July 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: renaissances and sunrises
by Mouche75＠aol.com 04 Jul '00

04 Jul '00

Hey Sinister people, Just a brief note to leap to the defence of Electronic Renaissance. It gorgeous! The synthesizers sort of sound like... smiles breaking out all over the place. I love that. D'you know Synthstrument by Lou Barlow? It's that kind of sound. Lovely kodakcolor sunshine. Beyond the Sunrise really puzzles me though... it sounds like a jokey song that might be used to pad out a single, but.... well... it isn't is it? Fold your Hands... came out the day before my final exam. i knew that if I bought it then I'd never be able to listen to it, because it would always remind me of dread and abject fear. So I bought it on the Tuesday. B&S songs seem to almost exclusively remind me of happy days, I couldn't jeopardise that. I had this fantastic day about five years ago, in the winter time. I'd been going out with someone for a week or so, and we were coming home after a night out. We were both a little drunk, and we sort of sunk back into the seat of the taxi and watched the streetlights zip over us through the back windshield. It was snowing, and the snow sort of haloed the streetlights. And all I could hear was the grumbling of the engine. And all I could feel was this pulse hammering in my neck. And I don't know why, but every time I listen to Stars of Track and Field, I'm reminded of that. It happened way before I'd even heard of Belle and Sebastian, but it's really specific. It's kind of tied up with sooty sandstone and bridges and stuff like that. Now it's July, can I regale you with my favourite June story? When I was at the sports day a few weeks ago, there was an obstacle race for Primary 2 kids, where they had to run twenty yards with a bean bag between their legs, then go through a hula hoop, then scramble under this blanket, then run like billy-o for another twenty yards to finish. So the race starts, and all the usual suspects streak ahead, leaving this puffy little kid bringing up the rear, zigzagging all over the place. Everyone had finished by the time he'd got to the hula hoop, but he soldiered on, and disappeared under the blanket. For the next thirty seconds all you could see was this confused little bump going round in circles under ten square feet of fabric. He emerged eventually, looking dazed, carrying a clump of grass in one hand, and a shoe in the other. It was fantastic. Ah well, it's late and I need to hit the hay so i can be bright and attentive and... interested at the job centre tomorrow. But I hope everyone is dandy and fine. bodypopping, mouche +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re: sinister-digest V4 #201
by < > 04 Jul '00

04 Jul '00

i think i was Bob Dylan in a past life. so a quick run down of todays life deforming events (why do people think i always use deforming ina bad sense? negative. maybe thats what it means i dont pretend to know. people are always coming up to me and asking whats so bad about et cetera and like why oh mother earth do you feel so bad about that sonny jim) a: got a whole bunch of photograpsh et cetera via the post b:accidentely smashd a pint glass C: whilst a parent/guardian cleared out the freezer i went down town with a bucket of ice and threw it over the semi-old arte-walsys-walking-to-and-from-the-town-centre with-old-style-grey-and-brown-cow-skin-bags and their son. then i laughed and took photos of them pulling bobble hats out of their bergens and saying its a bit of an early winter isnt it doris? doris? JACK she bloody fucking getting hypo-Thermia Arg. Arg. Arg. and thats about it now. must drink tea, want to see a photo of me sat on a car? http://members.internetjunk.com/i2eye/roboncar.JPG ________________________________________________________________________ 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: Electronic Renaissance
by David White 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

clb112 wrote: >PLease, everyone, Electronic REnaissance ISN'T crap - listen to it again Sorry but I think it is crap, arguably the worst B&S track. Well maybe that's a bit harsh, it's just stands out like a beacon on the otherwise faultless Tigermilk. Perhaps on another album by another band it would be OK but on Tigermilk it just sounds shit. Still The Stone Roses has the godawful Don't Stop which is also pish but that's still the finest album I've ever heard. I suppose that's why CD players have skip buttons! See ya, Dave www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "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: SKDGLMPJPGSGC
by David White 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

