June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: buses, b&s, and my gender identity crisis
by Kimberly Rehak 01 Nov '00

01 Nov '00

boo, i'm trying to decide if i'm having a good or a bad morning so far. maybe someone can help me out: 1 mum drives me to the busstop since i'm late (as usual) and informs me that i must be having a gender identity crisis because i didn't dry my hair this morning (no time, again) and i had my hands in my pocket "like a boy". i could go on and on about the things she said but i'll just leave it at that-the g-g-g-gist. 1.5 cried for 15 minutes at busstop/busride. 2 beautiful boy on the bus keeps staring at me whilst we are in transit. 3 freaky man with the hearing aids who looks like a child molester sits beside me and also keeps looking at me. 3.5 am listening to b&s for the first time in a Really long time. 4 now i'm at work and i just spilled coffee all over me. <sigh> i don't know what to do. hello to everyone new and old and to those who cry on buses (like me) and to those in germany (like me soon) and to those who dry their hairs in the morning (who are so much better than me-ha!) and to those going to beantown today. xo, kimmy +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: SmAsH-iNg TiMe!!
by velocity farewell 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

Hello beautiful ones... Well... it's Sunday... I remember my first post to the list under a different name... 'twas called: EvErYdAy'S LiKe SuNdAy Why do I hate Sundays so much? I do hate them ever since I was a child... but that's not what I want to talk to you about... I had a terrible aCciDeNt last night... I fell with my scooter... 'twas horrible! See, I was out with the guys last night; first we went to this place where they serve this grate HoMe-mAde WiNe and then we went to that place called CohiBa where our friend Nick was DJing... mmmmm... we were dancing and did all crazy stuff... Nick played a lot of lounge and easy listening and some bossa nova as well... there was that girl there with the most amazing hair ever... she looked like... mmm.... Kim - bluddy - Karnes Eventually we left and I was riding my scooter alone in the streets of the city.... I had my walkman on and was listening to one of the most lovely, desperate songs ever "HoMeBoY" by Adorable... suddenly I saw a cab in front of me... I pressed the breaks... back break doesn't work - I wanted to have it fixed for so long but it costs so much - I pushed the front break... and I started slipping... slipping.... and fell... my scooter crashed on the back side of the cab where as I was on the street... it was a grate fall mind you! very stylistic... not to mention that I was wearing my white fairy jacket... fortunately I had my helmet on, so no head injuries... I hurt my knee quite badly tho'... and now I have a swollen blueish knee to the size of a tennis ball... I hurt my hands as well... I stood up and saw in a blur the cabbie with his two passengers getting out of the cab... they lifted up my poor sputnik (my scooter) and tried to persuade me to go to the hospital, but I refused to go... I mean, I don't know, can't really tell, but it must have been quite a scary fall as these 3 people looked so pale and frightened... after I re-assured then I was fine and I was in a position to get back on my scooter and ride back home, they asked me where I was from and what I was doing here... so, I told them that I worked in the uni... the highlight of that amazing evening... the one of the guys in the cab made a pass on me... YeS! Now can you believe that? I was all shaken, trembling cause of the shock, my knee was killing me, and he was just standing there asking me if there was a café in the uni and if it was any good... I said "yeah, there's one and it's really good... for the students.." and left... bastard! I got back on my scooter, put my walkman on and started half-singing half-crying as I was riding back home... what? "LoVe is BettEr tHaN WaR" by the TELeViSiOn PeRsOnALiTiEs As soon as I got back home I put on the CD by FeLt "poem of the river"+"forever breathes the lonely word" that Richard made for me... I guess he justifies his role as the SiNiStEr SanTa ClAuSs so well.... BeLLe & SeBaStiAn contexxxxxxx well, Mike and StuartM. were in jeepster chat last night... yes!! I got there late myself, so I didn't get to hear anything interesting... except from the fact that Stuart was watching Telly at the moment... that's it... the weather's great here but I wish it was raining... oh, that was so boring... sorry about that.. I have to go now and watch "Dawson's Creek"... somethings are so dumb they're charming... Spooka-Dee-Loops my dog gave me a lick on my hip bone last night when I came back after the accident as I was putting my jeans down to check the bruises... that was quite comforting... Oh!!! another thing... Lovely Hannah, not our own Hannahdoll, has started a Baxendale list... mmm, I don't know about the rest of you but I do love Baxendale... the addy for those who wanna join is: http://www.onelist.com/community/superpopelectronix Yeah! bye bye sweat peas take care love that flies over the oceans +easterchocobunnies+melodyPoPs! Vel xxooxx ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fifteen minutes of utter irrelevance
