September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Stuart you are the new rock'n'roll
by Graham LeBron 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Hey, Does anyone know what type of acoustic guitar Stu M plays? cheers, g r a m ______________________________________________________ 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: with a flick to the left and a step to the right......
by A. Memon 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

oh! oh! i was quite happy to sit there lurking like Jan Imgrund who said "i am one of those lurking who "only post when i have something to say" " (and I got mentioned in that same email by Claire only cos I'm an "A" and I'd be needed to make up one of the 5 "A's" in bAnAnArAmA......which is cool, cos i honestly can say I'm influenced by them - but where? where? there! there! Could I be one "A" of A-ha next time Claire - if it All Tomorrow's Parties is moved to March - hopefully round the time of my birthday and the Ides of March, yeah, I could see it now....getting trampled to death whilst watching er, Smog or someone so quiet getting trampled to death would be a hilarious way to die)...erm, sorry I got sidetracked there......when I purchanced upon this email....well, I just clicked it open right..... It was from The Narrow Wizard who said this: "Naomi Yang of Damon and Naomi (formerly of galaxie 500) let me kiss her on the cheek after a gig the other week...I was very happy!!!" now i bet that made him feel like one of those high noted basslines she's so good at! Where was this Narrow? In Scotland? I'm guessing. I wanted to see Damon & Naomi and Luna and Terrastock but I held back because I knew I'd be seeing loads of bands at "Absolutely Takingthe Piss" (copywrite Kittencore Katie) but that @:?*&^$! fell thru and look where I am now....wondering how to get Bowlie-cised with my fellow chalet mates without Yo La Tengo in the near vicinity. BTW, if anyone saw Yo La Tengo at the Matador night the other day, that last song they did "Love Power" came from Mel Brooks' The Producers which was on BBC2 over the weekend and is a great film. And it was at the Matador night that I cursed All Tomorrows Parties by nicking a lavishly-colour-photocopied A6 poster which resulted in 100 chalets not being filled. It's all my fault! Sorry. Foward all hate mail to me. Thanks. I'll personally reply to each one with random insults, profanities, and dirty website addresses. Don't worry, the dirty websites are free, but if you pay me I can get some good pics of erm, Sarah Michelle Gellar (!) in the nuddy *wink wink* And likewise I'll swap those pics for any nice Katie Holmes pics. Yours sincerely, Amos PS I got 15 questions right in University Challenge tonight. (for people not familiar - its an inter-university quiz show, and what a thrilling match we had today where Newcastle just pipped Warwick in a tiebreak by knowing the correct type of bear to wander around some part of america. I got my most points by recognising ALL of Mike Post's themes...The A-Team, Magnum P.I., LA Law and the Rockford Files.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: a long forgotten fairytale and a newly realized computer
by **Megan Lehar** 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