**Small World** Crikey, I've seen two place names I live near on this list recently: Kilwinning and Lochwinnoch. It just goes to show that you never know where people are sending things from by e-mail. Anybody else want to admit that they're from this neck of the woods? **Summer** June was a seriously boring month. I'm not complaining but when the weather's nicer (well a couple of days of sunshine in a row) and the nights are shorter, life just seems to pass at a slower pace. Fucking hayfever is a bastard as well (you'll know what I mean if you are afflicted by it too). You can't even enjoy the good weather cos you spend hours on end sneezing. I reckon my nose must resemble that bird off of Eastenders who was in the papers the other week and whose nose had disintegrated cos she kept, ahem, powdering it, cos I've sneezed so much. **Football** Anybody else gutted that Euro 2000 is finished? No football on telly for another month!!! Still it was a fantastic tournament and great entertainment and I actually felt sorry for the Italians at the end after labeling as boring, cheating bastards after beating Holland. **Content** Visit www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk now.... Can't be arsed writing anything else. Dave david(a)belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "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: F***in' Monkeys
by Williams Adam (Mr A) 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

May I just say that you're all a bunch of bastards. Utter bastards. Well not all of you. In fact I think most of you are really quite lovely. But there is an utter, utter bastard in our midst, oh yes. I know not whom, their name evades me, and even if I did know I wouldn't say because Mummy taught me that it's rude to point. Even at utter, utter, UTTER bastards. Who smell of wee. Yes, someone last week mentioned the TOTP gorilla. Again. I avoided the list at time of said incident out of self love and not wanting to hurt my delicate thespian feelings, but just as one feels it's safe to peep over the parapet the monkey is mentioned. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW I COVETED THAT ROLE? Why not just mention the Sc***ish pl*y and PISS ON MY GRAVE? I'm sorry to disillusion those of you who thought that Stuart and Co whisked up the monkey idea in a fit of high-jinks spontaneity, but it was a cleverly considered scheme from Sell-Out Central Corp. I answered the Ad in Stage sometime in February, attended a plethora of auditions (I, as ever, showed them my Willy Lomax to gasps and coos of admiration, costume fittings and the like and was nigh on assured that the part was mine. Off then I went, plunged into an arduous regime of bananas and David Attenborough videos in my dedication to 'The Method'. I even spent a week with Keith Harris' hand up my arse. Although strictly speaking that wasn't related. Oh yes, if a part's worth doing, it's worth doing well and never let it be said that I, Adam Aloysius Slinky III (the list surname is a Nom de guerre sop to the Welsh Ethnic thing my agent foisted upon me back when Cerys was cool) am less than 100% committed to my craft. No, sod it, 115%. That covers my agent's cut as well. Anyway, I digress. Suffice to say I was royally shafted at the last minute in a way that would make Prince Edward blanch. No reason was given, just half-hearted apologies and the promise of 'future work'. Yes, yes. That old chestnut. Don't call us... It's not my only knockback of late either. I flew into Glasto a couple of weeks hence to assume my usual role of Bowie's squirming shame and somnambulism. "Sorry Slinks", he says, "But I won't be needing you today, I've decided to go back to being a God again." I began to plead with him "But, Dave..." "That's Dame David to you now Slinks." he sneered. "Now on your knees and kiss my velvet boot." I was so dented I had to spend extra time with my support group. Lovely lad, he is. Works from a flat off Wardour Street. So now it's to you, dear list, that I turn. And please do not consider this list abuse, for I am part of the list and to act in so brazen a way would be to act against my self. Although, as such, I am not entirely averse to self abuse. But onwards with my plea. I'm available. All parts considered. You must have seen me in the Shake n Vac ads back in the 70s, but my most sparkling work has been in the pop and rock community. Gaz Coombe's sideburns, Brittney's pert chest (pre-op. Got kicked off the role in favour of Brummie fraud), Damon's ego. Etcetera. etcetera. Hold on, my mobile's vibrating... Well must dash. That was my agent. I've got to go and pile pounds on in a way to make De Niro look like the skinny freak he was in Raging Bull. I'll see you all on tour sometime soon. Wave to me do. I'll be playing Isobels's arse. Mwah mwah. Ciao. a. PS. I could say I love Baxendale. But i would be saying it with irony. PPS. I can say I hate Bis. Tradition demands it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (no subject)
by clb112 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

