March 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: the virgin suicides
by **Megan Lehar** 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

ok, so i picked up the soundtrack to the movie today and i'm playing it right now. it's really gorgeous. but how come they used the font from the godfather??? coupled with the line "a sofia coppola film". urk. i get very jealous of people who get to be married to spike jonze and make films cause their father is a rich and powerful filmmaker. just fall down a well. so there. i think that showed them. oh, but i love air. and now i'm kind of curious to see the film. but I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE IT. i went to go see pitch black the other day and made a wonderful discovery. that discovery is VIN DIESEL. i hear you all asking yourselves, what person ahd the foresight, the ability, the superior luck to be named VIN DIESEL? he's all man, brawny and mirror reflective eyes. sure he's an evil killer, but that's just because nobody ever loved him. well, i'll show him what real woman love is. speaking of, i saw the a-team this last weekend. i finally understand one of peter miller's jokes! that brings my new total up to three. yes, well, we can't all be children of the '70s raised in northern england or wherever. his life is an enigma shrouded in a mystery shrouded in cartoon references with characters like rupert and billingsly and other weird things. and basque terrorism. so yes. that's my life. and i get a serge gainsbourg cd. on the cover he looks very rugged. that serge, he's all sex on a stick. ok. um, i'm out of heeeeeeeere. xox megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu are we not men? we are magnetic fields. http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ updated 8/5/99 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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: what is a jaffa cake?
by keith mclachlan 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

i've just been wondering what makes a jaffa cake? the bird nest roys have their wonderful song jaffa boy but the recipe is not within the lyrics as far as i can tell, only just yearnings for relationships with 'little boys with orange lips and chocolate on their minds'. i was politely corrected when i bashed anne-mari for her horrible faux-soul vocals on that picture centre record, but then there is someone named anne-mari who is credited with the vocals in the liner notes. it must be an elaborate hoax. thankfully i was able to listen before i bought it so i was not taken. i still like that trembling blue bob sings all of the songs on the new album(which is wonderful). my mother just emailed me, how odd to reply to my mom with the hope that she will not critique my poor grammar and my inability to use capital letters. anyone else watch the beach boys show from the last two evenings? i was trying to figure out whose point of view it was told from? mike love was made out to be a bit of a hero i thought and he seems the one most likely to cash in on the beach boys brand name. made me wonder why my girlfriend won't buy me that copy of 'smile' at the local record store, also made me wonder if there will ever be any bands again with such an abundance of voices and talent? most bands today have nary a singer among them let alone four. i miss vocal harmonies. maybe i will need to become a backstreet fan. keith m anyone else think this will be the last belle and sebastian lp? ps-is van dyke parks really such a twat? ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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: German Village...off-key mommy...see the connection?
by Pelican303＠aol.com 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Oh my dearest sinistereenes... First of all, I would like to state for the record, that I for one am all in favor of men in skirts. I've always prefered it (much to my mother's chagrin). Besides that, it would be quite appropriate. Follow the logic. B&S--->Scotland---->kilts. Get it? Good then. I must say, we had better get this village going soon. I was so excited that I ordered the tea-picking monkeys, and a bit prematurly it would seem, for they have arrived and the opening of the actual tea plantation is nowhere in the near future. Hmmmm... well if anyone wants a monkey (I know it isn't woodland creature companionship, but hey, they make funny faces) please contact me...and do it quickly, they're making a mess. I am immensly intrigued by the discussion of good voice/bad voice and, on a deeper level, what exactly is good music. Well I would like to put forth a theory and see if you all agree or disagree. A while back (high school) in philosophy, we discussed aesthetic judgement and I came up with my definition of aesthetic beauty - it is the quality of something that creates a feeling of nostalgia (oooh...topic connections...I'm so swift) for a time we might not neccessarily have known (at least not in this life, but that's getting religious and it's probably safer not to go there). Well recently, this has come back to haunt me. I'm a borderline miserable at school, and have recently been obsessing with memories of a certain place outside of DC that my parents used to take me. It had a theatre and housed a puppet company and had an old german carosel and a closed down amusement park...always reminded me of an old village in the German black forest...anyway, that's my nostalgia ri! ! ght there. But I digress. I think beauty, in one way or another, is all about nostalgia. I know that was my initial reaction to B&S...they took to another place that I felt, somehow, I already knew. Well...thinking along these lines, perhaps the voices we are drawn to are like the voices that sang to us in our youth...our mums and dads and grandmums and dads. I know my mother was always the singer, and I also know she never had the greatest voice. Of course, I still don't understand how someone could find this in Napalm Death...and I don't know anyone who sings lullibyes to their kiddies a la Celine Dion. So perhaps my theory is a crock o shite. Anyway, what dy'all think? What kinds of voices do your mummsies and dadsies have? If you have read this far, I would like to restore your respect for me (ha ha) by showing that I DO know when to just be quiet. He jumps on his mod scooter and zooms off, Rob... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sitting at the keyboard, wondering what to say first, I finally decide to say...