hey loves well, i have a new computer that's sitting all pretty and grape imac-y on my desk. this means that i'll have to take a little time to transfer over the emails that i need to reply to, so please be patient. other than that, let's talk about what belle and sebastian have been up to.... ok, that was nice. so the magnetic fields shows on thursday and friday were wonderful. cmj starts on tuesday. anyone coming? the bands playing aren't terribly exciting for the most part. dot allison one night, and i'm curious about black box recorder, but that's about all for me. does anyone have any salacious gossip? i think the list is stagnating from too little interest? or maybe im' making that up. well, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW. is starry at college yet? i hope everyone in london is taking care of her and not taking advantage of poor little starry all alone in the big city. um... yeah. my friend dan went to london this semester too. he's an american, a very weird boy who doesn't like belle and sebastian. well, he's one of those people who doesn't really know them, he just doesn't like them as a reaction to me. so i have a mission for everyone in the uk, make dan fetherstone love belle and sebastian. you have until december. make me proud. oh, and i expect some of you to hang out with him. he's odd, but terribly funny. xox megan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: snitching, bitching and fancying stiching
by Graham MacArthur 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Darling starling pets of mine, I put 'I don't love anyone' on very loudly last night, and put on my new black dress (in one of those posh oxfam shops that sells 'classics' on a Carnaby back street - Chris Gentry of *hem hem* menswear "fame" was in the same shop as us- how we giggled) and danced round my room while my mum shouted at me to "stop banging around up there" from downstairs. Who needs boys when you have Rouge Pulp to slick over your lips and sneer "see, I wouldn't waste this on your lips anyway". We also saw the fat one from that horrible r 'n' b group Another Level shifting his meat around soho. That wasn't meant to sound rude. It's just we refer to him as "Meaty level" as he appears to have a very meaty, erm, head. That wasn't meant to sound rude ethier. They're horribly rude those boys, suggesting getting "freaky" with "you-ooh". Whatever that means. Maybe they show you ways in which they are freakish, like a third nipple or extra toe. That's my guess anyway. It's election time in the sixth form! VOTE MACARTHUR. We're making posters this evening, to pin up around the common room my manic smiling head on Maggy Thatcher's body. (everyone is Rich and Tory-ish in these rural, welly and padded gillet-wearing, rifle brandishing areas) - complete with pearls. I've been rallying half-heartedly all day. "Go on, you'll vote for me won't you? I promise not to moan about the increasingly loud jungle/handbag house tapes you play every break and lunchtime"...only minus the promising part. They even do little dances in their chairs, you know, the darling townie boys, raising their arms above their heads, even sometimes making little tooting gun motions with their fingers in time with the beat, occasionally shouting "Tune!". I always feel like proposing a breakdancing contest, but it's hardly the weather for getting busy with the headspins. I can't WAIT for the new issue of Trousercuts. Do you think it will tell me how to get a boyfriend too, PJ? Wearing too much mascara and pouting doesn't seem to be doing the trick at the moment. I can't wait to see you all at the Baxendale shin-dig on thursday - I'll be the one quietly sipping her gin while glancing at her watch every five minutes, as I've got school in the morning, and if I don't leave before midnight my dress turns into rags and my carriage into a pumpkin. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. VOTE MACARTHUR! We shall fight them in "The Firkin" and "The Prince Regent" if it comes to that. You know the score - gangs of townie boys and girls in rebok classics and lyrca skirts telling you that you're the weirdo. Fear not brother and sisters - we shall prevail. Live on. Erica x The House of Scarlet in sailor tops +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: hello again
by Youn Jong Noh 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Hi everyone, I feel slightly out of touch cos I didn't post over the summer and I feel extremely guilty to be sending this message here in the department computer lab/library, but I just moved to Columbus, Ohio and since I'm not living in a dorm and don't have ethernet, it's taking a while to set up my internet connection. The night before last I listened to Tigermilk before falling asleep and was struck by how sad the first three songs on what must be the second side of the original LP are - not despair, but the sad feeling when you know you're stuck and really can't do anything. Maybe that should be called despair, too. I moved into this house and so far one of my new roommates is here. He lived in Japan for the past two years, and because I am Asian - though technically, Asian-American, whatever the difference is - I keep on feeling that I should be like one of the girls in Shonen Knife. He has a girlfriend in Japan with whom he communicates via a video contraption attached to his laptop computer. So far we've got along just fine, watching his videos - "The Life of Brian" and "Dr. Strangelove" - both of which I'd never seen before. He cooks and I do the dishes. He's helped me with my computer; with setting up electronic accounts, bank accounts, etc. School starts in about two weeks. I wish they didn't have the person speaking on "My Wandering Days are Over". It makes the song sound clever or like other songs that use similar devices - I think there's one by Suede. It's like contrived chaos. The lines about the circus boy make me think of paintings by Picasso of harlequins and circus people who look so sad and still and rooted to the ground without really belonging anywhere. I don't like the cruelty and lewdness of his later paintings though. It may have been genuine enough, but I guess I'm just not a realist. OK, other people have started coming in, so I guess I'd better stop ... Youn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Belle Cafe
by ZvoRunA 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

