December 2005 - Sinister

Sinister: Winter Dreams
by P F 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

The 1980s xmas classic playing over the utter stillness of the figures in the Rotary Club's Nativity display: surrealism, almost beyond Phoenix Nights. What most interests me this time in Wilde's Complete Letters: his gradual assumption of command at the Lady's World, henceforth Woman's World. A gender politics in the change of name and in his insistences about content - yet what a strange class politics endures in his repeated lists of contributors! 'The Princess Christian, Lady Portsmouth, Miss Thackeray, Mrs Francis Jeune, Lady Meath, Lady Wentworth, Mrs Fawcett, Mrs Craik, and others have promised to write...'! The tender gothics who gather still outside the ghost of their favourite record shop, as if drawn to its absence - or rather, as though coming to realize it was always an excuse for them to gather here. 'Santa in red', writes Robert Lowell in 'Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue', 'Is crowned with wizened berries'. Poignancy of the department store - whose structure makes me wonder if it is a direct evolution from the simple idea of a market with different stalls - classy, yet uncrowded while lesser shops teem. Taking Sides: 'One More Time' vs 'A Thousand Hours'. How bog standard to see Ross and Gervais, I mean, Greavsie, trying to make something unfunny funny, and falling into the gutter. Yet the next night Coogan and Brydon rise above the trashy interlocutor and the dull smut, and as they compete with each other's impressions a warm, clever comedy flies marvellously free. They no doubt rightly say that the iPod can make music newly unpredictable. But so on occasion can our old chum the old tape. I stick on my 1990 round-up and wait. Radio highlights of England vs Germany... the crowd noise drifting into that announcing Dylan, singing 'Forever Young' in Hammersmith... and that of the Glastonbury folk as the Cure launch 'Just Like Heaven'. 'I Won', less than a year old; Adam Ant's final February hit 'Room at the Top'; 'The King of Wishful Thinking'. 'A New England' reminds me how late I discovered so much; perhaps my sense of my own experience pop history has been planed down to agree more than once it did with pop history itself. 'Outside, the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs shone smokily through the tranquil rain. It was late afternoon and the streets were in movement; the bistros gleamed. At the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines he took a taxi. The Place de la Concorde moved by in pink majesty.... Charlie directed his taxi to the Avenue de l'Opera, which was out of his way. But he wanted to see the blue hour spread over the magnificent facade, and imagine that the cab horns, playing endlessly the first few bars of Le Plus que Lent, were the trumpets of the Second Empire'. Merry Christmas, sinister! __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Blancmange Got A Little Sour
by P F 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

