Helloooooo Sinister!! I was so excited the other night when I finally sifted through all 149 e-mails that were in my inbox and developed the makings of a post that spanned over a week's worth of sinister coverage, when lo and behold--snippets without comment add up to 29k of information! TOO MUCH LOVE, SAYS I, ARRRR! SHIVER ME TIMBERS! Over all, I've only sifted through 'til tuesday (that was for you, Lisey! *Elise sings: "keep it down now, voices carry!"*) I found too many things I wanted to control-p on. Miraculously, there has been *lots* of B&S content lately, too! I think I'm going to do a batch-post thingie. This is part one. OK, I'll tell you lot who are depressed over Christmas-time that I used to be really depressed this time of year, too (moreso than usual). You know what helps? Not living with your parents. Call me fruitloopy, but I have had some really grate Christmases since I got a bit older. Maybe this is something that some of you depressed kitties out there can look forward to. I find that my mother especially LOVES to start fights on holidays, she tried her hardest on Thanksgiving but I used my secret grown-up game plan: going home! Yay! Apparently, I "have low standards" and can never "date anyone nice" so my mother has taken it upon herself to try to fix me up with a used car salesman and a magician! I'm sure they're nice, but, um... yes, I'd rather be drinking gasoline, MUTH-errrr! I felt I REALLY should have a molotov coctail, when mom yelled at all of us "kids + wives" (mind you, the youngest is 22) for PUTTING OUR DISHES IN THE SINK. That's right, IN the sink.*rachie yanks on Mandee May's jacket and pulls a face* I didn't get the telepathic memo to NOT put dishes in the sink, and neither did anyone else. In the teen years, we had no escape, but oh HAPPY DAY, I have my own house to go home to now! This factor can make any holiday mele� easily escapable! Also worth a mention (but not to my mom!): I AM SO EXCITED THAT MR.BEN APPS WILL BE ARRIVING IN LOS ANGELES IN LESS THAN 31 DAYS!!! I don't care that you list crush naysayers say nay, I say YAY! Ben is the bee's knees!! He has a lovely singing voice, you know! *swoon* I am PAST 25 years of age, and you know what? You kitties having birthdays and getting up into your 20's should really think about how cool it is to be YOU, with your good taste in music and your independence. I would not want to be a teenager again for all the money in the world. I think early 30's are going to be my prime years and I am looking forward to them. Besides, nobody ever knows how old I am anyway. Most of you probably look younger than you are, too! If all else fails, LIE ABOUT YOUR AGE! :) Now I'm going to have to use the Jedi mind trick to make you forget how old I am. Damn! That's hard to do the gesture through e-mail! There's no emoticon for Jedi mind trick, is there? It's ok to not be happy, though. I find that this season is the most tumultuous because it's cold and dark (for most of us, in this hemisphere) some of us are lonely, and a lot of extra time, money and effort must be spent in "celebration". I like to think of it as a transformation. This is the season of the dead. Out with the old, in with the new. When you're feeling down, try to think of all of the grate things that could happen to us this next year! Try to think of how pretty the lights are. Or just get drunk. That's what I do. I don't really have a fantasy. I think I need to work on that. I tend to get lost in the flip-flop between fantasy and reality. So many of you write dreamy things... most everything I have to say in this post is smutty or ridiculous. I am starting to feel like maybe I don't have anything worth saying to you. But that's just going to make me stop posting, and I don't want to stop, so I think I should just stop thinking. Yeah. No more thinking. For now... See what happens when it rains in southern California? It makes us crazy(ier)! ***WELCOME*** Carolyn Jacobson wrote some poems that were very pretty! Welcome Carolyn! Welcome to Mark Sweeney! A big HELLO to Elsa Chiao, the lurking lurker! Welcome to PATRICK DOYLE!!! Nice first post!! Welcome to Melmoz Melissa!!! When I see your name "Melmoz" I think of Melmac, the planet that ALF is from! Liz Daplyn, welcome back! ***KIRSTEN KENYON KORNER*** She's so awesome, I had to give her a separate section to herself!! Kirsten Kenyon wrote: "a masterpiece was created in blue ink..."bambi" meets "i love you, alice b. toklas."" I find this description to be utterly hilarious! Bambi is a movie that I can never ever again watch in my life, it breaks my heart... Especially