PLease, everyone, Electronic REnaissance ISN'T crap - listen to it again !!! xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: is this the weekend?
by FakingUpARampage＠aol.com 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

dears and darlings.. i hope everyone is well. i am. but i cant find legal man. still. i just realized that it really is the weekend. i kinda thought it was wednesday or something when i wrote the subject. im finding that funny, so im leaving it. i was recently given a copy of bowlie. i believe its bowlie. its a radio broadcast tho, so it kinda confuses me. and it says 'booley fest at edinburg'. anyway, whats the lovely little song that keeps repeating the word love? i'm horrible and cant remember anymore lyrics yet. is that Rhoda? i had a dream the other day, and i've had it before. i might have mentioned it then. if i did i doubt you remember anyway. but its this dream, where i go to see belle and sebby in a nursing home. however, i have to put on a white wig and walk with a cane because i am under 60, and cant legally get into the show. so i get a moo moo and a wig and a cane.. but the guards realize i'm only 17 and chase me around the establishment while all the elder folk sit in wheel chairs and listen to Stuart sing 'dog on wheels' while muttering "what a nice looking fellow." i had a convert during the year. it was french teacher. shes like, 60. and she now likes b&s. and its all my fault. her kids laughed at her. they like travis more. she grew up in glasgow, and upon finding this out i freaked out and said 'thats where belle and sebastian are from!!'. and i got extra credit for being able to make a list of scottish pop bands for her. but she apparently really liked them. i had lent her IYFS for quite some time. i spent a good portion of the year without my belle and sebby cds. or, without some of them. it was a sad sad time. i d/led some mp3 that is supposedly by b&s called 'the hour'. it sounds like maybe StuD singing, but i cant tell cos the quality is kinda odd. is it indeed them? is there a 15 minute rule now? that message might have gotten deleted on me. i'm only about 400 messages behind. i've been working on this for far longer then 15 minutes, so i believe that i'll send it alone, for fear of breaking a rule which i dont know. xoxo 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: Right out of the nursery....
by MCFC9＠aol.com 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

Hello all Sinisteroos! I've just been given my voice, so I thought I might send an email along.(I'm actually just fishing for "welcome's") My name is Mike and I am a university student from the USof A. For those who don't know, it's a very small country which is probably across some ocean or another from many of you. Um, I like holding hands, sunset walks on the beach and movies about defeating Nazis (damn those fascists!) So furthermore, I guess I'll just join in the fun and give my partial review of FISHYFLAPPYCLAPTRAP, since everyone else is. Most of it's quite brilliant, I don't really like "Beyond the Sunrise", I feel it's below par. I do, however like "The Wrong Girl". I think it's GRATE. Even BLOODY GRATE, I suppose, even though my favorite record is probably Tigermilk. It's really GRATE, don't you think? Oh, and I happen to like Baxendale, but I suppose that must be because I'm under the age of 20, right? OK, that's all for me tonight, I might chime in occasionally because all of you Sinister cats are so groovy. In fact, this is the best list I've ever belonged to. Well, anyway, all of you may feel free to email me privately if you just want to shoot the breeze, or what have you. Mike +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: not terrific but competent
by jay 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

