July 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Return of the sack...
by Jason Andreas 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Hello Twee Majority... It's been a fair wee while since I bored you all senseless with my aimless and pathetic ramblings. How many of you missed me? Anyone? <grin> Anyhoo, it's been a busy little time for moi recently. I've been getting job interview after job interviw, all for one job. The fact they keep callign me back heartens me, but god it's stressful. Speaking of heartens, I've been havign a bit of trouble with the old ticker lately. My doctor doesn't seem to think much of it, but it's damn scary all the same. Such is life, I suppose. I hate doctors. <grin> Been using the phone a lot lately too. Oddly, ever since I left education, my life has improved no end. I've made tons of new mates from random chance more than anything else, and things are looking up. They seem to like me, although I'm sure they're all just being nice ;) Whatever happened to Jenowl? I've not heard from you in ages, kiddo, get in touch... Anyone going to see Hefner in the Glasgow Cathouse? I'm a bit scared to go in there cos it's where all the violent mosher kids hang out. Eek! Mobile phones are annoying. I have one, I'll admit, but at least I don't sit on the bus/train/whatever and play with the ringtones constantly to impress people. Grr! The hard kids in my street have been very very violent towards me lately. I keep getting chased home when I get off the bus. It's not nice at all, esp. cos most of them are smaller and weaker than me. Everyone wish me luck in my job hunt - I'll know on Thursday if I've got the job or not... I await my hate-mail with interest... xx --Jason Andreas Guardian of the Obvious ICQ: 45821217 AIM: RadioJase +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: house of love
by DEWHURST＠uk.ibm.com 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Wasn't the girl who sang with the house of love called Andrea something-or-other?. Obviously that's not here real surname. Doesn't sound very German at all. Most people involved in the band went on to lesser things if I remember rightly, such as Levitation, and Chadwick's band, the Madonnas, who I saw once supporting the cranberries. How curiously does the wheel of musical fortune turn... Like his solo stuff, though, although my girlfriend accused him of listening to too much Leonard Cohen at one point. Tsk! Regards to you all Neil x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Banners! Balloons! Umbrellas!
by Sarah Clarke 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Dear you lot... hmm, this is the second time I've started to type "@majordomo.net" instead of "missprint.org"... does that mean anything? I think it means I may be stuck in the past with some kind of mother fixation. Do girls have that? Aren't girls suposed to be jealous of their daddies willies and boys be scared theirs are going to be chopped off? Wierd old kettle of fish, what? I once wrote a very very thick letter to my friend. At the time we'd write down everything and send it to each other via the Royal Postal Thingie, drawings, thoughts, mix tapes. It was rather ideal and special, but anyway. I wrote to him about God, but it had taken me months to pluck up courage to say and think about what I was going write... and now everyone seems to be splurging their theological thoughts. Get thee to a monk-house! There's a song by the June Brides which has a line which goes "god is on my side". It's reassuring to know! Thanks for taping it for me, Tim. I bought the album that's on, and it's good too. Who are the Blue Aeroplanes? I supose I'll find as I just bought a record of theirs. Preston market is the best ever! I also got two House of Love singles and I will tear out your nostril hairs one by one if they are shit - that's too everyone that raved about them - and I also got a rather nice looking Nancy'n'Lee extravaganza. Just what I need when going down to London, a bag of 12" vinyl, old cds and a soggy buttie. Is the song about LIKING the Beatles & The Stones, or about thinking they're STINKING PISH? Guess which one I hope it's about... Peter Miller, I've HEARD about you. I know where you live! Jordi, why didn't you take a photo of Mr Miller? OOh the suspense! The carefluly crafted recluse act! Recluse act...she thinks... who else do we know who plays upon an air of mystique and mystery? YES! Our Struan! It's TRUE! Miller and Struan are one and the same...unless Peter and JORDI are the same. Or... maybe Peter and CAROL SMILIE are the same... it's getting rather freaky now... Lets go Metro! Love, Sarah x ===== Write to Stars de Luxe! http://www.egroups.com/starsdeluxe "luxe, calme, et volupte" ____________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "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: puppets! on bicycles! with vultures! and snakes!
by alix campbell 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

