November 1997 - Sinister

Sinister: I beg to differ
by Sven Fuchs 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

> It seems a lot of what i read on the list is of total > uninterest, I feel a bit reminded on Holden in "The Catcher Int The Rye", when he complained that his teacher encouraged his students to shout "Off-topic" (or something down that line) when the kid who was giving a talk started to talk about something different to the self chosen subject. >Just out of curiosity - people at work: have you got permission to do >this or are you being naughty? Naughty! Sven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: And my latest project is......
by susannah 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

Inspired by Robert McTaggarts attempts with mocking up car crashes in the snow etc. I have decided to go the whole hog and spend an evening recreating those covers with a standard Boots camera....... Dog On Wheels Well, no, actually ' Elephant on Wheels' , a small wooden thing I brought back from India, not quite the same but will have to do. Ruffle my hair in that windswept unwashed stylee and think about how to create the colour ' green' without any of your ponsey camera filters. Decide to cast my mind back to the hangover I had on Saturday , and hey presto, instant jaundiced look. Nick my flatmates hooded top and go and stand outside the neighbours potted geranium. Set camera to auto-bollocks, pose and *CLICK*. Lazy Line Painter Jane Hmmmm. Got the filter thing sorted out now, unwrap a strawberry cream from flatmates box of Quality Street and stick pink cellophane wrapper over camera lens. Bung on old leather jacket from studenty days, find 50p and missing Rimmel lipstick in pocket and am well chuffed. Haven't got a copy of John Polkinghome or whatever, and never even heard of the guy. Think Albert Camus' 'The Plague' is pretentious enough so use that instead. Finally grab McDonalds' 99p sunglasses , sit in the window and think about life. *CLICK* Tigermilk Right then duke of whoever, Keith, Taggart etc, I'd like to see any of YOU lot do this convincingly. So here I am, sat on my bed, practically starkers, all for the sake of 'Art'. Look round for plausible customer.Finally settle on fluffy yellow 'Big Bird' from Sesame Street. It looks ridiculous. I feel ridiculous. It's at this point I begin to wonder if I've actually gone insane and hope my flatmate doesn't come back from Sainsbury's too soon. moving right along.... 3..6..9 seconds of light So how do you go about trying to look 12 when you're actually...like...25? Decide to try and look younger by washing off make-up and smiling. And I need to be all in white and silver, with a boy. Phone up my mate Dave. Explain the plan and ask him if he wouldn't mind shaving his beard of as that'll just look all wrong. Dave thinks I'm a nutter and hangs up. Decide to go it alone, dust my face in talcum powder and look for a clean white background. End up lying horizontal on my bedsheet as that's white and NEARLY clean.*CLICK* If You're Feeling Sinister Ooooooh got to get all intellectual for this one, and in red again. Use same sweet wrapper again as is almost same colour and my budget won't stretch to a box of Roses. Haven't got a copy of The Trial but DO have Franz Kafka's Metamorphoses and other Stories. My English teacher would have been proud. Pose thoughtfully for last time.*CLICK* NEXT WEEK: Invite my mates round with tea towels on their heads to do the Centrefold. susannah(a)tormentor.clara.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Magic, do do dooo, moments, do do doo....la la la la laaaaa laaa!
by Sarah 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

Did Richsay why B&S gigs in Manchester? I say why not!!! C'mon, how many times have they played down south now? Cakl me aperson with limited knowledege, but as far as I know, they have played their gigs either in Scotland or South East, its about time they came to the north! We like to listen to B&S too! Especially after a tiring night down at the whippet racing with a pint of bitter..... :) Magic B&S moment #2=the talking at the end of 'I could be dreaming'. The songs themselves are magic moments. (whoops, I nearly wrote magic mopeds...durr!) And i love 'with the boy who played bass guitar, with the boy who's wearing flares'. don't ask me why, one of those days i supose. -- Sarah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: lemur page and funny looks
by Nigel Turner 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

I've always fancied going into a big chart record shop, strolling up to the counter, then pulling out a pair of dice - no, better make that 2 pairs of dice - then, when the shop assistant asks what I want, roll the dice across the counter, count up the spots on the dice and ask for that number record in the charts. That'd freak 'em out! Mind you, I often think that's how most people must choose their records anyhow, coz only a random selection method could possibly account for most of the records in the charts... Anyway, getting back on topic....I think lemurs are great too. It's a shame that so many of them feel the urge to leap off cliffs in that suicidal way of theirs.

