January 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: musical marrows
by Nigel R. Townshend 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

i was sat on the tram coming home from my friends house where i had been scanning photos from reading festival, which for some reason all included marrows, and i was having the following day dream. It started off much like all my day dreams do with me playing in belle and sebastain but some how it ended up with me wrestling in the wwf wearing my duffel coat. and some how beating up steriod filled monsters but my day dream bubble burt when i got off the tram and reasilsed i couldn't thank the tram driver like you do on the buses and i felt that i should write to the tram owners and get them to build a microphone into the door so when you leave you can say "thank you, it was smooth journey i think you did really well" becuase even tram drivers need encouragement, or so i imagine. i have written two emails and mentioned wrestling twice and will not mention it again prehaps i should have joined a wwf chat list. oh well didn't think that one through did i ? no i didn't. i am happy as i'm going to see grandaddy on staurday which should be really cool. i like them a lot. elbow are supporting and they're supposed to be really cool does anybody know anything about them ? ahhhh well better get of to bedfordshire and rest my weary head. Nigel Love ps if anyone wants to chat about wrestling with me then they can. pps if anyone wants to see the marrow photos they can too. ------------------------------------------- Post Scriptum: Who's ya daddy ? http://www.lundwood.u-net.com/bettysclinic.htm www.wwf.com daddy knows best +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: All To Mooro's Parties
by P F 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

I shall start with the topical. 'Stuart Gardiner', about whom Nick Dastoor has commented memorably in the past, today ventured: >>>As in, nice as it was, it was more or less a not-quite-as-good copy of >>>Twattybus. Right down to "Women's Realm" being almost a carbon-copy of >>>the song "...Arab Strap", complete with handclaps. I find this all terribly unconvincing. I don't think that FYHC is a copy of TBWTAS at all. They are awfully different. 'Wicked Not To Care' *doesn't* resemble 'Beyond The Sunrise', for instance; there is no 'Spaceboy' on FYH; 'chickfactor' and 'Seymour Stein' are *not* like 'The Wrong Girl'; and moreover, there is nothing on FYHC that sounds like the title track of 'TBWTAS'. Oh, hang on - 'Woman's Realm' does? No, it doesn't. Not at all. Apart from anything else (I won't list anything else), it does not *swing* like 'TWBTAS'. Songs that swing include 'Panic' and 'John, I'm Only Dancing'. They do not include 'Woman's Realm', which does not sound very much like 'The Boy With The Arab Strap'. It's been a while, and seeing as one or two folks were nice enough to ask me, or some other Pinefox, some specific questions, I shall try to answer them. The geezer Miller asked: >>>The Pinefox, did you go and see that Foxgloves photo in New York? Were >>>there any stragglers from the lumberjack community? I didn't 'go see' it, but I saw it anyway. I didn't really have to go anywhere to see it, once I'd 'gone' to New York; it was sort of there anyway. Not much travelling was involved. A few yards, maybe. Hm. Lumberjacks? Oh, you bet. Straggle is the word. The verb. Straggle, rock. Mooro UK wondered: >>>Are you going to write a song about entertaining the NYC gliterati to >>>dinner at the Gotham Grill? Well, I wrote some songs out there, and the glitterati were all very uninterested. Should I write a song about *not* entertaining them? That's an idea. I don't know about this Gotham Grill. What an idea. It must be one of Mooro's secret haunts, from the old days with 'David Johansen'. Or David Fairclough. Peter Johnson. Steve 'Lost' Heighway. They're not *all* glittery, by the way, close up. Some of them are quite hairy. Straggly, even. The lad 96 cooked: >>>Discoveries recently: Cake, by The Trashcan Sinatras, which is a lovely >>>album, makes me want to dance crazy tears, whatever that could mean, as >>>many of the best often do. 'Dance crazy tears' - I only just noticed that phrase. Baxendale, man, Bax*&^%$dale. I think I have a tape that used to have that album on, but doesn't have it on anymore. I have never heard the album. Tears go by. >>>Anyway, listening to The Negatives (NYC, 1998) do Jennifer She Said so >>>wonderfully reminded me of that festival thingy I went to last year (CS, >>>2000). Many things seem to. Smiles as ba ba dada da da comes around. That is very nice to see, but let's talk more about the lad Cole. The geezer Miller was on about it a while back, and none of the rest were up to speed with him, when he discussed 'No More Love Songs'. 