March 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: topher is back !
by Christopher Lanier 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

Hello! I just wanted to say that I am so glad to be back on the list ! It has been such a long time. I won't waste space and time by spilling out dumb things so Ill just say hello to all my chums at #sinister.. you know who you are! *giggle* If you havn't taken the time to join us on #sinister at irc, I suggest you drop in for a chat sometime. We're all such nice people :) Well it is time I ate some lunch and got ready for orchestra rehearsal tonight.. we are playing with Emanuel Axe this Saturday! yay! take care ! topher lanier +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Hypotheses
by Alder, Lucy 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

OK, so if I had to make a completely blind guess, I'd say this new album title comes from a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of children's favourites Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Let's examine the evidence: Poor little rich girls - check Rich little poor boys - check Foxies, birdies, ickle creatures - check Crippled friends - check Opportunities for strict nannies, cruel teachers and gout-ridden uncles to say "FYHCYWLAP" - check-a-plenty Mysterious and strangely-behaving characters called Dickon - hold on, am I getting muddled? Alternatively... (Early March. The best band in the world, commonly known as Belle & Sebastian are sitting round the kitchen table drinking tea and dunking malted milk biscuits) Rich: What are those pesky Sinister kidz getting up to these days? Mick: Oh, you know, the usual crap. They're not talking enough about us these days though and it's just not on. Izzywizzy: Well, now the album's FINALLY finished, we can announce the track listing and they can have fun trying to predict what the new songs will sound like and expressing outrage that their favourite ones aren't included. Then we'll be able to spend hours and hours reading about ourselves again. Won't that be nice? By the way, does my bum look big in this? Stevie: Yes, it does. But how can we announce the track listing when we haven't even got an album title? (All pause and stare gloomily into their mugs of tea, pondering stuff. All except for Stu, that is, who gazes in rapture at the fridge door) Chris: Have you seen that French bloke who's always at the Track & Field club in London who looks just like me with very short hair? (he looks up) What's wrong with you, Stu? Stu: Who was playing with the magnetic poetry kit last? Sarah: I think it was wee Karn, back in the days when they came round for tea and malted milks all the time, before Stu D became Too Big For This Band. Why do you ask? Stu: It says "fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant". Folks, I have a cunning plan.... (cue eerie and mysterious music as the other band members turn towards him with puzzled expressions, wondering what on earth he could possibly mean) Did you like the way I gave everybody a turn to speak? Cos it's only fair, like. God, I'm bored... Next time we see Nick D wearing his favourite citrussy jeans, let's all shout out "He looks like a great big orange, Marjory!" cos that might be fun, like. Juicy Lucy -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I'm the mummy now
by Nick.Dastoor＠guardian.co.uk 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

No, I'm not at all, but I would like to take his mantle temporarily by forwarding the latest instalment of Belle & Sebastian's band diary as published in the "other Guardian". It's Stuart's turn again. He appears to be losing it. And giving the impression that if only he hadn't got a cold, he'd be rescuing thousands of flood victims in Mozambique. In Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine', the narrator discovers that he can only overcome his self-consciousness at urinals by imagining himself pissing on top of the person who is intimidating him. Then things flow fine. Do you think the lady behond Stuart was more or less likely to buy the pie if he did it first? Personally, I revel in giving people ideas in supermarkets, but then I'm a big show off. I feel silly when I pick up the same thing as someone else just has. Unless it's a pretty girl, in which case I smirk at the thought that she might be thinking I'm doing it to ingratiate myself. "He looks like a spaceman, Marjory!" I like that. Here it is... DIARY OF A BAND 8th March 2000 There's something quite depressing about writing a diary. Writing's fun usually, but simply recalling is a denial of this present moment, when, to be honest, I'd rather be doing any of twenty other things. But I probably wouldn't do the other things. I've been dreaming on the couch in between bouts of shivers and coughs, fucked since Wednesday with some virus. "Give me a helicopter, and I'll get the kids off the roof." It can't be that hard. Point it in the general direction of Africa and let's go. Just stop fannying around. Instead, my big thing yesterday was a trip to M&S in search of a ready-made meal. It's a rubbish supermarket, it really is. Very Sixties, and strictly for the over eighties. The bread's all designed to be sucked not chewed. I felt watched. Some people can't pee when they're being watched. I can't shop. My conceit knows no boundaries, but I have this feeling the lady behind me is waiting to see if I go for a 'Cumberland Fish Pie' before she buys it. If there's any of that I'm off. I'd rather leave the shop empty-handed. But I'll probably just go round the aisle again, hover, then strike. The fish pie was very nice, and the lady at the checkout was nice for a change. In M&S, niceness is doled out on a strictly cash basis. I was walking pretty slow and upright on account of my virus, and I had wrapped up, so my clothes had a substantial quality which must have suggested to the lady that I was a respectable man. I took my bank card out of my bus pass while she wasn't looking, and it all helped. She was very chatty. Or maybe she was just nice. I don't know. Usually the impression I get is that they think I've stumbled in by mistake. Once, I happened to be wearing silver trousers, and a man, obviously trying to overcome his wife's deafness, bellowed "He looks like a spaceman, Marjory!" But I must have my fish pie. Stuart Murdoch +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: squawk!
by Damon Seils 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

