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Sinister: is this my hometown?
by Stefano [Steady-State] 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

My Dear Sinisters Mark H. said a few of his colleagues think his a bit odd. I just think he is a lovely and still have to thank him properly for coming all the way down from O!X!F!O!R!D! to listen to the My Dear Killer gig about one month ago. And a couple of day after the south London black out that had left the tube in tatters for a while.that should be consider odd, but its definitely sweet! Thank you very much to Paul H. who came as well, thats was very nice of yours. Indeed. Talking about oddness that reminds me a couple of weeks ago I was standing in the pub at the Union with a few colleagues, as well. Actually, more or less the usual suspect. Still was August, in the tail of the heat wave, or something that. As usual after a few pints the conversation got out of control, and, as the Roman used to say, in vino veritas. Here is more lager then other, but alcohol is basically involved. Randomly talking about thirty-something related general disillusion and lack of satisfaction with everyday life A. pointed out all the good looking chaps in the place were we work are either taken, or dont wont to go out with people from work. And then, only the weird one remaining. As far as I remember Ive not been asked out by the dear A., I should be definitely included in the weird posse. Which is not so different from being considered odd. I always thought that a bit of mentalism is well, interesting, if not entertaining. It avoids boredom as well. B! ut, well, thank you very much for pointing it out! Something that ill be considered definitely odd by everyone who had known since well, thirteen I guess, is hearing me saying Im going to a club to dance. My main role in dancing events, before, well, I guess, December of a couple of years ago, has been trying to be as mimetic as possible with the wallpaper. Have you ever notice that there is a kind of tendency to paint the wall black in clubs? They are probably dark enough not to notice the colour the walls are painted anyway. I dont know what I thought was wrong with dancing. I think just I felt uncomfortable, generally out of place, and space, and overall silly. Guess, I was loosing it. It is surely things like having seen people dancing on teenage riot, or like dylan in the movies; being around at places such as How does it feel, the Silver Rocket, the Winchester club, which had made me changed my mind. Something which is not often so easy: I can be quite stupidly straight on my opinion, for how dull they are. Im wondering if is this what happiness is like? David mentioned there is a mk. II Tigermilking night year 2003, right after the football decider with turkey. I bet on turkey to be in the final of the world cup. They didnt make but deserved it. I tried to point it out to the booky but didnt work. They say only the final fixture was to be considered. Life is so unfair! And I am weird after all, So better go back to magnetic resonance and pencils for breakfast, Take care Your, rather steady Stefano +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: is this my hometown?
by Stefano [Steady-State] 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

My Dear Sinisters Mark H. said a few of his colleagues think his a bit odd. I just think he is a lovely and still have to thank him properly for coming all the way down from O!X!F!O!R!D! to listen to the My Dear Killer gig about one month ago. And a couple of day after the south London black out that had left the tube in tatters for a while.that should be consider odd, but its definitely sweet! Thank you very much to Paul H. who came as well, thats was very nice of yours. Indeed. Talking about oddness that reminds me a couple of weeks ago I was standing in the pub at the Union with a few colleagues, as well. Actually, more or less the usual suspect. Still was August, in the tail of the heat wave, or something that. As usual after a few pints the conversation got out of control, and, as the Roman used to say, in vino veritas. Here is more lager then other, but alcohol is basically involved. Randomly talking about thirty-something related general disillusion and lack of satisfaction with everyday life A. pointed out all the good looking chaps in the place were we work are either taken, or dont wont to go out with people from work. And then, only the weird one remaining. As far as I remember Ive not been asked out by the dear A., I should be definitely included in the weird posse. Which is not so different from being considered odd. I always thought that a bit of mentalism is well, interesting, if not entertaining. It avoids boredom as well. B! ut, well, thank you very much for pointing it out! Something that ill be considered definitely odd by everyone who had known since well, thirteen I guess, is hearing me saying Im going to a club to dance. My main role in dancing events, before, well, I guess, December of a couple of years ago, has been trying to be as mimetic as possible with the wallpaper. Have you ever notice that there is a kind of tendency to paint the wall black in clubs? They are probably dark enough not to notice the colour the walls are painted anyway. I dont know what I thought was wrong with dancing. I think just I felt uncomfortable, generally out of place, and space, and overall silly. Guess, I was loosing it. It is surely things like having seen people dancing on teenage riot, or like dylan in the movies; being around at places such as How does it feel, the Silver Rocket, the Winchester club, which had made me changed my mind. Something which is not often so easy: I can be quite stupidly straight on my opinion, for how dull they are. Im wondering if is this what happiness is like? David mentioned there is a mk. II Tigermilking night year 2003, right after the football decider with turkey. I bet on turkey to be in the final of the world cup. They didnt make but deserved it. I tried to point it out to the booky but didnt work. They say only the final fixture was to be considered. Life is so unfair! And I am weird after all, So better go back to magnetic resonance and pencils for breakfast, Take care Your, rather steady Stefano :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- lent you my favorite dictionary came back with ripped out pages stopped by so uninvited wasted good silverware on you you can't trust violence. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: is this my hometown?
