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Sinister: Ooh, Get Me Away From Here, I'm Drawing!
by JPB 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hey Nice Folks, This just in from Publishers Weekly: Belle & Sebastian Comic Due in 2006 The British band Belle and Sebastian's leader, Stuart Murdoch, is a longtime comics fan, and plenty of cartoonists return his affection. Early next year, as the band releases its next album, Image will publish Put the Book Back On the Shelf: A Belle and Sebastian Anthology, a collection of short comics stories, in color and blackand white, adapted from the band's older lyrics. It'll be drawn by several dozen cartoonists, including Andi Watson, Leela Corman, Laurenn McCubbin (who designed the cover) and eight of the artists from the Flight anthologies. "There's a pretty wide range of material,"says Image editor Eric Stephenson. "Some of the artists have done straight interpretations, others have more surrealistic takes on the songs, and a few use the lyrics as a counterpoint to what's going on in the panels." Stephenson's talking to songwriter Stephen Duffy about a similar future volume. Oooh exciting! Affectionately, Jenn PB Chicago, IL __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.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: true hipster-elite colors shining through
by Ryan Agnew 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

My name is Ryan and I'm a sideline kicker who never ran onto the field before. My comment pertains to the message from Stuart, forwarded yesterday by Lucy. Mick Jagger conceived and performed something like this in December 1968 called "Rock and Roll Circus". It was a filmed stage set to celebrate, Picadilly Circus style, a future era of 70's free-styled blues-rock. There was a live audience and it was intended for television broadcast, only the Stones may have been too far ahead for the times on this one, as it wasn't commercially released until 1995 on VHS and finally last year on DVD (being the era we live in, with bonus features and surround remixes). It also really isn't that good, despite Jagger's ingenuous showmanship, and riveting appearances by Marianne Faithfull, The Who, and John Lennon. I mean it's worth tracking down, but not as important as Scorsese's Dylan documentary that aired here on PBS last month. The live audience appear carefully hand-picked, however I don't have information about methods used to screen them. Anyway, this is the first time I've heard of Belle & Sebastian sending out an instructional casting call to fans dictating their look and appearance and requesting mobile phone pictures. Have they done this kind of thing before? Has Stuart, despite the shy-to-the-press reputation, always been this fame and popularity-driven? I don't care to be too critical of this, because it's probably a smart maneuver in a marketing/vibe-producing kind of way, and I bet it's a great way to meet people. Many bands have obviously been careful with their look when it comes to a television broadcast. Did the Beatles or Rolling Stones ever ask their fans to have a particular look? Was John Lennon really singing "All you need is... corduroy and suede"? I suppose, as a fan of Belle & Sebastian's music, you can't let this kind of thing rub you in the wrong way. I suppose you would enjoy Stuart's sense of humor, especially when he takes himself too seriously and tries to rule the school. Best of luck kids, Ryan --- Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> wrote: > > From: Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> > > To: "lucyalder(a)yahoo.com" <lucyalder(a)yahoo.com> > > Subject: Belle and Sebastian News message - Filming for BBC Glasgow TV > > show, > > extras needed! > > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:21:15 +0100 > > > > Hello all, > > > > A little message from Stuart ... > > > > ìWe require a TV audience for filming for a BBC program which will > > feature the group performing a bunch of songs from the new album. The > > studio audience has to dress kind of 70s but NOT glamorous 70's, I'm > > thinking mid-70's Oxbridge/Scumbag College students, corduroy and suede, > > elbow patches, shades of brown and fawn, unkempt/long hair, perhaps some > > heavy eye make-up for the girls, black rimmed specs and stripy scarves. > > Please NO trainers, NO printed t-shirts/logos/anything. How about the > > odd cloak? You will be like extras rather than just audience in this > > program because the band will be filming the songs a couple of times > > each and you may need to be in shot and moved round a bit." > > > > The filming will be this Sunday October 23rd at the BBC studios, Queen > > Margaret Drive in Glasgow. You will need to be available from roughly > > 7.00pm til 10.00pm. If you're available and would like to considered > > for the audience, please email webcontact(a)banchory.net with your name, > > contact telephone number/s and an image of yourself, by Friday midday. > > If you can take the picture with your mobile phone and make it less then > > 200kb, that would be even better! > > > > Thanks and best of luck. > > > > Cheers, > > Belle and Sebastian. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fwd: Belle and Sebastian News message - Filming for BBC Glasgow TV show, extras needed!
