August 2005 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Just a Modern Rock Story ?
by leigh kelsey 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

has anyone brought this up? if so, how did i miss it? oops. i bought it yesterday. we'll see what it has to say. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312341377/qid=1124727400/sr=… lala, leigh +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i predict a picnic...i predict a picnic
by Linda Kerr 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Dear sinisterines Well, I think a picnic is a great idea, for lots and lots of reasons...Honey is telling me I should go, even though she can't, but I am a bit crap about getting places and turning up at all, and me knee is playing up, and my back isn't what it used to be, and as for my eyes... actually speaking of my eyes, I was in an opticians rcently and by a tangental leap the young whppersnapper of the optician and I got talking about Carey late of this parish and of Camera Obscura..obviously puzzled by my acquaintance with the young lady in question he asked if I was a musician. The temptation to give voice to my alternative reality in which I am her out of the Delgados surged, but I resisted. Other lies less spectacular - maintaining the fiction of being Irish and having visited Orkney - have caused enough trouble. So, I said primly that I met her through a friend. And that friend is you, sinister. I have enjoyed the lyrical posts of late summer, and the report from gigs and of books, and the requests for reports of gigs and books. It's nice to see sinister rippling again.. Honey and I have two new kittens, which I hope we can keep, as they are invading the resident cat's happy home, but at the moment the five of us girls are all piled up together listening to Echo and the Bunnymen - Honey is doing sinister stuff and playing the music, Mitsou is chewing her paw, Scout (or maybe we'll call her Frog) is dreaming of eating beetles, Splat is trying to pretend we all don't exist and I am writing to you. Take care. Linda PS Just read The Duke's email - Jens is swoonworthy - Katta sent us some of his stuff and we like.. Mon, 22 Aug 2005, lynsey callaghan wrote: > well hello sinister, > > it's been a while (apart from that email i sent to you all by mistake > made me look and feel very silly, so let's not talk about that. that's what > happens when you put the address for a mailing list in your contacts list. > woops.) > > it was brought to my attention over the weekend by sir kenneth of chu, and > then again today, by miss honey, that this saturday (yes! THIS saturday!) is > the list's 8th birthday. so, i thought i'd do the honourable thing and > propose a picnic, this saturday, in the park. i suggest a jaunt to > kelvingrove park, glasgow, on saturday afternoon, with BOUZE and FOOD and > other such delights. > > who's with me? and more importantly, who wants to take on the responsibility > of being picnic mummy (because as anyone who knows me can attest, i will most > definitely be late, and that's no good to anyone)? > > > lyns > xox > > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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! +-+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i predict a picnic...i predict a picnic.
by lynsey callaghan 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

well hello sinister, it's been a while (apart from that email i sent to you all by mistake, which made me look and feel very silly, so let's not talk about that. that's what happens when you put the address for a mailing list in your contacts list. woops.) it was brought to my attention over the weekend by sir kenneth of chu, and then again today, by miss honey, that this saturday (yes! THIS saturday!) is the list's 8th birthday. so, i thought i'd do the honourable thing and propose a picnic, this saturday, in the park. i suggest a jaunt to kelvingrove park, glasgow, on saturday afternoon, with BOUZE and FOOD and other such delights. who's with me? and more importantly, who wants to take on the responsibility of being picnic mummy (because as anyone who knows me can attest, i will most definitely be late, and that's no good to anyone)? lyns xox +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Book has been claimed
by Ana Cristina Morais 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi everyone, Just a short post to let anyone else who might've been interested that the extra copy of 'Just a Modern Rock Story' that was up for grabs, has now been claimed. If someone should still want a non-free copy, contact me privately. I'm able to buy books from my press at half off, so I could get a few discounted copies for those that are interested. Wish I was in Glasgow so I could go picnicking :o( tchau, ana +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A journey of 12,000 miles
by Ian Halliday 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