by Stefano [Steady-State] 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

My Dear Sinisters Mark H. said a few of his colleagues think his a bit odd. I just think he is a lovely and still have to thank him properly for coming all the way down from O!X!F!O!R!D! to listen to the My Dear Killer gig about one month ago. And a couple of day after the south London black out that had left the tube in tatters for a while.that should be consider odd, but its definitely sweet! Thank you very much to Paul H. who came as well, thats was very nice of yours. Indeed. Talking about oddness that reminds me a couple of weeks ago I was standing in the pub at the Union with a few colleagues, as well. Actually, more or less the usual suspect. Still was August, in the tail of the heat wave, or something that. As usual after a few pints the conversation got out of control, and, as the Roman used to say, in vino veritas. Here is more lager then other, but alcohol is basically involved. Randomly talking about thirty-something related general disillusion and lack of satisfaction with everyday life A. pointed out all the good looking chaps in the place were we work are either taken, or dont wont to go out with people from work. And then, only the weird one remaining. As far as I remember Ive not been asked out by the dear A., I should be definitely included in the weird posse. Which is not so different from being considered odd. I always thought that a bit of mentalism is well, interesting, if not entertaining. It avoids boredom as well. B! ut, well, thank you very much for pointing it out! Something that ill be considered definitely odd by everyone who had known since well, thirteen I guess, is hearing me saying Im going to a club to dance. My main role in dancing events, before, well, I guess, December of a couple of years ago, has been trying to be as mimetic as possible with the wallpaper. Have you ever notice that there is a kind of tendency to paint the wall black in clubs? They are probably dark enough not to notice the colour the walls are painted anyway. I dont know what I thought was wrong with dancing. I think just I felt uncomfortable, generally out of place, and space, and overall silly. Guess, I was loosing it. It is surely things like having seen people dancing on teenage riot, or like dylan in the movies; being around at places such as How does it feel, the Silver Rocket, the Winchester club, which had made me changed my mind. Something which is not often so easy: I can be quite stupidly straight on my opinion, for how dull they are. Im wondering if is this what happiness is like? David mentioned there is a mk. II Tigermilking night year 2003, right after the football decider with turkey. I bet on turkey to be in the final of the world cup. They didnt make but deserved it. I tried to point it out to the booky but didnt work. They say only the final fixture was to be considered. Life is so unfair! And I am weird after all, So better go back to magnetic resonance and pencils for breakfast, Take care Your, rather steady Stefano :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- lent you my favorite dictionary came back with ripped out pages stopped by so uninvited wasted good silverware on you can't trust violence. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: what's left upon your dish
by Stefano [Steady-State] 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

My Dear Sinisters Mark H. said a few of his colleagues think his a bit odd. I just think he is a lovely and still have to thank him properly for coming all the way down from O!X!F!O!R!D! to listen to the My Dear Killer gig about one month ago. And a couple of day after the south London black out that had left the tube in tatters for a while.that should be consider odd, but its definitely sweet! Thank you very much to Paul H. who came as well, thats was very nice of yours. Indeed. Talking about oddness that reminds me a couple of weeks ago I was standing in the pub at the Union with a few colleagues, as well. Actually, more or less the usual suspect. Still was August, in the tail of the heat wave, or something that. As usual after a few pints the conversation got out of control, and, as the Roman used to say, in vino veritas. Here is more lager then other, but alcohol is basically involved. Randomly talking about thirty-something related general disillusion and lack of satisfaction with everyday life A. pointed out all the good looking chaps in the place were we work are either taken, or dont wont to go out with people from work. And then, only the weird one remaining. As far as I remember Ive not been asked out by the dear A., I should be definitely included in the weird posse. Which is not so different from being