July 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: link, librarians, late landing
by Sarah Garrett Sonner 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

Hello List. Too bad alliteration doesn't start with an L. I'm de-lurking for a third time, firstly cause I don't think anyone's posted about last week's Pitchfork review of FYHSJKHCKAJFALP. If so, sorry if this is a repeat. It's written in a particularly timely format for those just now getting to see High Fidelity. Read it at: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/belle-and-sebastian/fold-you… . They get some facts wrong but I have to forgive them since they don't include the usual regurgitated band history we've all read before. (I owe big thanks to T.S.P. for telling me about this site in the first place.) Secondly, I must add my out-of-tune voice to the defense of all current and former librarians, myself in the latter category. Having done hard retail labor as well, I find it's the counter between people that makes things like respect and common decency suddenly disappear. Remember kids, Hefner don't write songs about just any old profession, you know. The whole argument consisting of "yes (P*nk Fl*yd/Electronic Renaissance) sucks"/"no it doesn't" reminds me of the schism between Dewey Decimal Systems and Library of Congress, as I felt loyalties sharply divided at my former place of employment. I've been reading a book about book thieves lately, too. It's called "The GENTLE Madness." (emphasis mine.) Wheels within wheels. Thirdly, when it comes to celebrities, TV or non, I treat them all the same. That is, when I see them, I walk past them. This has happened enough to be classified as a pattern. Quentin Tarantino, Hugh Downs, Jarvis Cocker, and Robbie Williams. Well, that last one's a stretch, since he came into a cafe/deli where I was eating and bought a bottle of water and looked around in apprehension before exiting. So I guess he was the one doing the walking. And Lenny from Sha-na-na once put up my ex-boyfriend's Christmas tree. Or was that John Holmes? Or Tom Jones? Oh I forget. Fourthly, I'm glad Robyn brought up Stuart's car. It's become rather inseparable from my image of him. My first car was a shiny black 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe that I sadly had to part with. If I ever met Stuart I'd be more likely to talk about cars than music. Then again I'll most likely just pass him by. Is he a gearhead? Dreamy. Fifthly, hey Magda: do sort-of-covers of soul songs count? The Donnas rhyme "I saw him standing at a rock'n'roll show/ somebody told me that his name was Bruno" in their version of Da Doo Ron Ron. Rockabilly wouldn't count there either, but Clint Miller sings such timeless lyrics as "Bertha Lou, gotta get a date with you" and "I want to conjugate with you." Sixthly, and most difficult to pronounce, too bad I'll be arriving over there just shy (in two meanings) of the London picnic date. Give a holler if you see me in the next 2 weeks--I'm extremely tall, intimidating, and nearsighted, and I'll be wearing my spy apparel and spending money on shoes and records. See you kids later, xxx Sarah ________________________________________________________________________ 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: help
by the original pixidustlady 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

8:37pm (GMT) shit shit shit. confrontation and screaming. im just so tired. dont want to be here in this awful awful atmosphere anymore.* i should never have come home. ---------------------------------------------------------- [ >Oh and my dad likes the Floyd therefore they're poo. ] [ ] [ Rob Brennan : I pity you. ] ---------------------------------------------------------- i shall continue reading my digests until i find something else to comment on * this is not about the list, just me blowing off steam about my personal life. sorry 8:58pm (GMT) Mick McMick wrote: >Why don't you buy Her Handwriting by >Trembling Blue Stars, because it's the same main fellow from the >Field Mice, and it's one of the best albums ever. i once heard a song by trembling blue stars on John Peel, and i absolutely loved it. since then, i've heard nothing more of them, and the experience had faded from my memory, until mick mentioned the band. thankyou for bringing that back to the forefront of my mind, and giving me an album title to hunt down in my local record shop. it all came flooding back into my mind in a torrent, and despite my outwardly motionless state, it was one of the nicest things i've thought about today. just goes to show me that things can get a little bit better just when you least expect it. ---------------------------- peter miller said some nice things about the floyd, and made an imporatant point about Syd: >My view is that when Syd went away, he took all the >personality with him. That's why later Floyd sounds dull, and also why so >many people like it so much. Syd Barret was amazing. his solo stuff was mental. i totally agree with you peter. ---------------------------- #M.P. said some good stuff about Syd Barrett too. well said sir! ......i know what you mean....... my mood has improved considerably whilst i hav e read my digests. thanks everyone, it will be a better night with no nightmares because of you all. i worry sometimes about how things can seem fine and then fall apart so quickly. the fragility of 'life and what you make of it' becomes so apparent and unavoidable, it's quite disheartening. i try to make the best of it, and enjoy myself at the same time, but in the end there is always somebody somewhere waiting, with a few harsh words and negative expectations, just waiting to smash everything you've worked so hard to build up. and it always happens, to me at least. then all you're left with is a lingering sense of futility, because you've come to realise that the world will never let you win. those are the times i hate myself. i used to blame myself for the world and the way it treated me. then i found belle and sebastian. its never that bad and we're never alone. this is what b&s taught me. this is why you (the sinister collective) bring me comfort (without even realising). everybody please take a bow, cos i'm applauding you all. i feel comfortable enough now to reveal my name. this is karen, saying thankyou and sweet dreams.......... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Proper Summer Wasting
by Brian Pennington 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