since I'm a Disney fanatic. But, if Peter Sellars was in it feeding his parents pot brownies then I might give it another chance! irsten enyon wrote: "so we toyed with the notion that we might be 'too ool for onsonants,' and for several minutes we only used them selectively. but none of us could talk that way with a straight face for long. so i guess we weren't ool enough." When I read this, it really just struck me as being one of the funniest things I've ever read! It reminded me of a sign that my friend Vicky and I had on the front bathroom door at our old apartment in Studio City, which read "This is my ool. notice there's no p in it. I don't swim in your pool so don't piss in my toilet. Signed, the management." and it would confuse the guests so much that they would go use the other bathroom! I think that me and my roommate were the only ones who thought it was funny. yep... Kirsten Kenyon wrote of the Reverend: "he half-sang, half-shouted "wooeee an' we gotta baby girl inna plaid jacket, boys, you know what they say bout them girls in plaid jackets" and a few people yelled "WHAT?" and he just laughed a smokey sort of laugh and shook his head." I know what they say about girls in plaid jackets... They say they are dead clever and too adorable and smart to be stuck away at church! They say that, and I would have to agree. They would not be reverends, however, and that's probably why he didn't finish the statememnt. Ken Chu wrote: "Will Kirsten Kenyon ever write a bad post so mine can look good in comparison for once?" The answer is no, and shut up. Your posts are grate and don't you forget it!! I glow in anticipation when I see a post from "Kenneth PY Chu" in my inbox, I really do! My sister Amber and friend Vicky are now big fans of Kenny Chuey and they aren't even sinister. They just like slim Asian boys with potty mouths! ;) ***MUSIC*** Fabio Snoozer wrote: "the only cover-project we could stand playing would be a Beatles Cover Band. So here we are, the name of this band is Revolution #9 and we were hired to play in a big public event" Yay! This seems so cool! I am so curious to know what your band sounds like, especially doing Beatles covers! And that was A LOT of songs on your set list! Impressive! Astrid wrote: "we�re recording a cd for our own money this winter, it�ll probably be in 2002, and it will be fantastic. there are some talking about who�s going to sing. it might be me. eeeek! *excited-but-very-nervous-scream*" Your band seems really adorable and cool!! I hope that you DO sing, and that you get enough money together to record next year, and that you will make your cd available to all of us! Brighten will rock the world, YEAH!? Peter Carter wrote: "I'd like to announce the brainchild of Kara Jean* Daria Brielmann and myself, Fast Cow. It's a music webzine" www.ciahq.fsnet.co.uk/fastcow. I recommend that you go there now and beware the electric donut! ***BELLE & SEBASTIAN EP*** Trish Delish wrote of "I love my car": "it's just this great big boozy trumpet warbling away, kinda reminds me of miss hannigan and her crew in annie...ok. i am totally the only person to hear that, and now you all think i'm a freak." I *still* haven't heard it, but I'm getting absolutely giddy at the thought that the song could be anything like a song from "Annie", and I most likely will agree with you Trish, cos I'm a freak like dat! It's fun to assimilate things with other random things! Like the '80's sitcom ALF, for instance! Or Annie! Or Knight Rider! (eh, Robyn!?) Mike from Brazil wrote: "Last thing: if any of you are dying to hear the new single, Belle & Sebastian's record label here in Brazil, Trama, has full streams of all three songs (in Real Audio, Windows Media, and Quicktime formats, no less...) so check out http://moe.trama.com.br/trama/rock_js/rock_not.html and click on "Belle & Sebastian" at the top, and then choose your song and format, and wonderful music shall ooze from your speakers." OK, I'm a dork and I went to the site. And proceeded to not read Portugese, like I tend to do, and then I inadvertantly pressed a button that downloaded quicktime onto my pc and damaged 3 of my Windows system files... so, now my computer at home is down for the count! I will be reloading windows tonight! *rachie's a lame ass* David Moore wrote: "I'm Waking Up To Us must have a doggy style theme, as there was an advert in the nme the other day featuring Stevie also with man's best friend." Yep. And I don't need to remind you, nothing says "I love bestiality" more than Belle & Sebastian. I could go on more about this in a very crude and obscene