Hello, my streak-free mirror. Starry, my lovely betrothed and mother of my three or four children, seems to have sent me the Poetry Parrot. And to think all I wanted was never to see it again. Here are two poems. The first one is by Eric LeMay. The second is by Nick Flynn. They're both probably sort of... Well, I don't know. I'm not handling the quality control here. I'm tired, and these poems might be a bit of passionless wank. (Oh, and the bird will next visit Cyberglam Julie. She glows.) Damo. - - - - - - - I Am Beautiful (after the sculpture by Rodin, also titled The Abduction) SHE Before the marble chiseled from us left one form, for those who must concern themselves with form, we were alone in that whiteness. Do you remember? Rigid as my arms may be, I remember embrace, the tense ripple of your buttocks, your spine's length a ladder on fire. But you convince yourself otherwise, that I am base, assuming, settled, am no more than a sated child. Poised and set below me, you are weary as a sculptor when asked what form lies within a stone's center, a weariness I cannot, formed of a moment's loving, break. Held aloft, I will never come down. HE What I remember most is the air, its shift across my chest, its steady crest and ebb over my groin, my sudden skin newborn, reacting in a curt, arrested pleasure. And I remember now, like a spasm, you pulled away with each splinter that fell, how you begged him for the cutting's end, for honoring the secret of the stone. So many years now. Do you still believe I would abandon you for his voyeur's touch? His attentions? Perhaps. Or is it you who feigns desire, who would prefer to shatter than stay? Know that we have buried the man who claimed us as his own. Know that this stone means always and bears only what it can. - - - - - - - You know, I can't even bear to type the Flynn poem in. That'll be all. Damon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: unlocking the mystery
by brand new shoes 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

okay all, I don't know if this has been worn into the ground yet, but on the off chance that it is still interesting, I have what i believe is the solution to the FYHCYWLAP title: In finishing school, when a girl is being taught how to be a lady, she is told many things about posture and stance and how to move about. One of the things they learn is to fold their hands in front of them, one on top of the other, placed somewhere at the top of the tummy. This is how a lady walks. A girl walking with her hands at her sides or flailing about is walking like a peasant. I imagine that the title would be a scolding from a Lady to her child or pupil. You can see girls walking like this in victorian period pieces or paintings of high society from the end of the 19th century... I hope this wasn't redundant. To pat B+S on the back, (as i am sure they need it), i think that this is a way cool reference and it's subtlety is perfect. okay, i am late for a studio meeting so i must run off. love, sam ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: crazy line painter sane
by Kenneth P Y Chu 16 Mar '00