Hello, After reading Grace's post about not spending a proper summer wasting, I realized that I'm doing an excellent job of it. No job (haha, no pun intended), just finished uni, writing songs, getting probably the closest I've come to being drunk on my birthday (blame my little brother), going swimming, driving about and taking photographs. Summer's not so bad when you have centralized air-conditioning and live with your parents. As long as it's only one summer. One real summer...no that was last summer. I wonder if every summer from here on in will somehow connect to an excellent popsong... Next topic, Television Personalities. Whatever happened to Dan Treacy? Last I heard he disappeared off the face of the Earth! Was it just a fitting stunt, or did he really go missing? Did they find him? Meanwhile, back on topic...no singles 'til 2001 either, eh? That's a bit of a shame, I was hoping for a Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner single as much as many of you. I recall somewhere reading Struan thought it was the best song they'd written up until that time. Oh well, patience is called for... I don't think this isn't the 'indie' thing to do, apparently it's the 'Belle & Sebastian' thing to do though. Hey, at least they aren't Kevin Shields after all. We as fans have no right to clamor for quicker release of songs. They're artists (like Koons, Monet and Dada) and let them take their time. Besides, I got a mailorder package today, and I must say this is turning out to be an exceptional year for music and for new-ish bands. Stars & Clientele EPs, new Trembling Blue Stars single, and I'm aquiver waiting for the next Montgolfier Brothers album. Mmmm. What's more, they just put out an album and single you know, it's probably better to get the EPs to fill up the holes between albums than it is to have them come out only when the albums do. Like all of the prior EPs did. Am I the only one looking forward to the impending tabs/piano music/lyrics books? I probably can't manage the guitar parts but I think I can handle some of the piano parts. How many bands put out books with piano parts? None I can think of that I like, anyway. On come allegro, on come piano, on forte, on pianissimo, on sfortsando (never knew how to spell that so I probably butchered it, but it's the little sF). I'll be waiting with bated breath. Felt very productive today. I woke up relatively early for my slugly summer-wasting ways, got a haircut. I think that's what it is. All that hair's off my head so I can move it around quicker and think faster, therefore getting more done. Must be it. And then on top of that I got that package of records. John, I hope this Noonday Underground 7" is good... and anyway, after seeing all the stylish sleeves, premeditated prose introductions, photographs of Japanese poptstars and hearing all the pop (dare I say P!...no I don't dare) music, it just inspires me to get off my rear end and make something. That and my hair being much lighter, of course. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky(a)mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 philosphy of Lloyd Dobler-aim low, I believe?
by Paul Rudolph 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

Personally, I could care less if they tour or not as I live in Pittsburgh and they, or any other cool bands, will never come here. I'll have to drive to Toronto or New York to see them. Insert disclaimer, "if they ever do tour", where you like. When was their last tour? ~~Mind you, I was referring to Pink Floyd in the above paragraph.~ For all of you 'Beyond the Sunrise' and 'Don't Leave The Light On Baby' fans, I've got an album for you. Its 'Nixon' by Lambchop. Subtle electronics providing depth along with country/western/Philly soul motives. I don't know if I like it yet. There are support groups all over the country for those infictled with the "Yes concert syndrome", you know. One was shown in the movie 'Fight Club'. Did anyone notice? The part where Ed Norton says: "You can have Cancer on Sundays, I'll take Yes Concert attendees on Thursdays." I just heard "Tell Me Something Good" by Chaka Khan yesterday on the radio. 70's Rufus (aka Chaka Khan) kicks ass! Have a laugh everyone! Warm fuzzies, PR +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: welcomes and stuff
by chris browning 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

