December 2000 - Sinister

Re: Sinister: H to the U to the N to the N to th Y
by Jason McKinnon 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Does anyone else find this signature (below) from the end of Mark's post ironic? Just wondering..... The Pickled Prince "The contents of this e-mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e-mail; please notify us by telephone on +44 (20)7 224 1717, and delete this message from your computer system. This e-mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e-mail and any attachments once they leave us." _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Virgin Socks
by Phil Two 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Hi, Today, as I was unpacking my luggage from my backpacking trip, I came to the tragic realization that I had left my Case-Logic Minidisc-24 holder on the airplane! I lost all my Belle & Sebastian albums, among other favorites. I think I was just so anxious to get home to try on the dazzling pair of electric-blue socks in the goodie-bag that Virgin Atlantic gives out [even to us po' ass suckas in economy class], that my mind was not all there. I also lost my 80's mix. I called Virgin Atlantic baggage services, but no luck. I think maybe one of the 'flight hosts' found it took it home. I'm pretty sure which one it was - the short-haired brunette who I caught eyeing my Tigermilk/Outkast MD with envy. So right now I'm wasting my night re-recording minidiscs. But at least my feet are nice and toasty with my Virgin socks - they also match my favorite sweater. Love, Phil ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Flagrent list abuse re: Gentle waves on radio last night
by James Ng 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

hello peeps, I was wondering if anyone out there managed to tape the Gentle Waves on Xfm last night? Im afraid i missed it but would love to hear them if anyone caught it...i have a veritable feast of GW/B&S goodies to entice people into replying to this mail... Marvellous, James _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "Your room smells like an opium den, young lady"
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Hewwo, The subject line is what my dad just said when he came into my room. I think he thought I'd been smoking pot, but I was only burning insence, which is fabby. I would never ever smoke pot. But my room looks really groovy, since I gave up on lightbulbs, and now live by sun and candlelight. Except when I need to see clearly. Someone gave me a really nice winter present today. I was a very pretty celtic cross, and ring, and it was from the little girl that I teach guitar to. I feel really bad, though, cause I only got her a little beaded box of girly stuff like nail polish and lip gloss and parma violets. But it was purple, which is my favourite colour, and her's too, I think. I got some of my prelim marks back again today, and I'm a bit happy, because so far I have got no more than three wrong in any test, and full marks in a lot. The best part was that I didn't tell my friends, so nobody really knew, except my mum (and now sinister), and they all think I got a really bad mark, because I didn't tell them. I'm such a minx. I lay awake for a very long time listening to the Lazy Line Painter Jane CD, just smiling, because of all the amazing little touches that I'd never heard before. I really like A Century of Elvis now, which I used to hate, and skip it every time it came on. But now I think it's just fabby and grate and magical, and I wish Stuart David hadn't left. If I saw him in the street, I'd give him a bog frown. Kar'n and he are the perfect couple, and it's just sad that they're so lovely, but no longer part of one of my favourite things. It's a hard thing to describe, but I'm so sad that I think that anything connected with Belle and Sebastian in such a close way would be so suicidal to sever tha, because it must be something really wonderful. Ooh, I'll just shut up. I'm just a sad little obsessive. Someone asked me (James the ginger perv), if the fact that i've kissed so many people makes me feel shallow. I've only kissed about 15 people, properly. But I don't see why not. Kissing is the best thing in the whole wide world, and you should share it with as many people as possible. A boy called Andrew said I was the Kissing Angel, because I would go to parties with him and snog (but god I hate that word) all the boys and girls who'd never been kissed before, because they were nerds, or all the boys and girls who were feeling depressed, and needed to feel wanted. And I don't think that's shallow, at all. I think it's a good thing, to be able to share that with people. Another thing he said I was shallow for, was because I don't ever see anyone as completely bad. I always manage to find something nice about someone. We tried this, and I was sticking up for all the hard kids, and even Hitler, because I always felt kind of sorry for him, even though he did bad things. He said that I would never be close to anyone, because I can't properly hate, so I can't properly love. And I know that it's true that the two need each other , it doesn't need to be a perfect balance, does it? Besides, it's not as though I'm completely indiscriminate, I do like some people better than others, you know. Aww, man, don't tell me I'm getting all mopey in my old age. Back to the old me now, I have learned the Noddy theme tune in german. Wayhey! I love you all, and I really mean that. Hugs, Jen Ps. I put more stuff on my website. Well, one new Bob the Ghost Wasp thing, about the Bob Squad and how it was made. And some stuff I wrote for English, because the teacher said they were too long to hand in, and I didn't know what to do with them. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: miss manners
by Andrea Kittenmouse 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

hello everyone, You're probably all sick of my questions about Scotland and Glasgow and whatnot, but honestly, I have no other sources. And I don't want to visit there without doing any research. I was wondering, does anyone know any good books on the subject of something like 'how to survive in Scotland/UK without people laughing at you or beating the crap out of you and taking your money'? As in, books on manners and survival tips and stuff? You know, like in America there are certain things you are supposed to say and certain things you aren't, but you have to know what they are... Anyway, thanks, Andrea _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I need your votes now
by David White 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