You may remember me from a long time ago, when I occasionally posted things here. It seemed strange to be one of so few B&S fans in New Zealand, but I stumbled across the band. I was at school with Honey a long, long, long time ago, and when I found out what he was up to, it was natural to look into these musicians he was so excited about, and I did that. The music was magical in a way I hadn't come across since the days of the Television Personalities. They could have been bigger than the Beatles, but in fact this never happened. At the end of June, my family and I left New Zealand to return to England, which we left in 1990. This was largely for family reasons. Our arrival back at Heathrow was not the brightest, being on the morning of 7th July. After overcoming the shock of these events, we have started to settle again into the life of the homeland, where one of the most noticeable things is the soundtrack to life. The music that is played in supermarkets, cafes, pubs, clubs and lifts in Angleterre, while maybe not the music I would choose, is so much more in tun with my inner self than the music played in supermarkets, cafes, pubs, clubs and lifts in New Zealand. Is this just me, or is it like that for everyone who returns home? If you want a gmail invitation, don't pester Honey: he's got enough to worry about. Pester me instead. I've got enough to worry about too, but that's another story. Ian -- Ian W Halliday, BA Hons, AAIBF Snr, ATMG, CL http://ringbark.livejournal.com Word documents not accepted - see http://baptism.co.nz/word.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Stuart and ME
by honey＠missprint.org 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

No, not "Stuart and me", "Stuart and ME": an article by Paul Whitelaw in the Scotsman, what wrote that book. Possibly it's an extract or condensed Reader's Digest version. http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1811622005 Obviously I have an interest to declare as I've had the same thing for 12 years, and our pal Ciara MacLaverty, the cover star of Feeling Sinister has for longer. If you don't have ME, you're just not hip. Calling it CFS just isn't where it's at, but if you're not in the UK, that's what you might know the condition as. It's not a fantastic description of ME - I'm currently in the biggest relapse of my life, and wouldn't manage sitting at a piano for half an hour just now as per the article. In fact, we have a harmonium in the front room, Ivor Cutler fans. But it's broken, which is probably a blessing, at least for cats and neighbours. My favourite Ivor Cutler song is probably "Sharks", which you need to hear. Anyway, the other point of this mail is to test the list, because it's having jitters. I spent yesterday trying to figure out why, with the admirable help of Sir Kenneth of Chu, who I have yet to thank. I think I know why now, and it's due to the stupidity of my hosting company for missprint.org, who've suddenly taken it upon themselves to count anyone mailing to more than about 10 people at a time as a spammer, with idiot new software what they wrote (I seem to be quoting Morecambe and Wise today, which isn't a core symptom of ME - sorry). Funnily enough, if you pay them a heck of a lot more money, they stop counting you as a spammer. I've put in a kind of part fix to fiendishly avoid the stupid block, so I guess if you get this mail it might have worked. Miss Print's will probably just explode though, like Willy Wonka's lift. So it looks like I will have to move missprint somewhere more friendly, which brings in a whole lot of other difficulties. Progress will be slow. In the meantime, please bear in mind that there may be times when the occasional message will get through to the digest, but not to the main list, and won't be listed in the archive until I patch it up later. I'm really sorry about this, and will fix it. If you're on the main list and notice your own message didn't get through, please feel free to resend, but wait 24 hours or more, like Spacey Stacey did. Digesters may have to put up with the odd repeated message until I can summon up the energy to move the list. But I'd rather be using it to write "We Rule The School", if I could. Please don't be put off posting! List membership number is a very very mysterious thing, worthy of investigation by Institutes of Parapsychology: it has remained constantly at near 1500 for about 5 years, much to my astonishment, and that's with me weaning out the old addresses constantly. So pipe up. Honey 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: Just a Modern Rock Story
by Ana Cristina Morais 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi everyone, With Honey's blessing, here goes my second try: I've belonged to the list for a few months now but this is my first post. I've been a fan of B&S for a while, but have only recently (within the last year or so) gone all out and got my hands on everything of theirs I could. In response to Honey's requests for anyone to post on the book: I work in publishing, specifically at the American publisher of this book so I was able to read it a while back when it was still in the galley stage. I even managed to spot a couple of factual errors that I was able to have corrected before the final print was done. Overall I enjoyed it, although I thought the author might have been a bit too reverential. I don't know how accurate it actually is since I'm not really familiar with the band's development and growing pains. But I thought it a good introduction for someone like me who's been a fan for a while but doesn't really know a lot about the band itself. I'd be really curious to find out other members' opinions on it, since it seems as if most of you are really knowledgeable about B&S. Ana from NYC, via Newark and Lisbon P.S. If anyone would like a copy of the book, I might be able to dig one up and send it along. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: branching out... it's time for another sini tape tree!
by stacey dahling 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

