From mkl206 at xxx.edu Sun Feb 1 08:18:23 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 03:18:23 -0500 Subject: Sinister: random stuff Message-ID: first off, thanks for the suggestion of listening to nick drake. my friend loaned me his album, and i really, truly deeply fell in love. and of course, though the music isn't the same, "lazy line painter jane" seems to bear some sort of reference to "hazy jane". also, _don't_look_back, the documentary about bob dylan is showing at the film forum in new york. is it worth seeing for someone who isn't terribly interested in him as a singer? um, i have had belle and sebastian dreams. i have a theory that those of us who really pay attention to the list, especially those who frequent the chatroom (which you should all do by the way) think of the band, almost by default, so often during the day, that it invades our dreams at night. one dream had me getting a belle and sebastian calender as a promo item, each band member was featured a different month (this was before i'd even seen pictures of the band memebers, so you can imagine the accuracy). another was about searching for tigermilk, and finally finding it in a store for an exhorbitant price. i can't remember whether i bought it, it was just about the choice. sad that the quest for tigermilk is invading my dreams now. um, i don't know if i should be writing at night. i try to make my posts somewhat pertinent, but i'd like to encourage all of you who only want b&s info to delete my posts in the future, cause i plan on going for the silly and entirely irrelevant info in the future. oh, to dream the impossible dream. xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 10:50:36 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:50:36 -0000 Subject: Sinister: RE: Talking songs etc. Message-ID: <01bd2eff$3a6556e0$LocalHost@dell> On the subject of songs with talking over, would Murray Lachlan Young count? I think he is well funny, but I could imagine some people could hate him. Shall I change my middle name to Sebastian Tjinder? That would be fun. jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com Visit my site of great meaning @ http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 11:37:25 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:37:25 -0000 Subject: Sinister: funny instruments Message-ID: <01bd2f05$c51d0fc0$LocalHost@dell> Has anyone seen the new Select (it came out yesterday). In the relics section, there are all retro keyboards and things - there is a stylophone like sarah plays in 'Mayfly' and a melodica like Isobel plays in 'Tigermilk (?)' Sadly, there is no mention of the blow up keyboard thing that Sarah plays in 'Lazy Line Painter Jane'. jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 11:55:24 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 11:55:24 GMT Subject: Sinister: Dolly Parton's guitar In-Reply-To: <199802010817.IAA14303@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802010817.IAA14303@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34d5577d.564650@email.mcmail.com> Hello Lovers, It's Sunday morning. I don't remember the last time I was awake on a Sunday morning. It's this mad, mad hedonistic lifestyle I lead. The cats are fighting a lot. Is there a full moon? Belle and Sebastian playing Sunday morning songs (String Bean Jean, in fact) on the dansette. Lights! Camera! Action! David Walker wrote: >Has a Northern Soul night started at the Star & Garter ? Is it still on >and is it any good ? Just noticed it on a poster somewhere the other day >and it got me thinking..... I don't know - tell me if you find out. Alan wrote: >bless.... Bless? Bless? You scroll down and down through someone else's letter in it's entirety expecting to see some incisive reply, and you get 'Bless'. It's all a horrible, horrible dream and I'm going to wake up soon. No? ... it's real? There is no God. Peter Miller wrote: >And then there's "My Sister" by Tinkersticks, which I think is really really >good, and I imagine more of a direct influence on Belle and Sebastian's >talking efforts. Which I still haven't heard. Another good one with talking >on is "Cherry Blossoms" (?), which is my favourite Tinkersticks song, don't >know what it's about though. My favourite Tindersticks song is their Nancy and Lee tribute 'A marriage made in heaven', although it sounds more like Nick Cave and Clare Grogan than N&L. I wonder what happened to the Isabella Rosselini version. Don't all write at once. But I love a good duet, being the big soppy pussycat that I am ... big favourites are 'Some velvet morning' and 'Je t'aime'. I put these songs on tape for an old girlfriend and she said 'Do you like men to be men, and women to be women?'. Dr Freud, is it true? 'Islands in the stream' by Kenny and Dolly, that's a good one. Teenage Fanclub used to do that one, and me and a friend wanted to record a version ourselves, the record company man just laughed. It would've been great, with my butch baritone and her Swedish accent. I like Dolly, she's a fine fine woman. Has anyone heard the story about Dolly Parton sitting in a car in a parking lot for 48 hours without noticing. I do hope drugs weren't involved. I defy anyone not to cry real tears hwen they listen to 'Daddy, come and get me', in which poor Dolly has been dumped in the nuthouse by her philandering husband. It starts off 'In this mental institution...' and goes uphill from there. Genevieve wrote: >I don't understand this 'mad' reputation I have,I make sense in my posts.I >am not crazy,just in love. That's what *I* keep saying, nobody believes me. But the kids understand. They always do. >Sadly,nobody appear in boxes...but it could be the canadian postal >system...speediest around,you know... When one arrives, don't open it with a sharp implement. It happened to Waldo Jeffers, it could happen to anyone. Megan wrote> >um, i don't know if i should be writing at night. i try to make my posts >somewhat pertinent, but i'd like to encourage all of you who only want b&s >info to delete my posts in the future, cause i plan on going for the silly >and entirely irrelevant info in the future. oh, to dream the impossible >dream. I hope everyone else will make it their February resolution to take a leaf out of Megan's book and make it their personal mission to amuse, entertain and excite in the future. Because if I read another dull-witted post repeating tedious facts that another 50 listees have also posted, I will kill, or at least maim. But I love you nevertheless. Tag xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 1 13:25:20 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:25:20 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Dolly Parton's guitar Message-ID: <199802011325.OAA17351@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> The devilishly handsome Tag wrote ... >'Islands in the stream' by Kenny and Dolly, that's a good one. >Teenage Fanclub used to do that one, and me and a friend wanted to >record a version ourselves, the record company man just laughed. It >would've been great, with my butch baritone and her Swedish accent. You should have asked Waaaaaaaaah! Records, but you probably couldn't have bettered the amazing fake live version by the BMX Bandits featuring Catherine ("And Norman [Blake] on guitar ... come on ... wooooohooohooo ... hmmm, that's good !") ... do you have the _Islands in the stream_ split flexi w/ The Duglasettes ? "Strawberry Sunday" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 13:28:58 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 13:28:58 GMT Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream Message-ID: <34d67802.3671817@email.mcmail.com> Enough is enough, I'm listening to McCarthy today, I'd forgotten how good they were ... I feel inspired. I like the idea of people getting inspired by Belle and Sebastian, to write and move and do stuff instead of sitting back and digesting, expecting to be entertained, just saying 'oh, aren't they good' or 'this is pop!' isn't even good enough. This could be beautiful - we've got a whole load of people from around the world and it's a cause for celebration and doing something a bit more creative - and instead it's going stale. I know I'm rambling - I'm coming out of a period of being restless and now I feel like shaking someone awake. Let me know what you think, huh? Hopefully someone will know what I'm talking about, Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 13:27:43 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 13:27:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Murry Lachlan-Young Message-ID: <34D4784F.598@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Hi, I saw this guy live in Durham last year and he was brilliant. If he collaberated with B&S it would be cool. Most of his stuff is quite dark and moody dealing with pain and anger. We however are fluffy little bunnies. The other night i had a Urusei Yatsura dream. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sun Feb 1 13:38:50 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:38:50 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Musings... Message-ID: <01bd2f16$ba8b01a0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Mike Newman Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: sábado 31 de enero de 1998 19:03 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Musings... > >Early examples of speak-a-pop, would have to be Richard Harris ("There >are too many soldiers on my cross"), and worryingly Fish from Marillion, >who was prone to go off into spoken ramblings. > Another one I'd forgotten is Isaac Hayes, who often talks about "ladies" or whatever for quite a while, before bursting into song. Similar in effect to "I Knew These People" on the "Paris, Texas" soundtrack LP. I like Richard Harris too. Lest we forget, Hawkwind also indulge in a spot of spoken word nonsense from time to time, including the lyric to top even Arab Strap's "then she wanked me off": "If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simulataneously." Not particularly revolting until you see pictures of Hawkwind and imagine them...well, bringing their bodies to orgasm simultaneously. In space. I'm thinking of using that Arab Strap lyric at the bottom of all my messages. Peter "and then she wanked me off" Arab Strap ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sun Feb 1 13:47:52 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:47:52 +0100 Subject: Sinister: stupid post Message-ID: <01bd2f17$fda2cc60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: blink at inexpress.net Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: domingo 1 de febrero de 1998 1:44 Asunto: Sinister: stupid post >ummmm...that's about it, >and if you send a letter to Belle and Sebsatian,does it actually get to >them,or does some guy sitting in a truck read them and laugh? > A while ago we were informed that the band themselves read them and then take the piss out of the writer, or something like that. So a bit of both really. I think it's a good idea to write anyway. What harm can it do? I always regret never having written to Betty Boo. But I did see her perform live once. Peter post-message quotation suspended for fear of legal action from Betty Boo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sun Feb 1 14:00:12 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:00:12 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Dolly Parton's guitar Message-ID: <01bd2f19$b746cbc0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Tag Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: domingo 1 de febrero de 1998 13:32 Asunto: Sinister: Dolly Parton's guitar Robert McTaggart of Stoke-on-Trent wrote on a Sunday morning: My favourite Tindersticks song is their Nancy and Lee tribute 'A marriage made in heaven', although it sounds more like Nick Cave and Clare Grogan than N&L. I wonder what happened to the Isabella Rosselini version. Don't all write at once. I heard it on the radio not long ago. I am ashamed to say I switched it off before it had finished. Not because I didn't like it, but because I had successfully completed my ablutions and it was time to leave the bathroom. But I love a good duet, being the big soppy pussycat that I am ... big favourites are 'Some velvet morning' and 'Je t'aime'. My vote goes to "Tippy Toes" and "Bonnie and Clyde" respectively. I hope everyone else will make it their February resolution to take a leaf out of Megan's book and make it their personal mission to amuse, entertain and excite in the future. Because if I read another dull-witted post repeating tedious facts that another 50 listees have also posted, I will kill, or at least maim. Repeats of tedious facts are inevitable, and for most people, or at least some people, they are not repeats. But I would like to add my voice to Robert's plea for more amusing, entertaining and exciting posts in the future. Or at least a load of shite. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 13:55:41 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Two great poets: Murray Lachlan Young and Genevieve In-Reply-To: <199801312321.SAA26263@Vector.inexpress.net> Message-ID: Murray Lachlan Young is indeed extremely good. "I'm Being Followed By The Rolling Stones" is one of the funniest things I heard last year, and I would recomend his "Vice And Verse" album to anyone (it's not the kind of album you leave on your stereo and listen to every day, but when you do listen to it you love it). He's also done an hilarious cover version of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" which has to be heard to be believed. I first saw him supporting My Life Story, noone in the audience was expecting a poet as the support (this was before he became quite famous) but after a couple of poems we were transfixed, he had the audience in the palm of his hand. And he doesn't have such an irritating way of e-nun-ci-a-ting e-ver-y word as John Hegley. Anyone else think the life and times of Genevieve would make perfect subject matter for the next B&S album? Forget writing songs about Belle and the boy Sebastian, there'd be the reptilian boy, the foot massager, dream boy from the record store... (I'm still trying to work out what a snowshow workout is!) Oh yeah, and the new Space single (duet with Cerys from Catatonia) is absolutely superb. Just thought I'd say that. "You saved us from killing each other; (Tom Jones Tom Jones) You'll never know but you saved our lives. (Tom Jones Tom Jones) I've never thrown my knickers at you, And I don't come from Wales." Genius. And Boogie Nights is crap. The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 15:05:54 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 15:05:54 +0000 Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream References: <34d67802.3671817@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: <34D48F52.B9006CC4@totalweb.co.uk> Tag wrote: > > Enough is enough, > > I'm listening to McCarthy today, I'd forgotten how good they were ... > I feel inspired. I like the idea of people getting inspired by Belle > and Sebastian, to write and move and do stuff instead of sitting back > and digesting, expecting to be entertained, just saying 'oh, aren't > they good' or 'this is pop!' isn't even good enough. This could be > beautiful - we've got a whole load of people from around the world and > it's a cause for celebration and doing something a bit more creative - > and instead it's going stale. > > I know I'm rambling - I'm coming out of a period of being restless and > now I feel like shaking someone awake. Let me know what you think, > huh? Hopefully someone will know what I'm talking about, > > Love Tag xx i know what you're on about tag, as do many others, the impossible dream isn't that unobtainable, not when we all feel the way we do. here we are, over 400 people who all love belle and sebastian and all feel so alive, and this, this list is what represents us and who we are, the way we feel. and yet, all we can manage is a whinge over this, a slag down of that. and we feel, oh god we feel so alive and real. and we've falen in love with music that shows this, and still, all we can do is do the opposite of what we feel. no outpourings of emotion, no tales of the things that touch us dearly, just the short snaps at people who risk telling us which bands they love today, yeah, i think i know what you're on about tag, and i wouldn't worry this feeling is growing and the few people who may say this are (i think) about to let the rest of us know what it is to live, and maybe that will be inspiration enough to see us through. david, being incoherent but being lead by emotion enough to not care anymore. -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 15:28:28 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 15:28:28 GMT Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <34d79196.10221034@email.mcmail.com> Everyone, I hope no-one thinks my last message was a dig. I just want people get emotional, not complacent. We've got a perfect base, all this technology, and I hate it going to waste in some petty discussion about what songs are in which Smiths albums or whether Radiohead are better than Sarah Records or whatever shite ... we should be using all this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. Otherwise the rest of the world has every right to call us a bunch of fucking losers. Love Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 15:31:15 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:31:15 +0000 Subject: Sinister: goodnes gracious me! Message-ID: Oh Andre, I love the Gift Velvet underground song too! I think its one of the greatest things they've done, especially his completely matter of fact tone the whole way through it! Then again, it may just be my nasty sense of yumor that finds the killing of Waldo slightly funny in a very black humour way....heeehee. S'a great album is that. Velvet Underground and Nico is good too, Venus In Furs apparenlty was used for an advert, but which one? I've been trying to think and I just can't. And I must tell YOU ALL to buy the Spiritualized single 'Think I'm in Love' on Feb 2nd onwards cos its so great! Especially when he starts listing all these things... like 'think i'm in love, probably just hungry' 'think i'm on fire, probably just smoking 'think i'm the life and soul, probably just snorting', and the music just peaks out and stays on this amazing beautiful strand the whole way through, and its devotional! Even though apparently they are very arrogant pop-starr-y and insist on eating at McDonalds, christ, I try to avoid there at any time never mind in bloody Greece. Sorry this may only make sense to one person on the list, but for crying out loud, McDonalds! yes, I'll have a nice McVomit burger with some McCapitalist shit catsup (that word is so daft, catsup! its KETCHUP! which i spose is even sillier but hey...) and some stomach ulcers.....yuk! And Spiritualized JUST happen to be playing Manchester on the 14 march! Wow, isn't that great! *hints* :o) And i again have nothing to say. I wrote a load of poo hahaa! I'm cracking up! I hate Sundays really I DO! THey are so evil. And I got an email today from a certin someone who slagged off <> (NO!) so I have issued the death threats and am fetching the blood stained baseball bat from the garage now. I want to smash things up but theres nothing to smash and things I can smash aren't mine. arse. Guess I'll just have to smash his face in then. La la laaa etc! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homocidal Sarah BLOKE :"How about we....skip desert tonight...." BIRD :"Why! What else...do you have in mind!" BLOKE :"Nothing. Its just that you're a bit fat already innit?" SHE LEAVES BLOKE :"Check please." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 17:22:03 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (northy) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 17:22:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: :) Message-ID: <199802011608.QAA09451@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Kicking=Sporty Spice Screaming=Scary Spice Gucci=Posh Spice Little=Baby Spice Piggy=Ginger/Sexy/whatever-that-ugly-ho-is-called Spice :) Northy ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 16:26:13 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 16:26:13 +0000 Subject: Sinister: :) References: <199802011608.QAA09451@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Message-ID: <34D4A225.1F3C0D00@totalweb.co.uk> northy wrote: > > Kicking=Sporty Spice > Screaming=Scary Spice > Gucci=Posh Spice > Little=Baby Spice > Piggy=Ginger/Sexy/whatever-that-ugly-ho-is-called Spice > > :) > > Northy Northy, what are you going on about? I think it's about time that we realise who we are and what we've got here. Let's not waste this incredible resource and technology with dull posts. And in attempt to kick some adrenalin and topicality into the list i propose another competetion (even though the previous winner still hasn't claimed his prize!, Jonathon Mackie, where are you?). Prizes yet to be determined but will be special and Belle and Sebastian related. Also, compo yet to be determined! Suggestions for a compo are sought and it must meet the following criteria: be list based (entry via the list with other people viewing it) be inspirational (something that people will care about) suggestions should be sent either to me or the list, david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Sun Feb 1 16:41:56 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 16:41:56 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm positively cynical References: <34d79196.10221034@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: <34D4A5D3.8DC3B7B4@lineone.net> Tag wrote: lots of lovely things. and david wrote things that went wooosh and made me smile and laugh and maybe want to cry just a little. and then the duke wraps his fingers round a mug of earl grey and is driven to witter on with a load of shite, made up on the spot because that's the whole fun of it, and that's, if you get the drift, POP. i was mad at the Melody Maker for their Richey thing, and i wrote stuff of my own about him because i felt there was a lot that had been swept under the carpet, or had been never stated publicly. i get mad at the media for telling us just what they want us to hear and i get mad at people who swallow it. i get mad at people who just blindly consume and who give nothing back. i get mad at myself. a while back someone in the chat room basically implied i was talking shite when i said, as an aside, that the manics got their name at least in part from the Jasmine Minks. i got mad at that person because, well... it doesn't matter maybe. i just doubted my own memory, and i hate that more. But Jim Shepherd just reminded me of the same thing, that they told HIM that too, and... I feel better. sort of. i also feel madder at myself for letting others with less imagination and spirit than me walk around like they are big shots, when they are in fact losers with no insight and a soul that if scratched would bleed thin air. which has what to do with Belle & Sebastian? Everything and nothing. Obsession. Go figure. there will come a day when people will go into chat rooms and tell someone like me that belle and sebastian were named after a kids tv cartoon, and i don't know what i'm talking about because this person will have all the LPs filed neatly in order, will have all the imports and his treasured copy of Tigermilk (£1000 quid in the auction, what's it to you, mate?) safely on display. He'll think he knows it all because he read it in the music press and a nice journalist told him so. which is fair enough. maybe we can get our collective shit together and make, as tag suggests, a magazine of the international pop underground (taking a cue from K there...), and maybe we can tell some kind of truth about the story of belle & Sebastian, and maybe someone will care. i dunno. This is more than being about a pop group though, it's about the way in which we lead lives, and i'm making no apologies for saying, yeah David, there's 400 people on this list, but how many do you think would share some kind of wish and desire and have the energy to actually DO something with the love they profess? Aside from just idly chit chat and look forward to the next release? i'm being cynical, i just can't help it because i've been in this kind of deal for so long. i'm impressed Tag still has the drive... i impress myself sometimes with the fact that i actually do things too. hey! i did start a fanzine (many...), i did start a club, i did write a million words that no-one read. i still DO. i'm not expecting your applause, i'm just saying that there are those who do, and those who don't. it's just about being obsessive enough to transcend your admirations. blind adulation did no-one any favours... i guess Stuart maybe found that out when he came back from London having failed to find Lawrence, and realising he didn't NEED his blessing, he just needed to put into practice the things he'd got from listening to Felt. i think that's true here. None of us need Stuart's or anyone's blessing to go do something inspired by what Belle & Sebastian mean to us, we just need to add our own bit to the story. i despair at those who won't take risks. Tag said he was listening to McCarthy, so i've just put on I Am A Wallet, and yes it is exciting, magical Pop. It does as B&S do, it makes me impatient to create something fragile and magical and yet brutally strong. But this is an individual thing, it's non-collective, it relies on nothing aside from me and my imaginaction. i don't know what i've just written, i don't know if it adds to what Tag and David wrote or if it just says the same in more words. i have no interest in that. i just have interest in what i'm making out of life, what other poets are making of it, and i don't mean writing poems either. You either get it or you don't, and that's life, that's my notion of Pop. Right and wrong, good and bad. do the right thing, kids. keep the faith, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From suchgranddesigns at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 18:29:08 1998 From: suchgranddesigns at xxx.com (lady jillian) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 13:29:08 -0500 Subject: Sinister: she's losing it Message-ID: <19980201.132910.12550.0.SuchGrandDesigns@juno.com> ohmigod. my computer spoke to me today. i swear! there was nothing in the cd rom and i wasn't on the internet or anything but there was this little sound/voice? coming out of the speakers for about 2 seconds. it freaked me out. it sounded like a walkie talkie/alien signal coming thru... *CHHHKKK* i dunno what it said but i think it spoke chinese! you lot know a bit about computers and things right? is it possible for computer speakers to pick up cell phones or satellite transmission or something? cos if not then there's a little person trapped in my computer!! forget human cloning, this could be a whole new species evolving out of magnetic plates and pentium chips!! eep! technology! micro-jillian _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From david.walker15 at xxx.net Sun Feb 1 18:18:45 1998 From: david.walker15 at xxx.net (David Walker) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 18:18:45 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! References: <19980201.132910.12550.0.SuchGrandDesigns@juno.com> Message-ID: <34D4BC85.142D@virgin.net> Hi !! I am relatively new to this list, so I am not sure if this question will have been touched on before (but it is Sunday and I have the `flu so I am sending it anyway !! Here goes: Who in the world would you like to cover a B&S song ? And which song would it be ? Fire away, Tintin. -- David Walker The Walker Homepage And Guide To Bolton: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/6411/ Got A Paul Weller link ? Need A Paul Weller link ? Check.... http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/6411/links.html (Unfinished version now up and running) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thein at xxx.is Mon Feb 2 02:48:08 1998 From: thein at xxx.is (Thorey Einarsdottir) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 18:48:08 -0800 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980202024808.00a889e4@rvik.ismennt.is> Please take me off this mailing list. Þórey Einarsdóttir Mávahlíð 23 105 Reykjavík s: 5517089 --mail: thein at ismennt.is ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From g.gregorini at xxx.it Sun Feb 1 18:50:16 1998 From: g.gregorini at xxx.it (Giuseppe Gregorini) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:50:16 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: re: even as we speak and jasmine minks Message-ID: <000001bd2f42$8af4fbe0$a454cfc1@mod005k1.mo.nettuno.it> The Duke wrote: >three singles as far as i can remember, and an LP. any more that that, >Andy? the singles i have at least are 'Nothing Happens', 'One Step >Forward' and 'Beautiful Day', which is my own personal favourite >because, erm, the cover is a photo i took of a shopping trolley (cart) >sitting on Troon beach :-) They are very excellent indeed. I really like them. In "Nothing ever happens" there's a beautiful version of "Bizarre Love Triangle", a fact that allows me to mention another band who covered the song and that I think should be familiar to every BandS oriented ear. I'm talking of Devine & Statton, one of the first names that came to my mind after listening to BandS. Is it me, or they (and their former band Young Marble Giants) were/are inspirational for many bands? >And on the subject of blasts from the past, i just heard from Jim >Shepherd of Jasmine Minks infamy, and the news is that he and Tom Reid >are writing songs again. More news as and when, but hey... this has >brightened up my January at least. Mine too, even though my Alan McGee's favourites were the Biff Bang Pow. Ciao, Giuseppe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 19:42:59 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:42:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Cool it guys and gals... In-Reply-To: <34D4A5D3.8DC3B7B4@lineone.net> Message-ID: What's happening? Suddenly everyone seems to have got all bitter and angry (you know who I'm talking about!). I don't want this to sound like I'm slagging anybody off (although it probably will to some of you, I know I've often misinterpretted other postings). But the one and only thing which really annoys me is people getting vindictive against each other, and that seems to be happening on this list at the moment. Why are we here? Why are we all subscribed to this list? Well I'm convinced that we're all here for different reasons, and no one of those reasons is superior to any others. Some people are here to find out facts, and the fact that maybe a quarter of us were on the list last time those facts were discussed doesn't mean that they're not entitled to ask about them. The fact that somebody has only been on the list for a couple of weeks is no reason for their opinions not to count; and it seems odd to me that the people who aren't letting the newbies have their say are the same ones who were detesting the elitist notions of the "true fan" not that long ago. We all have different personalities and preferences, if one particular thread doesn't interest you, don't read it! That's what the delete key is for. Just don't start slagging other people off because they are interested in it. Those of us who've been here a while know whose mails make good reading and (naming no names) those who we don't personally like. I'm sure it doesn't take long for newcomers to form their own opinions on it. And we act accordingly. It is wrong to try to impose restrictions on what people say; just because you personally want more mails in the style of Genevieve, of Duke, or Northy, or whoever, other people are entitled to disagree with you. The only postings I resent are those saying in effect that somebody's opinion doesn't count for any reason (eg they've only been a fan for 2 months, or they haven't set up a web page in B&S's honour, or something stupid like that). Whoever you are reading this, there will almost certainly be another like-minded person on the list; somebody who will want to talk about the same things as you. And there will be others (probably more) who don't. Accept it. Just because somebody loves B&S doesn't mean they agree with you on everything else in life as well. So PLEASE can we all just live and let live, and go back to being happy bunnies, before it's too late. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 1 19:51:54 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:51:54 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: i'm positively cynical Message-ID: <199802011951.UAA07866@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> The Duke of Harringay wrote ... >maybe we can get our collective shit together and make, as tag suggests, >a magazine of the international pop underground (taking a cue from K >there...), I'm afraid this name is occupied by the Stockholm collective involving "The International Pop Underground" showcases and free fanzines ... furthermore, there is a mailing list using the same name ... how about some originality ? >and maybe we can tell some kind of truth about the story of >belle & Sebastian, and maybe someone will care. i dunno. Dunno either ... >Tag said he was listening to McCarthy, so i've just put on I Am A >Wallet, and yes it is exciting, magical Pop. And yes ... you've missed the name for the potential fanzine, namely "The International Narcotics Traffic" by McCarthy. §;^D Music that could take you And your mind to a new sphere These our chiming chords Could take us both away from here The beat of the drums lifts off your head The bass is shaking off your cares On it goes you are carried away On a sea of sound On and on to an ecstasy (... ehrm ...) On a sea of sound The beat of the drums lifts off your head The bass is shaking of your cares Up, up and away On the beautiful tune In each verse excitement is built To a new pitch Cymbals crash and with frenzied guitars He wildly sings The beat of the drums lifts off your head The bass is shaking of your cares Apologies for the lack of emotion and thoughtfulness ... must be the cold medium. You could always choose "Pocketbook Angel" given an appropriately formated fanzine ... On now: _Silly songs for cynical people_ - Would Be's Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 1 20:10:21 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:10:21 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! Message-ID: <199802012010.VAA08700@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> David Walker wrote ... >Who in the world would you like to cover a B&S song ? And which song >would it be ? Daniel Treacy (Television Personalities) - Get me away from here I'm dying Still on: _Silly songs for cynical people_ - Would Be's Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 20:16:28 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:16:28 -0000 Subject: Sinister: to dream.....and other ramblings Message-ID: <199802012022.UAA02010@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> I've had about three hours and a half hours sleep and i really shouldn't be awake right now, so forgive me these ramblings.... Firstly, who was it talking about Idlewild? I missed them at the Garage last night because SOMEONE (a big mean bouncer) had the genius-like idea of making all the people on the guest list queue for over an hour and letting eveyone else with tickets straight through. (Does anyone know if they were any good?) "Bollox, " me thought after only catching the last two minutes of their set. but all was not lost, Glitterbox were there to save my night - how danmed goood are they? they completely surpassed the headliners, Midget, the Geen-Day-esque rockers, who were alright. They best thing they did was a cover version of "Daydream Believer" ( aahh, sigh) which started off really quiet and then proceeded to burst your right ear-drum. But, me and my friends decided that they'ld get even better, just as soon as they hit puberty... the crowd was just mental - i mean one of the best/worst mosh pits (delete as applicable) i've ever seen in me life. i love watching the crowd-surfers' little antics, as almost a subplot to the main action on-stage. There was this one kid who after many foiled attempts to outwit these two big, mean bouncers, finally made it on to the stage: and for one proud moment of magnificence, stood victorious in front of the drum kit, surveying this swirming mass of sweaty bodies he'd just conquered and then gave this triumphant little shake of the fist. he glanced over his shoulder, saw the big bastard bouncer coming towards him, and with split second thinking, cheekily sky-dived back into the crowd before they could get to him. They were well pissed off. And here's another little personal anecdote which, with my usual skill for these things, has bugger all relevance. It's especially for you, Genevieve, just to make you squeal in jealousy, concernant Monsieur Crispine 'unt: One of my mad friends bumped into him at Chelmsford 96 and since the Longpigs happened to be her favourite band of all time, talked to him for a bit. After she said something, he looked down at her, took her hands, and then kissed them both... one, two, three, aaaah.... aah! what it is to be a young, mad, beautiful thing. I mean, he acts so damn sarcky, but y'know, if you could just pierce that, he is just a great big ole romantic teddy-bear. You jealous now Genevieve? Love+hugs, Yaz xx p.s. david, what you said was really cool. "Now we know where were going We can lay back and enjoy the ride.... Drowning our senses...(no, i'm not trying to be poetic, i've just forgotten the words) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sun Feb 1 21:04:09 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 21:04:09 GMT Subject: Sinister: spice what? In-Reply-To: <199802012021.UAA04313@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802012021.UAA04313@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34d4e289.3590008@email.mcmail.com> Northy wrote: >Kicking=Sporty Spice >Screaming=Scary Spice >Gucci=Posh Spice >Little=Baby Spice >Piggy=Ginger/Sexy/whatever-that-ugly-ho-is-called Spice I think the time has come when Northy stands on his own two feet without my protection. Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 21:11:57 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:11:57 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A Pop! voice speaks if anyone gives a monkeys... Message-ID: Ok, the duke wrote a load of stuff slagging off the person who said he was talking crap cos the Manics named themselves after...bla bla bla... Yes Ok that would be me ages ago. And I didn't *mean* the Duke was literally being shite, it was just cos I felt incredulous, becaue everything else I had read had said something to the contrary. Funnily enough wjen it comes to a lot of bands, I DO believe what I read in the music press because WHO ELSE AM I TO BELIEVE? They are the only other people who let me know these things. Would it be preferred that I didn't even bother to do THAT to try and find out about a band I LOVE! Basically if I was taken wrong, its because, like why should i suddenyl turn on its head everything that I have seen everywhere else you know??? The person you described there is nothing at all like me and in fact what I hate, someone who has records but never cares or acts upon them. Yeah, so I have alienated myself from the fucking majority of people I know for this thing of Pop? Just *because?* Yeah, I write a fanzine, wackily enough because I CARE? So I don't know every perfect fact about every band about, sue me. I love what I find worthy to be lovd, no doubt now I am probably missing out on something fantastic. As is life. What I love, barely anyone seems to actually care about, and people who then go and imply that I am nothing just get on my nerves. Yes well we seem to be in a mood to let frustrations out, you know I can't scream out loud in peoples faces when I want to so perhaps ooh I don't know. Is this the first really pissed off mail I've sent? Quite sad aint it. And Duke I'll have you know that after we had the little talk about names I ALSO got really upset and pissed of, realising that everything I care about, could just be all an invented lie, untruth, and that again its something that as much as I like, i'd never be a part off. Perhaps we should avoid each other on chat :o) I'm not trying to personally slag the Duke, or any of you lot off here, you've got to get that but...oohhh, the people who care strongly perhaps will understand. Some won't be arsed. Heehee. I also just got an email from someone saying I was a bit manic and perhaps should relax. whoops! And I had a really good post planned too, till I read the last digest, about B&S videos. I was listening to Tigermilk and suddenly I had these marvellous ideas for videos just springing into my head, but if I can be arsed I'll leave them till a later date. Bye bye, I expect nobody actually arsed to read this, sorry Honey for being a moody git, but life consists of moods, ups and downs. On a nicer note, I liked Northys Spice Girls/Radiohead thingy, and am forwarding it to others. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! (but will I be allowed back?) Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah BLOKE :"How about we....skip desert tonight...." BIRD :"Why! What else...do you have in mind!" BLOKE :"Nothing. Its just that you're a bit fat already innit?" SHE LEAVES BLOKE :"Check please." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 23:19:43 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (northy) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 23:19:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S story..... Message-ID: <199802012206.WAA12643@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> what exactly is the B&S story then? I just plain don't know ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 23:19:43 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (northy) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 23:19:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Northy weaves the thread in a new direction..... Message-ID: <199802012206.WAA12659@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> When I was unpopular on this list I asked everyone what film they though would suit a Belle and Sebastian song soundtrack. Thanks to some heavy promotional work from Tag I am now fairly famous on the list so I will ask it again. Oh, actually it is a pretty shite question. Don't worry people! Anyway, hmm.....tough question my friend. To be perfectly honest I can not imagine anyone covering a Belle and Sebastian song with any degree of success. I think my answer gives us all a happy reminder that Belle and Sebastian are just a fantastically brilliant band. Peace People Northy > Who in the world would you like to cover a B&S song ? And which song > would it be ? ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From uclykan at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 22:32:08 1998 From: uclykan at xxx.uk (uclykan at xxx.uk) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 22:32:08 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm happy sad Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19980201223208.2aa7177e@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> Hello sinisters, I'm drowning in all this sudden beauty. It makes me want to listen to Nine Inch Nails (pretty hate machine was ahead of its time, erm). So this is how it feels to be alone, without a quote hanging above your wise words. I'd better get one. >Richard wrote: >Most of his stuff is quite dark >and moody dealing with pain and anger. We however are fluffy little >bunnies. Of course we are, jumping around in the fields brandishing our bags full of sweets and blowing kisses in the wind. Some consider B&S to be 'light' music, I think they are strong, POWERful. There are people who moan (in a wonderful, self-indulgent way, mind you) about things bygone, but this is different. Aidan's corner:I don't want a girlfriend, I just want someone to fuck (well put, but it's essentially the same) A bit late here:Arab strap are worth a few moments of your life. Prolapse as well. (Sorry, if we can't write in such a spellbinding way, we can talk about bands) Kelly (seven ty eight years old) Why is everyone in the computer room biting their nails in such a spectacular way? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sun Feb 1 23:33:48 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 98 23:33:48 GMT Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream Message-ID: <980201233348.n0008047.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 01 Feb 98, Tag wrote... >Enough is enough, > I like the idea of people getting inspired by Belle >and Sebastian, to write and move and do stuff instead of sitting back >and digesting, expecting to be entertained, just saying 'oh, aren't >they good' or 'this is pop!' isn't even good enough. This could be >beautiful - we've got a whole load of people from around the world and >it's a cause for celebration and doing something a bit more creative - Tag, I know exactly what you mean, I have been moved by belle and sebastian and am going to proceed to do the following and wonder if any listees would care to join me? : 1) I am making a lifesize model of Manchester Town Hall out of matchsticks in my front room. I have got through two packets of Swan vestas so far, can anyone get me some more? 2) Then I'm going to go from Lands End to John O'Groats doing forward rolls like that Indian bloke once did, except instead of saying funny mantras I'll be chanting 'we were sitting on the sofa the wrong way round' over and over again. 3) Lastly I'll be growing my fingernails until they reach the exact width of Chris's flares and then presenting them to him in a glass case. Thats going to be AFTER I've done the forward roll bit though, as the two might not be compatible. There. Susannah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Sun Feb 1 23:50:47 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 18:50:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: he wishes for the cloths of heaven... Message-ID: <199802012350.SAA22826@Vector.inexpress.net> Hej hej! Is Honey Paul ok? I haven't seen him on here for a little bit! Oh wherefore art thou Honey? >Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 15:28:28 GMT >From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) >Subject: Re: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream > >Everyone, > >I hope no-one thinks my last message was a dig. I just want people >get emotional, not complacent. We've got a perfect base, all this >technology, and I hate it going to waste in some petty discussion >about what songs are in which Smiths albums or whether Radiohead are >better than Sarah Records or whatever shite ... we should be using all >this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and >Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like >Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening >clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. >Otherwise the rest of the world has every right to call us a bunch of >fucking losers. > >Love Tag Oh..... Lets get married and have rose petals thrown at us! I sorta know what you mean,I get this odd/sad/annoyed feeling I can't quite decribe...but it's usally when I'm on the bus..and I'm looking out the window..or I'm in the auditorium..or at the cafeteria table...and everyones just going blah blah blah Brett Anderson's haircut,and didn't you know blah blah blah,and it just makes me feel like standing up,yelling and running out through the halls through the forest and leap into an awaiting get-away car... I want to form a band,I've wanted to form one for a long long time....it would be so wonderful,we could play at festivals...and we could all make such interesting videos! Speaking of...I have a fanzine (well a soon-to be finished) would any of you actually want to read it? BUT for now,I am stuck in this grey high schooland the only thing they credit you for is your report card....... And distance....that is a problem... there are so many things listed above,I would love....(and another...opening up a music store,where I could play what I want..and have all these lovely posters up..)..I like the sound of the underground pop magazine...underground..I love that word....it sounds like we put bombs (for our causes) in all these evil places...cause we're the underground! When I get older,you all can come live with me in my apartment and we can all go swimming in rivers.....OR..with all the money we would make from our underground pop magazine we could have a pool in our house...WITH bubbles! >Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:16:28 -0000 >From: "Yaz" >Subject: Sinister: to dream.....and other ramblings >It's especially for you, Genevieve, just to make you squeal in jealousy, >concernant Monsieur Crispine 'unt: > >One of my mad friends bumped into him at Chelmsford 96 and since the >Longpigs happened to be her favourite band of all time, talked to him for a >bit. After she said something, he looked down at her, took her hands, and >then kissed them both... > > one, two, three, aaaah.... >aah! what it is to be a young, mad, beautiful thing. >I mean, he acts so damn sarcky, but y'know, if you could just pierce that, >he is just a great big ole romantic teddy-bear. > >You jealous now Genevieve? > > >Love+hugs, >Yaz xx Yaz...you have to go like this 'Jealous MUCH?' while walking away in the wind with my boyfriend..then we can have catfight. That Crispin...sweet..... he is a 'ladies man' yes? I would love such an experience! (although my longpig love goes to to Simon Stafford instead) I tried to do that to Brett Anderson once,i wanted to be polite and sweet so when I was talking with him I was going to pick up his hand and kiss his hand (or the other approach... slip a sedative into his tea..hee hee),EXCEPT..he was holding his p.j's and I felt quite silly so instead I just marvelled at his jacket and asked him where he got it (Thailand) alas,I am no 'smooth operator'. Stuart doll! (the wonderfully tall one) Whoops...what I meant was 'snowshoe workout' although snowshow sounds better.... love love, Genevieve (teeny note...if you would like to see 'When Genevieve Met Crispin Hunt: A Photograph' you'd like my fanzine!) I have no funky line to put at the end,and if I sing 'Dance Magic' again,I think you all will hit me... so.... Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I,being poor,have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (W.B. Yeats) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Mon Feb 2 01:21:54 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:21:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: tigermilk In-Reply-To: <1df040ab.34d42578@aol.com> Message-ID: surprise~! i am not asking for a copy! does anyone know how the name for the album came about? i know that you can basically name an album whatever you wish and not have to have a meaning in it but i thought there might be something behind it.. i cannot think of anyone that i think would do any justice to covering a b&s song...hmmmm..but i am picturing b&s making an attempt at 'late night maudlin street' by morrissey..that might be a bit too down though. roberta **oh you look so tired mouth slack and wide ill-housed and ill-advised your face is as mean as your life has been crash into my arms i want you****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Runegg at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 06:01:15 1998 From: Runegg at xxx.com (Runegg at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 01:01:15 EST Subject: Sinister: dolly Message-ID: Hi. Dolly parton does a song called "Jolene" that is unbelievable. And Talking Heads have a talking-song on Remain in Light, I forget what it's called. My favorite talking-song, though, is Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized." Does that count? --Ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 09:31:39 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:31:39 +0000 Subject: Sinister: tigermilk References: Message-ID: <34D5927B.736763F7@totalweb.co.uk> baggy trousers wrote: > > surprise~! i am not asking for a copy! > > does anyone know how the name for the album came about? i know that you > can basically name an album whatever you wish and not have to have a > meaning in it but i thought there might be something behind it.. i think this will be something that we could try and tempt stuart murdoch into answering. i no real idea, but could probably make something up that may be quite close :) > i cannot think of anyone that i think would do any justice to covering a > b&s song...hmmmm..but i am picturing b&s making an attempt at 'late night > maudlin street' by morrissey..that might be a bit too down though. i think if orange juice reformed, they could probably do an interesting cover of on of the more rockier numbers, say the instrumental Tigermilk for example, or even the velvet underground-esqe You're Just A Baby. But Belle and Sebastian, even though i adore them, are not so good as to really suggest that no-one would ever be a able to do a great cover. in a lot of cases i'd love to here what the cover would sound like. oh, here's another one, what if Beat Happening did Judy And The Dream Of Horses or, Felt doing If You're Feeling Sinister. david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From john at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 10:22:51 1998 From: john at xxx.com (John Warrander) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:22:51 +1000 Subject: Sinister: RE: Some things about Duets, Truth and Inspiration Message-ID: <01BD3018.56C9B550.john@hpccm800.aus.hp.com> Oops nothing original to say and no B&S content either. Gee what a rotter! Oh well, I'm just going to hang off some of the comments made earlier. Genevieve wrote: > Oh..... Lets get married and have rose petals thrown at us! Genevieve have you any idea how happy Tag will be when he reads this? I know he wanted a bit more excitement but the poor lad may just go weak at the knees and fall over and hurt himself. Actually, I'm already married to him so you can just leave off lady. "Jealous MUCH?" she also added later: > it sounds like we put bombs (forour causes) in all these evil places And hey these bombs won't go BANG they'll go P!O!P! An angry Sarah wrote (Am I talking liberties describing you as angry?): > I'll have you know that after we had the little talk about > names I ALSO got really upset and pissed of, realising that everything > I care about, could just be all an invented lie, untruth, and that again > its something that as much as I like, i'd never be a part off. Perhaps Does it really matter what the TRUTH is anyway? It suits me to believe that Lee Hazlewood lives in a remote log cabin somewhere in Northern Sweden, waited on hand and foot by a bevvy of Scandinavian beauties. Every time I put on a Lee record and listen to that voice, this is the absolute truth of the matter and no intrusion of pedantic fact will sway me from that opinion. As far as pop music is concerned, it's YOUR world and the truth can be whatever YOU want it to be. The Duke had this to say: > there will come a day when people will go into chat rooms and tell > someone like me that belle and sebastian were named after a kids tv > cartoon, and i don't know what i'm talking about because this person > will have all the LPs filed neatly in order, will have all the imports > and his treasured copy of Tigermilk (£1000 quid in the auction, what's > it to you, mate?) safely on display. He'll think he knows it all > because he read it in the music press and a nice journalist told him so. I'm afraid the newer members on this list (myself included) might not get the significance of that "someone like me" bit. It kind of scares me though. Is it relevant that you talk about a "he" here? I used to go into chat rooms and claim I lived in Morrissey's childhood dwelling on the King's Road in Manchester. I was a liar but the kids I talked to thought it was exciting so maybe I was performing a service. I did meet his English teacher Mr Pink once though. He took us into his house and gave us cake. He stood up against the Tories and spoke out against their health cuts. I think it got into The Sun and he was duly sacked from the hospital he worked in. Such a nice man too. I have no idea who wrote this: > My vote goes to "Tippy Toes" and "Bonnie and Clyde" respectively. Gosh the overall taste and decorum on this list is exemplary. Out of all those wonderful bands that were listed in a mail the other day how did the conversation manage to end up on "Even As We Speak"??? I don't care who wrote anything anymore: > Early examples of speak-a-pop "Speak-a-pop". How cool is that? Not cool enough I'm afraid. These chatty little numbers just don't turn me on. I hate "The Gift" (and the whole of "White Light White Heat" for that matter) and I claim my right as a pop kid to slag it to death if the notion takes me. Speaking of pop kids. Now we're all versed with the ins and outs of Northern Soul - thanks B&S list info service - I think we should be told. Just what is a "cutie"? McTaggart the mouth had this to say: > >Has a Northern Soul night started at the Star & Garter ? Is it still on > >and is it any good ? Just noticed it on a poster somewhere the other day > >and it got me thinking..... > > I don't know - tell me if you find out. That wasn't a question that was inspirational, mate. After all your bleating if you haven't started a Northern Soul club by July there'll be trouble to pay! And on a Nancy & Lee note: Has anybody got or heard the "Jacques and his Jacquettes" record by Jacques Dutronc and Francoise Hardy? I'm convinced it MUST be the Nancy and Lee of the French speaking world. Anyway... > Big favourites are 'Some velvet morning' and 'Je t'aime'. The Primitives did a cracking version of "Some Velvet Morning" live in a cave somewhere in South London once (well a few times I suspect) and it made it even more criminal when they split and I never got to see them do it again. Well it makes me sad. This is Australia and the next B&S video spotted on Rage will be duly noted and reported here. You can rely on that. Love To You All...John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 10:49:27 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 10:49:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! References: <19980201.132910.12550.0.SuchGrandDesigns@juno.com> <34D4BC85.142D@virgin.net> Message-ID: <34D5A4B7.BB1@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> David Walker wrote: > Who in the world would you like to cover a B&S song ? And which song > would it be ? I would like Urusei Yatsura to cover Photo Jenny. They could use camera clicks as percussion and the usual buzsaw distortion guitars. The divine comedy would suit the music but i don't know which song. Richard Anderson. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rwilkin at xxx.au Mon Feb 2 11:25:37 1998 From: rwilkin at xxx.au (shelley wilkinson) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 21:25:37 +1000 Subject: Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V2 #45 References: <199802010817.IAA14303@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34D5AD31.21D4@gil.com.au> jj wrote: > > >> golden , comet gain, SUPER, EVEN AS WE SPEAK ( Katrina?) > > >i don't know them ... are they australian too? shelley????? > > ?? there is a crappy band around called even, but i've not heard of > > 'even as we speak' - and i usually know what the kids are listening to, > > so no.... i don't think so. > I'm sure there are others who are much more knowledgeable on the subject > but i'm bored and don't want to study anymore so I'll chime in...Even As > We Speak are australian, but don't exist as such today. oops. let me just open my mouth that little bit further, i can almost fit my whole foot in there! as us mature age kids often find, we don't always know where it's at.... my apologies. shelley ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 11:46:40 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andybear) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 03:46:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: the time has come, the walrus said... Message-ID: <19980202114640.18117.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> ...to talk of many things: um, but first i feel i must apologise to david o'reilly cos i was a bit mean the other week. yeah, what he seemed to be saying (that the band never play live) was just downright wrong - i saw them 7 times last year (yeah, more money than sense) and there were at least 4 gigs that i didn't go to. but, yeah, i shouldn't've made it a personal attack. so, er, sorry. and david, if they do get to play close enough to you for you to go and see them then let me know and i'll pay for your ticket... northy was asking about films that would fit with b&s's music. i think it'd have to be something french and 1960's, the new wave stuff, the cinema verite stuff. a women walking down the middle of a busy road selling 'Cahiers Du Cinema'. or something from the British movement of gritty northern drama of around the same time. 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' say, or 'The Leather Boys', anything with Rita Tushingam in it, everyday people. or maybe something a bit more fantastical like 'Billy Liar'. (toryboy has also had the first few moves from the hitch hiker's guide adventure game as his sig for the last couple of weeks now. what's really odd is that i know this without ever having played the game myself...) tigermilk: i guess there are new people who still want copies. there are also lots of people out there who already have copies. can i suggest that if you want a copy or are prepared to tape a copy for someone you send me your address and i'll try and match you up with someone geographically close so the postage costs don't hurt as much. in the past people have posted to the list and offered to tape things for others but i for one daren't do that anymore given the sheer numbers involved. if we get enough people offering tapes then they'll only have to do one copy each so... oh, and can anyone who does this put 'tigermilk: giver' or 'tigermilk: taker' in the subject line please 8) asides: trembling blue stars single was a bit too st etienne for my tastes, yes. should really listen to it more than the twice i have though. friends (hi honeypie!) have told me the new lp is great though. out next monday, the 9th feb. www.maths.monash.edu.au/~rjh/fm even as we speak were great, yes. they moved to england for a year in 92 and did a lot of gigs in london. saw them 8 times in total figuring that if they can come all the way from australia to play for us then i can make the trip from herts to london to support them... the list fanzine thing is a strange idea - why create something like a fanzine when we have a much more immediate form of communication in this list? nathan, gez, i have things to ask you. will see you in the chat room from about 4 and ask you there... lovesick on a sunny afternoon*, sigh. andy (koogydelbbog at yahoo.com) *ok, it's only 11:40 something but it's close enough... another voicemail waiting this morning when i got into work this morning, another slice of Her to treasure but now when i log on it warns me that my voicemail is nearly full and that i should delete some of my saved messages. but which to choose? don't they realise that this is like asking me which of my fingers i could do without? == andrew.dean at bull.net _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 12:03:43 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:03:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Murry Lachlan-Young In-Reply-To: <34D4784F.598@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: ok, so we're all entitled to our own opinions and stuff, but he's awful, about as far from poetry as the spice girls are from feminism. alastair > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 12:07:31 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:07:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Two great poets: Murray Lachlan Young and Genevieve In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Murray Lachlan Young is indeed extremely good. (see previous mail) > > Oh yeah, and the new Space single (duet with Cerys from Catatonia) is > absolutely superb. Just thought I'd say that. > "You saved us from killing each other; (Tom Jones Tom Jones) > You'll never know but you saved our lives. (Tom Jones Tom Jones) > I've never thrown my knickers at you, > And I don't come from Wales." > Genius. maybe: i've only heard it the once, but i'm still deeply distressed to hear anyone from catatonia sharing vinyl with the largely execrable space. > > And Boogie Nights is crap. couldn't agree with you more here, tho. truly disappointing, cheap and easy. > amh > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From alaning at xxx.fr Mon Feb 2 13:13:09 1998 From: alaning at xxx.fr (Alan.H) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:13:09 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Autour de Saint Lucie Message-ID: <199802021310.OAA05612@mail2.isdnet.net> ---------- De : Tag A : sinister at majordomo.net Objet : Sinister: Autour de Saint Lucie Date : lundi 26 janvier 1998 18:18 Bonjour Cette lettre ne s'agit pas de Belle et Sebastian. J'ai une question pour nos copains (et copines, naturellement) a l'Hexagone. Ce weekend j'ai achete une disque ('Chanson sans issue') par Autour de Lucie et c'est hyper-hyper-yum-yum. Peut-etre quelqu'un peut me dire plus (en privee, pas sur la liste) de cette groupe qui a attrape ma coeur. Merci...je vous embrasse. Le Tageur xx hi, thought you might like to know that the lead singer of the band is the step daughter of a famous tv presenter over here (france, obviously) and i've heard that she is also something of an item with the head of the record label...but i'm not one to gossip... i saw them live once and the covered the smiths' "please please please let me get what i want"...actually they're quite good for a french band... alan.h ps: le tageur in french (maybe you know this) is someone who sprays that bloody awful graffiti all over the city walls, buses, trains and slow moving senior citizens...so there you go ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Tue Feb 3 12:27:21 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:27:21 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Sorry about the irrelevance to the band, but can anyone recall the supposed virus that was mentioned a while back? Someone has just dramatically rushed into our computer room to tell us not to open a mail JOIN THE CREW. In fact loads of people seem to have left... geez it feels liek there's just been a bomb scare. Anyway, does anyway know about it. Mail me directly, pleasssse. Oh and I hope everyone is well.. I'm having a good day. Love Claire. In a wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Tue Feb 3 12:40:38 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:40:38 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Oh, I cannae remember Message-ID: Can anyone tell me the full name of the Glasgow band, 'Los hombres.......' I can't remember it, does anyone know? They've been played on John Peel recently. This isn't a comepetition but the first person to mail me will recieved glorious moring mails from me all this week. Thank you so much. Claire, (feeling remarkably happy.. What on earth is going on???) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Philip.R.Clipston at xxx.Clipston Mon Feb 2 11:24:24 1998 From: Philip.R.Clipston at xxx.Clipston (Philip.R.Clipston at xxx.Clipston) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:24:24 +0100 Subject: Sinister: dolly References: Message-ID: Runegg at aol.com,Internet writes: >From: Runegg at xxx.com >Hi. Dolly parton does a song called "Jolene" that is unbelievable. And >Talking Heads have a talking-song on Remain in Light, I forget what it's >called. Have you never heard "butterfly " by the same artist much the better song >My favorite talking-song, though, is Suicidal Tendencies, >"Institutionalized." >Does that count? >--Ari >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". >. 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 14:43:34 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (WesleySniper) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:43:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <34D5A4B7.BB1@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: I think the band " james " could do a wicked set of B & S covers, as they too have innovation with various instruments and Tim Booth's various tones of voice can potentially make songs like 'She's Losing it' or 'If you're feeling sinister' sound even as good as B & S. As you can see i'm a massive James fan. I think you should all have a listen too some stuff, as they appear as diverse and magical as B & S do!!! Regards, wez ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 14:59:37 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (WesleySniper) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:59:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re:woman on the cover In-Reply-To: <34D5927B.736763F7@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: sorry about the 2nd posting but who is the woman on the cover of tigermilk? is she the same woman on the dog on wheels single? i saw her at the manchester gig (sun night) - she was wearing those trendy glasses which are in fashion at the mo... byeee, wez ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Mon Feb 2 14:48:48 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 09:48:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: tigermilk In-Reply-To: <34D5927B.736763F7@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, David & Katrina wrote: > Belle and Sebastian, even though i adore them, are not so good as to > really suggest that no-one would ever be a able to do a great cover. > in a lot of cases i'd love to here what the cover would sound like. ok..ive thought a bit more about it an how about the throwing muses doing lazy line painter jane? i was thinking this morning that the woman singing on it (forgive me i only have a copy so i dont know who it is) sounds kinda kristen hersh-y...and after listening to concrete blonde i wouldnt mind hearing johnette napolitano making an attempt at 'seeing other people'...so after a bit more time and thought (ohh, brain freeze!!) i CAN indeed think of some things (shock shock, horror horror) roberta ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bohobird1 at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 15:01:58 1998 From: bohobird1 at xxx.com (DALE COOPER) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 07:01:58 PST Subject: Sinister: new york? Message-ID: <19980202150158.29108.qmail@hotmail.com> hihi i was at my local club on saturday night and was told that b&s would be playing a gig in new york on feb 21? - can someone confirm this for me?? does anyone know the details for the show - where, when, how much ect. please let me know much thanks boho :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com Mon Feb 2 15:04:00 1998 From: Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com (Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB) Date: 2 Feb 98 15:04:00 Subject: Sinister: Will this do? Message-ID: <9802021511.AA4381@notesgw.compuserve.com> David, an idea for a B&S competition: How about "Guess the future of Belle and Sebastian" in a kind of clairvoyant 'rock biog' way? Potted histories only of course. Sarah wrote: >And will someone tell em why my messages keep coming through with shite >like =20 on them al the time? Cos they are doing my tree. I never get >any numbers right! Hmmm.. I think pound signs are the main stumbling block. I expect there's some clever answer to do with ASCII conversion protocols or something. Let's have a go: ������ >Are they like censorship? Like '=46uck'????? No, but a friend who works at a revolting financial institution has all her e-mail vetted in a wonderfully draconian way. If you send her a message with a rude word in it gets bounced back at you. Astonishingly, the list of banned words extends to 'bottom', which can obviously be used in really quite legitimate senses. Reminds me of the nanny web software that banned access to a site about the town Scunthorpe (work it out). Megan wrote: >also, _don't_look_back, the >documentary about bob dylan is showing at the film forum in new york. is >it worth seeing for someone who isn't terribly interested in him as a >singer? Well I saw it on telly a while before buying any of his records and enjoyed it. Particularly memorable was the scene in which he was very rude to a bunch of earnest young fans that was mobbing him and asking why why why had he sold out to the evils of amplified guitars. What musical direction could Belle & Sebastian take that would engender such hostilty? I realise that for some of you they got in early with "Electronic Rennaisance" but bearing in mind that they haven't repeated that particular trick... Or all we all eclectic now? That dubiously titled fellow wrote: >I'm talking of Devine & Statton, one of the first names that came to my >mind after listening to BandS. >Is it me, or they (and their former band Young Marble Giants) were/are >inspirational for many bands? Devine and Statton's "Under the Weather" is a dream. A nasty dream, mind you, unpleasant enough for me not to be able to put in on any tape I ever made for my girlfriend, in case she took it personally. A perennial problem that. Talking of dreams, I had my B&S dream the other night. Well, to be precise it was a rather embarrassing B&S mailing list dream. In it, I somehow ended up offering to let Paedophile Paul (poor boy's gone a bit quiet since the great baby picture scandal shit hit the fan) stay at my house for a while. It turned out he was a hideous one-legged dwarf (I kid you not) but I tried to disguise my shock and take him out on the town, go shopping and stuff. It reminded me of having to do the same with my french exchange partner many moons ago. Not that he was a one-legged dwarf or anything. But he did have dandruff. Tag wrote: >we should be using all >this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and >Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like >Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening >clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. >Otherwise the rest of the world has every right to call us a bunch of >fucking losers. I'll defend their right to do so till my dying day. But yeah - anyone want make a film or form a band with me? Or does it not work like that? How perfect the story is of Belle & Sebastian all meeting that cafe one night? Ranks up there with Johnny Marr pressing his chocolatey nose up to that odd kid from Stretford's window, or that fateful church bazaar (hey!) encounter between Lennon & McCartney. I dream of such things. At our school the only people who formed bands were rubbish and into Eric Clapton. By university it was even worse - the people with guitars were into things like Fretblanket. Never stumbled across any kindred spirits with musical pretensions. Perhaps I should hang out at more church functions. Anyway, forming a band at university is never a good move, is it? Can anyone think of a good exception? As for making films, well I _have_ already acted in one (show off alert!) and a TV series. It's always good having one claim to fame, although the thought of peaking at the age of 13 is a little depressing. Look me up in the IMDB (my surname's only had one 'o' in it then). But yes, actually properly making films would be a whole different thing. Which reminds me, did Susannah ever develop her fantastic attempts to mock up all the B&S covers with a self-timer camera? Phew, Nick ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From olaf7 at xxx.is Mon Feb 2 15:46:46 1998 From: olaf7 at xxx.is (OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:46:46 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm too small to fit in B&S t-shirts, it's not fair Message-ID: <4E59C19C@MHS> mmmm, I was wondering if they sell any small B&S t-shirts....? I think not. olla ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ics6jdc at xxx.UK Mon Feb 2 15:40:36 1998 From: ics6jdc at xxx.UK (Cairns) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:40:36 GMT Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream In-Reply-To: <34d79196.10221034@email.mcmail.com> References: Message-ID: <628444638E2@east-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> Tag wrote >... we should be using all > this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and > Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like > Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening > clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. Are we sure this is McTaggart? Sounds more like Brother John Robb to me. Heh heh. A point well made though. Bitching about other peoples' favourite bands is harsh (though great fun), and I don't think the list is the place for it, really. I think one of the fantastic things about B&S is the way they come to unite people, not in an unthinking, we're-all-alive-together, Oasis-stylee, but as individual reference points, or like a jumping-off point, and things like the list are a part of that. What I mean is that, when you find someone else who shares your adoration, the chances are, not that you'll all possess the same Beatles-Ned's-Black Grape British Heritage CD collection like with other groups, but that they'll be able do you a singularly enchanting mix tape, and sends you off in loads of fantastic directions, and vice-versa. They're a part of the great big, sunny paper-chase of pop/films/books that, seventy-percent of the time, makes life worthwhile. That and the All Saints pictures in FHM. Who rattled my cage, eh? Jeez. Joseph xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 15:49:51 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:49:51 -0000 Subject: Sinister: new york? Message-ID: <199802021551.PAA10295@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Please don't think I'm being sarkie-bloke but I have a hunch that B&S aren't playing in New York this month. Coz if they were we'd hear it from Katrina and Dave first, right! I honestly believe her when she says that; am I too trusting??? But has she ever let us down? She is the all knowing Trash Heap of B&S date information and I personally will never believe any rumours that don't emanate from Jeepster-land. And you don't want to believe everything you hear in Night Clubs - somebody in a club said I looked like Green from Scritti Politti. That fellow was clearly a lying knave! Maybe the music was very loud and you misheard him - he might have been saying "The bells of San Sebastian are playing havoc with my Mexican grandmother's pigs." I believe that kind of talk is common among hipsters in the big apple. It's been more than a week since my list dream and I have no more. Phew. Thanks to this list I spent much of the weekend listening happily to Moon Safari - I love it! So that's one-one to the list after a bum steer on that Lambchop album. johnny j >---------- >From: DALE COOPER[SMTP:bohobird1 at xxx.com] >Sent: 02 Feb 1998 15:01 >To: sinister at majordomo.net >Subject: Sinister: new york? > >hihi > >i was at my local club on saturday night and was told that b&s would be >playing a gig in new york on feb 21? - > >can someone confirm this for me?? > >does anyone know the details for the show - where, when, how much ect. > >please let me know > >much thanks > >boho :) > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". >. For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see >. http://www.majordomo.net/sinister >. 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Mon Feb 2 15:56:23 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:56:23 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Ian Botham on Bad Acid Message-ID: <01bd2ff3$1ce0e0e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: susannah Para: B&S Fecha: lunes 2 de febrero de 1998 1:36 Asunto: Re: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream Ian Botham wrote: > >2) Then I'm going to go from Lands End to John O'Groats doing forward rolls like >that Indian bloke once did, except instead of saying funny mantras I'll be >chanting 'we were sitting on the sofa the wrong way round' over and over again. > Excellent idea, Ian, and very much in keeping with the general tone of Sunday's messages. Robert, Alistair and David remind me of a cross between the Why Don't You Gang and a man whose enthusiasm for all things pop enabled him to buy a farm and go horse-riding whenever he feels like it, top Radio One disc jockey Simon Bates. "It's very easy to criticise, not always quite so easy to find something positive to say", as Batesy used to say about the much-missed Poll Tax. Not to mention my own dear mother, whose catch phrase used to be "Why don't you make your own entertainment?" Nowadays she says, "Just as long as you're getting paid". Richard, it's not nice to call Porky Spice a "fat ugly whore" like that. She's a very nice young lady whose mother is from Huesca. And she's getting married to someone from Manchester United, a regular Busby Babe. As far as being inspired to go do something a little less boring instead goes, a long time ago some friends and myself had the bright idea of writing a fanzine. It was going to be great, it was going to have a top ten clubbers feature, we even got round to doing excruciatingly embarrassing interviews with top pop stars such as the charming Throwing Muses and kindly uncles and aunties of Sonic Youth. It was really good, I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought "what a great way to spend your time" but then everything went horribly wrong. Some of our correspondents were dispatched to the gruesome opium den of the Spacemen 3 dressing room, hoping to get some illumination from some of the greatest minds in the late eighties indie rock galaxy......"Mister Boom, if you were a pizza, what flavour pizza would you be?"...... About five fragrant minutes later Sonic spoke...."That's a.....stupid question." End of interview. End of fanzine. End of enthusiasm. I do like Sonic Boom though. Very entertaining fellow, should be on all the chat shows. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Mon Feb 2 15:55:06 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:55:06 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Achoo!! (must have caught a virus) Message-ID: Thank you to all who responded to my plea. I kinda guessed that I was safe from the horrors of my secret desire to take Ian Beale and dance naked with him round the Shooting stars set becoming public knowledge , but you always like to be sure. You are all forever in my debt... Rod, I loved the warning given for smerad...whatsitsname. Love Claire. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 16:01:39 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:01:39 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Will this do? Message-ID: <199802021602.QAA10899@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Hooray! Somebody else has had a list dream!! I must reveal that ol' HoneyChile himself appeared in my dream and he was NEITHER hideous NOR one-legged NOR in anyway a dwarf. (PC note - not that there's anything wrong with any of the above). But I couldn't write about it quite like Nick could (marvellous stuff). What was the film?? Send in your baby pictures coz I was the only person vane enough to already have one scanned and ready to roll. I'm giving a kind of a black panther salute (even as a toddler I was very politically motivated) and Tag, I would consider it an honour to electronically appear next to your naked Hebridean adventure shots. This collection could be the start of our collaborative project - a social history documentary charting all our development as fans of the greatest band around... john >---------- >From: Nick >Dastoor/BSHO/GB[SMTP:Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com] >Sent: 02 Feb 1998 15:04 >To: sinister >Subject: Sinister: Will this do? > >David, an idea for a B&S competition: How about "Guess the future of Belle >and >Sebastian" in a kind of clairvoyant 'rock biog' way? Potted histories only >of >course. > >Sarah wrote: >>And will someone tell em why my messages keep coming through with shite >>like =20 on them al the time? Cos they are doing my tree. I never get >>any numbers right! > >Hmmm.. I think pound signs are the main stumbling block. I expect there's >some >clever answer to do with ASCII conversion protocols or something. Let's have >a >go: ?????? > >>Are they like censorship? Like '=46uck'????? > >No, but a friend who works at a revolting financial institution has all her >e-mail vetted in a wonderfully draconian way. If you send her a message with >a >rude word in it gets bounced back at you. Astonishingly, the list of banned >words extends to 'bottom', which can obviously be used in really quite >legitimate senses. Reminds me of the nanny web software that banned access >to >a site about the town Scunthorpe (work it out). > >Megan wrote: >>also, _don't_look_back, the >>documentary about bob dylan is showing at the film forum in new york. is >>it worth seeing for someone who isn't terribly interested in him as a >>singer? > >Well I saw it on telly a while before buying any of his records and enjoyed >it. Particularly memorable was the scene in which he was very rude to a >bunch >of earnest young fans that was mobbing him and asking why why why had he sold >out to the evils of amplified guitars. What musical direction could Belle & >Sebastian take that would engender such hostilty? I realise that for some of >you they got in early with "Electronic Rennaisance" but bearing in mind that >they haven't repeated that particular trick... Or all we all eclectic now? > >That dubiously titled fellow wrote: >>I'm talking of Devine & Statton, one of the first names that came to my >>mind after listening to BandS. >>Is it me, or they (and their former band Young Marble Giants) were/are >>inspirational for many bands? > > Devine and Statton's "Under the Weather" is a dream. A nasty dream, >mind you, unpleasant enough for me not to be able to put in on any tape I >ever >made for my girlfriend, in case she took it personally. A perennial problem >that. Talking of dreams, I had my B&S dream the other night. Well, to be >precise it was a rather embarrassing B&S mailing list dream. In it, I >somehow >ended up offering to let Paedophile Paul (poor boy's gone a bit quiet since >the >great baby picture scandal shit hit the fan) stay at my house for a while. >It >turned out he was a hideous one-legged dwarf (I kid you not) but I tried to >disguise my shock and take him out on the town, go shopping and stuff. It >reminded me of having to do the same with my french exchange partner many >moons >ago. Not that he was a one-legged dwarf or anything. But he did have >dandruff. > >Tag wrote: >>we should be using all >>this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and >>Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like >>Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening >>clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. >>Otherwise the rest of the world has every right to call us a bunch of >>fucking losers. > >I'll defend their right to do so till my dying day. But yeah - anyone want >make a film or form a band with me? Or does it not work like that? How >perfect the story is of Belle & Sebastian all meeting that cafe one night? >Ranks up there with Johnny Marr pressing his chocolatey nose up to that odd >kid >from Stretford's window, or that fateful church bazaar (hey!) encounter >between >Lennon & McCartney. I dream of such things. At our school the only people >who >formed bands were rubbish and into Eric Clapton. By university it was even >worse - the people with guitars were into things like Fretblanket. Never >stumbled across any kindred spirits with musical pretensions. Perhaps I >should >hang out at more church functions. Anyway, forming a band at university is >never a good move, is it? Can anyone think of a good exception? > >As for making films, well I _have_ already acted in one (show off alert!) and >a >TV series. It's always good having one claim to fame, although the thought of >peaking at the age of 13 is a little depressing. Look me up in the IMDB (my >surname's only had one 'o' in it then). But yes, actually properly making >films would be a whole different thing. Which reminds me, did Susannah ever >develop her fantastic attempts to mock up all the B&S covers with a >self-timer >camera? > >Phew, >Nick >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net >. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Sun Feb 1 16:21:42 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:21:42 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Ian Botham on Bad Acid Message-ID: <01bd2f2d$7bf835e0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >galaxy......"Mister Boom, if you were a pizza, what flavour pizza would you >be?"...... About five fragrant minutes later Sonic spoke...."That's >a.....stupid question." End of interview. End of fanzine. End of enthusiasm. >I do like Sonic Boom though. Very entertaining fellow, should be on all the >chat shows. There was a guy who me and some friends once almost went to see years ago, as there were posters around Edinburgh for "Mr.Boom's Band", which one of my mates pointed out could be a secret gig by the Spacemen, it's really just as well we didn't 'cause I saw a poster for the guy last week in the chippy and it turns out he's an all-singing all-dancing one man band clown who does kids parties and stuff, oh well, so much for secret Spacemen gigs in Edinburgh. Strangely enough this tied in with the fact that after a very long time, I finally managed to procure a copy of "Playing with Fire" on CD this weekend... Which was nice. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From djf9 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 12:29:42 1998 From: djf9 at xxx.uk (D.J. Frazer) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:29:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk Message-ID: <6623.199802021229@harrier.le.ac.uk> Dear Fellow List Members, I was talking to a friend the other day (nostalgically) about the joys of underage drinking and she said 'I remember drinking Thunderbird, Concorde and Tigermilk...'. When I asked her what this was, she said 'Oh, some awful drink...can't really remember'. Do you think that the LP is named after aforementioned drink...or is this just a cahrayzee coincidence? Makes ya think, dont it? Daniel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:20:28 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:20:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: First time I have ever laughed out loud at an email... References: <199801302045.UAA08791@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Message-ID: <34D5F24C.33178325@virgin.net> northy wrote: > Hey List hmmm ... > Hows about a BESEEN chat on one the Belle and Sebastian page? > They are great! Hows about a what? i don't understand anymore .... Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:18:30 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:18:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: newcomer type stuff References: Message-ID: <34D5F1D6.CB1CECAA@virgin.net> C Browning wrote: > i always hate first e.mails to mailing lists. you come across all naive and stupid because you > don't know the protocol and jargon. normally i start getting scared when i read opening lines like these. however, i think we need more posts like Chris's. even though i found it a bit hard to read, i think we all need to listen to the sentiment in what this lovely boy has to say. > i'll stop rambling now and go. oh, please don't. Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:32:27 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:32:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Dolly Parton's guitar References: <199802010817.IAA14303@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> <34d5577d.564650@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: <34D5F51B.507EB20@virgin.net> Tag wrote: > Alan wrote: > > >bless.... > > Bless? Bless? You scroll down and down through someone else's letter > in it's entirety expecting to see some incisive reply, and you get > 'Bless'. It's all a horrible, horrible dream and I'm going to wake up > soon. No? ... it's real? There is no God. you and me both ... > I hope everyone else will make it their February resolution to take a > leaf out of Megan's book and make it their personal mission to amuse, > entertain and excite in the future. Because if I read another > dull-witted post repeating tedious facts that another 50 listees have > also posted, I will kill, or at least maim. i do find it scary that i seem to be agreeing with most of what Tag has to say! it can be difficult to find inspiration at the best of times and when there is no real B&S activity, it makes it just that little bit harder. i feel like i'm coming over all "david" at the moment, as i'm desperately trying to see the good in things. however, with the promise of new B&S tracks just around the corner, a new band to sign tomorrow (who i think an awful lot of you will love!) and a sunset outside the window, i shall be wearing my cheery smile home tonight. ... all i need now is my mum, dad and brother ... ho hum. Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:44:31 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:44:31 +0000 Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream References: <34d79196.10221034@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: <34D5F7EF.B1038FED@virgin.net> Tag wrote: > > Everyone, > > I hope no-one thinks my last message was a dig. I just want people > get emotional, not complacent. We've got a perfect base, all this > technology, and I hate it going to waste in some petty discussion > about what songs are in which Smiths albums or whether Radiohead are > better than Sarah Records or whatever shite ... we should be using all > this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and > Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like > Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening > clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. > Otherwise the rest of the world has every right to call us a bunch of > fucking losers. > Love Tag i don't know why david hasn't said this first, but here goes ... ... at the club where he and i met (nearly two years ago now!), there was a kind of special bonding between all the "regulars". you see, they didn't just go out dancing every monday night, during the summer on bank holidays, they would hold special picnics. but you couldn't really calll them just picnics, they were more like events. the boys and girls would play football and rounders and that-game-where-you-have-to crawl-through-someones-legs-so-that-they-can-move-again - statues or something. and they'd drink alcohol and eat sweets until the sun came down over primrose hill or highbury fields. they'd then go and sit in the pub for a couple of hours, taking their mild heatstroke and hangovers with them, and by late evening feel rejuvenated enough to venture back into central london and go dancing. they made films of their escapades and showed them in the club on projectors. i've met anough fantastic people on this list (by e-mail and in person) to think (maybe foolishly) that we could make somethng like this happen this summer ... any suggestions? Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:23:36 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:23:36 +0000 Subject: Sinister: dance magic dance References: <199801312252.RAA26042@Vector.inexpress.net> Message-ID: <34D5F308.1B36910B@virgin.net> > you all never answer my questions,are there any Belle & Sebby tshirts left? > Well,I probably wouldnt' get one anyways,by the time you change the money > into brit pounds...I think I will make my own,with sequins! Hello ... credit card orders for t-shirts can be taken by us from the fanclub site: http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/belleandsebastian cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From alison at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 16:51:34 1998 From: alison at xxx.com (Andrew Lison) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:51:34 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802021652.IAA20600@ns-2.macromedia.com> At 03:28 PM 2/1/98 +0000, you wrote: >we should be using all this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and >Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like >Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening >clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine. Well, er, now that you mention it, I thought it would be a good time to ask: I'm a visiting Yank who's in the London area for two weeks (more next week than this, really), and I'd love to meet some of you all. Anybody up for a pub run of some sort? Or can anybody send some recommendations of good pubs/shows for an indie rocker like myself in the next two weeks? P.S. to Tag: Sorry about that. Meant to hit reply all instead of reply. Andrew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 17:17:05 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 17:17:05 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802021711.RAA32667@pop3.hiway.co.uk> >what film they though would suit a Belle and Sebastian song soundtrack. I saw 'Stella Does Tricks' at the weekend and thought that some b&s tracks would have fitted in it well. She's Losing It perhaps? It's a very good film, and I'd recommend it to you all. The PJ Harvey song in it's good too. John S. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From basslerp at xxx.edu Mon Feb 2 17:18:27 1998 From: basslerp at xxx.edu (Bassler) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:18:27 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: B & S & Tigermilk & etc. Message-ID: I realize it gets old 'round here, but I'm needing a copy of Tigermilk - preferably from someone in the States, but not necessary. I'd buy a copy if I could, but you all know the story ... can trade for some cool pop from the Midwest, etc. Thanks in advance. Ryan polyholiday.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Runegg at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 17:02:57 1998 From: Runegg at xxx.com (Runegg at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:02:57 EST Subject: Sinister: dolly Message-ID: yes, I've heard dolly's "butterfly"--a sublime song as well. but something about jolene gets me every time. i pointed out "jolene" to a friend of mine and he turned the guitar riff into a psychotic techno loop. sadly... it was kind of good. by the way, i'd have liked to hear Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan doing "The Boy Done Wrong Again," but unfortunately, that genius is dead..... ah well, in my dreams. --ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 17:21:48 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:21:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Will this do? In-Reply-To: <9802021511.AA4381@notesgw.compuserve.com> Message-ID: Boring stuff first: 1. (Yawn) PLEASE don't send subscribes/unsubscribes to sinister at majordomo.net, send them to majordomo at majordomo.net. All attempts to do so to sinister will result in 10 additional subscriptions to the list and a packet of stale crisps through the post. 2. Please remember (particularly digesters) that a "reply" in most mail programs will come to me and not go to the list - re-address to "sinister at majordomo.net". I don't send them on, not until someone has a *nice* dream about me. 3. Don't use the list for private mail or mail to about 5 people. Some specific content in a general message is fine but please don't rattle on for ages. 4. Don't quote gallons of text and add a line. If you're quoting more than you're saying don't bother. 5. I applaud loudly the big leap in creativity and thought in the last 3 days (including stupid thought). The drill is: compose your message... hover your finger over the send key for 10 seconds... think whether we all want to hear and whether Cliff Richard would approve... send. On 2 Feb 1998, Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB wrote: > Talking of dreams, I had my B&S dream the other night. Well, to be > precise it was a rather embarrassing B&S mailing list dream. In it, I > somehow ended up offering to let Paedophile Paul (poor boy's gone a > bit quiet since the great baby picture scandal shit hit the fan) stay > at my house for a while. It turned out he was a hideous one-legged > dwarf (I kid you not) but I tried to disguise my shock and take him > out on the town, go shopping and stuff. It reminded me of having to > do the same with my french exchange partner many moons ago. Not that > he was a one-legged dwarf or anything. But he did have dandruff. HoneyPP replies: the nerve. I would like to go on record as saying that (a) I am do not want naked pictures of children if that's OK, even if from the 1970s/60s/50s (although I might make an exception for Linda), (b) I do not have dandruff/one leg/a height "problem" (hideous is up to you lot, although I'm a bit worried about being pictured as "Smelly Spice" by Linda's wee cousin if you've found it on the WWW pages), (c) I bet one-legged hideous dwarves are the best of people. However I *do* like appearing in people's dreams - Nick, what did you buy me on the shopping spree? M&S? Did you keep the receipt as it may not be my size? "Johnston, John CT" scribbled: > Hooray! Somebody else has had a list dream!! I must reveal that ol' > HoneyChile himself appeared in my dream and he was NEITHER hideous NOR > one-legged NOR in anyway a dwarf. (PC note - not that there's anything > wrong with any of the above). But I couldn't write about it quite like > Nick could (marvellous stuff). What was the film?? Lumme, I was just about to retire to a back seat on the list, put on me slippers and smoke a pipe. OK, I am willing to appear in dreams on request. But John you leave me dangling - what happened? John is quite right in saying you lot have been right miserable gits in not sending pictures. I now have... hmmm 6 baby pictures which isn't enough to shake a stick at. The boys are winning on the sickly cuteness scale. If I don't get more soon I will give up on any competition idea and just shove them on the WWW page - like a damp squib. Oh and I also have a scanner in the office so you'll be able to see me soon at 3, with two legs, normal height (for 3) and smiling in a preposterous way. Honey xxx 10 seconds... Cliff... just about... send. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 16:18:33 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:18:33 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Economy-sized general purpose reply Message-ID: <199802021722.RAA10185@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> A few small things: Andreas wrote: >I thought I'd mention that the complete >Claim output suits a C60 cassette perfectly, but you could also compile a >C90 cassette adding some early Hurrah! stuff for the clever listees >pursueing your generous offer ... I fear you may be missing a few of the Claim's masterpieces, Andreas. The two and a half LPs and several singles would take at leat a ninety and a half to get through...Let me know what you've got and I'll fill in the gaps:-) But you are right in saying that the Claim were unassailably brilliant and anyone who hasn't heard their perfect pop cocktail should take the Duke or me up on an offer of a tape sample thereof... Peter wrote on the subject of speaky pop: >Another one I'd forgotten is Isaac Hayes, who often talks about "ladies" or >whatever for quite a while, before bursting into song Yes! his version of 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' is cool, but for a special treat, seek out 'Good Love 69-969': 'I'm listed in the yellow pages all around the world, Got thirty years' experience of lovin' sweet young girls...' Oh, the old dog... Southern (ish...) soul is a great place for talkover classics, though. Of course, there are the famous Millie Jackson monologues, but Irma Thomas's brilliant 'Coming From Behind' trumps her big-style. Interested parties let me know for yet more tape action. And Northy wrote... >When I was unpopular on this list I asked everyone what film they >though would suit a Belle and Sebastian song soundtrack. >Thanks to some heavy promotional work from Tag I am now fairly famous >on the list so I will ask it again. Northy, perhaps you could write a story of your relationship to the members of this list? I'm sure Tag will help you, if you haven't blotted your copybook with off-the -beam Spice Girls mails... Kim, saving my mail from being entirely off-topic, wrote: >does anyone else happen to hear a zipper being zipped at the beginning of >"expectations"? I asked exactly the same question of 'King' Andy Dean, who assures me that it is truly on the vinyl and not the sound of his record deck lid being closed, as I had suspected... Hope this helps. Ta ra. Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 15:59:00 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:59:00 -0000 Subject: Sinister: stitched up like a kipper Message-ID: <199802021722.RAA10183@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Nobody's seen Q or mentioned it yet so I'll get my special pleading in first. (There is a little 'vox pop' of comments post-Manchester Sunday in the listings bit of this month's Q magazine). It includes a picture of me. I look dreadful and drunk, which is fair, because I am generally both. It is accompanied by some comments attributed to me. I did say 'the best venues and the best songs' (or words to that effect). However, I did not say 'the Pinteresque pauses merely serve to heighten a sense of expectation'. Did I, Duke? Neither would I. Honest. I have nothing against the pauses. I just dread to think that any one of you could think I might use the word 'Pinteresque'. /me shudders. The vox pop was conducted by a friend (ex?...) of mine by the name of Morris, who has stitched me up like a kipper. Public information broadcast ends here. Cheerio, Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 17:00:00 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:00:00 -0000 Subject: Sinister: impossible? Message-ID: <199802021722.RAA10188@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Tag wrote: > I really don't want Belle and Sebastian being put into any cosy indie category, because >they're better than that. Aren't they? Much better. They do relate to indie-pop for me because they reminded me, just when I needed it, that this pop songs thing could lift and shape me, cross my heart...All this talk of McCarthy and the Jasmine Minks and The Claim has reminded me too. ...and then Tag and The Duke and David and others went and made me all excited and excitable because they've been saying what I've been thinking about, about how all this feeling, all this meaning has to be put to some sort of good use because it _can be_. Invent things, reinvent yourself, participate, get angry, get happy, whatever. Duke: >how many do you think would share some kind of wish and desire and have the energy to >actually DO something with the love they profess? Oh, god, the five percent, the poor righteous teachers? Evangelism scares me but I can't believe that anyone could feel what us lot seem to feel about B&S and not want to use that feeling somehow. Even if that means using it as an opportunity to change yourself, rather than to produce some kind of tangible...something... to show for it. There's so much more to hope for than for your favourite band to become the biggest thing in the world, even though that might be nice. Small things...Frans Hals painting that corrupt town council as drunks...McCarthy singing about it...Belle and Sebastian seeming to re-find that spirit from somewhere, 'cos it's been lost or been buried for a long time. Or maybe I just went deaf, for a bit. 'It's not much to do, it's all I can do...' Whoever it is, whatever, count me in. Oh, and Sarah, Star, : >Yeah, I write a fanzine, wackily enough because I CARE? So I don't know >every perfect fact about every band about, sue me. I love what I find >worthy to be loved And even if we love different bands, which I reckon we do, I'm sure wht's in your fanzine has more truth in it than a hundred NME's. And that's not just because I git stitched up by Q :-). Enough. Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From GGY3SWM4 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 17:37:31 1998 From: GGY3SWM4 at xxx.uk (Me) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:37:31 Subject: Sinister: A Slight Resemblance Message-ID: <52A853F51D9@novell2.bham.ac.uk> > All this talk of Field Mice/Northern Picture Library/Trembling Blue > Stars has gotten me curious about the new album. How does it compare to > their older stuff? I liked the Rainbow cd single, I was hoping for more > of the same, though I think you hardcore fans of this group didn't like > the cd single that much. Its cool! It follows the pattern of the first TBS album, really, half acoustic and half along the lines of The Rainbow. And almost all still wallowing in misery, but hey, its done in such style.... Top track: Headlights. And to whoever said it was out on Feb. 9th... its not. I found it (much to my surprise) last week. Never trust a Shinkansen release date... Nick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And the sad part is... You do my world the world of good e-mail: ggy3swm4 at novell2.bham.ac.uk~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And the sad part is..... You do my world the world of good e-mail: ggy3swm4 at novell2.bham.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 16:49:35 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:49:35 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm positively cynical References: <199802011951.UAA07866@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <34D5F91F.F4BDE7C9@lineone.net> Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > >Tag said he was listening to McCarthy, so i've just put on I Am A > >Wallet, and yes it is exciting, magical Pop. > > And yes ... you've missed the name for the potential fanzine, namely > "The > International Narcotics Traffic" by McCarthy. §;^D andreas then wrote the lyrics, and um, in case anyone is in error, the song is making a point, that being that the trade in Pop, with it's escapist notions, is just another drug trade. Double edged, that was the way of McCarthy... > On now: _Silly songs for cynical people_ - Would Be's Cynical songs for silly people. Now that would be a great song :-) keep the faith kids. the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 19:17:20 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (northy) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:17:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Sarah / Ian Brown *no B&S content* Message-ID: <199802021804.SAA28707@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Sarah - I haven't got your email this is why I am sending to the list I think it was you that said you write a fanzine? anyway - here is something for a joke or something. I dunno, I have never read a music fanzine before WHY THE FUCK IS IAN BROWN DOING AN INTERVIEW IN EVERY SINGLE BLOODY MAGAZINE, BE IT MUSIC or LADS MAGAZINE!!!!! Although that is not funny you could mould it into something like "Ian Brown is doing an EXCLUSIVE interview for the Thurrockshire Ladies Bowling Club's annual magazine" Something like that! Bye Northy BEN FERNYBOROUGH _ MY MAIL TO YOU GOT SENT BACK SO A BIG THANK YOU FOR TIGERMILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanx, thanx ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mneimark at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 18:25:58 1998 From: mneimark at xxx.com (Matthew Neimark) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 10:25:58 PST Subject: Sinister: RE:Tigermilk Message-ID: <19980202182559.4410.qmail@hotmail.com> >TIGERMILK >surprise~! i am not asking for a copy! >does anyone know how the name for the album came about? i know that >you >can basically name an album whatever you wish and not have to have a >meaning in it but i thought there might be something behind it.. I heard, perhaps falsely, that it was Nick Drake's brand of milk formula when he was still a wee baby. Perhaps that is what gave him such a rich baritone voice. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 17:51:30 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:51:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: he said the world was as soft as lace Message-ID: Ok, if it is OK by everyone else I shall to back to chatting about just B&S stuff thought type thingy doodhahs, oui? OK, well last night (the dreaded Sunday, you can probably blame mywhole homicidal/suicidal depression and frustration on the bloody Sunday) I was doing my ironing, and listning to Tigermilk. And as soon as the State I am In started, I just got to thinking, now wouldn't this be an ace pop video! I could just imagine a video of a girl doing the ironing nd household chores thing working really well with that. No band needed to act in vid, maybe a few shots of band, perhaps on poster when she takes irnoing upstairs. Expectations got me really bitter about my old schooldays (ooh, all of a year ago!) and the video for that would have oviously been set in the locations named in the song, like the school canteen where she doesn't know what to choose and she's stabbed WITH A FORK which is so mean, and cruel... Electronic Renaissance I didnt think f a vid for cos I was be-boppin' along to the toe' tappin' disco beat, even though give me a it and no doubt I will come up with a great one! We rule the School was a nice one. B&S would all be stood on a little stage, like a school stage for a nativity play, with an audience of parents etc. And it would start off with a full body close shot of Stuart Murdoch, who would be stood wit one foot crossed over the other, and shyly singing, and looking sweetly at the camera. Then it would cut to the audience, and pan across it, perhaps focusing in on people with particular looks/expressions. Then perhaps, I'm sorry I can't remeber exact song structure at the mo', back to the band on stage. When he starts singing 'on the first bus out of town...', the band would all be sat upstairs on a bus taking up the middle seats. There would be the smokers at the back. The shot would take in the bands faces, and then go to a pov shot out of the windows, where various scenery would go past, ie a school, buildings, and as it progresses out of town, fields etc. And finally, we're back at the school, the songs finishes, B&S walk off the stage to the sounds of the parents clapping. It would be lit like a nativity play, ie bright stage and dim audience. But the happiest one was to 'I don't love anyone'. Wow, its such a bouncy, jumpy fantastic song! It starts off in a little 'indie-disco style', like a little club room, with lots of people bouncing about and 'grooving' to the song, all with happy happy joy joy grins on their faces, the band would be playing the tune on stage, Stuart with his guitar (in WRTS, Stuart would just be singing and wouldn't be playing his guitar), and everyone else with their instrumnent bla bla. I forget the rest, it'll come back to me when I listen to the song again In the instrumental part, this bit I thought sounded really great, I'd laugh anyway. There would be the band all together perhaps either playing football or dancing, and looking really happy, and the camera wold freeze-frame on thei faces and perhaps flash up their name and maybe some cheesey info. They'd obviously be cheesey, like i can just imagine RICHARD (riiichard!) doing a fake thumbs up grin meister! And then back at the happy indie disco. it would be a fun pop, I would say bubblegum but I don't actually like it, video which would make people happy and think B&S were a realyl groovey happy bunch of peeps! WEll, the images made me happy. Um, well thats enough for me now, sorry about my screaming (well, capital letters) email last night and stuff, .....um, well, i shouldn't be sorry. So I'm not sorry and I lied but never mind because in the grand overall scheme of things it don't matter. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah BLOKE :"How about we....skip desert tonight...." BIRD :"Why! What else...do you have in mind!" BLOKE :"Nothing. Its just that you're a bit fat already innit?" SHE LEAVES BLOKE :"Check please." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 00:45:14 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:45:14 -0800 Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream References: <628444638E2@east-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34D66899.35C1@earthlink.net> hey, tag. way to go. i'm here in the states so it would be hard for me to join this collective upsurge of activity that you're proposing. however, i am in the process of opening my own record store here in my town and i have talked the local coffee shop guy into having open mic nights on tuesdays. so, i, for one, am trying to make something exciting happen in my town. the only record stores within 150 miles of me are chain stores that go as far as carrying the new 311 for the kids who want the underground stuff. my small business loan went through yesterday, so now i gotta find a good site and get some inventory. and there's nowhere here for bands to play except during the summer, so that's why i talked that coffee shop guy into doing something. i'm afraid all this didn't come about because b&s made me want to do it, but they have been my soundtrack for the last eight or nine months while i was planning it all. i'd like to side with tag on this one. there are too many lazy people in this world who complain without trying to fix the problem. everyone needs to get off their ass and do something. there's no need to argue if radiohead are crap or not because i doubt there's anyone motivational enough on this list to sway a radiohead lover's tastes in the opposite direction. RADIOHEAD PERSON: "i love them. they're the best thing since water" RADIOHEAD HATER: "they suck. they're pretentious" RADIOHEAD PERSON: "you know...maybe you're right. i'm a loser for listening to them." this ain't gonna happen. if you really think radiohead suck as much as they do (and they do), then don't listen to them. that kind of got off topic. i haven't been this worked up since the local cable affiliate took comedy central and e! off of our roster. doing something, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 00:50:55 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:50:55 -0800 Subject: Sinister: no more rambling Message-ID: <34D669EF.4A74@earthlink.net> alright. now that i've gone off on my tangent, i'd like to follow up that post with a non related b&s question. about a month ago i bought tha sarah 100 compilation. it is truly beautiful. but there's this one song i really really like more than the others and i was wondering who knew what about him. and before i tell you his name, please respond to me personally so the list won't get cluttered. harvey williams. who can help me? -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Mon Feb 2 19:41:43 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:41:43 +0100 Subject: Sinister: First time I have ever laughed out loud at an email... Message-ID: <01bd3012$9777d740$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Jeepster Recordings Ltd Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: lunes 2 de febrero de 1998 19:44 Asunto: Re: Sinister: First time I have ever laughed out loud at an email... >> Hows about a BESEEN chat on one the Belle and Sebastian page? >> They are great! > >Hows about a what? > >i don't understand anymore .... > >Katrina. > I'm not sure, but i imagine it's something to do with those little cameras that you stick on top of your computer so that other people can see the top of your head while you're typing away merrily with two fingers. Which is what I've been doing all afternoon. I've also listened to the entire Rolling Stones single collection, for which I think I deserve a medal, and Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, which is kind of Belle and Sebastian-ish sounding, only with more of an epic sweep. I enjoyed it very much and can't for the life of me understand why I hardly ever listen to it. January is over, February is here, and with it a brand new sense of fun and adventure. Am I right, or am I wrong? In short, in the words of the late, great Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On". I haven't had the pleasure of actually physically meeting anyone off the list yet, but I've gained lots of cyber chums, received tapes, books and CDs from fellow listees, and have inflicted my own appalling musical tastes on a few people. As if that wasn't enough, somewhere between Edinburgh and Renteria, a fat lardy-arsed post office employee is no doubt enjoying a few pounding slabs of high octane progressive rock. So I think the list is well worthwhile, even if we all get a bit ratty and shirty and generally tempramental from time to time. Let us all give praise to Honey, winner of the Tweenet award for best supporting e-mail list 1997. If he wins it three years on the trot he gets to keep Andy Dean forever, so come on now, all together, let's have a nice warm hand on Paul's entrance. By the way, I just tried to burst into the chat room and it wouldn't bloody well let me. Try again. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Mon Feb 2 20:25:30 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:25:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: stitched up like a kipper References: <199802021722.RAA10183@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34D62BBA.188EA949@lineone.net> Hopkins T wrote: > Nobody's seen Q or mentioned it yet so I'll get my special pleading in > > first. i'm dashing out tomorrow for a laugh :-) > (There is a little 'vox pop' of comments post-Manchester Sunday in the > > listings bit of this month's Q magazine). > > It includes a picture of me. I look dreadful and drunk, which is fair, > > because I am generally both. generally, this is true ;-) i hope they didn't use me, since i am sure i would look worse. > It is accompanied by some comments attributed to me. I did say 'the > best > venues and the best songs' (or words to that effect). > > However, I did not say 'the Pinteresque pauses merely serve to > heighten a > sense of expectation'. Did I, Duke? Neither would I. Honest. no, to the best of my memory you said, "smooth as a cat's arse." Catchy, but not quite pretentious enough for the vaults of Q? keep the faith, the duke still baffled why no-one seems interested in a Claim tape, nor indeed the Hurrah! tape that Andreas suggested i offer people. sigh. -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 22:35:28 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:35:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk (review) Message-ID: <199802022122.VAA24495@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Hey list I thought you'd like a review of Tigermilk from a first time listener (thanx going out to Ben at Brookes) 9/10 Random Tigermilk thoughts: Is the "State I am In" different to the EP version. It is groovier and definitely better IMO. Expectations has possibly the greatest lyrics ever in the world. You're just a baby is such a cool song. Electronic Renaissance is OK but a bit tuneless. I could be dreaming is good. We Rule the School is just such a fantsastic song. I love it. For me though, the highlight of the album has to be I don't love Anyone. The chord changes in this are Beatles esque melodic. Nothing touches this song. I do know why they're not broadcasting those US sessions though. They sound like a bootleg performance! Peace People Northy's Labour voting less evil twin brother _________________________________________________________ "I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does" Mozzer - sometime in 1980s _________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 21:48:15 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:48:15 EST Subject: Sinister: My new career Message-ID: <14f7744b.34d63f21@aol.com> A few days ago someone mentioned that at the beginning of "Expectations" there is a noise that sounds mysteriously like a zipper. Well, I had always thought that that noise was, to be polite, a blemish in the vinyl. Over the weekend I listened to that sound over and over, and it does sound much like a zipper. I found my wooly sweater with a zipper and practiced that solo by zipping and unzipping my sweater for hours on end. I am thinking of recording some demos of my new found talent--Matthew the zipper musician. Today at work I thought that maybe I should travel to Glasgow and receive Stuart M.'s blessing for my new musical career. Of course last week I thought I should go to Paris and play Orange Juice covers on the street corners. At this rate of decline, next week I will be probably playing a rock, or something else less-musical. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elzachar at xxx.no Mon Feb 2 22:19:45 1998 From: elzachar at xxx.no (Elisabeth Zachariassen) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:19:45 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: I know what I want to do this summer Message-ID: <199802022219.XAA10385@online.no> Katrina wrote: >i've met anough fantastic people on this list (by e-mail and in person) >to think (maybe foolishly) that we could make somethng like this happen >this summer ... any suggestions? > Katrina, you really made me long for the summer with your descriptions! At the moment there are so much snow outside, that i can't even look out of the window.(that's Norway for you)I actually live on the fourth floor, but the windows are sort of eh..not straight. And sometimes the wind brings some of the cold white material into my livingroom.(angry note to my landlord for not fixing the window!) But anyway, I'm moving to London this spring, so I'm definitiely up for a picnic or something. Should I note that I'm brilliant at Stiv Heks (formerly known as that-game-where-you-have-tocrawl-through-someones-legs-so-that-they-can-move -again - statues or something. ) Elisabeth Z ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 22:54:33 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:54:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream In-Reply-To: <34D66899.35C1@earthlink.net> Message-ID: > there's no need to argue if > radiohead are crap or not because i doubt there's anyone motivational > enough on this list to sway a radiohead lover's tastes in the opposite > direction. > > this ain't gonna happen. if you really think radiohead suck as much as > they do (and they do), then don't listen to them. I see where you're coming from on this one, but I'm not entirely sure I agree. Definitely if one person says "Radiohead are crap" and another says "Radiohead are great" then neither gains anything, and the rest of us just get bored. But if the person who likes them actually says WHY, what they make him feel and think, that has to be worth something. In particular with lesser known bands, there will be people out there who don't know what the music sounds like; and if they read a post about how a certain band are really romantic, or progressive, or rocktastic, or whatever, then they have the chance to investigate further and potentially find something truly special. This doesn't apply all the time (I expect just about everyone knows Radiohead for example); and it doesn't need 20 people to say the same thing (as happened with Air). But I'll bet that there's at least one person out there who owns and loves the Air album who didn't know them before, who has found music they love purely by it being mentioned on the list. So I don't have a problem with people telling me which music they like, and why, as long as they don't bang on about it forever. I don't think the list is (or should be) solely for idle chatter, or just for providing information; lets have some variety. And a bit of common sense. The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From dfactor at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 23:14:23 1998 From: dfactor at xxx.com (David Murrow) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:14:23 PST Subject: Sinister: Wetting my pants in anticipation Message-ID: <19980202231423.18294.qmail@hotmail.com> Blimey! I learned a few B & S songs on guitar over the weekend, and I'm gonna play "Like Dylan ..." next Saturday night at a performance. Yee-Hee! Tantalized by the NHS, Dfactor ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 23:24:41 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:24:41 EST Subject: Sinister: tigermilk Message-ID: <7683da6a.34d655bb@aol.com> In a message dated 2/2/98 9:38:07AM, you write: << oh, here's another one, what if Beat Happening did Judy And The Dream Of Horses >> Do Beat Happening still exist? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From alerche at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 00:22:21 1998 From: alerche at xxx.net (Andre Vieira) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 01:22:21 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Pulsate gently in the morning sun Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980203012221.006bfac8@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net> Sarah, >Oh Andre, I love the Gift Velvet underground song too! I think its one >of the greatest things they've done, especially his completely matter of >fact tone the whole way through it! I love his formal/sometimes indifferent tone too! But I must admit that I prefer the live version featured on the "Live MCMXCIII" album (it's funny, but it seems to me that the only good songs in that album - and I've got the double disc version - are the ones in which Lou Reed does not sing. I've heard someone say that no one is capable of spoiling his own songs like Lou Reed is and I agree). John Cale sings the song as if he was an actor in a play. I think it's much more vivid and sarcastic too. >Then again, it may just be my nasty sense of yumor that finds the >killing of Waldo slightly funny in a very black humour way....heeehee. And IT IS funny! The contrast between Waldo's and Sheila's expectations is fabulous: "Oh, what Bill could teach Waldo - but that seemed like years ago" / "Inside the package, Waldo was so transfixed with excitement that he could hardly breathe". You know, when I first started listening to that song I used to imagine myself inside the box! It's because I've had a few girlfriends who lived in different cities than me. And sometimes we wouldn't see each other for several months. Meanwhile, I'd dream about every little detail of the time when we'd meet again. The problem is that it has been my fate/doom/karma to love girls way more than they usually love me, so I ended up with this fear of being forgotten while we're apart. As you can imagine, the song "The Gift" hit me right on the spot! >And I must tell YOU ALL to buy the Spiritualized single 'Think I'm in >Love' on Feb 2nd onwards cos its so great! Especially when he starts >listing all these things... like 'think i'm in love, probably just >hungry' 'think i'm on fire, probably just smoking 'think i'm the life >and soul, probably just snorting', and the music just peaks out and >stays on this amazing beautiful strand the whole way through, and its >devotional! And I must tell YOU ALL to buy the Spiritualized album "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" immediately! It's certainly one of the best albums of 1997. My favorite song is 'Cool Waves'. The verses "Baby if you lose your love / Don't take me by surprise" give me the same melancholic feeling I get when I listen to most B&S songs. And it reminds me of a night me and my girlfriend took ecstasy and walked around on the streets of Sao Paulo, hugging and holding hands. When I felt the cool breeze agains our bodies all I could think of was: "Cool waves run over me Cool water running free Lay your sweet hand on me 'Cause I love you Love you Love you ." Andre. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Tue Feb 3 01:48:40 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:48:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: dates, dates but no figs at all In-Reply-To: <34D62BBA.188EA949@lineone.net> Message-ID: does anyone know and could tell me the dates for the radcliffe sessions and the one with steve lamacq? any other ones as well? thanks roberta **oh you look so tired mouth slack and wide ill-housed and ill-advised your face is as mean as your life has been crash into my arms i want you****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 11:16:42 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 03:16:42 -0800 Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream References: Message-ID: <34D6FC9A.2D4E@earthlink.net> > So I don't have a problem with people telling me which music they like, > and why, as long as they don't bang on about it forever. I don't think the > list is (or should be) solely for idle chatter, or just for providing > information; lets have some variety. And a bit of common sense. > > The Tall Git i wholeheartedly agree with you. i think i was misunderstood, but i'm not gonna get into the whole thing again. as a matter of fact, i wish that every single post would be signed off with a tidbit of good info on a band that others might like. i can't count the new bands i've gotten into since joining this list. go-betweens, orange juice, the sarah stuff. and i bought the air album today even though i had to drive 150 miles to get it. and it is pretty good. so, please, everyone keep mentioning other bands. -brad p.s. i also found a french import cd called the smiths is dead and it has boo radleys and divine comedy and others doing the queen is dead track for track. is this new or have i been under a rock for a while? there is some heavy metal singing version for some song though. some band placebo. the guy sounds like he should sing for soundgarden or some shit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 09:44:34 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:44:34 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802030944.JAA22205@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From ase at xxx.nl Tue Feb 3 11:59:14 1998 From: ase at xxx.nl (ase at xxx.nl) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 98 11:59:14 MET Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! (Covering B&S song) Message-ID: <9801038865.AA886535705@ccmailgw.dasc.nl> While listening last night to Iggy Pop's cd-single "Living on the edge of the night" , which features the original version of China Girl ("covered" by D Bowie) it struck me Iggy could make a cracking cover of The Boy Done Wrong Again or Like Dylan in The Movies Or The Cardigans! (Hmmm ... should have another listing to their cover of Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town when I get back home) Have a better one Arnold (ase at dasc.nl) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen ... but it is nothing but fancy. It could never really happen. Could it? Could it? Or could it? Perhaps it could. Or could it? Goodnight. A Bit of Fry & Laurie (Third Serie, The Red Hat of Patferrick) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS Wendy & Lisa's Waterfall was just on the radio -> Makes me a happy bunny ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 11:02:33 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:02:33 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802031102.LAA22719@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 11:11:03 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:11:03 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802031111.LAA22768@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 3 11:08:12 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:08:12 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Bugger all Belle and Sebastian or Northy content Message-ID: <01bd3094$04b36280$bc4905c3@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Hopkins T Para: 'the big Other' Fecha: lunes 2 de febrero de 1998 21:23 Asunto: Sinister: stitched up like a kipper >Nobody's seen Q or mentioned it yet so I'll get my special pleading in >first. Is this the issue with the hundred best albums of all time, won by Radiohead, on the cover? Or is there a newer one? >However, I did not say 'the Pinteresque pauses merely serve to heighten a >sense of expectation'. Did I, Duke? Neither would I. Honest. > >I have nothing against the pauses. I just dread to think that any one of you >could think I might use the word 'Pinteresque'. > Kafkaesque, now there's a useful word... >/me shudders. > >The vox pop was conducted by a friend (ex?...) of mine by the name of >Morris, who has stitched me up like a kipper. > A friend of mine was once pictured pulling a funny face in Just Seventeen. Underneath it said that he liked Echo and the Bunnymen and the Jesus and Mary Chain, the lying sod. To make matters worse it said that he "hates Simon Le Bon, he's fat and ugly and he can't sing". He claims he was stitched up too, but I think he was just trying to make up for his living room full of Duran Duran records and the infamous video of their American tour, which was great, well worth seeking out. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 12:06:10 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:06:10 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802031206.MAA23101@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 2 18:45:34 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Killing an ARAB and BOGSHED In-Reply-To: <01bd2cab$39e216f0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Keith Watson wrote: > >> Ultrasound looking absolutely fucking brilliant though. What a song > >> they placed!! I think I will see them at the Conway Hall in London > >> now. I was gonna see Cornershop but naahhhh! > > Indeed the track on the NME tape is lovely, my mate tells me the current > single's a bit dull but what a track on the NME tape, certainly brings > Marquee Moon to mind, but in a very good way. The track they performed on the Brats telly show last week was STUNNINGLY great. > one band from Edinburgh with a > little pink haired chap in it springs to mind! Idlewild who are getting the > most ridiculous amount of press attention at the moment - due to them having > released a single on "Mr.Indie" Steve Lamacq's label Does Steve Lamacq still have anything to do with Deceptive? ISTR him denying anything more than a #100 investement many moons ago. > used to play to a > completely bored audience at the student union in Edinburgh last year, this > years Ned's Atomic Dustbin... Oh, that's Symposium is it? Well This years > second Ned's Atomic Dustbin perhaps). My money's on this year's Embrace - the band that the inkies go on about despite hardly releasing anything. Embrace got the f---ing "Best Newcomer" award at the Brats. Let's guess just how high up the "worst act" shortlist Oasis were, despite them being one and the same. At least the Lo-fidelity Allstars and BRA got some kind of recognition - even if it was from the writers, and not the readers. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yearagostats: n. The part of a forecast that tells you what the | weather was like a year ago so you'll feel even more miserable ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 12:51:12 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:51:12 GMT Subject: Sinister: We are family - I've got all my sinisterines with me. In-Reply-To: <199802021510.PAA09209@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802021510.PAA09209@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34da11fa.5111610@email.mcmail.com> Hello, Oh, that's better. This joint was jumpin' yesterday. Oh yes, un grand merci to all the people who wrote to all the people who wrote about Autour de Lucie, too many to reply to, though I tried. Oh God how I tried. Anyway, I feel like an expert now. Sarah the angry young glamour puss wrote a load of stuff, which was basically ace, but in particular: >Yeah, I write a fanzine, wackily enough because I CARE? So I don't know >every perfect fact about every band about, sue me. I love what I find >worthy to be lovd, no doubt now I am probably missing out on something >fantastic. As is life. Fanzines. It's so easy to dismiss them as the ramblings of an obsessive mind. Personally, I like the ramblings of obsessive minds. Look at all the 'popstars' who wrote them: Stephen Pastel, Bob Stanley, Brother John Robb (yes Cairns, very funny), Alan McGee. Or journos - Steven Wells did one - sort of, James Brown (not that one, the one who did Loaded), err Everett True. Hang on, these people are all crap. I did one. I did 3. And I'm sort of a journalist. Whatever, fanzines are cool. >Perhaps we should avoid each other on chat :o) I don't. I think it could be the start of a beautiful friendship. Northy wrote: >When I was unpopular on this list Goodness, when was that then? >Thanks to some heavy promotional work from Tag Some fairly heavy promotional work by Northy, I think. >I am now fairly famous That's one way of putting it... Genevieve wrote: >Oh..... Lets get married and have rose petals thrown at us! My mouth is opening and closing, but no sound is emerging. >Speaking of...I have a fanzine (well a soon-to be finished) would any of you >actually want to read it? Yes. Oh yes. If I don't get to read an interview with Draculette, Mr Reptilian and the mad guy who lives down you road, I will be a very disappointed Tag. John John the Dandy Don wrote: >Genevieve have you any idea how happy Tag will be when he >reads this? I know he wanted a bit more excitement but the poor >lad may just go weak at the knees and fall over and hurt himself. Watch it, pal. Who do you think I am - Serge Gainsbourg? Oh no, sorry, that's who I think I am. >Actually, I'm already married to him so you can just leave off lady. What??? >Does it really matter what the TRUTH is anyway? It suits me to believe >that Lee Hazlewood lives in a remote log cabin somewhere in >Northern Sweden, waited on hand and foot by a bevvy of Scandinavian >beauties. This letter gets better and better. >Every time I put on a Lee record and listen to that voice, = >this is the absolute truth of the matter and no intrusion of pedantic >fact will sway me from that opinion. As far as pop music is concerned, it's >YOUR world and the truth can be whatever YOU want it to be. Oh, yes we are married after all. I remember. Who wouldn't want to be married to this big hunk o' love? And girls, he has got a Scottish accent. >Gosh the overall taste and decorum on this list is exemplary. Out of all >those wonderful bands that were listed in a mail the other day how did >the conversation manage to end up on "Even As We Speak"??? It beggars belief, doesn't it. >Just what is a "cutie"? You are, Pumpkin Pie. >McTaggart the mouth You're on borrowed time, sonny. >That wasn't a question that was inspirational, mate. After all your bleating >if you haven't started a Northern Soul club by July there'll be trouble to pay! Bleating??? I meant it, maaan. Anyway, dammit I just might start one out of spite. >Has anybody got or heard the "Jacques and his Jacquettes" record by >Jacques Dutronc and Francoise Hardy? I'm convinced it MUST be the >Nancy and Lee of the French speaking world. Anyway... If any readers know the answer to this, could they tell me as well. Koogy Wonderland wrote: >northy was asking about films that would fit with b&s's music. i think >it'd have to be something french and 1960's, the new wave stuff, the >cinema verite stuff. a women walking down the middle of a busy road >selling 'Cahiers Du Cinema'. Andy, I'd like to discuss this with you further. You have just hit on my favourite subject. I had to do one of those effective speaking courses at work. And I really hate public speaking (no, honestly I do). Anyway, everyone normally talked about engineering this, and technical that, but I decided to talk about the French New Wave. I'd got halfway through my notes and the guy said 30 seconds left. I err, got a bit carried away. But if anyone wants me to give them 200 words on why 'Les quatre cents coups' and 'Une femme et une femme' are two of the best films ever made ever, then I will happily oblige. >the list fanzine thing is a strange idea - why create something like a >fanzine when we have a much more immediate form of communication in >this list? No, no I didn't mean it like that. I like the idea of the list being a sort of daily fanzine though. Basically, I love it when people tell me with a certain passion about new things, but I get a bit narky when I hear such and such are good, no they're not, yes they, fuck off, wanker ... and so on. If someone writes I like Murray whathisfaace because he makes me feel like this ... well that's great. I may not agree - I mean I remember going out for a drink with someone I used to work with who loved opera. I don't, but the way this guy talked about it was very special. Errm ... yeah sorry, the list as a fanzine ... I like it! Someone wrote, and I've forgotten who: >Tag, I would consider it an honour to electronically appear next to your >naked Hebridean adventure shots. I'm going to Iceland this year. Because I'm a geyser. Katrina wrote: >> i always hate first e.mails to mailing lists. you come across all naive and stupid because you >> don't know the protocol and jargon. > >normally i start getting scared when i read opening lines like these. >however, i think we need more posts like Chris's. even though i found >it a bit hard to read, i think we all need to listen to the sentiment in >what this lovely boy has to say. Yeah, I've been feeling rotten about saying 'what a nice man' after reading Chris' smashing first post. I really wasn't being sarcastic. Damn this faceless email stuff. Katrina also talked about picnics and drinking and disco dancing midsummer extravaganzas. And that sounds great. Someone wrote >> And Boogie Nights is crap. > >couldn't agree with you more here, tho. truly disappointing, cheap and >easy. Fuck off, wanker. Just kidding. Love, Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 12:59:50 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (404 Not Found) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <34D5A4B7.BB1@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Richard Anderson wrote: > David Walker wrote: > > Who in the world would you like to cover a B&S song ? And which song > > would it be ? > > I would like Urusei Yatsura to cover Photo Jenny. They could use camera > clicks as percussion and the usual buzsaw distortion guitars. The > divine comedy would suit the music but i don't know which song. As I did a high-speed dub copy of Tigermilk last night, it occured to me that an Alvin & The Chipmunks version wouldn't be too bad. Cornershop doing The State I Am In in Punjabi? Snuff doing a punk-rock version of Dog on Wheels? Hanson performing LLPJ? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | % got a light? | got: No match. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 13:05:28 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Doin' The Do) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:05:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: stupid post In-Reply-To: <01bd2f17$fda2cc60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, PJMiller wrote: > really. I think it's a good idea to write anyway. What harm can it do? I > always regret never having written to Betty Boo. But I did see her perform > live once. I wouldn't worry about it. I once *did* write to Betty Boo. I sent her a page ripped out of Smash Hits asking her to autograph it, but never got a reply. Bitch. Tanita Tikaram did send one back, as did Carmen Ejogo off of BSB's The Power Station. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shrimpediment: n. The point on a shrimp's tail that you cannot eat | past ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 13:26:11 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Phillipa Forrester from Channel 5's Night Fever) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Is this not Sinister enough? In-Reply-To: <34D4A225.1F3C0D00@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, David & Katrina wrote: > northy wrote: > > [something which I found quite amusing] > > Northy, what are you going on about? > > I think it's about time that we realise who we are and what we've got > here. We are all B&S fans. We have got a way of communicating with like-minded people. > Let's not waste this incredible resource and technology with dull posts. I (personally) found Northy's post quite funny. I think there is scope for discussions like that (B&S seem to have a sense of humour, why shouldn't we?) I subscribe to the Chris Morris mailing list. When Chris Morris is on-air, we discuss his shows. When he's off-air, we discuss other stuff we find funny. OK, so the Edinburgh Clubs thread was going a bit too far, but on the whole I have posted very little directly connected to B&S, but have contributed to many threads with only one complaint (when someone took offence to, what I openly admit was, a piss-poor joke) What do other readers think? Is there anyone there who automatically kill-files my messages, knowing they'll be full of crap? Are there people who immediately rush to read my messages before anything else on the list (as I do with a couple of posters)? Does anyone even notice the care and attention I take to ensuring that I never have two From: lines the same on this list? Talk out! Be heard! Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Hancrock: n. A signature usually found on diplomas and corporate | cheques that has been stamped there as opposed to handwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 13:28:13 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Timmy the Terrifying Talking Turtle) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:28:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Claire Timmins wrote: > Sorry about the irrelevance to the band, but can anyone recall the > supposed virus that was mentioned a while back? There is no such thing as an e-mail virus[1]. The only way a virus can be passed by e-mail is if a file is attached which you are stupid enough to run without virus checking. But plain text can't contain anything nasty[2]. Rod. [1] Except maybe those fucking ASCII cows [2] Except maybe the word "fucking"[3] [3] Is swearing banned on the list? I can't remember. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compizzable: adj. The capacity of a group of people to actually agree | upon toppings for a pizza ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 13:33:08 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:33:08 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802031333.NAA23897@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com Tue Feb 3 12:17:52 1998 From: Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com (Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB) Date: 3 Feb 98 12:17:52 Subject: Sinister: Re: Tigermilk name Message-ID: <9802031349.AA1477@notesgw.compuserve.com> >TIGERMILK >does anyone know how the name for the album came about? i know that >you can basically name an album whatever you wish and not have to have a >meaning in it but i thought there might be something behind it. Umm.. someone a while ago said it was slang for semen, which was at once surprising and plausible. I rather liked that idea. But I'm starting to think it was a wind up. The only time I've found it used on the WWW in a sexual context was in a gay erotica short story that was actually about having sex with a tiger, so that doesn't really count. There is a well known (in some parts) energy bar called Tiger Milk produced by Weider Inc. (couldn't immediately find a pack shot to direct you all towards). It comes in Peanut Butter Crunch and Peanut Butter & Honey varieties. A book about the history of Nicaraguan women contained the phrase "Tiger's Milk" somewhere in the title, but I somehow doubt this was Stuart Murdoch's inspiration. The most common meaning has already been mentioned: it's an alcoholic drink. This is the meaning ("some sort of liquor") given by a WWW guide to slang found in hard-boiled detective novels. But it seems to be used in at least two related contexts. It is the name given to a particular cocktail I found on a Danish website. And (this is presumably what Daniel's friend remembers) it is also the name of a rather nasty sounding cheap white wine. See the follwing story, from Off License News, for details. "TELTSCHER UPDATES TIGER MILK PACK". Slovenian sweet white wine Tigrovo Mileko - better known in the UK as Tiger Milk - is being given a new look for the 1993 vintage by supplier Teltscher Bros. New graphics on front and back labels, featuring a tiger, will be found on 75cl, 1-litre and 1.5-litre bottles from this month, and on 3-litre boxes later this summer. Tiger Milk was launched in the UK in the 1960s. The wine is harvested in Slovenia's Lutomer Estate vineyards, and is made from the Ranina grape variety. Sue Doble, marketing manager at Teltscher, said the move would help strengthen the brand's sales in the UK light wine market. "We are delighted with the new updated look for the label and confident that the brand will continue to take share in the light wine market, as its sweet, fruity, easy-drinking taste appeals to a wide consumer base," said Doble. OFF-LICENCE NEWS 23/6/94 P14 So - whoever it was. Back up your perverted claims. Yours in cock fun, Nick ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 14:00:07 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:00:07 +0000 () Subject: Sinister: Blank emails Message-ID: The mailing list is feeling sinister - sorry but one of my servers filled up so some of you didn't get to send emails and the rest of you got them blank. All fixed now hopefully but a few more may dribble through. May I say in particular how incredibly impressed I am you didn't all bombard the list with "why?"'s but mailed me direct. Thanks to all who did, sorry I was asleep or doing my homework. I'm still trying to get my head round the Tigermilk-Honeybar connection. HoneySuckle (oo-er) xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 14:47:35 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:47:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: wedding bells Message-ID: <199802031447.JAA12754@Vector.inexpress.net> HELLO! You know,all the posts on here are so good,this is defintiley my favourite list! ..and I saw your pictures on the list homepage,why are you all so beautiful? :) >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:22:51 +1000 >From: John Warrander >Subject: Sinister: RE: Some things about Duets, Truth and Inspiration >Genevieve have you any idea how happy Tag will be when he >reads this? I know he wanted a bit more excitement but the poor >lad may just go weak at the knees and fall over and hurt himself. >Actually, I'm already married to him so you can just leave off lady. >"Jealous MUCH?" I just wanted rose petals thrown at us,in celebration of that punch-the-air post...but rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrow! hiss hiss we can have a proper 90210 catfight now. Well well! Everyone's married now (first THE *ahhhhhh* Stu) hey how mahy people on this list are actually married? Is it wonderful? but John,you underestimate me...you are married to him now..but for how long?...yes..all will be well and good and you think you'll be rid of me....but one day....Genevieve (why do i keep talk in third-person..it makes me sound silly) returns! ha ha ha smoke bomb *poof*! (I did take jui-jitsu you know)just like the polkaroo...you didn't see me... No......oh..record store boy you were always there...spinning your tunes..with your flared pants and your charismatic eyebrows... >And hey these bombs won't go BANG they'll go P!O!P! they will,they really will.I will make sure they do as my secret personality is Minnie-May Hopkins of Gunsmith Cats...the lil bomb expert. Because everyone's talking about all thes lovely things to do..I would most of all like to have a festival.There are so many in England! Here there is only Edge Fest and the Tractor-pull festivals...how do they get started anyways....someones got to start them,haven't they At the van Dodgy were using when they played a little show here lsat summer I left a little cartoon book of them and asking them to play me and my friends Storey Fest...(you know what I had to go to upt that book there,first i had to dodge my friends the guy who talks tot he tree branches and distract the parking lot guard...yes...sad..I know...but he it makes him feel special to guard)anyways..no reply back...i guess they didn't like my cartoon version of them...i so wanted ot have my festival..we have acres and acres of land here,the cows would just add to the ambiance..i guess you have to have the connections? Well,I have nothing to say cause I'm home from school today ...but all the bad thigns are finally turning good.I will do good this term....it's funny,the things I usually hate with the Quebec system, of grading (they mark you on a scale of 1 to 5 in comparison to the other students) actually saved my butt. I have friday off from school....5 bucks gets you a day o 'tubing' down the slopes! OH and.....see I sometimes voice my opinions on walls...at school and write all little weird thigns and poems and songs,and under the Belle and Sebastian songs that I wrote, my fellow wall artists wrote back their appreciationne! ...We're gonna make it after all... love love Genevieve ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jrbia at xxx.br Tue Feb 3 14:43:13 1998 From: jrbia at xxx.br (Junior/Fabiana) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:43:13 -0200 Subject: Sinister: A New Thread !!!!!!!! (Covering B&S song) Message-ID: <199802031446.OAA22217@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> > Or The Cardigans! (Hmmm ... should have another listing to their cover of > Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town when I get back home) No, no, no, for God, NO!!!!! I HATE Nina's Voice! It's so boring, I really hate it. Belle is TOO perfect for that. Sorry, don't take it personally, but it's just that thinking about it made me horrified. One of the bands I love the most in this world beign covered by one I detest...it sounds frightening... :o/ Fabiana ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ab0u600b at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 14:59:29 1998 From: ab0u600b at xxx.uk (Dawn) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 14:59:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Dodgy Messages & Picnics Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980203145929.2f77762e@pop1.liv.ac.uk> >From: owner-sinister at xxx.net >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:06:10 GMT >Apparently-To: sinister-outgoing at ph.ed.ac.uk > > Is anybody else getting strange little mails like the one above, which does not actually say anything? Why? Help? On to what Katrina was suggesting about lovely picnics... They are a fantastic idea, I can back her up by saying how much fun those Going Underground picnics were, and I'm sure the other London-based listees will agree. It is just great to spend a day pretending to be twelve again, and there is always a great big ghettoblaster, that will undoubtedly fill our ears with B&S, and you can sing as loud as you like, and nobody laughs.... Back from under my stone, Dawn xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ab0u600b at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 15:12:43 1998 From: ab0u600b at xxx.uk (Dawn) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:12:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A Beautiful Christmas Present Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980203151243.2e17d44c@pop1.liv.ac.uk> While I'm on a roll, I just want to share one of my lovely Christmas presents from my boyfriend (I know Christmas was ages ago, but it's been the holidays). The sweetie coloured copied the sleeves from "If you're feeling..." and the 12"'s, mounted them on a white background, and clipped see-through glassy stuff on top, like a posh poster! It's probably the nicest thing that anyone has ever given me... (Chorus of aaahs, please!) Dawn x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 13:32:23 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Alan the Amazing Anthromorphic Aardvark) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: goodnes gracious me! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: > And I must tell YOU ALL to buy the Spiritualized single 'Think I'm in > Love' on Feb 2nd onwards cos its so great! Especially when he starts > listing all these things... like 'think i'm in love, probably just > hungry' 'think i'm on fire, probably just smoking 'think i'm the life > and soul, probably just snorting', and the music just peaks out and > stays on this amazing beautiful strand the whole way through, and its > devotional! It's a fantastic song (and if you haven't already got the album RUN! (don't walk!) and buy it now. HOWEVER... does anyone else feel that the Chemical Brothers remix is just... well... shite? It adds precisely bugger all squared to the original IMO - detracts from the beauty even. I dunno. It would be a shame if Spiritualized get a really good chart showing, but only on the strength of having a ChemBros remix on the beeside. > yes, I'll have a nice McVomit > burger with some McCapitalist shit catsup (that word is so daft, catsup! > its KETCHUP! which i spose is even sillier but hey...) and some stomach > ulcers.....yuk! Do you want fries with that? > And i again have nothing to say. I wrote a load of poo hahaa! I'm > cracking up! I hate Sundays really I DO! THey are so evil. I thought Reading Writing & Arithmetic was pretty good. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Subtitles Available on Ceefax page 888 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 13:43:08 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:43:08 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Who writes the songs that make the happy bunnies hum. Message-ID: <199802031544.PAA00494@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> or why I love this list.... 1. I've just got 'meat' samosa all over the computer screen after laughing so much at Tag's last mail while having my lunch. I'm still giggling now and I've started on my Ribena, by thunder I could short circuit the whole place if I'm not carefull. But anything that can do that to me at work has got to be A Good Thing. 2. It makes me listen to other people 3. It makes me listen to more B&S and more than B&S. On a B&S point, I can't stop listening to Photo Jenny and Century of Elvis. I've just made a tape that runs those two into Speed of Light by the Fannies and I listen to it on the way home quite overwhelmed by opportunites for loveliness and beauty that our humble lives afford us. But I never used to be keen on either of those two songs, just one day I was listening and they struck something new inside me. it reminds me of my love of e.e.cummings. I have two little books of his poems and I adore his stuff. Not all of it; I reckon it's like life - most of it doesn't make sense, some of it is rubbish but then come bits that are so beautiful that it makes up for everything else. And whenever I flick through those books I find new bits. Poems I've looked at a hundred times may suddenly 'speak' to me. I read one that made me cry last week that has never meant anything to me before. It starts "in time's a noble mercy of proportion" and I ought to stick it up on my website at my earliest. B&S are like that for me, I'm still finding new treasures in an admittedly still small pool; long may it continue. the faith? I'm keeping it. john xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 16:11:17 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Claire the Careless Cha-chaing Cauliflower) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Ian Botham on Bad Acid In-Reply-To: <01bd2f2d$7bf835e0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Keith Watson wrote: > There was a guy who me and some friends once almost went to see years ago, > as there were posters around Edinburgh for "Mr.Boom's Band", which one of my > mates pointed out could be a secret gig by the Spacemen, it's really just as > well we didn't 'cause I saw a poster for the guy last week in the chippy and > it turns out he's an all-singing all-dancing one man band clown who does > kids parties and stuff, You mean you never caught "Over the Moon with Mr Boom"? It's like a low-rent version of The Singing Kettle. All the production values of Dotaman, except in English, and you usually got a story from some out-of-work member of the Wildcat Theatre Company. Not one of Queen Margaret Drive's better moments. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Indigestures: n. The hollow gestures and half-hearted protestations | you feel required to make when someone else is picking up the check ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Tue Feb 3 14:26:35 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:26:35 -0000 Subject: Sinister: The Song Snake Message-ID: unsubscribe sinister only joking, of course. it'sh the antisheptic esshence! Right, i'm still working on the judy and the dream of horses screen saver. Oh, alright i've done nothing about it cos i'm a lazy peasle. I'll finish it tonight, ok dokay? I'm going to marry Sarah Martin. She wrote to me yesterday. She's mine, you here? MINE! you see? MINE! comprende? MINE! I had a B&S dream last week but i decided it would be for the best if i didn't tell anyone. But now, I have decided what the hell, I have no friends anyway. My Dream Of B&S - The Song Snake =========================== I dreamt i was watching television. Does this illustrate how lonely i am to dream of watching television? Pity me. EX-S came on which is a scottish arts program. This week it was about B&S. "Jings", i thought in my dream thought voice, "my favourite". It started with Stuart David walking down the Street on the way to Stuart Murdochs house. And he was talking in a Dennis Leary way to the camera going "i love glasgow it's brilliant and the people are fuckin magic" things like that. At he turned up at SM's house who apparently lives in number 12, Partick. So SM lets us in and he goes "i'm going to get a new song". And I go "how do you *get* a new song" cos i'm now in the room cos it's my dream. And he says "I *get* them from the song snake". And i say "whatever is the song snake" and he says "hold on and you'll see". SM then proceeded to open a cupboard. Inside was a snake, about a foot high wearing a really smart white suit sort of like bryan ferry. He was holding a fag in his wee snakey hands. This was the song snake the "coolest cold-blooded crooner" on the planet. The song snake proceeded to sing a song called "if i only had lips, then i could kiss you" which i swear is the best song i have ever heard in my life. It got better when the wall in SM's house disapeared to reveal the Blues Brothers band in their Minnie the Moocher togs and the song snake done some magic break-dancing. After the song was finished SM went "i think i've got it" and proceeded to sing the song in a girly manner with no backing at all. It sounded friggen awful. The song snake said "Kid, you got it". Then i woke up with a woody. christopher alexander leonard Bsc(Hons) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 16:41:39 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:41:39 +0000 () Subject: Sinister: The Song Snake In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Words fail me and tears stream down my face at Chris Mathis Leonard's ridiculous and deeply telling dream world. Sometime ask him about his other dreams in private - he has much to tell. No, actually, don't. Song snake? I mean. Any dream with a snake in it is pretty clear no matter what colour his suit is. John Johnston CT (uh?) mentioned ee cummings. Uh oh, that's four of us now on Sinister who love little eec - let's try a few more cultural grenades - Dylan Thomas anyone? Stanley Spencer? Jorge Luis Borges? Oh alright then, Hugh Lloyd (as seen last night on Channels 4s Hancock thingy)? That's me. Cheering up cos the list's cheering up. Honey xxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 17:14:44 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 17:14:44 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802031709.RAA12491@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Rod (whose messages are some of the most entertaining at the moment) wrote... >What do other readers think? Is there anyone there who automatically >kill-files my messages, knowing they'll be full of crap? Are there people >who immediately rush to read my messages before anything else on the list >(as I do with a couple of posters)? Does anyone even notice the care and >attention I take to ensuring that I never have two From: lines the same on >this list? Talk out! Be heard! Perhaps this problem would be solved if we had two mailing lists. One strictly for any Belle & Sebastian news, reviews, rumours etc and the other to be used for the other stuff we seem to chat about here. Then each of us can choose to subscribe only to the first list or to both. People who want to keep up with whats happening in B&S world, but don't like wading through the hundreds of other emails will just want to subscribe to the first. The rest of us can be free to write what we want on the other. What does everybody else think? It's only a suggestion. Please, don't get mad at me if you don't like the idea. Cheers, JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 2 16:57:24 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:57:24 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Edinburgh list people Message-ID: <01bd2ffb$a268dd00$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Any of the Edinburgh list people fancy a pint on say Thursday night... There's still a few of us to meet Mail back. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 18:03:40 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:03:40 +0000 Subject: Sinister: WARNING, avoid crap charity shops for wk experince THEY DO THIS TO YOU! Message-ID: These things appeared in a mail writen by Tag the geyser. As is life.=20 =46anzines. LOOK LOOK LOKK ITS THOSE BLOODY NUMBERS AGIN WHY WHY WHY! There was no =20 on my post! Why do they appear what purpose do they serve and WHY AM I GETTING VErY DISTurbDIED AboUT theM?!"?!?! Yikes help i'm cracking up due to the sheer dullness of being in a cArity shop for wk xperience teehee. Hair mascars if I see ONE MORE trendy dude in town wearing them and thiking they are so wacky I will punch them. Oh fuck fuck fuck we are suposed to keep the list reasonably focused and stuff. Oh well then.... Wh said POP IS DEAD cos they are talking shit. POP is alive so ner! Why are Pearl jam alive? I found a bootleg of Peearl jam at Brixton '93 in me charity shop today. I bought t for 10p and am doing a Sarah ALTERNATIVE records tape for my friend Claire and I would also do a funky pop tape for the duke but I have no records that he wouldn't have probably heard already. Doh. I will buy more next week when thank fook I am back at college. There seem to be two thkgs whic contrast for most people, fantasy (Pop) and reality (having to leave your bad every day). Do some people manage to transcend that? Why am I asking you? Why is babar the elephnt called that instead of being called John Travolta? I feel like talking but as I am typing instead its not working out too well, if anyone would like to ring me and discuss sweet nowt, tuff cos you aint got me number :( Well, perhaps I don't know what I mean in fact no I don't. I will finish with a short piece of writing that I will make up on the spot. buuuuuuuh! (hheeeheee!) Incidentally that is a quote from Stoppit and Tidyup. I'm going mad, save me. Someone, anyone please! And everyone on list ses to be getting married. Well, aint that nice! looks like I'm being the old maid down the road then *sniff* but I don't care cos I will say I don't. AAAAAAH? WHY? I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah 'Ooh look, its Art Mallek!' Smitta Smitten, the SHOWBIZ KITTEN! (miaow!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From slc111 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 19:28:54 1998 From: slc111 at xxx.uk (Simon Collins) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:28:54 GMT Subject: Sinister: RetroSinister Message-ID: This whole BelleandSebastian being a sixties sounding band. They always get labelled, even on this list as a retro band, but this misses the point. The whole 'what type of film would suit them' thing; well lots of flares and lava lamps and the whole groovey caboodle misses the point. They convey a feeling, an emotion first, and their sound comes second. They are so much better at this than so many other bands - It's just that they are actually so fresh to listen to, so up to the minute because of the feeling the songs convey. So they could in fact do the soundtrack to any modern film, if it was suitable, not necessarily the next Austin Powers. For instance, 'Get me Away from here I'm dying' could be used in Reservoir Dogs, and work, because First off people would recognise it as suiting the scene, and second as sounding perhaps a bit sixties. I've failed to articulate myself here, and perhaps shot myself in the foot with the choice of Reservoir Dogs ( perhaps something like Nil by mouth or Leaving Las Vegas would've been better ) But I hope someone out there gets what I'm saying. Simon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bohobird1 at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 19:59:10 1998 From: bohobird1 at xxx.com (BOHO BIRD1) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 11:59:10 PST Subject: Sinister: NEW YORK SHOW Message-ID: <19980203195910.5871.qmail@hotmail.com> HIHI NOT TO SURE IF THE LIST GOT MY POST YESTERDAY WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS... I WAS TOLD ON THE WEEKEND THAT B&S WERE PLAYING A GIG ON THE 21st OF FEB IN NEW YORK. CAN ANYONE ON THE LIST CONFIRM THIS FOR ME SO THAT I DON'T END UP DRIVING ALL THAT WAY FOR NOTHING? (DAVID & KARTINA) CHEERS, BOHO :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 20:28:18 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:28:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: The first and last time I'll mention Noel Edmonds on the list... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: > > I'm going mad, save me. Someone, anyone please! And everyone on list ses > to be getting married. Well, aint that nice! looks like I'm being the > old maid down the road then *sniff* but I don't care cos I will say I > don't. > If you carry on sending emails like that one we'll all marry you... I'll be at the front of the queue... (is polygamy banned on the list yet?) Well you wouldn't want to hear about the dream I had last night; let's just say it involved a man with a ridiculous moustache, a dustbin full of baked beans, and Noel Edmonds. I need a psychiatrist quick. I'm still working on having a B&S dream, but I have had a couple of dreams involving reading mails from this list (including once on a Ferris Wheel!). And I must say I was very impressed by Genevieve's poem declaring her love for the record store boy... Apologies for momentarily reawakening a dying thread, but I never got round to saying it at the time: I went to see Supergrass play last week, and between the support band and them coming on, while the roadies were sorting out all the equipment, they projected stuff onto a huge white sheet hanging from the ceiling. There was a RoadRunner cartoon, a few old public information films (including one about how you shouldn't pull things down from a table in case they fell on you (Doh!), and one of Kevin Keegan teaching the Green Cross Code), and then a Bugs Bunny cartoon. And we all loved it, it was a good laugh and it meant we weren't hanging around for half an hour before the band came on getting bored. I guess that's the kind of thing B&S were hoping to do in Manchester? Well it gave me an idea, how about doing something like that between songs at the next gigs? Just a quick 15 second thing each time, make a feature of the Pinteresque pauses (sorry Tim. btw, love the photo...). Or you could sell slots for adverts between songs? I love the idea of having a list picnic or something. Why wait till the summer? We could all get together somewhere and stay up really late and eat lots of sweeties and tell each other really scary ghost stories and then fall asleep under the stars and and... (OK maybe we'd better wait till the summer to do the last bit) Going completely off topic now (what do you mean I already had?). It's the RAG Blind Date in Cambridge next week. We all pay some money to charity, fill in a form, and are then matched up with our ideal (possibly) date for the evening. And I can't think of anything vaguely amusing to write in a few sections of the form. So if anyone has any funny answers to "Justify your existence", "What is your favourite pasta shape, and why" or "Complete this picture" (the last one might be a bit tricky over email. Darn. Oh well...) I'm open to all suggestions... Finally leaping quite unexpectedly back onto topic: we know B&S used "Cock Fun" as a working title for an album; is there any working title for the new album? Or is that secret? The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chris.hall5 at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 18:52:18 1998 From: chris.hall5 at xxx.net (Chris Hall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:52:18 -0000 Subject: Sinister: boo ! febuary edition Message-ID: <01bd30d4$d9ce0700$LocalHost@chris.hall5.virgin.net> site update - don't forget to flush your cache ( like your mummy told you ) if you don't see the new stuff. Radcliffe + Lamacq session dates there Roberta ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 20:39:53 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:39:53 -0000 Subject: Sinister: The Quest for the Truth - what exacty is a cutie? Message-ID: <199802032046.UAA25950@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> >What exacty is a cutie? O dear, i feel this might be due to me using it as my siggy too many times. Well, a cutie is a common abbreviation for "cutiepie" - a growing species, and one that is closely related to the "honeypies", often found in their native Brummyland and distant cousins of the "Happy Bunnies". Distinguishing features include a vast display of technical computer knowledge and a propensity towards paedophilia. Hence, the species can be defined by the prime example of one Mr. Paul S. Mitchell, otherwise known as Honeypie Choo Choo Paulie Poos, father of Sebastiean, aged 15, and Belle, 7-8 years old........ And while I'm here, what the bollox does $& or something D mean? Sorry, just had to ask, Au revoir mes cuties, Yaz xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 21:50:15 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 21:50:15 +0000 Subject: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream References: <980201233348.n0008047.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Message-ID: <34D79117.FE15E808@totalweb.co.uk> susannah wrote: > > on 01 Feb 98, Tag wrote... > > >Enough is enough, > > > I like the idea of people getting inspired by Belle > >and Sebastian, to write and move and do stuff instead of sitting back > >and digesting, expecting to be entertained, just saying 'oh, aren't > >they good' or 'this is pop!' isn't even good enough. This could be > >beautiful - we've got a whole load of people from around the world and > >it's a cause for celebration and doing something a bit more creative - Katrina mentioned about the picnics and stuff, so I'd thought it'd be wise to clarify. The picnics, were the end result of a grand scheme that myself and a few friends shared. The idea was to take the friendships that we had all been making in various clubs and bring them into daylight, through activities, events and little adventures. The result was that after Glyn (one of the friends) had started his own club we finally had the ability to do these things. So the club was created as way of bringing like minded life loving people together. The club was a bit weird, to further our philosophy we were giving out fruit in the early hours (to cool people down whilst not forcing them to drink), installed massive air conditioning (at this point in time no London clubs had thought of this), and organising games of Twister on the dance floor. When the club began to be a victim of it's own success (no Twister games as you didn't have the room to put the board anywhere) we began searching for the new outlet. After accidentally stumbling on a group of people on Primrose Hill, we went for a drink with them, but ended up staying on the hill till the early hours, a few of us stayed there all night and just talked the hours away. So the picnic was born. We made some 4,000 flyers and at the clubs and parties just gave them out. 60 people attended the first Going Underground Picnic (Going Underground was the slightly unoriginal name of Glyn's club). We had packed our lunch's in advance and only had to stop at the off-licence to top up on alcohol. We played games (Stuck in the mud, Hide 'n' seek, Rescue) and team games (Soccer, Rounders and a very bad game of Volleyball with a football), and generally laughed, drank and climbed trees. The Summer offered numerous occasions to be silly on, and when we were not putting washing up liquid in the fountains at Trafalgar Square, we were to be found climbing trees on Primrose Hill. The most successful picnic was 120 people, a home movie, games of soccer and rounders and a now legendary stay to see the sun both set and rise (we'd decided to celebrate the longest day by staying up all night) with our friends and wrapped in blankets. They were beautiful days, and we've tried many times to re-create them, but after the first summer our attempts always failed to encompass the original spirit, too many relationships and missing people i think. But anyhow, my idea... If enough of us are around one location this summer, it may be about the right time to have a resurrection. All you really need to bring with you is a sense of adventure and willingness to forget the pressures of time. Stuart Murdoch, has always said that he'd like to go to one, so if he's around we'd have at least one willing person. David -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 22:18:09 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:18:09 EST Subject: Sinister: tigermilk Message-ID: <2c2f9418.34d797a3@aol.com> In a message dated 2/3/98 11:14:09AM, you write: << just like, what if Velvet Underground teamed up with the Byrds and covered Nick Drake doing a cover of Me And The Major? david >> Marilyn Manson doing Le Pastie Boyzone doing Seeing Other People REM doing Expectations Ant & Dec doing Dog On Wheels JAMC doing Mary Jo Vanilla doing Fox In The Snow Sound a'right for yer? Stephen Duffy doing any B&S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 22:31:44 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:31:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: sausage cat Message-ID: <199802032231.RAA17157@Vector.inexpress.net> Dear Sinisters, as the world turns...my poor Gargoyle (kitty) she is going crazy..Sausage is beating her up..... I have nothing new to say,but I'm home,and noone is home and this comforts me... >RADIOHEAD PERSON: "i love them. they're the best thing since water" > >RADIOHEAD HATER: "they suck. they're pretentious" > >RADIOHEAD PERSON: "you know...maybe you're right. i'm a loser for >listening to them." > >this ain't gonna happen. if you really think radiohead suck as much as >they do (and they do), then don't listen to them. You know when I started listening to a new wave of music,Thom Yorke was my first love! I wanted to be his 'sun and moon and stars' but now I'm afraid...if I tried to talk with him he'd probably tell me they're after me (Who's they,I'd ask) or that i'm a paranoid sheep or something...speaking of Thom...since staying home today I watched television (we have about 4 english channels and the same french one 3 times) and all there was on was The Price Is Right and Rosie O'Donnel...I thought I stepped into Thom's nightmare world for a second....Rosie sung Chumbawamba... ('my weigth goes down,but it goes up again') i wasn't laughing... >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:19:45 +0100 (MET) >From: Elisabeth Zachariassen >Subject: Sinister: I know what I want to do this summer >Katrina, you really made me long for the summer with your descriptions! >At the moment there are so much snow outside, that i can't even look out of >the window.(that's Norway for you)I actually live on the fourth floor, but >the windows are sort of eh..not straight. And sometimes the wind brings some >of the cold white material into my livingroom.(angry note to my landlord for >not fixing the >window!) >But anyway, I'm moving to London this spring, so I'm definitiely up for a >picnic or something. Should I note that I'm brilliant at Stiv Heks (formerly >known as >that-game-where-you-have-tocrawl-through-someones-legs-so-that-they-can-move >- -again - statues or something. ) >Elisabeth Z Same here! Oh..Happy Groundhog's Day to all of you...(so I'm a day late) he did see his shadow...so it's 6 more weeks of winter here....(6..they say..phhhttt..it was freezing in may last year) Except I don't get to move to London in spring. :( >Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:14:23 PST >From: "David Murrow" >Subject: Sinister: Wetting my pants in anticipation > >Blimey! I learned a few B & S songs on guitar over the weekend, and I'm >gonna play "Like Dylan ..." next Saturday night at a performance. >Yee-Hee! > >Tantalized by the NHS, > >Dfactor Congratulations! now I know you all don't care,but last night I learnt 'There She Goes' by the la's....am working on B&S songs.....but what I would really like is to learn the trumpet on those songs,nevermind the face i don't play the trumpet...oh welll.... >Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:51:12 GMT >From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) >Subject: Sinister: We are family - I've got all my sinisterines with me. >Yes. Oh yes. If I don't get to read an interview with Draculette, Mr >Reptilian and the mad guy who lives down you road, I will be a very >disappointed Tag. I would have interviews with bands except...all I did was have conversations with them,but those go in anyways..i don't know if old man withers would let me interview him...well maybe he would..but i don't want to go into his arc he is building... >Oh, yes we are married after all. I remember. Who wouldn't want to >be married to this big hunk o' love? And girls, he has got a Scottish >accent. *sniff sniff*I can do Scottish accents... I had a Scottish (he had no accent though,grrrrr) geography teacher last year...he tell me Scottish school are the best in the world..see, my colouring of maps wasn't good enough for him so he took my chair and coloured it for me talking about Scottish schools...he also wondered what I saw in a Bart Anderson. EVERYONE was Bart to him..Bart Murdoch..Bart David... luv, Genevieve ;) a peanut sat on a railway track his heart was all a flutter train came whistlin' down the track choo!choo! peanut butter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Tue Feb 3 22:21:13 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:21:13 EST Subject: Sinister: tigermilk Message-ID: <2c2f941a.34d7985b@aol.com> In a message dated 2/3/98 11:14:09AM, you write: << what if Velvet Underground teamed up >> et cetera..... And Cilla circa sixtysomething covering Belle & Sebastian in the style of Liverpool Lullaby. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gprickma at xxx.edu Tue Feb 3 23:17:49 1998 From: gprickma at xxx.edu (Gregory John Prickman) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:17:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: The Song Snake In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Honey wrote: > > John Johnston CT (uh?) mentioned ee cummings. Uh oh, that's four of us > now on Sinister who love little eec - let's try a few more cultural > grenades - Dylan Thomas anyone? Stanley Spencer? Jorge Luis Borges? Oh > Hands up here on Dylan Thomas. Does that make me uncool now? I have no idea these days...it's funny how his name pops up like this as I've recently been rediscovering his work due to a project I'm engaged in at work that's tangentially related. I hadn't really read any of his stuff since high school, though it's probably good to take a break for awhile since my own responses to life have changed. And now, (this being my first post to Sinister after months of mimicking my real life personality by sitting in the corner and listening rather than participating), the B&S connection, with Dylan Thomas that is, at least in terms of how the things you absorb influence your reactions to them. In one of the things I was reading there was a reference to the difficulty of successfully realizing "Under Milk Wood" lying in the need to create a "web of sound" with the voices, so that the rhythms and tones of the speech culminate in an overall effect that envelopes the audience. It seems to me that this could be an interesting distinction to make in terms of, er, "rock" and "pop" music. Much has been said and done regarding the "wall of sound", to the point where it's taken for granted in many instances. One of the things that I find refreshing about B&S is the way the arrangements of what are essentially quite simple songs create a (and I don't think this is really that great a term) "web of sound" - the instruments compliment and enhance each other in a way that is *subtle* and fluid...in fact, I've seen references to the way B&S songs build into these great big orchestrations throughout a song, but I don't really think that's always the case. Take "A Century of Elvis", for example. That song has such a wonderful momentum throughout it, right from the start, that twists and spirals behind the irregular pattern of natural speech, always moving forward but not in a way that manipulates you into the big ending, the payoff - instead, there's a point towards the end where the separate violin and guitar lines converge onto the same note right before the lines about how "me and wee pam came to live there", and suddenly there's this moment like an intake of breath, where the story moves from the description of an eccentric character to a more personal story about two people and their life, and the music keeps the pace and doesn't overwhelm the occassion, it's intimate and fleeting, but captured in a way that makes it resonate... Somehow this *does* relate to the starting point of Dylan Thomas, but probably in a way that doesn't come across well here...oh well, I tried. Speaking of cultural grenades, someone recently mentioned Sylvia Plath's name on this list...anyone have a reaction to Ted Hughes' new book? Over here in the States it's not quite the "event" it seems to be in the UK, or am I mistaken? Has there been much reaction at all? take care, Greg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 3 23:18:56 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:18:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: The Quest for the Truth - what exacty is a cutie? In-Reply-To: <199802032046.UAA25950@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> Message-ID: On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Yaz wrote: > Hence, the species can be defined by the prime example of one Mr. Paul S. > Mitchell, otherwise known as Honeypie Choo Choo Paulie Poos, father of > Sebastiean, aged 15, and Belle, 7-8 years old........ That's Dr, and they're called Bill and Sebastienne. Right on to less serious stuff, can anyone in Oxford please tell me who chri0817 at sable.ox.ac.uk might be? I've put up with annoying over-quota messages in my mailbox everytime someone post to Sinister and I can't for the life of me trace it's membership to someone on the list - probably a forward from somewhere. I seem to remember someone else from "sable.ox" was over quota but fixed it - could they mail me privately please as they're not listed as from sable.ok? I get one of these for every messages posted to the list and it's enough, really. Apart from that - I still fancy the pants off you the lot of you. Honey xxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 01:57:01 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:57:01 +0000 Subject: Sinister: If you can't negotiate the gap, then it is pure natural selectio Message-ID: <199802040043.AAA00686@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Sarah remarked: > buuuuuuuh! (hheeeheee!) Incidentally that is a quote from Stoppit > and Tidyup. On the subject of cartoons, have any of you ever noticed that if you put a group of students (and possibly people) in a room for a certain amount of time, they always end up talking about what cartoons they watched when they were young. The conversation just always seems to get around to that. I think this is a suitably twee and sweet thought that justifies it's inclusion on this mailing list. So stop before any of you want to waste a posting on slagging my messages off. he..he..he.. Peace List Northy Picnics: I used to go on family picnics to the Copper Horse in Windsor Great Park. We used to play hide and seek and I played football with my brother. ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From steve at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 01:52:49 1998 From: steve at xxx.uk (steve genge) Date: 4 Feb 1998 01:52:49 GMT Subject: Sinister: Brotherly abuse & Harvey Wlliams In-Reply-To: <68DC752E.MD-0.196.steve@seahorses.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <68DC756B.MD-0.196.steve@seahorses.demon.co.uk> > > I used to go on family picnics to the Copper Horse in > > Windsor Great Park. We used to play hide and seek and I played > > football with my brother. Surely a ball would be a better alternative? Um I had a B&S dream which involved me turning up in Manchester with B&S playing in a scout hut, me having no ticket & being befreiended by Harvey Williams from top Sarah band Another Sunny Day. Needless to say I woke up in a cold sweat. Which was weird as I went to sleep in my bed. Goodnight & godbless you've been beautiful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 10:24:19 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 02:24:19 -0800 Subject: Sinister: skinhead Message-ID: <34D841D3.B8F@earthlink.net> well. i purchased today what is the first bad album from a go-betweens offshoot that i've heard. i've bought all the albums (except for 16 lovers lane...does anyone know why i'm having such a hard time finding this one when the others were relatively easy to come by?). and i got some of the solo stuffs by mclennan and forster.... but today i purchased jack frost. i like mclennan solo stuff and i used to like the church even though the only really good album they had was starfish, but jack frost doesn't cut it for me. they ain't my flava. i got snowjob, the album not the action. funny name for an album. is their other album any better or more of the same? and kicking it on a b&s tip homeboy, word.....i turned on a skinhead today....wait, that doesn't sound right already. i turned a skinhead on to b&s. well, he isn't much of a skinhead but he reckons himself to be one. anyway, his listening pleasures can be found in m.o.d. or d.r.i. or the foreskins.....really shitty hard stuff. but he thought b&s were pretty nice. he wants me to tape some for him. spreading the gospel, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 4 05:43:09 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 00:43:09 -0500 Subject: Sinister: daydreams Message-ID: well, i haven't had any dreams about snakes in the cupboard or visiting the band. unfortunately, the band is as maddeningly elusive in my dreams as they are in life. i keep kicking myself for missing them when they came to new york the first time, though really i know that there was nothing i could do otherwise. and somehow, i never realized how long it would be until my chance would come again. but it will, i know. even if i have to beat up every other belle and sebastian fan in new york, although that scenario would probably be a lose/lose situation as i would end up broken, bloodied, and without a ticket. so in the meantime, i've been listening to a few other things. lately i've decided that i must get more music by the cat's miaow. their cover of "i fall to pieces" makes me do the same. i don't know how many of you have heard them, i had thought that they were fairly popular, but have never seen one of their cds in a record store. i won't ask questions about it, i have the mail order addresses somewhere. but i'd recommend that everyone listen to them, because i know i won't need to say anything more. have you guys seen those beanie babies? i have a little brown kitty cat toy named jane (for the obvious reasons). now every time i look in shop windows, i start picking out more. i've found judy and jenny so far, and both want come home with me. however, i believe my roommates think i'm cracking under the stress with all the time i spend with my kitty. but she is my computer mascot after all! okay, i'm reaching completely irrelevant territory. xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 3 09:43:32 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:43:32 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Cutie/Grafitti Message-ID: <01bd3088$306e4360$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >>What exacty is a cutie? Long since banished form of indie kiddies? Incidentally, having seen the Dog on Wheels video in full for the first time last night, does this not rather clear up the "Who sprayed the grafitti" thread? Nice collection of videos on MTV last night though, Orange Juice one was good, shot entirely on Gt.Western Road - never seen that one before. Snow Patrol scrubbed up well too, thanks to the make up department :-). Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 10:28:48 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Who writes the songs that make the happy bunnies hum. In-Reply-To: <199802031544.PAA00494@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Message-ID: > it reminds me of my love of e.e.cummings. I have two little books of > his poems. in an attempt to improve my popularity after the 'bless' debacle, i'll try to say something intelligent on this subject... (and make my mail longer than the extract from the original, honeypaul)... i think you're right about cummings: some of his poems are just 'too much', really, but there are others that are truly beautiful: i'm thinking of the sonnet 'it may not always be so and i say', which i always set my practical criticism class the first time we meet. ok, so he has to be held responsible for the fact that everyone and her cat now uses lower case letters, even tho that wasn't the point: cummings did use upper-case (as you'll know, having read the stuff: i guess i'm talking here to people who haven't) but not where you'd expect it: it was more a case of drawing attention to things and getting away from unnecessary linguistic conventions.... but that's enough litcrit: and i guess the b&s content is just that i love them in the same way as cummings. but if anyone wants to read some of his stuff, go out and get the poems 1923-58. or i migth even post one here next time. in fact, here's all i can remember of one... it may not always be so, and i say that if another's ... (oh dear: not much. brain's not working) time to go, amh > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 10:31:58 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:31:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: The Song Snake In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > John Johnston CT (uh?) mentioned ee cummings. Uh oh, that's four of us > now on Sinister who love little eec - let's try a few more cultural > grenades - Dylan Thomas anyone? Stanley Spencer? Jorge Luis Borges? Oh > alright then, Hugh Lloyd (as seen last night on Channels 4s Hancock > thingy)? > ok: tho this migth be dull.... cummings (obviously) borges - labyrinths milan kundera - the unbearable lightness of being laughter and forgetting martin amis - london fields paul auster - new york trilogy j.d. salinger enough for the moment. read a book. love, amh > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Anna_Chapman at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 11:38:45 1998 From: Anna_Chapman at xxx.com (Anna_Chapman at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:38:45 +0000 Subject: Sinister: MTV Message-ID: <802565A1.003FC69B.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Hi all. So nobody has mentioned yet. I'm surprised. Who else watched Dog on wheels on MTV last night? Any responses? Anna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 11:46:20 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 11:46:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Change Of Lyrics-Teletubbies Message-ID: <34D8550C.3B5A@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Richard Anderson Tele-pulp To the tune of 'Common People' by Pulp... She came from space, she had a taste for custard She fell over and got very flustered That's when she Waved at me She told me that her name was Laa Laa I just smiled at her and said "Ha ha" Cos it rhymed And then in twenty minutes time I said I want to live like the Teletubbies I want to go wherever Teletubbies go I want to play with Tinky Winky I want to play with Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po And then, what do you know? She said....."Eh-oh!" She took me to a flowery golf course I don't why, there were rabbits everywhere Or were they...hares? There was a windmill and a funny lady And the sun looked rather like a baby That laughed And it wasn't the only one laughing How bizarre, I said... I want to live like the Teletubbies I want to eat whatever Teletubbies eat I want to pig out on Tubby-custard I want to munch Tubby-toast ten times a week But they didn't understand They just smiled and all held hands Wear a hat upon your head Get a handbag that's bright red Love your friends and give them hugs Pretend you've never taken drugs Still you'll never get it right Cos when you're all tucked up at night Watching Noo Noo sweep the floor You can switch it off or watch Channel Four You'll never live like Teletubbies You'll never see whatever Teletubbies see Never have a telly on your tummy Never get paid a wad from the BBC Or dance and drink pink goo Because you've better things to do I go sent this by a friend and thought could it be done to B&S songs? Maybe Lazy Labour Leader Blair? Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Wed Feb 4 12:51:16 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:51:16 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I'm exceedingly annoyed. Got called into work and made my flatmates promise to record alternative nation on MTV last night. Got in at 1am and they hadn't bothered. Does anyone want to tell me what was on/if it was good/ what the DOW's vid is like? I did however have a B&S dream where Stuart David was sitting opposite me in a school dining hall. However he looked like Howard Stern, (sorry Stuart!). Stuart Murdoch then walked past looking rather chubby. Sorry boys I don't mean all these things, its my subconcious I just can't control it........ Claire ( not as happy as previously, no bloody wonder really.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 12:57:43 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:57:43 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802041252.MAA18027@pop3.hiway.co.uk> >So nobody has mentioned yet. I'm surprised. Who else watched Dog on wheels >on MTV last night? Any responses? Yeah, I saw it. I was pretty disappointed in what Katrina described as 'a special Scottish edition', actually turned out to be a block of about five Scottish videos. I liked the Orange Juice vid, and Snow Patrol sound okay (anybody going to the Attic concert on Saturday?). It was the first time I'd saw the entire DoW video, and I loved it. I've still not seen the 'La Pastie' video yet, unfortunately. BTW, when Sky One finishes broadcasting at night, they start playing music videos. I saw the video for LPG on it just before the Manchester gigs. Haven't watched it since, but maybe they play them quite often. JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 13:09:15 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:09:15 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands... Message-ID: <199802041305.NAA13629@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> In the immortal words of Mr Glitter, hello, hello, it's good to be back... This dream business is getting quite disturbing,,, On Tuesday night I dreamt that all bands, by law, had to include a B&S song in their sets every time they played live. Last night I dreamt that I met Richard the drummer. We shook hands and he told me I had the softest hands he had ever touched. What does it all mean? By the by, I think that Stewpot and co will be hard pushed to come up with a better title for the next record than "The Song Snake". It certainly has the right level of double entendre... Mr Prickman wrote: > difficulty of successfully realizing "Under Milk Wood" lying in the need > to create a "web of sound" with the voices, so that the rhythms and tones > of the speech culminate in an overall effect that envelopes the audience > Somehow this *does* relate to the starting point of Dylan Thomas, but > probably in a way that doesn't come across well here...oh well, I tried. No, don't stop Greg! I was just getting into it! Here's to more practical criticism on the list! As long as it's not about Murray Lachlan Young. I don't suppose anybody out there wants to explain the Rabelasian subtexts of Gravity's Rainbow to me, do they? Mrs Tag said: > as the world turns...my poor Gargoyle (kitty) she is going crazy..Sausage is > beating her up..... As Eric Morecambe used to say, there's no answer to that is there? Megannewculteveryday wrote: > have you guys seen those beanie babies? i have a little brown kitty cat > toy named jane (for the obvious reasons). now every time i look in shop > windows, i start picking out more. i've found judy and jenny so far, and > both want come home with me. Genevieve, look what you've started! These kooky kidz are taking over the list! David's picnic sounds like a jolly good idea. In the meantime, for those of you in the London area, a few of us are meeting up at the Poetry Cafe on Betterton Street in Covent Garden on Friday after 7pm, if you fancy coming along. Even you, Northy! I'll try and get the twister board ready. Stevie Trousers xxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 13:11:16 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Jemima the Jiving Jurrasic Jellybaby) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:11:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: NME Brats Message-ID: B&S's positions in the NME Brat poll: Best Band: Position 18 (between Supergrass & Placebo!) Best New Band: Postion 13 (Between Natalie Imbrooglywoogly and Mansun ) Oh, and they're mentioned in the "Great Europops Hits We Have Loved" feature: NOT ACTUALLY, STRICLY, TECHNICALLY EUROPOP (ALTHOUGH YOU MIGHT THINK SO): Whigfield (too weedy), `Macarena' (too old, disturbingly traditional sound), `Rock Me Amadeus' (Eurorock really, and acknoledges history, although seminal rapping involved), Belle & Sebastian (far too boring). Rod. (ON-TOPIC!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!) Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Acelloyellos: n. People who speed through caution lights ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ab0u600b at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 13:28:42 1998 From: ab0u600b at xxx.uk (Dawn) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 13:28:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re:Randon Messages Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980204132842.2e87ab80@pop1.liv.ac.uk> At 17:14 03/02/98 +0000, you wrote: >I'm on the Pulp mailing list, which gets really clogged up with non-Pulp comments, and the way that that is dealt with is by putting NP for a non-Pulp post in the subject heading. Perhaps NBS would be some kind of remedy for the below suggestion, allowing for easy deletion? Dawn x > >Perhaps this problem would be solved if we had two mailing lists. One >strictly for any Belle & Sebastian news, reviews, rumours etc and the other >to be used for the other stuff we seem to chat about here. > >Then each of us can choose to subscribe only to the first list or to both. >People who want to keep up with whats happening in B&S world, but don't >like wading through the hundreds of other emails will just want to >subscribe to the first. The rest of us can be free to write what we want >on the other. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 13:36:27 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:36:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Dog Fun Message-ID: Hi kittens! I saw that MTV thing last night, unfortunately didn't hear it though, karaoke night down the moon.Saw th video for Dog on Wheels so I was singing it today as I went to the toilet, guess what was scrawled in pen on the toilet roll dispenser (apart from the obligatory "arts degree, take one")but "COCK FUN", uncanny eh! Well never mind, I do talk a load of shite , don't I. Bye for now Colin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From grthom at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 13:42:31 1998 From: grthom at xxx.uk (G R Thomas) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:42:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re:To Dream The Impossible Dream... Message-ID: Wahey!! Just my two-penny's worth on the summer-picnic idea. Count me in! Count me in! I promise to get all my mates to come along (or definitely one...er...) but this is a great idea. I reckon we should definitely do this, and get as many listees involved as poss. We need dates and places (sorry, stating the obvious there) and ideas on how to fill the day/night. It's a cool idea, and I'm full of thoughts of bright summer days in the park... Wishing it was June (exams done and all that), All my love, GIDEONxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 12:46:37 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:46:37 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists Message-ID: <34D8632D.3B55@earthlink.net> > perhaps this problem would be solved if we had two mailing lists. One > strictly for any Belle & Sebastian news, reviews, rumours etc and the other > to be used for the other stuff we seem to chat about here. Nah. That sounds like a good idea in theory, but think about it this way: EVERY ONE of the chats about non-B&S related stuff came (at one point or another) from a very B&S related conversation. You might be able to have a list dedicated to just news for a while, but it'd trail off eventually. The only good compromise to this I've seen is the "Radiohead announce" list, which is just a news flash about Radiohead every so often. But once you get people with free time and an email address and access to even the strictest "news" list, there's no taming it. In other news, I read a good article on B&S this weekend that may have been mentioned here before. It was in the magazine Puncture, and was written by Tsunami frontwoman Jenny Toomey. It was pretty wordy, but very praising of good ol' B&S. It brought up some interesting points about religion in Stuarts lyrics, and had this horribly written "review" of B&S's NYC show (not written by Jenny Toomey). Anyway, if anyone gets a chance to read it, do. BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny claimed that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I thought I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person from Isobel altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like responding to this oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. Saw a man being arrested this morning, Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 4 14:12:55 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:12:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: If you can't negotiate the gap, then it is pure natural selectio In-Reply-To: <199802040043.AAA00686@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br wrote: > The conversation just always seems to get around to [cartoons] Not just for the joy of bracketting a word, but also because convos seem to invariably boil down to Star Wars or 80s music, as well--which I guess dates the person talking. But here all postings invariably lead to Belle and Sebastian. Do they have manga versions? Belle-bot and Sebastatron? If Hollywood were filming Belle and Sebastian: the Movie, who would play the members of the band? Steve McQueen would be Stuart M? (or perhaps in a curel twist of fate, now that he's acting--Damon Albarn?!?!??) Sharon Stone, Isobel? uhmm... George Clooney twould be Stevie? Noah Wylie, Stu D? Claire Daines, Sarah M? uhmm... uhh. ahem. Sorry. But honestly, who'd play our erstwhile heroes/heroines, eh? Casting begins now! (hmm. and who would be cast as the listee people? I think I'd be a Gedde Watanabe aka Long Duck Dong from Sixteen Candles. hmm 80s movie. hmmm) francisco creating his own threads ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 14:09:41 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:09:41 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Penis Frenzy Message-ID: <01bd3176$897e4e20$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Hi kittens! >I saw that MTV thing last night, unfortunately didn't hear it though, >karaoke night down the moon.Saw th video for Dog on Wheels so I was >singing it today as I went to the toilet, guess what was scrawled in pen >on the toilet roll dispenser (apart from the obligatory "arts degree, take >one")but "COCK FUN", uncanny eh! >Well never mind, I do talk a load of shite , don't I. > >Bye for now > >Colin Are you back in Aberdeen Colin then, cause there's a great big "Cock Fun" written on the walls of the toilets at Potterrow too which I found pretty spooky. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ah6991 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 14:28:58 1998 From: ah6991 at xxx.uk (AD Hillmann, FV37) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:28:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: SINISTER: All my fault Message-ID: Paul wrote: 2. Please remember (particularly digesters) that a "reply" in most mail programs will come to me and not go to the list - re-address to "sinister at majordomo.net". I don't send them on, not until someone has a *nice* dream about me. Sorry about that Paul, is there any chance of you sending the one I sent you back to me? A case of post-posting regret I think. It's funny, but everyone else already said what I wanted to in reply to Tag on sunday, better than I could have. Anyhow: The Duke Said: yeah David, there's 400 people on this list, but how many do you think would share some kind of wish and desire and have the energy to actually DO something with the love they profess? Aside from just idly chit chat and look forward to the next release? Some of us do try to do things but they always turn out crap, so we get dispirited, and we decide that it's too much like hard work to try all over again. Then we find something like B&S or even maybe something like your letter and it gives them that spark to try one last time, or to keep trying, and even if it does always turn out crap at least it's better than sitting at home watching telly, believing in all the sanitised rubbish that we get fed. Never take the easy way out guys! I'll illustrate my point by saying that I think this letter is pants, but I only think so because all my others usually are, and I hope that maybe this time it will all turn out beautiful, and even if it doesn't I'll keep doing it. Sorry. (It's all Tag's fault though - he started this.) (Soap box breaks, standing on floor now...) BTW Should I get the High Llamas LP or go for the Propellerheads? Brad - The Smiths is Dead has been around a while and sounds cool. I reckon that Placebo do teenage angst much better then most bands (and Nancy Boy by them nearly made me cry - once I had worked out what he was singing) so I love 'em. But in the same way that you like to have a good scream every now and then. Anyone else like 'em? If I was to mention any other band (you asked for it) it would be Chikinki, 'cos some friends of mine are in them, and the lead singer dances like I would imagine Stuart, Isobel, Chris et al would at gigs if they didn't have so many people watching them. They play the Louisiana and the Brewhouse in Bristol on the 19th & 20th and their name sounds a bit like Kinky. (They play cool music too, incidentally.) And I like them. Come along and say hi, I'll be wearing a B&S t-shirt probably (how cool are the new ones! I thought the old ones were good but the new ones are great and probably won't fall to bits too.) Enough =6hite from me then, ~Love Adam ---------------- "People think I don't have a sense of humour. I do. I think that everything is funny, but it worries folk when I laugh all the time." -notorious gangsta, Wooley Bear. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 14:35:28 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Colin the Cunning Copulating Cockatiel) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:35:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: MTV In-Reply-To: <802565A1.003FC69B.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 Anna_Chapman at idg.com wrote: > So nobody has mentioned yet. I'm surprised. Who else watched Dog on wheels > on MTV last night? Any responses? Stop showing off that you've got satellite/cable. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you were at all offended by this message, please add some of | the following smileys to the text where appropriate: :) :) ;) :P ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 14:56:23 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:56:23 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802041450.OAA08093@pop3.hiway.co.uk> >BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny claimed >that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I thought >I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person from Isobel >altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like responding to this >oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. EH? I don't know who dreamt this one up, but I've saw Monica and Isobel on stage at the same time, most definitely different people!! Although both are extremely attractive, my heart belongs to Bel. > I saw the video for LPG on it just before the Manchester gigs. >Haven't watched it since, but maybe they play them quite often. LPG???? Did I type that? I of course ment LLPJ. JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From oa6dsl at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 15:09:46 1998 From: oa6dsl at xxx.uk (DAMIEN.SLATTERY) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:09:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Captain Zep Message-ID: This message has nothing to do with B&S so I'll just say that they are indeed the finest band on God's green Earth and get on to what I wanted to say. I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving mysteries. Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. Sorry to all the people who wanted to read something about B&S. Damo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gwood at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 15:05:49 1998 From: gwood at xxx.uk (Gerard Wood) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:05:49 GMT Subject: Sinister: (NBS) One list, two lists... In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19980204132842.2e87ab80@pop1.liv.ac.uk> Message-ID: At 1:28 pm +0000 4/2/98, Dawn wrote: >I'm on the Pulp mailing list, which gets really clogged up with non-Pulp >comments, and the way that that is dealt with is by putting NP for a >non-Pulp post in the subject heading. Perhaps NBS would be some kind of >remedy for the below suggestion, allowing for easy deletion? Seconded as *a good idea*. There's no easy way of determining where B&S content stops and non-B&S content begins. The Fall list has the (NoFallCon) or (NFC) flag in operation (in theory) too...but of course, everyone's far too obstreporous (sp?) and curmudgeonly to actually use it properly. Dancin' Gez. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Wed Feb 4 15:18:41 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:18:41 +0000 Subject: Sinister: thoughts Message-ID: Sometimes when I see people with personal stereos it doesn't appear like they are actually listening to music they enjoy. I was just walking through college listening to Dog on Wheels and other tunes, and I was kinda walking in time, staring at the sky and generally looking happy. I felt lost in the music, as I do now sitting by the computer. I am just insane or do other people get as much pleasure as I do from music and are not afraid to show it? just some thoughts......... Claire ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 14:29:13 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:29:13 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists Message-ID: <01bd3179$43f18ef0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >> perhaps this problem would be solved if we had two mailing lists. One >> strictly for any Belle & Sebastian news, reviews, rumours etc and the other >> to be used for the other stuff we seem to chat about here. What's wrong with the list anyway, I mean, there are upper of 400 people on it, it can't be that bloody bad can it. I used to subscribe to the Manchester music list back in 1991 and it was shite - all you'd get was lists of DJ promos sent in every day by DJ's and the odd guy going "Have you heard the new Impossibles single" (ha ha - joke). It was a waste of time, most of the stuff on this list is worth reading... I certainly enjoy it. Hands up if you don't. >BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny claimed >that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I thought >I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person from Isobel >altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like responding to this >oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. Monica Queen is as I remember, a very real person. I've seen her at a B+S concert, I saw her at a Suede concert in Glasgow in 1992, I saw her when we put on her not very good band on at the student union a few years ago. She was in a band called "Thrum" which rhymes with "Bum" and she's currently - so I believe, in a band called "Monica" who're named after Monica Selez... or Monica Coughlan or something... perhaps. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From qhsmich at xxx.se Wed Feb 4 15:41:14 1998 From: qhsmich at xxx.se (Micheál O'Dwyer) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:41:14 +0100 Subject: Sinister: MTV References: <802565A1.003FC69B.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Message-ID: <34D88C19.E26676F0@aom.ericsson.se> Anna_Chapman at idg.com wrote: > Hi all. > > So nobody has mentioned yet. I'm surprised. Who else watched Dog on > wheels > on MTV last night? Any responses? > Was this on Alternative Nation???. I was waiting up for the Scottish music special, which must have been aired in the last twenty minutes of the program as I nodded off then. However, earlier on they showed TFC's The Concept followed by the brilliant Lazy Line Painter Jane video - was this the same show that had Dog On Wheels on? Or do they show different episodes across europe? And while we're on B&S in the media, the swedish magazine 'Pop' has a huge article on them this month. Now, despite the fact that I've been living in Sweden for many months, I really don't have any Swedish. I've been trying to teach myself some using tapes that I got at Christmas, but can only make silly sentences from the limited vocabulary I have. I am just thankful that the average swedish person has far better english than I could ever have swedish. Anyway, last night, armed with dictionary, I sat down to read said article. One hour later, I'd translated the opening paragraph, which gives a very literal insight into what Dog On Wheels is about ("... and then he lays down on the pavement and the leaves and flowers from the trees fall on him..."). I felt slightly cheated, but I will persevere. There's an interview with somebody (most likely Richard as the first sentence has the journalist sitting in the car belonging to Richard - I was able to translate that bit without having to resort to the dictionary!) in the second half of the article, so I might just cut to that. There's also a few photo's of places in Glasgow (The back door of Stuart & Richard's house, Cava studios, etc.). So, whenever I've translated it all, I may post it. I could do it in instalments, but then everybody would be able to see how bad I am at completing projects that I start. Don't hold your breath though Hej dÃ¥, Mick > Anna > > ---- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From dfactor at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 15:38:10 1998 From: dfactor at xxx.com (David Murrow) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:38:10 PST Subject: Sinister: B & S US dates? Message-ID: <19980204153810.11074.qmail@hotmail.com> Hello good kids -- Does someone here have inside scoop on Belle & Seb US dates yet? I know that a rumored NYC date on Feb 21 was discussed, but has anyone seen or heard about dates for Chicago or LA? I'm willing to spend serious dosh to travel to see Belle & Sebastian live somewhere here in the United States of Oval Office Hanky-Panky... Dfactor np - Paul Westerberg "Eventually" CD ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From g.j.bevis at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 15:41:29 1998 From: g.j.bevis at xxx.uk (g.j.bevis) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:41:29 GMT+0 Subject: Sinister: Where To See B & S Videos On Cable. Message-ID: <3184645431@mail-gw.uclan.ac.uk> Sorry Anna, I think i emailed you personally rather than the list by mistake. My apologies. NEWS A good place to find B & S videos is on Sky Hitmix in the middle of the night. I saw Lazy Line and Dog On Wheels in the space of one week. So I think they have a fan somewhere on there. Does anyone like Frank Black? I always felt that he should have been a lot bigger. (Cue loads of jokes along the lines of 'Isn't he big enough already!') ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Message-ID: <01bd3186$d92b1560$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: David & Katrina Para: B&S Fecha: miércoles 4 de febrero de 1998 0:03 Asunto: Re: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream Wing-Commander Kitchen wrote: >The club was a bit weird, to further our philosophy we were giving out >fruit in the early hours (to cool people down whilst not forcing them to >drink), installed massive air conditioning (at this point in time no >London clubs had thought of this), and organising games of Twister on >the dance floor. My flatmate's got Twister, but he claims it's at his aunty's house in Segovia of all places. I was thrilled to see Twister playing a major part in the film "U-Turn" yesterday, along with what looked suspiciously like a psychobilly. Long time no see. B&S content: Our heroes actually make a fleeting appearance in the Nick Drake book. It says they sound like Nick Drake fronting the BMX Bandits. I'm not quite sure how to take that. The BMX Bandits without Duglas BMX Bandit? "Number 12, Partick" made my day, if not my week. I am having a similar problem finding something to tape for the Duke. The only thing I've got that he's not likely to have is Hawkwind - Space Ritual. What should I do? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Wed Feb 4 11:09:25 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 11:09:25 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Et Cetera Message-ID: <34D84C64.3FD1@pop.nci.nih.gov> * as a member of the E.E. Cummings literary society, all this talk of his poetry got me hot and bothered enough to post on here as a newbie; perhaps not much b&s content but it seems that conversation has gravitated towards the literature corner. amh wrote "ok, so he has to be held responsible for the fact that everyone and her cat now uses lower case letters, even tho that wasn't the point: cummings did use upper-case (as you'll know, having read the stuff: i guess i'm talking here to people who haven't) .." well, yes, i have read cummings & realized that even his name is officially capitalized. i just thought i'd put my two cents worth that i think that eec is a wonderfully overlooked poet of the 20th century & everyone should try him out, if but once (i must say that his complete works are my bookshelf's pride & joy) try out his 6 nonlectures if you're not into poetry, or if you get very ambitious, try out his biography 'dreams in the mirror' . xaipe (rejoice) -thai-an **** somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands e.e.cummings *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 4 15:15:59 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:15:59 +0100 Subject: Sinister: the voice that you are hearing.... Message-ID: <01bd317f$cd4c9e00$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Doin' The Do Para: Strange Bed-Fellows Fecha: martes 3 de febrero de 1998 17:07 Asunto: RE: Sinister: stupid post >On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, PJMiller wrote: > >> really. I think it's a good idea to write anyway. What harm can it do? I >> always regret never having written to Betty Boo. But I did see her perform >> live once. > >I wouldn't worry about it. I once *did* write to Betty Boo. I sent her a >page ripped out of Smash Hits asking her to autograph it, but never got a >reply. Bitch. > I was seriously thinking about writing to her, I was really quite keen. Then in an interview in the NME or something they asked her about being fancied by people and she said, "Well, they're not going to get me, are they?" and I thought oh no! I've turned into a pervert! I was unemployed at the time. Anyway, I still think it's a great idea to write to Belle and Sebastian. Don't forget you can do it by e-mail. What could be simpler? You can also write to Quentin Crisp and William Hague MP, both of whom I have been in contact with. But they haven't been in contact with me. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 4 16:04:32 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:04:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: If you can't negotiate the gap, then it is pure natural selectio (fwd) Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br wrote: > The conversation just always seems to get around to [cartoons] Not just for the joy of bracketting a word, but also because convos seem to invariably boil down to Star Wars or 80s music, as well--which I guess dates the person talking. But here all postings invariably lead to Belle and Sebastian. Do they have manga versions? Belle-bot and Sebastatron? If Hollywood were filming Belle and Sebastian: the Movie, who would play the members of the band? Steve McQueen would be Stuart M? (or perhaps in a curel twist of fate, now that he's acting--Damon Albarn?!?!??) Sharon Stone, Isobel? uhmm... George Clooney twould be Stevie? Noah Wylie, Stu D? Claire Daines, Sarah M? uhmm... uhh. ahem. Sorry. But honestly, who'd play our erstwhile heroes/heroines, eh? Casting begins now! (hmm. and who would be cast as the listee people? I think I'd be a Gedde Watanabe aka Long Duck Dong from Sixteen Candles. hmm 80s movie. hmmm) francisco creating his own threads ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 4 15:18:17 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:18:17 +0100 Subject: Sinister: ...is not my speaking voice.... Message-ID: <01bd3180$1ed9b140$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Tag Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: martes 3 de febrero de 1998 15:58 Asunto: Sinister: We are family - I've got all my sinisterines with me. Jasper Carrot wrote: No, no I didn't mean it like that. I like the idea of the list being a sort of daily fanzine though. Basically, I love it when people tell me with a certain passion about new things, but I get a bit narky when I hear such and such are good, no they're not, yes they, fuck off, wanker ... and so on. If someone writes I like Murray whathisfaace because he makes me feel like this ... well that's great. I may not agree - I mean I remember going out for a drink with someone I used to work with who loved opera. I don't, but the way this guy talked about it was very special. Errm ... yeah sorry, the list as a fanzine ... I like it! The list is already a bit like a fanzine for me. I no longer feel the need to shell out for "real" publications, such as the NME or Q or The Face or anything of that kind. This is a major saving for me because they're all twice the price here. Having said that, I do miss a bit of breakfast reading. Had to make do with "Slaves of New York" this morning. Talk about the cutting edge! I don't often buy things people talk about on the list, but I do pick them up, turn them over, and think about it. I am one of those sad people who wanders around shops in the afternoon, horribly aware that the staff are thinking "Oh look, it's him again. Hasn't he got anything better to do? He never buys anything. I wonder if he's mentally unstable? Why is he looking in the back of "Uncut"? Why doesn't he just buy it? Doesn't he like Monkey Brown?" Someone wrote >> And Boogie Nights is crap. > I thought it was really good. I particularly like the way it makes you feel kind of dirty for about two weeks after. I certainly don't think it was easy. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't know where to start. And it's a long way from New Kids on the Block. And now Burt Reynolds has got two good films under his belt. And nobody says "squeal piggy, squeal!" in this one. And it features the godlike genius of ELO, which is really stirring, and God Only Knows, which is really moving in that context. Sorry to ramble, I am trying to practise what I preach. Bev Bevan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Wed Feb 4 16:07:25 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:07:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: teeny weeny beanies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ok, I've been reading for two days now, and I have finally worked up the nerve to write something. I write from the beautiful metropolis (interpret sarcasm here, if appropriate) of San Antonio, Texas. The only music store in town that is not connected to a bookstore or owned by the Blockbuster corporation specializes in heavy metal, punk, and the like, so I have been piking up all of my B&S merchandise in Austin, about 90 minutes away. (A small price to pay...) Um, I think the Beanie Baby fad is finally starting to die around these parts. I'd love to hear Michael Stipe sing "Judy and the Dream of Horses" or Helium do a really creepy cover of "Beautiful," complete with video-game-esque sound effects. I love, love, love, love ee cummings, though my favorite writer is probably Scott Fitzgerald. Sorry if this is really boring; email is still very new and exciting to me, and I haven't quite figured it out. --Kristen PS I'm not married> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 16:03:55 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:03:55 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Captain Zep Message-ID: <01bd3186$7e4f3220$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >This message has nothing to do with B&S so I'll just say that they are >indeed the finest band on God's green Earth and get on to what I wanted >to say. > >I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad >students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was >a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving >mysteries. > >Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. He was indeed a super space detective, who detected which of the large cardboard cutouts "done the murdurs" as Taggart would put it. It was shite, so it only ran for one series, and as I remember, this was circa 1981. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rewb2 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 16:20:43 1998 From: rewb2 at xxx.uk (The loneliness of the middle-distance runner) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:20:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: gingivitis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, A.M. Horne wrote: > > > > John Johnston CT (uh?) mentioned ee cummings. Uh oh, that's four of us > > now on Sinister who love little eec - let's try a few more cultural > > grenades - Dylan Thomas anyone? Stanley Spencer? Jorge Luis Borges? Oh > > alright then, Hugh Lloyd (as seen last night on Channels 4s Hancock > > thingy)? > > > ok: tho this migth be dull.... > > > cummings (obviously) yes yes oh yes - hmmm, spotted the complete ee cummings in waterstones yesterday... looks lovely but a fair investment at £35 or so... should i or shouldn't i??... i don't know. > j.d. salinger wonderful wonderful books - love them all > > enough for the moment. > > read a book. okay then - haven't posted a message to the list for aeons, so i'll just give my tuppence worth then fade into obscurity once more i did a search for 'belle and sebastian' on the internet the other day, and was bemused to discover which words the computer came up with as alternatives to make the search more specific... okay, so 'johann', and 'bach' - fair enough, after all, when searching for a composer, everyone would choose their middle name to search for. hmm, not conviced BUT, why oh why does this bizarre machine come up with 'glade', 'beast', 'saludo', 'epoque', and 'gingivitis'... yes, GINGIVITIS... since when has gum disease had anything to do with our favourite band. sorry, that just amused me time to grovel: could some kind generous person please do me a copy of the Radio Scotland programme that b&s did over christmas, the one with 'loneliness of the middle distance runner' on it and all - now that's a fantastic book, the loneliness of the long distance runner and all you people with sky - i'm jealous, very jealous i've never seen a b&s video... hmph can i be arsed to come to covent garden?? hmmm, i don't know. maybe all this talk of picnics and sleeping under the stars wrapped up in blankets is lovely - roll on summer i say, and days in the park with nothing to do but sit under trees watching the sky - it's a bit cold now to do that though... :( someone was talking about converting people a while back, can't remember who... i'm rather proud of myself, as i've managed to get about, err, 1,2,3,4... oh i don't know, but definitely over 10, people hooked onto the alluring sound of belle and sebastian. and that includes my cat, and pot plants... whoops, given the game away now. ah well, got to go - this has rambled on far far too long love and hugs rob xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 16:20:43 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:20:43 GMT0BST Subject: No subject Message-ID: <455CA1C78DE@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Um.....this is my first message to the list, and what with me being a computer-illiterate person, I am curious to see if it works or not! I think Monica Queen (of Lazy Line.... fame) was in a band called Thrum, though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have MTV, so I didn't see the Dog On Wheels video (*sniff sniff*) but I did see B&S at the Union Chapel gig last year which was one of the best gigs I've ever been to in my life. Love, Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 14:57:59 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:57:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: MTV References: <199802041252.MAA18027@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: <34D881F7.9F3D54DD@virgin.net> John Stuart wrote: > Yeah, I saw it. I was pretty disappointed in what Katrina described as 'a > special Scottish edition', actually turned out to be a block of about five > Scottish videos. I liked the Orange Juice vid, and Snow Patrol sound okay > (anybody going to the Attic concert on Saturday?). sorry guys, i didn't realise there were going to be so few Scottish videos .. oh well, at least they didn't get a chance to play WWW ... > It was the first time I'd saw the entire DoW video, and I loved it. I've > still not seen the 'La Pastie' video yet, unfortunately. no vid for Le Pastie ... only Dog On Wheels, LLPJ and A Century of Fakers. Sorry. bye, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 14:55:11 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:55:11 +0000 Subject: Sinister: NEW YORK SHOW References: <19980203195910.5871.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: <34D8814F.7E23D5F8@virgin.net> BOHO BIRD1 wrote: > HIHI > > NOT TO SURE IF THE LIST GOT MY POST YESTERDAY WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS... > I WAS TOLD ON THE WEEKEND THAT B&S WERE PLAYING A GIG ON THE 21st OF FEB > IN NEW YORK. > CAN ANYONE ON THE LIST CONFIRM THIS FOR ME SO THAT I DON'T END UP > DRIVING ALL THAT WAY FOR NOTHING? (DAVID & KARTINA) > CHEERS, > BOHO :) Johnston, John CT wrote: > Please don't think I'm being sarkie-bloke but I have a hunch that B&S > aren't playing in New York this month. Coz if they were we'd hear it > from Katrina and Dave first, right! I honestly believe her when she > > says that; am I too trusting??? But has she ever let us down? She is > > the all > knowing Trash Heap of B&S date information and I personally will never > believe any rumours that don't emanate from Jeepster-land. > And you don't want to believe everything you hear in Night Clubs - > somebody in a club said I looked like Green from Scritti Politti. That > fellow was clearly a lying knave! Maybe the music was very loud and > you > misheard him - he might have been saying "The bells of San Sebastian > are > playing havoc with my Mexican grandmother's pigs." I believe that kind > of talk is common among hipsters in the big apple. Well, thanks for not believing the rumours, as again ... they're not true! I think it may have something to do with the South by South West Festival and something someone at Matador may have said ... > We'll have 2 nights of live entertainment at SXSW this > year...Tommy Keene and the Liquor Giants at Liberty Lunch > (along with the Apples In Stereo and quite possibly an ex- > Matador band who won't have to travel far). On Friday the > 20th, Cornelius, Solex, Come and Bardo Pond will be at the > Electric Lounge, along with an additional new signing we're > not allowed to talk about yet (it isn't Belle & Sebastian so > calm down, please). However, I can report that Stevie is travelling to the States tomorrow to play live with the BMX Bandits. I don't know what the dates are though, so check your local press. That's all for now ... Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 4 16:41:53 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:41:53 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Cutie/Grafitti Message-ID: <01bd318b$cc6db940$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Keith Watson Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 4 de febrero de 1998 13:19 Asunto: Sinister: Cutie/Grafitti Brigadier Watson wrote: >>>What exacty is a cutie? > >Long since banished form of indie kiddies? As personified by the oft-mentioned Duglas BMX Bandit (who is a fucking big bastard, not to be messed with, dressed up as Noddy) and Amelia Gosh, who may or may not have been present at the B&S Barcelona extravaganza. If so, we're all getting on a bit. > > Nice collection of videos on MTV last night though, Orange Juice one was >good, shot entirely on Gt.Western Road - never seen that one before. What was it? The only OJ I've ever seen was some concert interspersed with footage of Edwyn and Zeke doing their stuff in an orange juice factory. I think it was on Channel Four, roughly at the same time that Echo and the Bunnymen were on something in Brian's Cafe and Damon was going out with Debbie. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 4 16:49:38 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:49:38 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Monique Message-ID: <01bd318c$e14c5320$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Reid Dossinger Para: Sinister Fecha: miércoles 4 de febrero de 1998 17:07 Asunto: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists >BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny claimed >that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I thought >I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person from Isobel >altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like responding to this >oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. As far as I know she's an entirely different person. Someone has even heard her singing nicely and quietly once. I can't remember who though. > >Saw a man being arrested this morning, I saw someone's ashes being scattered upon the storm tossed sea. Then they all chucked flowers. It was quite moving. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 16:57:49 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Zoe the Zurprisingly Zestful Zebra) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:57:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: thoughts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Claire Timmins wrote: > Sometimes when I see people with personal stereos it doesn't appear like > they are actually listening to music they enjoy. I was just walking through > college listening to Dog on Wheels and other tunes, and I was kinda walking > in time, staring at the sky and generally looking happy. I felt lost in the > music, as I do now sitting by the computer. I am just insane or do other > people get as much pleasure as I do from music and are not afraid to show > it? I'm worse than that - I don't even have to have my walkman on - I just remember a great tune, and start grinning and smiling. What do people think are the worst tunes for getting stuck in your head? I'd vote for the jingle from the Reisen Chocolate Chew adverts. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Quantato: n. Any french fry so overloaded with ketchup it has to be | suspended above and then lowered into one's mouth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 16:59:12 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Victor the Violently Venemous Vole) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:59:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199802041450.OAA08093@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, John Stuart wrote: > > I saw the video for LPG on it just before the Manchester gigs. > >Haven't watched it since, but maybe they play them quite often. > > LPG???? Did I type that? I of course ment LLPJ. I wondered that meself. The question remains... What did LPG stand for? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The small girl smiles, one eyelid flickers, | She whips a pistol from her knickers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From djf9 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 17:00:11 1998 From: djf9 at xxx.uk (D.J. Frazer) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: thoughts In-Reply-To: from "Claire Timmins" at Feb 4, 98 03:18:41 pm Message-ID: <11563.199802041700@harrier.le.ac.uk> > Sometimes when I see people with personal stereos it doesn't appear like > they are actually listening to music they enjoy. I was just walking through > college listening to Dog on Wheels and other tunes, and I was kinda walking > in time, staring at the sky and generally looking happy. I felt lost in the > music, as I do now sitting by the computer. I am just insane or do other > people get as much pleasure as I do from music and are not afraid to show > it? > > just some thoughts......... Claire most certainly...this has to be one of my favourite activities-submerging myself in enjoyable music while the rest of the world passes by mundanely. I love to walk home from walk, light a cigarette and walk in time to a stirring tune or chuckle at some humurous lyrics etc. Sometimes people look at me strangely but i dont care because they cant share my experience and therefore dont understand my activity. And no matter how stressed i've gotten at work, by the time i'm home i'll be in a good mood . sometimes,if i go to work with my stereo on, i get a tune hangover and sit at my desk still humming whatever i was listening to...i have recently been trying to hit the high notes from 'Belle & Sebastian' (went too far again etc.) and irritating my colleagues no end. tee hee hee. hope this reassures you that you are not alone, Daniel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 17:22:59 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:22:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: this is looong Message-ID: <199802041722.MAA11742@Vector.inexpress.net> Dear People, Yes! Home from school again...cough cough.. but I HAVE to get out soon...saturday..yes saturday..there's a Viennese Ball at the Art gallery (of course tickets are like 200 dollars each and they are for the counts and countesses i suppose..) but just imagine all the lovely gowns and stuff..I wonder if they get to wear masques? i have to take nightscapes for my photographie class...maybe the city will be good to me.... I have a book called Zolars which deciphers dreams..but I don't know how true it is...it doesn't really make sense..zolar lie!....speaking of..I had such a good..energetic.. dream last night,now it probably doesn't make sense now...but anyways...I snuck into the boys (!) washroom and on the wall in red pencil I wrote 'jim morrison lives in me' or something then casually walked out...except this real bitchy teacher at my school saw me...saw the message in red..and me holding the red crayon and took after me..so I ran to lose her,DOWN STAIRS..IN stillettos...I could feel the difficulty of it!..anyways..I lost her in the locker bay except suddenly I saw her..she hadn't seen me yet..I was pushing my way to get out but these people wouldn't let me I'm like 'come on,this is serious!' but they did not believe me so the teacher caught me and yelled at me and was so evil..but I had my moment of glory I swore at her while she tried to make me go with her and then she ripped off my jacket..and yet i stil woke up feeling i'd won! poetry n' stuff:I like Thomas...I love W.B Yeats...Shelley... I suppose I should really read more poetry..but this year I've got my futuristic fix... Brave New World and 1984...BNW was allright for me..it didn't really affect me...but once the Thought Police caught winston I couldn't put 1984 down...i mean with Huxley he at least created an island the 'different' people could go to..but Orwell is just more brutal...not even allowed to die hating the party...i feel fustration when i read books like that...you're willing the characters on..but they just keep falling and falling.... Sinister people,tell me some good books I should read! >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:09:15 -0000 >From: "poetry place2" >Subject: Sinister: Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands... >> have you guys seen those beanie babies? i have a little brown kitty cat >> toy named jane (for the obvious reasons). now every time i look in shop >> windows, i start picking out more. i've found judy and jenny so far, and >> both want come home with me. > >Genevieve, look what you've started! These kooky kidz are taking over the >list! sorry maaaan....i try and be 'grown up' :) >Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:56:23 +0000 >From: "John Stuart" >Subject: [none] > >>BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny >claimed >>that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I >thought >>I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person >from Isobel >>altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like >responding to this >>oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. > >EH? I don't know who dreamt this one up, but I've saw Monica and Isobel on >stage at the same time, most definitely different people!! Although both >are extremely attractive, my heart belongs to Bel. I picture Monica with these go-go boots...mod skirt...eyelined eyes/pale lip thing going on..i don't know what nancy sinatra looks like..but something like that?At first I didn't like Monica's voice...but now..I really do..it doesn't have that softness of isobel,but it's appealing... >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:09:46 +0000 (GMT) >From: "DAMIEN.SLATTERY" >Subject: Sinister: Captain Zep > >This message has nothing to do with B&S so I'll just say that they are >indeed the finest band on God's green Earth and get on to what I wanted >to say. > >I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad >students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was >a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving >mysteries. > >Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. I am sorry to say...but he never existed dear...actually,he probably did....seriously..I don't know,but I've never heard of him..my mom tells me she knows Belle and Sebastian (the cartoon).and how him and the big giant dog would go to pyramids or something...maybe I used to watch the show..because I have no idea why when I first heard of B&S I thought it was Christain singing solo boy who had an anonymous friend help him out under the disguise of that dog on Dog On Wheels.... Do you remember 'Today's Special'? I liked that! >At 1:28 pm +0000 4/2/98, Dawn wrote: > >>I'm on the Pulp mailing list, which gets really clogged up with non-Pulp >>comments, and the way that that is dealt with is by putting NP for a >>non-Pulp post in the subject heading. Perhaps NBS would be some kind of >>remedy for the below suggestion, allowing for easy deletion? I was on that list!and then one day I wasn't..did they kick me off? Too rowdy i suppose.... >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:18:41 +0000 >From: Claire Timmins >Subject: Sinister: thoughts > Sometimes when I see people with personal stereos it doesn't appear like >they are actually listening to music they enjoy. I was just walking through >college listening to Dog on Wheels and other tunes, and I was kinda walking >in time, staring at the sky and generally looking happy. I felt lost in the >music, as I do now sitting by the computer. I am just insane or do other >people get as much pleasure as I do from music and are not afraid to show >it? Yes....I do! It stops me from doing other work...you know how most people say,oh if you put on music you'll get your homework done like that? Well not true! When it's such a good song,you have to jump up and sing into your hairbrush (well I do...I don't have a mic)I even have a tambourine but i save those moments for when i feel like brett anderson!Sometimes I wish people could hear what I'm listening to and singalong...like oh...say..ummm..record store boy? WHy won't he play B&S ! THen I could sing along and show him oh great master,how you taught me! BUT..whenever I'm in there he has this thing with Blur's Great Escape...i know all the words to that album too...but it's just..not...the...same! poor poor clinton,you know...Jean Chretien never get trouble like that,he won't even give anybody a hug..he tries to choke instead... love no poison, Genevieve :) p.s I know nothing about the Smiths and I got the 1000 dollar question about them on Jeopardy! (well it's not hard...as soon as cutie Alex mentioned morrissey) I'm getting a Smiths album,(cute record boy has them cheap) in trade for IN It For The Money...so should it be Meat Is Murder or The Queen Is Dead... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From seu05 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 17:15:55 1998 From: seu05 at xxx.uk (Alexander Romanelli) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:15:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: I love you all In-Reply-To: <199802041537.PAA17399@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> from "sinister-digest" at Feb 4, 98 03:37:20 pm Message-ID: I've just read several days worth of digests, as I've been busy writing essays about things like Roberto Rossellini and slave narratives. Some lovely posts from everyone which have inspired me to say something irrelevant. Firstly, whoever suggested Throwing Muses (RIP) covering 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' deserves a medal. Especially if it was mid 80s era Muses, kristin Hersh wailing away, and we could draft in their eventual keyboard player to add a swamp meets Phil Spector style wall of sound. Personally i'd like to hear David Bowie cover B&S, but the question isn't so much which B&S song, more which David Bowie. I expect Genevieve's vote would be for Labyrinth-style (which I dig too...the soundtrack tape seems to be of much amusement to all my friends, why?) but after watching The Man Who Fell To Earth last night I guess I'd currently plump for Low-era Bowie. If only for the wonderful hair: deeply dyed orange with blonde bits at the front. Tag's insistence we get off our arses and Sarah's Tigermilk listening have given me ideas for what to do when I get my bloody finals over and done with. Everybody: create! The summer picnics are a beautiful idea, and this was made weirdly circular when it was revealed Going Underground was the start of all that. I still carry a Going Underground flyer in my wallet. Have done for years. God knows why, I'm only 22 so I never got a chance to go the club (hang on, was about to say it was around years ago, but Katrina said only 2??!!Thought I'd had this flyer for donkeys) I think I liked the way it had Bill Murray on it, could be passed off as London transport id and fitted nicely with my credit card sized stuff. Much nicer to look at that than a bank card. And French New Wave is lovely, 400 Blows is such an endearing movie. (Tag, if you want to write a 3000 word essay for me on 400 Blows, or A Bout de Souffle, or any French new wave at all then you could well help me cheat my way into a good degree. Or maybe I should just carry on as planned and write about Wenders instead.) Oh, and on the subject of movies, someone said they'd never heard of Hal Hartley? He is probably my favourite director working today, try to see any of his films. His dialogue would be greatly appreciated by fans of B&S lyrics. His films are always very funny, poignant, moving and insightful. Oh, and if anyone is ever in Brighton, don't believe flyers for the Underground which claim they'll be playing B&S. I think certain clubs are namechecking the band without ever playing them, because they know they're popular among a distinguished crowd and their name will make the club look trendy and diverse. I've gone on way too long haven't I..... -- Alex Romanelli seu05 at central.sussex.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Blur245 at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 17:32:45 1998 From: Blur245 at xxx.com (Blur245 at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:32:45 EST Subject: Sinister: Florida Message-ID: <7871a2e1.34d8a63f@aol.com> Hello I am from Florida and one thing that I am noticing is the lack of B&S fans down in the south of America maybe I am the only one.I am also finding it shit hard to find stuff by them I really need "Tigerrmilk" Help.................................. ............ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 17:48:18 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:48:18 -0800 Subject: Sinister: and the dream of belle & sebastian Message-ID: I bet there are more people on this list who dream about Belle & Sebastian, than anywhere else in the world....hum. Last night I drempt that Orange Juice played where I worked and only did two songs, and those songs were Belle & Sebastian songs AND Monica Queen was singing and not Edwyn! Then I realized that Stuart Murdoch was the sound guy and I went up to him and squeezed him and said "you're still here?" And he sneered at me and said "you must have me mistaken for someone else who wears Staypressed." What would Freud say? I'm suprised that no one was naked, considering what i've been reading before bed....but hey....with long distance relationships, a girl's got to keep amused somehow...right? I'm glad Stuart isn't so snippy in person.*phew* beth and the dream of orange juice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 17:56:15 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 17:56:15 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802041750.RAA11319@pop3.hiway.co.uk> >What do people think are the worst tunes for getting stuck in your head? >I'd vote for the jingle from the Reisen Chocolate Chew adverts. I've had 'You Can't Return My Love' by The Man from Delmonte (sp?) stuck in my head all day!! Classic track! :) JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 17:13:42 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:13:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I left my school I left my job Message-ID: Hey hey! I've cheered up! My charity shop day was so ace. Not. we took 34 quid. yay, big spenders unite! I just read lots of zineys. And to everyone who didn't know this, OK so felt fans will know, so Felt fans don't read this....you know the line in I DON'T LOVE ANYONE where it goes 'he said the world is a soft as lace', that as actualy from a Felt song! Whacky world of pop isn't it! I had always thought that was a great lyric, and turns out tis from Felt. Should I be sad that it aint by Stuart who wrote it or happy that theres another great lyricist to find??? HAPPY! Bugger, looks like I shall be even broker than I am now for buying up the Felt catalogue...arse. And this B&S picnic, oh wow, lovely, please can we have this so I can plan my summer around it? Can we have longer than just a picnic cops I am not going all the way down to London, the big smoke just fer an hour or so wot wif prices being extortionate.... but sitill it sounds so ace!!! Can we do it on the longest day, like David mentioned??? That would just be magical, especially for me, cos its my birthday, and I've never really done anything special on it so far, and to have a really ace 17th birthday would be......amazing! Not to mention we could stay out all night :) And it would be my first ever trip to wherever it would be held.....ooh..... Oh genieve, just read your peanut butter poem! HAHAHHAHAHAA! I have been scarily obsessed with the word peanut for ages and its really getting bad. And teh song snake dream, oh yes what a perfect dream! The song snake! I love that. I may steal that for a short story if I am allowed. Am I allowed Stuart?? :) Please, ah go on! My story ideas at the moment are: a) one inspired by a bit on a Dexys album which goes 'Nearby he's still crying though I smile while he's there', about a girl going home, pondering things in the rain, walking past deathtrap offices, and seeing this young lad in a suit weeping by the wall. b) About a girl who becomes obsessed and falls in love with a pooter. Inspired by the fact that when I was rushing to switch the pooter off, I had one hand round the back of it to switch off the pooter, and the other one o the screen to turn that off, so it looked like I was hugging the pooter. c) THE SONG SNAKE EXTRAVAGANZA! Please please let me have a try with that please! And finally, I have been singing 'Belle and Sebastian' all day. I walked about 2 miles or so from Ashton into town so I could buy the Spiritualized single, clutching my 2 quid. And, yes you guessed it, it was 2.99. THE NAZIS! And they didn't even *have* the Cornershop single! MY SO-CALLED life! All we want to do is to listen to great pop music and we can't due to our capitalist society of f**kheids!!!!! And no, I have no iea why I self censored that either. I will never do it again. I just felt like adding pretty stars to make a swear word more pretty. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah "Sex is the refuge of the mindless" --Valerie Solanis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 23:51:40 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 15:51:40 -0800 Subject: Sinister: clearing the air Message-ID: <34D8FF0C.3611@earthlink.net> just to clear the air on a subject. i posted a couple of days ago about the smiths is dead and was talking about placebo. some people have written in saying they suck and i should stay away and some people say they're good and all the usual stuff. but everyone who's written, unless i'm misunderstanding, is under the assumption that i liked the song. i hated that song. it is the most crap cover i've ever heard. it was even worse than dinosaur jr.'s version of the same song, and that one was quite crap also. thinking that placebo suck, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plaird at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 18:23:06 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 98 18:23:06 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: MTV & other delights Message-ID: <199802041820.SAA09269@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Keith said: > Nice collection of videos on MTV last night though, Orange Juice one was >good, shot entirely on Gt.Western Road - never seen that one before. Snow >Patrol scrubbed up well too, thanks to the make up department :-). I taped the 'Scottish' segment (15mins of 2hr show) but wasn't organised enough to catch Orange Juice's "Blue Boy" - which happens to be my fave OJ song - so I was mildly disappointed. Impressed by Dog on Wheels, although I had seen it once before - I forget where. 1. What's all this stuff about "Cock Fun" on some toilet walls - I thought it was a well-known (male) toilet graffiti. Written of course by oh-so-ironic, very probably homophobic, saddoes. 2. The idea of having two lists is just daft innit? It's already been pointed out that a news-based list would probably peter out due to the unprolific nature of our heroes. Anyway I like the topsy-turvy rollercoaster that the current list can be. 3. I've seen a couple of mentions of Placebo over the last couple of days - would you mind not doing it please. Cheerio, The Laird of East Fountainbridge "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 18:30:32 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:30:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists In-Reply-To: <01bd3179$43f18ef0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Keith Watson wrote > > Monica Queen is as I remember, a very real person. I've seen her at a B+S > concert, I saw her at a Suede concert in Glasgow in 1992, I saw her when we > put on her not very good band on at the student union a few years ago. She > was in a band called "Thrum" which rhymes with "Bum" and she's currently - > so I believe, in a band called "Monica" who're named after Monica Selez... > or Monica Coughlan or something... perhaps. > I saw Thrum play on the mound in edinburgh at hogmanay a few years ago, and I can remember thinking they were really good, and the singer had a very cool long, black leather coat. About cock fun, it had time and dates I'll go back to see if they tie in to the dates tigermilk was recorded! Although I think perhaps the author(s) had something else in mind.Hmmmmmm I think I must be in Aberdeen coz the poot in front of me claims to be the property of Aberdeen University. I do talk a load of shite , don't I. (I think I've found myself a suitable catch phrase, cool!) cherry pie, Colin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 18:35:47 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:35:47 -0800 Subject: Sinister: NEW YORK SHOW Message-ID: = >However, I can report that Stevie is travelling to the States tomorrow >to play live with the BMX Bandits. I don't know what the dates are >though, so check your local press. > >That's all for now ... > >Cheers, >Katrina. > OH MY GOD!!!!!! I'm SEEING THEM IN LA TOMORROW!!!!!! *swwooooon* I knew that dream meant something. *sigh* yay!!!!!!!! beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 00:13:23 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:13:23 -0800 Subject: Sinister: poetry Message-ID: <34D9038E.5ACB@earthlink.net> i usually don't get all into the literary discussions, but no one seems to have mentioned my favorite poet and author. richard brautigan. his poetry is wonderful, if often overlooked for his novels. try "the pill versus the sprinhill mine disaster" for a good collection of poems. for novels try "in watermelon sugar" , "so the wind won't blow it all away" , or "the abortion" for starters. he's famous for "trout fishing in america" but that book holds nothing against his other works. i don't even know why it's so popular. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Sorry if the time doesn't suit - it just can't be helped - but I'm hoping they'll be more in the future if we all enjoy ourselves. If you are thinking of coming and haven't used IRC yet then TRY IT NOW! You need to get used to it or else you will be an unpopular bunny on the night, and it's unlikely you'll get any help in the week before as it'll be hectic. Pages on chat are on most WWW sites, including mine, but if you have questions please direct them to David on d.kitchen at virgin.net. He'll make everything alright like he always does. NON-IRC NON-CHAT But for those disenfranchised non-chatters here's an attempt to make things a bit better - I asked Stuart if the band would be happy to answer a set of mailing list questions (watch out for Susannah's) and he said yes. SO - please send ME (NOT the list) any questions you want to ask and mark them with the subject line: "B&S Question Time". Closing date, ooo, week today the 11th. Make them interesting please. I'll collect them together, remove all the repeated ones about Tigermilk and shoe sizes, and I reserve the right to restrict the list to something manageable (maybe 20) in an arbitrary way based on person attractiveness and how often you call me something nice. Quite seriously, I will pick at random if we get millions, so don't give me any stick if you don't get picked as I'm not in the mood. I'm in the mood for luuuurve. WHAT ELSE? Some random stuff. Stuart David tells me that Slow Graffiti, which I can never spell is appearing in a soundtrack to the file "The Acid House". Great song - should be a single. Said humbly and not looking for a fight cos I'll hide behind Laurel if you try it. Sorry to anyone who's mailing me and isn't getting replies again. I don't chuck your mail out, I promise, it just gets filed. One day you'll get an answer. Finally, thanks to all of you who have answered the clarion call and are posting stuff of some CONTENT to the list. I was getting a bit fed up with it all and now I'm bouncing again. Honey xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From SHicks at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 18:44:35 1998 From: SHicks at xxx.uk (Hicks, Simon) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:44:35 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk?? Message-ID: Another first-timer, I'm afraid! I'm also a late developer as far as B&S go but as they say "better late than never". Anyway, I've been frantically back-collecting since I bought "3, 6, 9 Seconds of Light". I'm getting more and more desperate. Does anyone know how to get hold of the earlier stuff (before "Dog on Wheels" and "Lazy Line Painter Jane")? Any clues and I will be eternally grateful!! Thanks for your time Simon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 18:59:30 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:59:30 -0800 Subject: Sinister: if you're going to see holiday flyer in la Message-ID: don't.....John from Holiday Flyer just rang. It's not true.....they were asked to play but they couldn't... sorry to post this to the list. beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Wed Feb 4 18:04:53 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 14:04:53 -0400 Subject: Sinister: B&S in The South Message-ID: <34D8ADC5.3A9@earthlink.net> > Hello > I am from Florida and one thing that I am noticing is the lack of B&S > fans down in the south of America maybe I am the only one.I am also finding it > shit hard to find stuff by them I really need "Tigerrmilk" Contrary to this letter, there are plenty of B&S fans in The South that I know (North Carolina). Granted, I converted a large number of them, but even the Chapel Hill indie kids love 'em, even if they're almost always mentioned in the same breath as the words "Magnetic" and "Fields" (who I also love, by the way). I can honestly say that a show here in Chapel Hill would be VERY well attended. I don't know how things are in Florida, but then again...well, I just don't know about Florida. It's a strange place. You should be able to order most of the EP's from your average indie record shop. I found all three with minimal effort in Chapel Hill. Although when I bought them, they had three copies of each, and now there's only one each of DOW and LLPJ. So I'm obviously not the only one here. And as far as getting "Tigermilk", join the club. I've just resigned myself for waiting for the re-release. ~Reid, who's feeling sorry for all the Brits who can't watch the #1 Duke vs. #2 UNC hoops game tomorrow night. I'm so excited, I'm tingling! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gar at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 19:30:01 1998 From: gar at xxx.uk (Gordon A Rogers) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Competition Message-ID: I posted this the other day but I think it became one of the amazing empty messages which we had a spate of. Bloody typical I'm quiet as a mouse normally and when I do post it vanishes. So the original message ...... My normally bone idle and unoriginal mind came up with the following suggestion for a competition: Picture drawing (kind of like the Gallery on Hart Beat). Hart Beat for the foreign listees is/was a kids T.V. programme about art. I think the subject area could be fellow listees (as the majority of us don't know what each other looks like). Suggested ideas could be: - Genevieve flirting with Record Shop Boy. - HoneyPaul in his legendary dwarf pose. - Sarah strangling the Duke of Harringay with some sixth form poetry - Tag saving Northy's bacon - And whatever else The only problem I can see is that a lot of people don't have access to scanners. So my suggestion is that they could be mailed to me OR another willing party who could then make them publicly available. So David is this a good or terribly bad idea (I am trying hard). - Gordon - Oh by the way this is just a way of me making up for never getting onto the gallery. ------------------------------------------------------------ Gordon Rogers email : gar at csd.abdn.ac.uk Room 7 phone : (01224) 637 430 Flat DF St Peter Street Aberdeen AB24 3HU "The wise die no better or more wisely than the fools" Joseph Heller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 19:54:56 1998 From: C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk (C Browning) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:54:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: not so newcomer stuff Message-ID: hello again belle and sebastian people. the e.mails have been fair flooding in, and i've tried to e.mail a few people personally (and i hope they didn't mind) i hadn't plucked up the courage to mail the lot of you again. but, hey, the net is slow so my essay on david lynch will have to wait. all this talk of literature, films and other bands made me wonder whether or not a kind of poll of list members favourite novels, films, albums, just plain things might be a good idea. after the strange music for the millenium experience that was on channel four a couple of weeks back (some people actually considered spice girls worthy of a place?! but i guess we have to be tolerant don't we, however hard going it is......sigh what else? i've been wandering round for a while trying to think of things to put in my message, but no, inspiration fails me. certainly i've had an interesting few days since i joined up and provactive too i guess. and i haven't laughed out loud at so many things (tele tubbies pulp thing had me crawling on the floor gasping for breath, but then that was probably just me having had to sit through two hours on collection management (don't ask me what it was about, i was sitting through teh whole thing and have less than no idea) and laughiong at anything at all really. such is life. er. where was. mr tangent goes off again. yes. you all seem to have really interesting tastes in everything and i've been compiling lists of things to look out for. maybe a poll thing might uncover a few more gems. its probably been done before and i'm being out of order but sorry. just an idea. i do like the positivity and friendliness of this list a lot, though. people talking openly about their lives, the joy music brings to them, the desire to do something with their lives, just the whole get off your rear and do something as opposed to the whole anal bootleg scene that manifests itself so often. i like it here. i will miss it when i have to leave uni i think. this picnic thing sounds fun, even though i tend to be a bit shy at such occasions and lurk in the undergrowth. anyway. i'll wipe the rabid foam from my mouth and again say thank you for bringing a lot of colour into my life. its like meeting a whole group of friends who've just been waiting for you, right under your nose. thanks for listening any blessings welcome... chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 22:17:24 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:17:24 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists Message-ID: <199802042104.VAA31492@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> I'm a subscriber to this Radiohead Announce list and it really is very good. Could be an idea I think. > is the "Radiohead announce" list, which is just a news flash about Radiohead every > so often. But once you get people with free time and an email address and access > to even the strictest "news" list, there's no taming it. Peace list Northy (Well done to the people who slagged off Swells in the NME letters) ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Wed Feb 4 21:36:13 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:36:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: B&S in The South In-Reply-To: <34D8ADC5.3A9@earthlink.net> Message-ID: If Texas counts as the South, B&S are doing well in the indier-than-thou city of Austin. Of course, none of us can get Tigermilk either... If B&S played SXSW, that would be sooo super-amazing. Aaahhh...The Magnetic Fields! How delicious! --Kristen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 21:05:18 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 21:05:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: You saw me looking like a slob Message-ID: <8v+KEBAOgN20EwMc@elsato97.demon.co.uk> hulloo! Seeing as we are nattering about books here are some of me faves, which i *really* recommend others to read :) Sarah star recommends....Sybil by Flora Rheter Schrieber, Bell jar by Sylvia Plath, OF COURSE----> Ink Polaroids by Stuart David and Little Ink Movies which I still can't afford! Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp and Nausea by Jean-paul sartre. I am currently reading the Rebel (in English) by Camus and L'etranger (in French) by the same dude. I'm not sure which one is easier to read actually. On State Terrorism and iirational Terror now methinks. Ooh its hard work. When I was at high school in Lytham, in my last year, I would use to walk home, only about 3.5 miles. I would listen to my personal stereo and it would be magical. For months all I listened to was MSP, The Holy Bible and Gold Against the Soul. Then it swapped to my tape which had the B&S sessions on it. Then these two would alternate over the months. What I think is really great is when you do that, and later, when listening to these tunes again after a break, you are reminded of all those previous times when youlistened to it. EG, GATS reminds me of witing at Lytham hospital bus-stop looking at the tree and the road and cars and land egistry probably with a copy of the Maker in my hand, thinking about stuff. Ooh, nostalgia beckons. I'm off to try and get me website (wow!) thingy up and running. Apparently I have to FTP them. Where to I have pas idee. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah Funky with a WHY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MRissb7989 at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 22:32:45 1998 From: MRissb7989 at xxx.com (MRissb7989 at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:32:45 EST Subject: Sinister: Nowt interesting... Message-ID: <15aaa76.34d8ec8f@aol.com> Captain Zep was ever so slightly racist...its one and only "joke" was as follows... Coloured Space Bloke called Brown..."Captain Zep, I'm Brown" Captain Zep..."I can see that" Nothing wrong with discussing kids TV btw, you haven't lived till you've discussed the rude names in Captain Pugwash in detail over a few beers... And does anybody out there know what happened to pop combo Pele...for a while they were my favourite band...had two albums, Fireworks and Sport of Kings...well anyway if anybody knows what they're upto then please let me know...if anybody thinks they were shit, I don't want to know and be careful crossing the road, I know where you live!! And how much chaos will the chat room be when our fave Scots are in...it's a madhouse at the best of times...! Tell the truth, it' been noticeably lacking Pauls's steadying influence of late....doesn't he love us anymore?! Love and hugs Risso ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Wed Feb 4 22:50:59 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:50:59 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: MTV Message-ID: <199802042250.XAA18907@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Micheál wrote ... >Anna_Chapman at idg.com wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> So nobody has mentioned yet. I'm surprised. Who else watched Dog on >> wheels on MTV last night? Any responses? >> > >Was this on Alternative Nation???. I was waiting up for the Scottish >music special, which must have been aired in the last twenty minutes of >the program as I nodded off then. However, earlier on they showed TFC's >The Concept followed by the brilliant Lazy Line Painter Jane video - was >this the same show that had Dog On Wheels on? Or do they show different >episodes across europe? I'm afraid they show different episodes in each and every larger country in Europe ... the German version did *not* include any B&S video ... what is more, the Scottish Special *announced* as such on MTV Europe / Germany featured primarily crappy English bands as well as a considerable number of American bands ... trained geography teachers should take note and file an application. Sorry for my ramblings given that I might be the only German listee anyway ... the strictly limited number of highlights included Mercury Rev, Snow Patrol, Teenage Fanclub and Orange Juice ... thankfully, "Blue boy" had been shot before a familiar building in West Princes Street, which made the event pretty special and relevant, but I won't bother you with details. §;^D "I'll keep it with mine" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Wed Feb 4 19:09:49 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:09:49 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Change Of Lyrics-Teletubbies References: <34D8550C.3B5A@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34D8BCFD.5EAF@seahouses.u-net.com> Richard Anderson wrote: > > Richard Anderson > Tele-pulp > > To the tune of 'Common People' by Pulp... > > She came from space, she had a taste for custard etc etc LOOK FOR FUCKS SAKE STOP POSTING THIS PLEASE EVERYONE I have seen it enough times now thank you JJ x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From simon.gooch at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 23:39:00 1998 From: simon.gooch at xxx.uk (Simon Gooch) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:39:00 GMT Subject: Sinister: Swells slaggers in NME Message-ID: <1998020423390084572@zetnet.co.uk> Hmmn, Yeah, crabby old Marxist that Swells is, I though that Panda boy Williams gave a pretty fair responce. Sure, the Belles aint Swells cuppa, but at least he wrote eleoquently and amusingly. He's the sort of old fool that loves the attention. As for accusations of sour grapes at the NME I'm not so sure. I felt those letters painted B&S fans as rather foolish, petty and silly. The reply that Simon Williams gave made a lot of sense (not to bring up any good/bad gig, professionalism/ineptness deabte again). Its no conspiracy. One guy hated the band. The rest of the paper (belatedly) seem to love them, despite the fact they don't "play the game". See Jason Pierce's comments in that Awards round up for fair comment about where the majority of the NME staffers heads are at the moment. Sad to say, its the best indie-based mainstream mag around, now we've lost the MAker up its own Smash Hits obsessed arse (at least Pricey and Taylor liked pop for pops sake, not idiotic irony manifesting itself wank-led piss-poor writing..). Oh well. Some people always have to be petty. Simon -- *** Luv, hugs and kisses from Simon *** (aka Chipper! Fanzine aka Squirrel Fanciers' Quarterly) simon.gooch at zetnet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rgt100 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 00:12:41 1998 From: rgt100 at xxx.uk (Rob Taylor) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:12:41 GMT Subject: Sinister: Monica Queen Message-ID: In an attempt to try and settle this discussion about whether Monica Queen is actually Isobel... She was in a band called Thrum. Many years ago they performed on British TV, on 'The Word', playing their rather fine single, "So Glad". I've got the album it came off - the only one that they made. It's a bit patchy but if anyone wants a copy I'd be quite willing to make them one... Thai-an wrote: >somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond >any experience... Thankyou, that was lovely. Gabriel-Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera,...anybody..?? Absolutely no B&S content, and proud of it, Rob On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:59:49 GMT sinister-digest wrote: > From: sinister-digest > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:59:49 GMT > Subject: sinister-digest V2 #52 > To: sinister-digest at majordomo.net > > > sinister-digest Wednesday, February 4 1998 Volume 02 : Number 052 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:38:10 PST > From: "David Murrow" > Subject: Sinister: B & S US dates? > > Hello good kids -- > > Does someone here have inside scoop on Belle & Seb US dates yet? I know > that a rumored NYC date on Feb 21 was discussed, but has anyone seen or > heard about dates for Chicago or LA? > > I'm willing to spend serious dosh to travel to see Belle & Sebastian > live somewhere here in the United States of Oval Office Hanky-Panky... > > Dfactor > > np - Paul Westerberg "Eventually" CD > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:41:29 GMT+0 > From: "g.j.bevis" > Subject: Sinister: Where To See B & S Videos On Cable. > > Sorry Anna, I think i emailed you personally rather than the list by > mistake. My apologies. > > NEWS > A good place to find B & S videos is on Sky Hitmix in the middle of > the night. I saw Lazy Line and Dog On Wheels in the space of one > week. So I think they have a fan somewhere on there. > > Does anyone like Frank Black? I always felt that he should have been > a lot bigger. (Cue loads of jokes along the lines of 'Isn't he big > enough already!') > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". > . 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Cummings literary society, all this talk of his > poetry got me hot and bothered enough to post on here as a newbie; > perhaps not much b&s content but it seems that conversation has > gravitated towards the literature corner. > > amh wrote > "ok, so he has to be held responsible for the fact that everyone and her > cat now uses lower case letters, even tho that wasn't the point: > cummings > did use upper-case (as you'll know, having read the stuff: i guess i'm > talking here to people who haven't) .." > > well, yes, i have read cummings & realized that even his name is > officially capitalized. i just thought i'd put my two cents worth that > i think that eec is a wonderfully overlooked poet of the 20th century & > everyone should try him out, if but once (i must say that his complete > works are my bookshelf's pride & joy) > > try out his 6 nonlectures if you're not into poetry, or if you get very > ambitious, try out his biography 'dreams in the mirror' . > > xaipe (rejoice) > - -thai-an > > **** > > somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond > any experience,your eyes have their silence: > in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, > or which i cannot touch because they are too near > > your slightest look easily will unclose me > though i have closed myself as fingers, > you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens > (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose > > or if your wish be to close me,i and > my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, > as when the heart of this flower imagines > the snow carefully everywhere descending; > > nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals > the power of your intense fragility: whose texture > compels me with the colour of its countries, > rendering death and forever with each breathing > > (i do not know what it is about you that closes > and opens;only something in me understands > the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) > nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands > > e.e.cummings > *** > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . 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But I did see her > perform > >> live once. > > > >I wouldn't worry about it. I once *did* write to Betty Boo. I sent her a > >page ripped out of Smash Hits asking her to autograph it, but never got a > >reply. Bitch. > > > I was seriously thinking about writing to her, I was really quite keen. Then > in an interview in the NME or something they asked her about being fancied > by people and she said, "Well, they're not going to get me, are they?" and I > thought oh no! I've turned into a pervert! I was unemployed at the time. > Anyway, I still think it's a great idea to write to Belle and Sebastian. > Don't forget you can do it by e-mail. What could be simpler? You can also > write to Quentin Crisp and William Hague MP, both of whom I have been > in contact with. But they haven't been in contact with me. > > Peter > > > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . 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Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:06:27 +0100 > From: "PJMiller" > Subject: RE: Sinister: ...but that of Nick Nolte... > > - -----Original Message----- > De: David & Katrina > Para: B&S > Fecha: mi=E9rcoles 4 de febrero de 1998 0:03 > Asunto: Re: Sinister: to dream the impossible dream > > > Wing-Commander Kitchen wrote: > > >The club was a bit weird, to further our philosophy we were giving out > >fruit in the early hours (to cool people down whilst not forcing them to > >drink), installed massive air conditioning (at this point in time no > >London clubs had thought of this), and organising games of Twister on > >the dance floor. > > > My flatmate's got Twister, but he claims it's at his aunty's house in > Segovia of all places. I was thrilled to see Twister playing a major part= > in > the film "U-Turn" yesterday, along with what looked suspiciously like a > psychobilly. Long time no see. > > B&S content: > Our heroes actually make a fleeting appearance in the Nick Drake book. It > says they sound like Nick Drake fronting the BMX Bandits. I'm not quite s= > ure > how to take that. The BMX Bandits without Duglas BMX Bandit? > > "Number 12, Partick" made my day, if not my week. > > I am having a similar problem finding something to tape for the Duke. The > only thing I've got that he's not likely to have is Hawkwind - Space Ritu= > al. > What should I do? > > Peter > > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:04:32 -0500 (EST) > From: Francisco Alberto Wong > Subject: Re: Sinister: If you can't negotiate the gap, then it is pure natural selectio (fwd) > > On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br wrote: > > > The conversation just always seems to get around to [cartoons] > > Not just for the joy of bracketting a word, but also because convos seem > to invariably boil down to Star Wars or 80s music, as well--which I guess > dates the person talking. > > But here all postings invariably lead to Belle and Sebastian. Do they > have manga versions? Belle-bot and Sebastatron? > > If Hollywood were filming Belle and Sebastian: the Movie, who would play > the members of the band? > > Steve McQueen would be Stuart M? (or perhaps in a curel twist of fate, now > that he's acting--Damon Albarn?!?!??) Sharon Stone, Isobel? uhmm... George > Clooney twould be Stevie? Noah Wylie, Stu D? Claire Daines, Sarah M? > uhmm... uhh. ahem. > > Sorry. > > But honestly, who'd play our erstwhile heroes/heroines, eh? Casting > begins now! > > (hmm. and who would be cast as the listee people? I think I'd be a Gedde > Watanabe aka Long Duck Dong from Sixteen Candles. hmm 80s movie. hmmm) > > francisco creating his own threads > > > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:18:17 +0100 > From: "PJMiller" > Subject: RE: Sinister: ...is not my speaking voice.... > > - -----Original Message----- > De: Tag > Para: sinister at majordomo.net > Fecha: martes 3 de febrero de 1998 15:58 > Asunto: Sinister: We are family - I've got all my sinisterines with me. > > > Jasper Carrot wrote: > > No, no I didn't mean it like that. I like the idea of the list being > a sort of daily fanzine though. Basically, I love it when people tell > me with a certain passion about new things, but I get a bit narky when > I hear such and such are good, no they're not, yes they, fuck off, > wanker ... and so on. If someone writes I like Murray whathisfaace > because he makes me feel like this ... well that's great. I may not > agree - I mean I remember going out for a drink with someone I used to > work with who loved opera. I don't, but the way this guy talked about > it was very special. Errm ... yeah sorry, the list as a fanzine ... I > like it! > > The list is already a bit like a fanzine for me. I no longer feel the need > to shell out for "real" publications, such as the NME or Q or The Face or > anything of that kind. This is a major saving for me because they're all > twice the price here. Having said that, I do miss a bit of breakfast > reading. Had to make do with "Slaves of New York" this morning. Talk about > the cutting edge! I don't often buy things people talk about on the list, > but I do pick them up, turn them over, and think about it. I am one of those > sad people who wanders around shops in the afternoon, horribly aware that > the staff are thinking "Oh look, it's him again. Hasn't he got anything > better to do? He never buys anything. I wonder if he's mentally unstable? > Why is he looking in the back of "Uncut"? Why doesn't he just buy it? > Doesn't he like Monkey Brown?" > > Someone wrote > > >> And Boogie Nights is crap. > > > I thought it was really good. I particularly like the way it makes you feel > kind of dirty for about two weeks after. I certainly don't think it was > easy. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't know where to start. And it's a long way > from New Kids on the Block. And now Burt Reynolds has got two good films > under his belt. And nobody says "squeal piggy, squeal!" in this one. And it > features the godlike genius of ELO, which is really stirring, and God Only > Knows, which is really moving in that context. Sorry to ramble, I am trying > to practise what I preach. > > Bev Bevan > > > > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:07:25 -0600 (CST) > From: Schaffenberger > Subject: Sinister: teeny weeny beanies > > Ok, I've been reading for two days now, and I have finally worked up the > nerve to write something. I write from the beautiful metropolis > (interpret sarcasm here, if appropriate) of San Antonio, Texas. The only > music store in town that is not connected to a bookstore or owned by the > Blockbuster corporation specializes in heavy metal, punk, and the like, > so I have been piking up all of my B&S merchandise in Austin, about 90 > minutes away. (A small price to pay...) > Um, I think the Beanie Baby fad is finally starting to die around these > parts. I'd love to hear Michael Stipe sing "Judy and the Dream of > Horses" or Helium do a really creepy cover of "Beautiful," complete with > video-game-esque sound effects. I love, love, love, love ee cummings, > though my favorite writer is probably Scott Fitzgerald. > Sorry if this is really boring; email is still very new and exciting to > me, and I haven't quite figured it out. > > - --Kristen > > PS I'm not married> > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". > > . 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Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:03:55 -0000 > From: Keith Watson > Subject: Re: Sinister: Captain Zep > > >This message has nothing to do with B&S so I'll just say that they are > >indeed the finest band on God's green Earth and get on to what I wanted > >to say. > > > >I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad > >students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was > >a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving > >mysteries. > > > >Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. > > > He was indeed a super space detective, who detected which of the large > cardboard cutouts "done the murdurs" as Taggart would put it. It was shite, > so it only ran for one series, and as I remember, this was circa 1981. > > Keith. > > > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:20:43 +0000 (GMT) > From: The loneliness of the middle-distance runner > Subject: Sinister: gingivitis > > On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, A.M. Horne wrote: > > > >=20 > > > John Johnston CT (uh?) mentioned ee cummings. Uh oh, that's four of us= > =20 > > > now on Sinister who love little eec - let's try a few more cultural > > > grenades - Dylan Thomas anyone? Stanley Spencer? Jorge Luis Borges? = > Oh > > > alright then, Hugh Lloyd (as seen last night on Channels 4s Hancock > > > thingy)? > > >=20 > > ok: tho this migth be dull.... > >=20 > >=20 > > cummings (obviously) > > yes yes oh yes - hmmm, spotted the complete ee cummings in waterstones > yesterday... looks lovely but a fair investment at =A335 or so... should i > or shouldn't i??... i don't know. > > > j.d. salinger > > wonderful wonderful books - love them all > > >=20 > > enough for the moment.=20 > >=20 > > read a book. > > > okay then - haven't posted a message to the list for aeons, so i'll just > give my tuppence worth then fade into obscurity once more > > i did a search for 'belle and sebastian' on the internet the other day, > and was bemused to discover which words the computer came up with as > alternatives to make the search more specific... > > okay, so 'johann', and 'bach' - fair enough, after all, when searching for > a composer, everyone would choose their middle name to search for. hmm, > not conviced > > BUT, why oh why does this bizarre machine come up with 'glade' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 03:30:02 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:30:02 -0700 Subject: Fw: Sinister: B&S in The South Message-ID: <19980205032808.AAB13556@ibm-customer> > Contrary to this letter, there are plenty of B&S fans in The South that I know (North > Carolina). I see the same here in cheery Denver. > You should be able to order most of the EP's from your average indie record shop. I > found all three with minimal effort in Chapel Hill. Although when I bought them, > they had three copies of each, and now there's only one each of DOW and LLPJ. So > I'm obviously not the only one here. When I bought "Sinister", the guy at th local CD shop said that it was one of his biggest sellers that week. I got all the recent EP's, and they re-stocked quickly. A show here would be well received, even before I starting converting. vocal newbie Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 03:27:50 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:50 EST Subject: Sinister: retsiniS Message-ID: <2263dd11.34d931b8@aol.com> Now I am all self-conscious from the weekend and wondering whether this is really B&S content. I would not be writing it if it were not for the band's existance, so is not that justification enough? Yesterday I drove home from work through the town, instead of the back roads I prefer to travel about on; I had errands to do. I noticed that one young man directing traffic bore a certain resemblance to Stuart M., or at least what I suppose he looks like (he looked frightened). I think he was attempting to disguise himself because he was sporting a slight beard. Now since I live in the United States, I thought this would be news; it is like seeing Elvis, only this supposed Stuart was alive, and Scottish. Has the pressure of stardom already had its toll on Stuart that he has to moonlight in manual labor and contruction? Now that I think back upon it, I should have stopped the car and asked him to have tea with me. We could have brought a table out into the street, sipped our tea and nibbled politely on scones. We could have read each other our favourite passages from _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_. And all around us would be traffic, honking horns, yelling curses at us to move the tea table from the street; we would not though because we would have been discussing delicate matters. (If Genevieve has her own Stuart David, why can't I have my own pretend Stuart M.?) Why doesn't everyone on the list meet at Primrose Hill on the longest day of the year, officially change their names to Belle and/or Sebastian there, and have a group marriage ceremony there. That would certainly be newsworthy, at least to some put off Druids who wanted the hill to themselves for the summer solstice. If we didn't make the national press, we could always make "Druid Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my street. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 03:19:43 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:19:43 -0700 Subject: Fw: Sinister: thoughts Message-ID: <19980205032808.AAA13556@ibm-customer> > What do people think are the worst tunes for getting stuck in your head? > I'd vote for the jingle from the Reisen Chocolate Chew adverts. Anything by Cheryl Crowe. I live in Colorado, and, being the rabid trendster I am, I snowboard. It always seems that after playing the perfect tune on the way up, I hear Cheryl Crowe, and have that "Winding road" song stuck in my head. Dog on Wheels or LLPJ seem to be the best B&S songs for snowsports. Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bsanant at xxx.edu Thu Feb 5 04:14:40 1998 From: bsanant at xxx.edu (Birjinder Singh Anant) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:14:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: BMX Bandits-SF Message-ID: <199802050414.UAA29223@uclink.berkeley.edu> Hi, In today's Guardian it says that BMX Bandits are playing at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday night, in case anyone on the list is from San Francisco. If anyone's planning on going, please email me so that we could meet before the show. Birjinder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From dk791598 at xxx.ca Thu Feb 5 04:20:15 1998 From: dk791598 at xxx.ca (nathalie) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 23:20:15 -0500 Subject: Sinister: retsiniS References: <2263dd11.34d931b8@aol.com> Message-ID: <34D93E00.25B6@er.uqam.ca> PKHINTZ at aol.com wrote: (snipped a lot) > > self-conscious from the weekend >the back roads > sporting a slight > pressure of stardom > moonlight in > contruction > I should have > stopped > politely on scones >And all around us would be >delicate matters. >Why doesn't everyone > change their >ceremony >for the summer >I found fifty >children on my street. >pretend > Stuart M. > . This message was brought to you by >Matthew i loved matthew's post... by the way, hello everyone! nathalie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 05:23:40 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:23:40 -0700 Subject: Fw: Sinister: tigermilk Message-ID: <19980205051900.AAA4757@ibm-customer> > Do Beat Happening still exist? According to a recent interview with Calvin Johnson in the Onion (which can be found somewhere on the internet), the singer/guitar player, Beat Happening never really broke up, they just got so involved in other projects that they stopped their work together. He said he didn't see them getting back together anytime soon, but wouldn't say never. He is still running K records, and leads the group Dub NArcotic, which came through town (Denver) to play in a warehouse in the fall. I think his voice would really be interesting doing a B&S cover, Track and Field, maybe? Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Thu Feb 5 06:45:50 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:45:50 -0500 Subject: Sinister: i gave myself to sin Message-ID: today i'm going for content, oodles and oodles of content. i will be very factual and not wander away from the facts. well, i guess not. but i've come to enjoy posting mildly off topic letters to the list and can't stop myself. ah, the joys of addiction. lady jillian said: >>ohmigod. my computer spoke to me today. i swear! there was nothing in the cd rom and i wasn't on the internet or anything but there was this little sound/voice? coming out of the speakers for about 2 seconds. it freaked me out. it sounded like a walkie talkie/alien signal coming thru... *CHHHKKK* i dunno what it said but i think it spoke chinese!<< personally, i think it was the influence of belle and sebastian. after hearing their music fly up into space the alien races banded together and are trying to make first contact through the list. unfortunately, it seems they miscalculated and are no better at working computers than most of us. then stevie said: >>David's picnic sounds like a jolly good idea. In the meantime, for those of you in the London area, a few of us are meeting up at the Poetry Cafe on Betterton Street in Covent Garden on Friday after 7pm, if you fancy coming along. Even you, Northy!<< i do not recommend that anyone do this without a detailed map of covent garden and directions. bring the number for the cafe and make sure to arrive properly and not get lost or it is quite possible that he will blacklist you forever.... (not that i speak from experience or anything). so genevieve asked: >>Sinister people,tell me some good books I should read!<< geek love by katherine dunn has been out awhile, but i always recommend it right off because it's such an amazing book, and everyone should read it. it's hard to describe, because trying to condense the plot to a couple lines is quite impossible. it's about a family of freaks, but they aren't really outcasts. the whole book is complex and simple and totally amazing. hmm, sorry if this doesn't make sense, but you really must read it. which prompted gordon to say: >>Picture drawing (kind of like the Gallery on Hart Beat). Hart Beat for the foreign listees is/was a kids T.V. programme about art. I think the subject area could be fellow listees (as the majority of us don't know what each other looks like). Suggested ideas could be: - Genevieve flirting with Record Shop Boy. - HoneyPaul in his legendary dwarf pose. - Sarah strangling the Duke of Harringay with some sixth form poetry - Tag saving Northy's bacon - And whatever else<< oh, i really like this idea!! that would give me something fun to do during my writing workshop class (and yes, i am in college. sad, i know). so sarah replied: >>I am currently reading the Rebel (in English) by Camus and L'etranger (in French) by the same dude. I'm not sure which one is easier to read actually. On State Terrorism and iirational Terror now methinks. Ooh its hard work.<< that's odd, as a friend just loaned me the plague by camus, which he swears by. and he thought it was light reading. should i be worried? thus matthew concluded: >>Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my street. << and really, isn't that what we're all sort of aiming for anyway? at least, i am. especially the 50 cats part! xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From suzsch at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 07:15:34 1998 From: suzsch at xxx.net (Suzanne Schroeder) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:15:34 -0600 Subject: Sinister: another newbie to add to the fire Message-ID: <199802050716.BAA08534@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net> Well, if this isn't the scariest thing to find 75 messages in your in box in one sitting. I almost unsubscribed...and I did for 30 minutes, before I began to realize that this looks like an intelligent and verbal group. I'm guessing we all look the same....aspiring writers, poets who aren't afraid to sit at a coffee shop for a few hours (long after they finished their tea....yes, I'm an American and love my hot tea) and ponder over a long verse that they've been scribling on for the past hour. My friends don't really know about my near beatnik qualities because they really don't understand, but to find a nest that even resembles it is too irresistable. The State I am in is the 1st song of theirs I ever heard. I was lucky to work at a college radio station that had tigermilk in its library and since I consider myself a conossieur of brit rock, I had to hear it. In my 2 years of working at that station, that was the only time I truly ran out and bought the album afterwards (I was disapointed that it wasn't tigermilk, but I later found out why I would probably never own my own copy). sinister, of course is one of the few albums I can say that I pick it up and listen to it over and over again. The last time that happened was when I heard a Morrissey album for the first time.....back in 1994!!! Yeah, I lived under a rock all that time, but if you live in the right part of the country, you can go your whole life without even hearing anything less than Kenny G. Since I heard that album, i was convinced there was a CIA plot to hide all the albums I would like on the back of the shelf while they spun 7 Mary 3 into oblivion. There was also discussion over whether or not there are fans in the South. Yes, I'm in austin Texas, and I think, believe it or not, that people in this city are more open to this stuff. I'm fascinated that the band doesn't even sit in their own photoshoots. Are they that interested in holding onto their private lives, or do they not want to have it all happen at once? I could see where instant fame would be a scary thing. All of the sudden you are expected to do a juggling act while standing on a stack of fine china while composing a shakespeare sonnet. Anyway, hope to get to know the lot of you. Suzanne ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 4 17:09:22 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:09:22 -0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees Message-ID: <01bd318f$a3186050$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> > read a book. Do I have to! It's funny the number of people come on to the list talking about being computer-illiterate, whereas I find myself in the opposite camp (perhaps this is a way of describing people on the list being in 2 different camps), or being very computer-literate, but being hardly able to read! I'll read a book as long as it's got plenty of pictures in it. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bcrampton at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 09:58:24 1998 From: bcrampton at xxx.uk (bob crampton) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:58:24 +0000 Subject: Sinister: so what's up? Message-ID: <34D98D39.6BFA@in109.brann.co.uk> *new boy in the class, sits at the back, watches, wondering who these people are....* what goes on here? bob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 09:40:49 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:40:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Edinburgh and Pubs + Meetings Message-ID: <01bd321a$23fd6730$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Anyone who fancies coming can meet at Christies which is just down from West Port going towards Grassmarket tonight at 8:30. Look forward to seeing you... What about the other people from Edinburgh who haven't replied yet... Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Thu Feb 5 09:57:05 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:57:05 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Monique Message-ID: Admiral Miller said: > As far as I know she's an entirely different person. Someone has even heard > her singing nicely and quietly once. I can't remember who though. That'll be me. ohh christ 6 years ago now when i played with glasgow dafties "Saint". we practiced at the same studios and the same time and i heard the sweet voice which i followed to find her all lovely and singing to herself. god bless every one of us.. Alex Romanelli sang in a wobbly voice: > but after watching The Man Who Fell To Earth last night I guess I'd > currently plump for Low-era Bowie. If only for the wonderful hair: > deeply dyed orange with blonde bits at the front. Oh what a fine film. I fancy him in that. Makes me want to get a gun and a girlfriend so that i can shoot some blanks. Low era B&S? hmm my personal favourite - but "Labyrinth" is definitely his finest work. Genevieve said in a dreamy voice: > poetry n' stuff:I like Thomas...I love W.B Yeats...Shelley... no one will believe this. My mum says that Percy Byshee Shelley is my great, great, great, great, great grandad which may or may not be true. If it's not don't tell me, that thought alone can get me through a day in prison. I have inherited none of g.g.g.g.g.grandad shelleys talent, but i do walk with a stoop. Honey mr loverman spunked: > Some random stuff. Stuart David tells me that Slow Graffiti, which I > can never spell is appearing in a soundtrack to the file "The Acid > House". Great song - should be a single. Said humbly and not > looking for a fight cos I'll hide behind Laurel if you try it. Couldn't agree more with you, my splendid man. The first couple of lines are lovely lovely. I think we know what snakey fellow we should thank for that. Ok dokay now i work. yours in Jesus, Christopher A. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From adamrobinson at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 11:04:43 1998 From: adamrobinson at xxx.uk (Adam Robinson) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 11:04:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: All hail the mighty Aqua ! Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 11:35:47 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:35:47 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: Message-ID: <01bd322a$33deb310$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >I've had 'You Can't Return My Love' by The Man from Delmonte (sp?) stuck in >my head all day!! Classic track! :) > >JohnS. Were the Man from Delmonte not that band from Manc who got their ASSES sued by all and sundry when their debut album contained rather accurate information about whom the songs were about? Listening to the new record by Mark Hollis (formerly of Talk Talk as it says plastered in some fuckoff big sticker across the front) and it's brilliant. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 12:05:44 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (WesleySniper) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:05:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Swells slaggers in NME In-Reply-To: <1998020423390084572@zetnet.co.uk> Message-ID: The NME article - why did they get a dickhead to go and see them in the first place? Anyway, B & S are always being nominated for best new band, for a couple of years now. There should be a category for "Best band that have been around for a while and been discovered". ha! The trumpet player at the manchester gigs. I'm sure he plays trumpet for a scots band called 'Hardbody' . They supported " james" last year, so i think he's the same bloke. any ideas? any answer to the tigermilk girl poser? who is she? is shee the smae woman in the dog on wheels picture? byeeeee, wez ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stip at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 11:20:48 1998 From: Stip at xxx.uk (Stip / Blue Music) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:20:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: get out of my head In-Reply-To: <199802041750.RAA11319@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: Rod Wrote: >>What do people think are the worst tunes for getting stuck in your head? >>I'd vote for the jingle from the Reisen Chocolate Chew adverts. JohnS wrote: >I've had 'You Can't Return My Love' by The Man from Delmonte (sp?) stuck in >my head all day!! Classic track! :) You should think yourselves very, very lucky. I have had the same tune in my head for about 14 years. It provides the rhythm to my every move - I walk in time to it, I hoover in time to it, I chew in time to it. It is the Oompa-Loompa song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I'm possessed by it. Any momentary lapse into, for example, Black Lace's Agadoo or the theme from Black Beauty is but a welcome distraction. Typing in time, love Nicola xxx -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Thu Feb 5 13:01:25 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:01:25 +0100 Subject: Sinister: jobs an' that Message-ID: As there seem to be many people involved in the music business, I was looking for some tips. Although I'm following (kinda) a career in Linguistics I would rather do research in a media frame. Considering my attempts at becoming a singer have never really worked out, I was looking at getting involved in music research. Can anyone help me with ideas on how to get into this?? I prefer Garcia Marquez's 100 years of solitude. Thanks to anyone who can help, Claire. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 12:09:49 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:09:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: multiple reply bonanza (tiny sliver of B&S content) Message-ID: <199802051254.MAA26287@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Snake boy Chris wrote: > >Makes me want to get a gun and a girlfriend so that i can shoot some > blanks. > Just so long as your serpentine sidekick keeps coming up with the goods, we'll be OK... John J wrote: >etc etc LOOK FOR FUCKS SAKE STOP POSTING THIS PLEASE EVERYONE I have seen it enough times now John, calm yourself. I hear the delete button is very therapeutic in cases like these:-) Brad said: >no one seems to have mentioned my favorite poet and author, richard brautigan. >for novels try "in watermelon sugar" , "so the wind won't blow it all >away" , or "the abortion" for starters. My favourite too, Brad. Though I would tend to recommend 'Sombrero Fallout', 'The Abortion' or 'The Hawkline Monster' for starters. But hey, that's just me, isn't it. Brautigan has this extraordinary effect on me, like I'm really happy and dead melancholic at the same time. Sometimes. Guess which curent Scottish popular beat combo do a similar thing? Miller fretted: >I am having a similar problem finding something to tape for the Duke. The >only thing I've got that he's not likely to have is Hawkwind - Space Ritual. >What should I do? either: 1) tape him Hawkwind for one of his Space-Rock weekends, famed across the whole of south-West Exeter for their debauchery and tasty pastries, or 2) burn your Hawkwind records and send him the ashes. He'd like that. Really. Wouldn't you Dukester? Or... 3) Do yourself a favour and get on a plane, then a train, then a taxi to the Duke's very own brilliant club night in sunny Exeter. It is a room which truly lives. And hey, take in a fantastic game of football while you're in town. While you're there, ask the Duke what he wants taping. It said on the telly this morning that Duke is the 4th most popular male dog's name in the UK. I can't believe that's true.... Miller went on: >I no longer feel the need >to shell out for "real" publications, such as the NME or Q or The Face or >anything of that kind. Yes! Yes! Don't buy Q! It's all lies and fuckery! :-) That's all for now. There may not be much B&S here but at least it's only one easy-to-delete message. tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 13:24:38 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:24:38 -0000 Subject: Sinister: lazy labour leader Blair Message-ID: <199802051321.NAA11543@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Well someone mentioned it.... But it is with some trepidation that I post this, bearing in mind the response to previous attempts at song-related levity. Anyhow if you don't want to read crap lyrics to a B&S song please stop now. And apologies for non-UK types for whom the politics may be a bit parochial. For Genevieve's benefit I'm working on a Quebecois anthem "The Distinct Status that I am in"... Working at Number 10. Hiding from Tony Benn. Dreaming of May 1st Dreaming of the time when people get to call you President. On the News, On TVs Trying oh-so-hard to please Everyone, all the time, Being a rebel's fine But you go all the way to being Tory. You might meet a Nurse tonight, You might meet a Nurse tonight, Do you think that she will see, Do you think that she will see, So let's see your plans for jobs Find employers for yobs. You are challenging OAPs OAPs need to knit themselves a jumper Yay for the Business World You know a bloke who's Tax Free in the Treasury And making plenty cash While we are wondering how he did it Meet a single mum tonight You might meet a mum tonight Do you think that she will see Do you think that she will see .. But you read in a book that you got free from Thatch There are lotions, there are potions On the NHS that should be paid for privately Crazy Mandy, all the time Spinning lies You are appearing on Newsnight Trying to explain the dome and what you're gonna put inside it Chorus... So thank you for indulging me. ALSO Good to hear from Nicola M again - her posts are always quality. List Dream No.2!! Me and Tag in a waiting room. I said "You're Mr Sparkly Orange" He said "Yes". I need to get a dream-life John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From olaf7 at xxx.is Thu Feb 5 14:02:57 1998 From: olaf7 at xxx.is (OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:02:57 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I have to get this right. Ok, on my Alternative Nation they showed : lasy line painter Jane, Teenage fanclub, Mercury Rev, Progigy, Iggy pop and other things, but no Orange juice( which i had looked forward to see,given the time you spend on talking about it) and no Dog on Weels(although i've seen that before, is Stuart M the dog hunting character?). I dont get it, how can they show different shows all over Europe?(btw: this was in Iceland). I shall stop my moaning now and just be happy that i saw LLPJ (LPG for those who now it by that name). Talking about LLPJ, what a revieling(probably wrong spelling) video, they played in it, didn't they, I've never seen them. Steve Jackson: the guy in the begining who was paintinig the road, Chris the one in the bus shelter, Stuart M the one who got sprayed on, the drummer( dont remember his name- a common problem with drummers i guess) the one who was drying the clothes, Isobel reading.... and i dont remember more. Any objections? When is the longest day in Britain exacly? , is it the same day as in Iceland, thats about 24june Milan Kundera and Gabrel Garcia Marques any day for me - please olla ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From andrew.dean at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 22:11:26 1998 From: andrew.dean at xxx.net (andrew dean) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:11:26 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda long) Message-ID: <34DA390E.20C7@bull.net> actually it's just long, no 'kinda' about it... Sinister: and the dream of belle & sebastian Madame Cholet (barzy at networkmags.com) Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:48:18 -0800 >I bet there are more people on this list who dream about Belle & > Sebastian, than anywhere else in the world... strange you should say that because i had one last night too. no cover versions of the sweeps' song from mary poppins this time though... i was in america somewhere and i was waiting for a bus with my family and i popped across the road to buy something when the bus arrived and everyone got on and left without me, wah! luckily chris and maybe stevie were in the nearby saloon bar and offered me a lift in their van. we drank whisky and ate cherries... don't ask me why. i don't even like whisky. or cherries come to that... > I'm suprised that no one was naked, considering what i've been reading > before bed... you'll go blind... > with long distance relationships, a girl's got to keep amused >somehow... right? you too eh? it's a bitch isn't it? i blame the internet and the easier access to global communications. there's just going to be more and more of this as time goes on. good for the airline companies i guess. what's he like? is he a cutie? 8) elsewhere: WesleySniper (wac at coventry.ac.uk) >The NME article - why did they get a dickhead to go and see them >in the first place? exactly. the mauling was, in my eyes, premeditated. >Anyway, B & S are always being nominated for best new >band, for a couple of years now. There should be a category for "Best >band that have been around for a while and been discovered". ha! ha ha. a few years ago blur were nominated in best newcomer categories everywhere despite 'she's so high' having been released in 1987 or so. ditto pulp despite being around from 1982. ha 'this year's best newcomer goes to thomas edison for "mary had a little lamb"'... >The trumpet player at the manchester gigs. I'm sure he plays >trumpet for a scots band called 'Hardbody'. They supported "james" >last year, so i think he's the same bloke. any ideas? >any answer to the tigermilk girl poser? who is she? is shee the >smae woman in the dog on wheels picture? these are both FAQs, check the archives. (yes is the answer to the first one, a single or two out on haiku records i believe, picked one up for 50p in badlands records in cheltenham just before christmas, dec 23rd to be precise. this is also the record shop that katrina phoned up and chastised last wednesday... his name's mick i believe, last seen retrieving stevie's beer in manchester) i have quite a list of people who want tigermilk and people prepared to tape it for people, will pair you all up as best i can and let you know before the weekend if possible. anybody else wants a copy then just email me - this is just an attempt to keep all the requests for copies off the list (as they are so dull to read). more people willing to tape copies would be appreciated too, especially americans. which reminds me, include a note saying where you are geographically so i can match you up with someone local. andy koogydelbbog at yahoo.com other things that have cropped up here but are non b&s: oh, spiritualized single is out and the chemical brothers remix has grown on me. i wish that first big thump was a lot more brutal, a bit more punk, a bit more prodigy, made a bigger splash as it were but the general wibbling is kinda pleasant. it's not as good as the original but, hey, i can play the original any time i want anyway. it's good to have a choice. like the two versions of 'seeing other people'. what is inexcusable though is the instrumental version which is identical to the remix but with one of the master tracks volume turned down. lazy lazy lazy. also, the single version, track 1, is a hatchet job, editted down to nothing. um, i can just picture tim 'pinteresque' hopkins shaking his head and muttering 'pink floyd' under his breath at this. 'FUCK OFF you indie snob' is all i have to say... 8) oh, btw star, it sounded like you had a good day yesterday. did you also notice that your fanzine got a mention on the round up of zines on teletext... it didn't say much apart from listing the contents, wasn't a review as such but was stardom nonetheless. books? the little prince by antoine de saint exupery is a must for everyone here. it's one of those kid's books that's spoilt on children. and, as has been said before, he kinda looks like someone we all know... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 14:10:10 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:10:10 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Captain Cooke and his amazing exploding band Message-ID: <01bd323f$c4f54a20$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> > The trumpet player at the manchester gigs. I'm sure he plays >trumpet for a scots band called 'Hardbody' . They supported " james" last >year, so i think he's the same bloke. any ideas? He does - or let's put that correctly did, play for HardBody or HandBony as the promoters saw it. They were supposed to be playing T in the Park last year too, but their manager got drunk and pissed up on booze the night before and forgot to bring their equipment in time... oops. Hardbody however are now no more - at least not for anyone except Louise (who's Mick's brother's girlfriend) - who has indeed been signed up by Sony and who will be releasing the album that they all recorded in New Orleans last January soon. Mick mainly plays geetar for Hardbody. There's a couple of singles available... On your Own and Hazel's Hob. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From andrew.dean at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 22:20:21 1998 From: andrew.dean at xxx.net (andrew dean) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:20:21 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: competition suggestion Message-ID: <34DA3B25.38A5@bull.net> someone suggested: >>Picture drawing (kind of like the Gallery on Hart Beat). Hart Beat for >>the foreign listees is/was a kids T.V. programme about art. you mean 'take hart' or, and this really shows my age, 'vision on'... 8) >>I think the subject area could be fellow listees (as the majority of us >>don't know what each other looks like). someone else replied: >oh, i really like this idea!! that would give me something fun to do during >my writing workshop class (and yes, i am in college. sad, i know). someone else pointed out that scanning the finished pictures in order to distribute them would be troublesome. but if we make it so they have to be created on computer (and let's face it, everyone has access to some sort of art package) then they'll already be digital and emailing them around would be no trouble at all... me, i liked the ink polaroids thing and don't see why people aren't still doing it. i liked the slightly artificial prose style that it enforced... she turned around and smiled at me. you get the picture? andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From prosella at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 14:34:12 1998 From: prosella at xxx.com (Paige Rosella) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:34:12 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk [tape] offer Message-ID: <01BD3219.388A4980@n141.natureny.com> Hello. Since Leslie Chinea was kind and sweet enough to send me a lovely IYFS poster, and told me to "surprise her" in repaying her, I have decided to make the following offer, in the name of what is right and good and nice: I'll make tapes of Tigermilk for the first 5 US listies to email me privately who are still in need [whoa. Bad syntax]. If you want the 3 Eps on the other side, I can do that for you, too. I usually put Tigermilk on both sides, because it's all you'll want to hear anyway. All I ask in return is that you send me a blank 90 minute tape. Who's game? Love & Dawson's Creek, Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Thu Feb 5 14:41:16 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:41:16 +0100 Subject: Sinister: More cock fun Message-ID: <01bd3244$1dfc97a0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: u01cjtc Para: sinister Fecha: miércoles 4 de febrero de 1998 21:10 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists > > >About cock fun, it had time and dates I'll go back to see if they tie in >to the dates tigermilk was recorded! Although I think perhaps the >author(s) had something else in mind.Hmmmmmm Better still, find one with a time and date in the near future, go along at that time on that date, and perhaps the author will be there, possibly with some friends. That way you can see whether it really is Stuart Murdoch, and if not you can ask them if they've got Tigermilk. Then report back to the list! What could be simpler? But make sure you go with someone big and strong in case it's an ambush by these Belle-ophobic people you hear so much about these days. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 14:50:45 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:50:45 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Nowt interesting... References: <15aaa76.34d8ec8f@aol.com> Message-ID: <34D9D1C5.42A4DDB4@virgin.net> MRissb7989 at aol.com wrote: > And does anybody out there know what happened to pop combo Pele...for a while > they were my favourite band...had two albums, Fireworks and Sport of > Kings...well anyway if anybody knows what they're upto then please let me > know...if anybody thinks they were shit, I don't want to know and be careful > crossing the road, I know where you live!! well, i know that mark used to manage them and that they split up! can't remember anymore, sorry ... do you remember any of their names, 'cos i know i've met a few of them recently, but i couldn't tell you what they were doing unless you prompted my memory. cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 10:17:32 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 10:17:32 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail References: Message-ID: <34D991BC.56F843C5@virgin.net> Victor the Violently Venemous Vole wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, John Stuart wrote: > > > > I saw the video for LPG on it just before the Manchester gigs. > > >Haven't watched it since, but maybe they play them quite often. > > > > LPG???? Did I type that? I of course ment LLPJ. > > I wondered that meself. The question remains... What did LPG stand for? Liquid Petroleum Gas i believe ... that's what taxis run on in Perth, apparently it's cleaner than that nasty petrol stuff ... Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 14:47:11 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:47:11 +0000 Subject: Sinister: MTV References: <199802042250.XAA18907@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <34D9D0EF.F39F4504@virgin.net> Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > Sorry for my ramblings given that I might be the only German listee anyway > ... the strictly limited number of highlights included Mercury Rev, Snow > Patrol, Teenage Fanclub and Orange Juice ... thankfully, "Blue boy" had been > shot before a familiar building in West Princes Street, which made the event > pretty special and relevant, but I won't bother you with details. ummm, just wondering what people thought of the snow patrol song & video (well, if you managed to catch it on mtv anyway) if people have an opinion, then maybe you could mail me privately to save the list from lack of b&s content. we got a play on the evening session on tuesday night too! oh, and if anyone is interested, when the cd/limited 7" comes out on feb 16th, the cd features the video on it, one ofthose enhanced cd thingies .... they're playing the b-side of the new ultrasound single on xfm ... i don't think he can sing which just confirms my dis-like for them ... the music doesn't sound paticularly innovative or interesting either ... just alright i 'spose (i'm TRYING to be diplomatic!) b&s content ... umm, can't think of any right now, except that stuart and mick and neil and richard all went to the snow patrol launch party in dundee last night and may even go tonight in glasgow???? ok, so it's not really good enough, but hey, i'm trying! anyone want a snow patrol sticker :) cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 16:12:11 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:12:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: MTV In-Reply-To: <34D881F7.9F3D54DD@virgin.net> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jeepster Recordings Ltd wrote: > no vid for Le Pastie ... only Dog On Wheels, LLPJ and A Century of > Fakers. Sorry. Quote from 3..6..9 mailout: "Videos have been made for both Century and Pastie. We expect that MTV and the Chart Show will just pick their favourite song out of the two, and show that one." Rod Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that | yet. I haven't told my dad either... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 16:15:36 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Grazarax) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Nowt interesting... In-Reply-To: <15aaa76.34d8ec8f@aol.