by Pete Ramsdale 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

Bugger. I've forgotten what I was going to write. I'm off for a smoke until this work-addled, alcohol-soaked, bowlful of weetabix mush in my head that so loosely calls itself a brain decides to get it's act together and come up with something verging on witty for me to send down the wire. Toodle pip, I'll be back in a second...... Ahhhhhhhh. That's better. And it didn't take long, either. But there again I never do. I would have been quicker, too, if that bloody lift hadn't stopped on every floor. It always does that. Gets right up my nose. But, my brain now sufficiently concentrated by Amber Leaf's finest mild shag*, I will begin.... Um, hello. I haven't posted in a while, so I am totally prepared to forgive anyone for forgetting who I am, and indeed also those oh-so-sensible people who have desperately *tried* to forget who I am. I don't blame any of you. But, I'm back. And it's with the astounding revelation that FYHCYWLAPDGRTBVXEAZGTBKOMINBGVFCCGFB%^U&£$FMNJI<:O(K*GBR%E^%$FCISXVYBNMLHRCWRSXV%YD&HK)(L&G^GVBKYTB^BJU&WHOOOOGURGLESPLAT is actually quite good. Took me right by surprise, that one did, especially after having heard Legal Man beforehand, which, at the risk of incurring general wrath and rotting airborne fruit, I have got to say I *personally* found absolutely f***ing *dreadful*. Didn't stop me buying it, though. Oh no. Anyway, I'm not going to do the "take-each-song-to-bits-one-by-one" thing, as I think that's been done to death and back again by far more eloquent people than I, but rather just inform everyone that in terms of a personal idea of quality, it rests at just about the same level as IYFS. That is to say, above TBWTAS, and below Tigermilk. In terms of sheer geography, it rests in the back right-hand corner of my living room, somewhere between TBWTAS and "Mellow Gold", below my cd single collection, but above the "c" to "e" section of the rest of my albums. I think that gives us a fair idea of everything, really. The only thing I'll say about individual songs is that, as much maligned as "Before the Sunrise" has recently been in the cornucopia of electronic wit that is the list, it's bloody amazing to listen to at five o'clock in the morning after you've just ploughed your Citröen AX into a rather large tree at 30 miles per hour the night before. Not that I'm suggesting any of you go out and do it, but it's worth bearing in mind. Calms your nerves superbly, and near enough makes you forget that by rights you should be dead. Well, until that jingly bit at the end, that is, when the whole world comes back into focus and you start worrying about ringing your insurance company again. Still, it did wonders for a short while. That's enough of that, I think. I think I shall now try to raise myself to Alasdair Cook standards of taking-the-piss-out-of-other-peoples-posts-ery, to wit (or rather lack of - me, that is, not Alasdair): The original Pixidustlady said: > I'm just home for the > summer, working and getting some money together, before i depart in > September to start again down in Liverpool. I've got a place at John Moores > uni, doing Imaginative Writing with Literature, Life and Thought. Christ. You must be good. It takes me all my time these days to do imaginitive writing with my right hand and a big red crayon. But there again that's probably because my right hand has other things to do than imaginitive writing. Oh, shut up. We all do it..... Heather H grumbled: > I dont remember much more because > my back was killing me (I think ive pinched a nerve- how does one know?) Oh, you'll find out soon enough when the rozzers arrive on your doorstep and ask you to give the bloody thing back to the nearest hospital, formaldehyde and all. It happened to me, you know - my mate at junior school tried to beat me up for my lunch money, and in a fit of peak I withdrew my penknife and nicked his finger. It wasn't long before the police caught up with me and I had to give it back and apologise. He got it sewn back on, apparently. It's wonderful what science can do. Sophie Harris: > i used to just dream of water and sea *all* the > time... The amount of bedclothes you got through must have been *terrible*. All I have to do is hear a tap these days and me incontinence trousers fill up quicker than a royalist at a parisian motorway tunnel. 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Sinister: of drum machines and cellular phones
by alix campbell 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

