Sinister: Monica Queen

Thu Feb 5 00:12:41 GMT 1998

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 <owner-sinister-digest at xxx.net>
> 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
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> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:38:10 PST
> From: "David Murrow" <dfactor at xxx.com>
> 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
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:41:29 GMT+0
> From: "g.j.bevis" <g.j.bevis at xxx.uk>
> 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!')
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> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 11:09:25 +0000
> From: "Thaian N Ton " <thaiant at xxx.gov>
> Subject: Sinister: Et Cetera
> 
> *
> 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
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:15:59 +0100
> From: "PJMiller" <pjmiller at xxx.es>
> Subject: RE: Sinister: the voice that you are hearing....
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> De: Doin' The Do <rod at begbie.com>
> Para: Strange Bed-Fellows <sinister at majordomo.net>
> 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
> 
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:06:27 +0100
> From: "PJMiller" <pjmiller at xxx.es>
> Subject: RE: Sinister: ...but that of Nick Nolte...
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> De: David & Katrina <bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk>
> Para: B&S <sinister at majordomo.net>
> 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
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:04:32 -0500 (EST)
> From: Francisco Alberto Wong <faw1 at xxx.edu>
> 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
> 
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:18:17 +0100
> From: "PJMiller" <pjmiller at xxx.es>
> Subject: RE: Sinister: ...is not my speaking voice....
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> De: Tag <mctag at mcmail.com>
> Para: sinister at majordomo.net <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
> 
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:07:25 -0600 (CST)
> From: Schaffenberger <kschaffe at xxx.edu>
> 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> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:03:55 -0000
> From: Keith Watson <keith at xxx.uk>
> 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.
> 
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:20:43 +0000 (GMT)
> From: The loneliness of the middle-distance runner <rewb2 at xxx.uk>
> 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'

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