April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Casting Call for Canadians
by minigo 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Right! After a few weeks now of wondering how many of us there actually are, I cannot ignore Sarah's plea in good conscience. ;-) Here's your official chance to come out of the woodwork so that we can try to have a Sinister picnic of our own here in Toronto! The plan: a day at Centre Island. Starting off with a refreshing ferry ride from the docks, you will enjoy such sundries as the Log Ride, the Hedge Maze and the Scrambler-- an indoor roundabout ride where they will play musical requests, if you ask nicely. We'll end the day with ice cream at Greg's and take a walk in Philosopher's Walk on the U of T campus... ...Or something like that! I'm also partial to bowling, as I scheduled a similar event in San Francisco for the indiepop list, which was quite a success. There's nothing like scoring a few strikes to break the ice! :) Genevieve, I know you're near Ottawa, but we could try to schedule it around your upcoming trip to Toronto. All part of my promise to kidnap you away from that burrito boy you mentioned on IRC, bien sur. Please email me privately if you're interested, and I'll start trying to work something out. maple syrup kisses, elisa xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: i paid the price for gravity
by e. kraft 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

this new thread about party music is timely, as i commandeered the stereo at a shindig last night and blasted the spot with the glorious sounds of 'Lazy Line Painter Jane.' generally, it was well received, and bip-bopping commenced. playing Belle & Sebastian in crowded places has become sort of akin to a mating call for me (except without the sexual bit)--generally, i've found that anyone who likes B&S is going to be a person worth knowing. after LLPJ i threw in yo la tengo's latest album; this was somewhat less well-received (the philistines!) and signalled the end of my brief stint as party dj; a glorious stint indeed, while it lasted. speaking of YLT, i'm listening to the new Dump album (_a plea for tenderness_) right now, which is fabulous. (Dump, in case you didn't know, is a one-man band comprising james mcnew, the bassist from yo la tengo.) if you like b&s and yo la tengo, chances are you'll like Dump--i think it's the the area of overlap in the venn diagram that is my pop sensibility, which i picture as one big circle representing B&S and another big'un for YLT. oh, what am i on about today? .erik ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: gregory's girl and more of my ramblings
by Alan Prior 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Yay! Just found 'Gregory's Girl' video, so i'm off to watch it again. then maybe 'Dazed & Confused' again. so many ways of avoiding revision/homework... maybe i'll clean the house later. or make up more compilation tapes. or alphabetise my cds. or re-paint my nails cos i'd have to leave them for a couple of hours at least to make sure they didn't get marked... how come saturday nights always suicide television? Probably cos every one else has a life and is out doing stufff. Ah, well, as Stuart M (i think) said, "life's hard when you're a sixteen year old in the middle of nowhere" Or words to that effect, anyway... (i'm not 16 anymore either, but that's not the point...) anyhoo, have a nice night... love, debbie (wishing she had some popcorn to go with the video...) xxx. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Fwd: Angels request
by Jeni421 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Wow thanks for sending me such a happy story surely intended to brighten my otherwise bad day.~Let's try not to depress the s#$t out of each other, ok? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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Fwd: Sinister: psych tests,sad songs, very little B+S content
by Jeni421 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

oops sorry Debbie I always forget to change the address back to Sinister. Forgive me:-(

