January 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Guilty foe
by Kenneth P Y Chu 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Hello, I have just finished with all of my exams, which went quite well especially since I have been so lazy this year. I really wanted to drink myself stupid yesterday but none of my friends fancied the idea (guess they have grown up), so I didn't. Just sitting in my room now, having thoughts, about many things, to try and make up for the lack of thinking for the last 20 years. Revelling and mourning at memories: things done, chances missed, things I loved, girls I didn't kiss, etc. Admitted more sad thoughts than happy ones, especially thinking how I may have hurt people without knowing and feeling guilty about it, how I have let people down time and again, how I tried to be nice but fails and make things worse. Not very nice thoughts, but it had to be done I suppose. A nicer thought was around this time last year (1st Jan 2000 in fact), I remember it was the first time I listened to a lot of the B&S stuff. After New Years Eve, we stayed around my friend's brother's house cos he was away on holiday. I was hungover and I woke up before my friend did, on my own and bored a bit like now and just decided to start listening to all my friend's brother's B&S collection. It was great. I was just thinking as well really how one year can change you.. now I probably cannot live a day without listening to some B&S. Some things in life never change, tho, but I won't talk about those cos those are boring and unhappy most of the time, apart from the fact that today, when I'm, a little ironically not hungover, B&S are still great. Pretty thoughts and Red Bulls Ken ========================================================================== She thought it would be fun to try photography. She thought it would be fun to try pornography. She thought it would be fun to try most anything she was tired of sleeping - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: what's wrong with this picture?
by carle groome 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

check it out. in the tower records publication, "pulse," they have their top ten picks of the year by category--and i don't know whether this is massed opinions of readership or writer's poll--and guess what's number 6 on their COUNTRY list? BELLE & SEBASTIAN FYHCYWLAP! i am speechless. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: soundalikes and indiekid abuse
by Chan Toby 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Sinimate A girl called "J" (not Jay, nor Jade, just J) who is also a b n s fan ask me to check a song called "Summerwine" by Lee Hazalwood and Nincy Sinistra and Dogs On Wheels sounds like it.. BTW, I listen lots of Eminem, Wu Tang and Dr Dre now.... I dun think Eminem is good music, but just ..... Interesting. And there is a boy called La Bow Vow or somethings... boy... less than ten-year-old i guess, and his tune featuring Snopp D O Double G!!!! Happy Chinese New Year~ Toby C > > The State that I am in - I want you - > Bobby Dylan > Slow Graffitti - Laughing Gnome - Dame > David Bowie > Mary Jo - Winters Tale - Gypsy King > David Essex > LLPJ - Some obscure soul record Calumn > once played me > String Bean Jean - The Kids Are Not > Alright - The Offspring (although the > influence was the other way round on > that one) > > I'm sure there are more that have been > mentioned over the many moons of the > list, but those are the ones that spring > immediately to mind. > __________________________________________________ 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: nitpicking, advertising, scrounging and vomiting
by Rachel Playforth 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

so b&s have recorded 'pop songs'. in inverted commas. and here we all were thinking that they manufactured frozen chickens. tch. and i wouldn't describe the springfields as dusty springfield's backing band. i was in a very nice pub on saturday, called the great eastern, which i don't think is a delgados reference. they played tbwtas though, which was fun. *i* don't even play tbwtas any more. i have also found the coolest shop, devoted to all things francais. lots of lovely musique, livres, babar, boules, and Best Of All extravagant amounts of petit prince merchandise. i covet their cute lunchboxes but can only afford the pencils... (no sexual subtext intended - this is the little prince we're talking about, people.) all the submissions i've had to buzzwords this year have been from people called greg. really. i've never even met *one* person called greg before. anyway, thanks to greg and greg. for top extra-sinister literary action there's still only one place to be..... would some nice person like to send me a tape/cd of 'the friends of rachel worth' because i *still* can't afford to buy it (given that my local record shops, or thieving bastards as i prefer to call them, think £16 an acceptable price) and my boyfriend's stereo is out of commission so i can't scrounge tapes off him like i usually do. i ask this in the knowledge that there are at least 4 go-betweens evangelists out there who won't see this as flagrant blagging but as an exciting opportunity to spread the (ageing) word of forster and maclennan. fools... umm... i can't ride on city buses for a hobby any more, as i've started to get dramatically travel sick on anything which doesn't go on rails, a phenomenon last seen on family holidays to cornwall (8 hours in a mini, 7 of which were spent vomiting). i fear this is all part of the general regression initiated by bagpuss all those months ago... since i can't travel any more, we're going to have to have a brighton meet-up. i've been meaning to organise this for a while - anyone interested enough please mail me. well, must go, job applications to avoid, washing up to leave for someone else, you know how it is... archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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: Bootleg/Live Belle and Sebastian
by Pedro Itapema 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