SNAKES ALIVE! Who remembers those little diamond cake decorations? The jelly ish ones with sugar on them? They were great. Cake toppings are great. I would dream of a day when I could afford a whole tubful. In fact, I still do. Ive had a busy weeks Finging. Actually, its more than a week, but it began with the picnic. What a lovely picnic too. I co coordinated my clothes, and surprised Glam Pam by sporting tights. This is a strange thing to be surprised about. I support tights though. Then I was followed home by some people who stayed a while and listened to Wire with me. Juicy Lucy tried to steal a scooter. Liz Daplyn refused to leave, she loved it so. She knows the score about astral dangers. The day after Ally Cooke appeared from a coach. He went directly to the pub. We followed. Tim Hopkins led us around, pretending he knew where he was. Later that week I wandered round Aldgate with Ally; we saw some joggers. Theyd been running for ages. We saw a mosaic of Chris Leonard. Well show you the photos one day. Then we went to the pub. Forever. I cant quite remember what happened over the next few days. The Foxgloves played under a building on Wednesday, they were ace, even if Martin Robinson couldnt be arsed to stand up. Friday I think I was in a pub again. With the Fisting Alder Sisters. Oh, you sure missed out. Saturday night Lucy barbecued her flatmates, and we all had a feast. Later on in the evening Nicky D got the Quips and Quotes Book out and all we had a bit of a laugh at women drivers. Then he tried to put his foot behind his head. Fun. Sunday I went to Greenwich to scavenge food and climb under hedges. Oh and Pam cooked some stuff too, in case the stuff I found under the hedge wasnt filling enough. Sez made a marv batch of Yorkshire puddings. Lupe cut hair beautifully. Then I went home. That was the weeks activities. Today though, is boring. Later on I will go to a Euston to meet Starry and Honey and Linda and then to a pub to meet Elena and Paul and other people, then to see a band. The Manganese Files, or something. Last night I did something to my hair involving plaits and stuff, today I look like a cocker spaniel with a perm. Bad. I think Ill go and catch up with all the email Ive not read in the last week. 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: Spot the Sad Bastard
by Peter Miller 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

The German bird out of The House of Love was a miss Andrea Heukamp. She left because she was "tired of the constant touring in the latter half of 1987", which must be when I saw them. Nice to hear from Keith again. Genevieve, I think you've been reading too much Harry Potter, mate. Religion: pish plot, great soundtrack. Some time ago, we had another Simon Reynolds piece sent into the list. It was full of big show-off undergraduate words, whereas the House of Love piece wasn't. Why's that then? Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Girls and boys of Summer
by Arantxa Sanz 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Hello: Last post from the cold shores of Albion,as I just have to rush to catch my evening flight to land me home. Definitely, I take sides with Steady Mike on the tapes issue.Why should I buy a brand new,flashy,meaningless CD when I have a handcrafted tape?Funny all the whirlwind of nostalgia stirred by that foxy pine,as it got here the same day I went to see 'High Fidelity' and felt all mellow and wondered at the same time why one cannot be an indie man/woman,only boy/girl and growing up is hard to do when you have a shoegazing core,sniff. Anyhow,I will be in Benicassim.Probably under a parasol,probably carrying a mobile most of the tine,maybe wearing my dodgy Bowlie tea-shirt saying 'Either be sucessful or be Us' when I was trying to spot some SInisterine for first time.If anyone out of this parish will be down there,you still can reach me.The Who did not think of how far email would take us. Love and electronic sunshine Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Frotate the hands, chaval, who you walk like a paleto
by stephen hewitt 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

hello babies being a) only just capable of speaking one language and b) fascinated by crappy attempts at universal translators I thought i'd stick the struan spanish interview through babel, with <cough> hilarious consequences. I'll not post the whole thing as Maria did such a wonderful job of translating, but here are a couple of choice quotes. "Fold your hands, child, you walk like to peasant' (Frotate the hands, chaval, who you walk like a paleto), its room album, when they have known the popularity (within its debatable elitist circle)... although a little quick-tempered person knows to ripen his cultivated British arrogance with abundant humor... Evidently, I hope that bandage million, but that depends on the public... Sometimes I believe that we look ourselves like The Band Beta" It's like fall lyrics innit, maybe that's Mark E Smith's new job, translator. Also the last paragraph where they talk about Beepster looks a bit strange, I didn't think the band had much to do with the actual running of the label. I wonder who the new jeepster bands will be... maybe it'll be a whole new world of shoegazing bands. To our greek correspondent, Joanna, who mentioned Souvlaki, i believe the Pine Fox was referring to the Slowdive record of that name, although Goinbl Yankagin (to give it it's correct spelling) is a hag eel-based delicacy from the Urals that i fear PF would have difficulty tracking down at any price, even in cosmopolitan Greenwich. Going back once again to Struan's impending 6 months off, my mother's got some hedges that need trimming and a pantry that needs painting if he's at a loose end, she's always saying she could do with a good handy man, and she could recommend him to all her other single/widowed/divorced middle-aged friends, that would keep him occupied, and earn him a bit of beer money too... xoxo CarsmileSteve PS hi to everyone i saw on Saturday in lun-ding, so, what's on this week ;) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by maria sierra 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

