I never thought of myself as the kind of person to get
emotionally trapped in a relationship, but that's how
i'm feeling right now. She's not seemed on top form
for months, now she's broken down and having to see a
psychiatrist. Suddenly i am her rock who cannot live
without, despite the fact she has an annoying tendency
to treat me like shit. But i know it's not really her
treating me like shit, it's the drugs she's o.
They're supposed to have calmed her down but they've
sent her spiralling into a pit of despair if anything.
I cannot seem to say much without it being
misconstrued and thrown back at me, and it fucking
hurts, whether it's the drugs talking or not. I can't
leave her because she needs me, and i know all the bad
things are just because she's ill. But I don't know
if i can keep on pretending i'm strong enough to cope
with it all. I feel like shit, and i'm starting to
resent her, which isn't fair on her. I love her, and
always will, but if she keeps throwing stones
eventually one will smash the glasshouse.
I missed Peel Acres. Shit. I am an idiot. Anybody
willing to make me a minidisc or CD copy of it if you
taped it, or know where i can download it off the net?
I'll be your friend forever.
Big Love, Dev
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hello everyone,
I am the dirty vicar, AND I LIVE TO ROCK. I haven't mailed the list in a
while because I am lazy AND BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ROCKING TOO HARD.
a while ago it was said to me that I keep posting to Sinister about weird
compilations. Well, I have a new compi to namedrop. it is called "sonic mook
experiment: future rock and roll". It has the rudest record cover of all
time and is full of tracks by bands who ROCK. You know, like The Hives, The
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Buff Medways, and other less well known bands. It's
great. the music on it ROCKS HARD. Which is a good thing. And the record
cover is VERY RUDE. If you want to buy this record go to your local record
shop and say "Can I have that record with the very rude cover, I can't
remember what it's called?" and they will say "Certainly Sir/Madam, delete
as appropriate, it's called 'sonic mook experiment: future rock and roll'. I
take it you'll be wanting a paper bag?"
I love to ROCK.
I often wish Belle & Sebastian would ROCK more. Thankfully I saw them at the
Glastonbury Pop festival where they finished with a cover of Thin Lizzy's
'The Boys In Back In Town'. That was pretty good, but it would have ROCKED
harder if Isobel had been there. No one can shake their rump like Isobel.
At Glastonbury I went to what was kind of a sinister meetup, but in a
confusing manner it was also a Jeepster/Bowlie (the evil non Sinister B&S
internet fandom nexus) & ILx meetup. so I kept meeting people and not
knowing from which universe I was meant to know them. But I did meet
Carsmile Steve, a jolly fellow and no mistake. And, er, other people.
Latterly I went to Witnness, this rubbish Irish music festival. Oh yeah,
there were good bands playing at it and stuff, but it was fundamentally
rubbish. It's not just that Glastonbury and All Tomorrow's Parties have
turned me into a festival snob, it's just that there was a lot missing at
this one, and a lot that it would have been better without. frankly I think
the world would be better off without festivals where drunken scum tip over
inhabited portaloos.
But I did get to see THE WARLORDS OF PEZ. Who ROCK. They are a band of
Warlords from the planet Pez who have travelled to Ireland to make music. If
you do a googlesearch for them you will find their somewhat disappointing
website.
I also saw The Hives, who also ROCK. If you want to read more about how The
Hives ROCK point your interweb browser at Mr Tom Ewing's Freaky Trigger (
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk ), where I have written an article about them
and some of their friends.
I'd better go now, as this mail is already longer than most people are
willing to read. Hi to Stine for namechecking me. Anyone else want to set up
a namechecking ring?
Oh yeah, are there any Sinster subbers in the Lebanon? because me and Rener
are high rollers we are going there on our holidays in October. Anyone for a
Beirut picnic?
blessed, blessed be,
DV
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Hi, Sinister!
How are you?!
Khan Chu wrote about SFC... and I've never heard about it!
We do have KFC, though. It's been a while since I saw one, I think they
gave up trying to sell fried chicken in Brazil... that's weird because we
eat chicken like the irish eat potatoes!