hello, i'm new. well i was on the list a couple of years ago. but left. and now i'm back. but like anyone cares....! numerously... * methinks "judy is a dickslap" sounds less like stereolab and more like joe meek's tip-top-tastic "telstar", one of mrs t's favourite platters apparently. as well as cradle of filth. one of these by the way is a lie. the stereolab influence is probably thus by osmosis as it were. what the hell that means is anyone's guess... joe meek by the way should be investigated by one and all. "i hear a new world" is bluddy grate scary electronica and lived by aphex twin and stuff and belongs in your collection next to your raymond scott albums... * pink floyd - agree with everyone standing up for syd. syd was a genius, piper is mad genius stuff (go and check out robyn hitchcock and the soft boys to see where it could have all lead to) and the solo stuff - well...if you like your mad scary breakdown records like "pink moon" and "sister lovers" then do try "the madcap laughs" and "barrett" 'cos you can almost hear the man fracture on record. unbearably sad, but unbearably fascinating as well.... * trembling blue stars/fieldmice. never clocked on that "her handwriting" was a quote from the go-betweens at all. and then, tonight i was listening to chet baker and along came "you don't know what love is" and the line "lips that taste of tears". blimey charlie. mr wratten has a damn good record collection don't he folks? * "fold your hands.." this sounds tremendously twee. but it isn't. but my niece was a huge fan of the secret garden TV show from the seventies, and there is a line she took great pleasure in that went "fold your arms child you look like a wooden doll". which she would then repeat at ever more hyper volumes. what i thought of immediately. okay. i admit it. frances hodgson burnett rocks my world. i am a wet and weed. hello trees hello flowers. oh and i don;t think much of the album either sad to say. bit - well - weak. like the muted colour on the cover compared to the bold red of "sinister", the songs seem devoid of any oomph. some are nice, but tepid is the word springing to mind. and i really REALLY did want to love it... *left banke (and this is final for me - promise. first time and outstaying welcome already. must learn to be less verbose) - when i first heard "the model" my first thoughts were "by crikey this *is* 'i've got something on my mind' " - and what do i find? the lads and ladesses covered the bleeder....small world... anyway i shall be off now. crispy +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: black black black black car
by Robyn Fadden 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

peeps, and canadians, and people who want to be canadians, i can't stop thinking about stuart's muscle car. today i saw a shiny burgundy charger and got all happy. i even went and saw "gone in 60 seconds" (which is rotten. except for the cars, of course. nicholas cage with his so-called "minimalist" acting. pshaw. okay, i liked face-off, but still, if he grew his hair back to raising arizona length and put a panty on his head, we'd all be happier for it. but you can't bring back the past.) but it's about more than just the car. it's about how one's form of tranportation affects one's life and personality. will there be road trip and drag racing songs in stuart's songwriting near-future? the interesting thing is meshing the car with public transport and bicycling. it's not all or nothing; it's more complex than that. and we must like complexity. yeah! ie, i ride a bike. i should hate cars. but i do not. do i 'act' ironically in a car? oh the inherent contradictions of the 20+. am i being ironic? i don't know, i'm not dancing. wait, irony doesn't deserve this much attention any more. let's all ignore irony from now on. good. (according to a dictionary of literary terms, "To be an effective piece of sustained irony, there must be some sort of audience tip-off, through style, tone, use of clear exaggeration, or other device." we should ignore this too. that just makes irony feel all special and cool when it is cleary, like, *not*.) personally, i'm going to turn my attentions to synecdoche. i would definitely like to say wow and thanks to amy jackson for having such a great quote at the bottom of a recent post. positively one of the best simpsons moments! yeah! bees and dogs and dogs with bees in their mouths... yes. something vaguely serious for a moment: the 'thin or not too thin' topic that's been going on lately (or not so lately. things take me a while) round these parts is very interesting. i just wanted to pipe up about media influence though. while perhaps not always obvious/direct, media definitely plays a role in how people, in this case mostly women, view their bodies and form their identities. eating disorders are an extreme, and of course influenced by more than the media, as so many things are (the media doesn't make you do something, your crappy childhood/abandonment issues/heartsick malaise do...) researchers are still trying to understand just what role media does play, so just because there isn't much research available out there doesn't mean something isn't going on, especially when you're talking about research into women's health. i'm going on like this b/c i'm a rambler (no, not the car) and i happen to work in a women's health research centre *and* we've just published a report on creating a research agenda on the topic of young women, eating disorders and the media. and i'm a little obsessed with all things media. so yeah. i'm not meaning to sound pedantic, it's just all very interesting stuff. i saw a band from seattle called Octant a couple weekends ago. and do you know what they have? nope, not bulimia. a ROBOT DRUMMER! ooh, it's neat. unfortunately it does not have dryer-hose-like arms and a metal body, rather it is made up of two big black boxes drumlike in nature with drum sticks on them. but it works very well and the band sounds damn fine. robots. also: Arling & Cameron are touring again! go see them, they are great fun. a secret about canadians: every time there is a mention of canada by someone/something outside of canada we feel an irrepresible glee which becomes something of a guilty glee which then becomes more of a self-doubting inability to accept praise. it's in the canadian lineage, sorry. in turn we (yes, all of us) produce brilliant sketch comedy. lately, we have produced a late-night talk show, but no one will fess up to who's fault this is. it really does say something though about canada when someone as unentertaining as mike bullard can hold a monopoly on non-cable late night cdn talk shows. there oughta be a revolution. ha har. a subtle revolution. ah. ha. that's what it says about canada. which also says that i love canada, as intangible and distanced as that love might be. sort of like loving dragonfruit and calling it gragonfruit. yum, canada. yes, so. i just got back from being in toronto for a week and it struck me as so much more glam than fleece-vests-and-eddie-bauer-khakis vancouver. the toronto mod club night features the phrase "secure scooter parking" on its ad cards even. and, believe me, this amenity is taken full advantage of. fab-u-lous. what do people think of pop music from the 50s? (yeah, *all* of it, that's right.) i had a 50s-pop-music-related experience on the plane back here. i was flipping through the 4 or so stations on the canada 3000 plane dial and one was devoted to oldies. and i found myself digging it. the thing is: 50s/oldies music used to make me nervous and edgy and in some ways kind of physically ill. (this didn't apply to elvis, buddy holly and a few other bands though for some reason.) now i find it great, though i didn't have any conscious realization about this; it was just suddenly good. whereas before it was just all, well, icky and laced with the whole image of perfect 50s living, the image of new and wonderful things clouding out a harsh reality. and that's still sort of there, but it doesn't wreck the music any more. strange. it's like i had an epiphany in my sleep. what to do, what to do... i'm sure there must be big huge box sets of 50s pop that i can purchase second hand somewhere. i don't know what i'm getting myself into with that though... maybe i should stick with the crate of 60s soul. well, i'm glad to have re-emerged from wherever i was that was making me feel distanced from electronic communication. as usual, i blame the weather. loof, robyn "you woke up at 3pm and showered for hours, watched porn all alone for the evening, it never really got you anywhere except back in the shower." -aislers set ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.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. 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Sinister: I am disappointed by my favourite band (for the first time)
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