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Re: Sinister: And my latest project is......
by DaveNicoll＠aol.com 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

In a message dated 13/11/97 14:54:08, you write: << Tigermilk Right then duke of whoever, Keith, Taggart etc, I'd like to see any of YOU lot do this convincingly. So here I am, sat on my bed, practically starkers, all for the sake of 'Art'. Look round for plausible customer.Finally settle on fluffy yellow 'Big Bird' from Sesame Street. It looks ridiculous. I feel ridiculous. It's at this point I begin to wonder if I've actually gone insane and hope my flatmate doesn't come back from Sainsbury's too soon. moving right along.... [Keith Watson] Sorry... do what? And also, why would you like to see us do this convincingly? Keith. >> Come on Keith, pay attention!! Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to photographically recreate the cover of Tigermilk. Your challenger (susannah was it?) thinks you may have problems due to your obvious maleness. She obviously isn't reckoning on your vast abundance of female acquintances, who's assistance you could call upon. How about that young lady you were "associating" with at my party last year? On another topic, I'm afraid I too must come out against the current vogue for non-B&S related ramblings. I have the misfortune (like several other listees no doubt) of only being able to access the list from my place of work. In the interests of concientiousness (and keeping my job) I can only do this for small periods of time. This is made all the more difficult if I need to wade through endless meandering streams of thought in order to come across the nuggets of B&S content. Apologies if this all sounds a bit fascist, but surely the purpose of the list is to disseminate B&S info as widely as possible (hey..let's not start another pop thread). This means will only be defeated if the current conversation patterns lead to a rash of unsubscriptions. So keep up the irreverance, but a little less irrelevance please. David. "The chances are You'll proabably feel better If you stayed and played with yourself" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: susannah's project
by stephen troussé 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

> Inspired by Robert McTaggarts attempts with mocking up car crashes in the snow > etc. I have decided to go the whole hog and spend an evening recreating those > covers with a standard Boots camera....... I can only applaud your efforts, susannah. There are several other covers I would like to see recreated in a similar way: 1) Roxy Music's Stranded (needed: 1 panther) 2) Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen (motorbike and rubbish beard) and 3) the Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (tricky)... This lemur business is getting a bit tired... And anyway, meerkats are much cooler! For a cornucopia of intruiging meerkat information try http://www.meerkats.org... Finally, getting back on topic... was there a thread a while ago about close encounters with our favourite oddball popsters? Well anyway, here's mine: I was working up in Edinburgh at the Book Festival this summer, and one afternoon I went walking down the Royal Mile to watch the street entertainers. And who should I see watching some fire-breathing dwarf juggling kitchen knives??? Stevie Jackson, that's who. I could barely contain my excitement and went over to express my enthusiasm for his bravura performance of 'Like a Rolling Stone' at the Islington Chapel. I was wearing my mad playgroup leader orange B&S t-shirt at the time, and I think he probably thought I was some kind of stalker... Incidentally, duke, I think Simon Reynolds would almost definitely see B&S as crypto-cutie C86 throwbacks. Although he surprised me with eulogy of the Slits in this month's Uncut, so anything's possible... Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: lemur page and funny looks
by Hopkins T 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

