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Sinister: Picnics/Pam Berry/Portobello Beach
by Keith Watson 20 Apr '98

20 Apr '98

Hello Chums, first of all a bit about the picnics. We're all set for next Saturday (1 o'clock outside Fopp in Byres Road). I've dragged a few of my friends along too, so there should probably be around about 15 to 20 people coming along. Incidentally, we'll be off buying some stuff to eat before then, so I need to know how many of you only eat rabbit food so's that I don't buy too many sausage rolls. Can you mail me please if you are vegetarian. Sorry to all the people who couldn't make it but wanted to, we will indeed have another one later on in the summer, probably in Edinburgh this time inspired by... Myself and Paul and Linda's visit to Portobello beach on Saturday where I was able to continue my strange obsession with the sea and we were all able to indulge in a game of "Spot the power station". We had a lovely meal in a little sort of greasy spoon cafe just off the promenade, and drank tea for hours. Bear in mind anyone who comes up to Edinburgh in the near future from the list and meets us is liable to be whisked away to such a place, or indeed further afield, to like Elie or someplace like that. Pam Berry : Talked to Andrew Tulley on Saturday night and I was telling him about list stuff and all that and you and he says that should you write to him at the shop, he'll get a load of stuff together and send it to you. So here's the address of the shop if you're interested. Andrew Tulley, Avalanche Records, West Nicholson Street, Newington, Edinburgh. (It's not the most accurate address I know, but it'll get there). Nice to see Mr.Tall Git, Stuart Gardiner is back on after the easter break - Which brings me on to another thing, I've knocked up a big document which is essentially a concatenation of most of the B+S stuff available on the web. It's in Word 97 format and it's available for download from Paul's website, although Paul will have to remind people of where it is, since I don't think there's a link there yet. If people are interested enough, I can convert the file to Word 95, or indeed RTF which most programs will be able to read, although the pictures will have to come out - simply because the file increases in size to about 10 megs if it's not in Word 97. Excellent, I'm off down the town in a bit to get the new Massive Attack album. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: P I V S
by bradford 20 Apr '98

20 Apr '98

i can't believe how many of you blatantly rip off the ink polaroid thing and make your own ones up. you should be ashamed. you don't go around snagging other people ideas for songs and writing your own, do you? so, i am starting a new campaign. you know sometimes when you hear a song, and it's so simple, maybe two chords and a single note melody, but it's the best thing you ever heard. it's the way they play with the silence, rather than with the sound. think of the band low. well, i , brad, am gonna rip off the ink polaroid thing as well, but i like to leave something to the imagination...kinda like a victorias secret catalog. i'd rather look at one of those things than some dirty old filthy nasty vile porn. yuk. simplicity is the key. this form of polaroid lets the reader use their imagination. penciled-in viewfinder slide #1 i am brad. in my hand is a large turnip. what a cute kitten. ta-da. see, now you're left picturing in your head what is actually going on. another: penciled-in viewfinder slide # 2 (or as those in the know call them...."P I V S" ) tag. sir mix-a-lot. milk. i hope i start a new trend. -brad and i also have a new catchy catch phrase to append to the end of all my posts. "the sun ain't yellow.....it's chicken" -bob dylan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: three am, light strikes twice, pepsi adventure and cravings i dont understand
by McGuire 20 Apr '98

20 Apr '98

Alright, this isn't so much of an ink polaroid as it is my attempt to make sense of this moment in my life. There's no wounded picture, no bloody lines that blur the distinction between good taste and poor idealism, just an average guy sitting alone in his apartment smoking too many cigarettes and thinking too many thoughts. I remember being very young and dreaming of the things i wanted. To become. To see. To feel. I constantly refer to my younger self as 'him.' Its hard to remember your past in any logical way other than that of the third person. I love him. I don't want to betray him. His wishes were my wishes. His dreams were my dreams. I swore to myself, I always swore to myself, that no matter what occured, I would follow his dreams, his fantasies, never mine. He wanted to move out on his own to Los Angeles. I moved out on my own to Los Angeles. He wanted to be a nice person. I am a nice person. He never wanted to be a show off or concieted. I am as modest as humanly possible and if I do something good the first thing i try to do is hide it. He decided that it was his mission to save the world. He decided he would start a shelter for abandon kittens and puppies. He wanted to fall in love. So i'm sitting here, I haven't a clue how to go about saving the world, I'm affraid to adopt a kitten because I've killed all my plants, and I just got off the phone with another guy who says that we can't be together for [insert reason here]. So i'm sitting here, smoking a cigarette, feeling the xanax kicking in, knowing, not just thinking, that I've betrayed him. If I could go back ten years and talk with him, tell him what's to come, I would tell him to stop dreaming. He thought dreams were what kept you alive. I thought dreams were what kept you alive. Dreams don't keep you alive, they just keep you occupied. -Mr. Kelly Ryan McGuire, still trying to remember why he learned to speak ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: let's just keep it our little secret, okay?
by vlass＠interlog.com 20 Apr '98