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 MRissb7989 at aol.com wrote: > Captain Zep was ever so slightly racist...its one and only "joke" was as > follows... > Coloured Space Bloke called Brown..."Captain Zep, I'm Brown" > Captain Zep..."I can see that" Captain Zep, Captain Zep Super Space Detective. Go to http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nandemoyuko/ARCHIVE.HTM for more details about this (and every other show of the late 70's/early 80s) Written by the brilliant "Paisley" Peter Icthys. > Nothing wrong with discussing kids TV btw, you haven't lived till you've > discussed the rude names in Captain Pugwash in detail over a few beers... Oh, for fuck's sake, there weren't any. Victor Lewis-Smith made that whole thing up. Go to www.urbanlegends.com Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Comeondowns: n. Depression resulting from knowing all the answers | to a game show while confined in your living room ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 16:19:41 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Zammo off of Grange Hill) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:19:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: I left my wool I left my knob In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: > And finally, I have been singing 'Belle and Sebastian' all day. I walked > about 2 miles or so from Ashton into town so I could buy the > Spiritualized single, clutching my 2 quid. And, yes you guessed it, it > was 2.99. THE NAZIS! Blame Dedicated for not giving the record shop enough free copies. Wasn't that the same price as the B&S summer singles? > And they didn't even *have* the Cornershop single! Not out til Feb 16th. > MY SO-CALLED life! AH... that's better. What were you saying? > All we want to do is to listen to great pop music and > we can't due to our capitalist society of f**kheids!!!!! I wouldn't say that's ALL we want to do. I'd quite like to eat cheese on toast too. > "Sex is the refuge of the mindless" > --Valerie Solanis Did she say that when she used to present Blue Peter with JOhn Noakes and Peter Powell? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tupperwarp: n. Condition of Tupperware left in the microwave too long ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 16:20:52 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:20:52 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Books n' stuff Message-ID: <46DC91C110F@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Hello everybody. I'm still too new to this to know what I'm doing, but here are a few of my favourite books...... "The Bridge", "Walking On Glass", "The Wasp Factory" indeed anything by Iain Banks, who is a VERY cool guy - I met him a few years ago at a book signing. Also "Morven Callar" by Alan Warner, anything by Slyvia Plath - especially "The Bell Jar" and any poetry or novels by Primo Levi. At the moment I am reading an epic fantasy series (8 volumes no less!) called "The Wheel Of Time" by Robert Jordan, and "The Fall" by Camus (in English). I once tried to read "L'Etranger" in French, but sadly had to give up and read it in English as I am just plain crap at languages. Anyway - thats what I like reading - I seem to aquire books wherever I go - I think I'm some sort of book-magnet or something. For the record, my favourite bands are Belle & Sebastian (obviously!) and the Manic Street Preachers - a strange combination some might think, but they both write intelligent lyrics, which I think is important in a band. Anyway, I wont bore you any more with my rubbish - feel free to delete this straight away - I know I would! Lots of love from Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 16:23:26 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:23:26 GMT Subject: Sinister: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air In-Reply-To: <199802041759.RAA18749@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802041759.RAA18749@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34e0e6e0.20259663@email.mcmail.com> Hello Losers, Lordy, digest overdose ... After some technical hitches, I'm back. I'm back in Denim. And this time I'm gonna get literary on yo assess. Rob wrote: >can i be arsed to come to covent garden?? hmmm, i don't know. maybe Lazy git. I'm coming from Manchester. Well, I'm in London anyway as it turns out, but that is *not* the point. Oh dear - I think I'm turning into Kevin Rowland. Pedro Miller wrote: >What was it? The only OJ I've ever seen was some concert interspersed with >footage of Edwyn and Zeke doing their stuff in an orange juice factory. It was the rampant cross-dressing extravaganza that is 'Blueboy'. Edwyn had absolutely fantastic boobs - I was salivating like Pavlov's dogs. Then I realised. I haven't been so embarrassed since I sat transfixed by Jennifer Capriati at Wimbledon a few years back only to hear the commentator say 'Another fantastic cross-court volley from the 13 year old'. I paraded through town wearing sackcloth and ashes, shouting "Unclean", while the village idiot through turnips at me. My wife wrote: >Sinister people,tell me some good books I should read! Much as I hate Jack Kerouac, I heartily recommend 'Maggie Cassidy', the ultimate story of teenage love gone sour. I fancied Maggie rotten all the way through the book. And that is praise indeed. 'Sweet Thursday' by John Steinbeck is beautiful, but I've just read 'The heart is a lonely hunter' by Carson McCullers, at long last, and I have to say that Genevieve and Mick Kelly have a great deal in common. Brad, who I like more and more every day, wrote >i usually don't get all into the literary discussions, but no one seems >to have mentioned my favorite poet and author. >richard brautigan. > his poetry is wonderful, if often overlooked for his novels. try "the >pill versus the sprinhill mine disaster" for a good collection of poems. >for novels try "in watermelon sugar" , "so the wind won't blow it all >away" , or "the abortion" for starters. he's famous for "trout fishing >in america" but that book holds nothing against his other works. i don't >even know why it's so popular. I think all of Richard Brautigan's stuff is worth reading. I found loads in Altrincham library for some reason, and hungrily read one after another. A good start is the book of short stories and bits and pieces 'The Tokyo Montana Express' is awesome. His prose is so naive, and yet the images he conveys are so evocative and sometimes magically surreal. Some bits make you laugh, others make you cry, but they'll all touch you. Rob wrote: >Gabriel-Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera,...anybody..?? I totally agree. Basically this Bolivian guy falls in love with a woman, who marries someone else, so he just waits around for years and years for her husband to pop his clogs. I never thought I could fall in love with a book where old people get it on, but GG-M manages to describe the sights and sounds and smells in such vivid detail that it's totally intoxicating, romantic and well, ace really. I warn you, I'm going to get on to films now ... Alexander wrote: >And French New Wave is lovely, 400 Blows is such an endearing movie. >(Tag, if you want to write a 3000 word essay for me on 400 Blows, or A >Bout de Souffle, I do not in any way advocate cheating in education, because, you know, you're only cheating yourself, but I'd love a bite of souffle, thanks. Someone said: >they'd never heard of Hal Hartley? He is probably my favourite director >working today, try to see any of his films. His dialogue would be >greatly appreciated by fans of B&S lyrics. His films are always >very funny, poignant, moving and insightful. The boy's right. Anyone who can cast the luscious Isabelle Hupert as a 'choosy' nymphomaniac porn writing nun, have Pavement songs on thhe soundtrack, and direct a dance scene (to Sonic Youth) that makes Uma and Johnny's bit in 'Pulp Fiction' look like, like ... I dunno, something crap, is OK in my book. More dance scenes in films I say. And more dance routines to hit singles. Now there's a competition - whoever invents the best dance routine to 'LL Painter J' wins a night of torrid passion with Northy, and Rod Begbie too. Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 16:28:27 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:28:27 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: :-) Message-ID: <46DEA2E0902@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> ...so should it be Meat Is Murder or The Queen Is Dead... I havent heard Meat Is Murder, but The Queen Is Dead is a BLOODY good album! Its got There Is A Light That Never Goes Out on it anyway. Love Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From seu05 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 16:39:31 1998 From: seu05 at xxx.uk (Alexander Romanelli) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:39:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: another B&S cover idea Message-ID: Good to see Christopher A mentioning David Bowie's 'Low', it is indeed one of the finest albums of all time. Futurist pop! However, I think the annals of history will remember Bowie primarily for 'Labyrinth'. How about the Pet Shop Boys doing 'Electronic Renaissance'? They've got the equipment, and I think Neil Tennant's voice would work really well on this song. Is someone keeping a list of all these ideas for B&S covers? Jeepster will surely need them come the end of the year, when the polls vote the third B&S album as album of the year, and when the public are buying everything B&S related becuase thats what the inkies tell them to do. Like it or not, I think B&S are going to see an extreme amount of publicity (with or without their sanction) later this year. They are the hushed lips secret of everybody who is in the know, and that can only last so long. Alex -- Alex Romanelli seu05 at central.sussex.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 17:58:29 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (The Ugly One out of Vanilla) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 17:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air In-Reply-To: <34e0e6e0.20259663@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Tag wrote: > And more dance routines to hit singles. Now there's a competition - > whoever invents the best dance routine to 'LL Painter J' wins a night > of torrid passion with Northy, and Rod Begbie too. Oooh! Can I enter? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dietribe: n. All the 'daily specials' you allow a waiter to reel off | even though you know what you want ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 17:58:50 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (WesleySniper) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 17:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: MTV In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Err, just a thought but to us sad people who do not have access to MTV.....how can we see the vids? Has anyone been 'on the ball' quickly enough to tape any of these, as i'm sure many of us fanatics would like a copy of all the vids they have done......" Please Jim'll fix it..could you fix it for me to see all of Belle and Sebastian's videos please? " or could someone describe them vividly? hurray!! wez ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 18:08:51 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:08:51 +0000 Subject: Sinister: retsiniS References: <2263dd11.34d931b8@aol.com> Message-ID: <34DA0033.FFB5C0FD@totalweb.co.uk> PKHINTZ at aol.com wrote: some gorgeous things, but then wrote: > Why doesn't everyone on the list meet at Primrose Hill on the longest day of > the year, officially change their names to Belle and/or Sebastian there, and > have a group marriage ceremony there. That would certainly be newsworthy, at > least to some put off Druids who wanted the hill to themselves for the summer > solstice. If we didn't make the national press, we could always make "Druid > Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned > myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took > up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my > street. thinking about it, arranging a date now is a fine idea, except, the longest day is aslways glastonbury week, and though we may slag it into the mud from which it came, i bet a lot of people will go and our picnic would be scuppered. any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the first one (May Day)? david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ciflux at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 18:17:27 1998 From: ciflux at xxx.com (Mike Appelstein) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 10:17:27 PST Subject: Sinister: 33...6...9 Seconds Of Mail (or: Caught In Flux's new address) Message-ID: <19980205181727.11007.qmail@hotmail.com> hi all: I have once again switched PO boxes (long story -- basically, the postal clerk was tired of going to fetch my packages), so if anyone needs to get in touch with me, here's my sparkling new address: Mike Appelstein/_Caught In Flux_ magazine PO Box 3369 Hoboken, NJ 07030 My e-mail address remains ciflux at aol.com (despite the Hotmail address you might see in the header). Sorry if this doesn't apply to you; I'm just trying to avoid sending out 300 change-of-address cards again like I did in December. :< Obligatory B&S content: Francisco Albert Wong, please get in touch. I'm anxiously awaiting that tape dub of B&S' Sessions at W54 taping! Please Mr. Postman, don't make me do this again, Mike ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 18:23:47 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:23:47 -0000 Subject: Sinister: pique-nique Message-ID: <199802051820.SAA20092@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> I'm so excited by the pic nic idea and I prefer the 4th of May above all coz it's sooner. I just can't wait. Oh and it's also my birthday that week. John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ByTheSea6 at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 18:23:09 1998 From: ByTheSea6 at xxx.com (ByTheSea6 at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:23:09 EST Subject: Sinister: another B&S cover idea Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-05 12:52:44 EST, seu05 at central.susx.ac.uk writes: << However, I think the annals of history will remember Bowie primarily for 'Labyrinth'. >> Don't be absurd. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 00:16:03 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:16:03 -0800 Subject: Sinister: take it off Message-ID: <34DA5643.13E9@earthlink.net> i'd like to hear barry white do a b&s song. maybe the boy done wrong again or i don't love anyone. better yet, maybe b&s should do a barry white song. yeah. i could see them doing maybe "love serenade" with the trumpet and all. i could see stuart singing "take it off baby take it all off i want you the way you came into the world i don't wanna feel no clothes i don't wanna see no panties and take off that brassiere my dear" of course he'd probably follow it up with a schoolboyish giggle instead of making you want to get nasty. yeah. take it all off. hee hee. all joking aside, barry is one smoove mutha. everyone always speaks of marvin gaye or al green as the men, but i think barry should be right beside them. and i said it a long time ago, i'll say it again, i think b&s would do a stunning version of "frankie lymon" by the weather prophets. taking it off, (taking it all off) -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Thu Feb 5 17:12:48 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:12:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: multiple reply bonanza (tiny sliver of B&S content) References: <199802051254.MAA26287@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34D9F310.90227AAD@lineone.net> Hopkins T wrote: > Miller fretted: > >I am having a similar problem finding something to tape for > the > Duke. The > >only thing I've got that he's not likely to have is Hawkwind > - > Space Ritual. > >What should I do? > > either: > 1) tape him Hawkwind for one of his Space-Rock weekends, famed across > the > whole of south-West Exeter for their debauchery and tasty pastries, /me grins at screen and chortles like a madman :-) Then wonders if he might actually get away with playing Hawkwind, assuming he maybe mixed some Optical or something in with it... i did, after all, play Simple Minds last weekend ;-) > 2) burn your Hawkwind records and send him the ashes. He'd like that. > Really. Wouldn't you Dukester? ah, the smell of burning Porg-rock vinyl in the morning... > 3) Do yourself a favour and get on a plane, then a train, then a taxi > to the > Duke's very own brilliant club night in sunny Exeter. It is a room > which > truly lives. lives for tasty pastries, to be accurate... Tim, how much do you want paying for your delightful publicity? I haven't played any B&S for a little while actually... must make up for it this weekend, maybe with Fox in The Snow with some nice beats, or something similar. Tried The Byrds 'Everybody's Been Burned' with Tek 9 last week and it sounded lovely. > It said on the telly this morning that Duke is the 4th most popular > male > dog's name in the UK. I can't believe that's true.... only 4th... sheesh. > That's all for now. There may not be much B&S here but at least it's > only > one easy-to-delete message. and another one... keep the faith, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 16:53:52 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:53:52 +0000 Subject: Sinister: When I was young you were the only fun in town Message-ID: ***Megan*** wrote: <> Well, I've not read the plague. The Rebel is really hard reading. If THe Ousider (L'etranger) was in Enflish it would be much easier reading, but apart from the fact its in French and I only have a twee french dictionary. Perhaps the plaque is more like L'etranger. ?!?!?! Keith and all others, I forgot to recommend to you Charlie and the chocolte factory. I *still* giggles at Square Sweets that Look Round hheeheee :) John Johnston, ct YOU GO!D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You genuis! Perfect! Oh my lord, please may I steal that to put on my website or my fanzine PLEASE!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! You are a GOD. Lazy Line Painter Blair! oh oh oh yes! Nothing much else to say except to whinge about why can't *i* have a B&S dream? I want one! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah Funky with a WHY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 20:03:49 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: The teddybears' picnic In-Reply-To: <34DA0033.FFB5C0FD@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David & Katrina wrote: > > thinking about it, arranging a date now is a fine idea, except, the > longest day is aslways glastonbury week, and though we may slag it into > the mud from which it came, i bet a lot of people will go and our picnic > would be scuppered. > > any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the > first one (May Day)? > > david > Isn't the longest day on a Saturday this year? Which would make it perfect, we can all congregate in London or Glasgow or wherever on the Saturday lunchtime, and just stay there till Sunday lunchtime without anyone missing work! (Oh, and on a more selfish note that's the weekend between my end of term and graduation so I'm free ;-}). Have the dates for Glastonbury been announced yet? Mayday would also be good (and sooner...), but people will have to leave early to get back for work the next morning; how about the day before, and just keep on partying until Monday? Also, if we're going to sort out a date now, we'd better have a location (or at least a city) as well. Of course we all know who we'd like to provide the music... maybe that's asking a bit much... The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Marylka at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 19:41:09 1998 From: Marylka at xxx.com (Marylka at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:41:09 EST Subject: Sinister: Here's a little question for everyone... Message-ID: <63228f44.34da15e0@aol.com> hello sweeties, I have had these lyrics in my head all day and pleeease, you must help me. Where are they from?.....You know how irritating it is when you have something in your head and it won't go....ggrrrrrrr here we go: > Gone forever to a safer place than I'll ever be, > With better luck and bluer eyes than me, > To some place with better luck and handsome hands. > Yes, these hands are lonely, > These hands are wasted. > I die alone, and in slo-mo > because I got what I wanted. > So forever is gone. > Forever was wrong, > Forever was too long. aaahhh it's so nice to get that off my chest. Now, let's see, what can I offer to the lovely person who can help me. Err, no Tigermilk, I'm afraid....how about the thought that you have calmed the mind and soothed the spirit of a very stressed girl. OK? thanks love and kisses, Marylka xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Thu Feb 5 20:05:50 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:05:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: retsiniS In-Reply-To: <34DA0033.FFB5C0FD@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: i can't look at the subject line without thinking of retsina, that nauseating (sorry any fans) greek wine. reminds me of a certain occasion..... aaaaanyway, i haven't been posting much, so just imagine me dipping my intimidated lil toes into a pool of big bad pop professors and lit crit curmudgeons. david, i implore you i beg and plead (and you won't see this again so get a good look) not to hold the picnic on may 1. pleeeeeeeese with clasped hands and sorrowful glances, can it be scheduled in june or later? sorry as this is a completely selfish request but i'm sure a couple of other traveling lassies will add their own pitiful requests. and don't anyone dare be anything less than charitable and lovely to honeypaul, or you'll deal with ME! (paul honey, you and teddy can come out from under the couch now, s'ok.) oh and i just figured out something last night. from what i understand the band chat will require spectators to be logged in to two rooms at once - sinister and jeepster. i regret to inform you that people with some strange (older?) version of globalchat will not be able to do that, so UPGRADE. i think you can get a better version from links to david's page, if i'm wrong i'm sure he'll post a correction. *phew* what a relief, post done, signing off, now i just hope someone actually reads it, or reads it and doesn't immediately strike my name from their 'people in the world that i might someday want to know' list. and of course, i'm leaving off posting only to return to chatting......see you all in sinister. love and nervous little kisses, laurel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 20:24:10 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:24:10 EST Subject: Sinister: Captain Zep Message-ID: <5ccfa63.34da1fec@aol.com> In a message dated 2/4/98 4:28:03PM, you write: << >I am a sad student boy and was last night talking about kid's TV as sad >students do. HOWEVER, no-one in my flat remembers 'CAPTAIN ZEP', who was >a super space detective, or something who around the galaxy solving >mysteries. > >Did he actually exist or have I just made him up. >> He most certainly did exist. I won a Captain Zep sticker for correctly solving that particular week's riddle circa 1982. He had gelled back hair and a Blake's Seven air to his proverbial 'proceedings'. I also won a Blue Peter badge when I was nine, but that's probably far too B&S to be true. Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plaird at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 21:13:07 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 98 21:13:07 +0000 Subject: Sinister: more Felt Message-ID: <199802052111.VAA30378@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> the Beautiful, Mad Mad Sarah shrieked: >And to everyone who didn't know this, OK so felt fans will know, so Felt >fans don't read this....you know the line in I DON'T LOVE ANYONE where >it goes 'he said the world is a soft as lace', that as actualy from a >Felt song! Actually, I think Stuart was just name-dropping the trackŠ (listens closely to "The World is as Soft as Lace"). I don't even think Lawrence (Felt) sings the title name in the song. It's similar to the way Felt is namedropped in the liner notes to "ŠSinister". I don't know if it would be such a good idea to just snap up Felt back catalogue, as the albums vary immensely in quality. HoneyPaul said (over a pint) that a tape he had of them didn't really do much for him - I, on the other hand think they were excellent. And B&S would seem to agree! If you want a tape or tapes of any Felt stuff (this means everyone) drop me a mail. >There are lotions, there are potions >On the NHS that should be paid for privately Vastly superior to the Teletubbies nonsense - and me sides are now sore :o) The Lairdster, "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From g.gregorini at xxx.it Thu Feb 5 21:15:20 1998 From: g.gregorini at xxx.it (Giuseppe Gregorini) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:15:20 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air Message-ID: <013401bd327b$416d72e0$bf54cfc1@mod005k1.mo.nettuno.it> Tag wrote (about Hal Hartley): >The boy's right. Anyone who can cast the luscious Isabelle Hupert as >a 'choosy' nymphomaniac porn writing nun, have Pavement songs on the >soundtrack, and direct a dance scene (to Sonic Youth) .... and direct a beautiful scene in a NY train station (I can't remember which one) with Elina L. listening to a Bettie Serveert song and........... anyway, one of my favourites BandS related movies is "Palookaville". The first time I listened carefully to BandS lyrics, the three lovely characters of the movie came to my mind as next heroes in a BandS song. Another good idea could be BandS composing an alternative soundtrack to all Antoine Doinel's movies. I'm thinking about Aki Kaurismaki too, but I'm not fully convinced. I believe he wouldn't like the idea. Ciao Giuseppe P.S. MTV Italy aired LLPJ. Andreas, the OJ song was just before TFC (and they were just before LLPJ). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 21:19:04 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:19:04 EST Subject: Sinister: Two Sinister Lists Message-ID: In a message dated 2/4/98 9:11:29PM, you write: << Northy (Well done to the people who slagged off Swells in the NME letters) >> Yes, it was lovely to see such beautifully structured arguments that in no way made Belle & Sebastian 'fans' look like the satchel-carrying, scarf-wearing, bicycle-riding knee-jerk-offs that the 'meeja' (whoever they may be) will no doubt condemn us/you/ whoever as, whilst simultaneously digging out their old files on Talulah Gosh for suitably 'amusing' reference points no doubt. Jeesh. Those letters were pants and the gussets were ragged. SHAME!! Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rewb2 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 21:28:25 1998 From: rewb2 at xxx.uk (***Rob B***) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:28:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: i gave myself to sin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > that's odd, as a friend just loaned me the plague by camus, which he swears > by. and he thought it was light reading. should i be worried? > that's odd too - as i'm half way through the plague at the moment. wouldn't say it was light reading, but it is rather good. hmm, i'm a bit tipsy at the moment, so it's probably best that i don't try writing a lengthy diatribe on the state i am in, so i'll be going byee rob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Thu Feb 5 22:30:41 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:30:41 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: MTV (was: Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air) Message-ID: <199802052230.XAA06105@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Giuseppe Gregorini wrote ... >P.S. MTV Italy aired LLPJ. And here is a private mail from another Italian first time viewer not subscribed ... >>on NOW is a Scottish Special featuring B&S, Pastels, Orange Juice et cetera >>... hope you won't miss that ! > >Just in time! Many thanks! > >I didn't miss it, and even if it was quite a disappointment the B&S video >alone made my day! Wonderful! The concept is really genial and poetic, and >that "lines" album "Lazy Line Painter Jane" was looking at the end was >really really neat. I taped the show and re-watched the video both >yesterday and today. > >Plus they look like really nice people, "normal" in the best possible >interpretation of the term. It really clashed looking at the Urusei >Yatsura video that followed.... trendy clothes... empty music. > >I didn't like the posthumous Orange Juice video much (I always loved the >song though) ... I never liked Teenage Fanclub (ok, go on, flame me!) and >the video didn't make me change my mind. There wasn't anything else of much >interest ... Stereolab? Bah ... Not to talk about all the crap they put in >betwen (Prodigy ... ak!) By coincidence, the first ever Italian B&S enthusiast ... even caring enormously about lyrical content. §:^D > Andreas, the OJ song was just before TFC (and they were just before LLPJ). That's lovely ... Prodigy, OJ, TFC, Urusei Yatsura, Snow Patrol in Germany ... "Get me away from here I'm dying" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Thu Feb 5 23:40:27 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:40:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: retsiniS References: Message-ID: <34DA4DEB.FC6681D9@totalweb.co.uk> Laurel Girvan wrote: > > aaaaanyway, i haven't been posting much, so just imagine me dipping my > intimidated lil toes into a pool of big bad pop professors and lit crit > curmudgeons. > > david, i implore you i beg and plead (and you won't see this again so get > a good look) not to hold the picnic on may 1. pleeeeeeeese with clasped > hands and sorrowful glances, can it be scheduled in june or later? sorry > as this is a completely selfish request but i'm sure a couple of other > traveling lassies will add their own pitiful requests. i won't be doing just one picnic silly! there's no reason why we can't do several, i mean the whole summer doesn't have to start and end in one day, there's months of it. so we could do a trail run picnic in may (one in scotland, one in london, and does anyone else have a location in mind? (it would be nice to represent the us if a lot of people were in one area). then come june, we try and organise one big spectacular picnic, a day or two of heaven, with a maybe a few small ones in other places so people don't miss out. suit everyone? > and don't anyone dare be anything less than charitable and lovely to > honeypaul, or you'll deal with ME! (paul honey, you and teddy can come > out from under the couch now, s'ok.) since when am i anything less than charitable, he's a doll. > oh and i just figured out something last night. from what i understand > the band chat will require spectators to be logged in to two rooms at once > - sinister and jeepster. i regret to inform you that people with some > strange (older?) version of globalchat will not be able to do that, so > UPGRADE. i think you can get a better version from links to david's page, > if i'm wrong i'm sure he'll post a correction. perfectly right, but if you 've seen another chat program you'd rather use than that's fine too. nearly every chat program is available on nearly every platform by visiting ftp://ftp.undernet.org/pub/irc/clients/ which you can put into your browser and just go through normally (providing your browser can use ftp, which most can) > *phew* what a relief, post done, signing off, now i just hope someone > actually reads it, or reads it and doesn't immediately strike my name from > their 'people in the world that i might someday want to know' list. as you can see laurel, you're efforts were not in vain, cos here is one person who paid attention enough to even reply. :) david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Thu Feb 5 23:58:46 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:58:46 GMT Subject: Sinister: senile dementia Message-ID: <34e04e6d.2438991@email.mcmail.com> Ooops, I am a very confused young man. I'd somehow got into my head that the girls in the Blueboy video were in fact Edwyn, James and the others who I can't be bothered to remember cos I'm tired (please don't write in and tell me). Now I sound like a perve cos they *were* girls. Or were they? It's so hard to tell these days. Policeman are getting younger too. This country... This film soundtrack question is getting out of hand, but I must admit I'm pleased to see the wonderful Aki Kaurismaki getting a look in, even if it's an utterly absurd idea. Are you people just writing down the films you like? Not the same thing ... And who is going to Covent Garden tomorrow? That's all. Night-night Love tag XX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 6 00:21:19 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:21:19 -0500 Subject: Sinister: hal hartley Message-ID: At 10:15 PM 2/5/98, Giuseppe Gregorini wrote: >Tag wrote (about Hal Hartley): > > >>The boy's right. Anyone who can cast the luscious Isabelle Hupert as >>a 'choosy' nymphomaniac porn writing nun, have Pavement songs on the >>soundtrack, and direct a dance scene (to Sonic Youth) .... > >and direct a beautiful scene in a NY train station (I can't remember which >one) with Elina L. listening to a Bettie Serveert song and........... > i love hal hartley too, and i believe the film geuseppe's referring to (and definitely the one tag is referring to) is amateur. i think somehow, his films are similar to hal hartley songs in the mixture of sensuality and naivete. at least i feel a similarity, you know, the way you just kind of connect these two things. oh well, anyway, more to the point, matador released the soundtrack to amateur, so now that b&s are on the label, wouldn't it be absolutely brilliant if they contributed to the soundtrack for the next film? ideally, i'd love them to make up the entire soundtrack, but i'm afraid i may be hoping for too much there. a collaboration between b&s and hal hartley though, i'd love to see that. xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elzachar at xxx.no Fri Feb 6 00:25:14 1998 From: elzachar at xxx.no (Elisabeth Zachariassen) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:25:14 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: A crack in the pavement Message-ID: <199802060025.BAA14809@online.no> On the subject of walkmans: Once I was walking and listening to radioheads "ok computer", and just as gorgeous Thom sang the line "you watch your feet for cracks in the pavement", a person in front of me slipped in a crack in the pavement. It made me smile. I'm smiling all the time nowadays because a band at the record company i work, Poor Rich Ones has been nominated for the counterpart of Brit awards/Grammy here in Norway!! I've already started to make a speech, and I have to buy a new frock......:):):) >What do people think are the worst tunes for getting stuck in your head? My boyfriend kept yoodling Bee Gees "You win again" all morning. Not a good idea!!!! Elisabeth Z ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 02:26:18 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 02:26:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Warning - do not reply! Message-ID: <199802060112.BAA27064@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> > we can't due to our capitalist society of f**kheids!!!!! Sorry but this is a load of horseshit. I am fed up with people having a go at people just because they are affluent. People are selfish and do not love each and every man on the street. It is human fucking nature. Rich people are not inherently evil. I hate the way people say this. If you were born in a rich family and brought up by your business man father then you too would grow to own a heartless multinational corporation. The way I see it is that in life you have to ignore all the shit and just find love and then find yourself a cosy corner to enjoy it. Sure, lets get communist and get Belle and Sebastian censored. Please do not reply to the list to this. If you have something to say then just email me. Please don't though 'cause the amount of time it takes me to read the letters on this list is growing :) Did you go in the end Tara? Catatonia were OK. I though they started off badly but got better. Still. Superstar were dull, dull, dull. Derrore looked quite interesting I thought. Too many "bah, bah, bah" and "doh wops" for my liking though. Peace list Northy [said in my college recently concerning politically correct exam papers] is "If Ramnit has 10 curries and eats 7, how many curries has he got left" a racist statement. Should it be worded, "If Ramnit has 10 Bratwursts and eats..............." What is the world coming too? AND WHY IS NO ONE WORRYING ABOUT THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF DEAR MR SADDAM HUSSEEIN? Read your papers people. Oh....and no offence about the comment Sarah! ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mneimark at xxx.com Fri Feb 6 01:49:12 1998 From: mneimark at xxx.com (Matthew Neimark) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:49:12 PST Subject: Sinister: Felt Albums Message-ID: <19980206014913.19782.qmail@hotmail.com> One of my favorite albums in the whole wide world is by Felt. _Forever Breathes the Lonely Word_. It is quite literaly a half-hour of orgasmic mind blowing experience. Listening to it makes me feel as if I were falling through canyons in Utah during the hot summer sun. By the albums climax (Gather Up your wings and Fly.) I'm so engaged. My heart is beating viciously and I feel like entering right into the song. Lawrence is in my head. Martin Duffy is playing the hammond of my soul. I'm soaring above the Arizona desert. Err... perhaps I'm exaggerating. But the fact is that the album is a perfect mix of goth, pop, and country. (Lawrence mastered the steel guitar at this point and John A. Rivers is the master of musical production.) Definitely in my top ten of LPs (including Tigermilk and Toulouse's "The Way the City Stretches."). But go-figure. This album clicked with me. A lot of the other Felt albums I like (and can find stand-out songs even), but nothing near FBTLW, the king of Felt albums. Oh and somebody said that Lawrence never sang "The World is Soft as Lace." They are right. He sang something like, "The softest lace I could touch" in this song. But that's not the point. In "London has let me Down" he sings of the sadness of not being able to find Lawrence. But the song can apply to anything. For me it applies to returning to a certain foreign country in search of a certain lost love... Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 02:08:20 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:08:20 +0800 Subject: Sinister: A bit off subject...Bert Jansch Message-ID: <01bd32a4$32b3a020$23fd51ca@rclander.netfront.net> I remember a few weeks back somebody mentioning Bert Jansch and recording his stuff, which all turned into a bootlegging debate regarding CDs and Tigermilk (tenuous B&S content). Well I read in the South China Morning Post this morning that he will be performing live at the Hong Kong Arts Centre on Wednesday 11th February. Well the question is can somebody tell me about him and should I go and see him. Thanks Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rclander at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 02:48:35 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:48:35 +0800 Subject: Sinister: A pedantic person writes Message-ID: <01bd32a9$b7d826e0$23fd51ca@rclander.netfront.net> -----Original Message----- From: Keith Watson To: sinister at majordomo.net Date: 05 February, 1998 21:37 Subject: Sinister: Re: >>I've had 'You Can't Return My Love' by The Man from Delmonte (sp?) stuck in >>my head all day!! Classic track! :) >Were the Man from Delmonte not that band from Manc who got their ASSES sued >by all and sundry when their debut album contained rather accurate >information about whom the songs were about? Well the title of the song was 'My love is a gift you can't return' and it was their last single. Their asses were going to be sued by '"The Man" From Del Monte' that gigantic food conglomerate and supporter of corrupt politicians in far off countries...erm allegedly, don't believe a word of it myself of course. Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plaird at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 03:00:36 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 98 03:00:36 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: Bellestock? Message-ID: <199802060258.CAA01606@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> >so we could do a trail run picnic in may (one in scotland, one in >london, and does anyone else have a location in mind? (it would be nice >to represent the us if a lot of people were in one area). How about the Botanic gardens in Edinburgh, or near Kelvingrove in Glasgow both pretty central in their respesctive cities - for Scotland anyway, and in Glasgow ideal for the Art gallery and public transport (the Clockwork Orange). The Lairdster "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Fri Feb 6 10:43:45 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 10:43:45 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802061038.KAA24518@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Katrina wrote:- > the cd features the video on it, one of those enhanced cd thingies .... What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated video-cd format or anything like that? Any chance that Belle & Sebby will do something along the same lines on their next release? I'm surprised it's not a more popular idea. I'll have to but the Snow Patrol single, just to check it out! The songs not bad too, and I'll probably go to see the band play on tomorrow night. Cheers, JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 11:03:30 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:03:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: A bit off subject...Bert Jansch In-Reply-To: <01bd32a4$32b3a020$23fd51ca@rclander.netfront.net> Message-ID: GO SEE BERT JANSCH, he plays the most amazing acoustic guitar, sings a little bit like Bob Dylan(only you can recognise the words), and has some cool wee stories he tells in between songs. I went to see him in the Edinburgh festival this year coz my dad bought us tickets, I didn't know what to expect as I had never heard of him, but thourghly enjoyed the experience. On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Richard wrote: > I remember a few weeks back somebody mentioning Bert Jansch and recording his stuff, which all turned into a bootlegging debate regarding CDs and Tigermilk (tenuous B&S content). Well I read in the South China Morning Post this morning that he will be performing live at the Hong Kong Arts Centre on Wednesday 11th February. Well the question is can somebody tell me about him and should I go and see him. > > Thanks > > Richard > > http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 11:43:36 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:43:36 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Where were you last night? Message-ID: <01bd32f4$75e087a0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I >correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated >video-cd format or anything like that? The last Black Grape single had one on it too, which was quite funny - dunno what format it was in, but my machine had no trouble reading it. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 12:05:14 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:05:14 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: brief help, please, Paul... (fwd) Message-ID: Like the BBC I'm sending on this note Tim sent me to redress the right-left bias. Tim worried that it would spark more debate and he was right too, but frankly, people shouldn't express socio-political opinions and expect others to not want to reply to the same forum of people. And frankly, sod it, I agree with Tim who put more eloquently what I would have said. But please, having made this 1-1, LET IT END. This really is not what I set this mailing list up for and my server can't take the strain of a heated political debate which has *nothing* to do with the band or our direct personal experiences. And don't go saying "everything is politics" because I reckon I can equally well say "everything is love" and spend two hours of your time telling you about my first sexual experiences with a camel. Oh and don't suspect too quick a reply rate to other stuff today - at home. Actually it'll probably be quicker. Loving you all dearly still, even those who hang to the right. But I mean it, don't rage about this one or I'll ask Tony Benn to stamp on you all. "Mixing pop and politics, they ask me what the use is. I offer them embarrassment and my usual excuses." Honey xxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. (Exactly) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:23:49 -0000 From: Hopkins T To: Honey Subject: brief help, please, Paul... Northy wrote: >Sorry but this is a load of horseshit. And went on to prove himself right. >I am fed up with people having a go at people just because they are >affluent. Oh yeah? You know what I'm fed up with? Let me give you a few examples... > People are selfish and do not love each and every man on >the street. It is human fucking nature. I'm fed up with fuckers trying to tell me that human nature is fixed and absolute and -oh!- just happens to coincide with the way that those who hold ALL the cards in the developed world (and hence the world) want it. >Rich people are not inherently evil. I hate the way people say this. I'm fed up with people rallying to the defence of the rich when the rich can look after themselves very well, thank you very much. This isn't just you, Northy, it's all over the place. >The way I see it is that in life you have to ignore all the shit and >just find love and then find yourself a cosy corner to enjoy it. I'm fed up with people who don't understand that not everyone has access to a 'cosy corner' to enjoy the love that they've found. I'm fed up with tossers getting sanctimonious (again, not necessarily you, Northy) when ordinary people haven't managed to pull themselves 'up' by their bootstraps and find their way into the middle class. I'm fed up with people who have tried to find a cosy corner still getting shat on from a great height 'cos they picked the wrong firm to work for, got too old, got sick, got tired, whatever. I'm not saying I'm homeless, that I'm unemployed, on the breadline or whatever (tho' I'm not rich either...) but that doesn't stop me from being sickened by the way our society is organised. >Sure, lets get communist and get Belle and Sebastian censored. Northy, you what? What the hell are you talking about? Like capital doesn't censor through control of the means of communication? Pop music, folks, pop music is the easiest and loudest way to regain (at least briefly) some access to mass communication...but of course it gets eaten up and mediated soon enough. It's one of the reasons why pop is inherently political, why participating in pop is different, and remains different to, say, watching the telly or going to see a film. And participating in pop is probably more effective than getting involved with any of those dull no life no joy bunches of patronising ultra-leftist prats, too. >Please do not reply to the list to this. Couldn't stop myself, sorry. Anyway, if you didn't want a reply, you shouldn't have written in the first place. >Peace list In the words of the once very great Cathal Coughlen, 'Send me love and peace, two more things I can't afford...' >Oh....and no offence about the comment Sarah! Oh, and no offence about the e-mail, Northy. Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 11:53:54 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:53:54 -0000 Subject: Sinister: DJ Pierre Message-ID: <01bd32f5$e63ebed0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Something's just entered my head which has been dormant for about 6 months - but Paul or someone mentioned that "Slow Grafitti" was going to be on the soundtrack to the Acid House film. It's just come back to me that I seem to remember they had a track called "Soft Touch" or something like that for the Acid House film... Can't for the life of me remember who told me this or where I found out. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 11:52:05 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 11:52:05 +0000 Subject: Sinister: retsiniS References: <2263dd11.34d931b8@aol.com> <34DA0033.FFB5C0FD@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: <34DAF965.C51B19AA@virgin.net> David & Katrina wrote: > any other good dates though? how about the monday the 4th may, for the > first one (May Day)? pumpkin, don't you have to work bank holidays??? :) sorry to everyone for the personal nature of this mail *sigh* oh, content! just to remind you all (Tag especially!) that it's Sarah Martin's birthday next Thursday 12th Feb ... all love poems and marriage proposals to either the fanclub (po box 14153, london, sw11 4xu) or, just in case you want to make sure she gets them before or on the special day send them here to me at jeepster (217 canalot, 222 kensal road, london, w10 5bn). AND, it's honey paul's birtday next Friday 13th February, so hopefully someone will divulge his address (am i allowed to paul?) so we can all send him pressies and love letters. i'm going ... cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 12:15:45 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 12:15:45 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: References: <199802061038.KAA24518@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: <34DAFEF1.664DC0D@virgin.net> John Stuart wrote: > What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I > correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated > video-cd format or anything like that? yeah, it's quick time ... works really well too, not many lost frames 'cos it's sort of "animated", and gosh, i can't stop watching it as Gary is sooo gorgeous ... :) > Any chance that Belle & Sebby will do something along the same lines on > their next release? I'm surprised it's not a more popular idea. i think quite a few bands now have done it, the last foo fighters single did, and i know that one of smaller's ep's did too ... B&S have seen the cd, but i don't know what they thought of the video on the cd ... oh, here's a good reason to buy it, Richard and Neil are in the video (albeit briefly!) they're both in the play park bit at the end, Richard sitting on top of some wooden jungle gym thingy laughing, and Neil hanging upside down with a white jacket and glasses on. and i could swear that one of the other blokies in that bit is in the starlets .. > I'll have to but the Snow Patrol single, just to check it out! The songs > not bad too, and I'll probably go to see the band play on tomorrow night. rayyy! sorry, i just get excited by these sorts of things ... tune into xfm if you can, 'cos the singles just gone on the a-list! someone requested B&S on the request hour yesterday afternoon too ... anyone owning up?? i'll stop dribbling now ... cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 12:29:00 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:29:00 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re: lyrics Message-ID: <481EB0103F9@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Marylka - I KNOW where those lyrics come from, but I can't remember!! Now it's going to bug me too until I find out!!! I can even "hear" them being sung in my head - but I can't place the band or song. It's a guy singing - kind of low and moody. Sorry I can't help!!! Love, Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 6 13:24:06 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Frank the Frankly Frank Frankfurt) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:24:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199802061038.KAA24518@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, John Stuart wrote: > > Katrina wrote:- > > the cd features the video on it, one of those enhanced cd thingies .... > > What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I > correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated > video-cd format or anything like that? It's been done a few times. I've got Enhanced CDs of the last Kylie single, Black Grape, Suede, and... wait for it.. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Original Soundtrack! (The video is of the original movie trailer) They usually run on Win95 or Macintosh, and are Macromedia Director creations. > Any chance that Belle & Sebby will do something along the same lines on > their next release? I'm surprised it's not a more popular idea. M3 2. > I'll have to but the Snow Patrol single, just to check it out! The songs > not bad too, and I'll probably go to see the band play on tomorrow night. Haven't heard it yet. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | What I wanted was women, wine and song. | What I got was a drunk woman, singing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 13:15:04 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 09:15:04 -0400 Subject: Sinister: THE B&S cover Message-ID: <34DB0CD8.1D75@earthlink.net> Apologies to those who are sick of this topic, but I think I just came up with the PERFECT B&S cover: '70's-era, secular, pre-grits-in-the-lap Al Green doing "Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying". Maybe slow it down a bit...mmmm, just thinking of him belting out, "Ohhhh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all." Oh, yeah. Oh, and I'd also love to hear Ben Folds Five doing their "Stars of Track and Field". That song was made for them. I've GOT to hear them rocking out the end bit, with Darren riding his crash and Ben pounding the piano like it wronged him. The next time I go to see them, I'm gonna yell that out and try to get them to play it. ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Fri Feb 6 15:22:16 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 15:22:16 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802061516.PAA14933@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Keith wrote: >Something's just entered my head which has been dormant for about 6 months - >but Paul or someone mentioned that "Slow Grafitti" was going to be on the >soundtrack to the Acid House film. It's just come back to me that I seem to >remember they had a track called "Soft Touch" or something like that for the >Acid House film... Can't for the life of me remember who told me this or >where I found out. I thought this too, but I was later told that 'A Soft Touch' is one of the short stories in the acid house have been adapted for the film. The B&S track will be feature in the 'soft touch' part of the film. JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 6 13:13:06 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:13:06 +0100 Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees Message-ID: <01bd3300$f67018c0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Keith Watson Para: Bill and Sebastienne mailing list Fecha: jueves 5 de febrero de 1998 14:04 Asunto: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees Keith somehow managed to write: >> read a book. > > >Do I have to! It's funny the number of people come on to the list talking >about being computer-illiterate, whereas I find myself in the opposite camp >(perhaps this is a way of describing people on the list being in 2 different >camps), or being very computer-literate, but being hardly able to read! > > I'll read a book as long as it's got plenty of pictures in it. > But you must have read at least one fiction book, Keith. Surely? My aim in life is to write the kind of book that people who never read books read, and then they go on and on about it for the rest of their lives, because it was really good, but they never seem to feel the urge to read another. While we're on the subject, my tip for the top is "Boy Cuddle" by Stevie White, which I was reminded of by David and Katrina Kitchen and House's tales of fun and frolics on Primrose Hill. I don't know why, because D&K didn't mention anything about bisexual alcoholic boxers or shagging in airport toilets. Mind you, you might think it's shit. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 6 14:46:33 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:46:33 +0100 Subject: Sinister: get out of my head Message-ID: <01bd330e$050033e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Stip / Blue Music Para: sinister at majordomo.net CC: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: jueves 5 de febrero de 1998 15:22 Asunto: Sinister: get out of my head the theme from Black Beauty is but a welcome distraction. > I can't do that without it turning into the theme from World of Sport. I didn't think anybody could do it without it turning into the theme from World of Sport. Dickie Davis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 6 15:11:12 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:11:12 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Miller frets on... Message-ID: <01bd3311$75fcbc00$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Hopkins T Para: 'sinister at majordomo.net' Fecha: jueves 5 de febrero de 1998 17:52 Asunto: Sinister: multiple reply bonanza (tiny sliver of B&S content) >3) Do yourself a favour and get on a plane, then a train, then a taxi to the >Duke's very own brilliant club night in sunny Exeter. It is a room which >truly lives. And hey, take in a fantastic game of football while you're in >town. While you're there, ask the Duke what he wants taping. I did ask him. He said "just make it classy", which is where the problem stems from. I think I'll stick to Isaac Hayes. You can't get much classier than that, and there's a track called "The Duke". I have visited Duke's club cybernetically via his web extravaganza. It's got a picture of Barbie on it. >Yes! Yes! Don't buy Q! It's all lies and fuckery! :-) The fact that they bumped the price up has a lot to do with it, but I might make an exception this month Miller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 16:02:53 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 16:02:53 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: References: <199802061516.PAA14933@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: <34DB342D.EFFB559B@virgin.net> John Stuart wrote: > > Keith wrote: > >Something's just entered my head which has been dormant for about 6 months > - > >but Paul or someone mentioned that "Slow Grafitti" was going to be on the > >soundtrack to the Acid House film. It's just come back to me that I seem > to > >remember they had a track called "Soft Touch" or something like that for > the > >Acid House film... Can't for the life of me remember who told me this or > >where I found out. > > I thought this too, but I was later told that 'A Soft Touch' is one of the > short stories in the acid house have been adapted for the film. The B&S > track will be feature in the 'soft touch' part of the film. okey dokey, spaccy record company boring time ... :) David and i heard the song formerly known as "Soft Touch" and now bearing the name "Slow Graffiti" either at a band rehersal, or at the Kelvingrove/QM gig last year. I think we had a set-list or something with "Soft Touch" written on it, but upon questioning Mr Murdoch, discovered that the track is called "Slow Graffiti". The film of "Acid House" will be released later on this year and for all of those who haven't read the book, it is basically a collection of short stories. Three of those stories have been chosen for the film, including one entitled "A Soft Touch" (where the main female character's name, incidentally, is Katrina but spelt differently). So, B&S were asked to provide a track for that story in the film, which ended up being "Slow Graffiti". They were also asked to do the score (predominantly cello-based if i do recall that correctly) for the "soft touch" section, but i don't know if that actually happened or not. The film should be released about June-ish and i think B&S have been asked to release "Slow Graffiti" as a single, as well as it being on the soundtrack lp. I don't know any more though ... Hope that helps. Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 16:19:59 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 16:19:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees References: <01bd3300$f67018c0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: <34DB382F.EEF891F@virgin.net> PJMiller wrote: > While we're on the subject, my tip for the top is "Boy Cuddle" by Stevie > White, which I was reminded of by David and Katrina Kitchen and House's > tales of fun and frolics on Primrose Hill. I don't know why, because D&K > didn't mention anything about bisexual alcoholic boxers or shagging in > airport toilets. we were trying to keep those bits secret! shagging generally has to take place in the loos, but as they are always (well, primrose hill and highbury fields) located inside the kiddies play area bits, one has to keep rather quiet if you know what i mean. there's generally lots of bisexual alcholics present, but not necessary boxers ... more like dole recipients or students. oh what a wonderful world we live in. i think i should stop speaking now. Katrina (hoping she can follow trouser's bizarre directions to the poetry cafe ... eeep!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 15:51:35 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:51:35 -0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees Message-ID: <01bd3317$1a80b970$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >But you must have read at least one fiction book, Keith. Surely? My aim in >life is to write the kind of book that people who never read books read, and >then they go on and on about it for the rest of their lives, because it was >really good, but they never seem to feel the urge to read another. I am exagerrating the issue just for the sake of a laugh. I know what you mean about the book thing Peter, I always get dead excited when you get a record like say "The Stone Roses" which goes and makes a load of people who didn't really listen to music get into it big style - that happened to quite a lot of people when I was in 6th year with that record. I have read some books... I read a lot of biographies - read the Nick Drake one, and just read a Buzzcocks one and am going to get Johnny Rogan's remixed Byrds book too soon - hell I'm going to get the Stranglers one too. Fiction however's a different story. I've read "Star Wars" and read all of Hargreaves' books (Roger). I've read lots of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks too. I've read all the ones I was forced to read at school, but that's about it. It's no great loss to me, it's always been music and paintings for me really, that's all. If I feel the need, I will read some books, but I'll have to have a reason really - as Bobby Gillespie once mused about Acid House and Rock, "It's all the fuckin' same thing anyway" which I tend to agree with. Oh incidentally - I certainly don't read books about computers - I think someone read that into what I said. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.shainin at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 17:28:11 1998 From: j.shainin at xxx.uk (jonathan shainin) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 17:28:11 +0000 Subject: Sinister: hal hartley and felt. Message-ID: the commotion of the list has stirred me into trying to just say a great number of things at once, especially relating to the recent talk of both felt and hal hartley, what with me having just returned from watching amateur and flirt a half hour ago. hartley: i don't know how many b&s fans like the man, since the connection isn't apparent (indie rock on the soundtracks, i guess?) but he's speaking in london tomorrow at the ICA, i think at 2 pm. just thought i'd see if anyone else was going. as to felt, that line from i don't love anyone has always been one of my favorite, but in disagreement with matt, i'd have to side with "the pictorial jackson review" as the finest felt record, if only for its pure devotion to short pop songs. when i got to london last month, the only two tapes i listened to, partially to make myself feel better about being here were that, and tigermilk. i find that i never really seem to get tired of tigermilk, like i can listen to it eight or ten times in a row without ever getting bored at all. surely i can't be the only one that thinks this? jonathan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 17:15:55 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 17:15:55 +0000 Subject: Sinister: barbie fans avoid disappointment References: <01bd3311$75fcbc00$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: <34DB454B.C596624C@lineone.net> PJMiller wrote: > I have visited Duke's club > cybernetically via his web extravaganza. It's got a picture of Barbie > on it. and then the duke goes and ditches barbie and redesigns the whole site :-) so don't go expecting barbie... do expect a dumb Flash animation with swooping words and a collage featuring Noel Coward. And the site basically just features all the stories from our club booklets... still got to add all the information and photos, and hopefully sound... but soon... when i get the time and shake off the brooding sore throat and nausea. endemic teacher illness. keep the faith, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 19:15:43 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:15:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: *sorry* (absolutely no B&S content or any content really) Message-ID: <199802061802.SAA31961@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Sorry for bringing up politics on the list. I should have thought before sending the message but I didn't and am sorry. I haven't read any replies so when I send/receive I will be scared! Anyway. Sorry, I am so reactionary. I'll think next time. *Northy backs out the door, tripping on the carpet, muttering pathetic sorrys* __________________________________________ Anyone else like the Lightning Seeds? Now they are Pop. I like their song Cool Place. ________________________________________ (Paul - Chris is gonna phone up the Comedy Store and get tickets....and send something to the list.....tell 'em how you found out about B&S eh?) ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Fri Feb 6 18:55:15 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:55:15 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: hal hartley and felt. Message-ID: <199802061855.TAA28681@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Jonathan wrote ... >hartley: i don't know how many b&s fans like the man, since the connection >isn't apparent (indie rock on the soundtracks, i guess?) but he's speaking >in london tomorrow at the ICA, i think at 2 pm. just thought i'd see if >anyone else was going. "I would if I could but I can't" (Smoke) ... >as to felt, that line from i don't love anyone has always been one of my >favorite, but in disagreement with matt, i'd have to side with "the >pictorial jackson review" as the finest felt record, if only for its pure >devotion to short pop songs. when i got to london last month, the only two >tapes i listened to, partially to make myself feel better about being here >were that, and tigermilk. i find that i never really seem to get tired of >tigermilk, like i can listen to it eight or ten times in a row without ever >getting bored at all. surely i can't be the only one that thinks this? As regards Felt, I actually meant to write something in that vein earlier today ... _The Pictorial Jackson Review_ is definitely my favourite Felt album and I know about several people sharing the same affection for the classic masterpiece ... an excellent purchase is the CD version featuring _Train Above The City_ in addition, which offers splendid jazzy instrumentals. Generally I'd wholeheartedly recommend any Felt record released on Creation Records. Besides, I've thoroughly enjoyed the Felt story by one Alistair Fitchett in the Tangents 2.2 magazine ... anyone ever heard of this excellent writer ? §;^D "Press Softly On the Brakes Holly" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 18:58:48 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: A crack in the pavement In-Reply-To: <199802060025.BAA14809@online.no> Message-ID: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Elisabeth Zachariassen wrote: > On the subject of walkmans: > Once I was walking and listening to radioheads "ok computer", and just as > gorgeous Thom sang the line "you watch your feet for cracks in the > pavement", a person in front of me slipped in a crack in the pavement. It > made me smile. It must have been a very big crack if someone slipped into it... On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. It's about being obsessed with music, which I guess we all are, and being obsessed with love, which I think most people are. Whenever I read it I find I would think and do exactly the same things in the same situation, and so do most other people I know who've read it. I don't know how, but it seems to convey what people (and particularly men) think better than any book I've ever read. The Lightning Seeds - you may not think of them as anything other than a 'perfect pop' band, but they are incredible live, there's so much energy in the performance. Add to that the fact that whether you know it or not, you will recognise and like every song they play, and it's a great night out. My God! I actually agree with Northy on something! What's happening to me? The Tall Git (going for a long lie down...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stip at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 18:06:23 1998 From: Stip at xxx.uk (Stip / Blue Music) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:06:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: get out of my head In-Reply-To: <01bd330e$050033e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: writes >the theme from Black Beauty is but a welcome distraction. >> > >I can't do that without it turning into the theme from World of Sport. I >didn't think anybody could do it without it turning into the theme from >World of Sport. > Now see what you've done? I started trying to change it into World of Sport, and now all I can hear is the tune from ET. Has anyone heard the new delgados single? It's magic. I also just heard the new coldcut single, Timber, on the radio, which also sounded lovely, although I was somewhat preoccupied with a headful of songs of horses and aliens... still can't remember World of Sport, though. Promise this will be the last on theme tunes - I'll see myself out... Love Nicola -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jacques.buron at xxx.fr Fri Feb 6 21:51:02 1998 From: jacques.buron at xxx.fr (Stéphane) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 21:51:02 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Horpkirk & Lee Message-ID: <34DB85C6.7999@smtp.wanadoo.fr> Hi!!! I've just received an email form Rough Trade with the new releases of the week. They say that hopkirk & lee ("beneath the apple tree") is a "new band in sort of belle & sebastian type thing - good!" Have you evedr heard of them??? Thanks, stéphane -- " Get me away from here, I'm dying..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Fri Feb 6 21:10:14 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:10:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: funky junky Message-ID: <199802062110.QAA08668@Vector.inexpress.net> wooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! >thinking that placebo suck, >brad oh brad,the single phrase is so lovely to the ears.... ...now normally I don't HATE bands..but Placebo...uggggggh..'The New Sleazy Suede' GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! So many of my friends think Brian Molko is the most amazing thing...sexiest lad,phhhhhtttt! It's really his voice,he doesn't sing..he squeak like writhing rat with poison tonsils....and the music..well we won't get into that.. DON'T start taking time off work etc. etc. as it >isn't confirmed yet except with Stuart D. oh the litle angel comes through once again.... be still my heart,oh no one has ever loved but you and I! >Honey xxx Kristen wrote about SXSW: Austin is a very good place for music...I have a friend in a band called Stretford and they played the SXSW... Lisa wrote: >"The Bridge","Walking On Glass","The Wasp Factory" indeed anything by Iain Banks,who is a very cool guy - I met him a few years ago at a book signing. Iain Banks loves deception doesn't he.I liked the Wasp Factory...it really surprisedd me..I can honestly say,I wouldn't have guessed. Same with Walking On Glass..except...i start ot skip the whole bits about the guy and the chess..i was much more interested in that guys obsession witht he girl..and then! My brain is choking,I have to decide options for next year..and I know one for sure..(advanced media)but the other two..the unspoken thing is to always take chemistry and physics...except..it is biology I love (not physics) so i should really be take biology except the chemistry is worth more...so..I think I should take chemistry and computer science..then later at cegepe..or u... i can take biology...dissecting is fun,does it make me evil? Anyways at cegepe the choices overwhelm..!confusing confusing.... What is a Ink Polaroid,I here them mention here so many times..forgive me....my computer is not very nice and it won't let me get the fanclub site or the offical site..... I've got a Lightning Seeds story fro you,since at least two people like em... Last Valentines Day I went to a music store,I didn't have the good searching skills I have now so I went up and asked thee guy if he could find the Lightning Seeds for me...2 secs and a flip flip flip he produced (oh dear..I never spell it right) Cloudcuckooland "They've been in demand actually." Look up. Ahhhh! cue in music: "why do birds suddenly..." (brain: he's beautiful..oh..don't stare too much into eyes,oh hello I love you won't you tell me your name?! He's Tim Burgess..he really is!) "Ummm..you want a bag with that?" (and so our hands first touched...and I floated throughout the rest of the night...) And that was the first night I met Record Store Boy...10 months later and a whole lotta vodka and I found out his name...... (that summer I bought Dizzy Heights ...five red stars,I am so impressionable!...I really love What If... is it just me or do you think of kissing Crispin Hunt when listening to that track...) and Like You Do... but then I saw the You Showed Me vid..Ian Broudie break dances..and i was scared... destiny's darling Sarah: I'm glad you liked my peanut song,grampy sings that to me..and some other ones about france that i won't repeat..those hair mascara sticks are outrageously priced (the christain dior ones anyways) everybody loves dior and thankfully they have samples at the counter...oh fiddlesticks they don't show up in my hair anyways...no guys round here wear them so far so i won't be screaming...there is this one guy that shaved off his eyebrow and told me to call him death wing though..he has multicoloured hair....well,when he had hair.. christoper leonards makes me laugh! love love super sweetie sugar-pooh, Genevieve ************************************** i will love you till i die and i will love you all the time so please put your sweet hand in mine and float in space and drift in time ************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 6 23:47:52 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:47:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Doing the funky gibbon... (Bugger all B&S content) In-Reply-To: <199802062110.QAA08668@Vector.inexpress.net> Message-ID: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 blink at inexpress.net wrote: > ...now normally I don't HATE bands..but Placebo...uggggggh..'The New Sleazy > Suede' GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! So many of my friends think Brian Molko is > the most amazing thing...sexiest lad,phhhhhtttt! > It's really his voice,he doesn't sing..he squeak like writhing rat with > poison tonsils....and the music..well we won't get into that.. > Great, does that mean we get the chance to slag off the bands we really detest? My top 5 worst bands at the moment, in true "High Fidelity" style; (qualification; they make me change stations whenever I hear them on the radio): Ocean Duller Scene, Alanis Bagofshite, Sp*c* G*rls, Oasis and Byron Stingly. Not a new idea (and not a tune) between them. Actually thinking about it maybe that's not such a good idea, we're all meant to be happy bunnies. Too late now. Oh bugger. > What is a Ink Polaroid,I here them mention here so many times..forgive > me....my computer is not very nice and it won't let me get the fanclub site > or the offical site..... > A short story written as if you were talking about a photograph whilst showing it to somebody else. Stuart M's written a book of them, which you can buy off the website. Which you can't get to. Which isn't much use really. But never mind. The last competition on the list was to write one ourselves; since that was a few months ago now, and there's loads of new members, maybe that could be revived? > "Ummm..you want a bag with that?" (and so our hands first touched...and I > floated throughout the rest of the night...) Without doubt the most romantic chat-up line ever... must use that one sometime... > And that was the first night I met Record Store Boy...10 months later and a > whole lotta vodka and I found out his name...... Ah, the joys of true love, the sleepless nights, the daydreams, the repeated attempts to summon up the courage to talk to the object of your desire... Actually, what am I talking about? I've never found anyone worth fretting over for 10 months. 3 maybe, but that was exceptional circumstances. So here I am, a sad lonely figure, waiting for the day my dream woman walks into my life, currently pinning my hopes on a blind date next Tuesday (probably in vain, my last blind date never even showed up...) > (that summer I bought Dizzy Heights ...five red stars,I am so > impressionable!...I really love What If... is it just me or do you think of > kissing Crispin Hunt when listening to that track...) Nope, it's just you. > but then I saw the You Showed Me vid..Ian Broudie break dances..and i was > scared... > The mere thought of Ian Broudie dancing scares me. Great singer and songwriter, but with all the glamour and pizzazz of a brussel sprout in a suburban garden on a wet morning in March. > > love love super sweetie sugar-pooh, > Genevieve > And big huggy-wuggies and slobbery kisses from all in Britain, honey-pumpkin... The Tall Git (Just back from the pub... Does it show?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 6 23:56:52 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:56:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: chatting Message-ID: well, i'm about to pummel my computer with a large and heavy object. may as well do it with my record player and stereo while i'm at it. but anyway, the reasoning is that global chat version 1.3 has started to make my computer freeze. so what to do? the links on the web pages weren't taking me anywhere, as global chat has been acquired by ichat, who apparently isn't advertising them on the web page. so where should i go? what's a mac user to do? boo-hoo, help me! xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Sat Feb 7 00:21:51 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:21:51 EST Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees Message-ID: <62700cb1.34dba921@aol.com> In a message dated 2/6/98 5:19:27PM, you write: >But you must have read at least one fiction book, Keith. Surely? My aim in >life is to write the kind of book that people who never read books read, and >then they go on and on about it for the rest of their lives, because it was >really good, but they never seem to feel the urge to read another. >> Why has no-one yet mentioned Paul Auster? The descriptions of the beauty of coincidence and relatively 'trivial' yet profound incidents in the likes of Moon Palace or City Of Glass are surely a lot closer to B&S's emotional landscape than the likes of Camus, Sartre... or anything else from the Manics reading list, for that matter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 00:25:33 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 00:25:33 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Sinnister:Stuck in me Message-ID: <34DBA9FD.3F2@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> The tunes firmly lodged in my head currently: Slain By Elf Urusei Yatsura Alane Wes Dr Jones Aqua Le Pastie B&S Quite a colection! Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Sat Feb 7 01:21:30 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:21:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: my hot little hands.. Message-ID: i am quite the happy camper today because i can now say that i actually have a real, not dubbed, copy of the singles..i got my package this morning and almost dies because they included (and charged to my visa) a copy of the japanese import of a kylie minogue album..$32! that more than i paid for the 3 singles! thank goodness they said they could see it was a mistake when i phoned..im only a poor university student who could barely afford the b&s cd's... roberta **oh you look so tired mouth slack and wide ill-housed and ill-advised your face is as mean as your life has been crash into my arms i want you****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Sat Feb 7 10:50:40 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 10:50:40 +0000 Subject: Sinister: high fidelity... low quality writing References: Message-ID: <34DC3C7F.587E5092@lineone.net> Stuart Gardiner wrote: > On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend > Nick > Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. sappiest book i ever tried to read, and no mistake. i wanted to throttle the lead character, and every other character come to think of it... couldn't get beyond the first third. shite. actually, worse than shite, just too bloody obvious predictable bollocks. i'm in a shite mood this morning. great books what i have just read: Raymond Chandler - anything by this dude is cool. Style seems to me to be in the Salinger vein... this ain't just 'crime' writing, it be classic literature that you can get a kick out of. Yum. Tim Pears: In the PLace of Fallen Leaves. this is magic... it's set in the heart of Devon in the heat of a loooong summer and it's, um, well it's dead downbeat and beautiful and oh, just a delight. JAne GArdam said it was 'full of love that doesn't cloy' and that's a mighty writer giving out praise. yessum. i could go on for hours but i won't. respect, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Sat Feb 7 10:42:46 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 10:42:46 +0000 Subject: Sinister: hal hartley and felt. References: <199802061855.TAA28681@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <34DC3AA5.43F344F7@lineone.net> Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > Besides, I've thoroughly enjoyed the Felt > story by one Alistair Fitchett in the Tangents 2.2 magazine ... anyone > ever > heard of this excellent writer ? §;^D yeah, i heard of that sucker. purveyor of pretentious prattle if you ask me. uses too much aliteration. can't spell. > "Press Softly On the Brakes Holly" hit the gas peddle. keep the faith, duke dude -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sat Feb 7 13:20:12 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 14:20:12 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Northy by Northy-Westy Message-ID: <01bd33cb$1ff26980$054a05c3@itjfvkli> Not long ago some people were awarded "carte blanche" to talk shite on the list. Can't Northy be awarded "carte blanche" to talk politics? I would certainly miss his occasional outbursts. Yesterday's little effort certainly made my day, especially as it coincided nicely with one of my guilty secrets, "Mambo Fever". Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 13:41:34 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 13:41:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: I'm just out of the trees In-Reply-To: <62700cb1.34dba921@aol.com> Message-ID: > > Why has no-one yet mentioned Paul Auster? I thought we had, but that may have been a private conversation. anyway, the New York Trilogy is superb: culture, alienation, boredom and so on. espadrille. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 16:52:29 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 16:52:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: well I say it was nothing............ Message-ID: <199802071539.PAA04059@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Hey list. Someone was saying that emails are difficult to comprehend properly because they are so faceless. I mean for example, I know when you all have a go at me you are only joking and that you love me really :) This is what I use in my mails to suggest sarcasm ~ Why ~? Well it is to do with Blackadder. Blackadder as I am sure the Brits will know is the most sarcastic person on the planet. Adder = Snake and my little symbol sort of looks like a snake y'see? Also for some strange reason it just looks like a sarcastic symbol Anyone agree? Can anyone think of any more to use. I think it will just generally help communication on the list. Byron Stinigly has the most unannoying face in the world ~ Peace List Northy ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 15:33:26 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:33:26 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Everybody thought it was a shame for Belle and the boy Sebastian Message-ID: well....heeelllloooooo ;) Oooohh, the 4th May.....I can't go to the pique-nique. I'm still at college methinks. And so should all the students be methinks. OOh hang on it might be a holiday, 'cos like May Day *is* a holiday, I'll go look in my 'Cardinal newman College Diary' (trendy!). Aaah. Apparently there we have one day off I think, stoopid thing aint clear. Oooh, still don't think I'll be able to make it 'cos it is very expensive for me to come all the way down to london and then head back same day, and I'll have to worry about time and stuff AND my Spanish GCSE (why why why did I think I could do it in a year....help! no se sabe el espanol por HELP! nooo! I'm crap!)....so, um, anyway, lucky you is missing out on me. And other 6th form people and perhaps students too. :( Can we not have it in the holidays sometime when we are all more free? And the longest day is WAAAY the best idea to have the picnic on! AND MY BIRTHDAY TOO!!! Please please please can we have an ace picnic in june 21st please, or else i will end up like every other year, alone in my room thinking ho hum, another day closer to the future which has just arrived and is yet to come or something like that. Yes, I will do the guilt trip thing, but I don't expect it to work so never mind... Oh, now it looks like theres MORe than one, in Scotland and London. Oooh, both hrd to get to but I shall try to at least come to one....don't worry I will go hide in the corner and shut up when you have had enough of me going on about shit. :) Yikes, another digest to run through and reply 'cos it is just not in my nature to leave things alone.... Oooh, Northy.....capitalist society refers to the way that people always want money for something. I wasn't saying richer people are evil I was saying that our society is run on the quest for better and better posessions, which need more and more money, te more money they (in my case the record shop) can get, the better for them but nasty for me, cos now its Saturday and I can't afford to pay the 4.99 that the Spiritulized single will be on Monday. I repeat, capitalism can't be the best way. Surely people with any sense know that our way of thinking is rubbish, but the thing is HOW to change it. Can we? Its....a whole... oh. I have just seen a message from Paul saying not to write about this. OK. STOP!!!! Sarah skids to a halt outside the houses of commons with the spraypaint in hand and goes home being a good quiet Sinisterine. :) I wonder if theres a political ranting mailing list. supose so but I have enough of that from my two socialist friends (ok so one is a friend the other is cruel.) with the socialist worker everyday. I like being a Sinisterine. I sound like I'm in a girl group. (then again it alos does sound a tad like Listerine as well....)yeah! There could be me, Geniveve, Katrina could be our record company person, Laurel, Megan and what say you Julia?? Lets go! WE can have big hair and do the dances and stuff! Oh, don't want to discriminate, any men with nice legs and big hair can join in the tea party too. snow patrol......ooh. i want to hear them too now. but i hate listening to steve latwat on radio 1. he's nasty. Yikes! a B&S song on a soundtrack and then as single! aaaah! bands who do that usually get reeeeally famous-ish kinda don't they! B&S in the top ten....HELP! reactions to that.....go on i dare you... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah ********************************* "Is this the real life or is this just Battersea?" --Freddie Mercury ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 17:26:15 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 17:26:15 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Opening lines, and NO not in *that* way!!!! Message-ID: hey hey! me and alistar, ok, well, alistar had a good idea to extend onto this favourite book things. this would be, whats the best opeinng line from a novel? We haev The Bell Jar with: "It was a queer sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbers and I didn't know what I was doing in New York" OR! L'etranger avec "Aujourd'hui maman est morte." Has anyone else got any good lines? Please do tell 'cos we'd like that a lot cos we're like that really and...oooh....just go on! We could have a top ten chart run down like wot old Top of The Pops with Smashie and nicy used to do! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Sat Feb 7 18:27:09 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 13:27:09 -0500 Subject: Sinister: The picnic Message-ID: <34DCA773.2BB@interaccess.com> HEY! Why not get a band to play this thing! Now if we could only think of an appropriate one... :P Aadam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Sat Feb 7 20:10:41 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:10:41 EST Subject: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda... Message-ID: <275e24b0.34dcbfc3@aol.com> Hello list! I never post but as I've had my first Belle+Sebastian related dream, I feel that I must. It wasn't terribly in depth, but I fondly remember going into a record shop and looking up Belle+Sebastian and to my amazement saw all of the Belle +Sebastian releases in shiny new wrappings on shiny black vinyl(even Tigermilk!!) at really low prices. I also dreamed that I had a lot of money(what a lovely dream that is) and just scooped them all up and bought every one of them. It was great!!!! I also thought I'd share that I have done my best to play Belle+Sebastian in all sorts of places around town and spread the happy plague to all around. I even listened to them as I went into surgery. The last song I recall hearing before being drugged into oblivion was "The Fox in The Snow", one of my personal favourites. I also thought I'd comment that I've even heard them in a topless bar where a girl was dancing to them. One night I tipped the bartender to play the whole cd and people were asking who it was and writing down their name. Isn't that lovely? Jeni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ds3624a at xxx.edu Sat Feb 7 20:49:30 1998 From: ds3624a at xxx.edu (Damon Seils) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 15:49:30 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Opening lines... References: Message-ID: <34DCC8DB.5564E9D@american.edu> Okay, here is one of my favorite opening lines... "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving." (_The Razor's Edge_ by W. Somerset Maugham) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 21:28:51 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (WesleySniper) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:28:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B sides to new single In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The lightening seeds? Oh dear the world cup is here again!! 3 lions is being re written, and it was crap anyway. Anyway - anyone heard of heavy stereo? err thats it really - oh does anyone know the b -sides to the new B& S single? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 05:46:24 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 21:46:24 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Carver, Wolff and Ink Polaroids Message-ID: <34DD46B0.565C@dial.pipex.com> My first posting to Sinister! I've been (sort of) lurking, althought this is mainly due to the fact that I'm currently living 400 miles away from my computer doing voluntary work (or slave labour as it currently is) in Dundee. Anyway... Good to someone recommend Raymond Carver. I've got a mate up in Dundee who really recommended Carver and I was reading his Where I'm Calling From collection of selected stories on the train back to London yesterday. Very impressive and very human. Even better is Tobias Wolff. I got The Stories of Tobias Wolff before Christmas and was totally hooked. The man creates stories of everyday lives in America which are perceptive and deeply beautiful. I write stories myself and if I come NEAR to writing anything as good as Wolff, I'll be a happy man. If anything, his latest collection of stories, The Night in Question, is even better. Ink Photographs and Little Ink Movies. I ordered both of these in the week between Christmas and New Year and haven't got them yet. Can anyone give me some idea of how long it might take for them to come. I'm desperate to read them given the quality of the ones I've read and, of course, the wonderful CD booklet stories. Speaking of waiting, I ordered LLPJ and DOW singles at Virgin over 4 weeks ago and I'm still waiting for DOW! Still, the glories of You Made Me Forget My Dreams and Photo Jenny kind of make up for it. All the best for now, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 21:23:03 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:23:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Belle was ok Message-ID: Hola! Belle and Sebastian! Yeah! *************************** Hey, I HAD A LISTEE DREAM!!!!! A certain person on this list...who I've not met.....don't ask me why I dreamt about them, this is very wierd. This person was supposed to be visiting me and staying with me for a bit, and then..... (ooh in the dream that is, not reality) OK, well, I was sat in my room , but it was smaller and the duvet was red. And then these two women walked in, one OLD and one about 40-ish. They were carrying a bag full of cuddly toys. And then the old one says to me "not a lot out for a trip is there?" And I have no idea what she's on about! So I go, , "um, sorry?" And she goes "My ****, he's coing to yours and you're going to Lytham aren't you?" So I think, 'Oooh heck, what's **** been saying to his mum? he's staying with me not going to Lytham! Shit I'm going to have to cover up for something here...um', so I say "well, lythams only a few miles away y'know so yo won't have to take a lot there for a trip" She goes, "ok, yes..." and walks out with this other woman. So i'm sat there wondering what in the world has **** said to his mother, when I hear a voice from the next room. I go next door, and **** (well, wat I imagin **** to look like as I've never met him) was sat at the pooter wearing a red sweater, going "So what'd the old bat say and then he smiled....and then I woke up!!! I usually have better dreams. Hmmm. I could have a lovely dream about Stuart Murdoch, he could just smile and call me pretty.... never happen will it I should get a life. I'm going to leave you with proof of how sad I am. Me and my friend were so bored we were siniging the theme from Countdown mixed up with other popular 'beat' songs. All I can remeber is "Countdown - repeat after me fuck queen and country mix" "Countdown-The red basset hound mix" and the "Countdown-backpain and arthiritis-do you suffer mix". I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sat Feb 7 22:33:43 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:33:43 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda... Message-ID: <199802072233.XAA01531@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Jeni wrote ... >I also dreamed that I had a lot of money(what a lovely dream that is) and >just scooped them all up and bought every one of them. It was great!!!! >I've even heard them in a topless bar where a girl was dancing to >them. One night I tipped the bartender to play the whole cd and people were >asking who it was and writing down their name. Isn't that lovely? Ha ha ha ... B&S being the inspiration for a stripper is one thing, but fellow listees hanging out frequently in such clubs and spreading the message there ?!! Have you filed an application yet ? "Dreams come true" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 22:57:38 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 22:57:38 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re:Opening lines Message-ID: <4A4626163BF@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> How about: "It was the day my grandmother exploded" from The Crow Road by Iain Banks - nice and surreal I think. Love to everyone, Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Sat Feb 7 23:50:05 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:50:05 -0000 Subject: Sinister: we all have a laugh Message-ID: <199802072356.XAA14739@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> the slightly homicidal sarah said: >Oooh, still don't think I'll be able to make it 'cos it is very expensive for me to come all the way down to london and then head back same day.......so, um, anyway, lucky you is missing out on me. And other 6th form people and perhaps students too. :( Dunno 'bout everybody else, but as a student, i know that three weeks before exam-time, we all start having multiple panic attacks and drink puke-inducingly large amounts of coffee and cram - so i guess that's, oooh, 99% of this list out. But, the idea of all 447 of us playing Twister simultaneously on Primrose Hill with lots and lots of strawberry icecream in the summer is wonderful. But i think we should remember to stock up on sweeties first: say oooh, 7 kilos of astra belts and a good 11 kilos of mini coca-cola bottles (i love them, i do). then after having dreamily watched the sun set, i think we should all march down Parkway and INVADE the Good Mixer, yeah all 447 of us. Together, we could rewire the Jukebox so that it's doomed to playing only The State that i am in over and over again, ransack the bar and then get up and dance to belle and Seb on the pool table....Whaddya say? 'Cept, you'ld all have to promise not to touch Mark, the Australian bar man - coz he's mine, alright? Shit, i hope he's not reading this. ah well. BTW, i'm interviewing The Unbelievable Truth on Wednesday for my fanzine (YIPEE!!) and then maybe Mover later that night (if by that time my friend who does the fanzine with me hasn't reached the completely, totally and utterly legless stage). so has any one got any good questions, because that's gonna be the second day in a week that we've done two in a day - and i'm runnin' dry. For anyone who doesn't know what the bollox i'm on about (shame on you) they are Thom Yorke's little bros' band, and as much as i love Radiohead i have to admit that i'm more into the UT right now, coz thy're more poet than paranoid. i mean they do sound like Radiohead in High+ Dry / Stop Whispering mood - ie at their finest (with the possible, no definite, exception of Black Star) Sinistereans, my life is officially beautiful: Last night after we did the Stereophonics and the Bluetones i walked home so damned cold that i could't fell me fingers, but i didn't care, for i was truly a happy bunny. I love the Bluetones - they are my babies, (yes, i've decided i'm going to adopt them.) It's always the nicest surprise meeting them, because like my friend (who i SWEAR doesn't subscribe to this list) said, "He's such a cutie." Kelly (isn't that a girls name?) from the Stereophonics was, i decided, a very nice young man, fascinatingly long eye-lashes though. Warm JEts man surprisingly looked very yummy indeed, but apparently he's going out with Zoe (sickenly happy everyf***ing morning) Ball. Sigh. Bye bye Sinistereans, YAz xx **************************************************************************** ***** And i could have told him that to know and love another human being was the root of all knowledge. **************************************************************************** **** Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead (but spoken by the GORGEOUS Jeremy Irons, who's old enough to be my father, actually, scrap that, old enough to be my GRANDAD, but would that stop me? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Franzmoz at xxx.it Sun Feb 8 00:14:24 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 01:14:24 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: high fidelity... low quality writing Message-ID: <199802080013.AAA27162@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> ---------- > Stuart Gardiner wrote: > > > On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend > > Nick > > Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. > > sappiest book i ever tried to read, and no mistake. i wanted to > throttle the lead character, and every other character come to think of > it... couldn't get beyond the first third. shite. actually, worse than > shite, just too bloody obvious predictable bollocks etc.... I think that "High fidelity" is a really really good book and that Stuart is completely right! If the Duke thinks that what the author wrote are only "obvious predictable bollocks" so he probably must go further than the first third. But, as the Latin said "De gustibus non est disputandum"! > great books what i have just read: Raymond Chandler - anything by this > dude is cool. Style seems to me to be in the Salinger vein... this > ain't just 'crime' writing, it be classic literature that you can get a > kick out of. Yum. It could be that Salinger took inspiration from Chandler, who wrote the most of his works before. (Even if I sincerely doubt of it!). BTW, both GENEVA (on a single) and Robyn Hitchcock (on an old album) made songs named after R.Chandler ("Raymond Chandler"-by Geneva and "Raymond Chandler evening"- by R.Hitchcock) and, of course, R.C. is a great writer, no doubt.! Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. It could be that Saliger took inspiration from Chandler who ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Franzmoz at xxx.it Sun Feb 8 00:13:58 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 01:13:58 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: no more rambling Message-ID: <199802080013.AAA27157@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> > harvey williams. who can help me? > -brad Hello, I'm Francesco from Italy, this is the first time I post an E-mail on this list. I'd like only to give you some information on Harvey Williams. He was better known as on-man-band in "Another Sunny day" which had some singles on sarah and a compilation album called "London Week-end"(sarah613). He, then, had a mini album out on sarah called "Rebellion" (sarah406). Both of them are really good. But, Imo, his best song is "I'm in love with a girl who doesn't know I exist", and I think its title says it all! Hope it helps, Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Franzmoz at xxx.it Sun Feb 8 00:14:54 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 01:14:54 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: high fidelity... low quality writing Message-ID: <199802080013.AAA27168@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> ---------- > Stuart Gardiner wrote: > > > On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend > > Nick > > Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. > > sappiest book i ever tried to read, and no mistake. i wanted to > throttle the lead character, and every other character come to think of > it... couldn't get beyond the first third. shite. actually, worse than > shite, just too bloody obvious predictable bollocks etc.... I think that "High fidelity" is a really really good book and that Stuart is completely right! If the Duke thinks that what the author wrote are only "obvious predictable bollocks" so he probably must go further than the first third. But, as the Latin said "De gustibus non est disputandum"! > great books what i have just read: Raymond Chandler - anything by this > dude is cool. Style seems to me to be in the Salinger vein... this > ain't just 'crime' writing, it be classic literature that you can get a > kick out of. Yum. It could be that Salinger took inspiration from Chandler, who wrote the most of his works before. (Even if I sincerely doubt of it!). BTW, both GENEVA (on a single) and Robyn Hitchcock (on an old album) made songs named after R.Chandler ("Raymond Chandler"-by Geneva and "Raymond Chandler evening"- by R.Hitchcock) and, of course, R.C. is a great writer, no doubt.! Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 01:07:55 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:07:55 EST Subject: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda. Message-ID: <647e3e94.34dd056e@aol.com> I played the whole record in a regular bar, thank you very much, and as for where I go is my buisness, Andreas. Perhaps it was I who was the dancer ever thought of that? For some strange reason I would have thought the listees would be a bit more openminded. Inspiration is inspiration, wherever and whenever it may be, and whomever may be the one inspired. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 01:46:04 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:46:04 EST Subject: R: Sinister: no more rambling Message-ID: <56f09e46.34dd0e5e@aol.com> In a message dated 2/8/98 0:19:05AM, you write: << He was better known as on-man-band in "Another Sunny day" which had some singles on sarah and a compilation album called "London Week-end"(sarah613). He, then, had a mini album out on sarah called "Rebellion" (sarah406). Both of them are really good. But, Imo, his best song is "I'm in love with a girl who doesn't know I exist" >> George Hamilton's Dead and Anorak City (Are You Scared To Get Happy? flexi circa '87 I think) were damn good too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Sun Feb 8 05:41:56 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 00:41:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: funding my pop habit In-Reply-To: <199802080013.AAA27157@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: can someone answer a question for me about some sarah stuff?? at a local record store (no i'm not saying where or which one...;o) ) i saw some field mice 7"'s - sarah 24 and 25 (i think) happened to be a 2 part thing with i-just-can't-remember-which tracks,ummmmmm autumn something on one (i'm ashamed of myself for forgetting this) and anyone else just isn't you on one (i think again) and i'm considering getting them for myself, but there are multiple copies so if anyone wants/needs/cannot possibly live without these, let me know, also can anyone let me know about what they should go for price-wise?? i think the store is asking $20ish per. so anyway, mail me private whydoncha and i'll get back to yas. ps. i just got back from a local benefit thing with hopping tunes where NO ONE DANCED. party-spoilers..........i know what it is, not enough beer, that's the real problem here!! aaaanyway, this is my first ever post to the list so hullo and kisses and happy introductions to all!! laurel xxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Laurel Pythikins wrote: >aaaanyway, this is my first ever post to the list so hullo and kisses and >happy introductions to all!! dear Laurel, surely it has been a long and arduous work week...but good heavens, you posted to the list just the other day! And David "Huxley" Kitchen even had the kindness to respond to said post! And now you're claiming that one to be the first?? it seems to me that someone has gotten her mailing lists a bit mixed up! : ) okay...now to the real stuff. and it's been a while...so here goes: 1) Cheers to HoneyPaul for designing a really stunning (potential) albumcover for the next B&S release. If you haven't seen it already, go to his web page where there's a handy link right to it. I can say no more--you've got to see the cuteness for yourself. 2) Picnics: splendid idea! I'll be available as import starting the 20th of June, I believe, so the suggestion of holding one on the 21st sounds parfait to me. I'll just ready the ol' blanket lined hamper and matching flatware...and my frisbee. Do you have Ultimate Frisbee in England? Excellent park game. The first time I ever heard Belle and Sebastian was following a game of frisbee in the park with my friend Ned. We collapsed, exhausted, on the grass and Ned put on the IYFS CD and soon we were feeling like Stars of not just Track and Field, but Frisbee, too... 3) tapes: to anyone whom I promised a tape to, they'll be on their way shortly. if you have any queries/concerns, email me privately... 4) Books: I second Megan's recommendation of _Geek Love_ by Katherine Dunn. It's narrated by an albino dwarf with a tail. 'Nuff said. Also good: _The Phantom Tollbooth_. I read it first when I was eight or so and it just keeps getting better. It even makes math seem (gasp!) sort of fun. And coming from me, that's a big deal. As I always say, there are three kinds of people in this world: those who get math, and those who don't. And if you like girls named Amanda (/me giggles), try Tom Robbins' _Another Roadside Attraction_. The main character shares my name and my, erm, fondness for butterflies and motorcycles... ? 5) Nathalie wrote: >i loved matthew's post... by the way, hello everyone! I love Matthew's posts as well...and I loved what she did with his, snipping it and rearranging it in poem form. It was the perfect sort of reply, really. 6) B&S dreams...I had one as well. I don't remember much about it...except that a bunch of us listees/chattees had gathered at some kind of bizarre auction...they were auctioning off the band members' old mismatched socks...and all I wanted was something olive green and argyle...and then the auctioneer held up one right olive green argyle sock, formerly owned by Stevie Jackson, I believe...and I rummaged through my pockets looking for money but all I had was my student ID, and they wouldn't give me the sock in exchange for a free meal in my university dorm's dining center...and I started to yell at the auctioneer that he was being ridiculous, that this was an unlimited salad bar we were talking here, when Paul and Tag and Laurel and Tim and Chris and rachee all had to drag me kicking and screaming from the auction. but socks? unmatched old SOCKS? oh, dear, my computer burps on the hour...3AM? how did this happen?? /me sighs /me apologizes for any rambling contained in this post /me advises anyone who doesn't understand this "/me" stuff to download chat software ASAP and succumb to the wonderful world that is #sinister. if not, I might have to come after you with a carp, and nobody really wants it to have to come to that. all right. nighty night then. love lovely love, Amanda -- "My dear Amanda," intoned the family lawyer, "it has come to my attention that you are increasingly seen in the company of extremely weird individuals." --from _Another Roadside Attraction_ and hey, on that note...I'm going to be in London March 20-29...can't wait to meet you lot... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 8 11:49:42 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 12:49:42 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda. Message-ID: <199802081149.MAA18474@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Jeni wrote ... >I played the whole record in a regular bar, thank you very much, and as for >where I go is my buisness, Andreas. Perhaps it was I who was the dancer ever >thought of that? Fair enough, that's your business ... and of course I thought about the possibility of yourself dancing topless in a regular bar, but why would you have tipped the bartender for playing records then ? Whatever, I'll follow your advice and play _If You're Feeling Sinister_ in case I'll finally earn some urgently required extra money next week ... naked part-time cleaners are popular amongst greedy and slavering old ladies over here in my country. §;^D >For some strange reason I would have thought the listees >would be a bit more openminded. They are open-minded ... that's only yours truly writing thoughtless mails in a drunken state of mind ... my apologies. >Inspiration is inspiration, wherever and >whenever it may be, and whomever may be the one inspired. "She thought it would be fun to try photography She thought it would be fun to try pornography She thought it would be fun to try most anything ... They let Lisa go blind" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Franzmoz at xxx.it Sun Feb 8 11:53:26 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 12:53:26 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: Opening lines, and NO not in *that* way!!!! Message-ID: <199802081153.LAA01784@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> > this would be, whats the best opeinng line from a novel? > Has anyone else got any good lines? Please do tell 'cos we'd like that a > lot cos we're like that really and...oooh....just go on! We could have a > top ten chart run down like wot old Top of The Pops with Smashie and > nicy used to do! > I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! The problem with this idea, IMO, is that almost everyone reads thier books in their own language translation. So I could tell you a lot of wonderful opening lines in italian but I think it would be useless. I try with an english one: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it." I hope everyone knows where I picked up this one. Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Franzmoz at xxx.it Sun Feb 8 11:33:35 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 12:33:35 +0100 Subject: R: R: Sinister: no more rambling Message-ID: <199802081153.LAA01783@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> > How did you get into B & S??? > > cool! Probably you asked me this question only because I'm italian, but I do believe that there are at least another italian on the list (I think that he lives really close to me, not farer than 30 Km, and this is really funny and strange). So, counting my girlfriend, I know three italian people who love Belle and Sebastian. It's really easy to say how I got into them: more than a year ago I started finding in the "always hated" english music papers, like MM and NME, short essays on B&S, which said that they were really good and their musical references where a lot of bands I liked. So I started looking for their records, and, even if I had no opprtunity to find them in Italy, I asked a friend of mine who was going to London to buy DoW and ..Sinister.. for me. He did!!! I fell in love since the first time I heard to the single. It was astonishing! Now tht B&S are much well known here in Italy, it's easy to find their records in any good import shop. So I hadn't any problem to buy their two other singles (LLPJ and 3,6,9..). As you may think, I don't own "Tigermilk" and I'm sure i'll never get it until there will be the reissue of it. But I'll wait...... Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From RKS at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 13:09:04 1998 From: RKS at xxx.uk (Russell Sharpe) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: Sinister: RE: opening lines Message-ID: > >whats the best opening line from a novel? "Take my camel dear" said Aunt Dot, as she got down from this animal on her return from High Mass. (The Towers Of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay) rustle XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From uclykan at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 14:13:16 1998 From: uclykan at xxx.uk (uclykan at xxx.uk) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 14:13:16 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Add B to S In-Reply-To: <647e3e94.34dd056e@aol.com> Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19980208141316.235f77a8@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> Bonjour les sinistres, At 20:07 07/02/98 EST, Jeni421 at aol.com wrote: >I played the whole record in a regular bar, thank you very much, and as for >where I go is my buisness, Andreas. Perhaps it was I who was the dancer ever >thought of that? For some strange reason I would have thought the listees >would be a bit more openminded. Inspiration is inspiration, wherever and >whenever it may be, and whomever may be the one inspired. How about some dancers on the next B&S show? Like Aphex twin and the glamorous performers during his set. Or divine Stereolab who had those wonderful black and white dancers in a video. Kelly ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.B.Stride at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 15:41:39 1998 From: C.B.Stride at xxx.uk (Dr C.B.Stride) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:41:39 +0000 Subject: Sinister: UK listees: Dance to indiepop/C86/pop-punk classics this Friday! Message-ID: <10EE4247CD0@woodhead.shef.ac.uk> Hiya all - its yet another Offbeat......(but the last for a month...) ...if any of you listees are coming let me know, and get some early requests in to me now....... > OFFBEAT - a real indiepop night....... > > with late bar, free lollipops and request sheets > > Sheffield Uni' SU Raynor Lounge (non-students most welcome) > > 9pm to 1am, £2.50 on the door... FRIDAY 13th February FRIDAY 13th March > > Playing......Classic Indie, Punk POP 1977-1997 and C86/C96/new > underground of indiepop..... > > HELEN LOVE-HEAVENLY-BELLE AND SEBASTIAN-DELGADOS > DWEEB-CHAMELEONS-PASTELS-R.E.M.-SMITHS-PAVEMENT- > FALL- BLUR-JAM-HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-TALULAH GOSH- > SUPER FURRY ANIMALS-ELASTICA-CURVE-URUSEI YATSURA- > BOGSHED-TIGER-SNUFF-DEAD KENNEDYS-PWEI-CARTER USM- > DISCO PISTOL- COMET GAIN -VELODROME 2000-ANORAK GIRL > STEREOLAB-CHINA DRUM-BLAGGERS ITA- BUZZCOCKS-BIS- > WEDDING PRESENT-ASH-SONIC YOUTH-BODINES-PIXIES-CUD > PRIMAL SCREAM (early)-GENE-SHOP ASSISTANTS-FIELD MICE > CHILLS-PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES-BLUEBOY-SCARFO. > plus many more in the same vein...... > > for more details/to join the Offbeat mailing list > email C.B.Stride at Sheffield.ac.uk > > > C.B.Stride at Sheffield.ac.uk *** daytime: 0114 2223262 *** *** FAX 0114 2727206 *** ** NEW ** evening: 0114 2306539 ** NEW ** "Watford FC Supporters - South Yorkshire branch" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 16:30:23 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 11:30:23 EST Subject: Sinister: Converting friends to B&S Message-ID: <3530f98c.34dddda1@aol.com> I've successfully turned on two friends to B&S so far (one of whom is at school and listens to Expectations in the corner of the classroom during lunchbreaks in a "this is the story of my life" kinda way, which is surely the way B&S should be appreciated). Anyway, another mate has at last played the compilation I made for him over six months ago, and here is his 'critique' (well, it made me grin):- "I actually played the B&S today - what a bunch of ass kicking rock n roll. Some of the lyrics were quite interesting - the one about the gay brother - but that cut out half way through. I dont know why they have to have so many people in the group when there is just that bloke with the whining voice and acoustic (YUK) guitar and the drummer who seemed to be playing in a different room. People actually get excited about this? I must be out of touch. I may play the second side around July." This man is doing a pop quiz at the Retro Bar in London on Tuesday. Do feel free to go along and heckle. Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 18:11:05 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 18:11:05 +0000 Subject: Sinister: chat Message-ID: <199802081657.QAA21618@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> when do people usually chat on sinister then? I have been a few times to no avail Only someone called Honey Bot is ever there Who, what and why is he/she? bye Northy ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 20:50:59 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (Northy's Labour voting and less evil twin br) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 20:50:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: bye list Message-ID: <199802081937.TAA04345@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> bye list I am unsubscribing until my coursework has been handed in (or IF my coursework has been handed in) see ya (keep me updated on anything please!!!) see ya soon Northy Peace ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 20:54:12 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 20:54:12 GMT Subject: Sinister: Gone, but not forgotten Message-ID: <34de1b01.11535973@email.mcmail.com> Happy now? You're all responsible. You with your callous barbs, your trendy lefty politics, and your oh so clever put downs. He was young, innocent beautiful. Who else could have turned us on to the joys of Catatonia, drawn our attentions the filth peddled by Arab Strap, and made us think twice about the terrible problems of those people more fortunate than ourselves? Most of all he made us realise that rabid right wingers have feelings too. And now we have nothing left but memories, his words still echoing in our ears, and that clever little snake symbol he used to indicate sarcasm. I'll miss you Northy. I truly believe we will never see your like again. Oh God, I'm filling up, sorry ... Peace List Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Sun Feb 8 21:16:07 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:16:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: me siento siniestra In-Reply-To: Message-ID: oh shit sorry so sorry i just did a complete northy and mailed to the wrong list. i'm SO ASHAMED. please forgive me all. a sadly abashed laurel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bgainey at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 22:30:27 1998 From: bgainey at xxx.com (Brian Gainey) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 14:30:27 -0800 Subject: Sinister: BMX Bandits in San Francisco Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980208143027.010f1988@pophost.wired.com> good afternoon, just a short introductory entry from a fellow b&s admirer. my name is brian and i live in san francisco. last night i was lucky enough to go and see the bmx bandits play at a very small bar here in town. lucky, not because i found the bmx bandits worthy of my adulation, but lucky because the lovely stevie jackson was in town performing with them. i don't suppose it would be a very good idea to concentrate on the bmx bandits performance, since i'm sure nothing i would have to say about it would make me any new friends. is that general enough? stevie, however, was definitely the star attraction at the show! both times his name was mentioned by the singer, the crowd responded lovingly; quadrupling the amount of applause any of the other band members received. so sorry. my friend jane and i hung out afterwards and talked to him briefly. he was so pleasant and polite and said he was a little bit embarrassed by all the attention. there were a few other people there with b&s merchandise to be signed and he was very chatty and happily obliged. most promising, is suppose, was the mention of some b&s live dates possibly in june. yay! so there you have it. i think it would be great to organize a picnic here in san francisco to coincide with the ones going off in other countries. any bay area folk into the idea? brian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 23:03:22 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B sides to new single In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I've heard of heavy stereo, I liked their first 2 singles, the third wass shite, so I didn't buy the album, they got dropped by Creation. Oh yeh, and I met a girl on holiday last year who loved them, and I can't remember her name, which iss a shame coz she wass really nice. Colin On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, WesleySniper wrote: > > The lightening seeds? Oh dear the world cup is here again!! 3 > lions is being re written, and it was crap anyway. > > Anyway - anyone heard of heavy stereo? > > err thats it really - oh does anyone know the b -sides to the new > B& S single? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 22:52:26 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 17:52:26 -0500 Subject: Sinister: London calling, yes I will be there too Message-ID: <34DE372A.3211@ix.netcom.com> I'll be in London from Thursday through Sunday/Monday (2/12 - 2/15). I will be staying in the Kensington area, I think the tube stops are Bayswater/Queensway or something like that. Is anyone getting together for a show during that time frame? I'd like to meet some people from the list. Don't be shy, I'm harmless and playful. You can ask the Washington DC Sinistereans...well then again they might not back me up on that one :-). If no one is getting together, can someone please give me a list (or web address) for good places to catch some bands, good indie record stores and theaters, cool clothing places, groovy book stores, etc. I would really appreciate it. I would much rather follow the recommendations of this list rather than some guidebook to London. Thanks in advance... Samiam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 22:53:33 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 17:53:33 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Her daddy was a bank robber (NBS) Message-ID: <34DE376D.630A@ix.netcom.com> Now someone mentioned they'd like to hear some band recommendations. I have two, one you've probably not heard of and one you probably have heard. The first is Red House Painters. They are from San Francisco, play mostly acoustic, very melancholic songs. They sound a lot like Nick Drake, but I like them much more. The second band I recommend is the Trash Can Sinatras. They sound like a cross between Aztec Camera and Smiths. The lyrics are filled with witty double meanings and word play. I was in a pub a few days ago and heard a PIL song I hadn't heard in ages. The chorus goes 'may the road rise with you' and 'anger is an energy' or something like that. What is the name of that song. Poor 'old' Johnny...I heard Sid Vicisous' version of Sinatras 'My Way' the other day, rather interesting. The Bluebells are currently in the cd player, when was the last time you heard that name? What do you all think of the Wild Swans? Samiam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Sun Feb 8 23:13:14 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 18:13:14 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Judybats; Eddie Vedder shocker. He is happy! I'm feeling better now... Message-ID: <34DE3C0A.35E6@ix.netcom.com> The quote at the bottom of this e-mail reminded me of the Judybats 'Daylight'. It's an amusing tale of a girl who loses her boy and then disaster strikes, the verse goes: 'She slipped up on daylight crack in the sidewalk she up and dissappeared all the people gathered around said "Gosh, we really liked that girl"' The Judybast is another band I'd recommend, especially to the European contingent because the Judybats were popular on college radio in the states, but I don't think word got across the Atlantic. Before I forget, did anyone catch Eddie Vedder on MTV the other day? He declared that he's not pissed any longer!!! Record execs are now shaking and trembling. Calvin Klein just changed their marketing strategy and will no longer use unhappy/brooding/aloof looking models or concepts. Electronica was not the huge hit that was supposed to sweep America. Americans could not understand what the hell Keith Flint was shouting. What do we do now? What's the world coming to? Will the air waves now be filled with happy bubble gum pop? 'Now the boys and girls are not alone now the Hitsville's hit UK' - Clash Sam On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Elisabeth Zachariassen wrote: > On the subject of walkmans: > Once I was walking and listening to radioheads "ok computer", and just as > gorgeous Thom sang the line "you watch your feet for cracks in the > pavement", a person in front of me slipped in a crack in the pavement. It > made me smile. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 08:14:00 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:14:00 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Re: Heavy Stereo References: Message-ID: <34DEBAC8.56D2@dial.pipex.com> u01cjtc wrote: > > I've heard of heavy stereo, I liked their first 2 singles, the third wass > shite, so I didn't buy the album, they got dropped by Creation. > Oh yeh, and I met a girl on holiday last year who loved them, and I can't > remember her name, which iss a shame coz she wass really nice. > > Colin > [stuff snipped] Someone else who actually liked a Heavy Stereo song. My God, I didn't think there was *another*! Sleep Freak was a *great* single, with one of the most searing, downright LOUD guitar openings I've ever heard. A stomp along rock n roll classic which, sadly, hardly anyone bought. Mind, it was their biggest "hit" as it got to No.42. Smiler was the second single and was blinding, too. Sadly it all went bent awry with the album: a mess, and SF and Smiler were not on it either. And then Creation dropped them and that, I guess, was that. Oh, and if you hate Oasis you'll possibly hate Heavy Stereo even more. Sorry. Just out of interest, does *anyone* else who really likes B&S like Oasis. Oasis was the first band I really loved, not for the laddish shtick but because I thought they had the best tunes I'd ever heard and Live Forever sent a shiver down my spine that I didn't get again until I heard You Made Me Forget My Dreams, Put The Book Back On The Shelf, Photo Jenny, Fox in the Snow etc. etc. I mean, I know Oasis should be everything that a sterotypical B&S fan should hate but I don't care; I think I've been as hung up on what's "cool" and what's not for too long; probably a result of too much exposure to NME and MM. Just thought I'd get that off my chest, All the best, Jon -- World of Stuff... http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/road/vp42/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blackwel at xxx.uk Sun Feb 8 18:45:47 1998 From: blackwel at xxx.uk (Paul Blackwell) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 00:45:47 +0600 Subject: Sinister: Out with the old, in with the new. Message-ID: <01bd34c1$c5234f40$LocalHost@peter> Hello fellow appriciators of B & S. I have been on the list for a few weeks but this is my first mail. On the subject of converting friends to Belle and Sebastian, I was actually converted to them by someone on this list. My friend Richard started raving about this band I had never heard of late last year. I heard them quietly in the background in his car and thought, this is quite good but nothing really special. The next week I was in HMV in Kingston with money in my pocket wondering which CD to buy. When I walked past the B section, 'If You're Feeling Sinister' seemed to stand out to me and I picked it up straight away and bought it. At the time I wasn't quite sure why but I have never regretted it. It must surely be the magic of Belle and Sebastian. When I got home and was able to listen to it properly on my own I understood the true brilliance of it. I think Belle and Sebastian's music is very personal and does not work as background music when you are with a lot of people - much better to listen to on your own. The song that really appealed to me first and made me think what a brilliant band they are was Judy and the Dream of Horses. I immediately phoned Richard up to ask him if I could borrow his B & S EPS which I also thought were excellent. If it wasn't for that impulse buy in HMV I wouldn't be writing this now and I would still have been listening to Radiohead, ignorant of the existence of B & S. Richard has lent me his tape copy of Tiger Milk for the weekend and although it sounds rather like 'If You're Feeling Sinister', that isn't really much of a criticism as they are much worse things it could sound like and it does predate IYFS. My friend is infact Richard 'Northy' North. I go to the same college as him and do A - Levels but I do not share his strong right-wing politics (which I am not sure if even he believes in). I do share his appreciation for Catatonia and the Lightning Seeds (who I was into before him and are truly marvellous live). I also went to Catatonia gig with North the other night and Catatonia were good despite what North says. I would also have to disagree with his point about Superstar being 'dull, dull, dull'. On the tube on the way home from that gig, a homeless guy made a speech to the train carriage we were in about his situation. He said he was in a catch-22 situation, no fixed address means he can't get a job or dole, and no job means he can't get a fixed address. He said he had worked all his life and had been in our position and didn't like being bothered by the likes of him. But if anyone could spare any change, food or even water it would be greatly appreciated, and if we couldn't or didn't want to, that was okay too. I had no money or food on me but North had money and gave none, nobody gave the man anything. He didn't complain, he just went onto the next carriage to give his speech again. After he was gone North was complaining saying he hated people like that - making him feel guilty, laying the 'guilt trip' on him. He also said the guy had no right to do that to him. How selfish is Northy? Oh dear, did the homeless guy make poor old North feel guilty. Perhaps if he felt guilty then there was something to feel guilty about. I felt sorry for the guy and wished I could help but did not hate him for talking to us. This is not a personal attack on Northy, I am just letting you all know the truth. I do not need to make the obligatory first mail to the list request for Tiger Milk as I already have a copy (even though it isn't mine). As North will be gone from the list for a while, you will have to make to with me. I am less controversial but also live in Ashford which makes me a perfect Northy substitute. If anyone wants to see what Northy looks like (Tag may be curious) they can mail me privately and I can tell them where on the internet to go (yes Northy is out there somewhere in cyberspace). I would be really interested to hear Beck's interpretations of any B & S songs. I think he would probably ruin most of them but it could work. It would be very interesting. Take care everyone, Paul (the new one) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fill in own amusing or clever line here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 01:11:48 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 20:11:48 EST Subject: Sinister: Judybats; Eddie Vedder shocker. He is happy! I'm feeling bett... Message-ID: <7883fe14.34de57d6@aol.com> The Judybats? Now there's a name I haven't heard in years! That is a band that I never personally liked (but they had their fans) that was out of my hometown, Knoxville,TN. They filmed one of their videos on a friend of mine named Bill Harper's farm about 5 years ago. Very sweet poppy stuff, actually. One of the guys from that band is now a server at a bar I frequent. He's not been the same since their breakup. I always remembered them to be quite full of themselves and pretentious, although now it seems they've not much to be pretentious about any longer. So it goes in the music industry I suppose...a hit one minute, starving artists the next. I have been wondering if anyone could tell me why my chat software isn't working. I've read the directions, but it won't even let me sign on. It says valid name, but there is no data or something. Anyway it tells me to try to connect w/a different server. Anyone know what is wrong? Jeni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 03:07:21 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:07:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: woah hoo woah hoo woah Message-ID: <199802090307.WAA04044@Vector.inexpress.net> >Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:47:52 +0000 (GMT) >From: Stuart Gardiner >Subject: Sinister: Doing the funky gibbon... (Bugger all B&S content) funky gibbon huh? Hmmmmmmmm..... >Great, does that mean we get the chance to slag off the bands we really >detest? My top 5 worst bands at the moment, in true "High Fidelity" style; >(qualification; they make me change stations whenever I hear them on the >radio): Ocean Duller Scene, Alanis Bagofshite, Sp*c* G*rls, Oasis and >Byron Stingly. Not a new idea (and not a tune) between them. Oh...poor Simon Foxy Fowler..him and his little bowl hats...i agree with the rest of them though,although I do not know what a Byron Stingley is..I wuld not want to step on one! >A short story written as if you were talking about a photograph whilst >showing it to somebody else. Stuart M's written a book of them, which you >can buy off the website. Which you can't get to. Which isn't much use >really. But never mind. The last competition on the list was to write one >ourselves; since that was a few months ago now, and there's loads of new >members, maybe that could be revived? yes..revive it,cause i missed out them,and i would love too see them from all you lovely people. >> "Ummm..you want a bag with that?" (and so our hands first touched...and I >> floated throughout the rest of the night...) > >Without doubt the most romantic chat-up line ever... must use that one >sometime... Oh..if only he had romantic intentions! He must! his charismatic eyebrows..they smile at me...at least I can talk to him,Beautiful Blue YEs makes me almost fall into the floor... >Ah, the joys of true love, the sleepless nights, the daydreams, the >repeated attempts to summon up the courage to talk to the object of your >desire... Actually, what am I talking about? I've never found anyone worth >fretting over for 10 months. 3 maybe, but that was exceptional >circumstances. So here I am, a sad lonely figure, waiting for the day my >dream woman walks into my life, currently pinning my hopes on a blind date >next Tuesday (probably in vain, my last blind date never even showed >up...) I hope you have fun on your blind date! I've never been on one...well actually i cheat a little bit here...i sort of fickly,yes? SO I mean I find out his NAME 10 months later..not necessarily think about him the whole time..but the month of the 10th and a little bit before definitley! I actually see him on the street once...bringing back food for Burrito Boy (that slave driver! HOw dare he may my poor little angel work like that!And just in a little teeshirt when it so cold...)but I don't know where he lives...and I haven't wrote his name in giatn steps in the snow yet..unlike another certain name.... >Nope, it's just you. ohhhh...well how about all those skiers from Austria and Sweden and Finland! Everythign about them glistens! how come my ski instrcutor was not like that...and he also called me nou-nou...grrrrrr.... >And big huggy-wuggies and slobbery kisses from all in Britain, >honey-pumpkin... > >The Tall Git >(Just back from the pub... Does it show?) > much appreciated from all those luvely pookie bears! >Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:33:26 +0000 >From: Sarah >Subject: Sinister: Everybody thought it was a shame for Belle and the boy Sebastian >I like being a Sinisterine. I sound like I'm in a girl group. (then >again it alos does sound a tad like Listerine as well....)yeah! There >could be me, Geniveve, Katrina could be our record company person, >Laurel, Megan and what say you Julia?? Lets go! WE can have big hair and >do the dances and stuff! Oh, don't want to discriminate, any men with >nice legs and big hair can join in the tea party too. Oh yessss! my grandma always tells me I 'have enough hair for 3 people!' Oh yes...as a child i had blonde hair down to my ankles and used to run around and climb trees and wear broccoli as a shirt..THEN,she put a bowl on my head and cut all around....anyways it take very little effort for me to acheive height,so we can all be big heads.Being a Sinisterine entitles a girl ot some very funky clothes too right? and speaking of dances... there was a heated (well not heated..lukewarm maybe) discussion about topless bars and B&S...I don't know...stripping to B&S? I thought that music ahs to be like 'happy birthday mister presidennntt...' i mean,whenever I hear photo jenny..i jsut do soem cheezy finger snaps...but then again,(uh oh..another story....here some more ramblin that has nothign to do with B&S!) this guy at my school,he's very odd...everything ahs to be kinky for him you know? ok..I'm just this silly little person..but somehow..he got in his head..as soon as i step through the dor and at home,bam! i am Dark Mistress and some odd kinky queen..so i have to make little jokes with him you know...say ANY word and he takes a different way...in french i lean back as far as the chair will allow me without falling over and i stare at him without laughing and go 'tooooothbrush' 'lilllllyhammmerrrr' so my point is (yes I do have one!) I guess if you sung Photo Jenny like 'theyy....got ...the ooh ahhh..druuuggggggggs...*wink wink* i could *fling off goes the clothes!) use them...but then i don't need any...' and so on and so on.... and ummm...yeah,LEt It Flow by Spiritualized..at any point you stop the song and play you always get the woah hoo woah hoowoah.. (back to skool-work..sniff sniff) xoxox'Genevieve ;) a true love for me is all that i need it's something i've always got wrong.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bsanant at xxx.edu Mon Feb 9 03:58:45 1998 From: bsanant at xxx.edu (Birjinder Singh Anant) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:58:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: BMX Bandits Message-ID: <199802090358.TAA15593@uclink.berkeley.edu> Hi, Yeah, I also had the chance to talk to Stevie after the show in SF and he was so nice and became really embarrassed when I told him that I haven't liked a band as much as B&S since the Stone Roses. Then he said something to the effect that he gets upset when he talks about the Roses, because they were so important to him when he was younger, and look how everything turned out... Also playing with the BMX Bandits was Sushil the bassist, who used to be in the Soup Dragons! He was also really nice and talked to myself and my friend for an hour after the show. It was great. Take care, Birjinder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 05:57:47 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 00:57:47 EST Subject: Sinister: Re:woah hoo woah hoo whoah Message-ID: <283e5c77.34de9add@aol.com> In a recent letter, Genevive said: Paul Blackwell wrote ... >I also went to Catatonia gig with North the other night and Catatonia were >good despite what North says. I would also have to disagree with his point >about Superstar being 'dull, dull, dull'. Truth is that the most recent _18 Carat_ mini album didn't live up to my expectations (except the marvellous "Superstar" and possibly "Little picture"), but I'd trade in my Teenage Fanclub collection for the _Greatest Hits Vol. One_ mini album or the Groovy Little Numbers 12"'s anytime ... and anyone slagging off Superstar should not forget that Joseph McAlinden contributed a fair share to the success of the BMX Bandits, for example by co-writing and performing vocals on "Serious drugs" ... >On the tube on the way home from that gig, a homeless guy made a speech to >the train carriage we were in about his situation. He said he was in a >catch-22 situation, no fixed address means he can't get a job or dole, and >no job means he can't get a fixed address. He said he had worked all his >life and had been in our position and didn't like being bothered by the >likes of him. But if anyone could spare any change, food or even water it >would be greatly appreciated, and if we couldn't or didn't want to, that was >okay too. I had no money or food on me but North had money and gave none, >nobody gave the man anything. He didn't complain, he just went onto the next >carriage to give his speech again. After he was gone North was complaining >saying he hated people like that - making him feel guilty, laying the 'guilt >trip' on him. He also said the guy had no right to do that to him. How >selfish is Northy? Oh dear, did the homeless guy make poor old North feel >guilty. Perhaps if he felt guilty then there was something to feel guilty >about. I felt sorry for the guy and wished I could help but did not hate him >for talking to us. This is not a personal attack on Northy, I am just >letting you all know the truth. Stereotypical attitude. I've heard of several people being either on the dole or homeless who became subsequently fairly succesful songwriters ... F.M. Cornog a.k.a. East River Pipe, anyone ? Praise Northy with the _Shining hours in a can_ CD by East River Pipe on his next birthday without mentioning the issue and find out whether he likes it ... will people ever learn ? >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >"The club isn't open" >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Runegg at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 08:36:15 1998 From: Runegg at xxx.com (Runegg at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 03:36:15 EST Subject: Sinister: my first post in a WEEK Message-ID: <607665d8.34dec001@aol.com> Hi all. So many fascinating discussions I had to respond. For novel opening lines, I like "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but I can't remember the line, and I lost the book. It's something like: "Many years later, when he faced the firing squad", something something something. I also nominate a novel by my dad. The book's called "A Girl of Forty" and the opening line is: "'Why does everybody talk about the Virgin Mary,' Suki asked me. 'what about the Virgin Joseph?--if Mary never got around to doing it, neither did Joseph, did he?'" Other than that I have to say, I kind of find Hal Hartley pretentious (will all due respect to those who love him; we're allowed our opinions).... but no matter. I will come to England if there's a picnic this summer. I recommend an amazing book called "Fup" by Jim Dodge. Find it even if it takes some effort. It's about a duck who lives on a ranch with a guy and his crazy grandfather in rural California, and it's beautiful, hilarious, soulful, and mallardian in the best way. by Ari bye, Ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 10:17:55 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:17:55 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re: Red House Painters Message-ID: <4C7B76C3E41@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> > The first is Red House Painters. They are from San Francisco, Hey! Someone else has heard of them! Even my American flat-mate gave me blank looks when I mentioned them. I love this band and when I saw them in London last year they played for more than two hours - now thats what I call value for money. "Songs For A Blue Guitar" is a classy album, but my favourite songs are "Micheal" and "Down Colourful Hill". And heres my B&S story. When I went to the Union Chapel gig last year, I went with my friends Joe and Phil - "..me and Joe and Phil" just like in "String Bean Jean"! (except we didnt have a bath together!). Sorry - that really wasn't very interesting was it???! Lots of love to everybody from Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 10:45:45 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 02:45:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: re: harvey williams Message-ID: <19980209104545.22877.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> Re: R: Sinister: no more rambling Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:46:04 EST someone: >>He was better known as on-man-band in "Another Sunny >>day" which had some singles on sarah and a >>compilation album called "London Weekend"(sarah613). >>He, then, had a mini album out on sarah called >>"Rebellion" (sarah406). Both of them are really >>good. But, Imo, his best song is "I'm in love with a >>girl who doesn't know I exist" which is pretty accurate. btw the 10" of 'rebellion' is still available from matt at shinkansen records: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~shink/mail.htm but 'london weekend' is long gone. which is a pity as the first few singles are quintessential sarah material. harvey also played with blueboy, the field mice, the hit parade and, oh, someone else probably. he may also still be in the live version of the trembling blue stars and there's a little northern soul covers band side project which also features amelia fletcher... stephen eastwood: >George Hamilton's Dead and Anorak City (Are You >Scared To Get Happy? flexi circa '87 I think) were >damn good too. um, wrong and wrong. 'George Hamilton's Dead' was by The Golden Dawn (sarah 17) and 'Anorak City' was actually sarah 3, a 5" flexi that came with the sarah 4 fanzine thing. isn't this the second time you've been inaccurate about sarah stuff stephen? three strikes and you're out! 8) there's also a single on caff records which you will probably never see where he covers the beegee and orchestral manouevres in the dark. ('kilburn towers' and 'genetic engineering' respectively) um, there's a sarah discography at http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~rjh/sarah/ if anyone wants one... andy the list's resident sarah bore and scrabble champion um, had immense trouble reading tag's post about northy this morning - too busy laughing... == andrew dean (koogydelbbog at yahoo.com) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From c9712536 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 16:56:14 1998 From: c9712536 at xxx.uk (Richard Banner) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:56:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: No subject Message-ID: unsubsribe sinister ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 12:57:47 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:57:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re:Opening lines In-Reply-To: <4A4626163BF@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Message-ID: > "It was the day my grandmother exploded" from The Crow Road by Iain > Banks - nice and surreal I think. isn't that one a fit too forced: a bit too deliberately zany? that's why something like l'etramger is wonderful, bvecause it's so understated. that said, the beginning to catcher in the rye is still superb. espadrillle > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 13:29:29 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:29:29 -0000 Subject: Sinister: The Monday Poem Message-ID: <199802091326.NAA22654@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> With the shock departure of Northy from the list, I think we are all in need of spiritual succour. So in honour of the dearly departed I've decided to inaugurate the "Sinister Poem of the Week". Basically, drawing on from Tag's idea of the list as a daily fanzine, and also the fact that Sinisterines seem to be astonishingly well-read, I thought it'd be fun to have a regular feature every Monday. One of the frustrating things about my job is that I get to read lots of fantastic contemporary poetry, which I know lots of people would enjoy if only they had access to it. So in a spirit of "literary home-taping", I thought I'd choose some excellent new poems, in the same way that you might make someone a tape of a fantastic new group on a tiny label that no-one would've ever heard of otherwise. And of course this helps me feel slightly better about sending private email from work... Of course, it doesn't have much to do with B&S, and if enough people regard it as spam, I'll stop... But anyway... Paul Farley is from Liverpool. He's just won the Poetry Review New Poet of the Year award, and has a new book, "The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You" out soon, published by Picador. For those of you who are either too young, or not British, Keith Chegwin is an ex-kids tv presenter who turned to the bottle. The poem deals with his early teenage appearance in a Roman Polanksi Shakespeare adaptation... Stephen xxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- Paul Farley Keith Chegwin as Fleance The next rung up from extra and dogsbody and all the cliches are true - days waiting for enough light, learning card games, penny-ante, while fog rolls off the sea, a camera gets moisture in its gate, and Roman Polanski curses the day he chose Snowdonia. He picked you for your hair to play this role: a look had reached Bootle from Altamont that year. You wouldn't say you sold your soul but learned your line inside a beating tent by candlelight, the shingle dark as coal behind each wave, and its slight restatement. "A tale told by an idiot..." "Not your turn, but perhaps, with time and practice...", the Pole starts. Who's to say, behind the accent and that grin, what designs you had on playing a greater part? The crew get ready while the stars go in. You speak the words you'd written on your heart just as the long-awaited sunrise fires the sky a bluish pink. Who could have seen this future in the late schedules, where I can't sleep, and watch you die on the small screen; on the other side of drink and wondering why, the zany, household-name years in between? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Poetry Society Website: http://www.poetrysoc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From masson at xxx.fr Mon Feb 9 14:53:14 1998 From: masson at xxx.fr (Pierre-Alain Masson) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 14:53:14 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: Red House Painters References: <4C7B76C3E41@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Message-ID: <34DF185A.41C67EA6@amadeus.univ-fcomte.fr> NO B&S content. LISA BERRY wrote: > > > The first is Red House Painters. They are from San > Francisco, > > Hey! Someone else has heard of them! Even my American flat-mate gave > me blank looks when I mentioned them. I love this band and when I saw > them in London last year they played for more than two hours - now > thats what I call value for money. > "Songs For A Blue Guitar" is a classy album, but my favourite songs > are "Micheal" and "Down Colourful Hill". > It's funny how Red House Painters seems to be an obscure group in UK. In France, I wouldn't say they are grand public but we often hear about them. I'm a huge fan of Red House Painters. I love the way Mark Kozelec (singer) always sings, as if the music behind him didn't exist. I mean, whatever the music goes, he's singing with the same depressed and beautifull voice, somewhat like Nico used to do with the Velvets. That makes the whole thing fascinating... BACCHUS masson at amadeus.univ-fcomte.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 13:52:12 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: my first post in a WEEK In-Reply-To: <607665d8.34dec001@aol.com> Message-ID: > > I recommend an amazing book called "Fup" by Jim Dodge. Find it even if it > takes some effort. It's about a duck who lives on a ranch with a guy and his > crazy grandfather in rural California, and it's beautiful, hilarious, soulful, > and mallardian in the best way. n.b. this has just been republished, so should be easier to get hold of than before.. espadrille > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 13:17:11 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:17:11 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Good Morning List Message-ID: <01bd355d$078f89c0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Hello people, absolutely knackered at work this morning, had a bit of a rough weekend, how's everybody doing? Anyone bought any decent records recently, I need some tips for the moment as I've almost run out of things to buy.I've asked a few people that question recently and virtually all of them don't really have many ideas. It's a pain in the arse - have people stopped bringing good records out for the moment? What do we reckon then about this listy meet up thing, is May the decision, there's no reason why we shouldn't have more than one, let's face it, if it's good fun, we should have loads. London people, I'm a comin' down to London some time in the next month or so, so I'd like to meet you all (again for most of you). Katrina, sorry, never got a chance to listen to SnowPatrol at the weekend, as I said before I was horribly pissed all weekend, will have a listen some time soon. Cheers, Keith. ps : I can't believe you don't like the Scatman Tag! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From niclas.johannesson at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 14:26:26 1998 From: niclas.johannesson at xxx.com (Niclas Johannesson) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:26:26 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Re: Red House Painters Message-ID: <9802091521.AA22441@sdas01.seinf.abb.se> Finally I have found an excuse for contributing! I just love RHP and last summer I got a chance to see them at the Hultsfred Festival. It was just great, but typically, (almost) nobody else really seemed to understand their greatness. The same thing with B&S really, my best pop-loving friends cant really understand how marvellous they are. Nevertheless, their minds are probably not made for indulging in real grandeur. Speaking of RHP, I believe their best efforts so far are the Down Colorful Hill CD (especially Michael and Lord Kill the Pain) and Summer Dress from Ocean Beach. Moreover, you mustnt forget the cover of Kiss%s Shock Me. /New Jersey aint the whole world! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 14:17:56 1998 From: EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk (ELIZABETH DAPLYN) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:17:56 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Hello people. I got back from France at 11:00 last Friday night, having had nish sleep the whole week. Looking at Picassos when you've got a furry tingue is not a pleasant experience, believe you me, amigos. Don't drink tequila. Anyhoo, I had a fab time dans Paris, especially at the new Arman exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in the Jardins Tuileries. Oo-er, I've gone all art-name-dropping suddenly... Anyway, despite the bacchanalian revels during the week, I got up on Saturday, went to Music Centre in the morning (aargh! I've forgotten how to play the flute!), and stayed up to go see John Hegley in the evening in Cantebury. He was absoloutment fantastique, despite having forgotten he had a gig that evening and turning up an hour or so late. He forgot his slides, too, and had to draw on the stage with chalk. So, I've just read through a massive load of mail (thank Someone for the digest version) and am now ready to begin my assault on a startlingly witty reply to all points of relevance from the aforesaid. Tindersticks: Cherry Blossoms is a beautiful, beautiful song, and not understanding what in the name of little baby prawns Ol' Gravel Voice is going on about doesn't stop me singing it incessantly (an octave higher than he does) for a while after I've been listening to it. Three am, six feet down, already up with the lark...WHAT?!?!? Song For Those Not So Beautiful is gorgeous too. Has anyone else got the limited-edition Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre album? This is one of the (very) few lim-ed things I own, as I'm a high-street kinda girl: no indie-kid shops around Medway. We have our own equivalent of Casuals who look at me strangely as I wander around Chatham in hippy skirts and wierd t-shirts, not realising that their horrible puffa jackets and gold jewellery make them look like Michelin Men on the game. B&S cover versions: I dunno, I think it'd work quite well with Tanya Donelly doing the girly bit in Lazy Line Painter Jane, but I'm not sure who else would fit in for the rest of it. She did that guest bit on Judy's Staring At The Sun by Catherine Wheel ages ago, but which I was chuffed to find as one of the b-sides on Delicious a wee while back. Well, I liked it... Also: whoever said Stephen Duffy should do any B&S cover - I LOVE YOU! How amazingly right would that be? I'm now going to thank the marvellous people who have sent me wonderful tapes of wonderful stuff by wonderful bands in return for Tigermilk (so I should first thank myself [and my stereo] for proselytising B&S back catalogue around the globe). Thank you all for Pavement, Orange Juice, Guided By Voices, Field Mice, Fantastic Something, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, other really ace stuff... I am now slightly less ingnorant than I was before, and this can only be a good thing, I feel. I'm also really chuffed 'cause I got the Beth Orton album the other day and have been listening to it muchly. I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine is just heartbreaking. I'm always getting that funny achy-sinuses-about-to-cry feeling now when I listen to all this beautiful music. Can I join the eec club? "i thank heaven someone's crazy enough to give me a daisy" Sorry, can't remember the formatting or even if those are exactly the right words at the moment, but it's from the end of the one about the clown on the corner of the street. Anyone like T.S.Eliot? QuoteQuoteQuote: <> I like my satchel. And my scarf. This is all I have to say on the matter. Blah blah blah. En el asunto of B&S videos, didn't anyone else see the couple of times they showed LLPJ on the Chart Show, and the time they had DOW on? I did, because I still watch the pile of filth in case something good comes on (once in a very blue lunar cycle). However, I didn't tape it because (a) I didn't have a tape handy, (b) because it's really annoying having things taped off the Chart Show, because of those faux-video-instruction icon thingies and (c) they never show the whole video anyway, and I can't stand the stress of shouting at the bastard programmers all my life. So there. I think that was about the longest email I've ever written, and I apologise profusely to anyone I may have offended, alienated, bored etc. Ho hum. ByeBye. Au revoir, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297 at kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) ***************************************** Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain ***************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Anna_Chapman at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 15:19:42 1998 From: Anna_Chapman at xxx.com (Anna_Chapman at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:19:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: S. Africa. Message-ID: <802565A6.00541A2A.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Nothing to do with Belle and Sebastian I'm afraid. Slap wrists!!! Has any one ever been to S. Africa, Durban. Anna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From wac at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 15:58:21 1998 From: wac at xxx.uk (trueblue2000) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:58:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: Heavy Stereo In-Reply-To: <34DEBAC8.56D2@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: Nice one la! Heavy Stereo are a wicked band. And you forgot the singles Chinese burn and Mouse in a Hole. Regarding the Oasis point, Again I am well into Oasis, and love everything they do, yet B & S do genuinely give off the same rush through me as oasis do. The attitudes are a complete contrast, and the lyrics are too in most cases... However Oasis have stood up to be counted for 90's, laughing in the face of computer programmed and pretty faced cheesy pop music and declaring war on those who half heartedly jump on the bandwagon ( blur, Hurricane #1, Embrace). B & S, on the other hand, fight their war in peace. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ceeiaea at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 10:30:39 1998 From: ceeiaea at xxx.uk (Iain A E Anderson) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:30:39 +0000 () Subject: No subject Message-ID: Continuing the dream stories... During the weekend I had this dream that everybody listened to Belle & Sebastian and the world was a happy place. Then I woke up and switched on my radio only to hear bloody O***s. Oh well, it's good to dream I suppose. -- Iain Anderson Bored out his tits at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From SHicks at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 16:03:15 1998 From: SHicks at xxx.uk (Hicks, Simon) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:03:15 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Her daddy was a bank robber (NBS) Message-ID: Samiam The PIL song you heard was called "Rise" It was the centre of a particularly amusing marketing campaign. The single had a white sleeve with 'single' written in blue across it. It was also available as a 12" in a white sleeve with '12" single' across it. The album, surprisingly, had a white sleeve with 'album' written across it. Also available where a mug, poster and cassette. I'll leave you to guess what they looked like. Simon p.s. On the subject of great books: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Thompson (I think), Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and A White Merc with Fins by James Hawes ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Mon Feb 9 16:51:47 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:51:47 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Nico (NBSC) (was: Re: Red House Painters) Message-ID: <199802091651.RAA14146@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Pierre-Alain Masson wrote ... > It's funny how Red House Painters seems to be an obscure group >in UK. In France, I wouldn't say they are grand public but we often >hear about them. Similar things could be said as regards Germany and Sweden ... >I love the way Mark Kozelec (singer) always sings, as if the >music behind him didn't exist. I mean, whatever the music goes, he's >singing with the same depressed and beautifull voice, somewhat like >Nico used to do with the Velvets. That makes the whole thing >fascinating... That's interesting, since I've especially recommended the _Chelsea Girl_ debut album by Nico (born as Christa Pa:ffgen near Cologne / Germany) in a private mail today ... as much as I like the efforts on _Velvet Underground And Nico_, I'm always dissapointed that the _Chelsea Girl_ solo album isn't mentioned in the same breath ... a classic masterpiece involving, inter alia, the songwriting of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Bob Dylan, even though my favourite tune "The fairest of the seasons" was penned by Copeland/Browne ... available as CD reissue, *highly* recommended for the uninitiated. And speaking of depressed and beautiful voices ... although that album is inferior, "Afraid" from _Desertshore_ is probably the most touching moment in the history of P!O!P! music ... imagine the intimate atmosphere created by "The boy done wrong again" (my favourite B&S song) and think further ... further ... further ... Besides, how popular is the "Nico Icon" documentary in other countries ? "Wrap your troubles in dreams" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Mon Feb 9 16:55:01 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:55:01 +0100 Subject: Sinister: No Northy, No Comment Message-ID: <01bd357b$766ac440$b44a05c3@itjfvkli> Glad to see that Northy walks it like he talks it. Not so glad to see him disappear, albeit temporarily. Until he's handed in his coursework, eh? This kind of dedication, coupled with his rabid right wing views, suggests to me that we may be hearing a lot more about Northy in the future.....possibly in the year 2037 general elections. While we're on the subject, a funny little beggar man came to our door last week, so I gave him my school dinner money to avoid feeling guilty, but I felt guilty anyway, and what's more I had to go without my school dinner. I am aware that this message is a bit lacking in content, but somebody appears to be sending me something gigantic by e-mail, which is clogging up my back passage something terrible. So that's why I'm indulging in Non B&S content wittering. I have finally bitten the bullet, thrown caution to the wind and started work on Duke's tape. This gave me an idea for a fantastic competition. Anyone who wants to enter has to send Duke a tape. You get so many points for including a track that Duke hasn't actually got, and extra points if Duke actually likes it. The point sytem will be pretty complicated, and you're not allowed to include Hawkwind or Led Zep, 'cos that's cheating. Duke then works out the scores on the doors, which are displayed in highly animated form in his website on a feature called the Duke-o-Meter, or better still, Duke Box Dury. The lowest scoring tapes are awarded a Nick Hornby Bald Patch, while any high scorers are declared...hmmmm, now I'm stuck......a Lawrence When He Was in Felt Bald Patch...oh well, just a thought. As you can see it needs to undergo a little further development. Lawrence had quite a full head of hair when he was in Felt. His rampant baldness seems to have started at roughly the same time as Stuart Murdoch started to receive court orders to stop stalking the poor chap around London. Bloody hell fire and heavens above! This huge message still hasn't arrived. I think someone must be up to some monkey business. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 16:49:20 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 16:49:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: MTV References: Message-ID: <34DF3390.4498C501@virgin.net> Rod Begbie wrote: > Quote from 3..6..9 mailout: > > "Videos have been made for both Century and Pastie. We expect that MTV and > the Chart Show will just pick their favourite song out of the two, and > show that one." ooh, forgot about that one! the band were going to make a vid for Le Pastie, as it had picked up quite a few plays on radio, however Karn got really ill and there wasn't enough time to complete it before the deadline, so it got scrapped. forgetful me ... :) cheerybye, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Mon Feb 9 17:05:50 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:05:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: <802565A6.00541A2A.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Message-ID: first of all, i LOVE it that red house painters are being discussed here. they may take a few listens to really appreciate but once you realize the attraction they're indispensable. in fact, i think their cover of the cars' "all mixed up" is one of my fave songs EVER. (did anyone see alicia silverston's shit movie excess baggage? the only good moment of the whole thing was when that song started up, i was in heaven and my friends thought i was crazy since none of them shared my ecstacy.....) second, i think the girl's club idea is tops! only i can't have big hair, and i know swannie is similarly challenged...we're short cropped gals. can we still be in? :o) and we COULD call ourselves the cutieclub, given the recent thread, only there's ALREADY a cutieclub on tweenet whose online photo album activates my gag reflex, can't be helped..... so we'll have to improvise, i'm sure we can come up with something love to all, laurel xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Anna_Chapman at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 17:40:50 1998 From: Anna_Chapman at xxx.com (Anna_Chapman at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:40:50 +0000 Subject: Sinister: books Message-ID: <802565A6.0060A8B8.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> By the way, on the book subject: ? I agree, Sophies world was brilliant. Has anyone else read Acid House by Irvine Welsh. And moving swiftly from books to films, just to bore you more, I saw Titanic on Saturday and have just one thing to say. Wow!! That was some film. Well worth every singlke good review I've read about it. every one should see it!!! Signing off for now. Anna. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From benjamin at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 18:03:50 1998 From: benjamin at xxx.com (bumph) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:03:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: somebody's fave book [nbs] Message-ID: Without responding to it I managed to delete someone's post about _Sophie's World_, which I read while ill a few weeks ago and was surprised to find that Spiritualized dug from that book the title of their last record ("Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space," that one in the pharmaceuticals packet). Also lately I have managed to read _The Blue Flower_ by Penelope Fitzgerald, because I'm sort of obsessed with German Romanticism and the novel is roughly about Novalis. It's brilliant and beautifully written, though all of the background of it might be a bit much, and I say this despite hating _The Bookshop_ which is seaside village light comedy tripe, and some other novel of hers, the title of which eludes me, though it was on the Booker Prize short list a long while back-- no matter because it was total bourgeois crap. Stick up for her if you will. /bumph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 18:16:06 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:16:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Honey bulletin Message-ID: OK - a veritable deluge of questions for the band. Well.. erm 2, and one of dubious intent (thank you Peter). Actually dubious intent is good. If no-one has any more questions I will seal them in a bottle and throw them off the Forth Bridge. How about "do you have any plans for the forthcoming LP or singles covers?" (ha) and "who did that little boy on Paul's WWW site grow up to be, I bet he is dead sexy?". Susannah surely you want to ask something rude? Never missed an opportunity before. What else? Don't send unsubscribes to the list. Am I repeating myself? Don't send unsubscribes to the list. PLEASE can I ask you all to occasionally look at my WWW site for list information as it's got all the details about using the list. It's at, of course: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister It's also fun to do a search on something nonsense, and find, or course, that someone's mentioned it. I just did "baked beans" and it found TWO matches so that's how intensely literary we all are (well, Susannah and Tall Stuart). Oh and all say hello to my chum John who is a Geordie list-joiner today and probably a leaver tomorrow, like Hugh In-The-Bogs Owen was. -- Honey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Mon Feb 9 18:27:02 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:27:02 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Nico ... the B&S connection ... Message-ID: <199802091827.TAA23245@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> The moron posting under the confusing alias Perfection As A Hipster wrote ... >That's interesting, since I've especially recommended the _Chelsea Girl_ >debut album by Nico (born as Christa Pa:ffgen near Cologne / Germany) in a >private mail today ... > >And speaking of depressed and beautiful voices ... although that album is >inferior, "Afraid" from _Desertshore_ is probably the most touching moment >in the history of P!O!P! music ... imagine the intimate atmosphere created >by "The boy done wrong again" (my favourite B&S song) and think further ... >further ... further ... ... without mentioning the B&S connection. An excerpt from the liner notes of the incredibly marvellous _Ostrich Churchyard_ album by Orange Juice is called upon ... "In a nutshell ... included here for the very first time is this version of the ballad presented to Nico with a view to a collaboration. Unfortunately this was not to be. She would later tell the New Musical Express: 'Some Orange Juice isn't bad but I don't like the people at all.'" Thus far, I've only heard about one band covering "(To put it in a) Nutshell" with a female vocalist and thereby pursueing the original purpose ... "Little sister" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Mon Feb 9 18:44:32 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:44:32 +0100 Subject: Sinister: constipation - no content Message-ID: <01bd358a$c3792f60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Apologies to my great mates in the conversation parlour just now. I seem to have come up against a blockage of some sort. I don't know whether or not this is connected to the strange behaviour of my e-mail facilities. I think someone is trying to send me the entire Stockton to Darlington railway line, complete with Stevenson's Rocket and all its terrified passengers, piece by piece, via e-mail. Am I alone in thinking that nothing, NOTHING ever works as it should? I'm fed up to the back teeth. Bring back Isombard Kingdom Brunel. I miss Northy and my hands are cold. I want my mum. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 17:42:31 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:42:31 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Add B to S References: <3.0.1.16.19980208141316.235f77a8@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34DF4007.BF6866BD@lineone.net> uclykan at ucl.ac.uk wrote: > How about some dancers on the next B&S show? Like Aphex twin and the > glamorous performers during his set. Or divine Stereolab who had those > > wonderful black and white dancers in a video. or howard jones :-) respect, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 17:45:56 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:45:56 +0000 Subject: Sinister: me siento siniestra References: Message-ID: <34DF40D4.B4B9361F@lineone.net> Laurel Girvan wrote: > oh shit sorry so sorry i just did a complete northy hey! cool! a new saying... a prize to the person using it most in the next week. respect, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Mon Feb 9 19:07:08 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 19:07:08 +0000 Subject: Sinister: No Northy, No Comment References: <01bd357b$766ac440$b44a05c3@itjfvkli> Message-ID: <34DF53DB.B4F68A65@lineone.net> PJMiller wrote: > I have finally bitten the bullet, thrown caution to the wind and > started > work on Duke's tape. glad to hear it... i must therefore get to grips with the reciprocal tape :-) i have a million squillion tapes to do at the moment, it's kind of scary... > This gave me an idea for a fantastic competition. > Anyone who wants to enter has to send Duke a tape. You get so many > points > for including a track that Duke hasn't actually got, and extra points > if > Duke actually likes it. The point sytem will be pretty complicated, > and > you're not allowed to include Hawkwind or Led Zep, 'cos that's > cheating. but i was feeling particularly perverse on the day i get a particular tape i might award bonus points for being so brazen. > Duke then works out the scores on the doors, which are displayed in > highly > animated form in his website on a feature called the Duke-o-Meter, or > better > still, Duke Box Dury. i laughed and i laughed and i ... you get the picture :-) i obvioulsy love this idea and if i get the time this week will post a new section on the web site dedicated to it... anyone daft enough to actually want to enter can feel free! shall have to think up some beezer prize though. How about a night on the tiles with the Duke and Duchess in their funfilled home-town of Exeter? Boy can we show you the lights... Don't believe the geezer from LA who said it was 'so pastoral'. Sheesh. > The lowest scoring tapes are awarded a Nick Hornby > Bald Patch, anyone got a picture of the man? i must scour the web in search of the bald patch. > while any high scorers are declared... ace :-) and get a big snog.Maybe we can have an award for the tape with the lowest score and one for the highest. we could call one of the awards a Northy and one a Northy's Labour voting whatsit... not that you could tell the difference these days. sigh. listening to a tape of Dub Sex and thinking, um, Laugh. good, in case you were wondering. respect kids, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 17:53:23 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:53:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: dead yankee draaawlllllAH! Message-ID: hi hi hi! Doh, I have just had a really daft experience. A man has just knocked on the door, and said 'FISH MAN FISH WITH A DIFFERENCE!" I just said 'noooooo' and he said 'OK' and wandered off, strange man! I've suddenyl decided I am pissed off cos everyone in my house has been ylling at me, Korny is being a tosser and annyoing everyone again. You know how he is is 'oh i sashed my wrists again i was a bit depressed' and he shows EVERYONE in the fucking pub for crying our loud as if it is a pub conversation. that really pisses me off. you know, i never thougt suicide and self mutilation are subjects to be shown off! i mean, you don't walk about with scars on show to say 'ooh look at me i am so fucked', i mean, i hide it and not even fucking YOU were meant to know! And I've been singing a mix between Rick Astley and Dead Yanke Drawll all day! Racheal H was sining Rick, not ME! And frankie was making up is his own ickle tunes in his head, aaw he's a sweetie! Which reminds me he's STILL got to lend me Mornington Crescent. I llove Girl a....but don't know the est of it, except 'you don't sparkle in my eyes', which he says its the same as t'original. So how are you? And more to the point how is Clarey? You lookes tres happy last time i saw you......speaking of which...Ben and Rachel.... :) yup, fiinally he asked hr out but nothing has happened since then as far as i know. Tis all Arlets fault. But I blame Arlet for everything, her and NIN...just cos Ben fucking likes them, but they are not good they are sit, and I wish |Trout Reznor would have a different name now doh that name is just sillly. hey hey, i got my website up so go visit it! http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk theres only a bit up and its very under construction cos i dunno how to do pics but Matt says he has a friend who knows everything and he wants to write a few things to put up. At college they're having a boycott on Friday 13th against the fees. Miller and Matt i think are hetting some ofthe Socialist worker lot down, and he's just started puting theposters up. I think they're just protesting outside the gates. Greg (the ginger one) says its pointless, and the only way is by mass attention. but its got to start SOMEWHERE. I feel so inefeeectual you know, as if theres a lot WE can do. fuck, get this. they're trying to stop out bus passes. aint that ace. It costs me 3.40 a day to get into Preston, as if i can afoord that every day. I dunno if its appening next year, we haven't got a letter yet but Katie has. And its bad nough for me, its 3.85 from Lytham, people who live really way out just aren't gonna get the chance to get to college cos they phsically can't! And the council should know that cos the Fylde is pretty spread out anyway!!! I think its fucking disgraceful. well, thats me ant over for now, see you! are you coming down on thursday? Jude gave me a ticket to go see Watershed at Penwortham wedensday to review them, but i can't really afford to get to Penwortham. Fucking hell, I'm great aren't i!! i mean i want to go cos matt and zerry are going but...speaking of which z was really depressed and upset today, i dunno why.... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Yours faithfully, the beautiful only slightly homicidal Sarah "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 19:33:49 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:33:49 EST Subject: Sinister: somebody's fave book [nbs] Message-ID: <6a83a991.34df5a1f@aol.com> I have recently read the book "Jack and Janet". It tells the story of three siblings and their adventures together. In one, Jack's friend wishes to trade his pen-knife for Jack's puppy. In another, Jack, Janet and their pudgy little sister make funny heads out of paper bags and run around the neighborhood in them. I'm hoping to start the next in the series: "Dick and Jane" next year, when I'm old enough. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 18:27:28 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:27:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: but oh sebastian went too far again crashed his car in the rain Message-ID: <024YiIAQq030EwU9@elsato97.demon.co.uk> (one of whom is at school and listens to Expectations in the corner of the classroom during lunchbreaks in a "this is the story of my life" kinda way, which is surely the way B&S should be appreciated). Ahem, when it is slightly autobiographical in this little white ducks case i don't think it is the best way to love a group when it makes you cry and feel bitter inside, even though the song is very sweet don't you? expectations is pretty true, i can So relate to that. But I don't wish i could. So i am different. People always say they take pride in being *different*, but I'm wiling to bet that if they had a garuntee of happiness but they had to be the same as others, the most would take it. Expectations makes me feel really sad 'cos that IS what happens, well to me anyway. Ahit, if every song you had to listen to was autobiographical, then i'd be in a right state wouldn't i? especially 4st7 on The Holy Bible - heck that would be *me* fucked then. I'd have to start writing songs bout horses and change my name and evrything... Ooh now I'm rambling, except I think my original point was to say that it *isn't* great to be bullied at school/whatever and that that surely isn't the best way to love a song...but empathy is a beautiful thing after being alone so much. I'm confused today, can you tell? I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle Star Sinisterine. "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bramly at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 19:56:28 1998 From: bramly at xxx.uk (Bramleys) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:56:28 -0000 Subject: Sinister: you can dance, you can jive... Message-ID: <01bd3594$cf4b6a60$LocalHost@bramly> <> Well I am a dangerously large Abba fan. They just make me laugh and dance and be merry. Post your confessions to sinister at majordomo.net now!! (and be proud) I also sit in the corner of the classroom at lunchtime listening to B&S in a kind of conscientious objector way. "I believe in angels" Abba >> I have a dream bethey-belle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 9 19:19:06 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:19:06 +0000 Subject: Sinister: yikes Message-ID: um, hey folks. you may have read a post to the list that i didn't mean to send you, um, sorry.... I'm planning to shoot my pooter an my mail system..... um, whoops..... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle Star Sinisterine. "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From leslie.chinea at xxx.com Fri Feb 6 00:14:00 1998 From: leslie.chinea at xxx.com (leslie chinea) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:14:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Good B&S Karma Message-ID: <0001EBCA.4556@emimusic.com> Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk [tape] offer Author: Paige Rosella Wrote: >I have decided to make the following offer, in the name of what is >right and good and nice: >I'll make tapes of Tigermilk for the first 5 US listies to email me >privately who are still in need [whoa. Bad syntax]. Cheers to Paige for passing on the good B&S karma...(sounds corny but it's trrrrrrrrrrrue!) I must admit, I do love the B&S mailing list. Even though, like Northy, I've been ignored on this list every time I post (so, I posted a coupla Princess Di jokes...so sue me!) , it's still a lot of fun to lurk and read B&S fan spatterings. Keepin it real, Leslie C. P.S. I'd like to nominate Northy as the B&S Mailing List mascot ... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk [tape] offer Author: Paige Rosella at X-MAIL Date: 2/5/98 9:34 AM Hello. Since Leslie Chinea was kind and sweet enough to send me a lovely IYFS poster, and told me to "surprise her" in repaying her, I have decided to make the following offer, in the name of what is right and good and nice: I'll make tapes of Tigermilk for the first 5 US listies to email me privately who are still in need [whoa. Bad syntax]. If you want the 3 Eps on the other side, I can do that for you, too. I usually put Tigermilk on both sides, because it's all you'll want to hear anyway. All I ask in return is that you send me a blank 90 minute tape. Who's game? Love & Dawson's Creek, Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 21:12:42 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:12:42 GMT Subject: Sinister: How I learnt to love Julio Iglesias in Transylvania Message-ID: <34df5f45.431405@email.mcmail.com> Hello Little Sisters and Brothers in Jesus, Good article about Belle and Sebastian in Sweden's "Pop" magazine (thank you lovely lovely Tyskan, I'm still waiting for your first post to the list). They put 'IYFS' at Number 15 in their LPs of the year, (in a wonderfully Radiohead free chart) and said ... "Independent as fuck" är hip hop trion Company Flows slogan men den borde användas av Belle and Sebastian, Glasgows skyggaste sjumannaorkester. De ställer aldrig upp pÃ¥ bild och bannlyser A&R män frÃ¥n sina konserter. "If you're feeling sinister" fylls av blÃ¥s, strÃ¥ker, vänliga melodier och underfundiga texter. Ljudet av det Skottland ekar fortfarande. ... which I'm sure you all agree with wholeheatedly. What's all this about the Scatman, then Keith? I heard those songs too many times on holiday. Of course this can be a good thing. "Mr Vain", and that Bailando song that haunted me last year, for example are classics of out time. I managed to embarrass my fellow DJ by playing Bailando at the end of my set, then just walking away so it looked like he had put it on, leaving him to wave his arms and mouth "it wasn't me, honest" at ridiculing punters. But as a result of holiday overexposure, I now despise (with every inch of my being) that bloody Sash and his clown of a mate who hollers 'Ecuador'. As for poor Scatman himself, I'm afraid it's "Oi John - NO! I admire your Stephen Hawking like triumph over your speech impedement, but if you come round here with singing your catchy yet irritating brand of Cleo Laine meets Johnny Dankworth Eurodisco, I shall have to give you a slap". Mind you, I got really into Julio Iglesias (a footballer like Albert Camus) in Romania, they played him in cafes, on the buses (including the evil Vampire Bus of Death with doors that remained open for the entire journey while I hung on to the rail for dear life watching the tarmac speed below me and closed only in an attempt to sever my arm). Riding on these particular city buses for a hobby is fatal. Oh and Northy's so-called friend, I have no wish to see a picture of our dear departed, I would rather savour my own image of him, radiant and gently smiling his all-knowing, all-loving smile, like the angel he undoubtedly is. I guess he just couldn't deal with the loss of Enoch Powell. Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 22:10:40 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:10:40 EST Subject: Sinister: Possibilities. . . Message-ID: With the talk of Truffaut's _The 400 Blows_ on the list, it occurred to me that there is a certain scene in Truffaut's film _Jules and Jim_, aruably his best and arguably the best film ever made, that would fit the band. First, someone mentioned that this talk of French New Wave was "retro" and not appropriate in association with this "modern" band. Movements and ideas carry across time, to be "reborn". The French New Wave is perceived as a rebirth of aesthetics and filmmaking, a fresh approach to the staid movies that it was a reaction against. It shows an innocence to a dreadful world; young Antoine Doinel is living a rough life that never resorts to self-pity, only to possibility of where the next day will lead. It was something beginning, a piecing together of parts of history in a scrapbook, to be used, or discarded, at will. Belle and Sebastian can be considered the French New Wave's artistic heirs because the band is also reconstructing history into their own fashion, for their own purposes. Instead of using tradition as a stopping point, Belle and Sebastian take tradition and use it as a means--to avoid, to play with the notion of, to better. The songs are often about horrible subjects, yet with a bright unending-day quality; any fey innocence in the songs is merely masking the ills of living. _Breathless_: a movie with rough editing, mostly dialogue--those are not the ways movies were supposed to be made. (It may not be so shocking now, because those techniques have already been appropriated into the film canon). Belle and Sebastian: a band of eight members, released three singles after two albums, no interviews--those are not the ways bands proceed. Belle and Sebastian play the game by their own rules. It often seems that we do not even play by their rules; we are merely observing. I am not writing that this is a French New Wave band; I am writing that there are more similarities than seen with a casual glance. Time is a feeble boundary. This is about possibilities. In _Jules and Jim_, Jules, Jim, and Catherine go to the seashore on a whim. On a hillside Catherine offers that the three should "search for the last traces of civilsation". They wander--finding cans, wrappers, pieces of china--personal treasures: each and every one. In the moments of the day that I lose myself into myself, I imagine Belle and Sebastian on a similar hill, finding what has been left behind from the world, and what they will do with the pieces. This too is about possibilities. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 00:08:59 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:08:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: dead yankee draaawlllllAH! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I hate the government, i don't care what party they are i hate them anyway. We will be on strike on the fourth of march, so I can have a days midweek skiing, yeh. But that's beside the point , no grant , fees in advance, end to travel allowances, they claim to be socialists but are determined to exclude those who cannot afford it from higher education. Rant rant rant, sorry, i just felt like a rant. I hate NIN. Sorry, I do talk aload of shite , don't I. Colin P.S. B&S content, I like Belle and Sebastian and have been converting, my freind Mairi has named her pet rat Sebastian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Tue Feb 10 00:10:12 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:10:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: a favour please?? Message-ID: hello all! my mum and da are going to scotland on wednesday for my aunts big 25th wedding anniversary party. as usual i am allowed to give my mum a wish list of stuff i would like...so the question is: has anyone got any suggestions of any cds or singles recently released? all i can think of right now is the catatonia cd, the new st etienne single and the new dubstar one(although i have heard that its not that grand)...also i was thinking of asking her to get me the b&s singles on 7", are they relatively easy to come by? maybe at missing records? they'll be staying in hargate and my mum will undoubtedly go into glasgow for the shops...they leave to come back on the 24th so even if its something that has an upcoming release date would be ok.. any suggestions are appreciated.. roberta **oh you look so tired mouth slack and wide ill-housed and ill-advised your face is as mean as your life has been crash into my arms i want you****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From AFox at xxx.com Mon Feb 9 18:45:36 1998 From: AFox at xxx.com (Andy Fox) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:45:36 -0500 Subject: Sinister: could we please be objective.... Message-ID: Somehow this got to my computer and I thought you all might be interested.... It's another lists favorite records of the year.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 01:54:32 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Orleans To: chugchanga-l at lists.best.com Subject: 1997 POLL RESULTS At long last, the results of the poll of your favorite records of 1997 (excluding reissues and bootlegs) have been collected, compiled, and collated. Here's the top 29: 1. Belle & Sebastian, _If You're Feeling Sinister_ (Enclave / Capitol) - 19 votes 2. Yo La Tengo, _I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One_ (Matador) - 17 votes 3. Jim O'Rourke, _Bad Timing_ (Drag City) - 13 votes 4. Built To Spill, _Perfect From Now On_ (Warner Bros. / City Slang) - 10 votes 4. The Sea & Cake, _The Fawn_ (Thrill Jockey) - 10 votes 6. Polvo, _Shapes_ (Touch & Go) - 9 votes 6. Sleater-Kinney, _Dig Me Out_ (Kill Rock Stars) - 9 votes 6. Stereolab, _Dots & Loops_ (Elektra) - 9 votes 9. Bjork, _Homogenic_ (Elektra) - 8 votes 9. Edith Frost, _Calling Over Time_ (Drag City / Domino) - 8 votes 9. Pavement, _Brighten The Corners_ (Matador / Domino) - 8 votes 9. Sonic Youth, _Anagrama EP_ (Sonic Youth Records) - 8 votes 9. Spiritualized, _Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space_ (Arista / Dedicated) - 8 votes 14. Conrad, Tony, _Early Minimalism: Volume One_ (Table of the Elements) - 7 votes 14. Flaming Lips, _Zaireeka_ (Warner Bros) - 7 votes 14. Elliot Smith, _Either/Or_ (Kill Rock Stars) - 7 votes 17. Aerial M, _Aerial M_ (Drag City / Domino) - 6 votes 17. Cornershop, _When I Was Born For The 7th Time_ (Luaka Bop / Warner Bros.) - 6 votes 17. Dianogah, _As Seen From Above_ (Ohiogold / Actionboy) - 6 votes 17. Eleventh Dream Day, _Eighth_ (City Slang / Thrill Jockey) - 6 votes 17. David Grubbs, _Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange_ (Table of the Elements) - 6 votes 17. Helium, _The Magic City_ (Matador) - 6 votes 17. Hurl, _Not a Memory_ (My Pal God / Peas Kor) - 6 votes 17. Labradford, _Mi Media Naranja_ (Kranky) - 6 votes 17. Mogwai, _Young Team_ (Jetset / Chemikal Underground) - 6 votes 17. Oblivians, _Oblivians Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron_ (Crypt) - 6 votes 17. Radiohead, _OK Computer_ (Capitol) - 6 votes 17. Smog, _Red Apple Falls_ (Drag City / Domino) - 6 votes 17. U.S. Maple, _Sang Phat Editor_ (Skin Graft) - 6 votes The full results are available on my home page, at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dougo/polls/poll97/. It's not too pretty, and the individual poll entries aren't up yet, but check back in a few days-I figured you information junkies would want to see the results as soon as possible... Some statistics: Number of voters: 73 (down from 79 last year) Total number of records mentioned: 710 Number of records receiving exactly one vote: 512 Number of letters of the alphabet not represented in the first letters of the names of the artists mentioned: 0 (down from 2 last year) Number of records released last year worthy of note that weren't mentioned here: too many PLEASE let me know if (a) you want your name to be withheld (2) you want to add a URL (or anything else) to your list (iii) you find any mistakes, either factual, typographical, or hypertextual. Enjoy! --dougo at ccs.neu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 00:36:58 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: woah hoo woah hoo woah In-Reply-To: <199802090307.WAA04044@Vector.inexpress.net> Message-ID: > So here I am, a sad lonely figure, waiting for the day my > >dream woman walks into my life, currently pinning my hopes on a blind date > >next Tuesday (probably in vain, my last blind date never even showed > >up...) > > I hope you have fun on your blind date! I've never been on one... OK, I've just got my blind date's form, and anyone who's met me will know that I may have problems tommorrow night with a 5 ft 4 inches rugby player... > >And big huggy-wuggies and slobbery kisses from all in Britain, > >honey-pumpkin... > > > much appreciated from all those luvely pookie bears! > Anything for you, fluffy-bumpkin... > this guy at my school,he's very odd...everything ahs to be kinky for > him you know? ok..I'm just this silly little person..but somehow..he got in > his head..as soon as i step through the dor and at home,bam! i am Dark > Mistress and some odd kinky queen.. You've just made Tag's day... The Tall Git (still trying to figure out when I mentioned baked beans in a posting...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MRissb7989 at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 00:57:03 1998 From: MRissb7989 at xxx.com (MRissb7989 at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:57:03 EST Subject: Sinister: Obituary: Falco 19## - 1998 Message-ID: <2c3eaf28.34dfa5e1@aol.com> Risso writes.... Hmmm, not much of one as I don't know when he was born or anything, but the sad news is that legendary eighties Austrian superstar Falco died in a car crash today...and I thought his death merited a comment or two. I was a bit of a fan in the eighties when I was but a bairn (OK 14 and old enough to know better), and have FOUR albums (hands up who didn't know there were that many), ..oh and a few singles and 12"s. So I was sad, sue me. OK it all seems lame as cheese as now, but I tend to associate all music, good and bad, with the things that were happening in my life at the time, and Vienna Calling (the follow up to Rock Me Amadeus, no.1 for years) which got to no. 10 itself, and which Sam Fox reviewed in Smash Hits, reminds me of a a balmy summer's night in Amiens in Northern France on a school trip, when I was ripped off my tits on Stella for the first time and snogged a French lass called erm, well I forget but anyway that's not important. What I mean is that that song still brings back wonderful memories and as such at the moment I wouldn't trade it in for anything. So this isn't exactly "Candle in the Wind" but well, it's 1 in the morning and the best I could do under such extreme shock.... Albums I own: Junge Roemer Falco 3 (An absolute classic, stuff yer Tigermilks) Emotional Wiener Blut Singles and 12"s Rock Me Amadeus Vienna Calling Jeannie Emotional Body Next to Body Der Kommisar Oh yes indeed!! Send tapes to.....!! Risso PS. Does this count as "Doing a Northy?" or is it more of a "Steaming pile of Begbie?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From suzsch at xxx.net Wed Feb 11 02:24:07 1998 From: suzsch at xxx.net (Suzanne Schroeder) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:24:07 -0600 Subject: Sinister: completely sinister Message-ID: <199802100225.UAA24278@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> wow...nouvelle vague, dreams, and velvet underground. I had a dream about B&S a while back. I can't remember the details, but I do know the lead singer was sitting behind me in the bleachers at an assymbly in the school gym. Middle school, I think. The subject of the meeting had something to do with empowering yourself ( you know, those useless pep talks from speakers who travel around to different schools trying to make a difference in everyone's life when in fact, everyone is making fun of them for being such a dork. At that age, you want people to tell you smoking is cool). But why middleschool? I haven't mentally visited that area in some time. Sure, I still go through the whole angst crisis of "I don't like my clothes" or "these people REALLY aren't my friends" but to have the lead singer sitting behind me not saying a word through that event is really strange. I got the idea that he was figuratively "behind me" in what I did. Hell, that might scare him if he ever reads these messages. I swear I'm not going to write him for emotional support or to borrow money! I want to do a confession though. I was amused by people shamefully admitting that they had Oasis in their CD collection. I can outdo that. I still have in my collection (before I became musically cool): Green Day Ace of Base Celine Dion. I tried to get rid of these at the 2nd hand shop, but nobody would take them. Thank God they took my Gin Blossoms CD. __________ Suzanne ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Tue Feb 10 02:36:19 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 21:36:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Obituary: Falco 19## - 1998 In-Reply-To: <2c3eaf28.34dfa5e1@aol.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 MRissb7989 at aol.com wrote: > Risso writes.... > > Hmmm, not much of one as I don't know when he was born or anything, but the > sad news is that legendary eighties Austrian superstar Falco died in a car > crash today...and I thought his death merited a comment or two. I was a bit actually it was a couple of days ago because it has been discussed on the smiths list (i think it was that list, i'm getting my lists confused) over the past couple of days..it happened in the dominican republic or argentina, cant remember where...down there anyways... roberta ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 03:49:36 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 20:49:36 -0700 Subject: Sinister: B & S dreams? Message-ID: <19980210034450.AAA16483@ibm-customer> Don't know if this really counts, or not but... I saw this amazing young lady at a Pub in Vail, Sunday. I was dumbstruck, always one to trip over my tongue in these situations. She was so cute, and had the cutest little teddy bear patch on her brown baggies, I stared rudely. I finally talked to her for a few moments, and feel compelled to make her a tape of, you guessed it, B & S. Something about that little bear patch, I think, that connected her to the band. Dream: confused images, smoky bar, much older/dingier, lived in, unlike the pub in Vail. B & S playing on the jukebox ( A first for Colorado!). I kinda think that the place wasn't here, not in the States, but I'm unsure where. Maybe Germany, or Austria. About there I lose the memory, not much of a dream, it just goes to images, not overtly sexual, I suppose, but I woke to the screaching alarm this AM with that dreamy crush feeling that I love. I floated through my day today. I love anonymous romance. It's so innocent. I'll keep you posted as to the response to my present of a tape. I felt compelled to make it, just finished the Sinister side, and plan to try to deliver it this weekend. Hopeless dreaming romantic Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 10 04:42:21 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:42:21 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Possibilities. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: So happy to hear someone talk about my favorite film in the world. I actually spent a great portion of last semester comparing the triangulation of desire in _Jules et Jim_ to the that of the Shakespearian sonnets. And if you've ever taken a Shakespeare class as obnoxious as the one I took (complete with 13 other English majors who could see intelligent things like "Well, in the sonnets, Shakespeare uses the word "The" 500 times, but "a" and "an" are only used 497 times. I wonder what that means."), you may well undestand such a possibility. On another scholarly pursuit, I thought about the females characters in B&S songs, and how they portray (Something else I had to work on last semester for another class. If you're bored, please skip this paragraph) the Virgin/Whore dichotomy. They are sexual yet innocent. Promiscuous yet virginal. I'm thinking of Judy, who "did it with a boy when she was young" yet escapes the dreariness of daily life by writing about her own dreams, as she is only happy when sleeping. And also Lisa, who takes up pornography as a "fun" hobby. Sorry if this is boring. Oh, I had completely forgotten to mention something. Last week, when drunk, my best friend M***y (a boy) slept on the couch that rests between my roomate M*****a's (a girl) and my beds. In my own drunken state, though sleeping, I was painfully aware that M***y was present, as I talk in my sleep sometimes and feel uncomfortable about doing so when he is near. So, I fell into a debauched and restless sleep, and dreamed that I was leaning over to say something to M***y on the couch. When I looked down, however, he was not there... BUT THE SONG SNAKE WAS!!! (Actually, it was just a snake, but I like to imagine it was the song snake.) Needless to say, I was petrified. It was worse than the Incredible Hulk nightmares I had when I was a kid. But when i thought about the possibility of said snake being a muse for B&S, I felt relieved. Or maybe I just think of M***y as a phallus. Whatever. XOXOXO, Kristen > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 12:07:45 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 04:07:45 -0800 Subject: Sinister: one big happy reply Message-ID: <34E04311.47B8@earthlink.net> i've got a couple things to say. first of all.....and this isn't a reply, this is something brand spanking new......i fucking hate the smashing pumpkins and everything they stand for. but..... today i purchased james iha's new solo album and it is truly a work of art. acoustic. drums. violins. none of that rat in a cage bullshit. so anyone who liked that song "blue" that was a b-side to some song the pumpkins did three years back, should go and buy james iha's solo album. gauranteed billy free. oh, it's called...well, i forget. it's the only one though. now. on to the replies which are sure to anger certain people. i'm gonna pull a "northy" and be the voice of opposition. the red house painters album "songs for a blue guitar" is wonderful and everyone should buy it. everything else, however, is one big pile of crap. whiny vocals. sparse music. not sparse and good like smog, but sparse and boring. oh and on the shinkansen web site they smog is the worst band in existence. don't believe what you read. anyway, to make myself clear...stay away from red house painters except the lovely and wonderful "songs for a blue guitar". please don't write me all you rhp fans. just a different opinion. and for whoever mentioned the "nico icon" documentary.....i saw it two night ago and it was crap. nico is crap. the songs would have done much better with ol' lou at the helms. pissing people off at an enormous and scary rate, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From olaf7 at xxx.is Tue Feb 10 09:19:38 1998 From: olaf7 at xxx.is (OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:19:38 +0000 Subject: Sinister: whisky at Go Go's Message-ID: <1EDD745A@MHS> Dont any of you ever read crap literature? Like the books about Diana and Morgan Kane and Danielle Steele,, stuff like that. I once read a book after the 'other woman'( i dont even remember her name after reading the book) in the Supremes about why she didn't became Diana Ross and once I read a book about Pele - the black pearl..... I think I was bored ( or I hope so). Anyways the necesery B&S content. A friend of mine bought IYFS for 299 icelandic kronur on a CD sale market, it -translates into pounds 2.50, dollars hmmm something like $4 , svenske kroner 30.......... So how about it Katrina...- David , what about us almost string bean Jeans/joes, do we get a t- shirt that will proudly spell Belle&Sebastian- not 'ell&asti( see it wrinkles).... olla 'my cat's breath smells like cat food' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Tue Feb 10 09:22:17 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:22:17 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Possibilities Message-ID: Kristen whispered > When I looked down, however, he was not there... BUT THE SONG SNAKE WAS!!! Bloody Hell! This is starting to get worrying if people start dreaming the same things i do. Kids - just in case....if you ever start dreaming of Linda Bellingham make yourself wake up immediately. Trust me. Maybe you just think of M***y as a phallus. > Or maybe I just think of M***y as a phallus. oh. Exactly. from mr chris =============== " I'm on my Knees! I'm Screaming! I'm a ma********r" =============== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From uclykan at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 11:07:22 1998 From: uclykan at xxx.uk (uclykan at xxx.uk) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:07:22 +0000 Subject: Sinister: colourful clouds for acoustics Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19980210110722.235fb1fe@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> >Keith wrote: >Anyone bought any decent records >recently, I need some tips for the moment as I've almost run out of things >to buy.I've asked a few people that question recently and virtually all of >them don't really have many ideas. It's a pain in the arse - have people >stopped bringing good records out for the moment? My Melodies: Leila (plaid 'vibes')(anything on rephlex really)(NOT Laila France. How inventive, Chris Britain anyone. Dana International beats them all) Jack-cinematic (because it's been a while since the other Stuart's voix extraordinaire) A.M.P.-sceneseason I suppose you know this: on a split 7" with roy montgomery the azusa plane call a track 'she was into S&M...admit to no one'. But of course he calls another one 'Calvin Johnson has saved rock for an entire generation'. >Jon wrote: >Just out of interest, does *anyone* else who really likes B&S like Oasis. Boring boring boring I've simply had enough of ugly boys in their overcoats pretending that they're tough (I hate Oasis-TEEN ANTHEMS) Kelly ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From daeril at xxx.es Tue Feb 10 11:43:40 1998 From: daeril at xxx.es (Alberto Perez) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:43:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister:Fumando espero... Message-ID: <34E03D6C.6A6E78F7@redestb.es> Now than my computer problems are fixed I can agree all the people who offered me the Tigermilk and others.. Thanks to try to write spanish, (I´m trying to write this in English, just like SittedBull did, hope people understand LongKnife words...), it´s nice to check how kind can people be ... Mister Saguillo, te escribo aquí porque no tengo tu dirección (se hundió junto al Titanic y mi disco duro). Cada mañana bajo a la porteria a esperar al señor Cartero para ver si trae algo para mi, pero solo trae recibos y publicidad, asi que he decidido dejar de respirar hasta que me lleguen tus cintas. Aumpfff... Estas seguro que me las enviaste a mi direccion?? Buuuuaaaaaaaaaaa :(((( P.D: Tampoco tengo tu dirección si, no me la madas no te podré enviar my personal arsenal :). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 11:34:48 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:34:48 -0000 Subject: Sinister: How I learnt to love Julio Iglesias in Transylvania Message-ID: <01bd3617$e4791490$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> "Independent as fuck" r hip hop trion Company Flows slogan men den borde anvndas av Belle and Sebastian, Glasgows skyggaste sjumannaorkester. De stller aldrig upp p bild och bannlyser A&R mn frn sina konserter. "If you're feeling sinister" fylls av bls, strker, vnliga melodier och underfundiga texter. Ljudet av det Skottland ekar fortfarande. Independent as FUCK say the hip hop loving flow experts about bored people "Belle and Sebastian". Glasgow skyscrapers - watch out. An A+R man said to me at their concert. "If you're feeling sinister" feels your balls! Vaguely, their melodies have the texture of underwear. Luddites from Scotland are fantastic. Well Tag, you asked me if I understood it... Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From adamrobinson at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 11:55:32 1998 From: adamrobinson at xxx.uk (Adam Robinson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:55:32 +0000 Subject: Sinister: reading list for cool kids Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 12:51:51 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 07:51:51 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Books Message-ID: <199802100754_MC2-32AD-6BD7@compuserve.com> I just stumbled across this correspondence, so I've probably missed everything... The Secret History is good. My recommendation is The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe (paperback due next month). Not only did it have the most beautiful tracing paper cover since Lowlife but it's the most B&S thing I've ever read, involving dreams, beaches, children and the best Wim Wenders joke I've ever heard. Much love, David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 10 11:07:09 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:07:09 +0100 Subject: Sinister: The Monday Poem Message-ID: <01bd3614$08d40380$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: poetry place2 Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: lunes 9 de febrero de 1998 16:27 Asunto: Sinister: The Monday Poem >With the shock departure of Northy from the list, I think we are all in >need of spiritual succour. So in honour of the dearly departed I've decided >to inaugurate the "Sinister Poem of the Week". Señor Pantaloons, I think this is an excellent idea. Of course it doesn't even begin to make up for the tragic loss of Northy, but it is nevertheless a brave attempt to help us all cope with the sadness. Just one special request: Instaed of being "The Monday Poem", can it be "The Monday Poem About Telly"? Otherwise my brain will explode. One other thing: As far as I am aware, no one has repoted back about Trousers' Big Night Out. How did the Poetry Society regulars react to an indie-schmindie invasion? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ics6jdc at xxx.UK Tue Feb 10 13:32:46 1998 From: ics6jdc at xxx.UK (Cairns) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:32:46 GMT Subject: Sinister: gettin' jiggy with it In-Reply-To: <01bd3617$e4791490$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: <6E627862DF9@east-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> Keith referred to: > "Independent as fuck" r hip hop trion Company Flows slogan men den > borde anvndas av Belle and Sebastian Ummmm, is this nothing at all to do with quality rap artistes Company Flo? Has this been mentioned already? Have I picked up the wrong end of the hip-hop stick? Regardless, they're ace. Wish they'd do a B&S collaboration, kinda like Puff Daddy's 'All about the Benjamins'. Just to add tuppence to the whole fountain of literary recommendations, has anybody tried 'In Awe', by Scott Heim. S'gothic but gorgeous in a kinda 'Jeez-I've-felt-like-that-about-boys' confused sexuality sountracked by My Bloody Valentine and new wave direction. Phew! They should put that on the back cover. Re: Hal Hartley. If memory serves, didn't Stuart M drop off a tape at his offices when they visited New York? That was in 'Little Ink Movies' I think. Yours, having tried, and failed, not to hear the Brits results until tonite, Joseph xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Tue Feb 10 13:33:41 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:33:41 +0000 Subject: Sinister: gigs in Dubin?? In-Reply-To: <199802101331.NAA02777@dux2.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980210133341.0079ea00@mail.tcd.ie> It was about half past five and I was absolutely steaming, I spied the most gorgeous guy ever. I went over to ask him for a ciggart..fag, he gave me one and after about ten minutes we were kissing.. Oh he is just so lovely, but he hasn't phoned..... Anyway I was in the best music shop in Dublin yesterday, caled ROAD RECORDS. They had al the records I wanted. Loads of Glaswegian stuff. The woman I spoke to was very into the scene. They even had the record by el hombre trajedo, my mate's band. How cool. Anyway we got around to chatting about B&S and she said sh had been in touch with Jeepster and she seemed to think that the band were playing over here in May. Is this true?? Apologies for letters missing but my computer is having problems with e and l. See ya, Claire.*** Claire Timmins ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 13:43:28 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:43:28 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: gettin' jiggy with it Message-ID: <01bd3629$de6baec0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Keith referred to: > "Independent as fuck" r hip hop trion Company Flows slogan men den > borde anvndas av Belle and Sebastian so Jospeh said: >Ummmm, is this nothing at all to do with quality rap artistes Company >Flo? Has this been mentioned already? Have I picked up the wrong end >of the hip-hop stick? Regardless, they're ace. Wish they'd do a B&S >collaboration, kinda like Puff Daddy's 'All about the Benjamins'. Dunno mate, for all I know it's about Aunt Flo from Bod, it was Tag posted it, taken from a Swedish magazine that his friend told him about. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 14:18:42 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:18:42 -0000 Subject: Sinister: How to Endure Mundane Tasks. Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F81D@RMF1> Ichy da all, This is my first entry for the sinister page and I thought I'd let you know how I was inspired to Join...... I first heard of B & S through a friend of mine who told that they were the greatest band thing since Tom Jones. I usually find my friends musical opinions to carry much credit but I never really found the time to lilsten to a tape of thiers which he had leant me (obviously this tape was not a copy -I'm far to afriad of going to jail). Time passed and I still hadn't listened to it until one day when it came to be my turn to do the washing up in the house, which I despise doing, I came across the B&S tape which he had leant to me. So I wacked the tape on and got stuck in. From this point on I didn't notice the fetid stench of a 3 day matured curry, nor the bits of moldy food clinging to my skin, instead I sailed away on the beatifull melodies that Belle & Sebastian sent to me. I was alieviated from my suffering and I never wanted to return. I never wanted those dishes to get clean, I just wanted to stay by my sink and daydream forever. This effect also takes hold of me when I'm at work, I can just think of a Belle & Sebastian song in my mind and just drift away..................... Until next time, Huw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2621 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com Tue Feb 10 13:52:44 1998 From: Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com (Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB) Date: 10 Feb 98 13:52:44 Subject: Sinister: Re: yikes Message-ID: <9802101448.AA4409@notesgw.compuserve.com> >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:19:06 +0000 >From: Sarah >um, hey folks. >you may have read a post to the list that i didn't mean to send you, um, >sorry.... >I'm planning to shoot my pooter an my mail system..... Tee hee. I'll come clean. I only subscribe to this list in order to read all the inadvertently posted private correspondence. Where else a nosy parker get such easy kicks outside of a telephone exchange? I don't care at all about this Belle & Sebastian pair you all go on about. hmmm...reminds me....hmmm...checks archive...... I laughed longer, louder and put your laughter to shame when a long time ago Charlotte posted this as her response to the mini-autobiography thread: >I am 48 years old. I studied limb management and I used to be a ballerina but now I'm a faith healer. I spend my leisure >time sketching people's necks in public parks. I married a stonemason from Cumberland and now I have five sets of twins. I >have fourteen copies of Tigermilk. I've never listened to them. Is this the Gary Glitter list? Where is Charlotte these days? She was an asset to the list. Wasn't it her who, bored with a rut the list had got into, posted her top Belle & Sebastian Moments to remind us all why we are here? And everyone joined in with their own ones (like, the way Stuart Murdoch's voice cracks on the line "She was not impressed" in 'The State I Am In') and it made me all glowy. Perhaps we could do this again. It would also be a good way of drawing in the newer listees. Tell us why Belle & Sebastian are best. And stick on a mini-autobiography if you like, fictional or otherwise. This isn't strictly a Belle & Sebastian moment; it's a Stuart David/Chris Geddes moment. But it made my heart break all the same. So nerrr. It's from the Ink Polaroids book: "Here's Chris outside the studio, on the night we finished the first album. It's quite dark, but you can still see the marks on his face the tears have left from when he was crying inside. I asked him why he'd been crying and he just said, 'Because I've never done anything proper before. But I don't know if that means my life's been really shit up to this point, or if this was just really good.'" Nick ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MWaggner at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 15:17:37 1998 From: MWaggner at xxx.com (MWaggner at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:17:37 EST Subject: Sinister: How to Endure Mundane Tasks. Message-ID: <343ba339.34e06f93@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-10 09:50:53 EST, you write: > This effect also takes hold of me when I'm at work, I can just think of > a Belle & Sebastian song in my mind and just drift > away..................... > > Until next time, > Huw Ah, this is how I get through days at work -- Tigermilk and sometimes Red House Painters. And the world of advertising falls away and I am looking out my window and daydreaming, thinking, what? Today will be someplace in France under willow trees I think.... Of course, then one is left with all that work still to do... but a vacation in the middle of the day is not a bad thing. On other threads: ALWAYS carry extra money in your pocket to give to those who need it when they ask. Fucking Smashing Pumpkins: saw them last year and had to listen to Billy (I'm-so-important) Corgan go on a 20 minute tirade about how two homeless people asked him for money and how dare they when he works so hard and has such a sad and lonely life for having given so much of himself to music and fame. Poor poor Billy. He ended by exhorting the audience to go downtown, find the two homeless people and "kick their fucking asses." eeek. I nearly jumped on stage and kicked his. Ass. Arse. Smug bastard. Sorry, but I just get so incensed! Don't know why I went to see them anyway -- ah, yes -- to protect my 64 year old mother who was down in front... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 10 15:48:40 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:48:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Duke Box / Question Time Message-ID: <01bd363b$5be756e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Due to the overwhelmingly aristocratically enthusiastic response to my suggestion for a "please the Duke" competition, I feel obliged to start side 2 of Duke's tape all over again. I am determined to receive a Lawrence Bald Patch for my efforts. Come on kids! Get your questions for Mister Murdoch in! I've already sent in a hundred and forty-six today and it's only twenty to five! I don't know, things have certainly gone downhill since Northy sloped off to do his coursework. I was hoping to go and see that film about gigantic space insects this afternoon, but it's a bit late now. Perhaps a typically shambolic visit to the chatroom would be in order. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ByTheSea6 at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:09:35 1998 From: ByTheSea6 at xxx.com (ByTheSea6 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:09:35 EST Subject: Sinister: gettin' jiggy with it Message-ID: <909a1ed7.34e07bc1@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-10 09:07:36 EST, ics6jdc at EAST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK writes: << Keith referred to: > "Independent as fuck" r hip hop trion Company Flows slogan men den > borde anvndas av Belle and Sebastian This thread has gotten really confusing all of a sudden. All i can add is that the Company Flow record is called FunCrusherPlus on Rawkus Records. It's nyc underground hip-hop and it's quite odd but really cool to see it mentioned in the same paragraph as B&S. >>Re: Hal Hartley. If memory serves, didn't Stuart M drop off a tape at his offices when they visited New York? That was in 'Little Ink Movies' I think. >> This is true. Three song demo went to Hal's office. Tracks later appeared on Dog On Wheels (4th Song was the only one not on the demo). Someone should run down there and go through Hal's closets. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.M.D.Loo at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 16:12:05 1998 From: C.M.D.Loo at xxx.uk (CMD LOO) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: indieClubs IN LONDON In-Reply-To: <01bd3614$08d40380$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: Hiya sinistereans I would like to find out if there are any cool indie clubs in London. Write Soon. Cheers D A N I E L O O "It takes Strength to be KIND and GENTLE" M O R R I S S E Y ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:15:59 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (The Ghost of Enoch Powell) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:15:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B sides to new single In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, WesleySniper wrote: > The lightening seeds? Oh dear the world cup is here again!! 3 > lions is being re written, and it was crap anyway. Could be worse. Scotland's official Euro'96 anthem was Rod bleedin' Stewart. Thank god for Primal Scream & Black Grape's alternative anthems. > Anyway - anyone heard of heavy stereo? Not since they were dropped by Creation. I thought Sleep Freak was a wonderfully T-Rexish glam choon, but the rest of their stuff was, erm.. cack. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Real programmers don't document ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:18:08 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Suckmaster Burstingfoam) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:18:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Carver, Wolff and Ink Polaroids In-Reply-To: <34DD46B0.565C@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Jonathan Wren wrote: > Speaking of waiting, I ordered LLPJ and DOW singles at Virgin over 4 weeks ago and I'm > still waiting for DOW! Still, the glories of You Made Me Forget My Dreams and Photo > Jenny kind of make up for it. Don't say that! I've just discovered that my DOW CD is scratched, so I'm going to have to buy a new one. I was even going to fork out the four f***ing pounds fifty that Virgin whoring mother-loving Megastores were asking for it last time I looked. Don't say that they won't even have a copy! Rod. (mildly-distressed) Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sporty, Posh, Baby, Ginger, Scary. In that order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:19:26 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaz) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:19:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re:Opening lines In-Reply-To: <4A4626163BF@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, LISA BERRY wrote: > How about: > "It was the day my grandmother exploded" from The Crow Road by Iain > Banks - nice and surreal I think. I remember reading one in the Guardian which was: `Oh no! Not again.' he thought, opening the dustbin lid and looking out. It won a competition once, apparently. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Indigestures: n. The hollow gestures and half-hearted protestations | you feel required to make when someone else is picking up the check ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:21:11 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Gilgamesh) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: we all have a laugh In-Reply-To: <199802072356.XAA14739@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Yaz wrote: > Warm JEts man surprisingly looked very yummy indeed, but apparently he's > going out with Zoe (sickenly happy everyf***ing morning) Ball. Sigh. Not any more. They split up[1]. Now, the keyboardist in the Warm Jets that was on TFI last week... YUM! Think I might venture along to their concert next month. Rod. [1] It was in The Sun, so it must be true. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:25:53 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Who put the colours in the rainbow?) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:25:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Iain A E Anderson wrote: > Continuing the dream stories... > During the weekend I had this dream that everybody listened to Belle & > Sebastian and the world was a happy place. > Then I woke up and switched on my radio only to hear bloody O***s. Last week, I dreamt I bought an umbrella. I really need to get an imagination. > Oh well, it's good to dream I suppose. (try reading that sentence in a Bob Hoskins voice. it sounds like an advert for telepathic communication.) > -- > Iain Anderson > Bored out his tits at > Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Didn't that hurt? Did you go to the Civil Engineering department to do that? (FACT: The Yellow Pages says "For Boring, see Civil Engineers") Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yearagostats: n. The part of a forecast that tells you what the | weather was like a year ago so you'll feel even more miserable ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 16:29:07 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Farty the Warthog) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:29:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: books In-Reply-To: <802565A6.0060A8B8.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 Anna_Chapman at idg.com wrote: > By the way, on the book subject: ? I agree, Sophies world was brilliant. > Has anyone else read Acid House by Irvine Welsh. Yep. Bit hit or miss, but there were some excellent stories in there. I quite liked the four short stories about love (especially A Sexual History) and the Granton Star Cause, but "A Smart Cunt" was a bit on the dull side. (IMO) > And moving swiftly from > books to films, just to bore you more, I saw Titanic on Saturday and have > just one thing to say. Wow!! That was some film. Well worth every singlke > good review I've read about it. every one should see it!!! And I don't want to appear like a "lad", but Kate Winslet has got incredible breasts -- even the girls in our group agreed on that one. I don't want to give away the ending, but... fur unf gur arpxynpr nyy nybat! {SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!} Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message is respectfully dedicated to Mr Elias Howe who, in 1847, | invented the sewing machine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mjm97 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 16:32:31 1998 From: mjm97 at xxx.uk (MATTHEW JON MILLER) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:32:31 +0000 Subject: Sinister:Re:Acid House Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980210163231.009603c0@pophost.aber.ac.uk> Hi everyone! Acid House was a wonderful collection of short stories - did anyone see the dramatisation of The Grantham Star Cause on Channel 4 a while back? - though my favourite would have to be 'The Two Philosophers'. Anyway, The Marabou Stork Nightmares is a rather surreal read from Welsh's pen which explores all sorts of themes from unusual perspectives. Good stuff but different to Trainspotting. And vaguely with a B&S theme... Perhaps this is a bit way off, but, can anyone empathise with the connection I see between the music of B&S and themes of 'unrequited love' explored in Thomas Hardy novels? Cheerie-bye, Mat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From iles at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 16:35:55 1998 From: iles at xxx.uk (Mark Iles) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:35:55 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk auction Message-ID: Dear Belle and Sebastian Fans, This may well have been posted to the list already, but since I'm on the digest I don't know... just in case here it is, anyone want to join the bidding for Tigermilk? Mark >>From shop at roughtrade.com Tue Feb 10 15:41:01 1998 >Sender: shop at roughtrade.com >X-Sender: rtrade at pop3.demon.co.uk >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:57:07 +0000 >To: shop at roughtrade.com >From: Rough Trade Shop >Subject: belle and sebastian-tiger milk for auction > >a friend of mine that over spent at xmas has decided to part with their >beloved belle and sebastian album...pretty perfect condition as they're a >record lover...bids to start at a hundred pounds please........ > thanks sparrow > >p.s. apologies to those who have no interest in b and s....... > > >web site : http://www.roughtrade.com > >please let me know if you'd like to be on our emailing list for new >releases (unless you're already on it in which case don't worry!! you >still are!!) > >email: shop at roughtrade.com > >phone: 0171-792-3490 > >fax: 0171-221-1146 > >write: Rough Trade shop >130 Talbot Road >London >W11 1JA >U.K. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles at boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From efauquembergue at xxx.fr Tue Feb 10 16:31:51 1998 From: efauquembergue at xxx.fr (Eric Fauquembergue - Softools) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:31:51 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk for auction ... Message-ID: <01BD3649.C6AEAA10@ASTERIX> >From the RoughTrade on-line shop mailing list : /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////::: a friend of mine that over spent at xmas has decided to part with their beloved belle and sebastian album...pretty perfect condition as they're a record lover...bids to start at a hundred pounds please........ thanks sparrow p.s. apologies to those who have no interest in b and s....... web site : http://www.roughtrade.com email: shop at roughtrade.com //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// That's all I know... Eric // Eric Fauquembergue // Softools (France) // efauquembergue at softools.fr // http://www.softools.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 14:51:27 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:51:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: colourful clouds for acoustics References: <3.0.1.16.19980210110722.235fb1fe@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34E0696F.2309AC19@dial.pipex.com> uclykan at ucl.ac.uk wrote: > >Jon wrote: > >Just out of interest, does *anyone* else who really likes B&S like Oasis. > > Boring boring boring I've simply had enough of ugly boys in their overcoats > pretending that they're tough (I hate Oasis-TEEN ANTHEMS) > > Kelly So, you have to be "beautiful people" to make great music, do you? Well, that rules out about 95% of pop "stars", or non-"stars", for that matter, then. Or is it just the overcoats that people find offensive? ;-) All the best, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 16:47:29 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:47:29 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802101647.QAA20142@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 16:57:59 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:57:59 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802101657.QAA20235@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 17:23:50 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:23:50 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802101723.RAA20482@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Tue Feb 10 17:27:03 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:27:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: reading list for cool kids In-Reply-To: Message-ID: yikes, the secret history. i read that at my wits end (yes i know some of you think i'm there all the time, thank you) for a book while sitting in a crowded bus on a circuitous mountainside road in greece. that said, i thought it was terrible, though a welcome distraction from the ear-splitting greek folk music the bus driver had insisted on playing all morning. (it was also sort of a joke since it's about a group of murderous classics students - of course i am one and was stuck in a foreign country with about 15 others.....) also on books, if you liked 'sophie's world' try gaarder's next book 'the solitaire mystery.' i thought it was even better than sw. has anyone else read 'the mysteries of pittsburgh' by joseph chabon? it's not recent or anything,but someone just pointed it out to me and i'm in the middle of it now. it's beautiful, especially this passage at the end to which i am going to treat you: but i can never learn to be a world as phlox was a world, with her own flora and physics, atmosphere and birds. i am left, as coleridge was his useless dream poem, with a glittering sock and a memory...to say i loved phlox implies no need or lack of need of her, she was a world i gained and lost...i only wish i had seen her one last time. there's more but you'll have to read it yourself! (do do) laurel xxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 17:27:30 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:27:30 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802101727.RAA20519@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From Charlotte.Hall at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 17:11:43 1998 From: Charlotte.Hall at xxx.uk (Charlotte Hall) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:11:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S: still here/B&S moments Message-ID: <4E08D720.1272@itps.co.uk> hello list, Thank you someone for your kind query as to my whereabouts. I'm still on the list but have subscribed to the digest as I nearly got sacked because of the deluge of mail (this reminds me tangentially of a headline following the death of Daniel Arap Moi, Kenya's longtime dictator: "Apres Moi, la deluge"). I have now changed my biographical details due to the pressure of time. I am 14 and I have never left Valparaiso. B&S content: I would be most happy to see the revival of the long lost "B&S moments" thread. I can start with this: 1. the bit in "Photo Jenny" where Stuart sings "I don't do drugs, all my friends are on their holidays". The sweetness and pathos in his voice. How does he do it? 2. that rather anaemic sounding recorder piping away in "Judy and the Dream of Horses". Call me sentimental. 3. "It doesn't mean that I'm getting boring - you tell me!" Charlotte ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 16:53:49 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:53:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Rod the Mod Message-ID: <01bd3644$75999f40$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Could be worse. Scotland's official Euro'96 anthem was Rod bleedin' >Stewart. Thank god for Primal Scream & Black Grape's alternative anthems. And what the fuck's wrong with Rod Stewart? Call yourself an Englishman who pretends to be a Scotsman... I don't know. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rorshach at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 18:03:55 1998 From: rorshach at xxx.com (AudioPig) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:03:55 -0600 Subject: Sinister: Fw: belle and sebastian-tiger milk for auction Message-ID: <199802101803.MAA20507@mailgw01.execpc.com> forwarded from the rough trade updates list...thought someone might be innarested? (hey! email the below address for more info, not me... ;) > From: Rough Trade Shop > > a friend of mine that over spent at xmas has decided to part with their > beloved belle and sebastian album...pretty perfect condition as they're a > record lover...bids to start at a hundred pounds please........ > thanks sparrow > > p.s. apologies to those who have no interest in b and s....... > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 18:19:37 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:19:37 +0000 Subject: Sinister: shit joke, Dundee please! References: Message-ID: <34E09A39.6F881CF0@dial.pipex.com> Farty the Warthog wrote: > > > > And moving swiftly from > > books to films, just to bore you more, I saw Titanic on Saturday and have > > just one thing to say. Wow!! That was some film. Well worth every singlke > > good review I've read about it. every one should see it!!! > > And I don't want to appear like a "lad", but Kate Winslet has got > incredible breasts -- even the girls in our group agreed on that one. > > I don't want to give away the ending, but... fur unf gur arpxynpr nyy > nybat! {SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!} > > Rod. > > Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | > The boat sinks (BOOM-BOOM)! But seriously, it is a really good film; not brilliant, but never boring, which is as much as you can ask for a 3hr film. Except Once Upon A Time In America which is the best film I have ever seen. Louis from Warm Jets is Crispian Mills and I claim my five pounds. Speaking (very briefly) about Kula Shaker, they're actually playing in Dundee; they're only Scottish date! Now, what a good idea for B&S (hint,hint)! All the best, Jon Fave B&S moment: And the star of it is (thunderous drums) and the star of it is Photo Jenny (orgasm, world ends) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sinister at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 18:54:26 1998 From: owner-sinister at xxx.net (owner-sinister at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:54:26 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802101854.SAA22334@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 19:36:37 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:36:37 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: Erm Message-ID: Erm - sorry again about the silly empty mails. My server has a blockage - going to get a plumber in. If I had been at work today it wouldn't have happened. Erm. Honey xxxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 20:36:56 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 98 20:36:56 GMT Subject: Sinister: Make love not war Message-ID: <980210203656.n0008441.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 09 Feb 98, Paul Blackwell wrote a load of really dull shite about Northy and a homeless man, then went on to say: This is not a personal attack on Northy, I am just >letting you all know the truth. >As North will be gone from the list for a while, you will have to make to with me. I am less controversial but also live in Ashford which makes me a perfect Northy substitute. For Fucks sake I do NOT want to listen to crap like this!! If your posts are going to continue in this vein then stay off the bloody list OK? A rather tormented susannah. oh, and what I really wanted to say was this: I have been pondering over the mailing list questions to B&S and come up with a couple I REALLY want to ask Chris geddes: At Manchester you were puking in a bucket under your keyboard, were there any carrots? Stuart Murdoch: Did the bad reviews of the Manchester gigs affect you? The music press all seem desperate to give you a good slagging. I am too. On a scale of one to ten, I'd give you one. Stuart David: If Bill Clinton can do it , you can too, You know where to find me. No questions to Isobel or Sarah due to female jealousy OK? And this ones to all of them: Which band member would you most like to punch? Lastly, the bastards at York Excel photos have officially lost my Manchester gig snaps and here's where you come in bell-end sebastian fans. To enable the location of my photos I have to describe what was on them i.e. the band... I have to state : Sex, Age, whether In or Out (Stuart???), , What is the person wearing and what is the person doing. I have to also describe 'any scars, birthmarks, jewellery, costumes and their hair (colour, texture, braided, ponytail, greying, balding, moustache, beard) ' So, come on kids!! Most apt and original description wins a prize! No Felt LPs but Do have a spare copy of 'Obsession' by Animotion I can spare. Susannah. xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 21:11:40 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:11:40 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Video-wideo Message-ID: <199802102108.VAA12418@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> There was a bit of talk about Enhanced-CDs and how our heros should go in for something like that. I quite agree. The last Wu-Tang Clan album was an enhanced whatchamacallit. It featured a tour of the "Wu - Mansion" or palace or something where you could meet the various, erm, Clansmen (as it were) and enjoy their rather delphic utterances. I reckon the new B&S album should feature something like that - a virtual tour of the "Seb-Church Hall" (...'Meet Stuart preparing some Orange Squash in the kitchen') or better still the "Belle-playground". Our heros could be found on their favourite playground ride. Sarah on the swings, Isobel and Richard on the see-saw (that's teeter-totter for our N.Am friends), Stevie on the wibbly-wobbly horse thing. And so on... Books - Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres is wonderfull. I laughed, I cried - oh how I cried. On the 7.30 train to Bedford, there I was in my suit, in the heart of commuter land and I was crying my heart out for the greatest story of doomed/unrequited love I'd ever read - a soldier and the man he adores. I read books i like over and over again but I don't think I could ever read Capt Correlli again and put myself through the emotional mangle once more. But I'm a richer person for going through it once - and it's not all sad. xxx Johnston, John "Crazy Trousers" so now you know... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 20:38:47 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:38:47 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: References: Message-ID: <34E0BAD7.3335@seahouses.u-net.com> ELIZABETH DAPLYN punished her keyboard in anger: >I'm a high-street kinda girl: no > indie-kid shops around Medway. We have our own equivalent of Casuals > who look at me strangely as I wander around Chatham in hippy skirts and > wierd t-shirts, not realising that their horrible puffa jackets and gold > jewellery make them look like Michelin Men on the game. > Yes. I know Chatham, unfortunately. My mate Andy and his fiance used to live up in Walderslade (Lords Wood or something) so I stayed over sometimes when I lived in south east London...we used to walk around Chatham at night looking for somewhere to get a decent drink/takeaway and usually failed. What a dull, tiny place it is. No indie shops AT ALL. I sympathise, I really do. I can't hear with my left ear at the moment, me and Rachel both have colds and my head feels like a leadweight. AAAAARRRRgh. Apparently a scary man kept banging on the window of the flat today and frightening Rachel. Eventually he went away though. I need a beer I'm fookin' BOILING in here! Latest score, England B team 0 - Chile B team 0 Byebye! JJ xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 20:32:02 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:32:02 +0000 Subject: Sinister: irrelevant Pearl Jam posting Message-ID: <34E0B942.60F8@seahouses.u-net.com> Hello! hey YOU listen to Pearl Jam's new single and listen to 'Going To California' by Led Zeppelin ... SNAP! I win. Byebye JJ xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 21:03:42 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:03:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Obituary: Falco 1958 - 1998 References: <2c3eaf28.34dfa5e1@aol.com> Message-ID: <34E0C0AE.4199@seahouses.u-net.com> MRissb7989 at aol.com wrote: > Singles and 12"s > Rock Me Amadeus > Vienna Calling Vienna Calling! Oh oh! yes I liked these too..... btw, in Rock Me Amadeus he says something that sounds suspiciously like (ahem) "monkey cunt" listen to it and you'll know what I mean.... JJ xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Tue Feb 10 21:43:25 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:43:25 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Make love not war Message-ID: <199802102143.WAA14964@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Susannah wrote ... >on 09 Feb 98, Paul Blackwell wrote a load of really dull shite about Northy and >a homeless man, then went on to say: > > >For Fucks sake I do NOT want to listen to crap like this!! If your posts are >going to continue in this vein then stay off the bloody list OK? Oooops ... is that some excellent software or your mother reading e-mails out for you ? Whatever, only wanted to mention that the mail at issue is much more welcome than thoughtless and destructive comments containing more swear words than sentences ... what gives you the right to slag off fellow listees ? You are free to use the delete button whenever certain names appear in the header, which reminds me that I've opened your mail by accident. "Are you still evil when you're sleeping ?" (Siddeleys) Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 20:28:23 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:28:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: yawn Message-ID: <35KoBoAnhL40Ew9Z@elsato97.demon.co.uk> *ahem* So didja all have fun reading my mail to Steff that none of you should ever have seen? And my fish man HASN'T come just in case Trousers was worrying about him!!! *slips into cheesy advertising lingerie* Sinister. brings people together. Wouldja believe that me and a fellow listee have both found that we grew up in next door villages and i live in the sameplace as his gran!! and we know a few of the same people?!?!? NUTS! um yup thats it. i have an amusing ink polaroid to sow you lot which was taken today under a chair. don't ask all wil be revealed. i'd tell you now but to tired. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Tue Feb 10 22:27:27 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:27:27 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re:Acid House Message-ID: <272EF3F54@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Yeah - The Acid House is a great book - my favourite story in it is "Last Resort On The Adriatic" although my flatmate doesn't agree, and probably no-one else will either! I also liked Marabou Stork Nightmares - except I found it really difficult to read the rape parts. Some of Ecstasy was good, but overall it wasn't as good as his previous books. Um......no B&S content WHATSOEVER - feel free to delete this message straight away..... Lots of love from Lisa XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 23:27:17 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:27:17 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: URGENT Columbo-B&S-bassist-non-sock-Mathis request Message-ID: This is the weirdest email Paul has sent... Want a night out with Stuart David (sort of)? Have access to acres of 70s US cop videos? Stuart is DESPERATELY looking for videos of "Columbo" for a spoken word gig he is doing in Glasgow very very soon - he needs a video within the next 2-3 days. This is NOT a B&S sock-related dream. Or a list manager pisstake. He wants the stuff at the end where Columbo croaks his denouement of the devillish misdemeanour. Videos of Wings of Desire will sadly not do, which I bet you arty lot have by the truckload. He's promised that if anyone can come up with the goods they will get an hour's free chat with him on IRC - if I were you I'd worry what WWW sites he will take you to. If anyone has one, or indeed the whole Columbo collection could they email ME as fast as their little legs can carry them? I guess it'll probably have to be UK because quite seriously he needs them pronto. Honestly I am not taking the mickey. Unless he is. Oh, and while we're at it, this is a World Appeal for a karaoke tape of "When A Child Is Born" by our favourite Johnny. Chris Leonard is too shy to ask, but really he needs one so that he can embarrass his family on UK TV all the way back to the Shelleys. Honey xxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 23:46:00 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:46:00 EST Subject: Sinister: Someone Somewhere Message-ID: <627ae373.34e0e6bb@aol.com> 'lo. funny, there aren't as many messages posted as there used to be. I may be mistaken though. anyhow, hello everyone. by the way, does anyone have a copy of Tigermilk that could make me a copy? thanks. regards, y ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Daf_Moore at xxx.com Tue Feb 10 23:51:24 1998 From: Daf_Moore at xxx.com (David Moore) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:51:24 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Possibilities Message-ID: <199802101851_MC2-32CF-80FF@compuserve.com> No B&S content Chris Leonard wrote: > Kids - just in case....if you ever start dreaming of Linda > Bellingham make yourself wake up immediately. Trust me. In the Seventies Mrs Oxo Advert Super Housewife Cook & Mother Linda Bellingham appeared in the soft-porn "Confessions Of A ............., etc." series. Revealing my misspent youth. David Moore Chelmsford, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmcinnes at xxx.net Tue Feb 10 23:58:21 1998 From: rmcinnes at xxx.net (Rob McInnes) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:58:21 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802102358.XAA04309@hermes.clara.net> Hi Belle and Sebastian are one of the best groups to break through last year (if not the best). Any news on the new single or album, and how about them coming to Sheffield (for a change)? Yours sinisterly, Neil. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 00:00:52 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:00:52 EST Subject: Sinister: Re:House of Acid Message-ID: <2e8945d9.34e0ea37@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-10 17:32:30 EST, BerryLF at cardiff.ac.uk writes: << Um......no B&S content WHATSOEVER >> No surprise there. Besides, I've grown accustomed to (and I think I'd now rather hear some more) discussions about pretentious garbage and posts which appear to be meant for someone's personal diary. At least until Belle and Sebastian make their next move in the music world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Wed Feb 11 00:16:28 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:16:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Re:Acid House In-Reply-To: <272EF3F54@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Message-ID: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, LISA BERRY wrote: > Some of Ecstasy was good, but overall it wasn't as good as his > previous books. i read it on the plane to canada and had the guy beside me reading over my shoulder..i was reading the story about the lady who wrote the novels and her nurse..i felt like i should stop reading it because i felt a bit dirty, like looking at porn in public or something..the guy asked me the name of the author and the book as we were getting off the plane though. > Um......no B&S content WHATSOEVER - feel free to delete this message > straight away..... ditto roberta ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 00:50:47 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:50:47 +0000 Subject: Sinister: URGENT Columbo-B&S-bassist-non-sock-Mathis request References: Message-ID: <34E0F5E7.85ED7D62@dial.pipex.com> Honey wrote: > This is the weirdest email Paul has sent... > > Want a night out with Stuart David (sort of)? Have access to acres of 70s > US cop videos? Stuart is DESPERATELY looking for videos of "Columbo" for > a spoken word gig he is doing in Glasgow very very soon - he needs a video > within the next 2-3 days. This is NOT a B&S sock-related dream. Or a > list manager pisstake. He wants the stuff at the end where Columbo croaks > his denouement of the devillish misdemeanour. Videos of Wings of Desire > will sadly not do, which I bet you arty lot have by the truckload. > > He's promised that if anyone can come up with the goods they will get an > hour's free chat with him on IRC - if I were you I'd worry what WWW sites > he will take you to. > > If anyone has one, or indeed the whole Columbo collection could they email > ME as fast as their little legs can carry them? I guess it'll probably > have to be UK because quite seriously he needs them pronto. > > Honestly I am not taking the mickey. Unless he is. > > Oh, and while we're at it, this is a World Appeal for a karaoke tape of > "When A Child Is Born" by our favourite Johnny. Chris Leonard is too shy > to ask, but really he needs one so that he can embarrass his family on UK > TV all the way back to the Shelleys. > > Honey xxx > > -- > Thank you for not discussing the outside world. Unfortunately, I am able to meet Mr David's request. What I would like to know is when we can get B&S on IRC, in the near future. Preferably before Monday as I will be heading back for Dundee then.( I realise this is an impossible request\) God, I only have Kula Shaker on April 1st to look forward to. And that really isn't much. Could you also ask when I'm likely to get my Ink Polaroids and Movies as I am currently dying? And I wish someone could get me away from Ilford cos it's a fookin' shite hole! Yours in drunkeness and next day regret, Jon Thank you for not discussing my love life. "When your legs are black and blue..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 02:43:00 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 02:43:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Her daddy was a bank robber (NBS) References: <34DE376D.630A@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <34E11034.59EF@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> > The second band I recommend is > the Trash Can Sinatras. I really liked these guys a while back but never got past the buying singles stage. Is "A Happy Pocket" as good as the track "How Can I Apply" or am i asking too much... Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plaird at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 03:11:28 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 98 03:11:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: funky junky Message-ID: <199802110309.DAA24759@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Genevieve on Brian Molko from Placebo: >It's really his voice,he doesn't sing..he squeak like writhing rat with >poison tonsils....and the music..well we won't get into that.. Bloody hell!! what an incredibly vivid (and rather disturbing) image. I had just thought he sounded like somebody from Yes or REO Speedwagon -almost as repulsive and enough to put me right off. Hey Keith! - At The Egg last Saturday: Just what connection with B&S did that bunch of freeloaders have? After letting them in for free past an enormous queue at your drunken insistence, I didn't get as much as a thankyou - not a peep! Acutely aware of lack of B&S content, The Laird of East Fountainbridge "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From a-bergman at xxx.edu Wed Feb 11 03:23:43 1998 From: a-bergman at xxx.edu (Amanda Bergman) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:23:43 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: goodness gracious is right In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Oh dear. Stuart David has actually resorted to prostituting himself *IN CHAT* all for the sake of ambience at a spoken word gig. An hour's worth of uniterrupted Stuart D. banter? /me slobbers all over the keyboard. I believe now is the time to page Susannah of "If Bill Clinton can do it, you can too" fame and help her hunt down some Columbo footage. bye bye, Amanda ------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman at nwu.edu "Beware the knowers...beware those who are always reading books..." --Charles Bukowski ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 05:49:52 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:49:52 EST Subject: Sinister: America Message-ID: <7d3263aa.34e13c02@aol.com> Hey, anyone on this list live in the Boston, MA area? fab. regards, the infamous y ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Wed Feb 11 06:27:12 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 98 06:27:12 GMT Subject: Sinister: Make love not war Message-ID: <980211062712.n0008520.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 10 Feb 98, Perfection As A Hipster wrote... . >what gives you the right to slag off fellow listees ? > >You are free to use the delete button whenever certain names appear in the >header, which reminds me that I've opened your mail by accident. > Ok OK point taken, maybe I was a a bit too hasty with that pesky send button. My point actually was I had just read a damning account of another listee(Northy) by someone who actually knows him in real life, and I thought that posting stuff of that ilk was just right out of order. I can just imagine my flatmate coming onto the list and saying " Susannah is in fact a cow in real life, she never does the washing up" In retrospect, maybe I actually commited almost said crime myself. My punishment will be three consecutive nights in the Radiohead chat room. Susannah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Wed Feb 11 06:57:30 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:57:30 +0800 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <01bd36ba$52327f60$25fd51ca@rclander.netfront.net> 'Sophies World' is good. To add to the growing book list I would like to mention 'Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mctag at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 08:49:15 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:49:15 GMT Subject: Sinister: The Wednesday Poem In-Reply-To: <199802101631.QAA19803@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802101631.QAA19803@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34e164b8.223567@email.mcmail.com> Hooray, A list full of revelry and jollity. Stuart wrote: >> this guy at my school,he's very odd...everything ahs to be kinky for >> him you know? ok..I'm just this silly little person..but somehow..he got in >> his head..as soon as i step through the dor and at home,bam! i am Dark >> Mistress and some odd kinky queen.. > >You've just made Tag's day... Not me. I'm vice-free. Consider that the Wednesday poem. Risso wrote of the untimely death of Falco. This came as a great shock to me, as you can imagine. He also wrote: >I ripped off my tits on Stella for the first time and snogged a French lass Now I shed a tear, but I didn't go that far. >PS. Does this count as "Doing a Northy?" or is it more of a "Steaming pile of >Begbie?" Now that was unkind. Who put these cruel ideas in your head? The small, yet mighty Olla wrote: >Dont any of you ever read crap literature? I certainly do, I read "On the road", "American Psycho", "Zen and the art of blahdeblah", "Naked Lunch" and some things by J.G.Ballard and Henry Miller and they were all totally crap. "Be my baby" by the Ronnie Spector and the book of the film of "Gregory's Girl" are far, far better. Keith "Smorgasbord" Watson wrote: >Independent as FUCK say the hip hop loving flow experts about bored people >"Belle and Sebastian". Glasgow skyscrapers - watch out. An A+R man said to >me at their concert. "If you're feeling sinister" feels your balls! Vaguely, >their melodies have the texture of underwear. Luddites from Scotland are >fantastic. >Well Tag, you asked me if I understood it... I was really hoping someone would do that, and the smart money was on Keith. A truly remarkable man - he can't read, but his Swedish is faultless. Don Pedro Miller Garcia Marquez wrote: >One other thing: As far as I am aware, no one has repoted back about >Trousers' Big Night Out. How did the Poetry Society regulars react to an >indie-schmindie invasion? At the risk of making Paul blub with jealousy, Trousers' Big Night Out was a trouser-busting success. We all got splendidly drunk (except Andy Dean, who nursed his ribena like a trooper, and then whipped our skinny butts at scrabble to prove he was sober), Susannah did a little dance with Peter Peter The Opium eater's hat (whoever he was), I snored "like Krakatoa" and vogued in my sleep, James from that band on Jeepster (Sulaka?) put Snow Patrol stickers on belisha beacons across the length and breadth of Central London, we all made cheap double-entendres at Katrina's expense, and had a lovely time, even though David had to go to work in the morning. >Come on kids! Get your questions for Mister Murdoch in! I want to ask Sarah if she can curl her tongue cos some people can and some people can't, and I dunno, I'm just kind of curious. I want to know if Stuart has an innie or an outie tummy button, if Chris likes sprouts, Richard can pat his head and rub his stomach at the same time. I'd also like to know if Sarah can touch her ears with her feet, again just out of curiosity. I mean, you know, it's a useful skill to have ... That's your lot. I love you, yes ... even you. Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 09:03:26 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:03:26 +0000 Subject: Sinister: an early star catches the...breakfast? Message-ID: <50k7iDAelW40Ewth@elsato97.demon.co.uk> hiya! early morning posting from me 'cos I couldn't be arsed to go into college and I wanted to avoid Spanish today......'ere is a leetle ink polaroid to help you guess why...... Thats me kneeling on the floor there. You can't see my face as I am kinda pread of on the floor, like I was shaloming to my desk or something. The teachers desk is right next to me, and a tape recorder is just to the left of me on the floor, where it fell. My legs are tangled up in orange wire, and there is a chair lying on my head. Yes OK. I wwas getting a chair from the other side of the room, tripped over some wire as i was carryong it back over my head, and fell down and the chair landed on my head. OW. it was painful. I wish I had Columbo videos for Stuey babey. Why is every female of this list in love with Stuey D? Or Stuey M. WHY NOT RICHARD!!!!! perhaps cos no-one has ever seen Richard. Well, i would like to say that Richard 'kicks big-time ass' as a drummer and when he shows himself in public i'm sure he will be a regualr 'beefcake' and 'studmuffin'. (Saying stolen from USA High and Saved By The Bell the first lot, not the 2nd lot who wre just a feeble imitation, even though Saved by the Bell the college years was just a desperate attempt to keep the team together. wat next Saved by the vell the pension queue???) I need help too. What songs can *i* do for the duke? Cornershop? SFA stuff! I have ALL the SFa stuff except for one track on Ankst Radio Cymron session CD (yes i like being anal! i ahve seen much worse in #sinister!)..Gorkys...i have most of their stuff too ecept for the Llanfrowg Ep and Gwenn ni goffen 7"......the best thing i isially put on peoples compilations is this and called Belle and Sebastian. But I think the Duke has songs of their that they aint even written yet. Its far easier doing tapes for Claire. *It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking uuup* And now I am singing Green Days songs. Claire reminds me of Green Day even though none of you know her. :) I might even resort to putting the green day she taped me on Duke Dudes tape.... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Charlotte.Hall at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 09:38:36 1998 From: Charlotte.Hall at xxx.uk (Charlotte Hall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:38:36 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Moi not dead shocker/tears on the train Message-ID: <4E172C40.1272@itps.co.uk> Ahem. In case anyone was worried about him (ha!) my report of Daniel Arap Moi's death was grotesquely exaggerated. And... continuing the thread about public displays of emotion in repsonse to a book, I cried helplessly on the Victoria line reading "Hitler's Willing Executioners". My flatmate Martin takes the whole of IYFS to get ready for work. Is this a record? (Yes, it's a brilliant record.) Charlotte ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 11:25:28 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:25:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Bands Of Old Message-ID: <34E18AA8.2FF3@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Hi, I still have Cd's by Hootie, Crash Test Dummies and Rembrandts and vynils by Bucks Fizz and Shaking Stevens. They helped make my musical tastes what they are today. Currently in my room at uni we are having a Jason Donovan revival, does anybody else feel this way inclined? Thank you for not disgusting the wildlife. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Wed Feb 11 11:56:03 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:56:03 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: still here/B&S moments Message-ID: The return of the beautiful, beautiful madame Charlotte fills me with great joy. I've met her you know. She gave me Nick Drake the Sweetie. Her parents knew him. Isn't that coool? Mother invokes my talk of new favourite B & S moments. * The trumpet solo in my wandering days are over with the lovely strings makes me oh want to jive, bunny. * The start of Slow Graffitti makes me want to stretch. * The bit when Stuart M is spouting utter bollocks on the Beat Patrol thing about wanting to hear how Madness sound on the radio. The poor simpleton. * Sarah's speaky bit on the radio. She's the best voice. It's her birthday tommorow. It's mine next week :( * The drum solos * The guitar solos * Sarah's Bits * The bit when Darth Vader flys * Gay Vader from mr chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 12:52:49 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Boleslaw Tadeusz Szocik) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Fw: belle and sebastian-tiger milk for auction In-Reply-To: <199802101803.MAA20507@mailgw01.execpc.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, AudioPig wrote: > forwarded from the rough trade updates list...thought someone might be > innarested? (hey! email the below address for more info, not me... ;) > > > From: Rough Trade Shop So everyone on the list is on the Rough Trade list then! Now there's a shock. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Wimbledown: n. The fuzz on tennis balls ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 13:18:21 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (The wet trousers of John Prescott) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:18:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Bands Of Old In-Reply-To: <34E18AA8.2FF3@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Richard Anderson wrote: > Hi, > I still have Cd's by Hootie, Never bought any. > Crash Test Dummies Liked "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm", bought the album, didn't like it much. > and Rembrandts Did they do /anything/ other than the Friends theme? And does anyone still remember who sang "Breakfast At Tiffany's"? Into the "Where Are They Now?" file, so young! > and > vynils by Bucks Fizz and Shaking Stevens. They helped make my musical > tastes what they are today. Bucks Fizz were pretty good, but I never much cared for Shakie. Which is strange, cause I think Jimmy Ray's two singles are pretty damn fine. Erm.. pop foibles from my past: first single bought: Tanita Tikaram's "Good Tradition". first CD bought: "Jive Bunny: The Album" (I wanted to buy Sgt.Pepper, but the Asda hypermarket had sold out, so I bought Jive Bunny instead). And my first real fandom was (as already revealed on the list) Betty Boo, who I still love to pieces. Alison Clarkson was her real name, IIRC. Favourite single of all time (at the moment): Deeeeeeeeelite - Groove is in the heart which is just *FANTASTIC* and I always request when I'm at a club. That and Jive Bunny. > Currently in my room at uni we are having a > Jason Donovan revival, does anybody else feel this way inclined? What's he up to these days? Last I heard, he OD'd on heroine at The Viper Rooms, just like Johnny Depp. Shame, cause Ten Good Reasons was an alright album (except there were eleven tracks on it) Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shrimpediment: n. The point on a shrimp's tail that you cannot eat | past ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elzachar at xxx.no Wed Feb 11 13:23:12 1998 From: elzachar at xxx.no (Elisabeth Zachariassen) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:23:12 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Cornershop Message-ID: <199802111323.OAA13354@online.no> Don't suppose anyone has two extra tickets to Cornershop gigs 4-5 March On London? I would give my right arm for one!! Or at least £10! Any good ideas on getting in to a gig that is sold out, I know plent of ways in Norway, so we could swap info..... Elisabeth Z ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 13:31:40 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:31:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Possibilities In-Reply-To: <199802101851_MC2-32CF-80FF@compuserve.com> Message-ID: So did Cherie Blair's dad. On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, David Moore wrote: > No B&S content > > Chris Leonard wrote: > > > Kids - just in case....if you ever start dreaming of Linda > > Bellingham make yourself wake up immediately. Trust me. > > In the Seventies Mrs Oxo Advert Super Housewife Cook & Mother Linda > Bellingham appeared in the soft-porn "Confessions Of A ............., etc." > series. > > Revealing my misspent youth. > > > David Moore > Chelmsford, UK > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 13:45:19 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:45:19 -0000 Subject: Sinister: We're taking over the world... Message-ID: <199802111341.NAA20219@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> We are you know. It seems like I can't step out my front door without tripping over stray sinisterines. (incidentally, "sinisterine" reminds me of "listerine", especially the dragon with haliotosis and Leslie Phillips' voice). Just last night I was out at the Poetry Library on the Southbank, filling in my borrowing form. "I know that name" says the girl behind the desk. "um, I work for the Poetry Society" says I, a little sheepishly. "No, no, you're from the Belle and Sebastian mailing list, aren't you???!!!!" Our celebrity knows no bounds... Meester Meeller wrote: >One other thing: As far as I am aware, no one has repoted back about >Trousers' Big Night Out. How did the Poetry Society regulars react to an >indie-schmindie invasion? Funny you should mention it, as I've just got the ink polaroids back from the developers. It was a terrific night, and in fact we plan to hold a similar event on the first Friday of every month. Come and join us!! Here's a polaroid from the cafe.. >We're all gathered around the scrabble board. In the foreground there is Peter-Peter Opium Eater who >has somehow joined our group. If you look closely you can see a copy of Catcher in the Rye in his >pocket. He has just told Tag "I'd rather be a smackhead than middleclahhhss". You can just about see >the witty retort forming in Tag's mind. To the right, Andy is rubbing his hands together in glee as he >reaps another triple word score. On the left Katrina is trying to persuade James that "rek" is a real word. >In the background David and Susannah are plunging the corkscrew into another bottle of wine. Later that evening I had the latest in my series of list-dreams. I dreamt that I was sharing a bed with Tag, and as he tossed and turned in his sleep, his lily-white legs were glinting in the moonlight. I'm sure it was a dream. Wasn't it? WASN'T IT?? Trousers xxxxxxx The Poetry Society Website: http://www.poetrysoc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 14:06:46 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:06:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Life, The Universe and Everything In-Reply-To: <35KoBoAnhL40Ew9Z@elsato97.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: > > *slips into cheesy advertising lingerie* I'm not sure if that's quite what you meant to say, but it's put a great picture in my head... Edible underwear... Make mine a stilton... I think the best opening line from a book has to be: "In the beginning, the world was created. This has angered a lot of people and been widely regarded as a bad move." Ten Top B&S moments to sum up why I love them (in irrelevant order): * The intro to Mary Jo * Steve Lamacq: "This isn't goth, this is Belle And Sebastian" * "When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing-up..." * "I put my arm around her waist. She put me on the ground with judo." * The moment all the instruments come crashing in after the quiet bit in LLPJ * Anything to do with Ferris Wheels * Donovan Lovedrake * The whole of Sleep The Clock Around at Manchester Town Hall * Chris and the bucket at the matinée * Oh, just everything about them really... The Tall Git Blind dates - just say no! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 14:15:00 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:15:00 -0000 Subject: Sinister: What is Tigermilk? Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F820@RMF1> Hello all, What is Tigermilk? I hear you all mentioning it all the time and I can hear you all scroning me for not knowing - "What is Tigermilk!, How dare he associate himself with Belle & Sebastian without knowing ". I am, however, fairly new on the B&S scene and all I have heard so far is "If your'e feeling sinister" and I know nothing. So plase don't turn your back on me for this and remember no one was born with the knowledge. Any other recommendations would also be apreciated. tata, Huw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2051 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Franzmoz at xxx.it Wed Feb 11 14:11:20 1998 From: Franzmoz at xxx.it (Francesco A.) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:11:20 +0100 Subject: R: Sinister: books Message-ID: <199802111420.OAA29774@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> ---------- > Da: Farty the Warthog > And I don't want to appear like a "lad", but Kate Winslet has got > incredible breasts -- even the girls in our group agreed on that one. > Rod. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I can't understand!!! Why, in heaven, it's wrong to appreciate beautiful, incredible breasts like K.Winslet's? Is it possible that if someone says that he likes girl with big breasts (or big bottoms) or something like that, he must apologize and is froghtened to appear like a "Lad"? I think that it's a typical english-american issue! Here in Italy (as well as in other "mediterranean" countries) if you like a woman's body it's really normal and you aren't afraid to say it. Probably it's the fact that "POLITICALLY-CORRECT" IS THE MOST ABUSED ENGLISH PHRASE? I don't know, but, in my "humble" opinion,,it would be really strange if people weren't attracted from the main aspects of the body of the opposite sex (or even the same one, as long as you like it). Breasts, bottoms, eyes and legs, muscles and so on were made by nature to please and attract other people!!! Isn't it POLITICALLY CORRECT? Sorry, but I had to say it! Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. P.S. I DO agree!!! Kate Winslet is simply fantastic and a really good actress (seen her in "HAMLET"?), and I'm saying it not oly for her breasts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 10:29:20 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:29:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: URGENT Columbo-B&S-bassist-non-sock-Mathis request References: Message-ID: <34E17D80.F2EA1381@dial.pipex.com> Honey wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jonathan Wren wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I am able to meet Mr David's request. > > Seriously, can you send him a video? Or was the word "not" missing > there? I'm sure he'd reimburse and sleep with you etc. as he's desperate > (for a video, not for sex). Whoops. Oh, the perils of e-mailing when drunk. Must learn. Yes, you're right there was a "not" missing. However, if Stuart David wishes to give me money and/or sleep with me, I'd be more than happy! All the best, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 14:52:35 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Herman LeTosser) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re:Opening lines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaz wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, LISA BERRY wrote: > I remember reading one in the Guardian which was: > > `Oh no! Not again.' he thought, opening the dustbin lid and looking out. > > It won a competition once, apparently. Checked me source "The Weirdest Notes & Queries", and the runner up to that competition was: "What are you doing in my bath, playing with the rubber duck?", she screamed. "I'm from the ministry.", he replied. I'd love to know what happened next! Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you were at all offended by this message, please add some of | the following smileys to the text where appropirate: :) :) ;) :P ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Wed Feb 11 14:53:35 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: URGENT Columbo-B&S-bassist-non-sock-Mathis request In-Reply-To: <34E0F5E7.85ED7D62@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jonathan Wren wrote: > Unfortunately, I am able to meet Mr David's request. Just to state the obvious, Jonathan confirmed this morning that drunkenness led to a "not" being omitted above. So we're still desperate for Columbo. Not looking good. Honey xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 14:56:05 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:56:05 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Chris' Bucket Message-ID: <199802110959_MC2-32E1-78C7@compuserve.com> Am I blind? We were a yard away from Chris during the matinee show (my girlfriend insists - she is madly in love) and saw nothing untoward...he did look a bit pasty, though. Did anyone see Nick Hornby's essay on LLPJ on some American website a while back? Very good, a kind of state of the nation thing. By the way, if any of you are Hornby fans, bad news: the new novel's crap! It'll be a lovely film, though. B&S moment: Stuart D's offstage antics during YMMFMD in Barcelona. Such a child! Lots of love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Wed Feb 11 14:49:19 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:49:19 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Bands Of Old In-Reply-To: <34E18AA8.2FF3@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Message-ID: I can't say that I have many bad CD's (Afghan Whigs, maybe? Or some of the Seatlle bands circa 1991-92?), but I have a horrible confession to make. Sarah's notes on Saved by the Bell gave me the courage to say this without fear of being unsubscribed by my fellow listees. Whenever I hear "Like Dylan in the Movies," I see the faint, but definitely recognizable silhouette of James Dean. I never thought much about that association until I paused to reconsider...only to realize that it is not James Dean I see. It is LUKE PERRY, aka Dylan McKay of the popular American television series Beverly Hills, 90210. When I hear "It's not your money that they're after, biy, it's you..." I remember those first Dylan episodes when Brenda and Kelly were both crushie on Mr. McKay. In particular, I think of the episode in which Brenda dyed her hair blonde to attract his attention. Of course, this was long before anyone knew of Dylan's wealth, hence, Brenda and Kelly weren't after his wallet, they were just after his elusive persona. Hiding my Head in the Sand, Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 15:53:34 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (ld returned 1 exit status) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:53:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: What is Tigermilk? In-Reply-To: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F820@RMF1> Message-ID: On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Huw Jenkins wrote: > Hello all, > > What is Tigermilk? There's a description at Stuart David's officialish B&S website. Look there (http://www.totalweb.co.uk/belleandsebastian/) > I hear you all mentioning it all the time and I can > hear you all scroning me for not knowing No, I'm "scroning" at you for attaching those bloody Microsoft files - but that's just a personal preference. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 15:57:03 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:57:03 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Kojak videos wanted Message-ID: <01bd3705$b1e6f7b0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Calling all B+S fans. I'm currently looking for an entire set of videos of the loveable "Bell-end headed" 70's cop star Kojak. If anyone would kindly send me the entire set (nothing less will do), I'll consent to giving them at most 10 minutes of time to talk to me on the phone. That is of course, as long as you phone me... Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 15:52:34 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:52:34 -0000 Subject: Sinister: What is Tigermilk? Message-ID: <01bd3705$119f2b10$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Hello all, > >What is Tigermilk? I hear you all mentioning it all the time and I can >hear you all scroning me for not knowing - "What is Tigermilk!, How dare >he associate himself with Belle & Sebastian without knowing ". I am, >however, fairly new on the B&S scene and all I have heard so far is "If >your'e feeling sinister" and I know nothing. So plase don't turn your >back on me for this and remember no one was born with the knowledge. >Any other recommendations would also be apreciated. > >tata, > >Huw That's OK Huw, quite right, and if anyone turns their back on you for asking a simple question they can fuck off anyway. It's a record. B+S recorded their first album in the middle of 1996, it's great, but they only made 1000 of them cause it was released on Alan Rankine's little label that's set up for Stow College in Glasgow (at least - that's the way I understand it). Currently B+S have the following releases : Tigermilk (record only) (pretty much impossible to get a hold of an original now) If you're feeling Sinister (CD, Cassette, Record) Dog on Wheels EP Lazy Line Painter Jane EP 3, 6, 9 Seconds of Light EP Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 11 11:40:13 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:40:13 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Rod the Mod Message-ID: <01bd36e1$d0fc9e80$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Keith Watson Para: Strange Bed-Fellows Fecha: martes 10 de febrero de 1998 20:19 Asunto: Sinister: Rod the Mod >>Could be worse. Scotland's official Euro'96 anthem was Rod bleedin' >>Stewart. Thank god for Primal Scream & Black Grape's alternative anthems. > > >And what the fuck's wrong with Rod Stewart? > There's nothing wrong with Rod Stewart. I bought two Rod albums about three years ago, for "Maggie May" and "You Wear It Well" respectively. For a long time I thought the rest of it was a bit shit, but a few weeks ago it suddenly dawned on me that they are in fact pretty good. They've got Bob Dylan covers on them, and an excellent version of the flawless song "I'd Rather Go Blind". They are a nice mix of British folk influences and the usual American heritage influences. They're quite sexist and occasionally racist, but that's a fairly minor quibble. At least for right wing extremists such as myself and Northy ~ And there's nice steel guitar on it. I like Teenage Fanclub very much, but I think Rod might just have the edge on them in terms of.....oh dear, I can't think of a suitable word....weightiness. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 11 11:07:39 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:07:39 +0100 Subject: Sinister: The Wednesday Poem Message-ID: <01bd36dd$44c0cbc0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Hopkins in "Q" Bloated drunken turnip. Glad I'm not the Only one to be slightly overweight. Artist from Blackburn Even fatter. Porky the Poet ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 15:51:43 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:51:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: High Fidelity Message-ID: High Fidelity is the best book I've read in ages. It's scary how true to life it is. If nothing else it'll teach you never to end up like Rob Flemming. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 17:25:54 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:25:54 EST Subject: Sinister: Rod the Mod Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-11 12:11:10 EST, Peter said: << I like Teenage Fanclub very much, but I think Rod might just have the edge on them in terms of.....oh dear, I can't think of a suitable word....weightiness. >> this may be an age thing(i'm 37), but Rod Stewart DOES NOT deserve your respect. He put out some very good music at a young age and threw away all critical acclaim to climb on board the disco/power ballad wagon somewhere in the late seventies. I agree that "maggie may" and "you wear it well" are good songs, but he sure has put out a lot of dreck the last twenty years. i feel better now. clem lane nrbqlover at aol.com n.p. velodrome 2000-bobby gillespie is a virgin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 17:34:36 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:34:36 -0800 Subject: Sinister: SF BAY GUARDIAN Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030BFEBE@amerwksnt01.xil.com> Hello hello mes amies! Good news all around, lookie here in the new San Francisco Bay Guardian on page 23 in Johnny Ray Huston's "Out Loud" column!!!! oooh it's BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! whoo hooo Alas more critical praise for our lads and lassies, "IYFS" in particular! I think I like this man Johnny Ray. He makes the "Seeing other People"/ "Peanuts" comparison too, and remarks on "fox in the snow" as a particular favorite. If somebody doesn't beat me to it, I shall very soon copy the article for anyone unfortunate enough to not live in the bay area to read it....But right now am too busy at work... They have a website tho, http://www.sfbg.com, so maybe it will appear there. I just got back from a smashing time in London and I loved it so thanks for asking. Did I tell you I went to this lil club, it was on Berwick Street on Saturday and they played "Like Dylan in the movies"?? I know I couldn't believe it myself. England was so much fun. I went to loads of clubs and shops and restaurants and saw all kinds of interesting things.... hmm I got my photo taken with Ian Brown, I did! I saw various "EastEnders" people and Paul Weller came into my restaurant one night for dinner with his family. Oh I saw Tamara Beckwith too one night, she looked like a ho and I told her so but she just ignored me. she makes me sick. BTW this may be old news, but the whole adoring Catatonia thing - I don't get it. "Mulder and Scully" is complete rubbish. They are at best average, this is only me opinion girls and boys, so please don't deluge me with e-mail trying to convince me of the contrary. Happy to be back on the list, talk to you all again soon! Tarappa the Rapper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 11 17:35:00 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:35:00 +0100 Subject: Sinister: books Message-ID: <01bd3713$6103fec0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Francesco A. Para: B&S mailing Belle & Sebastian Mailing list Fecha: miércoles 11 de febrero de 1998 17:12 Asunto: R: Sinister: books >Here in Italy (as well as in other "mediterranean" countries) if you like a >woman's body it's really normal and you aren't afraid to say it. Northy, you can't fool us by pretending to be Italian! ~ Breasts, bottoms, eyes and legs, muscles and so on were made by nature to >please and attract other people!!! As I live in a "mediterranean" country, I feel it is my duty to go out this evening and express my delight at the "beauty" of the breasts, bottoms, eyes and legs, muscles and so on of anyone unlucky enough to cross my path. "I like your breasts, bottoms!" I will gaily call at passing birds. A special thank you for all the news from the B&S outing at the Poetry Society. I'm quite envious, except for the Scrabble bit. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul.sumner at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 18:12:29 1998 From: paul.sumner at xxx.uk (paul.sumner at xxx.uk) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:12:29 GMT Subject: Sinister: You made me forget your names... Message-ID: <980211181229.20438828@heaton.unn.ac.uk> Hi everyone! This must be an unusual request on this list, but can anyone tell me the names of the band?!!! (I'm one of these bandwagon-jumping "new" fans who doesn't even own Tigermilk!) And I've never seen their names on any of the records...I know about Stuart Murdoch, Stevie Jackson on guitar and Stuart David, but could anyone fill me in on who the rest of them are? Cheers, Paul PS Does anyone here like The Jam? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 17:31:19 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:31:19 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Rod the Mod Message-ID: <01bd3712$dd41add0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >And there's nice steel guitar on it. I like Teenage Fanclub very much, but I >think Rod might just have the edge on them in terms of.....oh dear, I can't >think of a suitable word....weightiness. I think Rod's made some splendid records over the years - Rod's biggest fault I'd have said is his inability to notice the fact that many of the songs he wrote/co-wrote are better than the dross he chooses to cover so often. "Every picture tells a story" is a lovely album, although there's never really been an album to match that (you'll excuse me if I can't comment on his eighties offerings), but I'd say even through the years he's had a load of good singles, "The killing of Georgie" is dead, as is "I was only joking" which for Rod the lad who shags the blonds is quite an admission of insecurity. I am the only person I've met so far who can see shades of "Do you think I'm sexy" in the intro to the Roses "I wanna be adored". And there's even numerous good singles throughout the 80's. Anyone agree? Tim Hopkins perhaps? :-) I'm off home now, Take care, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From krivas at xxx.gov Wed Feb 11 18:23:44 1998 From: krivas at xxx.gov (Kimberly Rivas-Plata) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:23:44 -0500 Subject: Sinister: what's that beeping? Message-ID: Rosie O'Begbie wrote: And does anyone still remember who sang "Breakfast At Tiffany's"? Into the "Where Are They Now?" file, so young! that would have to be Deep Blue Something. saw them opening for Letters to Cleo once, bunch of pretty boys from Texas (no offense to any Texans on the list). favorite b&s moment: when Stuart M. almost slightly laughs on _modern rock song_ when singing "so I'll leave them to do what they want...." at least it sounds like a stifled laugh to me... whatever happened to the lemurs? I have a hydroencephalic (sp?) mouse that could make a good b&s mascot, though he's slightly retarded - but still darn cute! ttfn- Kim -------------------------------- Yeah, I want some cheesy poofs! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 18:37:38 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Make love not war In-Reply-To: <980210203656.n0008441.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Message-ID: > but Do have a spare copy of 'Obsession' by Animotion I can spare. > i've no answer, or whatever it was you wanted (have just deleted rest of your mail) but i'd imagine i'm alone in still beleving that that was a wonderful record. love, espadrille> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 18:47:54 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:47:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: An Unoffical Wednesday Poem In-Reply-To: <01bd36dd$44c0cbc0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: a brief poem, circa 1996.... ********* "karaoke" read this poem to your friends. ******** (enjoy!) espadrille ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Funkyseb at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 19:28:48 1998 From: Funkyseb at xxx.com (Funkyseb at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:28:48 EST Subject: Sinister: (NBSC) It's good to write Message-ID: <447cac52.34e1fbf2@aol.com> Sorry if this is a bit old, but having ploughed through 200 e-mails I'm going to have my say. (sorry!) I wrote to Belle and Sebastian a while ago, and I sent them a picture of 3 year old me (Sebastian) with my doggie of the time (Belle). I didn't hear anyting though. Oh dear, I hope they didn't take the piss. Katrina, did you see it? I sent it to Jeepster,I thought it was very sweet. I wrote a poem to Henry Kelly too once, but he never answered; oh well, it's a busy life, I s'pose. Claire wrote: < I am just insane or do other -----Original Message----- De: Nrbqlover at aol.com Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 11 de febrero de 1998 19:34 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Rod the Mod >In a message dated 98-02-11 12:11:10 EST, Peter said: > ><< I like Teenage Fanclub very much, but I > think Rod might just have the edge on them in terms of.....oh dear, I can't > think of a suitable word....weightiness. >> > >this may be an age thing(i'm 37), but Rod Stewart DOES NOT deserve your >respect. He put out some very good music at a young age and threw away all >critical acclaim to climb on board the disco/power ballad wagon somewhere in >the late seventies. I agree that "maggie may" and "you wear it well" are good >songs, but he sure has put out a lot of dreck the last twenty years. > I wouldn't normally abuse the list by defending Rod's honour, but I'm trying to send a big huge message, so I've got time on my hands. First of all, congratulations on reaching the ripe old age of 37. I'm 29. To be honest I'm not sure if Rod has got my respect, but these two records certainly have. I listened to them today to make sure, and they are good, and very weighty. I think Rod himself is always (mistakenly) the forst to say that his disco efforts are shit. Everybody ddid disco when disco was big, I don't know why, but there it is. "Baby Jane" is also quite good, although I haven't got it. I also enjoyed his "Unplugged" outing, with his "old mucker" Ronnie Wood. He has also done a lot to popularise Tom Waits, whether or not that is a good thing I don't know, but I might try to find out. As for power ballads, I suppose "Sailing" has to be included there. I like it. It reminds me of thousands of people singing "We are Derby, We are Derby, Derby County, Super Rams!", and whether or not it's chronologically correct, I like to think that coincided with the riegn of "King" Charlie George at the sadly defunct Baseball Ground. MIke Brolly just isn't a romantic enough figure. Also, it reminds me of all the lads on the Ark Royal. I can't think of anything else to add to this feeble defence of Rod Stewart, but my message still hasn't gone. I think Rod Stewart is better than Elton John. He used to spend a pound a week on his hair, which is more than can be said for Elton. And I think he must have inspired Stuart Murdoch's leopardskin trousers. And he has the most amazing breasts, bottoms. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 20:06:51 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:06:51 -0800 Subject: Sinister: nme/enemy Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C2096@amerwksnt01.xil.com> Somebody's (Rod?) trousers wrote: > and Rembrandts >>Did they do /anything/ other than the Friends theme? Yes yes they had a minor "hit" with a far less annoying tune way before that - here in america anyway - "That's just the way it is baby". URRRGH that Friends theme is one of the worst ever!!! It sounds like a Rutles cover band to me. or something. >>And does anyone still remember who sang "Breakfast At Tiffany's"? Into the "Where Are They Now?" file, so young! That would be Deep Blue Something (or more appropriately Deep Brown Something, har har) and they are relegated to the "Where are they now?" history bin with good reason. They were crap. >>What's he up to these days? Last I heard, he OD'd on heroine at The Viper Rooms, just like Johnny Depp. NO NO NO darling you've got it all wrong!! Johnny Depp owns the club, 'twas River Phoenix who OD'd. Ah River was so lovely, I had such a crush on him. The way he was so into animal rights and whatnot.....Then when he overdosed, people were like, "What? He couldn't have done drugs, he was a vegetarian!" like that makes a difference or something. I met this boy on New Years Eve, who looked just like River circa "Stand By Me" only the boy was from iceland, which made him slightly cooler. And the fact that he wasn't dead like River made him more appealing too...... I'm sorry for all these corrections and stuff, I hate that I'm so picky but can't help it... did anybody ever read "Sassy" a few years back? one of their glossary terms was "smitty" : someone really anal who is always correcting others etc. I guess that's me, eek! Talking about cheesy shows like "BH90210" ... I guess I can admit to a "Party of Five" addiction. Does anybody else notice that, with her new haircut, Claudia looks exactly like Bernard Butler?!!?! anyway here's some belle content. One of my favorite lines goes something like "the only thing keeping me here til spring is the promise of happiness in a certain person"(?) The NME has something about "B&S being far too boring" to be part of a Europop revival, in an article on that "Barbie girl" band. What's their damage?? Such pointless slagging.... anyway there's the end of my pointless missive.... "tonight, matthew, I will be Mariah Carey" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Wed Feb 11 20:18:20 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:18:20 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Shortly sweet Message-ID: <34E20787.296E@pop.nci.nih.gov> hello all: i promise this post will have at least 1 smidge of B&S content. to vouch for what kim so sweetly told us: " I have a hydroencephalic (sp?) mouse that could make a good b&s mascot, though he's slightly retarded - but still darn cute!" big head todd would make a great mascot cos he loves oranges and is a cutie pie. i even touched him. (ooer) fav. b&s mo: in "my wandering days are over" it's sung "my bip bopping days are over" doesn't it sound like "my pill popping days are over" ? (ah well ... must be the overwhelming amounts of chloroform that have affected my mind) over & out, -thaian (stinky monchichi) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Wed Feb 11 18:47:19 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:47:19 +0000 Subject: Sinister: the Sarah who always posts posts again...... Message-ID: Hello Sinisterines/Sinisterettes.... may i say how lovely it was to talk to Lisa on chat today! She called me the Sarah who always posts. I don't know why, I just have this compulsive urge to write stuff to a load of strangers oh lord am I really that bad??? heck! I *do* have a point, I've jut forgotten it. Oh yes. The Rod Stuart Debate. That reminds me. Los Manicos covered a song called 'Stay With Me'. its really cheesey power rock stuuf, ace to sing when drunk and really hilarious. After singing it very loudly round Preston, to my intense shame and horror (also explaining my shaved head) I looked up who first did that song on the 'net and it was only.... Rod 'do you want my body, don't you know I'm SIXTY!!!' Stuart!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I hope at least you wouldn't catch Belle and Sebastian catching me out with something like that, I'm sure their covers would only be of the exqisite taste! Like the ambassadors reception perhaps!!!!! maybe. ok then. Adios mis amigos!!!!! lovehearts and stars and fanzines Sarah ********************************* FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! 1 9 Westfield Drive, Warton Preston, Lancs PR4 1ED ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 00:18:36 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:18:36 EST Subject: Sinister: nme/enemy Message-ID: <9526e6d.34e23fe5@aol.com> heehee, although i have absolutely nothing to say, i would just like to add that i thoroughly enjoyed reading your vibrant comments about this and that. cool. fab. regards, yunsung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From greggo at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 00:43:36 1998 From: greggo at xxx.com (Gregg Ogorzelec) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:43:36 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Tape traders Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From joss at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 01:01:37 1998 From: joss at xxx.com (Joss Moorkens) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 98 19:01:37 CST Subject: Sinister: B&S in Dublin Message-ID: <199802120059.AAA25945@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Someone wrote th'following: Anyway we got around to chatting about B&S and she said sh had been in touch with Jeepster and she seemed to think that the band were playing over here in May. Is this true?? It looks as if there may be some B&S action in dublin, but not until the summer. July or something. At least from what I hear. joss ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Message-ID: <199802120101.RAA14255@taurus.oac.uci.edu> hullo boys and girls, i was just reading an article about two ladies who find music for movies... bascially, they get to read the script to movies and try and fit certain songs for certain scenes etc... so, it got me thinking...if you were to put a soundtrack together to represent your short or long life...which 12 songs would you put on it? i know it's quite hard to put 12 songs to your life..no hard thinking required, whatever comes to your mind is fine...to make it, belle and sebastian-like, try and incorporate as many b&s songs into your soundtrack! here is michi's soundtrack: (in no particular order) i wrote some of the lyrics down to reflect on the life that i've lead...(quite sad one that is..) 1-) put the book back on the shelf: belle and sebastian: you came to dance, but there's no poignancy when they all leave you standing alone... 2-)mary jo, belle and sebastian: life is never dull in your dreams.... 3-)boy(girl) done wrong again: hang your head in shame and cry your life away, what is it i must do to pay for all my crimes? 4-)get me away from here, i'm dying: the title is self-explanatory. 5-)hawaiian baby: spinanes: it's my heart but it doesn't fit yours...(always happens to me, can't reciprocate my feelings back to whomever is madly in love with me...am i too picky?) 6-)corcovado: astrud gilberto: i was lost and lonely, believing life was only a bitter tragic joke i found with you..the meaning of existence.... 7-)preciso decir que te amo: bebel gilberto and cazuza: to lose or to win, with no chances, i must say i love you. 8-)refractions in the plastic pulse: stereolab: i need someone intoxicating and strong.. 9-)inner city life: goldie, big city lover: dj krush. (i've always been suited for city life. although, it is quite impossible to live that way in a suburban pink utopia.) 10-)i miss you: bjork: i miss you but i haven't met you yet... 11-)ask: the smiths: shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to...(i'm incredibly shy.) 12-)good cop, bad cop: everything but the girl: i know it's wrong to feel this way, i know it's wrong i know it's bad, to only see what isn't there, to want and want and never have, but you know there's more to me now don't you? you'll always cover for me, won't you? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jrbia at xxx.br Thu Feb 12 01:50:42 1998 From: jrbia at xxx.br (Junior/Fabiana) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:50:42 -0300 Subject: Sinister: Some roads are only seen at night... Message-ID: <199802120112.BAA05123@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Candy, I can't be the man they want me to be. Maybe it was only with you that I could be me. And I can't keep lying all the time. I know you'll find a better man, they're all too easy to find. And I'll just go away, slowly lose my mind.... Those days are gone. You and I were young, those summer nights. You'll see the world diving for a girl you'll never find. And then we'll quietly grow old: the saddest story ever told. I know that you were never young and you probably won't get old but honey nobody's gonna hurt you anymore. And nobody's gonna make you wanna die again. Some people don't believe in dying. But some of us don't believe in life. And you, you look like Heaven. An angel who stepped from a dream. 777 times lovelier than anything i've ever seen. All the umbrellas in London couldn't stop this rain. And all the dope in New York couldn't kill this pain. And all the money in Tokio couldn't make me stay. All the umbrellas in London couldn't stop this rain. You may be cruel and unkind in every way. Thinking of ways to hurt me all night and day. But you're so beautiful...But you're so beautiful, it makes me want to cry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ELA97SDT at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 03:41:12 1998 From: ELA97SDT at xxx.uk (Stoo) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:41:12 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re:Sinister Tape Traders Message-ID: <3BF1BD1B35@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> >Does anyone know anything about a band called Radio Sweethearts?I >believe they're from Scotland. The Radio Sweethearts are a sort of country/pop type band.All I know of them are a few songs on the album "Shoeshine Chartbusters",a compilation of singles on shoeshine records.Also featured are Frank Blake(Norman Blake & Francis McDonald),Alex Chilton and Speedboat. Stoo "You can never quarantine the past"- S.Malkmus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 04:01:57 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:01:57 EST Subject: Sinister: Radio Sweethearts Message-ID: <2a71358d.34e27437@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-11 22:43:31 EST, you write: >> Does anyone know anything about a band called Radio Sweethearts?I believe they're from Scotland. >> i've got a full-length by them called "New Memories" that came out on St. Roch Records here in the US of A and Shoeshine in the UK . The band features the illustrious Francis Macdonald on drums and vocals and the rest of the band include: John Miller, vocals/acoustic guitar Martin Hayward, bass Brian Taylor, electric guitar John McCusker, fiddle/mandolin Malcolm McMaster, pedal steel the record was produced by Kim Fowley and as previously mentioned, it's more country than anything else. Francis Macdonald has three tracks on it. clem lane nrbqlover at aol.com n.p. playhouse-always jumping ep ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From suzsch at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 10:15:39 1998 From: suzsch at xxx.net (Suzanne Schroeder) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 04:15:39 -0600 Subject: Sinister: sinister-notes from the minister Message-ID: <199802121016.EAA07609@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:49:19 -0600 (CST) > From: Schaffenberger > Subject: Re: Sinister: Bands Of Old > until I paused to reconsider...only to realize that it is not James Dean > I see. It is LUKE PERRY, aka Dylan McKay of the popular American > television series Beverly Hills, 90210. When I hear "It's not your money > that they're after, biy, it's you..." I remember those first Dylan > episodes when Brenda and Kelly were both crushie on Mr. McKay. In > particular, I think of the episode in which Brenda dyed her hair blonde > to attract his attention. Of course, this was long before anyone knew of > Dylan's wealth, hence, Brenda and Kelly weren't after his wallet, they > were just after his elusive persona. Yeah, but Luke Perry is a big bomb in every film he has ever made. I keep seeing Bob Dylan everytime I hear those lyrics which is completely bizarre since I'm guessing his acting is no better than his singing...if he was to ever star in a film. Here's my bizarre theory 'coz I want to go into a bizarre tagent. It's 4 in the morning and, well.... The drugs could have made him paranoid hence why they're singing "don't look back" and he has made a score, (because he;'s in the park and you know that the park is the best place to buy drugs since kids like to do hits in between games) but some hoodlums decide they want to run after him and take him down, yet Bob doesn't know why or what to do. Does he get rid of the money and distract them while he tries to get away? No, because they want to beat the shit out of him personally for making that MTV unplugged album. If he looks back, then it would be like the biblical story where the girl turns into a pillar of salt. And then he will go blowing in the wind. And the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. thanks for letting me get that off my chest. yours, Suzanne ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Mark.Howson at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 12:38:17 1998 From: Mark.Howson at xxx.uk (Mark Howson) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:38:17 +0000 Subject: Sinister: sinister-notes from the minister In-Reply-To: <199802121016.EAA07609@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980212123817.006e9d08@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> At 04:15 AM 2/13/98 -0600, you wrote: >I keep seeing Bob Dylan everytime I hear those lyrics which is completely >bizarre since I'm guessing his acting is no better than his singing...if he >was to ever star in a film. He has starred in films, hasn't he? In fact, he was in a film called 'Don't look back', as well as some others I can't remember. Ummm... title sounded like a cowboy film...errr... [Have I missed the point here? Hope not] >The drugs could have made him paranoid hence why they're singing "don't >look back" and he has made a score, (because he;'s in the park and you >know that the park is the best place to buy drugs since kids like to do >hits in between games) but some hoodlums decide they want to run after him >and take him down, yet Bob doesn't know why or what to do. Does he get >rid of the money and distract them while he tries to get away? No, because >they want to beat the shit out of him personally for making that MTV >unplugged album. If he looks back, then it would be like the biblical >story where the girl turns into a pillar of salt. And then he will go >blowing in the wind. And the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. I prefer that explanation though. Much better. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 14:17:51 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:17:51 -0000 Subject: Sinister: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Message-ID: <01BD37C1.0219C120@pc07628> Stuart Gardiner wrote : On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: >=20 > *slips into cheesy advertising lingerie* >I'm not sure if that's quite what you meant to say, but it's put a great >picture in my head... Edible underwear... Make mine a stilton... Ah, Oh great gangly one, but a Stilton what ? A stilton suspender belt perhaps ?mmmmmm.... With Gorgonzola G-string or Brie-Basque?...maybe ? Also Ruth McCurry wrote : >Did anyone see Nick Hornby's essay on LLPJ on some American >website a while back? Very good, a kind of state of the nation thing. >By the way, if any of you are Hornby fans, bad news: the new novel's >crap! It'll be a lovely film, though. What's it called ? I thought the first one was a pile of piss, compared to Fever pitch...(even without my obvious Gooner bias). He should stick to footie writing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ah6991 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 14:21:43 1998 From: ah6991 at xxx.uk (AD Hillmann, FV37) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Videos Message-ID: Hey People with websites (and Jeepster esp), how about putting the ep videos onto websites so that those of us unlucky enough not to have mtv can have a look? (Or are there size/legal problems?) It's only fair, the rest of us need to catch up, and we could do this before people spend extortionate amounts of money on swapping videos... Just a Thought, Love Adam ps if this was mentioned already i'm sorry - and about five days behind the digests. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 14:33:13 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:33:13 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Who loves ya baby Message-ID: <01bd37c3$264cce00$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Incidentally list people... The bit about Kojak was a joke... I was just tekkin the piss a bit, Paul told me some people were talking about getting Kojak videos, please don't waste your time! Only a joke, sorry. It's probably on Cable anyway - or Telly! :-) hahah haarrr poor jokes. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 15:03:03 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:03:03 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re: The soundtrack of your life Message-ID: <12AD0A77EC@MAINCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Warning!!!! Pretentious tosh alert!!!!Feel free to delete without reading!!! 12 songs to represent my life.....let me think..... My life is dull, boring and sad so here we are : 1. 4st 7lb - Manic Street Preachers : "I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity", "Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse" (The most beautiful lyrics ever written - Richey be happy wherever you are) 2.Creep - Radiohead : "What the hell am I doing here when I don't belong here?" (Ever had the feeling that you just shouldn't be here?) 3.Judy And The Dream Of Horses - B&S : "Walking the street from morning till night", "..never felt so good except when she was sleeping" (......living in dreams all the time.....) 4.Motown Junk - Manics : "Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop the rain", "21 years of living and nothing means anything to me" (I was SO happy when they played this at Brixton Academy) 5.Put The Book Back On The Shelf - B&S : "You'll have to pay for staring at the floor when people talk to you" (Cos I'm shy too...) 6. Lazy Line Painter Jane - B&S (HAPPY at the Union Chapel gig!) 7.Pictures Of You - The Cure : "...screamed at the make-believe, screamed at the sky and you finally found the courage to let it all go" (...nice lyrics...) 8.New Dawn Fades - Joy Division : "..mistakes were made I took the blame. Directionless, so plain to see, a loaded gun won't set you free, so they say" (Got me through a bad patch...) 9. I Am A Rock - Simon And Garfunkel :"I have my books and my poetry to protect me" (Self-explanatory...) 10.Strange Days - The Doors (Cos they are...) 11.Rollercoaster - Red House Painters : "Reminding me I'll never be able to relive those days except in memory" (......remembering.....) 12.Too Cold Here - Manics : "10 years of bleeding inside", "Sometimes the mind is the smallest prison of all" (....nice lyrics again...) 13. Talk To Me - Tindersticks: "In a hall of mirrors, you get sick of yourself" (Just like this song.....) Um...that turned into 13 not 12. Now you probably think Im a freak and will ban me from the list or something. Im not THAT bad - honest!!! Lots of love from Lisa xxx (Vowing never to post anything this crap or long EVER again!!!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Thu Feb 12 15:03:37 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Chat NEWS Message-ID: Yes folks that's B&S NEWS. Sort of. For all you chatters I've finally confirmed everything with Captain Murdoch. There will be a B&S CHAT on Thursday 12th March 1997 at 2pm GMT. Details to follow - please read them or it will be a horror. Basically you will have to join two rooms, called #Sinister and #JeepsterRecords on the IRC server chat.virgin.net. The rooms exist now (#Sinister is private so you won't see it in the rooms/channel lists but BELIEVE) so please go along and play if you want to stand a chance of joining in. You will need a chat client like Global Chat or mIRC that can handle two rooms at once. Some instructions on my WWW page, probably better on David's fan club page. Any questions about chat please direct to Delectable David not me. Also - to not disappoint people some band members (probably the Stuarts) will pop in on the previous date, Thursday 26th Feb but at 6 PM - seems like a stab at a good time for all. Not for an organised chat, probably (although I reserve the right to try it for 2 mins if I feel perky), but for a scrum. So thats: 6pm Thursday 26th February: B&S bunfight 2pm Thursday 12th March: B&S chat Finally am about to forward all the email questions to the band. Any more mail me within an hour of getting this message. Can't wait to see the answers to some - if I was asked I would slap the questioner with my handbag. Honey P xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 23:13:41 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:13:41 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: videos (and tape trading) Message-ID: <34E38225.321E@yahoo.com> Sinister: Videos AD Hillmann, FV37 (ah6991 at bristol.ac.uk) Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:21:43 +0000 (GMT) >Hey People with websites (and Jeepster esp), how about putting the ep >videos onto websites so that those of us unlucky enough not to have mtv >can have a look? >(Or are there size/legal problems?) ha, got it in one! i had 15 seconds or so of 'dog on wheels' digitised and viewable but it was 2Mbytes in size. the 2 minutes of 'llpj' i had was 8Mbytes*. even this large the quality was rather poor. there's also the actual job of getting hold of the things in the first place - i was lucky to catch the snippets i have. there are stills on the website but no moving stuff. (*i know, i could never figure out what i did to the second video to get it to have twice the compression factor of the first...) >It's only fair, the rest of us need to catch up, and we could do this >before people spend extortionate amounts of money on swapping videos... but money spent on videos / music must be disposable income anyway so what does it matter what you spend it on. if it's not disposable income and should be spent on food or bills or whatever then you are stupid. oh, and another thing, i go and offer to partner tigermilkless people up with people willing to do copies and people still post requests to the list. why? haven't you people read the archives? dumbasses. the offer still stands btw. currently i have 2 people in england wanting copies and 3 people in the states(?) and one in thailand (hi!) willing to do copies. send me (me, koogydelbbog at yahoo.com) your name and location if you want to be added. just keep the requests off the list, ok? (leslie, gez, your tapes went off this morning, bajinder, yours will go off on saturday, nathan - yours is done but not enveloped yet, maybe tomorrow) have fun at snow patrol tonight those of you who are going. reports tomorrow would be nice. oh, and tag, that wasn't my sobriety i was proving but my advanced intellect. 8) besides, i was in a team with the smackhead so i guess it balanced out. one of the words he suggested was 'aquaern' which would have been good, 7 letters and all, an extra 50 points. if only it existed... 8) andy am i fluffy enough for yer? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mjm97 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 15:19:44 1998 From: mjm97 at xxx.uk (MATTHEW JON MILLER) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:19:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980212151944.00950650@pophost.aber.ac.uk> If I remember correctly Bob Dylan has appeared in the odd film or two - a version of Billy the Kid (the significance of 'Don't look back perhaps...?) and, more recently, Hearts of Fire which was simply terrible. Cheeerie-bye, Mat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Thu Feb 12 13:51:43 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:51:43 +0100 Subject: Sinister: baby boom Message-ID: <01bd37bd$59f1b000$ad4c05c3@itjfvkli> Not much action on the list today, is there? I've just been checking out the baby photos on the list. It's like a showdown between Little House on the Prairie and Just William. What is Tag doing in Megan's picture? Paul, I like your house, or is it a school? Who would have thought that you would grow into a badly drawn man? Nothing else to say. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 16:04:54 1998 From: I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk (Mcburnie) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:04:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: RE: Old Bands Message-ID: Jason Donovan????????? Piss off!!!!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Thu Feb 12 16:00:02 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:00:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: baby boom In-Reply-To: <01bd37bd$59f1b000$ad4c05c3@itjfvkli> Message-ID: On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, PJMiller wrote: > Not much action on the list today, is there? > > I've just been checking out the baby photos on the list. It's like a > showdown between Little House on the Prairie and Just William. What is Tag > doing in Megan's picture? Paul, I like your house, or is it a school? Who > would have thought that you would grow into a badly drawn man? Alright, sod it, the baby pictures are at: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/minipeople for everyone's amusement. There's an embarrassing number of HoneyPics that I was going to cut back on - must get down to 20 a day - but didn't get a clear view of which would win the cute toddler photo and couldn't think of anything to do with them all. So here they are for anyone very bored, and please send in more, particularly of the band if you're out there and listening. Oh yeah and votes to someone for the cutest baby/toddler picture. Not to me as I'm biassed. Say to: Linda, who is so shy she has never posted to the list. She's on L.Kerr at hw.ac.uk and awaits your votes. She should be able to fiddle the figures for me. HoneyBaby xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9607129h at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 16:20:54 1998 From: 9607129h at xxx.uk (Neil Hargreaves) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:20:54 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Ros the Mod and the Detectives Message-ID: <21EF9040FF8@lms.student.gla.ac.uk> I think Rod Stewart absolutely *does* deserve our respect our at least our admiration. At the start he was Godlybrilliant and the way he's ended up now is .... well listen Most everyone who was ever anything in music then is a sad balding rocker now but so what? Do we think we'd have been (or will be) any different. In fact I think it sows that at least the mans human. Its sort of poiniant in happysadnostalgia kind of way.... Also I need your help settling a long running dispute... Quicy or Coulumbo. Does Q's crusading attract or repel you? Do you love our hate the C Mans bumbling sctick? Can you trust a coroner who plays that muck poker? Or a detective that never washed? Do you find (as one not unattractive female accomplice of mine does) Quincy 'a bit of a shagmuffin'? Do we care? Are ther anyfans of the lawyer guy who was in Vanishing Points series thi nger (what was his name?) Oh by the way we can't be nice to each other all the time. Sometimes list feels like its being presided overe by the secret pleasantness police. Can we not allow people a bit of passion?You know someone is your freind when you can disagree with them and slag them off without them getting upstet yeah. bye,bye neil H ------------------------------------------------- " despite myself at times well i have felt not in the mood for any of this..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 16:26:47 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:26:47 -0000 Subject: Sinister: The Wednesday Poem, one day late Message-ID: <199802121643.QAA10860@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Peter 'Windy' Miller saw fit to regale us with the following: >Hopkins in "Q" >Bloated drunken turnip. >Glad I'm not the >Only one to be >slightly overweight. >Artist from Blackburn >Even fatter. Then he say: >I wouldn't normally abuse the list by defending Rod's honour, but I'm trying >to send a big huge message, so I've got time on my hands. Here for Thursday are some haikus for you all: Constipated Pete Strains to send big huge 'message'. No luck: full of shit Cloth ears P. Miller Loves chirpy Jockney Rod, and Hawkwind. Is he deaf? Miller loves Isaac Hayes because he makes Pete feel Good about balding. Hope you like them ;-) Tim PS thanks koogy and star ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 17:34:42 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:34:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: has everybody gone home? Message-ID: so where is everybody? don't tell me the sudden burst of poetry (including my brief contribution) scared them all off. and just when i'd got used to nearly 100 messages a day. but nevermind. (and the best-opening-to-a-novel strand seems to have come to an end as well: my only contribution to general chatter over so soon. sigh. well, ttfn, espadrille ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com Thu Feb 12 16:51:13 1998 From: Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO at notesgw.compuserve.com (Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB) Date: 12 Feb 98 16:51:13 Subject: Sinister: Rubbish band / B&S moments Message-ID: <9802121742.AA4327@notesgw.compuserve.com> Tara Widmer wrote.... >>And does anyone still remember who sang "Breakfast At Tiffany's"? >>Into the "Where Are They Now?" file, so young! >That would be Deep Blue Something (or more appropriately Deep Brown >Something, har har) and they are relegated to the "Where are they now?" >history bin with good reason. They were crap. They were indeed. Dennis Pennis introduced their appearance on Top of the Pops with "When they hear the phrase 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' most people think of the old film starring Audrey Hepburn. After hearing this band, they still will." Made me laugh anyway. More B&S moments: * When the Isobel gets heckled by her own band during her spoken word bit at the end of the R1 session version of 'I Could Be Dreaming' and she gets all uppety and demands "What did you say? What are you saying to me?" Sounds like the whole thing could kick off quite nastily. * 'We Rule The School': Just the way Stuart Murdoch sounds like he's carrying the weight of our whole world on his slender shoulders. This questions for Stuart Murdoch thing - no one seems to have been posting serious questions. Are we all afraid of sounding like pseuds or getting flippant answers? I know I am. Nick nickdastoor at yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 17:48:01 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:48:01 -0800 Subject: Sinister: "sexy" roses, sad lyrics Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C38C9@amerwksnt01.xil.com> A.M. Horne wrote: >>I am the only person I've met so far who can see shades of "Do you think I'm sexy" in the intro to the Roses "I wanna be adored". Oh dear I don't think I'll ever be able to listen to that Roses song ever again in the same way! >>here is michi's soundtrack: (in no particular order) i wrote some of the lyrics down to reflect on the life that i've lead...(quite sad one that is..) Gosh, I wanted to cry reading your chosen lyrics... Cheer up, it can't be all that bad! WE love you! Do the band still read this? If so I would like to take the opportunity to personally invite all of them to lunch or tea or whatever when they come to San Francisco on their tour. (You WILL be coming here, I suppose? it's imperative. this city loves you) It is the very least I could do to show my appreciation for the many hours of joy their music has brought me, hehe. okay enough of my blethering, t. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mike at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 18:29:51 1998 From: mike at xxx.uk (Mike Newman) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:29:51 GMT Subject: Sinister: sinister-notes from the minister In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980212123817.006e9d08@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: Mark Howson wrote: > He has starred in films, hasn't he? > > In fact, he was in a film called 'Don't look back', as well as some others > I can't remember. Ummm... title sounded like a cowboy film...errr... > Yep, apart from the dreadful "Hearts of Fire" (see previous post), he was in Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973ish), which was an OK western where he didn't do/say much, and the amazing "Don't Look Back" (1965) directed by D.A.Pennebaker. A supposedly "fly on the wall" documentary made on his last acoustic-only tour of the UK. Is he playing up to the camera? You decide. He made another film the following year with Pennebaker, which is more honest (Bob throwing up on John Lennon in a taxi), but it never made it to the silver screen...bootlegs have surfaced under the title "Eat The Document". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the TRAUMATONE/Great Northern Electrics/Bacchanalian Revel homepage: http://www.geocities.com/~greatnorthern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mike at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 18:29:50 1998 From: mike at xxx.uk (Mike Newman) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:29:50 GMT Subject: Sinister: sinister-notes from the minister In-Reply-To: <199802121016.EAA07609@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: Suzanne Schroeder wrote: > I keep seeing Bob Dylan everytime I hear those lyrics which is completely > bizarre since I'm guessing his acting is no better than his singing...if he > was to ever star in a film. He did....his acting wasn't great, despite the fact he was playing an aging rock star (Hearts of Fire, 1985ish). Sorry, can't agree about his singing though.... Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the TRAUMATONE/Great Northern Electrics/Bacchanalian Revel homepage: http://www.geocities.com/~greatnorthern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Wed Feb 11 18:37:07 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:37:07 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Make love not war References: <199802102143.WAA14964@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <34E1EFD3.30DA@seahouses.u-net.com> 'Perfection As A Hipster' wrote: > Whatever, only wanted to mention that the mail at issue is much more welcome > than thoughtless and destructive comments containing more swear words than > sentences ... what gives you the right to slag off fellow listees ? > > You are free to use the delete button whenever certain names appear in the > header, which reminds me that I've opened your mail by accident. Oi you don't slag off my mate Susie, she's bloody grate! And Northy and his mate weren't. JJ xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kmdep at xxx.edu Thu Feb 12 19:54:47 1998 From: kmdep at xxx.edu (Keara Manning Depenbrock) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:54:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: sinister: dylan in the movies Message-ID: last month there was a old documentary film about bob dylan playing in new york called "don't look back". i'm pretty sure that is where the line came from. i wish i had seen it. it's supposed to be good. keara d. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 20:06:32 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:06:32 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Article in SFBG Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C392D@amerwksnt01.xil.com> "Alone Together" by Johnny Ray Huston San Francisco Bay Guardian Feb 11-17 1998 Faced with the plight of Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles basically said, "Poor gal, what a pity". But when Stuart Murdoch sings about similar solitary souls on the title track of Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister, he understands their predicament - he's lived it. The success of Murdoch's band illustrates a classic rock and roll irony: misfit popularity. As the indie herd celebrates Belle and Sebastian, and writers endorse them in this week's Village Voise Pazz and Jop Critics' Poll, it's worth trying to convey why they're special. Because they definitely are. When I first played "IYFS" last summer, it didn't meet my expectations. I'd read and heard that Murdoch sang smart love songs about guys and girls, so I figured I'd relate to his lyrics. But the first thing that struck me was Belle and Sebastian's restraint. I was too busy likening the melody of "Seeing Other People" to the Peanuts theme to learn a lesson from the song's actual theme: the gap between what people say/do and think/feel in a romantic dilemma. Luckily, when a friend lent me the CD a month ago, my comparison-crazed rock-critic mind shut up and allowed me to listen. This time around, I felt the songs immediately and connected them with myself and a few guys I know -- guys who walk their own difficult path instead of chasing the commercial-sexual rainbow of lifestyle options (from drag-queen femininity to gym-queen masculinity) offered by the gay community. Still, is B&S's only audience were homo-misfits, they'd be mighty obscure; one of Murdoch's gifts is an ability to connect his particular experience with that of other people. Or, as he puts it in "The Boy Done Wrong Again," "All I wanted was to sing the saddest song/And if you would sing along, I would be happy now." Even that couplet doesn't do B&S justice; their songs don't languish in melancholy so much as face the hard but worthwhile job of living your own life. The most moving song on IYFS might be "Fox In The Snow," in which Murdoch observes a few living things during a snowfall. There's a metaphorical "starving" fox who might not be able to survive the cold. There's a girl who tries in vain to "tell someone all the truth" before turning to books for solace. There's a boy so consumed by futile travel that he doesn't notice the world around him. And finally, there's another boy, whom Murdoch tells to "make the most of" the snow: "Second just to being born/Second to dying too/What else would you do?" Each character in "Fox in the Snow" reminds me of someone, and not in the generic pop sense. Murdoch creates complex characters with simple words. The album-closing "Judy And the Dream of Horses" describes a teen female rebel who "did it with a boy" before giving herself "to books and learning" and "being number one." The twist of the song is Judy's identity, and it shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who notices Murdoch's close empathy for and identification with women: "The best looking boys are taken...... (quotes until 'If you're ever feeling blue then write another song about your dream of horses, call it Judy and the dream...')" I don't think I've ever heard harder-won nonsense harmony than the one Murdoch puts at the end of those words; it's the sound of real, personal happiness. Murdoch's worldly-wise choirboy voice fits his songs, which contemplate faith without embracing holier-then-thou Christian grace or fire-breathing satanic zealotry. He and his bandmates don't do interviews, but they're too independent to be indie-rockers -- they prefer playing churches to bars. Likewise, Murdoch may have an acoustic guitar and mention Bob Dylan in a lyric, but he's not a folkie -- if he's the next Dylan, he's one who turns "don't look back" into advice for young boys being cruised in parks at night. Ultimately, B&S evoke contrasts, not comparisons, with the greats. Instead of adding more unnecessary noise to popular music, they add scope. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 22:43:13 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:43:13 -0800 Subject: Sinister: baby boom Message-ID: heee heee...those photos are soooooo cute! Look at wee little TAG! How unthreatening he looks! Although.......if you look closely, you can see two shadows.....is what were seeing the shadow of the actual demon that possess our very own Tag? The evil spirit that dwells inside....caught on film? Cooooool. Andy's photos are by far the cutest tho....what fine breeding material!....(beth ducks as a bottle flies over international water aimed straight for her wee heed. *crack!!!!*) ow. beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 22:56:05 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:56:05 EST Subject: Sinister: Vulgar wealth (little/no B&S content) Message-ID: <6d1005d.34e37e07@aol.com> When Dr. HoneyHoneyPaul was asking for Columbo videos yesterday he mentioned _Wings of Desire_. A weeks ago, I told my father I had started reading _Wings of Desire_, and when I finished we could see the movie in the theatres. Moments lasted like an enternity before we realized my "faux pas": I had meant I was reading Henry James' _The Wings of the Dove_. (For the record, the first line is "She waited" but the rest of the novel is much better than that.) We both politely laughed--just imagine the difference that exists in high/low culture between the two! Later that night our discussion group came to the family manor; we talk over the world's issues as a pretense to be witty. The topic for the night was to be the differences in implicating socialism as theorized or utilized between Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse Tong. To begin the roundtable banter we listened to the band McCarthy. The longer we listened the more frightened we became. I daresay that the punks were coming to chop of our heads! To protect ourselves we used our only asset--our wealth. Bags of money fortified our ancestral manor house; the servants were left on the grounds to fight off the marauding punks with the second-best silver candelabra. Myself--I have stayed inside to finish my novel. We are still waiting for the punks to attack; soon, I am sure. I warned you--no B&S content. A little more on track, this afternoon I ate my first _Tigersmilk_ candybar. For those of you with rude minds, it really is a candybar in the US. As food, it was okay-to-fine, but not as good as the album. Yes, I did eat my copy of the album just to compare it with the sweet. It was a very rich meal in a variety of meanings of the word. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Thu Feb 12 23:12:26 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:12:26 EST Subject: Sinister: Article in SFBG Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-12 15:08:01 EST, you write: << "Alone Together" by Johnny Ray Huston San Francisco Bay Guardian Feb 11-17 1998 >> Hey Tara, thanx for transcribing that puppy. it was a good read. cheers, clem lane nrbqlover at aol.com n.p. Pavement-live in Sacramento 8/95 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ELA97SDT at xxx.uk Thu Feb 12 23:39:13 1998 From: ELA97SDT at xxx.uk (Stoo) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:39:13 +0000 Subject: Sinister:Hello? Message-ID: <4FE94141D9@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> Hello! Anybody on the list want to mail me? I'm feeling a bit lonely. Stoo "Consider this,the slip,that brought me to my knees.." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 00:05:57 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:05:57 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Vulgar wealth (little/no B&S content) In-Reply-To: <6d1005d.34e37e07@aol.com> Message-ID: Matthew's _ Wings_ problems: Actually, I just purchased _Wings of Desire_ pre-watched at my neighboring Blockbuster. Although it is a very beautiful film, its sequel, _Far Away, So Near_ (or _Far Away, So Close_; I can't remember) is better in my opinion. I saw Tigersmilk bars at Central Market last week, but was reluctant to try them, as they were positioned next to the Powerbars. (If Powerbars are not an international thing, I'll explain. They are a candybar type version of Gatorade that are supposed to give you energy. They come in various flavors, all of which taste suspiciously like cardboard.) I'm writing during the break of my three hour John Donne seminar. I suppose I'll go eat now. Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 03:43:25 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:43:25 +0800 Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies Message-ID: <01bd3831$8ef4c200$LocalHost@rclander.netfront.net> -----Original Message----- From: MATTHEW JON MILLER To: sinister at majordomo.net Date: 13 February, 1998 1:51 Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies >If I remember correctly Bob Dylan has appeared in the odd film or two - a >version of Billy the Kid (the significance of 'Don't look back perhaps...?) >and, more recently, Hearts of Fire which was simply terrible. Absolutely right. It was a film called Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid. Kris Kristofferson played Billy and James Coburn as Garrett. Dylan played a sort of wandering wild west minstrel. Hearts Of Fire really was a stinker of a movie. Rupert Everett playing a rock star? Good grief. The 'Don't Look Back' I guess refers to the film made by D.A. Pennebaker of Dylan's 1965 British tour. There was also a film called Renaldo & Clara he appeared in, I think its a concert film but I don't know anything else about it. Richard Lander http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tdzF94 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 04:32:42 1998 From: tdzF94 at xxx.edu (The Trainspotter) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:32:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: reading list for cool kids In-Reply-To: Message-ID: barsky! The Secret History is a brilliant book, any one else is wrong. Truly. I've taken a long an extensive poll. I've had gzillions of peeps see it on my web site, and say, ahoy sailor, that's a wee good book you got listed there! http://hampshire.edu/~tdzF94/ - Mods, Dick Van Dyke, Palace, and all that guff...it's the Pot O' Curry/ Mods 'r' US. "The day didn't go too well. Too many chocolates and cigarettes, I kept thinking of you and almost walking into lampposts." Pulp "and the times that we all hoped would last, like a train they have gone by so fast and though we stood together on the edge of the platform, we were not moved by them" On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Laurel Girvan wrote: > > > yikes, the secret history. i read that at my wits end (yes i know some of > you think i'm there all the time, thank you) for a book while sitting in a > crowded bus on a circuitous mountainside road in greece. that said, i > thought it was terrible, though a welcome distraction from the > ear-splitting greek folk music the bus driver had insisted on playing all > morning. (it was also sort of a joke since it's about a group of murderous > classics students - of course i am one and was stuck in a foreign country > with about 15 others.....) > > also on books, if you liked 'sophie's world' try gaarder's next book 'the > solitaire mystery.' i thought it was even better than sw. has anyone > else read 'the mysteries of pittsburgh' by joseph chabon? it's not recent > or anything,but someone just pointed it out to me and i'm in the middle of > it now. it's beautiful, especially this passage at the end to which i am > going to treat you: > > but i can never learn to be a world as phlox was a world, with her own > flora and physics, atmosphere and birds. i am left, as coleridge was > his useless dream poem, with a glittering sock and a memory...to say i > loved phlox implies no need or lack of need of her, she was a world i > gained and lost...i only wish i had seen her one last time. > > there's more but you'll have to read it yourself! (do do) > > laurel > xxxx > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tdzF94 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 04:35:28 1998 From: tdzF94 at xxx.edu (The Trainspotter) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:35:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Books In-Reply-To: <199802100754_MC2-32AD-6BD7@compuserve.com> Message-ID: Try: When England Sleeps by David Leavitt Peerless Flats - Esther Freud. Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi Straight Jacket and Tie - Eugene Stein High Fidelity - Nick Hornby. so there. -teri http://hampshire.edu/~tdzF94/- Official web site of Teri - agent, superhero, and pop diva. "The day didn't go too well. Too many chocolates and cigarettes, I kept thinking of you and almost walking into lampposts." Pulp "and the times that we all hoped would last, like a train they have gone by so fast and though we stood together on the edge of the platform, we were not moved by them" On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Ruth McCurry wrote: > I just stumbled across this correspondence, so I've probably missed > everything... > > The Secret History is good. My recommendation is The House of Sleep by > Jonathan Coe (paperback due next month). Not only did it have the most > beautiful tracing paper cover since Lowlife but it's the most B&S thing > I've ever read, involving dreams, beaches, children and the best Wim > Wenders joke I've ever heard. > > Much love, > > David > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 05:57:46 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:57:46 -0700 Subject: Sinister: suggested reading material Message-ID: <19980213055250.AAA14722@ibm-customer> Has anyone else out there read "Our Noise" by Jeff Gomez? I found it in the discount bin at the Tattered Cover. This is a rather large bookstore, so I'm not sure if you'll find it at the local small shop. I really enjoyed it. The novel isn't going to go down as a modern classic, but here it goes: The book is about 20-somethings living in the States in the late 80's. Everyone is into the growing indy music scene, and the book takes place in Charlotte VA, or some such city. It actually captures the Gen-X feel of the 80's, and I identified with these characters more than with Copeland's, maybe because they listened to alot of the same CD's that I did. Not purely a grunge-fiction book, more like 80's punk-pop. The characters seemed very like my friends 10 years ago (Yes, I'm a bit older than most of the list members, I'm over 30, but don't shoot me) in a scary way, I remembered some of the sordid sides of the scene, drugs, sex, the sleep-with-me- because-I'm-in-a-band, and we're the next ones to get signed and out of this cow town. The view on relationships reminded me of some really bad break-ups, and stupid nights on the town, waking up in morally comprimising positions, so to speak. So, for anyone wondering what it was like to be in the US in the scene 10 ears back, or if you want a little nostalgia for those irresponsible days and drunken nights, this is a pretty fun and realistic read. It won't make the great classics of liturature, but I for one can't be heavy all the time, that's how this old fart stays young, by stimulating the mind with a good book, and refusing to act my age (Or even of drinking age, for that matter). So you all are subjected to my long-winded e-mails, as I act like the Peter Pan child within. I love you all, funny names and whatnot The crispy one ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tdzF94 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 06:52:50 1998 From: tdzF94 at xxx.edu (The Trainspotter) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 01:52:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Nothing sinister... In-Reply-To: <199802091827.TAA23245@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: I'm trying to get a hold of the pulp record bag - black preferably, or another rad record bag where I can put a lovely belle and sab transfer on the side. anyone know a good source whether on-line, catalog, or shoppe? thanks, -teri http://hampshire.edu/~tdzF94/ - Inspired by the writings of the eighteeth century Venetian gambler, eroticist and spy. "The day didn't go too well. Too many chocolates and cigarettes, I kept thinking of you and almost walking into lampposts." Pulp "and the times that we all hoped would last, like a train they have gone by so fast and though we stood together on the edge of the platform, we were not moved by them" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MWaggner at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 06:50:41 1998 From: MWaggner at xxx.com (MWaggner at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 01:50:41 EST Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies Message-ID: <8763bcb3.34e3ed43@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-12 22:45:02 EST, you write: > There was also a film called Renaldo & Clara he appeared in, I think its a > concert film but I don't know anything else about it. Renaldo and Clara was filmed during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour that Dylan undertook in the mid 1970's. It isn't a concert film, but had a loose script that was sort of adapted to what was happening during the tour -- which featured Rob Stoner, Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsburg, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, Ronee Blakely, Sara Dylan and many many others coming and going (including Jack Kerouac's grave). Dylan plays a poet named Renaldo, Ronnie Hawkins is Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan is someone called Clara and Ronee Blakely is Mrs. Dylan. Joan Baez is herself, a whore and a mystery woman... Something like 100 hours of film were shot and afterwards Dylan worked to turn it into a coherent film. It was panned universally, leading Dylan to say, "Maybe there are only two or three people in the universe who are going to understand what it's about." But hey, it was his $1.2 million, you know? Sorry to go on and on... too much caffeine too late -- and avoidance of other things ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From chrisp1 at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 07:14:39 1998 From: chrisp1 at xxx.net (Chris Borne) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:14:39 -0700 Subject: Fw: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies Message-ID: <19980213072820.AAA29300@ibm-customer> > The 'Don't Look Back' I guess refers to the film made by D.A. Pennebaker of > Dylan's 1965 British tour. > There was also a film called Renaldo & Clara he appeared in, I think its a > concert film but I don't know anything else about it. I thought I read somewhere that while BandS were in New York last summer, they filmed a video for Dylan in the Movies with Pennebaker. Has anyone seen this, or did I create this in my dreamlike existence? Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwigham at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 09:52:10 1998 From: jwigham at xxx.uk (john wigham) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:52:10 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies Message-ID: I'm sure the old hippy Honey will be able to correct me if I'm wrong, but Don't Look Back was the film of the tour which included Dylan's visit to Newcastle and his introduction to an eccentric elderly councillor, then sheriff of the city. her name was theresa russell and she was clearly off her head, which was why they found it amusing to include so much footing of her. incredibly, she is still a city councillor in her nineties and still recalls her encounter with that nice young man bob dylan with affection. -- john wigham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 10:59:25 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:59:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: "sexy" roses, sad lyrics In-Reply-To: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C38C9@amerwksnt01.xil.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Tara Widmer wrote: > A.M. Horne wrote: > >>I am the only person I've met so far who can see > shades of "Do you think I'm sexy" in the intro to the Roses "I wanna be > adored". > no i didn't. someone else, i'm afraid, and i resent the suggestion that i even know what the intro to do you think i'm sexy sounds like. a.m. horne (really) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Fri Feb 13 11:03:04 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:03:04 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Birthday Greetings Message-ID: May we all join hands and sing the Stevie Wonder version of "Happy Birthday" to our beloved sensai Paul "Jizz" Mitchell, who is 70 today. He is the only the man i have ever met that has made me say out loud "I wish I was him" the chiseled good looks....... the razor sharp wit...... the adonis body..... the genuis mind...... i could go on for ever. I have used my hi-tech computer technology to generate a superb hi-res image of this God among Men. If this gets corrupted in the electronic transmission feel free to rearrange it. You will know when it's right. xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx= =xxx |\ /| | O____O | | <> | | ====== | \_______/ Have a great day Paul. You're a credit to Geordies the world over. Love christabel x x x x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 11:05:49 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:05:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Dylan in the Movies In-Reply-To: <01bd3831$8ef4c200$LocalHost@rclander.netfront.net> Message-ID: isn't it about time that the dylan in the movies question moved over to the faq sextion? not that it bothers me tho: just an idea. espadrille> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From uclykan at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 12:09:24 1998 From: uclykan at xxx.uk (uclykan at xxx.uk) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:09:24 +0000 Subject: Sinister: becoming more like Southy Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19980213120924.2ef706ae@pop-server.bcc.ac.uk> Ok, this was my evil plan: join the club, see if anyone has a copy of tigermilk I could buy and unsubscribe. Veni, vidi, vici. I was willing to sacrifice my holidays for this rough trade bidding business, but it's getting ridiculous. Last time I asked it was £250. And seeing that I'm not going to the Carribean (you know, again?), the quest is over. Sob. Happy birthday to Sarah and is she looking for anything? Happy Valentine's day - don't believe the hype, it's important. Kelly ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9503594b at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 12:43:40 1998 From: 9503594b at xxx.uk (Julia Mary Brown) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:43:40 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Radio Sweethearts Message-ID: <18A855E4FF5@student.gla.ac.uk> -The Radio Sweethearts are a sort of country/pop type band.All I know of them are a few songs on the album "Shoeshine Chartbusters",a compilation of singles on shoeshine records.Also featured are Frank Blake(Norman Blake & Francis McDonald),Alex Chilton and Speedboat. When i saw the Radio Sweethearts play live in the Cottiers bar in Glasgow, Stevie Jackson played with them for the second half of their set, which was a very nice surprise, except that he stood behind the speaker, so I couln't actually see him. I've just realised they maybe got mentioned because someone else posted this- I've got a few digests to catch up on, so sorry if I'm repeating stuff. Love Julia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 11:54:25 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:54:25 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Happy Birthday to ya Message-ID: <01bd3876$2146b3e0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Indeed, I would like to follow on with the birthday greetings to Paul in a far less funny manner than Chris just did... Happy Birthday indeed laddy, have a nice day and night - and I hope it stops being happy bang on 12 midnight tonight (only joking). It's a bit quiet today on the list isn't it? Maybe it's Friday the 13th - actually, it's probably the Friday the 13th Virus! Arse. Mr.Horney - sorry, that was my bit about Rod Stewart - but I can't believe you've never heard the intro to Do you think I'm sexy... You must've lived like Howard Hughes all your life. Anyway, enough of sayiing something when I've really got nothing to say. Cheers, Keith. "My wife might've bloody well turned up" Lord Farrow. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 13:23:22 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Pasties Message-ID: OK folks, I'm new here and I appreciate that this has probably been discussed ad nauseum, but I can't be bothered to trawl through *too* many back issues and I really do need to know what 'Le pastie de la Bourgeousie' means. I read 'The Secret History' and thought it fairly average, on the recommendation of a friend who loved it. Perhaps it divides people... Louis de Bernieres came up a couple of days ago for Capt. Correli. Read Senor Viva and the Coca Lord... The world is getting weirder; people who wave their arms around are more likely to have heart attacks than people who don't.... Finest kind, Clothilde ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 13:25:57 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:25:57 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Help ! - Absolutely No B&S Content Message-ID: <01BD3882.EC314DC0@pc07628> Can anyone help make a little girl very happy ? A friends daughters school is running a quiz type compy based on the following type of question : 1) 24 HFT = 24 Hours From Tulsa 2) 3 BM (SHTR)= 3 Blind Mice (See How They Run) There were 50 of these questions, and a combined effort involving half the adults in Exeter have got 48 to date. Can you help with the final 2 ? 1) 2000 P in a TB ? 2) 480 S in a R ? If you think you can help, could you contact e-mail me direct please. Thanking yus awfly. -- Adrian. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And mercy no more could be If all were happy as we. William Blake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 10:06:43 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:06:43 -0000 Subject: Sinister: More Pub Dilemmas Message-ID: <01bd3867$15baea00$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Also I need your help settling a long running dispute... Quicy or >Coulumbo. Does Q's crusading attract or repel you? Do you love our >hate the C Mans bumbling sctick? Can you trust a coroner who plays >that muck poker? Or a detective that never washed? Do you find (as >one not unattractive female accomplice of mine does) Quincy 'a bit of >a shagmuffin'? Do we care? Are ther anyfans of the lawyer guy who was >in Vanishing Points series thi nger (what was his name?) Strange this Neil - cause we've been having a similar sort of problem, this has gone on for around about 5 years now, basically, is it: Airwolf, or Blue Thunder. Do you go for the Insectoid Menace of Blue Thunder, or for the sleek shark looks of Airwolf. There's numerous other factors involved here - Blue Thunder's got a "whisper mode " which allows it to hang about outside flats watching laydeez undressing, but by the same token, the bad guy is Malcolm McDowell, a hero in anyone's book - and if he wants Blue Thunder destroyed - so should you! Airwolf's copilot is the great Ernest Borgnine from The Poseiden adventure, and the Black Hole and stuff, so there's lots of pluses and minuses on either side. So me and all me mates would appreciate your votes and collective wisdom on the issue Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 13 10:09:53 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:09:53 +0100 Subject: Sinister: re: videos (and tape trading) Message-ID: <01bd3867$879c5b40$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: andrew dean Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: jueves 12 de febrero de 1998 18:02 Asunto: Sinister: re: videos (and tape trading) >but money spent on videos / music must be disposable income anyway so >what does it matter what you spend it on. if it's not disposable income >and should be spent on food or bills or whatever then you are stupid. May I be the first to say: Ug ug ug beeewaaaaah ug plop plop pooh mweeuuoooeeegh ug ug thweeep belch! Hungry Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 13 10:33:30 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:33:30 +0100 Subject: Sinister: RE: Pleasantness Police Message-ID: <01bd386a$d3c2f4e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Mcburnie Para: Sinister Fecha: jueves 12 de febrero de 1998 19:25 Asunto: Sinister: RE: Old Bands >Jason Donovan????????? > >Piss off!!!!!!! > Officer, arrest that man! He's drunk and his flies are undone. Sentence him to three months in a bouncy castle followed by six months community service playing Twister with pensioners. I am now going to answer two questions in one: Ever read any crap? and Quincy or Columbo? Neither of them have anything to do with B&S: I've got a book written by hte bloke "Quincey" is based on, called "Coroner to the Stars". It's pretty good. Far too few people are aware of Natalie Wood's bravery when she fell off a boat wearing a snorkel parka. I can't really remember what other cases he was on, but my alarmingly ample knowledge of the Manson Family murders may have something to do with it.....I've also got a book about Columbo and the Manson Family. Again, few people are aware that Columbo was part of the investigative team way back on the morning after the sixties. Obviously he was a bit of a rookie then, but he was fully formed when members of the Family resurfaced with murderous intent. I read the whole "Coroner to the Stars" book, but I didn't bother with Columbo versus Manson. So the winner is.....Marcus Welby MD. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 13 13:39:56 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:39:56 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Pleasantness Police Part 2 Message-ID: <01bd3884$df2dc840$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Hopkins T Para: 'sinister at majordomo.net' Fecha: jueves 12 de febrero de 1998 19:35 Asunto: RE: Sinister: The Wednesday Poem, one day late Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote: >Miller loves Isaac >Hayes because he makes Pete feel >Good about balding. > Officer! Arrest that man! I have a luxurious head of hair, more in keeping with Rod Stewart 1979 than Isaac Hayes. I rest my case... Mind you, when I'm sitting on the bog I often daydream about having my head shaved and polished by the Reverend Jesse Jackson before being whisked off to the Los Angeles Coliseum in a spectacular motorcade to perform before 100 000 afros, quite bedraggled after an afternoon of doing the Funky Chicken.... Speaking of which, has anyone read the new Stax Story book? I saw it reviewed in the same copy of "Q" that Hopkins crops up in, and haven't been able to sleep since. Lardy Miller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 13:47:43 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:47:43 GMT Subject: Sinister: Ode to a stallion In-Reply-To: <199802131104.LAA25694@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802131104.LAA25694@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34e447f8.5472356@email.mcmail.com> Hello, Sugar Ray Leonard wrote: >May we all join hands and sing the Stevie Wonder version of "Happy >Birthday" to our beloved sensai Paul "Jizz" Mitchell, who is 70 today. > >the chiseled good looks....... >the razor sharp wit...... >the adonis body..... >the genuis mind...... And as Tim and Miller have been indulging in a spot of poetry wars, I have myself decided to break into ode, in honour of this auspicious occasion. I have decided to avoid Tim's worthy, but somewhat conventional use of the haiku style, and delve into a style which is altogether more modern, which I like to call Doggy style: Happy Birthday Honey, You loved me like Weiner Schnitzel, But if I can't get rid of that itch, I'll Tell Linda. Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 14:57:25 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:57:25 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs Message-ID: <34E45F54.9B87BDA4@dial.pipex.com> I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. Now, the song was pretty insipid cack (it was on Melody, after all) but the singer's voice was very, very similar to Stuart Murdoch's. Anyone else heard of this group/singer? Just an observation... A (very) little ink photograph to finish: This one's of me. It was the moment when I read on the Sinister posting that I'd be missing the B&S chats. You can just see the blood emerging from my head after I'd smashed into the monitor in despair. Speaking of Ink Photographs, has anyone here who writes fiction incorporated it into anything they've written? I used the idea on a story I wrote and it "came out" really well. Was Stuart David actually the originator or has a similar sort of idea been used before? All the best and if I don't post again before I go back to Dundee, take care and have fun, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 15:00:22 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:00:22 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Bruce Springsteen Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F827@RMF1> To whoevers interested, Anyone here like Bruce Springsteen? If you do please be in touch, it would be so nice to find somelse who dig's his music and lyrics as much as I do. If you think that he's nothing but an eighties nightmare in a bandana waving an Americn flag then read on. Bruce is not about this!!!! Born in the U.S.A was not a patriotic anthem, it was a song about Bruce's discrace of his nation in the Vietnam war. Early Bruce Spristeen songs are about romance, being young having hope, self beleif and ambition, songs about gangs surviving on the wild streets of New Jersey. but don't just take it from me check him out yourself, I would reccommend "The Wild, the Innocent and the E- street Shuffle". I find that people just don't give him the credit that he deserves and finding Springsteen fans from this generation is not an easy task. anyway I'd better get back to work or I'm going to get the sack. Let me know what you think? Cheers, Huw P.S - Happy Valentines day. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2438 bytes Desc: not available URL: From plaird at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 15:51:21 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 98 15:51:21 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? Message-ID: <199802131548.PAA02128@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Kristen (kschaffe at trinity.edu) wrote: >(If Powerbars are not an international thing, I'll explain. >They are a candybar type version of Gatorade that are supposed to give >you energy. Believe it or not, but Gatorade isn't an international thing either. Would that be 'Gator' as in Alligator? Oh! the things you Americans are willing to put in your bodies ;-). No more mails about the Bobby Dylan B&S connection please (half-joking). I was going to ask if that information was on the B&S website but some spawny git beat me to it. Suggested reading: 'The Elephant' - Richard Rayner 'The Sandman' - Miles Gibson 'Vagabond' - A.P. Wolf If you have a prediliction for novels containing dysfunctional families, liars, weirdness, madness and some death give these a glance. Bye for now, The Laird of East Fountainbridge P.S Happy Birthday to Paul HoneyMitchell - you old git! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwigham at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 15:24:59 1998 From: jwigham at xxx.uk (john wigham) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:24:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Birthday Greetings Message-ID: Oh yes, chiseled good looks, adonis body. This reminds me of the actor that Honey sometimes hires to pose as himself. If anyone wants to know any interesting titbits from someone who's known the real Honey some sixteen years (my god quo is it that long?) then i'm open to bribery. All questions considered. One revelation to start off with - Paul is a scouser not a geordie as he's obviously been pretending. It's an understandable aspiration though. (happy birthday quosy luv johnny xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- john wigham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 13 16:24:28 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:24:28 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Paul's birthday Message-ID: <01bd389b$db77f4c0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Just thought I'd pop back to wish you all a terrific birthday, Paul. I suggest a trip to some of those marvellous Edinburgh indie clubs that we hear so much about. You might get to snog some birds.~ Northy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 16:48:14 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:48:14 -0800 Subject: Sinister: "sexy" roses, sad lyrics Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C52F8@amerwksnt01.xil.com> >>no i didn't. someone else, i'm afraid, and i resent the suggestion that i even know what the intro to do you think i'm sexy sounds like. a.m. horne (really) uh-oh I'm really sorry Guess I was reading thru the digest a tad too fast A totally unprovoked potshot.... please forgive me?? I will take you to tea too if you're ever in SF to make up for it!! Then we can go to the local indie clubs and bug the Djs to play Belle songs Start a revolution or something what the hell am I on about.... I don't know... back to work now a truly sorry mess of a gal Tara Nicole ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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They now? My copy of I like punk pop sense: hearing this message was brought to our very Good looks. To you will. Anyone appeared in a bit of poetry including my friends years ago, Yes folks that's how the Sinister, mailing list. To the don't Look back to books For the saddest song about how the Top of Horses, describes a sort of the edge of perky, but the wall documentary film: called don't look back on the actual theme. This message was brought to the C mans human; thank you think I'll ever feeling a metaphorical film called Don't languish in the list information please see for questions about how the Sinister mailing list information please mail at least the same way! Sounds like to you and the rooms, exist now Sinister mailing list. We? Even know someone, all the Sinister mailing list. Linda. 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To the times that are only audience were positioned next book (the indie herd celebrates Belle and Sebastian's if that's how the Stevie Wonder version of joining in a coroner who was too well I was the servants were in on track of piss off to the futile travel that nice day But he's the novel strand seems to send to the in melancholy so fast and I think of us need of I thought that while sitting on the club see For owner We're all join two a big huge message was brought to Sleep with a foreign country of Seeing the first one can't be in greece). Aren't we? == makes more sense than my normal posts! Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Intunative: adj. Mentally hearing a song begin on an album seconds | before it actually plays ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ds3624a at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 17:32:36 1998 From: ds3624a at xxx.edu (Damon Seils) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:32:36 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs References: <34E45F54.9B87BDA4@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: <34E483B4.8E24D3F7@american.edu> The Loving Spoonful were a band in the late sixties. Amazingly enough, the singer's name was John Sebastian. Some good pop tunes..."Summer in the City" blah blah --Damon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 18:18:52 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:18:52 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? In-Reply-To: <199802131548.PAA02128@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Message-ID: > >> Believe it or not, but Gatorade isn't an international thing either. Gatorade is a sports beverage that is supposed to incresase your athletic performance with carbohydrates and electrolytes and other things. Parents also sometimes give it to their sick children. I don't know why it's called Gatorade, but workmate Kimmy just suggested the following: Gatorade is meant to rehydrate the body, keeping it from getting (internally, presumably) dry like an alligator. Any other theories? All Gatorade tastes suspiciously like food coloring and comes in bright,ghastly colors (one might glow in the dark, but I'm not sure), but, for some reason it has been my beverage of choice all week. (But maybe that's just because I have a meal card which will indubitably have funds left at the end of the semester which will not be transferred or refunded and Gatorade is an expensive beverage. Gotta finish that meal plan.) Any other questions about American food and beverage can be directed to me, Kristen, your international food expert. Thank you for your time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 23:55:59 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:55:59 -0800 Subject: Sinister: the most boring and non b&s related post i've ever sent Message-ID: <34E4DD8F.4442@earthlink.net> ah hem.... having worked in a health food store for two years of my life during high school, i feel i am compelled to write in about this tigermilk bar. true, they do taste rather funny, but there is one with peanut butter that is magnificent. i think it's peanut butter crunch or something. and there is actually one flavor of powerbars that isn't half bad......banana. but it still kinda tastes like banana soaked in cardboard oil. and i just recently purchased robert forster's "warm nights". i tell you something...this list is breaking me and draining all my hard earned savings. anyway, this album is the first album since "iyfs" that i've been unable to take out of the cd player. for four days straight now, i've listened to nothing but it. wonderful album. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Fri Feb 13 18:26:18 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:26:18 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs In-Reply-To: <34E45F54.9B87BDA4@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Jonathan Wren wrote: > I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents > choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. > Now, the song was pretty insipid cack (it was on Melody, after all) but > the singer's voice was very, very similar to Stuart Murdoch's. Anyone > else heard of this group/singer? > Yes, as my father is an international lounge singer, and I had to grow up unconciously learning words to songs by Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, the Righteous Brothers, and so so so so so so so so so many more. Sometimes I sing along in elevators or bookstores without realizing it. When somebody sings the first line of a song and laughs, saying they don't know the rest of the words, i can always finish it. I think that's why I turned to (what was then called) "alternative" music as a pre-teen: in hopes of finding songs that I didn't already know the words to and that dad would never attempt to play on the piano. With my luck, he'll discover B&S too. Ever-exagerrating, Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 19:57:54 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:57:54 -0000 Subject: Sinister: ...and then we all get in the bath Message-ID: <199802132004.UAA19764@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> Dear Paul Sebastian Dorothea Choo Choo Honey Pot Mitchell, I have one thing to say........ (yeah, keep scrolling) heehee.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! So how old are you now? intrigued, i been trying to guess, but i just can't decide. i reckon it's got to be either 16 or 60... love & hugs , Yasmin xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From benjamin at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 20:06:48 1998 From: benjamin at xxx.com (_____) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:06:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Schaffenberger wrote: > Gatorade is meant to rehydrate the body, keeping it from getting > (internally, presumably) dry like an alligator. Any other theories? I can't believe what a layabout you are, for a student. When we're all speaking cantonese I know who to blame it on. __________________ >From the "gatorade" web site: The year was 1965 when Gatorade was tested on University of Florida Gator football players and found successful; Gators enjoy a winning season and become known as "second-half team" as a result of their ability to go longer and finish stronger. _________________ Take heed, lads. Gatorade is a horrible still conconction with a powdery taste. I have heard that it is a useful hangover cure. I can't comfirm its effectiveness, as the result of my morning-after consumption of it, rather than rejuvenating me, left me barfing in dayglo colors. As a result of this thread I bought a "Tigers Milk Bar" at the Korean deli, "JC's Supreme," which the counterman tells me stands for "Jesus Christ's Supreme," across Seventh Avenue from my place of work. I am eating it now. It is really dreadfully bad, chalky on the outside, and gummy like the innards of a tropical plant on the inside. Perhaps this bar is rotten though. For all of you indulging this silly thread, I will send one of these vile things upon request, so long as you are outside the US. /the pedant ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bgainey at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 20:31:38 1998 From: bgainey at xxx.com (Brian Gainey) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:31:38 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Don't Look Back Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980213123138.006ef3e0@pophost.wired.com> "don't look back" is playing here in san francisco at the roxy theater in the mission, and the theater has put together a fairly comprehensive summary of the film online: http://sanfrancisco.sidewalk.com/link/20880 i haven't seen it myself so i guess i can't really comment on it. ciao, brian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From tangent at xxx.net Fri Feb 13 21:15:28 1998 From: tangent at xxx.net (duke of harringay) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:15:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs References: <34E45F54.9B87BDA4@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: <34E4B7F0.1251C0BB@lineone.net> Jonathan Wren wrote: > I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents > choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. > Now, the song was pretty insipid cack sorry about this in advance, but i'm feeling a bit uptight today. today? ha ha! Look; if you don't realise the genius and importance of The Lovin' Spoonful then you are... lost. I mean, Pop. Aw fuck i give up. Listen to Summer In The City, or even better NAshville Cats and best of all Do You Believe in Magic. Read that again: DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? Do you? I don't see how you can say you love Belle & Sebastian and then say that a Lovin' Spoonful song sounds like 'cack'.. I just don't get it: they're the same sensibility, they're about the magic of Pop and life and aw, if you don't get it then i don't care anymore. You can just be ignorant for all i care. Everett True said how he still cares about the whole deal of music and experience and the magic of rock'n'roll but that most of the time it hurts too much to care. i know what he means but i think that the pain of caring is easier to deal with than the pain of not caring... But that said, i think it's hurting me too much right now. Consumption has made me sick. ignorance has made me sick. so long and don't look back... keeping his faith tucked neatly in his pocket, the one next to his heart. the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent at lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Runegg at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 21:26:08 1998 From: Runegg at xxx.com (Runegg at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:26:08 EST Subject: Sinister: edinburgh Message-ID: <11be94bd.34e4ba72@aol.com> Hi. I'm sending a friend to Edinburgh Saturday night. Where should I tell her to go? If anyone has ideas, Email her directly at: v.r.chapman at durham.ac.uk Thanks!... (she's leaving durham saturday morning...) --Ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 22:53:47 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:53:47 -0800 Subject: Sinister: more boring dylan stuff Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030C7A69@amerwksnt01.xil.com> This is too crazy, I just looked in the local afternoon newspaper and guess what? You'll never believe it but beginning a one week run at the local arthouse cinema tonight is none other than hot hot hot current Sinister topic "Don't Look Back" starring you-know-who. Coinkydink, n'est-ce pas? The reporter calls it not only "easily one of the best documentaries ever made" but "one of the most cinematically influential." So I can finally see what the big deal is about! in other news... well nobody believes me that I really saw Paul Weller in a restaurant the other night... why not? he has to eat too.... Oooh I looked at those baby photos and everyone is so darn cute I hurt my fingers trynna pinch yr little cheeks through the monitor, hehe... and I'm about to embark on converting another friend to B&S, so wish me luck!!! Oh and btw, here's a lovely rose from me to all of you in honor of valentines @---->------ (it's the best i could do) love, tarabelle "tonight, I'm going to be Saffron Republica" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From alerter.v at xxx.org Sat Feb 14 00:14:16 1998 From: alerter.v at xxx.org (alerter.v at xxx.org) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:14:16 GMT Subject: Sinister: A Valentines Card For You Message-ID: <00031492100819@VALENTINES-DAY.ORG> Someone has sent you an electronic valentines card. You can collect it by visiting the website http://www.valentines-day.org/valentine/Receive.asp?EmailAddress=sinister at majordomo.net In case of any difficulties please email problems.v at valentines-day.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jrbia at xxx.br Mon Feb 16 01:20:33 1998 From: jrbia at xxx.br (Junior/Fabiana) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:20:33 -0300 Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs Message-ID: <199802140021.AAA04195@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> I have an almost-crap compilation (given by an old crap ex-boyfriend...hehehe) from some 60's obvious hits (California Dreaming etc), and there are...two songs from the Loving Spoonful in it. And I always thought they were probably the best on this CD. They sound very nice to me...although I've never heard anything else from them, neither know who they really were... Fabiana > I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents > choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. > Now, the song was pretty insipid cack (it was on Melody, after all) but > the singer's voice was very, very similar to Stuart Murdoch's. Anyone > else heard of this group/singer? > > Just an observation... > > A (very) little ink photograph to finish: > > This one's of me. It was the moment when I read on the Sinister posting > that I'd be missing the B&S chats. You can just see the blood emerging > from my head after I'd smashed into the monitor in despair. > > Speaking of Ink Photographs, has anyone here who writes fiction > incorporated it into anything they've written? I used the idea on a > story I wrote and it "came out" really well. Was Stuart David actually > the originator or has a similar sort of idea been used before? > > All the best and if I don't post again before I go back to Dundee, take > care and have fun, > > Jon > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From AFox at xxx.com Fri Feb 13 19:05:21 1998 From: AFox at xxx.com (Andy Fox) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:05:21 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? Message-ID: Gatorade is named as it is because it was developed by scientists at the University Of Florida to help keep their athletes hydrated during practices and games. The University of Florida's moniker is "Gators" hence "Gatorade"...... > >> Believe it or not, but Gatorade isn't an international thing either. Gatorade is a sports beverage that is supposed to incresase your athletic performance with carbohydrates and electrolytes and other things. Parents also sometimes give it to their sick children. I don't know why it's called Gatorade, but workmate Kimmy just suggested the following: Gatorade is meant to rehydrate the body, keeping it from getting (internally, presumably) dry like an alligator. Any other theories? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From frit_z at xxx.com Sat Feb 14 01:00:59 1998 From: frit_z at xxx.com (Fritz) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:00:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: newbies ( i am) Message-ID: <19980214010059.6394.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> Hello to everyone Just dropping a few lines to the list...hum! what can i say...been enjoying B&S for a bit now...i find their music to be really touching and refreshing from what we are use to hearing nowadays... How many albums so far for B&S, if i may ask and how about single? what i do have is, if you're felling sinister cd + 3..6..9 seconds of light, that i manage to get while i was in NYC...it is sometimes hard to find uk albums in Montreal but there's a great record shop so we can always order... cheers Chantal _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From CKirkl6517 at xxx.com Sat Feb 14 01:41:12 1998 From: CKirkl6517 at xxx.com (CKirkl6517 at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:41:12 EST Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? Message-ID: Its called Gatorade because I think the coach of the Florida Gators invented it for his players. God this is a boring post, and my first at that. Not much B&S content here is there? kirk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Sat Feb 14 02:20:51 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:20:51 EST Subject: Sinister: B&S Radio Sessions Message-ID: <552c9a07.34e4ff85@aol.com> so for those of us geographically-challenged folks who've only heard the B&S Radio Sessions via tape, can any kind soul tell me the recording dates? clem lane nrbqlover at aol.com n.p. butterflies cd ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ELA97SDT at xxx.uk Sat Feb 14 04:09:34 1998 From: ELA97SDT at xxx.uk (Stoo) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:09:34 +0000 Subject: Sinister:Gatorade? Message-ID: <6C6A4C5425@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> Is Gatorade at all similar to Lucozade? Stoo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 14 10:15:34 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 10:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Happy Birthday to ya In-Reply-To: <01bd3876$2146b3e0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: > > Mr.Horney - sorry, that was my bit about Rod Stewart - but I can't believe > you've never heard the intro to Do you think I'm sexy... You must've lived > like Howard Hughes all your life. > indeed i have... but if it means not having to listen to rod, it's a price well worth paying. espadrille > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Fri Feb 13 18:22:20 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:22:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: **NO B&S*** STUDENT MARCHES Message-ID: Hey hey Sinisterines/ettes/etiennes...... See! I can do it I didn't post AT ALL to te last digest! And there were all sorts of messages going 'why is the list so quiet'!! So i have decided to speak up again...you lucky peanuts. ***I just thought I'd post this.....I don't know why. Perhaps to talk to the students on here....to let people know that action is being taken perhaps.....to make you think??** Today Matthew, I am going to be a political demonstrator. Yes, today was our march to County Hall against bus pass expenses, fees and the whole education cuts. we got the paper and the radio down as well, which we were quite pleased with. We saw a few beaurocrats in suits, when they found their ways 'out of meetings', but basically I have no idea if anything was achieved. I think that most students who came just did it for the heck of it, not because they cared about the cause. Theres a national walkout organised by NUS (supposedly. NUS should oppose the fees, but have been silent as a mouse till now. The Student Council didn't organise this march. My friends in the SWSS did.) on March the 8th, Students Unite! Can you tell I have been dealing in socialist soundbites all day? I do not mean to. And no I am not in SWP or the Communists. I happen to care about education. I think it is time that people realise it is not only the Uni fees that are being cut, it is EDUCATION as a whole. The council, who stop our transport fees, so we can't PYSICALLY *GET* to college are funded by the govt who on a national level are charging fees. People have to start realising that. It is a part of the whole big picture. it is disgusting that they are not only making education into a privilige for the wealthy (speaks a person whose parents can just about afford fees by the way), but they are cutting it on simple levels, such as lunch vouchers, travel expenses, textbooks, education should not be for those who have rich mummies and daddies it should be for everyone. Oh this has no relevance to B&S but who cares, sorry you lot who want to talk about Bob Dylan 'cos 'B&S have sung a song mentioning him'...yikes tat could've been meant to sound nasty. I just mean that if *that* can be talked about, I think am important issue like this can be as well. I just wanted to get that out of my system. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle who wonders if when everyone finds out she is really a 'middle class' kid she will automatically be discredited from caring??? "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Sat Feb 14 13:09:35 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:09:35 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: Everything Message-ID: Just a very quick one so you can get back to your discussions of Dylan/Lucozade and all other things highly B&S related. Thank you to all who sent rude poems etc. for my birthday and cards including precious Oon from Thailand! Sending out mental valentines to you all now (I have a theory about who sent out the real valentine to the list but I'm not telling). For those who want to know, I got a new outfit for my Sindy, 40 pounds worth of vouchers for Boots from my Mad Dad (so that's me in toothpaste for 3 decades), and a trip to Glasgow where I spent an obscene amount of money on 60s French pop. Bet no-one posts today cos you're snogging each other and no-one's told me. Oh yeah - for those of us who have too many CDs, does anyone reckon we could make a CD swap thing work here? It's usually impossible on the Internet as no-one trusts anyone else to exchange via mail, but I reckon we could do it here, if via a central point for safety or something - a WWW record of who's swapping what so we know someone isn't skinning us all when we stick on the stamps. Also, swaps often fail one-to-one but would work with lots of people - three-way swaps etc, credits or something. So - well if anyone has any ideas, mail ME not the list. Must NOT involve cash - can't have anything even vaguely commercial via this list, full stop. Must be very very simple to run. But PLEASE don't start posting swap lists to the list - I will go all grumpy again. Maybe this isn't of interest, or if it is we could just do one-to-one on a WWW page somewhere. Whatever. Honey xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Sat Feb 14 11:45:12 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:45:12 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S CONTENT!!!! a tad..... Message-ID: Oh I really wish B&S would do something so I could justdify posting something without really mentioning them.....OK, um, tought luck ladies, Richard Colburn is MINE!!! (um, that could have been sarcasm. I dunno 'cos I've never seen him.) I was going to marry Stuey M, but he didn't send me a valantines card the cold earted bastard so....aah shut up Sarah. Keith! Obviously Airwolf is a zillion times better than that other crap...ble thunder indeed. Airwolf rules. I actually sent HoneyPaul a homemade card, but I will wish him happy birthday on the list too! So, um happy birthday, valentines day (even though I only got half a card which was done in front of me with biro and torn in half to share with the other Sara...) and happy easter too. Well, Woolies are selling Easter eggs. Along with the *fantastic* Barbie Lollies that you get with free stcikers. Gatorade......I think we shuld start a topic about MOUNTAIN DEW. The yellow stuff that could very possibly be over-caffienated urine??? OR how about we don't as that is the kind of thing me nd my friends would start a heated about at it would be a long running joke which would amuse us and exclude outsiders...... As fr the Lovin Spoonfull, again, have no idea what they sound like. For a moment I thought they did 'youve lost that loving feeling',but then I woke up a tad and thoght 'oh no thats the Righteous Brothers'.....so I will just say that......oooh. i don't know. But Chumba=46ucking-wamba.....or as my friend calls them Chuwum-baa-baa, ooh they irritate me. But looking at them I am wondering if they will actully achive anything now with a huge audience of trendy dudes, spouting off their oh-so-anarchic (sorry i can't help my sarcasm) voices. I am biased against them I'll tell you that for nowt. But then again, if tehy let a lot more people know about the injustices in society are they serving a better purpose? Or are they just annoying twats? Any opinions anyone? And I would also like to tell you all how Catch make me laugh and giggle. When i firts saw them on TOTP I wet myself and the other day I heard them in TopShop. Heeheee! brains, beauty, teenpop guituarzz, man, ace. AND, last night Spiritualized were on TOTP. I fon't like the way the songs been edited to conform to a more verse-chorous-verse structure, thats not how Spiritualzed work. Their songs need space to breathe and peak. They were still great, but I got more of a 'buzz' watching Aqua tehn I had had out of any 'serious real' groups for ages. OH! I DO have a serious B&S question! In just a moder rock song is he singing "macanaramas clever as mark twain" OR "and I'm not as clever as mark Twain" 'cos the last lyric makes more sense and thats always what I thought it was untill someone wrote the macnarama lyric and now I dunno. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle who must make more sense someday. "Sounds off the wall I know, but consider this. If you take the complete musical output of a generation, the whole damn lot, then don't you have something? A kind of soul perhaps. The soul of a generation. I mean, it's in there in the music. We all know it's in the music, somewhere, right. Anybody who's ever really listened knows it's there. Somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sat Feb 14 14:04:04 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:04:04 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful Message-ID: <199802141404.PAA20746@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> The Duke Of Harringay wrote ... >Jonathan Wren wrote: > >> I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents >> choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. >> Now, the song was pretty insipid cack > >sorry about this in advance, but i'm feeling a bit uptight today. >today? ha ha! Look; if you don't realise the genius and importance of >The Lovin' Spoonful then you are... lost. I mean, Pop. Aw fuck i give >up. Listen to Summer In The City, or even better NAshville Cats and >best of all Do You Believe in Magic. Read that again: DO YOU BELIEVE IN >MAGIC? > >Do you? > >I don't see how you can say you love Belle & Sebastian and then say that >a Lovin' Spoonful song sounds like 'cack'.. I just don't get it: they're >the same sensibility, they're about the magic of Pop and life and aw, if >you don't get it then i don't care anymore. You can just be ignorant >for all i care. "What can I say ?" (Jetset) ... Alistair is absolutely right, the Lovin' Spoonful were a wonderful and highly influential Sixties band which deserve so much more than being termed as "insipid cack" ... for example, bands like the marvellous Swinging Sixties quartet The Smoke named the Lovin' Spoonful as their first and foremost influence ... bringing up the thoughtless description of "insipid cack" here is the same as characterising the Beatles as a bunch of untalented and insignificant loosers on the Oasis list ... but then again, someone characterised *early* Nico as "crap" on this list a few days ago ... I wouldn't be surprised if someone named Donovan as the worst artist in the history of Glasgow (or even better, Australia). Personally, I always turned back to the Sixties when being unsatisfied with the P!O!P! scene at a given time ... and I'd strongly suggest that many P!O!P! artists are influenced by the Sixties, of course including Belle And Sebastian ... another question for those participating in the online chat thingie, be assured that one or the other member is even aware of less popular Sixties acts like, for example, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. >Everett True said how he still cares about the whole deal of music and >experience and the magic of rock'n'roll but that most of the time it >hurts too much to care. i know what he means but i think that the pain >of caring is easier to deal with than the pain of not caring... But that >said, i think it's hurting me too much right now. Consumption has made >me sick. > >ignorance has made me sick. > >so long and don't look back... Come on ... "Some of us still burn!" (The Legend!) ... On a personal note, I like the idea of that compilation-cassette competition, does your Exeter invitation include the travelling expenses ? §;^D "Dive into yesterday" (Kaleidoscope/UK) Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sat Feb 14 16:50:11 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 98 16:50:11 GMT Subject: Sinister: B&S CONTENT!!!! a tad..... Message-ID: <980214165011.n0008671.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 14 Feb 98, Sarah wrote... >And I would also like to tell you all how Catch make me laugh and >giggle. When i firts saw them on TOTP I wet myself and the other day I >heard them in TopShop. Heeheee! brains, beauty, teenpop guituarzz, man, >ace. > Well, a couple of months ago I happened to bump into the beautiful Ben in the Camden Monarch, I hadn't even heard of his little band, and I spent the night chatting to him (up? I don't know) but he was in no hurry to go anywhere else. I just stood in awe at his gorgeous little face and trendy Vivienne Westwood jumper. He was IMMENSELY shy and asked me if my friends were laughing at him (they weren't, just coming up one by one to gasp at him). Anyway, I concluded he was too young, he's 19, I'm 26 (nearly) and decided to let him go his own way. Now as I see little stickers with his face on all around Islington I kick myself. Oh, I've still not heard his band, but I bet they're teeny sugary pop, but still ace, a bit like Betty Boo. Susannah xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sat Feb 14 17:17:50 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 98 17:17:50 GMT Subject: Sinister: Three cards! I got Three cards! Not counting the virtual sinister valentine from old Stuey xxx Message-ID: <980214171750.n0008673.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 14 Feb 98, Sarah wrote... >And I would also like to tell you all how Catch make me laugh and >giggle. When i firts saw them on TOTP I wet myself and the other day I >heard them in TopShop. Heeheee! brains, beauty, teenpop guituarzz, man, >ace. > Well, a couple of months ago I happened to bump into the beautiful Ben in the Camden Monarch, I hadn't even heard of his little band, and I spent the night chatting to him (up? I don't know) but he was in no hurry to go anywhere else. I just stood in awe at his gorgeous little face and trendy Vivienne Westwood jumper. He was IMMENSELY shy and asked me if my friends were laughing at him (they weren't, just coming up one by one to gasp at him). Anyway, I concluded he was too young, he's 19, I'm 26 (nearly) and decided to let him go his own way. Now as I see little stickers with his face on all around Islington I kick myself. Oh, I've still not heard his band, but I bet they're teeny sugary pop, but still ace, a bit like Betty Boo. Susannah xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sat Feb 14 17:30:57 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:30:57 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Spoonful of Cack Message-ID: <01bd396e$5056e620$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Righteous indignation the likes of which we haven't been able to enjoy since the snakey fella went off to hand in his coursework! I think the Lovin' Spoonful are right up there with the Monkees. They are named after you-know-what like you-know-who. In "Do You Believe in Magic?" they mention something called "jug band music", an image that haunts my dreams and disturbs my every waking hour. "...his melody lines curled up and purred like so many drowsy cats." I don't think they're as good as all that, but are probably worth investigating, especially seeing as you can buy dirt cheap CDs all over the place. "Summer in the City" was covered recently by Joe Cocker in a pleasant lilting reggae style. There is also a version by my hero, Isaac Hayes. I remember two good songs, "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" and "Darling Be Home Soon". I haven't got them anymore, and I'm not particularly bothered. But they are good. Nik Cohn says they are better than the Byrds, but he's talking out of his arse. I must say I am enjoying this new Top Trumps craze. I'm not very familiar with those helicopters, but I'm more than willing to join in any other discussions. My favourite helicopters were those great big Russian troop transporters. As I recall they weren't very agile, but that double set of rotor blades made up for it. I am now going to lie down in a darkened room and think about jug band music. He should have changed the lyrics round - "it's like trying to tell a stranger about jug band music". Popology Pete, the voice of reason. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sat Feb 14 18:30:59 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 98 18:30:59 GMT Subject: Sinister: Sinister Virtual Valentines Message-ID: <980214183059.n0008677.tormentor@mail.clara.net> So, what do we reckon kids? Was the sinister virtual valentine fron the delicious Stuey M, or the sumptous Stuey D? I 'd like to think so, and am going to continue to think so, nobody can now convince me otherwise, got that? So don't you dare tell me its from Northy. Susannah xxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 14 19:24:13 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 19:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B&S content? You must be joking... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Don't you just love Valentine's day? Half the country being soppy and playing tonsil tennis in public, and the rest of us getting depressed about the distinct lack of post we got this morning :-(. Still, I had a good night last night ;-) so that just about makes up for it... To pick up Sarah's points: Those of you who aren't from Britain might not know that the government have decided to try and make us pay to go to university in the future. And basically nothing is being done to stop them. The national students' union are a complete joke, because they're all only there to try and get jobs as Labour MPs in a few years time, so they daren't oppose the Labour government. Our university student union president has been forced to not stand for election for a national post, purely because she opposes fees and isn't a member of the Labour party. The thing is, people only voted for the Labour party at the election because they thought they'd be better than the Conservatives; and they've turned out to be just as shit, if not worse. The sooner Tony Blair goes and we get a socialist leader the better. Right, enough ranting, I don't want to do a Northy. I'm sure all of you are intelligent enough to see what we're fighting against. As for Chumbawumba, I don't think anyone takes their 'anarchist' politics seriously. Their idea of anarchy at the moment seems to be getting signed to EMI, and making shitloads of money out of "Tubthumping", and then keeping it all for themselves. However, it was highly amusing when the singer emptied an ice bucket over the deputy Prime Minister's head on Monday... The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Sat Feb 14 20:02:51 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:02:51 +0000 Subject: Sinister: curry rhapsody Message-ID: <34E5F86B.4DB0@seahouses.u-net.com> CURRY RHAPSODY (To be sung to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody) Naan-aa, just killed a man Poppadom against his head Had lime pickle, now he's dead Naan-aa, dinner just begun But now I'm going to crap it all away Naan-aa, ooh-ooh Didn't mean to make you cry, Seen nothin' yet just see the loo tomorrow, Curry on, Curry on, 'cause nothing really madras Too late, my dinner's gone Sends shivers up my spine Rectum aching all the time Goodbye every bhaji, I've got to go Gotta leave you all behind and use loo Naan-aa, ooh ooh, This Dopiaza's mild, Sometimes wish we'd never come here at all I see a little chicken tikka on the side, Rogan Josh, Rogan Josh pass the chutney made of mango Vindaloo does nicely Very very spicey ME Biryani (Biryani) Biryani (Biryani) Biryani and a naan O Vindaloooooooo (No no no no no non o no no No) I've eaten balti, somebody help me He's eaten balti, get him to a lavatory Stand well back This loo's quarantined Here it comes, There it goes, technicolor yawn I chunder No It's coming up again (There he goes) I chunder It's coming up again (There he goes) I chunder It's coming up again Up again Here it comes again Here it comes again Here it comes again Here it comes again This vindaloo is about to wreck my guts Poor me, Poor me, Poor me So you think you can chunder and think it's alright? So you think you can eat curry and drink all night? Ohh maybe, now you'll puke like a baby, Just had to come out, Just had to come right out in here Korma, saag or bhuna, Balti, naan or bhaji Nothing makes a difference to me To me Anyway my wind blows ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From initgrl at xxx.org Sat Feb 14 23:22:41 1998 From: initgrl at xxx.org (jj heldmann) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:22:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Sinister Virtual Valentines In-Reply-To: <980214183059.n0008677.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Message-ID: I tried to go to the virtual valentine and was told "you have no valentines but you can send some if you'd like". :( oh well... xo jj On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, susannah wrote: > So, what do we reckon kids? > Was the sinister virtual valentine fron the delicious Stuey M, or the sumptous > Stuey D? > I 'd like to think so, and am going to continue to think so, nobody can now > convince me otherwise, got that? > So don't you dare tell me its from Northy. > > Susannah > xxxxxx > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . 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We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mneimark at xxx.com Sat Feb 14 23:31:58 1998 From: mneimark at xxx.com (Matthew Neimark) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:31:58 PST Subject: Sinister: B&S covering Primal Scream Message-ID: <19980214233158.2140.qmail@hotmail.com> We've been off this subject for a long time, but after the BMX bandits came to Boston and Douglas, the singer kept talking about local Scottish heroes and legends like Bobbie Gillespie and Stephen Pastel (especially Gillespie though), I thought how much I'd love to see Belle and Sebastian cover a Primal Scream song. My choice is "Bewitched and Bewildered", an obscure b side around the time of Sonic Flower Groove (I think its on the Imperial 12"). I think it would be a perfect cover as I'm sure Stuart could do a beautiful job with it (as it is a heartbreakingly beautiful song). ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Sun Feb 15 05:40:28 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:40:28 EST Subject: Sinister: Sinister Virtual Valentines Message-ID: In reply to:" tried to go to the virtual valentine and was told "you have no valentines but you can send some if you'd like". :( oh well... xo jj" I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to get to my virtual Valentine? I can't seem to get it, it said either site not found or not found on this server. Also, to add to the trouble, the Email telling how to get in touch w/someone to help if it does't work has been deleted. Help!!! I need all the valentines I can get!!!! Jeni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bcw4977 at xxx.edu Sun Feb 15 06:40:54 1998 From: bcw4977 at xxx.edu (brian) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:40:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: chat room aid HELP! Message-ID: hey list, this is a desperate attempt to save the #sinister room in the middle of the night.... anyone out there with ops that can log on and hide the room? it's about 1:30am sunday morning here in NYC, so prolly too early for you UKers... we're being besieged by perverts! and not in a good way... sorry for the spam, everyone else. back to chatting, brian bcw4977 at is2.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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The ever sarcastic Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sun Feb 15 07:18:46 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 98 07:18:46 GMT Subject: Sinister: chat room aid HELP! Message-ID: <980215071846.n0008689.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 15 Feb 98, brian wrote... > >hey list, > >this is a desperate attempt to save the #sinister room in the middle of >the night.... > >anyone out there with ops that can log on and hide the room? it's about >1:30am sunday morning here in NYC, so prolly too early for you UKers... > >we're being besieged by perverts! and not in a good way... > Great! I'm there! It's probably just Paul though, he's a bit of a deviant don't you know. Get him DCC ing and he's away !! , can't seem to get him off the topic ;-) Well, I have just visited Sinister hoping to catch some people 'at it' but its dead. shucks. Theres just one lone intruder with the following sig: 'Couple, Fem is Bi. Looking for other couples or bi-fem to have some sexy fun.' But they're saying nowt. So it looks like I'll have to revert to sending Stuart D saucy postcards again to get my kicks. Susannah xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Sun Feb 15 13:27:25 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 05:27:25 -0800 Subject: Sinister: b&s content Message-ID: <34E6ED3D.7605@earthlink.net> hey. i was in athens last night to see the oh-so-overrated superchunk not because i love them, but because i love the opening band.......ladybug transistor. i know i've mentioned them before and those of you who haven't heard of them probably do what i do when i hear about some little known obscure indie band and i just go "ah poo" to myself quietly and forget i ever heard about them. you betta recognize. if it weren't for "iyfs", then ladybug transistor "beverley atonale" would've been the best piece of something to come out since sometime before. anyway, for the b&s content i alluded to...... i was talking to the ladybug boys and girls and talk got around to our beloved b&s and the singer said, and i quote "i worship the fucking ground they walk on" and then one of the girls (the bass player) nodded her head in agreement. and then mac superchunk walked out and he heard us talking about them and pretty soon the club was almost transformed into the church of belle and sebastian. it was quite a moment. and you should've seen the glow on the faces of the ladybug people and mac superchunk when talking of b&s. it was almost as if we were all talking of some sacred lost shrine that's gonna save the world. i guess it was just cool that fairly famous (or at least recognizable) people feel the same way we do about the band. anyway, i guess that wasn't much b&s content, but it was more than i usually have. oh yeah......go purchase ladybug transistor "beverley atonale". it's on merge in the states. not sure about overseas. stay away from their first album "marlborough farms" (for now). -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwg.wren at xxx.com Sun Feb 15 13:31:01 1998 From: jwg.wren at xxx.com (Jonathan Wren) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:31:01 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful References: <199802141404.PAA20746@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: <34E6EE15.40C7BB40@dial.pipex.com> Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > The Duke Of Harringay wrote ... > > >Jonathan Wren wrote: > > > >> I was eating my breakfast yesterday when, on Melody Radio (my parents > >> choice NOT mine!) a song came on by a group called Loving Spoonfull. > >> Now, the song was pretty insipid cack > > > >sorry about this in advance, but i'm feeling a bit uptight today. > >today? ha ha! Look; if you don't realise the genius and importance of > >The Lovin' Spoonful then you are... lost. I mean, Pop. Aw fuck i give > >up. Listen to Summer In The City, or even better NAshville Cats and > >best of all Do You Believe in Magic. Read that again: DO YOU BELIEVE IN > >MAGIC? > > > >Do you? > > > >I don't see how you can say you love Belle & Sebastian and then say that > >a Lovin' Spoonful song sounds like 'cack'.. I just don't get it: they're > >the same sensibility, they're about the magic of Pop and life and aw, if > >you don't get it then i don't care anymore. You can just be ignorant > >for all i care. > An apology. And the only thing I am going to apologise for: I should not have used the words "insipid cack". This was wrong a) because it wasn't a considered response b) because it is the sort of dismissive remark that I'd probably find/have found equally annoying when people use such easy words in dismissing a band I love; Oasis. Yes, that one. What I won't apologise for is not agreeing that liking Loving Spoonfull is a necessary requirement for loving B&S. This is simply because of the fact that the particular song (and I can't comment on the rest of their songs) did not move me; maybe my Frosties made me disagree with it; whatever. What I find hard to fathom about peoples responses is that they seem to find it incomprehensible that anyone who doesn't subscribe to their particular musical view is therefore some sort of bad, ignorant person, who doesn't appreciate music as greatly as they do and cannot possibly thus love B&S. This is a pretty totalitarian view of music, and any sort of culture. For goodness sake, it's a wide world out there and everyone (god knows, I try to be) is an individual with their own idiosyncratic and dogmatic (in a pejorative and non-pejorative sense) view of what is good and bad about the world. Or they should be. I may not like Loving Spoonfull but I am not saying that you are a bad person because you do. And if I did you could sit and bask in the fact that you know you are right. But is everyone ignorant who doesn't like what you like? I mean, I actually have friends who *don't* like B&S. Yes, it is possible to like such people. Loving B&S isn't about buying into an aesthetic and swallowing it lock, stock and barrel, and if I thought it was then I'd think that was pretty damn sad and it might even take something out of the music for me.. B&S are about boredom, love, loss, failure, elation, the pain of individuality etc. B&S are about questioning and discovery. I get a buzz of B&S which, on one listen, which I accept is unfair and I should hear more, I didn't/don't/might get from Loving Spoonfull. And if I don't after a more considered response, does that really make me some sort of knuckle headed ignorant idiot? The world is a big old place for people with differing tastes. Sorry if I've upset people and sorry for getting all pretentious. I couldn't not say anything cos this has genuinely upset me, too. All the best, Jon BTW I'm gonna be living in Exeter next year so I hope the massed ranks of LS fans there don't come and kick the shit out of me... ...that was a joke :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cateran at xxx.com Sun Feb 15 14:36:51 1998 From: cateran at xxx.com (Sandy Blair) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:36:51 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful Message-ID: >What I find hard to fathom about peoples responses is that they seem to find it >incomprehensible that anyone who doesn't subscribe to their particular musical view >is therefore some sort of bad, ignorant person, Works for me! > The world is a big old place for people with differing tastes. That certainly explains a lot. Have you seen the world lately? I've seen it written that the world would be a boring place if we all had the same taste. This is clearly wrong, if we all had the same taste as me the world would be fantastic. For your next lesson, we will all shout at you for not liking 'Windy' by The Association. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 15 15:18:11 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:18:11 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful Message-ID: <199802151518.QAA05376@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Sandy Blair wrote ... >For your next lesson, we will all shout at you for not liking 'Windy' by >The Association. I'm afraid I prefer "Windy" by the Groovy Little Numbers ... "Shoot me down" (Groovy Little Numbers) Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Sun Feb 15 15:18:06 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:18:06 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful Message-ID: <199802151518.QAA05370@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Jonathan Wren wrote ... >Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > >> The Duke Of Harringay wrote ... A quick one, since you haven't quoted my remarks anyway and your thoughts will surely be dealt with by Alistair, unless he unsubscribed ... >An apology. And the only thing I am going to apologise for: I should not have used >the words "insipid cack". This was wrong a) because it wasn't a considered response >b) because it is the sort of dismissive remark that I'd probably find/have found >equally annoying when people use such easy words in dismissing a band I love; >Oasis. Yes, that one. Yes, that one is actually the oasis of "insipid cack". §;^D ... that was a joke, the debut album was alright ... not very original, though. >What I won't apologise for is not agreeing that liking Loving Spoonfull is a >necessary requirement for loving B&S. This is simply because of the fact that the >particular song (and I can't comment on the rest of their songs) did not move me; The obvious problem is that you've drawn early conclusions after encountering one single song by a band called Loving Spoonfull ... do yourself a favour and check out the band formerly known as *Lovin' Spoonful* (instead ?) ... >BTW I'm gonna be living in Exeter next year so I hope the massed ranks of LS fans >there don't come and kick the shit out of me... Alistair, I'm afraid we have to postpone my visiting plans ... how about next year ? §;^D "Take the skinheads bowling" (Camper Van Beethoven) Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Sun Feb 15 17:37:09 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:37:09 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: no b&s content In-Reply-To: <34E6ED3D.7605@earthlink.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, bradford wrote: > hey. > i was in athens last night to see the oh-so-overrated superchunk not > because i love them, but because i love the opening band.......ladybug > transistor. As much as Superchunk may be overrated, they play a damn good live set, and their opening bands are always good. I saw them in the fall with a recent Merge signee, the Rock-a-Teens, who are quite adorable. Especially after the slew of bad opening bands I'd suffered through in months past. Said slew involved: Bis, Royal Trux, Barbara Manning (who giggled through her entire set), the Dandy Warhols, and more. Feel free to send your condolences to me at any time. Hee hee. Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Sun Feb 15 18:09:41 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 98 18:09:41 GMT Subject: Sinister: Lets see your kit for games. Message-ID: <980215180941.n0008701.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Lets see your kit for games All the girls look the same You are challenging style for running miles You're running miles in some boys jumper I have been singing this set of lines all afternoon, while being drugged on a bottle of dry white wine and this prompted my flatmate to spill her soul about the teenage hell for late developers that was SHOWERS AFTER GAMES. Oh god! what torture, I went into a shivering wreck as we re-lived tale after tale of being dragged kicking and screaming into communal P.E. showers by uncaring butch games mistresses. My flatmate used to get her well-developed friend, who proudly strutted her naked way through shower alley , with busoms flying, to run wet footprints around her changing space , and I used to race back first as soon as the last hockey ball was struck, heart pounding, to chuck handfuls of water on my hair and down my legs; in an attempt to foil eagle- eyed P.E. teachers. And in the event of being forced at gunpoint to run through those showers, you sprinted so fast that the water didn't even touch you!, so What was the fucking point? Am I in my own embarrasing little world here or does anyone else feel the same way? Susannah xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ada202 at xxx.edu Sun Feb 15 18:03:14 1998 From: ada202 at xxx.edu (Andrew D Adler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:03:14 -0500 Subject: Sinister: windy Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980215130313.00b0bb30@is7.nyu.edu> At 04:18 PM 2/15/98 +0100, Perfection As A Hipster wrote: >Sandy Blair wrote ... > >>For your next lesson, we will all shout at you for not liking 'Windy' by >>The Association. > >I'm afraid I prefer "Windy" by the Groovy Little Numbers ... > >"Shoot me down" (Groovy Little Numbers) > >Andreas as much as i love the groovy little numbers (you make my head explode is a classic!) in a pinch id have to choose the astrud gilberto version of windy off the album of the same name. her first foray into 60's pop, straying from the world of bossanova. the album is terrific, a mix of covers and originals wrapped in 60's production. andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood Sun Feb 15 22:09:19 1998 From: Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood (Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood) Date: 15 Feb 1998 22:09:19 GMT Subject: Sinister: Re Tigermilk Message-ID: <12976094.561025093@andyclin.exnet.com> It seems to me that now Tigermilk is supposedly fetching 100 to 200 pounds sterling, someone is bound to bring out a vinyl bootleg, if they haven't done so already. (and if they have, I'd quite like a copy!). A bootleg will be a close copy of the original, but with presumably some inevitable loss of sound quality. The bootleggers make a load of money by fooling fans, who may never have seen an original to tell the difference anyway. The value of the original copies will go down, The band will not get any royalties or share of profit. Surely it would be better for them to swiftly bring out a reissue, (maybe on CD, so there's no problem differentiating new copies from the original). I guess there are a few fans (me included!) who'll still want to get the original, but at least if people can buy the thing in one form or another, the 'street price' will drop to below the point where it is worth someone's while to bootleg it. And a lot more people will get to hear the songs! (I particularly prefer the version of "The State I Am In" to the version on the DOW EP) (Phew! no stranger to controversy, me!) In the meantime, my advice if you're offered a copy of Tigermilk in mint condition is to be very suspicious, there are few records that are over two years old which don't show signs of wear, on the sleeve at least. Does anyone know what the band thinks? (I don't have 'net access, only email, so maybe this stuff has all been covered before.) Cheers, Rocker, rocker at andyclin.exnet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Mon Feb 16 01:17:34 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:17:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: her shadow is always with her Message-ID: <199802160117.UAA11035@Vector.inexpress.net> Yes me again! Wait don't go...I'm not rambling that much! oh wait..i am...daaaamn! >>And there's nice steel guitar on it. I like Teenage Fanclub very much, but >I >>think Rod might just have the edge on them in terms of.....oh dear, I can't >>think of a suitable word....weightiness. ALl I keep hearing on the radio is that n-trance cover...I thought it was a raspy old woman singin 'do ya think i'm sexy!' but it's Rod,it was so weird when i realised this...Teenage Fanclub hold a special place in my heart,they play a song for once,I yelled out 'LONG LIVE SCOTLAND!' and Norman goes 'this is for the wee Scottish lass down front' or something.. I love The Concept,it makes me want to spin around in slo-mo circles at the end..another song that makes me want to spin in slo-mo circles with glitter flying around is Ash's Darkside/Lightside (or is it the other way round?) and when I think of Ash I'm thinking you were talkign about Catch and Toby or one of them looks like Tim Wheeler. You know what else about Ash,one day I had a biology test and I was gonna do bad and for soem reason I envisioned Mark Hamilton (bassist of Ash) sitting in the desk in front of me jsut wearing silver pants and he would grin and turn around every once in a while and I did really good on that test!I don't know why..i think he's 'stooopid' but hmmm...just a whole lotta chain reaction thoughts going on! >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:01:59 -0800 (PST) >From: Michi Kobayashi >Subject: Sinister: the soundtrack of your life. >here is michi's soundtrack: (in no particular order) i wrote some of the >lyrics down to reflect on the life that i've lead...(quite sad one that is..) I think this is a beautiful idea Michi! Good post,good post! I'm trying to get a couple lines together..but you know i have a terrible memory.. (suede)come to my arms tonight,just you and me together under electric light and we can stay together two hearts under the sky scrapers... (suede) slipping away while the city sleeps,running away from this cruel disease miles away,miles away (suede) you'll have to find another no-one who'll take the shit like i have ( (longpigs) and there's no-one i can talk to,like i talk to myself she said,so i play games to make them think i'm someone else... (lush) i'm in no position to make demands i have no past,no one else has done to me what you do.. (gang of four)if i could i'd let you cry on my shoulder i've no friends either,i absolve you (gang of four) you don't know who i am,you don't know where i come from from the soul of this land i am lost and you're soon gone (spiritualized) i'll always love you honey but i can't be what...i'm..not... (spiritualized) but i can't help,i can't help falling in love with you and the belle and sebastian ones: (b&s)now i'm feeling flat you seem miles away i'm so tired that down on the pavement i'll lay till the blossom on the tress comes falling on me (b&s) and feel the city air run past your body (because I love running when it's dark out...running really fast for no reason and feelign the air run past my body!) (b&s) we lay on the bed there kissing just for practice (b&S) here on my own now after hours,here on my own know on a bus (b&s)lovesick on a sunny afternoon and lastly (the smiths) i want to live and i want to love >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:50:42 -0300 >From: "Junior/Fabiana" >Subject: Sinister: Some roads are only seen at night... And you, you look like Heaven. An angel who stepped from a dream. 777 times >lovelier than anything i've ever seen. > >All the umbrellas in London couldn't stop this rain. And all the dope in >New York couldn't kill this pain. And all the money in Tokio couldn't make >me stay. All the umbrellas in London couldn't stop this rain. > >You may be cruel and unkind in every way. Thinking of ways to hurt me all >night and day. But you're so beautiful...But you're so beautiful, it makes >me want to cry. THIS is sad-lovely! I'm supposed ot know this aren't I? well I don't *sob sob* ohhh...good news! my sweetie brother's friend at a record store scored me some b&s promo poster...:) :) :) :) SARAH! Good work,keep up your protest,fight! fight! fight! you're all so special, lots of love and kisses Genevieve :) oh,cause this time is yours and mine oh hear the city sound see the lonely crowds this scene is you & me in the lazy sun,we're the only ones ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Mon Feb 16 01:17:26 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:17:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: lovely,oh so very.... Message-ID: <199802160117.UAA11024@Vector.inexpress.net> mmmm helllooo Sinisters.... boom bam boom Gatorade! Gatorade is disgust! Have you ever try powergel? Me and my friend went to this health food store,and we like to be energized you know? So it promised energy..it was the most disgusting thing i ever tasted and it reminds me of gatorade...cranberry juiced,that's a proper drink!..my dad bought me a big bag of oranges..but they weren't..they were grapefruits,but anyways that's what I been eating all this week and it's very good.. SO did you all have a good Valentines? I was with friends but romantically I was alone... backtracking...feb 10th was supposed to be my lucky day..(according to Cosmo) on my friends lucky day some guy asked her out that she had loved for a long time...now I went downtown all happy like but it was the wrong record store boy there...and even that guy who's usally ncie gave me a flippant 'enjoy' as I left the store with my purchase adn that's all (oh and what did I buy? The Smiths! Yes I did! THe Queen Is Dead at that..now I haven't really been listening to the rest of the cd becuase I cna't stop listening to Bigmouth Strikes Again) that's all..so I had not lost all hope went acorss the street to pick up my Pastels (because I had gotten a call that said I could come by anytime to pickup) so I go there...the guy says theres nothing for me..I ask again...and again he says it's still on order I yell 'ARE YOU PLAYING MIND GAMES WITH ME,HOW COME ANYTHING I ORDER NEVER COMES IN!' and the two behind counter thought this very funny and told me their friend play trick on me "But I distinctly heard a feminine voice!" "well dave does have a feminine voice" grrrrr! So I listen to Tindersticks there (I try hard to search out bands i hear you talk of here!) and it was called Curtains I think..I thought the music was lovely..but I don't know about the guys voice.....oh well..need to listen some more.... about edible underwear: I ate some at school the other day and it doesn't taste good! Its like pink shopping bag..it taste bad almost as bad as gatorade. So anyways..on feb 10th supposed to be my lucky day and i sat at Wendys looking out the window and I thought LOVE SUCKS! and then to make matters worse this icky guy always downthere appeared with his guitar case (but no guitar inside) and told me i was his lost love and ruder comments,wrong person saying the right things... ok...odd dream...i was talking with record store boy I don't liek about how much I loved the one I did..meanwhile the one I lvoe was parading round with feahters or seomthing and the one i was talking to was being very sweet and he finally said 'well dont you think i'm as lovely as him!' and he took my hand and I said yes,that he was..but no no..wrong one... So Valentines..i was freezing! It was like 28 below and everyone out on the canal and i jsut had my little red knee sox on with the hearts (valentines day..gotta wear some heart) and went into record store not expecting HIM to be there at all and he was booom boom booom..and oh..when he looks at me...why is he so lovely! it didn't help that i saw great expectations after....all the couples! Including Gwyneth and Ethan in the rain...oh me and you in the rain record store boy..how many lil scenarios I have... and suddenly everyone love Stuart D now...how can I compete! BUT..yesssss..Phillipe Candelro won the bronze..good good... AND GEEZ,all those snowboarders for Norway,everything everything abotu them glisten! I cna't get over it...i was supposed to go snowboarding today but noo..what did I do? I watch Mr.Holland's Opus..I've got music..I've got rhythm!I've got my guy (no i don't) who could ask for anything more? phhhhhhhhhhht! smooch, Genevieve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Mon Feb 16 03:06:39 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:06:39 EST Subject: Sinister: Competition Message-ID: <2283e6d2.34e7ad41@aol.com> Are we still deciding upon a list-based competition? Well, Stuart David wrote Ink Polaroids--the list holds a competition of Ink Polaroids; Stuart David wrote Ink Movies--the list holds a competition of __________. (Answer: Ink Movies). Then we will not be repeating ourselves over, just slightly modifying ourselves. We need something to do whilst waiting for new album. And, I would like to hear Tracey Thorn c. _A Distant Shore_ sing "Seeing Other People" and "Ease Your Feet In the Sea". The latter would be perfect due to her preoccupation/obsession with the ocean in her own songs. I do not really want to hear her _play_ the songs, just to sing them. There, I wrote it, now I am crawling back to bed to continue to spend my time with the flu. Truthfully, the flu is not such a great companion. Coughing and sniffling Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Mon Feb 16 05:43:50 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:43:50 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Re Tigermilk References: <12976094.561025093@andyclin.exnet.com> Message-ID: <34E7D20E.6C1D@interaccess.com> Stephen J. Wood wrote: > > It seems to me that now Tigermilk is supposedly fetching 100 to 200 pounds > sterling, someone is bound to bring out a vinyl bootleg, if they haven't done > so already. (and if they have, I'd quite like a copy!). > > A bootleg will be a close copy of the original, but with presumably some > inevitable loss of sound quality. > > The bootleggers make a load of money by fooling fans, who may never have seen > an original to tell the difference anyway. > What you are referring to is a _Pirate_. Pirate records are ripoffs of something that was put out legitimately. Bootlegs are of music that was never released (like if someone made a B&S at the BBC), or released in a different form ( like some of the remix collections that came out in the early '90's). It is very importiant to _me_ for people to make this distinction. Bootlegs, although I don't condone them, provide collectors with otherwise hard or impossible to get material. Pirates just ripoff the band, the record company, and ultimately the consumer because the quality is substandard. Most of the cassettes bought in 3rd world countries are pirates. In those places the copyright laws are relaxed, so it may not be illegal, but they almost always sound poor. In the case of B&S, if someone made an exact replica of Tigermilk and tried to pass it off as the real thing, it would be piracy. If someone made it and sold it to retailers or the public as a bootleg, then it would be so under my definition because of its scarcity. Sometimes it's a fine line. Usually it's not. Anyway, we'll get a proper reissue someday, and then it won't matter. Aadam Cap't of the nomenclature police ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Runegg at xxx.com Mon Feb 16 07:10:34 1998 From: Runegg at xxx.com (Runegg at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 02:10:34 EST Subject: Sinister: gator Message-ID: <628b651c.34e7e66c@aol.com> Don't drink Gatorade. Drink Miracle Water. And to all those un-hitched out there--thank God that the Hallmark-sponsored Love Holiday is over, and we can get on with looking for love without the pressure of all that pink... --ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aarnette at xxx.edu Sun Feb 15 21:27:42 1998 From: aarnette at xxx.edu (Andy Arnette) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 02:27:42 +0500 Subject: Sinister: BBC Sessions Message-ID: <199802160730.CAA24654@sable.cc.vt.edu> I'm new to the list and first of all I'd like to say Hi to everyone out there! Secondly, I have a tape of the first two BBC sessions they have done (which are wonderful) and I recently heard that they did a session sometime last summer/fall. Is this true? And if it is, does anyone out there have a tape of it and would be willing to tape it for me? Thanks, ANDY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 09:26:46 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:26:46 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful Message-ID: <01bd3abd$002d7150$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Loving B&S isn't about buying into an aesthetic and swallowing it lock, stock and >barrel, and if I thought it was then I'd think that was pretty damn sad and it >might even take something out of the music for me.. B&S are about boredom, love, >loss, failure, elation, the pain of individuality etc. B&S are about questioning >and discovery. I get a buzz of B&S which, on one listen, which I accept is unfair >and I should hear more, I didn't/don't/might get from Loving Spoonfull. And if I >don't after a more considered response, does that really make me some sort of >knuckle headed ignorant idiot? The world is a big old place for people with >differing tastes. > >Sorry if I've upset people and sorry for getting all pretentious. I couldn't not >say anything cos this has genuinely upset me, too. > >All the best, > >Jon Think you pretty much hit the nail on the head there - and very eloquently too. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 10:02:48 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:02:48 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Oh Deary Deary Me. Message-ID: <01BD3AC2.0A0E07C0@pc07628> Apologies to Honeymonster for the obvious abuse of his list as some political forum, but : >Sarah rather tediously wrote : >Today Matthew, I am going to be a political demonstrator. Yes, today was >our march to County Hall against bus pass expenses, fees and the whole >education cuts. we got the paper and the radio down as well, which we >were quite pleased with. >We saw a few beaurocrats in suits, when they found their ways 'out of >meetings', but basically I have no idea if anything was achieved. I >think that most students who came just did it for the heck of it, not >because they cared about the cause. Thanks luv...a few of these beaurocrats in suits happen to be on the list !! I think you'll find it's the politicians who make the decisions on swingeing cuts. >I do not mean to. And no I am not in SWP or the Communists. I happen to >care about education. I think it is time that people realise it is not >only the Uni fees that are being cut, it is EDUCATION as a whole. You make it sound like the average LG officer doesn't care, and doesn't have a life outside work, and isn't affected in any way !...Like none of us have families and kids or anything. >The council, who stop our transport fees, so we can't PYSICALLY *GET* to >college are funded by the govt who on a national level are charging >fees. People have to start realising that. It is a part of the whole big >picture. I don't know which Authority you refer to, but in Devon Education and Social Services haven't done badly at all in terms of budget cuts over the last few years. If we don't start pumping more money into roads in this part of the world, before long we will all have to walk everywhere anyway. >it is disgusting that they are not only making education into a >privilige for the wealthy (speaks a person whose parents can just about >afford fees by the way), but they are cutting it on simple levels, such >as lunch vouchers, travel expenses, textbooks, education should not be >for those who have rich mummies and daddies it should be for everyone. You are right it is disgusting, but in recent years people like myself have merely been a glove puppet with a politicians arm up yer jacksy. You are right to moan to your local authority, if only more people would...but the blame lies firmly on Whitehall. Sorry to get me arse in me hand ! -- Adrian. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And mercy no more could be If all were happy as we. William Blake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Mon Feb 16 10:14:21 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Oh Deary Deary Me. In-Reply-To: <01BD3AC2.0A0E07C0@pc07628> Message-ID: On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Adrian Evans wrote: > Apologies to Honeymonster for the obvious abuse of his list as some > political forum, but : Yeah erm - let's stop shall we? Please don't take offence but there's at a guess 250 people on the list at least not in the UK and they might care (as I do) but won't be able to follow this. There are loads of mailing lists/newsgroups for this sort of thing and ours is just a little one without many resources that struggles to keep up. So comments like this are fine, of course, but let's not have a raging debate, hard though it is to not respond when something personal hits home. Stick to the B&S and stupid anecdotes. Talking of which, where is Nicola M (Stip) and her bus/shellfish anecdotes. We want more. For any newcomers interested see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/hypermail/1997-week-45/0012.html Still don't know if I believe it but it's definitely one of my favourites. Please sir, more. HoneyGrrr xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Mon Feb 16 10:44:36 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:44:36 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful/Cack fun Message-ID: <01bd3ac7$e0b36cc0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Jonathan Wren Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: domingo 15 de febrero de 1998 15:54 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Lovin' Spoonful ha ha! Look; if you don't realise the genius and importance of >> >The Lovin' Spoonful then you are... lost. I mean, Pop. Let's imagine that the sixties pop scene is British football. There are two Anfields in Britain, one in Liverpool, one in Stirling. Which do you got to first? Liverpool probably...the Beatles...fifty thousand number ones on the trot and six consecutive European Cup wins. The atmosphere is electric and everyone talks funny. While you're in the area you might as well go to Goodison Park for a ride on the escalators. Cilla Black. Off to Tranmere Rovers for a bit of Gerry and the Pacemakers. Now you've had enough Merseybeat for a while, so you leave the Swinging Blue Jeans for another time. They are that non league team from the place where they filmed the end credits of Dad's Army that sometimes do quite well in the FA Cup and have got a comedian for a manager. Instead you decide to visit the other Anfield, or Annfield, I'm not sure. There you see East Stirlingshire, or some such gem of a team (again, I'm not sure). Technically they are not very good, but every now and then there is a bit of excitement, the tea's quite nice for a change and the people are really friendly. One of the opposing supporters has brought a big bell to ring instead of a rattle to rattle. Your neighbour tells him that if he doesn't stop ringing that bloody bell he's going to stick it right up his arse for him, and you laugh. Just as you are leaving after ninety minutes of pleasant entertainment an old man with a weather beaten face comes up to you, grabs your arm and whispers "Lovin' Spoonful, sonny, Lovin' Spoonful" "What are you on about, old crone?" you ask him. The man draws your face close to his and hisses "Do you believe in magic? DO YOU?" That mysterious old man was the Duke of Haringay on field manoeuvres in his native Scotland. It's best to take his rants with a pinch of salt and enter the fantastic Duke Box Dury Competition. My own entry is almost finished, and I can't wait to see how it fares. Peter, the Pauper of Pop ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Mon Feb 16 09:07:55 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:07:55 +0800 Subject: Sinister: Lets see your kit for games. Message-ID: <01bd3aba$62642420$LocalHost@rclander.netfront.net> >Lets see your kit for games >All the girls look the same >You are challenging style for running miles >You're running miles in some boys jumper > >I have been singing this set of lines all afternoon, while being drugged on a >bottle of dry white wine >and this prompted my flatmate to spill her soul about the teenage hell for late >developers > that was SHOWERS AFTER GAMES. I am sure that almost everyone [male & female] on this list, certainly those of us who went through the British education system will have similar stories to tell of the whole of PE. My own school PE ordeals experienced at Breezehill Comprehensive School in Oldham could have stepped right out of 'The Headmaster Ritual' song by The Smiths! Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aevans at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 10:37:14 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:37:14 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Ha !. Message-ID: <01BD3AC6.D91AF4C0@pc07628> >Jon wrote : >BTW I'm gonna be living in Exeter next year so I hope the massed ranks of >LS fans >there don't come and kick the shit out of me... >..that was a joke :-) If this is true then there will be at least 3 of us. Blimey, there's only 4 other people, 2 sheep and a cat down here, and no, we don't all like the Loving Spoonful as our tractors weren't fitted with radios until 1982 :) Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Mon Feb 16 13:12:28 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:12:28 GMT Subject: Sinister: Valentine schmalentines Message-ID: I went into work and my workmates mentioned that there were some Scots in the pub, thinking that this would brighten up the idea of spending 7 hours working behind a fucking bar. They were kinda right. It always makes me feel slightly better (sad homesick person that I am). Anyway one of the aforementioned Scots appeared at the bar and asked in a very broad Glaswegian accent, "Where are the toilets?", and low and behold it was Kevin whats-his-name from Small faces, Trainspotting etc. I just stuttered a lot and then wished I had spoken to him properly. Damn, I wish I had done. Someone else said that John Hannah was in as well, I never spoke to him either. I think my favourite B&S line is definately, " All I wanted was to sing the saddest song, and if you could sing along I would be happy now." But then again it could be.... ( Claire gets lost in every B&S song possible.) Keith, Airwolf. Just because of the guy's name... Stringfellow Hawk, was it? Can someone also recommend any good alternative Irish bands around just now? ciaosen, Claire** "Why can't I get just one kiss, Why can't I get just one kiss. Well I guess it's something that I wouldn't miss but I live my whole life for just one daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay." (Violent Femmes) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ca812 at xxx.ca Mon Feb 16 13:22:33 1998 From: ca812 at xxx.ca (Allan de Leon) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:22:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Indie/Rarities Auction Message-ID: Kindly email me your bids privately and not on the list. All records listed are in excellent condition. Trades are welcome Send your bids privately to: ca812 at torfree.net Auction ends on: Feb. 28, 1998 LP's & 12"s *************** Pastels - truck train tractor (1987) Wedding Present - bizarro (1989) Roller Skate Skinny - trophy 10" (kevin shields brother & company) American Analog Set - the fun of watching fireworks I love the Smell of Napalm - ( A Creation Records Compilation - 1986) * very first Creation compilation Cure - Entreat (live from Wembley Arena - promo) CD's ********** Pale Fountains - from across the kitchen table Flying Saucer Attack - live Lenola - last suicide mile Henry's Dress - bust em green Pale Saints - slow buildings Ladybug Transistor - marlborough farms Flowchart - tenjira ep VARIOUS ********* Tomorrow Hits Today - A Summershine Compilation *includes Sugargliders, Springfields, Velocity Girl. etc Little Darla Treat For You Vol. 6 - A Darla Records Compilation *includes Windy & Carl, Flowchart, American Analog Set Heaven & Hell Vol. 1 - A tribute to Velvet Underground * includes Ride, Chapterhouse, Wedding Present, etc * cassette only 7" singles *************** Stereolab - iron man/ incredible he woman (red vinyl U.K.) Maylove - the word big but Flowchart -accoustic ambience Flowchart/Mall - split Heartworms - everything goes as planned ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ah6991 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 12:41:57 1998 From: ah6991 at xxx.uk (Adam the fool) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Practically all B&S content! And it's really long too! can anyone else match this? Message-ID: Rocker (?) Wrote (about tigermilk): >The value of the original copies will go down, > >The band will not get any royalties or share of profit. > >Surely it would be better for them to swiftly bring out a reissue, >(maybe on CD, so there's no problem differentiating new copies from >the original). They aren't gonna, 'cos the kudos of having a rare record which only *dedicated* fans can get hold of a recording of is much more valueable then any re-issue royalties (not necersarily money-wise either.) I don't think that it takes people a lot of effort to get hold of tigermilk, (thanks to andrew dean - mail him if you want onto his list) but I like the fact that I bothered and was rewarded. {sigh} {gaze skyward} {smug look in eyes} {rodents in pants} {cavorting} I wrote then Andy wrote: >>It's only fair, the rest of us need to catch up, and we could do this >>before people spend extortionate amounts of money on swapping >>videos... > >but money spent on videos / music must be disposable income anyway so >what does it matter what you spend it on. if it's not disposable income >and should be spent on food or bills or whatever then you are stupid. Shit. I thought I was getting thin. And it is a bit dark. Disposable income isn't something to throw away, thats like saying that you might as well buy one 399p single in virgin as four 99p ones in an independant shop. (And virgin are just as much the corporate whore as new labour, so support students and vote indy - even if most students are too selfish/stupid to realise whats going on. I'm with Sarah if you couldn't tell. But she probably makes more sense.) If I want to buy an album I have to go without protein for weeks I'll have you know. Oh yeah, and what is your problem with stupidity? Not only must I adore the Lovin' Spoonful, detest the nme and know everything ever about Northern Soul, I have to show signs of inteligence as well... Well there's only so far a guy will go for his art. But back to my point; Katrina, why not release the ep video's? Maybe as a limited edition list thing, cos you know we all love you. Once you have enough material to fill a whole tape of course... Also - how many Ink books has Stuart D sold? Is he now fabulously rich as well as stunningly handsom (girls all over the list prick up their ears:) and will Stuart M ever be releasing his stories about Belle and Sebastian (no, let me guess - they're all in his songs.) Hee Hee! A message completely on topic - beat that rod. :} (That's "completely" in the loosest possible sense of the word) Love Adam "The move to revoke Pluto's status as a planet is part of a longstanding feud between professional astronomers and Disney animators." -Daves Web Of Lies ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 16 13:41:49 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:41:49 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S in Dublin References: <199802120059.AAA25945@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34E8421D.66528177@virgin.net> Joss Moorkens wrote: > Someone wrote th'following: > Anyway we got around to chatting > about B&S and she said sh had been in touch with Jeepster and she seemed to > think that the band were playing over here in May. Is this true?? > > It looks as if there may be some B&S action in dublin, but not until the summer. July or something. > At least from what I hear. Aye, sorry everyone ... no b&s gigs ANYWHERE until after the middle of july ... who knows where they'll play first .. my bet is oooh, Paris? and i promise that has absolutely NO insider information ... now, somebody else's guess? cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 14:38:30 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:38:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Cold turkey Message-ID: I know this seems like a strange request but I was lay in bed last night, as you do, and I was wondering why it is called cold turkey when you attempt to give up drugs in that way? Please, could anyone save me from any more sleepless nights. And where can I get hold of a Tigers milk bar?! Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 15:00:29 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:00:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Chumbawumba Message-ID: I was reading a message that mentioned that Chumbawumba were doing all this anarchist rubbish to get signed and seen. I agree completely. Does anyone else hate them, or the fact that Amnesia sounds exactly like Dubstar?! Yours agitated by Chumbawumba Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 15:18:22 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:18:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Cold Turkey Message-ID: Presumably coz you come out in goosepimples (goosebumps for our American friends), which renders your skin like the thing you put in the oven on Christmas day (thanksgiving for our American friends) C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 16:07:54 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:07:54 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: Chumbawamba Message-ID: <34E8645A.118@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> MATTHEW M STEAD wrote: > > I was reading a message that mentioned that Chumbawumba were > doing all this anarchist rubbish to get signed and seen. > > I agree completely. They were doing the same thing for years and never got noticed so let them carry on I say. > > Does anyone else hate them, or the fact that Amnesia sounds > exactly like Dubstar?! I quite like Amnesia, it sounds better than the new Dubstar stuff but not as good as Manic Now. Any one else heard the Brick Supply version of that track? On another note is it just a malicious rumor or is Tubthumping actually about weebles? Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 15:44:56 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:44:56 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Good one Message-ID: <01bd3af1$d48a1370$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Disposable income isn't something to throw away, thats like saying that >you might as well buy one 399p single in virgin as four 99p ones in an >independant shop. (And virgin are just as much the corporate whore as >new labour, so support students and vote indy - even if most students >are too selfish/stupid to realise whats going on. I'm with Sarah if >you couldn't tell. But she probably makes more sense.) If I want to buy >an album I have to go without protein for weeks I'll have you know. Realise what's going on you say - and what makes you think that your local "indie" shop's any different from anything else - are they better people? So you say I should vote for my local independent shop as opposed to corporate whores Virgin. Well I've know people who've worked in both these and the people in Virgin don't have to put up with the boss flashing money around, telling everyone about his numerous properties and vehicles and how well off he is, and also don't have to deal with earning a lot less money per hour. It's never a pretty situation mate but it certainly isn't anywhere near the black and white picture you paint it to be. The other thing being that people belting on about New Labour being shite I find preposterous really, yeah, they can't do everything right, but they're sure as fuck the best government that's existed in my lifetime, why do we all convince ourselves that they're all corporate whores! Harold Wilson admitted to his cabinet in the sixties that labour party policy simply financially couldn't work, the fact that the party as whole in the late 90's has finally caught up is something to be admired in my opinion. ....Oops, sorry Paul, forgot... no more political debate... arse. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Mon Feb 16 19:06:55 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:06:55 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Cold turkey In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Quitting cold turkey...hmm...Allow me to present another unpopular Kristen theory... Seeing as though I jumped off the Turkey-eating wagon several years back, I may be wrong, but isn't leftover turkey kinda tough and chewy? And isn't quitting a habit as difficult as chewing a piece of said cold turkey? So, theoretically, maybe one would find getting off drugs, cigarettes, and the like as hard to do as chew on a piece of leftover turkey. Plus, both experiences seem terribly unpleasant. A wretched sorority (This week is pledge week at my school, so all sororities seem extra-creepy as they partake in all sorts of activities designed to embarass their new pledges.) girl was eating a Tigersmilk bar next to me in my class with the impressive title (Women Journalists in Film and the Novel). It had a horrible odor. Something like raisins and maple syrup and... well, this is a long shot, as I may be the only person that knows how this smells... the sort of chemical and blueberry scent of the water inside a glitter-filled snowglobe. (I broke a lot of those things when I was a kid.) If you still really want one, though, try a health food store. If all else fails, email me and I will personally select an appealing flavor for you and have it delivered to your home. But really, try shopping around first. I'm afraid to touch the things. Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 18:04:16 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:04:16 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Arguing Message-ID: Hey lets not argue, the world would be a far better place without it. Or would it... I guess it'd be a bit boring really. At least we'd get rid of Kilroy, Esther, Ricky Lake etc. That'd be nice. Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M9523138 at xxx.UK Mon Feb 16 19:43:59 1998 From: M9523138 at xxx.UK (Eimeir Tereasa McCartan) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: everybody loves belle Message-ID: Hallo im the new kid in town and i just want to tell everyone that i saw mark eitzel(former lead singer of american music club) do a gig last night and it was ruddy magnificent.I talked to mark after the gig and he noticed my "dog on wheels" badge.After telling him it was a badge of the glorious Belle....he told me that belle were his favourite band and that he saw them in new york and darn well loved them.This is my first magnificent little tit bit there will be more from me soon unless i get run over or something in the meantime cormac-The midnight cowboy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 20:16:35 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:16:35 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Manic Message-ID: I think that the Brick Supply version of the song is actually better than the Dubstar version. Maybe I'm just strange or does anyone else agree?! Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 20:31:28 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:31:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Favour. Message-ID: I'm really sorry to be such an awkward idiot but I really need a big favour. I've just got back with my ex-girlfriend Laura and I really want to do something special to show that I can be romantic. I thought it would be a really nice idea if some of you lot could email her, saying that she's a great person and I'm glad that we are back together. I know it sounds strange but I wanted to do something original and that was all I could think of.....any other suggestions would be appreciated. Please help my ill fated love life! Thanks a lot Her address is: "LR-EVANS at wpg.uwe.ac.uk" Matt. "I dont do drugs, all my friends are on their holidays" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MayflyH at xxx.com Mon Feb 16 21:43:21 1998 From: MayflyH at xxx.com (MayflyH at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:43:21 EST Subject: Sinister: Fanzine! Message-ID: Hiya... a friend of mine is starting up a B&S fanzine, and as she only has limited access to the net, I said I'd try my best to enlist the support of you lovely and prolific list people. The address of the fanzine is: Kristen Bailey, 19 Caburn Heights, Southgate West, Crawley, W. Sussex, RH11 8QX. So far Kris is just drumming up help and contributions, but it looks set to be a top 'zine; and all articles, reviews, suggestions, memories, ink polaroids/movies, umm... favourite girls name songs, favourite buses in pop culture... bus-related experiences.... fave bus routes!... will be most welcome. Or just write to the lass to let her know she's doing a good job!! Thanks in advance! Love and glitter, Hannahxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 16 21:50:17 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:50:17 +0000 Subject: Sinister: 'nanrama Message-ID: hi hi list! i have been ordered to post by the chat room people! so here it is i have nothing about B&S to say really so do you want a list of my fave words? tuff cos thats what yer getting 'egg' 'iggle' 'nids' 'cedric' 'peanuts' 'bananrama' In fact i have a poem about 'nanarama. hang on, i will post that. It was a funny day for bananarama when they appeared on panorama their interrogation shcked the world when their sining talents were unfulred With their lovely matching dresses And their lovely flowing tresses ]They managed to rule the world of Pop And never ever had a flop The darlings of the showbiz life Unfortunately fell into strife BROS arrived, the big new thing And the Pop world felt the sting But bananrama we shal never forget Their legacy stil lasts on yet With spangly colthes and great Pop sense BANANRAMA - INTENSLEY INTENSE!!!! whaddya think! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! SarahBelle, the next murray lachlan young!!! .........Me the 13th duke of Wybourne In a french maids finishing school at 4 'o clock in the morning With my reputation...... Bingo! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aarnette at xxx.edu Mon Feb 16 13:49:54 1998 From: aarnette at xxx.edu (Andy Arnette) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:49:54 +0500 Subject: Sinister: White Horses? Message-ID: <199802162352.SAA23722@sable.cc.vt.edu> Got A Question... On a tape of 'Tigermilk' that I recently borrowed from a friend there is a song at the end with Isobel singing something about White Horses. Does anybody know what this song is? My friend claims it's a cover but is anyone familiar with the original? I don't have a clue but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ANDY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 00:10:29 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:10:29 EST Subject: Sinister: Fanzine! Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-16 16:48:23 EST, MayflyH at aol.com writes: << Hiya... a friend of mine is starting up a B&S fanzine, and as she only has limited access to the net, I said I'd try my best to enlist the support of you lovely and prolific list people. >> This is ironic, for I'm doing the same thing. I'll go ahead and make my offer since it should be finished at the end of the week - "Puerto" (issue 6) is putting out a series of "roasts", the first of which is on Belle and Sebastian. Puerto is actually a suppliment to a larger zine ("Mito") and comes free, but I won't be printing too many. It's only 8 pages (being a suppliment), and includes various roasty topics. Being reader friendly, if anyone would like one, just send me your address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lrsim2 at xxx.au Tue Feb 17 12:36:37 1998 From: lrsim2 at xxx.au (Musicman) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:36:37 +0000 Subject: Sinister: b&s->pavement Message-ID: <6397EE75D8@mfs06.cc.monash.edu.au> I heard all about B&s from some people on the pavement mailing list, and decided to buy. I picked up if yr feeling.... about two days ago, after waiting about three months for it to get imported into Australia, and am loving it. It does remind me a lot of Nick Drake for some bizarre reason, but I very much like it. Anyway, that's why I joined up. Also: is their any web page generally perceived to be the best/most comprehensive? L. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plaird at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 03:52:21 1998 From: plaird at xxx.uk (plaird) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 98 03:52:21 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk again, and again, and again Message-ID: <199802170349.DAA17511@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> On Tigermilk: >Surely it would be better for them to swiftly bring out a reissue, >(maybe on CD, so there's no problem differentiating new copies from >the original). We've had this thread a couple of times already - It's a comet that orbits the list every couple of months. Unlike a comet it gets larger - before Jeepster hurls it off into (cyber)space again. We all love the band - personally, if I found someone selling a pirated copy I'd mail Jeepster to tell them what it sounds like :-). But seriously, I'd have to tip off the band and Jeepster, since it's assumed (by me anyway) the band will reissue it sometime on CD so I could get a nice clear copy then. But will they? We could harange them constantly until, on the verge of madness, they submit. (I got this idea from a Simpsons episode). Ahh Sarah, what have you started?: >I do not mean to. And no I am not in SWP or the Communists. I happen to >care about education. I think it is time that people realise it is not >only the Uni fees that are being cut, it is EDUCATION as a whole. Paul said non-UK listees wouldn't be able to follow this thread. I may be wrong but don't most of the students in other countries have to pay for their Uni fees/living expenses etc? (no need to answer). From their perspective Sarah's heart-felt and honest anger/fear may seem faintly ridiculous. Enough on this thread I think. ENOUGH I SAY! See ya later alliGATOR, The Laird of East Fountainbridge ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lrsim2 at xxx.au Tue Feb 17 15:09:00 1998 From: lrsim2 at xxx.au (Musicman) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:09:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk again, and again, and again Message-ID: <6621E41E24@mfs06.cc.monash.edu.au> > Ahh Sarah, what have you started?: > >I do not mean to. And no I am not in SWP or the Communists. I happen to > >care about education. I think it is time that people realise it is not > >only the Uni fees that are being cut, it is EDUCATION as a whole. > > Paul said non-UK listees wouldn't be able to follow this thread. I may > be wrong but don't most of the students in other countries have to pay > for their Uni fees/living expenses etc? (no need to answer). From their Without being rude, I think it is an absolutely essential question that needs an answer. I spent 3 months living in a tent in front of my university's Administration with 30 others in an effort to stop the introduction of Fees for university degrees. All these rich fucks who have taken all the benefit of a free education in Australia are now denying us the same because IT DONT MAKE PROFIT. Sarah is right though, it is education as a whole. Remember: question what you learn, how you learn and why you learn. Sorry about that little explosion of emotion, but it is quite important to me. L. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From LNDuggan at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 06:57:28 1998 From: LNDuggan at xxx.com (LNDuggan at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:57:28 EST Subject: Sinister: le pastie de la newbie... Message-ID: <2e9bead9.34e934da@aol.com> ...no, not really. I'm actually very happy to be here. Like the happy bunnies the signature says we are, this list just keeps on multiplying, and I'm one of the new members. So, hi everyone. My name's leeann, I'm 17, and I'm a new(ish) Belle and Sebastian fan. I won't get into my reasons for loving Belle and Sebastian, because I could go on forever (friends *will* vouch for this). It's just that the moment I heard them, I was in love. Which has never happened to me before. Which feels lovely. Belle and Sebastian make me want to dance about, and I often do, much to the vexation of my friends. Well, it's either that or my tuneless banshee screeching to "Lazy Line Painter Jane"... I'm also founder, President, and member of my town's Belle and Sebastian fan club. Membership is currently in the 1 range, reflecting a staggering growth of 100% over last year's membership. The club began as a cheap ploy to lure these two Belle and Sebastian fans that my friends told me about over to my house, but has evolved into much more than that. Club activities now include comparing sketches of what we imagine the band members to look like, checking coin return slots in pay phones to finance a trip to New York when B and S tour, and learning just enough guitar to play "Me and the Major". Plus my mum sells the ultra-rare, indie label, out of print Tigermilk candy bars after meetings! Totally pristine these are, never been licked or bitten into, for the bargain-basement price of $120. You're all invited to the next meeting, of course. I'm getting sort of tired of bossing myself about... yours, leeann "being a rebel's fine / but you go all the way / to being brutal" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 09:04:47 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:04:47 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Brick supply Message-ID: <34E952AF.7CCD@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> MATTHEW M STEAD wrote: > > I think that the Brick Supply version of the song is actually > better than the Dubstar version. Maybe I'm just strange or does > anyone else agree?! Totally!!! Have you managed to get hold of any of their stuff? People just give me blank looks when I mention any of the best bands from Helterskelter. Robin Scott is far and away better than Elton John. "Kicking up the Pavement" is so moving. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 17:35:31 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:35:31 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: white horses Message-ID: <34E9CA63.3E7@yahoo.com> Sinister: White Horses? Andy Arnette (aarnette at vt.edu) Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:49:54 +0500 >Got A Question... >On a tape of 'Tigermilk' that I recently borrowed from a friend there is >a song at the end with Isobel singing something about White Horses. Does >anybody know what this song is? My friend claims it's a cover but is >anyone familiar with the original? I don't have a clue but any help >would be greatly appreciated. um, that'll be my fault... 8) no, the song on the end of that tape is 'white horses' by Jacky (and i know, i put it there!). it was a hit in the late 60s and is a theme tune to a kids' tv show about, duh!, white horses that aired in the early 70s on bbc tv, saturday mornings before whatever 'live and kicking' was called in those days. the only thing i remember about it was that it was dubbed into english and, vaguely, the title sequence. the only other thing i know she did was a version of the theme tune to 'rupert the bear' (which has also been covered by lush). i'd been looking for that for ages when it turned up on one of those tv theme compilations a few years ago. would make a wonderful thing for b&s to cover cos all the classic elements are already there, the voice, the melody and those mournful trumpets... must send a tape of it to the band... 8) andy where the clouds are made of candy floss... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 09:50:02 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:50:02 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Dearest HoneyGrrrrr. Message-ID: <01BD3B89.6EB73260@pc07628> >Honeygrrr wrote : >Yeah erm - let's stop shall we? Please don't take offence but >there's at a guess 250 people on the list at least not in the UK and >they might care (as I do) but won't be able to follow this. There >are loads of mailing lists/newsgroups for this sort of thing and ours >is just a little one without many resources that struggles to keep >up. So comments like this are fine, of course, but let's not have a >raging debate, hard though it is to not respond when something >personal hits home. Stick to the B&S and stupid anecdotes. Paul, Sorry yeah. Hopefully by now Sarah and I have resolved any differences and had a firm virtual handshake. You will realise of course (as you said), the importance of these issues, and by actually posting this to the list it has meant Sarah has gained invaluable knowledge (not!) into the goings on of Local Govt Finance, and me to the plight of our nations studes. It has not been totally in vain. Sorry again. Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 11:01:33 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:01:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Gatorade? In-Reply-To: <199802131548.PAA02128@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> Message-ID: > > No more mails about the Bobby Dylan B&S connection please (half-joking). > I was going to ask if that information was on the B&S website but > some spawny git beat me to it. > spawny git!? i'll sue... espadrille > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 11:05:54 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:05:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Loving Spoonfull and Ink Photographs In-Reply-To: <34E4B7F0.1251C0BB@lineone.net> Message-ID: > > Everett True said how he still cares about the whole deal of music and > experience and the magic of rock'n'roll but that most of the time it > hurts too much to care. i know what he means but i think that the pain > of caring is easier to deal with than the pain of not caring... But that > said, i think it's hurting me too much right now. Consumption has made > me sick. > fair enough, but are we really reduced to quoting the godawful everett true now? he's no better than swells, surely? now what we really want is some vintage chris roberts... ciao, espadrille> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". > . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timothy.rowbottom at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 11:42:17 1998 From: timothy.rowbottom at xxx.uk (Tim Rowbottom) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:42:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Manic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Matthew wrote: > I think that the Brick Supply version of the song is actually > better than the Dubstar version. Maybe I'm just strange or does > anyone else agree?! Hmmmmm, 'fraid not Matt. I have the tragic misfortune of living in Wakefield when I'm not at Uni, which is where Brick Supply originate. Having been made to endure them in many a dodgy pub, I have to say that they really are very bad indeed. Dubstar worked miracles with that song.... -- Tim Rowbottom - Yorkshire timothy.rowbottom at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk "Finding myself used to be hard but now I see the light. If love is a drug then I don't need it." - "This Is Music", The Verve. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul.sumner at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 11:52:49 1998 From: paul.sumner at xxx.uk (paul.sumner at xxx.uk) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:52:49 GMT Subject: Sinister: bye for now Message-ID: <980217115249.202436b7@fawdon.unn.ac.uk> unsubscribe sinister ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 11:58:48 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:58:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Brick Supply Message-ID: I haven't got any of their stuff, but my Dad seems to go on about them lots, maybe I'll be able to get him to find some. Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 13:01:49 1998 From: Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk (Robert Hardy) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:01:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S activities? Message-ID: <199802171300.NAA27518@sand.global.net.uk> Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening to their records? 11.00am- Wake up. 11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. 12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. 15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. 15.30pm- Return library books. 16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. 17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. 17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. 20.00pm- Watch The Bill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 13:01:49 1998 From: Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk (Robert Hardy) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:01:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S activities? Message-ID: <199802171300.NAA27527@sand.global.net.uk> Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening to their records? 11.00am- Wake up. 11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. 12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. 15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. 15.30pm- Return library books. 16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. 17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. 17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. 20.00pm- Watch The Bill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 13:21:32 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:21:32 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Nick Drake Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F834@RMF1> Dear List, I was told by a friend last night, whilst trying to introduce him to B&S, that Nick Drake sounds a lot like them. somebody else mentioned, earlier, something to do with Nick Drake, I can't remeber who or what they said as I've deleted the message now but I want to know if this is true and if anybody out there can send me some Nick Drake stuff so that I can find out for myself. Cheers, Huw P.S. has anybody here, heard of a band called Karate -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And then this dreamer wept: and so she quickly dreamed a dream of spring - how you and i are blossoming. eec ------------------------------------------------- Ahhh, love it. Rob xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 12:03:08 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:03:08 +0000 Subject: Sinister: lyrics of life, hey, catchy...... Message-ID: Some people were doing their song lyrics that tracked them through life. not that i've had that much of a life to track by music, but here are some which have been 'portant to me so far... Here at risk of being a twat, are some of mine. Keith look away, some 6th form shite is bound to follow: 1) MSP :"Do not listen to a word I say, just liste to what I keep silent...I close my eyes and this is yesterday" "the only way to gin approval is by exploiting the very thing tha cheapens me" in fact the whole fucking lyrics to this is yesterday. 2) Belle and Sebby : "You shone louder longer, you put my shine to shame" - the boy done wrong again 3)Belle and Sebby : "beauitiful only slightly mental beautiful only tempramental" - -Beautiful 4)MSP : "I am an architect they call me a butcher, I am a pioneer, they call me primitive I am purity they call me perverted" -- faster (Sensing my two fave lyricists here?) 5)Belle and teh boy Sebastian : "OOH! get me away from here I'm dying sing me a song to set me free"....get me away from here i'm dying 6)B&S "desperation is the devils wrok,it is the folly of a boys empty mind" - the state i am in... 7)SFA! (yay!) "there are people who think and there are people who don't, and the eople who don't are the ones who have most..." Download. in fact the whole song again. 8)joy Division "Heart and Soul, one will burn existence well what does it matter, i exist on the best terms i can the past is now part of my future, the present is well out of hand" Heart and Soul 9)B&S :"wouldn't you like to get awayy give youself up to the sllure of catcher in the rye"- le pastie...cos its a true lyric. people give themselves to books hoping to find contentment within the pages of some other persons imagination. Including me. But now i look to song lyrics as well. 10) Dexys midnight runners-"Hollow sorrows nothing new just enough strenght to last to tomorrow untill i believe in my soul" Untill I beleive in my soul 11)MSP : "...the past is so beautiful the future like a corpse in snow i think its all the fucking same, its a life sentence babe" Condemmed to rock'n'roll (i am slightly embarrased by the word 'babe' too. but it fits in wth the song. it just loks cheesey on paper/pooter screen) 12)MSp (again *sigh* i;ll make this the last one) "the difference between love and comfort is that comfort is more reliable and true brutal and mocking yet always there a crutch for emnitys saddest glare" --Comfort Comes 13) last one!John Shuttleworth! I'VE GOT AN AUSTIN AMBASSADOR Y-REG Y- REG Y-REG DON'T KEEP ASKING ME WHY REG IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THAT YEAR!!!!!! thangyewverymuch. next post i think shall be about my FAVOURITE SoNGS FROM THE EIGHTIES. A great decade for pop methinks. i'm talking about yer ELO's...fandoobydastic. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * 1 * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 13:35:44 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:35:44 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Manic Message-ID: <199802170837_MC2-33A4-6332@compuserve.com> I've been following the Not So Manic Now debate, and I really don't think that the Brick Supply original is up to much. It's a bit like that Scandinavian Torn. I had the dubious honour of hanging out with Sarah Dubstar in Newcastle during the year when they were making the first album - she shared a flat with some friends of mine in the next street. She was an absolute gem, and it just makes me a bit sad to see what's happened to them now. It's so strange to see someone so totally unsuited to pop stardom thrust into the limelight for everyone to stare at. (I know she chose to do it, so it's her fault.) B&S's refusal to be buggered around by the industry is such a good thing, even if it only teaches a few future stars that you don't have to play by the rules to succeed. Does anyone else know of any pop stars who really would be better off doing something else instead? Celine Dion is one that springs to mind... Lots of Love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rewb2 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 13:55:19 1998 From: rewb2 at xxx.uk (***Rob B***) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:55:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: General ramblings Message-ID: Hello happy bunnies Ha! I'm in a good mood today - we've managed to get our house for next year, but the best news is that all seven of us bar one are B&S fans, so we will have the ultimate B&S community. You can all come round for picnics and wild parties on long summer evenings. Has anybody got the lyrics to 'The loneliness of the middle distance runner'? I got a copy of this a few days ago (cheers Stuart!), and I was trying to work them out, but there are bits that still make absolutely no sense the way I hear them. Is it going to be on the next EP? Hope so, it's become one of my favourite B&S songs. Speaking of which, I was listening to '...Sinister' yesterday, and it dawned upon me why I hadn't voted on the fanclub site... as each song started it instantly became my favourite song on the album - for different reasons, the title track because of the lyrics, such wonderful lyrics like '...' oh there's no need to write them down, you know them as well as i do. And the gloriously sad but beautiful 'the boy done wrong again', 'all that i wanted was to sing the saddest song, and if you will sing along, i will be happy..' The emotions i go through in one hearing of the album range right through tears and elation - there's a song for every mood, and it all combines to create a masterpiece of unimaginable beauty. Sorry, i'm blathering now, it's just something really beautiful only comes along every now and again, and sometimes this album hits home so much that i'm just in awe of it. Can anybody tell me about Serge Gainsbourg? - I got a couple of CDs of his a week ago - 'comic strip' and 'le jazz dans le ravin', and I am very impressed by them - it's just I've heard his name mentioned on the list before. These two albums are compilations, I think, but I was wondering if there are any other records that I should get by him? Ah well, I'll be going now then Love, Rob xx P.S. a couple of amusing belle and sebastian anagrams, if you like that sort of thing: Intense baseball ad Absent slain beadle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From psm676 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 10:11:19 1998 From: psm676 at xxx.uk (Paul Macdonald) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:11:19 +0000 Subject: Sinister: PLEASE READ! YOULL BE GLAD YOU DID Message-ID: <160039144DF@novell4.bham.ac.uk> Forwarded mail received from: M-HALSE I don't know if this is a wind up, but if not then enjoy! Date: 02/17/1998 01:33 pm (Tuesday) From: MATTHEW M HALSE To: mj-collins,a3-collins,sc:n-guernion,m-stead,sc:ln-farley, es:dr-rosslee,ak-odonnell,md-milne,p-hobbs,m2-porter,sd-m urdoch, Subject: PLEASE READ! YOULL BE GLAD YOU DID -Forw Forwarded mail received from: ESS:FAS:DTO:PRIMARY:PRIMARY.WPG:"psm676 at novell4.bham.ac.uk" Date: 02/17/1998 10:11 am (Tuesday) From: Paul Macdonald Subject: PLEASE READ! 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England for World Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 14:08:36 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:08:36 -0000 Subject: Sinister: ummm.. Tuesday poem? Message-ID: <199802171406.OAA23756@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Regular viewers may have noticed that there was no poem yesterday, and foolishly presumed that I, like, forgot or something. Zut alors! In fact I was respecting sarah's student march by holding my own one day poetry strike. Nary a metaphor nor a metonym crossed my electronic picket line... The old list is getting a bit quiet again, n'est ce pas? A couple of promising threads, tho'... PE Teachers: For too long have we meekly accepted the propaganda that PE teachers are "hard, but fair" Bullet Baxter-from-Grange-Hill-types. My teacher, Mr Biggerstaff, once fractured my mate Derek's skull with a hockey ball, and is now wanted in three countries. Also, someone starting a fanzine mentioned bus trips. I think we oughta start ink-travelogues, like polaroids, but about your favourite routemaster journey. Having moved to SE London, where the underground is but a vague rumour, my life has been immeasureably improved by the 188 which takes me from the mean streets of Bermondsey over Waterloo bridge every morning. It's wonderful... Enough blather This week's poem is by James Tate. He's American, has won the Pulitzer prize, and is a kind of goofball surrealist, along the lines of Joseph Cornell or Donald Barthelme. His selected poems are published in the UK by carcanet, and are terrific. In no way does the melancholy of this poem reflect the fact that the only Valentines I got last Saturday were emails... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Tate Coda Love is not worth so much; I regret everything. Now on our backs in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the stars are falling into our cracked eyes. With my good arm I reach for the sky, and let the air out of the moon. It goes whizzing off to shrivel and sink in the ocean. You cannot weep; I cannot do anything that once held an ounce of meaning for us. I cover you with pine needles. When morning comes, I will build a cathedral around our bodies. And the crickets, who sing with their knees, will come there in the night to be sad, when they can sing no more. ------------------------------------------------- Stephen xxxxxxx Chairman of the official "Unholy Trinity" fanclub (London chapter) The Poetry Society Website: http://www.poetrysoc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 13:11:48 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:11:48 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S activities? Message-ID: <01bd3ba5$9a4ecca0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening >to their records? >11.00am- Wake up. >11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. >12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. >15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. >15.30pm- Return library books. >16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. >17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. >17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. >20.00pm- Watch The Bill. Hmmm, I'm afraid pools full of money and the like are not altogether likely to be true. However returning library books seems perhaps feasible. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 17 14:32:27 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:32:27 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: PLEASE READ! YOULL BE GLAD YOU DID In-Reply-To: <160039144DF@novell4.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Paul Macdonald wrote: > Forwarded mail received from: M-HALSE > > I don't know if this is a wind up, but if not then enjoy! Date: 02/17/1998 01:33 pm (Tuesday) > From: MATTHEW M HALSE It's a pathetic wind-up and has been circulating for ages - jams up email like all crap hoaxes. Please don't put any more stuff like this on the list and *please* don't send it on for the good of the poor old jammed up Internet and mail servers like mine everywhere. Don't actually know how it got on the list in the first place. Honey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 14:41:33 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:41:33 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Brick Supply Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F835@RMF1> What the hell is Brick Supply?!! i,m sorry that I haven't been paying attention here but this has been mentioned far too frequently now. Huw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 14:14:15 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:14:15 -0000 Subject: Sinister: 6th form shite Message-ID: <01bd3bae$53f47580$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Hmmm, sorry Sarah, still think Manics stuff is shite, I have listened to it, I'm not just judging from outwards appearances, I've read almost all their interviews since from when they started too, and I think they're great like that, I still just don't like the band though. No 6th form shite in Belle and Sebastian, there's nothing pretentious floats around there - no sly references to Willem de Kooning or the like, at least, none which are not used in a damning way (c.f. Le Pastie) Still "Until I believe in my soul" by Dexy's is top, again, no "intelligent" reference points, just kind of what Kevin Rowland's good at, being very straight forward. Will love that record till the day I die. Oops, just remembered Burn it Down's stuffed full of references. Never mind, it's got a top brass break. That's what makes sense to me really, a lot of black music works this way, just being completely straight down the line, no need to have some prior knowledge of something to make sense of it which I like, cause it means it's likely to appeal to a broader range of people, not just rich kids who attended public schools in the south of England. There is the argument that it could get you interested in certain things which does hold some weight too, but personally I love the way Marvin Gaye says "War is hell, when will it end, when will people get together again". It's just a fucking great feeling. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Tue Feb 17 14:29:13 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:29:13 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk questions Message-ID: <34E99EB9.4FC8@earthlink.net> Finally! Ms. Roberta McKay of Florida, USA was kind enough to tape Tigermilk and the BBC sessions for me, so now I know what all of you are talking about. Relatively speaking... I do like Tigermilk. A lot. But I'm mostly impressed with the new stuff, the sessions. "Sleep the Clock Around" is unbelievable. For about a week, I kept rewinding that song over and over. Then, the next week was spent listening to "Slow Graffiti" over and over. If those songs are any indication, the new album will render all other albums unlistenable. I do have some questions, for anyone and everyone to answer: Who's doing the lead vocals on "Seymour Stein"? It sure as hell doesn't *sound* like Stuart M...if it is, he's be taking vocal lessons. And who's that sounding like David Bowie on "Modern Rock Song"? Is there anyplace where I can get complete lyrics to the sessions stuff? Or is no one touching that yet? Once again, I've forgotten all of the other questions I had. Some other time, maybe... ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Tue Feb 17 15:45:56 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:45:56 +0100 Subject: Sinister: timewarp Message-ID: As you can see I am from many years ago, 42, to be precise. I have yet to experience the delights of all these bands that people discuss daily here. It is only by a miracle of science that I am able to talk to you all in this way..... oh no I am losing the connection . I will be sent back to the future. Goddamn stupid machine. Trinity college may pride itself in being an old institution but surely this is going a bit too far!!!! I'm bored. Anyone fancy a chat??? claire, (-19 years old) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 16:18:00 1998 From: C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk (C Browning) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:18:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: p.e. teachers Message-ID: on the bizarre recent thread of psychopathic p.e. teachers i had one when i was seven who refused to believe i couldn't swim. was convinced it was a wee fib and so promptly picked me up by my arms, pulled me along the pool to teh deep end and promptly discarded me into the deep end. it was only when i singularly failed to resurface that he thought better of his cynicism and leapt in to save me. i would save his embarrassment and not reveal his name. i'm not usually a vindictive sort, but what the hell - he deserves it! mr ewing. american chap. terrible mullett and moustache. avoid the man. though i tend to have kept quiet on this list, due to workloads and stresses, you are still teh most singularly entertaining and interesting people i have met for a long long time. all of you. thanks for making my life less dull! see ya chris "i get by, got a lot on my mind i get by, got allotments on my mind" half man half biscuit - turned up, clocked on, laid off ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 00:22:55 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:22:55 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: tigermilk questions Message-ID: <34EA29DF.F68@yahoo.com> >Who's doing the lead vocals on "Seymour Stein"? It sure as hell doesn't >*sound* like Stuart M...if it is, he's be taking vocal lessons. stevie >And who's that sounding like David Bowie on "Modern Rock Song"? don't know who you mean here (david bowie?) but generally if it's not stuart m and it's not isobel than it's stevie (unless it's spoken in which case it's stuart d). oh, except on wednesdays when there's a full moon in which case it alternates between richard the drummer and salman rushdie... >Is there anyplace where I can get complete lyrics to the sessions stuff? >Or is no one touching that yet? that bit that gets added to every single list message, the url in there, have you tried that? because if it's not there then it doesn't exist, unless it's in the mail archives which you can search through from the link (i'm pretty sure 'slow graffiti' has been done but not 'sleep the clock around'). probably easiest just to listen to the tape and work them out for yourself... andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Tue Feb 17 17:08:57 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:08:57 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Achoo! References: Message-ID: <34E9C3A4.697@pop.nci.nih.gov> Bless for the tuesday poem! i was cheered greatly from the rainy dismal dc weather with a wee bit of eec to brighten this horrible nasty day. so i had a question that perhaps someone who can hear tigermilk better than myself can answer. in expections, what does he sing before "you're a star you'll go far" .. is it "you're a jewel" ? oh the perils of my shoddy hearing go on. ta again for the little eec poem. until we meet again, -stinky monchichi (thaian) x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gwood at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 16:57:38 1998 From: gwood at xxx.uk (Gerard Wood) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:57:38 GMT Subject: Sinister: Manix / Decsy's In-Reply-To: <01bd3bae$53f47580$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: At 2:14 pm +0000 17/2/98, Keith Watson wrote: >Hmmm, sorry Sarah, still think Manics stuff is shite, I have listened to it, >I'm not just judging from outwards appearances, I've read almost all their >interviews since from when they started too, and I think they're great like >that, I still just don't like the band though. > > Still "Until I believe in my soul" by Dexy's is top, again, no >"intelligent" reference points, just kind of what Kevin Rowland's good at, >being very straight forward. Will love that record till the day I die. >Oops, just remembered Burn it Down's stuffed full of references. Never mind, >it's got a top brass break. I hope you don't mind me writing.... I'm very much with Keith here. My reason for not being a fan of the Manics is simply that I don't like the music, and I'm afraid a good lyric alone does not make a good song in my book. Although the reverse case can be quite different. "There There My Dear" also has one or two references, doesn't it? If you can understand them (!). That song has a great lyrical approach - it was written as a letter, and sentences were then hacked about to get it to fit to the melody. The song words don't exactly make sense (at least grammatically), but it makes for a superb song. I love Dexy's, me. waltzer Gez. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 17 16:34:40 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:34:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister: postcard injustice Message-ID: <01bd3bc1$f1da89c0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Musicman Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: martes 17 de febrero de 1998 3:16 Asunto: Sinister: b&s->pavement is their any web page generally perceived to be the >best/most comprehensive? Not in my opinion, mainly because it doesn't change very often due to its author's neverending search for Columbo videos. Another major fault is the fact that they still haven't used my entry to the postcard competition from ages ago, so I'm sulking a bit. It is a treasured saucy seaside postcard depicting a pregnant lady at the doctor's. "Have you had a check-up, miss?" askd the doctor. "No doctor, I think he came from Spain" replies the young lady, much to the doctor's evident surprise. All the websites are easily reached from Paul's website, which can be reached by clicking below. Unless you're offline. They are all worth a look. My personal favourite is the lemur one. The most comprehensive is probably the lovely Andy Dean's massive archive of articles, interviews, sound samples and photos from the videos. You can also find out how Andy got on when he went to Scotland with some American girls on the train to see Belle and Sebastian. Anyway, I daresay the perpetrators of the various websites can blow their own trumpets better than I ever could. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 17 16:19:40 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:19:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Shower / Favour. Message-ID: <01bd3bbf$d992a2a0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: MATTHEW M STEAD Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: lunes 16 de febrero de 1998 22:37 Asunto: Sinister: Favour. >I'm really sorry to be such an awkward idiot but I really need a >big favour. I've just got back with my ex-girlfriend Laura and I >really want to do something special to show that I can be >romantic. In the absence of crab stories I am going to attempt to answer the above query at the same time as Susannah's thoroughly laudable appeal for school shower anecdotes.... I have vivid memories of a classmate pulling back his pre-pubescent foreskin in the showers, brandishing his knob and shouting "Look Miller, I'm giving me bollock a good wash!" And they claim that "Titanic" is a good film! This message remains unsigned for fear of legal action. Check that address...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.....would Cliff approve? SEND! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 17 14:20:23 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:20:23 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Oh Deary Deary Me. Message-ID: <01bd3baf$2f55a720$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Adrian Evans Para: 'Sinster' ; 'sarah at elsato97.demon.co.uk' Fecha: lunes 16 de febrero de 1998 12:18 Asunto: Sinister: Oh Deary Deary Me. You are right it is disgusting, but in recent years people like myself have merely been a glove puppet with a politicians arm up yer jacksy. You are right to moan to your local authority, if only more people would...but the blame lies firmly on Whitehall. Sorry to get me arse in me hand ! -- That's quite all right Adrian, an arse in the hand is worth two in the bush. How about lightening our load by giving us an update on the squashed hedgehog situation in Devon? It's been quite a while now, and it's something that affects us all, not like all this studenty hargey-bargey how's your father. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From initgrl at xxx.org Tue Feb 17 17:40:41 1998 From: initgrl at xxx.org (jj heldmann) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:40:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: p.e. teachers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, C Browning wrote: > on the bizarre recent thread of psychopathic p.e. teachers i had one when i I still vividly remember my 6th grade p.e. teacher, Bill Finneyfrock. He was on the Charlotte soccer, er football to most of you, team and if anyone was talking or messing about in a manner which he didn't like, a soccer ball would come whizzing at your head with incredible speed. I hated him and nearly failed gym class when I said "FUCK YOU FINNEYFROCK!" one afternoon after he riled me up. Good thing the nuns weren't around :) Yikes, i just did an altavista search on him and it looks like he's still coaching/teaching PE in Charlotte. Poor kids. xo jj ******************************************** fantastic po box 4492 ann arbor mi 48106 usa www.mindspring.com/~initialgirl/fantastic ******************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Tue Feb 17 18:15:53 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 18:15:53 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S Internet Chat Message-ID: <34E9D3D9.E3B19FB2@virgin.net> I know that Paul has already posted most of this info, but here's the press release. If anyone has a web-site, it would be much apprecioated if you could run a link with this news from your site to the fanclub site ... the more people the merrier! Cheers, Katrina. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 18:51:10 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:51:10 -0800 Subject: Sinister: postcard injustice Message-ID: The most comprehensive is probably >the lovely Andy Dean's massive archive of articles, interviews, sound >samples and photos from the videos. You can also find out how Andy got on >when he went to Scotland with some American girls on the train to see Belle >and Sebastian. Humph. I'm never invited to anything fun. No fun at all. Hey, Andy....if I can come next time i'll bring the shandy....whadya say? pah. no fun at all. beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 17 18:49:36 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:49:36 +0100 Subject: Sinister: re: white horses Message-ID: <01bd3bd4$cb645e20$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: andrew dean Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: martes 17 de febrero de 1998 11:51 Asunto: Sinister: re: white horses The lovely Andy Dean didn't know what he was starting when he wrote: >no, the song on the end of that tape is 'white horses' by Jacky (and i >know, i put it there!). it was a hit in the late 60s and is a theme tune >to a kids' tv show about, duh!, white horses that aired in the early 70s >on bbc tv, saturday mornings before whatever 'live and kicking' was >called in those days. As I recall, there wasn't anything like Live and Kicking on BBC until Multi.Coloured Swap Shop opened its doors for business (which bloody well reminds me, Trousers, where the dickens has the Monday poem got to? That didn't last very long did it?), it was just a collection of kid's programmes such as Zorro, The Flashing Blade and the Banana Splits (which was in itself a forerunner of the Swap Shop format) with the odd cartoon (have you ever noticed that whenever you put a group of people in a room together they always end up talking about Northy?), followed by an Abbot and Costello film. Over on ATV they were way ahead of the pack with Tiswas, which always used to finish with an episode of Tarzan. Featuring Jai, who later, as Kurtis Blow, played a major role in the development of hip hop. My brother's wife has got the original "White Horses" single. A couple of years ago I underwent lengthy negotiations with her to get it. All went well, and eventually she bequeathed me her entire vinyl collection except....White Horses. So I was left with a pile of Imagination and Police LPs that none of the secondhand shops in Nottingham were willing to take off my hands. There is a moral to this story somewhere. The Flashing Blade had an even better theme tune. Occasionally they showed that Jerry Lewis film where he plays the part of an alien who can't kiss anybody without his nose bending. No wonder the French consider him a genius . My lamp has broken. Is that a good enough excuse to sit here spouting shite instead of working? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 00:59:21 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:59:21 -0800 Subject: Sinister: p.e. Message-ID: <34EA3269.17EF@earthlink.net> in about three days, someone will write in and say something to the effect of "could we please lay off the p.e. stories please? this list is supposed to be about belle and sebastian". but until then, here's my p.e. story............ we had this coach named coach ford. he was about 60 years old and he liked to wear really short shorts. and his nutsac kept falling out whenever he walked or bent over or basically moved, so one day i laughed at him and told him we could all see his nuts and he sent me to get a paddling. so i walked around the school for a while and came back holding my ass going "ooooh" like i was in pain. and his nuts were still hanging out. that's my story. he also had this really old toyota something or other that a bunch of us would get together and tip over on special occasions. he'd get really pissed because he couldn't set it back up right on his own so he'd have to go and call other teachers to help him and he'd get all upset. and he called the bigger guys "big tackle" and the girls "catfish". i'm not sure about the catfish remark. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From benjamin at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 20:34:44 1998 From: benjamin at xxx.com (_____) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:34:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: the debilitating effects of chumbawamba In-Reply-To: Message-ID: No effects have been empirically discerned from Chumbawumba going over to the side of capital, except that every single major movie that isn't Titanic uses "Tubthumping" in its trailer. Apparently that song is played continually at ice hockey games as well. To be honest anything that evangelizes the practice of pub singing to my fellow americans is something I cannot quibble with. When drunk, the best my countrymen can muster is "Bye Bye Miss American Pie," except for New Years, when they "sing" the first line of "Auld Lang Syne." Fuck it to that plan to make people pay for university, by the way. The main result in the US since the end of the post-war policy of socializing tuition has been the stratification of the universities into very rigid tiers, where movement of twats into the upper middle class is held up as a trophy: "see, we're meritocratic!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 17 20:50:56 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:50:56 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: p.e. In-Reply-To: <34EA3269.17EF@earthlink.net> Message-ID: Don't fret about catfish, Brad. My second grade PE teacher, a large black man with a mustache whose name I've forgotted, called all of the boys hot dogs and all of the girls hamburgers. The implications of these creepy terms are self-evident. He was fired mid-year, quite mysteriously. Later, I had a music teacher in Japan who had a handlebar mustache, super-gelled wavy hair, and small glasses. He was very mean and frightening. He was known as Mr. Vacey. I am still in search of people besides my little brother, my best friend, and I who are haunted by memories of Mr. Vacey and his booming tenor so that we can form some sort of support group. Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 21:07:07 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:07:07 -0800 Subject: Sinister: press release and stuff Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030CD73A@amerwksnt01.xil.com> Oh dear I just took a gander at the Jeepster press release, and got and eyeful (or five pages, anyway) of "AAAAAAAA" Nevermind, I'm sure it's a problem with my computer.. Haha! loved your letter re: the fanclub, Leeann Which brings me back to this: Where are you all hiding sweetie darlings? There are obviously other listees in California (pronounced "cal-if-fore-NYE-aye" like in that on song of theirs... which one was it?) but I have never ever in real life run into anybody who has even heard of Belle and Sebastian? So where ARE y'all?? Hmmm I read somewhere that Mark Eitzel lives in my neighborhood...maybe I should track him down... sadly I don't think i'd recognize the man if I tripped over him "Don't Look Back" was very interesting, thought I admit I am such a poseur, having not even heard of the film before "Like Dylan in the movies". But that's alright, isn't it? If the band can influence people like me to seek out a film or what not.... or perhaps I really am just a saddoe... Lines from songs... oh some of my faves have already been used!! Like the line from "Beautiful" about being slightly mental. "Fill your head up with things you like" from Kenickie is a current favorite, also one from another of their songs which goes: "We don't have time to be sad!" enough from me, love tarabelle the parappa. OH!! I just remembered something actually relevent to the band!!! Whilst record shopping yesterday, I went into Reckless Records on Haight Street, and their #2 selling release for the week was "IYFS". way to go... we rule the school.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 21:29:47 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:29:47 GMT Subject: Sinister: Always look on the runway for ice In-Reply-To: <199802171532.PAA25179@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802171532.PAA25179@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34ecfc65.2030517@email.mcmail.com> Paul MacDonald wrote: >Man U for European Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >England for World Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take this evil man off the list. He is Satan. He eats children and enjoys 'pleasuring' farmyard animals. It's a scientifically proven fact. And only psychopaths use that many exclamation marks. And glory hunters. Sorry but I deleted Sinister Digest 70 in a fit of pique when I read the above, so I can't remember who was asking about Serge Gainsbourg. All I can say is buy the 'Comic Strip' compilation as a first step and take it from there. He was a bit like God, only pervier, and with better clothes, lyrics and tunes. And he was French. I don't think God was French, or else Eric Cantona would never have been allowed to happen. My games teacher used to call me a 'little rusty yobbo'. I liked that, and I've aspired to it ever since. Sinister Digest 71 was full of gibberish. I don't understand. I just saw a Canadian film called 'Twilight of the Ice Nymphs', but sadly it wasn't about Genevieve. That's all, I'm going to the pub. Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Tue Feb 17 20:31:38 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:31:38 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Help Message-ID: Help me. Everyone talks about Tigermilk and I still havn't heard it! Is it possible that anyone could send me a copy. I'm getting desperate now! Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Tue Feb 17 22:29:09 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:29:09 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Music Stuff Message-ID: <34EA0E8F.4D4F@pop.nci.nih.gov> ooh lemme make this a habit cos it feels so good it's gotta be right. tara said : Where are you all hiding sweetie darlings? There are obviously other listees in California (pronounced "cal-if-fore-NYE-aye" like in that on song of theirs... which one was it?) that would be "we rule the school" ... (isnt the flute part so gorgeous?) take care all you beautifulous people out there. (things are still damp in dc, but my spirits are still lifted by hopes of nice fuzzy people receiving this email!) -thaian (stinky monchichi) xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 17 22:34:57 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:34:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B&S Internet Chat In-Reply-To: <34E9D3D9.E3B19FB2@virgin.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Jeepster Recordings Ltd wrote: > I know that Paul has already posted most of this info, but here's the > press release. Here's the press release in text format for those who can't read Word format :) In general attachements are not encouraged as (a) lots of people can't see them (b) they're big and (c) they confuse people like Tag who just see lots of bluuurggghhh in the digest. But for Katrina we make an exception. Cos I got a birthday card from David and Katrina today with a Honeybear badge. Belle and Sebastian to participate in an Internet Chat on Thursday 12th March 1998 @ 2pm (GMT) Belle and Sebastian will be holding an IRC chat for the media and fans on the Virgin Net server, in between putting the final touches to their third, as yet untitled, album. This will be a moderated chat with an open forum for anyone to join in and ask the elusive band members what their deepest darkest secrets are. We expect that all the band members will participate in this novel interviewing situation and, despite the time differences, this will be a totally international event with fans and journalists joining in from all over the world. The chat will be logged so that a full transcript of the on-line conversation will be available on the Internet within a couple of days. All details for downloading software and joining the chat can be found on the Belle and Sebastian Official Fan-club website at http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/. Any questions or problems regarding the software or the format for the chat should be directed by e-mail to David at bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk or by phone to Katrina at Jeepster on 0181 964 9432. Many thanks must go to Andy @ Virgin Net, David Kitchen @ the B&S Fan club and Honey @ the Sinister Mailing List for their help in co-ordinating this event. We hope to see you there! 1 VAT No: 677 8927 56 Registered Office and Accounts Department: PO Box 107 Winchester SO22 5ZH Tel: 01962 869288 Fax: 01962 850195 e-mail: jeepster.win at virgin.net Jeepster JEEPSTER RECORDINGS LIMITED Unit 217 Canalot Production Studios 222 Kensal Road London W10 5BN Tel: 0181 964 9432/34 Fax: 0181 964 8600 E-mail: jeepster.uk at virgin.net VAT No: 677 8927 56 Registered Office and Accounts Department: PO Box 107 Winchester SO22 5ZH Tel: 01962 869288 Fax: 01962 850195 E-mail: jeepster.win at virgin.net From TWidmer at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 22:41:20 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:41:20 -0800 Subject: Sinister: i kid you not Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030CD764@amerwksnt01.xil.com> Something else kinda cool that I'd forgotten, the funniest thing happened this morning when I opened my eyes, as literally the first thought through my mind was, "From the first moment of waking up, she knows she's losing it, oh yeah she's losing it."!! hehe, love t-belle other "life" lyrics: "it's up to us to change" from "A town called malice" by the jam and "when you're alone and life is making lonely you can always go downtown" or however it goes, cos whenever I feel sad I go shopping in union square ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From leslie.chinea at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 16:57:00 1998 From: leslie.chinea at xxx.com (leslie chinea) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:57:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Autour De Lucie Message-ID: <00025844.4556@emimusic.com> Anyone who will be in the vicinity of New York City next Tuesday is invited to the following: AUTOUR DE LUCIE will be performing a special acoustic performance on Tuesday, February 24th at Luna Lounge 171 Ludlow Street Admission is FREE the band will perform at 9PM and party afterwards. B&S CONTENT: Anyone who seeks me out (Hint: I will be wearing B&S badges) will be eligible to win a B&S Ink Polaroid's book if they answer some B&S trivia correctly. C-ya! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Tue Feb 17 23:41:15 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 18:41:15 EST Subject: Sinister: teddy bears and chocolate milk Message-ID: <94602f8b.34ea201d@aol.com> as of now i cannot think of anything to say about anything Belle and sebastian related for there has not been anything new from them that i've seen. nor has there been any news. thus, i feel as if i should mention that i really don't like chumbawamba all that much(if that's how you spell it). i heard a few cuts off of their new album and they just are not all that appealing. every track has been done before by a million other bands, and done better. in addition, "everything must go" was voted best album of 1996 i think it was by Q, it's a good album and all, but not the best one i heard that year. what about the Verve Pipe? what about Matchbox 20? in short, i think i am just rambeling on about how much of American contemporary rock/pop music is wretched. give me a break, it just sucks. of course there are a few exceptions; beck, ben folds, rem....but in short, it goes without saying, british bands today are ahead in the 'ol game. for every shitty american band, you can name 30 great english ones. byebye. y ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From hanspi at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 00:00:28 1998 From: hanspi at xxx.net (Hans Peter) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:00:28 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Mavens of P.E. Message-ID: <34EA2494.6815@lancnews.infi.net> It is odd that so many of us seem to have had a brush with a freaky P.E. man and that these P.E. men all have fitting names. Mine was a jowly giant named Ken Sapp. He was a towering figure with wide jaws and loose cheeks, adapted for overeating. Sapp would randomly gather the class in a circle, raise his hands, and proclaim "Let us go down on one knee," at which point he would fake a kneel himself and stand over us. As we knelt at his oversized Pumas, he would stroll before us, scratching his chin and nodding. Then, satisfied, he would say "Dismissed." Sapp's real quirk, though, was his insistence on having boys take showers. He went so far as to inspect our hair and towels for dampness. Once, he brought a stool into the shower because he was sure certain boys weren't showering. The boys, who were too embarrassd to shower in public, were were forced to shower in front of the giant as he squatted in the corner. Sapp was later fired for pummeling a poor boy who refused to shower. My apologies for straying from the subject at hand. HP **What is the meaning of SPAWNY GIT? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood Tue Feb 17 00:45:10 1998 From: Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood (Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood) Date: 17 Feb 1998 00:45:10 GMT Subject: No subject Message-ID: <0.566874940@andyclin.exnet.com> clem lane wrote: ""so for those of us geographically-challenged folks who've only heard the B&S Radio Sessions via tape, can any kind soul tell me the recording dates?"" The first of the two BBC Radio One Mark Radcliffe Show sessions was broadcast live, some time in the first half of '96, when Radcliffe was on holiday, and Mark Lamarr was the stand in DJ. I'd like to know the date! The second of the two BBC Radio One Mark Radcliffe Show sessions was broadcast live on 02/12/96. The BBC Radio One "Evening Session" session was recorded in advance, and one track was broadcast on each day of 08/09/97 to 11/09/97. I believe there was a single track broadcast live on the Evening Session a few weeks before this. Does anyone have info on any Scottish radio sessions, or any other ones, for that matter? P.S.The Loving Spoonful are another of those groups like 10cc and Come, named after the male human ejaculate. Just thought you'd like to know! Cheers Rocker, rocker at andyclin.exnet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 01:27:05 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:27:05 -0500 Subject: Sinister: New Order Reforming? Message-ID: <34EA38E9.3BAA@ix.netcom.com> Crank up the rumour mill. I got this from a web site called PA Press. Are they legit? Sam FIRST DATE IN FIVE YEARS FOR NEW ORDER Chart-topping band New Order have announced they are to perform together again this summer for the first time in five years - their only show this year. The quartet, who have been on ice while members concentrated on careers with other bands, are one of the headline acts at the Phoenix Festival, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, from July 16 to 19. Speculation had been rife that New Order would not perform together again as the four members pursued their own projects. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 04:45:55 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:45:55 EST Subject: Fwd: Sinister: teddy bears and chocolate milk Message-ID: <316d4f1b.34ea6785@aol.com> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bradford Subject: Re: Sinister: teddy bears and chocolate milk Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 01:29:12 -0800 Size: 1298 URL: From Lzylnepntr at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 04:49:32 1998 From: Lzylnepntr at xxx.com (Lzylnepntr at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:49:32 EST Subject: Sinister: teddy bears and cocoa milk revisited Message-ID: no, i just think i didnt really make myself clear. i know that there are a trillion(?) great american bands an whatnot, it's just that everywhere i turn i see "VERVE PIPE'this and "MATCHBOX 20" that, and when i hear it, my ears start to bleed. even my kid brother has fallen to the teenybopper music. in fact, much of ct has fallen into it. dave Mathews this...not that he's all that bad, but get over it, it's not the greatest thing i heard...shit, i actually have no clue as to what i want to say. cripey. anyhow, basically i just want to say that when you hear american radio these days, it's littered with filth that's called music and it's sorta sad. i play people beele and sebastian, suede, pulp.....etc....etc...and they dont even give it a chance cuz it doesnt sound like shit california "ska" influenced crap..ie...smash mouth or like dmb or like matchbox 20. in short, my message is matchbox 20 suck. verve pipe suck. smash mouth suck. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ahalter at xxx.edu Wed Feb 18 06:21:07 1998 From: ahalter at xxx.edu (ahalter) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:21:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: an apology to the people whom i told i would make tapes for Message-ID: hmm bad grammar i ended that with a preposition... at any rate i would like to sincerely apologise to the people i promised to send tapes to right away... you see the thing is that i am an art student and my big show for senior seminar is next week = it opens on monday to be precise my grade for the class is based mainly on this show and its a project that i have been working on for 8 months and so i am a bit nervous and scrambling around trying to finish it and prep the gallery etc... so i have been far too lax in this taping business... but i _promise_ that as soon as my show is up i will be sending tapes out like mad and everything will be sent by the 1st of march... i really truly do promise this... i am really quite sorry i am not usually this flaky about things... hullo to other list people who are reading this and have no idea what i am speaking of... it was beautiful here today in los angeles and i went skipping about... and then i went swing dancing at night... i am not sure if this is a popular activity in other countries but for some reason its taking the us by storm especially the coastal cities... so i am sitting here a slightly flushed from dancing american girl who spent the evening running from the lecherous advances of a spurious boy with a ponytail who will constantly tell me 'no allison youre doing that _wrong_' when really i can do it quite right with any otehr partner and wondering what people tihnk of that and trying to scheme a way to the uk this summer as well... hoorah! i apologise also because this really is quite unrelated to belle and sebastian things... its just about me... love and kisses allison ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Jeni421 at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 09:04:39 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 04:04:39 EST Subject: Sinister: Re:Teddy bears and cocoa milk Message-ID: <1b12818a.34eaa42a@aol.com> I a recent post, you wrote:"anyhow, basically i just want to say that when you hear american radio these days, it's littered with filth that's called music and it's sorta sad. i play people beele and sebastian, suede, pulp.....etc....etc...and they dont even give it a chance cuz it doesnt sound like shit california "ska" influenced crap..ie...smash mouth or like dmb or like matchbox 20." What about No Doubt? Yukkkkkky! I couldn't agree more with you, American radio music is utter shite. I just don't listen to radio (unless I'm in one of my classical or jazz moods.)But I've been a bit more lucky and have played IYFS out at this bar I frequent a couple of times only to find some people nodding their head to it and looking like they enjoy it. I've even had several people ask who it was playing and they wrote down the name. Good luck spreading the word wherever you are because if some people respond to it in the state of Tennessee, then chances are there will be more other places who do as well, if not more so! Preach on, Brothers and Sisters!:) Jeni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 10:00:36 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:00:36 -0000 Subject: Sinister: On the 13th Day of Christmas.... Message-ID: <01BD3C54.10DD4D20@pc07628> >Peter Miller wrote : >That's quite all right Adrian, an arse in the hand is worth two in the bush. >How about lightening our load by giving us an update on the squashed >hedgehog situation in Devon? It's been quite a while now, and it's something >that affects us all, not like all this studenty hargey-bargey how's your >father. You are a very very sick man....second only to me I'm afraid. Just for you Peter, this weeks helping frm the Motorway Maintenance Unit here in Devon. On the first day of xmas...blah blah blah... 7 Badgers 1 Swan..........1 SWAN !!! Like you can't tell the fucking difference between a road and a river...DOH ! Never liked swans...evil bastards. 2 Dogs...always a family choker. 1 Deer and....2 Foxes. A remarkably Sinister friendly week !! Also.. 2 oil spillages and 1 ladder....A ladder ! I ask you. How in God's name do you lose a ladder on the M5 ? And what happened to the bloke/bird driving behind the vehicle from which said ladder slipped its moorings ? Never mind. -- Adrian. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And mercy no more could be If all were happy as we. William Blake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 18:40:54 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:40:54 -0800 Subject: Sinister: uk kids tv, session dates, tigermilk, list crushes... Message-ID: <34EB2B36.539A@yahoo.com> p miller: >As I recall, there wasn't anything like Live and Kicking on BBC until >Multi.Coloured Swap Shop opened its doors for business, it was just a >collection of kid's programmes such as Zorro, The Flashing Blade and the >Banana Splits yeah, i thought white horses was a bit before the swap shop type stuff. wasn't sure though. what i do remember (apart from the flashing blade and robinson crusoe) were the two or three informative sport type things, little educational things to teach you how to ride horses(?), swim or, and this was the oddest, fence... rocker at andyclin.exnet.com >The second of the two BBC Radio One Mark Radcliffe Show sessions was >broadcast live on 02/12/96. (NB, english date format) are you sure? i have it down as being in early november - i first saw them live on the 11th november and *think* i remember having heard 'modern rock song' before then - he asked for a local equivalent of 'easterhouse' for inclusion in the lyrics. oh, and the evening session tracks were repeated in december, exact dates will be in the mail archives somewhere. allison: >so i am sitting >here a slightly flushed from dancing american girl who spent the evening >running from the lecherous advances of a spurious boy with a ponytail ... >and trying to scheme a way to the uk this summer as well... >hoorah! >i apologise also because this really is quite unrelated to belle and >sebastian things... its just about me... but hey, allison, that's ok cos it was interesting and has the same FEEL as a B&S song. i'd much rather read posts like this than posts asking if some press release about new order is to be believed. i mean, how relevant is that? and why does he think WE'd know, the buttmunch... he's not the only one either. MATTHEW M STEAD (M-STEAD at wpg.uwe.ac.uk) >Help me. Everyone talks about Tigermilk and I still havn't heard >it! Is it possible that anyone could send me a copy. I'm getting >desperate now! you're getting desperate NOW? 18 months after the album was released? go and read the archives (just the last couple of weeks will do) before sending another request for the list... tag: >I just saw a Canadian film called 'Twilight of the Ice Nymphs', but >sadly it wasn't about Genevieve. are there any other list crushes that people want to divulge? 8) oh, and watch 'the conversation' on tv (UK) this weekend. pity it clashes with both 'before sunrise' and 'red sorghum' though... and 'this morning with richard not judy'... andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 10:54:04 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:54:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: uk kids tv, session dates, tigermilk, list crushes... In-Reply-To: <34EB2B36.539A@yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, andrew dean wrote: > yeah, i thought white horses was a bit before the swap shop type stuff. > wasn't sure though. what i do remember (apart from the flashing blade > and robinson crusoe) were the two or three informative sport type > things, little educational things to teach you how to ride horses(?), > swim or, and this was the oddest, fence... Oh hell, breaking my own relevance rule a smidge, but for old gits like me if you go to: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~bandc/a.wiseman/625/index.htm you will be filled with nostalgia for "Jo and Petunia: Acceptance of the Country Code" and "Charley Says". For you young things and non UK types, probably better to go and do something else. *Except* that you will find the finest collection of BBC testcards anywhere on the planet and the dramatically wonderful "Invasion of the Web Snatchers" which really is worth a read. > are there any other list crushes that people want to divulge? 8) Yes, I fancy the whole friggin lot of you. H xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 09:29:04 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:29:04 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B+S Session Dates Message-ID: <01bd3c4f$a7947810$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >The first of the two BBC Radio One Mark Radcliffe Show sessions was broadcast >live, some time in the first half of '96, when Radcliffe was on holiday, and >Mark Lamarr was the stand in DJ. I'd like to know the date! Nah, it was like around September 1996, cause me and my friends heard the new songs just before seeing them at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow - I can't remember the exact date I'm afraid. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 18 10:25:06 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:25:06 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Nick Drake Message-ID: <01bd3c57$7c672e00$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Huw Jenkins Para: 'sinister at majordomo.net' Fecha: martes 17 de febrero de 1998 18:31 Asunto: Sinister: Nick Drake >Dear List, > I was told by a friend last night, whilst trying to introduce >him to B&S, that Nick Drake sounds a lot like them. somebody else >mentioned, earlier, something to do with Nick Drake, I can't remeber who >or what they said as I've deleted the message now but I want to know if >this is true and if anybody out there can send me some Nick Drake stuff >so that I can find out for myself. > This is one those frequently asked questions that I frequently don't answer, but today I'm trying to make up for being rude again. Nick Drake sounds a bit like Belle and Sebastian, but not much. His voice is a bit like Stuart Murdoch's, but rich and full and in tune. He also played guitar in a way likely to impress elderly people. The lyrics are completely different, considerably less "fun" than B&S. To be quite honest I don't think I've ever listened much to his lyrics, apart from "Black Eyed Dog". There is a nice compilation called "Way to Blue", which must be mid-price now. His mum and dad were called Rodney and Molly, and his sister is out of "Crossroads". I hope that is of some help. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 11:41:07 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:41:07 -0000 Subject: Sinister: websites Message-ID: <01bd3c62$1a33b5e0$LocalHost@dell> On martes 17 de febrero de 1998 3:16, Musicman wrote: >All the websites are easily reached from Paul's website Mine can't. It is at http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ and it is fairly crap. But it is going to get better, including a petition to ban scary jeremy paxman from our screens. That was a hint for Paul bye jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 11:01:27 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:01:27 +0800 Subject: Sinister: P.E. teachers Message-ID: <01bd3c5c$8f68a6a0$LocalHost@rclander.netfront.net> As I feel partly responsible for starting this thread I will add my own experience of school days misery. The head of the PE department was called Mr Jolly [honestly!] who was jolly by name but certainly not by nature. He demonstrated to the class how to throw a basketball by throwing it at me. Unfortunately he threw it without warning and it hit me in the face. Another highlight was stopping our group in the middle of a bitterly cold cross country run for a bit of long jumping over the river. After the first few fell in [including myself, I am no star of track and field] he sent Bradley Miller up to jump over next. Brad didn't quite make it, falling in the river and breaking his ankle on a submerged rock in the process. Jolly had to carry him on his back all the way back to school taking several stops to get his breath back on the way to do it. And they say they are the happiest days of your life Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gwood at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 11:58:25 1998 From: gwood at xxx.uk (Gerard Wood) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:58:25 GMT Subject: Sinister: Trembling Blue Stars, NME review Message-ID: TREMBLING BLUE STARS Lips Taste Of Tears (Shinkasen/CD only) EVER SAT CRYING ALL NIGHT OUTSIDE THE Burger King where she said you smell and dumped you for him? Do you appreciate the comedy of Sean Hughes? Own a large collection of cardigans because they're 'comfy and stylish'? Answer 'yes' to any of the above and you are probably already familiar with the work of softius maximus Bob Wratten, ex-Field Mouse dribbler and now Hug Czar as singer of Trembling Blue Stars. You probably sleep with last year's debut album 'Her Handwriting' under your pillow and call it by a pet name. And you will be scared out of your mousy wits by 'Lips That Taste Of Tears'. Hey losers! KABOOM! The Softy Hiroshima has arrived! And Wratten pilots the cardy-pop Enola Gay to perfection. He lures in the unsuspecting wallflowers with a soppy title and the wispy, lispy piano meanderings of opener 'All I Never Said' then WALLOPS them in the face with proper rock tunes, great swathes of spooky Glasto-electro breakbeats and, on 'Made For Each Other', a chest-bursting orchestral chorus that makes Embrace sound like, well, the last Trembling Blue Stars album actually. The 70-odd minutes may be dotted with the odd Lightning Seeds pastiche, and Bob still sings like a neutered Neil Tennant, but even this can't detract from 'Lips...'' achievement. For this is the record that finally drags softy rock out of its bedroom, torches its safety blanket and kicks it into the big world of rock with the challenge to make something epic of itself. It returns in modest triumph. 8/10 Mark Beaumont Review courtesy of NME ------- And if you've got nothing better to do over lunch, try http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/spiceworld/quiz.html ... baby waltzer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 12:28:26 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content Message-ID: Following from Stuart Murdoch, presumably vitally important for one of songs from the new LP... another "go lardy or go lame" song then. Here's a vote for an entirely food-based Belle and Sebastian LP. Can I also ask for an explanation over booths/cubicles/kiosks? I've always wondered what the difference is. Important stuff. Honey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear Paul I wonder if you could post this up on your site. We are trying to contact the person who sent us the dress and the embroidered card at the turn of the year. It fits Isobel very well and I think she wants to thank you. Also, the fellow who sent us the Belle Et Sebastiane ep record from France. We have something for you but I've neglectfully lost your address. A couple of other things. When we are locked in the studio together a topic is sometimes raised that takes on greater and greater importance the more we argue about it. Could you tell us your views on these simple matters? *What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the best? and also *Who is the most famous living person? Lastly, thanks Keith Watson for answering some of the new mailers so nicely. Sincerely Stuart Murdoch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elizondo at xxx.sg Wed Feb 18 21:17:32 1998 From: elizondo at xxx.sg (elizondo at xxx.sg) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:17:32 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980218211732.34ef2c0e@po.pacific.net.sg> unsuscribe sinister!!! "There's nothing more depressing than having everything, and still feeling sad. You must learn to water your spiritual garden...." -janet '97 Visit my homepage at http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~elizondo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Wed Feb 18 12:39:02 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:39:02 -0400 Subject: Sinister: B&S in Q/Do you like American music? Message-ID: <34EAD666.3B5F@earthlink.net> I'm not sure if this has already been discussed, but there was a little sidebar thing in the "new" issue of Q (with Madonna on the cover) that asks folks what they thought of a show they just saw, and one of the shows they ask about was the Sunday B&S show in Manchester. Are Jamie Holborn, Julie Leary, Rob Hargreaves or Tim Hopkins on the list? If'n you are, you now have your picture and comments for Q readers to see. For those of you who just want to read this little bit without buying the magazine, it's in the back with the concert listings. And on another note: > for every shitty american band, > you can name 30 great english ones. And vice versa. Just because your record collection is majority British bands doesn't mean you are somehow required to rag on American bands. There are plenty of great American bands. And what bands sell a ton of records should not be representative of a whole country's music scene. Belle and Sebastian are not exactly on the same level (popularity-wise) in Britain that Matchbox 20 are here. And that Smash Mouth song is brilliant, even if the rest of the album is rotten. Somewhere in England right now, some kid is saying, "British music sucks! The Americans get all the good bands like Ben Folds Five and Soul Coughing and the Roots and we get Hurricane #1 and the Seahorses". ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jposs at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 14:09:48 1998 From: jposs at xxx.com (Justin) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:09:48 -0600 Subject: Sinister: Re: New Order Reforming? References: <34EA38E9.3BAA@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <34EAEBAC.C67D979A@ix.netcom.com> Samiam wrote: > Crank up the rumour mill. I got this from a web site called PA Press. > > Are they legit? > > Sam > > FIRST DATE IN FIVE YEARS FOR NEW ORDER > > My younger brother sent me a similar post last night that was forwarded to him by some one who apparently got it somewhere else. DAmn, I hope its freakin true. Justin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 18 14:18:50 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:18:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Re: Important Stuff: Quizzling Questions Answered! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Can I also ask for an explanation over booths/cubicles/kiosks? a booth should by rights be any enclosed seating area; think a bench with walls that can only be approached from one side and requires the requisite amount of "sliding into". ahem. a cubicle fought hard for distinction to be a desk area complete with swivel-action chair (and accompanying kung-fu grips) found in environments more commonly known as "office"; this too is flanked by walls of sorts on three sides, has an open top for the tall gits of this world. a kiosk is an enclosed vestibule which dispenses of communist propaganda such as "time" and "life", and other pamphlets, magazines--even bars and biscuits. Or, may be any structure (usually cylindrical) which dispenses information of any kind. > *What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit > or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing > line the best? Biscuits are round cookies. Bars are nefarious places of ill-repute which serve the demon alky-hol (badum boom!). Uhm. Biscuits must be round or they are penalized. Bars are straight and narrow thingees. With stuff. and things. I hope this clears it up. > *Who is the most famous living person? Dead easy. I'll not fall for this trick question: Ernest Borgnine. There. Ha. What do I win? fran the sage at the top of the mountain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 14:27:27 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Vzzzzzbx) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:27:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: New Order Reforming? In-Reply-To: <34EA38E9.3BAA@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Samiam wrote: > Crank up the rumour mill. I got this from a web site called PA Press. > Are they legit? if (PA == "The Press Association") it's fairly legit, as they feed the news to most newspapers in the country Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Circumvaculate: v. To remain stationary while vacuuming in a | circle around you ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 18 14:52:40 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:52:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Paul is a bastard Message-ID: <01bd3c7c$dc9e1200$a24d05c3@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Honey Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 18 de febrero de 1998 13:29 Asunto: Re: Sinister: uk kids tv, session dates, tigermilk, list crushes... >Oh hell, breaking my own relevance rule a smidge, but for old gits >like me if you go to: > > http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~bandc/a.wiseman/625/index.htm > >you will be filled with nostalgia for "Jo and Petunia: Acceptance of >the Country Code" and "Charley Says". For you young things and non >UK types, probably better to go and do something else I've just spent about an hour reading this instead of getting some work done. I've even sent in my own memories. Thanks to Adrian for the dead fox update. Thanks to Trousers for this week's poem. Not as good as last week's effort. You censored the lines about the moon making a farty sound and whizzing about the sky before falling into the sea. Thanks to Keith for my fantastic prog rock tape. Thanks to me for completing my entry for the Duke Box Dury competition. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 18 15:05:45 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:05:45 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content Message-ID: <01bd3c7e$b05135e0$a24d05c3@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Honey Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 18 de febrero de 1998 14:58 Asunto: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content Mad Dog Murdoch wrote: >A couple of other things. When we are locked in the studio together a topic is >sometimes raised that takes on greater and greater importance the more we >argue about it. Could you tell us your views on these simple matters? > >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or >bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the >best? I think the problem here stems from the advertisers charged with promoting "Club" in the early to mid seventies. First of all they had us all singing "If you want a lot of choclate on your biscuit, join our club" Just as punk was beginning to take off, they changed it to: "Bar, bar, bar, bar bar of club Bar, bar, bar, bar bar of club" and so on, leaving a generation of chocolate coated snack lovers in a terrible quandry as to what constitutes a bar, and what constitutes a biscuit. After 700 years working in United Biscuits, formerly Meredith and Drew, my dad should know. If not, I'm sure he'll make something up. >*Who is the most famous living person? Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. > >Lastly, thanks Keith Watson for answering some of the new mailers so nicely. > You big puff, Keith. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mneimark at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 14:59:51 1998 From: mneimark at xxx.com (Matthew Neimark) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 06:59:51 PST Subject: Sinister: PE stories Message-ID: <19980218145951.26743.qmail@hotmail.com> I gots two: first is a gym teacher from high school i never personally had, but everyone knew well. He would walk around with sweats and a huge boner and hang around with the prettiest and sluttiest girls at school. Once he pissed off this guy by hitting on his girlfriend, and the guy ran into is shins with his car in the parking lot. Second was a tremendously obese gym teacher I also never had in junior high school. She would sit on a chair and berate students to run faster when we had to run around the field. She said she would outrun us if it weren't for "her knees." matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 15:03:37 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: Important Stuff: Quizzling Questions Answered! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Biscuits are not necessarily round; Nice (not nice) biscuits certainly are never round. Re cubicles etc...Has anybody else ever come across carrells?, which are what we had at our school? C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 13:58:49 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:58:49 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Deep Meaningful Lyrical Content. Message-ID: <01BD3C75.57EAFCA0@pc07628> Greetings each. Well following on from the previous offerings, here goes. My top 8 lyrics that have got me where I am now. 1) "We are here, We are Rons 22. Hear the roar, Of the Red White and Blue...This time more than any other time, this time...We're gonna find a way, find a way to get away this time, Getting it all together...We'll get it right." c.1982 - England World Cup Squad. When football songs were football songs, and Kevin Keegan had a nasty perm. 2) "Oh...We hate Argyle and we hate Argyle, we hate Argyle and we hate Argyle. We hate Argyle and we hate Argyle...We are the Argyle haters. We hate Argyle. We hate Argyle. We hate Argyle." c.Whenever - Various artists, The Cowshed, St James Park, Exeter. Dedicated to Tim Hopkins on away days. 3) " Underground overground Wombleing free, the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" The wombles...1970 something through 1980 something....probably. It's the only childrens program with a theme with words that I can remember. Otherwise I'd have 'em all in. 4) " You are my City, my only City. You make me happy, when skies are Red/White/Black." c.Whenever - Various artists, The Cowshed, St James Park, Exeter. Dedicated to Tim Hopkins on away days. 5) "Here are the young men - a weight on their shoulders, here are the young men but where have they been ?" Joy Division (Decades/Closer) c.1980 - It appears to be neccessary part of your vinyl collection if you are on the list. 6) "She will listen to me, when I want to speak about the world we live in, and life in general. Though my views maybe wrong, they may even be perverted, she'll hear me out and won't easily be converted...." Depeche Mode (Somebody) - Surely one of their finer moments. 7) "When she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride to whisky and Gin." B&S (The State...IYFS) - not awe inspiring, but I just luv whisky and gin. 8) "Will it be Arsenal will it be Spurs, 'ere's what she said to me. Wash your mouth out son, and get your fathers gun, then shoot the Tottenham scum, Que Sera Sera." Various artists - The North Bank, Highbury. London N5 1BU. Always brought a smile to my face ! Exit. Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 10:34:14 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:34:14 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm not as clever as mark twain but perhaps macnarama is.....what is he singing! Message-ID: <5JortEAmkr60EwOy@elsato97.demon.co.uk> hey hey, before you delete this I DO have some B&S content! But first of all....somebody wanted a manics debate...ooh, on the list....its not belle and sebby.....email me personally if you want a debate, but i'll be a good Sinisterette and not yap on about wether they;ve sold out or not here. for once. perhaps i'll talk about Dubstar. Sorry, am hungover and cynical. last night really wasn't worth it. got reallyDepressed Drunk, instead of HappyDrunk. arse, it got to a point where i was leaving the room else i would just break down....and i missed Eastenders for that! hey hey! jeepster, your mailer is even more fucked than mine, which is kinda saying summat seeing as my mailer seems to be delivering mail to whoever it wants these days..... And me careth not about whatever any other (misguided) persons on this list might sayeth, i giveth not a shit. for what i love is MINE MINE get it! and i am in no mood not now or ever to give up what i love, edspite all rational attempts or gubbins to tell me otherwise. um, that may not have sounded like it, but it was kinda like, an 'OK, let it go, i like MSP, you don't, leave it!'... i promised B&S content didn't i? there it was. sorry, but what can i say about them when they aint doing owt? and no-one answered my question to what Stuey M is singing in Just a Modern Rock Song 'i'm not as clever as mrk twain'......that was on topic and no-one answered...*is& that wht he;s singing? (and why didn't my bananrama poem count as the tuesday poem? philistines...all except stephen!) doh. i'm off to BLOODY HELL! ITS 10.30! what the hel am i doing up?!!??! um, sorry, i'm off to type up other mails and pop to t'shop to check the blaberings of les music weeklies. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound (MERELY!) * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From BerryLF at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 16:45:43 1998 From: BerryLF at xxx.uk (LISA BERRY) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:45:43 GMT0BST Subject: Sinister: Re: New Order Message-ID: According to the NME, they're reforming to headline the Saturday night at the Phoenix Festival....... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 17:14:50 1998 From: C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk (C Browning) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:14:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: important stuff Message-ID: we have carrels in our university library - wher i be sit at this very moment. "study carrels" to give them their proper name, which sounds a lot grander than what they really are which is a bit of wood with some other bits of wood round it to hide whatever you're doing. and inspire bad graffiti. there are hushed, awe strucken tones given for the special carrels for postgraduate studnts - ie students who actually want to work - which are dark nooks and crannies with glass doors. all rather scarey. believe it or not, as part of my unbelievably dull library studies course we actually have to STUDY optimum use of desk, carrel and shelf space in a library. and people wonder why i hate my course so.... nothing interesting, as ever chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ronbarrett at xxx.ie Wed Feb 18 16:01:00 1998 From: ronbarrett at xxx.ie (Barrett R) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: Sinister: Starting Arguments Message-ID: <01ITQGK3MJ7Q00KOWS@vms.eurokom.ie> Hello all I've only been on the list a few days but I'm already going to start annoying some people by giving out about stuff I received today. So here goes.... Firstly, the wonderfully-named MCTAG sent a message around with perfectly worthy sentiments about the England football team and Man Utd. While I actually hate the latter with a vengeance that is a bit worrying, and I certainly don't have any affection for the former either, there is no need for his header comment "Always look on the runway for ice". For those of you who don't know or care about these things, this is a song that some football fans used to sing at Man U fans because of the deaths of a number of their team 40 years ago in Munich on an icy runway. Slag the Man U scummers about anything else and I'd be in complete agreement but this is just not funny. Sorry mate. Secondly, in response to Andrew Dean, it made my day to read of rumours of New Order reforming from a previous writer so some of us are interested, just as some of us seem to be interested in Brick Supply and PE Teachers the world over. Also, your snooty/snotty comment about the lad who wanted a copy of Tigermilk is a bit unfair. The fact that it was released 18 months ago doesn't mean that he had heard of B&S before last week. I thought that this sort of "I've been into the band longer than you" nonsense was banned from this list. I'm another person who hasn't heard Tigermilk and I'm sure there's plenty of others out there too. Ranting over, can I just say how much I'm enjoying reading everything - it all helps keep me sane while bored out of my head at work. One final point - the Trembling Blue Stars review that was sent around earlier was written by the same bloke (I think) that gave ...Sinister five out of ten back in Nov 96, so his taste is up his arse. Having said that, the stuff I've heard off the TBS album does sound great and I've been searching the record shops of Dublin trying to find it to no avail. Byeee Ronan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From koogydelbbog at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 02:15:27 1998 From: koogydelbbog at xxx.com (andrew dean) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:15:27 -0800 Subject: Sinister: re: Starting Arguments Message-ID: <34EB95BF.30B9@yahoo.com> ronan: >Secondly, in response to Andrew Dean, it made my day to read of rumours >of New Order reforming from a previous writer so some of us are >interested, he was asking whether the press agency could be believed. how the fuck would we know? and what relevance does new order have to the sinister list? go and ask such questions elsewhere, on a more general music list, or USENET or buy this week's music press. or listen to the radio. >Also, your snooty/snotty comment about the lad who wanted a >copy of Tigermilk is a bit unfair. The fact that it was released 18 >months ago doesn't mean that he had heard of B&S before last week. i was talking about his impatience, not his naivety. i was also a bit miffed at the fact that he posted a second request for a copy to the list when for the last two weeks i've been offering to match people up with other people willing to do them copies for the price of a blank tape and postage, hence the request that he should go and read the last two weeks of messages. shit, i offer to do this for people and they just ignore me and spam the list regardless... >I'm another person who hasn't heard Tigermilk and I'm sure >there's plenty of others out there too. well, now you know what to do... >Having said that, the stuff I've heard off >the TBS album does sound great and I've been searching the record shops >of Dublin trying to find it to no avail. maybe if you tried looking for it after the release date? 2nd march now, having just been put back. again. andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 18:17:56 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:17:56 -0000 Subject: Sinister: biscuits Message-ID: <01bd3c99$89899540$853163c3@dell> A Custard Cream could be a fat bar, or a rectangle biscuit. The most famous person in the world could be... um... what a depressing question - it is definitely not someone very fab, anyway. bye jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 18:42:54 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (u01cjtc) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:42:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Evil P.E. Teachers and stuff Message-ID: Hello everybody. I'm feeling terrible today, I've got a sore throat, eyes and neck. It might even be glandular fever, oh joy. I had a P.E. teacher at school whose nickname was piggy, he was an evil little man, who loved to pick on the younger kids. He would only allow us to wear shorts to gym and if he saw your pants poking out he would shout, "Get those pantaloons off boy!" in a very scary manner, much like john anderson from gladiators who just happened to be a friend of his, apparently. Another thing he would do was check that you were having a shower by coming in to watch, which led to some interesting grafitti in the changing room, mostly regarding his sexuality/penchant for small boys. Eventually he was replaced by a guy who went to school with will carling (english rugby captain), who was pretty sound. sorry if that was boring, but I tend to talk a load of shite. colin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From captainbritguy at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 18:59:51 1998 From: captainbritguy at xxx.com (Kennan A Guy for Tomorrow) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:59:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Really, Hello. I am a beggar with no shame. Message-ID: <19980218185951.6448.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Um, hello. I am an American boy with a penchant for loving and living Belle and Sebastian. I am also a beggar, as I do not pretend to have any sort of dignity. Dignity does not matter in relation to great music. Hence, I am offering my soul for taped copies of "Tigermilk" and the BBC Sessions. Now, let me tell you, as the current owner of my soul, it is quite a lovely thing to behold. It makes great company, and is being offered for very little, indeed. I tend to believe that B&S fans are a giving lot, so... Help me! Please! I'm beneath myself! *sob* "How will I get one? I don't do drugs..." Kennan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 18 19:20:45 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:20:45 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Stuart M request Message-ID: <01bd3ca2$50711a40$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Honey Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 18 de febrero de 1998 14:58 Asunto: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content Paul asked: > >Can I also ask for an explanation over booths/cubicles/kiosks? I've >always wondered what the difference is. > Sorry Paul, I didn't see this before. It must be all the excitement. A booth (sometimes called a nudie booth) is a small room where people pay to go and see rude ladies dancing A cubicle is where you get changed to go swimming, unless it is an open-plan changing room, such as the ones we have been discussing lately in the Big Tackle / Catfish thread. A kiosk, as anyone will tell you, is where you have to go, isn't it? Rod Stewart asked: >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? ----------------------------------------------------- Forwarded message from Peter's Dad: Well, I don't know if this is good enough to settle the argument for good, but a recent test case could provide some clues. many viewers will be familiar with McVitie's Hob Nobs, tasty wheaty things that get stuck in your teeth, available both nude and chocolate coated. They are round, and are referred to on the packet as "biscuits". The launch of Hob Nobs was the most succesful ever product launch in the long history of United Biscuits. Sir Hector Laing was able to retire a relatively happy man. Later, McVitie's decided to try and capitalise on the success of Hob Nob biscuits by introducing a new version. Individually wrapped, it was oblong in shape and had a bit of fondant icing in the middle. The tasty wheatiness was retained, but the fondant icing "jazzed it up" a bit too much for the tastes of many pensioners, myself included. They were directed towards the tight-fisted mum market, destined to end up in many a child's lunch box instead of a nice Twix. I'm referring, of course, to the Hob Nob BAR. But it's still a biscuit. As a rough guideline, I would suggest that a bar must be shaped like a gold bar (I watched Goldfinger last night), come in a gaily coloured wrapper, and be bathed in luxurious chocolate. All of which is untrue for biscuits, as any gingermen of your aquaintance will gladly testify. But... Those things you buy in health food circumstances, usually consisting of squirrel innards and bumble bee pooh, are called "bars", yet they are usually chocolate free, which only adds to their disgustingness. Ship's biscuits often contain weavils. The rest, as they say, is predictable. The most famous person in the world is boxing promotor Don King. Peter's Dad. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 19:19:06 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:19:06 EST Subject: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-18 10:16:18 EST, pjmiller at arrakis.es writes: << >*Who is the most famous living person? Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. >> Or Madonna, Queen of pointy-bra. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 19:26:23 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:26:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Stuart M request, guaranteed no Columbo content In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > Can I also ask for an explanation over booths/cubicles/kiosks? I've > always wondered what the difference is. > You wouldn't want to have a shower in a street kiosk. Even if there wasn't a PE teacher watching. (Hooray! Two threads seemlessly linked to form one!) > > *What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or > bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the > best? > A biscuit is crunchy, a bar is chewy. So, Twix = biscuit; Mars = bar; 5,4,3,2,1 = crap old TV show. > and also > > *Who is the most famous living person? > Elvis Presley. The Tall Git ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 01:20:58 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:20:58 -0800 Subject: Sinister: stuart Message-ID: <34EB88F9.3241@earthlink.net> i think stuart might be making fun of us. or as you brits say, taking the piss. we know they read these posts and if they read them they know all the off topic futile things we discuss. not that that's a bad thing. so i think maybe he's just trying to throw in a couple more off topics to see how far we'll run with it. when i worked at a video rental store, we called the freestanding shelves kiosks. a booth is like what you'd sit in at the BK. and a cubicle is like one of those little office spaces that are made with those white removable walls. although, when i was in elementary school, a cubicle was our little box where we kept our luch and stuff. no....wait.....that was a cubbyhole. never mind. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 19:39:16 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:39:16 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Now I'm annoyed Message-ID: <34EB38DC.21C8@interaccess.com> How can two of you be so daft as to answer the question, "Who's the most famous living person?" with Elvis Presley? Off topic posts are almost mandatory on this list, but please think before you send your drivel. If the postings were in jest, then why not flash us a wink, eh? I found out Sunday how to get a free copy of Tigermilk. Not a tape, mind you, one of the thousand. All ya gotta do is be in a band (preferably sporting your name), and do very well with your singles, and play in Glasgow. Then ask the audience where you can get a copy. It worked for Ben Folds, it can work for you. I'll see you at the Barrowlands with my multimillion dollar tribute to the Spice Girls entitled: _Aadam's multimillion dollar tribute to the Spice Girls and blatent vehicle for the aquisition of free copies of Tigermilk_. Yeah, that oughta do it. -- "Unfortunately, in our world, we are taught to think good what we like rather than to like what is good." - Bill Russo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Wed Feb 18 20:53:36 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:53:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: SPAWNY GIT! SPAWNY FRICKIN" GIT! In-Reply-To: <01ITQGK3MJ7Q00KOWS@vms.eurokom.ie> Message-ID: For the love of God, will someone please tell us what a spawny git is??? Is it a food? A comic book character? A carefully disguised obscenity? A secret formula for blowing up stuff? A rare and unreleased B&S track?? Please respond quickly before this message self-destructs. Ever yours, Kristen and Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 20:11:53 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:11:53 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Go kill some time (NBSC) Message-ID: <34EB407C.24E1@interaccess.com> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kcjones/baby.html Anyone for a dance? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From trashcan at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 19:40:21 1998 From: trashcan at xxx.uk (David Tanser) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:40:21 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: New Order Reforming? In-Reply-To: <34EA38E9.3BAA@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: In message <34EA38E9.3BAA at ix.netcom.com>, Samiam writes >Crank up the rumour mill. I got this from a web site called PA Press. >Are they legit? It's true - they ARE playing Phoenix (as one of the headliners) - hopefully they'l write a few new songs while they're together (we can but hope) David T >:O) The one and only English listee (unless of course YOU know different!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Castle Donington - E-mail david at fosbrook.demon.co.uk - - County of the Fox - FOSBROOK OnLine www.fosbrook.demon.co.uk - - England UK - WWW E-mail webmaster at fosbrook.demon.co.uk - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 21:34:34 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:34:34 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Londoners, Beware- Blatant and unashamed cheap selling ploy... {yep, that means bugger all b&S} Message-ID: <199802182132.VAA20225@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> I was woken up very rudely at half-past one this afternoon, by someone flashing the mail - four free Bis tickets.....I'ld won!! Whooopee. (BTW, thankyou to whoever it was (Rod?) who told us to enter that internet fanclub thing) Yipee! i thought. and then i remembered what lazy buggers my friends are. now that we're sure that none of us can be arsed, anyone else wanna go? [It's @ The Wag Club (nice venue, shame about the band....), Wardour St. Mon night - 23rd Feb. Just send me a private mail with your adress and i'll send them to the fisrt two couples] byeeeeeeee, Yaz xxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 16:57:41 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:57:41 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Biscuit Boys Message-ID: <01bd3c8e$532a5df0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Hmm dunno about the biscuit ones in particular, perhaps it's because a Twix isn't bar shaped, more of a charming semicircular prism. Who knows, it's puzzling. I wonder if Allen Klein and the Rolling Stones get royalties from 54321's? Sarah, yeah, it's about time the Manic Street Preachers thing stopped I suppose, it's going nowhere anyway, just an "I like them" and "No I don't scenario". So we'll all have to agree to differ I suppose. Just listening to the amazing version of "Career Oppurtunities" by the Clash - as performed by Mickey Gallagher's children (Ian Dury's piano player) on Sandanista, it's grown on me over the years this one - quite like it now. I wonder what Mickey Gallagher's kids think of it now that they're like my age. Oh well, I'm off down the town to get a hold of Guy Chadwick's latest offering - wish me luck, I hope it's as not as shite as the last House of Love record. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ByTheSea6 at xxx.com Wed Feb 18 23:18:10 1998 From: ByTheSea6 at xxx.com (ByTheSea6 at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:18:10 EST Subject: Sinister: Biscuit Boys Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-18 17:22:19 EST, keith at qss.co.uk writes: << Oh well, I'm off down the town to get a hold of Guy Chadwick's latest offering - wish me luck, I hope it's as not as shite as the last House of Love record. >> I never hard the last HoL record, but the new Guy Chadwick is really cool. It's dead mellow, a bit of it is very L. Cohen. All in all a breezy relaxing listen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Wed Feb 18 23:37:45 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 23:37:45 -0000 Subject: Sinister: fellow you are ill Message-ID: <199802182335.XAA26290@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> Dear Tigermilkerrines (and WHY NOT? (she asks defiantly) it's a better album and anyway, i never liked sinisterriones) Why have we all stopped using those wonderful little quotes from poems/ songs in our siggies? I love these. - the first time i saw one, i thought, aww, only on Belle and Sebastian... To this end, i will use a recently rediscovered quote from Mr. Paul Simon, that seems to me be speculating upon the eternal nature of life and also symbolising the relationship between it and our external, surrounding environment: **************************************************************************** **** "Hello lampost, Whatcha knowing? I've come to watch your flowers growing Aint ya got no rhymes for me? be doo be dooh bee And feeling grrrooooo-vy. [blah blah blah cant remember blah blah] Life i love you - All is... [yep you guessed it] ...grrrrroooooooooooovy." **************************************************************************** ***** heehee, Yasmin xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rclander at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 01:25:20 1998 From: rclander at xxx.net (Richard Lander) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:25:20 +0800 Subject: Sinister: re: white horses Message-ID: <01bd3cd5$3ea8ea80$0afd51ca@rclander.netfront.net> >The lovely Andy Dean didn't know what he was starting when he wrote: > >>no, the song on the end of that tape is 'white horses' by Jacky (and i >>know, i put it there!). it was a hit in the late 60s and is a theme tune >>to a kids' tv show about, duh!, white horses that aired in the early 70s >>on bbc tv, saturday mornings before whatever 'live and kicking' was >>called in those days. > >Then the equally wonderful PJMiller added: > >As I recall, there wasn't anything like Live and Kicking on BBC until >Multi.Coloured Swap Shop opened its doors for business, it was just a >collection of kid's programmes such as Zorro, The Flashing Blade and >the Banana Splits (which was in itself a forerunner of the Swap Shop >format) with the odd cartoon (have you ever noticed that whenever you >put a group of people in a room together they always end up talking >about Northy?), followed by an Abbott and Costello film. There was a whole plethora of those dubbed black & white series which were run over and over again during Saturday mornings and long school holidays. Not just White Horses [did this series originate in France?] but also the original Belle & Sebastian and Robinson Crusoe and in colour there was The Flashing Blade. The BBC also used to continually showing Zorro, Whirlybirds, Champion the Wonder Horse and Casey Jones. Oh hell we seem to be plunging backwards in time through the history of TV! Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander at netfront.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 03:15:03 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:15:03 EST Subject: Sinister: NYC meet-up for Autour De Lucie? Message-ID: <6b474445.34eba3b9@aol.com> I have been feeling a tad jealous lately of the DC, London and Edinburgh Sinisterettes meeting up and having scads of fun. Some of them even play Scrabble! So, are any other New York City listees planning to go to the Autour de Lucie show? The band is French, the show is free--what better reasons do you need? Living and loving Matthew < It would not surprise me if the band have a little wager on to see how long it takes someone to write that "Stuart M." or "Belle and Sebastian", etc., are the most famous people in the world today. That would be their sense of humour, wouldn't it? Throw a Christian martyr to ravenous lions in an amphitheatre; throw an open question to ravenous fans on the internet. However, the most famous person in the world is yourself. Whom else do you spend most, if not all, of your living moments concerned with their every movement and thought? Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 04:20:41 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 23:20:41 -0500 Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) Message-ID: <34EBB312.59B8@interaccess.com> Back in the '30's there were some beautiful pop songs. Here's one that I particularly like. I think you all might enjoy it lyricly (otherwise why would I post it?) -You go to my head- You go to my head, And you linger like a haunting refrain And I find you spinning round in my brain Like the bubbles in a glass of champagne. You go to my head Like a sip of sparkling burgundy brew And I find the very mention of you Like the kicker in a julep or two. The thrill of the thought That you might give a thought To my plea casts a spell over me Still I say to myself: get a hold of yourself Can't you see that it can never be? You go to my head With smile that makes my temperature rise Like a summer with a thousand Julys You intoxicate my soul with your eyes Tho I'm certain that this heart of mine Hasn't a ghost of a chance in this crazy romance, You go to my head. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 07:24:23 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 07:24:23 GMT Subject: Sinister: Stuart Murdoch is a nutter Message-ID: <980219072423.n0008866.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Stuart Murdoch wrote: *What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the best? and also *Who is the most famous living person? Stuart, Stuart, I understand that you are new to the list, but please please read the FAQ's on what you can and can't post from Honey's Sinister site. Irrelevant topics like these just waste evreybody's time and clog up the list with useless information. If you want to say anything at all please make it relevant to the band. Right now that's been said, the Collins Engish Dictionary states that a biscuit is : 'a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough.' Whilst a bar is: 'a solid rectangular block of any material' So, a biscuit must contain something that is made from a dough, and then can be covered in chocolate or not, depending on how you like it, whilst a bar can be anything rectangular. Therefore anything can be a BAR, but not anything a biscuit. Hence there is an area of overlapping territory here, a bit like a Venn diagram, with bars/biscuits that fall into both, so a twix/club/penguin are biscuits and bars simultaneously. However WHERE THE HELL DOES THAT LEAVE WAGON WHEELS? Most living famous person: Could be you Stuart if you bothered to re-release Tigermilk, play more gig and do interviews. Just a thought. Maybe I've hit the nail on the head and that's actually the reason you choose to spend your pop career hiding behind the sofa. Love, Susannah xxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 07:35:54 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 07:35:54 GMT Subject: Sinister: Now I'm annoyed Message-ID: <980219073554.n0008868.tormentor@mail.clara.net> on 18 Feb 98, aadam at interaccess.com wrote... >How can two of you be so daft as to answer the question, "Who's the most >famous living person?" with Elvis Presley? Hello? Sense of humour failure? AS Everybody knows, Elvis is not dead but spends his winters working down the chip shop in Ashton-under-Lyme, and summers collecting deckchairs in Margate. The whole dying- whilst- having- a- dump- story was completely made up. And that was a joke too yeah? Just so you know. Susannah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 07:45:43 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:45:43 -0000 Subject: Sinister: SPAWNY GIT! SPAWNY FRICKIN" GIT! Message-ID: <01bd3d0a$61a4cec0$3d3163c3@dell> A spawny git? Ahhhh... You would have to live in the fab uk to know. Other people just don't have the insults we have, do they? Everyone else's are a tad wishy-washy, if you know what I mean. Anyway, spawny git is an insult. Say it to you friends jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ -----Original Message----- From: Schaffenberger To: Barrett R Cc: sinister Date: 18 February 1998 20:54 Subject: Sinister: SPAWNY GIT! SPAWNY FRICKIN" GIT! > >For the love of God, will someone please tell us what a spawny git is??? >Is it a food? A comic book character? A carefully disguised obscenity? >A secret formula for blowing up stuff? A rare and unreleased B&S >track?? Please respond quickly before this message self-destructs. > >Ever yours, >Kristen and Hans > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mlongaph at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 10:50:05 1998 From: mlongaph at xxx.net (mike longaphie) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 02:50:05 -0800 Subject: Sinister: you're all off target..... Message-ID: <34EC0E5D.3E6F@echo-on.net> it's michael jordan, of course! mike ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 18 19:34:33 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:34:33 +0100 Subject: Sinister: B&S in Q/Do you like American music? Message-ID: <01bd3ca4$3d486660$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Reid Dossinger Para: Sinister Fecha: miércoles 18 de febrero de 1998 17:21 Asunto: Sinister: B&S in Q/Do you like American music? Are Jamie Holborn, Julie Leary, Rob Hargreaves or Tim Hopkins >on the list? > Yes, Fatty Hopkins is on the list. He recently challenged me to an insult contest but has obviously chickened out since then Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 09:24:56 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:24:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Stuart Murdoch is a nutter In-Reply-To: <980219072423.n0008866.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Message-ID: > Right now that's been said, the Collins Engish Dictionary states that a biscuit > is : > > 'a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough.' > I hate to disagree with a dictionary, but a biscuit is definitely not a cake. C.> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 10:05:13 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:05:13 -0000 Subject: Sinister: mmmmmm....sorry again paul. Message-ID: <01BD3D1D.DF96F480@pc07628> Chelsea=Scum. Adrian=V. Bitter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 10:59:22 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:59:22 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Murdochs Bored. Message-ID: <01BD3D25.7058E440@pc07628> >He wrote : >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit >or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the >best? I don't think anyone can better Windy Miller - United Bisuits man, so I'm not going to try. >and also >*Who is the most famous living person? Obviously this is Fred Dibner. That bloke who used to blow up knob-like structures. As for the Kiosk / Booth / Cubicle debate. I consider a Kiosk to be a retailing outlet, usually situated in the middle of a pavement in a narrow busy street. They usually trade in cigarettes, but some of the more reputable kiosks have been known to trade in bisuits and choc bars. A cubicle is definitely a compartment with three walls a door and a bench more commonly found in public bathing facilities. You will often find coat-hooks in cubicles in some of the more well-off parts of England like Bognor Regis. In the liberal ninetees, many working-class baths have employed changing-room attendants. These are primarily ex-cons who wear seventies-style red tracksuits and stride up and down in a disturbed manner looking at young boys and thinking..."mmmmmmmmmmmm" and licking their lips. A booth is a bit more non-descript and could be applied to either of the above. The more common application of this word though is either : a) The small box like structures found on train-station platforms used for obtaining passport style photographs. These "photo-booths" generally have seventies style orange curtains, and can only be used by people under six feet tall. They are widely known for their ability to make even the best looking of people appear to have been on class A drugs for 15 years, and often result in customs officials giving you "dodgy" looks when presenting your passport for access to places like Columbia or Amsterdam. b) The Balsa-wood structures found in primary school halls on polling day used to cast ones vote in secrecy. These "voting-booths" generally have a single shelf, and often have ancient etchings on them which give a popular insight into political history, for instance, "John Major...kiss my bottom" or "For a good time call.." etc etc. There. Can I slag off Chelsea now Paul ? Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:28:50 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Mavens of P.E. In-Reply-To: <34EA2494.6815@lancnews.infi.net> Message-ID: Once, he > brought a stool into the shower because he was sure certain boys weren't > showering. oh dear: i'm afraid i got completely the wrong end of the stick here... the sort of stool you sit on, eh...? i'm mightily relieved. i thought the list was suddenly becomign absolutely filthy. (and not just because of its reluctance to shower). espadrille > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:29:31 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:29:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <0.566874940@andyclin.exnet.com> Message-ID: > > P.S.The Loving Spoonful are another of those groups like 10cc and Come, named > after the male human ejaculate. Just thought you'd like to know! > you can also add thin white rope to that list... espadrille> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:42:52 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:42:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Biscuit Boys In-Reply-To: <01bd3c8e$532a5df0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: > Oh well, I'm off down the town to get a hold of Guy Chadwick's latest > offering - wish me luck, I hope it's as not as shite as the last House of > Love record. > and so the house of love seam reappears.... i haven't managed to persuade myself to buy it, much as i'd like to, on the grounds that bands / individuals rarely if ever recover from releasing crap albums, even if they'd been superb before (thus new adventures in hi-fi being ok, but nowhere near up to previous standard, after the monstrosity that was monster). this isn't really relevant, is it? well, i've written it now, so... espadrille > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:48:26 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:48:26 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Compact Disco Inferno Message-ID: <01bd3d2c$49d3baf0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >> Oh well, I'm off down the town to get a hold of Guy Chadwick's latest >> offering - wish me luck, I hope it's as not as shite as the last House of >> Love record. >> >and so the house of love seam reappears.... > >i haven't managed to persuade myself to buy it, much as i'd like to, on >the grounds that bands / individuals rarely if ever recover from releasing >crap albums, even if they'd been superb before (thus new adventures in >hi-fi being ok, but nowhere near up to previous standard, after the >monstrosity that was monster). Well, I never managed to get it anyway, cause it doesn't appear to be out yet, or perhaps Virgin just don't have it, having said that, an American on the list mailed me this morning to say it was really good and he'd got it, perhaps released earlier there. I will still buy it, but for the moment I think I'll get a hold of "The best Disco album in the world ever" which looks great, on the telly. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul.sumner at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:57:00 1998 From: paul.sumner at xxx.uk (paul.sumner at xxx.uk) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:57:00 GMT Subject: Sinister: I'm silly Message-ID: <980219115700.2060a17a@heaton.unn.ac.uk> What a silly boy I am - sending my unsubscribe to the list instead of the right address... I'll be back (when I'm less busy) Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 12:32:04 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:32:04 GMT Subject: Sinister: a smashing orangey bit In-Reply-To: <199802182320.XAA13961@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802182320.XAA13961@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34ef2587.12010076@email.mcmail.com> Hello, It's good to know that amidst these irrelevant debates on education cuts, the plight of the homeless, and Northy's (God, I miss him) concerns about the CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MISTER SADDAM HUSSEIN (READ YOUR PAPERS PEOPLE!!!!!), that someone has their fingers truly on the pulse of the nation. I'm talking of course of Stewpot Murdoch, and his wandering band of minstrels, who asked.... >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or >bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the >best? Bars are roughly cuboid in nature. Biscuits are thinner. So that a Twix or a 5-4-3-2-1 is a bar, and a digestive is a biscuit. Tunnocks caramel bars (a tasty treat with a thousand uses) are bars. But there are a number of strange issues. Fig rolls, for example, are not bars, certainly, but are they called 'rolls' because veer away somewhat from the biscuit concept? And although 'if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit' implies that a club is a biscuit, there is a difference between biscuit as a filling or a base for a bar, and "a" biscuit. A club is not "a" chocolate either, even though it has chocolate in it. A club is a bar. And what about hobnobs? They can be in two forms - a biscuit or individually wrapped bars. And jaffa cakes, which are particular bone of contention for me. Biscuit or cake? Since they are described as cakes, a recent EC directive decreed that they should therefore be taxed accordingly. And a jaffa cake contains light sponge, chocolate and a smashing orangey bit, but not 'biscuit'. But I can't help feeling that an authentic cake should somehow be bigger. I have no problem with them being called jaffa 'cakes', somehow jaffa sponges or jaffa biscuits is aesthetically inferior, and a bombay duck is a fish not a duck, and a parson's nose is not a nose at all, so why should a jaffa cake be a cake. A case of EC bureaucracy gone mad, perhaps? Maybe, other readers or indeed Stuart himself would care to offer their views. >and also > >*Who is the most famous living person? The Lord Jesus, who lives in all of us ... >Lastly, thanks Keith Watson for answering some of the new mailers so nicely. ... especially Keith. In fact, I believe Keith is Jesus. His polo neck is merely a more stylish version of a halo. Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 13:13:16 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:13:16 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Ronan, second attempt Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F847@RMF1> Ronan, sorry you didn't get my message the first time round so here it is now. Ronan, > Thanks for responding but I've already excepted an offer of an > introduction to Nick Drake from someonelse. however, I may soon own a > copy of Tigermilk and I'll pass it on to you after you've sent me a > tape. I will also copy you some Karate so that you will know. I > should be getting a copy o Tigermlk through very soon and as soon as I > do I will let you know. > > Bye for now, > Huw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available URL: From agnes.bonnet at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 14:39:00 1998 From: agnes.bonnet at xxx.com (agnes bonnet) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:39:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Murdochs Bored. Message-ID: <000272E0.4556@labels.virginmusic.com> thanks folks! I now can improve my english vocabulary and know every subtilities between biscuit/bar and kiosk/cubicle/booth. i personnaly think the difference biscuit/bar lies in the fact that: a biscuit has a rond form and a bar a long one. Hope it will help Agnès ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Murdochs Bored. Author: Adrian Evans at X-MAIL Date: 19/02/1998 10:59 >He wrote : >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit >or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the >best? I don't think anyone can better Windy Miller - United Bisuits man, so I'm not going to try. >and also >*Who is the most famous living person? Obviously this is Fred Dibner. That bloke who used to blow up knob-like structures. As for the Kiosk / Booth / Cubicle debate. I consider a Kiosk to be a retailing outlet, usually situated in the middle of a pavement in a narrow busy street. They usually trade in cigarettes, but some of the more reputable kiosks have been known to trade in bisuits and choc bars. A cubicle is definitely a compartment with three walls a door and a bench more commonly found in public bathing facilities. You will often find coat-hooks in cubicles in some of the more well-off parts of England like Bognor Regis. In the liberal ninetees, many working-class baths have employed changing-room attendants. These are primarily ex-cons who wear seventies-style red tracksuits and stride up and down in a disturbed manner looking at young boys and thinking..."mmmmmmmmmmmm" and licking their lips. A booth is a bit more non-descript and could be applied to either of the above. The more common application of this word though is either : a) The small box like structures found on train-station platforms used for obtaining passport style photographs. These "photo-booths" generally have seventies style orange curtains, and can only be used by people under six feet tall. They are widely known for their ability to make even the best looking of people appear to have been on class A drugs for 15 years, and often result in customs officials giving you "dodgy" looks when presenting your passport for access to places like Columbia or Amsterdam. b) The Balsa-wood structures found in primary school halls on polling day used to cast ones vote in secrecy. These "voting-booths" generally have a single shelf, and often have ancient etchings on them which give a popular insight into political history, for instance, "John Major...kiss my bottom" or "For a good time call.." etc etc. There. Can I slag off Chelsea now Paul ? Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rewb2 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 13:54:42 1998 From: rewb2 at xxx.uk (***Rob B***) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:54:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B&S dream Message-ID: Yes - last night I had a belle and sebastian dream.. sort of. I was going to Tokyo, for some reason, not sure why, by plane. I was going with a friend who for some reason turned into Isobel half-way through the dream (what does this mean??). Anyway, when we got the tickets on the morning of the flight, we discovered, much to our delight, that Belle and Sebastian were doing the inflight entertainment. Yes, they were performing a concert in the plane, half way to Japan. And they were being supported by 'The Cheesey Big Band' (!) - whatever that might be. Unfortunately I woke up before actually getting on the plane, which is a bit of an arse really, so I can't report on the concert itself. Shame. Ummm biscuit... bar? I think I have to agree that biscuits should be flat, and bars should be rectangular, but to be perfectly honest I think there's quite a lot of overlap between the two terms. And I really don't care one iota about the difference between kiosks and cubicles. That's all I have to say, so bye bye Rob xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 14:05:05 1998 From: I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk (Manic Burnie) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Long messages Message-ID: Just two things I'd like to know: Why are the messages sooooooooooooo very long on this mailing list? And when are B&S playing London (or Newcastle) again? Gann canny now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Thu Feb 19 14:13:17 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:13:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: re: Pazz and Jop Message-ID: This posting address has the distinction of being at the very bottom of my list, so it's easy to find~ Anycase, just to let the good kids on this list know--if ya ain't on the NYC tip--that the Village Voice just printed their annual Pazz and Jop insert. It's basically a chance for Robert Christagau to drop kewl words like "electronica" and "unfettered access". Watch the oxford dictionary change before your very eyes! magic! As for B+S, they made it to #18 on his list, and to the top 10 on two other "contributor's" lists as well. There were 2 comments made by readers about Belle and Sebastian that, if I had the copy in front of me, I would share with all of you. But for now, suffice that one was pro-Stu, the other anti-Stu. Whilst the Spice Girls get a headline and a near page devoted to their "wings of a butterfly in South America" affect. I will try to get a copy of the voice and share the exact numbers and opinions. francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 14:17:55 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:17:55 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Buiscuits & Boerdom Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F848@RMF1> I'm sorry Stuart, but I'm finding it really difficult to get interested about this buiscuit debate. Can't you think of something more inspring to challenge us with, I can't,my mind is just blank with boerdom due to my job (I hope my boss doesn't catch me writing this). I'll just keep myself entertained with B&S tunes washing around my mind. I did a music business course just like that guy in B&S (sorry I can't remember his name), and look where it's got me, sitting in front of a computer from 8-4 m-f, hopelessly trying to sort out other peoples problems- Oh Well, I'd better stop before I begin to ramle on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on............................................... Bye for now. Huw If any body can give me some advise on how to get into the chat romm you'd make a special little boy very happy. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2316 bytes Desc: not available URL: From cja1000 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 14:33:29 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:33:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Fame Message-ID: Bugger this 'Whose the most famous person in the world' thing, when the answer is clearly Oprah Winfrey. More relevantly, who's the most famous person in B&S? Jane? Jenny? Judy? (Jennifer? Jason? etc.) C. "Could we please be objective?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 14:34:03 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Mr Kipling) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:34:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Stuart Murdoch is a nutter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Chris wrote: > > Right now that's been said, the Collins Engish Dictionary states that a biscuit > > is : > > > > 'a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough.' > > > I hate to disagree with a dictionary, but a biscuit is definitely not a > cake. Of course, over the atlantic, the merkins refer to a scone as a biscuit, a biscuit as a cookie, and a bar as a candy. Why don't they film programmes in front of dead studio audiences? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | By day I'm just a sad, lonely geek. But by night I'm... asleep. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul.sumner at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 14:40:17 1998 From: paul.sumner at xxx.uk (paul.sumner at xxx.uk) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:40:17 GMT Subject: Sinister: The most famous person Message-ID: <980219144017.20246eaf@fawdon.unn.ac.uk> Hi The most famous person in the world is surely the President of the USA, whoever he might be at the time? Do we actually have THE Stuart Murdoch writing to this mailing list? Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:29:16 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:29:16 -0000 Subject: Sinister: My question about choppers Message-ID: <01bd3d29$9cbf5420$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Just by way of information. The score is currently : Airwolf 6 Blue Thunder 1 Which confirms me and my pals suspicion that Airwolf's definitely the coolest helicopter, this'll help in future pub arguments. Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider. Thanks to everyone who voted. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Angelina.DeGiovanni at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 14:12:49 1998 From: Angelina.DeGiovanni at xxx.com (Angelina.DeGiovanni at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:12:49 -0400 Subject: Sinister: re: Pazz and Jop Message-ID: <852565B0.005359D7.00@v2music.com> Anycase, just to let the good kids on this list know--if ya ain't on the NYC tip--that the Village Voice just printed their annual Pazz and Jop insert. It's basically a chance for Robert Christagau to drop kewl words like "electronica" and "unfettered access". Watch the oxford dictionary change before your very eyes! magic! As for B+S, they made it to #18 on his list, and to the top 10 on two other "contributor's" lists as well. There were 2 comments made by readers about Belle and Sebastian that, if I had the copy in front of me, I would share with all of you. But for now, suffice that one was pro-Stu, the other anti-Stu. Whilst the Spice Girls get a headline and a near page devoted to their "wings of a butterfly in South America" affect. I will try to get a copy of the voice and share the exact numbers and opinions. francisco >>>IYFS was #8 on the overall Pazz and Jop list! All of you can check out the results on www.villagevoice.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 15:28:24 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:28:24 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Most Famous Person Message-ID: <199802191030_MC2-33F3-284D@compuserve.com> This is a subject close to my heart. The novel that I'm planning to write (don't get too excited - it's been at the planning stage since 1992) kind of revolves around the most famous person thing: but in terms of empathy rather than just pure fame. Whose death (apart from Di, obviously) would cause such an outpouring of grief around the world that it would be possible to shift hangarloads of vaguely related merchandise in minutes? The usual suspects (Jacko, Madonna, etc) don't convince me: I just don't believe enough people love them. I think I have the answer, but any suggestions would be gratefully received. Old Bands: have Jesse Garon and the Desperados been mentioned yet? For about six months in the mid-eighties they were the loveliest thing on the planet. Love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ics6jdc at xxx.UK Thu Feb 19 15:52:08 1998 From: ics6jdc at xxx.UK (Cairns) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:52:08 GMT Subject: Sinister: l'education physique Message-ID: <7C081CA5BAB@east-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> Ahhh, you're probably all bored of these by now, but... All you American types can quit moaning about PE teachers with handlebar moustaches and mullets. You suffered nothing. For nigh on the whole of my time at high school, the (girls') Games teacher was MY MUM!!! And while she had neither a moustache nor a mullet, and nor did her "nutsack" keep falling out, it was bloody annoying having your every fourteen year-old move relayed directly to your parents. The conversation over tea would read: "So, Joseph, I hear you and Michelle Iball have been sitting at the back together in Art again..." "These peas are nice." That said, the amount of time I actually spent on that freezing all-weather pitch paled in comparison to the hours spent "re-arranging" the stock cupboard, having feigned some injury/infection/hormonal disorder. La la la, Joseph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Thu Feb 19 15:57:42 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:57:42 +0100 Subject: Sinister: My question about choppers In-Reply-To: <01bd3d29$9cbf5420$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: In Ireland they have extra channels, RTE 1 and Network 2, and two weeks ago they showed the pilot episode of Knight Rider, which displayed KITT's talents to its/his full potential, great days entertainment. They also show Dukes of Hazzard on Saturdays but i'm not sure which guys are in it as I haven't actually watched it yet. >Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider. > Not even going to waste my cyber-breath on the other one. The big question is, however, 'In what musical did the song, '.....sing hallelujah, come on get happy, put all your troubles and fears away, sing hallelujah come on get happy, get ready for the judgement day....' appear? anyone, anyone,anyone,anyone,anyone..... Claire. >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net >. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From j.stuart at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 16:11:49 1998 From: j.stuart at xxx.com (John Stuart) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:11:49 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <199802191606.QAA23132@pop3.hiway.co.uk> I just had a great thought.... Belle & Sebastian guest starring on Friends. Playing a cover of 'Smelly Cat' in Central Perk. I don't know why, it just sounds a good idea. Lack of sleep and excess of beer, me thinks. >The most famous person in the world is surely the >President of the USA, whoever he might be at the time? Na, some Americans don't even know who the president is. Or where Scotland is. : ) >Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider. I vote Street Hawk. Why haven't they repeated that? And does anybody remember a programme called Manammal, it was out around the same time. It was about a guy who could change into a Hawk or a Panther. Nobody seems to remeber it. JohnS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 16:07:16 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Bum-faced Vibrating Goat) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:07:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: The best web-site in the world ever... EVER! Message-ID: The best web-site I've seen in ages... The Beautiful South Song Maker. Fill in the blanks, and get a song written just for you... http://www.beautiful-south.co.uk/funstuff/songmake/ An example of the childish and immature output you can create: Fuck me sideways You said, That farting in your nasal cavity was alright. You said, Shoving codpieces in your private parts, would cause a fight Well baby, don't be so fearful, let's make love tonight. 'Cause I'll rub your nasal cavity, till it's red hot with delight. These things I just wanna do. All night baby. Singing, Fuck me sideways, Fuck me sideways I just want to fondle with your nasal cavity. Ohhhh baby, all day, all night. We were farting like Phillipa Forrester in dazzling Cowdenbeath. We stopped at some cheap hotel. you let me ram codpieces into your nasal cavity. I rammed, and I rammed until you screamed out loud. Ohhh baby! you make me so smelly. Maybe you're not my personal Phillipa Forrester. But your the best I could find. Your just so fearful, that's all that matters to me. It doesn't amount to much. In this smelly cruel world. But lets live for today. These things I just wanna do. All night baby. Singing, Fuck me sideways, Fuck me sideways I just want to fondle with your nasal cavity. Ohhhh baby, all day, all night. (Created by Rod) Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Acomomammadation: n. The inconspicuous manner in which a woman | adjusts a fallen bra strap ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From agnes.bonnet at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 17:32:00 1998 From: agnes.bonnet at xxx.com (agnes bonnet) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:32:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Compact Disco Inferno Message-ID: <000276A1.4556@labels.virginmusic.com> "lazy, soft and slow" will be released on monday 23. Just a few more days to wait then.... That's a real good solo album and it has already a good press here in france where he also played a very good black session on France Inter (the french equivalent of the peel session except for the fact that there's an audience) if you wish to have more information about Guy and The House of love you can browse through http:\\www.setantarecords.com/index1.html http:\\website.lineone.net/~shineon.productions/ agnès ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Compact Disco Inferno Author: Keith Watson at X-MAIL Date: 19/02/1998 11:48 >> Oh well, I'm off down the town to get a hold of Guy Chadwick's latest >> offering - wish me luck, I hope it's as not as shite as the last House of >> Love record. >> >and so the house of love seam reappears.... > >i haven't managed to persuade myself to buy it, much as i'd like to, on >the grounds that bands / individuals rarely if ever recover from releasing >crap albums, even if they'd been superb before (thus new adventures in >hi-fi being ok, but nowhere near up to previous standard, after the >monstrosity that was monster). Well, I never managed to get it anyway, cause it doesn't appear to be out yet, or perhaps Virgin just don't have it, having said that, an American on the list mailed me this morning to say it was really good and he'd got it, perhaps released earlier there. I will still buy it, but for the moment I think I'll get a hold of "The best Disco album in the world ever" which looks great, on the telly. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andrewnic at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 16:44:24 1998 From: Andrewnic at xxx.com (Andrewnic at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:44:24 EST Subject: Sinister: SPAWNY GIT! SPAWNY FRICKIN" GIT! Message-ID: <5611725a.34ec616a@aol.com> In a message dated 18/02/1998 21:01:07 GMT, you write: << For the love of God, will someone please tell us what a spawny git is??? Is it a food? A comic book character? A carefully disguised obscenity? A secret formula for blowing up stuff? A rare and unreleased B&S track?? Please respond quickly before this message self-destructs. >> spawny = lucky git = annoying bloke/blokess use when your friend gets more brown sauce on his/her chippy than you do. andrew (saying hi to captain keith monkey and the qss collective, or some such arse) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 16:45:36 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:45:36 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Matador signing ... FINALLY! Message-ID: <34EC61B0.7873994F@virgin.net> Hello all, Just to tell you all the good news that Belle and Sebastian have today signed the contracts for the Matador licensing deal. I know that you will all probably think that this is old news, but I did promise to tell you when it was finalised and, thankfully now it has been. That's all for now ... Cheers, Katrina & the Jeepster posse. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 13:30:48 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:30:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Biscuits Message-ID: Just to throw a spanner in the works. Are there not such things as biscuit bars? I'm sure you see them at British Rail Station food shops. Are these some sort of strange mutants of the humble bar and the mighty biscuit? Safeway make Orange flavour chocolate biscuit bars. Any other examples?! Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwigham at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 15:03:49 1998 From: jwigham at xxx.uk (john wigham) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:03:49 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Biscuits etc. Message-ID: <3J4yXAAVnE70kwXa@meadowell-srb.demon.co.uk> How do you account for jaffa cakes? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lefoxaroo at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 17:27:21 1998 From: Lefoxaroo at xxx.com (Lefoxaroo at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:27:21 EST Subject: Sinister: Re: B+S activities? Message-ID: <9ab5e056.34ec6b7b@aol.com> Well I think this is their daily schedule: 10.30- Woken up by the Butler who rings a solid gold bell embossed in diamonds. 11.00- Have caviar spooned into their mouths with platinum spoons covered in rubies by topless nymphs. 12.00- Check their stocks on the FT. 13.00- Invite the poor and needy into a big courtyard and pelt jewels at them with catapults. 14.00- Fob the Queen off when she asks to borrow some money. 15.00- Finance an expedition to the moon, with the task of engraving their images on to it so as they are visable from Earth. A bit like Mt. Rushmore, but on a grander scale. 16.00- Settle the national debt, of EVERY country in the world. 17.00- Attempt a successful take over of ICI. 18.00 to 23.00- Count their mountains of money. 0.00- Retire to their silk sheets. David and Robert ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 17:39:36 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rick Browneye) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: My question about choppers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Claire Timmins wrote: > The big question is, however, 'In what musical did the song, '.....sing > hallelujah, come on get happy, put all your troubles and fears away, sing > hallelujah come on get happy, get ready for the judgement day....' appear? Dunno, but Danny Wilson did a version of it on their swansong compilation LP "Sweet Danny Wilson". I didn't think it was from a musical. Y'know that movie 'Boogie nights' about a porn-star with a collosal cock? Well there are posters up around Edinburgh for "Boogie Nights - The Musical". And as if that wasn't bad enough, it's followed by "Starring Shane Richie". I'm sorry, but I find the concept of the star of the Daz Doorstep Challenge prancing around on a stage, singing and waggling his willy to be a most distasteful one. And at The Playhouse just now is "Summer Holiday" with former-Radio Clyde DJ Ross King in the cast. What the sod is happening? Is there some new law saying that all major musical productions must feature at least one ex-daytime TV presenter? Are we about to see "The Phantom of the Opera... Starring Paul Coia"?? Are Anne & Nick about to take part in the relaunch of Hair? it doesn't bear thinking about. Please, don't have nightmares.[1] Rod. [1] www.nickross.co.uk -- it *really* exists. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CUT OUT THE MIDDLE MAN | HATE YOURSELF ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From euan.leitch at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 17:43:11 1998 From: euan.leitch at xxx.net (Euan Leitch) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:43:11 +0000 Subject: Sinister: House of Biscuit Message-ID: <34EC6F2F.3C48@virgin.net> Keith, you're right, you cant get the Guy Chadwick album in Virgin. Forget it anyway, as it's blancmange. Try Snow Patrol's ep. It's got the jeepster connection. Biscuits: why are the best ones the cheapest? i.e. Party Rings, Bourbon and those flashy pink wafer ones. Euan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From GGY3SWM4 at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 17:48:13 1998 From: GGY3SWM4 at xxx.uk (Nick Morton) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:48:13 Subject: Sinister: TBS... again Message-ID: <6C2C1217DD3@novell2.bham.ac.uk> Sorry to bore you all to death regards TBS yet again.... but to Andrew Dean: no, the release date cannot be March 2, primarily cos I bought it three weeks ago. I dunno, maybe Birmingham was the only place in the universe it was available, because no-one was more surprised than me to find it so early, but there we go... Shock! NME gets something right!! 8/10, hmmm.. Nick~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And the sad part is..... You do my world the world of good e-mail: ggy3swm4 at novell2.bham.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 16:00:55 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:00:55 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Big Jessie Message-ID: <01bd3d4f$8f7df7f0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Old Bands: have Jesse Garon and the Desperados been mentioned yet? For >about six months in the mid-eighties they were the loveliest thing on the >planet. Haha, funny, you want to get in touch with Pam Berry from Washington, she loves them! Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 18:24:29 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:24:29 -0800 Subject: Sinister:Milky Biscuit & other happenings Message-ID: Anyone here ever played "milky biscuit"? An ex mighty lemon drop told me about this rather...um...strange game that British bands play on tour (when totally pissed I hope)...he mentioned New Order played this, and i've not been able to listen to them, let alone kiss them...since. *shudder* Anyway.... last night at an instore at No Life records, here in LA....(Momus)...My very own Felicia came skipping over to me with a CD copy of Dog On Wheels...yeah yeah...no biggie for you British Milky Biscuit sorts, but for daft Americans it's been hard to come by. Felicia then informed me that there was one more on the rack and I scampered over to see a boy and a girl looking over it like the baby Jesus. I then did the most un-Christianly thing thinkable and snatched the sleeping baby from it's cradle...like a viper, I struck without warning....right infront of the poor fuckers outstretched hands.....I then felt flooded with shame at this vile and repulsive act (like a band member after a hearty game of milky biscuit) and knew...that wasn't very Belle & Sebastian fan-like at all.....so with this incredibly innocent (and quite dumb) look on my face I hand it over saying "oh...sorry...did you want this?" AS IF! As if i'd not just dived for it like Nicky Walker with a Hun football flying right at his wee heed. Sheesh. What a dope. They were so shocked at the genius move i'd just pulled to get it, they shook their heads and went "uh uh. that's cool. you take it." GOAL! Tag? Fancy a game of MB? beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Fri Feb 20 00:39:57 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:39:57 -0800 Subject: Sinister: that songmaker thing Message-ID: <34ECD0DD.1856@earthlink.net> i usually don't go to websites that people recommend. but i went to that songmaker one and i'm still laughing as i type this. here you go: you're on my foot Love is like a pissing hedgehog, On a drunk frosty morning. It makes your heart pound, like your nutsac bashing on a drum. pissing in public, is just so easy, 'Cause love makes you blind. I love you more than joey baltzell, loves their beanie weanies. You see, cupid has hit me with his beanie weanies. There is nothing I could do. It's not something that can be put into words, but, if I tried, then all could I say, is... you're on my foot. I'll show you off to my mam. and she'll feed you fried beanie weanies for tea. Your the best thing that has happened to me. My nutsac is yours. Till next week. You can tickle it, prod it whille pissing, because I love you. Let's run naked in albequerque. Let's tell everyone from the Queen to crackwhore about our love. It's not something that can be put into words, but, if I tried, then all could I say, is... you're on my foot. (Created by crackwhore) -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bullis at xxx.net Thu Feb 19 23:07:01 1998 From: bullis at xxx.net (Todd) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:07:01 -0800 Subject: Sinister: The most famous person In-Reply-To: <980219144017.20246eaf@fawdon.unn.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980219150701.0079d990@pop.avana.net> At 02:40 PM 2/19/98 GMT, paul.sumner at unn.ac.uk wrote: >Hi > >The most famous person in the world is surely the President of the USA, whoever >he might be at the time? > He's pretty well known...unless he is Gerald Ford, then no one has a clue. I thought there was some study that said that Muhammad Ali was the most recognizeable face in the world. He's (sort of) still alive. At one point it was Colonel Sanders...who actually was a real person at one time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Blur245 at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 20:07:45 1998 From: Blur245 at xxx.com (Blur245 at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:07:45 EST Subject: Sinister: Thanks,Brad from Albany Message-ID: <8ec4fe8d.34ec9113@aol.com> This is a message to Brad to let you know I got your tape let me know if there is anything I can send you in exchange.Right know I am listening to alot of bands on Creation.One band in particular I really like is "The Diggers"so if you like creation let me know. I am coming up to Georgia on the 17th of March to see IVY at The Cotton Club.Anyway thank you much.Oh sorry I haven't mailed you back I lost youre E- Mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 20:06:32 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:06:32 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Le Parc References: <199802191606.QAA23132@pop3.hiway.co.uk> Message-ID: <34EC90C8.D14@seahouses.u-net.com> John Stuart wrote: > >Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider. > > I vote Street Hawk. Why haven't they repeated that? And does anybody > remember a programme called Manammal, it was out around the same time. It Yes. I remember Manimal. It had that english sounding actor in it, can't remember his name.. anyway my vote goes to STREET HAWK because as we all know Tangerine Dream provided the theme music which you can get on the Le Parc album which is quite nice in a synthy way.. JJ x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 12:02:31 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:02:31 +0000 Subject: Sinister: whats new pussycat? wwoooooooaaahooohaoooohahha etc Message-ID: And the most famous person could possibly be TOM JONES!!! Who incidentally is playing the Nynex in Manchester soon. I really should go and get a ticket. But desafortunadamente (is that the word? its too bloody long.. :o)) it will be quite expensive. i'm currently reading a tom jones biography which is telling me he's a right lout.... sad in a way. oh well. must listen to spiritulized again....and drink some water. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound (MERELY!) * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From hebtv at xxx.com Thu Feb 19 22:14:55 1998 From: hebtv at xxx.com (Torr Leonard) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:14:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: vid stuff? Message-ID: <19980219221455.23143.rocketmail@web1.rocketmail.com> I live in the U.S. and am looking to get my hands on dubs of ANY B&S vid stuff. IE videos (do they even do those?) or concert footage (yes, I know they don't do many :) if you can help me out, mail me personally, thanks! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Fri Feb 20 00:16:47 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:16:47 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Digger$ Message-ID: <199802200016.BAA21575@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Blur245 at aol.com wrote ... >One band in particular I really like is "The Diggers" so if >you like creation let me know. "Stop! Look! Listen!" ... now the Digger$ are worth your attention and appreciation. I have no idea how much recognition this fine Glaswegian band received following their contract with Creation Records, but "They said I'd know" from the _Mount Everest_ LP/CD must be one of last year's favourite tunes, "Life's all ways" off the "Nobody's fool" 7"/12"/CDs from the year preceding that ... the line-up featured quite interesting personnel in the earlier days as well. "No names" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lefoxaroo at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 00:46:22 1998 From: Lefoxaroo at xxx.com (Lefoxaroo at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:46:22 EST Subject: Sinister: Re: SPAWNY GIT! SPAWNY FRICKIN" GIT! Message-ID: <1f1abe11.34ecd260@aol.com> In a message dated 19/02/98 07:50:12 GMT, you write: << A spawny git? Ahhhh... You would have to live in the fab uk to know. Other people just don't have the insults we have, do they? Everyone else's are a tad wishy-washy, if you know what I mean. Anyway, spawny git is an insult. Say it to you friends >> How is spawny git an insult? Its not an insult. If someone called me a spawny git i wouldn't be insulted. How can you take it as an insult? spawny git? you spawny git? thats no insult. if someone called you a spawny git they would be trying to insult you they'd just be jealous about something. Its like you jammy sod...spawny git. f'eh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From slc200 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 20 01:01:48 1998 From: slc200 at xxx.edu (Scott L Comeau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:01:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: NYC meet-up for Autour De Lucie Message-ID: in regards to AUTOUR DE LUCIE performance on Tuesday, February 24th at Luna Lounge 171 Ludlow Street, NYC, USA. i don't mean to be a downer but.... don't forget that luna lounge is normally 21+. they usually proof at the door. hope to see y'all inside. scott c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 01:55:46 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:55:46 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Buttmunch? Message-ID: <34ECE2A2.4AE0@ix.netcom.com> Buttmunch? What grade are you in? Remember, tis better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt. > as a B&S song. i'd much rather read posts like this than posts asking if > some press release about new order is to be believed. i mean, how > relevant is that? and why does he think WE'd know, the buttmunch... he's > not the only one either. How relevant is a New Order posting? How relevant are the many non-B&S posts or, more specifically, your non-B&S posts scattered in the archives? To answer your question, several people did know and responded to the list. > list? go and ask such questions elsewhere, on a more general music list, > or USENET or buy this week's music press. or listen to the radio. Usenets are rampant with rumours and regarding listening to the radio, well, where I live progressive/modern/alt rock (whatever the most appropriate term is) radio is filled with Third Blind Eye and Matchbox 20. That says it all. Tricia - Regarding the Cantina encounter, I'm not used to seeing you by yourself. I was waiting for Andy, Kim and Thaian to pop up... Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Fri Feb 20 09:05:42 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:05:42 -0800 Subject: Sinister: brown sugar Message-ID: <34ED4765.5D26@earthlink.net> hey. i'm a going record shopping this weekend. what's the general consensus of the ian brown thing? i haven't heard anything about it. should i get it or is it as complete crap as the seahorses are? -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rwilkin at xxx.au Fri Feb 20 07:27:29 1998 From: rwilkin at xxx.au (shelley wilkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:27:29 +1000 Subject: Sinister: PE Message-ID: <34ED3061.6AB2@gil.com.au> good afternoon all, since i've been reading these highly amusing anecdotes of days gone by, i keep seeing p.e. and this has been a constant reminder of a very horrible week end just passed. (it's ok, i'm in counselling now ;) . you see, my p.e. stood for pulmonary embolism. that's right kids, a blood clot in the lungs. rather scary not being able to breathe. think of asthma and x by 100 (well, probably not, but the story goes a lot better that way). after a barrage of tests, the doctors decided i didn't have a clot and it was most probably "stress"... hmm, thanks, that was a load off my mind. but since that was not really anywhere near the point, i shall relate my *proper* p.e. story. being naturally athletic, of course i have no traumas related to school sports ;) i do have a question though. when we'd have swimming our teachers would threaten us with the old "chemicals that turned purple in the pool etc " chestnut. was this just an australian" thing or is it a global lie? shelley ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From agnes.bonnet at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 10:15:00 1998 From: agnes.bonnet at xxx.com (agnes bonnet) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:15:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: House of Biscuit Message-ID: <00027FA5.4556@labels.virginmusic.com> >Keith, you're right, you cant get the Guy Chadwick album in Virgin. Forget it >anyway, as it's blancmange. That ain't true! And please don't try and use french words just because of the biscuit/bar debate! :) >Try Snow Patrol's ep. It's got the jeepster connection. Heard it yesterday on the Bernard Lenoir show on France Inter. I agree it sounded dead dead good... Agnès ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: House of Biscuit Author: Euan Leitch at X-MAIL Date: 19/02/1998 17:43 Keith, you're right, you cant get the Guy Chadwick album in Virgin. Forget it anyway, as it's blancmange. Try Snow Patrol's ep. It's got the jeepster connection. Biscuits: why are the best ones the cheapest? i.e. Party Rings, Bourbon and those flashy pink wafer ones. Euan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 09:32:39 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:32:39 -0000 Subject: Sinister: PE Horror Stories Message-ID: <01BD3DE2.7D70F560@pc07628> >Joseph wrote : >For nigh on the whole of my time at high school, the (girls') Games >teacher was MY MUM!!! >That said, the amount of time I actually spent on that freezing >all-weather pitch paled in comparison to the hours spent >"re-arranging" the stock cupboard, having feigned some >injury/infection/hormonal disorder. You poor get ! How did you cope ? It's not as if you could write a letter, forging your mothers signature saying, "Please excuse Joseph from physical activities as he's got an itchy scrotum." Not that I ever tried this one you'll understand. Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Paul.Dean at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 09:34:43 1998 From: Paul.Dean at xxx.uk (Paul Dean) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:34:43 -0000 Subject: Sinister: stuff & nonsense - no really Message-ID: <01BD3DE2.C73A1E60@pine.druid.co.uk> Whilst perusing a virtual record shop - www.cdnow.com - yesterday, i was looking at the (hideously overpriced) B&S CD's when it suggested i 'click here' for related B&S music.... are you ready for this. Apparently I should be buying the new LP's by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Sarah McClachlan, The Verve, Radiohead, & Sleater-Kinney. So there you are conclusive proof, if proof be needed, that B&S fans are not sniffly, cardie-wearing, mopers but are in fact mid 70's folkie throwbacks who follow the crowd & like a bit of lo-fi punky business now & then. SPOT ON.... Michael York was Manimal & it was huge pants, make no mistake The Ian Brown album is ummm.. i'm going to have to say OK. It's 100 times the seahorses (not difficult) & full of good ideas. It just seems to sacrifice tunes for trying too hard to be interesting. I guess i was just hoping for a new 'Standing Here' to get me through the millennium.... The Add N to X LP is wonderful - if you're still thinking of buying the Air LP. Don't! buy this instead..... The girls PE teacher at our school was called Miss Mountain until she got married & became Mrs Hill. I belm ye not! Has anyone in the US heard of a band called 'The 3'o clock'? Apparently, they were a huge influence on the fledgling Roses... Um. I think i'd better go now. sorry... Paulus the wood-gnome ....flying back to the US next week on Virgin....yipeee ;-] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 09:50:39 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:50:39 -0000 Subject: Sinister: The biscuit game? So soon? Message-ID: <199802200946.JAA03756@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> "Milky Biscuit" - hmmm, I've not heard it called that before. It was always "Soggy Biscuit" at my top-peoples-private-school. So I should be more qualified to expand on the subject. However I was never involved in such goings on, not being a boarder (or New Order roadie) you understand. I'd like to tell you more about which biscuits fared best but the world of Soggy Biccy is apparently very secretive and they don't divulge those secrets to just anybody. Crow-bar in a B&S link?? - Soggy Biscuit can be an alternative/adjunct to Cock Fun. PS All Canadians will know that the world's greatest biscuit/cookie is the Double StuFf Fudge-oo. "Ah Monsieur Christie, vous faites des bons biscuits!" I love you coz your lovely John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 10:30:18 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:30:18 GMT Subject: Sinister: self-obsessed and sexeee In-Reply-To: <199802200717.HAA23906@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802200717.HAA23906@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34ee5621.4600526@email.mcmail.com> Dear All, It's Friday morning, the sun is shining and I'm preparing myself spiritually and mentally for a weekend of Scottish country dancing (can anyone remember the steps to 'Bonnie Prince Charlie's Hornpipe'?) and alcohol abuse. I remember my English teacher coming into the room on the first day of term and saying "Spring is here - the time when Young McTaggart chases after young girls and sticks his claymore into them". He was a strange man, but a great influence. So I'm listening to 'The Hit Power of the Exciters' which despite the sleeve (which looks like something available "from all major branches of Woolworths and Woolco" as well as motorway service stations) is a corking collection of Lieber-Stoller songs. The cats are fighting like mad fools and the fur is a-flyin'. And I'm officially 'working from home'. Quelle belle vie! So Paul, did you get answers are to our pertinent B&S questions? I must say how disappointed I was to miss Stuart 'Rupert' Murdoch on IRC yesterday. That Stu-d is slippery as an eel. Rod Begbie wrote: >Of course, over the atlantic, the merkins refer to a scone as a biscuit, >a biscuit as a cookie, and a bar as a candy. Merkins? Do you know what a merkin is, Rod? Do you wear one? Have you got photos? Keith wrote: >>Old Bands: have Jesse Garon and the Desperados been mentioned yet? For >>about six months in the mid-eighties they were the loveliest thing on the >>planet. > >Haha, funny, you want to get in touch with Pam Berry from Washington, she >loves them! Me too. What happened to Pam by the way? She was hear and then PAFF! no more. >Anyone here ever played "milky biscuit"? An ex mighty lemon drop told me >about this rather...um...strange game that British bands play on tour (when >totally pissed I hope) I've often wondered if B&S play 'Milky Biscuit' (or Milky Bar) to wile away those long nights in the van. Maybe Paul could ask them this. >...he mentioned New Order played this, and i've not been able to listen to >them, let alone kiss them...since. *shudder* When Northy was my fag at Eton, he always used to let me win. But then he'd always bend over backwards to help me. >Tag? Fancy a game of MB? Righto Beth, I'll provide the Tunnocks and if you throw a six, you can toss first. Andrew wrote: >(saying hi to captain keith monkey and the qss collective, or some such arse) Yo! I'd like to give big respect to DJ Trousers, Kool Keith, Katrina and the Blue Soda crew - KICKIN' IT in '98, Phat Honey P on the M-I-C, the IRC posse, and a big shout to the Tormentor - your pipes need laggin' - nuff said, to the South Central Manchester gangstas - chicken vindaloo in full effect. And to Northy - peace. Keepin' it real for the massive! MC Tag (coming atcha straight outta Chorlton) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 09:23:57 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:23:57 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Cream crackers Message-ID: <01bd3de1$4583bf80$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Anyone here ever played "milky biscuit"? An ex mighty lemon drop told me >about this rather...um...strange game that British bands play on tour (when >totally pissed I hope)...he mentioned New Order played this, and i've not >been able to listen to them, let alone kiss them...since. *shudder* This'll be the "game of gentlemen" then, that standard of public schools otherwise known as "Soggy Biscuit" or "Creamed Crackers" etc. I sometimes wonder whether that actually goes on or not, especially whether or not the loser actually tucks into the aforementioned biscuit. When I had the subject "Biscuit Boys" on my last post, this is really what I was referring to, glad it's been picked up on. I didn't realise it was a pissed up bands thing mind you - although I'll bet perhaps that 10CC and the Lovin' Spoonful have had a shot. Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 11:10:58 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:10:58 -0000 Subject: Sinister: PAUL RE:Add N to X Lp Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F84D@RMF1> Paul, As it happens I was going to but yhe the AIR cd this weekend, but I can always get a copy, so why should I by this 'Add N to X' LP. Never heard of them bu tI am interested. Please tell me more. Huw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 1862 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ronbarrett at xxx.ie Fri Feb 20 10:45:00 1998 From: ronbarrett at xxx.ie (Barrett R) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: Sinister: questions, questions Message-ID: <01ITSY6E43OQ00GV5S@vms.eurokom.ie> Can anyone tell me what sort of stuff Snow Patrol play? They were in Dublin the other week I think but I didn't know about it til it was over. Has anyone heard the new single by Setanta band Catchers? They played a great Radcliffe Session about 3 years ago, promised a new album soon, and promptly disappeared off the face of the earth. Token B&S Question: Has anyone got the lyrics to "Century Of Elvis" (sorry if this is one that's come up before) On the great TV Debate, Knight Rider was the business and gets my vote . My only memory of Manimal was of hiding behind the sofa when the transformation was taking place. For some reason I could watch it so long as there was a big chair between me and the telly... Ronan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MWaggner at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 12:21:05 1998 From: MWaggner at xxx.com (MWaggner at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:21:05 EST Subject: Sinister: Fwd: Matador Update Message-ID: This is what Matador sent out yesterday -- seems like the chat is News! Have sent the whole thing because there are tour dates for people some listees have mentioned. Sorry it's so long. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: carrie at xxx.com Subject: Matador Update Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:13:53 -0500 (EST) Size: 9729 URL: From Paul.Dean at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 12:31:57 1998 From: Paul.Dean at xxx.uk (Paul Dean) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:31:57 -0000 Subject: Sinister: No B&S Content, just Add N To X wibblings Message-ID: <01BD3DFB.89C310F0@pine.druid.co.uk> Huw Phew maybe i got to you just in time. Add N to X are a slightly strange 3-some from London. They play the moog & that knob twiddling thing that just goes wwwwhaaaaaaa at higher frequencies till you're ears hurt (theramine??!!sp?)& related Drum machines in a slightly mad slowed down charlatans instrumental way - looking at that description that makes them sound utter bobbins but they're not. On the web they are described thusly "ADD N TO X is "Avant Hard". "Avant Hard" is the title for their music a sort of cross between Manic Street Preachers, Suicide, Kraftwerk and Throbbing Gristle" ummmm! They are a hundred times cleverer than Air, more inventive & for a band with no vocals strange as it may sound i find them funny. Air are probably the wrong band to compare but when i bought Mobile Safari i was expecting it to sound like the 12"s that i had by N to X. They released 2 on their own label 'Satellite', King Wasp & The Black Regent/Murmur One, which are very nice items. King Wasp came in with a 3d picture on thesleeve with some spex in with the record & The Black Regent had a man with a welding mask on with part of it cut out for a sheet of Add N to X plastic to poke out behind....oh yes the tunes are good as well & both are on the LP 'On The Wires On Our Nerves' - Go Buy They also had a LP out in 1996 called Veros Electronics Look for more info on http://www.blowup.demon.co.uk/addntox/index.htm Let me know if you're convinced & then on monday you can give me a good ear-bash for wasting your hard earned pennies. Ha-Ha Cheers Paul. >---------- >From: Huw Jenkins[SMTP:Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk] >Sent: 20 February 1998 06:10 >To: 'Sinister at ph.ed.ac.uk' >Subject: PAUL RE:Add N to X Lp > >Paul, > As it happens I was going to but yhe the AIR cd this weekend, but I can >always get a copy, so why should I by this 'Add N to X' LP. Never heard of >them bu tI am interested. Please tell me more. > >Huw > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nickdastoor at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:02:57 1998 From: nickdastoor at xxx.com (Nick Dastoor) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 05:02:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: a smashing orangey bit Message-ID: <19980220130257.27049.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> I think Tag might be mixing up his EC and his Customs & Excise (or is it Inland Revenue?) officials. I know it's an easy mistake to make. This is how I recall the case of a few years ago: Under UK taxation law, food is exempt from VAT charges, but this exemption doesn't cover confectionery (nor food in restaurants - it's all too luxurious.) Now cake is classed as a basic foodstuff (something of a hangover from Marie Antoinette and her Pasties of the Bourgeoisie no doubt) but biscuits, they're clearly frivolous items of confectionery. One day the taxman decided that Jaffa Cakes weren't really cakes at all but just tax dodging biscuits. McVities weren't going to take this lying down because they wanted to make lots of money. So the courtcase ensued. And clever McVities lawyers argued that JCs really were sponge cakes, just a lot smaller than the norm. In a coup de grace, they called for Exhibit A, a specially-baked giant Jaffa Cake which they sliced in front of the assembled court in a very cake-like way. Everyone gasped and the day was won. A Jaffa cake is a cake is a cake is a cake. Hmm.. Is the new LP going to have a pub trivia theme I wonder? "If you're feeling anal" anyone? So long Nick xxx Tag wrote: And jaffa cakes, which are particular bone of contention for me. Biscuit or cake? Since they are described as cakes, a recent EC directive decreed that they should therefore be taxed accordingly. And a jaffa cake contains light sponge, chocolate and a smashing orangey bit, but not 'biscuit'. But I can't help feeling that an authentic cake should somehow be bigger. I have no problem with them being called jaffa 'cakes', somehow jaffa sponges or jaffa biscuits is aesthetically inferior, and a bombay duck is a fish not a duck, and a parson's nose is not a nose at all, so why should a jaffa cake be a cake. A case of EC bureaucracy gone mad, perhaps? Maybe, other readers or indeed Stuart himself would care to offer their views. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:14:09 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Cheggers Plays POP!) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:14:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Digger$ In-Reply-To: <199802200016.BAA21575@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > Blur245 at aol.com wrote ... > > >One band in particular I really like is "The Diggers" so if > >you like creation let me know. > > "Stop! Look! Listen!" ... now the Digger$ are worth your attention and > appreciation. Are they still going? Last I heard, they'd been dropped by Creation. I saw them supporting Hurricane #1 (for my sins) at the Venue last year[1], and found them kind of dull, so resorted to giving them Spice Girl-type nicknames. Beardy Digger, Looks-like-he-should-be-in-Cast Digger, and Bum-faced Digger are the only ones I can remember. OK, here we go... It's time for some SG-like nicknames for the members of B&S... anyone got some suggestions? Rod. [1] The other support act was Tantrum, the lead singer of which looks *exactly* like a girl I know called Fiona. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dentocram: n. The foolish attempt to achieve a year's worth of | brushing & flossing an hour before your dental appointment ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 11:24:32 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:24:32 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm sorry....biscuits! Message-ID: Custard creams.......The little albino cousin of the mighty Bourbon! What's a penguin but a tarted up bourbon? sorry Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 11:30:18 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:30:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Mannamal Message-ID: I remember manimal. It reminded me of those choose your own adventure books, where you could be either a tiger or a shark. I'm sorry to say this but I preferred Knightrider. It was the only show where I could cope with David Hasselhoff playing a major part. However, we all know that the star of the show was Kit... the neat car that would scare the hell out of criminals, when they tried to break in to him. Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:19:03 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Johnny Ball Reveals All) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:19:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: Pubic Wigs In-Reply-To: <34ee5621.4600526@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Tag wrote: > Rod Begbie wrote: > > >Of course, over the atlantic, the merkins refer to a scone as a biscuit, > >a biscuit as a cookie, and a bar as a candy. > > Merkins? Do you know what a merkin is, Rod? Do you wear one? Have > you got photos? There was a photo of one in the last issue of SKY Magazine -- Bright pink it was. Either that, or someone was trying to convince friends that they were a natural pink. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Terry Scott, Bill Maynard, Wilfred Brambell, Carmel McSharry and | The Krankies join Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:22:28 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Puzzle Trail) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Most Famous Person In-Reply-To: <199802191030_MC2-33F3-284D@compuserve.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Ruth McCurry wrote: > Whose death (apart from Di, obviously) would cause such an outpouring of > grief around the world that it would be possible to shift hangarloads of > vaguely related merchandise in minutes? The Queen Mum, Godblessur. She's 99 you know, and survived the blitz. Imagine what would happen if she died during the World Cup. Second half of the final, Scotland v England (I know, I know, but let me have a little dream), five minutes to the end, scores equal, Scotland get awarded a penaly kick and... Buckingham Palace have announce the death of HRH Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. It's going to happen, believe me. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | He's not vicious, or malicious. | Just delovely, and delicious. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:25:15 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Dilbert Knobacorn) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Murdochs Bored. In-Reply-To: <01BD3D25.7058E440@pc07628> Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Adrian Evans wrote: > >He wrote : > > >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit >or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the > >best? > > I don't think anyone can better Windy Miller - United Bisuits man, so I'm not going to try. That reminds me... The "Dawn Of The Replicants" album is *superb*, and only eight quid at the moment, and there's a smashing track on it called Windy Miller. Little House On The Prairie, or The Waltons? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Finally, an erection from actual physical contact." | -- Brian Krakow, My So-Called Life ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Fri Feb 20 13:25:46 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:25:46 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Three O'Clock (NBSC) Message-ID: <199802201325.OAA06241@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Paul Dean wrote ... >Has anyone in the US heard of a band called 'The 3'o clock'? Apparently, >they were a huge influence on the fledgling Roses... The Three O'Clock were fairly popular exponents of the American Paisley Underground in the early Eighties ... the _Baroque Hoedown_ debut 12" from 1982 is a classic masterpiece, the _Sixteen Tambourines_ album from 1983 is highly recommended as well and may have been quite influential on other excellent Eighties bands such as Fantastic Something ... both records are compiled on the _Sixteen Tambourines_ CD reissue. Besides, I've just obtained a letter from friends in London telling me that XFM plays tunes such as "If she doesn't smile (it'll rain)" by Fantastic Something ... lucky people. "As real as real" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:30:15 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (T.R. O'Lloyd) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:30:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister:Milky Biscuit & other happenings In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Madame Cholet wrote: > Anyone here ever played "milky biscuit"? An ex mighty lemon drop told me > about this rather...um...strange game that British bands play on tour (when > totally pissed I hope)...he mentioned New Order played this, and i've not > been able to listen to them, let alone kiss them...since. *shudder* > > Tag? Fancy a game of MB? Beth - If you can play "Spunky Biscuit" (as it was called at my school[1]) then there's something strange going on... Rod. [1] No, I didn't play -- I wasn't a boarder Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tupperwarp: n. Condition of Tupperware left in the microwave too long ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9607129h at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 13:34:58 1998 From: 9607129h at xxx.uk (Neil Hargreaves) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:34:58 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Everything you know is wrong Message-ID: People, people get it together...... A Rich Tea or a hob nob is a biscuit yes.... They have no chocolate on them only eh... whatever makes the crunchy. Crunchiness X... Therefore a neccasary condition for a biscuit must be crunchiness X. With not much more else. Chocolate is OK.... but I think if you've got toffee your a bar. So breakaways and trios are about the same size. Breakaways biscuits. Trio's bars.... nothing to do with size. And what the hecky moses are all these Streethawk votes for... the guy was a ponce. Ebery time he knocked somweone off or injured them even like really evil bad guys there was always the obligatory shot of him looking pensive. Whats goin' on there eh? My vote is for MICHAEL KNIGHT and KITT... Also I remember Manimal BUT was there not a similaire type of man/animal fusion series around at the same time.... A kind of Blue Thunder to its Airwolf.... Or have all these 80's TV oppositions gone to my head... God Bless you Mr and Mrs Rosewaters! neil H ------------------------------------------------- " despite myself at times well i have felt not in the mood for any of this..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 13:43:25 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:43:25 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Various Bits Message-ID: <199802200846_MC2-3407-D3E0@compuserve.com> Three things I need help with - in the case of the first, probably medical. 1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others out there like me. 2. I realise this is two months late, but could somebody tell me what the Sunday evening Manchester show was like? I thought the Saturday night was good and the matinee show was just the most gorgeous thing I've ever witnessed. Did they do any more new stuff on Sunday evening? Did the crowd mosh and go wild a la Steven Wells? I sincerely hope not. 3. Does anyone know what happened to Aberdeen? One of their songs, Fran, was on Sarah 90something and still makes me cry every time I listen to it (soft, huh?) I think they were from Oregon or somewhere. I heard a song on XFM the other night by a band that sounded remarkably similar (Gaze? Graze? Gays???) but apparently they're from British Columbia. It's on the K label. All help would be gratefully received. Much love DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gwood at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 13:50:40 1998 From: gwood at xxx.uk (Gerard Wood) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:50:40 GMT Subject: Sinister: Biscuits In-Reply-To: <19980220130257.27049.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: At 5:02 am -0800 20/2/98, Nick Dastoor wrote: [Jaffa cakes etc] I'm surprised the humble Gingerbread Man hasn't appeared in this 'discussion' yet. How would you classify him, then? Half Man Half Biscuit? Well, they're playing tonight at The Limelight in Crewe....see you there... waltzer, the most blantant of pluggers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From agnes.bonnet at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 15:07:00 1998 From: agnes.bonnet at xxx.com (agnes bonnet) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:07:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: questions, questions Message-ID: <0002843A.4556@labels.virginmusic.com> >Can anyone tell me what sort of stuff Snow Patrol play? I heard it yesterday on a french radio and it sounded pretty good. Maybe you could rush to your local Championship Vynil store and get a copy of their EP? >Has anyone heard the new single by Setanta band Catchers? it's a 7" : Call her name/Circles+Stumbling it's great and wtihout surprise = back to the old good days Pelvis has also a 7" out: Streetlight/peace & love, submission ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: questions, questions Author: Barrett R at X-MAIL Date: 20/02/1998 11:45 Can anyone tell me what sort of stuff Snow Patrol play? They were in Dublin the other week I think but I didn't know about it til it was over. They played a great Radcliffe Session about 3 years ago, promised a new album soon, and promptly disappeared off the face of the earth. Token B&S Question: Has anyone got the lyrics to "Century Of Elvis" (sorry if this is one that's come up before) On the great TV Debate, Knight Rider was the business and gets my vote . My only memory of Manimal was of hiding behind the sofa when the transformation was taking place. For some reason I could watch it so long as there was a big chair between me and the telly... Ronan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Fri Feb 20 14:44:10 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B&S related gig and The Box Message-ID: Stuart David spoken-word and bizarre (sexual?) devices gig in Glasgow. And yes Tag, I've just sent the questions off to the band. They will now stop talking to us. HoneyP xxx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart David Hi Paul Here is the gig details. The Glasgow School of Art, in the Vic Bar. 2 pounds, (1.50 for glasgow school of art students) Starts at 7.30pm ends at 12pm. There will be bingo, two spoken word guys, one DJ, one ambient music guy, and then me around 10.30 or 11pm- with my full multimedia experience. AND my box. Stuart ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 15:18:01 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:18:01 -0000 Subject: Sinister: A very poor link. Message-ID: <01BD3E12.BC772420@pc07628> >Rod Begbie wrote : >Imagine what would happen if she died during the World Cup. Second half >of the final, Scotland v England (I know, I know, but let me have a little >dream), five minutes to the end, scores equal, Scotland get awarded a >penaly kick and... Gordon Durie steps up to take.....Ha ! England have got it sewn up already. >Buckingham Palace have announce the death of HRH Elizabeth, The Queen >Mother. Rod. thats never going to happen !!! The football scenario yes, but that old cows never gonna die. Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Fri Feb 20 14:14:48 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:14:48 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Bars and biscuits: a Southern perspective Message-ID: <34ED8FD8.4836@earthlink.net> Go tell Stuart M. that this is the right answer. According to Dale 'n' Kyle's Carolina Dictionary: biscuit: a right tasty fluffy thing that y'eat for any time of the day. Real good with sausage gravy. bar: a place where'n you get likkerd up at. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 15:28:01 1998 From: Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk (Robert Hardy) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:28:01 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: Snowpatrol Message-ID: <199802201537.PAA05382@sand.global.net.uk> I saw Snow Patrol on Saturday in Leeds. The band were excellent but the audience wasn't particularly big. You see, there was a Mogwai gig practically next door to which everybody in West Yorkshire had tickets lest myself and the other 15 people in audience. Even Snowpatrol had tickets, so they came on early and left early. Apart from the lack of atmosphere though they were really good. As for the type of music I can't really classify it. Sort of Indie Pop gone wrong. Perhaps someone can explain better... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 20 15:53:31 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:53:31 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Stop! Look! Listen! ideed. Message-ID: <01bd3e17$b209d280$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Big Tackle suggested that Stuart was taking the piss by asking about biscuits. I'm no mind reader, but I don't think there was any malice involved, more a case of joining in the "fun". Three attempts to introduce a bit of B&S content while we wait for the Monday Poem: 1) How about an ink polaroid of the contract signing ceremony, Katrina? Or a bit more detail. I don't mean the financial ins and outs, just a bit of background for those of us who don't know how these things work. For instance, does each member have their own contract, or is it a joint contract, meaning that they are legally bound to each other as well as to Matador? What happens if Sarah Martin decides to leave the band due to the pressures of raising a family with Christopher Alexander Leonard? That kind of thing... 2) What are Stuart M and the unnamed catfish on the cover of 3..6..9 laughing about? 3) I'm just listening to the marvellous Jimmy Webb's "Archive 1970-1977", something I don't do very often. There is a song called "Feet in the Sunshine" which sounds remarkably similar to "Ease Your Feet in the Sea". It's a gorgeous song, in fact it's a gorgeous album. In fact, it's so gorgeous I can't for the life of me work out why people buy new records when there are so many nice old ones. New records should be banned. But that's beside the point, what I really want to know is whether or not it's a deliberate tribute to the author of "Lady Fits Her Blue Jeans" or just coincidence. I would dearly like to look like Jimmy Webb on the back cover of this album - stylish, self-assured, Georgie Best haircut, proper cufflinks. Peter "on the Peking ferry I was feeling merry" - Rod Stewart ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From slc200 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 20 15:54:40 1998 From: slc200 at xxx.edu (Scott L Comeau) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:54:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: most famous In-Reply-To: <199802201330.NAA27963@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: most famous person in the world ---> RONALD McDONALD frightening but true... $.02, Scott C -> slc200 at is5.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 15:31:17 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:31:17 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S related gig and The Box Message-ID: <01bd3e14$95e7daf0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >From: Stuart David > >Hi Paul > >Here is the gig details. The Glasgow School of Art, in the Vic Bar. 2 >pounds, (1.50 for glasgow school of art students) > >Starts at 7.30pm ends at 12pm. There will be bingo, two spoken word guys, one >DJ, one ambient music guy, and then me around 10.30 or 11pm- with my full >multimedia experience. AND my box. > >Stuart Hehe, a bit useless without the date, unless it's every day for the rest of eternity, having said that though, I think he said it was Tuesday 24th, i.e. on Tuesday. If I'm incorrect about this, someone had better post the correct date pretty quicksharp though. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 16:01:10 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Suke Lyewalker) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:01:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: Digger$ In-Reply-To: <199802201541.QAA23511@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > At 13:14 20.02.1998 +0000, Cheggers Plays POP! wrote: > >> "Stop! Look! Listen!" ... now the Digger$ are worth your attention and > >> appreciation. > > > >Are they still going? Last I heard, they'd been dropped by Creation. I > >saw them supporting Hurricane #1 (for my sins) at the Venue last year[1], > >and found them kind of dull > > Cheers for making my recommendation a little more meaningless Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone's got one. You think they're great, I don't. C'est Lavvy. > you people should check out the > records before slagging off bands in such a forum, but then again, you were > at that show for the incredibly dull Hurricane #1, which explains a lot. Tell me about it. I was there because "Carnival of Light" is one of my all-time fave albums. "Hugely disappointed" is the expression I'm looking for. The Paul Oakenfield remix single was really quite good, though. > Besides, the interesting personnel in the earlier Digger$ involved someone > with the initials SM actually reading messages like yours ... you're making > yourself dead popular. Yeah? Well my dad used to work in the Central Regional Council Social Work department, when Ian Ross was in charge, and he's the dad of one of The Diggers. Yes. Be impressed. > Oh well ... I should follow the Duke Of Harringay's example and unsubscribe > ... too many "Dedicated followers of fashion" and starstrucked teenagers out > there. Anyone fancy a Hobnob? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Aircapped: v. To be temporarily crippled when the airplane | passenger in front drives his seat back into your knees ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 16:33:16 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:33:16 EST Subject: Sinister: questions, questions Message-ID: <140a01e5.34edb04e@aol.com> got to remember to change the header when replying. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com Subject: Re: Sinister: questions, questions Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:32:09 EST Size: 804 URL: From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 16:51:18 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:51:18 -0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S in Q/Do you like worms? Message-ID: <199802201648.QAA21499@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Peter 'Willie' Miller wrote: > 2) What are Stuart M and the unnamed catfish on the cover of 3..6..9 > laughing about? They are laughing at you, Peter...you wrote.... >Yes, Fatty Hopkins is on the list. He recently challenged me to an insult >contest but has obviously chickened out since then >Peter Poor old Windy. It is true that I challenged him to an insult competition, but I thought I'd take it easy on the poor soul, since he made off whimpering and licking his wounds, like a dog, after a couple of light-hearted haikus. Just as well I did since it appears that the best he can come up with is school bus standard at best. I mean...'fatty' and 'chicken'? Doesn't even sound like a contest to me. Hope the constipation's clearing up, Petey. That trawl through the entire 1980s Rod Stewart output should have helped. I hope you particularly enjoyed 'Young Turks'. Wanted to look like Jimmy Webb, huh? And ended up looking like Jimmy Tarbuck. Bye Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lefoxaroo at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 17:07:53 1998 From: Lefoxaroo at xxx.com (Lefoxaroo at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:07:53 EST Subject: Sinister: Re: Snow Patrol Message-ID: <375bd777.34edb86b@aol.com> In a message dated 20/02/98 16:51:27 GMT, Robert Hardy wrote write that Snow Patrol were: << Sort of Indie Pop gone wrong. >> that makes them sould more like Catch or something...i reakon they're more Indie Pop gone Mogwai-ish in an irish sorta way. I hate Catch..the singer said he been with Drew Barrymore...f'eh. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 20 16:16:53 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:16:53 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Murdoch's not the only one Message-ID: <01bd3e1a$f4e593c0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Dilbert Knobacorn Para: Strange Bed-Fellows Fecha: viernes 20 de febrero de 1998 16:17 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Murdochs Bored. > >Little House On The Prairie, or The Waltons? > Let's try to narrow things down a bit, before things get out of hand: The episode of Little House on the Prairie when Laura sticks some apples up her jumper to make it look as if she's got tits or... The episode of The Waltons when Elizabeth is subjected to a terrifying ordeal at the hands of a poltergeist. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 17:45:52 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:45:52 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Buttmunch? Message-ID: >Buttmunch? What grade are you in? Remember, tis better to remain >silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak out and remove all >doubt. > >How relevant is a New Order posting? How relevant are the many non-B&S >posts or, more specifically, your non-B&S posts scattered in the >archives? To answer your question, several people did know and >responded to the list. > Sam..... Sounds like you need a good game of milky biscuit. Lighten the fuck up ....buttmunch. Some people. Sheeeeeeesh. beth (who in the spirit of keeping it on the B&S tip...was in a mates office at Capitol asking loads of B&S questions.....they seem to be psyched about B&S in a big way...and I actually found another B&S fan in LA! Few and far between methinkest. Come out come out where ere you are.....) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 95516123 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 14:05:22 1998 From: 95516123 at xxx.uk (95516123 at xxx.uk) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:05:22 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Digger$ Message-ID: <00008F3D.3208@student.napier.ac.uk> As far as I know, the Diggers were dropped by Creation, split up and some of them are back doing crap jobs in Glenrothes. The Archdeacon of Pop Blur245 at aol.com wrote ... >One band in particular I really like is "The Diggers" so if >you like creation let me know. "Stop! Look! Listen!" ... now the Digger$ are worth your attention and appreciation. I have no idea how much recognition this fine Glaswegian band received following their contract with Creation Records, but "They said I'd know" from the _Mount Everest_ LP/CD must be one of last year's favourite tunes, "Life's all ways" off the "Nobody's fool" 7"/12"/CDs from the year preceding that ... the line-up featured quite interesting personnel in the earlier days as well. "No names" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- Received: from sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk (129.215.72.230) by csu_mail2.napier.ac.uk with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 00008340; Fri, 20 Feb 98 00:29:25 +0000 Received: (from majordomo at localhost) by sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA21800 for sinister-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:16:52 GMT Received: from studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de (root at studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de [130.75.176.2]) by sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA21796 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:16:49 GMT Received: from mod48.stud.uni-hannover.de (mod48.stud.uni-hannover.de [130.75.176.48]) by studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/9) with SMTP id BAA21575; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:16:47 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:16:47 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199802200016.BAA21575 at studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> X-Sender: aehering at popmail.stud.uni-hannover.de X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Blur245 at aol.com, sinister at majordomo.net From: Perfection As A Hipster Subject: Re: Sinister: Digger$ Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Perfection As A Hipster X-List: Sinister From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Fri Feb 20 18:20:42 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:20:42 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Re: Digger$ Message-ID: <199802201820.TAA07607@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Rod Begbie reprinted and replied a *private* e-mail as follows ... >Yeah? Well my dad used to work in the Central Regional Council Social >Work department, when Ian Ross was in charge, and he's the dad of one of >The Diggers. Yes. Be impressed. Ha ha ha ... who would care if I was the illegitimate child of Nico and Syd Barrett ? And who cares that I planned to release the Digger$ debut single in 1994 amongst others ... I've never chatted with their parents, though. >> Oh well ... I should follow the Duke Of Harringay's example and unsubscribe >> ... too many "Dedicated followers of fashion" and starstrucked teenagers out >> there. > >Anyone fancy a Hobnob? Hmmm ... a public smear campaign, the instrument of individuals with a modestly structured intellect. For your understanding ... private e-mails are the intellectual property of the *sender*, not the recipient. International copyright law forbids their reprinting in any medium without the permission of the sender. And it's rude. The sanction as regards mailing lists is commonly removal. On now: "Don't look back" by the Remains with the immortal line ... "Don't be bothered by what smaller minds have to say" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Fri Feb 20 19:06:28 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 20:06:28 +0100 Subject: Sinister: I like Rod Message-ID: <01bd3e32$a617b3a0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Suke Lyewalker Para: Strange Bed-Fellows Fecha: viernes 20 de febrero de 1998 18:41 Asunto: Sinister: Re: Digger$ The Green Cross Code Man wrote: >> Besides, the interesting personnel in the earlier Digger$ involved someone >> with the initials SM actually reading messages like yours ... you're making >> yourself dead popular. > I'm sure Sarah Martin won't mind Rod expressing a less than enthusiastic opinion of her previous band. After all, she must have asked for a transfer for a good reason. I'm no mind reader, but I wouldn't be surprised if she objected to playing in a band with a dollar sign in their name. Whatever, I hardly think Sarah will blow her top if she does read Rod's message, and Rod would certainly be in need of psychiatric help if he changed his opinions just to please her, or anyone else who might be reading. Especially when the opinion in question was so innocuous. What did he say? "slightly dull"? Personally I've never heard the band in question, but I'm not going to rush out and listen to them and then say they're really good just because Sarah Martin lays down a bit of extra Stylophone on side two. > >> Oh well ... I should follow the Duke Of Harringay's example and unsubscribe >> ... too many "Dedicated followers of fashion" and starstrucked teenagers out >> there. > That's your decision, but I think it is a bit ironic coming in the same sentence as a reference to "starstrucked teenagers". I dread to think how many messages I've read on this list over the years, but I'm yet to encounter anything from a "starstrucked teenager" or a "Dedicated follower of fashion", not that I have anything against those groups of people. I'm quite starstrucked, but I'm not a teenager. I follow the herd quite a lot, I've seen "Titanic" and I own a copy of "Urban Hymns". I buy my clothes in Marks and Spencer. I am starstrucked enough to stand around for two hours in the hope of catching a glimpse of Keanu Reeves. I watch the television programmes that get the biggest audiences (they are football matches) and was really really starstrucked when I saw the legendary Barcelona "dream team" at close quarters. Hristo Stoichkov is my favourite. >Anyone fancy a Hobnob? Yes, I'd like a Hobnob, thank you Rod. Did you know that they were the most successful product launch in the history of United Biscuits? They used to own Pizzaland and Wimpy, you know, but they sold them as part of a rationalisation process. The Windy Ridge snack factory in Ashby-de-la-Zouch is one of the most advanced in the world....the bloke who invented Outer Spacers is a really bad driver and has a terrible temper... Peter "Eating walnut cheese from Harrod's. Recording at Trident, spending money, hurting bad." - Jimmy Webb ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yazansam at xxx.uk Fri Feb 20 19:17:45 1998 From: yazansam at xxx.uk (Yaz) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:17:45 -0000 Subject: Sinister: poor sebastian's gone too far again crashed his car in the rain.... Message-ID: <199802201914.TAA18405@mailhost.dircon.co.uk> the very confusingly named John, CT Johnston said: >I love you coz your lovely John Awww, what a nice man..... we love you too. Tag said: >It's Friday morning, the sun is shining ..... mate, you've been listening to far too much of that dimpled young finley Quaye . Ronan asked: >Has anyone heard the new single by Setanta band Catchers? They played a great Radcliffe Session about 3 years ago, promised a new album soon, and promptly disappeared off the face of the earth. Thanx sooo much for bringing this band up, i wanted to, but eventually decided against it for fear that big daddy Paul might turn mean at my finely-tuned skill for having bugger all b+s relevance. But now i can say THEY ARE AMAZING. GO OUT AND BUY THEIR ALBUM. AND THEIR SINGLES. BUT KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE SINGER. his name's Dale, he's just had a hair-cut and he belongs to my friend.......she wishes. in fact, they all have lovely irish accents and alice, the keyboardist and founder member is also really sweet. actually they are all adorable. i really think that they are just the sort of band that a lot of belle and sebastian people will like. Dale's songs are so gooood, and just keep getting better every time i see them. He used write poetry, literally, in format, style and vocab, but now they are getting a bit rockier. They've been around for a while now, i know they started when dale was doing his a levels, which he told me he dropped three months before his exams for the music. errm he's around 26 now i think , so that's... errm, 8 years, i might be wrong though, they always tell me and i always forget. they've got a beautiful abum out called MUTE and you can get that and the new single, Call Her Name from setanta : http://www.setantarecords.com i know they headlined the Garage on a Tuesday night a couple of weeks a go - apparently they are gonna be playing a lot of gigs around soon, so watch out. David said: >1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others out there like me. ME TOO!! Love & hugs, Yazz xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Thu Feb 19 11:56:59 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:56:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm going to lose my thoughts in 200 bars.... Message-ID: hi all! i'm afraid my last post made even less sense than ususal. *sigh* HoneyPie wrote this kinda stuff..... ****Can I also ask for an explanation over booths/cubicles/kiosks? I've always wondered what the difference is**** Booths is an upmarket Spar. In my little opinion. Cubicles are places where women are designated to pee in because women are nicer than men and do not piss all over the floor in their toilets (no, just in the cubicles) and keep our pee-ing private. A kiosk is a little place where a man stands and sells sweets, papers, fags'n'rizlas. i know a man who will stock 'behind the counter' alcohol in his *kiosk*.....only joking.......(are there any coppers on the list by the way?) (OFF TOPIC, i must now digress as the strings have just kicked in on ANGEL HIGH on S/Lized Lazer guided...and its soo magical! anyway..) The Boy Stuart Murdoch (mad dog murdoch...i like it!!) wrote this bit... *********What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the best?******* hmm, a hard question. but i think i know. bicuits are all in one big long packet, whereas 'bars' are all *individually* wrapped. as to their tastes, well, a bar is usually harder than a biscuit, ie doesn't crumble, and is ALWAYS covered in choclate. health food 'bars' don't count. they are not food anyway. well, not as we know it. (swaaaaay....sorry....still listening to spiritualized..) a Twix is a 'bar' as it is choclate covered bicuit. the things that classify it as a bar are 1. the fact it is individually wrapped 2. it is long and fiinger shaped 3. it is in a bar shape. perhaps #3 is the vital answer. BUT MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL! IT IS TIME! Sarah has got herself a web site! please would any Sinisterines/ettes like to go and visit her? OK, so she has not too many pictures (ok, none, but at least it doesn't take forever to load..) and is very little but have a look anyway! and don't laugh....i might even hav a guestbook by the time you visit her! if you do visit her go to.... http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk and i have even put in links to some of the cool sites that i have been to! if you want me to put a link to *your* site, email me the URL and i will do! (i'm very pleased with the fact that i can link to places. its quite impressive.) bye for now, the spiritully enhanced sarah. who has eaten loads of toast. nothing soothes the sould quite like toast. nothing is good for feeling pure as lettuce and water. nothng is as addictive as chocolate. nothing is worse than having your life revolve round food..... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound (MERELY!) * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 20:50:10 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:50:10 -0800 Subject: Sinister: biscuits are for puppies Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030D61C5@amerwksnt01.xil.com> >>conclusive proof, if proof be needed, that B&S fans are not sniffly, cardie-wearing, mopers but are in fact mid 70's folkie throwbacks who follow the crowd & like a bit of lo-fi punky business now & then. SPOT ON.... hehe...Did we ever come to a conclusion as to what the typical B&S fan looks like? Someone asked a question to that effect ages ago. Witty opinions welcome. Did anybody else watch that Motown series on ABC recently? fascinating! I'm off to buy all the pre-1971 releases on my lunch. Today is Ian Brown's birthday, and Kurt Cobain's too. I wonder when Belle and Sebastian's birthdays are. I peg Stuey M as a pisces or virgo, possibly libran. How old are they all anyway? Someone mentioned Isobel having school exams to do, and here I am thinking they're all 30 ish... *sigh* feeling low, like in that All Saints song. "Play me a song to set me free..." Thanks to you who sent the Beautiful South game, top notch fun! Like Ad libs, anybody remember that game? sorry everybody, I'll be gone now! lurrrve moi (still not quite clear on this milky biscuit business...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Fri Feb 20 21:30:40 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 22:30:40 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: I like Rod Message-ID: <199802202130.WAA18524@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> PJMiller wrote ... >I'm sure Sarah Martin won't mind Rod expressing a less than enthusiastic >opinion of her previous band. Come on, folks ... SM naturally stands for Steve Malkmus, but he's lurking ... "Fight this generation" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Essexdog5 at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 21:33:40 1998 From: Essexdog5 at xxx.com (Essexdog5 at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:33:40 EST Subject: Sinister: stuff & nonsense - no really Message-ID: <76b96e6a.34edf6b6@aol.com> In a message dated 2/20/98 9:41:33AM, you write: << Has anyone in the US heard of a band called 'The 3'o clock'? Apparently, they were a huge influence on the fledgling Roses... >> Has anyone on the list heard of an album called Primal Scream? Apparently it was a huge influence on the not-so-fledgling Stone Roses. Arf. By the way, I'm in NYC in late march/early April - can anyone tell me where I should go and/or what I should do that's, uh, 'cool'? Feedback would be appreciated. Why thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Fri Feb 20 20:05:33 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:05:33 -0500 Subject: Sinister: The Three O'Clock (NBSC) References: <01BD3DE2.C73A1E60@pine.druid.co.uk> Message-ID: <34EDE205.FA7@interaccess.com> Paul Dean wrote: > > Has anyone in the US heard of a band called 'The 3'o clock'? Apparently, > they were a huge influence on the fledgling Roses... > Heard of 'em? Hell, I SAW 'em! Several times in fact. I never thought there was any similarity though. They were jangley, psychedelic _pop_. The 'Roses were influenced by psych. and were pop, but they had a groove. The 3OC never had a groove. I wouldn't be surprised if the 'Roses liked 'em, but influenced? I don't hear it... Aadam -- "Unfortunately, in our world, we are taught to think good what we like rather than to like what is good." - Bill Russo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Sat Feb 21 08:52:10 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 09:52:10 +0100 Subject: Sinister: B&S in Q/George Fell into his French Horn Message-ID: <01bd3ea6$0011c620$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Hopkins T Para: 'sinister at majordomo.net' Fecha: viernes 20 de febrero de 1998 19:08 Asunto: RE: Sinister: B&S in Q/Do you like worms? the one-man Bavarian oompah-pah band trumpeted forth: >Wanted to look like Jimmy Webb, huh? And ended up looking like Jimmy >Tarbuck. > That is below the belt, Hopkins. Don't mess with my Jimmy Webb aspirations! Time out! let me think...let me think...you look like Eddie Yeats on bad acid. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Sat Feb 21 09:02:44 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 09:02:44 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Various Bits Message-ID: <01bd3ea7$790e9020$5c3263c3@dell> -----Original Message----- From: Ruth McCurry <100670.3522 at xxx.com> To: Sinister Date: 20 February 1998 13:49 Subject: Sinister: Various Bits >2. I realise this is two months late, but could somebody tell me what the >Sunday evening Manchester show was like? I thought the Saturday night was >good and the matinee show was just the most gorgeous thing I've ever >witnessed. Did they do any more new stuff on Sunday evening? Did the crowd >mosh and go wild a la Steven Wells? I sincerely hope not. Try my semi-fab Manchester scrapbook at http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/manscrap.htm/ It was going to have loads of people's stories in it, but my email program went wrong and I lost half of them. Anyway, it's alright I suppose... jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bsanant at xxx.edu Sat Feb 21 09:52:52 1998 From: bsanant at xxx.edu (Birjinder Singh Anant) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 01:52:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: The Three o'clock Message-ID: <199802210952.BAA06135@uclink.berkeley.edu> Hi, I'm just writing in response to the talk about the three o'clock. I assume Paul's talking about the Uncut interview with Ian Brown. In one of the little side interviews, Alan McGee says that no one knows this, but one of the influences on the Roses first album was a us band called the three o'clock. But what does he know? Also, in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, there's an interview by Johnny Ray Huston, the same guy who wrote the B&S article last week, with Momus, who was supposed to be playing at the Cafe Du Nord on Monday, but I called the club, and they said that the show was cancelled because he stayed in the US longer than he was supposed to. Anyway, in the article they mention B&S. Here's the quote: "Though Momus is a musical loner, he has found kinship with other musical loners. In the cover painting of his debut album, Circus Maximus, arrows pierce his body a la St. Sebastian, so I'm not surprised when he says Stuart Murdoch of the Scottish group Belle and Sebastian wrote him last year offering back-up for future tours. ('I'm glad I didn't reply,' he says, 'because I might have stopped him from making If You're Feeling Sinister.') Momus also..." If anyone wants the whole interview, I can transcribe it.Just send me an email. Take care, Birjinder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 11:29:34 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:29:34 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Fame Message-ID: <34EEBA9E.7AA@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Hi, Sad to say it but Bill Clinton is probably the most famous living person. Richard Anderson http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 11:32:10 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:32:10 +0000 Subject: Sinister: The Car,Chicks Love The Car References: <01bd3d29$9cbf5420$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: <34EEBB3A.220C@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Keith Watson wrote: > Right, now, Street Hawk or Knight Rider. Out of the two, Knight rider hands down. Such a cooool voice. Anything that makes hasselhof look good must be prettry damn special. Personally I prefer the Batmobile. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 12:04:58 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:04:58 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Various Bits References: <199802200846_MC2-3407-D3E0@compuserve.com> Message-ID: <34EEC2EA.C9E@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Ruth McCurry wrote: > 1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear > Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn > kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others > out there like me.> Oh My God.!!.(janice Impression:o) There are two of us. Ocean Drive(single) and High are just plain perfection. They are the kind of song that make you feel like you are falling from the sky through fluffy clouds. Trouble is once you've heard the the other LHF stuff doesn't sound as good. Is this true of the new album or is the final, and title track, Postcard from Heaven just as good. Advise me on this purchase soon as "Slain By Urusei Yatsura" comes out March 2nd and thats a definite buy. Richard Anderson http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 13:10:42 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:10:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Famous people Message-ID: Why are all the world's most famous people American? C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From grthom at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 13:28:49 1998 From: grthom at xxx.uk (G R Thomas) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:28:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Various Bits Message-ID: Three! Yeah, me too. Lighthouse Family, or at least all their previous singles, are really lovely. Both of you are spot-on in your analogies. Cool, See ya later, GIDEONxxx On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:04:58 +0000 Richard Anderson wrote: > Ruth McCurry wrote: > > 1. Am I alone in my love of the Lighthouse Family? I simply cannot hear > > Ocean Drive, Lifted or High without grinning and feeling like a newborn > > kitten. I would really appreciate it if I could know that there are others > > out there like me.> > > Oh My God.!!.(janice Impression:o) > There are two of us. Ocean Drive(single) and High are just plain > perfection. They are the kind of song that make you feel like you are > falling from the sky through fluffy clouds. Trouble is once you've > heard the the other LHF stuff doesn't sound as good. Is this true of > the new album or is the final, and title track, Postcard from Heaven > just as good. Advise me on this purchase soon as "Slain By Urusei > Yatsura" comes out March 2nd and thats a definite buy. > > Richard Anderson > http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From grthom at xxx.uk Sat Feb 21 13:38:25 1998 From: grthom at xxx.uk (G R Thomas) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:38:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk Message-ID: Hey everyone, Hope you're all doing fine today. Today is a good day, as I recieved my copy of Tigermilk from lovely Andy this morning. I've just copied down the tracklist from the web site, and I'm about to go home and listen to it. Now I'll be able to know about all the Tigermilk tracks that are mentioned on the list. Oh well, not really interesting I'll grant you, but a big thing for me. Thanks again to Andy... Well, according to the Chart Show this morning, Cornershop is number one on their chart. I know it's different to the Radio 1 chart, but surely 'Brimful...' Will be number one on that aswell... Cool, I say, and, of course, a million times better than Celine 'Why the long face' Dion Dublin... Oh, yeah, and if any of you saw the Chart Show, how cool were the dancing syringes in the new Dandy Warhols vid? Great song as well, I reckon... Anyway, I'm rabbiting now, so keep well, and I'll see you soon Seems to me like this list is expanding all the time. This is fantastic See ya, GIDEONxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From samiam2 at xxx.com Sat Feb 21 16:07:52 1998 From: samiam2 at xxx.com (Samiam) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:07:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Catchers (non B&S) Message-ID: <34EEFBD8.117D@ix.netcom.com> The Catcher's album 'Mute' is terrific. I think B&S fans would fancy the atmosphere of their music. I recall an article comparing them to the Cranberries a few years ago. Other than the fact they're both Irish and play somewhat jangly guitar pop, I don't quite see the connection. The lyrics are quite different from the Cranberries. In my opinion, their music is somewhat reminiscient of mid-80s REM. Other than the new single, the only releases I know of is the album 'Mute' and the EP 'Shifting' (which might be a promo, not an official release). Sam >i really think that they are just the sort of band that a lot of belle and >sebastian people will like. Dale's songs are so gooood, and just keep >getting better every time i see them. He used write poetry, literally, in >format, style and vocab, but now they are getting a bit rockier. They've >been around for a while now, i know they started when dale was doing his a >levels, which he told me he dropped three months before his exams for the >music. errm he's around 26 now i think , so that's... errm, 8 years, i >might be wrong though, they always tell me and i always forget. they've >got a beautiful abum out called MUTE and you can get that and the new >single, Call Her Name from setanta : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Sat Feb 21 17:34:59 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:34:59 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Horriffic and terrible things at Warwick University Message-ID: <01bd3eef$08917c20$LocalHost@dell> I was just reading the uk.music.alternative newsgroup this afternoon, when I got a message telling me to go to http://www.angelfire.com/sd/TechnoWonderland/Rant.html I went because Belle & Sebastian were in the header. When I got there, I was outraged. To save you all having to go there yourselves, here is what this person said: >CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE VERBAL BLENDER ARE... > >BELLE AND SEBASTIAN >Ooooohhhh, they're so nice aren't they? I mean, you sit down in a comfy armchair next to the hi-fi, wearing >your cosy pink slippers, drinking some of that lovely tea that Auntie gave you for Christmas, and after a >while you just can't help but be envelopped in their fluffy bunny-wunny harmonies and cutesy pop >sensabilites. Right? >WRONG! > >Belle and Sebastian are turgid pop execrement accidentally diverted from the planet Crap, sent down to >Earth when their sewage system went wrong and the engineers couldn't be called out 'cos they were >spending the evening watching 'The Fast Show' (3rd series). This is music for people who are turned by >the sight of paint drying, people who wet their pants at the promising thought of seeing Derek Jarman's >"Blue" on TV for the 17th time (this time, though, they're going to remember to tape it so they can watch it >whenever they want to). > >God knows how or why they have attained a position, at least in Britain, of being a band on the pinnacle of >great success. Radio 1's Evening Session has of course got something and everything to do with it, a >show which quite unashamedly denies the chance for decent music like Puressence and Dweeb to be >played whilst promoting unmittigated bollocks like >Ocean Colour Scene. > >But the rise of B&S to prominence goes way beyond this. This 'outfit' is one of the forefathers of the >NWOLMIC ('New Wave of Look at Me; I'm Cool') movement, a harkback to the heady daze of the early >nineties when you liked 'indie' bands cos you were 'trendy'. Spiritualised, My Bloody Valentine, Indie >Shmindie Pap Krap - you liked these cos no-one else did. Didn't matter, of course, that the reason no-one >else bought the records was cos they were the sort of bland, anaemic tosh that a sloth could make on one >of his days off. >These days it's the same; we've recently had the inexplicable rise of Embrace to power - a group so >backward you'd think they had based their whole existence on Kriss Kross - and the rebirth of Radiohead, >perfect perveyors of the funereal dirge. Both of these encapsulate the late-nineties ethos of 'NWOLMIC'. >Iffy songs? Boring live? Who cares? They're 'cool', so I'm going to buy all their records and parade round >like a total gimp until either a) I connect spiritually with loads of other 'cool' people who 'like' the same stuff >as me and we live forever and ever in total musical harmony (Amen), or b) I get twatted by a stranger for >being a dull-witted, non-thinking tosser. > >Ultimately, though, I feel sorry for B&S, 'cos I'm sure they never wanted this sort of adulation. I mean, if >you actually went into a recording studio and laid down the kind of colourless aural wallpaper that they did, >you wouldn't want others to hear it for fear of being laughed at. Obviously some studio technician stole the >master tapes and went round to Melody Maker for a joke, saying they were the 'Next Big Thing', and >events sort of spiralled out of control. > >Still, I'm sure with your excellent musical taste you haven't bought anything by them, anyway. >**17th January 1998** > > >If you believe the above to be TOTAL BOLLOCKS or alternatively GODLIKE GENIUS, >then e-mail me with a well-considered response. >Thanks to the CB Boy (Warwick), Tom (Nottingham) and Graham (Glasgow), but here's the best one so >far. >Keep 'em coming... >"'Sans' a whisper of a lie, I have never wet my pants at seeing 'Blue' on TV, but as an indominatible Belle & >Sebastian fan, the opening bars of 'Blue' from 'A Storm In Heaven' have been known to strangle my >presence and cause all sorts of mass hysteria including ejaculation. Just thought I'd set the record straight. >PS Is indominatible a word?" >Benita (Warwick) > > >RE-ENTER THE SCENE > >Email: frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk Response? I say the whole list should email him back to tell him that we believe the above to be total bollocks, but that's just my opinion. Maybe we should get his address and then wait outside the butchers for him with a knife and a bike chain. If I kill him now, who's going to miss him? I notice from the sinister site that mauab at csv.warwick.ac.uk - eculb at csv.warwick.ac.uk -mavgc at csv.warwick.ac.uk and pyuja at csv.warwick.ac.uk are on the list with csv.warwick.ac.uk email addresses. Do you know this bloke frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk ?(A long shot - to know someone in a huge institution by their email address, but you might do(!)). Ahhh - looking at the newsgroup posting, his name is Rob Learner. This is getting pretty dangerous for rob now - we know his name and where he lives!!!! jon g. jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ps - belle & sebastian won both the album of 1997 and the single of 1997 on my website voting thingy, so they should be receiving a polystyrene award statue thingy in about two months time.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Sat Feb 21 19:18:31 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:18:31 EST Subject: Sinister: Catchers (non B&S) Message-ID: <43a84729.34ef2889@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-21 11:37:03 EST, samiam2 at ix.netcom.com writes: << The Catcher's album 'Mute' is terrific. I think B&S fans would fancy the atmosphere of their music. I recall an article comparing them to the Cranberries a few years ago. Other than the fact they're both Irish and play somewhat jangly guitar pop, I don't quite see the connection. The lyrics are quite different from the Cranberries. In my opinion, their music is somewhat reminiscient of mid-80s REM. Other than the new single, the only releases I know of is the album 'Mute' and the EP 'Shifting' (which might be a promo, not an official release). >> I had a chance to see them open up for the Innocence Mission, but they got mysteriously ill. I'm guessing what really happenned is they looked out at the audience and saw that there were only 80 people out there and took off to a bar. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Sat Feb 21 22:36:34 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:36:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: nothing to say? so what! Message-ID: yep, that's my motto. mailing lists always need a little push in the time between releases by the band. so i'm trying to think of questions to ask the stuarts during the upcoming chats. that is, if they're still speaking to us after the questions that tag and peter asked. the big ones are probably when the album and singles are going to be released, and perhaps their titles. does anyone know what the next album will be called? and especially, the extrememly important, when are their next shows going to be?! and when are they coming back to new york!? i'm practically ready to make my plans for the summer around getting to see the band at some point, so this is definitely important. also, so we have about five people going to the autour de lucie show? i'm on the web page now, so you can come up to me and tell me what a wonderful person you think i am. or you can tell me to get off the damned list and watch me beat you to a bloody pulp!!! grr... ok, really, i'm a nice person. i won't be too mean, i know some other new yorkers and haven't attacked them yet, so see, i'm not that violent. usually. ok, um, maybe i should just scratch all that. so anyway, i will be there and ready to gush about belle and sebastian should the opportunity arise. that's all. see you there! xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood Sat Feb 21 19:01:10 1998 From: Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood (Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood) Date: 21 Feb 1998 19:01:10 GMT Subject: Sinister: Re: Re: Evening Session Message-ID: <771227549.591556976@andyclin.exnet.com> Hi, Clem! Here's the info for the BBC Radio One 'Evening Session' B&S Session, which I have on DAT, and can transfer to Cassette, Minidisk, or DAT copy. Original broadcast dates: 08/09/97 Lazy line painter Jane 09/09/97 Sleep the clock around 10/09/97 Slow graffiti 11/09/97 Seymour Stein Sounds like you are missing 'Seymour Stein'. I have a DAT of the Saturday night Manchester show from December Do you have any B&S live stuff to trade? Do you know of any other radio or TV sessions? They apparently played at least one track live on the Evening Session, a few weeks before the above session was broadcast. Cheers! Rocker, rocker at andyclin.exnet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Sun Feb 22 00:17:51 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:17:51 EST Subject: Sinister: Belle and Sebastian roast in Puerto Message-ID: I have about 10 copies of the Belle and Sebastian roast in Puerto left to give away to whoever wants them. You can get a little peek at what's in it by going to http://members.aol.com/fakeperson/index.html and clicking on "Puerto" (As I previously posted, it's only about 8 pages, being a supplement.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Sun Feb 22 01:26:56 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 01:26:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: B&S related gig and The Box (fwd) Message-ID: Keith was right. He often is. H xxxx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 98 12:15:30 GMT From: Stuart David To: Honey Subject: Re: Sinister: B&S related gig and The Box (fwd) Wooops, Yes the date is this tuesday, Paul. The 24th Stuart ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jon.g at xxx.com Sun Feb 22 08:12:36 1998 From: jon.g at xxx.com (jon g.) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 08:12:36 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Horriffic and terrible things at Warwick University Message-ID: <01bd3f69$a2884f00$f03e63c3@dell> By the way, I was only joking about killing this bloke, so don't do it kids! -----Original Message----- From: jon g. To: Belle & Sebastian List Date: 21 February 1998 17:39 Subject: Sinister: Horriffic and terrible things at Warwick University >I was just reading the uk.music.alternative newsgroup this afternoon, when I >got a message telling me to go to >http://www.angelfire.com/sd/TechnoWonderland/Rant.html >I went because Belle & Sebastian were in the header. > >When I got there, I was outraged. To save you all having to go there >yourselves, here is what this person said: > >>CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE VERBAL BLENDER ARE... >> >>BELLE AND SEBASTIAN >>Ooooohhhh, they're so nice aren't they? I mean, you sit down in a comfy >armchair next to the hi-fi, wearing >your cosy pink slippers, drinking some >of that lovely tea that Auntie gave you for Christmas, and after a >while >you just can't help but be envelopped in their fluffy bunny-wunny harmonies >and cutesy pop >sensabilites. Right? >>WRONG! >> >>Belle and Sebastian are turgid pop execrement accidentally diverted from >the planet Crap, sent down to >Earth when their sewage system went wrong and >the engineers couldn't be called out 'cos they were >spending the evening >watching 'The Fast Show' (3rd series). This is music for people who are >turned by >the sight of paint drying, people who wet their pants at the >promising thought of seeing Derek Jarman's >"Blue" on TV for the 17th time >(this time, though, they're going to remember to tape it so they can watch >it >whenever they want to). >> >>God knows how or why they have attained a position, at least in Britain, of >being a band on the pinnacle of >great success. Radio 1's Evening Session >has of course got something and everything to do with it, a >show which >quite unashamedly denies the chance for decent music like Puressence and >Dweeb to be >played whilst promoting unmittigated bollocks like >>Ocean Colour Scene. >> >>But the rise of B&S to prominence goes way beyond this. This 'outfit' is >one of the forefathers of the >NWOLMIC ('New Wave of Look at Me; I'm Cool') >movement, a harkback to the heady daze of the early >nineties when you liked >'indie' bands cos you were 'trendy'. Spiritualised, My Bloody Valentine, >Indie >Shmindie Pap Krap - you liked these cos no-one else did. Didn't >matter, of course, that the reason no-one >else bought the records was cos >they were the sort of bland, anaemic tosh that a sloth could make on one >of >his days off. >>These days it's the same; we've recently had the inexplicable rise of >Embrace to power - a group so >backward you'd think they had based their >whole existence on Kriss Kross - and the rebirth of Radiohead, >perfect >perveyors of the funereal dirge. Both of these encapsulate the late-nineties >ethos of 'NWOLMIC'. >Iffy songs? Boring live? Who cares? They're 'cool', so >I'm going to buy all their records and parade round >like a total gimp until >either a) I connect spiritually with loads of other 'cool' people who 'like' >the same stuff >as me and we live forever and ever in total musical harmony >(Amen), or b) I get twatted by a stranger for >being a dull-witted, >non-thinking tosser. >> >>Ultimately, though, I feel sorry for B&S, 'cos I'm sure they never wanted >this sort of adulation. I mean, if >you actually went into a recording >studio and laid down the kind of colourless aural wallpaper that they did, >>you wouldn't want others to hear it for fear of being laughed at. Obviously >some studio technician stole the >master tapes and went round to Melody >Maker for a joke, saying they were the 'Next Big Thing', and >events sort of >spiralled out of control. >> >>Still, I'm sure with your excellent musical taste you haven't bought >anything by them, anyway. >>**17th January 1998** >> >> >>If you believe the above to be TOTAL BOLLOCKS or alternatively GODLIKE >GENIUS, >>then e-mail me with a well-considered response. >>Thanks to the CB Boy (Warwick), Tom (Nottingham) and Graham (Glasgow), but >here's the best one so >far. >>Keep 'em coming... >>"'Sans' a whisper of a lie, I have never wet my pants at seeing 'Blue' on >TV, but as an indominatible Belle & >Sebastian fan, the opening bars of >'Blue' from 'A Storm In Heaven' have been known to strangle my >presence and >cause all sorts of mass hysteria including ejaculation. Just thought I'd set >the record straight. >PS Is indominatible a word?" >>Benita (Warwick) >> >> >>RE-ENTER THE SCENE >> >>Email: frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk > >Response? I say the whole list should email him back to tell him that we >believe the above to be total bollocks, but that's just my opinion. Maybe >we should get his address and then wait outside the butchers for him with a >knife and a bike chain. If I kill him now, who's going to miss him? > >I notice from the sinister site that mauab at csv.warwick.ac.uk - >eculb at csv.warwick.ac.uk -mavgc at csv.warwick.ac.uk and pyuja at csv.warwick.ac.uk >are on the list with csv.warwick.ac.uk email addresses. Do you know this >bloke frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk ?(A long shot - to know someone in a huge >institution by their email address, but you might do(!)). Ahhh - looking at >the newsgroup posting, his name is Rob Learner. This is getting pretty >dangerous for rob now - we know his name and where he lives!!!! > >jon g. >jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ > >ps - belle & sebastian won both the album of 1997 and the single of 1997 on >my website voting thingy, so they should be receiving a polystyrene award >statue thingy in about two months time.... > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net >. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From grthom at xxx.uk Sun Feb 22 14:19:07 1998 From: grthom at xxx.uk (G R Thomas) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:19:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk/Demo Tracks Message-ID: Hey all, Just a quick mail to say *oh my god* and *wahey* and lots of other very excited things in response to listening to Tigermilk for the first time. Can't really pick out any highlights as yet, but I'm sure I will do soon. Also hearing 'Modern Rock Song' for the first time (on the Radcliffe session)-what a whopper, eh? I just have one question, mainly directed at Andy Dean (who sent me the tape), but any one can answer the question who knows what I'm talking about-what are the names of the three demo tracks that are also on the tape. The first one is "Pocketbook Angel"-right?, but I can't recognise the titles of any of the others from any references on the list. If any one knows the answer, I'd be much obliged. Oh, and bobbins to that Warwick guy, Much hugs, GIDEONxxx "One tap for yes, two taps for no!..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckay at xxx.edu Sun Feb 22 16:06:26 1998 From: rmckay at xxx.edu (baggy trousers) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:06:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: my crap penmanship Message-ID: hehe! i got a phone call from my mum who is in scotland yesterday and she was telling me that she managed to get me all of the cds on my wish list...she said that my da went into 'missing' to look for one of the things on my list...i wrote 'any belle & sebastian on vinyl' and he went in asking for 'amy belle or sebastian' or something to that effect..he was told that they had never heard of amy belle...mum ended up finding one thing on vinyl for me but she didnt remember what it was..at least i know its most definately not tigermilk..mum loves me, but not that much. roberta **oh you look so tired mouth slack and wide ill-housed and ill-advised your face is as mean as your life has been crash into my arms i want you****** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk Sun Feb 22 16:36:30 1998 From: Robert_Hardy at xxx.uk (Robert Hardy) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:36:30 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Fox in the School?/We Rule the Snow? Message-ID: <199802221641.QAA23212@sand.global.net.uk> I'm quite new to the list, so tell me if this has already been mentioned or not, but listen to the begining of Fox in the Snow straight after We Rule the School and you will hear that they are actually quite similar, in fact maybe even too similar... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jeni421 at xxx.com Sun Feb 22 18:08:22 1998 From: Jeni421 at xxx.com (Jeni421 at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:08:22 EST Subject: Sinister: Fox in the School?/We Rule the Snow? Message-ID: <5a82f541.34f06999@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-22 11:43:59 EST, you write: << I'm quite new to the list, so tell me if this has already been mentioned or not, but listen to the begining of Fox in the Snow straight after We Rule the School and you will hear that they are actually quite similar, in fact maybe even too similar... >> No wonder I love them both so much!!! And the lovely happy sounds of "Your Just A Baby"! But, honestly, I don't see the similarity as being that strong...just that they are both brilliant songs. And I am definately a happy bunny now! If anyone preferably in the US due to postage needs a copy of Tigermilk, I'm your girl. Jeni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Sun Feb 22 19:26:10 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:26:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: we'll have a dirty weekend... Message-ID: <199802221926.OAA15220@Vector.inexpress.net> Hello dear people! my goodness all the things you talk about.... First off....a twix is a BAR!! I don't like those anyways,why have biscuit or bar when you can have those lovely peanut m&m's! Although some of the best cookies are from Subway. Olympics: My mother is mad cause I told her the Czechs would win the gold and not the Canadians..(big big upset!)I am so proud,the Czech in me! Except..I fear I will get attacked by a whole bunch of canadian-gold-men hockey worshipper people now. Bjorn Daehlie is magnificent. and Hands-Petter Buraas has the most beautiful red hair. I want to go to Norway. Gym stories: I love gym actually...it keeps my whole average up.We have showers but nobody ever use them hardly...my teacher is alright..but she's kind of scary..sometimes you just fall or hurt yourself you know? So anyways,I was really sore one day and I couldn't do gym so she asked me and I'm like "well,i'm a bit bruised you know?" Then she asked me if my boyfriend beat me,I tell her no,she thinks I'm lying and then she started hugging me and getting all emotional and I couldn't run away...now she does this all the time,I have the flu,I must be beaten...almost as bad as the ancient nurse.. "I have a headache" "Are you pregnant?" "I twisted my ankle" "Is it possible you have an std?" "I took an aspirin" "SO you do drugs all the time then?" Then she'll poke you. one of the most orginial lines i've heard for getting out was "i've got diabetes" "but you can still do gym" "i've got siberean diabetes" teacher was not amused....my upset with gym is in the weight room.. i thought i had triumphed by leg pressing 220 pounds untill this scrwany boy who i can beat up can press 400 pounds. Oh! I met two male strippers last night,it was kinda of odd,they just introduced themselves...they told kinda strange stories..and another thing,when I got to place I wasn't there for one minute and I supposed I glanced too long at some girl cause she goes running by me and as she goes running by me she's like 'WANNA FIGHT!' in this squeaky voice.I laughed,I wanted her to come back.See..no one ever takes me as something you would call threatning so that was something!An invitation for a fight! I usally always get grannies sitting with me on the bus.... So anyways...i was in this suffocating crowd for this outdorr dance thingy and grrrrr! The tv people really get to me! WHen the cameras are on the hosts keep saying how much they love you,but as soon as commercial..they yell and tell you to back up,so anyways I couldn't move,I was squished and they kept telling you to dance and wave your hands,dance! I couldn't even get my hand up!..somehow made it in the front and i was getting real sick of it so i went over to jump railing and when I stood up on it..it was freaky t o see all the people!That two-faced host was smiling at all the people but i didn't blow her kisses,i gave her the v-sign and did a weird little butt dance at them till the security guards chase me away. The dancers up on stage are pretty stupid too...there was this one guy,andrew or soemthign and all the girls were screamign for him and I'm like 'who's andrew?' they look at me exsaperately and are like 'ONLY the best electric circus dancer EVER!' 'but why do you like him?' 'he's sexual!' NO HE ISN'T. Now comes the GOOD bit!I went to the record store and my beautiful record store boy was there and I wasn't in there for 1 minute when the crap they were playing stopped and on came..... Dog On Wheels (oh and i thought about the Sinister maling list when I heard the opening notes,and I jsut wished some of you could've been there to sing along with me!)!!!my goodness,I tell you all...he's so lovely lovely...too much in fact,what would he want me for!Definitley the sugar-plum moment for that weekend... Anyways.....are there actually B&S singles? I thought I heard somebody talk about Century Of Fakers single..what are the b-sides? And ok..more questions.You are a lovely boy working in a lovely record store and you listen to lvoely Belle And Sebastian,what else do you listen to? I sadly cannot go to the band internet chat.It just won't work for me,but i get to go to a Portishead concert that day. Someone must constantly remind Stuart David he is a smoochable cutie. *whoops there goes the strength of two knees!* I love you all! xoxo Genevieve ;) ...some people are just made to kiss out in pouring rain on the city streets in the evening.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From edkubisa at xxx.de Sun Feb 22 19:17:40 1998 From: edkubisa at xxx.de (Edd) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:17:40 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Bad Vibes Message-ID: <01bd3fc6$8d90e640$LocalHost@EdKubisa.cybernet-ag.de> Just reading the last digest or so and there seemed to be toooo much anger about someone who hates B & S - so what?, just ignore them, don't waste time & effort e-mailing them! An idea that just came up though..... "10 reasons to hate Elton John..." ...discuss.... Kinda just cancels out my first comment though! Oh well...rock'n'roll...... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blink at xxx.net Sun Feb 22 19:31:02 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:31:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: i will build him a cardboard home Message-ID: <199802221931.OAA15287@Vector.inexpress.net> >- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Stuart David > >Hi Paul > >Here is the gig details. The Glasgow School of Art, in the Vic Bar. 2 >pounds, (1.50 for glasgow school of art students) > >Starts at 7.30pm ends at 12pm. There will be bingo, two spoken word guys, one >DJ, one ambient music guy, and then me around 10.30 or 11pm- with my full >multimedia experience. AND my box. well,i don't know about you,but i'm excited. I wish I could go to this..you know,i used to build little cardboard box homes for my cat,i could do the same for Stuart David and he could live there with me and i would cook for him and everything. I don't understand the above,what is his BOX? and what is his 'full mutimedia experience' hmmmmmm...Stuart David and his box....mmmmmm If you were going to ask the Dandy Warhols questions,what would you ask them?? meow, Genevieve ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Sun Feb 22 23:49:15 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:49:15 EST Subject: Sinister: native naivete Message-ID: <267697d4.34f0b97d@aol.com> Now that the "git" question is somewhat resolved, would any UK listees be willing to share what exactly are "blinkers" and who (or what) is Sid James--is it a cat, broccoli, Elvis? I was not brought up British so those are utterly lost on me. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 00:16:03 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:16:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: native naivete References: <267697d4.34f0b97d@aol.com> Message-ID: <34F0BFC3.28C9@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> PKHINTZ at aol.com wrote: > > Now that the "git" question is somewhat resolved, would any UK listees be > willing to share what exactly are "blinkers" and who (or what) is Sid > James--is it a cat, broccoli, Elvis? I was not brought up British so those > are utterly lost on me.> Sid James is a star from all those rather fabby carry on movies and suchlike purveyed by British Cinema to all and sundry. They contained jokes about Knockers and Matrons. They were funny. He might have been in On The Busses. The reason he is on the telly speaking to sebastian like god is because they always show them around 11 ish when students etc are just waking up. Am i the only person who hasn't got round to buying sinister yet? Richard Anderson http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 00:47:50 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:47:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: grrrr....savage! Message-ID: <199802230047.TAA18188@Vector.inexpress.net> hello? natch,the day i can actually go on the computer no one is around! I just had to act like i was possessed you know? I am in little brother HELL!First I almost threw him out the truck window,and nothing works..so you have to be imaginative to freak em out...*sigh* I have to do an 'euphenism project' but I dinnae want to... my poor kitten,Sausage...he came back from the vet,and you know what...they could not accept he was called 'sausage' so they wrote him down as 'sauvage' 'sauvage' isn't that kind of like 'stallion'? i suppose i will call him bjorn sauvage now... that lil sugar plum tag wrote: >> I just saw a Canadian film called 'Twilight of the Ice Nymphs',but sadly it wasn't about Genevieve i never heard of the movie,but you know,i have a small connection with this title..well with the 'ice' anyways..see...I do strange little things to people when they sleep and my one friend,to be a little joke i would put ice cubes down his clothes and then he'd wake up still half-asleep and i would dance around him and go 'ice cube fairies crunch crunch crunch' (serious!) then when he would wake up i would pretend i knew nothing about it and reassure him it was a dream. I think i had something half-important to write but i can't remember. oh,you guys are playing mind games aren't you? some of the mails just come out like OGJHEGIA#)*&%NMLGH#(&%&#)(*#!GGNG*37375 that. list crushes! hee hee i'd never say.... so i suppose i should go back to little thoughts of welsh hills ... rydw i'n offi cute record store boy Nos da, kiss Genevieve The Dandys are lovely. 'but you and me should make the most of being free,it's nothing wrong,it's nothing obscene it's just a dirty weekend in a dirty little town and all the dirty people don't know there's nothing going down..' soon....yes soon....;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 09:34:29 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: native naivete In-Reply-To: <267697d4.34f0b97d@aol.com> Message-ID: Blinkers are things that they put on racehorses to stop them looking around, and hence being distracted / startled when they're running. When humans wear them it's usually a sign of being focussed on one idea to the point of exclusion of all others (to put it politely.) Sid James was an Australian who lived with Tony Hancock in East Cheam. He had the world's dirtiest laugh, and a pretty dirty face too. C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 09:36:08 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:36:08 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Old Hat Message-ID: <01BD403E.79304B00@pc07628> According to Sweary Mary's Dictionary on the Viz website : Biscuits - Definition. The contents of your stomach after a hard nights drinking - as in "get me a bucket, quick, i'm gonna chuck my biscuits!" Someone may like to have a look on this site and see if they have an entry for BAR. I would do so, but I fear a verbal backlash from Mr Big in IT Hat for abusing my internet privileges. Also I'm going on leave this afternoon for the rest of the week and I cannot be bothered to unsubscribe, so If you could all kindly keep your messages to a minimum until next Monday...mmmmmmmm. Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gmckay at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 09:45:06 1998 From: gmckay at xxx.com (Gillian McKay) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:45:06 -0000 Subject: Sinister: tigermilk?? Message-ID: <01BD403F.B98E7400@edzell.ayo.dec.com> hi folks, i know you are all probably sick of seeing requests for tigermilk but as a newbie i didn't know who to ask. if anyone (in the uk) could send me a copy plus the radio sessions, i would be eternally grateful and i'd send a tape of all the best stuff in my record collection to them. please mail me privately at gmckay at roisin.enet.dec.com thanx gillian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 09:38:39 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:38:39 -0000 Subject: Sinister: End of aquarian age Message-ID: <01bd403e$d228ef50$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Cornershop are number 1, how cool is that! In an almost unprecedented manoeuvre, the British public have spent 66% more money on Brimful of Asha than Celine Dion's current offering, placing Cornershop most definitely Toppermost of the Poppermost... which is nice. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From susannah at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 10:09:45 1998 From: susannah at xxx.net (susannah) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 98 10:09:45 GMT Subject: Sinister: Biscuits (again) , Elvis and Hardbody all in one header Message-ID: <980223100945.n0009047.tormentor@mail.clara.net> Top Glaswegian band Toaster (and I only say that as I fancy the bassist) have a song called Biscuits. Its well ropey actually, with lyrics like "The balls flying about all across the shop, he had a snowballs chance in hell" and "Fee Fi Fo Fum, I'm gonna fry all you scum" but should you want to hear it it's on collaboration called 'Best Kept Secrets No.1', a 7" ,on the same side as Hardbody. When I heard Mick was in Hardbody I stuck on their song (always skipped that one) called 'blow the man down'. I thought it was fantastic, with great electro-beats, but the singers voice was a bit high-pitched. Then I found out I had it on the wrong speed, so stuck it on 33 and didn't sound half as good. Sorry. Oh, and top pouting bassist band Toaster also have a song about Elvis called 'Huggy'. That one's dodgy too, best lyric "yummy yummy yummy teddy bear he had a tummy". They'll go far. Susannah Off sick and delirious. ................................................................................ ..... 'La la la la la, He got the money and the girl' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 10:27:07 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:27:07 +0000 Subject: Sinister: ooh, is this too cheeky ... ? Message-ID: <34F14EFB.74090F79@virgin.net> Morning everyone! Ummm, David was wondering if anyone thought that his B&S fan-club site is good enough to be nominated for a reader's choice award in this year's Music Week and .dotmusic New Media Awards. If you think he deserves a nomination, then please go to the Reader's Choice bit of the awards at http://www.dotmusic.com Sorry if this is cheeky, but he is too embarrassed to ask ... awww, how sweet! Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 10:29:52 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 05:29:52 EST Subject: Sinister: native naivete Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-23 04:44:32 EST, cja1000 at hermes.cam.ac.uk writes: << Blinkers are things that they put on racehorses to stop them looking around, and hence being distracted / startled when they're running. When humans wear them it's usually a sign of being focussed on one idea to the point of exclusion of all others (to put it politely.) >> In America, those are called "Blinders." Hence the lyric in the theme song to Alice, starring Linda Lavin, "Livin' through life with blinders on it's tough to see..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Paul.Dean at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 10:35:23 1998 From: Paul.Dean at xxx.uk (Paul Dean) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:35:23 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Yaa, yaa yaa [NBSC] Message-ID: <01BD4046.BFBFD330@pine.druid.co.uk> I thought Sid was South African. There's a blue plaque dedicated to him on a house on the North Circular just past Ealing The NME once reported that Bradford were to release a song called 'Laugh Like Sid James'. Sadly, it never happened I'll go now. Paul. Thanksto all for the 3 o clock info. Two more posers 1 - once at the reading festival i heard a song on the p.a that contained the line' Pristine Christine' & NO it wasn't The Sea Urchins. It sounded like Julian Cope 2 - When at university i used to get up in the middle of the night to tape 'transmission' on itv. It was the mtv indie show & was presented by a lovely ginge called Rachael. Anyway i used to tape the best bits & watching it all again a while back there is a really good pop song by a bunch of typical indie kids circa 1989 - lots of flowery skirts & brown suede. Two guys, the lead singer has brown curly hair & the obligatory tamborine girl had a blonde bob. The chorus went something like 'Today...is turning out to be a ??????' I always hoped i'd buy it one day on a compilation without realising . & then playing it & being really happy, but i guess after 9 (gulp!) years that romantic notion will never happen. Can anyone help? If so mail me privately as i realise that this is probably all a bit tedious.... >---------- >From: Chris[SMTP:cja1000 at xxx.uk] >Sent: 23 February 1998 04:34 >To: PKHINTZ at aol.com >Cc: sinister >Subject: Re: Sinister: native naivete > >Blinkers are things that they put on racehorses to stop them looking >around, and hence being distracted / startled when they're running. When >humans wear them it's usually a sign of being focussed on one idea to the >point of exclusion of all others (to put it politely.) > >Sid James was an Australian who lived with Tony Hancock in East Cheam. He >had the world's dirtiest laugh, and a pretty dirty face too. > >C. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net >. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aevans at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 10:47:50 1998 From: aevans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:47:50 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Less of it please. Message-ID: <01BD4048.7D985480@pc07628> >The very nice but usually very contentious Sarah wrote : >Cubicles are places where women are designated to pee in because women >are nicer than men and do not piss all over the floor in their toilets >(no, just in the cubicles) and keep our pee-ing private. As a female you will not have encountered the splash-back phenomenen. When forced to piss against a ceramic wall, it is not uncommon for men to have to dance to avoid the spray. This unfortunate act of nature leads to the inevitable Sea of Wee on the floor. Adrian. PS, And just how do you know what the floors in mens toilets are like ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 11:14:21 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing Message-ID: Why is it that blokes have to piss against something? For the same reason that dogs do I spose; territories and all that. C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 11:26:25 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:26:25 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Yaa, yaa yaa [NBSC] Message-ID: <01bd404d$e04d8c80$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >1 - once at the reading festival i heard a song on the p.a that >contained the line' Pristine Christine' & NO it wasn't The Sea Urchins. >It sounded like Julian Cope I suspect it is indeed "Kooky" Julian Cope, cause I've unfortunately heard his "Peggy Suicide" Double album from 1990, and Pristeen is the first song on it, and it's actually quite good too - despite sounding rather spookily like the House of Love - I sometimes think Julian Cope could actually be quite good if he just stopped trying to prove to the world what a tortured and weird genius he is and just get on with making nice songs. "Beatiful Love" is also on this record, and it's really good. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Mon Feb 23 12:32:50 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:32:50 +0000 Subject: Sinister: End of aquarian age In-Reply-To: <01bd403e$d228ef50$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980223123250.007ac930@mail.tcd.ie> At 09:38 23/02/98 -0000, you wrote: >Cornershop are number 1, how cool is that! Yippee. How did that happen? Well obviously cause the song is so good. But over on the emerald isle we don't hear the charts, unless ther is anyone who lives here that can find Radio one and would like to tell me where it is on the dial. Celine Dion is utter pants. Claire Claire Timmins ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Mon Feb 23 12:59:00 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:59:00 -0000 Subject: Sinister: James T's Testicle Message-ID: I know a gym story..... To keep the identity of the protaganist a secret lets call him James T James T's Testicle ============== A long time ago i was in the Boys Brigade with James T. BB meetings occured every Friday evening in the high School gym in Balfron. The gym has got big climbing bars on all the walls. James T was climbing these bars in a boyish manner, having all sorts of climbing fun. He climbed up. He climbed down. He climbed to both sides. He climbed right up as high as he could go. In a moment of madness he decided to mimic a fireman and slide down the side of the climbing bars. Little did he expect that there was a rope hook half way down his slidey journey. Poor James T ripped his scrotum open on this hook and got kind of stuck on it. But he never made a sound. He simply unhooked himself and walked out of the hall, leaving a trail of blood. Then he screamed. And everyone understoof his pain. The funny thing is, when the BB head person had a look at James T's scrotum it was indeed ripped open, but they could only find one testicle. We all had a look around, but apparently it had retracted right up into his stomach. Funny eh? from christopher ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 13:05:55 1998 From: Huw.Jenkins at xxx.uk (Huw Jenkins) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:05:55 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing Message-ID: <61D51AF2F749D11196EA00805F387D4401F855@RMF1> > aWhy is it that blokes have to piss against something? For the same > reason > that dogs do I spose; territories and all that. > > C. > What??? next Time I need a piss and I'm not around a toilet of any domesticated orentation I'll piss openly in the middle of a park shall I? Where everybody can see me, instead of descreetly on a tree, or in a bush where nobody can see what I'm doing. But I guess that your right because all we are really concerned with is marking our territory and being 'ard. Huw 'I love fighting, beers and curries" Jenkins -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, Mr John is one of the fortunate ones who is losing his Ginger hair and with the amazing advances of modern science is able to replace his hair with whatever colour he choses. And he choses.....Ginger??? I find this difficult to understand but impossible to condone Mr John be damned to the fires which burn in your (fake) hair!! 2."Good bye Englands Rose..." What about Scotland. N Ireland and Wales, after she was the Princess of Wales...How dare he, I find this extremly offensive and typical of English mentality. I'ts because of this that other nations and Americans especially refer to the U.K as England 3. He has awful clothes. That is all I reallly need t say on this topic because he just does, like a bad re-ocurring Eighties nightmare. 4. His music is tame and unchallenging. Challenge? Can't think of anything else now I became distracted with some incoming mail and lost my momentum. Huw. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2862 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 13:34:07 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Apology to Andreas In-Reply-To: <199802201820.TAA07607@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Perfection As A Hipster wrote: > Hmmm ... a public smear campaign, the instrument of individuals with a > modestly structured intellect. For your understanding ... private e-mails > are the intellectual property of the *sender*, not the recipient. > International copyright law forbids their reprinting in any medium without > the permission of the sender. And it's rude. The sanction as regards mailing > lists is commonly removal. I apologise heartily. I did not appreciate that it was a private e-mail. I appreciate what a majorly bad piece of netiquette this is, having castigated people on newsgroups for it in the past. Just for the record, when I respond to list messages using Pine, I have to delete the author's From: (or Reply-to:) line, and replace it with "sinister" (I usually change my own From: line at this point) It was just an automatic reaction when following up your post. I hope there is no bad-blood between us, as it was not my aim to inflame. I'm a lovely chap, really. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message is respectfully dedicated to Mr Elias Howe who, in 1847, | invented the sewing machine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 13:38:19 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:38:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: In Bed With Me Dinner In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 Yummycats at aol.com wrote: > Or Madonna, Queen of pointy-bra. Madonna: The new Bjork. Discuss. Rod. (who bought the single this morning) Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yearagostats: n. The part of a forecast that tells you what the | weather was like a year ago so you'll feel even more miserable ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 13:50:56 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Gobby Raslin) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:50:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: House of Biscuit In-Reply-To: <34EC6F2F.3C48@virgin.net> Message-ID: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Euan Leitch wrote: > Keith, you're right, you cant get the Guy Chadwick album in Virgin. > Forget it anyway, as it's blancmange. > Try Snow Patrol's ep. It's got the jeepster connection. > > Biscuits: why are the best ones the cheapest? i.e. Party Rings, > Bourbon and those flashy pink wafer ones. Highly recommended: "Pink Panther Wafer Biscuits". 89p for 15 in Iceland stores. Pink wafer biscuits, with lemon fizz between the layers. They are *fantastic*. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 13:55:40 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Dan Jilldo) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:55:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, G R Thomas wrote: > Well, according to the Chart Show this morning, Cornershop is number > one on their chart. I know it's different to the Radio 1 chart, but > surely 'Brimful...' Will be number one on that aswell... Cool, I say, Absolutely. You know how I said on the list that "Groove Is In The Heart" is my all-time number-one hit of all-time. Well, the Fatboy Slim[1] remix is just as good. It's pure pop for pop people. > Oh, yeah, and if any of you saw the Chart Show, how cool were the > dancing syringes in the new Dandy Warhols vid? Great song as well, I > reckon... Abslootly. I hadn't heard their current single before I saw it on The Chart Show on Saturday, so I picked it up this morning. I'd read the name in a magazine, thought "what a wanky name!", and not even considered buying it! > Seems to me like this list is expanding all the time. This is fantastic It's going to reach critical mass soon, then implode into a small lump of pea-matter. I, for one, can't wait. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Segmentation fault (core dumped) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From phy5mj2h at xxx.UK Mon Feb 23 13:58:35 1998 From: phy5mj2h at xxx.UK (Matt Hayes.) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:58:35 GMT Subject: Sinister: introductions. Message-ID: <89E0F91E62@lucs-03.novell.leeds.ac.uk> well, my name is matt. i've been subscribed to this list for about a month but have only now plucked up the courage to write anything. even now it's not going to be anything of importance. i've noticed mentions of the smiths and nick drake (and of course b&s) who are, in conjunction with wine my prefered methods of wasting evenings. i also noticed a while ago someone mentioned the bell jar by sylvia plath which is quite possibly my all time favourite book. i've got if you're feeling sinister and the three singles bus sadly not tigermilk although i did see it advertised in nme a couple of weeks ago. sadly i didn't have 160 pounds spare. when i was looking at the website with everyones name on it i saw there were a couple of students from leeds who are subscribed so if any of you fancy a pint or a cup of tea or something, then just send me a mail. well i think that's about all. so goodbye. matt xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 13:59:05 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Lesley Judd) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk/Demo Tracks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, G R Thomas wrote: > Hey all, > > Just a quick mail to say *oh my god* and *wahey* and lots of other > very excited things in response to listening to Tigermilk for the first > time. Can't really pick out any highlights as yet, but I'm sure I will > do soon. Also hearing 'Modern Rock Song' for the first time (on the > Radcliffe session)-what a whopper, eh? That's the reaction I had when I first heard it. It's deserves to be a colossal hit. Any words on "B-sides" yet? Virgin in Edinburgh have it down for a 23 March release, BTW. I know that that is in no way official, cause D+K haven't said owt yet, but I thought I would spark some idle speculation! > "One tap for yes, two taps for no!..." Twice on the pipes Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Wipercussion: n. Phenomenon of one's windshield wipers keeping | perfect time with the song on the radio ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 14:00:59 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (fishfishfishfishfish) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Bad chocolate bar related pun, with vague musical overtones Message-ID: Ian Brodie woke up the other morning, and found melted chocolate and nuts melted on his body. He'd fallen asleep with... (wait for it)... three lions on his chest. Boom, and if you will, boom. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Single bloke, I don't wanna be a single bloke, | I'm so desperate, I could do it with an artichoke ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 14:04:24 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (An Army of Wee Daves) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:04:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Chris wrote: > Why is it that blokes have to piss against something? It's a consipiracy by the dry-cleaning industry. FWIW, the urinals in Heriot-Watt's Students Union have the worst splash-back I have ever encountered. There is no angle of aim which does not result in at least partial moistening of your breeches. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 14:05:37 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Mark Goodyear) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:05:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Famous people In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Chris wrote: > Why are all the world's most famous people American? Because that's where the major entertainment industries are based (TV, film, music, etc) and because it's the largest English speaking country in the world? Just a guess. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Finally, an erection from actual physical contact." | -- Brian Krakow, My So-Called Life ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 14:09:10 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Elton John, not B&S Message-ID: How can anybody claim that Elton is naturally ginger? This is almost as daft (and perhaps almost as inspired) as putting a little chunk of house music at the end of a B&S song. C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 14:21:43 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetryplace2) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:21:43 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Monday Poem (No biscuit content) Message-ID: <01bd4066$5fc79880$LocalHost@g5-200-1> Anyone see Before Sunrise last night? As I blubbed into my chrysanthemum of kleenex I realised I’d completely forgotten the scene where the Julie and Ethan are in the record shop and she picks up a record which they take to the listening booth. It’s a small masterpiece of embarrassment as this beautiful beautiful record plays and neither of them knows where to look. I squinted up at my tiny tv as the credits rolled and discovered that the song was ‘Come Here’ by someone called Kath Bloom, but there were no label details or anything. Does anyone know anything about her? I would sell my left leg for a whole LP of that stuff. Continuing on a cinematic note, I was intrigued to read the other day that, in a Travoltaesque career resurrection, Robert Forster has landed a role in the new Tarantino film, Jackie Brown. What next? Lindy Morrison to have a cameo in Godzilla? Grant McLennan to oust George Clooney as the new Batman? Oh yeah the Monday poem WN Herbert hails from that hotbed of contemporary poetic talent, Dundee. Introducing himself to readers of Poetry Review, he wrote: Picture this: the Picts were not absorbed into the general population of Scotland, but remained tribal and ran the chip shops. Their enigmatic symbols now mean ‘Frying tonite’. The Scots did not abandon their language, and in any pub in Dundee men say ‘Aye, Eh wiz at thi dirrye dantoun yesteern richt eneuch’. And are not beaten up. Aliens landed last Wednesday and implanted the concept of capitalism in everyone’s brains. Just before Star Trek last week we were living in a moneyless society. Captain Beefheart went to my school; Iggy Pop is in telepathic contact with the bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth. And Mark E Smith is the editor of Poetry Review . This is world I attempt to create in my poems WN Herbert Independence Blues So ye were born in New Cumnock and went tae thi skail and learnt hoo tae parse and talk proper, there wiz Burns and his spider and Bruce wi thi moose and Watt thi inventor of porridge, and ye played fur thi Rangers each playtime or plunked but wid ye no like tae be Scottish? So ye went tae thi college tho yir parents were puir and yir best freends aa cleaned fur thi Cooncil, there wiz apeshit Monboddo and auld Burke and Hume and MacDiarmid that lived in a cottage, and ye learnt that oor learnin wiz pure sceptical but wid ye no like tae be Scottish? So ye warked in thi Borders in a sma legal firm and mairriet a maik hailed fae Melrose, there wiz bairns and thi Ridins and rugby and bools there wiz agein if ready or not-ish, there wiz one thing not proven in all of yir deeds sic: wid ye no like tae be Scottish? So ye early-retireit and bocht a wee croft and tried tae dig peats and speak Gaelic, there wiz Duncan Ban Dorain Big Moog o thi Sangs and midges tae nip at yir dotage, and ye bagged aa thi islands yir yacht could swing by but wid ye no like tae be Scottish? So ye voted “Yes Yes” when Sean Connery asked like thae lassies that geed in tae Bondage, there wiz Pussy McFlora and Folly-a-Bloom and Jean Mon Amour of the Forest, and yir parliament sang “So we anely live twice” but wid ye no like tae be Scottish? So ye died and were buried richt next tae yir dug and went tae thi place God expectit, there wiz Knox and his trumpet and plenty Wee Frees and MacKellar Watt’s meatiest sausage, but Saint Andrew strolled over and said “are ye dead or could ye instead jist be Scottish?” ----------------------------------------------------- Stephen Poetry Society: http://www.poetrysoc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 13:21:53 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:21:53 -0000 Subject: Sinister: James T's Testicle Message-ID: <01bd405e$01e796a0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Chris - for God's sake, I'm having my lunch! Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Mon Feb 23 14:50:59 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:50:59 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Old Hat In-Reply-To: <01BD403E.79304B00@pc07628> Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Adrian Evans wrote: Also I'm going on leave this afternoon for the rest of the week and I cannot be bothered to unsubscribe, so If you could all kindly keep your messages to a minimum until next Monday...mmmmmmmm. Umm.. Was this meant to be a joke?? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 14:29:04 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:29:04 -0400 Subject: Sinister: News & Events Message-ID: <34F187B0.135@earthlink.net> Does anyone know why the News and Events part of the B&S homepage hasn't been updated since the end of November? Would someone else with a website and a close connection to the band consider putting a news section on there? And any little bit of news would be appreciated. I haven't really heard anything about the progress on the new album, what would be on it, etc. Still, I'm looking forward to those Manchester gigs in December! ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andrewnic at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 15:34:41 1998 From: Andrewnic at xxx.com (Andrewnic at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:34:41 EST Subject: Sinister: James T's Testicle Message-ID: In a message dated 23/02/1998 14:56:41 GMT, you write: << Chris - for God's sake, I'm having my lunch! >> Hope lunch isn't scotch eggs. Andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 15:49:40 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:49:40 -0000 Subject: Sinister: James T's Testicle Message-ID: <01bd4072$a68f23d0$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >In a message dated 23/02/1998 14:56:41 GMT, you write: > ><< Chris - for God's sake, I'm having my lunch! >> > >Hope lunch isn't scotch eggs. > >Andy Plus you said it had disappeared Chris, wouldn't this make him Jamie and his magic T. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M-STEAD at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 17:09:49 1998 From: M-STEAD at xxx.uk (MATTHEW M STEAD) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:09:49 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Cornershop Message-ID: Hooray! Cornershop are number One! I'm going to see them in Bristol on sunday...any one else seen 'em live? If so are they any good live? matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 16:52:10 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:52:10 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Elton John Message-ID: <34F1A93A.7BA@earthlink.net> > 4. His music is tame and unchallenging. Challenge? > This sounds remarkably like the "argument" that we heard in that quoted letter about the person from Warwick who hated Belle and Sebastian. Since when does it have to be "challenging"? Even more so, what's wrong with being "tame"? All it has to be is good. Which I think that John & Taupin's songs most definitely are. Good point about the "England's Rose" thing, though. "Britain's Rose" would have fit, and would have been at least a *bit* more appropriate. ~Reid, who in all honesty, really isn't qualified to have these opinions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Mon Feb 23 18:15:51 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:15:51 -0500 Subject: Sinister: lotions & potions Message-ID: <34F1BCCB.4DE54B7C@pop.nci.nih.gov> Well all! i came back and saw everyone was very, very busy with their keyboards, after being gone for a minimal 3.5 days, i found i had 192 messages. i was amazed that i could miss so much. so i quickly sat down to reading. that was 9 am. it's now 1:15 pm, and i just finished. such deep content! as for "Anyone see Before Sunrise last night? As I blubbed into my chrysanthemum of kleenex I realised I’d completely forgotten the scene where the Julie and Ethan are in the record shop and she picks up a record which they take to the listening booth. " oh, i did see this one on sat. night tho. i was laughing at the acting (it was so plastic it was very very funny i thought) but i have to admit that that song did seem very nice & would like to know more of it ........ aside from this sam: sorry i haven't been in dc recently due to interviews. thatsa life. and some b&s content. i've been spreading the word left and right, but noone seems to want to have a listen. so i'm going to carry my walkman with me everywhere to convince these silly people about the beautifulness of b&s. also, the one british man in my lab won't nail down the whole "biscuit" business & describe in full graphic detail. says it will scandalize my poor yankee brain. boo. cheers ...... -thai-an x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From crb23 at xxx.edu Mon Feb 23 19:06:52 1998 From: crb23 at xxx.edu (Christopher R Blake) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:06:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Music in Paris Message-ID: Any English speaking Parisians on the list? I'll be in Paris for two weeks starting March 2nd and am hoping there may be some interesting music going on while I'm there. it would be great if Dominique a were playing - but I realize thats too much to ask for. Any suggestions? Chris - in New York City ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 19:22:24 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:22:24 EST Subject: Sinister: NO BS. Message-ID: <4ae51b53.34f1cc80@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-23 09:01:46 EST, rod at begbie.com writes: << Madonna: The new Bjork. Discuss. >> Has Madonna been seen jumping around like a pixie and speaking in riddles? Just kidding. Honestly the whole Ray Of Light album doesn't sound much like Bjork at all. And that's no bs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From edkubisa at xxx.de Mon Feb 23 19:31:41 1998 From: edkubisa at xxx.de (Edd) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:31:41 +0100 Subject: Sinister: RE: Huw's 10 Reasons to Hate Elton John Message-ID: <01bd4091$aabeaba0$39108fc3@EdKubisa.cybernet-ag.de> An even more scary thought is that Elton is dueting with Billy Joel here in Munich.FACE TO FACE the tour is called....can you imagine - duel piano rock out's!!!!! I think i'm gonna wet myself just thinking about it!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 19:40:09 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:40:09 +0000 Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams...ok, probably arent made heeeeeere... Message-ID: OK, I tried not too. It was hard. But now I have to do this. KNIGHTRIDER IS FAR BETTER THAN STREET HAWK! kitt IS FANTASTIC AND THE COOLEST CAR ABOUT, and whoops caps lock got stuck again there!! OHMIGOD! I have read a masseage from a guy who HASN'T GOT SINISTER! aaaaaaah! get it now Richard NOW NOW NOW! Adey the suit asked me how i knew about the insides of mens tolilets....well Ade, before I had the final operation and changed my name from Sam to Sarah, I took one last good look round the old 'lads' bog. aaah. Sometimes I regret going for he big chopola, but then I think how satisisfying it is being a woman. I hope that satisifies your answer. it *is* the truth, honestly! Hmmm. New Madonna single? Its PISH! thangyewverymuch. i would arse to say why but can't be. La la la. I wanna be adored....eh eh? I don't! I'll tell you what I really want. A house where there is food to snack on. Whnr you can't bear the thought of eating a full meal but just want a littel something and NOT acidic apples that burn your teeth off! Is that too hard! And tis all Stuart Murdochs fault for talking about biscuits that makes me hungry. And my friend had a holiday romance while I just had a holiday 'being in love with this guy whow ould never love me back 'cos he is going out with a pretty girl (even though she is a trendy dude but he isn't)' which didn't cheer me up to well. Yeah like all you strangers had to know that. Well, you don't have to listen. "if these words sound corny switch it off i don't care", and why does Kevin Rowland make so much sense to me at times? Salad (the food) is evil. The band Salad...um, exist. Thats the best I have to say abot them, fortunately or not as teh case may be. Sa;ad though. I mean. Is there any point to a huge fucking pile of green leves on a plate, the best you can do is to try and make it lok like a garedn, it doesn't provide much health value as its just all water - Salad is maufactued to be good by the slimming market in league with farmres. I will go now and start a personal vendetta about everyone and everything maybe. well perhaps salad anyway. my stepmother is giving up smoking. hahaha. i gave up ages ago but she doesn't even know i used to smoke. heehee. ooh, i was so 'anarchisitc' at those times. So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound (MERELY!) * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Mon Feb 23 21:27:26 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:27:26 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams...ok, probably arent made heeeeeere... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The ever-loquacious (sp?) Sarah asks:> > So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? My brother and I used to watch THundercats every saturday. That show was the greatest. Then, out of nowhere, it came back on TV on the Cartoon Network. Now I see it for all it was: bad animation, bad voices, boring plots. My brother (who is now 16), however, still watches the show religiously. On Saturday night, some girl called and asked him on a date, and he stayed home to watch Liono and friends. The best show was definitely Robotech, which came on the American channel in Japan right after (and I'm not making this up) the Belle and Sebastian cartoon. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Mon Feb 23 21:31:12 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:31:12 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, An Army of Wee Daves wrote: > > It's a consipiracy by the dry-cleaning industry. I just don;t understand dry cleaning anyway. How does everyone think that works? Do theyrub the wet spot dry, then hand it back to you after a few days? Let it air dry, then iron and return (for a fee). It is one of the great mysteries of life, dry-cleaning is. An oxymoron which I hope somebody has some sort of insight on. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From LNDuggan at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 21:35:51 1998 From: LNDuggan at xxx.com (LNDuggan at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:35:51 EST Subject: Sinister: mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids Message-ID: <62a0087e.34f1ebb9@aol.com> hi listies... where did the Elton John threads come from, hey? I assumed that Elton John didn't even enter into our thoughts. Too grandiose or something, not that I don't need a good overblown rock spectacle now and again. You know how the original concept of MSP was to be an Amazing Rock Triumph, then an Amazing Rock Tragedy (number one double album, then split up), and they didn't do it? Well, I'm trying to convince some friends to give it a go with me. Only we'll do it for real (4 real ...er, sorry...). The measure of our success'll be when they have to set up suicide hotlines in various countries when we break up, like they did when Take That split. No real violence, though, I hope... my little conscious couldn't take it, and next thing you know, *I'd* be on the hotline all weepy and inconsolable... > 3. He has awful clothes. That is all I reallly need to say on this > topic because he just does, like a bad re-ocurring Eighties nightmare. I dunno... that Donald Duck costume was pretty charming. My friend adam says that Elton John's early stuff was pretty good, but as he hasn't been able to produce proof of this claim yet, my belief is pending. I think "Rocket Man" moved me when I was young, but then so did "The Fox and the Hound". Still does, now that I think of it... I'm watching "Easy Rider" for the first proper time. Dammit, I rented this film cause I've had a *serious* Jack Nicholson jones lately, and he hasn't even shown up on screen yet. I'm sure this movie merits more attention than I'm giving it, but I'm too busy working out why boys piss against things, and other list-type quandries. See how captivating you all are? ;) Even watching it idly, I've reached the conclusion that Peter Fonda is a fox (but in the desert, not the snow), and that I *need* a leather jacket like his, with the american flag on the back. How could you not swagger in a jacket like that? Do you reckon Elvis had one on when he came to B and S's house for evening television...?) It was Peter Fonda's acid-induced ramblings that inspired "she said she said", you know. He was wandering about, high as the proverbial kite, muttering "I know what it's like to be dead" to anyone who'd listen, and John Lennon heard, and he started to, um, freak out, I think the term is. Eh, I just don't have a grasp on this kind of lingo... anyways, John asked him to stop it, but he was just repeating himself over and over, so John left, taking his disturbed little head with him, and wrote a cracking song abt the ordeal. I *wish* I could do that... "tragedy into publishing", you know? Anyways, sorry to ramble on so, you shrewd kids probably knew all that when I was still playing with me tinker toys... Oh, there's my man Jack, he's in some seedy Southern jail. Wouldn't it just figure... top 10 reasons to hate leeann, her posts are tame and unchallenging, love, leeann "and I think it's gonna be a long long time till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home..." (it's not many songs that nick david bowie and get nicked by morrissey, is it?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 16:22:16 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (The Ghost of Frank Muir) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: End of aquarian age In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980223123250.007ac930@mail.tcd.ie> Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Claire Timmins wrote: > At 09:38 23/02/98 -0000, you wrote: > >Cornershop are number 1, how cool is that! > > Yippee. How did that happen? Well obviously cause the song is so good. It's almost a complete repeat of the White Town shocker of last winter. Mark Radcliffe picks up on a tune, it is released to minor success, it is re-released - this time with the backing of the whole of Radio 1 (oh, and that Fatboy Slim[1] remix) as well as being used by backing music for various TV trailers. Major number one hit - and probably a one-hit wonder, knowing the fickle record-buying British public. Oh, and it'll be completely forgotten in December when everyone's filling in their votes for Best Single of the year. (which Modern ROck Song will win. natch) > But over on the emerald isle we don't hear the charts, unless ther is > anyone who lives here that can find Radio one and would like to tell me > where it is on the dial. Go to www.dotmusic.com -- you can get them e-mailed to you BEFORE they've been announced by the evil kiddy-fiddler Mark Goodyear. > Celine Dion is utter pants. Agreed^2. Rod. [1] Forgot the footnote last time, but a packet of Pink Panther Wafer Biscuits to anyone who know's what the *real* name is of this remixer. And "Norman" it ain't. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Master of my domain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 04:02:47 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:02:47 -0800 Subject: Sinister: mice Message-ID: <34F24667.59C2@earthlink.net> hey. so who wants to make me a copy of all the field mice stuff since i can't find anything anywhere? don't all respond at once. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nm112 at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 22:27:16 1998 From: nm112 at xxx.uk (NICKEM NICKEM NICKEM) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:27:16 GMT Subject: Sinister: WHAT?!? Message-ID: Testicles? Cornershop? Strange Bed Fellows? Somebody please fill me in? And a taped copy of Tigermilk would be very tasty! Hello Lionel. Is'nt this a bit silly? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 22:49:15 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:49:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: mini potatoes Message-ID: <199802232249.RAA15675@Vector.inexpress.net> >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:14:21 +0000 (GMT) >From: Chris >Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing > >Why is it that blokes have to piss against something? For the same reason >that dogs do I spose; territories and all that. > >C. and why do they tell you this if they don't even know you? WHy will guys come up to you and tell you they have to go 'like a racing horse' i mean, there's nothing i can do to help them....why do they ask...! >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:59:00 -0000 >From: Chris Leonard >Subject: Sinister: James T's Testicle > >I know a gym story..... that was a certainly an original post i think i would like to have chirs leonard and tag and honeypaul as schoolboys in my classes and then we could laugh and say bad things and write belle and sebastian all over the desks...(but maybe that's not too good...i am running out of excuses to get out of detention...).alas i am stuck to talk to reptilian man...and today i fell asleep again but yeahhh..i passed my physical science test and i knew nothing on it! that beautiful south songmaker doesn't like me,it won't make songs for me bastard songmaker. *sigh* have to do homework on 'rebel without a cause' am being kicked off the computer.... i had many a good dream today,i was overwhelmed with luvvv! you're all too hot to handle, xxx Genevieve p.s i see nice crazy man yesterday,he wear ruffles and look like he from medeivel times...he spoke in an english accent to! kept going on about the 'wind..the wind' and he told me to do up my jacket or else i'd get a cold and i wanted talk to him but my friend pulled me away,this is my regret of the day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From LNDuggan at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 22:52:21 1998 From: LNDuggan at xxx.com (LNDuggan at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:52:21 EST Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice...? Message-ID: sarah wrote: > So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? Oh, the worst one *by far* was the Smurfs. My mom had diabolical methods (usu. involving Pop Tarts) of luring my sister and I away from that show on Saturday mornings so we'd make our ballet lessons on time. She didn't like that show cause it only had one girl, and she was silly, all batting eyelashes and piercing giggles. Anyway, my sister and I watched the Smurfs for old times sake once, and we noticed that there's this male Smurf who wears a white hat like the others, only his has this gaudy purple daisy stuck on it, and when the other Smurfs do something neat, he exclaims "fa-AA-bulous!" in this totally camped-up voice. Hmmm... the animators wouldn't be trying to imply something, would they? wonder what my mum made of *that*... and now the other bit (B and S content, albeit slim) - Did you notice that during "Century of Elvis", you can hear the words to "Century of Fakers" in the background? And that the run-out grooves of the "3.. 6.. 9" singles say "Masterpiece."? (that always gets a smile from me - warm and fuzzy, not derisive) so I hear that the High Llamas will be touring near me... they're one of those groups that I hear *about*, but never actually hear, but they have a Stereolab connection of some sort, so they could be good. So whaddaya say, kids, are the High Llamas worth going to see? Keep in mind that I just paid for me and my best friend's ticket to the radiohead / bjork show, so I'm broke as the Ten Commandments, and that falling in love with B and S has raised my musical standards significantly... love, leeann "Sid James speaks to you like God" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From johnj at xxx.com Mon Feb 23 18:26:30 1998 From: johnj at xxx.com (John Jackson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:26:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: St Julian Cope References: <01bd404d$e04d8c80$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: <34F1BF56.4BCA@seahouses.u-net.com> Keith Watson punished his keyboard by typing: >I sometimes think Julian Cope could actually be > quite good if he just stopped trying to prove to the world what a tortured > and weird genius he is and just get on with making nice songs. "Beatiful > Love" is also on this record, and it's really good. This could have been fighting talk Keith...BUT although Julian Cope is a LORD and GENIUS almost all of his albums contain 70 percent brilliance and lovely songs the other 30 percent are self indulgent WANKETY WANK. Peggy Suicide isn't one of them, all of the songs are wonderful. The World Shut Your Mouth album is all excellent too (and doesn't contain the song of the title. And look out for Skellington too! JJ xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 00:12:18 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:12:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Attack of the Smilies :o) References: Message-ID: <34F21062.2365@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Sarah wrote: > OHMIGOD! I have read a masseage from a guy who HASN'T GOT SINISTER! > aaaaaaah! get it now Richard NOW NOW NOW! The shops are closed now, trouble is B&S make me so relaxed I don't feel the need to spend lots more of my cash:o). I mean I have all the EP's and saw an advert for Modern Rock Song in Uncut today for 2.99. Can't be long to wait now... I am pretty sure I'll get it in a couple of weeks when i'm feeling "fit for once". > And tis all Stuart Murdochs fault for talking about biscuits that makes > me hungry. Safeways Savers bicies rule! I can't decide whether rich tea or Orange Cream are the best. > Salad (the food) is evil. The band Salad...um, exist. Thats the best I > have to say abot them, fortunately or not as teh case may be. The single "Cardboy King" was so addictive that i can still put it one one-track-repeat today. "I want you" is sleazy and cool. "Size More woman" is funky, other tracks i know not. > I will go now and start a personal vendetta about everyone and > everything maybe. "Death 2 Everyone" - Fergus Lawrie, Urusei Yatsura > So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? Mee! The Jason Donovan revival died a bit when we bought Blockbusters the game for 30p at a scout sale. Now we can ask each other for P's and call each other Bob for no apparent reason. Our current 8ez line up being FineYoungCanibals, Erasure, and many others like 2unlimited (roommates choice not mine). Richard Anderson http://www.dur.ac.uk/PurpleFM/presenters/anderson.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - For Free Chat NOW - - Talk to the person next to you! - - - - (May require other users permision) - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 00:12:50 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:12:50 EST Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams...ok, probably arent made heeeeeere... Message-ID: In a message dated 98-02-23 16:58:39 EST, kschaffe at trinity.edu writes: << the Belle and Sebastian cartoon. >> I remember the Belle and Sebastian cartoon got on my nerves, as did the look- a-like cartoon, "The Little Prince" which I think was animated by the same company and shown one after the other Nickelodeon many years ago. Always these little cute children with gigantic eyes and big messy hair who had to overcome adversity in a new and strange town, all the while helping out the poor and unfortunate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 00:27:52 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:27:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: sinister Message-ID: <199802240027.QAA12990@mailtod-142.iap.bryant.webtv.net> most famous people are americans because americans invented the idea of fame...at least the "neo-warholian-15-minutes" kind. we know about fame, eh? for better or worse. BTW: name's andy. new to the list, love b&s, portastatic, future bible heros, gothic archies, east river pipe, air miami, etc. live in new york city, anyone wanta trade mixed tapes?? http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Paul.Dean at xxx.uk Mon Feb 23 17:46:28 1998 From: Paul.Dean at xxx.uk (Paul Dean) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:46:28 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Cornershop (NBSC) Message-ID: <01BD4082.F8800EB0@pine.druid.co.uk> I saw them last year in Boston & they were excellent, a little understated - no talking between songs, Tjinder looking a little glum (probably as they were having to support the slightly eccentric Gus Gus) throughout, but they were still really nice & mellow & dancey at the same time. 6am Jullander Shere went on for about 20 minutes which was nice but no 'It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again', which will always remain the best C'n'W epic written by a bunch of 'morrissey baiting former agit-pop cum 'there's always been a trip hop' sound in our tunes' indie chancers Oh Yes... Don't worry - i return to the states this week where chances fro me to litter your mail boxes will be increasingly limited Good Night Paul. >---------- > > >Hooray! Cornershop are number One! I'm going to see them in >Bristol on sunday...any one else seen 'em live? If so are they >any good live? > >matt. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. >. To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net >. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plastik at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 02:23:45 1998 From: plastik at xxx.com (dina passman) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:23:45 -0500 Subject: Sinister: telling tales on truth or dare Message-ID: <34F22F31.44E0@erols.com> dear list people - i don't know exactly what possessed me to do this tonight, but i made a move and suggested a party game in the Sinister chatroom. the people on chat between say 10 and 11pm GMT had a hoot playing that clever little game called truth or dare. we romped and stomped through the twisted layers of several listees' sex lives. you might wonder what exactly surfaced during this torrid session, but i'm afraid i'm sworn to secrecy. just let it suffice to say it came to light that tag had a "bar" connection, honey didnt do something or other before trying something or other, and i have kissed people from a few different countries. i hope that wasn't too vague. oh well, just thought i'd enlighten the masses as to the hot action in the chatroom...see you there... love > dina ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From CrimsonKing at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 03:15:00 1998 From: CrimsonKing at xxx.net (Shaft) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:15:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: introduction Message-ID: <19980224031453.AAC27709@LOCALNAME> I joined the list yesterday, and the first thing I have to say is how surprised I am at the amount of messages that have come. As for other things, I live in Anaheim (a half-hour south of Los Angeles) and for a while I was the only person I knew who'd even heard of B & S. Now I know some people who've heard of them, and even one who's bought them. That's thanks to me, of course. I won't bother asking if anybody has "Tigermilk." What I do want to ask is; 1) Are there any other Southern California fans out there? and 2) If you are from SoCal, do you know of anyplace that carries "Dog On Wheels"? Most places have "Sinister" and I *finally* found copies of "Lazy Line" and "3.. 6.. 9.." last weekend. Hope to hear from anybody soon. Take Care- Andy #:-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 03:19:02 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:19:02 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams...ok, probably arent made heeeeeere... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 Yummycats at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-02-23 16:58:39 EST, kschaffe at trinity.edu writes: > > << the Belle and Sebastian cartoon. >> > > I remember the Belle and Sebastian cartoon got on my nerves, as did the look- > a-like cartoon, "The Little Prince" which I think was animated by the same > company and shown one after the other Nickelodeon many years ago. Oh, yikes. The Little Prince was the pits. I hated the high-pitched (we're talking glass breakingly high) voices that were never quite in sync with the randomly moving lips of the characters (OK, OK, they were probably just voiceovers done badly. I'll give them that.)... The Little Prince also, as I recall, wore this weird white Pierrot jumpsuit with three puffy red buttons down the front. Am I making this part up? Also, he looked like an albino. I just realized that dear Sarah meant TUNES and not TOONS as in CARTOONS in the post I originally replied to. Oops. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 03:26:44 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:26:44 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice...? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 LNDuggan at aol.com wrote: > Anyway, my sister and I watched the Smurfs for old > times sake once, and we noticed that there's this male Smurf who wears a white > hat like the others, only his has this gaudy purple daisy stuck on it, and > when the other Smurfs do something neat, he exclaims "fa-AA-bulous!" in this > totally camped-up voice. Hmmm... the animators wouldn't be trying to imply > something, would they? wonder what my mum made of *that*... > I think that would be Vanity Smurf... Oh, wait, that was the one who was identified by his mirror. No, this one that you describe was Dandy Smurf. Quite ambiguous if you ask me. > > so I hear that the High Llamas will be touring near me... they're one of those > groups that I hear *about*, but never actually hear, but they have a Stereolab > connection of some sort, so they could be good. So whaddaya say, kids, are > the High Llamas worth going to see? Keep in mind that I just paid for me and > my best friend's ticket to the radiohead / bjork show, so I'm broke as the Ten > Commandments, and that falling in love with B and S has raised my musical > standards significantly... Yes!!!!! I saw Stereolab (for the second time! Heh heh!) in December with the High Llamas, and they are WONDERFUL. They sound like the best Stereolab (Metronomic Underground, for example) mixed in with the worst, but most endearing, Paul McCartney songs (like Silly Love Songs or something). There is a little Tim Gaines/Laeticia/High Llamas side project out on Drag City, and, at the moment, the title escapes me... The best thing about the High Llamas live is that they have, like, fifteen people on the stage with various instruments, and the lead guy, whose name I dion't know, picks up a banjo, a guitar, sings a bit, plays the organ a bit, plays the harmonica, etc., turning himself into a one man band in a beautiful symphony of noise. Check out their Hawaii album if you've got a chance. Hope this helps you. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 04:11:26 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:11:26 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: introduction In-Reply-To: <19980224031453.AAC27709@LOCALNAME> Message-ID: > Hope to hear from anybody soon. > Take Care- > Andy #:-) Oooohh, anyone else think it's weird that we have two new Andys?? -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mike at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 07:27:47 1998 From: mike at xxx.uk (Mike Newman) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:27:47 GMT Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An Army of Wee Daves wrote: > It's a consipiracy by the dry-cleaning industry. FWIW, the urinals in > Heriot-Watt's Students Union have the worst splash-back I have ever > encountered. There is no angle of aim which does not result in at least > partial moistening of your breeches. There's a dodgy bar in Weston-super-Mare, where the urinals are waist high on a 6'0" tall man....I nominate that for the splashback award! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the TRAUMATONE/Great Northern Electrics/Bacchanalian Revel homepage: http://www.geocities.com/~greatnorthern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andrewnic at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 10:36:35 1998 From: Andrewnic at xxx.com (Andrewnic at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 05:36:35 EST Subject: Sinister: End of aquarian age Message-ID: In a message dated 23/02/1998 10:01:23 GMT, you write: << Cornershop are number 1, how cool is that! In an almost unprecedented manoeuvre, the British public have spent 66% more money on Brimful of Asha than Celine Dion's current offering, placing Cornershop most definitely Toppermost of the Poppermost... which is nice. >> Also, it's good to see bosoms getting a mention again. The word "bosom" hasn't been used on tv since The Two Ronnies Christmas Special 1975. Fact. Andy ps. hey lads, we're all going to heaven - waaayyyy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 10:28:50 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:28:50 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Quentin Message-ID: <01bd410f$003c0410$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Was at Cornershop last night which was pretty good, although I don't think they were particularly up for it - were they pretty pissed up on Sunday, people who went in Glasgow? I assumed it was a massive hangover job - what with finding out they were at number one and stuff, but then I've never seen them before, it was good though, pity they seem to employ some sort of Radio Forth DJ chappie for the aftershow bit! Sorry JJ, didn't mean to offend in any way, as regards Julian Cope but a lot of Peggy Suicide reminds me of the Bevis Frond (?!), however, still like Treason and Sleeping Gas and stuff, I'm sure he's got something to offer, if someone can help him remove his head from his bottom. I've just got a slapping at work for listening to the Kevin Shields' mix of Primal Scream, as it roars out the earphones at 2000 Dbs. What's happened to this man, where are his own records? He's absolutely astounding and yet it's 7 years since the last one, this seems to be very individual to the 90's, taking years to make records, it was what September '91 the last MBV record, May 1990 for the La's? (Although I can't see Lee Mavers ever getting it together really). Thank God Belle and Sebastian put out records regularly. Cheers, Keith. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 24 11:03:14 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:03:14 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Pee-ing Message-ID: <01bd4113$cdddef60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Schaffenberger Para: An Army of Wee Daves CC: Strange Bed-Fellows Fecha: lunes 23 de febrero de 1998 23:32 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Pee-ing Kristen wrote: >I just don;t understand dry cleaning anyway. How does everyone think >that works? Do theyrub the wet spot dry, then hand it back to you after >a few days? Let it air dry, then iron and return (for a fee). It is one >of the great mysteries of life, dry-cleaning is. An oxymoron which I >hope somebody has some sort of insight on. I think they just spray it with fire extinguishers. Jimmy Tarbuck ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Mon Feb 23 17:50:38 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:50:38 +0000 Subject: Sinister: New Releases References: Message-ID: <34F1B6ED.13752285@virgin.net> Lesley Judd wrote: > Virgin in Edinburgh have it down for a 23 March release, BTW. I know that > that is in no way official, cause D+K haven't said owt yet, but I thought > I would spark some idle speculation! Well, seeing as the band have just booked more mixing dates that take them into early April, it doesn't look as though there will be any B&S releases until at least July, if not later. It may not even be an EP followed by the LP ... we just don't know! There should be news probably towards the end of March/early April once they've finished in the Studio, but until then we know nothing! Reid Dossinger wrote: > > Does anyone know why the News and Events part of the B&S homepage hasn't been > updated since the end of November? Would someone else with a website and a close > connection to the band consider putting a news section on there? And any little bit of > news would be appreciated. I haven't really heard anything about the progress on the > new album, what would be on it, etc. Well, that's up to Stuart David to sort out ... we try to keep you updated on the fanclub site (http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda) and maybe once we get the jeepster site up and running properly, there may be a news page ... maybe i can get the band to write a weekly update to the list or something ... i don't know, any ideas and suggestions much appreciated! Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 11:43:03 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:43:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice...? References: Message-ID: <34F2B247.E669748C@virgin.net> LNDuggan at aol.com wrote: > Did you notice that during "Century of Elvis", you can hear the words to > "Century of Fakers" in the background? umm, see the archive for that one ... > And that the run-out grooves of the > "3.. 6.. 9" singles say "Masterpiece."? (that always gets a smile from me - > warm and fuzzy, not derisive) reason being, is that's the name of the company who master and cut the records ... quite sweet tho' i 'spose when you think about it ... i want a cream tea ... NOW! but i'll just have to wait until the sandwich man comes around ... another hour-and-a-half to go *sigh* ooh, one thing i forgot ... it's David's birthday tomorrow (25th Feb) ... he's going to be an ancient 24, so if anyone wants to send him birthday wishes then please do so, 'cos he's already oened the pressie i bought him - impatient bugger! (bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk) Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 24 11:30:34 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:30:34 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Elton John Message-ID: <01bd4117$9f099320$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Reid Dossinger Para: Sinister Fecha: lunes 23 de febrero de 1998 20:17 Asunto: Sinister: Elton John >Good point about the "England's Rose" thing, though. "Britain's Rose" would have fit, >and would have been at least a *bit* more appropriate. > Princess Bendy Nose was English, whether or not she was Princess of Wales. The notion of the UK being England, or vice versa, has nothing to do with the self-perception of the English. It's just plain old fashioned ignorance. Most people say "London" for "England"for "Great Britain" for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and so on and so on and so on and so on. And they think the English are a bunch of tossers. Paul, couldn't you arrange for Hugh the Bog Fister to make some kind of declaration on this subject? Peter PS: Captain Fantastic and the Dirt Brown Cowboy is all right in a miserable Saturday afternoon kind of way, but Goodbye Yellow Brick Road isn't really up to much I!M!H!O! I bought them both after the last outburst of anti-Elton feeling on the list and the result is a one-all draw. PPS: I would like to see the High Llamas, I think they're good. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Tue Feb 24 10:08:09 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:08:09 +0100 Subject: Sinister: News & Events Message-ID: <01bd410c$1bc12e20$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Reid Dossinger Para: Sinister Fecha: lunes 23 de febrero de 1998 18:32 Asunto: Sinister: News & Events >Does anyone know why the News and Events part of the B&S homepage hasn't been >updated since the end of November? Would someone else with a website and a close >connection to the band consider putting a news section on there? And any little bit of >news would be appreciated. I haven't really heard anything about the progress on the >new album, what would be on it, etc. > Perhaps someone could accost Stuart David this evening and ask him directly. Tonight is the night of the unveiling of his multimedia experience, isn't it? I would like to go myself and heckle him for not using my mucky postcard, but I can't. Thank you for that excruciating testicle piece, Christopher. It has certainly upped the ante. Have you seen "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flannagan"? I think you'd like it. This kind of testicle antics are all in a day's work for Bob. Tag holds forth about it in this week's "Look-In". Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 13:04:49 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:04:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? I don't think I will ever get to see the fabled Belle and Sebastian cartoon, but here in America on Sundays we had Davy and Goliath--a stop-motion puppet show about a boy and his dog; it stunk. Perhaps more than the smurfs because it did not have a lucrative licensing deal. btw-I liked that the Smurfs were Schlumpfs in Germany. There were plenty of bad 80s toons: The Thing, Thundarr the Barbarian, Super Globetrotters, Shmoo, Herculoids, Space Ghost. My two faves were Jem! and Kidd Video. About rock stars. Belle and Sebastian should have signed with Dreamworks and started work on their own animated series about seven (or is it twenty?) rock stars sitting idly at home playing Sega. They should get the artist who decorated Senor Mitchell's site to do the designs. francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bcaron at xxx.fr Tue Feb 24 11:21:39 1998 From: bcaron at xxx.fr (Bertrand Caron) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:21:39 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Belle and simpsons Message-ID: VERY IMPORTANT I need episode(s) of "the simpsons"(the cartoon) very fastely (in one week so th is concerns mostely people from england) in original version on pal secam video K7... so if you have one or can record onereply me directly and very fastely (I' m from france) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Bertrand Caron Date: 24-Feb-98 Time: 12:21:39 ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 12:47:11 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:47:11 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Elvis/Fakers Message-ID: <34F2C14F.719E@earthlink.net> > > Did you notice that during "Century of Elvis", you can hear the words to > "Century of Fakers" in the background? This has been discussed before, but it's just now that I'm getting around to adding a comment. Pretty obviously, Fakers was recorded before Elvis was, and when it came time to record Elvis, they just turned the Fakers vocals down. But, there was some bleed (probably into other mics) and so you can still very faintly hear the Fakers vocals. So here's the deal: Fakers was the "original" song and Elvis was the "take-off" song. I like Elvis too, but I've always wondered why so many people seem to prefer Elvis to Fakers. Is it because it came out first? I mean, it's really interesting and really fun and a great story...but Fakers a much better song. Still, I really think it just goes back to whichever one you heard first, which would be Elvis for those people who bought the EP's when they came out. There. I said it. ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 13:57:32 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:57:32 +0000 Subject: Sinister: OI YOU ... HELP! Message-ID: <34F2D1CC.B4064A57@virgin.net> Hello, i'm hoping for an immediate response on this one, so apologies to everyone else reading it at a later date ... ... i need to find a supplier on the net that sends out bottles of champagne ... meet me in the chat room if you know! Cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 12:13:12 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:12 GMT Subject: Sinister: rebels without a clue In-Reply-To: <199802240216.CAA05687@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802240216.CAA05687@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34f29e82.3116646@email.mcmail.com> Hello, Anyway, I've just waded through 5 days worth of digests after my little holiday. Not much to say, a strange thread about peeing, prompting the question - do we really want to know? Thank God as ever for the the master raconteur Chris Leonard, and the official poet laureates: Genevieve and Trousers. Speaking of Trousers, he wrote: >Continuing on a cinematic note, I was intrigued to read the other day that, >in a Travoltaesque career resurrection, Robert Forster has landed a role in >the new Tarantino film, Jackie Brown. What next? Trousers, is this really true? I'm a little disappointed, I thought the Robert Redford of the 80's would want to be associated with something a bit more classy. I saw Robert F come out into the crowd to sing 'When people are dead' at a Go-B's show, a large circle formed around him, no-one dared touch him, everyone just stared open-mouthed - I can picture it now and it's a very precious moment. Err, have I told this story before? >Good point about the "England's Rose" thing, though. "Britain's Rose" would have fit, >and would have been at least a *bit* more appropriate. I must admit I am quite pleased that Scotland wasn't brought into the story. You can't help feeling sorry for poor Diana - cut down whilst enjoying her third holiday in two months. Leann wrote: >where did the Elton John threads come from, hey? I assumed that Elton John >didn't even enter into our thoughts. Good for you Leann. Elton's made plenty of great stuff in the past, and slagging him hardly makes you 'the Wild One'. Nor does this offering from Rod Begbie, or whatever zany pseudonym he's got today: >> Celine Dion is utter pants. > >Agreed^2. 'I hate Celine Dion', wow, how dangerous. Do you throw tantrums when you hear Phil Collins? They exist - get over it. Wacky old Rod also wrote: > Single bloke, I don't wanna be a single bloke, > I'm so desperate, I could do it with an artichoke ... frankly, I'm not surprised. I have to go. The secretary at work just invited me to 'come upstairs and talk Scottish' to her. Susannah should try that line. Cheerio, Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From euan.leitch at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 14:19:23 1998 From: euan.leitch at xxx.net (Euan Leitch) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:19:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Not B&S Message-ID: <34F2D6EB.604F@virgin.net> So Guy Chadwick got swapped for Jimmy Webb. Thank you men and womenfolks for introducing me to him. Somethings are in your life and you don't know that they're there until someone else finds them. Does the Warm Jets album match the wonderfulness of their name? And why is Local Boy in a Photograph growing on me? And Rod, how do your biscuits get into Iceland? Is it under the icing clause. Principle wouldn't allow me to buy something stocked under a misleading name. And finally, Agnes, I don't like to snipe, well okay so I do like to snipe, but what has fowl cooked in cream got to do with biscuits? lots of love Uan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.north at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 13:16:43 1998 From: r.north at xxx.com (Richard North) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 06:16:43 -0700 Subject: Sinister: Suuuurprise!!!! Message-ID: Yeah List! I got thrown off the course for putting rat poison in my Lefty-Trot-Commie Lecturer's muesli. So I'm back!! I imagine how you've all been missing my vibrant youthful and Conservative angle on all things MODERN and MUSIC (I can't forget TAG, my special pal). And my girlfriend (guess what - I call her Judy) is new on the scene... someone said she looks like 'Takes-it-from-behind-Spice'. which one is she?? what's all this BISCUIT malarkey, anyhow? My dad used to work for Nestl� and he knows all you need to about confectionary. And he wants to assure you all that a bar is for sucking, (unless you're washing with it) while a biscuit always leaves crumbs in your lap. End of discussion. Yo! Got go now. Uncle Dud's got a position lined up for me in his cool china-figurine importing business. Respect to the Dole Massive Northy Get your FREE, private e-mail account at http://www.mailcity.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nm112 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 14:33:37 1998 From: nm112 at xxx.uk (NICKEM NICKEM NICKEM) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:33:37 GMT Subject: Sinister: just a quickie Message-ID: Nickem threw caution to the winds, proving hersalf to be the crazy, zany and madcap student everyone feared her to be and wrote: Does'nt it say something about us? " What?" I hear the keyboard tappings of your brains mutter. The fact that such an ancient crustation like Elton John can incite such an amazing level of response. He is an old singer. End of Story. Just not everybody's cup of tea. Now lets move on to . . oh, who shall we choose? Errmmm . . . perhaps Phil Collins? Whoa! Approaching contentious issues there! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Anna_Chapman at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 15:02:13 1998 From: Anna_Chapman at xxx.com (Anna_Chapman at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:02:13 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Chat. Message-ID: <802565B5.005253B3.00@globalsmtp.idg.com> Hi. I understand that there is some kind of Belle and Sebastian chat forum that you can join. Can any computer literate person help me with this. I have tried to follow the instructions on Pauls WWW but I'm not really sure what I am doing. Thanks. Anna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From krivas at xxx.gov Tue Feb 24 15:37:50 1998 From: krivas at xxx.gov (Kimberly Rivas-Plata) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:37:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Pisces everywhere Message-ID: Katrina wrote: >ooh, one thing i forgot ... it's David's birthday tomorrow (25th Feb) >... he's going to be an ancient 24... hey now! watch it who you're calling "ancient"! I'm turning 24 myself the day after and I certainly don't feel like a relic. ok so it finally happened....I had a b&s dream, well sort of - it was a list dream actually. I dreamt that I had a teenage daughter that was running off to go live in England and with her departing said "the only person who really understands is Tag, so I'm going to live with him!" Mr. McTaggart, you have some explaining to do here! what are you doing with the underage youth of America! (btw, I don't really have a daughter) dina enlightened us with: >the people on chat between say 10 and 11pm GMT had a hoot playing that >clever little game called truth or dare. you lucky chatters have all the fun! GRRRRR! I hate this stupid government server! the only chat I can get onto is off the Cleveland Freenet! why oh why!...gee, now you can see how your tax dollars are hard at work. happy birthday to all you Pisces out there from a fellow fish! -Kim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 05:01:03 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:01:03 -0500 Subject: Sinister: introduction Message-ID: <199802240501.VAA00888@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> and what is wrong with andys?!? i think there should *more* of them....:^) check out my page, babe http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 16:07:19 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:07:19 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Francisco suggested: > Belle and Sebastian should have signed with Dreamworks and started work on > their own animated series about seven (or is it twenty?) rock stars > sitting idly at home playing Sega. They should get the artist who > decorated Senor Mitchell's site to do the designs. > No, because every band that signs to Dreamworks must start sucking shortly after they do. It happened to Jonathan Fire*Eater, will nodoubt happen to Elliot Smith, and, while it would be difficult--damn near impossible, in fact--for B&S to suck, it wasn't worth taking the risk. The animated series would hve been a nice perk, though. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pasty at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 00:15:50 1998 From: pasty at xxx.com (JOSEPH FOSTER) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:15:50 -0800 Subject: Sinister: sinister: dreams Message-ID: <34F36208.1421@geocities.com> Oh hello. I just like to say that I had a dream where I was in possession of some important material that could bring down some very important people, I had a struggle with one of these people but I managed to give the information to a boy I new as a child called James, who posted it for me. But I had not written an address, so I was surprised when I got a replie. From the church. Who said thankyou, but all the information was all wrong. And they sent me some football stickers, quite alot infact, and that made me happy for a while. When I woke up I was angry cus I felt that the church had tricked me. mail to 'pasty at geocities.com' if you want a copy of a 'Lullaby for the working classes' LP. It's very good. or go to http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/6995 if you want to fly. Bye.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ase at xxx.nl Tue Feb 24 17:24:37 1998 From: ase at xxx.nl (ase at xxx.nl) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 98 17:24:37 MET Subject: Sinister: Elvis/Fakers Message-ID: <9801248883.AA888369601@ccmailgw.dasc.nl> Reid Dossinger wrote: >Pretty obviously, Fakers was recorded before Elvis was, and when it came time >to record Elvis, they just turned the Fakers vocals down. But, there was some >bleed (probably into other mics) and so you can still very faintly hear the >Fakers vocals. >So here's the deal: Fakers was the "original" song and Elvis was the "take-off" >song. Oh really? Maybe they decided beforehand to use the same backing on both tracks. And on purpose they made sure you can faintly hear the Fakers vocals to make us wonder why! Arnold Seijen (ase at dasc.nl) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All that crap about believing the truth. When you know it don't depend on you. Moose - So much love, so little time (1995) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 16:46:32 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:46:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: revels without an orange one Message-ID: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Tag wrote: > Good for you Leann. Elton's made plenty of great stuff in the past, > and slagging him hardly makes you 'the Wild One'. Nor does this > offering from Rod Begbie, or whatever zany pseudonym he's got today: Today? I change them every message. > >> Celine Dion is utter pants. > > > >Agreed^2. > > 'I hate Celine Dion', wow, how dangerous. Do you throw tantrums when > you hear Phil Collins? They exist - get over it. I exist, get over it. I was replying to a post made by Claire about Cornershop. That was the last line of her message, I quoted it. So? > Wacky old Rod also wrote: > > > Single bloke, I don't wanna be a single bloke, > > I'm so desperate, I could do it with an artichoke > > ... frankly, I'm not surprised. You not a fan of Mark & Lard, then? Cause it's thanks to them that I ever heard of B&S in the first place. And following from that .sig quote, Lush have apparently formally announced their split-upness, after the suicide of their drummer. Miki + Emma are now going their separate ways. Which is a shame, as I really enjoyed the last album. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Christ and your bush - That's no titchy marrow" | -- Candle In The Wind '97, played backwards. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9607129h at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 16:52:18 1998 From: 9607129h at xxx.uk (Neil Hargreaves) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Fogg (the one who made the bet) Message-ID: <71B1A2156B@lms.student.gla.ac.uk> What was I saying..... oh yeah.. I'm sure you all remember Willy Fogg and Dogtanian and the Muskahounds.... (80's toons extraordinaire) But do you remember all these guys (who I think must have been made by the same people) had the same angry face... They sort of made a noise like frgnnnnnnnnnnh! and culed their lips Elvis style and the background behind them sort of went whoooooooosh! but maybe this was just because they always leapt at someone when they got mad. Where did they come from? Did the creators of these fools do anything else (Kidnapped with mice?) any info appreciated. Also were they linked to Cities of Gold and dundundah! Belle and Sebastian... keep it real foos! neil H ------------------------------------------------- " despite myself at times well i have felt not in the mood for any of this..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From euan.leitch at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 16:58:26 1998 From: euan.leitch at xxx.net (Euan Leitch) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:58:26 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Naughty Kit Message-ID: <34F2FC32.534E@virgin.net> Speeding round the cobbled streets of Embra I got to thinking about KNIGHT RIDER and how it was definitely my fave. But then I had a *sudden memory recurrence*. A few years ago me and my friend had the happy pleasure of actually sitting inside Kit. We were both 20 and naive little chums. Kit spoke to us and we were thrilled, until he started making suggestive remarks to us, and it became apparent that he could see us well enough to define our differing racial characteristics. We left sullied, but wiser. So maybe KNIGHT RIDER isn't so wonderful after all if the car was a sexual deviant. But maybe David Hasselhof's boss, the English guy with the Marcel wave makes up for it. He was truly smooth even though he spent a lot of time in the back of an artic. So if you ever make the expedition to Disneyland, California, and your sexual orientation is toward the automobile, try Kit for your kicks. Is it wrong to eliminate friendships because of peoples response to B&S? And I was thrilled to see The Catchers' album Mute liked by someone other than me. Beauty no.3 was the hook for me. Did anyone hear the Mongolian folksongs on BBC Radio3 last night? It was like listening to Ivor Cutler with added boingy bits and tings. Lovely Heaven. Uan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 16:59:32 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:59:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: I'd rather Jack, than Fleetwood Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sarah wrote: > Hmmm. New Madonna single? Its PISH! It's got a Stereo MCs remix, so it can't be all bad. > thangyewverymuch. i would arse to say why but can't be. La la la. I > wanna be adored....eh eh? I don't! I do. Come on. Adore me, someone. > I'll tell you what I really want. A house where there is food to snack > on. I have a flat like that. And that's why I'm becoming such a flabby bastard again. I'm gonna have to start limiting myself to eating at mealtimes, instead of just having a bag of crisps whenever i feel like it. > Salad (the food) is evil. The band Salad...um, exist. I used to really fancy Marjirine out of Salad when she was a VJ on MTV. Still do a wee bit. Their music's pretty cack, though -- Ice Cream remains the only CD that I have found so poor that I've taken Fopp up on their "Suck It And See" promotion. Actually, that gives me an idea. Edinburghers! Does everyone fancy going into Fopp, buying a couple of those 99p Ricky Ross albums (now marked as "Ricky Ross Appeal -- 99p Donation"), then returning them a couple of days later under Suck It And See? Watch the poor people cry. > I will go now and start a personal vendetta about everyone and > everything maybe. well perhaps salad anyway. my stepmother is giving up > smoking. hahaha. i gave up ages ago but she doesn't even know i used to > smoke. heehee. ooh, i was so 'anarchisitc' at those times. I stopped before Christmas. I got some really good news the other night (watch out Boston, MA -- I'm emigrating!) and considered going out and buying some alcopops. But instead, I thought "I know, I'll have some cigarettes to calm me down." Smoked one, and just thought "why the fuck did I ever take this up in the first place?" Peer pressure, cuh! Who kneads it? Binned the rest of the cigs. > So, who else on this list has a penchant for bad '80s toons? Might do... who's asking? Rod. (off to listen to The Reynolds Girls' hit single) Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Master of my domain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ByTheSea6 at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 17:28:02 1998 From: ByTheSea6 at xxx.com (ByTheSea6 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:28:02 EST Subject: Sinister: Elvis/Fakers Message-ID: <7aaeff13.34f30325@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-24 11:33:15 EST, ase at ccmailgw.dasc.nl writes: << Maybe they decided beforehand to use the same backing on both tracks. And on purpose they made sure you can faintly hear the Fakers vocals to make us wonder why! >> okay grassy knoll, i think it's time we just acknowledge that belle and sebastian have been plotting to confuse and control us all along.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From itstrue at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 16:51:38 1998 From: itstrue at xxx.net (Reid Dossinger) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:51:38 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Re: News and Events Message-ID: <34F2FA9A.23D9@earthlink.net> The famous Katrina wrote: > maybe i can get the band to write a weekly update to > the list or something That, Katrina, is exactly what I was looking for. That'd be great...It seems like they have that in place on their official site, but it just doesn't get updated all that often. So if it was just a matter of a band member or two writing in an email once a week, and someone else putting it on a site....perfect! ~Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bgainey at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 18:15:15 1998 From: bgainey at xxx.com (Brian Gainey) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:15:15 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk/Demo Tracks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980224101515.006ba6f0@pophost.wired.com> The first one is "Pocketbook Angel"-right?, but I can't recognise >the titles of any of the others from any references on the list. If any >one knows the answer, I'd be much obliged. the names of the three demo tracks i have are: "pocketbook angel" "london has let me down again" "hurley's having dreams" the latter of the three is definately close to the top of my list of favorite b&s songs. are there other demo songs out there other than these? brian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From parachute at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 23:54:48 1998 From: parachute at xxx.net (bradford) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:54:48 -0800 Subject: Sinister: i said i never would Message-ID: <34F35DC8.2461@earthlink.net> i said i never would post about any of my dreams on this list because there are so many people who do that i'm sure some people get mad.....but i had such a strange one and it involved b&s, i couldn't help but.... i was driving with one of my friends through some cozy neighborhood like off of the wonder years and our windows were down and we come across this gang of people and it turns out they were belle and sebastian (even though i don't really know what they look like). anyway, they were all eating those mentos things, those little candies where you could rob a bank and get away with it by flashing them. so we rode by and they started staring at us. so i says to my friend in a soft voice "roll em up" (talking about the windows). and as soon as we got the windows rolled up, all of belle and sebastian started spitting brightly colored juices at our car. all the colors of the rainbow. they just kept spitting at us and laughing so i turned around in my seat and gave the bird to one of them and then i woke up. ma-ma-ma we're all crazeeee now -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nicolina at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 18:38:03 1998 From: nicolina at xxx.com (Nicole Elger) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:38:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Davy and Goliath (NBSC) Message-ID: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Francisco Alberto Wong wrote: >cartoon, but here in America on Sundays we had Davy and Goliath--a >I don't think I will ever get to see the fabled Belle and Sebastian >cartoon, but here in Ameri---ca on Sundays we had Davy and Goliath--a >stop-motion puppet show about a boy and his dog; it stunk. What!? I LOVED Davy and Goliath!!! My sister and I would wake up at 5 am on Sunday mornings so we could watch it together. It was this thinly-veiled religious show for children, in which Goliath the dog was the voice of Morality. (I am imitating Goliath's voice as I write this and I wish you all could hear it b/c it was probably the funniest part of the show! Ha, I can still hum the theme tune too!) BTW, I think it was one of the early claymation shows, not puppets. So Davy would do all these bad things like taking another child's crayon or not sharing his toys with his sister (Sally?) and Goliath would reprimand him and explain why he ought to do the right thing. Ok, so it sounds (and was) hokey but when you're 5 years old and have a stuffed dog that looks JUST like Goliath, you find this sort of thing quite stimulating. The baby photo that I am going to send to HoneyPaul (if I can get my computer to recognize my scanner) is of me clutching my Goliath dog, which I later lost on a bus (A BUS, hey look, there's a B&S connection for you!!) and was never quite the same. - Nicole .........nicolina at drizzle.com......... a man with his eyes shut swam upward through dark water and came to air it was the horizon he felt his way along it and it opened and let the sun out - W.S. Merwin, The Dreamers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From TWidmer at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 19:26:11 1998 From: TWidmer at xxx.com (Tara Widmer) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:26:11 -0800 Subject: Sinister: dry cleaning madonna el nino and belle Message-ID: <81C1FB3F4D1ED111A51400805FC1DF030DB6E5@amerwksnt01.xil.com> I know how dry cleaning is done, it's like this: They put the clothes in one of those metallic washing machines, you know the kind that you have to pay extra money to use, and fill it with magical chemicals, these "special cleaning agents" and wash. So "dry" cleaning is a bit of a misnomer you see!! And I know this to be true because I saw it in an investigative report on Dateline NBC and they wouldn't have it on there if it wasn't true. Unless it is whatever cleaners I happen to be patronising at any given time, whose method seems more along the lines of "take Tara's dirty stuff that needs cleaning, hang it in the back of the store for 2 days then run an iron over the thing and give it back to her for $5, count our money and laugh our heads off when she leaves"... tho I have to commend the place I went to recently, they got a nasty piece of gum out of my french Posh Spice versace knockoff slipdress which I bought in England!:::huge sigh of relief::: Over the weekend i did my good deed and converted YET ANOTHER person to the tribe of B&S worshippers. yay me!!!! That brings my *grand total* of converts to a magnificent....wait for it...TWO! and with converts 3 and 4 almost certainly in the bag, Belle and Sebastian fever is sweeping the Bay faster than El Nino.... (I was crying in public the other day after a bad time at Carnaval and this boy walked up to me and tried to comfort, I said, "no it's allright, only PMS", and he said, "yeah you're right El Nino is really something!" huh???) MADONNA is calling her new look Veronica Electronica. Which is sure to be a nail color by Hard Candy in a matter of days. And hahaha that's really funny, that news about nothing released until July... now if you would please tell us really... isn't it lovely tho, how active this list remains despite the lack of new releases?? I think so. tonight Matthew, I will be Punky Brewster, because I dyed my hair black and people might stop saying I look like Mariah!!!! TaraNicole ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From andrewn at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 20:23:52 1998 From: andrewn at xxx.edu (Andrew Hung Nguyen) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:23:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Opinions on CD Message-ID: Hello All, I am will make my very first trip to Europe this May and I was wondering if people could give me their opinion on some CDs I plan to purchase in London. 1) Adventures in Stereo: Which albums are good? 2) Octopus 3) Dodgy, Free Peace Sweet 4) Ed Ball 5) Cecil Also I wanted to know if the list was still going to have a picnic. The last thing I remember reading is a picnic that is scheduled in early May. I arrive in London on May 5 and I am there until May 7. Then off to France. Andrew N. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mneimark at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 20:25:26 1998 From: mneimark at xxx.com (Matthew Neimark) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:25:26 PST Subject: Sinister: Sinister - NIH connection Message-ID: <19980224202527.3389.qmail@hotmail.com> I notice a lot of you listies are working at NIH (National Institutes of Health for you Brits) at this moment. Having worked there one summer 5 years ago I just somehow felt some sort of common bond with you. Anyhow, just wondering if there is some sort of Club B&S there at the moment or if B&S are somehow big in Bethesda MD (are they playing them on HFS yet?). Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Tue Feb 24 20:34:46 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:34:46 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Subject: Sinister: Honey Bulletin #2 Message-ID: It's Pleasantness Police time. Gentle reminder to Sinisterons the world over to keep the list readable and my embarrassingly large amount of time running this list well spent please. 1) It's a Belle and Sebastian and "things that happen to Belle and Sebastian fans" list. It's not a B&S news list (ha) as I'd only need a ZX81 to run that - it's about YOU. But it's also not a general indie (dread word) list. Much better to make us all cry and laugh, but ask your friends if you are a funny person first to see if you are qualified to do a stand-up. 2) Don't slag off each other obviously enough for me to think "do I want to hear this?". It gets a bit boring. 3) Don't quote a huge message and then say "Yeah". Take some time to use your editor so 470 odd people don't have punish their keyboards. 4) Equally don't mail back 30 separate responses to 30 mails on the list. Put them together. 5) Don't use the list for private mail or mail to about 5 people. 6) The next 10 people to send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to the list get a night out with my Mad Dad - you have been warned - read the WWW pages below please and find out how to use the list. 7) Think just before you post about the 470 people the other end. Remember, the drill is: compose your message... hover your finger over the send key for 10 seconds... think whether we all want to hear and whether Cliff Richard would approve... send. The End Honey xxx -- Thank you for not discussing the outside world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From greggo at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 20:33:28 1998 From: greggo at xxx.com (Gregg Ogorzelec) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:33:28 -0800 Subject: Sinister: B&S in SoCal Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From ELA97SDT at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 20:41:15 1998 From: ELA97SDT at xxx.uk (S.Thomson) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:41:15 +0000 Subject: Sinister:Pictures! Message-ID: <16CEFCB00FB@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> Is there anyone who could tell me how to get to the web page with the pictures of sinister listees on it? Cheers, Stoo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Yummycats at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 20:57:32 1998 From: Yummycats at xxx.com (Yummycats at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:57:32 EST Subject: Sinister: Davy and Goliath (NBSC) Message-ID: <8020ebfc.34f33449@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-24 13:49:30 EST, nicolina at drizzle.com writes: << What!? I LOVED Davy and Goliath!!! My sister and I would wake up at 5 am on Sunday mornings so we could watch it together. It was this thinly-veiled religious show for children, in which Goliath the dog was the voice of Morality. >> Mad TV did this hilarious parody of the show, in true to form claymation, where they took the "thinly-veiled" religious themes to new heights. Davy would be waiting for the bus when Goliath would tell him to go kill two lovers in a jeep on the corner, because what they were doing was a sin. Which he of course did. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cb7356 at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 21:01:03 1998 From: cb7356 at xxx.uk (G B Kline) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:01:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: the little prince Message-ID: <9BE34D4802@qmwcc3.qmw.ac.uk> how about b and s covering the theme song from that cartoon? I have remembered the first 4 lines of it for years - 'the little prince from outer space can catch a shooting star and sail away perhaps someday he'll come your way' - shouldn't that memory space be taken up by something else by now? by the way, I'm grace and I just joined the list (in digest form) a few days ago. I'm from VA in the US but I'm in London going to school until may. I arrived 2 weeks after the december gig and I *must* see b and s before I leave. Please someone, anyone pass on to them my humble plea...... also you're all kind people, please let me know about anything else going on in London that I'd like nice to meet you guys / i'm being kicked out of the computer lab now -grace ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From anonclothing at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 13:06:38 1998 From: anonclothing at xxx.com (Gareth Watkins) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:06:38 -0000 Subject: Sinister: inconsequential B&S gossip Message-ID: <09f8b2418131828UPIMSSMTPUSR02@email.msn.com> chatting to an A&R man friend of mine last weekend i said me: why don't you sign B&S (he works for a major label) him: i hear they are a nightmare to work with me: in what way him: well apparantly they vote on everything they do and if one of the band votes against it they don't do it. i couldn't work with a band like that it would kill me. i don't know if this is the case or not but it would seem to fit in with the general lack of gigs and new records. sort of quite charming that attitude, and very indie gareth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Pam_Berry at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 21:32:00 1998 From: Pam_Berry at xxx.com (Pam Berry) Date: 24 Feb 98 16:32 -0500 Subject: Sinister: b&s list dames take over cold rice Message-ID: <199802242120.VAA17769@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> hi all, since there are scads of list people in the washington, dc area (some of them, as matt just mentioned, under the employ of the NIH in neighborhing bethesda--nice to see you again/meet some more of you at the momus/mag. fields show by the way, was gilles a dancing dream of a frenchman or what? oof), thought I should mention that myself and dina are taking over the turntables at cold rice tomorrow night, feb. 25, ash wednesday. B&S on WHFS isn't so likely, but who needs that when you can stay up way too late on a weeknight and hear them turned up to 11 at the kaffa house? for that matter, who needs sleep? all the good stuff happens in the late night hours...the kaffa house is near the intersection of 13th and U sts., next to the metro, across from ben's chili bowl. dj plastik will be spinning first at 10:30-ish in the pm or so, then live performances at midnight by the still and black hawaiian flower crusade, then me taking a turn at dj in the wee hours. hope some of you can stop by! e-mail me privately if you need directions... happy shrove tuesday to the lot of you, pam pberry at washcp.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ByTheSea6 at xxx.com Tue Feb 24 22:00:13 1998 From: ByTheSea6 at xxx.com (ByTheSea6 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:00:13 EST Subject: Sinister: inconsequential B&S gossip Message-ID: <472039d.34f342fd@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-24 16:22:50 EST, anonclothing at email.msn.com writes: << chatting to an A&R man friend of mine last weekend i said me: why don't you sign B&S (he works for a major label) him: i hear they are a nightmare to work with me: in what way him: well apparantly they vote on everything they do and if one of the band votes against it they don't do it. i couldn't work with a band like that it would kill me.>>> An assessment: Here's the best band, arguably, of the 9tees, and you're friend doesn't want to work with them because they have in place some sort of democratic system of self-management and decision making? This coming from an industry where you'd assume an A&R man's work responsibilities and problems range from drugs and alcohol abuse situations to creative stagnation and ego- maniacs. I'd think any A&R man in his right mind would jump at the chance to sign B&S, even with the band being so daring as to exercise their right to do what they choose rather than be directed around by someone with "experience" in the business. >>i don't know if this is the case or not but it would seem to fit in with the general lack of gigs and new records. >> Okay, now Tigermilk came out in the summer of 96, which means the band hasn't even reached the official age of two. They've put out two lp's and enough ep's to equal a third. And album three may very well be in our hands by this summer. Perhaps we are letting our love of B&S override our patience. No comment on the live-gig situation. yours, nathaniel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From thaiant at xxx.gov Tue Feb 24 22:23:17 1998 From: thaiant at xxx.gov (Thaian N Ton ) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:23:17 -0500 Subject: Sinister: The NIH Connection References: <19980224202527.3389.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: <34F34834.637C7734@pop.nci.nih.gov> Matthew Neimark wrote: > I notice a lot of you listies are working at NIH (National Institutes of > Health for you Brits) at this moment. Having worked there one summer 5 > years ago I just somehow felt some sort of common bond with you. > > Anyhow, just wondering if there is some sort of Club B&S there at the > moment or if B&S are somehow big in Bethesda MD (are they playing them > on HFS yet?). > > Matt Ooh la la! Matthew N. you've found out about the secret cult at NIH. No, we're not trying to find out about the cures for neurological disorders and cancer, we just hang out and blast b&s and slurp ribena, eat digestive biscuits & beam whilst debating the morality of each lyric. so i am "ms. post happy" this week; i've made my record total of *3* posts. (andy fox please flay me with your ikea cd tower cos i'm just a baby, baby girl). on the reality of nih: kim was the 1st to convert me so i'm just riding along on her coat tails. maybe i should let her comment upon the validity of this statement. i work at the national cancer institute, i blast out b&s when i have control of the cd player ... btw, we meet with the b&s dc-delights. :) no bethesda b&s club as of yet. i'm still on the converting track tho ... ta ta all. i'm off to ...... doing something like science. -Thaian (stinky monchichi) xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u01cjtc at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 22:35:21 1998 From: u01cjtc at xxx.uk (The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes!) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:35:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Some bloke pinched my name! Message-ID: Hello everybody, First off, the best cartoon in the world ever was The City Of Gold, the one where the kid set out from spain to the new world and searched for the lost city of gold. It went on for what seemed like years and had a very cool gold, flying bird/plane thing. I can't remember if they ever actually found the city, but I loved the cartoon so much that to this day I wish for its return. Actually come to think of it i have'nt got much else to say except that I had a lovely time in Edinburgh at the weekend, and met a lovely girl who just so happens to love B&S too, a match made in heaven, only she hasn't phoned me, should I phone her, all replies gratefully recieved. Oh, yeh and that new bloke andy pinched my name, shaft, poo! love colin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarah at xxx.uk Tue Feb 24 21:16:07 1998 From: sarah at xxx.uk (Sarah) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:16:07 +0000 Subject: Sinister: now, i know i've got to (BOOM BOOM!) run away i've got toooo..... Message-ID: Heh heh. I have a REALLY sick medical forward to do with scrotums and testicles. if you wish me to send you a copy, mail me! and the worst thing about it is...ITS TRUE!!! OW! AAAH! Northy is back! well, i don't care 'cos he NEVER replied to my email the bastard and left me only with, um, about 10 mails a day anyway....grrr..... And I will now tell you mt top 5 '80s tunes. (in no particular order...) 1. Tainted Love - Soft Cell 2. Gold - Spandau ballet 3. We Close Our Eyes - Go West (What an intro!) 4. Mr Blue Sky - ELO 5. Last train to transcentral - the KLF (methinks) and if anyone tells me this has nothing to do with Belle and Sebastian, ah fook off and wank over your Tigermilks. Um, if great pop hits like THE AFOREMENTIONED were not important, where do you think ELECTRONIC RENAISSANCE would be today? So, to sum up, '80's pop hitz - cool. Does anybody else share my love? For me, those songs *are* the '80's. So spangly and shiny and scarily crafted and precise, i do not understand the people who slag the '80s. I understand i have no lost all cred and I shall be going to hide in a corner now. Honey if i am posting too much and too much shite to the list tell me and I'll go back to my corner and rock back and forth in a somewhat agitated mannner. and someone described me as laquacious. now, i reconise the word, but i dunno what it means. what does it mean someone? yes, and the dictionary is too far away for me to arse going to look ooh, i dunno, oooh, no, um, i have no money, arse, and...oooh, i don' wanna go to college tomorrow, but i've got to go to a silly meeting thing for a wanky student mag (i can imagine the dizzying heights of effort most are going to put into it, they're all trendy dudes..) and, um, oh.................. i think i'll turn up for a few mins and then toodle off to creative writing. Anyone who has met Stephen (AKA Purple Aarvark in chat) - don't listen to him. he claims i et all the biscuits, well, he liiies lieees i tell you! oh, i'm gonnna do what it says below now. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * One Pound (MERELY!) * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Patrik Adamsson Tue Feb 24 23:57:07 1998 From: Patrik Adamsson (Patrik Adamsson ) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:57:07 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Pleasantness Police time... Message-ID: <199802242256.XAA21040@mb06.swip.net> "It's Pleasantness Police time." Yes Sinisterons, and make sure you ask a whole bunch of people if you are funny. If you qualify, send them anything that you have written in e-mail format. If you qualify once again, maybe you could consider beeing funny on this list, however with the risk of qualifying to a special bore-bulletin run by Mr. P. Mitchell himself. This will ensure the future of this list since he will have such a good time putting the weekly bore-bulletin together. The list will be reset every week, since it would grow very fast otherwise. But beware, writing boring stuff too often will inevitably give you a resident status. Maybe, maybe, this mail will make me qualify to the bore-bulletin. P. bore-bulletin If you then write, but it turns out to be no fun at all, I suggest more police work, and publishing before writing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Tue Feb 24 23:54:25 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:54:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: the little prince In-Reply-To: <9BE34D4802@qmwcc3.qmw.