manner, naming other positions the photos for the ep should have been taken in, but I think that would ruin the wholesome breakfast image that y'all have of me! Will Spike wrote: "And as I leave the shop, i notice a poster advertising IWUTU. Now all I have to do is find out who I have to speak to/beg/bribe/offer sexual favours to in order to get my hands on the lovely item once the Union is finished with it." What if I draw you one, would you offer ME sexual favours?! I'll consider it "working on commission" ***BELLE & SEBASTIAN LIVE*** This Graham/Tobi character wrote a GRATE post reviewing B&S in Japan which included points like: "1) Fred Savage, dimpled star of hit TV schmalz 'The wonder Years' did not simply just fade from the public eye as he grew older. Instead changed his name to Stevie Jackson and moved to Scotland, where he learned to blow a truly mean harp. Kawaii, ne?" OH MAN, I thought Fred Savage was looking pretty toadie (no offense, Stine!) by the last season and I figured that's probably why the show was ultimately ended... Stevie's a dreamboat, though! Talking about Fred Savage also makes me miss Katie Cheeriodle, I know that Katie enjoyed The Wonder Years reference, too, didn't you Katie!? and Tobi also said: "3) A carefully planned mullet can actually be very, very cool indeed- nice one Bob." Yeah, I think that old Belfast Bob could probably have any hairstyle and still look ravishing! The mullet is proof of that. Wasn't it Wesley Willis who sang in the song "Cut The Mullet" "Tell your barber that you are tired of looking like an asshole"? I believe it was him, or maybe it was Neil Diamond. That line of separation is fairly blurry these days! Claudia wrote of seeing B&S as if it were a dream and it was so sweet. She said: "We had stars all around us, and they were shining in the most beautiful way... everything was perfect...After some time one of the angels reached out his hand and pointed at me.. he said ' this one', he also reached his hand to a couple of other girls, one of them was my best friend... and we all flew to the clouds..." Awww, angels and clouds and friends and... awwww! That's too cute! I can't stand it! Robyn Fadden wrote: "so, i hear belle and sebastian did an encore in tokyo. an *encore*! i thought they were against them (well, they don't seem to do them anyway). but i hear they really liked japan and that was their last stop on tour, so... hm. but i can't help feeling that i could have done *something* to provoke an encore at their vancouver show. i think that maybe all the advances in robotics in japan created 'encore' mind-control waves. canada is just not doing enough in this important area of research. (cue ominous music and shot from robot's point of view.)" I think you could be right on this one. It seems like Japan always gets the rare songs and the encores and the better shirts and posters...waaahhhh! Robyn also said "never put salt in your eye" and I think you need to pin this note to your shirt, too: "mental note: get coffee-coloured shirts" ***BRAZIL*** Roberto from Brazil wrote: "When the show started, a guy on the left start yellin' the lyrics in Sepultura style, guturally. He didn't care about the melody at all, and cared a few about metrics: he just wanted to prove to everyone around that,although he had a terrible lack of musical talent, had spent about 20 hours a day in front of the stereo, so he could memorize every single line of every single song." Ohhhhh, that's so annoying, it really is! I am all for people getting into it and having a good time, but when it is so obnoxious that it hurts your ears then it is taking it too far!! And then Jeff wrote: "sorry about ruining your experience - i was just elated to be there, and singing and jumping is the way i reacted to b&s live." Which is understandable, too! The flipside is that maybe when someone around us is getting so excited about the show, we should just join them and act like loons, too! That's SO MUCH fun! Especially when you're excited and then the people around you are, it makes the whole experience take on a new life! And the JenOwl wrote: "I hate it when people have fun too. We should all sit about drinking cappuccinos writing bad poetry and savouring the philosophical message of the lyrics and pretending to be shy." Sarcasm is funny and all, and I think you definitely have a point Jen, but I also feel like if I was Roberto I'd be a little miffed by the indirect comment to him, unless I'm just imagining things and trying to start trouble! If that's the case, I'm sorry. Some people experience things to their fullest potential in