***LET'S GET THE RANT OUT OF THE WAY FIRST*** Well, let me start by saying I am really annoyed about B&S's refusal to tour or release another single. "They've just decided to have a year off. The way things stand at the moment, there aren't going to be any dates this year or any more singles. They could change their minds next week, but I wouldn't hold your breath." quote Katrina House. (I presume) "That's the beauty of Belle And Sebastian" No, that's what REALLY bugs the fans, and gives slimly little toads like Steve Wells all his ammunition. I don't know why this irritates me so much, because here in New Zealand it's unlikely I'd ever see them play anyway, but I just have to ask myself "WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?" Taking a break from the rigourous promotional duties from the last album. Oh, that's right - one bloody press conference and a 10 minute phone call to Steve Wells. And that was it. The album must have been finished about 4-6 months ago, so what have they been doing since then?I though Stevie was planning for more chart toppers? Obviously not huh? Enjoy your holiay, kids. I guess what bugs me about this is that it will be see as an archly indie guesture on their part. When in fact it isn't. It's the kind of thing bands like Def Leppard and Genesis can afford to do. Release an album every five years, and then disappear. A "real" indie band would be gigging, writing and making music. But to me this feels like Belle & Sebastian just cna't be bothered. They know sad bastards like us will hang off every beautiful note they record, will buy the new album on the day it comes out, so why try harder. I really am quite disappointed. it's not like the band owes me (or any of their fans) anything, I just think it ould be nice if the made some EFFORT. oh well ..... no "Lonliness of a Middle Distance Runner" single for me this year. (sigh) ***THE FIELD MICE*** Had 15 mails from people about yesterday's request. 14 said they were great, one said they were "ok". So I ordered the album ..... ***NICK DRAKE LIVE*** I met someone who saw Nick Drake play live! This middle aged guy who works at Borders here in Auckland. he's from the UK, and was really into all Joe Boyd's "Witchseason" stuff in the late 60's/early 70's. Anyway, he saw Nick Drake as a support act for someone. His story checked out too ... or at least, if he was lying, he at least went to the effort to read the biography before spinning the tale. Wow .... Nick Drake live, mmmmmmmm. (and does anyone think the person who played Titus Groan as a 17 year old in "Gormenghast" looks EXACTLY Like Nick?) ***STEPHEN "TIN TIN" DUFFY*** Much underrated. I have all The Lilac Time albums (you can get them dead cheap on eBay at times ...) and they're wonderful - especially "Paradise Circus". I'm sure many B&S fans would find something to enjoy in Lilac Time albums. ***DAPHNE & CELESTE*** I am thoroughly convinced that these girls have accomplished what Primal Scream have been *trying* to do for the last few years - make a subversive art-punk-disco record. And probably with the drugs. Gotta love those kids .... Well, goodnight everyone ... it's WAY past my bedtime. Lawrence Mikkelsen http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: can't breathe with these words in my mouth
by LunaLilly＠aol.com 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

