I try to be on good terms with my inbox. It sends me nice things, I read them to myself, pat my monitor on its head, and wait for it to give me more. But the weekend! Oh dear, when I find myself checking my mail the most, there is the least. My dear Eudora has a cough now from searching searching searching for new mail... and there is none. None but a few spams telling me how to make a cable descrambler box. I do have a few things to say though (which I will conveniently number so I don't lose track) 1. Reading my mail... reading my mail... Stina Nordenstam, blah blah blah Stina nordenstam bloo bloo bloo... Stina.. OH! LITTLE STAR!! Stina NORDenstam! Somehow I heard Little Star on the (deep breath) Romeo and Juliet soundtrack (exhale) and ooooohh, I thought it was so nice. But i didn't look to see who it was by. I searched for "Little Star" on the UBL and it gave me crazy things by the Supremes and the Temptations. I knew that wasn't right. Now I know now I know! 2. Is it wicked not to care (that someone is turnin' a profit)? Absolutely not! But of course the other side must be allowed to speak too. Opinions are opinions are opinions, and if saying them out loud makes you selfish, well then... My take on the looming bigness of Belle and Sebastian is this: I think that it isn't snobbery and selfishness. It isn't that we (and i am using "we" to mean "me") want them to stay small because we are selfish. If everyone in the world could love it that would be fabulous! Imagine the picnics! But if B&S were all over the place then people would be listening to them because of a good review or they like stu's arms of sex or whatever, and if they rushed out and bought an album for aesthetic reasons they might not like it at all. And then they might say mean things about them. I see it as a seventh grade math problem. If 100% of the listeners like them right now and we add a solution with 35% happy listeners, 38% lukewarm listeners, and 27% unhappy listeners... Some are complaining, some only like one or two songs, some are still swooning. What if the band was to get discouraged and not play for us anymore? Last week everyone was talking about how they found the lyrics + music to be emotional and whatnot. And listening to it is somewhat of a religious experience for lots of folks. I don't quite know what I want to say, because I want to say it without sounding the way I fear it will sound. When someone who only moderately likes Belle and Sebastian wears a Study at Stow shirt, do you not think that it has been sullied by his/her tepidness? I do. It probably isn't the *correct* way to think and may sound mean and unwelcoming. I protest! I only want unreceptive people to stay away. I don't begrudge anyone the opportunity to make money or listen to beautiful music. And its only my opinion. I do not think that by expressing it I am being selfish, nor were the people who started the thread. 3. Where did the rest of the footer go? 4. Jeepster website: what on earth is that font? I see nothing but the greek alphabet and must copy and paste to elsewhere to read it. Oh, why does amazon.com say that Tigermilk can be bought as an import, as it has been released May 4th? Silly. looking at the reviews someone said this about Belle and Sebastian (which quite made me laugh): Brad W. (bradleyw@usa.net) from Chicago IL USA , December 28, 1998 This Is One Star Too Many ...People, people -- Belle & Sebastian is flat out boring, and they are musical thieves to boot (unless Lou Reed is collecting royalties...) And perhaps most offensively, Belle & Sebastian's fan club members gather for picnics before their shows. Picnics! If that doesn't tell you what kind of jelly-filled danishes gravitate towards Belle & Sebastian's music, nothing will... (the end) I don't think that jelly-filled danishes is the worst thing to be called. so nyaaaa Brad W. 5. Goodbye! molly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Molly said:
3. Where did the rest of the footer go?
and also said, quoting a "Brad":
If that doesn't tell you what kind of jelly-filled danishes gravitate towards Belle & Sebastian's music, nothing will...
The answer to the first is that Bowlie's over - and therefore any gangwanking whimsy-thon possibilities are over, surely. Well that's what the NME were referring too, but if someone knows of such a whimsy-thon taking part which I haven't been invited to please let me know, I'm very keen on that sort of thing. The second quote above of course has given me something new to put in the footer: I'm always thrilled when someone sums us all up so succinctly and all the quotes in the footers are exactly that, from various different sources. It's like looking in a mirror isnt it? Oh and welcome to everyone who's just joined this list "From Another Place" :) Take a seat, have a nice cup of tea, be happy here. Can I say that I'm a bit baffled by a thread on the list at the moment, the one where people are saying "how could you accuse B&S of selling out and begrudge them their success?". This seems to be a reaction to someone somewhere on this list claiming the band or record company have sold out by either (a) doing merchandising and/or (b) stopping doing merchandising. Problem is I've searched and can't see the original post that supposedly DID claim someone somewhere was selling out. So I don't know what all these mails are reacting to. I know we expect someone somewhere around us to be elitist, but this list bar a few visitors from Mars has always been blessedly free of such stuff, and we've had these discussions a load of times before. Finally someone asked where the Poetry Parrot had got to - very good point. For everyone who landed on Planet Sinister since the poetry parrot took flight never to be seen again, every Monday someone used to send a poem in, and then set the parrot free from his/her window in the direction of the next victim, who did the same the following Monday. It went missing clearly traumatised soon after having to deliver a particularly foul-mouthed note from a Ms Lulu Kerr - she was a head girl, you know. Anyway it was Mr Stevie Trouser's parrot, so I hereby beseech him to get another and send it on. If that proves impossible or tedious, maybe he could look down the pet shop for Polly's evil cousin the Porno Parrot, who will deliver erotic literature from each listee in turn to really start our week off with a bang. I'd better go because I've sounded just a bit grumpy and tired haven't I? Next week is "Everyone On Sinister Phone In Sick Week" so we'll stay in bed and eat jam sandwiches all day together ok? honey x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
On Sat, 15 May 1999 pbelinsk@northernway.net wrote:
Brad W. (bradleyw@usa.net) from Chicago IL USA , December 28, 1998 [...] And perhaps most offensively, Belle & Sebastian's fan club members gather for picnics before their shows. Picnics! If that doesn't tell you what kind of jelly-filled danishes gravitate towards Belle & Sebastian's music, nothing will... (the end)
Jelly-filled Danishes? OK, "Le Plat Pays" by Jacques Brel brings a tear to my eye. And admittedly, I like Saint Etienne, or the Field Mice to a lesser degree. To enjoy "twee-ness", however, is not the same as to be "twee". I'll play him the first side of Throbbing Gristle's _2nd Annual Report_, followed by "The Wrong Name and the Wrong Number" by Mark Stewart, and then "Wing Over" from Merzbow. (This combination could scare off heavy-drinking metalheads as well as the guy in the mosh pit with the big green mohawk.) Then afterwards we'll see who is first to wander off, mumbling to himself nonsensically. --Mark __ Burning Rome : SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14
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