by Lucy Alder 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

--- Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> wrote: > From: Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> > To: "lucyalder(a)yahoo.com" <lucyalder(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Belle and Sebastian News message - Filming for BBC Glasgow TV > show, > extras needed! > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:21:15 +0100 > > Hello all, > > A little message from Stuart ... > > ìWe require a TV audience for filming for a BBC program which will > feature the group performing a bunch of songs from the new album. The > studio audience has to dress kind of 70s but NOT glamorous 70's, I'm > thinking mid-70's Oxbridge/Scumbag College students, corduroy and suede, > elbow patches, shades of brown and fawn, unkempt/long hair, perhaps some > heavy eye make-up for the girls, black rimmed specs and stripy scarves. > Please NO trainers, NO printed t-shirts/logos/anything. How about the > odd cloak? You will be like extras rather than just audience in this > program because the band will be filming the songs a couple of times > each and you may need to be in shot and moved round a bit." > > The filming will be this Sunday October 23rd at the BBC studios, Queen > Margaret Drive in Glasgow. You will need to be available from roughly > 7.00pm til 10.00pm. If you're available and would like to considered > for the audience, please email webcontact(a)banchory.net with your name, > contact telephone number/s and an image of yourself, by Friday midday. > If you can take the picture with your mobile phone and make it less then > 200kb, that would be even better! > > Thanks and best of luck. > > Cheers, > Belle and Sebastian. > > http://www.belleandsebastian.com > http://www.banchoryshop.net > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit > http://www.belleandsebastian.com/mailing_list.php > The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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: dan treacy in gaol?
by David Giordanella 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hello friends, i must've been very naive or lived all these years on a desert island (it's actually paris & it's not that uninhabited shall we say) but little did i know that this great songwriter dan treacy, leader of the television personalities, had been sent to gaol... i always thought that the man had been missing since he was last spotted in a launderette a few years ago, and i was scared that he'd never to be found ever again... hope that he'll recover soon & that he'll tour europe again- why not sing & play "sad mona lisa" whilst in paris, what a tremulously poignant song! on a lighter note, a fortnight ago i visited the "original scottish pub in paris" i.e. "the auld alliance" in le marais- paris, & as soon as i set foot the smiths were playing on the stereo, it was a whole compilation but sadly, when it ended, whereas i hoped for a belle and sebastian to keep the pleasure running, the irritating police arrived (the group, not the cops- inane joke sorry lolllll) later on,when i went to the men's urinal, as i was doing what every gentleman's supposed to do there- needn't draw a diagram, do i?- an elderly american man asked me if i was a doctor... have you ever spoken to a stranger from one urinal to another, that 's a wee weird... he thought i was one because i had washed my hands beforehand, to which i retorted: " i'm only a belle and sebastian fan, which equates to the same thing..." a very strange piece of conversation indeed... well then, maybe he was only trying to chat me up... next time i'll show'em my red knickers to a deafening silence... à bientôt- davey de paris +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: John Peel Day HDIF in London
by Ian Watson 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hello! As I'm sure you all know, today is John Peel day, a celebration of the life and work of the legendary broadcaster and music fanatic. Countless gigs are being staged across the UK in tribute to the great man and we're proud to be playing a small part with our fourth HDIF Presents bill. As a mark of respect I¹ll be playing excerpts from the 1988 Festive Fifty between the bands and afterwards. The 1987 fifty was the next logical one to play after our 1986 Festive Fifty tribute last year, but somehow the 1988 fifty seems more fitting. The 1988 Festive Fifty is here - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lng/Festive88.htm I'll be playing tracks from the first half before and between the bands, and tracks 25-1, in order, afterwards. HDIF Presents IV Thursday October 13th The Windmill, Brixton, 8pm - late, £5 for non members, £3 for members Labrador Super suave indie popsters from Denmark, Labrador pick up where St Stienne left