November 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Can I tell you a story?
by Alexander Bartilson 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Hi, here is another mail from a member of the Swedish massive. Big it up. Respect. :-) First of all, I heard two songs from the new single yesterday. "I'm waking up to us" and "Marx and Engels". Boy were they good. Even though Stuart sounds strange on "IWUTU". But strange in a good, cool way. I can't wait for the single to come out. Today I saw Storytelling on the Stockholm film festival. It was really good even though I think I have to see it a few more times to get some question marks that are currently circling around in my head straighened out. The movie is divided into two parts. The first is called "Fiction" and it's duration is about one third of the film. The music to that part is made by Nathan Larson. The second part, with the music made by Belle & Sebastian, is called "Non-fiction". I'm still trying to figure out the connection between the two parts. So far I haven't come up with any. I mean it doesn't HAVE to be any connection between them but...I don't know. Another thing that I reflected on about the movie is that it isn't much music in it. But the music that is in it is really good. One B&S song is called "Storytelling" and that was great, really great. Sarah or Isobel sings it. Apart from that about 2-3 new songs are featured in the film. Plus "The state I am in". Anyway, I hope you're all doing well and that you get a chance to see Storytelling soon. ///Alexander +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: storytelling
by Mouche75＠aol.com 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

hi i bought the new issue sight and sound today. sight and sound list great things in their reviews; the duration of the movies in minutes and seconds, the length of the film in feet... and they also list complete soundtracks. the storytelling credits list four belle and sebastian songs, three of which i've never heard of: the state i am in i don't want to play football scooby driver storytelling they're also credited with "music" so i guess there will be instrumental pieces too. in my head, storytelling is already the song of the year. oh, one other thing... thanks to everyone who came to the national pop league last friday! i was astounded by the turn out... there will be another one on january 25 next year... but i'll remind you nearer the time. mouche. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: put us back on the train
by juju cat 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

halo sinistrine. i came back from my adventures abroad. then i went to LA and got so sick i could do little but sleep.. so i missed the meet. please have another when i'm not so ill. i must have izone pix of all of your shoes. now i sit in a cube in a small dark room with other sad people in anticipation... it has been a slow death, but friday, the head falls all the way off, and we will be left in a ghost town to clean up afterwards. i know companies die all the time. i know it's sad to see eras end. but this one was so special.. this is devastating not just for the community of people that have been employed here for years: this is sad because the company [was] a music distributor. (if you live in the us and bought a belle and sebastian cd released on matador, you can betcher trousers it went through us first.) and tho i think my label will be ok, struggling with other little distros elsewhere, i am mourning the loss of so many little indie lables that have only thrived with our help. they will now be gone forever. and all those people who give so much to make something pretty while they can to give back to the world will now be in debt and never be heard. it is sadder than sad. plase never stop buying records. i think i shall work in the library. i will get lost in children's books and think of my adventures in engerlund. i will still play in the piano bar at night, but i will play more than 'cocoon' and 'we rule the school'.. i will play 'fox in the snow' and remember the foxes i saw. the one who crept up behind me on the streets of london the night before i left, who caused me to "eek! a fox!" and the one in the form of a lake in the hills of northern california that i saw the next day on my flight home. and i will still wonder what it all means. (if anybody knows, please, do tell.) i suppose i can't post without mentioning *him*... well, he called me yesterday, from his newly appointed post at home, unemployed like everybody else now. he was feeding her cat his tuna. but still managed to flirt with me.. and today he signed on to tell me farewell. he has flown away to engerlund now. then to czech republic. and he acted like i went without him on purpose.. as intelligent as he is, he must not be so daft as to think i wasn't waiting for him to say as much as two words to get me to wait for him, what with all the begging i did to make him come with me. he must know i only went so i could bear his disappearing. still, he proves himself time and again to be a dumb boy. confound it all, i love him tho. and this just feels like.. spinning plates. --juju girl in the snow, where will you go to find someone that will do to tell someone all the truth before it kills you listen to your crazy laugh before you hang a right and disappear from sight.. what do they know anyway... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Is The Grosvenor Café Being Sold?
by David Moore 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Hi All, <cough> excuse me interrupting, but if anyone's interested there's a new section on the band's website, called "Writing". The first entry is a piece by one Stuart Murdoch, about fear of flying, safe little café booths, dear non-catastrpohic waitresses, well, why don't you go & read it yourself? http://www.myspace.co.uk/belleandsebastian/writing.html The implication is its the first of a series, in (backwards) chronological order. Pooh. It'll take ages to get all the way back to 1996. Grainne mentioned tix for the Mandela Hall (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - will that do, Helen? :) ) gig being available on ticketmaster.ie - they're also on http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/cgi/asp_events/byid.asp?event_id=1800336D9C15F 962&category=Music I would love to go, but to do so would have to spend an amount of money that would seem obscene for a charity gig. So I hope everyone who attends has a fantastic time. Someone just send me a tape so that I can get to hear them play Brown Eyed Girl or whatever. Thanks to Mayumi & Graham for Reporting Back, & so beautifully. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything, everything if you want things David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm standing here til the wind catches the leaves
by ArtsyDeco＠aol.com 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

