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Sinister: Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
by P F 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

Balloons being filled with hot air, blasts of flame pushing them off the ground, pilots and passengers crowding in the baskets. My image of them refreshed: in the very-first-thing light they seem lighter and sweeter than ever, bright colours and nothing but wind. No commentary, just real live noise of people, many people really, gathered at six o'clock to watch hot air balloons take off. The veteran balloon-watchers, the ordinary folk taking an interest and their children, the cuties in woolly things lined up against a fence taking me back about 18 imaginary years. In the morning's wind most craft seem to rise suddenly and whizz over the horizon, but the Scottish piper, who slightly reminds me of RJG, his feet bigger than people, who last night was packed away to the strains of a bagpipe lament having failed to fly, gets off the ground and floats away into the blue, slower than anything else in sight. Sister Disco wrote: >>> I think perhaps Tim was riffing on the idea of Island Records. I thought he was, in a way, but I couldn't work out the way. >>> For the record, Tag had read the Keith Moon book. Is this the ultimate Sinister Gold line? Which record was it? >>> Helter Skelter had to close their shop on Denmark Street because the rent was too high, or something. I got a book for half price during their closing down sale. It was about the Beach Boys. I hope to sell it for a vast profit one day. I predict it will go for �18. >>> I feel strangely violated by the fact that there is a B&S book coming out and that it appears to be 'authorised'. Is that because it may quote private letters from you? I feel strangely violated, also, on St*phen Tr*uss*'s behalf, for, as I said before, he was going to write the book, but left the proposal in the pocket of his other Lemerre, I mean, Jacquet. >>> I suppose this opens the floodgates for unscrupulous scandalmongers, though. Also, it might be interesting to read. Good point. It had better mention THE SARACEN HEAD. You know, over the years many have written to sinister saying they wanted information about B&S fandom and what not. So, why has the author of the new book not done the same? Or were all those posts from 'Kenneth Chu', from him? Cousin Clubnight __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: For Those About To Rock Biography
by P F 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

Outside, a world of rain. It is invisible save from the right angle, but its whoosh and swish rains off the parades, rains in the lucozade, rains off the show, drains out the woe. It is, naturally, beautiful, on the red brick and the green grass, the colourful vinyl and the grey slates. Thought turns, with a bit of luck, to a past. On August 20th, 1998, PJ Miller wrote: >>> As for a B&S book, I'd like to see one of those "In Their Own Words" books devoted to them. It is odd that five years later, there has been no book, or buik. I blame JtN, who never sent me his proposal. I think he left it in his other smoking jacket. >>> What a buffoon I am! That's not really true - but it's funny. As Miller's list of rock books goes on, it reminds me of how much diverse !pop! music he likes. >>> It's an encyclopaedia of Krautrock, dead big and probably full of bollocks. It's hard to tell, at a distance, how Miller produces effects like this. Is it any easier, closer up? I'm not telling. I'm starting to think that Miller made up the names of the rock books. >>> They've got the Deacon Blue book really cheap. Poor old Ricky Ross, Mister Bargain Bucket. He must be making it up. I mean, there is no Deacon Blue book that I have seen. Miller, if you have bought it since, could you send it to me? A funny thing is that Miller would not now dare to write about Deacon Blue without mentioning the pinefox. >>> But it was the Huns, they did eat all the pies. See, that's funny as well - but how does he do it? >>> T!mothy Hopk!ns, you can't pull the wool over my eyes. At least not for more than a couple of scary seconds. Here, it is the joke about the wool being scary, because it obscures Miller's vision, that is the source of comedy. The comedy is mild, here. One could reflect that Miller's comic style, excellent then, has not changed much since. (That would, I think, be a good thing.) But how about other writers? Later that day, Tim Hopkins replied: >>> Here are some more rock book recommendations: Just like that - straight in! >>> 'Unwelcome Home: the strange tale of Peters and Lee' by Mrs Evander Mitchell This details the descent of the once-great 1970s light entertainment duo from pop stardom into a seedy life of accountancy