off at the end of ³So Tough², with dreamy, trumpet-bolstered bursts of pop perfection. If you¹re a fan of early Trembling Blue Stars, My Favorite or St Etienne (of course), then you¹ll love these. http://www.labrador.dk/ The Red Stars A brand new band from Islington and Lambeth, The Red Stars inhabit a quietly stylish dreamworld where Roddy Frame fronts the Tindersticks, and indiepop is equal parts poetry, sophistication and a perfectly strummed guitar. Formerly members of the 1940s-tinged (and Actionettes-associated) Heist. Lucky Soul A female fronted five piece from Greenwich, Lucky Soul sound like The Pipettes flirting with Saint Etienne (them again!), all sleek sixties melodies and songs to make your heart melt. http://www.luckysoul.co.uk Tickets are onsale now at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/6711 Hope to see you later on! Ian 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: A dreamy squidge
by mummy i've grazed my knee 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

Hello kids and boys, Well, nobody has posted for a little bit - or if they have it's got stuck in the technological goings on up at Honey's house. I am smiling this evening, so I thought "hey, lets send something to all those lovely folks that enjoy smiling too". I will try and make it a content based ramble because it's quite hard to send a grin through an e-mail. SINISTER IN LONDON I couldn't go - I was supposed to but some ticket muddle ups thwarted all my plans. I'd even taken Monday off work and looked on the old ebay, but couldn't afford a gazillion pounds for a ticket. I hope you all had a lovely time - i downloaded the Mp3's that Astrid mentioned. HOW AMAZING IS ANOTHER SUNNY DAY!!!!!! It's restored my faith after all that funy business with frogs and potatoes. A real return to form. And Electronic Renaissance live! I think I am allowed to come out of the B&S closet now and say that it's one of my top 5 songs - I really really love it. So quintessentially B&S, but with a drum machine and bleeps and squeeks and stuff. BOOK I am seriously underead. I don't mean by palmists and stuff, but books. I don't read enough. I have read three so far this year, a lovely one by Andrew Collins off the telly about being a student in the 80's, Chicken Licken (about a chicken - I won't spoil the story for those who haven't read it) and that Modern Rock Story lark about our favourite Enid Blyton characters. Well, I learnt all kinds of things, like Stuart David's name isn't Stuart David! How crazy is that! Maybe everyone else knew, but it was a proper piece of tabloid goss for me - that book's like the indie Hello! I really liked it. There were some odd errors, inconsistencies and non sequiturs but by and large excellent, A+. Biographies are an odd one because in order to have enough material to make it interesting you have to be some kind of obsessive stalker, and if you are just an ordinary Joe, then you aren't going to have anything to write about. Only weirdos should be able to write good biographies, but Paul Whitlow seemed to have plenty of content without losing perspective. Very nice. MORE CONTENT - STOPPING WARS Well, this is a content fest isn't it. Three topics in a row. On the Saturday before the Sinister show, I listened to B&S live on BBC News 24! I was watching it mid afternoon and they went over to the anti war demo where the reporter said "Belle & Sebastian are now entertaining the crowds" and while he interviewed that strange Bianca Jagger, I listened to TWATTYBUS live on the BBC. MARRIAGE I'm not getting married. Maybe later, but not now ITV3 Is now showing The Darling Buds Of May again. I think it's the most heart warming TV series ever made. just rural loveliness through and through. We should all strive to live our lives more like the Larkins and less like...um...the Garnett's, or Jordan and Peter Andre who clutter up BBC3. Also, does anyone remember the Look & Read BBC educational programmes we got shown in school? We used to have a spelling test on Friday morning at Robert Hitcham Primary School before going to watch the TV at 9:50 - (they had the spinning logos and funky schools music and all) - Badger Girl and Geordie Racer (with Kevin Whately) super duper lovely stuff. Apologies to any overseas sinisterettes for whom the concepts of ITV3 and Geordie Racer will be somewhat alien. For the former, this is not entirely a bad thing. DANCING Ken is DJing. I am too - not with Ken though unfortunately. If any of you are around York on Wed Nov 2nd I have a club night at City Screen - www.icouldbedreaming.co.uk The more astute amongst you will notice that I stole the name from a song by some band. BYE BYE Well, time is running on and I need a walk. I am becoming more like a dog as I grow old. Tomorrow is my 5th anniversary of moving away from home to York. I think I'll ride my bike to celebrate. See you soon lovely people, Chris Jones. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.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: Stealing's never legal (yay also I'm DJing this Friday 7th Oct! C ome watch me mess up)