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Sinister: Till Tuesday
by DelyM2＠aol.com 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

thanks a bunch to whom ever posted that bit on genital mutilation. I had a horrifyingly vivid dream about it. Good ness. I am what one might call, un-intellectual. So this next bit might just be a gas for some of you . I'm going to attempt to reason out why belle and sebastian sound so delicous. See, the thing is . the lyrics stand at middle ground. they are not so shallow that you cant bear to listen to a word of it. but they are also not too meaningful that you have to listen so closely to them. Therefore, you can listen to a belle and sebastian song. and enjoy it without having to think about why. (which goes to say, is great for someone like me) Anyway sometimes i wonder if "deep thought" is just a little over rated. Skimming pass the surface causes you to miss some important details. or maybe not. PS: i wrote a poem. i hope it isnt too truamatizing for you. She has been so eloquently missplaced upon this earth of ours. Her feet carry her softly across the soil that has refused to accept her, yet she still worships the ground she walks on. A puzzle is the path she has taken. Troubling, Incomplete, yet fits so well. And an open field full of fireflies would just make her night, but her body is too feeble to take the journey. It seems unfair when waves of dirt flood the others into the light. So her nights are filled with rows of wires hanging from the sky. Showing characteristics of the graceful weeping willow, but ever so false, ever so lifeless. They carry the conversations of the dolls from inside their tiny wooden houses, which are stored in dormant attics for mice to investigate. She plays no part in this never ending line of communication. The lines paint the skies, the lines paint her forehead. They were painted with the brush of her memories. Dabbed in colors of glass clasped inside her palm tightly. Framed with salty water that deviously escaped her eyes. The scars on her deliciously delicate hands form patterns that seem unlogically curious upon examination. Till Tuesday, when she recalls the pain which caused these complex designs. These lines. Upon the arrival of the field, she lays out her design like a warm blanket. It keeps her sensitive back at a fair distance from the prickly, yellow grass. She looks up and feels complete, and at that moment the spiders that she thought were lost under the rubber soles of her feet, creep out from underneath her. And she is covered by these hands. She has always been covered by these hands which she thought lost. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: New Diary of a Band
by Mick Cooke 24 Jul '00

24 Jul '00

DIARY OF A BAND 24th July 2000 As you'll probably know, Belle and Sebastian aren't playing any gigs for the rest of the year, but suffice to say we'll definitely be back playing gigs early next year. It was always the way; when the band started there was an unwritten agreement between everyone that the band would never become everything in our lives, that there would always be room for people to do other things. The band's future would most certainly be in jeopardy if it was all everyone did 12 months out of the year. In the meantime, I've been getting back to the shop floor. Last Friday I was trailing the record shops of Edinburgh with Gordy of the Amphetameanies, putting up posters for the 'Meanies album, and trying to punt copies to the indie shops the distributors missed. We had a brilliant time, and it put me in mind of the time Stuart, Richard and others did the same with Tigermilk when it was first released. In fact, the proprietor of the smaller Avalanche on Lady Lawson Street showed me the Tigermilk poster Stuart hand delivered in '96, which the proprietor claims he had to rescue from a refuse skip after it had been discarded during a clearout of the shop. The shop's brilliant though, total 'High Fidelity', as is Professor Plastic's Vinyl Exchange on West Richmond Street, where my friend Keith tells me the owner demands that his clients always refer to him as 'Professor'. We're planning a similar jaunt to London soon. I am also playing a bit with Snow Patrol. They are playing the Witness festival outside Dublin at the start of August. Richard and myself are DJ'ing too which I hear has somehow been blown into the rumour that Belle and Sebastian are playing a live gig there. Unfortunately, the practise schedule for the festival was hindered somewhat after the singer Gary fell down the stairs one night at the Glasgow Art School after a particularly heavy session, busting his eye and developing severe concussion. By the time the ambulance arrived, Gary had locked himself in the toilet, refusing to come out. Having eventually made it to casualty, he further delayed proceedings by locking himself in the toilet once more. He's okay now though, and has just phoned me to say that a practise is to be booked for this afternoon, and that he'd phone back in five minutes. That was nearly an hour ago. Perhaps the concussion has not fully worn off. Mick Cooke _________________________________________________________ the Official Belle and Sebastian Band Site is at: http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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