June 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: a short tale of self pity: we all need tails from time to time
by Gordon 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

I'm posting too much these days. Shoot me. Go on. Put me out of my misery. It sorta makes me tick to steal time though. This and that demand and limbo under all the crap and weehey! Space. That's me being a selfish git but what else do I have to live for? Normality is a dream that right royally sucks the life out of sensibility. Play the game because it suits the Empire? Screw it! Right now my internet connections are not functioning because some smart geezers placed profit over requirements of any other sort. Ok ok ok I'm sick so I took the day off work and want to talk to nobody or everybody or maybe I just want to escape up my own arsehole. Intimacy is a sweet terror. Content. This is a Belle and Sebastian mailing list and this is all garbage in 1400 in-trays. Go on! Shoot me! Delete! Actually I'm smiling now getting it out of my system. The talking cure. More ad-hoc witch-doctery. Today I don't exist. Perhaps I ought to type this all in white. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. For knowledge too in itself is power. Swiftly followed by 'nascentes morimur' meaning 'from the moment we are born we die'.... so flicking pages for a cheerier note: 'Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse' Ain't Kansas any more, Toto and; Miss. Garland, stop bursting into tears: it wrecks your mascara. Gordon see that colour yellow? We describe the sun with it. And vomit too. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: canterbury anyone?
by Rebecka popgirl 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

hey darlings, This is Becka in Sweden writing to ask of your splendid advice. The thing is I am going to uk this fall to study for a month in the wonderful city of canterbury and just though it would be nice to hook up with some sinister people over there, andthe question are there any in canterbury or areas close? We should hook up and have a picnic or a pubnight and be belle maniacs like we did, I am going to london some days too and maybe brighton for one weekend..I still recall the nice picnic we had 2 years ago in london at primrose hill and then the spread afterwards.. hope you all are doing well I am in stokcholm for the summer working my butt off but other than that things are going well..going to the accelerator festival on july the 5th with bands like :The Magnetic Fields,Arab Strap,The Strokes,The Moldy Peaches,The Black Heart Procession,Kathryn Williams,Four Tet,The Hives, The Bear Quartet, Magnus Carlson, Loosegoats, Fireside, Lemko Hall If anyone is in stockholm this week theyb should just tell us and join to the one day event.. hugs rebecka webpage: http://hem.passagen.se/beckygirl _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 was happy for a day in 1975, pity I wasn't born until 1981...
by Breams 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

Relationships are funny things. Not like "Funny, Ha ha", but more "Funny, funny". I s'pose odd is the word I'm looking for. When they're in process, I'm not sure anyone really knows what it is that keeps them involved, beyond the inexplicable desire to desire. When it's over, what exactly is it that you miss? I suspect it's one of two things. Either the lack of human companionship, or more than likely, the lack of regular and abundant sex. Half of the list would probably say they would miss the companionship, when obviously they're just not getting any, and the other half would say they're missing the sex because they've got reputations to uphold. Of course then there's the other half who are emotional reptiles, suffering acute nymphomania, and there predicament is too sad to even contemplate. The worst part of the whole kettle of koi (apart from the prospect that anyone might still be reading this) is that it's the severance of said contacts that causes gentle people like myself to utter complete bollocks to a large number of people, all of whom are ready to pounce on the delete key like a cat on petrified little defenceless mouse. I had grand plans for inspiring a mixture of sympathy and happiness with this post. But I think I've failed on both counts. Judging by my luck at the moment this post will probably implode when I hit the send button. Either that or it will elope with my mail program. Sorry to take up your precious time/space. Breams ps. I'm sick too, and I'm sure that mucous is a hallucinogen. So just put this all down to me being under the influence of illicit bodily fluids. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: from rubbish to RAH
by Rachel Playforth 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

i'm all for exploding seagulls. brighton's bin-men are on strike so we have spent the past week or so under an ever-growing pile of stinking rubbish. the seagulls, not my favourite fowl to start with, have been ripping apart abandoned rubbish sacks with greater and greater audacity. i think they may be evolving into a race of super gulls, driving humans away from their precious booty and effectively imprisoning us in our houses as seen in hitchcock's imaginatively titled 'the birds'. thankfully i am escaping to london (renowned for its clean streets of course) on friday for RAH! type entertainments. we are positively drowning in content round here lately, but nevertheless i'll also go wooo wooo i'm so excited and oo jonathan david's really good, as in listened-to-it-4-times-in-a-row good. it has what, come to think of it, i used to consider the b&s 'trademark': a delicately touching story combined with p!o!p! catchiness, last seen properly on IYFS. <sound of archel's fears being laid to rest> mmm, and i'm getting the vinyl next week. to fellow royal alberters: me, miss sophie and dj matt will be dragging our provincial arses up to a pre-gig pub around 6 or 7, hopefully the same one as the sinister massive :-) hm, i don't feel quite right using the word 'massive'. the sinister moderately-sized, perhaps. by the way, if you see ailsa ross running around in a panic on the night it's probably because i haven't given her her ticket yet. though it might also be because she's run out of alcohol... i hope you all recognise me with my new haircut. i'll be with a pretty girl with brown hair and a short sexy boy in glasses, falling myself somewhere between those two descriptions. (ie brown hair, glasses, short, and now look like a boy.) when all this gig madness is over i might propose a brighton picnic. because the beach is wasted on most of the dumb slackers that live here, really. luv a fucked in the head psycho-fan, archel xxx ps: wasn't that a lovely post from dimitra the other day? in fact you're *all* great :) *************************************** 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 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: seymour stain
by Ken Chu 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

