Hello Sinister!!! Hope everything's alright!
I'm OK, thanks!
My friends gave me a surprise birthday party! I never had one, and it was
really a surprise! It was soooo, soooo cool! I almost cried. It was the
best party, it started around 23:00 when I got home and went through the
night and the next morning until 15:00! And *almost* noone got tired!
But it happened last week, everyone already knows it, right?!
I had a dream last night, in which I found a skeleton on a beach. It came
back to life and pursued me in a desert road, it was driving a convertible
Mercedez and I was trying to escape riding on a bike... not that
interesting anyway.
A couple of weeks ago HUGO wrote about track lists... yesterday I watched
Yellow Submarine and I was thinking about how Storytelling would be perfect
on vinyl, just like Yellow Submarine, on one side you'd have the "typical"
B&S songs and on the other side they could put all that instrumental music.
I think they don't fit well the way they were arranged, even though
Consuelo Leaving is a perfect opener for Wandering Alone. But what the hell
is Fiction Reprise doing between Scooby Driver and Big John Shaft?!
This would be my track list, if it was on vinyl:
A
Fuck this Shit
Wandering Alone
I Don't Want to Play Football
Black and White Unite
Storytelling
Scooby Driver
Big John Shaft
B
Fiction
Freak
Night Walk
Mandingo Cliche
Consuelo Leaving
Consuelo
Fiction (Reprise)
See? No dialogues!
Hugo also wrote about album openers, I agree about SOTAF not being a good
one, I just couldn't find another song to replace it, perhaps Mayfly, but
then it would be a too uplifting opening for a Sinister album... And the
rest of the albums, well, they have quite good openers...
The best sequence in a B&S album is, for me, A Space Boy Dream - Dirty
Dream #2, it's one of those breathtaking sequences! And the best ending is
The Rollercoaster Ride, sure it is.
Was it a list?! Hmmm...Sorry!
She speaks! Flora speaks!!
I'm so happy, I met another sinisterete! Only for an hour or something
because I met her in the airport, she was leaving the country, moving to
Rome. She's from Brasilia and she had a flight connection in São Paulo.
Flora is her name.
She never posted to sinister when she was here... but now she lives in
Italy! I wonder if I'm the only Sinistro who lives in Brazil who's not
ashamed of my poor english! If so, well I'm not that shy after all! I wish
there were more brazilian sinisters, I only met Ana, and she's great, so...
Actually I think I'm the only non-european-american-australian resident who
posts to Sinister, as far as I can remember.
Do you guys know any method or medicine or anything that takes You Don't
Send Me away from one's head? Or at least Mick's trumpet? Please, please
let me know, I'm not sleeping well!
Kisses and hugs,
Fernando Brito
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dear sinisterians-
oh, its been so long since i've written!
and i have had enough of being a lurker. although i feel like i got
insight into some people like lindsay baker, ken chu, idleberry, archel,
rachel footloop and all the others, i haven't really thrown myself out
there.
well. i'm back in ken-tuc-ky. (yes where they made the kentucky fried
chicken). going for year 3 of uni and always writing for the school paper.
i have jumped on the bandwagon and written a blog.
http://mhoang.blogspot.com (it looks exactly like idleberry's actually.)
its been a fun summer. milwaukee was the best. and i got to meet the
famous kirsten kenyon. (but kirsten, i never made it to sendik's. next visit
i guess! BUT i did get a cute pair of shoes at Mr. Shoe before I left! :) )
so now i'm back in the sleeper of a town that is known as bowling green.
pop 50,000.
now that i have a cd player in my car, i have been listening to the boy
with the arab strap NON stop.
today is september. man time flew by way too quick.
i wish i had more to say. oh well, until next time.
how do you (being sinister) get to know me. well i guess i'll just keep
posting :) .
love, mai :)
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I felt tearful today - I was looking at beauty and I wanted to cry. The
beauty was sinister and everything it stands for. I have neglected it for
far too long.
SHENANIGANS
On Friday, I went to Feather Boa's birthday party. She was old, but I was
older. It was in a very swanky gentleman's club (or that's what it looked
like) and I wanted a pipe. Lots of people were in attendance, including some
or more from this parish. Everyone seemed to be up to shenanigans and I felt
old, but also like the geeky kid at the school disco who'd come along
because his mum said it would do him good. Something strange happened to me
at the party - nobody saw it, but now my head is confused - it made me think
lots and lots about what I am. I think it will go away.
When I felt a little more youthful I danced lots and lots. I showed Mr
Walton how you can dance to 'Waking Up To Us' - It was a wonderful time and
made up for missing the 5th birthday picnic.
HIDDEN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA / BELLE AND THE BOY SEBASTIAN
I shouted at Mr Walton. He told me that Storytelling was the best album.
"Pish" said I, "it's not even an album - it's a soundtrack". We argued about
it lots. He said it had 'recurring themes' which made it a coherent musical
experience. I think he was confusing recurring themes with repetition. It
has constraints which as the listener we cannot appreciate. A film
soundtrack has to be written within the bounds of the story and atmosphere,
providing a sort of artificially forced coherence which cannot be applied to
a regular album. Anyhow, everyone knows 'Sinister' is the best album!
I wonder when that video will come out? A good while back, everybody was
talking about making video's, and then Mr Neil told us that they were going
to release a video of videos, which excited me. And on the band site there
used to be (it might still be there) something which said they were going to
release sheet music of all the songs that weren't in the FISHYCLAPS book.
Hmmm, I wonder if this will ever see the light of day. What's going to
happen to Jeepster now? They've lost Belle And Sebastian, Snow Patrol,
Looper and presumably the Gentle Waves. Salako don't seem to do anything
anymore and Ian McCulloch has never released anything. I hope this isn't the
end because I rather liked Jeepster. So many questions!
CHICKFACTOR / CAMERA OBSCURA AND OOOOHH!
You know that gentleman's club I was referring to earlier? (for those who
skipped that bit because it was boring, refer to SHENANIGANS above) Well at
the end of the month, Chickfactor are doing a weekend of gigs to celebrate
their 10th anniversary (I think) and they include such luminaries as Camera
Obscura, The Would-Be-Goods and some other bands I can't remember. There was
an advert for it in the toilet, and I had to go to the toilet just so I
could see it. The gentleman's club is called Bush Hall and it's very posh.
This post was a mish mash of rubbish, pish, public service and childish
curiosity - how utterly drab and worthless. Perhaps I should have stayed in
my shell.
Stay beautiful sinister people.
Chris Jones.
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+-+ "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 +-+
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+-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+
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