September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: A brief word of encouragement....
by Mcb625＠aol.com 04 Sep '99

04 Sep '99

Hello all, your kindly Uncle Dan has emerged from the nursery and my customary silence to send good wishes to Sarah and Marcus (and all the rest of the Sinisterines) and to bid them be brave and of good cheer during the awkwardness of freshman week (or its local equivalent; that's what it's called here in the States, and a horrible week it was indeed)...along with (I admit) a goodly portion of fairly horrible snobs and such you will come across some lovely people I promise (you too, Jen and Lauren) - I can't really speak to the relative merits of kind hearts vs. coronets (this is the USA after all) but kind hearts are certainly worth more than sharp clothes, a rapier-like wit and even (dare I say) good taste in music...and they are out there and you will find them (although it doesn't always seem like it)... And it's getting to be autumn here and I've had "I know where the summer goes" in my head all day... Sorry to trouble you all...be brave, you kind and gentle folks... Uncle Dan frrom America +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 995
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 04 Sep '99

04 Sep '99

hi starry, you're my hero. At 1:00 PM 9/3/99, Starry wrote: >Hello then, > >I got spanking new trainers yesterday! They're great. Then again I would >appreciate any form of trainer which didn't squeak on the same volume as >a hideously mutated over-sized rat called That Mariah Carey Woman each >time I took a step. Oh yes for years I have suffered in bloody squeaky >addidas gazelles, but no longer! I have thrown them out!! My trainer >footware no longer will let me down :) speaking of mariah carey, in a totally unrelated note i was talking into a payphone and someone was talking back to me and it was really cool, and then it was done and i walked to my roommate who was pointing and staring and at first i thought there was a nuclear holocaust behind my head by the look on her face but then i saw it was a sign pronouncing 50th street jennifer lopez street. turning around, i noticed that 49th street was eminem street. assuming that guillani hadn't gone totally senile and decided to name all of time's square for current top 40 pop stars, it seemed that the mtv music awards were at their nefarious doings again. apparently, with enough money, you too can buy anything you want in new york. >Jim Taylor mentioned about Stevie Jackson and Peanut M'N'M's. Bloody >hell thats strangely hard to type. Please don't mention Stevie Jackson >and NUTS again please. I might get far too overheated.... Minx magazine >reckons that to spice up your sex life you should roll m'n'm's all over >your body. With a partner of course. And other sticky stuff like that. >AND TOUNGUES! Did you sister read the same article Jim? m'n'm's, eminem, conincidence? look at how it all ties together in two easy steps. does it say anything about rolling around in eminem? >And I am I the only one not doing a tape for Antje? i'm not either. though nobody wants tapes from me cause they don't love me so they can all go to hell. actually, i take that back cause i don't want to make any tapes anyway. >Piezoelectric Unit! Give my affections to the Duke, would he be there of >course. Does the Duke know anything about The Chesterfields? As I don't. >I only know that they've got a stupid name and one of their albums is >called The Kettle. Thanks for telling me that Tim. I still remember it. >As I remember everything you say. Unless its about Pharcyde, cos I've >already forgotten what album you said I should get. this past weekend, matt hintz informed me that the duke is no longer the duke, but merely alistair. or however that is spelled, i'm a little iffy on that. i saw pharcyde before, assuming that it was an alterna-rap group with a guy in falling off overralls and blowing into a jug. i think i blocked the rest from my mind. >Archel, Ronan Keating is an ugly bastard. I'm sorry, but he IS! Look at >that FACE of his. It's not right. I always had a soft spot for Monkey >Chops Stephen Gately, as Smash Hits always referred to him. Stands to >reason he's gay. But then again Ronan is better looking than Shane and >Mikey. Is there another Boyzone member called Keith? We have a Sinister >Keith too. I bet they are both the same. There's no way I would know of >TWO seperate Keiths. I mean is this Eerie Indiana or what? at first, i thought you were talking about some weird british people, then i realized you were tlaking about boyzone. i knwo nothing about boyzone, so for all i know i could have been right in the first place. there was a movie called ronan about robert deniro at 60 driving around monte carlo and being the best whatever theif in the world. it had to do with something about samurai which was odd cause there were no japanese people. not that they have the corner on the samurai market, except that samurai mainly lived in feudal japan, but whatever. >I'm going to Kingston university Marcus. Obviously its not a patch on >Cambridge, but hey. I'm nervous of this freshers week thing too, as I'm >only a little northern lass and I'll be a long way from home. And all >alone. In Surrey. Hooray. So I'll be a little lost and lonely too. I'm >sure there will be other lost and lonely people too, and we can find >them and sit in the lost and lonely corner with gin and lemonade. Or >vodka and lime. Or beer. Or wine. Or stout. my friend dan is going to be studying in london for a semester at the bbc, so if anyone wants to adopt him, that would be great. he's a weird film person, but i like him for some reason, maybe cause he gives me free stuff. or maybe cause his final sight and sound film totally rocked and included the song more than a feeling. >Speaking of which....(seamless link coming up!), Robin Stout (heyhey!) >wrote about Richard Colburn writing songs on the new B&S record. DOES >Richard write any songs? I quite like Richard. I remember almost bumping >into him carrying a carrier bag full of alphabetti spaghetti (maybe). >And I remember thinking, "Now there's a man who knows his carrier bag >technique." Its a little known fact that from the way a man carries a >carrier bag, you can tell when he'd be like when carrying his handbag. >Would he want to carry a handbag of course. And I managed to deduce that >Richard would be one of those saucy temptresses who swing their hips >sultrily in order to attract any passers-by with their sexy handbag >skeelz. If they didn't have any dyke skeez handy, of course. Dyke Skeez. >They aren't only a valuable ski-ing aid, but handy in the old pullage >stakes as well. at what point do skeelz become skeez? >And Isobel is too crap to carry a handbag. Instead she should choose a >nice brown paper bag. And put it over her head. Then again, there's not >really much point in that is there, with her being an old bag herself... i will have you know that this line made mine (and julie's) night. where are the good old days of isobel bashing? xoxoxoxo (not endearing herself to anyone) megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu are we not men? we are magnetic fields. http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ updated 8/5/99 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: some polls for the weak-end ( weekend :) )
by Lark s Tongues In Aspic IV 04 Sep '99