Hello, Getting a haircut is *such* a scary thing, everytime I go I get abused by hairdressers with comments like "cor you haven't had a haircut for a while have you?" well I guess I ask for it for having such long flowing hair.. but now it's all gone, went to the hairdressers today and asked for a "good chopping" and off comes everything. "Who's that guy in the mirror?" asks a boy "he sure is sexy but who is he?" "Ooh it's me" replies the boy to himself as he adjusts his glasses and walked back to the computer room to type an e-mail to sinister. Primitive Painter said: >>...we have plans to cover the B&S song "Dog on wheels" but our version will be slightly different....it shall be called "Dead dog on wheels"... << I wonder if you're stealing Red Bull Dozers' ideas... (The creator of "Judy and the Dream of Corpses")... I'll tell them you know, and they will come and beat you up :-) They're very hard, you know, and they practice Satanism. Even the Red Bull Dozers have to stand aside tho this week cos of B&S! and RAH! RAH! RAH! It's Albert, he's royal and like most royalties he's a whore. RAH! Rachel Foreplay said: >>i hope you all recognise me with my new haircut. i'll be with a pretty girl with brown hair and a short sexy boy in glasses, falling myself somewhere between those two descriptions. (ie brown hair, glasses, short, and now look like a boy.)<< I wonder if you're stealing my idea... I, too, hope you all recognise me with my new haircut. If I'm lucky I might be with a pretty girl with dark hair although I can do without the short sexy boy in glasses bit, I have enough competition as it is, I'm also somewhere between those two description now (i.e. dark hair, sexy, glasses, short, sexy, and now actually look like a boy). RAH! So, are we all going to go to Royal Albert Hall wearing our best suits and dinner jackets? I am, that's why I'm wearing my t-shirt with only 3 holes in. Dinner Jackets and Red Bulls Ken +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Ballad Of Sam & Hannah
by Sam Walton 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

Hello all. SAM SAYS: Yes, the moment has finally come. My posts will go downhill from now, because I've done what John Lennon did in 1968 - got his bird involved. HANNAH SAYS: You cheeky get! SAM SAYS: Anyway... there is purpose to this post - it's not just to say that ner ner ner ner ner, I've got a woman - it's to say that me and her went to see the Kings Of Convenience tonight at the Union Chapel and it was fab in every way. HANNAH SAYS: <<in a mark&lard styleee>> Arrrryes. SAM SAYS: You can never keep them quiet, can you? Anyway, we were at this gig, and all of a sudden, Arlan from the band starts talking about his love for B&S, and me and her start grinning quite maniacally, and then he tells this story. He was at the Union Chapel when B&S played there back in the day before they went shit, and he pointed out where he sat and all the rest of it. Anyway, he said that he loved the band dearly, and wanted to complete the cycle by performing one of their songs tonight, and so he played his favourite one, You Made Me Forget My Dreams. He did it wonderfully, with his cute little twee Norwegian-tinged vocals, but the funny thing was that before he did it he uttered a little disclaimer that his band-mate categorically did NOT like B&S, which made people chuckle. There was also some boy in the front row wearing a B&S Ampersand teeshirt just like mine, which was totally unexciting. Anyway, so we're just writing to show off that we're going to hear one more live B&S song than all the rest of you in the coming two days. Hurrah. HANNAH SAYS: I have nothing to do with this post, I'm just watching Sam type, and have him by my side to correct me punctuation and that???!!!! SAM SAYS: Please kids, avoid people like this. They're full of shit. No, that's a joke of course, she's a lovely girl. HANNAH SAYS: My arse. SAM SAYS: You're right. She's not a lovely girl, she's just got a lovely arse. Anyway, here's the point of the post: We saw Kings Of Convenience tonight and they were fab and they played a B&S cover, and we like to bicker with each other. HANNAH SAYS: I'm gonna take this opportunity to have a shower. What shall we call this post? SAM SAYS: I dunno, how about 'The Ballad Of Sam And Hannah' HANNAH SAYS: <<in a butch voice>> Yeah, that's quite nice. You're going home in a funking ambulance. SAM SAYS: Oooh, what an attractive prospect. See you all on Friday. x _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: travel in the southern usa
by COURTOLY＠aol.com 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

