Sinister: Will this do?

[Johnston, John CT]

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
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>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?
>
><sigh> 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
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