5 September 1868 Portora School Darling Mama, The hamper came today, I never got such a jolly surprise, many thanks for it, it was more than kind of you to think of it. The grapes and pears are delicious and so cooling, but the blancmange got a little sour, I suppose by the knocking about, but the rest came all safe. Don't forget please to send me the National Review, is it not issued today? The flannel shirts you sent in the hamper are both Willie's, mine are one quite scarlet and the other lilac, but it is too early to wear them yet, the weather is so hot. We went down to the horrid regatta on Thursday last. It was very jolly. There was a yacht race. You never told me anything about the publisher in Glasgow. What does he say and have you written to Aunt Warren on the green note paper? We played the officers of the 27th Regiment now stationed in Enniskillen, a few days ago and beat them hollow by about seventy runs. You may imagine my delight this morning when I got Papa's letter saying he had sent a hamper. [illustration: 'Ye delight of ye two boys at ye hamper and ye sorrow of ye hamperless boy'.] Now dear Mamma, I must bid you goodbye as the post goes very soon. Many thanks for letting me paint. With love to Papa, ever your affectionate son, Oscar Wilde __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: If yule are feeling tinsellier
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, How is everybody coping with this season of indulgence? Not that it is the official term but that's what I and everybody I know, and their pets, seem to be doing. Even the pigeons on the roadside are fatter than usual (and they are usually already quite fat). I'm doing well, I think, hanging on just on the side of the express booze and food train as it speeds past December over its vomit laden tracks. Two more working days and work is finished for a couple of weeks, when the real indulgence starts. All the preparations of going to the gym in the past few months didn't go wasted, all the extra metabolism and muscles, soaking up every sip of alcohol - you can feel it every morning through the little aches as they cancel each other out. However, as much as I'd like to indulge it seems there are barriers stopping me from doing so. See, as well as wining and dining, I would also like to spend lots of cash on seeing Belle and Sebastian live, in places such as: London, Glasgow, and Cambridge. However, it seems loads of people have already beaten me to this rampant lavishness and those gigs have now been sold out. So I ask, you lovely people - do you have a spare ticket to the B+S gigs in either London, Glasgow (on the Sunday p'haps), or Cambridge? Do you? Do YULE? You know yule do. Happy wobs Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Northern Christmas
by Ian Halliday 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Ladies and gentlemen, Some weeks ago, I was at our local church listening to our music group singing hymns and spiritual songs, and as I listened, I couldn't help but think what a fine Christmas album Belle and Sebastian would make if they put their minds to it. I've spent the last fifteen years half a world away, where the sun shines brightly at Christmas and a white Christmas is a preposterous idea. So it was that I had missed the joyful session from Peel Acres three years ago and in fact had no idea that such a thing had ever been - until this week. I have been fortunate enough to acquire a copy of it, and it's made me feel quite festive. Though the year has been a very difficult one, it's good to be here, and to share a Christmas in the northern hemisphere, where the nights are cold, dark and long and the lights are bright and cheering. Ian -- Ian W Halliday, BA Hons, SA Fin, ATMG, CL +44 772 546 2965 (GMT) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 DJ Set
by davie kerr 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Ho-Bloody-Ho and any other festive sayings that may accompany such nonsense!! i was just wondering if any Glasgow based sinisterites were plannin on headin to the Liguid Lounge on 28th Dec as there will be an exclusive dj set by B&S(not sure which members). you may already know about this, if so, then i apologise for wasting your valuable time. flyer attached. anyways, the gig is for charity with proceeds going to the British Heart Foundation. and the band thats also playing, SDA or Sound Development Ageny, are a damn fine band from my hometown of greenock. they played glastonbury and the wickerman festivals this year and have also played a couple of nights at the QM. they're very upbeat, pretty fuckin funky and you will most definitely be able to dance along to them if you so wish rather than sit in a dark corner like me away from eye contact with the rest of the club. aaaaaaarrgh dont look at me!!! anyhoo, have fun davie find more info here: www.sounddevelopmentagency.com/index_ie.htm www.theliquidlounge.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: shameless list abuse
by Donna Vico 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hello there! I am Donna. I am what you might call a bit of a lurker on the list, but I'm willing to take as much abuse as might be thrown at me for this post.....only posting when I want something etc etc etc..... But this is important. Because I well as being a lurker I am also a bit stupid and *forgot* I had B&S tickets for Glasgow on January 15th, and booked a flight to go and visit family abroad from the 10th to the 16th. Having not been able to get tickets for both the Perth and Castlemilk shows I can't miss them again in January so if anyone has 2 tickets for the 17th that they'd be willing to swap then I would be most grateful. You can contact me at donnavico(a)hotmail.com. Merry Christmas Donna x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Join Stephen Pastel! Go on!
by Peter Miller 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Have you got hundreds of photos of Stephen Pastel lying around in your drawers? If so, you can join an exciting project to create the world's most comprehensive archive of Stephen Pastel photos on the visually exhilirating Flickr web community: http://www.flickr.com/groups/stephenpastel/ Older viewers may remember Warrender John, who likes nothing better than to drop milk crates full of empty bottles from the top of tower blocks. Well, he has set the ball rolling with some lovely shots of Stephen Pastel and the rest of The Pastels, as well as some pre-Bit Torrent advertising. I heard Funny Little Frog on the Tom Robson show on BBC Radio 6 - totally legit, straight-up. I think it is well-classy and I hope it comes with some corking B sides. I was wondering what the panel think about getting Push Barman when you've already got the singles. And I was wondering about that Let's Stay Up Late With Belle And Sebastian album that somebody lunk to recently. Thank you for your attention. Please join Stephen Pastel. Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Album releases in teh internets age
by Eric Brasure 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Yo sinister. The "Another Sunny Day" download is completely legit. It's from Matador. So download without fear of pangs of outdated 20th Century distribution model guilt. Speaking of which, does anyone know why Matador is releasing The Life Pursuit in America, and not Rough Trade? Does Rough Trade not have a distribution network in America any longer? I have already listened to the album, but I won't say anything more about it. This IYFS at the Barbican thing hasn't appeared in the U.S. iTunes Store yet. What's up with that? I could write other stuff about me, like how I'm starting library school next month, and I'm going to have Burger King for lunch, but... eh. I'll leave this post as is. Best, Eric "Cheesybun" Johnson +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Day Of Release (contains TLP spoiler)
by David Moore 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi All, PJM said: "I have seen an advertisment in the traditional music press for the Belle and Sebastian Civic Pride tour and I was wondering who the people in the photograph are. The geezer looks like Sam Mendes and the ladies look like the usual B&S street urchins after a wash and brush up. I say Sam Mendes because I am following a new policy of saying the first thing that comes into my head if I can't find the right words. I did of course mean Ken Livingston AKA Red Ken." In Another Place someone who might be close to the band's management said (& I hope he doesn't mind me repeting it here): "The ladies are, from left to right, Ms Katrina House (of course), Ms Natasha Noramly (of Glasgow group Fuck Off Machete, playing with Architecture in Helsinki in Glasgow tonight) and Ms Marisa Privitera (you just didn't recognise her with her clothes on - Sorry, Marisa). The gentleman is none other than Dave Anderson, who apart from being a Scottish theatre great, is Gregory's Dad in Gregory's Girl." The answer to his other question is available in the band's site's Q&A section, I think, but this is really hard to do on my webmail so I can't be arsed to find it right now. WARNING: "THE LIFE PURSUIT" SPOILER BELOW! ... I got Chicory Tip too! I hope that's not another 20% of the royalties I can hear whizzing away there. Yours in anticipation, David (OK, PH?) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Get me a wave-form here, I'm sineing.
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hey Dudes, I've heard Another Sunny Day! Yay. Go me. I heard it at the Barbican gig so it was all legit to quit. It was fucking ace, all like country and stuff. I have a confession to make. I never actually really know how to buy tickets for gigs, or where to look for them. That's really quite a stupid thing to not know how to do. I have only just found out I should check the band's website and I did and it told me exactly where to go, but now seetickets.com are telling me that the Hammersmith gig is sold out. Who are all these mentalists going to Hammersmith? It's like miles away! Can't people go to, like, Cambridge instead? Argh. Now I'll have to go to, like, Birmingham, or something, or take my chances of there being cute girls who have bought extra tickets to give away in exchange for sex. The latter strategy had worked well in the past, and through a good system of teasing and keeping them sweet and keeping an eye on my drinks at all times I never even have had to put out, so I might give it another go. I went on a little jet-tour of my own last week. The Red Bull Dozers played a short instrumental set, which included the hit song "A woman needs a fish", at the Tom Lee Music Shop in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong to a crowd of 3, before purchasing a Zoom G2.1u multi-fx pedal which is awesome. Now I'm back in the UK and jet-lagged and talking rubbish. Anyway yes the dude in that picture at the B+S website is so clearly Red Ken Livingston. xKen ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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