04 Sep '99

hi hi hi hi folks :) how are everyone :) i have some questions for everyone .. so just check it out !!!! ;) 1 ) the pick one of them Poll theres a pair of two albums of a band , just pick one of them : Ash : Diesel / nu-clear sounds Bauhaus : In the flat fields / the sky `s gone out Belly : Star / King Belle and sebastian : Tigermilk / If you are feeling.. The Cure : faith / pornography Cranes : Loved / Forever Joy Division : U. Pleasures / Closer Mansun : the attack... / Six SFA : Fuzzy Logic / Radiator Pulp : his n hers / different Class Suede : suede / Dog man star King Crimson : lark s tongues / starless and b.black Ths Smiths / the queen is dead / strangeways B Ferry : Boys and girls / Bete Noire Stone Roses : Stone Roses / second coming Cocteau twins : victorialand / heaven or las vegas radiohead : The bends / Ok computer Blur : modern life / park life Tricky : Maxinquaye / angel with dirty.. PJ harvey : dry / rid of me Morissey : Viva Hate / Your arsenal My bloody Valentine : isn`t anything / loveless Gene : Olympian / drawn to deep end 2 :) you have choose the music of the soundtrack.. but you only could pick 10 songs of a band....just one band pick 10 songs of B&S for a movie ( sinister list ) pick 10 songs of pulp ( my lovely lipgloss list ) well if you are on the 2 list could make 2 votes.. 3 ) pick up a movie for this soundtrack or if you are feeling sinister or Hardcore ;) write a simple script for this soundtrack well well well well thats all folks take care and get in fun this weak-end russssssss === Call me a prophet if you like It's no secret You know the world is made for men You know the world is made for men You know the world is made for men Not us WE RULE THE SCHOOL / BELLE AND SEBASTIAN _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.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: CMJ (Salako, snow patrol et al)...in NYC!
by ISawUfall＠aol.com 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

Hello everyone! im wondering if any of you are planning on seeing these guys at the Knitting Factory (correct me if im wrong)....if so we could meet up for a drink beforehand...? im a dude named Dave and i go to school just south in princeton. im 23 and i like salako and snow patrol very much. i look forward to finally seeing em live immensely. hey, im also very dashing and nice! well, get back to me if u like....please. -thedolphin&thelighthorse! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Don't look back, like moz in the adverts
by Robyn Fadden 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