yeh, hello i'll get glastonbury out of the way first. the music was mostly shit. david bowie has a girl's haircut. i mean, like a fucking blow dry nightmare. david, what were you thinking? elliot smith didn't move me either. he was one of the 'they might be good' people whom i tend to ration so that i can discover them when i feel the need to. this may be a slightly anal tendency. anyway, turns out he's not all that. damn shame. st. etienne made the sun come out, and were lovely. i have never been so pleased to see anyone as i was to see sarah cracknell. i was determined to enjoy the flaming lips, mainly because of an american girl next to me who kept telling me how rad they would be. i admired her enthusiasm, and the F.Lips were lovely anyway. fake blood a-go-go. oddly, i enjoyed the pet shop boys a whole truck load. it reminded me of the rollerdisco when i was little. it was nice to meet other sinister fools at glastonbury. i apologise if i smelled, but you probabaly did too. the grasshoppa is still with me, despite paul's many attempts to kidnap the poor thing. i do worry about mentioning it, as it's just a slightly very obscure reference. but believe me, its more interesting not knowing. i make friends with liars because although i know they don't tell me the truth, they tell more interesting tales. as long as i know that it might not be true. well, where was i? yes, glastonbury. truth told, i didnt have much fun, mainly for my own reasons, but also because i'd mistakenly thought i could cope without proper facilities. and i'm basically a grumpy old cow. i'm not sure why i began writing this. i think i should finish. i have to get up again in six and a half hours. there's drag queens coming round my house tomorrow, and i've decided to start writing my life story. get it out of the way as soon as possible. love lixi ________________________________________________________________________ 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: maths. that's right, with an "s"
by Mark Casarotto 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Ooh, ooh, I know this one, well, sort of... "Three is a magic number" is from an album called "Multiplication Rock" from (maybe) 1970 ish? I don't know the artist's name, unless they were called multiplication rock too. But anyway, the album contains songs to help you do your times table from one to ten or so, and doesn't sound unlike what you'd expect to hear on Sesame Street. Only funkier. My expert friend tells me that "Naughty Number Nine" is a bit of a classic too. Though Chris, if I EVER hear you've been listening to Embrace again I'm going to make you EAT their entire back catalogue and then shove it up your arse. With my fist*. Ken - pictures of pretty girls in the underwear are never going to go out of fashion. Even if they are the daughters of Lucifer. Or our very own French Maid . Cor! David Moore just sent me pictures of myself pole dancing. Blimey. The old fool didn't even wait till I got my kit off, though, so no nob shots for you lot. That Magda doesn't half remind me of someone...and that Mick Cooke continues to take the piss - doesn't he know this list is about BELLE AND SEBASTIAN and not some poxy ska band no-one's ever heard of. Props to Big Gay Martin and his cru for the Betsey do the other night. It was much better than Tigermilking. Markx *Happy now, Lucy? ******************************************************************* Please Note that from the 17th of June, the HIT UK address changes to - HIT Entertainment PLC 5th Floor, Maple House 141-150 Tottenham Court Road LONDON, W1P 9LL Tel: +44 (20)7 224 1717 Fax: +44 (20)7 224 1719 The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 020 7224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.org ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: b&s in cmj
by FakingUpARampage＠aol.com 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

hello all.. i felt like typing this up. had you guys seen the thing that cmj printed last month? the 'open letter to belle and sebastian' where they made more mistakes then anything else. singles by Douglas Wolk, august 2000: its a little perverse to release an album at the same time as a single thats not on it, but Belle & Sebastian is nothing if not a little perverse. "Legal Man"is no where to be found on the band's new album Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant -- but it really wouldnt have fit in there anyway. One hundred and sixty-two seconds of a groovy congo-driven beat with a lead sitar, novelty lyrics (for a love song in legal diction: Notwithstanding* provisions of clauses 1,2,3 and 4/ Extend the contractual period, me and you forevermore*), low budget organ and bleached-blonde girl-group backing vocals, ending with a call to go outside and enjoy the sunshine, its best understood in British tradition of Northern Soul: ultra-obscure 60s soul 45s played at casino discotheques in the North of England. On the surface, its something of an aberration for the band, but on further reflection if fits in neatly with the group's fascination with youth culture -- and Northern soul that was the most joyful kind of youth culture Britain has ever had. The disc is rounded out by guitarist Stevie Jackson's tender "Winter Wooske," a longtime highlight of B&S shows, and a chirpy two-part instrumental inexplicably called "Judy Is a Dick Slap." ____ xo Jes +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: another newbie