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Sinister: some of my best friends are 3 minutes long...
by Alan Prior 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Message text written by Sarah >heehee! Debbie oh my loverly girl - i love you! ANOTHER MANICS FAN ON SINISTER! yay de day! we can convert those Keiths of this world inot the miriad Pop joys of The Holy Bible and the Intense Humming Of Evil...mmm, or perhaps somethng else eh? :) And buy the Flares, the bernad butler album will be cheaper layter.< Aw, honey...i love you too. I think, though, that it would be impossible to convert anyone at this late stage. Which is a shame, obviously...everyone i know slags me off about MSP, philistines...heehee. parteeees; i always try and kill any BillyOceanDullerScene albums that infiltrate ant* parties i go to. They must be stopped! Same goes for Satan's Own Pub Band, Kula Shaker... Blur's 'Song 2' always gets played at least 5 times a night, as does stuff by 'The Bloodhound Gang' as they all find it very funnee... I can never get manics, joy division, B&S, or suede played, though. Actually, i can never get anything played cus as soon as anyone sees me approaching the cd player they jump in front of it and stop me. Apparently i have 'bad taste' in music. Bah. What would they know... *yes, i know i've written 'ant' when it should have been 'any', but it made me laugh when i saw what i'd done so i've left it. Today's purchases; 'The Clash'- the clash, 'I'm Your Man'- Leonard Cohen' (both vinyl, yum!), 'Exile in Guyville'- Liz Phair (playing just now), 'Psycocandy'- JAMC, 'Maria Callous'- Gretschen Hofner (cos it was only 1.99, so doesn't matter if it's rubbish...) It's ok, though, cos they were all really cheap from Embra's Avalanche and i was trying to cheer myself up cos today's been really rubbish (sorry John! Again) I forgot to but the flares, though. Bah. Maybe they'll have some on monday in glasgow... love and sorrow, debbie xxx "In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: gregorys girl and albums you play at paaartys.
by Sarah 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Mr Peter Miller - the Mr Tim Hopkins luuver wrote dis... <<< Am I the only one hoping that B&S rock out soon and provide us with a crunching melodic rock anthem laden album?>> NO!!!! You're NOT! current threads - the sleaze quiz, i couldn't be arsed to do it, and skimmed it. that means i am a completely not sleazy but very lazy arse. yipee! *giggles* *a lot* heehee! Debbie oh my loverly girl - i love you! ANOTHER MANICS FAN ON SINISTER! yay de day! we can convert those Keiths of this world inot the miriad Pop joys of The Holy Bible and the Intense Humming Of Evil...mmm, or perhaps somethng else eh? :) And buy the Flares, the bernad butler album will be cheaper layter. A Mr Man who's name i have forgotten, sorry sorry! wrote.. <<The other one that always gets me is "Atmosphere" by Joy Division............just because.>> that is perhps one of my favourite songs, but it doesn't make me cry, it just makes me feel...oh so lovely and beautiful and away from everything... He also wrote about Gregorys Girl as *the* B&S movie. I feel pleased now cos i *know* a film that the list is talking about! GG was spolied for a lot of youth I think, by making you watch it at school, as it makes you think "aw, the schools like it so it must be boring poo". Its a shame, as I've never managed to see it the whole way through, just the start whn they played football, and thats all they ever showed us. we wer made to watch it when it was raining at break, and we had to stay in the classrooms or something.....or the teacher just couldnt' be arsed teaching.... And as I am now an ol fogey, SIXTEEN! jong wrote that he went to see Button Moon live. So did my frieend Loosey at the charter theatre, and its strange because we were discussing that last night, getting the picture of how FUN FILLED it is round here?! As nobody wanted to write about happy songs, can we write about albums that are ALWAYS played at parties? We must be a freakish group, because at EVERY party i've been to this year, we have listened to OK Computer and Feeder. I can't put B&S on, people would just laugh and maim the CD - then I would have to kill them. Who saw the A&J show with Louise`s guide to going to parties? hehehehehe hehehehehhehheheehehee! and the internet thing was SO TRUE! anyways... I put on Joy Division at someone house one night, and they slagged off Love will tear us apart and Atmosphere and Isolation and I got SOOOO annoyed and UPSET about it that i was really really surprised that I cared so much about Joy Division. I found two B&S 7" singles t'other day - and me mate saw a 12" of 3...6..9... but I resisted the urge to be completeist as they have no extra songs, and i bought Delgados and Mansun for a friend instead. AND....Star trekkin' by da Firm, which i found in da hospic shop for 25 pennies. ra! if anybody would like to crucify me for not being intenseley intense enoough, you'll have to catch me first! and after being insulted on the Manics list bout my signtaure I have removed the address, i hope nothing else about my email details bothers you. *spits* I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah calvin -"is it possible to refuse to inherit the world?" hobbes -"i think if you're born its too late." http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: It only hurts when you touch it
by mctag＠mcmail.com 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Dear Gentle Sensitive Children, Three things: Firstly to Swedes, and other nationalities in the area, I am now not DJing at K next Saturday, but at Folkshammet (I think). Apparently the neighbours complained about the noise. Squares. But you should still come. Secondly in response to Dickon's praise of "Gregory's Girl", well, like any groovy fucker, it is my favourite film of all time, at least on days when it isn't "Blue Velevet", "My Life as a dog" or "Time of the Gypsies". According to yesterday's Guardian Bill Forsyth is making a sequel, set 20 years or so on. I can't decide if this is a good thing or not. Especially since Clare Grogan has blown her credibility entirely by shagging Ian Beale on "EastEnders". Thirdly, did anyone hear the story about an Iraqi newspaper who ran a story on Wednesday about the UN lifting all sanctions on Iraq? Only to plaster "APRIL FOOL" all over the Thursday issue. Is that funny or am I weird? Love Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: don't read this if you've had your sense of humour surgically removed.
by susannah 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Dear gentle readers. I mean you lot are worse than Mary Whitehouse. Anyway, as you know, I *have* been lurking on the catatonia mailing list, and apart from the following extract, it is generally boring and bland, with no hint of anal sex whatsoever, which I know, that you all love, really, even though you continue to deny it. So here it is, and its in welsh. Dw i'n edrych am eiriau/lyrigs ar gyfer BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. Dw i wedi colli clawr yr albym. A fyddai rhywun yn digon garedig i ddanfon y lyrigs imi? Dw i ddim yn sleazy mailing list, ond dydw i ddim yn elwa o'r peth. Diolch ymlaen llaw am Stuart Murdoch is a nonce. Gyda llaw, welodd unrhywun yma y Gig yng Nghaerdydd??? Gre+t. :) Hwyl, Basically, can anyone decipher this into what it really actually means? And no making it up either. susannah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Colouring
by Chris 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Firstly, apologies for my previous post; I didn't mean to upset the list karma. Must remember to think of Cliff next time... Secondly....When I was little, my godparents used to give me 'anti colouring books'. I think they were Canadian in origin (the books not my godparents, who came from Wragby). The idea was that rather than constraining young children's fertile imaginations by making them colour within the lines, they presented you with a blankish sheet of paper and a suggestion (like 'You have just eaten your dinner. What does it look like now?' and the outline of a stomach) and you filled it in as you so desired. This seems like a good idea; however, I was so cack handed with a pencil (still am) that I used to prefer ordinary colouring books, where there was a small chance of your picture looking like whatever it was meant to represent. So, perhaps the next but one competition could be along the lines of 'B&S are buying wallpaper . What kind of wallpaper does each member buy?', accompanied by a little picture of each band member in front of a piece of wall just waiting to be papered... Meanwhile, I'm sharpening my coloured pencils. C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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