Sinister: Wo sind die Pop-Kinder heute?
Hello, hello... It's all terribly quiet. Everyone just sitting there waiting for Manchester info? It's all terribly exciting. On my front door as well (not literally). I'd love to put you all up but I'll have a houseful. Sorry. Hasn't anyone got anything to say? Edible Tigermilk reissues? Belle and Sebastian range of underwear? Did you know Teenage Fanclub had knickers with the band's faces on the inside? Oh what saucy rogues. Does anyone else like Serge Gainsbourg? Did Susannah find 'Tigermilk'? Was there a very smug man in 'Vinyl Exchange', saying 'I've got it'? I loved the Becks-drinking frog story by the way. Did I tell you about us recreating the infamous B&S car-crash photo on New Year's Eve outside 'Smile'. It didn't come out and I got a cold from lying in the snow under someone's car. I suffer for their art. Oh you miserable lot love Tag xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert McTaggart wrote:
Hasn't anyone got anything to say? Edible Tigermilk reissues? Belle and Sebastian range of underwear? Did you know Teenage Fanclub had knickers with the band's faces on the inside? Oh what saucy rogues.
They are saucy, aren't they. I once bet a friend a fiver that he daren't pinch Norman's bum. And he did. And Norman didn't mind.Shit, I'm already running out of things to say. I know! It's the end of an era! IYFS has been removed from the display racks inn my local record emporium. But it has appeared in another shop. As has the Pet Sounds box, which I can't afford, thus saving me from muso-trainspotter overload.
Does anyone else like Serge Gainsbourg?
Yes, Paul does, our shy and retiring list manager. Me too. But I haven't got hardly any. Bonnie and Clyde's my favourite.
Did Susannah find 'Tigermilk'?
That's what I'd like to know. I reckon your best bet is little out of the way places, like Burton-on-Trent or Whitby.
Was there a very smug man in 'Vinyl Exchange', saying 'I've got it'?
I loved the Becks-drinking frog story by the way.
They were crabs, you bounder! Write out a hundred times "I must pay more attention" and do some lemur research. Did you know that lemurs (Belle and Sebastian's mascot from now on) are unable to hang from their tails? Poor little things! And their noses are...hang on a minute! This could make a cracking quiz - we haven't had a quiz for a while...question one - how big was the now extinct biggest ever lemur? The answer comes as quite a surprise. Question two - how did lemurs get to Madagascar? The answer comes as quite a surprise.
Did I tell you about us recreating the infamous B&S car-crash photo on New Year's Eve outside 'Smile'. It didn't come out and I got a cold from lying in the snow under someone's car. I suffer for their art.
I'm planning on recreating the Tigermilk sleeve this evening, with a little help from my cuddly lemur, 'cos tigers play too rough. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta wrote:
Does anyone else like Serge Gainsbourg?
Yes, Paul does, our shy and retiring list manager. Me too. But I haven't got hardly any. Bonnie and Clyde's my favourite.
He does... He can't believe how wonderful Mick Harvey's new attempt at Gainsbourg's songs are too... Just a quick note to say I'm STILL a bit indisposed and off work - so anyone who's mailed me and left me things to look at, problems to fix - could they be patient! I will get back to people when I can I promise... Just for my own sake - just in case anyone (else) on the list has M.E. / CFS / CFIDS / whatever you want to call it, could they get in touch privately if they want to swap stories? Finally - I asked Nicola M to come up with another National Express story - Nicola, your crab story was better! Hit the spot nicely...! Paul mailto:owner-sinister@majordomo.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Peter Miller wrote:
They were crabs, you bounder! Write out a hundred times "I must pay more attention" and do some lemur research.
Aww...I was just testing. As if I'd make a damn fool mistake like that. And I already have a doctrate in advanced lemurology from the University of Samarkand. Lemurs don't drink Becks I can tell you, only the finest Bohemian hops for their delicate palettes.