by Kate Mulloy 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hello! (such begins my entrance into this ever-sinister world) Having never had an opportunity to write until now, you must all promise to bear with me if I make a few mistakes...are you promising?...good. I've studied and studied the rules with such zeal as to make my Calculus prof jealous but I may forget one here or there and I do hope that you'll all promptly correct me. I'll describe myself (just a bit so as not to bore) because I always think in pictures (don't you?) and description lends itself most wonderfully to imagination...let's see...I run, I skip, I even prance on occasion, I'm continually in motion, either physically or mentally and hence tend to live in a continual stream of conciousness...I absolutely adore the cozy solitude of umbrellas, and ee cummings, (B&S of course), the smell of spring rain, and that sound of horse hoofs on cobble-stones. Personified, I'd have to be bubblewrap or something else that is completely frivolous yet useful to have around...hmmm...I guess that's all the important stuff. Velocity!- I meant to compliment you on your most wonderful village...can I play a part as well?...Do you have someone to run the health food store? I can be the resident tree-hugger as well if you wish...think of it!...to spend a summer wasting; selling granola, wearing Berkies, and hugging maples...Belle/Sebastian-- are you reading this now? Think of what a wonderful song this village would make- we could become immortal! Well, I'm afraid that I must Submit finally to the tyrany of Microeconomics, Love in 12pt font, Katie ______________________________________________________ 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: You probably know this already......but in case you don't.....
by Colin Mowat 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Wednesday 1 March 2000 00:43 Dear People, a pinch and a punch, first day of the month to you all......... I haven't read anyone else posting this.........hope I'm not repeating it because I missed it..... running up my phone bill tonight tracking down stuff on the net.........mostly to do with work, but also got distracted from that and went to Jeepster (http://www.jeepster.co.uk/belleandsebastian/).....with the thought of purchasing a slipcase for my EPs...there not selling them yet, but they have got a picture of it, the collection is it seems to be called "Lazy Line Painter Jane" ( you have to keep coming in and out of the sight until you get the right cover), not "Error: Bookmark: Not Defined" as reported by Lamacq after the rerun of the Bowly set........ also........ under news on the sight.I quote...... "belle & sebastian are currently still recording their fourth studio album scheduled tentatively for release in summer 2000 (this date is subject to change depending on when the album is completed). the band are also planning a possible three track single to be released before the album. no news has yet emerged from the studio on the progress being made, so it is a real 'wait and see' moment." and then I followed the links to these photos, which I'm sure most people have seen, but people fairly new to the list, like myself, may not have......... Black Session photos Black Session's photographies 12 Black & White Photographies during the Black Session (French radio session) also try http://lorseau.citeweb.net/pzique/session/belleseb/ other photos from USA http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4967/bs.html well then I had to get back to work on tracking down info on Lacan and Perls and other work stuff sweet dreams Colin Ps. tonight I have been listening too Tim Buckley - Once I Was IYFS - B&S John Peel - Radio One Cheap Trick - In Color and at this very moment - Snow Patrol - Velocity Girl (on absolute gravity single) right one more important e-mail to write then off to bed......... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: subject? you have to be joking! there's nothing IN my posts...