OK, the response so far for my survey of the best and worst of 2000 has been spectacularly underwhelming. I know there are at least 1300 of you out there reading this (hopefully!) and in order to get the Sinister list Best/Worst albums, songs, bands etc of 2000, I need you to vote. If you haven't done so yet (and judging by the response that means about 99% of you!), visit www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk, Click on Votes Page, then click on Best of 2000 where there is a form to fill in. PLEASE NOTE, I suspect many people have mistakenly voted for their favourite B&S album and EP instead of voting for the best of 2000. Please note there are two distinct pages for voting on the site, one for your favourite B&S EP/Album and the other is specially for voting in this 2000 survey, feel free to fill in both seperately. Alternatively if you can't be arsed visiting the site, send me an email to david(a)belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk (Subject: 2000) listing: your name your 5 favourite albums of the year (and the artist name) your 5 favourite songs of the year (again with the artist name) your favourite band in 2000 the one album you regret buying from 2000 (again with artist name) your favourite gig of 2000 and finally, your favourite memories of 2000 You don't need to complete every category, just make it clear what nominations go with what category. Hope that's all perfectly clear... David White david(a)belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A merry Alan Parsons
by Jon Botterman 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Hello list readers My first post seemed to go well yesterday. I walked home and my hair got wet but I was happy. I didn't even put my hood up. Today I write again. Unfortunately I won't have access to a computer next week as it is the festive holidays. I'll just sit in my little house while my flatmates go to work. Oh well, tis but once a year. I finally deleted some e-mails today against my wishes. I got rid of around three hundred but hopefully when I return in January they will have reappeared again. I put panic on the cd player today to add some urgency to the usually boring Thursday. I don't think it worked. If anyone knows of a song to add a certain spring in the step I'd be thankful for any suggestions. The grey weather reall slows life down. Ah, well I must resume my work as I have deadlines for tomorrow. Then I have nowt to do except eat turkey and practice my playstation skills (which are very minimal). Hope all you lovely listees have a nice celebaration of jesus' birthday and may you all get what you want. Ho ho ho. Jon. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: dissolution is a temporary solution, but then again, life is short
by gogron 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