16 Mar '00

Hi, don't really have anything specific to write about at the moment but I thought I'll write to sinister cos I'm feeling a bit crap at the moment and it's like 1:45am and I have no one to talk to :-( I don't even know why I'm feeling so bad.. I think it's because I've drunk loads of red bull and coca-cola this afternoon which made me really happy and energetic, and now it's payback time (I always have this theory that happiness is like a bank balance that if you take an overdraft you'd have to pay it back with interest eventually) Or maybe it's just the piles and piles of work that I'd have to do, absolutely tonnes and all to be finished by this fri/next tue... I hope this will not ruin my plans for St. Patrick's day this fri when I plan to have a few drinks with my friends back home in Milton Keynes. Or it could be because I saw a girl whom I really like in the hall earlier but I was too shy to talk to her.. I really don't know why.. I sometimes does juggling shows, and I can do juggling in front of like 200 people and I am fine but I can't even talk to some girl. Or it could be that the OK Computer album by Radiohead is a little bit depressing, but then it's a lovely album so I have to listen to it. Sorry this is probably a blatant list abuse, but honey isn't here so hahahhahahahha evil powers rule... and of course the faq said if the mail is witty then it's fine so the cunning subject line will hopefully save my backside. Think I'll go to bed now actually .. with any luck tomorrow is bound to be less boring/crap than today. B&S content if the above line is anything to go by.. well you probably all know actually but rumour has it that B&S are playing in glastonbury. (in the rumour page of http://www.glastonbury-festival.co.uk site) Cheers Ken (Sinister Villiage Outlaw Renegade Go-ped rider) ====================================================================== Is it wicked when you smile, even though you feel like crying even though you could be sick at any time? - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (b)anality in his second offering...
by Sam Walton 15 Mar '00

15 Mar '00

Hello all once more. This is my second post, and my first proper(?) one following the obligatory "look and me! I've left the nursery (it makes up for the short-comings of being poor)" starter post. Apologies for that pun by the way, I'm afraid I'm just in that kind of mood this evening. I'm writing for a couple of reasons, most of them B&S related. Did anyone see the NME this week (with the 'leglaise pot front cover')? Well, it had in it a rather splendid letter taking down Sarah Dempster, the journalist who rubbished the EPs when they were released a couple of weeks ago. The letter basically said that people don't just like B&S cos they're kinda enigmatic and avoid publicity, but because the music makes them happy. This is totally true. I bought the EPs the other day, and songs like SBJ, DOW and LPDLB may not have the most uplifting lyrical content, but the song as a whole still make me grin like an idiot in public, and subsequently get dodgy looks all round. Which is great (spelt correctly). I notice there is another Sam on list, and before congratulating him/her for his/her wonderful name (blahblahblah), I'd just like to say that I'll be SamW from now on just to identify myself. Not that anyone really needs me to identify myself, I'm just slightly anal like that. So I think that's about it for now. I'd love to say something really thought provoking, but I'm never terribly inspired, at the best of times.... Love and tracker bars, SamW.x P.S. Jason Luther was asking about people's virginity. I will happily admit here and now, that I am seventeen and still a v. I'm afraid I have Dawson Leary-style hang ups about being in love before hand, which is rather obsessive etc and not terribly macho, but there you go. But as for music, I know it's a cliche, but Marvin Gaye I always thought would be rather nice. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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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by Sam Walton 15 Mar '00

15 Mar '00

Hello all once more. This is my second post, and my first proper(?) one following the obligatory "look and me! I've left the nursery (it makes up for the short-comings of being poor)" starter post. Apologies for that pun by the way, I'm afraid I'm just in that kind of mood this evening. I'm writing for a couple of reasons, most of them B&S related. Did anyone see the NME this week (with the 'leglaise pot front cover')? Well, it had in it a rather splendid letter taking down Sarah Dempster, the journalist who rubbished the EPs when they were released a couple of weeks ago. The letter basically said that people don't just like B&S cos they're kinda enigmatic and avoid publicity, but because the music makes them happy. This is totally true. I bought the EPs the other day, and songs like SBJ, DOW and LPDLB may not have the most uplifting lyrical content, but the song as a whole still make me grin like an idiot in public, and subsequently get dodgy looks all round. Which is great (spelt correctly). I notice there is another Sam on list, and before congratulating him/her for his/her wonderful name (blahblahblah), I'd just like to say that I'll be SamW from now on just to identify myself. Not that anyone really needs me to identify myself, I'm just slightly anal like that. So I think that's about it for now. I'd love to say something really thought provoking, but I'm never terribly inspired, at the best of times.... Love and tracker bars, SamW.x P.S. Jason Luther was asking about people's virginity. I will happily admit here and now, that I am seventeen and still a v. I'm afraid I have Dawson Leary-style hang ups about being in love before hand, which is rather obsessive etc and not terribly macho, but there you go. But as for music, I know it's a cliche, but Marvin Gaye I always thought would be rather nice. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: frozen in fear everytime you appear
by jason luther 15 Mar '00