different ways, and the solution to the conflict is obviously to move to a spot where you won't be so distracted. And that's just what Roberto did. One only needs to get an elbow in the neck a sweaty armpit pressed onto their shoulder while some madman wails in their ear once before they realize that the extreme opposite isn't the only type of listener that would be annoyed by this neighbor. But everyone has a right to enjoy the show in their own way, don't they? So everybody is right! Do what you gotta do! Ana from Brazil wrote: "Stevie's portuguese isn't only funny... rather cute, he really tried to do something pretty good, that was sweet." I can't imagine how adorable that must have sounded!!! It seems to me like B&S in Brazil was a pretty special event all around and I am so happy that they went there, and that so many of you posted about seeing them! ***BELLE & SEBASTIAN & STORYTELLING*** Mouche wrote of the 'Storytelling' soundtrack: "the storytelling credits list four belle and sebastian songs, three of which i've never heard of: the state i am in i don't want to play football scooby driver storytelling they're also credited with "music" so i guess there will be instrumental pieces too." I am so annoyed at the prospect that this movie isn't coming out in the U.S. until January 25th! Grrrrr! But at least it will be just in time for Ryan's birthday. Ryan is a grate movie date. I've heard a rumor that he has FINALLY escaped the nursery!!! shhhh! Don't tell him I told! He's probably planning on ambushing us all when we least expect it! Alexander Bartilson of the Swedish Siniser massive wrote: "Today I saw Storytelling on the Stockholm film festival. It was really good even though I think I have to see it a few more times to get some question marks that are currently circling around in my head straighened out." I hope that the movie is good, I really do. But from the sound of it, the soundtrack will be the best part of it and that's ok in my book! (ha, get it, storrytelling, book, erm...) I am one of those people who is easily pleased, though. I am not a good movie critic. If one element is good, then I'm happy. Helen wrote about Storytelling: "Anyway, what I really wanted to say is that Todd Solondz invited b&s (he seems to be quite close to Stuart M.) to create this songs specially for the movie which they gladly did (thanks there Todd!)." That's a very interesting concept...Stuart M has FRIENDS! Friends who make movies. Friends who aren't dogs or in the band with him! :) ***BELLE & SEBASTIAN MUSINGS*** Nafees wrote: "much to my surprise the person who played aerial looked almost identical to stuart. if you can imagine stuart wearing nothing but a loin cloth (which i'm sure some of you already do) and being covered in gold body paint then that was aerial. he even danced like stuart too." Oh, sure! I often think of Stuart in gold body paint and a loincloth... or sometimes it's him dipped in chocolate wearing a fig leaf... mmmmmm, forbidden murdoch! Oh, and I hope your mum is ok Nafees. There were some posts about B&S apperance on Later With Jools Holland. Every time I see the name Brandt Fundak in my inbox (Brandt wanted to know what # series this episode will be in, Neil said #17), I think I'm reading the name "Grand Funk Railroad" Can I call you Brandt Fundak Railroad? HA! I'm making myself laugh again, sorry! Anyway, can you believe it!? They're going to perform 3 SONGS on Later!!!! B&S I mean, not Grand Funk, or Brandt Fundak for that matter. David Moore wrote: "The first entry is a piece by one Stuart Murdoch, about fear of flying, safe little caf� booths, dear non-catastrpohic waitresses, well, why don't you go & read it yourself? http://www.myspace.co.uk/belleandsebastian/writing.html" yes, if you haven't read this, I think you should go read it right now, it will make you feel all smiley and content for the afternoon. At least, that's what it did for me! Tim Banning wrote: "the line "nobody writes them like they used to so it may as well be me" caught my attention, as it usually does. Then I was thinking about how some people have expressed that some of the songs on the new Belle and Sebastian single sound like their from the 60's. Well...maybe it's been Stuarts intention to write songs like that for a long time." This is a delightful concept to me. I never thought about the correlation between the line in "Get me away from here..." and the '60 's sound of B&S. I like that idea! Thanks for bringing that up, Tim! Idleberry wrote: "If you could ask a member of Belle and Sebastian any one question, what would it be?" I would ask Stuart if