August 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Philadelphia
by FoxInASnow＠aol.com 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Scott Turner thoughtlessly remarked: > On a B&S note: I sure hope they don't come to philadelphia, this city > really sucks and they'll hate it here. Hush! Don't say things like that too loud or they'll hear you and decide not to come. Having grown up in Allentown, about an hour north of Philly, i can assure you that there are far worse places to be than Philadelphia. "Allentown" (Billy Joel gets yet another mention on Sinister, who'd have thought it?) might not really have been written about Allentown, but the city still sucks. Come to Philadelphia, please, sweet Belle and Sebastian. We'll show you a good time, i promise. By the way, Honey: i'm watching you. Jess +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by James 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

hi list, hmm, well, sorry to be a pain but when I asked for directions to the Nottingham gig, I kind of meant how do we get to the Marcus Garvey centre when we get to the town? I wouldn't have bothered sending this to set the record straight, only I couldn't bear people thinking that I'm so utterly primitive that I couldn't look at a map and find out how to get to Nottingham. It's just I don't particularly feel like going to all the trouble of laying my hands on a map of Nottingham city centre, and I've heard on the grapevine that it has an unusually hellish one-way system, and if I ended up missing any of the gig stuck on a ring-road......well, you know what I mean. OK, here's a little ink polaroid to make up for talking about route-planning - This is of me and my friend Melanie. We're sitting in a big sunny park with our trouser legs rolled up and our feet are dangling in a little gurgly stream. From across the stream is the sound of children in the playground. We're both craning our necks, looking behind us in the same direction across the field. The reason she looks kind of mystified is that a lady that we don't know has just shouted both of our names in the distance, and the reason I'm giggling insanely is because I've just realised that the lady is walking two dogs called Molly and Moose. Moose is Melanie's nickname. till sunbeams find you Molly xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Genevieve, said the Parrot dreamily
by oon 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

sorry i forgot to name the next Poetry Parrot holder. let's hear it from the lovely Genevieve. welcome back :) love, oon xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Strong Island
by Scott Turner 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

On 17 August at 16:59 GMT, brian <bcw4977 wrote: <staten island maybe? though that would be a laugh, to classify staten island as an "exotic place!" the most maligned of the boroughs of New York, it's really only one step away from lawn guyland or new joisey. home of mall rats and auto detailers and all that.....> .... hey, you mustn't forget that running the entire length of staten island is a garbage dump, too!! A real dandy of a place to live. Hey, as for busting on lawn guyland- I grew up in that machismo hell and one of the bestest movies ever, "Trees Lounge", is about that bizarre land, so you better layoff or i'm gonna get on the horn with me old high school mates and we'll run your cosmo ass down in our trans ams and familyvans. On a B&S note: I sure hope they don't come to philadelphia, this city really sucks and they'll hate it here. grumble, grumble, grumble (first day back to work after holiday), .scott +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Poetry Parrot's Pick
by oon 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

finally i've found this. not from real library, i woke up too late. didn't know there's so many poetry websites, but i have much fun reading them that it's hard to choose just one. Sometimes The Sky's Too Bright Dylan Thomas. Sometimes the sky's too bright, Or has too many clouds or birds, And far away's too sharp a sun To nourish thinking of him. Why is my hand too blunt To cut in front of me My horrid images for me, Of over-fruitful smiles, The weightless touching of the lip I wish to know I cannot lift, but can, The creature with the angel's face Who tells me hurt, And sees my body go Down into misery? No stopping. Put the smile Where tears have come to dry. The angel's hurt is left; His telling burns. Sometimes a woman's heart has salt, Or too much blood; I tear her breast, And see the blood is mine, Flowing from her, but mine, And then I think Perhaps the sky's too bright; And watch my hand, But do not follow it, And feel the pain it gives, But do not ache. sad. maybe not very appropriate for Monday, which is a rather sad day in itself. so, here's a lovely little haiku (i suppose) for all you lovely people out there. "As Soft" As soft as a pillow As rosy as an apple's flower As sweet as a strawberry Is my sister after she took ...........a shower. - Inessa Suknovalnik, 1992 i was going to pick this one but it's so short. so now you have two poems :) love, oon xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oh mister sun,sun ,mister golden sun
by blink＠inexpress.net 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Dear Sinister people, ...me and my friend will be getting our own radio show...but i need ideas! i want to be the p!o!p division i tink...i will be playing so much belle and sebastian my ears will fall off from sheer happiness...but ideas suggestion stories other things to play?? and what to call our little wee music hour?? help Peter and Lee's celebration? more birthdays? arctic woman (my mum) and stuarts,is coming up...they need to have joint party i think.. i would get arctic woman a snake battling stick and stuart a reindeer if i could..and even sooner me and bill clinton will be sharing ice cream and cake in 2 days. how does Adrian Evans know my (past tense) Pom-Pom bunny? buzz buzz buzz busy little bee, ouch ouch ouch,don't sting me in the knee genevieve xoxo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oh eight nine one FIFTY! FIFTY! FIFTY!
by Rod Begbie 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