hullo sinister people I'm listening to Robbie Williams and Destiny's Child on the radio at the moment, 11 am ish on a Thursday morning. I kinda like Robbie Williams I think, but I wouldn't go as far as buying an album... or vinyl. I used to get my music teacher to make cassettes of Mantovani and Respighi records for me at school, cos I never had a record player of the post-50's period, hence a difficulty in connecting audio leads. Mantovani did easy listening music and was 'famed' for his 'cascading strings' orchestration. Respighi was also famed as a great orchestrator, Italian too, but studied under Rimsky Korsakov at the Moscow Conservatoire. So, I didn't listen to pop as a teenager much. Sad kid, maybe, but I discovered ambient and techno before anyone else in my school, so I had an edge of sorts. I had a summit meeting yesterday in the boardroom with my sometime employers. I'm taking a few months off. I may never go back.. who knows. They're such nice people, but regular day jobs and me, I suspect, are never going to mix. I think the Pickle Prince mentioned a similar situation. Yeay dude! My room is blitzed. I'm supposed to be sending someone from the list a christmas present. I started at the weekend, but as Rabbie Burns said about the best laid plans gangin' aft agley... Thing is sometime, but not just yet. Success and failure is a useful working conceptual structure for so long then it just gets boring. If one isn't 'successful' then, like, so what. Life is too complicated for such dumb definitions of people. I saw the exhibition somebody mentioned, in Glasgow, about Glasgow pop. And yes, in the background was 'Falling From Grace'. It sounded good. But the floor was AMAZING. Miles of metallic sticky tape in pop art striations, curves, dilations, concentrics... wow. The fanzine stuff in the actual exhibits was good too. I went searching for fanzines afterwards, but I couldn't find any. I was about to offer congratulations to President George W Bush of the USA, but that is perhaps regarded as inappropriate list content. Then again, probably most of what I say is... I don't get out much. I never knew the names of the bands in all the gigs I went to anyway, but hell, the music was fine! Intensity is the modus operandi. A nice simple life is a myth. Gordon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Adam should go on the pull.
by idleberry 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Adam said: "sitting across the computer lab table from me there is a very pretty girl, and sometimes we glance at each other. just now when i did she looked back and so i tilted my head like "hello" but she looked away like "oop, i'm not looking at you!" anyway i just thought you should know." right. Who else on sinister agrees with me that Adam should find his guts (located somewhere in the bravery department, also available by mail order, guaranteeing next day delivery) Go up to this supposed hot lady fox type girl And SEDUCE her? I think so. Cutsie looks are fine. if you happen to want to be an optitian when you finish doing what you are doing now. But idleberry thinks that what Adam wants to do is some seriously successful seducing of this girl who has caught his eye. So whats everyone elses advice? Adam, I say next time you see her you do this: 1. swap cute glances. 2. Lick your lips seductively while eyeing her up. 3. give her a wink. 4. close your eyes and make gasping noises 5. Unbutton your shirt and feel your chest 6. let a strand of hair fall seductively in your face, and twiddle with it, while licking your lips, and making come hither eyes. (a finger gesture of "come here and see what Santas got for you, baby" might also be appropriate) 7. If she doesn't come over, shes playing hard to get. Walk over to her table, and wiggle while you walk. The best method for getting a sexy wiggle, is to walk in a straight line, but cross your feet just a little more over to the other side. 8. Sit on her desk, cross your legs and lean one hand across her keyboard. 9. Ask her if she'll show you how to use one of these computers, cos you don't really have a clue. (the distress thing is workable. trust me) Giggle cutsiely as well. 10. When she shows you how, offer her something to repay her for her kindness. Don't forget to apply the husky, sultry voice while doing so. Ten easy steps Adam. Worked for my boyfriend*. Love, Idles *Not strictly true, but I thought I ought to say it did work, even if he didn't do that, as reassurance to Adam. Oh Mark is going to ask me now why I said that and look confused. Mark, if you're reading this, don't ask. Just you know, put it down to one of my moments or something. If only he would get my humour, now and again. It would reassure me that I am not as odd as the looks I get telling me that I am. ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Cast a shadow in my direction, but not golden
by jarkko frantila 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Since George W. Bush is going to be the next president: Howdy, folks! Ooh, it's been ages since I last wrote here. But yesterday my better half insisted that I'd bother you, so here I am. DO! MAKE! SAY! THINK! You people seem to like Godspeed! You black emperor. That's nice, they're ok. A funny thing: The other bands from Constellation records (the circle of artists that Godspeed guys belong to) like Do Make Say Think and Iron Mount Zion... they all sound quite the same, don't they? guitar goes ZWANGGGGG three times a minute, then they throw some other intstruments on top of that. The only thing that separetes Iron Mount Zion from Godspeed is the fact that Godspeed songs are filled with violins whereas Iron Mount Zion songs have that darn piano going PLINGGGG six times a minute. How many albums of "minimalistic art" can you own? PEEOUPEE! No, thats not the sound of me getting a golden shower in my eye from my secret boyfriend, but P!O!P!: I bought "Life goes on" by the BMX Bandits yesterday, and it's surprisingly good. In fact, it's ace. I borrowed it from the library about six months ago and I though it was shit. Now that I've listened to it about 6 times during the past 18 hours I have to admit I was wrong. Better than Teenage Fanclub? Frankly... yes. I've never understood what the fuzz about Tfanclub is all about. Nice melodies, nice sound, but that's all that it is: Nice and comfy. But hey, some people are like bunnies, some dig doggystyle. MEW AND STINA AND BRETT! This is just to our beloved Honey (ok, maybe a few others too): The new album from a danish band called Mew contains a song "Her voice is beoynd her years", and it features none other that Stina Nordenstam herself on vocals. Check out http://www.mewsite.com for more details on the band. Oh, and Brett Anderson, for those who didn't know, has been to Iceland to record some vocals to Stinas new album which will be out sometime next spring. Thats it. In conclusion: art is crap, pop is nice, but it shouldn't be too nice. And Stina is a goddess. -Jarkko Frantila (Jace le PetitE), room 423, School of vocational teacher education. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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