Hmmmm...
Nice to know that B&S signed with Rough Trade. A couple of months ago
Trama, their label here in Brazil, also signed a deal with Rough Trade. So
things will probably remain as they are, thank gods! I was afraid I'd have
to pay $50 for the next B&S's albums, as we used to pay before Trama...
Michael Grand wrote about birthdays, and...
WOO, it's true! I forgot about this extremely important date... Stooart's
birthday!
Guess who was born exactly on the same day?!
YEP! ME!
Not on the same year, surely not! I'm not that old!
Have you ever looked for things that happened on your birthday? I've
collected lots of important things, and other completely useless stuff...
My sister was born on that day too (and I still don't know whether it's in
the Important or in the Useless category...), but not on the same year as
I, we're not twins...
I wonder what happened on that day, nine months before I and my sister were
born... my parents must have had something really special to celebrate on
that day!
One day I was counting the months to know when I was conceived, but as my
mathematical skills are null, I thought it happened on 25th December! I
thought: "Whot?! My parents... those perverts!!".
I was wrong, of course, in fact i was conceived around the 25th November,
which is near to our republican proclamation (we were an empire before,
blah, blah, blah...). So I suppose my father is a passionate republican...
or maybe my mother!
Anyway, I'm going to visit me mom this weekend. It's been almost three
months that I don't go see her, she must be missing me. I admit I don't
miss her much... I'm such a stupid person!
It's also an excuse to go see my sini friend Ana! Hi, Ana! She's the only
person from the sinister list that I've ever met! She's also the only one I
know that loves B&S. I know two or three other people who also like them,
but, it's weird, they only LIKE them... I thought B&S was one of those
bands that you hate or love! At least for me it's like a religion, everyday
I think about them, sing one of their songs... like a mantra. Or sometimes
when I feel this or that way I sing one of their songs that fits so
perfectly with my feelings.... And everyday someone posts to the list, and
as I work with e-mails, I often read them immediately. There's no escape! I
even thought I was getting obsessive, but then i remembered The Stars of
Track and Field and sung it to forget!
babbling... babbling... babbling...
Time to go.
See you on monday, folks!
Kisses and hugs,
Fernando Brito
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Dear sinister,
Some terribly exciting things happened in the past couple of days.
First of all on Wednesday, I saw a Helicopter taking off from the middle of
Oxford Street - it was the London Emergency Medical Helicopter, no less,
that I've once seen on an exciting TV show called "Situation Critical",
during which it had played an important role of turning the tide in all
kinds of losing life-or-death situations. I didn't find out what the
emergency was that day though, but I think it involved a bus.
Second of all yesterday, I was in a situation where I could have saved a
desperate man from missing his plane, by lending him £12.50. You see he
needed to take a coach from Victoria Station to Gatwick Airport in London,
unfortunately I didn't have any money on me. The poor man, he didn't even
realise that the plane ticket in his hand was fake, and that the London
Underground platform he was on takes him to the total opposite direction to
Victoria. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that he was a
con-man...
Third of all last night, there was a John Peel session, with Belle and
Sebastian on it. At first I thought B&S have taken on a totally new
direction in their music, by playing drum and bass, but then I realised that
it was actually one of the shit records that Mr Peel put on. Later on my
heart was put at rest when my beloved B&S played one of their classic Bossa
Nova tunes, and I was a relieved man, thank God our heroes are still as
bonkers as ever.
There were a couple of archetypal Stuart tracks to keep the punters happy
though, including one apparently to be from the now obligatory "I don't love
you anymore Isobel ner ner ner" genre called "you don't upset me"(?).
Fourth of all recently, I have acquired a work e-mail address!! About time
too, and my beloved List mummies have given me private tuitions to speed me
through the nursery school. I'm a big kid now! So you should all write me
to this e-mail address during the day-time to keep me from working. However
crush votes should still go to pykachu100(a)hotmail.com!
Fifth of all a few days ago, thank you very much for giving me a crush vote,
whoever kind soul who sent me one the last time! You should reveal
yourself.
Sixth of all now, it's almost finish work time! So I'll be off for karaoke,
then.