I love having a net connection at home. Get home from the pub, and then answer my e-mails. You'remybeshtfriendintheworld. A good ol'-fashioned mix'n'match stylee message-a-rama: On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chris wrote: > Hurrah! Hooray! My Looper single arrived yesterday. Boo! Hiss! It didn't > have a middle. Which of you bastards stole it? This is why the good lord invented Bluetones 7"s. (You didn't think you were supposed to listen to them, did you?) Pop the middle out of them and attach it to the record of your choice. On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, ELIZABETH DAPLYN wrote: > Isn't Louis Theroux the bloke who did that "Weird Weekends" thing on BBC2 a > while back? That's the man. > Seeing him playing acoustic guitar (sarcastically, if that's > possible) with a proselytising mission for The Family in some godforsaken > American town was a peach, it really was. The bewildered look on their faces when he played George Michael's "Faith" was worth the license fee alone. A second series is being made... I saw a job ad in the Grauniad for a series producer. On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, ELIZABETH DAPLYN wrote: > Hands up everyone who likes that Hillman Minx song "I've Had Enough"? > Marvellous if self-conscious. Hmmm.. reminds me of that Beloved track where they just reel off a list of names. ("Hello"?) The Helen Love track's better. On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, yaniv gafni wrote: > i first heard b$s on the "alternative nation" on mtv. Alternative Nation's about the only place I hear new music these days. It's now taken the place in my life where Mark Radcliffe's old show used to sit -- where I always have a paper and pen handy when I'm listening, so that I can scribble down the names of songs that I want to investigate further - this week's list included Scott 4, Kid Loco and Quickspace (Anyone know when HAPPY SONG #2 comes/came out? Cause it sounded f---ing tops.) On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, poetryplace2 wrote: > I give it a big trousers thumbs-up. Can I nominate "Trouser Thumbs" as the official list euphemism? Night night. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | She's looking real drab, just out of rehab. | I'm talking football, she's talking AbFab. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: welcome home
by Honey 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Ok first off, some people posting to the list seem to be getting errors about failed deliveries back to *themselves* - don't worry too much if you do, just eat them, delete them or forward them to me, and I'll crack the whip. Broken mailers should NOT be doing this, it's against every email standard God invented and my software tells them to send to ME, not little sweet yous, but, gosh, some things just won't be fixed and need a good spanking. Please don't get grumpy with me if I'm a bit slow at responding to things just now - my pulse is weak and I need one of those star trek things like a pifco torch you point at your arm. Do they still have them on star trek or do they use penicillin now? Secondly, Mr BurgerKing wrote: > my friend said he carnt now come > leaving me with a spare ticket to the london gig. > anyone interested ? I'm afraid I tried to reply (or I wouldn't mail the list) but your mail bounced - if you're reading the archives Mr .j On, I've a chum who might like to go, so if you haven't swapped it for a set of shiny beads, a pineapple and a mirror, send me an email. Tape tree particiPANTS will be ribtickled to hear that I included as my grand finale a track which Oon has included on her tape; she's *right* before me in the tree. So you'll get to hear it first on her tape, and by the time you hear mine it'll be an old and slightly crumpled hat. I still count it as a mark of my impeccable good taste though. Also, "donald where's me" with remarkable quotes wrote: > Imagine my suprise then, when I switched on Channel 4s Fresh Pop the > other day, to see that the "honeyz" are, in fact, three lissome > lovelies in an Eternal-esque schmaltz soul troupe. I can only say > that they obviously get their looks from their father. How dare you, they're my sisters. I can be lissome, lovely and schmaltzy with the best of them. They learned it all from me in geography lessons. Exercise 1: Candidates have 15 minutes to write a B&S lyric around that theme. honey'z honey xzzzx P.S. I've decided as a birthday celebration that for the week starting 27th August (yes it's a year popkids), this list will become a "Peters & Lee" list. You have been warned. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Sinister yes yes Ikea have got the Robin CD cabinet in! in GREEN
by Funkyseb＠aol.com 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