(apologies to those of you who already received this on digest. but due to a cog in the sini machinery, it got very limited distribution...) ... kicking ass and taking names, that's me alright... hello honey! how you doin? and hiya davey! welcome.. sorry about the prolonged nursery stay, but now that you're out of nappies, join us at the big kids table for cake and biscuits! i'm so glad to see i spurred some activity, even with my embarassing html fumble. oops i haven't exactly been the model sini citizen lately either. i confess, i've gone other to OTHER BOARDS. no, not bowlie. but other places. non music related, in fact. shocking! but i still have a soft spot for sinister, and i hate to see it die, so i'm determined to revive! i don't have a meticulous plan mapped out quite yet, but i'm working on it. i do have plenty of time to scheme, however, since my (semi) new job allows me hours perusing the interweb. and long mornings in front of the telly. bless! i've also moved house this summer, to a STUNNING old tenement flat on a quiet street in glasgow's leafy west end. it's a very good street; it even boasts a superstar in the form of mr murdoch hisself. ha! yeah, we're kinda neighbours. no, i don't have him round for tea. tho maybe.... he's been too busy bumming around LA recording the NEW ALBUM anyway. i should probably be more excited than i am. but maybe that's because i'm an old hag, suspicious of this wacky new direction they're going in at the moment. i heard some snippets of new stuff a few months ago, and was not convinced. ah well... that said, i have been spending an inordinate amount of time exploring mp3 blogs lately, and my new obsession is swedish music. it's glorious! jens lekman, the chrysler, andrev bergstrom, speedmarket avenue... to name but a few! i've been insatiable! which got me to thinking... how long has it been since we've had a sinister tape tree going? i think it's time we get another one started! this time it would probably have to be in CD format, i'm afraid, what with everyone using their ipods these days and not their good old fashioned walkmans. it would be especially good if the cds were filled with somewhat local music, so that us faraways could be introduced to NEW SOUNDS. i volunteer to organise. anyone interested? if so, email me. also, state if you have any posting preference. if you're a poor working sod who can barely afford tea, nevermind international shipping rates, let me know and i'll make sure the next person in the tree lives close by. i'll send a reply explaining the intricate details about how the whole thing works. but basically, you just have to make ONE cd , and post it to one person. in turn, you will receive a cd from another person. you'll have... two weeks (sound ok?) to listen to the cd and copy it if you like. then you send it along - to the same person you sent your original cd to. you're always sending and receiving from the same person. make sense? anyhoo... drop me a line if you're interested. or just to say HELLO! or if you need travel advice of any sort, as i seem to have become a travel agent on the side these days... hmmm. and keep posting! or else.... - -stacey _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Ink Polaroids from Stuart David
by Stuart David 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hi, This is Stuart David, fugitive ex B&S bassist- and author of the message at the bottom of all your Sinister messages. :) I just wanted to let everyone know I've made a new Ink Polaroids site at www.inkpolaroids.com. You can post your own Polaroids there, and as well as my weekly Polaroid there are links to other Ink Polaroids sites on the internet. If you have one you'd like linked to just let me know. There is also a new edition of Ink Polaroids of Belle and Sebastian there, which includes the other book, Little Ink Movies of Belle and Sebastian in New York, and my original Ink Polaroids of Paris which started the idea. Ink Polaroids of Belle and Sebastian had started changing hands on Ebay for $250, which is a rip-off for a lot of rubbish- so I thought I'd better make it cheap again. I hope to see some of you there, posting your own Polaroids. Cheers, Stuart +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: oh no...
by David Giordanella 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

well fernando, i know he wasn't being really polite with the group but wasn't he ridiculing himself & not them... lets hope, at least, that for those who didn't know Belle & Sebastian & who were watching the program, it didn't hinder them from discovering the records... bom dia & obrigado for your opinion- david +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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