April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Girlfriend in a coma
by Ruth McCurry 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

Just in case any of you Londoners didn't know, Douglas Coupland is doing a reading/signing thing at Books Etc on Charing Cross Road on Monday evening next week at 6.30pm. There are no seats left, but apparently we can stand at the back. If any of you need more persuading to read this book (did you see Tom Paulin on Late Review?), it really is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. It is Atlas Shrugged for cool kids. It also contains (aside from the twenty or so Smiths references) the very first Belle and Sebastian reference in a work of literature. Towards the end, Jared the ghost tells of how he used to jog around the streets in his terry underwear. Or is this just a coincidence? Anyway, when you have finished reading it, you will believe again that the world can be a better place. Which is always nice to know. Lots of love DAVID-not-ruth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: stuff and nonsense, no B&S
by Hopkins T 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

Umm, after almost a week away and a fistful of digests I was kind of hoping to have lots of things to reply to, but don't have too many. I would, however, like to say that we are not all hopelessly wet and sad, or whatever it was that dry and happy fellow said while signing off. I suspect *some* of us are hopelessly wet and sad, and all the better for it. Mister Miller said: >Chris is in good company, just >look at this list: >Andrew Dean, Michael Roddddddd from Screen Test, Lenny Henry, Jesse James, >Ben Elton, Elton John, Rodddddddd Stewart and George Michael. >Mitchell Fraser, on the other hand, is a member of a much more exclusive >club: >Wilkie Collins and, erm, Brad Pitt. I am in a state of consternation. Is All Creatures Great And Small star Christopher Timothy a 'two surnames' or a 'two forenames' fellow? Does famous 'statesman' Warren Christopher have the distinction of haveing a forename and a surname, but in the wrong order? Mr and Mrs James must have had a fetish for this sort of thing, since their other son was named Frank, after Anne, one supposes. But Frank James is a double surname while Jesse James is a double forename. Hmmm. What's more, Jesse was shot in the back by another double surname, Charles Ford. If only the Fords had had the foresight to name their other son Robertson rather than Robert, the whole thing would have been perfect. Miller also wrote: >Horace Andy feels like a bit of a letdown. So my question for reggae-ologists >everywhere is: What could possibly top Yabby You and The Congos? Which Horace LP is it, Petey? If It's the Blood and Fire one, then I would tend to agree that it's not his best. Try 'Dancehall Style', his showcase LP on Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes's Wackies label. The very best reggae LP ever to come out of the US, I contend. For the record, if it's deep roots reggae you're after, some of my favourites are: Prince Far-I: Under Heavy Manners (Joe Gibbs) Big Youth: Dreadlocks Dread (Virgin) and 'Screaming Target' (Trojan) Heptones 'Party Time' (Island) Culture 'Two Sevens Clash' (Joe Gibbs). Upsetters: 'Open The Gate' (Trojan), 'Super Ape' (Island) Jacob Miller 'Who Say Jah No Dread' (Greensleeves) These are all well-known classics, dead cert bankers. If you ask me. Blood and Fire squire Steve Barrow reckons that the best reggae LP in the world ever is 'Songbook' by Bob Andy (Studio One), and that's a fairly good call, I say. Don't even think about buying the Studio One CD reissue though, since it has been reissued with lots of nice nineties keyboard overdubs. Which is like opening a ?10,000 bottle of wine to cook with. I bought the brilliant 'Flash Forward' by Cedric 'IM' Brooks at the weekend, which is an unimaginably beautiful instrumental reggae LP on Studio One. Oooh, gives me the shivers just thinking about it. Um, what else? Travelled from Rugby to Lincoln at the weekend in search of a football game which never was. Arse. However, the good folk of Lincoln are clearly poltroons (or perhaps spend their time in awe at the beauty of their admittedly very beautiful cathedral) since the town seems to have record shops which are stuffed with bargains which, in any true civilisation, would have been snapped up long before. I even found a copy of 'Introducing Jane', a 1990 single by The DeBuchias (featuring Johnny Dangerously), after which I had been lusting for, well, 8 years. The cost? 20 new pence. Weird. Anyway, in search of football, I moved on to Nottingham, which was good in so far as it enabled me to visit yet more fantastic record shops. Selectadisc came up trumps for me again by purveying not only the aforementioned Cedric Brooks LP but also (for 50p) a copy of Marlin Greene's mystical country rock masterpiece 'Tiptoe Past The Dragon'. Including the original lyric sheet. The point of all this, you ask? Well, none really except to ask for your opinion on the following conundrum....is it strange that, when I visit a new place I always seem to find piles of amazing record bargains which never turn up in NW Lancs? Or am I the only person in the world with such bad taste? As such have I just purchased all the rubbish from the local record shops, leaving the shopkeepers rubbing their hands in astonished glee at the happy faced Hopkins walking out having paid for unsaleable crap? Answers on an ink polaroid please. The other point is to send a message to the list which does not insult Petey Miller. He says that we're not having an affair. I still think we have a chance at happiness, given a lot of hard work. Ta ra tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . 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Sinister:I'm good manager. As if!
by Ayacolor 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

Hello~ My pal on the earth. I tell you how much I earned in city of LOST ANGELS? "2 sodas" < Alicia in Clueless > As if!! < /Alicia in Clueless > We flew to LA with my band "MittoChill" (I play drums.But we broke last Sat). I asked my girl friend lives in Dallas to come and play with us. She said Cool! We played in "The Smell" like, all ages club. Soda is not this club's fault. ( You know Ara! I really like this club even toilet in here never flashed. ) I think we could get MONEY if we played in "Space land" or the other clubs. But my girl friend played last year, the system or law for under 21 was irritate us soooooo much. As you know, law in CA was totally bugged. My 19 years old lovely girl friend can't get in to the club even she's gonna play in this club tonight!! This is distinction is just coming from the alcohol ? Shaiten!! So, CA state doesn't want bands to debut under 21? Nobody can interrupted us to express ourselves. Agree with me all musician!? AyaXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: When the cat whispers in your ear. . .
by PKHINTZ 15 Apr '98