considered odd. I always thought that a bit of mentalism is well, interesting, if not entertaining. It avoids boredom as well. B! ut, well, thank you very much for pointing it out! Something that ill be considered definitely odd by everyone who had known since well, thirteen I guess, is hearing me saying Im going to a club to dance. My main role in dancing events, before, well, I guess, December of a couple of years ago, has been trying to be as mimetic as possible with the wallpaper. Have you ever notice that there is a kind of tendency to paint the wall black in clubs? They are probably dark enough not to notice the colour the walls are painted anyway. I dont know what I thought was wrong with dancing. I think just I felt uncomfortable, generally out of place, and space, and overall silly. Guess, I was loosing it. It is surely things like having seen people dancing on teenage riot, or like dylan in the movies; being around at places such as How does it feel, the Silver Rocket, the Winchester club, which had made me changed my mind. Something which is not often so easy: I can be quite stupidly straight on my opinion, for how dull they are. Im wondering if is this what happiness is like? David mentioned there is a mk. II Tigermilking night year 2003, right after the football decider with turkey. I bet on turkey to be in the final of the world cup. They didnt make but deserved it. I tried to point it out to the booky but didnt work. They say only the final fixture was to be considered. Life is so unfair! And I am weird after all, So better go back to magnetic resonance and pencils for breakfast, Take care Your, rather steady Stefano :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- lent you my favorite dictionary came back with ripped out pages stopped by so uninvited wasted good silverware on you can't trust violence. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oops
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Corrections and clarifications: 1) it is not in fact Stacey's birthday, of course. I think my brain has died and gone to librarian heaven (many books, no students, no cataloguing dilemmas). Possibly I meant to type Rachel Fruitloop. Even if I didn't, I will do so now. Happy birthday for yesterday! And Laura for tomorrow. And, um, Wallace Stevens. 2) Frankly Mark, you bore me. And did I mention that I suffer quite badly from travel sickness? Hope you haven't had the car valeted recently.... :P Right. Sorry again. (Send Stacey presents anyway, why the hell not?) Archel xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: You've been to me what a chocolate is to a girl on pms
by ulla 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Three years. Not an awfully long time. But not that short either. All those long distance connections that have warmed up my heart behind computer screen. But. I have to let you go now. For now. For some time. I hope to be back. Soon. (Maybe even sooner). Sigh, I feel like I’m writing a good-bye letter to a lover. You know, when you've been part of sinister it will never let you go. Somehow it will always be part of you. It makes a small nest upon your heart where it will stay forever. Some things are like that. Some people are like that too. So many of you are like that. People who are strong and proud to be vulnerable. The most significant thing about you is the tendency to care about everything others may find totally insignificant. This has been (and will continue to be) a place where people don’t have to scream to be heard. Thank you for that. Thank you for your sincerity. Thank you for letting me draw for you for a while. We’ll meet again. Ulla and of course: Happy birthday Llew and Rachel Fruitloop-Apps! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Dear Catastrophizzy Waitrizzy
by Mark Casarotto 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Yo, birthday wishes from me too, though I fear I may be a little late... Archel SO was doing a "frankly Sinister, you bore me" post there, but wussed out at the last minute. Typical of people who live in Brighton; they simply don't have the balls to deal with London. How's that for a gauntlet across the face? (NB to all you tweeists who are SHOCKED at my nastiness - I'm *not serious* and Archel is a very close friend who I am going to drive with for 8 hours, that's how much I like her. It's banter, it's fun, hope that's okay) SGS should post more, I think. She's dead right about "Piazza..." - it sounds more like Rhoda than anything else they've done, but if they use that as an excuse not to ever release Rhoda I shall personally go up to Struan and kick him in the nuts. And laugh. Heartily, like a pirate. "HA HA HA!" I don't like "Stay Loose". I don't like Bowie all that much, and it just sounds affected. Why produce one song to stand out like a sore thumb among its peers? Sore thumbs down for that one. Also "Roy Walker" - worst song since The Clunker? But but but - the rest of the album is a-growing on me with every listen. If it follows previous form, it'll keep growing on me for weeks and months and years, and I'll be able to hail it as a masterpiece despite the "Yellow Submarine"-ness of RW. It's ever so exciting, and makes me glow. Uh-huh, ah yeah, Mark xxx ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: for all those who want to listen to the album