i've just been released so i thought i'd briefly say hello. i'm jay nagy, 24, in athens, ga. i'm a semi-professional writer (that is, being paid a tiny, tiny amount of money) and an amateur-in-many-respects musician. i'd like to somehow earn a living with writing or photography at some point, but the important thing is i don't live at home anymore! (oh now *that* was a fun post-collegiate two years!) erm, with a lack of anything too interesting to say at this point, i'll offer some of my pictures to peruse at http://briefcase.yahoo.com/jnagy63 which you might enjoy more than reading *this*. i've enjoyed reading the list the past couple of weeks and look forward to talking with you all, even if i can't make it to any of the picnics any time soon. sinister seems a lot like the elvis costello list i'm on where i gab away incessantly sometimes, full of great people that see each other often and pour in from everywhere for shows. glad i could find another one! til then, cheers and thanks, jay +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Shady whims & obstacles
by Vegard Enlid 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

*different opinions, festival tragedy, fear of phones and great music* Finally got my hands on FYHC, and I love it. I have to agree with Sp*rkle horse, I like "Beyond The Sunrise" as well. I suspect some of you might have skipped the mighty Scott Walker in your musical curriculum, 'cause he would be perfect singing just that song. It's not a B&S classic, but you can't deny it's got a decent tune. And It's most certainly better than "Electronic Rennaissance" which, frankly, is crap. Apart from the obvious choices of "I Fought In a War", "The Model", "Waiting For The Moon To Rise", I also love "Nice Day For a Sulk". It's kinda silly, but the chords on it just make me stupidly happy. Have anyone else noticed the "Ringo-by-numbers" drumming when the song "starts" again after the instrumental break? Pure class... The news of the Roskilde Festival-deaths really broke my heart. Today, when I read the news and looked at the photos, I cried my eyes out in front of my computer. Roskilde has always had a friendly, easy-going profile, but I guess that's all gonna change now. What made it worse still, was the fact that my ex-fiancé (sp?) was there. I still love that beautiful girl to bits, and got scared shitless when I heard people had died. She loves Pearl Jam, and she might have been right there at the front. I tried to call her, but the phone-system around the festival area was down due to the traffic. I still haven't reached her, but I know now that all dead were males. So, as tragic as the whole thing is, I'm relieved she's ok. I'm heading for a festival myself tomorrow. Quart is the biggest festival in Norway, and I really look forward to it, despite the tragedy in Denmark. I go there to work, though, so I won't enjoy it as much as I want to. I was really surprised when my newspaper decided to send me, because the seasoned music writers seem to grab all the fun festivals. But I get the feeling my boss likes me. If only he knew... I feel very bad about the way I do my job. I have a fear of phones (quite a drawback when you're a journalist, you'll have to agree), and I really have to push myself to make calls. I have this frustrating tendency to stutter when I'm about to introduce myself, which is terribly annoying. Once I get passed the introduction, I'm fine, but then I often get freaked out by the bad start, and making calls becomes this huge mountain to climb. I've struggled with it from time to time in the past, and I hope it'll go away this time too. Well, fun as it is, enough whining for now. There's gonna be a great deal of tasty bands at the festival, and I can't wait to see Lambchop, Eels, Elliott Smith, Ben Christophers, Mojave 3, St. Etienne, Macy Gray (who is absolutely brilliant by the way. How can you not like her!!??), Death In Vegas, Flaming Lips, Moby, Yo La Tengo and a lot of other goodies. I guess I'll check out Oasis too, just for a laff y'know... I'll try to get some interviews done, and I think I have a fair chance of talking to Beth Orton, Lambchop and Ben Christophers. Macy Gray was out of the question, according to Sony. Well, that's more free time for me to enjoy the music and the festival vibe. Which brings me to the point of this post. Are there any Sinisterines attending Quart this year? I haven't seen many Norwegians lurking around here, but then again I'm quite new to the list. If some of you are going, why don't you email me (before tuesday) and maybe we can get together? Love, Vegard who discovered the beauty that is Gram Parsons this weekend. Hear "Brass Buttons" and weep... ________________________________________________________________________ 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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