May 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: it's blank because ive run out of paints
by Walrus1972＠aol.com 29 May '00

29 May '00

this is my second post,after being scared off by comments to my first. so i hope everyone's forgotten who i am,and i can start over. the b&s bin was empty at the record store yesterday so i left and had to have a cigarette. and i really do not smoke. after that i went home to find a twin peaks marathon on. so i read part of animal farm because my friend had it sitting out on the bed (so is snowball meant to be trotsky then?), then slept for 13 hours. which is amazing because i can usually just hardly get 5. i had an amazing dream. i was small and my parents had left me in a sort of orphanage. every few minutes an s club 7 song would come on the loud speaker (there were only 2 songs,in succession...i suppose that's all they have,then?). eventually i was adopted by someone called chad. he had fran healy hair. and a scarf. we ended up at primrose hill playing with chad's dog. the dog was called stuart. and it ended up that chad married a teacher i'd had when i was 13. the end. i woke up with an incredible headache and put on meat is murder. question: why do matchbox 20 now spell out the '20'? i think that's incredibly pretentious. i wish he would get an eye reduction surgery. im very glad i don't like them at all. i've suddenly gotten money so i think im going to get some converse all stars. bright red ones at that. so i'll be off. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Looper & Salako in Stockholm
by Isabelle Axelsson 29 May '00

29 May '00

Dear Sinisteres Yesterday I couldn't sleep, I had just heard Looper and Salakos gig. And you can't just go to sleep and go back to a normal life after a gig like that. You just can't, or I can't... Even that I didn't have any money and that the gig was a sunday evening and that I had to go up early next morning I couldn't miss it. And I'm so glad I went there!!! After 2 hours waiting in the bar Salako entered the stage. They were bloody grate, they really were!! So nice and asking if we rather would like to se Belle & Sebastian. And of course we would, but we didn't say that. I saw Looper comming out from the tour bus and when they were going in to the place the doorman stopped them and they had to say like "hey... we're the band!" hm..quite embarresing I think. Looper was GRATE to with Stuart on the vocals and Karn making this strange sounds in the backround. They had VCR:s and pictures in the backround and I just stand there looking at the telly, feeling the music inside me. After the show I bought some merchandise, some nice badges and Salakos latest album Musicality. Anyone who was there? I would love if you could contact me through my e-mail: nellie_power(a)hotmail.com =) Love, Isabelle ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Having Scored A Trillion Dollars
by Vicki Rider 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hello everybadhee!! (Hi Dr. Nick!) Ahhhh, the finals are done and school's really over. I really don't believe it, I feel as though I'll have to get up at 6:45 any day now and have to listen to my teacher's half-assed pontifications on why reading stale textbook poetry is "good for you". (Yes, Mrs. Golab, a poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is much more relevant to today's high school kids than, say, Allen Ginsberg's "America"). But the last day of school is always a bit sad. I was asking a kid in my math class what he received on his final, and suddenly a friend of his with the neatest light blue hair gave me a hug (maybe he just liked my Mick Jagger shirt). Then I had a pang of "Awwww, I'm gonna miss these kids." Another Sinister shirt slogan: "It's not easy being twee" I'm sure people are tired about putting their two cents in about Legal Man ("Why is is a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Someone's making a penny." Sorry, I couldn't resist), so I'll keep my comments brief: Marvellous. Winter Wooskie is absolutely beautiful if a bit short. Legal Man is pure fun. JIADS is great. Record Highs in the Valley of the Sun: 114-116 degrees! Please tell me that I'm in that one Twilight Zone episode and that this is a dream, and it's really quite cold. I'd do my raindance in the garage but I'd give the soles of my feet third-degree burns. I met my first pedestrian B+S fan. I'm sure it won't surprise any of you that B+S fans in Phoenix are few and far between, so when the shy waitress at the campus branch of Souper! Salad said "Oh I like your badge (the 369 Seconds of Light one). I just love Belle & Sebastian!" I was shocked and delighted. >What terrible things are going to befall us all if >'teeny poppers' get "into" them? I'm hoping for the weeny-bopper fanbase to >expand, myself. Are you kidding Nick? Don't you remember those teenyboppers (the girls that end their name in "i" because ys are ugly) in high school? Once they get wise of the Sinister list they'll clog up our inbox with messages like "Oh, Stuart looks SOOOO cute with that earring on the NME cover." and "Who are The Smiths?" 7 days till the new album................................................ Ciao! Rachel W. :-) "Your brogues are crap, mate. Look, mine are the proper sort." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: That's not a post, Harry, that's just a big mess.
by Harry Hunt 29 May '00