Did you know that lemurs (Belle and Sebastian's mascot from now on) are unable to hang from their tails? Poor little things! And their noses are...hang on a minute! This could make a cracking quiz - we haven't had a quiz for a while...question one - how big was the now extinct biggest ever lemur? The answer comes as quite a surprise. Question two - how did lemurs get to Madagascar? The answer comes as quite a surprise.
In Noah's Ark? The number 46 from t'Market? They jumped? Hopped? Skipped the light fandango? I give up. Back to school for me, I guess. And what about their noses? Don't keep us in suspense, boy. Belle and Sebastian's mascot? Why stop there? A fire-breathing lemur should stand with pride on their coat of arms, with an inspirational motto (which I can't think of right now).
Did Susannah find 'Tigermilk'?
That's what I'd like to know. I reckon your best bet is little out of the way places, like Burton-on-Trent or Whitby.
Or Bangor. Oh, did you know Fiddlers Dram only got to number three with 'The day we went to Bangor' (oh yes, I have my sources)? And what exactly is a fiddler's dram? Is it like a baker's dozen? Or like tennis elbow. Sorry, no fiddling for me tonight, I've got a terrible dram. I think we should be told. Somebody please write something... Tagfield ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert McTaggart wrote:
O>Did you know that lemurs (Belle and Sebastian's mascot from now on)
are unable to hang from their tails? Poor little things! And their noses are...hang on a minute! This could make a cracking quiz - we haven't had a quiz for a while...question one - how big was the now extinct biggest ever lemur? The
answer comes as quite a surprise. Question two - how did
lemurs get to Madagascar? The answer comes as quite a surprise.
In Noah's Ark? The number 46 from t'Market? They jumped? Hopped? Skipped the light fandango? I give up. Back to school for me, I guess.
Apparently they floated across on vegetation!!!
And what about their noses? Don't keep us in suspense, boy.
Their noses are cold and wet, whereas gorillas' noses are warm and dry. Indicating that smell plays a greater part in lemur life. All this information comes from a website belonging to Duke University - a man of many talents?
Or Bangor. Oh, did you know Fiddlers Dram only got to number three with 'The day we went to Bangor' (oh yes, I have my sources)?
Yes, Keith put me right on that one.
And what exactly is a fiddler's dram? Is it like a baker's dozen? Or like tennis elbow. Sorry, no fiddling for me tonight, I've got a terrible dram. I think we should be told.
Dram is timber from Drammen in Norway. So if a fiddler had some...
Somebody please write something...
I have done Señor Miller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
I cannot find the address of this B&S plus lemurs page anymore. Could someone give it to me? I am extremely bored at work today. Sven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
The address you are after is: *** http://www.reepham.demon.co.uk/index.htm *** So there you go! Rob On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Sven Fuchs wrote:
I cannot find the address of this B&S plus lemurs page anymore. Could someone give it to me? I am extremely bored at work today.
Sven
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Did you know that lemurs (Belle and Sebastian's mascot from now on) are unable to hang from their tails? Poor little things! And their noses are...hang on a minute! This could make a cracking quiz - we haven't had a quiz for a while...question one - how big was the now extinct biggest ever lemur? The answer comes as quite a surprise. Question two - how did lemurs get to Madagascar? The answer comes as quite a surprise.
Why do lemurs want to hang from their tails? The biggest ever lemur was of course the dreaded Lemurus Maximus. During the dinosaur era, they walked round Asia (well rolled actually, they were too big to be able to stand up) looking for prey. The dinosaurs were so suprised that lemurs could be so big, that they died of shock, and the lemur ate them. Unfortunately one day a picture of one appeared in a T-Rex school textbook, so eliminating the element of suprise, and they died out. The first lemurs got to Madagascar when a passing martian spaceship picked one up by mistake, and dropped it again. It came as quite a suprise to the lemurs as well.
In Noah's Ark? The number 46 from t'Market? They jumped? Hopped? Skipped the light fandango? I give up. Back to school for me, I guess. And what about their noses? Don't keep us in suspense, boy. Belle and Sebastian's mascot? Why stop there? A fire-breathing lemur should stand with pride on their coat of arms, with an inspirational motto (which I can't think of right now).