'NMLS' smoulders and refuses to flame. It thuds gently. It whines gracefully. The rest of the LP is ace, too. Has no-one else heard of it? Yesterday I sent a bunch of votes to that geezer who does the B&S Vote 2000 thingy (did he receive them? I don't know), and I had to put The Negatives at #1. Cole position. That kind of thing. Believe me, this is one trek of an album. I don't usually say 'Buy It' of LPs - for who buys LPs anyway? Not me - but in this case I ought to, for Lloyd's impecunious sake. >>>I should be playing "chords", apparently. Correct. >>>At the moment I'm having only limited success. You've only started. At this stage, limited success is success. It's better than unlimited failure. >>>Could anyone give me the "chords" to any of the Go-Betweens songs, preferably those without bar "chords", since I can't play those yet. I wish I could. Give them to you, I mean. Let's think: 'Bachelor Kisses', the best GBs tune I have heard, is presumably something like: Verse: C-D-G-Am (x2) Next section: C-D-Bm-Em Chorus proper: C-Bm-Am-G Bridge: something like: Em - G (x3), Em-A Solo = verse Let's try 'Dive For Your Memory' also. How would that go? I'll put it in a D, for the sake of argument. D Bm If the cliffs were any closer C G If the water [blah blah blah] D A I would dive for your memory G D [blah blah blah] rocks and the sand D A When I hear you say D G That we stood no chance D A I-I-I'd dive for your memory A A We stood that chance etc. >>>Here's The Pinefox. I still know of no others. Though even if I did know >>>of others, I wouldn't know of others. I'm not sure I know what you mean. Or am I? >>> Fine things to be interested in. But spare a thought for Jackanory. At a pinch, ...Morning Glory. Or even Tobermory. Yes, do. It's the thought that counts: or the character counting them. >>>I always thought the Wombles were common, until I found out it was just >>>where they lived. Tobermory? No, Wimbledon. John Fashanu? No, but he made >>>that clay sculpture over there... Ooh! I must at this point remark: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO? NO, I FORCED HER TO COME. >>>I could, but that's what the photographs are for. However, even those >>>aren't sufficient, damn it, I mean they're all the same; eyes skyward, >>>little-girl-lost. By The Icicle Works? Why does no-one talk about The Icicle Works on this list? >>>It's time for something new, so lets run a competition to find a new pose for Welthorpe. Answers on a post-it note, just stick them to Nick's fridge. I agree. I endorse that. I can't think of a pose that rhymes, though. Any fool can think of poses that rhyme. Actually, I already have Welthorpe shots not quite like that. If you have as many as I do, some of them are bound to be break the mould. Or break the lens. All Back To Mooro: >>>Ease Your Feet In The Sea must be the most muzak-friendly Belle and >>>Sebastian song, as today I heard it in Argos as I was hovering around my >>>collection point. You know, that's a thing. I was in the silliest pub in London last week, namely the one on the concourse of Charing Cross station, drinking a *half* of Guinness that cost... £1.40, or something. And various old TFI things were playing as I bided my time and coped with the waste of money - and then, yes, it really was, 'Ease Your Feet Into The Sea'!! I felt like one of those kids you used to see on sinister who would write about hearing 'TBWTAS' in Starbucks, or, you know, 'Ease Your Feet Into The sea' in Argos, or Charing Cross. Anyway, what did it make me think of? It made me think of people like David Moore, and Nick Dastoor. People who have dedicated themselves to Belle and Sebastian, or seem to have done so at some stage. I was moved at the thought of those people. Juicy said, ages ago, in what was my original spur to writing this disappointingly dull thing at all: >>>Over two nights we listened to sixty-nine songs. Gosh! Really? So did we! >>>The wallflowers of the album pulled their gladrags from the wardrobe, put >>>on a bit of slap and sparkled. I agree, in a manner of speaking. Things that really don't do much on record did a lot live: esp 'It's A Crime', whose gradual build of harmonies thrilled; 'Wi Nae Wee Bairn', whose escalating lyric hit home for the first time; 'Love Is Like Jazz', an unpredictable highlight; 'Xylophone Track' for going lowest of all; 'I Shatter' for its - again - freshly audible words; 'Zebra', which I suppose was aided by the facial expressions; 'King of the B', ditto in a way. I agree. That's what I was saying, wasn't it? I can't remember. I note that most of these wallflowers are from disc 3. I maintain that disc 3 is by far the worst of the three, and that those who think otherwise have probably seen the Magnetic Fields live too many times, if such a thing is possible. >>>Laughter at lyrics took me by surprise and left me feeling slightly >>>puzzled, like friends laughing at Grandad's favourite joke. Hm. This question of laughing at lyrics is an interesting one which could be worth pursuing in various contexts. Steady Mike and I were saying at half-time, over a cup of