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hang on, wrong place, wrong time.
I=E2=80=99m The Duke of Harringay and although I am 18 (eighteen!!) =
years older than I was when I first posted on Sinister I am no less =
foolish. Well, perhaps a bit. But only a bit.
I must say it=E2=80=99s rather lovely to think that many of the old =
names and faces may come creeping out from whatever corner of the world =
they ended up in to post amusing anecdotes about their Belle & Sebastian =
related antics. Me, well today I ended up driving (I know! The Duke =
driving a car!!!!) around for well over an hour, ostensibly looking for =
a car wash that was open, but in reality using it as excuse to listen to =
much of Tigermilk and most of Sinister for the first time in far too =
dashed long. It was glorious. There is something so wonderful in =
listening to a much adored record for the first time in a long while and =
just luxuriating in the easy familiarity, isn=E2=80=99t there?
I also rather liked the new record. Perhaps I will report back about it =
at some point if you are all damnably unlucky.
Someone else should report back about that filum that Struan made =
recently. I=E2=80=99m afraid The Duchess and I found it rather flat, but =
there you are. I quite liked some of the character=E2=80=99s glasses, if =
that=E2=80=99s any help?
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next?
The Duke
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driving a car!!!!) around for well over an hour, ostensibly looking for =
a car wash that was open, but in reality using it as excuse to listen to =
much of Tigermilk and most of Sinister for the first time in far too =
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Oh dear God
the ghosts of my past are resurrected, and in this case - I like it.
I am writing this from a business hotel in Warsaw. I've lived, I've
loved and now I am in a career. I started with sinister as a child
finding his place in the world, now I'm a 30 year old on a business
trip in a cold city, far from my life in the US and still listening to
Belle and Sebastian albeit in my hotel room as I try and ignore my jet
lag.
A lot has happened -finished secondary school, graduated university,
worked in IT across three continents and now married to a woman I
love. Yet I think fondly of my dear sinister - a penpal, agony aunt
and textual comic to my teenage and college years. Every so often, i
browse the archives and see what I was and who we were and reflect on
what I have become. I like myself and sinister has a huge
responsibility for that - i was not alone in my bedroom in Cork,
Ireland. I was part of the best internet community that ever was and
ever will be - and we have honey to thank for that.
I also think a lot of everyone - lives lived in front of me in binary
and email address, lives i followed religiously and are part of my
fabric but no longer part of my present.
Now, I live in San Francisco - happy working for a corporate entity
that I know cares little about me as a person but has afforded me and
my wife a life that we love in a city that we both call home.
If anyone is attending the Berkeley Greek Theater concert....we must
have a meet up.
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What follows was written in January. I have not updated it. Please be aware
that the contents of this email cannot be vetted for accuracy. Love each
other.
Let's see if this works...
Hello Sinister. It's been a while. Writing to you feels like shouting into
a tin can at the end of a string and not being sure if there's another can
at the end. Also the other can is supposed to be in Japan.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that NPR has been streaming Girls in Peacetime
Want to Dance (Gipwod, why not let's say?) and I like it. Write About Love
kind of sounded like an album they made to fulfill a contract but this one
is pretty all right. I think you should all give it a listen.
Anyway. I don't think about Sinister much anymore, except when a new Belle
and Sebastian album comes out, which doesn't happen very often these days,
so I hope that whatever people are reading this are having wonderful lives.
You are all beautiful and I miss you.
Love,
Eric
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Darlings,
I feel like I'm just testing the door to an old room in an attic I
forgot was there and wondering if I still have the key. A few people
have asked me if Sinister is still working in the light of the new
album's appearance - or to be quite honest, told me it's not. So I'm
here with my spanners to see if I can make it work again. I'd also like
to tell you all about Stuart David's forthcoming book which I can attest
is fantastic. But I'll get round to that when I can make this mail
successfully negotiate the round trip and return to my mailbox.
If any of you have been tentatively pushing at the doors of Sinister to
see if it's alive and have received errors or anything I might find
useful in my blind stumblings at adequacy please send them to me at this
address.
Sinister is a very odd thing these days: born in 1997 when the Internet
was only there for people with dialup or students with Netscape at
University and something that I couldn't bring myself to either remove
or update because we all hate it when our favourite pub gets made over
with a lunchtime menu and reproduction pine chairs. As such the website
stands as a monument to terrible web design and history, and is probably
one of the few websites in Europe that doesn't need a cookie consent box
because I didn't have a clue what a cookie was when I made it. And the
list - contains the formative years of many people's lives along with a
broken search engine. I keep meaning to fix that too.