It is a day. Definitely a day. I wake up and look around. My roommate is still sleeping. Good. She's a loud person and I don't do well with loud in the mornings. I put the finishing touches on my Irish homework and take a shower. I come back and Beth's mom is here. We discuss some things and the origin of the name Colleen. I know this origin because I take Irish here at Boston College. She keeps on insisting that the word Cailin is Caitlin, but an agreeable woman I think. I slip the headphones over my ears, shove a box of cookie crisp in my backpack, slip the diskman in the big purple pocket of my coat. It's okay, I set the non-skip device. Wave a silent goodbye, slip your hand in the pocket to turn up the volume. You haven't listened to Belle and Sebastian in a while. Stars of Track and Field is working sublimely with the startlingly clear autumn sunlight. Oh beautiful, the leaves are glittering down around you. Pull your hood up girl, it's freezing out here. I get into Stuart dining hall (hehe Struan dining hall) and get a bowl and some milk. The guy at the cash register gives me a look. I'm glad I have my head phones on or he might ask why I need the bowl. I sit down and produce the cookie crisp from my backpack. Eating them is a delight. Cookies for breakfast. I can't help grinning. There's milk on my lips and cereal in my teeth, but oh well, I've always had a fondness for Like Dylan in the Movies. Get to Irish. I got an A on my midterm. Made a few mistakes with definite articles, but life is pretty much good. The headphones are back on as I walk to the bus. I'm looking straight forward. I'm going back to my room. Then I'm getting on a plane in 47 days. What happens inbetween doesn't even exist to me. I'm grinning again, but with a clean smile this time. Today I found out that adjectives are really verbs. A while back I found out that the letter H does not exist. It's crazy, you go around assuming things exist and then find out that they don't at all. It's wonderful. It might sound crazy, but I'm beginning to like the life I'm living in a whole lot. Kara Jean* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: tickets for belfast
by Grainne Lynch 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

So, there are tickets for the gig on the 21st in Belfast available on ticketmaster.ie but there is no mention of transport there and back. I'm not really sure what the story is, if these are the same "limited amount of tickets released in the Republic" or not. But I was told to let you all know by Trish, who already has tickets and is very excited, because the capacity of the Mandela Hall is only 550 and so will probably sell out pretty quick. Grainne (who is looking forward to seeing the Frames almost as much as Belle and Sebastian, because they are absolutely fabulous!!) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: child bride / sake and gin
by Graham Henderson 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Well then...so... A beautiful 16-legged musical miracle rolled into Japan on Monday night, for the first leg of a whistlestop tour which very suspiciously includes no weekend night. This happy gaijin learned a few new things over the course of the evening: 1) Fred Savage, dimpled star of hit TV schmalz 'The wonder Years' did not simply just fade from the public eye as he grew older. Instead changed his name to Stevie Jackson and moved to Scotland, where he learned to blow a truly mean harp. Kawaii, ne? 2) Kujo is not a big rabis St. Bernards dog from a second rate Steven King movie, but actually a station on the Osaka OTS port line. 3) A carefully planned mullet can actually be very, very cool indeed- nice one Bob. 4) Watching Stuart dance makes my neck hurt quite a bit. 5) Osaka is a very big and confusing city, where you can walk for three quarters of an hour and still be in the same train station. 6)Big Man in Osaka is actually a very large TV screen in Hankyu Umeda station that serves as a meeting place for the locals. In Glasgow it's a phrase denoting a modicum of respect, when received from spotty youths in shell suits. 7) I'm not Mark. Standing at the Big Man (see above) -"You're not Mark, are you?" -"No I'm not." 8) Mick actually does smile sometimes. 9) When she's doing her little mock-boredom percussion playing face, Isobel goes right off the top of the cute-o-meter. 10) Belle and Sebastian absolutely rock. The gig was great..there was the odd cough, splutter and cleared throat here and there at the beginning, but hey, its the first night. Stevie swung enchantingly between boy next door and boy that thinks he's johnny cash, stuart was the consumate entertainer and demonstrated once and for all it's confidence, not coordination that makes a truly great dancer. In fact everybody was just bloody lovely and the only complaint one could make about the concert is that it didn't last forever. Oh, that and the sound quality at the Zepp Osaka, which did make Stuart sound a little like Davie Jones sometimes. So it was all cool really. And then I got the Shinkansen as far as Okayama, met some Aussie mates and bored them to tears with a blow by blow description of the whole event. Then I got really drunk. Nice Song of the night: I fought in a war, just for stuarts extra slow moody start. Thanks to: DundeeRachel, L.A.Rachel and Oon for wishing me luck in my endeavours. I didnt get any good luck messages from any wills... Especially to the lovely Yuko Kaido, who was my guide and companion for the evening, and without whom I would probably have never found the concert hall, and would probably still be wondering lost around the streets of Osaka right now. Small Raspberries to: Dundee Rachel, who sees too many good concerts for my liking. Big Raspberries to: Motoko and Takahiro, who ended up not going to the gig. Your punishment is your crime. Lot of love to: Each and every one of you, and to Belle and Sebastian. Kyotsukete ne? Tobi Tbwthe _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: water is the new vodka!
by Hannah Brown 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