peter wrote: > Lemur lovers should "point their browser" to (or at): > > http://www.reepham.demon.co.uk/ > I've been there and there sure are a whole mess of lemurs on those pages. More lemurs than you could shake a stick at, if you were minded to shake a stick at lemurs, which of course I am not. It cheered me up because it showed me that there is a lemur called the slow loris, which is the name of a song by the Wolfhounds, once a favourite band of mine, who of course shared a label with McCarthy, the subject of several off/on discussions on this list from time to time. There you are, almost back on topic, in just two easy moves! As for funny looks in record shops, I always think buying multiple copies of things works a treat. The day I bought four copies of 'O.B. McClinton Country' by (funnily enough) OB McClinton in Power Cuts in Manchester, for one pound each, the geezer behind the counter looked as though he didn't know whether to call the police or the social services. Ta-ra TimH begin 600 winmail.dat M>)\^(B\.`0:0"``$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y`0```````#H``$(@`<` M&````$E032Y-:6-R;W-O9G0@36%I;"Y.;W1E`#$(`02``0`I````4D4Z(%-I M;FES=&5R.B!L96UU<B!P86=E(&%N9"!F=6YN>2!L;V]K<P!I#@$)@`$`(0`` M`#=&.$%%-D8W,S(U0T0Q,3%"-$(Y,#!!,$,Y-$)&-S%"`$8'`2"``P`.```` MS0<+``T`#@`V`"T`!`!A`0$%@`,`#@```,T'"P`-``X`.0`2``0`20$!#8`$ M``(````"``(``0.0!@"8"```*0````L``@`!`````P`N``````!``#D`,"3& M;T3PO`$>`'```0```!P```!3:6YI<W1E<CH@;W=N('5P+VQE;75R('!A9V4` M`@%Q``$````;`````;SP/N!`6&8!YUP`$=&<:@"@)(HM&0`!$N````(!"1`! M````SP,``,L#```R!0``3%I&=6]S!8(#``H`<F-P9S$R-=(R`/LS-@'H(`*D M`^,)`@!C:`K`<V5T,+X@!Q,"@P!0`]4197T*@*D(R"`["6\P$^]E#C#F-0*` M"H%U8P!0"P,+8.)N#A`P,S,+IPJQ"H3E%R%I#S$@<!$@!)`(T$T`07`#8!F` M8W01X2`T('<:$CH82`J`3&5J;0AP(`D`=@20!"!S`F@(8&QD(")P;T,+@`5` M=&AE:07`8B4#8'<1$'(B'8!O(.(H!;%A="D;&QFQ#E`)'.`@:`)`<#HO+RIW M(.`N"=%P$.!M+A,!``1@;BX%H"YU:_XO&;,<X!@Y'],8,1H4`M'Y$4!))QQ@ M'>`)X1V"%`#M'N!N'0`E5',(<"61)8([&K`<P&PDX`>!!"!O9F\<,!OR)Y$E M,F\1$!E08?IG!Y`N!=`%L"3@)^4=D'4#D7D(8"`%H!SB'+!A4FLFPG-T#>!K M'N$LUB`&D"I3=R5R;0N``0!_)=$>D"L.)]4L`"<`#>!H'R>B*J$1`22@'N!M M(&[U&B`N&$1)!4`0T`G@%`$1)U$@=7`D\6-A=?THL6D%0!RQ+)`QDRH1'7/_ M)8$$`";1)^,JD`=`)S`ET_\<H`D`!^`)`00`+O8T$34ROFXA<"3@)[$K80(@ M9QW@ZGDU(U<&\&8<P27`+N'%`B!C)L)F878(8AF`[QW@);(GL2SA92[R'I`O M>.\K`3%R-$$!H&4#(`/P'9#9!=!C0PK`'9!Y+``U,_AU8FH:02>B$1`<80=` MJ2>A9B\H460$`&,R4/\`D`(@*#4T$1D`*X`Y@`-AOQV`!W$><D&2*3`81%0E M8_\J8B:A+``'0`1@01$Z,"NQN2A2;W`-X"P!`Z!J,E#%'7%W'I!E87,X``1@ MZ1Q@<R$81$$$(`(0!<":9CC`;C@`"0!O:P0@?T4A%``%H2KB1,`NX3`1;#AW M87DI\@N`*\!B=>YY"X`WT!P`;"N0"U`DX-\%H$30!Y$GL4G"9P0@1;#V<D?Q M)N!T%``>\"DP0M'//Z!)@#`!!N!U9R!P1Q'#-))+-R=/+D(I,3U`'QD``C`H M40A1`C!R>2=]-^(H1V(#$#@`"?!-TBG8($]"3WE%(5`RX07`Z$-U=$@#30!P M,3$K@/\$D"P`1R("("C!.+)%T1#0\SVT*0!E>E,A)0!)T344_RJA`C!3(4?" M/#(I\DW2(&"A34%I9&XG!4!K,&#_!^`G`!$@)6$><C3"-2,=,,\9`#E!!;$U M,V]C!S$^L1QR=ELA*2`;*E1A+7<_`$)U!W!(&;T81!,!``%@$``>`#%``0`` M``\```!!1$%41TA$,#8Y,S1&-0```P`:0``````>`#!``0````\```!!1$%4 M1TA$,#8Y,S1&-0```P`90``````#`#8```````L`!H`((`8``````,`````` M``!&``````.%`````````P`(@`@@!@``````P````````$8`````4H4``+<- M```>``F`""`&``````#`````````1@````!4A0```0````0````X+C```P`* M@`@@!@``````P````````$8``````84````````+``N`""`&``````#````` M````1(a)`````.A0````````,`!X`((`8``````,````````!&`````!"%```` M`````P`,@`@@!@``````P````````$8`````$84````````#``V`""`&```` M``#`````````1@`````8A0```````!X`#H`((`8``````,````````!&```` M`#:%```!`````0`````````>``^`""`&``````#`````````1@`````WA0`` M`0````$`````````'@`0@`@@!@``````P````````$8`````.(4```$````! M``````````,`)@```````P"`$/____\"`?D_`0```'0`````````W*=`R,!" M$!JTN0@`*R_A@@$````&````+T\]3$%.0T%35$52(%5.259%4E-)5%DO3U4] M35--04E,+T-./5)%0TE0245.5%,O0TX]35,@34%)3"!214-)4$E%3E13+T-. M/4%$051'2$0P-CDS-$8U`!X`^#\!````"@```$AO<&MI;G,(a)5````!X`.$`! M````#P```$%$051'2$0P-CDS-$8U```"`?L_`0```'0`````````W*=`R,!" M$!JTN0@`*R_A@@$````&````+T\]3$%.0T%35$52(%5.259%4E-)5%DO3U4] M35--04E,+T-./5)%0TE0245.5%,O0TX]35,@34%)3"!214-)4$E%3E13+T-. M/4%$051'2$0P-CDS-$8U`!X`^C\!````"@```$AO<&MI;G,(a)5````!X`.4`! M````#P```$%$051'2$0P-CDS-$8U``!```<PH!N]*T/PO`%```@PT`>`%$3P MO`$>`#T``0````4```!213H@`````!X`'0X!````)0```%-I;FES=&5R.B!L M96UU<B!P86=E(&%N9"!F=6YN>2!L;V]K<P`````+`"D```````L`(P`````` M`P`&$-=/0#4#``<0&P,```,`$!```````P`1$``````>``@0`0```&4```!0 M151%4E=23U1%.DQ%35523$]615)34TA/54Q$(E!/24Y45$A%25)"4D]74T52 M(E1/*$]2050I.DA45%`Z+R]75U=214502$%-1$5-3TY#3U5++TE614)%14Y4 /2$5214%.1%1(`````'H$ ` end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Ink Polaroids
by *James* :) 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