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, G B Kline wrote: > how about b and s covering the theme song from that cartoon? I have > remembered the first 4 lines of it for years - 'the little prince > from outer space can catch a shooting star and sail away perhaps > someday he'll come your way' - shouldn't that memory space be taken > up by something else by now? > I remember: "He came from somewhere, a world way out there, and he hasn't been back since. Something something, friend;y faces, brand new places, and that's the tale of the little prince." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gte107f at xxx.edu Wed Feb 25 00:14:15 1998 From: gte107f at xxx.edu (Silent Kid) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:14:15 -0500 Subject: Sinister: the best lookin boys are taken Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980224191415.006fa200@pop.prism.gatech.edu> 'ello. Well, I too am a new one here. My nickname for years now has been Silent Kid (even my mum has taken to calling me that...)but ever since i picked up Sinister, I've been dreaming of the beauty of being mayfly. but one can't just change their names on whim, can they? but in dreamland i am allowed to do whatever i please. hmm...perhaps i judged the High Llamas prematurely...i'm actually enjoying this song i have of theirs on this sampler. I saw them open for Stereolab and wasn't too blown away, but i'm beginning to suspect now that the sound system of the crummy venue fooled me... Anyhow, I joined the list thinking it'd be a good place to learn about news of the band and trade info/music with others, yet i seemed to have stumbled on quite a social scene here. oh, and how you all are working so hard to convert others and draw them in..hehe...My proudest moment was the other day when i sat some of my "hardcore/punk" listening friends down on the waves of Le Pastie de la Bourgeousie, and they really loved it, and one wanted a copy of the song and wanted to borrow Sinister! Andy S.: yer page is very exhausting and clever. brad: i found yer dream to be very beautiful. the way belle and sebastian's spit was all rainbow colored..... Have you all not seen Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown? Oh, its funny, cuz when i first heard Robert Forster was gonna be in it I thought it was the Go Betweens fellow, which caused all sorts of chaos...ah, but I've seen the film and Tarantino places very opposite actors in a playpen and must expect them to have chemistry. They all try to play and get along, but you can see that they are out of their elements and at times its rather awkward. Yummycats at aol: oh yes, i did see that parody of davy and goliath! Goliath's voice was even more ridiculous than ever. Possibly the funniest thing i've ever seen on there. Yes, I used to watch the Belle and Sebastian cartoon and the little Prince religiously...I was a cartoon fiend. Possibly still am... Well, I'm quite a nomadic little soul, and currently am living in Atlanta (looks like it may be ending in some months...), but if any of you are in this area of the states, please get in touch. I'm very alone with my musical tastes and open mind at this suffocating college. Thanks for reading this rather long rambling. Love, *mayfly* (won't you aid my dreams?) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But he doesn't understand and he doesn't try He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I We're the younger generation, we grew up fast All the others did drugs They're taking it out on us They're taking it out on us ---Belle & Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Wed Feb 25 00:38:04 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:38:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: mmmmm...minty fresh Message-ID: <199802250038.TAA15118@Vector.inexpress.net> eep.. oh well, just thought i'd >enlighten the masses as to the hot action in the chatroom...see you >there... > >love > dina wish could join,i feel so left out! >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:19:02 -0600 (CST) >From: Schaffenberger >Subject: Re: Sinister: sweet dreams...ok, probably arent made heeeeeere... >I just realized that dear Sarah meant TUNES and not TOONS as in CARTOONS in the >post I originally replied to. Oops. what about that 80's song 'i'm so excited' one,me and my friend have got the motions and everything!the chorus....'i want to love you feel you wrap myself around you' it's the best! You can sing it to soembody and it makes you love them more.... Nevermind the dandy warhol questions,I was all set to steal this camera and look very professional for an interview with them but the band didn't make enough money to tour,yet treblecharger has enough money to tour? i don't understand.... i think the name andy is just...fine and lovely (*sniff sniff*memories.) I don't really have any b&S content (but do I ever?) well I did before,I actually asked soem questions which nobody answered...anyways,I just realized how much Photo Jenny is a situation in my life right now,all that I want is a photograph of photo *****,seriously,how will i get one (I want one,I'd love one,I clamour for one) and more importantly how do i get him to strike a pose...I had one plan,run into the place and accidnetly take a picure of the wall...yesss..the wall,that's it.But how many people do that..it's not exactly subtle...Maybe I could pretned I am a foreigner (who goes there all the time? Wouldn't work..)..hmmm..art student who needs 'arty' pose? hmmmmm i have to stay in the darkroom tomorrow,all alone and i am scared,it will be dark and cold and the wolves will get me. OH and talk bad luck,the Stuart David lookalikey is spending the night at my friends house for a jam and that's the day I'm leaving! piddly-pooh xoxo Genevieve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From gte107f at xxx.edu Wed Feb 25 01:23:59 1998 From: gte107f at xxx.edu (Silent Kid) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:23:59 -0500 Subject: Sinister: the little prince Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980224202359.006ed09c@pop.prism.gatech.edu> "The Little Prince from outer space can catch a shooting star and sail away." Sorry if someone else has already recalled those lyrics. I remember those clearly. love, *mayfly* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jlphilli at xxx.edu Wed Feb 25 05:47:21 1998 From: jlphilli at xxx.edu (Jennifer Phillips-Bacher) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:47:21 -0600 Subject: Sinister: i didn't want to end up like this.... Message-ID: <199802250548.XAA55532@mail1.doit.wisc.edu> Hi everyone! Ok, i'll make this short. The following is a description of my first ever B & S dream. I was hoping it would be full of goodwill and love and all that, but instead it involved doughnuts. I was on the floor, tied to something i think, and Stuart M was dangling a doughnut rope over my mouth (kinda like those garlic ropes, but with doughnuts instead. chocolate.) I could hardly lift my head off the floor. I managed to get a few bites, but for the most part i went hungry. He told me his name was Stuart, but he was very unattractive, with a bloated head and a bulbous nose. Anyhow, this doughnut rope would be lowered to my mouth, and then, in a fit of evil, Stuart would yank it up and laugh hysterically at my struggle. Dr. Freud, can i make an appointment? warm regards, jennifer (footnote: Eric / Madison / Espresso Royale ...... e-mail me) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MWaggner at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 06:19:49 1998 From: MWaggner at xxx.com (MWaggner at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 01:19:49 EST Subject: Sinister: Pleasantness Police time... Message-ID: <51a93f61.34f3b807@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-24 18:08:14 EST, you write: > Maybe, maybe, this mail will make me qualify to the bore-bulletin. > > P. Yes, indeed it has. In fact, people will probably print it out to read on those nights they suffer from insomnia. Good job. Of course being boring does have its downside I assume, with all about you dozing off while you interact with them. Just wondering: does your hand fall asleep often? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 09:37:41 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:37:41 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Woo Woo Woooo, Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh! Cities Of Gold! Message-ID: <34F3E665.1ED7@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Hi The bird thing In COG was the Condor. We was talking about this very subject whilest sitting on the floor of our college bar being very drunk. We managed to remember between the three of us that they did find the city of gold, and the young boys father who promptly died. I think he went on to rule the city and its people. I know someone who hadn't even heard of this progra until I mentioned it. What a deprived childhood! Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 25 10:57:13 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:57:13 +0100 Subject: Sinister: "Piddly Pooh"? Message-ID: <01bd41dc$20f6d5e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Yesterday I went to the pictures and I saw a film and it was really good. It was called "Jerusalem" and it lasted for ages and was about religious nutters, my favourite subject. I heard it on the grapevine that McTaggart has been pounding the Glasgow beat, and the mean old piddly pooh hasn't shown us his ink polaroids yet, and neither has Keith. I am having a Byrds day to see whether or not I want that book. Belle and Sebastian content: What do we have to do to join in the bunfight tomorrow? Just turn up in the sinister room, or is it more complicated? I've got a brand new nickname for the occasion. Northy, nice to see you back again. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nickdastoor at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 10:56:30 1998 From: nickdastoor at xxx.com (Nick Dastoor) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:56:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Not really very lucid Message-ID: <19980225105630.27773.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Bah, a new job and I'm not getting enough time to waste hours joining in the list anymore. And I'm very scared of installing an IRC program on my PC. An element of disharmony seemed to creep into the list whilst I was been away. Just all close your eyes and dream of horses in the Czech Republic, the first flush of Spring and games of kick the can in Kew Gardens and you'll soon feel much, much better. Another thing I recommend doing next time the sun is shining is starting your day with the session version of 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' at top volume, windows wide open. The neighbours won't complain. I know it's too late for questions to the band, but I've got one that maybe you lot are better equipped to answer anyway. I just thought I'd step back from it all a minute and ask whether or not I'm being hopelessly blinkered in thinking that Belle And Sebastian really have inspired the most fanatical, excited following of anyone in years. And if I'm not, do you think the band _know_ that they have? It must be very hard for anyone who suddenly 'makes it' in any way for the first time in their life to be objective about just how successful they are. I know they're not selling out two-week residences at Wembley Stadium just yet, but it strikes me that it _must_ all explode fairly soon. Or is it just that they are extraordinarily appealing to a certain section of the population and its just that that section happens to consist of us and all our friends? I just get so excited when I hear of converts like that Wall Street analyst brother in law someone mentioned a while ago. It's the sheer perversity of things like that that thrills me. I'd have little interest if it were just some sell-out businessman with a vaguely 'indie' student past who buys Oasis CDs. It's the thought of people who don't really listen to contemporary pop and rock at all but hear this peculiar band from Scotland and find themselves hooked almost in spite of themselves. I never got all this stuff about them being charming in an amateurish, lo-fi way. I know they can be that at times (I was there on Friday night in Manchester) but when I put on 'If You're Feeling Sinister' for the zillionth time, I'm still struck by how musically accomplished, immaculately arranged and yes _well-produced_ it is. "Nobody writes em like they used to so it may as well be me" - oh the utterly warranted cockiness. They'll never storm the world with a 4-track demo of 'Hurley's Having Dreams' (much as I love it) but I think its extraordinary how they lost none of that charm, and added a whole lot more, when they made such a 'proper' sounding album. I know I'm ranting, but I think rants (nice rants anyway) have their place alongside biscuit/bar tomfoolery. I still haven't decided whether SM was taking the piss with that. Was it really Danny Baker in disguise? [For our non-UK friends, Danny Baker is an old man who wrote for the NME in the 1970s and is now part of the Chris Evans media mafia that took trivial male conversations out of the popular-culture obsessed clever-clever ghetto and turned them into a mass media industry. A bit like Tarantino films without the violence and good soundtracks. The original perpetrators of such mental masturbation then saw themselves for what they were and became a bit embarrassed with the whole thing. This may have inadvertently led to last year's abortive 'new seriousness' movement in UK indie music. The problem with which was, of course, that most people who like to act all serious and troubled are not deep or artistic but just boring.] But having said all that, it is still fun to talk about biscuits and bars and children's TV. Just don't let it take over your life. Or you'll end up calling a Danny Baker phone-in. I should divulge at this point that I am a regular listener to Danny Baker's Sunday morning GLR show. But I like to pretend that it's only to hear Laurie Pike talking. Shall I stop now? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 09:34:18 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:34:18 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Is it the past, is it the future Message-ID: <01bd41d0$8b697830$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >So, to sum up, '80's pop hitz - cool. Does anybody else share my love? >For me, those songs *are* the '80's. So spangly and shiny and scarily >crafted and precise, i do not understand the people who slag the '80s. I >understand i have no lost all cred and I shall be going to hide in a >corner now. It's true, certainly the early 80's were rather jam packed with nice singles here and there, unfortunately, not a lot that translates into a good album very often - at least in terms of the chart acts you're talking about, but plenty of nice stuff... Saw "Fade to Grey" by Visage on VH-1 the other week and it was cool. Elton John had some nice singles in the early 80's. I could be sure however that Mr.Blue Sky by ELO was from 1979, but that's me being completely anal. However, the early eighties turned into the mid 80's, and David Bowie was seen to be number 1 with Mick Jagger, whilst they Danced in the street to the most horiffically funny video ever made, tragically crap it was, and then Live Aid, with the Quo and Queen, which wasn't very good really, and basically form then on till Madchester, the UK was a pretty boring place - I guess some people will point out that there were loads of good bands, which they'd be right about, just that 99.99% of the British public will have never heard of them - except Strawberry Switchblade I suppose. And the Primitives... oh, but they're not very good... etc. etc. The other thing is, about slagging the 80's, at the beginning of the 80's, there was a whole load of, "Oh the 70's were shite weren't they" going down on the telly, however, this disappeared come the late 80's, it's maybe getting a bit late for that now mind you! It doesn't seem to be happening in the same way. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9607260m at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 11:43:44 1998 From: 9607260m at xxx.uk (David S Mccarthy) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:43:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: dog on wheels Message-ID: <848D25063B@lms.student.gla.ac.uk> I'm just new to this list thing whatever but I've been a huge fan of b+s for about a year now. I discovered them about a week after they played the QM and not going to that is one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Apart from the music, which was the soundtrack to last summer for me I find it dead exciting living in the same city as b+s and experiencing things in everyday life that apear in their songs Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Has anyone else noticed that the photographs on the dog on wheels cover where taken in the kibble palace at Glasgow botanic gardens. I might be wrong but it looks very like it to me. Also in century of elvis when it talks about being near a park and seeing foxes. Does anyone know which park? I suspect it might be the botanic gardens again because it looks more likely to have foxes in it than kelvingrove. Does anyone else have any idea? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Wed Feb 25 12:19:17 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Pleasantness Police time... In-Reply-To: <199802242256.XAA21040@mb06.swip.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Patrik Adamsson wrote: > Maybe, maybe, this mail will make me qualify to the bore-bulletin. Yeah right. Can we maybe have some constructive criticism for someone who's been on the list more than 2 days (literally) and sent more than one message? And Patrik, your reply-to address is screwed up - for anyone wanting to mail him privately (I did) mail to pad at swipnet.se which I assume gets through. If people want me to piss off and mind my own business instead of gentle reminding of good practice to keep the list readable then I will, but my enthusiasm for running this list will dwindle. Please let me know. This list is special and some of us have made some maybe lifetime friends (sniff) and it's going to stay this way or die. Being a sensitive soul I would however like some votes of confidence that some people still like it around here. Now I understand what it's like when you desperately want to slag someone off on the list. Aren't I a good boy? If I can do it you can. Oh and Peter I screwed up on the chat stuff I'm afraid somehow. The band turned up 6pm last week - not sure they will this week without cajoling. If you want, can someone mail them and plead because I'm a scaredy-cat. Finally - no I don't know why there were two copies of the last two digests and one was tiny. Let's not worry about it. Maybe it's me hormones. HoneyBore ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ronbarrett at xxx.ie Wed Feb 25 11:07:00 1998 From: ronbarrett at xxx.ie (Barrett R) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: Sinister: rebels without a clue Message-ID: <01ITZY9OJGGY00LIOB@vms.eurokom.ie> Regarding the appearance of Robert Forster in "Jackie Brown", it is apparently some veteran American actor rather than the ex- Go Betweens singer. So now you know... ---------- From: mctag To: ronbarrett; sinister Subject: Sinister: rebels without a clue Date: 24 February 1998 16:56 <> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plastik at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 12:31:11 1998 From: plastik at xxx.com (dina passman) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:31:11 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Suuuurprise!!!! References: Message-ID: <34F40F0F.CFA@erols.com> Richard North wrote: > Yeah List! > I got thrown off the course for putting rat poison in my > Lefty-Trot-Commie Lecturer's muesli. call me gullable, but why do i suspect that this isn't a joke??? so...Mr. Takes-it-from-behind-Spice, please study the following choices and heed the advice contained within : a) If the above quote is a joke ---> make an appointment with a qualified mental health professional immediately b) If the above quote is NOT a joke ---> make an appointment with a qualified mental health professional immediately my mother always warned me about surprises...errrrr... true love always > dina ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From plastik at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 12:48:57 1998 From: plastik at xxx.com (dina passman) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:48:57 -0500 Subject: Sinister: the rice is cold Message-ID: <34F41339.1519@erols.com> hey there! for those of you in the washington, dc vicinity please find it in your heart to come down the the kaffa house (u street between 12th and 13th) tonight to hear pam berry and i spin some viscious tunes at cold rice. festivities begin at 11pm, to be realistic. toodles > dina ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 12:56:00 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:56:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Not really very lucid References: <19980225105630.27773.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: <34F414E0.D86C1AD6@totalweb.co.uk> Nick Dastoor wrote: > > An element of disharmony seemed to creep into the list > whilst I was been away. Just all close your eyes and dream of horses > in the Czech Republic, the first flush of Spring and games of kick the > can in Kew Gardens and you'll soon feel much, much better. Another > thing I recommend doing next time the sun is shining is starting your > day with the session version of 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' at top > volume, windows wide open. The neighbours won't complain. this should really become law, i've not wanted to write recently because of the mood. and how long will this last, especially since no-one seems to really want it to improve and still persist in sending blatantly off topic posts and tired threads to the list? It is possible you know to inflict ramblings solely on the person who inflicted them on you, you don't _have_ to send everything to the list, there's a good 400 people who won't want to listen to you and yeah they can press delete, but you're wasting their time in the first place so please don't put them in that position. the few of you that this really applies to can reply directly back to me if they want to flame me because of what i say, i'll gladly listen, but again, don't make other people listen. > They'll never storm the world with a > 4-track demo of 'Hurley's Having Dreams' (much as I love it) but I > think its extraordinary how they lost none of that charm, and added a > whole lot more, when they made such a 'proper' sounding album. > I know I'm ranting, but I think rants (nice rants anyway) have their > place alongside biscuit/bar tomfoolery. this may be because we forgetso often, Belle and Sebastian may be one of the greatest bands that we've ever encountered, but they are more than that, they're eight people who are just like us. they still have humour and shopping. they're just human, and this is probably why i'm glad that they don't do so much press. after a while people do run out of things to say, and if that is the case, i'd rather they spend the time saying it through the songs. > Shall I stop now? no, not when you make sense and it's all relevant. david -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 12:59:29 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:59:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: dog on wheels References: <848D25063B@lms.student.gla.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34F415B1.F36FFA93@totalweb.co.uk> David S Mccarthy wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed that the photographs on the dog on wheels > cover where taken in the kibble palace at Glasgow botanic gardens. I > might be wrong but it looks very like it to me. perfectly right, just round the left hand side near the statuette. > Also in century of elvis when it talks about being near a park and > seeing foxes. Does anyone know which park? I suspect it might be the > botanic gardens again because it looks more likely to have foxes in > it than kelvingrove. Does anyone else have any idea? i always thought this was the little playground near the church hall, it's a quiet area with lots of little disused bits of ground which would be perfect for foxes. i know that foxes like things like that, as there are a few that live round our building and the habitat is similiar david -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 13:15:49 1998 From: I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk (SpiralStairs) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:15:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Re: Silent Kid In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980224191415.006fa200@pop.prism.gatech.edu> Message-ID: The name Silent Kid : any reference to the Pavement song? Just curious, that's all. I'm a BIG Pavement fan. And hey, I'm always changing my name at whim. Zurich is stained, and it's not my fault....... SpIrAlStAiRs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 25 13:33:40 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:33:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: re: The Christgau Files Message-ID: :: Greetings fellow Sebastatrons and fella Belle-bots :: By golly and by gum! Christgau has done it again!! Mad-boy Genius! Robert Christgau of NYC's notorious Village Voice has printed his "Consumer Picks" for this month and guess what? tha's right, Belle and Sebastian's IYFS passes muster and scores a whopping A Minus! He raves on about Stuart Musgrave's foppishness and twee lyrics (to paraphrase). Waitaminute... Stuart MUSGRAVE?!!? (slaps forehead) *sigh* Well here's to Stuart Musgrave and the gang--congrats! francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwigham at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 12:45:06 1998 From: jwigham at xxx.uk (john wigham) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:45:06 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Honey's mad dad Message-ID: er..quick..unsubscribe, subscribe. There, Mr Pleasantness Police, do I get the threatened free night out with your 'mad' Dad for this heinous offence? As one of a very small number of sinistrons to have met Mr Honey Senior, I'm shocked at your description. What ingratitude! A more erudite and engaging man you couldn't wish to meet. And so well travelled. To think of the years he spent at the chocolate factory earning the money to get you through the Wirral Finishing School for Middle Class but Nevertheless Uncouth Scouse Boys. It must have been soul-destroying, all those hours spent finely carving the word 'cadbury' onto each bar. And the effort he went to, saving up all the shavings to feed to you and your brothers. OK, so it clogged up your pores for a decade or two but it was better than starving to death, wasn't it? Please forward me details of my night out asap. johnny xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- john wigham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andrewnic at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 13:54:59 1998 From: Andrewnic at xxx.com (Andrewnic at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:54:59 EST Subject: Sinister: Jim'll Fix It Message-ID: <3b880fa2.34f422b9@aol.com> Dear Jim'll Fix It, While we are waiting for the new releases, could you please fix it for the cd pressing plants to run off a few copies of Tigermilk for those of us without £160 to spend on vinyl. Thankyou very, very much. Yours hopefully, Andrew Nicol (aged 8 and a half) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 9607129h at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 14:42:23 1998 From: 9607129h at xxx.uk (Neil Hargreaves) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:42:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Nostalgia is the New Rock and Roll Message-ID: <87877B5E1A@lms.student.gla.ac.uk> Even if you are not intrested in biscuits nad k80's TV listen anyway.... the last time I can remember talking about things like this a lot (though some people would say I do it all the time) was when I first came to University. And my friends also did a lot of it before we left University. Okay here comes the wanky bit... I think this happens amongst any group of people than need to reaffirm the fact that they have the same cultural roots and past... We talk about these things not really to remeber them but just to confirm that other people remember them. So when We are about to leave or have just entered a social group we to it a lot to reafrirm or create links. Its a relief to know people think like that/ watched that programme...Since *we* dont have my much face to face contact we do it too... The weird thing is that in the nineties the cultural of childrens TV and stuff is a repeated one. Those cartoons weren't new when we watched them. We weren't first to eat those bars. So this kind of talk now can break down generation gaps too. And this stuff is still being repeated. Basically this is a kind of conversational pop music. It provides the same thrill of community and shared discovery. It unites poeple in the smae way... The Hanah-Barbera theory of Infinitly Self Perpetuating Cultural Hegemony (hemogeny?) Explains All.... If you made it this far thanks. If you skipped down to this bit read the rest. Its more interseting than my usual stuff I think. love neil H ------------------------------------------------- " despite myself at times well i have felt not in the mood for any of this..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stip at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 14:35:27 1998 From: Stip at xxx.uk (Stip / Blue Music) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:35:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: _He's_ your Japanese boy?? Message-ID: <5fVT3HAvwC90EwmH@stip.demon.co.uk> All this talk of the eighties has reminded me of a couple of singles I absolutely loved as an infant. Granted they may not have been the most groundbreaking releases of the decade , but I distinctly remember spinning these beauties on my Sesame Street portable record player. The first was a song called Japanese Boy, by Aneka - an oriental beauty (or so I reckoned) who, in all my innocence, I believed to have lost her beloved baby son when she warbled 'he's my Japanese Boy, ooh-ooh I miss my Japanese Boy (etc)'. Little did I realise it was a sordid and spiteful tale of an eastern love-rat. My illusions were further shattered when it was revealed in Scottish tabloid the Daily Record that Aneka, this exotic, mysterious beauty, was in fact from a town 2 miles from my own, was more likely to be found gracing the folk clubs of Fife, and was in reality blessed with the rather less mystical title of Mary Sandeman. And then there was Bright Eyes. Forgive me, this one was actually late seventies, but let's not become entangled in pedantics. I remember it clearly. That Sunday afternoon I had enjoyed my first ever (and perhaps only) experience of personal fulfillment - I had, all on my own, removed the stabilisers from my bike and had sped down my street in a blaze of two-wheel glory. My mum and dad, who were still together then, had gone out and left me with the next door neighbour so I had no-one to share my pride with, aside from my friend Jennifer who was reluctant to celebrate due to the constraints of her tricycle. Anyway, Karen, who was looking after me, knew what to do. I had instructed her to call me in when the charts were on, regardless of what I was doing. I remember her lifting me onto the kitchen worktop while she turned up the top 10 countdown. 10 minutes later, my mum and dad returned. I was sat in Karen's kitchen sobbing quietly, and they assumed I'd been a little over zealous on my stabiliser-free bike. Karen, however, was sniggering into her cola, and explained that I had actually broken down because Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes was number one in the charts and I couldn't contain my joy because I loved it so much. I was four. How sad is that? Sorry for rambling - that was way too long. I promise to shut up if everybody promises to be happy again. Love Nicola xxx -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 13:59:23 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:59:23 -0000 Subject: Sinister: THE SKY IS DARK WITH HATS IN THE AIR! Message-ID: <199802251502.PAA25696@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> If we can have a moment's silence, can i suggest we raise our glasses in honour of David "Dream" Kitchen, the original Blue Sodastream and founder of this very list, who is 24 today!! David, you're a bobby dazzler, a diamond geezer, an all round good egg. Now who will help me give him the bumps? Stevie Trousers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From poetryplace2 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 14:19:21 1998 From: poetryplace2 at xxx.uk (poetry place2) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:19:21 -0000 Subject: Sinister: spotters points Message-ID: <199802251502.PAA07280@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> April is the cruellest month... but March, May and June don't look very hospitable either... No records before July, said Katrina the other day... What on earth are we going to talk about? I'm getting to feel like a WWI tommy stuck in the Somme as the shrapnel from the "biscuit vs bar" wars flies overhead. To keep me entertained in the weeks ahead I've devised this amusing little game you may wish to join in... Award yourself one point everytime... Someone unsubs to the list Someone asks for a tape of T*******k Paul offers to have your babies Award yourself five points whenever Mean Andy Dean says "check out the archives, dumbass" Keith says that he has a hangover Trousers forgets to find a Monday poem Susannah makes a smutty innuendo about Stu M Peter Miller is compared to an obese comedian Ten points for figuring out the full list of people genevieve has crushes on guessing who the "fake northy" is spotting a tagmail that does not contain the words "nymph", "redscum" or "francoise" starting an indie snob war between Tim and Andreas Fifty points for persuading the duke to come back producing a tape of chris leonard doing his matthis impression hearing Katrina say "personally, I don't have a problem with bootlegging" setting up a real church devoted to The Mink, the pyth and the holy swan One hundred points for finding the mastertapes for T*******k The first person to 500 hundred points wins! Stephen xxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 16:00:00 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:00:00 GMT Subject: Sinister: Dougal's Scottish Holiday In-Reply-To: <199802251125.LAA23176@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802251125.LAA23176@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34f52e3e.4072750@email.mcmail.com> Hello, That Peter Miller bloke wrote: >Yesterday I went to the pictures and I saw a film and it was really good. Are you after my job? >I heard it on the grapevine that McTaggart has been pounding the Glasgow >beat, and the mean old piddly pooh hasn't shown us his ink polaroids yet, >and neither has Keith. Here's a couple ... It's Saturday night in Edinburgh. We see three fresh faced young bucks striding masterfully along Lothian Street. On our left, Keith Watson, his rippling muscles teasingly hidden under his trademark polo neck, is brushing aside a bevy of beauties with the merest shrug. In the centre is Tag, his mind inexplicably wandering to thoughts of ultraviolet pornography. On our right, Chris Leonard is leading the other two in a David Bowie Medley with his resonant baritone, causing passing drunken rugby fans to weep openly. It's earlier that same evening, the scene is a table in an Indian restaurant. Chris Leonard, the master raconteur, is holding court to a rapt audience, Tag and Keith have their backs to the camera, so we can only assume that their faces have the same saucer-eyed expression as the young lady to Chris's right. It's almost as if Chris has uttered the word 'gism' at an inoppurtune moment. Further down the table El Presidente Honey is smoking a fine cigar, whilst ruminating of the nature of religion with the ravishing Linda (the first lady) and a strangely familiar man. Paul looks dead classy, la. >Belle and Sebastian content: What do we have to do to join in the bunfight >tomorrow? Just turn up in the sinister room, or is it more complicated? I've >got a brand new nickname for the occasion. You should have a brand new nickname for every message. Get over it. >Northy, nice to see you back again. I too was fooled briefly, but there were a few giveaway clues. Northy would never write only one letter at a time, his useful snake like symbol was not used, and there was a certain 'humour' to that mail. Like many great thinkers of our time, Northy was a deeply serious young man, who saw little to be flippant about in this evil modern world where communists, drug users and the homeless are allowed to roam the streets without being shot, and wealthy princesses like Lady Di, the Princess of Hearts, are cut off in their prime, only to be cruelly ridiculed. He really felt that injustice deep in his soul. I hope the sick hoaxer is as guilt ridden as he or she should be. Oh God, how I miss him. Will that do? Love, Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From amh20 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 16:24:53 1998 From: amh20 at xxx.uk (A.M. Horne) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:24:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > Absolutely. You know how I said on the list that "Groove Is In The Heart" > is my all-time number-one hit of all-time. Well, the Fatboy Slim[1] remix > is just as good. It's pure pop for pop people. > at the risk of being very anal, does anybody else remember the furore at the time about the fact that 'groove is in the heart' didn't officially get to number one? one week, apparently, it sold the same number of copies as steve miller's dreadful 'the joker', but was kept off number one because of some tie-break rule they had about the record which had gained the most sales out of the two taking the higher position. after the uproar about a superb piece of dance-pop being diddled by a hopleless dead old no-mark, they dropped the rule, so now you can have ties. and that's it. espadrille> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 25 16:40:43 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:40:43 +0100 Subject: Sinister: French police wouldn't give me no peace... Message-ID: <01bd420c$1d8777e0$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Honey Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 25 de febrero de 1998 14:44 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Pleasantness Police time... >If people want me to piss off and mind my own business instead of >gentle reminding of good practice to keep the list readable then I >will, but my enthusiasm for running this list will dwindle. Please >let me know. This list is special and some of us have made some >maybe lifetime friends (sniff) and it's going to stay this way or >die. Being a sensitive soul I would however like some votes of >confidence that some people still like it around here. Have I missed something? I don't know what all this stuff is about "mood" on the list. The only thing I've noticed is a thrilling bit of insult swashbuckling between Tim H!O!P!kins and myself, which surely no one could possibly take seriously, except our respective mothers, and a couple of bizarre outbursts in defence of a couple of groups, one of which did manage to get my dander slightly up, so I answered it and then realised it shouldn't of been there at all and felt vaguely bad, but not much really, because it's all done in good faith. I am still very much in love with my extended family, even though work (!) has prevented me from spending half my life writing e-mail messages. As for blatantly off topic threads, some of them aren't as off topic as they seem, some are quite entertaining anyway, and some of them are a total waste of time for some people whilst obviously highly theraputic for others. Eighties cartoons do nothing for ME because I was already vaguely mature by then, but I'm always first in the queue to womble on about earlier off topic trivia, such as perverted PE teachers calling people "big tackle" and "catfish". It makes me laugh, my day is slightly happier due to such nonsense, and in my own opinion that makes it slightly B&S related. But it's only an opinion. I don't know exactly what Paul does, but I'm willing to bet he does a good job. At any rate, it seems to me that it is a fairly thankless task, like being a youth club leader. Paul has always behaved like a perfect gentleman to me, as have others of my acquaintance, such as Charlotte, Keith, Mussadiq, Anne, Richard, Matt, Tag, Christopher, even the dear departed Duke. Sorry if I left anyone out. I salute you all and wish you well in any future ventures, should Paul decide to pull the plug on the list. I don't think he will though, because he's as addicted as the rest of us. And if all that wasn't enough, someone wrote in to say they had discovered the off topic joys of Jimmy Webb, justification enough for any amount of pointless waffle. In short, don't piss off, Paul. Your posts are an important part of the list and I for one enjoy seeing you struggle to hide your annoyances. You haven't done very well today, and I am frightened of you. >Oh and Peter I screwed up on the chat stuff I'm afraid somehow. The >band turned up 6pm last week - not sure they will this week without >cajoling. If you want, can someone mail them and plead because I'm a >scaredy-cat. You rotten piddly pooh! I've been looking forward to this for week(s). It's on my calendar and everything. I'm going to turn up anyway just in case. Mind you, I don't know if they'll have time for a vote before then. Oh well, I'll just have to go and change my nickname back to PeterM. It has just come to my attention that I've written a whole screenful of rubbish. By the way Paul, how's your little cousin-in-law like being number one in the hit parade? There's one called Asha, isn't there? Or Brimful? Did those marvellously lifelike drawings, I seem to remember. Jimmy Tarbuck crossed with Jimmy Krankie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Wed Feb 25 16:53:08 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:53:08 +0100 Subject: Sinister: THE SKY IS DARK WITH HATS IN THE AIR! Message-ID: <01bd420d$d9649e60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: poetry place2 Para: sinister at majordomo.net Fecha: miércoles 25 de febrero de 1998 17:35 Asunto: Sinister: THE SKY IS DARK WITH HATS IN THE AIR! >If we can have a moment's silence, can i suggest we raise our glasses in >honour of David "Dream" Kitchen, the original Blue Sodastream and founder >of this very list, who is 24 today!! David, you're a bobby dazzler, a >diamond geezer, an all round good egg. > >Now who will help me give him the bumps? > I will help, but only if the following words and phrases are included in the magnetic poetry arsenal: nutsac bar biscuit big tackle catfish tweenet Northy additional mixing time in the studio Bernard Manning ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Wed Feb 25 17:55:59 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:55:59 +0000 Subject: Sinister: THE SKY IS DARK WITH HATS IN THE AIR! References: <199802251502.PAA25696@envy.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34F45B2F.2B2811C5@virgin.net> poetry place2 wrote: > > If we can have a moment's silence, can i suggest we raise our glasses in > honour of David "Dream" Kitchen, the original Blue Sodastream and founder > of this very list, who is 24 today!! David, you're a bobby dazzler, a > diamond geezer, an all round good egg. > > Now who will help me give him the bumps? mmmmmmmm, count me in ... ! (oops, does that count as being rude and slightly naughty???) Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 18:41:18 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:41:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: THE SKY IS DARK WITH HATS IN THE AIR! References: <01bd420d$d9649e60$LocalHost@itjfvkli> <34F462C6.ECF06690@totalweb.co.uk> Message-ID: <34F465CE.A3B3ABFF@totalweb.co.uk> PJMiller wrote: something about adding these words to the magnetic poetry on the fan club site: > nutsac > bar > biscuit > big tackle > catfish > tweenet > Northy > additional mixing time in the studio to which I say: consider the above words added, but consider the name below forgotten! > Bernard Manning but on doing so, i'd like to point out that very soon our magnetic poetry may start to suffer under the stress of all these new words, could someone reccomend a word or ten to remove from the program, i'd be very grateful. otherwise i'd be forced to free up some space by removing the words i've just added. david PS: finally placed an FAQ on my site, please, i urge anyone with any questions to read it. If there is something missing (highly likely) please let me know what it is and I'll add it. Oh, and Peter Miller, your gargoyles have been added to the biog :) -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 19:04:16 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:04:16 -0000 Subject: Sinister: I love my honey... Message-ID: <199802251859.SAA23687@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Just wanted to say that I think there has been a bit of an 'atmosphere' (and much like Mr Russ Abott I love a happy atmosphere but this atmosphere hasn't been that happy) on the list of late, amidst all the love and laughter that still abounds here. I can only second what David/Nick have said and give the hottest of hot love to Paul for all he does. And seeing as nobody writes it like they used to, it might as well be me...KEEP THE FAITH hope this hasn't been a timewaster (I counted to 10 and thought of Cliff) xxx John CRACE TREWIN (so know you know..) Johnston ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From faw1 at xxx.edu Wed Feb 25 19:08:40 1998 From: faw1 at xxx.edu (Francisco Alberto Wong) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:08:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: re: Christgau Files Message-ID: Put this in your pipes and smoke it true-believers: The unexpurgiated Robert Christgau review:: "BELLE AND SEBASTIAN: If You're feeling Sinister (The Enclave) Sly guys, subtler gals. Straight out my stereo, they didn't have enough oomph to send me to their press kit--they go for dim where corporate pop favors hot, their lo-fi more "Exile on Main Street" than Sebadoh. So I assumed they were two or three twee public-school snobs just smart enough to mock their own privelage, with stray art buddies chipping in. In fact it appears (although they are coy about it) that they comprise seven popwise Scots in the same general record-collector tradition as Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, and Bis, none of whom sound like Belle and Sebastian or each other. And while younger folks debate the intellectual content of Stuart Musgrove's [sic!] mild-mannered cynicism, for me his clever affect is there to test the strength of his third-power catchiness. You don't just recognize these tunes. You don't just hum snatches in tranquility. You sing along, irresistably, sometimes with verse and chorus both. Just be glad Musgrove [sic, boy, sic!] is into bemused sex rather than the glories of E, or attacks on the culture industry. A MINUS" *whew!* told you. francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 19:12:12 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:12:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... In-Reply-To: <199802251502.PAA07280@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: Much as I enjoy reminiscing about Dogtanian and the Muskehounds (and wondering how you spell reminiscing?), surely this would be better off in the chat room? Off topic threads are fine as long as they're interesting, but they're nearly always exhausted after a couple of days. Pay heed to the mighty Paul; you're doing a great job Paul, keep it up! Happy birthday David! We're waiting for an ink polaroid of the birthday celebrations ;-) > No records before July, said Katrina the other day... What on earth are we > going to talk about? All the more reason to have a picnic! We'll get at least a couple of weeks of more interesting mails out of one... Mayday weekend? Followed by a huge one on the longest day (which doesn't clash with Glastonbury this year after all)? Somewhere easily accesible, large and grassy. My vote's for one in Cambridge. But then I would say that wouldn't I. Seriously though, all the people I've met off the list have been really friendly, Manchester was superb fun; I'm sure we'd all like to meet up with a few more of each other... And I challenge anyone to a game of Twister. The vertically challenged one ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Susan_Errington-Wood at xxx.com Wed Feb 25 20:18:12 1998 From: Susan_Errington-Wood at xxx.com (Susan Errington-Wood) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:18:12 -0500 Subject: Sinister: B&S on the radio.... Message-ID: <862565B6.006EB4BB.00@internet-503.interliant.com> Hello fellow sinisterians, Just wanted to make a comment about B&S being played on the radio. If any of you live in the Boston area, like myself, (I know Matt N. does too, as I used to listen to his show on 'MBR) you will know that the only stations that will play B&S are the college stations, which is the case with most cities in the states; That is, until now. Two weeks ago (friday the 13th. of February) on the commercial "alternative" station, WFNX, Belle and Sebastian was played during the day. They played "Stars of Track and Field" and my whole day was made by hearing it on the radio. Now I know that this will not be an everyday occurrence, because on the day it was played, it was "freeform friday" at the station, meaning that the djs had free reign on what they could play (and I had bugged all the djs for the entire week to hear it!) but at least it was played once and will possibly be played again because in 2 weeks there will be another "freeform friday" and I'll be bugging the djs again to death!! So if any listies live in Boston or can listen to the radio over the net (WFNX broadcasts over the net at www.wfnx.com) be sure to check in on Friday, March 13 and listen up for belle and sebby on the radio!! - Sue ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood Wed Feb 25 20:37:24 1998 From: Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood (Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood) Date: 25 Feb 1998 20:37:24 GMT Subject: Sinister: Re: Cast the first stone Message-ID: <3281580030.612778162@andyclin.exnet.com> In his measured critique of B&S, Rob Learner wrote: "decent music like Puressence and Dweeb" I think that's all we need to know about this person's musical taste. On the other hand, of course, he was right about Radiohead, Embrace and "unmittigated bollocks like Ocean Colour Scene". Cheers, Rocker, rocker at andyclin.exnet.com P.S. Is anyone else pissed off at the amount of the digest taken up with people quoting in full the previous three mails, when we've all just read them anyway! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cj1530a at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 00:56:53 1998 From: cj1530a at xxx.edu (boy sets fire) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:56:53 -0500 Subject: Sinister: inconsequential B&S gossip References: <09f8b2418131828UPIMSSMTPUSR02@email.msn.com> Message-ID: <34F4BDD5.93770D36@american.edu> rather reminds me of chumbawamba ... :) boy sets fire Gareth Watkins wrote: > chatting to an A&R man friend of mine last weekend i said > > me: why don't you sign B&S (he works for a major label) > him: i hear they are a nightmare to work with > me: in what way > him: well apparantly they vote on everything they do and if one of the band > votes against it they don't do it. i couldn't work with a band like that it > would kill me. > > i don't know if this is the case or not but it would seem to fit in with the > general lack of gigs and new records. > > sort of quite charming that attitude, and very indie > > gareth > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cj1530a at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 00:59:27 1998 From: cj1530a at xxx.edu (boy sets fire) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:59:27 -0500 Subject: Sinister: b&s t-shirts Message-ID: <34F4BE6F.E8D3BB0B@american.edu> does anyone know the status of the new b&s shirts coming out? i rather fancy the one with the dancing kids thats featured on the screen saver, but i cant go with the blue one because ... blue makes me look fat. :) boy sets fire ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cj1530a at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 01:02:42 1998 From: cj1530a at xxx.edu (boy sets fire) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:02:42 -0500 Subject: Sinister: b&s - u.s. fans - east coast? Message-ID: <34F4BF32.18C8D4D@american.edu> just wondering how many of you out there happen to be from the east coast area in the u.s. ... i myself am going to school in d.c. and i guess its ok. nothing very special. :) boy sets fire ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cj1530a at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 01:03:52 1998 From: cj1530a at xxx.edu (boy sets fire) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:03:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice? References: Message-ID: <34F4BF78.4693F591@american.edu> p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. boy sets fire Schaffenberger wrote: > Francisco suggested: > > > Belle and Sebastian should have signed with Dreamworks and started work on > > their own animated series about seven (or is it twenty?) rock stars > > sitting idly at home playing Sega. They should get the artist who > > decorated Senor Mitchell's site to do the designs. > > > No, because every band that signs to Dreamworks must start sucking > shortly after they do. It happened to Jonathan Fire*Eater, will nodoubt > happen to Elliot Smith, and, while it would be difficult--damn near > impossible, in fact--for B&S to suck, it wasn't worth taking the risk. > The animated series would hve been a nice perk, though. > > -Kristen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aadam at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 01:28:47 1998 From: aadam at xxx.com (aadam at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:28:47 -0500 Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) Message-ID: <34F4C543.57A3@interaccess.com> Back in the '30's there were so many great songs. This is one that I'm particularly fond of. It's written by Irving Berlin. What'll I do When you are far away And I am blue What'll I do What'll I do When I am wondering who Is kissing you What'll I do What'll I do With just a photograph To tell my troubles to When I'm alone With only dreams of you That won't come true What'll I do ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 02:52:39 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:52:39 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: sweet dreams... and did you notice? In-Reply-To: <34F4BF78.4693F591@american.edu> Message-ID: The pyromaniac asked: > p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing > on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. > > boy sets fire > I bet I'll get slayed for not thinking about this for ten seconds, but my answer, simply, is that I do not know. Anyone? Anyone? I hope he gets the grammy instead of Celine Dion or Michael Bolton or whoever else makes the bad soundtrack songs played in in the dining hall on Magic 105.3, continuous souft hits. come on, we're trying to eat!! -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ChknQQdl at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 03:12:37 1998 From: ChknQQdl at xxx.com (ChknQQdl at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:12:37 EST Subject: Sinister: dandy warhols, no B&S content Message-ID: <62a76300.34f4ddea@aol.com> i saw the dandy warhols open for the charlatans...they were alright i s'pose...that not if you were the last junkie on earth isn't really representative of their sound ...the girl was really cute. but for some reason, she took her shirt off during the last part of the set--and continued her fervored po-going...bizarre!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Thu Feb 26 03:43:01 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:43:01 -0500 Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) Message-ID: <199802260343.TAA02361@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> song was featured in the great gasby. the simple and 'sublime' words are beautful. something that seems reflected in current pop. while listening to the magnetic fields i watched my cat hop onto the stove and drink out of a pot that i had used to steam some vegatables in. (it was cold and there was something so sweet about it) so freaking beatuiful. simple and true. the newest andy. http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Parcae at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 03:52:44 1998 From: Parcae at xxx.com (Parcae at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:52:44 EST Subject: Sinister: Fwd: Fw: Self Analysis (fwd) Message-ID: <5b5388b5.34f4e722@aol.com> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Dung Tran Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Self Analysis (fwd) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:13:19 -0800 Size: 2448 URL: From mkl206 at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 04:27:19 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:27:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: revenge of the nickelodeon cartoons Message-ID: a couple people said: >>On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, G B Kline wrote: > how about b and s covering the theme song from that cartoon? I have > remembered the first 4 lines of it for years - 'the little prince > from outer space can catch a shooting star and sail away perhaps > someday he'll come your way' - shouldn't that memory space be taken > up by something else by now? > I remember: "He came from somewhere, a world way out there, and he hasn't been back since. Something something, friend;y faces, brand new places, and that's the tale of the little prince."<< the song ended, "perhaps someday he'll come your way." i was actually rather fond of that show. the characters were adorable, the animation was cute, and really i was fascinated by the idea of a kid having a planet to himself. i think that's every kid's fantasy, to have a little place that's so totally your own. and someone else said: >> The bird thing In COG was the Condor. We was talking about this very subject whilest sitting on the floor of our college bar being very drunk. We managed to remember between the three of us that they did find the city of gold, and the young boys father who promptly died. I think he went on to rule the city and its people. I know someone who<< i remember that the first city of gold was actually where the condor came from. though i actually don't remember the show having a conclusion. how drunk were you? ; ) and finally, we can't leave belle and sebastian out of this trilogy. easily my favorite, perhaps because i always wanted a dog that i could ride, like belle. boy searching through the mountains for his mother. note the theme of the quest shows, children who are alone and searching for family, or meaning, or something. hmmm... i'm sure someone could analyze this. xox megan mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From yu173188 at xxx.ca Thu Feb 26 04:33:29 1998 From: yu173188 at xxx.ca (la femme d'argent) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:33:29 -0500 Subject: Sinister: dandy warhols, no B&S content In-Reply-To: <62a76300.34f4ddea@aol.com> Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980225233329.006965b4@postoffice.yorku.ca> At 10:12 PM 2/25/98 EST, ChknQQdl at aol.com wrote: >i saw the dandy warhols open for the charlatans...they were alright i >s'pose...that not if you were the last junkie on earth isn't really >representative of their sound ...the girl was really cute. but for some >reason, she took her shirt off during the last part of the set--and continued >her fervored po-going...bizarre!!! hi, i just joined the list yesterday and i am not going to go through the boring, redundant "i've been a B&S fan for such a loooong time". frankly, i don't think it's that important. well i decided to make this the first post to respond to. zia, the keyboardist of the dandy warhols is very eccentric and tends to do zany stuff like taking her shirt off. i was a little disappointed at the spiritualized show last june (?) here in toronto, that she didn't do it. she once said she didn't take her shirt off to show her boobs to other people, but because she herself wanted to see them. mhmm. anyway, i just wanted to say that B&S are not that well known (perhaps that is an understatement) in toronto. when i go to the big HMV downtown, it's rare to even find If You Are Feeling Sinister. In fact, i think i bought (and this was november) the last copy. but at a britpop club, they played Sinister until "mayfly" -- where they stopped it and then actually played the music people would dance to. alright, sorry to bore. -- andrea xo my name is isobel. what would become of me, if i tried to escape pain? scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless i fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of heaven, because i am not a favourite with men. -george eliot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkl206 at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 06:07:32 1998 From: mkl206 at xxx.edu (**Megan Lehar**) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 01:07:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: the interpretation of sinister dreams Message-ID: finally, it is my long promised manifesto of list dreams. being in intro to psychology and reading freud in a writing class has gotten me thinking about dreams. so really, this is just the next logical step. first off, swannie's rather odd dream involving bidding on stevie's socks: >>6) B&S dreams...I had one as well. I don't remember much about it...except that a bunch of us listees/chattees had gathered at some kind of bizarre auction...they were auctioning off the band members' old mismatched socks...and all I wanted was something olive green and argyle...and then the auctioneer held up one right olive green argyle sock, formerly owned by Stevie Jackson, I believe...and I rummaged through my pockets looking for money but all I had was my student ID, and they wouldn't give me the sock in exchange for a free meal in my university dorm's dining center...and I started to yell at the auctioneer that he was being ridiculous, that this was an unlimited salad bar we were talking here, when Paul and Tag and Laurel and Tim and Chris and rachee all had to drag me kicking and screaming from the auction.<< first off, the use appearance of sinister chat people in your dream says that they've become an integral part of your life. or at least that you spend way too much time in the chatroom. (not that i mean to implicate myself in this either.) the socks are odd, that we were bidding on them. at least i assume i was there. because if there's ever an auction involving the socks of popstars, i certainly don't want to be left out. olive green is traditionally associated with military action, perhaps this fits in with your willingness to fight for the socks. aggression, a typical case of the id displaying itself in the dream world. and stevie, well, he is charming little stevie. socks are close to the feet. the feet are an erogenous zone. need i go further with this? now let's move on to the infamous song snake dream. chris leonard wrote: >>I dreamt i was watching television. Does this illustrate how lonely i am to dream of watching television? Pity me. So SM lets us in and he goes "i'm going to get a new song". And I go "how do you *get* a new song" cos i'm now in the room cos it's my dream. And he says "I *get* them from the song snake". And i say "whatever is the song snake" and he says "hold on and you'll see". SM then proceeded to open a cupboard. Inside was a snake, about a foot high wearing a really smart white suit sort of like bryan ferry. He was holding a fag in his wee snakey hands. This was the song snake the "coolest cold-blooded crooner" on the planet. The song snake proceeded to sing a song called "if i only had lips, then i could kiss you" which i swear is the best song i have ever heard in my life. It got better when the wall in SM's house disapeared to reveal the Blues Brothers band in their Minnie the Moocher togs and the song snake done some magic break-dancing. After the song was finished SM went "i think i've got it" and proceeded to sing the song in a girly manner with no backing at all. It sounded friggen awful. The song snake said "Kid, you got it". Then i woke up with a woody. << television is a typical metaphor for passivity. thus chris lacks control of his dream life. then we get to the snake. why do i bother pretending otherwise, it's phallic. so is this somehow implying something about stuey m's songwriting method? are b&s the barry white of our generation? yup, when the belle and sebastian comes on at the discos, the kids must all start doing the forbidden dance and end up in a wild orgy. (i swear, i haven't been reading freud). but on the other hand, doesn't "if i only had lips i could kiss you" sound like a perfect belle and sebastian song? somehow i can almost hear how it should sound just by hearing the name. the average male has an erection once every night. trousers added to the thread by saying: >>This dream business is getting quite disturbing,,, On Tuesday night I dreamt that all bands, by law, had to include a B&S song in their sets every time they played live. Last night I dreamt that I met Richard the drummer. We shook hands and he told me I had the softest hands he had ever touched. What does it all mean?<< well, i'd be more than happy to anwser that. the first dream is a classic case of wish fulfillment. in the second, hands are our form of dream expression. that you were shaking hands is a union, friendship. er, repressed desires? i don't really want to touch the softness aspect. then there's susannah's dream that she shared in chat. i believe that one is pretty obvious. xoxo dr. minka mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 06:31:47 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:31:47 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) In-Reply-To: <199802260343.TAA02361@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Message-ID: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Andrew Summers wrote: > song was featured in the great gasby. the simple and 'sublime' words are > beautful. something that seems reflected in current pop. The Great Gatsby (Redford/Farrow version) is one of my favorite films (though it has the worst lighting scheme of anything I've ever seen). I am planning on beginning work on my undergraduate thesis next year on Scott Fitzgerald. Anyway, are you refering to the song that goes "When you and I were seventeen" that is very haunting and lovely? I bought the video after hearing the song on AMC a few years ago. Alas, they have remastered the video and edited all the music. I've wandered through the credits plenty of times in search of that song title, but have never found it. Anyone know what I am talking about?? -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Wed Feb 25 17:33:27 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:33:27 -0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm Keith, get over it Message-ID: <01bd4213$7b69b920$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >I heard it on the grapevine that McTaggart has been pounding the Glasgow >beat, and the mean old piddly pooh hasn't shown us his ink polaroids yet, >and neither has Keith. OK so Friday night then, So I'm off the train, and on the tube to Hillheed, pop up to meet Tag at Andrew's flat and we get ready to pop out, it's a lovely warm night and we taxi it along to the CCA where we get a meal that none of us paid for - that's still a mystery. Trying to work out what to do, Tag and Anne sneak off to the bedsit next to the park and I wait with my friend Kevin till his girlfriend and her mates turn up, they do at 12, by which point I'm right royally pissed - which is nice, Kev doesn't want to come to Andrew's club though, so I go, and meet a load of new friends on the door of the CCA who I convince to come to the bedsit too, which is cool, cause it means we get a taxi, so I turn up and try to blag my way in with my 4 year out of date matric card, which makes it past the bouncers, but not further than the eagle-eyed student manning the till who I thought was going to get rid of me, but it turns out he only wants me to pay an extra quid, so I get in, and it's amazing, loads of people dancing to northern soul, really getting into it, and it's a cracking feeling seeing loads of people enjoy it so much. The rest of the night is spent dancing and drinking, usually both at the same time... what a top night. Hope that's passed Patrik's stringent requirements for being boring enough, hopefully yes, well, I'm boring I suppose.... get over it. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 26 09:46:25 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:46:25 -0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm Keith, get over it Message-ID: <01bd429b$6703d370$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >So I'm off the train, and on the tube to Hillheed, pop up to meet Tag at >Andrew's flat and we get ready to pop out, it's a lovely warm night and we >taxi it along to the CCA where we get a meal that none of us paid for - >that's still a mystery. Trying to work out what to do, Tag and Anne sneak >off to the bedsit next to the park and I wait with my friend Kevin till his I suppose I'd better point out that in order to retain the good name of friends that the "Bedsit" is in fact a large gym hall which is part of the Poly union. I don't think I've ever replied to my own email before - which is quite co-incidental cause yesterday I wrote a cheque (check) to myself for the first time ever too. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Thu Feb 26 09:41:54 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:41:54 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Deal with it Message-ID: <01bd429a$c5e15e40$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >hi, i just joined the list yesterday and i am not going to go through the >boring, redundant "i've been a B&S fan for such a loooong time". frankly, i >don't think it's that important. Don't worry about this, anyone coming up with this sort of stuff gets an immediate slapping and told to "deal with it". I've only heard one or two Dandy Warhols songs and they sound pretty much like a load of pish to me, kind of like Jesus Jones, with that curazee keyboard guy with his acid house clothes and jumping around. Terrible name too, kind of "We're a bit sort of Anglo-American" oh well... another shite band, never mind, I suppose I'll just have to... deal with it. Looks like Top of the P!O!P!s should be quite exciting this week, what with Cornershop being at the top, in an unprecedented manoeuvre as the last good British number one hit was 12 years ago, with Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's "I knew him so well". I noticed whilst running out the house this morning to come to work on teletext on the headlines that "Elton John has won a Granny for the Diana song", which I thought a bit poor, who's granny did he get? Was it perhaps a dead granny, ex-airforce pilot who they rebuilt with bionics - this would be the most humane cause I certainly can't agree with the British music industry stealing somebody else's Granny for private use by a pop star. Cheers, Keith. (Yes Peter, I finally plucked up the courage) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 12:05:31 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 07:05:31 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Top of the Pops Message-ID: <199802260709_MC2-34C3-2617@compuserve.com> Like Keith, I'm looking forward to Cornershop appearing on TOTP. As long as that adorable Jayne Muddlemuss is presenting it... Is there an official line on B and S and TOTP? I mean, would the band appear on the show if they ever, for some reason, got round to releasing a new EP and it scraped the Top 20? Or do they have too many principles? Couldn't they do a New Order and insist on playing live? Lots of Love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Thu Feb 26 12:28:19 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 07:28:19 -0500 Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) Message-ID: <199802261228.EAA05363@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> special bonus question about The Great Gatsby: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ who did the costumes? http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Thu Feb 26 12:32:57 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:32:57 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Funkasize You Message-ID: <01bd42b2$ab5c3280$LocalHost@itjfvkli> I would like to publicly apologise to Andreas Perfection as a Hipster for answering a message that wasn't intended for the list. Yes, words have been exchanged. I think Rod and I both know what our punishment is. Which way to the Radiohead chat room? In the desperate race to accrue B&S Big Chief I-Spy points I think I am probably way out in front. But I need more. To this end, I would like to compare myself to an obese comedian, one of my favourites. Sadly, I can't remember his name. He was a warm up man for Alexei Sayle, in fact he looked a bit like Alexei Sayle having undergone a Tarbuckisation operation. He slept in his Jag and was very sad. Can anyone help me with the name? Bobby Crush or something. Whatever his name was he was top comedy. I would like to remind my fellow listees that some of us, myself included, were recently awarded diplomatic immunity to talk shite. Despite this great honour, I still try to keep it to an only slightly unreasonable level. For instance, I resisted the temptation to go on and on and on about how much I love Sid James, and even the street he lives on in "Carry On At Your Convenience", you remember, next door to what's her name. "Phwooar, what a waste!" says Sid in very visible frustration. Robert De Niro pales in comparison. I once contemplated joining the Sid James and Kenneth Williams Appreciation Society, but in the end I didn't in case it adversely affected my social life. The Eighties: I'm sure there was lots of great music in the eighties, and Keith is right. Until fairly recently the seventies were considered the absolute pits, just because hair gel had taken over from big bushy sideburns. Despite my love for Led Zep, I think my favourite seventies music is all the funk/soul/call it what you will that came out of the new black awareness/call it what you will, such as the Stax stuff and Marvin Gaye's political work. There's something irresistible about the combination of radical politics and huge afros. The point is, I suspect that the best music of the eighties ws hip hop. I don't know much about it, but when the reissue scene gets its act together, I'll be there, fifty years old walking around without any laces in my "sneakers". To help prepare myself, can anyone remind me of the name of a girl rapper who swore a lot. I'm sure the character Angela, played by Rosie Perez, in "Night on Earth" was based on her. It was Roxanne something or other, but not Roxanne Shante, who was equally adorable. It was on John Peel a lot. Making any sense? Perhaps I dreamt it. Also, Stock, Aitken and Waterman churned out some great records. Who could forget the female version of Honey? Well, me actually. I've forgotten her name...Samantha?...Siobahn?.....come to think of it, I've forgotten the song too. So scrub that one. If I remember correctly, "Bright Eyes" was number one at Easter time. I listened to David "Diddy" Hamilton doing a run down of all the Easter number ones since time began. The only other one I can recall was "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard. I was quite a keen Cliff fan in my formative years. This evening I hope to present at the B&S bunfight, even B&S aren't there. That's if I can work out what 6pm GMT is in CET. Hope to see you all there... Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Thu Feb 26 11:38:40 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:38:40 -0000 Subject: Sinister: the interpretation of sinister dreams Message-ID: Megan thanks for analyzing my dream. I feel I know myself a little better now. >television is a typical metaphor for passivity. thus chris lacks control >of his dream life. My My. What a scary thought. I sometimes dream I'm eating stuff and when I awake I feel full up. And sometimes I dream I'm swimming and I wake up wet. > then we get to the snake. why do I bother pretending >otherwise, it's phallic. Shite, does this mean I have dubious sensuality? Dad has suspected this for a long time. He'll be ever so pleased and probably take me up the pirn. >the average male has an erection once every night. Keith told me he's ready at all times. That's what makes him "sexual". lovely miss megan also said >socks are close to the feet. the feet are an erogenous zone. need I go >further with this? Are socks not phallic too? In fact I think socks are more phallic than the song snake. Why? Just Because. from Christine ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 13:22:21 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:22:21 GMT Subject: Sinister: My bip-bopping days aren't over In-Reply-To: <199802260056.AAA15309@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802260056.AAA15309@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <35026826.14095486@email.mcmail.com> Hellohello, Dina wrote: >for those of you in the washington, dc vicinity please find it in your >heart to come down the the kaffa house (u street between 12th and >13th) tonight to hear pam berry and i spin some viscious tunes at cold >rice. festivities begin at 11pm, to be realistic. So Dina, what did you play? Did people dance? Ink polaroids, kiss and tell stories? We want the gossip, we want the dirt, we want the low down n' dirty sleaze. Well, I do anyway. Wicked Little Stevie Trousers wrote: >spotting a tagmail that does not contain the words "*****", "*******" or >"*********" Trousers, you are a morally corrupt young man, and you exaggerate like a fiend. I have used two of these words only once to the best of my knowledge. Far better to look for a Tagmail that includes the words 'Scandinavia' or 'Northy'. Or 'Tag' for that matter, since my rampant egomania knows no bounds. OK, the vaguely serious and earnest bit. All this commotion about the nature of the list. Paul, David, Pedro and he who is tall said a lot of good things, all of which I heartily endorse. Paul mentioned lifelong friends and I've met a whole bunch of people doing this, who I love very dearly, and you know, you can never have too many friends. But it worried me a bit to hear that nostalgia is the best way to connect. Surely not, we all have Belle and Sebastian in common, that's the start, but hey, there's a host of reasons why we can look forward not back. It's great to know you can start with liking the same music and building on that, it's how I've always made friends, and it works more often than it fails. And since it looks like there's going to be little in the way of action from our boys and girls, well, we should do it ourselves, and there's more to life than misty eyed and whistful romanticism about bygone days. I may be old enough to have had children by different marriages by now (I haven't - I'm just old enough), but I refuse to admit that the best days of my life are over. You may think you'll "never be young again ... but you will". And on that note, cheerio Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nmacfarl at xxx.MacFarlane Thu Feb 26 14:24:25 1998 From: nmacfarl at xxx.MacFarlane (nmacfarl at xxx.MacFarlane) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 9:24:25 EST Subject: Sinister: Re: Elliott Smith Message-ID: The pyromaniac asked: > p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing > on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. > I'm quite sure Elliott Smith is playing at the Oscars - there were a few things mentioned in Allstar about it last week. I also read something along the lines that it would be really sad if they have a dance act to go along with his performance like they usually do for the other artists and I have to agree - I don't think I could watch that after seeing him play a tiny venue last year before all the Good Will Hunting hype. There's a few Elliott Smith websites as well as a mailing list and I'm sure they have all the infomation there. Natalie ------------- Original Text From: Schaffenberger , on 2/25/98 9:52 PM: The pyromaniac asked: > p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing > on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. > > boy sets fire > I bet I'll get slayed for not thinking about this for ten seconds, but my answer, simply, is that I do not know. Anyone? Anyone? I hope he gets the grammy instead of Celine Dion or Michael Bolton or whoever else makes the bad soundtrack songs played in in the dining hall on Magic 105.3, continuous souft hits. come on, we're trying to eat!! -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From pjmiller at xxx.es Thu Feb 26 15:06:10 1998 From: pjmiller at xxx.es (PJMiller) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:06:10 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Funkasize You Message-ID: <01bd42c8$132c3a80$LocalHost@itjfvkli> -----Original Message----- De: Honey Para: PJMiller Fecha: jueves 26 de febrero de 1998 13:40 Asunto: Re: Sinister: Funkasize You >> Also, Stock, Aitken and Waterman churned out some great records. Who could >> forget the female version of Honey? Well, me actually. I've >> forgotten her name...Samantha?...Siobahn?.....come to think of it, I've >> forgotten the song too. So scrub that one. The loveable lass from Liverpool was called Sonia. And I think I might have got my Roxannes mixed up. Peter, doing a Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 16:49:37 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:49:37 -0800 Subject: Sinister: dandy warhols, no B&S content Message-ID: >At 10:12 PM 2/25/98 EST, ChknQQdl at aol.com wrote: >>i saw the dandy warhols open for the charlatans...they were alright i >>s'pose...that not if you were the last junkie on earth isn't really >>representative of their sound ...the girl was really cute. but for some >>reason, she took her shirt off during the last part of the set--and continued >>her fervored po-going...bizarre!!! > Sadly, I have witnessed this. Not only was I repulsed at their boring, redundant, live set.....but the after show....that woman stripping down and rollerskating all over the place....It's a good thing I didn't eat first. Hey, i'm all about a nice rack on skates..but yiiiish......I guess it's just the whole "wooohooo look at me!" gesture of it all....It's just so much more pleasnt to see a whole heap of wee Scots on stage being humble and making music that floors a person without having to be all on the pose and showy. Is showy a word? Anyway....you get the picture. The lead singer of the Dandy's thinks he's Simon LeBon anyway....Someone should tell them Duran Duran was dropped so they're free to take over. Yikes. beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Thu Feb 26 17:01:25 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:01:25 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Funkasize You References: <01bd42b2$ab5c3280$LocalHost@itjfvkli> Message-ID: <34F59FE5.2907@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> PJMiller wrote: To this end, I would like to > compare myself to an obese comedian, one of my favourites. Sadly, I can't > remember his name. He was a warm up man for Alexei Sayle, in fact he looked > a bit like Alexei Sayle having undergone a Tarbuckisation operation. He > slept in his Jag and was very sad. Can anyone help me with the name? Bobby > Crush or something. Whatever his name was he was top comedy. > Bobby Chariot, Warm up guy whos wife had continually just left him and could never get the audience to laugh. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nrbqlover at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 17:04:24 1998 From: Nrbqlover at xxx.com (Nrbqlover at xxx.com) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:04:24 EST Subject: Sinister: Elliott Smith/TigerMilk Message-ID: <3e6c8e22.34f5a09a@aol.com> In a message dated 98-02-26 11:13:44 EST, Natalie sez: << I'm quite sure Elliott Smith is playing at the Oscars - there were a few things mentioned in Allstar about it last week. >> Billboard had an interview w/Elliott last week. He says that he is singing his song at the Oscars after Celine Dion and before Michael Bolton! How frightening is that? I will renew my vow to all American Sinister Ministers who need a copy of TigerMilk to e-mail me off-list. I have now given everyone on the Guided by Voices and Jonathan Richman lists copies of said album. The best thing about this is nearly everyone plans to buy the cd reissue when and if it comes. clem lane nrbqlover at aol.com n.p. bluetones-solomon bites the worm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.north at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 16:21:24 1998 From: r.north at xxx.com (Richard North) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:21:24 -0700 Subject: Sinister: Northy raps his way to uni Message-ID: Look out Bangor I'm on my way And keep yer distance if you're gay I'll need new pals and a piece of ass But kiss my butt all you working class Papa has dished out sheds of wedge my student living will be 'on the edge' His conglom has sponsored our new halls we'll have pictures of Cerys on everyone's walls I'll roll up spliffs in the union caff burn 'Das Kapital' for a laff I'll keep my stroke-mags to myself till I sneak them on the library shelf The 'Scurge of Lefties' will be my name Tag will beg to bask in my fame I'll buy this list & sell it you back I'll be a real pain in Paul's nutsac Bar or Biscuit? Laugh or Cackle! You won't believe the size of my Big Tackle We'll catch the catfish with a wee net the salacious results will be the talk of TweeNet Of such pisspoor rhyming I'm not worthy Ha! screw you, jack, my name's NORTHY (rhyme needs additional mixing time in the studio) Get your FREE, private e-mail account at http://www.mailcity.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk Thu Feb 26 17:38:09 1998 From: I.S.Mcburnie at xxx.uk (NicamBurnie) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:38:09 +0000 Subject: Sinister: NON B&S Re: Watch out! Debris Slide! References: Message-ID: <34F5A881.4E03@herts.ac.uk> You said: > Can you recommend a good first (Pavement) > album to waste my hard-(non)earned cash on? I'm just an ickle > ignorant > girlie who doesn't know what she's doing in a big scary record > emporium... > I say: Buy all of them! Erm, that doesn't help much does it? Well, why don't you start from the beginning (because they're all great) with SLANTED AND ENCHANTED. Very scratchy sounding compared to their new, hi-fi (as opposed to lo-fi, yawn!) stuff, but still my favourite album of theirs, probably. Yeah, go out and buy it.....but take care in the BIG SCARY RECORD emporium..............("emporium"?)....hmmmmmmm... Hey, I tried a Shady Lane and it worked! Thanks..................EVERYBODY WANTS ONE! *******I ask anyone:************** Is there a Pavement mailing list? ********************************** Lies and betrayals, fruit covered nails, Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelectricty.............. BaPtIsT BlAcKTicK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 17:32:58 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:32:58 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: Re: Elliott Smith In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yeah, My friend Nathan has what I believe is the biggest Elliot Smith web page, being programmed and whatever else you do t make a web page in a dorm room just a few seconds from mine. I don't know the address, and last time I asked, he didn't know the oscar status. -Kristen On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 nmacfarl at wattdesign.com wrote: > The pyromaniac asked: > > > p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing > > on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. > > > > I'm quite sure Elliott Smith is playing at the Oscars - there were a few > things mentioned in Allstar about it last week. I also read something > along the lines that it would be really sad if they have a dance act to go > along with his performance like they usually do for the other artists and I > have to agree - I don't think I could watch that after seeing him play a > tiny venue last year before all the Good Will Hunting hype. > There's a few Elliott Smith websites as well as a mailing list and I'm sure > they have all the infomation there. > > Natalie > ------------- > Original Text > From: Schaffenberger , on 2/25/98 9:52 PM: > The pyromaniac asked: > > > p.s. - does anyone happen to know if elliot smith is for sure playing > > on the grammys? you hear rumors but you can never know for sure. > > > > boy sets fire > > > > I bet I'll get slayed for not thinking about this for ten seconds, but > my answer, simply, is that I do not know. Anyone? Anyone? I hope he > gets the grammy instead of Celine Dion or Michael Bolton or whoever else > makes the bad soundtrack songs played in in the dining hall on Magic > 105.3, continuous souft hits. come on, we're trying to eat!! > > -Kristen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 17:44:32 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:44:32 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: I love this song (NBSC) In-Reply-To: <199802261228.EAA05363@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Message-ID: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Andrew Summers wrote: > special bonus question about The Great Gatsby: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > who did the costumes? Oh, that's easy! Ralph Lauren did all of the men's costumes, right? Women's... Hmmm. All I can think of is Oscar de la Renta... But really, Karen Black (aka Jordan baker) wears some of the worst ensembles in the world. My favorite scene: when Mia Farrow comes to tea at Nick's house in the beautiful lavender hat and dress and the camera zooms in on her face (I'm doing this from memory here, and maybe i'm getting confused with the book) and she looks up and smiles charmingly. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 17:51:26 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:26 GMT Subject: Sinister: Mystic Tag In-Reply-To: <34F2CBF2.B1DAED5@virgin.net> References: <34f8be22.11214456@email.mcmail.com> <34F2CBF2.B1DAED5@virgin.net> Message-ID: <34f6ab74.31328007@email.mcmail.com> Hello, Now then, I love a bit of nostalgia, just not all the time. Lets' see what the future holds. I promised this to some of you ages ago, but it's only recently that the stars have spoken, and now, based on a combination of the Boys Own Bumper Book of Astrology, true life experiences and my own strange mystical powers, I am able to tell what this future of which I speak holds for you. I would like to point out that in no way is this complete bollocks that I made up as I went along. ARIES: Now you are a tasty one. Good looking, witty and intelligent with a cute little wiggle to send your peers wild with desire. This year and every year belongs to you, because you're swell. If you're a girl, you should continue sending pornography to hapless bass players, it's sure to pay off sooner or later. IDEAL MATCH: Spoilt for choice really, so chose carefully. No, sod it, sleep around and enjoy it. OTHER ARIANS: Marlon Brando, Julie Christie, Serge Gainsbourg. TAURUS: Stubborn, tight-fisted, and forever stuffing their faces. That's not me tallking, that's what the book says. Still you're a loyal, cosy kind of person, who likes their creature comforts. Maybe that's why you get marriage proposals from extremely tall strangers from Leeds. All you need is love, money and good old fashioned home cooking and everything in your garden will be roses. IDEAL MATCH: Cancer, Capricorn OTHER TAUREANS: Isobel Campbell, Tony Blair, Queen Liz GEMINI: Yack, yack, yack, you've got more rabbit than Sainsbury's ... for God's sake shut up for a minute and listen. Oh yes, you are one of the literatti, you can talk your way into and out of anything, but you wouldn't know passion if it ran up and ravished you. Give it some ooh-la-la, buy yourself some leather and latex and get jiggy wid it. IDEAL MATCH: Libra, Aquarius OTHER GEMINIANS: Morrissey, Steffi Graf, Noel Gallagher CANCER: Hey crosspatch, stop sulking and listen. It's all very well living in the past and keeping your feelings bottled up, but surely it's time to put away childish things and get outside in the sunshine. As a sensitive soul your lot in life is to be a shoulder to cry on, but it takes guts to be gentle and kind, and who knows, you might even get a snog out of it. IDEAL MATCH: Taurus, Pisces OTHER CRABS: Steven Spielberg, Neil Tennant, Princess Diana LEO: You are one big poseur. You're the one at parties who calls everyone dwarling and is constantly looking in the mirror. Having said that, you are one suave, well-dressed sonofabitch, and a career on the stage, or maybe as a supermodel surely awaits. A Manchester United season ticket does not, however, you wee glory hunting bastard. IDEAL MATCH: Aries, Sagitarrius OTHER LEOS: Richard Coburn, Madonna, Alfred Hitchcock VIRGO: Now as the traditionally chaste sign of the zodiac, you may not get a lot of booty, but that sure as hell doesn't stop the strange pleasure you get out of watching and writing about other people's little foibles and fetishes. And very good at it you are too, but don't be the least bit surprised if someone finds what you've been writing about them and gives you a good slapping. Or maybe you'd like that... IDEAL MATCH: Capricorn, Taurus OTHER VIRGOS: Stuart Murdoch, Michael Jackson, Jarvis Cocker LIBRA: You dithering ninny. Oh shall I do this? Or shall I do that? Shall I use this bucket or shall I throw up all over my keyboard? Do us all a favour, make a decision and then use this legendary wit and charm that we've all heard so much about to keep the heart of that mysterious American girl you're hiding away. Oh, and for God's sake have a pint. IDEAL MATCH: Gemini, Libra OTHER LIBRANS: Chris Geddes, Oscar Wilde, Brigitte Bardot SCORPIO: Now if you could just stop thinking about shagging all the time, you might be OK. I recommend cold showers or bromide in your tea, then maybe you can stop thinking with your bits and enjoy life. IDEAL MATCH: Frankly, Pisces are the only ones daft enough to put up with you. Either that or lock yourself in a cupboard with a fellow Scorp and stop trying to cop off with the rest of us. OTHER SCORPIOS: Winona Ryder, Prince Charles, Demi Moore SAGITTARIUS: Ah yes, Sagitarrius ... always gadding about to some far off shore. Now you girls may have had admirable taste in men at some time in your life, and you boys might write poetry to touch the hardest soul, but ... can you keep a secret? ... can you bollocks. Sort this unfortunate behaviour out and the world, as they say, is your oyster. None of the above applies to Swedish Sagitarrians who rule, have great boobs and can cuddle me anytime. IDEAL MATCH: Aries, Aquarius OTHER SAGS: Mick Cooke, Woody Allen, Jane Birkin CAPRICORN: A lot of people say you're terribly boring, and have no sense of humour whatsoever, but this is obviously not true. You can look forward to a year of dazzling people at parties with your encylopaedic pop trivia knowledge and your tasty collection of turtlenecks. And of course making sure all your possessions are meticulously filed in alphanumerical order. IDEAL MATCH: Virgo, Taurus OTHER GOATS: Stuart David, Stevie Jackson, Dolly Parton AQUARIUS: Dear God, you're a nutter. But it is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, they say. If you're a boy, maybe you'll find love with someone across the Atlantic, with a girl who'll be charmed by your Johnny Mathis impressions. Or you'll continue to slut yourself about demanding that complete strangers have your babies. If you're a girl, and in a band, well, can I recommend a nice Aries boy. IDEAL MATCH: Gemini, Libra, oh, and Aries of course OTHER AQUARIANS: Sarah Martin, Vic Reeves, Ian Monkeyface Brown PISCES: You big soppy lovable pussycat. You may be utterly hopeless and incapable of living with any concept of reality, but you can always rely on the fact that people will come up to you, pat you on the head and say 'Awwwww, aren't you sweet?'. But what the hell are you doing surfing the net on your birthday? You really should get out more. IDEAL MATCH: Scorpio, Cancer OTHER FISHES: Juliette Binoche, Frankie Howerd, Mikael Gorbachev Keep watching the skies, Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From nibyrne at xxx.ie Thu Feb 26 17:55:50 1998 From: nibyrne at xxx.ie (Nickie) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:50 +0000 Subject: Sinister: what to do Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980226175550.007ac6c0@mail2.tcd.ie> this isn't all that b&s related, but then what is, and yet what isn't...aha! my little calamity is that i have extremely limited funds and three possible albums to buy. these are: 1) Jonathan fire eater: something about lambs and wolves 2) a northern soul compilation (good thing about this being that i love ns but bad thing being that Vanessa Paradis is on it - Ms. Paradis dusn't seem to have a northern soul, to me, mate) 3) a vintage soul compilation of which there are only three left in tower, and which can be found nowhere else... what should i do? the jfe album is the one i'm tending towards at the moment has anyone got it, is it any good? oh dear, what a personal disaster...can anyone help? maybe i should just get drunk instead, or invest my money with a reputable pension plan.... oooooooooo nickie oooooooooo nibyrne at tcd.ie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ronbarrett at xxx.ie Thu Feb 26 16:35:00 1998 From: ronbarrett at xxx.ie (Barrett R) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: Sinister: Funkasize You Message-ID: <01IU1OHAYWO200MM6U@vms.eurokom.ie> PJ Miller's favourite comedian is, I believe, called Bobby Chariot - "Top warm up man to the stars" and his godlike catchphrase was "HOW YA DIDDLIN'? (Followed by bemused silence) Bloody sod ya then" This somehow seems a lot less funny in print. Oh well. Ronan ---------- From: PJMiller To: ronbarrett; B&S mailing list Subject: Sinister: Funkasize You Date: 26 February 1998 15:12 I would like to publicly apologise to Andreas Perfection as a Hipster for answering a message that wasn't intended for the list. Yes, words have been exchanged. I think Rod and I both know what our punishment is. Which way to the Radiohead chat room? In the desperate race to accrue B&S Big Chief I-Spy points I think I am probably way out in front. But I need more. To this end, I would like to compare myself to an obese comedian, one of my favourites. Sadly, I can't remember his name. He was a warm up man for Alexei Sayle, in fact he looked a bit like Alexei Sayle having undergone a Tarbuckisation operation. He slept in his Jag and was very sad. Can anyone help me with the name? Bobby Crush or something. Whatever his name was he was top comedy. I would like to remind my fellow listees that some of us, myself included, were recently awarded diplomatic immunity to talk shite. Despite this great honour, I still try to keep it to an only slightly unreasonable level. For instance, I resisted the temptation to go on and on and on about how much I love Sid James, and even the street he lives on in "Carry On At Your Convenience", you remember, next door to what's her name. "Phwooar, what a waste!" says Sid in very visible frustration. Robert De Niro pales in comparison. I once contemplated joining the Sid James and Kenneth Williams Appreciation Society, but in the end I didn't in case it adversely affected my social life. The Eighties: I'm sure there was lots of great music in the eighties, and Keith is right. Until fairly recently the seventies were considered the absolute pits, just because hair gel had taken over from big bushy sideburns. Despite my love for Led Zep, I think my favourite seventies music is all the funk/soul/call it what you will that came out of the new black awareness/call it what you will, such as the Stax stuff and Marvin Gaye's political work. There's something irresistible about the combination of radical politics and huge afros. The point is, I suspect that the best music of the eighties ws hip hop. I don't know much about it, but when the reissue scene gets its act together, I'll be there, fifty years old walking around without any laces in my "sneakers". To help prepare myself, can anyone remind me of the name of a girl rapper who swore a lot. I'm sure the character Angela, played by Rosie Perez, in "Night on Earth" was based on her. It was Roxanne something or other, but not Roxanne Shante, who was equally adorable. It was on John Peel a lot. Making any sense? Perhaps I dreamt it. Also, Stock, Aitken and Waterman churned out some great records. Who could forget the female version of Honey? Well, me actually. I've forgotten her name...Samantha?...Siobahn?.....come to think of it, I've forgotten the song too. So scrub that one. If I remember correctly, "Bright Eyes" was number one at Easter time. I listened to David "Diddy" Hamilton doing a run down of all the Easter number ones since time began. The only other one I can recall was "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard. I was quite a keen Cliff fan in my formative years. This evening I hope to present at the B&S bunfight, even B&S aren't there. That's if I can work out what 6pm GMT is in CET. Hope to see you all there... Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From prosella at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 18:20:52 1998 From: prosella at xxx.com (Paige Rosella) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:20:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Gatsby Message-ID: <01BD42B9.5DB3F660@n141.natureny.com> A young and not yet urban-chic Ralph Lauren (nee Lipschitz) did the costumes for Gatsby's movie verison. What do I win? Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From college at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 18:38:08 1998 From: college at xxx.com (TonyK) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:38:08 -0800 Subject: Sinister: dandy warhols, no B&S content References: Message-ID: <34F5B690.B4C634C5@aliasrecords.com> Did anyone see the Dandy's in New York during the CMJ festival? The guys from The Brian Jonestown Massacre were rollerskating around during the show handing out 10"'s they had pressed themselves featuring their song "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth." Pretty amusing stuff. -TonyK Madame Cholet wrote: > >At 10:12 PM 2/25/98 EST, ChknQQdl at aol.com wrote: > >>i saw the dandy warhols open for the charlatans...they were alright i > >>s'pose...that not if you were the last junkie on earth isn't really > >>representative of their sound ...the girl was really cute. but for some > >>reason, she took her shirt off during the last part of the set--and continued > >>her fervored po-going...bizarre!!! > > > > Sadly, I have witnessed this. Not only was I repulsed at their boring, > redundant, live set.....but the after show....that woman stripping down and > rollerskating all over the place....It's a good thing I didn't eat first. > Hey, i'm all about a nice rack on skates..but yiiiish......I guess it's > just the whole "wooohooo look at me!" gesture of it all....It's just so > much more pleasnt to see a whole heap of wee Scots on stage being humble > and making music that floors a person without having to be all on the pose > and showy. Is showy a word? Anyway....you get the picture. The lead singer > of the Dandy's thinks he's Simon LeBon anyway....Someone should tell them > Duran Duran was dropped so they're free to take over. Yikes. > > beth > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". > . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From timminsc at xxx.ie Thu Feb 26 18:50:39 1998 From: timminsc at xxx.ie (Claire Timmins) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:50:39 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm Keith, get over it In-Reply-To: <01bd429b$6703d370$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980226185039.007a5e90@mail.tcd.ie> Keith wrote.. >friends that the "Bedsit" is in fact a large gym hall which is part of the >Poly union. Isn't it such a good club? It reminds me of school discos. Dancing away in the gym hall. The 'dj' on the stage, partly hidden by the curtains. Don't worry folks I'm not going to start a 'Glasgae club' discussion, although if one does occur it has nothing to do with me. But, a question for those involved in computers. My tutor, useless, uninteresting, man that he is, has just dropped my ,rather old, laptop. The computer itself does work, when connected to another monitor, but my screen just produces lines. It is a compac. If anybody out there can help I would be sooooooo pleased. As it stands it is now useless, and therefore so am I. Goodnight to one and all. claire ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From barzy at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 19:48:28 1998 From: barzy at xxx.com (Madame Cholet) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:48:28 -0800 Subject: Sinister: dandy warhols & naked people Message-ID: >Did anyone see the Dandy's in New York during the CMJ festival? The guys >from The >Brian Jonestown Massacre were rollerskating around during the show handing out >10"'s they had pressed themselves featuring their song "Not if You Were >the Last >Dandy on Earth." Pretty amusing stuff. > >-TonyK >Madame Cholet wrote: OK. THIS is where it gets scary! I've seen THEM as well...and one of the members (think it was the lead singer) dropped his pants and was stood there with them round his ankles!!!! Perhaps it's a San Francisco thing...battle of the nudie bands..can you imagine if someone in Belle & Sebastian got a wee bug up their arse and decided to skip round during "Judy & The Dream of Horses" al fresco? I'd give Geddes a 10er for that one....he can be the one who barfs and gets naked on stage....:) beth and the dream of Geddes..... (just kidding biscuit....oh, like YOU'D turn your head at Christopher naked! Naw.....) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From leslie.chinea at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 14:50:00 1998 From: leslie.chinea at xxx.com (leslie chinea) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:50:00 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Northy raps his way to uni Message-ID: <0002F40D.4556@emimusic.com> Northy! Dig the new material! Have your people call my people and we'll do lunch to discuss your debut release. Just one question: Are you representin' East Coast or West Coast? Or would it be Tory? It's great to have you back! Leslie Aries - the perfect match for Mick Cooke ;o) ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Northy raps his way to uni Author: "Richard North" at X-MAIL Date: 2/26/98 9:21 AM Look out Bangor I'm on my way And keep yer distance if you're gay I'll need new pals and a piece of ass But kiss my butt all you working class Papa has dished out sheds of wedge my student living will be 'on the edge' His conglom has sponsored our new halls we'll have pictures of Cerys on everyone's walls I'll roll up spliffs in the union caff burn 'Das Kapital' for a laff I'll keep my stroke-mags to myself till I sneak them on the library shelf The 'Scurge of Lefties' will be my name Tag will beg to bask in my fame I'll buy this list & sell it you back I'll be a real pain in Paul's nutsac Bar or Biscuit? Laugh or Cackle! You won't believe the size of my Big Tackle We'll catch the catfish with a wee net the salacious results will be the talk of TweeNet Of such pisspoor rhyming I'm not worthy Ha! screw you, jack, my name's NORTHY (rhyme needs additional mixing time in the studio) Get your FREE, private e-mail account at http://www.mailcity.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elzachar at xxx.no Thu Feb 26 20:31:57 1998 From: elzachar at xxx.no (Elisabeth Zachariassen) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:31:57 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Bye bye Message-ID: <199802262031.VAA12919@online.no> Hi, I'm moving to London and unsubscribing to the list for now. Hope to see some sinisterians in a park this summer! Elisabeth Z Look! i managed to send the unsubscribe to the right list. Clever me.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Hering at xxx.de Thu Feb 26 21:00:28 1998 From: Andreas.Hering at xxx.de (Perfection As A Hipster) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:00:28 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: Bye bye Message-ID: <199802262100.WAA15970@studserv.stud.uni-hannover.de> Elisabeth Zachariassen wrote ... >I'm moving to London and unsubscribing to the list for now. I'm only moving within Hannover, but the subject header applies to me as well ... May the stars shine bright for you Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 21:20:49 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:20:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: what to do In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980226175550.007ac6c0@mail2.tcd.ie> Message-ID: Dear Nickie asked for advice on the following: > > 1) Jonathan fire eater: something about lambs and wolves > 2) a northern soul compilation (good thing about this being that i love ns > but bad thing being that Vanessa Paradis is on it - Ms. Paradis dusn't seem > to have a northern soul, to me, mate) > 3) a vintage soul compilation of which there are only three left in tower, > and which can be found nowhere else... > > what should i do? the jfe album is the one i'm tending towards at the > moment has anyone got it, is it any good? > oh dear, what a personal disaster...can anyone help? > maybe i should just get drunk instead, or invest my money with a reputable > pension plan.... The Jonathan Fire*Eater album isn't nearly as good as their EP Tremple Under Boom Lights. Wolf Songs for Lambs has its moments... but they are just moments. I like one song, though, about little monkeys and (I think) having sex in parents' beds or something like that... Thet're selling it at Best Buy for 9.99, which isn't bad, but the EP is only 7.99, and better listening. Hope this helps a little. -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From kschaffe at xxx.edu Thu Feb 26 21:22:53 1998 From: kschaffe at xxx.edu (Schaffenberger) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:22:53 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: NON B&S Re: Watch out! Debris Slide! In-Reply-To: <34F5A881.4E03@herts.ac.uk> Message-ID: Yes! Slanted and Enchanted! Or, if not available, I like Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain a lot. Would love to find a Pavement mailing list as well. Anyone know? -Kristen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood Wed Feb 25 22:37:14 1998 From: Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood (Stephen_J._Wood at xxx.Wood) Date: 25 Feb 1998 22:37:14 GMT Subject: Sinister: Cornershop Message-ID: <212398.613428380@andyclin.exnet.com> Matt wrote: Hooray! Cornershop are number One! I'm going to see them in Bristol on sunday...any one else seen 'em live? If so are they any good live? Spawny get! I couldn't get a ticket. Saw them at The Fleece last year (or was it longer ago?). They were good, although only just working out their drummerloop'n'sitars sound, having previously been a fairly ordinary indie band. (They originally wanted to be called Pakishop, but couldn't get gigs or record deals).(Maybe they should revert, now they're bigger than god). What's the betting the gig gets pulled now they're number one? Cheers, Rocker, Bristol, UK. rocker at andyclin.exnet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rnorth at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 01:55:20 1998 From: rnorth at xxx.uk (northy) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 01:55:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: hey! Message-ID: <199802270040.AAA21156@andromeda.ndirect.co.uk> can I still send mail to the list even if i'm not on it? well someone mail me if I'm successful! hey buy theaudience EP people. It is fantastic. All the bsides are better than the title track! bye, peace and bye Northy ______________________________________________________ "Everyday, when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews - 1998 ________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 01:04:31 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:04:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: listen dear,I've been watching you lately(but i'm not a stalker!) Message-ID: <199802270104.UAA10768@Vector.inexpress.net> Hello all you dear sweet lovely people, HoneyPaul seems to be getting fed up with bad people,everyone should love a Honey! He rocks my world! I just get most wonderful phone call today from yes yes...lovely lovely...now it was just a buisness matter,but the way he says my name,I melt,I melt! Now i'm all hyper and I realised I am yelling things out loud (cos no one is home) and it's a very liberating thing to do! Oh,how lovely Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie is!I am listening to it right now... You just wanna get up and run through green fields hand-in-hand with a lovely with the plants circling round your ankles,or you wanna ride horses bareback! Something that gets the wind in your hair... "and you love like nobody around you,..how you love and a halo surrounds you.." the way Stuart Murdoch says this,aie yie yie. Did you know that .2 percent of your brain occupy a message that tells you to take your clothes off.. For some,it is more then this..and for some,it is more of a flinging motion? This is good to do. "say cheerio to school" Almost! well for one blissfull week anyways There was a partial solar eclipse today,why they not notify people about this? It is important isn't it?It's getting lovely and warmer too all ice and snow is melting and you can do little dances in the streams and build tiny dams like it would be for a mini-village. alright,i speak garbage in this post don't I! kiss kiss kiss, Genevieve ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 01:08:28 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:08:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: whomp whomp whomp Message-ID: <199802270108.UAA10819@Vector.inexpress.net> oh,i have nothing to write about but I really don't want to watch Jason Goes To Hell... there's a pulsating cow heart on the floor in the scene right now...my brother is laughing...but he also enjoyed the movie Dr.Giggles....i do not get scared by those movies,the only thing i find creepy is clowns... hmmm..that little game you do with the numbers to 11 and in column? VERY interesting (but WRONG WRONG WRONG!) answers I got...hmmmmmmmm Ok,does a singer named Rob de Nijs really exist? I remember someone told me about a guy named harold c funk or something,and i was so believing,then I found out truth,so anyways apparently Suede asked this Rob de Nijs to cover a song of theirs.... OH! Suede have 1998 calendars! How come I never see these? I remember I asked this record store boy (Noooo,not THE mmmm heavenly sigh oh angels sweetie pie one but a kooky and scary one) and he told me the only ones availible were ones with him posed as brett anderson har har hej hej... Peter! you wouldn't by any chance be making fun of me and my 'piddly poohs' are you! ;) >It's Saturday night in Edinburgh. We see three fresh faced young >bucks striding masterfully along Lothian Street. On our left, Keith >Watson, his rippling muscles teasingly hidden under his trademark polo >neck, is brushing aside a bevy of beauties with the merest shrug. In >the centre is Tag, his mind inexplicably wandering to thoughts of >ultraviolet pornography. On our right, Chris Leonard is leading the >other two in a David Bowie Medley with his resonant baritone, causing >passing drunken rugby fans to weep openly. hee hee this is good > Now I know >that this will not be an everyday occurrence, because on the day it was >played, it was "freeform friday" at the station, meaning that the djs had >free reign on what they could play (and I had bugged all the djs for the >entire week to hear it!) but at least it was played once and will possibly >be played again because in 2 weeks there will be another "freeform friday" >and I'll be bugging the djs again to death!! >- - Sue Ahhh,he's jsut letting Jason break his fingers,is he stupide? He's giving him same information! ANd he just lets him break his fingers? it is always good to hear a hidden treasure song you like on the radio! Usually whenever I turn on the college station they always play ani difranco.(just like when you turn on olympics it will be curling!)But this valentines day,in the car,i turned it on and it was love is lies by the buzzcocks...made me happy! bye bye puddin' cups! Genevieve xxx ooh,Jason has a sister! i think this ties with The Stand's hand of God..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From a-bergman at xxx.edu Fri Feb 27 04:21:09 1998 From: a-bergman at xxx.edu (Amanda Bergman) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:21:09 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: it's a family affair! Message-ID: Look! My dad subscribed to the list! Except he had a bit of trouble figuring out how to post initially, so I'm forwarding his first reply to list mail. Now he knows what to do, though, for next time! This had been a reply to boysetsfire or whoever who posted from American University in Washington DC, inquiring about other B&S fans. My dad has great post potential...I have faith that in time he might even come to be ranked among the Tags and PJ Millers and Keith Watsons of the list! Now, let's have a nice carp and innuendo filled Sinister welcome for my dad, Big Art Bergman! byebye, AmandaSwan >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 22:45:33 Eastern Daylight Time >From: Arthur Bergman >To: Amanda Bergman >Subject: east coast bs fans > >Sure there are B&S fans on the east coast (assuming you refer to the >continental US). Some are young, >very few are older, and some even remember the Zombies and Donovan in real >time. So you're not >alone, now get off the internet and study so your parental units will be >proud of you. Had you gone to a >certain school in Rhode Island, and made great contributions to education >there, you could have told >people "I gave myself to Providence College, the state that I am in." >Keep humming along! ------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman at nwu.edu "I've got style, miles and miles, so much style that it's wasted." --Pavement ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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That's what comes from eating eggplant." -------------------------- "Aubergine Dreams"...song for the next LP? Megan Minka "Freud" Lehar, work your magic! off to dreamland herself, AmandaSwan p.s. anyone who has emailed me about getting tapes and has yet to hear back from me and/or receive them, please contact me privately to work out details...I am trying to get everything straight! ------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman at nwu.edu "My dear Amanda," intoned the family lawyer, "it has come to my attention that you are increasingly seen in the company of extremely weird individuals." --Tom Robbins, _Another Roadside Attraction_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From elizondo at xxx.sg Fri Feb 27 16:35:38 1998 From: elizondo at xxx.sg (elizondo at xxx.sg) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:35:38 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980227163538.40afdf58@pacific.net.sg> unsubsribe sinister. "There's nothing more depressing than having everything, and still feeling sad. You must learn to water your spiritual garden...." -janet '97 Visit my homepage at http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~elizondo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 09:23:11 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:23:11 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Bye bye Message-ID: <01bd4361$53030f00$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >Elisabeth Zachariassen wrote ... > >>I'm moving to London and unsubscribing to the list for now. > >I'm only moving within Hannover, but the subject header applies to me as >well ... > >May the stars shine bright for you > >Andreas Both of you, have a pleasant move, I hope it all goes smoothly. Take care, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From olaf7 at xxx.is Fri Feb 27 10:03:05 1998 From: olaf7 at xxx.is (OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:03:05 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I insist Message-ID: please tell what went on yesterday at 6 o'clock, the sleeze, the scoops, the sincerity and all the confidental........................................................... ....................................olla ------------------------------------- you're a sexy woman Flo _____________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 09:29:42 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:29:42 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Welcome Mr.Bergman Message-ID: <01bd4362$3be68120$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> This is just a big hello to Art, or Artie, as we like to call him, Artie Bergman, Amanda's dad. Pleased to meet you. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cleonard at xxx.COM Fri Feb 27 10:07:06 1998 From: cleonard at xxx.COM (Chris Leonard) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:07:06 -0000 Subject: Sinister: RE: it's a family affair! Message-ID: Dear Mr. Bergman, Hello and "Och Aye" from Scotland! It is good that you have joined us and I'm sure you will enjoy the Sinister Shananigans. There are occasional obscenities and non-subtle innuendoes but you will soon spot which authors have dirty minds, and avoid them as I do. Amanda is a charming young lady and is very welcome to stay with my family during her holiday to the UK next month. She will be well looked after and fed porridge. I hope this find you well, Christopher ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 12:33:28 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:33:28 -0500 Subject: Sinister: 11 numbers.. Message-ID: <199802271233.EAA20800@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> hi there. did the '11 numbers to better living' trick. quite amusing, but with a major flaw. i myself am a bisexual type, and the question "write down someone of the opposite sex' threw me for a loop. i ended up really loving a great friend although mt first instink was to write down a boifriend in the stop... the questions should be phrased to be bi/homo friendly. besides that it was very entertaining. andy (#3 is it?) http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 12:37:40 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:37:40 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <199802271237.EAA21110@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> flip side to "there is nothing more depressing that having everything and still feeling sad" "there is nothing more joyful than having nothing and still feeling happy" -me: andy (#3) http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ah6991 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 12:52:04 1998 From: ah6991 at xxx.uk (Adam the fool) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:52:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: SINISTER:totp Message-ID: DAVID wrote: > Is there an official line on B and S and TOTP? I mean, would the band > appear on the show if they ever, for some reason, got round to > releasing a new EP and it scraped the Top 20? Or do they have too > many principles? Couldn't they do a New Order and insist on playing > live? Would that really be a great idea, given their past performances? (i'm not being rude, but i could just see it all going wrong, and chris puking all over the presenter - chumbawumba-esque) And would there be any chance of getting warning when the chart show etc are going to show videos? Love Adam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientists in the United States have determined that dinosaurs, once thought extinct, have in fact been called away on a rather important family matter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jwigham at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 12:43:44 1998 From: jwigham at xxx.uk (john wigham) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:43:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Marks&Spencer Message-ID: NEW!! B&S - living the songs project... Anyone in the Newcastle area fancy going into Marks and Spencers and turning some tables round, and seeing if they seem to mind or not? -- john wigham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Johnston at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 12:55:25 1998 From: John.Johnston at xxx.uk (Johnston, John CT) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:55:25 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Come come ye sons of Art (and daughters) Message-ID: <199802271250.MAA07765@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> (Hello Mr. B - welcome aboard) Been feeling in a bit of a grump lately but when the Tall Guy re-raised the question of the picnics I was filled with joy once more. I am willing to accept your twister challenge, Sir. Your rangey limbs may be some advantage but I'm going to stage lightening tickling attacks - so beware. I think when we do have the first picnic they should occur all over the world; wherever 2 or more sinisterenes are gathered together. We could then arrange for Elton John (or even better - Sonia) to sing a medly of his/her hits in perhaps London and then jet off to the USA - live-aid style. I shall make some of my mother's celebrated Anzac cookies for the day. And bring my frisbee. Off topic even further now so please stop here if you're a thrusting executive and time equals money and all that stuff. Anyhow a friend has sent me a fabulous Tommy Cooper gag.... 'A bloke came up to me and said "I'm going to chop the bottom off one of your trouser legs and put it in the library". I thought, that's a turn up for the books.' Don't tell me Sir Heathcliff Richard wouldn't have loved that one... xx john ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 13:21:30 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:21:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Mystic Tag References: <34f8be22.11214456@email.mcmail.com> <34F2CBF2.B1DAED5@virgin.net> <34f6ab74.31328007@email.mcmail.com> Message-ID: <34F6BDDA.DEEDBC81@virgin.net> Tag wrote: > SCORPIO: > Now if you could just stop thinking about shagging all the time, you > might be OK. I recommend cold showers or bromide in your tea, then > maybe you can stop thinking with your bits and enjoy life. > IDEAL MATCH: Frankly, Pisces are the only ones daft enough to put up > with you. Either that or lock yourself in a cupboard with a fellow > Scorp and stop trying to cop off with the rest of us. > OTHER SCORPIOS: Winona Ryder, Prince Charles, Demi Moore Why are Scorpios only compatible with Pisceans? David's a Pisces's ... hey this seems kinda coincidental or such ... > PISCES: > You big soppy lovable pussycat. You may be utterly hopeless and > incapable of living with any concept of reality, but you can always > rely on the fact that people will come up to you, pat you on the head > and say 'Awwwww, aren't you sweet?'. But what the hell are you doing > surfing the net on your birthday? You really should get out more. > IDEAL MATCH: Scorpio, Cancer Why does that completely describe David to a t? Hang on, ... Tag, have you bloody rigged this thing? :) Yours hopefully, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 13:22:42 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:22:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: SINISTER:totp References: Message-ID: <34F6BE22.DF955960@virgin.net> Adam the fool wrote: > And would there be any chance of getting warning when the chart show > etc are going to show videos? I try my hardest ... ! I did warn you all when it was on MTV. *sniff* is that not good enough? Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From honey at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 14:29:04 1998 From: honey at xxx.net (Honey) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:29:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Marks&Spencer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, john wigham wrote: > NEW!! B&S - living the songs project... > > Anyone in the Newcastle area fancy going into Marks and Spencers and > turning some tables round, and seeing if they seem to mind or not? Brilliant! Let's have a National Living Songs Tour. 2/3/98: Hull, smoking cigarettes with a thespian in a caravnette. 3/3/98: Chelsea, The Knocking School, where we will all meet Lisa (cheat). 4/3/98: Exeter, The Duke's School: all making life-sized models of the Velvet Underground in clay. 5/3/98: Liverpool (matinee in Widnes): presumably an orgy in terry underwear. 6/3/98: Edinburgh: where we will all be Honey's with a following of innocent boys, sitting on a sofa watching Sid James and filling our fat faces with every different kind of cake. Tickets available from Jeepster Recordings Ltd now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u9702079 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 14:51:52 1998 From: u9702079 at xxx.uk (Jimbob Harper '98) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:51:52 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Helloooooo B&S peeps Message-ID: <199802271449.OAA00346@athena.bournemouth.ac.uk> Hello everyone! I'm new here and am suitably impressed by the number of B&S fans there are out there. How many of you have seen B&S live? Was it good? A bit miffed today: Tori Amos tour dates clash with uni exams. Someone e-mailed about the band Theaudience: I SAY: do not believe the hype - they're pants (even though the lead singer, daughter of Blue Peter host Janet Ellis, is a bit of a cutie) - please do not waste your hard earned money on such feeble antics! Will speak again once I've ploughed through the next 500 e-mails. Jimbob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From M9523138 at xxx.UK Fri Feb 27 15:13:42 1998 From: M9523138 at xxx.UK (Eimeir Tereasa McCartan) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: andrew's comment Message-ID: dear Andrew Summers, To be joyful when you have nothing means you are either insane or a born again christian OR even worse those interminable bores who tell you when you so much as frown to cheer up.Ican tell everybody I have never gone out and had a good time without a chemical crutch, that is the proper order of things.BURN DOWN THE DISCO(UNLESS YOURE PISSED) CORMAC RAFFERTY(the incoherent rambler) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Thu Feb 26 14:56:44 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:56:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Top of the Pops In-Reply-To: <199802260709_MC2-34C3-2617@compuserve.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Ruth McCurry wrote: > Like Keith, I'm looking forward to Cornershop appearing on TOTP. As long as > that adorable Jayne Muddlemuss is presenting it... Oh yes. She is somewhat... wholesome. I managed to get a couple of those posters from Barretts shoe shop. I just kept repeating that they were "for a friend". BTW, every week, Ceefax put the running order for TOTP on the Top 40 page (p565). Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | F**k my hat - I didn't know that! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jossleag at xxx.ie Fri Feb 27 15:25:20 1998 From: jossleag at xxx.ie (Joss & Leagues) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:25:20 GMT Subject: Sinister: TOTP Message-ID: >Is there an official line on B and S and TOTP? I mean, would the band >appear on the show if they ever, for some reason, got round to releasing a >new EP and it scraped the Top 20? Or do they have too many principles? >Couldn't they do a New Order and insist on playing live? It said a while ago on S David's site that when 369 charted they were asked to play and said yes. Then TOTP said they didn' want them. Then it was on again, and finally off. I suppose this means that there is no objection. Nickie wrote: >2) a northern soul compilation (good thing about this being that i love ns >but bad thing being that Vanessa Paradis is on it - Ms. Paradis dusn't seem >to have a northern soul, to me, mate) There's a really good northern soul comp called Cooler Shakers (i know) out at the moment. It only costs £6.99 too. They have it in Freebird, Eden Quay, just over O Connell bridge. Hope this is of some help. love joss ______________________________________________________________________________ "it's yer Moorkens and yer Rogerson guy..." jossleag at iol.ie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From u9702079 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 15:37:27 1998 From: u9702079 at xxx.uk (Jimbob Harper '98) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:37:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Marks&Spencer Message-ID: <199802271535.PAA05942@athena.bournemouth.ac.uk> John, not a bad idea - but only if we can try and catch some thrush from kissing railings? Jimbob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From 100670.3522 at xxx.com Fri Feb 27 15:39:02 1998 From: 100670.3522 at xxx.com (Ruth McCurry) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:39:02 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Live? Message-ID: <199802271042_MC2-34E2-A33F@compuserve.com> Jimbob wrote: How many of you have seen B and S live? Was it good? That second question is a bit of a complicated one. I can only use phrases like `I've never seen anything like it in my life' and `How can you scream and shout and dance and jump up and down when your heart is literally melting and it's all you can do to remember to breathe'. Mmm, it's good. I keep seeing that video by Theaudience, and I do find it worryingly arousing. My absolute favourite at the moment is Gone till November by Wyclef. I think he's in the Fugees (who I Hate), but this is one of the loveliest things I have ever heard, and the video makes me cry. It even has Bob Dylan in it. Has anyone else heard this song? Is it out yet? I can't find it anywhere. My ex-wife tells me that she went to see Cornershop and Oasis in Tampa and managed to sell Liam's tambourine for $800. Apparently he threw it at her in a fit because she was heckling. Was anyone else at that show? Is this true? (Sorry, this is all a bit personal, I know!) Lots of love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From keith at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 14:57:15 1998 From: keith at xxx.uk (Keith Watson) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:57:15 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Russell Grant Message-ID: <01bd438f$fe0b0000$250129c2@rainbow.qss.co.uk> >> IDEAL MATCH: Frankly, Pisces are the only ones daft enough to put up >> with you. Either that or lock yourself in a cupboard with a fellow >> Scorp and stop trying to cop off with the rest of us. > OTHER SCORPIOS: Winona Ryder, Prince Charles, Demi Moore That was utterly amazing Tag, cause I copped off with Winona Ryder, Demi Moore and Prince Charles in one night last week. Charles was top, I told him that and he came over with a royal flush. >Why does that completely describe David to a t? Hang on, ... Tag, have >you bloody rigged this thing? :) Haha, it's well cool that one, I've spotted a few people in there, one that i know very well. Mr. Dean, hopefully the Chris Geddes one isn't too much like you, I'd hate to think of you huyeying all over your keyboard at work! It was very nice to meet Dr.JugHustler (which is the psuedonym for Lance Corporal Peter Miller) last night, and have a nice chat about Socio-Afro-Political music with Afros, so I'm spending the entire day listening to Marvin Gaye. It's raining in Edinburgh too, so I too am pondering about the wrongs of the world whilst standing in a puddle. I tell you what I hate about this list, is that I come in to work in the morning and read a load of very entertaining messages, then, as I did at the morning, sitting over the open button in anticipation of the last message in my mailbox, and when you open it, it goes.. unsubscribe sinister Which is pretty depressing. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 16:03:44 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:03:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Marks&Spencer References: Message-ID: <34F6E3E0.4DE5@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> john wigham wrote: > > NEW!! B&S - living the songs project... > > Anyone in the Newcastle area fancy going into Marks and Spencers and > turning some tables round, and seeing if they seem to mind or not? > -- > john wigham I'm in durham so if you fancy doing this depending on schedules i may be up for it. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From lgirva13 at xxx.edu Fri Feb 27 16:40:41 1998 From: lgirva13 at xxx.edu (Laurel Girvan) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:40:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: sinister's in the family way In-Reply-To: Message-ID: just dropping a quick note in the midst of frenzied studying to welcome amanda's mad dad to our happy list. mr dad, you are indeed a post genius and will no doubt become our pater laureate in no time at all. everyone in chat, i love you dearly but my exam in approximately....*laurel looks at the clock*....one hour does not allow time for catching up with you until this evening when i will be logging on from EVANSTON ILLINOIS WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!! see you luvvers then, laurel xxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 16:45:48 1998 From: EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk (ELIZABETH DAPLYN) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:45:48 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Non-satellite sinistereans of the world unite! Message-ID: > Adam the fool wrote: > > > And would there be any chance of getting warning when the chart show > > etc are going to show videos? > > I try my hardest ... ! I did warn you all when it was on MTV. > Thank you very much, but unfortunately some of us aren't wi' t' satellite posse grroove thang, and have to make do with pooey old terrestrial TV. > is that not good enough? > No! Do they tell you when they're going to play certain videos on the Chart Show? If they don't they all smell of wee and beetroot. That is my final word on the matter, unless I think of something else to say about it later. In which case it won't be. Here's one for all you Kurt Vonnegut Jr. fans out there: Are B&S fans a granfalloon or a karass? Just a thought... > ByeBye, > Liz. > (edaplynr3n00297 at kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) > > *********************************************************** > > Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher > Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, > So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly > Singing about her head, as she rode by. > > Robert Graves > > *********************************************************** > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 15:48:20 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:48:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Come come ye sons of Art (and daughters) References: <199802271250.MAA07765@hgty.capgemini.co.uk> Message-ID: <34F6E044.B3BD8FEA@virgin.net> Johnston, John CT wrote: > I think when we do have the first picnic they should occur all over the > world; wherever 2 or more sinisterenes are gathered together. We could > then arrange for Elton John (or even better - Sonia) to sing a medly of > his/her hits in perhaps London and then jet off to the USA - live-aid > style. umm, yeah to the simultaenous picnics ... mebbe no to the singing ... it'd be nice to actually set a date for this picnic thing, so if everyone wants to have a think and make a suggestion (either to me or the list), we can try to organise it ... > I shall make some of my mother's celebrated Anzac cookies for the day. > And bring my frisbee. Do you have such things over here? (the ANZAC biscuits, i mean!) ... i thought that was just an Australian thing. 1st non-aussie to say what ANZAC is, wins a prize! :) Cheers, Katrina. oh, and for all of you hunting for the elusive spotters points, do quotes count??? > Fifty points for > hearing Katrina say "personally, I don't have a problem with bootlegging" hee hee! :)) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeepster.uk at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 16:45:43 1998 From: jeepster.uk at xxx.net (Jeepster Recordings Ltd) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:45:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: PE References: <34ED3061.6AB2@gil.com.au> Message-ID: <34F6EDB7.9C48E8A4@virgin.net> shelley wilkinson wrote: > but since that was not really anywhere near the point, i shall relate my > *proper* p.e. story. being naturally athletic, of course i have no > traumas related to school sports ;) i do have a question though. when > we'd have swimming our teachers would threaten us with the old > "chemicals that turned purple in the pool etc " chestnut. was this just > an australian" thing or is it a global lie? seeing as no-one else has replied,it must just be an aussie thing .. ho-hum. bastard pe teachers though, i once tried it to see if they were fibbing and my mind must have been so corrupted with fibs that the water did seem a litle purplish ... how dare they mess with kids minds, isn't that what parents are for??? speaking of parents corrupting minds, does anyone want to hear a crap story? when i was little, our tv had knobs on it that you could change the tuning with (and other's to change the volume and channel obviously). well, after having to put up with the tele coming on at full volume far too many times what with my brother and i fiddling with the knobs on it, (tag & peter, please, no innuendo here ... thanks!), my mum and dad yelled at us and said if we play with the knobs, then "Bill" will come and get us. "Bill" was the voice of the man that used to talk when the transmission for Channel 7 went down and all you were left with was the Channel 7 logo and Bill saying something along the lines of "sorry, there has been a problem but your program will be up again as soon as we sort the problem out" in this really stern deep dark and scary (for a four year old!) voice. mum and dad (being the fab but slightly bonkers parents they are) would pretend that that was our punishment for fiddling with the knobs, and i clearly remember being so bloody scared that i would hide behind the sofa, scream "i didn't do anything, it wasn't me" at the top of my lungs and start crying 'cos i was so petrified. was what that saying ... "they f*** you up your mum and dad ...." ? but now i wish to god that australia was an awful lot closer to london than it is ... oh, well. hope you haven't all fallen asleep, sorry. cheers, Katrina. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rod at xxx.com Fri Feb 27 16:54:22 1998 From: rod at xxx.com (Rod Begbie) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:54:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Helloooooo B&S peeps In-Reply-To: <199802271449.OAA00346@athena.bournemouth.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jimbob Harper '98 wrote: > Hello everyone! > I'm new here and am suitably impressed by the number of B&S fans there are > out there. > How many of you have seen B&S live? Was it good? > > A bit miffed today: > Tori Amos tour dates clash with uni exams. Tori Amos tour dates? Where? When? How? > Someone e-mailed about the band Theaudience: > > I SAY: > do not believe the hype - they're pants (even though the lead singer, > daughter of Blue Peter host Janet Ellis, is a bit of a cutie) - please do > not waste your hard earned money on such feeble antics! theaudience = (what I said the other day about Salad)^3 Sophie is *INCREDIBLY* lovely[1], but the music is *INCREDIBLY* dull. The single is like they'd copied Salad's "quiet bit, loud bit, quiet bit" formula, but forgotten the loud bits. Rod. [1] Plus the fact that I fancied Janet Ellis when I was 9. The feature where she was on Blue Peter in a jacuzzi was a defining moment of my life. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | And then I woke up. "Phew," I said. "It was all a dream." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 17:01:12 1998 From: EDAPLYNR3N00297 at xxx.uk (ELIZABETH DAPLYN) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:01:12 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Tune all your voices and instruments play Message-ID: > Subject: Sinister: Come come ye sons of Art (and daughters) > Sinister Picnics: this is a fabulous idea, even if I will propbably have to skive off college to go. Where would the London one be held? Where were those ones which the David/Katrina unit used to go to? > I think when we do have the first picnic they should occur all over > the > world; wherever 2 or more sinisterenes are gathered together. We could > then arrange for Elton John (or even better - Sonia) to sing a medly > of > his/her hits in perhaps London and then jet off to the USA - live-aid > style. > Definitely. Perhaps we could get Sonia to do some B&S covers. "You're Just A Baby" would seem appropriate. > I shall make some of my mother's celebrated Anzac cookies for the day. > And bring my frisbee. > I shall bring chocolate Rice Crispie thingies and lots of sweets of the acidic and delicious variety. B&S picnic menu! Let's go! And now for something completely different: "Children's" authors I still love: Diana Wynne Jones: real people in *kiddy* literature! Whatever next! T.H. White: anyone who's read Mistress Masham's Repose or The Sword In The Stone (not just a Disney cartoon, surprisingly) will understand. Joan Aiken: Dido Twite is simply the coolest girl ever. Roald Dahl: he's still great, despite being dead. Enough rambling already. ByeBye, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297 at kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) *********************************************************** Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. Robert Graves *********************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andrewnic at xxx.com Fri Feb 27 17:34:41 1998 From: Andrewnic at xxx.com (Andrewnic) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:34:41 EST Subject: Sinister: Marks&Spencer Message-ID: <6ccbec8c.34f6f933@aol.com> In a message dated 27/02/1998 13:34:09 GMT, you write: << NEW!! B&S - living the songs project... Anyone in the Newcastle area fancy going into Marks and Spencers and turning some tables round, and seeing if they seem to mind or not? >> Will we be seeing you in lycra? Ghandi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.hopkins at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 16:42:57 1998 From: t.hopkins at xxx.uk (Hopkins T) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:42:57 -0000 Subject: Sinister: RE: Roxanne Roxanne Message-ID: <199802271743.RAA01920@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> The list's resident Roy 'Chubby' Brownalike Peter Miller said... >The point is, I suspect that the best music >of the eighties ws hip hop. I don't know much about it, but when the reissue >scene gets its act together, I'll be there, fifty years old walking around >without any laces in my "sneakers". Seems to me that the 'best' music from any decade is the stuff one likes the most. Unless, of course, I don't like it, in which case it is objectively bad. > To help prepare myself, can anyone >remind me of the name of a girl rapper who swore a lot. I'm sure the >character Angela, played by Rosie Perez, in "Night on Earth" was based on >her. It was Roxanne something or other, but not Roxanne Shante, who was >equally adorable. It was on John Peel a lot. Making any sense? Perhaps I >dreamt it. You fat clown. You probably did dream it, but unfortunately your credibility is rescued by the fact that the lovely Real Roxanne seems to fit the bill...And yes, she did have somnething of a foul mouth as I remember, reserving her venom particularly for Roxanne Shante. Ah, hip hop slanging matches. Wouldn't it be good if Belle and Sebastian got into a recorded slanging match with some of their contemporaries? Perhaps they could see their way clear to 'dissing' Mogwai? A little vinyl spat between a few bands, slinging the insults just for fun, that would be cool. bye Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 19:00:19 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:00:19 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Tune all your voices and instruments play References: Message-ID: <34F70D43.995CF7FF@totalweb.co.uk> ELIZABETH DAPLYN wrote: > > > Subject: Sinister: Come come ye sons of Art (and daughters) > > > Sinister Picnics: this is a fabulous idea, even if I will propbably have > to skive off college to go. Where would the London one be held? Where > were those ones which the David/Katrina unit used to go to? depends, primrose hill is the best location if everyone's travelling to it, easy to find, spacious and a great feeling to look down on london. but some of the most succesfull picnics happened behind the garage in islington, simply because so many people were living in north london and would make that extra effort if it were closer. since evryone is travelling at least some distance for this, i suggest we go to the more epic of the two, primrose hill. at least you can climb trees there and roll down the hill. as well as just appreciate the view. and as for the first, well how about may day? as long as thirty people turn up it'll be a success, but please let us know if you can come so we know whether it's worth while doing (mail me privately). if this works then it is a good idea, and we'll do more during the summer. anyone in the states want to organise one there at the same time? > > I think when we do have the first picnic they should occur all over > > the > > world; wherever 2 or more sinisterenes are gathered together. We could > > then arrange for Elton John (or even better - Sonia) to sing a medly > > of > > his/her hits in perhaps London and then jet off to the USA - live-aid > > style. > > > Definitely. Perhaps we could get Sonia to do some B&S covers. "You're > Just A Baby" would seem appropriate. i like the world unity thing, but not the singing, unless we all decided to sing judy and the dream of horses at exactly midday! then i'd participate. david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bluesoda at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 19:02:58 1998 From: bluesoda at xxx.uk (David & Katrina) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:02:58 +0000 Subject: Sinister: official site updated Message-ID: <34F70DE2.455A34E0@totalweb.co.uk> stuart david made some chanegs to his site yesterday, thought you'd like to know. new news! david PS: if you don't know where it's at: http://www.totalweb.co.uk/belleandsebastian/ -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From skg21 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 27 19:25:17 1998 From: skg21 at xxx.uk (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: NB&SC. Now there's a suprise... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Greetings earthlings... On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Rod Begbie wrote: > > [1] Plus the fact that I fancied Janet Ellis when I was 9. The feature > where she was on Blue Peter in a jacuzzi was a defining moment of my life. Didn't we all... I reckon you can judge someone's age by which Blue Peter presenter you fancied as a kid. Sarah Greene? Janet Ellis? Karen Keating? But there is a far more important question to be answered; Betty or Wilma? Hooray for Tag, winner of the most entertaining email of the week contest. Award yourself 5 spotter points for each listee you recognised from their starsign. And minus 5 if one of them is yourself ;-) The slightly-higher-than-average person ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From bullis at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 19:42:35 1998 From: bullis at xxx.net (Todd) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:42:35 -0500 Subject: Sinister: No B&S - ANZAC Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980227144235.007a1100@pop.avana.net> ANZAC - Australia New Zealand Army Corps ANZAC Day - April 25 - A National Day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand who lost their lives on April 25, 1915. "This day of days again we keep In memory of those who sleep Away beyond the quiet sea... Away in far Gallipolli Tis Anzac Day - tis Anzac Day Our soldier comrades far away They died in war that we in peace May live and love that war may cease" this information purloined from an ANZAC website as I, being a self-absorbed American, had never heard of ANZAC or the country of New Zealand before today. So...ummm...what do I get? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From aes at xxx.net Fri Feb 27 23:51:43 1998 From: aes at xxx.net (Andrew Summers) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:51:43 -0500 Subject: Sinister: picnic Message-ID: <199802272351.PAA26604@mailtod-142.iap.bryant.webtv.net> last summer i got a super-duper-delux picnic basket. wicker, gingham blue blankee and napkins, china plates, nice flatware, the werks. very brideshead revisited meets room with a clue. i became a picnic-a-holic and am quite fond of them. i would be more than willing to head up the new york picnic account...where? the cloisters? perfect. i have the wicker, but becoming macrobiotic 4 months ago could be a problem. miso soup and brown rice doesnt sound very festive. andy (#3) my art/home page is just a click away: http://www.angelfire.com/fl/aeshome/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From blink at xxx.net Sat Feb 28 02:38:14 1998 From: blink at xxx.net (blink at xxx.net) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:38:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: lets jam baby Message-ID: <199802280238.VAA08664@Vector.inexpress.net> Dear Sinisters, oh deary...yeahhh ha March break! I jsut wanted to say I FINALLY got a Pastels cd today,and it only cost me 3 dollars! Whoooo! Hey..this Leo got the craposcope..how come the Aires and everyone else get such lovely ones> Dawring dawring!??? eep,they're gonna hit me!must split...kiss kiss and all that jazz... luvvvGenevieve HOW will I survive without the sexy dose of Sinister! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From PKHINTZ at xxx.com Sat Feb 28 04:52:09 1998 From: PKHINTZ at xxx.com (PKHINTZ) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 23:52:09 EST Subject: Sinister: My own private Glasgow Message-ID: <4af1bbba.34f797fc@aol.com> Dr. Minka, So I had this dream a few weeks ago. Belle and Sebastian moved across the ocean to Washington DC to become a certain listee's* neighbors. I was very jealous--I threw a fit and squealed like a piggy. She soon joined the band to sing backup vocals. Yeah, it was great to hear her on the songs, but is not the house next to me good enough for the band? Can not I stand on the stage and sing?--no one would probably even notice me with the other hundred members of the band. Hrrumph. *(Name withheld not to give B&S any ideas; I do not like to be a piggy). And, Art, er, Mr. Bergman, I swear I was a perfect gentleman when Amanda and I had lunch. So, I was quiet, but I was jetlagged. She loaned me a few dollars, but I had no money. I think we must praise your childrearing talents for bringing up such a generous soul who feels it is her personal duty to give everyone in the world a copy of _Tigermilk_. Others hear and refuse the call; Amanda embraces that side of her humanity. God bless her. Throw Isobel off the bridge Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From alaning at xxx.fr Sat Feb 28 11:08:30 1998 From: alaning at xxx.fr (Alan.H) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:08:30 +0100 Subject: Sinister: NBSC : won't you take me to funky town? Message-ID: <199802281122.MAA25388@mail3.hol.fr> hi, does anyone know of a FELT website? i'm trying to find out the contents of the "pictoral jackson review/train above the city" CD...ie tracklisting, etc. love, alan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rwilkin at xxx.au Sat Feb 28 12:35:36 1998 From: rwilkin at xxx.au (shelley wilkinson) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:35:36 +1000 Subject: Sinister: picnics and anzacs and very little B&S Message-ID: <34F80498.36E2@gil.com.au> katrina wrote: >umm, yeah to the simultaenous picnics ... mebbe no to the singing ... >it'd be nice to actually set a date for this picnic thing, so if >everyone wants to have a think and make a suggestion (either to me or >the list), we can try to organise it ... i'll be leaving these fair shores for england at the end of march, so anytime after that would suit me to a t :) >> I shall make some of my mother's celebrated Anzac cookies for the day. >> And bring my frisbee. >Do you have such things over here? (the ANZAC biscuits, i mean!) ... i >thought that was just an Australian thing. >1st non-aussie to say what ANZAC is, wins a prize! :) then todd astounded us (well, me) quite promptly with a correct reply .. >ANZAC - Australia New Zealand Army Corps etc etc >this information purloined from an ANZAC website as I, being a >self-absorbed American, had never heard of ANZAC or the country of New >Zealand before today. hmmm. >So...ummm...what do I get? well, quite a good answer, but you forgot to mention mel gibson (and his starring role as a fresh faced youngster in the fil-m galipolli.... ) which would have scored you an extra 20 points and a copy of an *authentic* anzac recipe. you'll have to settle for a bushmans hat with corks tied with string all the way around to keep away the blowies and a delicious vat of vegemite. if i have enough gum leaves to pay the postage i may even send you a cute kangaroo or koala too (we keep them as pets, you know?) hooroo cobbers! shelley ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cja1000 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 28 13:08:36 1998 From: cja1000 at xxx.uk (Chris) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 13:08:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Clothing Message-ID: Does anybody have a jogging top I could borrow - large-ish, probably man sized? C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From mctag at xxx.com Sat Feb 28 13:42:32 1998 From: mctag at xxx.com (Tag) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 13:42:32 GMT Subject: Sinister: my powers were weak, but now they are stronger In-Reply-To: <199802280232.CAA11391@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> References: <199802280232.CAA11391@sloth.ph.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34fa132d.2112956@email.mcmail.com> Hello, Chris Leonard wrote: >It is good that you have joined us and I'm sure you will enjoy the >Sinister Shananigans. There are occasional obscenities and non-subtle >innuendoes but you will soon spot which authors have dirty minds, and >avoid them as I do. > >Amanda is a charming young lady and is very welcome to stay with my >family during her holiday to the UK next month. She will be well looked >after and fed porridge. > >I hope this find you well, > >Christopher Yes, welcome Mr Bergman. Now doesn't Chris sound like the sort of boy you'd like your daughter to bring home. Katrina wrote: >Why does that completely describe David to a t? Hang on, ... Tag, have >you bloody rigged this thing? :) Nothing gets past you does it, Katrina? Keith wrote: >That was utterly amazing Tag, cause I copped off with Winona Ryder, Demi >Moore and Prince Charles in one night last week. Charles was top, I told him >that and he came over with a royal flush. Now you didn't, Keith, it was Chris and Paul in disguise. And was that Northy with the crown and big ears? >Hey..this Leo got the craposcope..how come the Aires and everyone else get >such lovely ones> Oh dear, the visions were a bit blurry at that point, all I could see was the terrifying future for Scottish male Leos in Australia. But I see more clearly now: I see a log cabin in Sweden, a plate of crepes and maple syrup, and a Leo girl being being waited on hand and foot by a record store boy and a Milhouse-a-like bass player, while her sparkly orange husband herds reindeer and gathers fuel for a roaring fire ... Goodbye you lovable bundles of fun, Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk Sat Feb 28 13:43:12 1998 From: R.J.Anderson at xxx.uk (Richard Anderson) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 13:43:12 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Im Feeling sinister Message-ID: <34F81470.3EBB@smtphost.dur.ac.uk> Hi guys I just bought sinister after finding the shop bereft of copies on tuesday. How about organising the table turning event for a certain day at a certain time and giving everybody a certain item of clothing to wear so we can recognise each other. Kinda like a national blind ('cause we wasn't careful) date. Off to listen to my new purchase. Richard Anderson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 28 16:34:12 1998 From: C.Browning-95 at xxx.uk (C Browning) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:34:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: jangly pop Message-ID: alright, very little - okay nothing at all - to do with Belle and Sebastian but as all you lot seem to have such mighty fine music tastes and all that i wonder if you could help me. i bought today for the princely sum of two pounds a rather wonderful album by a band called PO! called Ducks and Drakes. apart from teh fact that they are on a label called Rutland Records and appear to come from Leicestershire i know pants all else about them. as they seem to be ever so slightly jangly pop and i get the impression that there are a few more than knowledgeable folk out there when it comes to music i was wondering if you could fill me in on any details about this band and all that. cheers! chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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Or, Bridget was attempting to attack the feather duster next to the CD player. I gave her a kitty treat. When are the B&S t-shirts coming out in pet sizes? It is a family affair after all. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Arthur.Bergman at xxx.net Sat Feb 28 12:00:10 1998 From: Arthur.Bergman at xxx.net (Arthur Bergman) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 98 12:00:10 Eastern Daylight Time Subject: Sinister: sinister digest Message-ID: <199802281700.LAA21960@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> Well, i received my first issue of Sinister Digest. It's not quite Reader's Digest, but far more wieldy for my aging brain that dozens of individual messages. Thanx to those for the greetings. I tried visiting Andrew Summer's web page but only got a message telling me they couldn't find the file I requested, and then a message that the script was too long. (I didn't even know I had to read for the part.) If there is a way in, please let me know. I guess the boy done wrong again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . 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Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From ahalter at xxx.edu Sat Feb 28 20:11:00 1998 From: ahalter at xxx.edu (ahalter) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:11:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: texas is the reason (non b&s) Message-ID: hello kiddies i apologise this has nothing to do with b&s but i am going to texas next week for the first time in my life to visit my parents who moved there while i was away at school... they live in a suburb of forth worth but i remember that someone on this list is from austin and i very much want to go there on a day trip so i was wondering if there were any suggestions on where to go what to do etc... and if you could email me privately and respond it would be very much appreciated thank you!!! in advance! allison ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at majordomo.net". . 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References: <34F5A881.4E03@herts.ac.uk> Message-ID: <34F88857.4E556E3A@american.edu> i would recommend buying crooked rain, crooked rain first. since its the most pop and easily accesible it will convert you to a pavement lover immediately. slanted remains fourth in my list of favorite pavement albums (after wowee zowee, crooked, and stuff up the cracks - a bootleg). by the way, there is a pavement mailing list and it is really quite good. the address for it is pavement at uts.edu.au i believe you just put "subscribe" in the message... boy sets fire NicamBurnie wrote: > You said: > > > Can you recommend a good first (Pavement) > > album to waste my hard-(non)earned cash on? I'm just an ickle > > ignorant > > girlie who doesn't know what she's doing in a big scary record > > emporium... > > > > I say: > > Buy all of them! Erm, that doesn't help much does it? Well, > why don't you start from the beginning (because they're all great) with > SLANTED AND ENCHANTED. Very scratchy sounding compared to their new, > hi-fi (as opposed to lo-fi, yawn!) stuff, but still my favourite album > of theirs, probably. Yeah, go out and buy it.....but take care in the > BIG SCARY RECORD emporium..............("emporium"?)....hmmmmmmm... > > *******I ask anyone:************** > > Is there a Pavement mailing list? > > ********************************** > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From cj1530a at xxx.edu Sat Feb 28 22:03:36 1998 From: cj1530a at xxx.edu (boy sets fire) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:03:36 -0500 Subject: Sinister: it's a family affair! References: Message-ID: <34F889B7.3AED155A@american.edu> hey, how is northwestern by the way? i was thinking of going there but then i got to the part where you actually have to fill out the application and whatnot ... :).. amanda's dad: welcome to the list .. :) boy sets fire Amanda Bergman wrote: > Look! My dad subscribed to the list! Except he had a bit of trouble > figuring out how to post initially, so I'm forwarding his first reply to > list mail. Now he knows what to do, though, for next time! This had been a > reply to boysetsfire or whoever who posted from American University in > Washington DC, inquiring about other B&S fans. My dad has great post > potential...I have faith that in time he might even come to be ranked among > the Tags and PJ Millers and Keith Watsons of the list! > > Now, let's have a nice carp and innuendo filled Sinister welcome for my > dad, Big Art Bergman! > > byebye, > AmandaSwan > > >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 22:45:33 Eastern Daylight Time > >From: Arthur Bergman > >To: Amanda Bergman > >Subject: east coast bs fans > > > >Sure there are B&S fans on the east coast (assuming you refer to the > >continental US). Some are young, > >very few are older, and some even remember the Zombies and Donovan in real > >time. So you're not > >alone, now get off the internet and study so your parental units will be > >proud of you. Had you gone to a > >certain school in Rhode Island, and made great contributions to education > >there, you could have told > >people "I gave myself to Providence College, the state that I am in." > >Keep humming along! > > ------------------ > Amanda Bergman > Northwestern University > a-bergman at nwu.edu > > "I've got style, miles and miles, so much style that it's wasted." > > --Pavement > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. > . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net > . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister at 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 at majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------