and ventriloquism. As a tale of everyday madness, this one is hard to beat. I am missing something here, but the phrase 'everyday madness' reminds me of the time I wrote about two years ago, when Hopkins pointed to a big building and said: 'That's the Stephen Trouss� Institute for Contemporary Madness'. >>> 'Post-Hegelian Homesick Blues: The List Song in Postmodernity' by Steffan Hosen Here's what it says on the back: 'Fascinating study (adapted from an acclamed doctoral thesis) which puts the list song at the epicentre of postmodernity, as the apotheosis of one-dimensional fractal culture, referencing, re-referencing and self-referencing out of control, nowhere and everywhere, forever. It demonstrates that, even more than 'machine music' like hip hop, the list song has ruthlessly exposed the modernist myth of the creative subconscious, and locates postmodern creativity in the act of turning on the television, the only purposeful act which remains available to us.' Quite how the author managed to do this much research into list songs without once mentioning Ian Dury's 'Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt 3' is beyond me, but a scintillating read nevertheless. That was good enough to demand reproduction in full. It just demanded it, out of the pink, like that, and I could not say no. I wonder was TH thinking of 'We Didn't Start The Fire', as paradigmatic? >>> Sarah Records 40: A Celebration This large format, glossy book tells the amazing tale of how Sarah Records was founded 40 years ago on the tiny Caribbean island of Bristol, and through amazing luck, great judgement and a sense of adventure, has grown and prospered through 40 years and across the whole spectrum of popular music. Guest star forewords are contributed by Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson and Andrew Dean. I don't really understand the joke, here. I am missing some key connection. >>> The Strange Tale of Litres of Pee: Indiepop Babylon, by Roberto Carro Amazing expose of the darker side of the indiepop world. You wouldn't believe some of the things those indiepopsters get up to. Read about how Bjork destabilised the molecular structure of the other Sugarcubes' brains, using worrying glares she'd bought from Tricky. Read how the size of Brett Anderson's head is directly proportional to the popularity of his band, and how he now wears hats stolen from Lego figures. Read how Belle And Sebastian's Stevie Jackson was spotted by Dave Lee Roth while filling in on guitar for the BMX Bandits in LA. He accepted a job in Roth's band, but was thrown out after just twenty minutes for throwing a meat pie at Seymour Stein, esteemed head of Sire Records. It missed. Stevie wrote a song about the whole incident. It's a great song. And it's a fantastic book, you should try to get hold of it. That one doesn't work quite so well for me, but the deadpan material on Bjork and Suede is well turned. >>> Take the book back off the shelf, That sign-off signals a moment when TH would quote Belle & Sebastian, knowing that everyone knew what he meant. The following month, I would buy the song he was referring to! I like it still. In response to Miller, Hopkins concludes: >>> I'm not sure what this means, but it's worrying me. Wool? Eyes? Leave me alone. There is a little sweet innocence about this. But there is familiarity too. TH can almost be imagined writing something similar today, somewhere. I think that these examples demonstrate what good comic writing Belle & Sebastian were, once, sometimes able to provoke, from some particularly witty people. The same day, Nick Dastoor wrote: >>> Welcome Marco#7. I'm going to be annoying and not answer your question. But I propose that 'I brought " THE DELGADO" but i'm not satisfied.' be made the new Sinister sig file quote. Of course, that's only a personal opinion, but I must admit it's one I hold quite strongly. Oh, dear - that is not N. at his best. It makes me reflect that his sense of humour, timing and style has, or have, improved since. >>> Nick xxx He has never given me three kisses. He did not even do it then - I was not on the sinister mailing list. There were about 54 posts to sinister, that day. Brother Mirrorball __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: an actual B&S biography
by joanna 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