Love and Red Bulls
Ken
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Cor blimey guv'ner.
RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH
So I didn't stay in to listen to the 'wireless' last night, but I did
manage to remember to set the timer record function on my stereo (God bless
Mr Technics and all his adorable little children). Correctly, to boot.
This enabled me, when I returned suitably refreshed after an
evening spent in a dark cellar off Fleet Street, to listen to our favourite
Scottish Luddites perform a selection of their new stuff from the comforts
of Mr John Peel's home (and, indeed, bathroom, in Chris' case).
And my verdict, pop pickers: better than Storytelling, I say probably not
at all controversially. Better than Porthcawl, even. Anyway, I found to my
surprise that I am genuinely E!X!C!I!T!E!D! about this new material and its
patently perceptible joie be vivre and, er, oomph. Now, this may have been
due to several pints of bitter and the inevitable cloth-earedness (next
sense to drunkenly go after hearing is smell; this has proven useful on
occasion) that is my due in these circumstances, but I don't think so. It's
all gone a bit Free Design, but I stress, in a _good_ way, for those of who
you who are even now heading for the vomitarium. Really really good.
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
Speaking (as I was) of that dark cellar off Fleet Street: this venue was
host to a veritable smorgasbord of Sinister talent, a real Thornton's
intercontinental selection, including those on their way home (Oon) and
those who thought they were on their way home but well, probably aren't
(Australian David). Beer was drunk, so were we, crap was talked. As per
usual, then. It turns out that despite my own recent move to London, all
the really cool kids are now moving to America. Dang, last one on the
bandwagon once again.
GODLIKE GENIUS
Hurrah! My copy of Camera Obscura's 'Biggest Bluest HiFi' has finally
arrived from Amazon (I know, I know, but I never look a gift certificate in
the mouth) this morning, adding to the joy of summer. And how.
Also refusing to leave the CD player: Mr David Moore (Cockernee rhyming
slang: corporate whore) introduced me a while ago to Saint Low, otherwise
known as Mary Lorson (late of Madder Rose or summink like that), and I
picked up their latest on promotional CD the other week. Highly recommended
for people who are moving into a properly grownup pop music phase.
Well, after that excess of enthusiasm and actual content, I'd best go lie
down for a bit before attempting to excercise some dodgy karaoke skeelz this
evening. Crikey.
Love,
Liz :x
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Hey you out there in the coldÂ…
So maybe IÂ’m not heartless. Maybe I was wrong when I felt I didnÂ’t love
anyone. This week I loved my family. IÂ’ve been home alone for two weeks now
and I actually miss them. It would be better to love them when theyÂ’re home
than loving them when theyÂ’re gone, but still, this is a step forward. And
this week I realised IÂ’m in love (at least most of the time). IÂ’m afraid
this is going to break my heart rather than making me happy. But I prefer
being broken hearted than not feeling a thing (at least I think so, IÂ’m not
perfectly sure).
It took me this long to realise IÂ’ll miss IsobelÂ’s part in Belle and
Sebastian (must have been some kind of shock-phase). I really like the songs
sheÂ’s singing and now IÂ’m going to mix Gentle waves with Belle and Sebastian
but itÂ’s not going to be the same. Besides she was the only member I could
remember the full name of (yes, I know how horrible that is but IÂ’m really,
really bad at names).
Storytelling is now on cinema in Sweden. I donÂ’t know if I should see it now
or wait until it comes to video. From what IÂ’ve heard the movie is not that
good. Anyone whoÂ’s seen it is welcome to give me an advice in this difficult
choice IÂ’m facing.
IÂ’ve been visiting second hand record shops frequently the last time. And I
saw a guy who was buying Storytelling 2nd hand. I was deeply shocked. How
could that happen? Soon I realised there were a lot of reasons that could
have cause this occurrence.
1 Some poor B&S fan had bought Storytelling for her/his last money and then
acccidently dropped it on the street. Another person, without any
conscience, found it and sold it to earn some money.
2 Some poor B&S fan had her/his birthday the day after the release of the
record and got, not one, but two records from friends and family who had
overestimated her/his admiration of B&S.
