March 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Umm...a bit ridiculous...
by Jordi Trenzano 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

Ummmmm...so you people knew the thing about the EP before I asked Richard.....another time that I feel a bit ridiculous..... Steve Kado said: > also, there's a Haneke retrospective on at the theater accross from my house > which means i'll be in for hours of unquieting teutonic film influenced by > bresson, i can hardly imagine anything more thrilling. Oh...if anyone can ever see "Funny games", please do....with the warning that it can keep you one night not willing to sleep , and the following morning you start running at the very first time you see someone dressed in white.....it«s the most terrific film i«ve seen in years..... I«ve heard that Haneke is preparing a film written specially for Juliette Binoche.....don«t know how it«ll be.... Love and Michael Haneke (opposite things, apparently) Jordiet Sinistre ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: a black fox fable
by julesmarkham 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

hi there sinisterino's here it is, as promised, a little fable. Jubilee didnt know how the griffin got into the flat. She guessed it must have come down the chimney as it was far too big to get in through the cat flap. She had been out walking with the black fox, admiring the frost patterns on the pavement and talking about nothing in particular. They had returned home to find the sofa shredded, the walls clawed and Jubilees cat hiding in the laundry basket. The griffin was sprawled underneath the kitchen table, pecking at the linoleum with it's sharp eagle beak. It was about the size of an Alaskan, and covered in soot and fluff. It made an angry rattling sound as Jubilee came into the kitchen. -What is that doing here, she muttered, kicking off her shoes. The fox circled the beast cautiously. It snapped at her and she yelped and jumped onto the draining board. ~I think it's eating the floor, she offered, crawling into the sink and curling up into a tight little ball. Jubilee picked up the broken crockery and fallen chairs and surveyed the damage in the living room. She wondered if house insurance covered mythical animals, then remembered that she didn't have house insurance and stopped worrying about it. The griffin started gnawing on a table leg. The black fox hid her face under her tail. Jubilee went over to her fridge and looked inside. If her memory served, griffins ate elephants and lost shepherds, but all she had was some peshwari naan and and a dried up lump of gouda. She didn't think a cheese sandwich was exactly griffin fodder, so she hunted through her cupboards until she found some butterscotch angel delight. She mixed it up in a bowl and set it down in front of the griffin, who sniffed it cautiously. Then she picked the black fox up out of the sink, and put her in the living room. The cat was asleep in the laundry basket, so Jubilee left it alone. The griffin lapped at the angel delight, purring loudly, it's pointed ears flickering back and forth. Jubilee found a pot of polyfiller and set about repairing the gouges in the walls. The black fox started picking up the stuffing lying on the floor. ~Well, the room needed a change, she offered philosophically. Jubilee smiled and nodded, she had always liked the idea of bare floorboards. She glanced at the griffin, who had finished its food and was stood in the doorway, it's tail held high, sniffing curiously. -This, Jubilee sighed -could be difficult. any death threats/publishing deals/comments would be well received, 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: me with nothing to say and you in your autumn sweater...
by Robyn Fadden 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