PF wrote: >>> As for a B&S book, I'd like to see one of those "In Their Own Words" books devoted to them. It is odd that five years later, there has been no book, or buik. I blame JtN, who never sent me his proposal. I think he left it in his other smoking jacket." Don't know if this was what you have in mind, but it was just announced today in Publishers Lunch. What a coincidence. "Scottish journalist Paul Whitelaw's JUST A MODERN ROCK STORY, a biography of the enigmatic band Belle & Sebastian, featuring exclusive interviews with the band as well as personal photos and a cover designed by lead singer Stuart Murdoch, to Becki Heller at St. Martin's, by Kim Goldstein at the Susan Golomb Agency." You can never tell when these things are going to be released, but it's still pretty exciting. Love Joanna Time Passes. Listen. Time Passes. -- Dylan Thomas +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: You'll leave two fingers in the air
by Astrid Wiezell 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Dear Sinister, I am now back in school. It's ok, I guess. My best friend Zebine has moved to somewhere really close to Dallas, and I miss her so much. The first day I panicked and felt so out of place, and when I got to know that there'd be no ordinary classes until Friday I was pretty bummed out. I really just want to get going, because we have tons of fun classes this year, English foremost, and psychology, geography might be pretty good because i think the teacher is good, or so i've heard, and literature studies and oh... it will be good I think. Hard work, but the kind of work that interests you is fine by me. Today we, as third-years (last year in school EVER!! WOHOO! We have to point this out by chanting stuff like "somliga har, två år kvar!" which means "some people have two years left" but it rhymes in Swedish, gist of it v. much lost in translation) had to be in the auditorium to attend something called the buddy system with the first-years, and take a wild guess, were supposed to befriend them a bit. We got divided into smaller groups and had to sit in classrooms, and of course no one spoke (not even my fellow third-year-classmates!) and so I gave tiny life-lectures to the wee things, on such a broad variety that ranged from "Why it is stupid to assume that English native teachers do not understand or speak English if you plan on mocking them", "Behaviour with and of teachers", "Teenage Angst" and "Taking Responsibility" and the old fave "Actions speak louder than words" when it came to extra-curricular activites. Of course I hid it beneath some general talk but hopefully they felt less angstish about the whole thing. I was scared shitless the first day in school there, I knew no one and didn't even understand what my first homwork in civics was ABOUT. But I turned out ok, hopefully. I seem to have an ace new English teacher to also help out with the school paper, it's so much easier when you have a faculty member as support. Also, the teachers are in many, many cases so much more fun to hang out with than the students, I suspect he might have a great taste in music. Am I sick for being like this? I think that I've always been. It's so weird, it's like some people don't even realise that they're people too. Most of them are really nice people. The one boy in my group was pretty cool as well, and we sat beside each other during the presentations in the auditorium and were cynical and glorious in our comments, and he showed me his hair spray which i thought was funny. It was pink and purple, and he was all clad in black and listened to industrial stuff so i thought it was quite unexpected. I was listening to Lord Anthony today and felt like him a wee bit. I tried to do a re-make in my head, but Lady Astrid just doesn't have the same ring to it. It sounds like someone who runs a brothel. Anyways, I feel just like hom sometimes, and I love the metaphor of "shut your mouth/ start kicking the football" because that IS how you gain popularity and all that stuff: by dropping all personality, buy some boring but expensive clothes and start going "OH MY GOOOD!!! IIIHHHH" many times a day, at least as a girl in Sweden. Seeing as I'm not really into being like that and dressing like the others do (today: red converse shoes, dark tight jeans, black cardigan with B&S badge and sort of audrey hepburnish meets rock chick make-up) and STILL, STILL I am considered a bit odd just because I dress like that. The badge, I think, does it. A BADGE. Some people are easy to shock. I must get home soon and bake a cake, my stomach is a-rumblin'. Other non-important info: - I have taken on to say "MeOW!" when I see a cute boy. Why, I have no idea. Me and Amanda always have cute boy-shouts. The original was a quiet whisper of "hello" and but now it has become a barely audible MeOW. Just so you know that I'm not a cat impersonator. - How nice of a word is kitten, come to think of it? - I might write a song about sinister. I am not sure. Shout-outs: Richard: I will write you SOON, as soon as my school computer gets fixed up, because I want to give a proper reply to your e-mails. They still do crack me up, ha ha. Marisa: Oh man, still, come to