in new york city last week we stumbled upon this little cafe in the lower east side called Kate's Joint (i think) which is sort of on the corner of B ave and 4th street (an easy address to remember- B4) .. its not exactly on the corner but its beside this other place called Kate's Place or something so don't get confused.. but anyway it was the most perfect little cafe- all vegan/vegetarian ... i had vegan banana walnut pancakes and my girlfriend had my coffee and an unturkey sandwich. what made it most perfect was that for the full hour and half we were there (we didn't want to leave!!) they were playing Belle and Sebastian.. so here is a little plug for Kate's Joint (i think) who made my sunday morning the best one i have had in a long time... are the B and S people vegetarian? all the fans i know personally are.. Scotland is such a great place to be veg.. i remember Edinburgh being heaven in those terms (and many others) ...and B&S have that little Fox shirt with the anti-hunting slogan thing.. who are the Clydeside Hunt Saboteurs? gone gone gone i've been gone so long. i'm home. love z- _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.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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by Jordi Trenzano i Vilar 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Mike wrote: >>what? Are you crazy? Its generally damn near impossible to find most screenprinted t- shirts in anything less than L or XL . I've a n umber of tour shirts that i could never wear as they are mumu (sp?) sized and hence unwearable.. I was complaining about the fact the 99% of the merchandise bands that I know have their t- shirts in XL size, and the 1% left are B&S and TGW. For me, ItŽs perfect that the merchandise is available in S and M sizes (IŽve seen lots of ban ds with M sized t-shirts, by the way), but having to follow a diet for wearing L sizes itŽs a big effort, believe me. Arantxa wants to translate the "Factory" magazine article.It would be interesting for the non-spanish listees, but I think (I mentioned it two months ago) that it was quite irrelevant (compared with the "Select" reports), as the journalist makes some kind of essay about his opinions of the Jeepster world, without entering deeply in any band of the label. He writes categorical (is it the right adjective) sentences without any sense ("Stu M. will never get the same list of adjetives that his admired Morrissey knew how to get"), and even puts himself in the main point of the interviews. The one with Isobel is reduced to a few sentences, and says that Stu is a bad educated guy for not wanting to give him an interview and doing it with Chris instead. My public thankfulness to Alasdair for telling me to buy Cane 141Žs debut album. ItŽs really great. Anyone knows good websites about the Red House Painters ? Jordiet Sinistre jordi(a)belleandsebastian.org (use this adress if you want to answer, please) ================================================== Tu E-Mail Gratis en http://www.mixmail.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: Isn't it a wonder
by :: N 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

hi and hello everybody, don't you hate those pants that men where when their dancing ballet? those thight and firm things make me feel sick. sicker than ever before. even sicker than the night my dog died. i had to go see the ballet because my grandmother enjoys it more than anything else. if she'd had to choose between love and ballet, she'd defenitely choose ballet. she'd rather die than miss a ballet show. last week was her birthday so that's why we all went. what kept me alive during this show was the fact that the next weekend i would meet my friends and we'd all go together to my familys summer place. at least i was happy for a while. when we got home from ballet i got a call and that call made me so sad for the night. spending that night listening all the b&s songs i had. it was my girl saying that she's not coming back to Finland until october...i won't see her till october... well a happy ending still: the next weekend we went to the summer place and got really drunk, having fun and forgetting everything else. and guess what? she is coming next week, she managed to get the next week of! ::N damn the man.............whose intentions are mean. and when you're losing it...well just damn the man. ________________________________________________________ ____ Get your Free GO Network Email address at http://mail.go.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: Roadworks at Roddington Place
by PJMiller 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

I did the darndest thing last week - I unsubscribed! Didn't last long though. It's the end of an era. The archives are to be moved. I used them during my Lost Weekend, and very nice they were too. Painfully slow, but I think it was "our end" rather than "Paul's end". So All Tam O' Shanter's Pit Ponies is cancelled, eh? I like to fondly imagine Stevie Trousers Tipp-Exing all references to it out of Trousercuts - "the magazine for men who don't have to try too hard". Of course, this will make it even more of a collector's item than it usually is. Fans of Trousercuts - "the only magazine that can help you find a girlfriend" - may like to know that our old friend Pedro Juan Gutierrez has just published his first novel. It's called "The King of Havana". I'm sure you all hope as much as I do that the title refers to his nob. I hope those of you who ask for somewhere to stay in London do the washing-up. Remember, you represent the entire Sinster on-line community. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Get a life and posters with girls in bikini
by Arantxa Sanz 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Dear abandoned list: I am back physically to Nottingham and virtually to Sinister.After three weeks of being lazy,not reading papers and missing Mr Portillo's dark side revelations,and wearing bikinis myself, I came back and had dinner at my old house to find a list of things-to-do on the table with proposals such as the ones in the subject and Kournikova's lovely bottom in a close up stuck above the washing up load.Things will be different at 84 Rothesay Av next year,yes.If I had talent,that Kournikova's picture could become a new Proust's muffin... I have been reading about 50 messages and still have lots of homework to do,but in spite of maybe skipping the rules,I posted this bit as I had something relevant to say : Spanish plush fanzine'Factory' published in its September issue a Jeepster records dossier,including interviews with Isobel (just talking about The Gentle Waves project),Chris,and Jeepster staff,unveiling how they apply their philosophy of life to the recording business.And also conversations with Salako and Snow Patrol.I will have to work hard to translate the whole lot back into English , but I promise I will send it to the list or to Honey some time. Love, and good come back to Schoool Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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