3 Some poor B&S fan died recently and her/his relatives sold all her/his
records because they couldnÂ’t bear the pain of being reminded of the dead
person everytime they saw the records she/he had loved. I found Tigermilk in
the same shop, which sadly supports this theory.
I was also lucky to find The Boy With The Arab Strap to a very nice price
and I bought it because (aaaaaaaaargh hereÂ’s the truth) I didnÂ’t have it and
IÂ’ve never had it. But wait, I can explain. I never buy all the records of
one group at the same time. Every time IÂ’ve bought a new Belle and Sebastian
IÂ’ve been happy every night and day for at least 3 weeks. I want to spread
this feeling over time so I can be happy now and then and not only one time.
Sometimes IÂ’m happy even if I havenÂ’t bought a good record recently, it
happens :) But anyway this is my record-buying-strategy and since I
discovered B&S pretty late it took me this long. Anyway this buying of The
Boy With The Arab Strap made me as happy as always. IÂ’m now more convinced
than ever of how much I love Belle and Sebastian. They are the kind of band
that can make me feel right when things are wrong. I even like to listen to
the songs that I wouldnÂ’t have liked very much if someone else was doing
them, because IÂ’m stuck to that feeling they give me.
Now I really have to eat some pancakes or something will go wrong, terribly
wrong./ Bye
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hello y'all.
i share a birthday with sinister, dontcha know? well, at least i think i do.
27th august, yeah? wow. i feel so special. and struan's birthday is only two
days before that. :o)
now you all have no excuse for not getting me nice shiny presents. i am also
hijacking the august nationalpopleague for my birthday purposes. come one,
come all, dance and be merry. (and if you can't wait that long, then how
about tonight?)
apologies to all who replied to my last post. i meant to reply after having
spoken to my little boy, but that hasn't happened yet. the fates are
conspiring against me. every time we plan to meet and *talk*, something
comes up. dinner with my grandparents, his boss being arrested for fraud,
his friends turning up, etc, etc....
i am happy now though. :o) i haven't cried in a while, and although i had a
bad day on wednesday, i've been giddy like a schoolgirl most of the time. i
just want the ambiguity and awkwardness to go away, and to get on with being
friends. i think i can handle that, as long as i get to see him often. im
coming up with new and interesting ways of having to go see him. yesterday i
decided to send a letter to my friend who's in bolivia for the summer, (he
works in a post office). today im thinking of sending a postcard to a friend
in america.
this is what i dont want though. to seem like a stalker. i just want to be
friends, but until i talk to him he won't know what i want. and i
won't/don't have a clue what he's thinking. i was supposed to be going to
the cinema with him tonight before popleague, but he's cancelled on me (im
trying not to let the paranoia get to me. he cancelled cos he's tired, not
because he hates me. im pretty sure). it's just so frustrating. i had
convinced myself all would be well once i had talked to him. and although i
still kind of believe that, im doubting it more as the time passes. i will
make sure i talk to him soon. im just not sure when that will be.
but thanks to everyone who emailed to let me know what they thought, or just
to wish me good luck. it did kinda rekindle my passion for sinister. not
that i had started to dislike you, or anything, of course not. it's just
that when i joined i had this rush of passion about you. so new, so
interesting, so inspiring, like i had found something i was missing all my
life. and then, just through familiarity, no fault of yours, my dearest
sinister, it becomes the norm. and although posts can still make my heart
leap, there wasn't that same spark about it that i used to feel. it's the
same with anything though. change for change's sake is a good thing. however
wonderful your life is, if you dont change it about a bit, or find new,
interesting facets to it, it will drift into routine.
it's the edinburgh picnic tomorrow. hope there shall be a bumper crowd. i am
working all afternoon, so might not be there til later on, so dont start any
of the debauchery til i get there, you hear me? good.
did anybody hear belle and sebastian on the radio? (i think there might be a
song in there somewhere) i did not, unforunately. i was coming back from a
flathunting trip to edinburgh (where i managed to bump into caitlin) and
when i realised i wouldnt make it back for the start, i hung about the
centre of glasgow. just couldn't face going back to see the family. *cringe*
i need to move out very very quickly. shouldnt be too long now though.