15 Apr '98

There is one position I am found in most often--laying on my back, on my bed, reading. Inert, yet with a mind moving twice as fast as the body ever could. I had left the _Dog on Wheels_ ep on repeat; the words on the page were glanced under the eyes' sight, then passed over in pursuit of the next line, the next paragraph. Madeline the cat curled herself into the folds of the blanket; she likes to be near me. Listening to the ep I remembered listening to those songs on a train to the sea, to Dover and its cliffs. I had concentrated on the music more intently that morning, to ignore the people in the seats behind me. The book was set down; I had lost myself again, recalling looking out the train windows, at fields and spires, at the blur of the journey itself. Taking a cue from Madeline, I closed my eyes for a minute. An hour later, the music still playing, I woke to the telephone ring and my mother saying "He did!". Yes, I did--I had slept late and was not at the train station to pick up my father. As I tied my shoes and picked myself off the bed and off my back, I noticed Madeline had left my bed. Cats never stay with you when the trouble comes. Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: music career
by Suzanne Schroeder 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

Don't feel bad for not developing into a clarinet player. i've busted my ass for several years and even got to play with the University of Texas Symphony band, but i've made exactly $35 in my whole career by playing at a church i'm not even a member of one Easter. That bought a box and a half of reeds. Other than that, I've been playing acoustic guitar for over 2 years and when i try to get with a band, I STILL don't have any credibility. Austin isn't exactly the hot bed for B&S type bands. I might try being a singer or something, but there are 5 million of those around here, too. s.s. oh yeah, I read the digest which makes me too lazy to cut and post the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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by The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes! 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

Umm...Hello today was strange. having planned to get up at 9 am, to go and work in the library so i don't get thrown off my course, I rose at half one. The dissapointment of missing out on a fabulous career was not apparent to others living in my home, as they had all buggered off, so I had a shower, only I forgot, or subconsciously chose not to shave , as I can't remember making any sort of decision about it. It was sunny, so I took my dog for a walk, choosing today to go up arthur's seat instead of round the meadows, as usual, coz it's starting to get boring. As I entered hollyrood park, it started snowing, but it was still sunny? As i was wearing a coat i kept going and, forgetting how unfit I am started to climb the beast, in what seemed like a blizzard, got allmost to the top, sweating a bit, too many clothes, listening to stereolab, stopped. The veiw was amazing, I could see loads of fife, lots of mountains with snowy tops, easter road (eugh), north berwick law, the bass rock, my house, it was beautiful, then i realised my dog had pissed off, but I found her again, and we went ome with a smile on my face, inside at least, and her tongue hanging out. Library tomorrow. On the subject of people with 2 surnames, when I was about 6 i had a freind called Campbell Steele, as my name is colin campbell, we decided that if we ever got married he would be called campbell campbell! cool, huh. sorry, but I need to post at some point in my life. colin, alternatively known ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: she's losing it
by Ripoffs 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

hey everybody. does anyone know all the lyrics to "she's losing it?" and is it about a girl who's just losing control in her life? eskim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: [Fwd: Amphetameanies gig]
by David & Katrina 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

a message for you all from mick cooke (trumpet in b&s!), i hope some of you can attend as his gigs are always fun no matter which band he's playing with :) david

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Sinister: nick drake
by angela edwards 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

Thanks for the insight into the cds. i'll look for your suggestions as soon as possible - -angela ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Name fun, Tag desertion, Swearword encouragement, Trouser conundrum
by PJMiller 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

> >That's a fantastic idea Peter, they can both spruce up their funny websites >and we can all have a vote as to whose website was the funniest, Chris >Leonard's, or Rodddddney's. I can see it now, it'll be like pistols at dawn. Well, I've just had a look at Mister Leonard's effort. "File Not Found" it says, so you'll have to get your skates on, Chris, or else Rodddddd'll win. It's been a funny day, all my co-habitants have been projectile vomiting for the last couple of days, I've been having to dash across the living room zigzagging frantically to avoid being hit on my way to the lavatory. Anyway, on the plus side, all this has given me time to think about people with two christian names or two surnames, the freaks. Chris is in good company, just look at this list: Andrew Dean, Michael Roddddddd from Screen Test, Lenny Henry, Jesse James, Ben Elton, Elton John, Rodddddddd Stewart and George Michael. Mitchell Fraser, on the other hand, is a member of a much more exclusive club: Wilkie Collins and, erm, Brad Pitt. > > > I'm surprised to see that we haven't had a mail from Sweden from Tag >yet, although perhaps he hasn't got his "plastic pal" with him, that's no >excuse though cause Trousers managed to send an anonymous mail from an >Internet Saddo Cafe this morning to the list. I think it's about time we >received a postcard from Sweden. It's shocking, isn't it? All he ever thinks about is himself and pleasure, while the rest of us are dodging flying vomit. By the way, Yay! I'm not going to the Pyrenees anymore. But Yay! The Pyrenee I can see from the bathroom window is covered in snow. > One final thing, my friend Simon assures me that 75% of his interview >with Arab Strap is entriely unprintable, (SNIP) >and others will just be interested cause the piece is liable to be laced >with crudities and swearwords. I look forward to that, Keith. Arab Strap are fast becoming my favourite band that I've never heard a single note of. Trousers, does the Monday poem finish like that, or did you get kicked out of the Saddo Cafe unexpectedly? Paul, are you sulking? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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