by Margo Schubert 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

hello all- my name is margo and i was released from the nursery about a week ago. in a burst of overexcitement about fyhc (and in mad-procrastination mode during finals week) i first wrote a post just a few days after joining the list. naturally now that i am done with school spending time writing emails is way less appealing. so instead of resending my first post i thought i'd update it a bit. i am actually a very new b&s fan, it's just been a couple months. feels like longer though, given the amount of time i have spent listening/obsessing over them. my b&s experience started on a ride home from san francisco with my stepsister alice, my brother charlie, and our friend tom, all of whom were already fans. actually on the trip we were going to reinact the moment were alice and tom first heard belle and sebastian in a record store on haight and video it (we didn't though). but on the way back we were listening to a minidisc of all the singles and i was like, "wow this is such beautiful music!". that night i had a dream that was in sort of this galaxy setting with all the starts and planets and someone was saying how belle and sebastian was the best band ever. so i began to experience some severe repressive desublimation (marcusian term for the sexualizing of objects) over needing to buy b&s albums. so about a week later i went and bought tigermilk and sinister and left the store so happy, i was just bouncing down the street. i pretty much fell in love with both those albums right away. both fyhc and arab strap have taken longer to grow on me. i want to say i feel really privileged about how accomodating my local record store is of belle and sebastian merchandise in comparison to of what some of you guys have experienced. the day i went to buy fyhc (the day it was released in the us) they had this huge b&s display in the window with about a million posters (not to mention the new album was playing) and when i walked up to the counter with fyhc the guy working there said, " i had a feeling this is what you were going to buy this when you walked in, you had that belle and sebastian gallop", which i thought was really cool. i think i am building myself a bit of a reputation there. after asking on about three separate occasions if i could have a poster or two when the display came down, they told me to leave a note for them to save me one, and when i was writing it they presented me with my very own bwtas poster, which was the one i wanted. they probably just wanted to shut me up. so, that is basically my introduction. also i am going to be travelling around europe for a month, starting on monday and will be in the uk the last week of july if there is anyone who wants to meet up in london or something or even just email me to tell me the cool places to go--i would really appreciate it. -margo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: me again
by amy_jackson0 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

hi again... yeh, i know, i only posted a couple of days ago.... but y'know how it is, you get an idea into your head and *BOOM* you've gotta go with it.... so i'm back. again. well, a lot has been going on in Land of Amy recently. I got offered a place at Glasgow Uni, to do english and sociology (i think) this year.....only i've gotta get 4 grade B's in my Highers......aah well, too late to change my exam papers now, just gotta go with what i did on exam day and hope for the best. i start my summer job on monday, which will be okay cos i basically get paid for doing nothing. it's in a wee gift shop nest to my house, that hardly anyone goes into, so i think what i'll do is take in all the b&s albums on cassette and put them on all day everyday and see if anyone recognises any of the songs. sort a b&s fan-spotting, if you will......humour me okay, work is slow and i need to keep my brain occupied! and i get to give wrong directions to the oh so annoying tourists who only come into the shops to ask where the supermarket is. many times i have been tempted to scream "FOR GOD'S SAKE, THIS IS A TINY VILLAGE IN THE OH SO BACKWARD HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND WITH A POPULATION OF JUST OVER 1000, THERE IS NO BLUDDY SUPERMARKET! GO TO INVERNESS!!!" (which is 85 miles away, fact fans....) sorry, i don't like giving or asking for directions.... what else has been going on? erm........ well, my mam got a new job, which is good, so tomorrow morning we're going to inverness at 7am (eek!) to shop, and i have to buy a birthday present and something to wear for t in the park and possibly the geometrid by looper.......if i can afford it...... gotta say, magda boom sounds cool, can i be your friend?! going out to a 70's night at the pub with my friend Ginger Elaine tonight....