December 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: There's Button Moon, shining very brightly in Blanket Sky
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Hewwo, I like Button Moon. It's all Jules' fault, don't ask me why. Ian said: "Blah blah blah...RAINBOW BRITE...blah blah blah..." See how I pick out the BEST words. Because Rainbow Brite is indeed wonderful and fabby and ace and grate. I'm a little bit bouncy because I've drank altogether too much Ribena...I'm an addict. I have my prelims all last week, and this and the week after this. But my Chemistry prelim was ace, because the class before us did it a week earlier, and the teacher (who is a jammy mad professor) left all the answers and working and stuff to the last questions (which was worth a lot of marks) on the board. But I only had time to giggle about this once I noticed, which was after I'd already done the test. BUT, I started giggling, and he saw his mistake, so he moved the board up. To the revision he'd done with us last period. So it was a really good test, I hope the real Standard Grade has as dopey a jammy mad professor. In my music exam today they played Belle and Sebastian for one of the questions. Well, actually, they played Boyzone, but I sat and pretended it was B&S, so maybe that counts. It's my friend Debs' 15th birthday tomorrow. I thought about making her a little book of all the memorable things she's said to me ("Don't worry, Jimmy, I'm sure he doesn't hate you as much as I do", or "You're a Jew. I just said that, because I want to become a Nazi, and start the next holocaust, just to make sure you're in it"). People in school call me Jimmy. I don't know why. Instead though, I made her a Barbie Doll of herself. She's blonde and perfect, so I didn't have much trouble. But she's also a Dominatrix, so I had a fake leather handbag (Not real leather, cause that's bad) which burst on me, so I cut it up and made it into a Barbie sized leather catsuit, complete with whip, which took me ages, cause it was really really fiddly, and I superglued my hand to the Barbie's thigh for ages, before I could get it off. But it's done now and it looks magnificent. I had such a good day, because I went into school really really happy on Ribena, you've got no idea what that stuff does to me. It's the best drink in the world, it tastes ace. I was cheeky to a hard kid, you should've seen me. It went like this: Hard Kid: Yer f*****ing ripped, yer a f***ing freak, etc Jenowl (Blinks): Oh, ok. Hard Kid: Yev goat a serious attitude problem, hen Jenowl: So have you. And I'm not a hen Hard Kid: F*** f**** f**** (repeat ad lib) Jenowl: You're kind of fat Hard Kid: Rah rah rah *Jenowl walks off, and waves her hand in the air in a very debonair way, like the guy in Cruel Intentions when the parkie says his car's in the wrong place, before he turns all good, and then dies and stuff* That was it. I was very shocked at myself. But PMT made me do it. It turns me into a cool cat. I think that me spending the rest of the day cowering in the library was well worth it, to see all her chins drop and wobble. Hee hee. Now I'm worried I'm turning into a Hard Kid, if I was mean to one. The Young Ones is such a fabby grate tv programme, it was on some fancy cable channel the other night, when I was at someone else's house. I was once getting of with someone and that was on on mute in the background, and all it was was Rick Mayall battering everyone with a baseball bat and smashing up chairs and things, and I burst out laughing in the middle of it and everything. Boy was that person not anxious to ever see me again. I don't see what's wrong with swearing, but I still hardly ever do it. Lots of love, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: do something pretty while you can
by Josh Baze 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

the photo of the day can be found at: http://community.webshots.com/photo/5450690/5451639ZEcEiKOYBp the roads are ice. drive safe. josh +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "The 1961 Ferrari 250 GTi. Only 100 were ever made. It is his life, it is his passion." "It's his fault he didn't lock the garage"
by Ian Hatcher 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Hey hey hey hey hey how's tricks muskahounds? Non B&S Content (Part I. Oh yes, there's more to follow): ***************** Dogtanion rules. Together with Mysterious Cities of Gold, Transformers, M.A.S.K, He-Man and the A-Team*. Oh, and, of course, the mighty Ferris Bueller, which I watched for the umpteenth (umpteen - what a grate word. Just like yonks and donkeys years) time when I got back from my Christmas Ball on Saturday, which was quite good fun. Although I got thrown out of the free casino for bankrupting them (they had to give me a bottle of wine to keep me quiet :)). Vegas here I come. Quite literally, in August. Obligatory B&S Content: ***************** I was listening to the Jeepster album the other day, and in particular O Come Emmanuel (what is it with the new smutty image, eh?). Does anyone else think it sounds like the slow version of Seeing Other People? Or is it just me? Oops, this is a bit short for B&S content, but nevermind, it *is* relevant(ish). Non-B&S Content (Part II): ***************** So anyway, what do Sodastream sound like? Are they good? And is Baxendale's stuff as good as Tina Dreams (which is rather fantastic)? I'm going to see Ooberman tomorrow - yay!!! In fact, I'll be singing Blossom's Falling all day tomorrow cos it's prolly the BEST P!O!P! SONG . . . EVER!!! Ok, that's it, off I toddle, Ian. *I should also mention Rainbow Brite here, but am too scared to because I know that if I do it won't be long till I hear the theme tune. Over and over and over and over :) Oops, too late . . . +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: christmas shopping comes but once a year...
by idleberry 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