Surely it would be better if B&S had some small cuddly Scottish animal for a mascot, rather than a small cuddly Madagascan animal. How about a haggis? They're notoriously difficult to catch, due to their immense speed, but the baby females are ridiculously cute and twee... Back on topic briefly, the Letter of the Week or whatever they call it in this week's NME is by someone praising our heroes for not 'playing by the rules' when dealing with journalists. It's then followed by a very shirty reply by Johny Cigarettes saying basically that if B&S won't talk to the NME, the NME won't help them by publicising them in the future, and he'll go into a corner and cry for his mummy, and sulk for the rest of the day. Or something. But then, lemurs are much more fun aren't they? Stuart G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
How about a haggis? They're notoriously difficult to catch, due to their immense speed, but the baby females are ridiculously cute and twee...
Two questions for you: 1) what exactly is a haggis, and 2) what exactly does "twee" mean? Please pardon my American ignorance. And now, ladies and gentlemen, a drum roll please...HERE'S SOME (mildly) BAND RELATED CONTENT! We got the _3, 6, 9 Seconds of Light_ 12" at the radio station here at NU. It was the first B&S vinyl that I'd come into contact with. It's so gorgeous, so satisfying to hold in your hands and cue up on the record player. And obviously many DJs at the station are sharing this sentiment, because it's getting quite a bit of airtime lately. I do remember hearing someone mention that it wasn't too far from the elusive Top Ten last week. I'll keep you posted. On a more melancholy note, my brief interlude with B&S vinyl made me yearn for more...like, say, a copy of Tigermilk. (Which, by the way, if anyone out there has a copy with which they'd be willing to part, I could offer you, say, my left leg or a kidney or something in exchange. Just to keep that in mind...) I remember a while back people were talking about favorite B&S moments. Well, I've finally identified mine: the first few seconds of "You Made Me Forget my Dreams," when someone sneezes and apologizes, and then Stuart M (I'm assuming) sort of chuckles/sighs before he begins singing the song. So lovely. And let me pause here to say that David and Katrina run the most wonderful and considertate mail order outfit I've ever known: kudos to you folks! So. With that, I'm off to finish (or so I'm telling myself) the Spanish paper I've been neglecting for a week. ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University a-bergman@nwu.edu "On the last day of your life, don't forget to die." --Silver Jews ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Amanda Bergman wrote:
How about a haggis? They're notoriously difficult to catch, due to their immense speed, but the baby females are ridiculously cute and twee...
Two questions for you: 1) what exactly is a haggis, and 2) what exactly does "twee" mean? Please pardon my American ignorance.
A haggis is a small furry scottish mammal. Very little is known about these elusive creatures, as they have a habit of running away and hiding underground whenever you come near. The only way to make them come out of their holes is to stand on top of the burrow, and repeatedly jump up and down. Perhaps the best source of information is a study done on them in 1976 by a biologist from Glasgow - let's call him Fergus (not to protect his anonymity or anything, but because that was his name). What he discovered was: "Each haggis has one long leg and one short leg. This is because the natural habitat of the haggis is the Scottish hills, and so they can run very quickly around the side of the hills to get away from predators without falling over. This is what makes them so hard for humans to capture. Males have the right leg longer, and females have the left leg longer, so when they run round the hills they meet each other face to face. Little is known of their mating habits, but it is thought that they each run backwards around the hill so that their backsides are facing each other. The species is becoming increasingly rare, partly due to hunting by humans, who consider the haggis a great delicacy (although this practice has now been outlawed everywhere in the world except Scotland, where bizarre rituals are attached to it involving strange musical instruments and men wearing dresses); and partly due to the fact that whenever there is a flood they all get washed down the hills, and because of their long leg they cannot climb back up to their burrows again. Some unscupulous people have been known to deliberately spray hoses down hillsides to wash all the haggis down to the bottom of the valley, and then collect them and sell them for food." Hope that answers your question. Stuart G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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***Rob B*** :) -
Amanda Bergman -
mctag＠mcmail.com -
Paul Mitchell -
Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta -
Stuart Gardiner -
Sven Fuchs