by wp237567＠stmail.staffs.ac.uk 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

okay after my nonsecal mail yesterday I got an email from a beatiful Sinister virgin still kicking around the nursery called Maaike, unfortunatly my ignorance of dutch names means I can't tell you if thy are male or female or even somewhere inbetween or either neither, but we're all beatiful on here right? okay they sent me a link to a dutch radio sation's preview of the DCW Album so you can listen to the album online! http://www.vpro.nl/3voor12/luisterpaal/luisterpaalalbum.shtml?10617791+1425… You'll probably need a fast connection for it to work and the quality is retty good. All hail the androgynous Maaike. I'd pass their email address to you but I don't want to do that without their permission. you'll have to wait until they join the fold. Until then I'm keeping them in a little box! my apolagie for the spelling mistakes in my last mail, I hate spelling mistakes, but my webmail service for my uni address doesn't have a spell check... Neil P.S. sorry about the lack of cow Maaike, I'll send it when I have time! ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: b+s documentary and new website
by robin stout 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

I reckon Idleberry just wants Dear Catastrophe Waitress to be Tigermilk 5. I do agree that Underachievers Please Try Harder is probably the better album - it's one of the best albums I've heard for ages - but I like the feeling of recklessness that DICKYWUSS has about it. It manages to be diverse but still fit together somehow, like the old EPs used to do. And certain songs are absolutely gorgeous. I think Idleberry just wants Belle and Sebastian to be more twee. It's funny, I've heard a few people dissing the whole "I'd rather be in Tokyo, I'd rather listen to Thin Lizzy-oh" line, because it doesn't rhyme properly. I find this very odd. Stuart's lyrics have never really rhymed properly. In Lord Anthony he rhymes "toff" with "maths". I don't think rhyming has ever had anything to do with why i like Stuart's lyrics. Anyone can use a rhyming dictionary if they want to. I expect he doesn't want to. Well.. what i actually posted to say was that the B+S website has a link to the brand new Dear Catastrophe Waitress website at www.dearcatastrophewaitress.com, where you can hear snippets of the album tracks, read the song lyrics, look at photos and play a somewhat baffling game. The lyrics are great, and it's good to see them all laid out. Some of the lyrics here are different to those in the recording, another lovely habit of Stuart's - there are lines about CS Lewis and a whole extra verse to Stay Loose. There's also a lovely piece of writing by Stuart about eggs and how his favourite word is "creepeth", which I read last night when I was staggeringly drunk and don't remember all that well. This might be the sleevenotes, although i'm not too sure about that. Also, more exciting news, to accompany the single Step Into My Office b+s have released a documentary about a typical day in the life of Richard Colburn, during which he nobs some foxy secretaries and runs about in his pants. You can have a look at it here: http://www.lesinrocks.com/DetailArt...m?iditem=162182 . BYE!! robin xxx _________________________________________________________________ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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RE: Sinister: fuzzy
by Ruth Allan 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