It's true don't you know, everyone at my college is currently ill, on a diet or broke so water seems the best chioce. Isn't djing just so much fun, why do i always get a f**kwit bothering me. Sam's post reminded me of an insident recently, i was playing a bit of jazzy stuff when a girlie girl approached me. The conversation went as follows: HER: 'scuse me, got any drum and bass? ME: er ive got a track with a sort of drum and bass rhythm? HER: oh, er got any pop? ME: What do you mean by that? HER:POP! ME:no! HER:is this hip hop? ME: NO it's MR SCRUFF, listen, speak to that blonde guy at the other side of the room, he will help you out, fnarrr!!! Don't you just love 'em. Changing the suject drastically, I CANNOT WAIT FOR HARRY POTTER!!!! maybe i'm being sad but i am very excited about it, the trailers look fab. I'm going to invite loads of people and make a day of it, i might have a party where we all dress up as wizards, get drunk and try and play quiddich by hanging off the lights and pelting oranges at people, fun! What's going on with the old london meeting? Is it on the 18th? It's a crap post hannahxxxxxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: a monkey in every office!!
by Fiona Fairbairn 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

>Despite what you may have read or assumed, the railway still >continues its operations around the clock, 365 days a year and we >have not gone home. Railtrack,the national rail infrastructure owner, >still needs to recruit graduates to start with the industry in >September 2002. isn't that the greatest beginning to an email ever, i was muchly confused until i realised that it was just a stupid recruitment thingie that the university careers people insist i receive all the time. i do wonder where railtrack would go home to i imagine a big community all living in an engine shed like the one in thomas the tank engine and then they'd get to play on the turnyroundythingie that the engines use when they need to go in a different direction. my dad knows loads about the history of local railway lines and he's always pointing to random buildings and telling me how they used to be a station. its amazing how many mounds of earth used to busy railways. just thought i'd share. i have a sort of half-arsed hangover today, i don't really feel ill, just a bit slow and i keep mixing up words (i got confused between elephant and aeroplane earlier) and for a while this morning i wasn't sure if any sound would come out at all and it wasn't until the very end of my Contemporary British Culture class that i decided to try and make the effort, fortunately it worked, but it made me a little sad that everyone had been deprived of my witicisms concerning the working classes and masculinity. nevermind eh... last night i played different songs in my dj set to what i normally do. it felt good. it also felt good to have someone who prides himself on being knowledgable about stuff not recognise folk implosion and had to ask me what it was. hehe. one sinisterine was in attendance *waves at antony (you don't have an 'h' do you?) but i know there's more of you in manchester (i'm looking at you chris_t_opher) and i shall expect to be seeing people at the next indigo november 27th @ the phoenix. i WILL be reminding you later. the girl sat next to me is eating smarties. i want smarties. i'm going home now to eat fried food, perhaps that will make me feel better. love and monkeys, fiona. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "I thought that you would never say no," she said, "you look like the silent type."
by Gardiner, Stuart 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

There's been a lot of posts recently starting something along the lines of "hello, I'm new here". Which is good. But in the interests of neutrality, I feel duty-bound to show the other point of view. So, hello, I've been here for bloody ages. It's a sad day when 250 people die in a plane crash, and the first reaction of many (most?) people is relief that it was an accident. I was wearing my TWATTYBUS T-Shirt yesterday, and I had 2 people comment on it. The first was a fifty-something lecturer in my department who asked why I was wearing a T-Shirt about a TV Show which was on before I was born. And the second was a sixty-something barman at the Sports Hall bar who asked what an Arab Strap was. I said I didn't know. Well, you'd have done the same, wouldn't you? I'm disappointed that they changed the name of the new single. IWUTU is a very dull acronym; The Season Has Arrived would make THESHAG. Almost. While I'm here, answers to questions in other posts (nb answers not neccessarily in the right order): No. Well, obviously. Wait until Christmas. Of course we didn't. I don't know either. Yes. I hope that's helpful for you all. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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