but just cos i wasnt there doesnt mean to say i cant listen to it. i am
actually doing so as i type.
to listen, go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml
well, i do have many more interesting things to say, but ive just received a
phone call telling me im needed in work early. so better go. hope all is
well with everyone, and thanks again for all your help/advice/other. shall
see some of you tonight at the ol' popleague, i hope. and some tomorrow at
the picnic. hope everyone has a good weekend.
michael, smiling at the world.xx
"get out of your apartment. meet a member of the opposite sex. stop the
excessive shopping and masturbation. quit your job. start a fight. prove
your alive. if you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic." -
tyler durden.
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yeah the harmonies were kinda like the neil from the 70's . . . My tape copy
of it screwed up so if anybody can give me a copy i'd be very grateful . . .
brian
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Hello folks.
Just a quick reminder for those in the vicinity of Auld Reekie this weekend:
place: Scott Monument, Princess Street Gardens, Edinburgh
time: 2.30pm, Saturday 27th July
event: Picnic!
Idleberry, Pigtails and I went on a wee rekkie the other week (a pub crawl
actually, in the rain) and found a cosy wee bar called the Cumberland. It's
at the east end of Cumberland Street in Edinburgh's New Town (Cumberland
Street runs parallel to Princes' Street, some 8 streets to the north) and
has a shady little beer garden. Since it is the only bar that responded
positively to our query 'are dogs allowed in?' (yes, but no white handbags,
hehe), we figured that it would an ideal place to visit after the picnic
'proper' if our canine friend Belle happens to be coming along. However,
since it is a fair walk from the originally mooted picnic location at the
big gold fountain, we may revise where we sit in Princes' Street Gardens. In
short, if you're arriving after the 2.30pm meet up, give me a ring on 07780
914106 and I'll set you straight.
Hope to see you there!
Gordon
P.S. The weather forecast is good : )
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Tonight the pop group BELLE & SEBASTIAN are playing
songs on the radio. They are playing in John Peel's
2nd bathroom. (I've played in one or two of those
meself, albeit not Peel's.)
I heard a bit of a song earlier. It started off a lot
like 'The Boy With The Arab Strap ' - suspiciously
like it. Then it developed a different aspect, more
like 70S WHO.
No, not really. It was like 70S NEIL YOUNG. The
harmonies were utterly Canadian in that limited sense.
I believe that a correspondent on this list will be
able to confirm this.
The song was not that bad, really. Even I was a tad
taken by it, and that's unusual.
Stuart Murdoch said it was called 'Roy Walker'. That's
fair enough, but rather 2nd-hand. A long time ago,
around 1991, I used to watch Roy Walker meself. I
wonder whether he has become less, how you say,
happening, since then. More importantly, I once saw
Roy on the television programme CATCHPHRASE talking to
a lady who guessed that the clue meant 'no sugar in my
tea'. I decided to write a song called that myself.
But somewhere along the line, the title changed. The
question is, to what did it change? If anyone can
remember, perhaps they could let me know.
The COMMONWEALTH GAMES have been opening, in
surprisingly exciting, at times spectacular, and
occasionally glamorous fashion. Barry Davies has done
his homework. If only he'd done mine, I might have
achieved more than a B in GCSE Mathematics, those many
years ago.
The other day I saw someone a bit more interesting
than le Murdoch, namely LLOYD COLE. He was playing on
his own: 20 of his own songs and the usual unnecessary
addition from Leonard Cohen, which Lloyd inevitably
announced as the best of the night. I guess you need a
high estimate of your own work to stand up - or even,
like Lloyd, sit down - and play 20 of your own songs.
Maybe Lloyd likes his songs almost as much as I like
them. At one point he said they were all the same. He
was half-right at worst. Earlier on, he'd said the
event was mistakenly called MUSIC MAKERS 2002, as he
was actually a MUSIC MAKER 1986.
That's my kind of talk.
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+-+ "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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