Sweden. You're so cool! Anders: I have SICKO facts to tell you. I laughed for half an hour (honestly) when I realised a hilarious thing about us, oh dude you'll DIE, you'll DIE! Also: facts about myself, karaoke and the Lion King will be a-comin' your way with my next letter. Combined, that is. Haha. Nathan: Ok, so stupid me decided to re-do your entire tape last night, so I have finished to A-side to my satisfaction, the other side tonight and the letter's all done so soon soon my friend! tons of love Astrid x _________________________________________________________________ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: The Boy Got Pwned Again (LONDON SINISTER PICNIC ON THE SATURDAY 4 TH SEPT (THE DATE MAY CHANGE))
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hey! Long time no see! Wow it's been exactly a month since I last posted, so I thought I'd mark today with a gin. Have you actually tried to mark things on a map with gin? It's highly impractical.. You try and pin point Primrose Hill on the London A-Z using a drawing pin? Easy, you try it with a gin? And you end up marking the whole of Chalk Farm and Regents Park. If you actually want to mark the whole of Primrose Hill, a Belle and Sebastian pin (or any of the same size e.g. linkin park pins) would be the idea size to be pretty much marking the whole thing. I've actually done this. So the purpose of this e-mail.. Do you guys fancy meeting up for a pincy nicky fun on 4th Sept on Primrose Hill? I'm waiting for y'all to get out of your situation with your job and with your life. But do you know what's good about this picnic plan? It's on a SATURDAY so you don't even have to get out of your job just yet (unless you work on Saturday in which case you should take a day off) And then all we need is somewhere we can feel the grass beneath our feet.. Hey! Primrose Hill has grass on it!! Yay! And who needs to walk on sand when we can sit on grass or run on grass and play football or something. And beer you can cool your hands with. Our Joy will be complete. So rough details (oxymoron?).. It's nothing revolutionary I'm afraid. Saturday 4th Sept Primrose Hill Meet at the Odeon Cinema on Parkway at 2pm Walk up the hill at 2:15pm Be at top of the hill at 2:30pm That's it! Bring food bring friends bring football bring frisbee bring frivolity! Bring fun! If for any reason you think another date would be better let me know. Woot! 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: im a girl with ideas, lots of good ideas
by leyda campbell 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

hello boys and girls, ok, so i am thinking that the midwest meet-up should be in my hometown (selfish, aren't i) in the last week of august or the first week of september. we will meet at the arch and take it from there. let me know of anything specific that you guys would like to do. we have all the usual suspects plus some unique stuff as well. let me know who wants to go and when the best time would be and we can nail down the details. anyroad, have a good one kids and contact me asap. xoxox leyda _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Saturdays and money
by Paulo Stinsoni 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hello youth-of-today, Should I start with "It's been a long time since I last posted"? - Nah, sod that. You know that if you keep tabs on me, and if you don't, then you don't care. Anyway, nothing clever or slick in this mail, oh no. All I want to know is... Is there an indie club night on on Saturday 21 August, anywhere in the UK. I'd particularly like to hear some old indie twee stuff, and some new indie twee stuff, like Camera Obscura and of course Belle and Sebastian. If I don't find an indie night to go to, Theresa Lovely will make me go to a drum 'n' bass night in London, and although I don't mind that too much, I find the music begins to bore me, and I just want to go home. Also, when dancing to D&B, you just don't know what beats to follow and you end up dancing either really slow or really fast. Thanks in advance, Love and pies P. _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sunbeam shone
by Jonathan Skinner 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