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hey Kids, How are things? I ate a kebab last night it was very fattening. Yes indeed, it was a special kebab for me too, because it's been exactly one year since the last one I had (4th Oct, 2004). I would have said it was in tribute to "The Eighth Station To The Cross Kebab House", but it wasn't. Still, contents though. That previous kebab was eaten in a very different circumstances to this one, but both were consumed with excellent company, and made my lips taste just like a doner the next day. Years always make me nostalgic. How are you compared to the year before? Do you feel older? Do you feel better? Faster Stronger? Are you happier? 2004 ended on a real high for me, and I don't think it'll ever be as good as that again, but I guess I have to at least try. Dancing! ======== Well, one thing that is different this year is that, a year ago today, I wouldn't have been excited about DJing at this up and coming dancing club night that's happening THIS FRIDAY (7th Oct). Yeah, I'm going to be playing all kinds of fun music for dancing to and you should all come if you can ;) All the details are here http://www.lolrider.com/sugar email me for more info if you're interested!! Love, Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Across the Narrows
by Kara Baer 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi, all! Last night I dreamt I was eating lots and lots of sweets. Chocolate, fruit cake, cookies...and a girl was speaking to me in french. When I woke up, however, all I wanted was some toast. I'm de-lurking to tell y'all about the Across the Narrows concert, which happened Sunday in Coney Island. I left the list about 5 years ago, but recently rejoined after a bout of reminiscing. I was a young cub in those days, over-enthusiastic about everything and perhaps a bit too intersted in tailing our band around Glasgow. I'm more mature now - and studying to be librarian - but still willing to travel from Boston to New York to see Belle & Seb. It was a beautiful day. The crowd didn't get really excited until the Polyphonic Spree came on around 6pm. Favored activies until then included: cards, napping, journaling, people watching (my favorite), and for the young gentlemen: checking out the ladies. Belle and Seb came on stage about 7:15. Stuart had a Mets t-shirt on, much to the chagrin of the NYC crowd. He brought his baseball bat out and periodically hit a few baseballs into the crowd. I don't remember the set list, but the whole show a real feel of the good old days. Stuart forgot the lyrics to a few songs; everyone was having trouble hearing themselves in the monitors; and there was much shambling about on stage. Poor Mick's trumpet mic wasn't working and he pouted off for a few songs. The highlight of the set was a rousing round of "Happy Birthday" to Beans, who turned 30. Beansie then told the crowd we would all have to buy him a drink. The songs I remember are: Stars of Track and Field Woman's Realm A couple or three new songs Electronic Renaissance (YEAH!) Me and the Major I'm a Cuckoo Lonliness of a Middle Distance Runner Judy and the Dream of Horses Much love, Kara I will not be punished for my sins; I will be punished by my sins. -Stephen Asma __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.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: The Great Sinister Bump of October 2005
by honey＠missprint.org 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

What ho, Sinister. Today's the day of a solar eclipse apparently, for those of you far south enough: even though I only just woke up, apparently it's all over bar the shouting by now which seems a bit churlish of our local star and satellite to do it so early on in the day. There are some fantastic webcam "shots" of the live eclipse from Dublin which consist of cloud, and more cloud. Yay for the British Isles! Anyway, it's also the day of another major cataclysmic event. You'll all have been bored to tears by now with me bleating on about "... AOL... spam... idiots... spam... hosting company..." etc. so I'm hoping one of our remaining AOL users, should they happen perchance (and it really is a perchance by now) to receive this message, won't mark *this* one as spam too. Else we all go down together. No, October 2005 is also a celestial event for Sinister, and will be known in centuries to come as The Great Bump of Sinister: we're moving home. Hopefully it won't also turn into an eclipse. I won't bore you to tears again, but suffice to say moving has been a