September 2005 - Sinister

Sinister: How he kissed so sweetly
by Curt Jensen 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

"As was previously traditional, I have to put a mention in every post about how good The Whitlams are. But now, I'm going to extend it to say how good the Decemberists are as well. Their last album, Picaresque, included a catchy-as-hell ditty about being crap at sports, a melancholy ode to two boys who run away to Portland and become male prostitutes, and an epic 9-minute sea shanty about two men being shipwrecked and swalowed by a whale. How could it not be the album of the year? Oh, and they're from right here in Portland. And they've previously supported B&S (gasp! content!). And they're touring later this year in the US and UK..." I have to agree with Stuart on this. The Decemberists are fantastic. One of the dudes in The Decemberists, Colin Meloy, also has some Morrissey covers that are just amazing. I don't know whether it was ever released or anything, all I know is that I have a *gasp* bootleg copy that was given as a gift. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 trip down Memory Lane, A trip down Princes Street
by Ian Halliday 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

In the last few weeks, people have been recalling the contrast between the time before they were married and the time after they were married. For me, it's a long memory that I need, perhaps like that of an elephant. Unfortunately, by now, I am indeed getting the body to match. In the old days, music was the backdrop to my life, but so was food. Nowadays, there's less music, but just as much food. In the eighteen years since I married, my trips to Edinburgh have been less and less frequent, partly - indeed mainly - because for fifteen of those years I lived on the other side of the world. But now that I have returned to the green and pleasant land, I have some questions about Edinburgh, where I spent some of the best and worst days of my business trips. Restaurant 1: Just off Princes Street, if I remember correctly, there was a diner called "Desperate Dan's". They sold man-size ten ounce steaks, dan-size fifteen ounce steaks and desperate-dan-size twenty ounce steaks. I was there for Pancake Day one year, and had pancakes there to celebrate. Restaurant 2: On Princes Street, if I remember correctly, there was a basement restaurant themed around the work and movies of Rock Hudson. As it was downstairs, and with that theme, it was not unreasonably named "Rock Bottom". Despite that, I enjoyed the food and the decor, but with the passing of time and the awareness of some issues, I am sure that this restaurant has either gone the way of all flesh or else rebranded and renamed itself. Hotel 1: On these business trips, I used to stay at a place the other end of town from Waverley Station, at a place which might have been called something like the Ellersley House. They had an hors d'oeuvres wheel almost as large as the London Eye as a major point in the hotel restaurant. Can anyone tell me about the current state of any of these places? I know that there are many Edinburgers on this list who will have memories that can tell me things that are beyond the reach of Google and Directory Enquiries. Yes, the Britain I have returned to is not by any means the one | left, but in my humble opinion some of the places will be the same. Please excuse the pompous style of writing, and the fact that this is very light on B&S material, as far as I know. Or maybe the places I have mentioned were once or will become favourite places for Sinisterenes? Ian -- Ian W Halliday, BA Hons, AAIBF Snr, ATMG, CL +44 772 546 2965 (GMT+1) http://ringbark.livejournal.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Fishface O'Connor and his Performing Newts
by robhalcrow＠tiscali.co.uk 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear all, Well if even Laura Llew is posting I reckon I ought to at least try. I was a fairly irregular poster up to late 1999 when I began serious lurking. I liked it so much I never stopped. Till now. Bowlie? Yep, I was there. Picnics? Well I turned up too late for one in Greenwich. Wandering around the park in 1998(?) I had this exchange with a group of revellers I suspected of being Sinister types: Me: Excuse me. Are you here for any particular reason? Group bloke: Witchcraft. I walked away ? I did play with my band at Tigermilking in summer 1999. We played in a Canterbury club a few weeks back and someone said "Ah, you sound like Belle and Sebastian." We don?t, but I took it as a compliment. "Internet: good or bad thing?" asked Linda Kerr. Bad if people I like (Juliana Hatfield for instance) are releasing download only stuff because my computer cannot really cope. That makes me sad. Like a party you know you?d love but you?re not invited, or you?re busy washing the fish or something equally uninspiring. 9.30? Blimey. It?s nearly bed time. Good night. Rob ___________________________________________________________ Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Belle and Sebastian News message - Chris auctions 45 for Hurricane Katrina victims (fwd)