Heigh ho I hope this finds everyone in a fine state of fettleness. I am grand and dandy, not much to complain about really, the summer is here, and it has pissed with rain pretty much every day since June. Ahh the joys of being in Ireland. Not a lot really going on here, most of the nice venues in cork have closed down, which means there are only 3 nice concert venues here (down from 6) which may or may not be good, i am undecided as it is. The reason for my email is very very simple. I am about to leave these shores for the sunny climes of North America in 3 weeks ( mental note pay for ticket and insurance) Anyway i will find myself in New York for the last few days of my trip, namely from the 12th to the 14th, so i am wondering if any of you nice people ( if anyone actually reads this) that live there or are familiar with the place could email me some nice, interesting places to go in the city, or even *Gasp* meet up. One thing must be confessed though, i will only be 20 at the time so any suggestions that come my way, if any should keep that in mind.(rant) It always strikes me as odd that if i was an American, i could if i so desired go out and die, if not kill for my country but i couldn't go out and have a drink to celebrate coming back alive. (/rant) So yeah that would be great if someone could email me sometime. In other news, i managed to miss belle and Sebastian twice this summer, once in London due to tickets being sold out and then at out equiv of Glastonbury, merely because i hate festivals Cast ne'er a clout till may be out Peace, love ,lollipops jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: By the light of the moon, the big baboon was combing his auburn hair
by robin stout 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

It rains here a lot. If your days are spent like mine, gazing out of a window, it can make the perfect backdrop for not getting anything done. Sometimes I'll be sitting in a meeting and no one has seen the forecast or brought a parapluie, and haven't noticed the falling raindrops gradually filling up the sky. Then, it falls a little harder and people start to hear and everyone looks up, and even the person giving the presentation puts the cap on their felt-tip pen. It's one of those natural phenomenons that, if I were an observational comic or a misty-eyed drunk I could make a lot of capital from, wondering how no one notices the rain until it reaches a certain pitch, just like no one pauses on the path to look down a mysterious hole, until reaches a certain depth. But I'm neither of those things, so I have to keep those thoughts to myself. Yeah, we have plenty of rain here. You're quite welcome to it if you want. It's of a particular vintage if you're in a tent at the seaside with good company and yesterday's smudged crossword. Having missed the rest, I managed to catch Struan on the radio on Thursday. I was going to the dentist in the morning and managed to hang around long enough to hear him. He played Take the Skinheads Bowling, and waxed somewhat lyrical about how this song was where the term Bowlie came from and how the song summed up Indie for him. Struan seems to have a different idea of what indie is to most people I meet. I like how he cherishes these modern slurs, Bowlie, Twee, Indie, Hipster, Christian, and lives in a world where all of these things are as holy as he wants them to be. Most people disagree, but then I don't think most people have a clue. Did anyone see the Animal Games on BBC1 last night (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3558212.stm)? It was the most extraordinary telly I've seen in ages. Apparently a bug can run so fast that photons don't even have time to hit its eyes. John Motson says so, so it must be true I guess. Marisa said, charmingly: <<There are two frontmen in the whole world whose voices I know intimately...who I can identify by the way they pronounce certain consonants...for whom I freeze when I hear the timbre of their speaking voice...the first time I heard both these bands, I *felt* the music rush through me and I knew something big had happened in my life...I feel what I imagine hollywood-style love to feel like.>> And I wondered who the second frontman could be.. R x _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: please speak into the microphone
by laurel lemming 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

dear Sinister, all of you are always talking about lots of other bands that people who listen to B+S also listen to. the only band I listen to in that sort of 'category' is Belle and Sebastian. oh, I listen to lots of other stuff, mostly in completely different genres; a lot of bluegrass, a lot of emo-ish rock, some 80s pop, and stuff my parents like to listen to. and someone once gave me a mix CD of stuff that was supposed to be "B&S-like," by which I guess they meant t*ee-pop, not that B+S are, but whatever. *stumbles away hoping not to provoke another discussion of "t*ee."* and nothing there really struck my fancy. so I guess my question is, are camera obscura and the hidden cameras the same band? I mean...I don't know. I'm so confused. and is it wicked not to care about all these other bands? not cool enough for you, lem __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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