few weeks work in preparing the ground, moving all the list software to a nice new garden where the spades aren't all rusty and people don't throw rubbish over the fench. It will give me great pleasure to tell the old hosting company to take their gardening shears and shove them (vague on-topic allusion) should The Great Bump work successfully. This mail getting through will indicate that I haven't made a complete mess up so far. Bump One consisted of me wrestling back the domain (missprint.org) from the hands of some outlaws while outmanoeuvring their attempts to extort a fee after Miss Print's domain registrar (which turned out to be a man on a mobile phone) packed in and ran off to hide. Bump Two is just now which is me moving the domain over to a new nameserver: it'll probably take a day or so. The real bump will happen after this when I then move the mailing list software, webpages, list crush (remember that?), etc etc. over to the new hosting server where it's all laid out neatly in rows between the carrots, waiting for rain. But I thought I'd better mail you now just in case the list disappears for a few hours and mail bounces. I shouldn't think so, but I wouldn't want any of you to think we went anywhere if there were a brief eclipse. You might want to all take the precaution of wearing sunglasses for the day and avoiding staring directly at the list. You don't have to do anything, and the best result will be that you won't notice any difference, other than that some AOL users may start getting mail again, and we won't all be under imminent threat of losing the lot. All you have to do is hold onto the rails while The Bump occurs, and should anything untoward happen, wait a day or so then mail me and tell me. No list addresses, web addresses etc. will change. When we've gone past Bump Three in a few days or so, something will inevitably break, because I'm stupid, like the nursery won't work, or part of the web pages will be broken. Your task is then to mail me and tell me, because I won't see it. Moving will also solve the problem of the photo galleries (remember them?) and list archives all living on borrowed space, because they'll all start living at Miss Print's now. This is a convenient point at which to thank Heath of nodata.org who's hosted them for years: we should all send him roses. All the silly links I put in place to make the archive work will have been removed, and you'll be able to link directly to posts in the archive now, etc. *Should* any AOL users get this mail (and it looks like that also includes cs.com subscribers), then hi :) I can assure you that AOL have at least been telling me frequently that your mail has been bouncing - see previous messages in the archive - so you will have definitely missed stuff. As did subscribers from demon.co.uk a few weeks ago - I think they missed one or two. The reasons for this are too stupid to even go into, but consist of corporations who confuse the words "elbow" and "arse". I'll repeat my recommendation that all people using AOL should think very hard about migrating to a sensible ISP, as I can't guarantee they won't blacklist us from our new home if any of your fellow AOLers decide Sinister mail is spam, although the soil is more fertile there and I'll do what I can to preempt this. I can pretty much guarantee though that the new hosting company aren't stupid enough to blacklist the rest of you because of AOL. I'll also repeat the warning that hotmail and MSN users may also experience problems should Microsoft, who own your addresses, carry out a threat with regards to bullying the world to use their anti-spam system in a few months time. But that's only a maybe, so I guess you could sit tight and see. So in summary, congratulations on passing through Bump One successfully without knowing it, and welcome to Bump Two. Please tighten your seat-belts and refrain from smoking until the cabin lights are extinguished. Should all go well, the actual list, website etc. will move sometime this week and we will have passed Bump Three, and the stewards will be along to serve you light refreshments. No list addresses will change, the list web pages will still look charmingly bad in their 1997 style, and we will still live at missprint.org: in fact all your embarrassing mails from when you were 17 that you wish weren't there will still be online at missprint.org when you're 80. I guarantee it, should the sun not explode by then. I'm allowed to post really long mails because it saves me having to explain it all 50 times via private mails. *Cough* - sorry. LIST CONTENT: Ken as far as I know is still not married. I can't recall anyone remarking on just how much the WarChild song, "The Eighth Station Of The Cross Kebab House" (best title eva) sounds like The Specials, should any of you have downloaded it. Oh yes