(btw, Ginger is a term of endearment where she's concerned, so don't all email me saying i'm being "gingeist" or something...) should be fun, considering neither of us were even a twinkle in our parents eyes in the 70's....i haven't spoken to her for a while, and i'm sure she has a lot of gossip from school and stuff for me. i, on the other hand, have no gossip. humph have started cooking. this is not normal, cos i don't normally go in for the whole domestic scene, but recently i've started to cook. a lot. like pancakes, soup, spaghetti bolognaise and my own personal masterpiece- strawberry cheesecake. yum. next thing i'll be hoovering and dusting and ~grimaces~ doing the washing up.... :o( mam says it's cos i know that i'm leaving home, so my brain is telling me to get domesticated. i say it's cos i've got nothing else better to do. ho hum. jenowl has been very quiet lately....must say, the noddy t shirt sounds like a piece of class. wish i'd thought of it myself actually. oh yeh, content..... saw on brookside the other night that Calum "Evil Pantomime Dame" Finnegan was shot dead. pray, a minutes silence for the man who mentioned b&s on brookside... ~pauses~ that'll do then. righty, i'm off, amy xxx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr Burns "I suggest you leave immediately." Homer J Simpson "Or what? You'll set the dogs on me? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths that when they bark they shoot bees at you?!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A festival of sorts/strange days + weird mornings under canvas
by paul 'spoonbearder' sallis 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Highlights + lowlights of an intents weekender: I'm still tired + I think I've permanently damaged my back sleeping on a slope of 45-degrees on "the thinnest most crappy rollmat in the world"TM. - does anyone know of any good massage parlours? -- Actually, for that matter, does anyone know of any seriously dodgy + illreputed ones ;] It was ace meeting the miniSini kids though, hello everyone <paul waves enthusiastically like a loon, but continues doing so for just a wee bit too long>, despite a shaky start involving the shocking absence of an easily-identifiable inflatable play-thing on my behalf and a couple of shy preliminary fly-by's of the people I was supposed to meet. Hey Lixi, did Cedric (or was it Alfonse???) the squeaky-legged grasshoppa' make it home in one piece? - Sorry I tried to kidnap him, but can you really blame me what with all those deranged words of wisdom + drunken wonder scrawled all over him, and besides by the end of the evening I was quite attached to the little fella' (literally). It was a magical time where expert timing + random luck strolled hand-in-hand for 3-days down the corridors of the moment, ie: I somehow managed to meet everyone I'd arranged to meet and see all the bands I really wanted to see - An unprecedented event and no mistake. I bumped into my good friend Andy completely by accident on the Friday night just before Badly Drawn Boy came on. You should have seen him, he looked impressively gnarly + spent (like: "Grizzly Adams - the early years") - which I reckon is because he misses his girlfriend Karen (who's a tattoo artist in South Carolina this summer) so much that nothing else is important to him right now, rather than anything to do with the fact that most people looked haggard + spaced-out by that point in the whole festy-thang. - Apparently the poor little pet had been handed some cake earlier in the day and his ailing tastebuds were far too slow off-the-mark to inform him that it was of the 'space' variety packed with plenty of 'groovy space-rocks', and he'd spent the rest of the day wandering around in a bit of a wide-eyed stupor <ha ha> - I shouldn't laugh I know but then again I was pretty badly off my own gourd by this point so it struck me as hilarious at the time. I'm sorry I lost you Sinister kids on Friday night, I wanted to make sure Andy was alright, but then he disappeared across the field to grab some food, never came back, and I didn't see him again - which was a bummer cos I then couldn't find any of you in Elliott Smith's big gay lurve tent. - Although Mr Carsmile did find me the next night, but I think I just kept blathering on about the 101 reasons why Burt Bachrach simply had to be playing the next day no-matter what the vicious rumours said - sorry about that Steve, it won't happen again honest, you just caught me at an emotional moment. I was just such a staunch disbeliever when I discovered that Burt "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" Bacharach wasn't playing, it just wasn't fair <hummmph!