oh thanks to rachel, I know exactly how she feels in that what was once a complete addiction in my life, not just to b&s but to suede and... oh my life... U2 and sidi bou said... arg... yes, and tiny songs like cornershops first ep meant everything to me, is no longer so powerful. I imagine its cos I have less cash and more bills and am 27 and contemplating what nursery to send the baby to, but actually its more cos like she says the hole in my life isnt so big anymore - and part of me feels guilty that thats the case. I hope its not just growing up in some ways, and I hope that music might take on something like that importance again. I still listen to music ALL day and waste the other parts discussing the merits of frontmen ( can it be reasonable to know more about damon alburn's opinions than your own?) and writing rubbish like this ; Dear Catastrophe Waitress Belle and Sebastian (Rough Trade) Know Belle and Sebastian's records and you'll understand what it is to hold your breathe until the album has a chance to weave it's way into your soul and you can sing nothing but 'Judy and The Dream of Horses'... making one appear highly fey. But with Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Belle and Sebastian have returned for their fifth proper album with an accessible avalanche of, well, catchy pop. From the folk frippery of tracks like 'Piazza, New York Catcher' to showtune bugling 'You Don't Send Me' it's all a bit different from the downbeat melancholia of Storytelling. Even if it doesn't grab you on arrival, know that in three months you'll have it on permanent rotation, and this time around, sing it loud, sing it proud - there is not a mention of horses in earshot. 9/10 - sounds a bit 'q' in retrospect... But it's just not my whole soul anymore. Boo. for me thats what comes from being split in two, but also from going out with people... whereas in the olden days I kind of whent out with brett and bernard from suede in my head, which meant that the boy on the bus wasnt quite so essential. humpf. gripping.. has anyone seen qee bears? or italian for beginners? or joe cairns from wigan? ruthxx -----Original Message----- From: Rachel Playforth [mailto:R.Playforth@sussex.ac.uk] Sent: 01 October 2003 10:31 To: Sinister Mailing List Subject: Sinister: fuzzy I don't know how I feel about the new album. Not that I've heard it, I just mean how I feel about the prospect. I don't think I feel anything. I just think: there's an album coming out. I don't have it in me to be a fan any more. Of anything. I still have music that I love to listen to; Buck 65 makes me marvel, Busted make me grin, Camera Obscura make me smile and cry, Go Betweens make me warm and fuzzy, Beyonce makes me shake my booty, etc etc. And Belle & Sebastian still do some of the things they always do. But they don't creep into an empty space in my head and live there any more, because that space isn't there. Nobody else's words or lyrics fit my life perfectly now, because I've worked out my own words (less eloquent though they may be). I can still be moved by music but I can't be defined by it. I can't turn to Stuart Murdoch to solve a problem, but I don't really need to. There's a trend, in my life as well as in some of my friends', to shift away from the 'meaningful' music I loved as a teenager - Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins and REM, and yes, B&S - and towards frothy chart pop. I thought for a while that this was just because I've grown up and I'm not such a repellent little snob. But thinking about it, it's also because some 'meaningful' music is only meaningful when you haven't got a meaning of your own yet. Once life has solidified around you a bit, even 10 minutes of intense wailing and verbiage doesn't quite cover all the bases. Better to leap around to S Club 8 and mentally stave off impending death than pretend that Coldplay feel your pain. And that's why gigs and albums and DVDs by Belle & Sebastian are just gigs and albums and DVDs to me now. I feel like a traitor, but then again B&S have always been more than the sum of their indie parts, just by virtue of indirectly causing Sinister and all its seismic interpersonal happenings. By which I mean to say: I couldn't have met half the people that give my daily life its sparkle were it not for Belle & Sebastian. That's no mean feat. So of course I'll buy the album and shell out for a ticket to see them in Brighton - finally! - and follow their fortunes with extra fondness, even if I won't spend any more time musing on the track order and the new direction and the lyrical conundrums that I would for anyone else. Hope you're all well and ready to embrace autumn (or spring). New seasons seem either to bring very good or very bad things, but nothing ever stands still. I'm going to be a student again next week, which is doing all kinds of scary things to my sense of identity. Maybe I *will* return to angsty music after all... Oh, and Glasgow lot - I'm hitting your city in two weeks time. It's been far too long, and I can't wait :) love Archel xxx PS. I refuse to believe that Maddieminx isn't still reading on the quiet, so: yo! Maddie! check your email! PPS. Very very happy birthdays to Stacey dahling and Laura Llew, two of the presiding spirits of Sinister and both deserving of gifts and adulation to the max! PPPS. 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