20 Apr '98

hmmm... i love belle and sebastian with all my heart and i've been making as many people as i can listen to them so that they see how beautiful they are, but there are sometimes when i wish they were just *my* secret.. you all know what i'm talking about, yes? when you love a band so much that sometimes it sucks that other people like them because you don't think they can -understand- how you feel, or you just think that they're not allowed to like what you like because it's *yours*?.. i know, i know - i'm being selfish and immature.. the more fans the better! i'm not talking about any of you sinisters though! but having just found out that someone i'm not very fond of likes b&s, i'm kind of wishing they didn't know who they were. although, i suppose it's a starting point to actually liking this person, but boo! i don't care.. hehe.. i guess i should just grow up.. here's an ink polaroid: self-indulgent me.. this is a picture of myself standing outside by a tree in our yard. i don't know what kind of tree it is, but it's one of those kind that is teeming with beautiful, delicate white blossoms for 2 weeks of the year until they blow away and leave plain branches. anyway, it's at that white blossom stage now and my mother insisted on snapping a photo of it before they blew away but since she doesn't believe a picture is picture unless a person is in it (aren't all adults like that?), i'm standing there beside the tree. heh, it's kind of awkward because i'm feeling posed, and i don't quite know how to stand, and i know, i know, i'm in my pyjamas even though it's a sunday afternoon.. well, isnt that what sunday afternoons are for - lazing around in your pyjamas? wow, my second post of the day. you're going to get sick of me soon, err, if you're not already :) aurevoir pour l'instant.. teri xoxo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Here's Lairdy
by plaird 20 Apr '98

20 Apr '98

Brad said: >it's been a while huh? that was for any new people who might have joined >in my absence. >actually i never left. i have been deleting upwards of 75 mails every >other day from you lot for about the past two and a half weeks. i've had >no free time you see. but now i'm back in the fold. I too have been absent for about a month, but I've had loads of free time - I just couldn't be arsed posting anything to be honest. Could have been something to do with that unfriendly episode a while back where Katrina had to wade in and apply her ruler to a few naughty knuckles. >so what's the latest on the new album or a new single? Virgin have a date on their 'forthcoming singles' board again - but since we haven't heard a peep from Katrina I'll assume their date is bollocks. The Tall git (also back from an absence) said: >I don't think there are any songs that make me cry, however sad they are. >Maybe I'm just hardhearted. The only things that bring tears to my eyes >are happy things; a really good joke, or someone receiveing some really >good news, or somthing like that. This thread seems to be the longest lasting at the mo' so I'll add my tuppeny-worth as well. I'll be hard and say sad songs don't make me cry either, although 'Cut' by 14 Iced Bears used to do the job when I was young and impressionable - it has a line that goes: "I know you just don't care about the things we used to share a lot". - oh lost love (excuse me while I nip off for a hanky). But I'm all grown up now and wise to the ways of wicked women :o). >I'm sure when England score the winning >goal in the World Cup Final I'll be crying my eyes out... Hey, the Tall git is a comedian as well! feeling a bit snoozy I'M OFF TO BED NOW BYE!!!!!! The Laird of East Fountainbridge. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: a castle is not a home
by PKHINTZ 19 Apr '98