by Linda Kerr 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:49:36 +0100 From: Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> Reply-To: "listmanager(a)banchory.net" <listmanager(a)banchory.net> To: "lulou(a)crockery.org" <lulou(a)crockery.org> Subject: Belle and Sebastian News message - Chris auctions 45 for Hurricane Katrina victims Hi everyone, I'm selling an original copy of the stunning New Orleans funk 45 "Dap Walk" by Ernie and the Top Notes, Inc. through Soul Strut's Heatrock charity auction. The auction ends at midnight Tuesday night, British Summertime, and the current high bid is $350. The listing is here: http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=432376&page=1&view… and details of how the auction works and where the proceeds are going can be found here: http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=425245&page=0&view… and here: http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=427813&page=0&view… This has got to be one of the greatest 45s ever recorded. In fact I'd go as far as to say it's my all time favourite record. And the fact that it's from New Orleans is part of the reason why I'm putting it on here; to give something back to the residents of a city that has given the world so much. Thanks, Chris. http://www.belleandsebastian.com http://www.banchoryshop.net To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit http://www.belleandsebastian.com/mailing_list.php +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 never wrote amusing subject lines in the first place
by Charlotte Pache 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Oops! Not only did I make myself look like a braggart (apologies to anyone who hasn't used the intervening few years to get married, but also apologies to anyone who has, as you should not take this to mean that I am denigrating either marrying or not marrying - blimey, this is a minefield) but I also managed to come across as an internet ingenue (funny letters everywhere is what you get for working offline in Word and pasting into hotmail), with the result that I entirely gratuitously libelled Peter, whose only crime was to get me to post again. Which might yet turn in to a matter of regret all round. On a more important note, someone is selling a Belle and Sebastian Official Leather Bookmark on ebay. Hurry, hurry as it's currently priced at £1.04. Charlotte +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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've forgotten how to write amusing subject lines
by Stuart Gardiner 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Or maybe I never knew in the first place. You decide. Apparently in nouvelle sinister, it is de rigeur (is that enough foreign words for now? good, I don't know any others) to announce that you're married. I'm not. Oh well. Mind you, I have discovered much to my amazement that the old stereotype about American women loving an English accent may have a grain of truth in it after all ;) So all the old schoolers are back? Is this some kind of groundhog day thing, where the list is going to grow and grow for the next three years, and then everyone suddenly buggers off to some more fashionable non-B&S messageboard? As was previously traditional, I have to put a mention in every post about how good The Whitlams are. But now, I'm going to extend it to say how good the Decemberists are as well. Their last album, Picaresque, included a catchy-as-hell ditty about being crap at sports, a melancholy ode to two boys who run away to Portland and become male prostitutes, and an epic 9-minute sea shanty about two men being shipwrecked and swalowed by a whale. How could it not be the album of the year? Oh, and they're from right here in Portland. And they've previously supported B&S (gasp! content!). And they're touring later this year in the US and UK... Maybe we could do an mp3 tree next time? Like a tape tree, but with better technology and a rhyming name... Big Stu OK, I admit it, I may have a slightly ulterior motive for posting. I'm off travelling a bit in a couple of weeks. So if anyone in New York City fancies a pint between Saturday 24th and Wednesday 29th, or in London after that, give me a shout. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Going Missing
by Charlotte Pache 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