he noticed me and Dustin in the crowd at the 2nd Los Angeles show and asked us to dance onstage because we were "Smartly Dressed" or because Stuart just wanted to get down Dustin's pants? (and who doesn't? Dustin is H-O-T! Lemme tell ya!) If I could ask him TWO questions, the second would be "if I could arrange this for ya with Dustin, can I watch?" Ohhh, I'm a dirty ol'ladee! ***PRESSIE EXCHANGE*** Joan of Dark wrote about the Christmas Present Exchange: "So PLEASE be sure that you want to do this, its not something that costy or tiring, it requires just the minimum consideration on the matter�.Don�t just apply in the spur of the moment�.But it�s vital you really want to do this" After reading this, I have been debating over whether or not I should play. Now I'm scared! But I guess I had better make up my mind soon! Do we have a deadline for entry into the exchange, Laura, did I miss it? The Dairy Fairy wrote: "It's nice as well because you get to imagine who sent it. So that's an extra present of intrigue in itself." This is true also, I think it could be tons of fun to send people cool stuff!! Johan wrote: "can't wait for Xmas thingy to get underway, my pillowcase is washed and waiting... and my little mind a-thinking of nice things to send, so ask yourself: are you feeling lucky, punk (rock!)" I guess I'm feeling pretty lucky and pretty punk raque! So I guess I should play and you should, too! Ruvi wrote: "wouldn't it be far more miraculous to extend those feelings across every day and every hour, spreading a little light into all the Januaries, Mondays and hours when no celebration has been prescribed?" yes, I think that is delightful!! I think it would be fun to do a Valentine's Day gift exchange, too. I really *do* loathe that holiday because I'm always alone, but maybe it would be better if we all felt sinister together! Happy Belated Birthday to Histrianic!! And to Tim Banning! ***!VIVA RACHELS!*** Well, I know for a fact that the Rachels mixtape is making it's way across America and across the world! Lookout Chu, you will be the judge, yet! Rachel O.J. wrote: "rachels are probably the best in the world when it comes to mixed-tapes." I would have to whole-heartedly agree. Not to toot my own trumpet (well, yes, *toot-toot*!) I just made a super grate mix for my list crush, the sugar-sweet Mr.B Apps, so I think all of you Wills and Chris' and Rob/i/yns and Stuarts and Gertrudes are in for it! ;) Archel Toast wrote:"i hope my contribution to the mighty rachels effort will be as successful :)" And of course it will, my dear because the Raquels Raque! Rachel O.J. wrote: "i got so jelaous when i red about the two lovely rachels day togehter. it were miss fruitloop and miss cornflake, right? maybe there was someone else, but in that way, i've forgotten it." Yes, twas myself and Cornyflake and also the honorary Rachel, miss Katie Cheeriodle! It was so much fun! I am telling you lot, if you can manage to meet up with a fellow Sinisterine, I would do it asap! I just had dinner with a lovely listee who actually lurks the archives these days named wee Andreea and she is so terrific! She spoke fondly of KEN CHU and STRAWBERRY BOY and JEREMY BREAMS, and RachOLA CINNAMON, and many others! It felt like we belong to one big happy family! Kara Jean wrote: "I sit down and produce the cookie crisp from my backpack. Eating them is a delight. Cookies for breakfast. I can't help grinning." MAN, Kara, you should have jumped on The Rachels team for the MIXTAPE BATTLE!! You could have been Rachel Cookie Crisp, but instead I'll just think of you as Kara Kookie Krook! ;) ***Favorite Quotes*** "If it's any consolation, I'm much prettier than I was a few days ago."--Gordon "Conclusion: catillions are garbage. I am not high class"--Kate cut-up "This job sucks. I'd rather read my e mails. Go away."--Idleberry "Oh, don�t look at me like that, even the punky boy gives in to romanticism sometimes."--Jim Gilmer "it is when you connect that you're feeling life, rather than just living it."--Ian ***SHOUT OUTS*** YO to the Chicago Sinister Picnic folks this weekend, yo! Elise and Sean, Jimmy G., Ryan, THE RACHELS, and THE WILLS and THE CHRIS TEAMS! Also to C�dric Schott, Jim Taylor, Juju, Andreea, Toadie Stine, Mandee May, Danny Farrell, Caleb Ben, Ken Chu and my darling bunny Benny Apps! Alright kitties! This is all I have to post for now! Look out for installment Part Two, coming soon to a Sinister list near you! love, Rachel fruitloop P.S. RICHARD JOHN GILLANDERS. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. 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