19 Apr '98

During the week a package arrived for me from the United Kingdom. In the upper right hand corner was a stamp with a picture of Edinburgh Castle. My mother assumed that meant the package was from Scotland, but it was from somewhere south and west and by the sea. Mothers can be wrong, though they admit that infrequently. I have my own picture of the castle. When I visited Endinburgh in December I sat in the park below the castle. I took out of my bag my black blank book and my felt-tipped pen. The drawing became more of the castle wall and the hill, due to the size limitations of the page. Think of cross-hatched blacks lines loosely composed into the idea of a mass of rocks and the idea of a streak of a wall cutting across that, and you nearly have the drawing of mine. Holiday shoppers walked past me as I sat on the bench and drew; I noticed how they tried to look over my shoulder without my noticing--but they did not do a good job at that feat. My hands became numb from the cold. This morning I showed my father my drawing and the stamp; he told me that it looked great. I can never tell if he is lying or not. Unlike him, I do not take to the pushing of lines across a page; I push words around the page instead. Trapped on the train back to London from Edinburgh, I listened to my cassette of _Tigermilk_. From the window I saw mountains, the sea, and occasionally history's relic of a castle or an abbey. I wanted to know if being in Scotland enhanced listening to Belle and Sebastian, but it does not. Whatever those songs are about is all the world over. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: reading judy blume, but you came too soon
by vlass＠interlog.com 19 Apr '98

19 Apr '98

good afternoon, jillian (thanks for the square1 tv site! :) ) wrote: <<for those of you that have wondered about that line, check out http://www.gurl.com/magzine/where/features/apr96/blume/ for a short Q&A with judy blume herself.>> i use judyblume as my nick on irc, and i am known to still read judy blume books (it was -deenie- 2 weeks ago),but nevertheless, i have some resentment towards her... when i was younger, maybe in grade 4 or so, i wrote mrs. blume a letter expressing how much her stories meant to me.. and, as an aspiring author i sent her a story i wrote (the original copy too! how dumb of me..) asking for advice about the "writing" world. anyway, a few months later i got an envelope in the mail.. inside was a dissapointing glossy FORM LETTER with her signature at the bottom.. she didn't answer any of my questions, although she did scrawl "thanks for the story" after her autograph. i knew she was a very busy woman, and someone told me that i should at least be grateful for the scrawl, but still.. i was dissapointed. ann m martin, author of the baby sitter club books, was much more considerate when she wrote back to me :P belle and sebastian dreams, you ask? the other night i had a dream that i was in a shopping mall. i sat down at a bench and stuart murdoch himself was sitting beside me.. that's all i remember.. sorry - i don't give you much to work with dr.minka! this has been a very music-y dream week: apart from that b&s one, i had a dream that i won a vinyl copy of stereolab's -emperor tomato ketchup- because i was the victor of one of those name-that-tune contests that took place in big, cement warehouse. then, i had a dream that i was with some of my friends at some sort of party or convention or something, and this boy was giving away free magnetic fields cds and eps. no one knew who they were, so i got them all... yay. now i must go back to writing my greek essay.. sigh.. teri xoxo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: new york picnic
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 19 Apr '98

19 Apr '98

what a blah title, i know. but i figured it would lure in the proper people (aka, those who live in new york). so anyway, i'm leaving in a month. pam berry is having her picnic on the 9th of may (it's still on i assume) and we don't want to conflict with her, cause that would lead to a brawl and everything and that's just not in the b&s spirit. (i make a motion that we give up the idea of a "christmas" spirit and go in for the non-denominational b&s spirit. but i digress, again.) so how about we picnic next sunday, about 2pm, in a park. washington square is closest to me, but it's hard to find a patch of grass there, and it's always so crowded. so central park is a good idea, but we'd need a place to meet that would be fairly distinctive. i want some input on this. also, if we have an idea of how many people are coming, we can communalize food. so write to me, or the list, whichever. finally, i'm listening to this is hardcore again, and this is still a brilliant album. i don't care what anyone else says, it's beautiful and wonderful and we should all bow in praise of jarvis C!O!C!K!er (as keith so delicately put it). xox megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: no one can stop me and my tractor
by blink＠inexpress.net 19 Apr '98

