From: "jarkko frantila" <chamomile1@hotmail.com>
And now for something conserning Belle & Sebastian. Hmmm... How should I put this... Is it true that Jeepster is going to stop selling B&S- merchandise? Heard it from trustworthy sources
Yes, I don't think I'm betraying any confidences if I say that I too have heard this, straight from the horse's mouth. Thinking about it though, a horse is a horse of course, of course and no one can talk to a horse of course of course, unless of course of the horse id Mr Ed. Or David Kitchen. Which it was. Apparently the merchandising is a great money spinner but it's taking up too much of Jeepster's time, at the expense of things like singing new bands. Anyway, at least this contradicts the view that Jeepster are an evil BUSINESS just wanting to make MONEY, since a sensible capitalist strategy in these circumstances would surely be to take on more menial staff to send out all the T-shirts and badges. Maybe they fear that these workers will realise that they are buttering Mark Jones' bread and seize the means of production. Or something. I'm not very good on Marxist theory. A nice French boy posted a great treatise on the subject a while ago but got shouted down by some nasty American man who said 'Hey, where do get off on spouting all this political shit?' Note my insidious demarcation of 'boy' and 'man'. I have no idea what their respective ages are but boy = good whilst man= bad. Oh dear, I hope the American man isn't still on the list or else this might constitute one of those flame things. I'm sorry. I'm surely you are lovely and my memory is addled. Anyway, DK says that they are planning to contract out the merchandising to another company, although the same crew will still be designing the stuff.
From: "Beth Tilston" <bobbins2000@hotmail.com>
P.S - THE FLAMING LIPS KICK ASS!
For years I thought that 'kicking ass' was a bad thing. This was probably the result of being kicked in the ass by my PE teacher and not liking it very much. So for years I had this unpleasant connection lingering in my unconcious, obscuring the true glory of ass-kicking. Now that I've been through therapy I take every opportunity to kick people I like really hard up the ass. Sometimes they respond by hitting me in the face, which I can only assume is an even better thing. And having seen the Flaming Lips' life-changing set at Camber Sands, I can only agree with Beth. THE FLAMING LIPS HIT FACES!
From: stephen hewitt <hewits@gloscat.ac.uk>
Following on from the never ending thread of Belle & Seb dreams, I have a slightly new twist, BOWLIE Dreams!!! I dreamed that I was at a Bowlie kind of thing and was talking to Isobel and all my friends from Cheltenham were there too. But the main thing was that around the site was a huge 100 ft high wall with big metal spikes at the top, as though the Bowlie was being held in a prison camp or something (but we were still having an ace time).
I too had a BOWLIE Dream! I was embarassed to mention it before, but seeing as Stephen has recounted his, I might as well add my own. I dreamed that I was ambushed in the toilets and subjected to a brutal gang rape! This was no fun, but later on in the dream I got over it, and there were all these girls saying how they thought I was great (not just because I'd been subjected to a brutal gang rape). To be honest it wasn't so much set in Camber Sands holiday camp as in a typical dream amalgam of there, a university and my office. And to be honest it wasn't so much a dream as a typical amalgam of a dream , a fantasy and real life. Actually, that's not true - it really was a dream, and you can check my diary if you don't believe me. I never lie to my diary. Which maybe explains why it's so dull. I love you all. Nick xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+