Bovril, that people really shouldn't be laughing at the lyrics, haven't they heard them 100 times anyway?, etc; but despite all that I did find myself laughing at some of them. Is it about delivery, about hearing the line delivered anew, about liveness (as though the joke, such as it is, whatever it may be) is fresh-minted; or is it also merely a matter of (as said above) some of the less familiar joke lines never having really registered before? Do people laugh when they see Belle & Sebastian live? Do people see Belle & Sebastian live? I'm sure I had a lot more to say about those gigs, but it is slipping from me, like my marbles. Where have they gone? If anyone can remember anything else about the gigs, please say so. In any case, they were two of the best shows I have ever seen by a pop group. Right up there with, you know, the Sundays in December 1992. Jeez, honey, how Up There do you want? _________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: September Forever (also contains a very interesting quesion about Eskimos)
by Jason Andreas 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Heylo! Last night I fulfilled one of my rawk fantasies by being given a drumstick by the drummer of the band I went to see. I don't know why it *is* a rawk fantasy - it just is! No more questions, this interview is over! Okay, maybe not. Above all though, Troika were excellent last night at the 13th Note. The best I've ever heard them (mainly due to the Strawberry Fields acoustics being utter and total and even complete pants). Nice one guys. Big hellos to Sweetie (and her friend Snowflake), Amy J, Neil Milton (and associated guests) and Lisa Walker, who I don't think is on the list, but you never know. Toffeecrisp? Where'd you go? ***Eskimo Question*** I was having a silly discussion with my girlfriend last week, and a question popped into my head. Any of you anthropologists out there know the answer? --> When Eskimos rub noses, do they get the same thrill from that 'kiss' as we do from a snog? Do Eskimo lads go around saying things like "Oh man, I rubbed noses with this really hot blonde last night!" Well? Do they? <--- ***End of Eskimo content*** I got told by by team manager today that the management are beginning to take a little more notice of me - which is always nice I suppose, then I inadvertantly blanked a high(ish) boss-type person by ignoring her while I looked at WWF news :) Oh dear. All I wanted to do was ask the Eskimo question.... - Jase 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: and I miss new york. but london's okay.
by eric 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

hi sinister. I have so much free time that I don't know what to do with myself. I've vowed to become a good student this semester, full of on-time papers and studying, and I made the journey to "campus" to go to the library and check out some books for my essay on the magna carta, but the allure of the computer lab was too much for me to resist. I'm only human, after all. I've been in london for almost two weeks, and I have yet to do much of anything except somehow spent £250 without actually buying anything. I just love it when that happens. it's part of the reason I don't carry cash very often, as it likes to disappear from my wallet. doing stuff is overrated, anyway. I very much like spending saturday night in easyeverything reading up on tea cozies or butcher knives or whatever. with that said, I'm now going to make a public spectacle of myself and ask if any nice sinisterees would care to help out a confused american college student and make me go out. this is all because of advice from jonny, so I take no responsibility for any of it. I didn't do it, I tell you. apparently he's under the impression that I'm somewhat well-known on you-know-what. a girl tried to hit on me last weekend, I think. which doesn't work, cause I don't like girls. so I dropped subtle hints, such as commenting on the attractiveness of a television personality, and she laughed and hasn't spoken to me since. I consider that a bit harsh. maybe she wasn't hitting on me at all and just thought I was a complete nut. in that case, I'm glad to have been of service. ah! I missed the magnetic fields, which really and completely sucks. I'm going to have to go throw myself into the nearest river now, because missing the mag fields is a capital offense. I prolly couldn't have gotten tickets anyway, and getting lost wouldn't have been fun either. how does anyone ever learn their way around london? or don't they? wouldn't that be something, if everyone was aimlessly wandering the streets trying desperately to find their way home? sounds like a bad hitchcock film. that's enough from me. wow, I think this is my longest-ever post. can I get a "yay" for boredom? tediously, eric ____________________________________________________________ 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: It lives! It breaths! It writes a load of old crap!