If any of you do happen to get this and feel like posting something
about the new album, Stuart David or your favourite cheese, please do.
Let's just say I'm unlikely to be enforcing list rules in quite the
ambitious way I used to in 1997. If any people do show an interest I'll
throw my lot in and remove the nursery and the need to send plain text
mails, but I promise you I won't be updating the website.
Honey
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It does indeed, though Gmail gave me a warning that you might not have sent
it.
Sinister. Good times, scarcely remembered, scarcely forgotten. But I count
a some of the people I met here as friends now.
Is it really that long? Spending hard earned dollars on the re release of
Tigermilk, based only on the recommendation of a bunch of people I had
never met.
Good to hear from Miss Honey after all this time, now assured that rumours
of Honey's demise were unfounded.
That's all for now.
Ian
On 16 Feb 2015 21:59, "Keith Watson" <keithmatthewwatson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So does this still work, then?
>
> Keith.
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So does this still work, then?
Keith.
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+-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+
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+-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+
+-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+
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Hello Sinister
Â
In the 1970s, NASA launched a probe called Pioneer 10 to fly past Jupiter and Saturn, and send back photographs. By 1974, the probe had passed its target planets, and its mission was complete. But even in obsolescence, its mechanics continued obediently sending data back to Earth even as it ploughed on into deep space, even as its listeners acquired new distractions.
Â
Occasionally, in the 30 years during which it continued poking NASA bods with loyal updates, Pioneer 10 would bleep with something interesting, and the astro-men and astro-women in Houston would prick up their ears - perhaps observation of a hitherto undiscovered astronomical phenomenon; maybe something to excite the faithful.
Â
I sometimes think of you, Sinister, like Pioneer 10, amiably purring away in the face of near-total disregard, satisfied after a wonderful heyday, carrying on regardless.
Â
And if that's a suitable comparison, then maybe this is one of those prick-up-your-ears posts: last night I watched a fantastic hour-long documentary about the early years of Belle & Sebastian, taking in the group's formation until the completion of If You're Feeling Sinister. Featuring interviews with every member of the band at the time (sorry, Bobby), as well as with Tony Doogan and the two guys at Jeepster Records, it's a kindly made, rigorous and thoughtful programme that, for me at least, articulated exactly the reasons I fell in love with the band in the first place. It was no nostalgia piece, either - plenty of interesting insights and trivia elevated it above that.
Â
Anyway, as if you couldn't tell, I recommend it. Internet users can view the documentary here http://youtu.be/4de-RHHLCBA and I really do implore you do, if only to marvel at what's become of Isobel's accent.
Â
Over time, Pioneer 10's signals grew increasingly feint, mangled by galactic interference as they travelled further to reach Earth until, in 2006, any sign of the probe disappeared forever. Projections suspect it is now 15 billion miles from Earth. I do hope you, dear Sinister, don't become so estranged.
Â
Bulk love,
Â
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Asm.x
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Hello Sinister,
For those of you who live in the Los Angeles area, I did not want you to
miss this "whisper" from Stuart about a FREE event which is happening
tomorrow night. Stuart posted the note on belleandsebastian.com.
"los angelenos -
I'm holding a very special one-time only event in the early evening of
29th January.
the details are a surprise, but we hope/think you won=92t be disappointed.
it is free, west hollywood adjacent and ought to be exciting and a lot of
fun.
hope to see you there.
stuart
rsvp stuartmurdochevent(a)gmail.com"
URL: http://www.belleandsebastian.com/news
Hope you have a good time!
- Sanders
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Yeah it's stronger than ever. B&s 4eva!!!!
Honey??
c.
From: Alan Holding
Sent: 08-Dec-12 2:07 AM
To: sinister(a)missprint.org
Subject: Sinister: Still going strong?
Hey there gang,
Is this thing still on?
I was just perusing the archives after seeing Sinister mentioned here:
http://100worstpeopleontwitter.tumblr.com/page/4
Entry 53.
Been on here since 1998-99... time flies.
Hope you're all OK!
Love,
Alan
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+-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+
+-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+
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+-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+
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Hey there gang,
Is this thing still on?
I was just perusing the archives after seeing Sinister mentioned here:
http://100worstpeopleontwitter.tumblr.com/page/4
Entry 53.
Been on here since 1998-99... time flies.
Hope you're all OK!
Love,
Alan
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+-+ "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 +-+
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