JJ wrote: << How many other list songs have there been? I remember the Billy Joel song We Didn't Start The Fire, and of course A House's Endless Art/ More Endless Art (and it's erm tribute, the Divine Comedy's Booklovers) but there must have been more. >> what about 'That's Nice' called by Minty? Maybe not totally a list song, but kind of. For those not lucky enough to have heard it, it consisted of a man reading deadpan list of things 'a cup of tea, and a slice of life' which a squarky woman would then declare 'nice'. It was one of those songs that I hated so much that I ended up loving it to bits, like Fake DIY by Bis, and that one by Tiger. Odd how that happens, isn't it? Actually, that's not really a list song at all is it, but I've written the post now so.... Seb **** PISH! http://members.aol.com/Pishco/index.html**** ***new revamped site (oooh)*** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Move Over Rover, Let Murdi Take Over
by PJMiller 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Tim made me jealous: >I once shook hands with a man who had shaken hands with Clement Dodd, aka Coxsone, the most >important record producer in ska history. Having said that, the fellow whose hand I shook was in >a band supporting Rancid, and no doubt he'd shaken the hand of somebody Rancid more recently >than Coxsone's. So I decided to wash my hand after all. Perhaps as well. I once saw Rancid on the telly, playing at some kind of festival. It was ska, but it was shit ska, and they had pink hair. They look to me like the kind of chaps who stick their hands down their sweaty bum cleavage before shaking hands with anyone. Like in that film that I like, Mallrats. That's my video tip, if they haven't got Clerks, which is better. Being the kind of chap who puts his money where his mouth is, I went out on Friday to buy some ska, the real thing, not the sweaty bum cleavage sort. In the end I couldn't decide between The Best of Don Drummond (who killed his COMMON LAW wife, so that's all right. I bet he tromboned her to death) and The Skatalites' "Ska- Boom- Da - Boom - Boom" album on Top Deck Shandy Records. And then the shop closed and I was all alone. Imagine my joy upon arriving home to find this: I'm >already planning my ska/rocksteady tape for Peter, here. It'll start with the marvellous 'Fat >Man' by Derrick Morgan. It will also include 'Fatty Fatty' by Clancy Eccles, and 'Fattie Fattie' >by The Heptones. Can you spot a theme? Yes, I can. Fatness. Can I have "Eh Fatty Bum Bum" too? In the end I bought another LP awarded the mythical "E" for "Essential" in the reggae book - "My Xperience" by Bounty Killer. It's loud. >You got that idea from The Idler, didn't you? The only idea I got from The Idler was to put The Idler down again and never have flying lessons. Trousers wrote: >(This is from Mr Muldoons forthcoming collection, Hay. You may be interested to know that Paul is the beloved President of The Poetry Society. What a funky organisation we are.) Please congratulate Mr Muldoon on producing the late nineties equivalent of the great John Keats album "What's a Greek Urn?". Is the title of his collection a tribute to the late great Will Hay? Whatever, the poem gave me great pleasure, right up until that bit about batlles or something, that was too hard for me. Sarah wrote: TODAYS moral message kids - if it isn't the Beach Boys, it's crap. The Beach Boys. *nods sagely* yes. I couldn't agree more. I love The Beach Boys. Love Love Love. And Welsh language punk. Genevieve wrote: as my first bunny..Pom-Pom froze to death under a shed, so I will help Pom-Pom's ancestors. I just thought I'd repeat that for Adrian Evans' benefit. I am the vicar out of Dick Emery, but I can bake if called upon to do so. For example, when there's a bread strike. Molly wrote: Me and a friend are going to the Nottingham gig in a car, and we don't know how to do it. Please help us!! If anyone could send us some decent directions for simpletons t'would be much appreciated. We'll be coming from Birmingham if that helps any. Unless I'm wrong, you just get on the M42 and keep going. You could always get the Midland Red X99 bus that connects Birmingham and Nottingham, calling at Tamworth, Ashby, Long Eaton and all points in between. It is one of the finest bus routes in the world. One day the BBC will make a documentary series about it. A song with a list in it is the theme to Only Fools and Horses, and another one is by The Skids. They're both quite good. I'll try not to think of any more, but I can't promise. B&S content: A bridge has just been opened down the road. It's a footbridge connecting the old rambling and charming part of town with the new houses and supermarket. It is a sturdy, well constructed bridge, yet gleefully wobblesome once you're on it. I beleive it is a metaphor for the forthcoming Belle and Sebastian LP, and a sign from Jesus. Oh bloody sod yer then, Bobby Chariot xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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