April 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: high fidelity
by kathrine browne 02 Apr '00

02 Apr '00

hello..... i know in past months many of you have mentioned the book High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. well.....a friend of mine was at the movies the other day and saw a preview for a movie High Fidelity starring John Cusack(sp?) as our beloved record store owner Rob. i thought this was weird.....I cant imagine him playing that part. She said the movie looked as though it would be very good......i dont know what to think. kathrine p.s. sorry this has no B&S content and sorry if this has already been discussed... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Weirdness
by Katy Dutton 02 Apr '00

02 Apr '00

I'm very bored, so I just signed up to PopEx (an online music share thing) on the advice of a friend. And what's the first thing I see?: 'PopEx is BLUDDY GRATE@ Teehee ______________________________________________________ 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: Greetings
by David White 02 Apr '00

02 Apr '00

I've just got out of the nursery at last. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything interesting to say just now. Did anybody else see the band on BBC Choice the other night? I was a bit disappointed that they only showed one song but I suppose it's better than nothing. I should mention that I run a site devoted to the band, you can find it at www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk I need people like you to help it work though. I need genuine fans to write reviews of their favourite songs and albums/singles and to write articles about the band or music. There's also a discussion board there for you to use. Anyway that's all for now, >>Dave<< http://www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: subject line abuse : splat
by invisible_boy 02 Apr '00

02 Apr '00

Hello Sinister, Something of a hiatus since I last inflicted myself upon you. Nevermind, I'm sure I wasn't missed, and anyway most days I have naff all to say anyway. In fact, today may even be one of those days. We'll see. Seems that a lot of you are cramming for exams and whatnots right about now. Well, all I can say is stay frosty and good luck. I have the mixed blessing of having freed myself from formal education and the constraints it imposes, only to find myself lodged in the world of office working, with a whole different set of constraints and political systems to learn. And since just about every goddamn thing looks better in hindsight, I almost wish I was there with you. Almost. And while I'm thinking about pressures and constraints, I'd just like to say something about - I have no name for it, how about - Random Joy Syndrome. I know I'm not the only one to have this happen to them. You know when, just for no discernable reason at all, you just suddenly get an overwhelming gush of just utter bliss? Like stepping of the train into the rain and just getting soaked and smiling, or just sitting on the bus with your headphones on and for a few minutes just feeling so utterly content you can't seem to help yourself gurning like a madman, almost squirming with it. You can look at the something like the zipper on your jacket and it just looks so amazingly complex there doesn't seem any point in even trying to do anything else before you can get your head around and just fully understand that one thing. Everything else spills over from there. It all about the details I'm sure. Like the man said "Buddha is in the bush, but he's also in the fence" (I'm paraphrasing). Oops. Just went off on one. But all that stuff I really believe. Got some somehow come to terms with your immediate environment or else how can you start to behave rationally? So anyway, what I was trying to say is that emotions are difficult buggers to pin down. Since you have no real control over your feelings, and feelings (to some extent) define your actions and reactions, rationality really must have to fight to get a look in. Hmmm. Oh god shut up. You know you have no real point to make. Right. Getting away from that before I dig a pit and bury myself - here's another installment of The Very Best Thing That Happened To Me The Other Day : I dreamt that I took my sofa outside to the bus stop outside my house so that people could sit down whilst waiting. True. I woke up feeling all lovely. That's probably enough for now. I'll get my coat. Have fun you lot, and if anyone is knocking around in Leeds and feeling masochistic, let me know and maybe we can go get a beer or something. Byebye..... Kev (a boy with no plan) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: everything is nice...
by brand new shoes 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