hello all my sins, Tired of watching little white lines on my tv screen due to poor vcr quality (read 1985 vcr quality) and still only getting 13 channels on tv (read 1984 tv set), I accidently went out and bought a new vcr on the weekend with the money I don't have. But it was worth it. Except that I watched tv straight for about 6 hours the day I bought the blessed vcr and ended up having terrible nightmares (which I won't get into b/c no dream analysis book in the world is gonna be able to help me out.) I still can't believe there are over 60 channels on tv. I'm a little overwhelmed, having not had cable for about 6 years and only flipping around a little at friends' houses (no serious remote control control.) And to top it off: that how-soon-is-all-we-cherish-going-to-be-exploited-now car commercial was on - and just who the hell is that aimed at? Certainly not Smiths' listeners - who do you know who wants to (never mind is able to) buy that "luxary" automobile? But then maybe it is aimed at fans who know that it is "how soon is now" and understand the nuances of the song and rush out (like really fast, like now now now) and buy the car. Teenage nostalgia sells middle-aged commodity. Now, would our feelings be different if it were an ad for a gen-xy volkswagon? Um, no, not me. I am in the used bicycle price range. My "one less car" bike sticker is just an environmentalist front for my poverty. Now that no one's listening anymore I will actually talk about B&S. I was in Zulu, a record store here, and they were playing the Bowlie live cd and I couldn't leave the store, all mesmerized and what. The thing is, I didn't buy it, I have no idea why. Perhaps in too much shock. This was all before my b&s gear arrived in the mail the other day! Joy! A stow t-shirt, badges and tijamrs cd. Take that credit card! I am happy. I will have to alter the neck of the shirt though into a v-neck b/c it is way too high and confining. It's doable (gulp. I think it's best to hand over to the mum for that delicate operation.) Very happy that the rest fits well though. Also, played the cd all day at work (yaay for cd rom drives and computer speaker systems!) Well, looking forward to Mogwai in mid-Sept, and, though it's geeky, I will be wearing earplugs as wearing them makes a world of difference and you can actually hear things *better* (during and after). I think I'm on the cusp of tinitis as it is... Places named after people: I have my own refridgerated trucking company called Robyn's. It used to be Robyn's Reefer Service (in bright red on white trucks), but maybe too many people laughed, this being the west coast and all. But it gave me a good rep for a while... Have a lovely weekend all, Robyn === I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.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: Why do birds suddenly appear...
by Graeme Hacking 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

....Every time you are near? Hi Rockafellers! Just a very very incy wincy little message: MY NAME IS CHRIS, NOT GRAEME! Peeps dont call Erica Graham do they??? Well. Do they??? They do? Whoops....sorry, my mistake. Please carry on - if you must! Speaking of...um.... Erica, whats the Angelica single on Fantastic Plastic called? Ive got Teenage Girl Crush on Deceptive - which is great - as are the two B-sides. You know where theyre based btw? Its just that it says that they recorded at Lancaster Music Co-op and my brother's friend organised one of their gigs at Preston's Adelphi a fornight ago. Did anyone go to that gig btw??? Woulda gone but i woulda been stuck in Preston if i had - not that thats usually a bad thing, its just that i was going on my hols the next day. OOOOOOOOOh <sigh> and i promised not to post for a day or two! Boo-hoo Grae.....nope.....Chris_t_opher "Why live in the world when you can live in your head?" - Just thinking of a better quote to steal. How about.... "Oooo-i-ooo-ahah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang"? Is that an improvement? ps. Im fed up with standing up and getting whiplash from my Headphone cord! I told my parents to get me cordless headphones but noooooooo! The frequency response isnt quite as good and theyre more expensive! Frequency response is only REALLY important if i listened to Jungle or Drum and Bass - but i listen to quiet music - go figure!!<?> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: My boys,my beautiful boys.
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

Dearest pumpkins Someone from the list mailed me privately today.However being a goat,I deleted it so could you re-send please?. Cheers. Steve S xx Q)Why did God give women orgasms?.A).Because it gives them something else to moan about. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: crookside brookside
by A. Memon 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

this short message wont make much sense to anyone outside of britain...sorry....i'm sure it will get explained though. a finnegan said "....listening to belle and sebastian on me walkman!" belle and sebastian mentioned by a finnegan on brookside? only on the liverpudlian soap that scousers actually turn football off to watch.... if anyone avidly watches brookside, why did b&s get mentioned by the bomber finnegan? a m o s (not much of a soap fan - i was listening to elliott smith on some headphones and read the teletext subtitles) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "bona drag"--a digression.
by Jason Scott 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