I am feeling unaccountably nervous about posting, but emboldened because I promised I would post if Peter Miller joined the list again and he called my bluff, and did~E and thanks to Honey for helping me skip through nursery~E here I am again. Shamefully I did unsubscribe back there, if only because I got married, changed my life, changed my name, moved house, changed job and then moved from London to Hong Kong. Eight years is a very long time. Why, the internet was barely invented back then! And now an area of the internet the size of Wales is taken up by the Sinister archives. I hardly dare look back to see what inanities I was responsible for, but as a matter of hysterical (sic) record, my first post was in August 1997 and my last in January 1999. I think that makes me a veteran of sorts. The damage certainly shows in my face. I just had a slightly worrying vision of all the hair we Sinisterenes have grown in those eight years piled up in mounds somewhere. It would surely stretch to the moon and back several times. And if we were all laid end to end, I~Rm sure we would enjoy it very much. As an aside (which I~Rm afraid all my remarks always are anyway), I see that on amazon.com, people who bought ~SJust a Modern Rock Story~T are also buying a book called ~SSex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs~T. Hello, hello, it~Rs good to be back. Charlotte (nee Hall) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: an introduction from an idiot
by James Laming 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

dearest all, this is my first mailing, and in time honoured tradition will be both the hardest to write and most bland. i am new to computers as i am a self confessed luddite, but have been following belle and sebastian since first hearing 'the stars of track and field' on the mark radcliffe show. i got very emotional and over excited, and perhaps was not alone in this. anyway i've stuck around. like several other people here, i never did get married, sell my records and start getting excited by soft furnishings. it's strange how many people have written about how their lives have changed. i'm certainly not knocking marriage or ambition, but i feel no different now than in 1997 or whatever. i was 23 then, 31 now, and i still feel pretty much the same. i still play the same kinda records, still strive for happiness and enjoy a good time. it's not that i've failed to 'grow up' - god how ghastly does that sound? i was an adult at 23. i'm still the same person, with a few grey hairs perhaps, but hey. doesn't mean it's time to accept some faded notion of adulthood. having said all of this, it's gonna be very strange watching the band play '...sinister' at the barbican. the summer of 97 was a heady and peculiar time for all here. that album soundtracked so much, brings back some pretty peculiar memories. sleeping on stephen's couch and being kept awake by his constant fornication. both of us feeding earwax to his girlfriend's labrador. falling in love every second week. the unmistakable and slightly repellent taste of neat vodka. all this with 'seeing other people' or whatever seemingly always in the ether. it is tempting to slip into a hazy reminisce. i hope i meet some of you sinister types there, i'll probably be weilding a kleenex and dancing like a fool. and that'll be all for reminiscing, because there's a whole damn life to live when the lights go up. and it's there to be lived to the hilt. and there'll be a new album soon......i'm just a little excited by this. forward to the future people, it's still ours after all......... all good things james (dumbangel1) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.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: put the book back on the shelf
by Ben Apps 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi Sinikids, In the Metro (a free London newspaper) yesterday, they had a brief review of Paul Whitelaw's book, and a newish band publicity shot that i've not seen before. I'm too lazy to transcribe it so I scanned it instead. You can read it here: http://www.brapps.net/bellebook.jpg Apologies for the file size (700k). Hope you're all feeling groovy. Special shout out to James the Dancing Hatchback! Bapps 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: Kelly Ryan McGuire - anyone know him?
by Beth Arzy 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Dear All, Sorry to use the list to do a person find, but I~Rm in a quandary and hope someone might be able to help. There use to be a listie (ages ago) by the name of Kelly Ryan McGuire. He went by Ryan on the list most of the time. He lived in LA, but moved to New York in 2000-2001 ish. We lost touch and i've been searching everywhere for him, to no avail. I've left loads of messages on boards etc, and someone emailed me last weekend and said they were a friend of his as well, but that he passed away in 2001. Now, I don't know if this is someone I~Rve pissed off in the past playing some sick joke, but if anyone on the list knows *anything* about Kelly (Ryan) PLEASE let me know. I miss him. If he is gone, I~Rd really like to know anything you might know. Thanks a lot, Beth Arzy email: madamecholet1(a)yahoo.com or tbstarslondon(a)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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