my dear lovely listerines, i haven't posted for about a week and i thought it would be a good time to do so, as i am entering the winter hours of my spring break, and the day is getting cloudy... To honey, thank you so much for tarting me up the other day on #sinister. i feel like wearing that fur coat/no knickers combo already. I had the pleasure of appearing twice this week in the local weekly, once in the background of Kitty Pryde's show at the 31st street pub (this is only a pittsburgh thing, sorry) where i played w/ them (they won best dyke-rock band in town) and once as a description of what the paper called "best looking baristas". i was pretty flattered. The place i worked always gets this vote in the paper because everyone that works there is some young college student/mod boy, but it described me exactly and i felt all blushy.[it said something about looking like a prada ad, which is not really true of course, but in pittsburgh it isn't hard to look stylish] (i am blushing actually as i write this, i can feel my cheeks get hot) so that was my ego rush for the week. though i am unintentionally single, and have been for a while, so it doesn't really make a difference. hrrmmm... anyway. all week (as #sinister folks know from my constant whining) i have been working on this stupid casting project and it is finally seeming like it got somewhere. not the best way to spend a spring break, let me tell you. the only thing that made it fun was the whole EP set and Tigermilk, which were on constant repeat down in the bowels of the foundery where i worked through the pretty days. i don't want to always be complaining though, so... I talked to my friend terry this week and he said that he LOVES london and is having the best time ever and wants to start a little art space when he gets back because he was all inspired by the tiny apartment galleries in East London. Pretty neat i think. So we will be living together and running a space next year it seems. If anyone wants a show, we would totally want to be an international gallery, so we'll keep everyone posted. ummmm... Dr sam's little advice column: If any of you musicians ever are told that they can play at someone's coffee shop/bar for a night. DON'T!!! it is the worst experience. you are standing/sitting up in front of these people and they are fucking ignoring you and talking and one table in the back applaudes, but everyone else seems to just look up like you are interupting their conversation. i did it last week and stopped half way through my set, said "this is horrible" and just left. i was embarassed to even have set up my stuff... i'll stick to real shows from now on, thanks ummmm...i seem to be one of the last sinister folk not to have seen High Fidelity, but i promise to see it soon. it sounds amazing. sigh okay so i just wanted to agree with who ever it was that was irked a bit by looper. i'm really sorry, but i have to say that, though the little essays are nice, they ring a bit too much like a scottish King Missle or something. a bit too much. i hope i don't swing a tide against me for coming out the of unconditional love for all b+s related things pile, but i can't keep it bottled up. therapy tells us we have to deal with things or they mess us up later. i don't want to end up exploding in my 40's over this. moving on... so b+s are coming to the US while i am going to be in Europe, this is classic. unless they hit the eastcoast much later than everywhere else we will be missing each other almost exactly. grrr. i may have to change my travel plans around them, which seems a little crazy, but you know, it's b+s! okay. that's all for now. love love love to you all. i envy those who can produce such pretty posts (like vel and laura) feelin' sexy, 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: Be Trendy, Join the Club
by mattwardfhnn＠hotmail.com 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

In a shocking display of synchronistic thinking, I, like many other list members, saw Hi-Fidelity last night. Very good, very entertaining movie. The Belle and Sebastian name-dropping was great, the said it not once, but twice. Made wish that a) I would invest in a good turntable and b) that I knew my music better outside of my rather limited, though wonderfully oddball and diverse, cd collection. Ah well, maybe I wasn't meant to be a true music snob, indie or otherwise. But I highly reccomend the movie, everyone on the list would enjoy the content relating to music, and I'm sure most of us can relate to the musings on love. Anyway, I shall now retreat back to the land of Baptists, but everyone enjoy the movie if you choose to view it! Ward +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Dagnammit!
by Katy Dutton 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

It worked when I had nothing to say just then! Well, the general gist of what I had to say before was this: Sinister Village. The title of village journo has been bestowed upon my good self, and I've been conned (bribed by promises of sexual favours and jellybabies really) into writing a 'gossip column'. So what I'm saying is: I'll select the smuttiest bits from the list that everyone sees and stick em up, monitor trends in the crush list dept. etc etc (I got one! Nur nur...although it was from 'the old man' <teehee> so it counts in a different [good] way...). But feel free to mail me, kids, with some scandalous snippets of gossip and I'll pass 'em on to the Village for public consumption. Katy x ______________________________________________________ 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: Test
by Katy Dutton 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

Hotmail doesn't seem to be working at the moment, and I actually have something to say! ______________________________________________________ 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: atp/glastonbury question?
by Matt Evanosky 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

to all the "connected" listees, maybe someone can answer this? is it true that isobel is a closet marilyn manson fan....? and also are the rumours true that she is wholly responsible for the dark goth-rock sounds to be found on the new record? and also, is it true that the b&s will be bringing one mr. rose mcgowan over to one of the festivals to sing backup on one of the new tracks.???? just a (t)wee bit curious, mattnice you won't be happy with me, so give me one more chance..... you won't be happy anywhere...... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 like that *snap* things are better...
by Askins, Joseph D. (UMC-Student) 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

Sigh...god bless good cinema. I'm sure the "High Fidelity" reviews will be rolling in shortly, and I've gotta put my vote of support behind it. I remember reading the book two years ago and being blown away. It's one of those rare occasions, like when you meet someone that actually recognizes that quote you like to throw out or that is annoyed by the same little flub in an otherwise brilliant movie. HF did that for me--sure, I was seventeen, Rob was in his thirties--but there was so much that connected. And the movie? Like I said: god bless good cinema. "High Fidelity" works so well. The records and old stickers in the record store, the posters on the wall, "Watch me sell five copies of 'The Three EPs' by the Beta Band," the Echo & the Bunnymen vs. Jesus and Mary Chain argument...god, it was perfect. And the Belle and Sebastian reference early on in the movie? Simple and subtle, poking a little fun at the band's tweeness, perhaps, but nonetheless harmless and humorous. A good plug for the band, even if "Seymour Stein" isn't exactly "the new Belle & Sebastian." It makes me want to read the book again, just to slyly show off my old dog-eared copy in lecture while all the other kids are reading their new copies with Cusack's mug on the cover (hey, it's a book about snobbery, so it's cool). And sorry, Brits, I know that some people mentioned that they couldn't imagine the story outside of London, but the movie works just as well in Chicago. Maybe it's because I know Chicago, I know Vintage Vinyl and Lounge Ax and such, but...yeah. I'll shut up now. 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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