Hello everyone; What about making a list with all known Belle and Sebastian Bootlegs/Live CDs? I know about the famous Black Sessions and heard something about a "BBC Sessions". pedro +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sinister.first step and Astrid (the band)
by marsc＠convex.com.br 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

FIRST STEP well,finally i send my first mail from the list,after receive automatic message from the owner to give my voice. I sending this letter from the hinterlands of São Paulo, Brazil (very hot place),i be probably the oldest member of this list (31 year old) and my writing/reading in English language it's not too much good, i know only the basic,but this list is amazing, and i love interesting people and Indiepop music. ASTRID (THE BAND) other day i see one clip by this very cool band and search any information about the band on web, i not find anything somebody help me ?? The band have any relation with Belle and Sebastian ?? Sorry for the poor language and thanks all marsc +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: my brain needs some assistance
by sweetie something 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

sinister yo yo yo how r we all?? i am fine fine but very rather bored bored however despite my boredom im in an awfully good mood i was at the offspring gig wednesday past twas pretty goddamn brilliant!! (i have rated it as my 2nd best gig- the best being muse) they played all my favourites (although i missed intermission which i was a bit annoyed about) so i was well happy :) and i crowd surfed for the first time ever :) twas an...interesting experience i think i may be suffering from a small bout of insomnia coz recently i have been getting not very much sleep this has however led to me having a complete excess of spare time so ive been making use of this extra spare time i have started my own (fictional) band named them named the first album wrote the tracklist for the first album and designed the front cover of the first album last night, well 3.30am ish this morning- i recorded myself a new voice message for my phone (the phone used to be my b/f's and his msg was about wanting to kill you so...) i wanted a b&s one but couldnbt find anything suitable so i recorded a divine comedy one instead its pretty hard to do actually coz the phone interferes it sounds all fuzzy i got it sounding ok though its a snippet of europop live at bowlie "so, what is there left to know? what is there left to say? FUCK ALL!" *ah neil....* i have also decided that (i have no idea what made me start thinking about this) east 17 were definately the hardest boy band they were well harder than 5ive are they could beat the crap out of 5ive thats all your friend always sweetie xox icq #42242252 msn messanger something_sinister(a)hotmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* If I wasn't psychotic I would never have found my true self. _________________________________________________________________________ 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: soundalikes and indiekid abuse
by Stephen Hewitt 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

I thought that Peter Miller *used* to say live and let live, but in this ever changing world in which we live in... Anyway, so there i was lying in bed on Saturday morning listening to Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 (YES I LISTEN TO RADIO TWO AND I'M PROUD) and Brian Matthews played "I want you " by that Bobby Dylan, and in my semi-slumbering state I thought, "hold on, i recognise that little guitary bit in the chorus, it's rather similar to the state that i am in, i wonder if anyone has noticed this". So being a good sinibaby i trawled the archives, and between about 30 people asking if bobby had been in any movies, there it was mentioned back in the dawn of time, when it were all hairy caves and 70s WHO. http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199710/msg00581.html But this got me thinking, I haven't seen a definitive list of "songs that B&S songs sound like/have been 'influenced' by", and i was thinking of putting one together, unless someone out there has done it already. Anyway the ones i can think of are: The State that I am in - I want you - Bobby Dylan Slow Graffitti - Laughing Gnome - Dame David Bowie Mary Jo - Winters Tale - Gypsy King David Essex LLPJ - Some obscure soul record Calumn once played me String Bean Jean - The Kids Are Not Alright - The Offspring (although the influence was the other way round on that one) I'm sure there are more that have been mentioned over the many moons of the list, but those are the ones that spring immediately to mind. So the idea is if you can think of any more, send them to me (the more tenuous and unlikely the better) and then i'll make a big list and put it on the modern interweb somewhere, probably www.geocities.com/carsmilesteve/allmusicisintrinsicallyrelated.html or something... 96 mentioned the wombles, who coincidentally were mentioned on millionaire the other nite on the fastest finger question: "Put these wombles in alphabetical order a) Bungo b) Tomsk c) Wellington d) Orrinoco" Who the hell is BUNGO???? I've never heard of him, i think they just made him up, cos if they put Madame Cholet there would have been arguments about whether it started with a M or a C. Not that i was talking about kids TV, oh no, that's RIGHT OUT. vu mentioned makeoutclub.com. For a complete demolition (in a funny way) of makeoutclub and it's members read tanya at: http://www.freakytrigger.com/indie2.html made me laugh anyway :) enough xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 recent nursery parolee comes out of the shadows...
by Disc Go Round Bremerton 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