15 Mar '00

who can tell me where that subject line comes form, huh? okay, well. i havent writen in a while because, well, my life sucks and nothing exciting has been happening. alhtough i have began dating this girl that i met through a friend. well actually we met one night while bowling, and she was very very plastered, and falling over me and such. despite her drunken condition, i could tell she was someone i would concider dating (im very picky), and we have been since. i guess shes my girlfriend now, but its wierd to say 'i have a girlfriend', its always weird to say that for the first few weeks, when youve been alone for quite some time. but i like her, i like her a lot. im sure you all care to hear that, but tough :-) the other night i went out to see my ex girlfriend, who lives in ann arbor, michigan, about 45 minutes from my house. now, i havent seen her in like a month,nor have i talked to her in like 2 weeks, which is pretty strange. she was the person who introduced me to belle and sebastian, so she always hold a special place in my heart heh heh. but anyways, it was kind of discerning becuase it seemed like we had nothing to talk about, and i feel as if im loosing a good friend. sigh, good friends are so hard to come by. i was mainly concerned for her well being, becasue i hurt her pretty badly when i ended things, and stilll feel like a piece of shit for doing it. but she too has found someone else, and that is nice, it makes me feel better, as selfish as that sounds. but another good thing that comes from visiting ann arbor, is all of the cool music shops!!. i had some extra cash so decided to buy some albums. per all of your suggestions, i got yo la tengos 'our hearts beating as one' or something like that, i must say its pretty good. i also found a sparklehorse album that was released in like 1995, i thought 'good morning spider' was their only album, so i was quite excited to find another, and it is quite good too. and finally, i got becks 'cold brains' import. and holy shit it is BLOODY GRATE!!!! if you like 'mutations' (and i know i do), youll love this, its fucking awesome. okay i have a question ( if it isnt too personal), whatare the songs everyone lost their virginity to (or would like to, i dont want to discriminate)? mine is one 'hand in my pocket' by alanis. in some weird way, i think its kinda appropriete.. okay........ so with one hand in MY pocket, i bid you goodbye jason with the heart of glass +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Straight from the horse's arse
by Andrew Tracey 15 Mar '00

15 Mar '00

Hey up peeps So, what hand did Lady Luck deal the Sinister betting collective today. Let's have a peek at her cards and see. 2.00 - Solo Mio - Finished 6th 2.35 - Celibate - Finished 6th 3.15 - Magic Combination - Finished 15th (This isn't going too well) 3.55 - Soldat - Finished 6th 4.30 - Mister One - Finished 3rd (Closer, but no cigar) 5.05 - Upgrade - Finished 6th (Another 6th!!! Blooming hell) 5.40 - Joe Cullen - WON - 14/1 (Yayyyy, Milky Bars are on me) So Booze Explosion's old man gets us out of trouble - the Sinister kitty (miaow) should now stand at 150 pounds (if you've been following instructions). Onwards, upwards - tomorrow beckons. 2.00 - Bring Sweets - Yes Erica, that means you 2.35 - Lady Rebecca - Miss Popgirl forsakes her 'k' to facilitate a selection 3.15 - Florida Pearl - We used up See More Business and Go Ballistic last year so we'll go for Carsmiles's 'fancy' 3.55 - Manhattan Rainbow - Honey's in the Big Apple (does that make him a maggot???) 4.30 - Carandrew - Slight self indulgence (I don't even drive) 5.05 - Good Vibes - Will no doubt be scarce by now after seeing the first five horses come nowhere 5.40 - Lord Of Love - Finally Mr Miller makes an appearence Till tomorrow Andrew +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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