Hello listees, I haven't posted in a while but I did this last time I traveled and met with good results. I'm leaving tomorrow morning to drive across the united states. We're going to visit new Orleans, Houston, Austin, Tucson, and some places north of there...but we are two lovely girls who need places to stay this week, or at least yards to put a tent up in. We make good company, good cooks, and good conversation. I have a cell phone for this trip, and the USA # is 706-380-5101....I don't feel wierd about posting my cell phone number to a web of strangers. We are headed back to Olympia Washington. If anyone would like to adopt us...hmmm...there are sexy pictures of me at the Sinister headquarters site if you want to look first. Or on the makeoutclub.com ... hmmmm.... are there many listees on the MOC? It is a fun site, highly recomended unless you're interested in s/m-in which case you'll discover all people into bandS/Music or the smithS/Moz Love Courtney B +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Was Batman's Kaiser Bill...
by MIWinship＠aol.com 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

PEDANTIC CONTENT Eagle-eyed listees may have noticed that this week's (shining) NME live review of the Glasgow gig(s) refers to the Friday date but the accompanying photo clearly shows the bagpiper, which was on the Saturday. Gah! WHISTLING Yes, it's true that the man who claimed to be 'Whistling' Jack Smith had nothing to do with the record. I recommend finding his album, 'Around the World With..', in any good charitable shop, if only for the disturbing 'psychadelic' cover image of Jack clutching a globe and grinning blankly. The 'musical director' (and possible real whistler) was Ivor Raymonde, who arranged Scott Walker's solo albums and is the dad of Simon Raymonde from the Cocteau Twins and, and, and.... Whistling fans should check the appendix in the excellent book 'Ways of Hearing' by Ben Thompson for more examples of "those parts of a song which can't - or shouldn't - be put into words". Arab Strap and the Smiths are in there. I trust that revised editions will include '...Middle Distance Runner'. BUS DRIVERS Whilst I would never expect to get on a bus with a £10 note (that's just asking for trouble...) I was also subject to bus driver bastardness in the Greenwich area today. It was that trick of the bus you want tailgating the bus you don't want so that when the one in front stops the one behind overtakes and shoots off, 'conveniently' having not seen you as you desperately try to flag it down as it passes the stationary 177 and you swear at him then realise the other bus is still there with it's doors open.... Oh, enjoy the RAH Band, everyone. I hope they do 'The Crunch' for you.... Mike. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The infamous Haskell/Murdoch connection.
by M. Timothy Meskers 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

THE INFAMOUS HASKELL/MURDOCH CONNECTION I was watching television the other day, and Leave it to Beaver was on. There was talk of sweets and talk of the Beav having a sleep-over, and if Wally can sleep at his friend's, why can't the Beav? So Wally and Lumpy went to visit old Eddie Haskell at the garage. I'm not sure if this particular actor always played young Edward, but I'll be darned if he didn't look much like Stuart. So my point is, next time you're watching Leave it to Beaver, keep an eye out for Eddie. Tell me that he doesn't look a bit like our own Stuart Murdoch. SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL... He still hasn't written back yet, although I didn't expect him to- I just wanted to thank him. Your tales of the beach and hobknobbing with the stars are inspiring and disheartening at the same time. One day, though- One day I'll see them. A NOTE ON ACCOMPLISHMENTS We just hit our 500th digest a few back, hooray for everyone. I also like the new addition to the quote box at the end of every post. See if you can pick out which one I'm talking about. ON DIFFICULTIES OF LEARNING TO PLAY LEFT-HANDED GUITAR I will send my right arm and left leg (for aesthetic purposes, we must have balance) for a set of Belle & Sebastian pins. I didn't want to resort to this, but I've got two kid- neys as well, if anyone's children are needing. Or if you'd rather, I could send you an autographed cd-r of Secret Agent X-9's greatest hits. BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS I am really excited to read about all of your concert experiences, keep them coming! WHAT IS POPULAR IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT ALWAYS POPULAR. I don't know about the pedal steel in Carriage Clock. No offense if the player's on the list, I don't question your talent at all. You play a mean pedal steel but I didn't think it fit with the rest of the song. And for anyone who's wondering, I got this particular subheading off of a banner I saw in my seventh grade mathematics class. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: chip taylor & belle & sebastian
by Megan Conniff 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

I checked the archives over and over again, figuring that SOMEONE must have pointed this out before, but all I could find were sinister's references to Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing." So I thought I'd point out that there are some fairly good pictures of belle & sebastian on chip taylor's site, http://www.trainwreckrecords.com under photo gallery. You can see one of Hyndland Parish Church as well as a pretty nice shot of the whole band. Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I just came across it today and got excited. And if anyone does look at the web site and see the pictures, tell me, is it just me, or does Stuart's shirt seem a bit too transparant in the second picture, right on his elbow? Every time I look at it, it irks me. Maybe it's just the light. Maybe it doesn't matter. Well, no, I know it doesn't matter. But there you go - Megan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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