Hello Sinister Kids! I was notified last week that I had done my time in the nursery, and since today is my 28th birthday (does this make me one of the old folks here?), I'm at work, I'm bored, & the sun is out, I've decided to introduce myself. The sun being out in January has distracted me to the point of only being able to think in fragments, so hopefully these few fragments will give you a glimpse into my dark, dark soul. *I live in the Seattle area, and I know exactly two-and-a-half other B & S fans. *I do not have a "twee" personality at all, and I cannot explain or defend my L-O-V-E (that's right, all caps) of Belle & Sebastian, but I really, really do. *I did not vote for George W. Bush. *I am obsessed with Jim Reid (formerly of the Jesus & Mary Chain, currently of Freeheat). *In my travels, I have concluded that Edinburgh has the most hunky boys per square mile than anywhere else I've been, and I'm including the greater Los Angeles area & London in that statement. You Scottish gals are lucky, lucky lasses! *Strange B & S moment #1: this last summer, two days after "Fold Your Hands..." came out, I found myself in the emergency room. As I was laying in the hospital bed waiting for a doctor I had "The Wrong Girl" on a continous loop in my head. Strangely, this experience did not sully this song for me, and it still makes me smile. *Strange B & S moment #2: I tried to act out "Seeing Other People" a few months ago. Actually, he was seeing someone else, and I had just been dumped by his roomate (yikes!). Half a bottle of Jameson whiskey later, and all bets were off. My advice: do not try this at home. *Quote about the first Looper album that I liked so much that I cut it out & put it in the jewel case: "The only Scottish bands that should be saved from fire are Prolapse and the Jesus & Mary Chain. Jim Reid never wrote songs about his sheep escaping & having to chase it over the glen. Sing about guns and coke machines and girls in black leather, ya wee gadge!" By the way, I really like the Looper album. That's enough. As I get to know everyone better my posts will be more meaningful. As I said, it's sunny here in Seattle, and that makes it difficult to think straight. I'm sure you cats in the UK can sympathise. XOXOXO, Jen ===== Come to Disc Go Round in East Bremerton! (Fred Meyer Plaza) We buy, sell, and reserve CD's. We also now buy and sell DVD movies, so bring in those old movies today! Support your favorite local bands buy buying their music and merchandise at Disc go Round. Open M-S 10-9 and Sunday 12-6. Call us 405-0878. __________________________________________________ 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: Bridges thronging with these **riven** souls ... I had not thought death had undone so many
by David Moore 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

Hi All, Subjects are hard to pick, aren't they? This one could just as easily have been called "Elvis is Mrs Slocum's pussy" 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. As per "Dusty" Miller's instructions I checked out Looper's site now its been hijacked by "Peacock" Johnson. Firstly at work (left hurriedly - 4 letter word count too high) later at home. Book sounds interesting, pictures astonishing. Wee Yoko looks quite fanciable in her red wig, but I don't know who will go for John Winston David as Begbie (that's Francis, not the formerly fragrant Rodddd) in a Hawaiiian shirt. What do you reckon, Genevieve? "Carsmile" Steve wrote of soundalikes & said: "unless someone out there has done it already." And of course Mr Dastoor already had. See http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199906/msg00453.html on what was quite a good Sinister day. Mr Hewitt himself was even name-dropped by Tim Hopkins. If Belle and Sebastian are recording a film soundtrack I guess I'll have to drag my arse into a cinema soon. And talk of a single, too. Brilliant news. Can we have that released soon, too, please? Love, David Moore Chelmsford, 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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