Yes..hi. I face a challenge of trying to get something accomplished. I am in my pj's and it is ofcourse noon. I can't have caffeine for 2 days....I have on day left. All because of this damn screening thing I have to do tomorrow. How the hell does caffeine affect whether I am physically fit enough to be a human lab rat? Oh well. I hate Pink Floyd. I really like Flin Flon...does anyone else? No one here has heard of them. Like I am shocked. I live in Nebraska for god's sake. Not all that bad....but a bit top 40. Poor me. So I liked that story someone sent about the cows running to the otherside of the field at sunset. I like to talk to cows too. All animals really make good friends. Even bears and snakes. But I can just see the cows frolicking and it sounds all to cute. Isn't it sad to see them in there natural habitat though and how they do like to frolic and nurture there babies? And then to know that someone will be eating them? sniff sniff. Oh enough of that. I am a hypocrite because I bought this lovely vintage leather coat and I simply can't wait for the months to turn cool. And also I am going to be in Glasgow and I want to know if it's true about Stuart working in a church. (that was my B&S content) Oh and I will say that I think Sarah is much better than Isobelle. By miles. And my fave song on the new album is Woman's Realm. Does anyone care though? Also a very warm thank you to those who responded to my last email of sadness. I am not all that better but it was so good to feel the kindness of strangers. I am sorry if I haven't responded yet. I will. Ok enough. Much love to most of you if not all Olivia +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: bobby davro is very silly indeed
by Ian Rolfe 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

hello, sarah said: Can we have a TV Personalities thread now, please? and i say why not? I know where Kriss Akabusi lives- just down the road in fact. Oh yeah and Lewis from Inspecotor Morse lives a couple of villages away. I want to know where Sophie Ooberman lives. Does any one else love her? hmmmm...i better do some work now too.... bye ian rolfe ------------------------------------------------------------ Weedmail free email Click -> http://weedmail.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: A year wasting?
by amazing grace . . . . 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

Hello folks, ooh dear, I have just hit that point where the fact that I have a three month summer holiday has lost all novelty and is instead becoming a bit of a burden. I'd love to spend a summer wasting, but i just can't seem to make the time pass pleasantly. And now even the anticipation of a mad dash for B+S tickets seems to be slipping away. That is if nme.com are to be trusted, although that seems a mute point considering the fact that the nme massive have made it quite obvious they hate both the band and their fans, and would no doubt find claiming the band have given up on the idea of touring a humorous bit of japery. Woh, a long sentance there, and not a very well structured one, dear me, basic linguistic skills are fast leaving me. Apart from that, my FYHCYWLAP album was stolen by a girl who quite obviously was not going to appreciate it. ooh, maybe that's being snobby, and elitist, something I try not to be, but she just threw her New Look beclothed body and bleached ponytail all over me and than ran off with a pile of c.ds. So now even lying around in the park has been denied me. hmmm, I guess the fact that one of them was a Belle and Sebastian c.d is the only thing that saves that from being completely off topic, but I have to have a grumble somewhere. Returning to the on topicness of this message, has there been an official sinister announcement about the lack of tour that I have randomly deleted or is it just nme talking out of their ever shit filled arses. I can understand all that stuff about no more singles and the wrong girl video being just for fun, but I had been hoping for a tour. Selfish little me. Still, the Jeepster spokesman seems to think that unpredictability is the beauty of Belle and Sebastian. Which is a sentiment I'm sure I would appreciate more fully were I not bored out of my brains. cheerio for now, Grace And she spent the rest of the day separating the bits from the marmalade, or, if you prefer, the marmalade from the bits. - Roger Hargreaves ________________________________________________________________________ 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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