you, you are so saying things and sounding gooood lately that i have little to say - it's being said for me, and thank you because though my brain has been very active lately, it has come to the point where i wish for a kind of limited telepathy because i am having a difficult time communicating what i really want to say (yet still, i write this...) Steve said: yo la tengo. and steve is right. fading, yet still good, minor obsession: the colour orange. current minor obsession: acknowledging spring by having all of a sudden today a bunch of little cerebral crushes on a few of you. i don't know what came over me. must be the sunshine (which is orange - don't get technical; it is *orange* like orange crayons) or that cherry blossoms really do smell like pink or maybe it's that you're so bloody bright! Alasdair with his brilliant list - i hope this boy publishes his writing b/c i want it in my house so one day my decendents (who will be human/computer hybrids, of course) will find such lists and build a world around them. ha ha on you, future! George Henry Dickie who said EVERYTHING IS COSMETIC SO EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE mmmm. and his toothbrush's philosophizing. toothbrush philosophy: everything is cosmetic, everything is possible. and the peasant problem. if we were still speculating on b&s titles for the now-named lp, i would suggest "brush your teeth, sweetheart, you need a new ideological perspective". Steve, who has a boombox and a band like a monopoly hotel. which has nothing to do with capitalism and go-to-jail-now-you-fucking-socialist cards, but more to do with how his band is really much more than just something i quite like. it's something i lurve. steve also said: stereo total. and fore-arms. you owe pho-to, steve. make it artistick. funnily enough, not only because the funny bone is so close to it (oh stop!), the forearm is a damn fine place on the human body. when you turn your forearm in that certain small way where the muscle on the top becomes obvious and you love how it runs diagonal across your arm. maybe it's a tendon. what do i know, someone appropriated my all-important gray's anatomy. ulna. radius. kiss my phalangies. i never could spell. i was always more interested in the words. and then i said: oh, wow! 100,000 fireflies really is probably almost definitely well it's right up there but i can't commit to heirarchical quantifying generalization one of the most favourite songs of mine for the century so far. so there, it was spring and mark c mentioned "sword fighting" a mere one sentence before magnetic fields. what the *hell* is a girl to do... and i smiled at the screen. and this letter looks a lot happier. it is a good thing this letter is not a man on the street telling me to smile because one can't look happy when all his teeth are broken from colliding with the pavement after being hit with a glare of post-post-modern feminist empathy and die die die fucker logic that breaks his little mind in two and causes his body to crumple. i'm violently happy. ah, but grr, di you bring up a good negative in the land of sudden springyness. sometimes though i like to say in an eastern european accent: i keel you, i keel you ded. then it's always good to smile after saying that. okay, so i think i mentioned right of the dick slap, er, right off the bat, that the brain was very active and by that i meant out of my hands free-associating. mm. the brain is one thing that physiologically goes with what i think it should go with, all those folds and hidden parts and delicate vessels, seems like it grew in a weaving way, not in a smaller-to-bigger way. mm, brains. and it was sunny today and didn't rain today though there were clouds and wet air; i felt like standing on cliffs and looking at the ocean. that forearm picture is still not up. i know it's wrong, but i swear it won't take long, 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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Siam is Badass...
by Vilkas D'Angelo-Horvath 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

Hellooooo, A lot of this post is basically a week or so¹s worth of peanut gallery comments about what all you have said. So if you remember what you or other¹s have said, consider yourself commented. Before I begin, A big hug to anyone who needs one. And happy birthday if it¹s yours. The 1st thing I have to say is that my report on Splash was a requested, unfounded, sexual rumour. He, to my knowledge, has not engaged in any of these things. Just making sure no-one is clueless about this. Anyone figured out how to get tickets for the Flaming Lips Looper show in Baltimore? I¹d never heard Nick Drake until the VW commercial. I thought though, this is cool, it sounds like that Scottish band I like. I wonder what it is? Bitch session: I received my badges from mail-order yesterday. I put them on the button area of my bag, walked down the stairs and across the street to my car...and the button part fell of the 3...6...9...seconds of light button. It¹s nowhere to be found. I had it pinned on less than 5 minutes. Grrr. Ok, call me a traitor; but this ³twee² business is getting annoying. I like twee, I like beer, just not that much at once. And...to make this pertinent: Belle & Sebastian¹s music is much more than twee. Ok, flame me for this...It¹s like the Cure¹s mailing list Babble, (which I am on as well), when the subject of Robert¹s hair is the main thread. Ok...I know it¹s not the main thread. And another thing: I might as well continue to aggravate folks while I have the chance. (sarcasm implied in the previous comment). Please stop judgeing the album on the basis of it¹s titles. And please stop hoping that t doesn¹t suck. I think it goes without saying that we all hope it doesn¹t suck. Ok? Go ahead...flame on! Alan Warner¹s ³These Demented Lands²(FABulous book)...Belle & Sebastian¹s line ²Knife on a bike chain²...the man in the book who sharpens knives on a leather strap on his bike chain...Could the song be derived from the book?...I haven¹t even checked the dates on the book vs. the dates on the song. Jason Luther, to answer your question; I lost my virginity with no music going. Now I feel so vulnerable after revealing my secret. Jason, have many responded to this? To answer someone else¹s question; I know about John Peel; many fanatical U.S. music fans know about him just cos of the peel sessions. Regarding Gardeningatnight¹/samantha¹s manmeat stu d comment, I think Scotland has the highest per capita hotties of any nation. and don¹t bust my balls on geography. Ok, the latent adolescent girl has just escaped. NB: I am definitely not an adolescent girl. I¹m 25 but still a she. Spacemen Pants & Fish pie: I know metaphorically where Stu M has been here. Ever gone into the grocery store and realised that you¹re dressed really insane. Or Another thing: you fellow art students will relate to this: Ever left the studio to go to say...lunch...postoffice...shopping or any other public space with your goggles or dustmasks on your head? I have done this more times than I can remember. Regarding what someone said: I too like white boys with guitars. I also like hiphop and rap. I also like chicks with guitars. I like nearly any rock and roll with violins or cellos Mark Casarotto rules for giving me best list name ever. Topher, that¹s *so* cool you¹re playing with Emmanuel Axe. Stinking Lizaveta is playing on Saturday! Yay! Lot¹s of Sugar to All, Vilkas +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: EP news
by Dmitry Komis 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

