went to my first life-drawing class this evening. I got to sketch an old man's droopy ding-a-ling with a selection of other giggling teenage girls. Obviously I tried to get the place with a back view of his hairy bottom, but low and behold the intructor keep shifting the poor man about, until we'd all had a good look. Why is it on Corination street's art classes they get Adam Ricket's lithe body to gawp over, and we get a sixty year old man with excess bodily hair, called Stan? We actually got warned in advance, that if poor old Naked Stan got a hard-on during the session, we should all laugh it off, as it is, of course, entirely natural. It's happened before, you see. It's hard for Naked Stan to control himself in a room full of fresh faced teenagers, frowning delicatley over their spectacles. What a bizzare few days I've had. Life, it's been rather up and down for me at the moment. There's been a bit of scandalous snogging, plenty of bruising, a debonair with silly hair who I was meant to hate forever but ended up being strangely diplomatic with. People I probably should have made more of an effort with, but didn't hold it against me when I needed picking up.....and girls who try it on with everyone, and still want to be your friend. What does it all mean? and what matters really, when you've got 'Put the book back on the shelf' and some tea and sympathy. It wasn't love, it just felt like it. Darren Hayman said that. He needs to get his hair cut. Erica x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: my so called life
by Walkn10＠aol.com 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Owen elightened us to that fact that: << A couple of nights ago I was out for a drink with a few friends when I was introduced to a girl. I spent the night talking to various people including this girl and then as we were all leaving she grabbed me and started kissing me. Then she came back to my chalet tore all my clothes off >> Ye Gads Man! And you didn't give her the rogering of her life?! I've had fantasies that never got that good and you have it happen in real life with an attractive little dame? Oy! What the hell? I consider myself a Junior Fabio if I even get a girl's number at the end of a night, much the chance to pull for a while in my own flat. I can see what you mean about women sometimes being sex-starved little minxes, but for whatever reason they never choose to show this side to me. Whatever the heck you got up your sleeve (maybe its the cinnamon?) you must let me in on the tricks of the trade because if thats the norm of your encounters with women than I am sadly deprived. Just when I was actually feeling quite positive about my abilites to get a tad randy Owen deep-sixes me. I shall sulk back to my lair...alone. That was a bit dramatic wasn't it? I'm just kidding, I'll probably be on-line for at least another hour. Later Steve C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Never thought that watching Valencia could be so much fun.
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Hi all. How much do I hate British Telecom?. I moved house last Saturday and they promised to re-connect my phone on Tuesday,predictably it only happened today---result:168 Sinister messages and a 1 hour trawl of all your lives.Hey ho. The drink fuelled binge sounds like it was fun.At the time of your hedonistic debauchery I was painting my kitchen.Life as a party animal just gets better and better. Steve S xx. I have all my own teeth. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: smut-mongering on city buses for a hobby is sad...
by Archel1978＠aol.com 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

27 CORRECT ANSWERS IN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE TONIGHT!!! my musical knowledge may have been badly shown up at All Yesterday's Picnics, but whne it comes to recognising 19th century women novelists, i'm unbeatable. speaking of which, arantxa flatteringly thought i would be the one to write the sinister novel, and i certainly have a few choice snippets of material now (though for lj's sake i will leave out the shameful isobel-bashing that went on at the weekend.) don't think it will be american though. i have too firm a grasp on the right length for a sentence to be the next henry james. speaking of which (i'm just the segue queen tonight, AND there was a q. about that very word on UC, wow), i think i may have declared that 'punctuation is the most important thing in the world' at some point in the early hours of sunday morning. this may seem extreme, but i've thought about it and i don't entirely retract it. although i take back the egg comment unreservedly... other picnic highlights: - alisdair's particular contribution to said early hours (apart from flashing body p[arts all over the place) - an uncanny impersonation of a glaswegian schoolchild as heard at the beginning of IYFS. - craig's upmarket picnic offering of an olive 'n' feta cheese combo thing. with flumps. - ailsa nearly breaking her nose on trousers' back while drunk in charge of a shopping trolley. - speculating about struan's 'winky' dimensions on a bus going to stoke newington. - the 'out of the frying pan into the colander' name game on sunday night, where mark 'has everyone got a pen and paper now?' casarotto discovered his new vocation as a primary school teacher. - generally, everyone being absolutely sweet and lovely to a picnic virgin with only flumps and chocolate fingers to recommend her. thanks! luv 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: curling up inside my private tortoise