by Ian Long 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hey everybody! I am recently out of the nursery, so I thought I'd introduce meself rather than lurk forever. My name is Ian , I am from Pompey(Portsmouth), an' I'm 28, so I am neither oldest nor youngest on the list. But I am a huge B+S fan, and was listening to TBWTAS last night whilst playing chess. Very cultured, you may think, except my companion and I were getting hideously drunk on home made snake bite. Using Tennants Super as the lager ingediant. It made the games more interesting at least. One game was total carnage, with both sides decimated in minutes. Everyone should try it, you know it makes sense. My drinking buddy normally hates all the music I love, but he can't hate B+S, and his admiration isn't even grudging.And if you knew him, youd know what a big compliment that is. I have recently moved back down south after splitting from my girlfriend, and have been reaquanting myself with portsmouth f.c (their not terrific but their competent) and generally getting drunk to ease my pain. But I wont bore you with the details. So thats my first post out of the way, and as I said to my first girlfriend, I hope I'm doing this right. Cheers for reading, Ian 'It's about this time of night I like to place a plum under a viper'-- Vic Reeves __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Not Much Effort
by vodkabird＠gurlmail.com 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hullo! I was intrigued by the number of peeps who have traversed the technological divide to read nme.com. I'm a bit of a Luddite in that respect, preferring to get inky fingers. Not that I really read it anymore, not since the price shot up to *£1.20* (!!), but I did buy it today. Ahhh..I remember when it was forty pee in the days where I used to buy it and cut out every little article on those cheeky Cure types (I was young) In those days, NME used to enjoy being rather nasty to a young Mr Morrissey and co. Hype 'em up and knock 'em down. Bah. Anyway, I was perusing the publication today and noticed that there were quite a few references to B&S, and often in a very mean vein. I must protest, Miss Golightly, because I don't have a 'Hello Kitty' pyjama case and even if I did, I wouldn't do the naughty things that they suggested 'the kids' do. Fancy that, and lauding Mr Durst too. Methinks the journos do protest too much. Love VB Not so much an Au Revoir, more an Auf Wiedersehen. ________________________________________________________________________ --> get your free, private gURLmail account at http://www.gURLmail.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: Happy New Year!
by Gardiner, Stuart 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

(Chinese, that is) Well well, content seems to be all the rage at the moment, it won't last... So has Tony Doogan been sacked then? Or is it just a temporary change of producer? Maybe B&S decided that their last album wasn't really much kop after all then. As in, nice as it was, it was more or less a not-quite-as-good copy of Twattybus. Right down to "Women's Realm" being almost a carbon-copy of the song "...Arab Strap", complete with handclaps. They've always admitted to wanting a Motown sound, but the closest they've ever got was on Dirty Dream #2. So if they think Mike Hurst will help them achieve that, I'm with them all the way... (Incidentally, am I the only one who initially misread his surname as being 'Hunt'? That would have made things far more interesting...) Motown is still a sound well worth aiming for, it's been resposible for some of the best pop songs of all time. Speaking of which; 10 songs which, love them or loathe them, are undeniably Perfect P!O!P! moments; All Saints - Pure Shores Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Happening Frances Nero - Out On The Floor Lightning Seeds - Life Of Riley Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine Robbie Williams - Angels Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life The Monkees - Daydream Believer The Temptations - My Girl Mind you, most of you will have realised by now that my opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on. So when they're emailed, they must be worth even less. After all, I still believe the best Australian band at the moment isn't The Go-Betweens or The Lucksmiths, because The Whitlams are much better. Big Stu PS It's normally about this time of year that everyone on the list starts complaining about Valentine's Day, and how they never get any cards. So I thought I'd get in there first. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Oh, here she comes, now!