> - so I threw a massive strop + sulked like it was going out of fashion or something, for like... oh minutes + minutes. - the rumours were flying I can tell you, I heard many tales of woe including: he broke his collar-bone somehow, his arm had just fallen off (as they tend to do!), both his arms had fallen off, his arms + legs had fallen off meaning that he'd get arrested in-a-second if he tried to sing along + tinkle on the old Joanna at the same time, it was a lawnmower accident of sorts, a crash involving trains and boats and planes, a wayward frisbee removed a section of his nose, and also that he'd just gone and died for no apparent reason what-so-ever!!! -- its was incredible, the gossip-mongers were loving it (hey ian, aren't one or two of these your creations???). I still don't know what did happen to him but the collarbone thing was the only feasible + repeated story I heard - although I tend to favour something involving a bottle of scrumpy and a ferret... but maybe that's just me. So a no show from Mr Bacharach was a considerably menacing cloud over an otherwise immaculate vista... That is until David "he's a metro-gnome" Bowie stepped confidently into the fray and rocked like a chicken to save the day. - He was great, no really he was, and hearing him belt-out rebel-rebel was one of the most perfect moments in my life thus far - sadly I didn't get a chance to tell him he's a beautiful person (everyone else was making far too much noise for him to pick out my little voice) but its ok cos' from his heroic performance + stance you could tell that he knew it and he knew that we knew it too. After Mr Bowie the best thing I saw was definitely The Flaming Lips... WOW what a f*cking amazing show - I saw them twice last year and they played pretty much the same stuff, but 'that' stageshow they've put together is a truly wondrous thing that left me feeling awe-struck, tingly, and even a wee bit sick inside - but even the slight icky sick feeling was good cos' it made me feel more alive, a fleeting sickness of the heart not the body. Who else was any good then... St Etienne were tops creating smiles + shiny magic, Badly Drawn Boy was a funny bearded man who even played the odd crackin' song just to break-up his comedy repertoire, Elliott Smith + Hank Williams III (yes a Hank Williams cover band!!!) both crooned their way around my heartstrings, Nearly Dan (yes a Steely Dan tribute band!!!) played 70's music in a great 80's stylee which made me laugh for about an hour, Yo La Tengo were nice'n'spicy, It's Jo & Danny played a haunting acoustic set of beauty + orchids, Spearmint + Ooberman were absolute stars + kings of everything cheesy, jangily, + indie, Black Box Recorder were frightening but in a good way (and it took me about 3 songs to realise that the female lead was actually wearing some kind of a skin-tight light-coloured outfit and that she wasn't just standing there in the buff), and the best of this lot was a fantastic all-girl funk outfit from Bristol called Mooz who played on a tiny wee bandstand in the market area and managed to groove everyone out with a selection of excellent choons (they were so happy as well, it was probably their first big'ish gig, and the smiles + energy they extolled was contagious sweeping through the throng like wildfire through a briarpatch). Who were pants then... I can't actually think of much that I really didn't like, I was dead lucky with my choices, although Dark Star + Feeder were dull as dishwater, and Rae and Christian (or was it Doves???) made me throw-up just outside the New Bands tent - it was definitely the music, honest guv', I mean what else could it be? - well that's my story and I'm sticking to it ;P Other top/pop moments: - Reading all the comments emblazoned on a certain inflatable grasshopper after he did an impromptu whirlwind tour of the beer tent - especially the one that went "I'm only writing this because the girl who handed me this thing is really scary" - Seeing the brief horrified look on Mr Carsmiles face after I offered him a giant Parma Violet in the New Band tent which he must have thought was a horse tranquilliser, or superfun-mauve-happypill, or something. (sorry Steve, but your face was a picture;) - Discovering that I'm not a Glastonbury rain-God placed on this barren sphere to bring dampness + trenchfoot to poor unsuspecting revellers of any denomination (well, for some reason I still think I AM the Glasto monsoon deity, I just had an off weekend that's all, but at least I now know I'm not the only one - thanks Cress ;) - Finally managing to leave the bloomin' place on Monday after taking 5 + 1/2 hours to traverse a small shadeless field in cramped shambling queue's awaiting an ever elusive bus to the train station. All in all though it was a bit of a top weekend. Ouch, how long + boring is this? fly away, paul. ps: Cress, if you got this far, check out the following URL for Hobotalk info: http://the-raft.com/hobotalk/ hugs + raspberry slushpuppies. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. 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Sinister: monster cats and dripping roof
by julesmarkham 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

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