29 May '00

Steven Wells. Maybe he was dismissive, but it's not the end of the world, AND "teenage tits-out terror totty" is an ace book, AND the Sundependent had a nicely put interpretation of the Q&A events. My eye sort of hurts, that is to say I'm not in pain, nor irritation, but any touching of the ocular system would change all that, and the deprivation of opportunity....well, dogs and their bits, you follow? No? OK. Picture this. I'm really small, and keep myself to myself, YET today, when I went to the bar that I visited last night, and sucked the foam from the crown of a pint of horrible beer, the barmaid commented to my companion that she was surprised I could drink ANYTHING after last night. Odd. It's an odd place though, Fibbers. A place where you can get ID'd by bouncers who know your name, a place where they play XTRMNTR on loop before gigs where the preambling broadcast of said album is innapropriate (ie any gig where REAL music will be played), and a place where miracles happen. I was sitting, I was sat, I sat, I was seated, outside the establishment, 1 king's minute before it was due to open. So as to appear fashionably late if I ran into a certain person I was trying to impress, I walked off to another bar, and had a couple of drinks, at a leisurely pace. On returning to Fibbers, no time had passed, but I have a Switch receipt to prove I was on the other side of town when I clearly wasn't. As Ted Theodore Logan so unfamously said:"There are strange things afoot at the Circle K" Oh, and the place where I slept, Splash's house, was up the road from the lead singer from his band's supermarket. On Friday, there was a gas escape at that there shop, and I was the one who dealt with it over the phone. My world is getting smaller. Good thing I'm an ectomorphic midget, gives me more time to think. Today, I was being a cheeky chappy, phoning up payphones on my mobile, hoping for some Trigger-Happy-TV-like shenanigans. One person answerred saying "York Police Station, how may I help you?" quick as a flash. I nearly fell in love. But not quite. I hate Wyclef and I want to die. Love Harry xxx ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: There's a lot to be said for lifelong love and sex and security
by Mr Smiley 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hello, I've been thinking, for some inexplicable reason, about the 5th Duke of Portland. I think I'll tell you a little bit, because it came to my attention that my posts are usually too relevant for their own good. He was a funny guy, was the 5th Duke of Portland. He had a great big house, Welbeck Abbey, which is now used to build murderous robots. Oh sorry, I mean it's now an Army training college, but in the 19th century it was something more interesting. So anyway, he had this great big abbey to live in, but he decided that he would only live in 5 rooms of it. He painted all of the walls pink, and the rest of the abbey began to fall into ruin. And - this is the really interesting bit - to say he was a recluse was an understatement. He was a RECLUSE. He built tunnels underground, 1000s of metres of underground tunnels. They went around his estate, and one went to Worksop town centre and the other went to Worksop train station. He also built an underground ballroom (a pink one). When he wanted to go anywhere, he would get in his coach, trundle off down the tunnels to the train station, then his carriage (with him still in it) would be loaded onto a train wagon and off he'd go. Apparently, he was a kind person. He used to muck in with the workmen, or something, so he wasn't a very good duke as dukes are supposed to be snobby - it's the rules. He once donated a collection of miniatures to a display in Manchester, but someone pinched them so he never did that again. And at some point he died from one of the many diseases that had plagued him all his life. He'd never really done anything, his brother was some army guy who got involved in politics and stuff I think, but our shy duke spent the best part of his life in his underground lair and his 5 rooms in the abbey. I wonder how he got on without people, to talk to him and stuff. Or maybe he just didn't need people, but myself I cant understand this, as I tend to go a bit mental when I haven't spoken to anyone for a while. Anyway, I was just quite fascinated today by the thought of this lonely duke living in his abbey and throwing balls (I mean the type with music and dancing and stuff) in his pink underground ballroom. Platonic hugs, Mike ICQ: 73775341 Email - smiley(a)rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk The Black Den - http://www.rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk Tomorrow (or soon) I think I will go and have a look at the remains of this tunnel. I saw the pink underground ballroom once, when Welbeck Abbey had an open day. But if I tried that now I'd get shot by an over enthusiastic guard. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Newbie to the list, Hi!
by Neil Milton 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hi, Subject says it all really. Just wanted to introduce myself as a new member to the list. In this mail I'll tell you a bit about me then I'll ask a few questions about the list. I don't want to upset anyone on the list, I'd rather make friends with fellow B&S fans, so If anyone answers my questions then reply to my address rather than across the list so as not to annoy anyone. OK firstly, a wee bit about me. I'm a 21 year old scot who lives in Airdrie. I have just spent the last six - eight months working in Superdrug in Airdrie (Uuurrggghhh!) prior to which I studied for two years at Central College of Commerce in Glasgow and graduated with an HND in Computing. In August I'm hopefully going to go back to college, this time to stow to study 'HND music and audio engineering' for another two years. My first love in life (aside from my girlfriend, Emma) is music. I play guitar in a band called Troika (a band that sound suspiciously like Idlewild) and buy records and CDs by the truck load. :o) My top 10 favourite bands are 1. R.E.M. (partly 'cause they were the first band I really got into and are also my all-time favourite band, however at the moment my fav. bands are...) 2. Idlewild 3. Belle and Sebastian (and looper, The gentle Waves) 4. Mogwai 5. Peeps into fairyland 6. The Delgados 7. Bis 8. Laeto 9. El Hombre Trajaedo 10. Travis. I also have my own music web fanzine, Too many fireworks @ http://www.geocities.com/fireworks317 however I haven't been able to work on it for a while but I'm hoping to put a new issue on-line in the next month. You can check it out if you want but issue two was quite crap, even though it had interviews from Jeremy from peeps and fraser from laeto (an old school friend by the way). Another love of mine is reading. At the moment I'm in the middle of reading Stuart David's novel before I go on to reading (according to the sales girl @ waterstones in Glasgow) the greatest book I'll ever read... Lanark by Alisdair Gray. I also enjoy writing emails and letters so I'm looking forward to making as many friends as possible on the list. Just hope you will all be nice to me... :o) Anyway, a few questions that I've been wondering about... 1.)Firstly, I read that there is a fan convention type thing in London soon. Are there any events like this in Scotland if so when, where, etc. 2.)This FISHYCLAPS thing is confusing me (probably cause I missed the email when it was first used). I assume it is a slang acronym for the new album but what does it actually mean? 3.)Are there any absolute "no-no's" that I should know about, i.e. things that are barred from being talked about etc.? Well thats about it, except to say to amy jackson... Hi, sorry I haven't written for a while but I will soon. Well thanks for putting up with my inane ramblings and I hope to hear from you all soon, cheers Neil ===== ********************************************************** "he has no idea where he's at or where he's been." Queen of the Troubled Teens - iDLEWiLD ********************************************************** Neil Milton neil_milton(a)yahoo.com too many fireworks - http://www.geocities.com/fireworks317 Troika - http://www.geocities.com/troika317 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:33:00 +0100
by James Glossop 29 May '00

29 May '00

hi kids in case for some bizarre reason you happen to want to e-mail me like "personally", or whatever, i've changed address to james.glossop(a)btinternet.com bye love james +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Revenge of the Monkeys
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 29 May '00