by Jon Botterman 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hello sinisterines Well I was astounded. The manics and wrestling all seem to have little fans on this list which instantly comforts me. I've only just got my body clock ticking at the right time today. Still, I have only me to blame as I insisted on watching all of the Royle Rhumble live. I have nothing better to do on Mondays than to sleep though, so I forgive myself and buy a big pack of Haribo sour mix. This gives me super energy which I use to study and stay up late drinking. I invented a new cocktail at the weekend called a Gin Gingerini. Just mix gin, ginger beer, real beer ( not real ale ) and lambrini together and drink. Do not shake as it explodes. It was during my stage of enhanced wisdom that the Gin Gingerini brings that I thought up my greatest idea ever. Chinese Burns night! A mix of traditional Scottish and Chinese cuisine and drink. I think it might be a disaster or a triumph, I'm not too sure yet. If anyone else wishes to have a fun night of mixing and matching I recommend it. It's the new dance music which was the new comedy which was the new football which was the new rock and roll. Have fun and eat Haribo, even if you are a grown up like me (sort of). >From Jon. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: born to blush unseen
by fiona 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

hello my loves, i'm writing this in the strange void that comes around lunchtime when you have two exams in the same day. i don't really have time to go home, and i don't really like studying in public, so i've given up and am facing the fact that if i don't know stuff then i just don't know it. and i was so desperate to study propositional logic. grr. i might be going to see liverpool v crystal palace tonight as a special end of exams treat if we can get tickets; although, i don't really want to go, its far too cold to sit in a stand and watch people running around. and all the good looking players are injured anyway. grr once again. archel (i think) (belated welcome back anyway) taled about shops that sell french stuff. the absolute bestest shops, though, are the ones in chinatown in manchester that just have collections of random stuff that the people who run the shops have brought over from japan or wherever and then charge huuuuge prices for hello kitty stuff and (my favourite) bad badtz maru and get away with it because there are no licensed outlets for sanrio merchandise in the uk except in london. but aside from them being really expensive there's a really nice sort of cluttered atmosphere in these shops,and they smell of whatever it is that makes oriental food smell like it does. mmm. and they have those funky video type things that never caught on here but are really big in japan (or so i'm told). vcds i think i mean. i saw a really good episode of the bill yesterday. it was so upsetting at the end when it turned out that the gay guy had stabbed the bloke that had been harassing him and his boyfriend. how i screamed at the tv. i looked at the sinister wap site the other day with my shiny new phone, its so cute, i a nobody-will-ever-look-at-this sort of way. but i did a search for b&s wap sites and that was the only one in english that came up, so maybesinister has stepped into the future before others, or maybe everyone else has realised that it is in fatc, rubbish. does anyone else ever wonder if jenowl is real? i suppose you couldn't make it up though... oh, well, love and irn-bru for now, wishing me luck for my last exam, fiona. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/wrappedinfakefur URUSEI YATSURA!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: And I used to be a citizen
by Ian Nicolson 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Oh, goodness gracious. The computers at work (yeh, WORK. Or should that be W!O!R!K!? No. It shouldn't. But it's not a proper job - it's just a wee pretendy one that'll keep me going for a bit, before I leave in the summer and go back to sleep) aren't working very well just now, so I've strolled along to the big, evil corporate internet place during lunchtime so as not to let the Sinister posts pile up to 70-odd as I did recently. During the pre-job lost months I'd quite often while away a couple of hours here of an afternoon, before perhaps taking a wander up to the cinema to pretend to be dead clever and cultured and watch some arty movies (one of the highlights of the past six months was seeing 'Through a Glass Darkly' in the pictures Maybe not Bergman's best, but still...). Or meet friends in the pub. Or maybe even just wander the streets and parks of Edinburgh. And I would really, really love to do something like that right now. Working is pish. How could I have forgotten? So anyways, Mike Hurst's producing the new single(s). This could be a good thing, I think. Some of the more upbeat songs on the last album could really have done with a big 60s type production, but ended up sounding somewhat weedy. I first thought this while listening to 'Saturday's Child' by the Walker Brothers which, while it perhaps doesn't sound like a song off that album as such, sounds like they should maybe have sounded - the big Phil Spector type thing. The only problem is that I'm not sure that anyone in Belle and Sebastian has the right type of voice to carry that kind of thing off. But it seems as if maybe that's the sound they're going for, what with hundreds of people in the studio and all. But maybe this is just a lot of nonsense - the producer's style might have changed entirely. The new single might be a techno number (is techno still a form of music? I get confused.). And this entire paragraph probably all a big load of muso wank anyway. Disco-Go-Round Jen from Seattle drooled: >I have concluded that Edinburgh has >the most hunky boys per square mile than anywhere else >I've been Well, one can hardly disagree with that! Except perhaps the 'hunky' part. Does looking a bit like Nick Cave count? Ian N. _________________________________________________________________________ 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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