Can someone tell me what Ink Polaroids is supposed to be about? From what i read on the web pages, its got descriptions of pictures which haven't beenn taken or something? James :) ---------------------------------------- Mail me! at: eculb(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk or: J.C.Y.Ng(a)warwick.ac.uk Phone me! at: 01203 422773 or Ext 22926 ---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Lemurs
by Sven Fuchs 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

>Apparently lemurs are less advanced than monkeys, but that >doesn't mean they stopped evolving, it just means they >evolved in different ways.... Yeah, that's right. That's why they got extinct or got replaced by monkeys in other parts of the world. Pretty much like bands like Oasis replaced decent bands, e.g. B&S, if you can trust the top ten of the indie charts. But Oasis is definitely not more evolved. So what's wrong with this world? Or does it mean that cuddly creatures are bound to get replaced by monkeys? Sven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Bizzare Dreams
by Neil Hargreaves 13 Nov '97

13 Nov '97

Talking of dreams, I had a Teenage Fanclub related oner last night. And had completely forgotten about it, till both subjects came up here.... They were playing on my driveway for some reason, or at leat it ended up that way.... It also ended up with no one on stage apart from Gerry, who was playing a six string typey guitar instead of a basey type one. He then started to play songs on his own Billy Bragg style and actually started 'The Short Answer'.... He then asked Norman, who was now in the crowd if he wanted to sing it and Norman said he couldn't be arsed... So I got up and said I'll sing it, and Gerry smiled and I started to sing... I could actually remember the words in my dream, but I was all out of tune and it was horrible... Thankyou doctor, but I think my 55 minutes is up now. See you next week bye neil ------------------------------------------------- " if you're chasing the morning, if you're sleeping all day..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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