i dont know if this has been mentioned before, but i thought i should post it.. Belle & Sebastian Single Due In The U.S. May 16 March 23, 2000, 10:40 am PT Prior to the release of their fourth album, Belle & Sebastian will offer U.S. fans a single featuring three songs that are not included on the upcoming Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant full-length. The single (released as a 12-inch and a CD5), which was originally only slated for release in the U.K., is due in the U.S. on May 16 on Matador and in the U.K. May 23 on Jeepster. Its three non-album tracks are "Legal Man," "Judy Is a Dick Slap," and "Winter Wooskie." The album is still slated for a June 6 release in both the U.S. and U.K. (allstar, March 8). (http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=allstararticle/fid=195658) thats all. dmitry +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V4 #95
by Joseph Askins 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

Man, just when I hit my lows of the evenings, the digest comes and gives me that 11:30 PM pick-me-up that gets me through till bedtime. Bedtime is looking very nice tonight, as I'm leaving for home tomorrow afternoon to spend a glorious spring break in...Rogers, Arkansas. Wow. Sigh...at least I can catch up on some much needed sleep and maybe earn a few bucks mowing the lawn for my parents (just like the old days!). Have my road music picked out as well...old Smashing Pumpkins, new Yo La Tengo, all those remastered Bowie albums (!!!), Big Star, the Cure, and yes, "Tigermilk." Don't leave for spring break without it. I love reading some of these posts, because it just reminds me of how secluded we American midwesterners really have it. It's so hard to relate to you kids, with your NME and Melody Maker and what-have-ye. I'm sure that topic--the difference between music journalism and promotion on opposite sides of the pond--is constantly worn out in lists like this, but really? I can't think of true dominating forces in the American press that could be equated to the NME/Melody Maker debate. I haven't heard any Rolling Stone/Spin debates lately, at least. Maybe because those magazines, deep down at their core, are simply pulse readers for the current pop culture--there's no loyalties or promotion of certain scenes/styles of music at those magazines. They *might* have had a little sway even six years ago, but I doubt it, and either way, it doesn't matter these days. As ridiculous as you all make NME and MM out to be, it nevertheless seems that those mags at least their heads dipped a bit further into the pool of music than anyone around here. I dunno, though, since I avoid all of that sort of stuff as much as possible (and here I am, a magazine journalism student...kill me). Apparently the music stores around Columbia are selling the LLPJ boxset like hotcakes. I knew that there were many B&S fans in the community, but I've been amazed at just how quickly the five or six stores around here are going through the boxes...order, sell, reorder, sell, ad infinitum. We haven't recieved a copy at the radio station, but I'm sure we have the EPs shoved into the stacks somewhere already. No rumblings yet from anyone about the new single or LP. You'd have thought that the Pony Express would have brought the info to these settlers by now, but mid-Missouri is still pretty secluded. ;) Tackled Hesse's "Demian" a couple nights ago. The man never ceases to amaze me, and I find that his books simply get better and better with each re-read. Had one of my "screw my country" fits last night and read some choice excerpts from "The People's History of the United States," and now I'm on to my 500th time through "Rise to Globalism." Ah, my country tis of thee and all that BS...blah. JDA +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: And am I the only JO-POLL...
by Blake Bell 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