19 Apr '98

>Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:57:19 +0100 (BST) >From: The Tall Git <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> >Subject: Sinister: Oops! >I'm not so sure that that's a good idea... By the twenty-eigth pint of the >evening, you might be a bit the worse for wear... Aidan's not exactly >renowned for his sobriety... oh...they could take me to all those pubs and everything,it would be so fun.Everyone else always seems to be out drinking with them,i want to too!It will be all arty,suddenly Aidan will pause and go 'i don't think i'll need a jacket' for no reason at all! i just want to sit and listen to him speak, fun fun! >Is it just me, or does this make absolutely no sense at all? 'moo moo >buckeroo' sounds like something Nursie out of Blackadder would say... >(only joking sweetiepie!) oh no it does make sense...here i'll explain...1+1=Truckpull Boy was telling me all these terrible jokes..and at one point he goes 'Moo moo buckerooo! har har harharhar!' (he went into a fit of laughter) and i look up and i'm like 'it's just moo,dummy' and he's like 'Nooooooo,moo moo buckeroo!Truckpulls...tractors!!' i am just a little scared of him as he gets unnaturally excited over tractors....'mmm..Farmers Delight 2000!' etc etc...i only want a tractor to make a getaway with,that's all...speeding down the highway at a whopping 3 miles per hour! With Aidan! (with that 'bonanza' (??) music playing in background!) Blackadder?!? Nursie? i am not understanding... >Sebastian Brennan, 18, unemployed actor, professional daydreamer. oh,you know...you should put this on buisness cards and give them to people! smooooooch, Genevieve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: If Stuart Murdoch sang Serge Gainsbourg singing Stuart Murdoch
by Honey 19 Apr '98

19 Apr '98

Dear Readers, I've been away from the list so long I've be wondering how to make my re-entrance - would it be some thought-provoking dissertation on the nature of P!O!P!, would it be an ink polaroid of me making a ham sandwich, or maybe a poem about a fox that lost his library ticket? No, I've found something much more stimulating and much more childish, and I hope it will answer several questions that have been vexing this list for the last nine months: what are Stuart's lyrics *really* about, and what is Peter Miller on about? Peter as we all know is a translator. He spends his days chewing a pencil over the correct Spanish for "over-sprung type B dishwasher flange connector". I think I've found the connection between this an his posts to the list - he writes a perfectly normal mail, translates it into Spanish and then back into English again and then sends it. I've noticed quite a few of you doing this, you little devils. So I've done the same with my WWW page, via French, ably helped by the Altavista translator at: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? The results can be seen at: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/freeng.shtml which has me childishly giggling, particularly at the translation of "David Kitchen's fan club site" (think: "kitchen" -> "cuisine" -> ...). So that's Peter in the bag. Now we turn to Stuart. I think an example will demonstrate the technique, this time English to French to German and back: "I was surprised, I was lucky during a daily 1975. I was remained embarass by a dream, with me that whole day 1995. My brother had that he was merry, it took heat additionally to the Ego during one moment certified. It rose with a friend of the sailor, fact it admits over my day of the connection of the sisters. I connected in precipitations, around a wegzutreibenes kid, now it support am in the love. Therefore I was shifted, I, around an impact the Krueckeen of mine estropifreunds to give touched. It was not impressed that I cured it on Sabbath, thus I went to permit. When it saw the merry page, we presented my bride of the child to the Whisky and to the shrubshrub shrubs." See - it all becomes clear. It's all about gardening. (I particularly liked "gin" -> "juniper" -> "shrub" - I don't know where the extra "shrubshrub" comes from but there is a God). Here's my last one for now, just to demonstrate it's not a flash in the pan. This one's via French, German then Spanish - you have to give it a little punctuation to get it going: "Anthony has gone to relative the dead women, because she has thought that she never did not feel the odore however in this way. If then it goes still to the house, the things have been transformate in in false the false one, that they could he that forms in order to go? It would want to ricordarsi exactly of the things like it on left part of it this Wednesday. And if it gives here from the other thing, not frightened, because it is dependent, than today for being little along, it must dependent be less long that tomorrow. Hilary has gone to relative the dead women, because she could not think next to nothing to say. All he has thought the fact that lengthily then he did not feel it never in some case. Nobody has said really all of interest, it has fallen in the sleep. It was in S&M and the studies of the Bible, all a tea of the cup, than me it would concur with, the relative tea of the cup, will it with all, the relative tea of the cup, it would concur with me, the OH would not concur, but, the relative tea of the cup would concur" Damn it, I *knew* it was all nasty Aunties. Honey who is, apparently, back, loves you all dearly, but wishes to reconsider his cheerleaders application - it depends on how nice you all are xxx -- "Ecoutent, ceci est pish, je vais laisser" "Horen dieses ist pish, ich werden gehen" "Ascolta, questo e pish, io sto andando lasciare" "Escucha, esto es pish, yo va a dejar" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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