hi witty ones, An inevitable end to my bad day yesterday was this: On TV, the opening throes of The Smiths sacred "How Soon Is Now" began to play. I ran from the kitchen to see what was up. Turns out Nissan is using the song in their commercial for the new Maixima 2000. Johnny's reverb went on as a camera panned around the curves of the automobile. So that was pretty sad. But THEN I thought about the fact that the commercial ended sweetly enough EXACTLY before Morrissey's vocals were about to cut in. Now this gets me thinking: either they sampled and looped the guitar bit (see: SoHo's "Hippiechick", for which Moz/Marr recieved a whopping %75 of royalties for illegal use of the sample), OR...the ever money-hungry Moz/Marr wrote it out back in the early days so that they might be able to do such commercialism later on? Can you imagine Moz and Marr writing and playing along "I aaaaaam humaaaaan and I need to be riiiiiichhh...ER...I mean...lOOOVEEED..." ??? Being a Smiths affecianado, my trained ear told me that the music was NOT an afore mentioned "sample and loop", but in fact the real deal. If anyone's ever read the unauthorized musicology "Morrissey & Marr:The Severed Connection" by Jonny Roghan (whom Moz was quoted as saying "I wish he'd get run over by a bus."), they will read about how much grief the band has gone through regarding money.(see: court battle with ex-Smith members over royalties, in which the judge called Moz all kinds of nasty things like "vile" and "despicable" for his stinginess about turning over royalty money...hmmm...perhaps that's where "beware, I bear more grudges). But I digress...as anounced. The point is, the world is going to pot, no? Will there be a day 10 years from now when I hear B+S on TV supporting Hanes terrycloth underwear (pardon the pun back there)? I dunno. Maybe Electronic Renaissance could be used to sell stereos in stores or something. And I'm getting old. The crap softie music station at work here just played "Blister In The Sun" by Violent Femmes and "People Are People" by DM...mixed between a bunch of top 40 garbage. Then "Good Vibrations" came on, and my Lobster Bisque tasted much better. E.A. and I will be meeting some of you shortly at El Rancho Relaxo later tonight, so I can't wait for that. If anyone wants to make it up to North York after, There's SEVERAL bottles of wine chilling, and a fridge full of beer! HUZZAH! Let the naked twister games begin! Nice 2 luv u baby! (sorry, I sawe 54-40 the other night for retro-kicks.) Jason D. "Panic on the streets of Toronto" Scott a.k.a. Barfly ______________________________________________________ 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: well YOU'VE come a long way since september...
by ian 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

my god..can it really be september? i think a giant whale swallowed a few weeks of my summer somewhere.. just incase anybody remembers me, i've been offline for a couple of months mostly down to phone problems.(i put it down to sarah cracknell's tricks with copper wire whilst living in my cellar) i wasn't ignoring anybody...so i hope you people i was e-mailing off-list won't be too angry if i send you a hello again... there are about 300 messages from the last few months that i wanted to reply to but i think in the interests of not getting turfed off the list that i'll stick to yesterday's. what a bloody gorgeous day..i've spent it lying in the sun trying not to think about the fact that i've now been working in a library for 3 years and pondering the virtues of eyebrow piercings (any advice gratefully received) also, i've been playing the looper album which i've neglected most of the summer. that was my bowlie album and for a little while listening to it made me sad. now i'm getting all excited about ATPs and it seems appropriate to play it once more (by the way, is there any off-list discussion going on on that subject?) all those nice memories of standing on a beach watching the sun come up and dancing in the sea to looper like mad people and erm...watching some band or other. i won't bore you any further. graham was asking for musical recommendations...try some "whale".. the drop dead droovy erica m was sharing: >I found a book in the attic. It's called DREAMS 'hidden meanings and >secrets'. i found a book in the cellar...its called "1001 ways with ky...want an excerpt?" >I had a very twee dream last night. I was left to look after three kittens >(in little baskets, with little covers) while sorting out some packs of >cards (with flowers on, no less) but then one moment I looked up and a man >with a binliner full of wriggling little kitties was dissapearing out the >back door. I chased after him, but he tricked me by throwing another bag at >me, which was just full of fluff. I cried. Then someone bought me three new >cats, but they were big and fat, and ginger. AND they scratched me. this is of course, easy to interpret. it means you are about to be meet a large giraffe called kevin. he will sing to you, quietly at first but gradually increasing in volume, and his songs will hold the secrets of all the things you never knew you didn't know. the kittens, by the way, are a reference to sex. possibly not with the giraffe. so..can you open your book and tell me what dreaming of trying to help karen carpenter teach a robot dog to sing means? alasdair shared: >You are all my favourite vegetables. Cheerio. can i be an eggplant with a message from allah inside it? (this does not mean that i am fat and purple) i think i'll stop now. all this e-mailing has rushed to my head ian (ps. none of the above is true. i was actually kidnapped by an alien who looked like stephen dorff. he would keep trying to impregnate me. i didn't have the heart to tell him that it wouldn't work... he has now gone back to be with his people) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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