..and usually when the majority of people are, as the technical term goes, skint. Did my Christmas shopping today, finishing off those last and impossibly difficult pressies. Got something for the boyfriend (an impulse buy, I saw it, I pondered, and then thought "Well, what else am I going to get him? He'll like it, it might take some persuading, but he'll like it"). Got lots of funky wee pressies and put them together for boyfriends sister. Got boyfriends mum and dad something nice as well. I would tell, but boyfriend comes on sinister, and reads what I write about him, so I want to keep schtum so it will all be a suprise. Got my brother a harmonica (why does that sound grammatically incorrect? please tell me, is it an harmonica or a harmonica..?) with a book about how to play the harmonica. Quite nice it was too, lovely tone to it. I can only presume that if he ever masters playing it, the poor people of Glasgow will be listening to him busking. And knowing my brother, it will probably be a Star Trek related tune. Hmm. (Sorry in advance to the people of Glasgow.) Got mums Christmas pressie sorted too (the Body shop is a wonderful place for the unimaginative, except in my case cos mum actually wanted something specific from there. Making me even more unimaginative.) Brother is sorting out dads christmas pressie. something about an audio CD thing. Gave lots of lovely pressies to the lovely people in my life at UEA. Been guartanteed chocolate in return. SORTED! :) (I love chocolate.) So what is the sinister christmas wish list? sit on my lap, tug my beard (it is real, I don't shave) and tell me what you want. Love Idles xxx ===== 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: she's one four foot (Monica) Queenie
by cbrown2＠mmm.com 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

hiya popsters First off, a quick question (and b&s content would you believe) which band did Richard Colburn want to form a tribute bend to at college (according to sources remaining anonymous as it'd give the answer away)? I think you'll be surprised. answer to be found at the bottom of this mail Right, another question, where was everyone else when Monica Queen was playing on Saturday afternoon? I arrived with Juicy Lucy expecting to see a plethora of sinister types and there were none of yous :-( She was grate too, you missed out. Such a wee girl and such a huge voice, her stuff kind of reminded me of (I could be wrong here) EmmyLou Harris back when she was hanging around with Gram Parsons (Like I say I could have got the singer wrong and I can't check up as my guru on all things of this sort is busy being mugged and riding horses in Ecuador) Anyway, I digress, her music was lovely, very basic but heartfelt lyrics and a cool guitarist accompanying her to boot. At one point she announced a song by saying "this one's called do something pretty....while you can" [cue shocked looks between us and Ms Queen looking up and grinning at those who recognised the reference] 'Twas no cover version but was superb nonetheless. She was not on for very long and was swiftly replaced by the biggest pile of toss I've heard in a long time, they went by the name of Vinyl exam (crap name - crap band) make sure you avoid them kids, they'll offend your musical sensibilities. Next up, why cds are bad, the answer is.....they don't have cool little messages scratched into the run-out groove bit like you get on vinyl. I remember the Smiths were always good at this sort of thing with little messages relating to their songs (I'm sure that Mrs Welthorpe will be able to remind me which one had "I dreamt about stew last night" on it). Well, anyway, cds don't have that and that's a bad thing indeed, it was always like finding a special little message when you got your record home. Now you just get horrible plastic cases that break as soon as you look at them ho hum never mind yadda yadda yadda On that moaning note I'm off for a few more minutes of boring work followed by an evening of entertainment provided by the lovely trembling blue stars and some ex-romos toodle-oo Chrisx top songs for the day: 4 skinny indie kids by half man half biscuit and heavenly pop hit by the chills ooh yeah and am180 by Grandaddy The answer to the question at the start of the post is..........The mighty half man half biscuit!! This is according to someone on the hmhb mailing list who was talking to Richard at a gig the other week. Wonders will never cease +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Bad trader alert
by julesmarkham 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