...who thinks the second-best B&S album is the tape I made of the first three EPs? There seem to be FAR more memorable tunes, whenst the three are combined, than owned by either TIGERMILK or THE BOY WITH... SINcerely, Blake in Toronto * It's the music of BORED WITH TODAY at our brand new web-site : http://www.boredwithtoday.com/ or http://www.mp3.com/Bored_With_Today * The latest and greatest DUBSTAR Site and Mailing List at : http://www.interlog.com/~ditko37/dubstar.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Torontocentricty
by Blake Bell 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

At 04:59 AM 3/24/00 GMT, you wrote: >Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:57:59 -0500 >From: "Steven Kado" <steven.kado(a)utoronto.ca> >Subject: Sinister: Johan van der Keuken ...in PERSON! > >i have to do the professional thing and play music that doesn't thrill me >tomorrow. not that all the music i'll be playing doesn;t thrill me but some >of it doesn't and some of the music i will be linked to by association is >just dreadful. i don't want to go into any more detail than that, but it >kind of upsets me. Resist the temptation, Steve. It is taking its toll. >enough with the personal torontocentricty..... Here's some apersonal torontocentricty, from a new member to the list (namely moi)... >also, if anyone who is not on the northamerican continent desires a pretty >good canadian pop band to play in your town just drop me a line, we await >your call with baited breath. >sktaedvoe Sorry, Steven, but it doesn't get much prettier than our new Toronto band, BORED WITH TODAY. What's your band's name? Oh wait, you said "pretty good". SINcerely, Blake in Toronto. * It's the music of BORED WITH TODAY at our brand new web-site : http://www.boredwithtoday.com/ or http://www.mp3.com/Bored_With_Today +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Trembling blue trousers
by Caleb Rudd 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

Hello hello it's fun to de-lurk* Especially since I've just got back from the Trembling Blue Stars/Fosca/Clientele do (I really like gigs in east London, you can get home in 10mins...if you live in E London, obviously). As tonight saw the successful launch of Trousercuts 4 (The Trouser Menace) and it was lovely to see the final shiny, glittery thing in all it's glory. The fanzine and CD that is. Cover starlet Erica succeeded in acting nonchalance throughout the night, so I predict this to be the first of many magazines she will grace. Some B&S musings, not sure if they're common knowledge or not. The cover for Walk like a Pheasant (which I've hoped you've memorised or downloaded as it's no longer on-line) is of the two Icelandic twins who frolicked on the beach with B&S at Bowlie last year. Spookily reminds me a little of Twin Peaks. Argh! Doppelganer!. The book they're reading is I Fought in a War. Not sure if this is an actual book or just a prop though. Does anyone think that it would be better if "The Model" was a cover of the Kraftwork hit? I like the sound of "Don't Leave the Light on baby (Cause your ugly and I won't be able to get it up)". Off to Madrid for the weakend to visit my Sister. aidios amigos Caleb * Which has of course got nothing to do with the fanzine "that Sinister built" and website, which I built, now launching a new edition. Oh look the details are even in my sig... /-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=---=-=-=\ [ Papercuts fanzine Issue 4 out NOW caleb(a)papercuts.co.uk ] [ 70 pages plus 17 track CD http://www.papercuts.co.uk ] [ Airport Girl, Ant, Baxendale, Butterflies of Love, Clientele, j-pop ] [ Cousteau, David Devant, Jack, Polak, Spearmint, B&S, Jinx, Grosvenor ] \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: She plays a tape I've never heard before...
by Katy 24 Mar '00

24 Mar '00

...She says she hates the way that no-one's got that magic anymore... Thanks to everyone who emailed me about joining a tape tree. I know I haven't replied to anyone yet - I've been waiting to see if anyone else wanted to join but hadn't got round to saying so. As I said, the way it works is that everyone in the tree makes a tape of their favourite songs and the tapes keep being sent round the tree, like a chain letter but with more point. The point being that Sinisterines often mention bands they like but I know I hardly ever get round to listening to new stuff unless it's been mentioned at least twenty times or someone tapes it for me. So....if anyone else wants to join let me know! katy x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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