29 May '00

Hewwo all, Well, I went to glasgow today to buy flares and look up train times and eat sausage rolls, and this is usually a momentous occasion. Any glasgow listees know of any good glasgow record shops though? I tried finding avalanche but I, um, couldn't. Oooh the top of the pops countdown is on and Belle and Sebastian just flashed up for two secods of Bel going ba ba ba (yeh I can lipread). Now SClub7 are on and I just love them, I'm pure addicted to their telly show, it's grate. So cheesy that you have to love it, or be a big fat smelly moke with no soul. They do clever wee dances and hug each other a lot. They're just like mad wee barbie and ken dolls that have jolly super fun in miama or LA or wherever, and loungue about the pool all day and have adventures and end every episode with them dancing about and everybody dancing as well and being happy and cool, even, like, the really old grumpy people who've been mean. Colin said: "Twee is fine if you genuinely are a child and hop-scotch and riding your raleigh chopper up and down the street is what you do for kicks" and said a lot of other grumpy things about twee people. Right, fine, well that's me sorted anyway, because believe it or not there are some people here who aren't grumpy and moke-ish and disillusioned with life,and stuff. I'm still a wee girl, (even though I'm apparantly a year and a half off being old enough to f*ck) and will consider myself so until I'm at least 20, for goodness sakes and I still want to hang on to my childhood for as long as I can, because unlike most of the kids of my age, I actually want to take growing up in my stride, instead of trying to be 30 when I'm not, and having sex when I'm 9, and I know I get beat up but it's better having a shitty childhood than none at all. And there's nothing wrong with being older and wanting to be twee either, because at least you're nice and gentle and happy, and there's not enough people in the world like that. Also, I think that a lot of people were twee before they'd even heard of B&S. They sort of attract that sort of person, that how the image of twee B&S fans grew up. I remember reading Q when I was 13 and had only just got into B&S, and they had a description of B&S fans and what they were like, and how they dressed etc, and I thought "Hey that's weird, because that's just like me", and a few people have told me that they were more or less the same, ie being 'twee' before being a B&S fan. Oh god, I've gone on far too long and please please don't hate me, I just get all bothered when someone says that they think we should all grow up, because I just do. I won't get mad again, I promise. Hugs, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Fame at last ...
by Alan Singfield 29 May '00

29 May '00

They aren't slagging us off in this article - http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000528181634.html but then again, its only got about 2 new sentences in it. EXCITING BIT: "See nme.com later this week for the band's reaction." Does that mean two interviews in as many weeks? Wowzers! Spanners. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Strange things afoot in Olde Lundin Towne
by Craig 29 May '00

29 May '00

Well imagine my surprise. ...... There I was wandering through a sunny Covent Garden, effortlessly weaving my way amongst large stationary groups of tourists when all of a sudden I came upon several impressive piles of PA equipment bedecked with gay bunting & banners proclaiming that I'd stumbled upon a BBC Live event. After enduring the TV ads for a few weeks I thought it was only fair that I hang around for a bit to see what was up. All of a sudden Jo Whiley appeared on the balcony above, the pre-recorded crowd roared its approval and the speaker stacks then kicked into life blaring out "Legal Man" in all it's glory. The ever polite Jo congratulated the band on reaching the giddy heights of number 15 (no thanks to the 23 second video clip she played on her show last week) and I smiled happily. The crowd didn't seem at all moved though, and to be perfectly honest the song did sound a bit feeble when played outdoors at high volume, so it's probably just as well the Glastonbury rumours aren't true. I'd have been happy to leave it at that, but then things took a rather surreal twist as Jay Kay (he of Jamaroqi fame) appeared next to Jo and started rapping over the top of Legal Man. It was all a bit messy and quite frankly embarrassing for the poor lad as his funk clogged brain had decided to re-interpret the song as a pro-cannabis anthem ("Legalise it Man" - perhaps ?) and so he randomly ranted on about "making it legal". He also called for the banning of alcohol which would tend to indicate that he's a nutter. They then did a few of their songs for the generally apathetic crowd so I left to get on with my life. All in all it was quite strange. Travelling without moving since 1970, Craig 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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