it does. Yes, it is a horrible site, and they do wrap the song up in nasty closed licencing restrictions meaning you probably have to have a blue PC on wheels to play it and if anyone else hears it it'll self-destruct; but I suppose you have to let charities make mistakes that others don't. To all tapetree listeners, I apologise in advance: you'll understand when you get it. I got a bit carried away. By the way it's not a tape tree, as it neither consists of tapes, nor has a tree-like structure. It's a CD SNAKE. And can I say, while I'm here, that you all forgot what the list crush was. It's here: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/crush.html Does no-one have crushes anymore? You also all forgot to send in pictures which live here: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/#photos Admittedly that might have been my fault for not putting any up for about 3 years, but I am turning over a new leaf, and once The Great Bump's over will be trawling back through those sent and putting them up. I'd particularly like to see some more Things We Made In School Today, Mummy: http://www.missprint.org/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?gallery=things to pin on the fridge. Finally you *forgot about the Sinister library*: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/library/ Krister in particular may want to pop in and hide a book between the shelves? It's less ephemeral than posting to the list, and you can always refer to it in a post so people can go and have a read. This also affords me a brief plug of my chum Ciara's new site, as she was the first to ever send me a story for the library, which you can read there (it's great). Ciara is also always ON TOPIC for she is the cover girl for If You're Feeling Sinister and therefore the list's mascot, should she like it or not. Her new site for her poetry (which is as good as her stories) is at: http://www.ciaramaclaverty.co.uk With regards to the artist formerly known as Starry and now called the very formal Sarah Clarke because she works on a trout farm: her comments on Scott "Scotty" Walker are mathematically proven correct (although "Tilt" is a bit much for me), and I can only scream at you to hear "The Seventh Seal" from Scott 4 (not the band, the LP). And with regard to the subject of her post, to remind you of the best joke in the world: "what's big and small at the same time?" A BIG EGG. 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: me and my madness
by James Laming 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

hello again all, a few notes re: recent mailings from you lot BELLE AND SEBASTIAN AT THE BARBICAN i confess that others have written on this before me and probably better. however, i must have my two cence to use an american parlance. firstly, i am absolutely miffed at missing the picnic. i arrived late due to having to work - this annoys me everso. i'm sure it was excellent. perhaps you all knew each other and i would've looked daft. either way i'm gonna throw my hat into the ring - let's (as the beach boys so deftly said) do it again. i want a london picnic! come on, lazy types, do we need a gig as an excuse? anyway, there was a gig. stuart's lyrical recollection was about 54% this evening. notable lyrical failures: slow graffiti, women's realm, stars of track and field. however, i cannot begin to tell you how much of a sap i felt hearing that wretched album. i was evangelical about that album circa 97/98 to the point of irritation. hearing the group play it through was pretty emotional stuff......i could see other fully grown chaps and chappesses looking far too emotional considering their years. i left fast to catch a train to enfield. i had to run and it hurt lots. THE GODLIKE GENIUS OF SCOTT WALKER someone was murmuring about scott here recently. scott is not for everyone, but in this scribe's humble opinion scott could sing the phone book and make it divine. if anyone sad enough to own 'i don't wanna hear it anymore' by the walker brothers then you'll know what i mean. i had an evening on the red wine and the scott came out......then the bacharach, then the jimmy webb. i don't drink much (he lied) but red wine + scott = mecca, followed by vomit alas. i reccomend him without reservation. espesh for the red wine crowd. yes i'm drinking now incidentally. WHO AM I? oh. i'm new here. here are some facts regarding me. faves: b&s song: slow graffiti punk rock single: 'where's bill grundy now' by the television personalities cheese: cheddar obviously film: 'if......' actually, has anyone seen 'if...'? it really is the most ridiculously wonderful film i have ever seen. i want a picnic! come on london! i've said enough james (dumbangel1) _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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