by rachel tucker 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

for some reason i am still up despite meaning to go to bed ages ago cos i have to be on a bus at TWENTY PAST SEVEN tomorrow morning!! i am renowned for oversleeping and i can tell this is just not going to happen...my mum (bless her) has already booked the time off work on the days of all my morning exams to give me a sporting chance at actually making some of them...but 7.20, that is foul...last time i saw the world that early i was on my way to bed.... <got slightly distracted there> anyway. hello. again. you can tell i'm bored cos i've just read all the latest messages on the website instead of going to bed like a good girl and reading the digest tomorrow. that's the one thing i hate about being on the digest, you're always a bit behind. better than having continual new mails though, my poor puter can't cope. from my reading (there is a point to this) i discovered that alisdair had a dastoor disaster and got me and lucy confused cos we both talk about football a lot...i was quite flattered in fact, though lucy may not have been...and in my defence i don't mean that to be my only topic of conversation, but i lead a sad life :( so apologies for my dull rants...oh matty elliott, £1.6m, we were well and truly robbed blind.... i've managed to lose a list crush vote...<sob>....serves me right for being so careless...i wonder what i've done with it.... i had a b&s argument today. it was one of the ones i often have, the: 'arrrggghhhh his voice, it's crap' one. i'm sure it is familiar to all of you ;) but today was slightly different cos instead of me leaping to an emotional and totally incoherent defence of our heavenly stuart like i normally do (ends in me sulking going 'well i love them and him so fuck off ner ner ner' which is not particularly constructive), me and my radiohead/placebo/hole obsessed mates (three of the bands i hate more than any others in the world...we have a lot of arguments) had a civilised discussion of what makes a *good* voice and how a *good* voice isn't always necessary for making GRATE music. we didn't actually agree on this, but it's given me something to think about all day when i should have been writing my 7, ooh in fact now 8 essays or reading othello (i'm sure you'll all be happy to know i've blagged my way out of my coursework), and also in college earlier tonight...well i had to have something to do. anything rather than listen to banking at the turn of the 20th century for 2 and a half hours.... <got distracted again...honestly i will get to it eventually. it's interesting. really...?> so i figure that weaker singers (i.e limited range, out of tune, slightly weedy sounding...) often appeal far more to me than supposedly more powerful ones. (i'm not very good at talking about music but i'll try anyway) i'm not sure why, i just think that more emotional intensity and feeling and identification is conveyed through the vocals of, say, ian brown, tim burgess, stephen gately, jason pierce, and ...(and it hurts to include these two as *weak* singers but even at my most biased i do recognise the criticisms, even though i don't accept them)...mark owen and struan. these are some of my fave singers, and they all have had the piss ripped out of them big time for their vocals. but i certainly wouldn't swap them for all the world for those of mick hucknall, thom yorke, george michael, cerys matthews etc. all people who supposedly posess superior vocal talents. that's not saying that i *only* like stuff by the tone deaf, but when it comes down to it, it's the combination of songs AND vocals that does/doesn't appeal, and crucially, if they complement each other. i mean, look at liam gallagher. he's a fantastic singer but even he can't work miracles on substandard noel tunes...they may as well let gem loose on the writing, heavy stereo weren't that bad.... what was i saying? not sure now, it's too late to keep on track. oh yeah, so, to cut a very long and probably tedious tale a bit shorter, it was nice to discuss something at school that got me thinking and exercising those brain cells. even if it didn't involve alan bennett's use of the monologue form and its effectiveness on an audience... ooh, a note to owen: don't be shocked about the music journalism suggestion...that's exactly what my careers adviser keeps telling me to go for. she is obviously completely oblivious to the fact that a) i can't write (something you can all vouch for) and b) i know absolutely fuck all about music (as i have just proved). though i must say, i do prefer this (fantasy)career path than the other suggestions: telecommunications, retail management and social work, that she has also came up with....why is it, just because i do sociology people assume i have ambitions to be a social worker?? can't they just accept that i picked it cos i thought it would be a doss, discovered i was wrong, and have regretted it since? careers advisers: they talk shit. i must go to bed now. i'm supposed to be on a bus in six and a half hours. bollocks. lovin' and leavin' you my sweetpeas so i can curl myself up in my duvet rachel xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: she's losing it
by GardeningAtNight＠aol.com 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

I am rapidly going crazy from stress and it's only Tuesday. Even listening to the Belles isn't helping, especially because my mom keeps shouting up to my room about the latest school shooting for some morbid reason. I realize this is list abuse but I'm quite jumpy right now and at least sending out a request might make me feel better. I've got a research paper due Friday and it's on the subject of legalizing same-sex marriage in the US. I'm taking the pro side. Lots of you were talking a few weeks ago about Clause 28 which was sort of but not really about the same subject, so I thought I'd ask you all for help. If there's any of you who would qualify yourself in even the least bit as an "expert" on the subject of same-sex marriage, could you please contact me off-list? I'm supposed to interview "an expert on my subject" and incorperate it into my paper. So if you fancy yourself learned on the subject, or have some sort of job involving it, or if you're willing to just speak your mind and you're not entirely in the dark, I will love you 'til I'm dead. I hate school. It's gotten so demanding all of a sudden and I can't handle it, mostly because I guess I'm too used to being lazy. That's rather depressing to have to admit though. When is the Sinister village opening anyway? I know I'm not the only one who's feeling more and more like I need to move in already. It will solve all our problems. I'll try wearing some upside-down badges tomorrow and think only of twee things. Samantha +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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