by robhalcrow＠lineone.net 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Dear...... I know Bjork is a mad elfin pixie Icelandic songstrel but that there lyric is the blinkin' bonkers barmiest line ever. That is unless you know different....Cyril. This is another of my fascinating if sporadic peeks into the world of Digital TV. If you can get UK Play then have a look at "Mark and Lard's Pop Upstairs Downstairs". It's a pop quiz based on University Challenge except the 2 teams really do sit one above the other (if you were unaware of the illusory nature of Bamber/Paxman's set up I'm sorry to disabuse you of it... and about Father Christmas... oh never mind). One team is supposed to be posh while the other is comprised of scallywags and ne'er-do-wells. Anyhoo the point of this long and boring paragraph is that the other day the 2 teams were Snow Patrol (posh ones on top) (ooer) and Astrid (scumbags down below) (ooer again). Unfortunately you never can tell who they're having (blimey) but no doubt it will be repeated. This is UK Play after all. So if you are so inclined/obsessed and can see Digital TV then watching every single episode should see you sorted on the Astrid/ Snow Patrol front. I should here mention a Mark &! ! ! Lard website looked after by arch B&S fan and Bus Stop editor Kristen Bailey but I don't know its address. For those of you who were raving about Angelica let me say I saw them the other night at The Barfly and they were better than that kitten song led me to believe. I was standing outside wondering what was (and still probably is) the quickest route to Camden Town tube station so I asked this blonde girl. She was very smiley and apologetic saying she didn't know cos she's from sunny Lancashire (?). I thought she worked behind the bar. How surprised I was to see her playing guitar with Angelica half an hour later. I was really there to see Rosita and they were v.good. Best gig I've seen 'em do. I'm going to see the Mighty Arab Strap on Thursday at The Union Chapel. I'll be alone as I don't know anyone who likes them so if you fancy meeting up with a pretty shy but (hopefully) friendly chap then give us an email. Can anyone tell me is "New Paths to Helicon" on Mogwai's "Ten Rapid"? It's my favourite by them (ever since Bowlie which practically blew my head off- even the tough Glaswegian hecklers next to me were stunned into head shaking silence) but I haven't got it. Finally, list crush. Do you know what it's like to never have been even thought of as a suggestion for a half baked nomination on the list crush site? Can you imagine such a thing? The anguish? The ignominy? Knowing that no-one in all God's creation cares 2 farthings for you? Being despised in all quarters, hounded from pillar to post like a cur stricken with the crawling lurgy? Still nevermind, eh? Mustn't grumble. Keep yer pecker up. Right, I'm off. Yours Rob +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Not as young as I look and with Double Maths...
by Arantxa Sanz 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Back from ATP-methadone weekend.Greatest hits : a)Meeting my top-skies Sinister heroines,Ailsa,Starry and Archel,this latter for first time.I am sure this Miss Playforth will be the one to write the Great (American?) Novel about Sinister,bedroom sad-o-ness and a total lifestyle.And when my grandsons learn about her literary career at middle school,Mr Trousers and the Poetry Soc will be probably quoted somewhere and I will be able to tell them in a true Melita Norwood style I was involved in their lyrical conspiracy. It won't involve to be arrested and judged at The Hague,though. b)Queen Archel was to one to point not that long ago about coolness genes and so on.As usual,I had nothing to disagree about.After watching Nikolai Dastoor in action in a dancefloor, my conclusion is that COOL, as photogeny,must be in the bones.Some of his ancestors made it at the Bolshoi. c)Tovarich Dastoor mentioned I had been too long in upper education.Well,I recognised myself my surprise at my no-performance-at-all when entering University Challenge from my living room.That was when comparing (advanced)ages and birthday bashes with Tim Hopkins.My comparison between Tim and my dad was not very welcomed...well,he is much more than 4 years older than me,Tim Popking! d)Girls at airports reading William Saroyan.Hello to Ira through Pam and Mike.I truly enjoyed my conversation with him and highly reccomends to every Sinister citizen to read any Saroyan writing especially his tales,as 'The largest country in the world' (more especially to Marcus ,as the country in the title is the former Czechsovakia)or 'The Theology Student',for any Dostoiewski fan. It must be Pamela's Russian flu which has infected of Soviet references my message. Siberian cold trembling hands 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: First time
by ian morrison 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Hello all, To those from Toronto do you know of any places in the city where B+S, the Smiths or any good music is played besides Blow Up. If you do I would appreciate hearing about them or any get togethers you have. love, ian ______________________________________________________ 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: All the way from Italy
by Ferdinando Frega 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Ciao!!!! yes it's a good way to start .. classical italian cheerio..I live in the south of Italy still hot in this period so sinister only in my wishes.I don't speak/write english very well so I think I will not appreciate all the discussions on the mailing list but I will do my better.In my small city all the person who listen to B&S is because I have recorded them the lp's or suggested to buy so it's still early to explain how beautiful would be a picnic in our old park... so I know twice what feeling sinister means; I prefer listen to the group and be myself in my room similar to a record shop after an earthquake.. lp's everywhere guinness's cans which are forming a new pop sculpture and incense burning all the time. I'd like to come in London next november.. First I thought I had chosen November because of the weather and hoping that all the other italian citizen who invade the UK in summer do something else but then I realized that my "inconscio" (hope you can translete this cause I don't know the english word, it's something to do with Freud, somehow) wanted to be there and listen to A B&S concert.Do you think is it possible? I hope you can give me some suggestions on when to book the flight. I leave you now- thanks for having read and sorry for any mistake Yours Ferdi --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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