hey sinisterines, I hate to hassle you guys like this, but until Splash (splash(a)badgers.com) pays me the £8 for 4 copies of black fox fables, or returns them to me, then I'll not be able to send out any more copies. I'm really sorry to have to do this, but he has been ignoring all my messages to get in touch. I've also heard from other sinister folk that he has a history of knackering up things in this way. so prevent anyone else getting aggrieved by this, I advise avoiding trading with him, as he seems to have a bad trade history. I really regret having to say this, but as I'm not the first, I figured I should stick my neck out and wave my arms saying 'miss! He's been mean and horrible!' I am especially gutted as I used to get on really well with him, and I've been stonewalled over a few books. Diana dubsky, I've sent you my last copy, you should get it soon (xmas post permitting) Thanks for listening, and sorry for having to don the Anne Robinson suit of evil, jules +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: what a glorious morning...
by angel blackwell 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

apart from being woken up by a little corgi at 5am, this morning has just been glorious. this is prolly the first time i've come into my crap job with a smile. this is also the first time i've been able to drive in with b&s blaring on the car radio. it's just made such a difference i can't believe it...and it was tbwtas no less...by the time i'd got to the parking lot at work, the song tbwtas finished. i must have looked like a mad fool though. picture a skinhead speeding along the 401 with the stooooooopidest grin and head bopping. that would be what you would have seen at 6.30 this morning my little sweeties. i think i will forgive my mother's little corgi though, cuz i'm sure if he could let himself out he would, but i don't think that i will ever like my mother's evil cat though...all i have to say is thank the goddess that it's been declawed. i would never declaw a cat but this animal is pure evil and only likes me if she's hungry. hmmm...trembling blue stars is being used in one of those new trendoid commercials...levi's or vw or something...i had the television on the other night and heard them playing...i was ecstatic that the video was playing in canada, but then remembered i was watching antiques roadshow and it was on a commercial...k...i know all people must make a living, and that people have discovered stereolab and nicky drake due to these commercials...but, does your art compliment a pair of jeans??? but i'm not a musician... oh i'm now a real adult...i think i just had my lasy birthday that counts... oh yeah, toronto peoples...rancho relaxo january 5th, 2001...the sisters debs and diana, some boy named matthew, and if i'm a good boy, the angel blackwell will be djing...better details to follow... ____________________________________ The crudity and sparness of life is to be found in public lavatories." -Leoni Orton-Barnett, sister of Joe Orton. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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: Belle and Sebastian dans Le Monde
by frederic.meysonnet＠bull.net 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Le Monde is one of the more influent newspaper in France. There is an article about glasgow pop : -> http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,2320,seq-2033-126221-QUO,00.html and especialamente about B&S : -> http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,2320,seq-2033-126223-QUO,00.html Fred +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: godspeed the static
by Andrew CHurchman 10 Dec '00

10 Dec '00

hello everyone, now that i have time i thought i'd add onto the recently posts about godspeed you black emperor! well i saw them on fri. at Maxwells and it was just as i hoped. incredible. Will Oldham opend up with Marquis de Tren who were in very fine form. Is it just me or is Jim White one of the greatest drummers ever? I actually saw him at this same venue about three years ago backing up Chan Marshall aka Catpower... but anyway. sine Maxwells only holds maximum 200 people, and the stage it really low GYBE! asked everyone to sit down on the floor during their set so everyone could see. It so wonderful to see this mass of people curled up and nodding watching this amazing show. So it was almost totally dark with only the slides projecting over the band. Efrim and David were rocking and stomping in their chairs, and everyone was just in awe. I had to hold back the tears during the cresendo or "lift your skinny fist" it was just so powerful, so fucking triumphant. everyone should go out of their way to see this band. they are more than worth your time, and attention. as for B+S content: the drummer of Essex Green was at the show. Jeff from the Essex Green is also in Ladybug Transistor, and the Ladybug Transistor played the Bowlie Weekender. --- andrew - oh! if you can name the band that blessed the world with the 3 album godspeed series (and title of my post) well then... i'm very proud of you and have good karma comming your way. __________________________________________________ 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: December's Skies Will Ask You Why You Run And Hide From Them Today
by David Moore 10 Dec '00

10 Dec '00

Hi All, Mrs Welthorpe, can you supply me with a subject in time for my January post, please? BTW, I did get 3 photos of Foxgloves 1 in a row at gorgeous Gail's site but all that happened was that he turned into David Bowie on the cover of Hunky Dory. Are we still collecting hearings of B&S in strange places? How about Ease Your Feet In The Sea being played in the shop at La Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget last weekend? Maria, the band supporting Snow Patrol at The Garage were called The Cooper Temple Clause. Shame I had to miss all the goings-on at/in The Gents last weekend: sounds like there was a lot less arse than expected. However, I did get to see The Clientele again last Thursday & they were excellent. So those of you who missed them should see them next Tuesday at Moriarty's Bar - & don't forget to check out The Pines (The Pines!) at The Bull & Gate on Friday either. Wow. Some bands I like gig regularly. Regards, Reprazenting the Old Gets Chelmsford, 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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