June 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: i went too far again...
by McGuire 17 Jun '98

17 Jun '98

i'm really tired, but if i don't pound this out now i probably never will. so i was driving to work tonight at around six o'clock, speeding through the fairfax district as i usually do, when i came to a stoplight. i sat at the light for a bit, then decided to put on sinister. so i pulled it out of my cd case, and took out the other cd that was in my stereo. i looked up and saw the light turn green, then looked down to get the cd in the player, meanwhile accelerating without looking in front of me. needless to say, the next sound to be heard was SLAM. damn. so i pulled over into the vons and got out and we checked out the damage. the guy i hit was really nice, and his car ( jaguar, ouch.) looked fine and all. my front bumper got majorly cracked, but its still on their, so i'm not going to worry about it. so anyway. the guy didn't even want my contact information and told me not to worry about it. being that i totaled my car in january, i was glad my insurance wasn't to be contacted. so anyway, the point is, belle and sebastian *should* be sorry for all the trouble they've caused. i got a messed up car to prove it. my night wasn't ruined though. queen latifah was in the store signing autographs and i got my picture taken with her and told her that i wished to bear her children. she said she liked my t-shirt and that it was the best compliment she got all day. the picture turned out blurry, but according to ms. latifah, i should be knocked up and having her first born in only five minutes and two years. not too shabby. what else happened today... um, i got a spiffy polaroid camera. its really excellent. i took some pictures of the winchels donuts and this church down the street from my apartment. when i was taking a picture of the church some old woman told me it was going to be a beautiful picture and that the church was seventy-five years old. welp. that's about it for one day. worked seventeen hours. took some pictures. crashed my car. hugged queen latifah. oh yeah, and i got the new delgados cd. its super. anyway, that's enough for one day. -mr kelly ryan mcguire ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: The WiderThe Wider Issues Of The Day
by Robin James Stout 17 Jun '98

17 Jun '98

Hey Jon! I like the way you think, especially the kids' tv stuff, so, to keep your mind off your other obsession until the new album comes out, here is a question. Can you remember all the theme tunes to Henry's Cat? We were playing a game the other night where someone had to hum a tv theme and the others had to guess what it was ( what a crazy, post-exam life I lead), and before they all started to sound like the theme to Miss Marple and after we'd done all the Grange Hill themes we could remember we came to Henry's Cat. Everyone knows the " So if you know someone who knows what he knows..." one and I could remember the "Doo doo di dumm, doo doo di dumm, da da da da dum de da da ..." one (which I think is the best), but I'm sure there's a third and I can't remember what it is. Oh dear this is becoming quite tedious. Well, there you go anyway. In my opinion the top children's cartoons have to be henry's Cat, bananaman, Mr benn and batfink (pow! pow! my wings are shields of steel!) Byee. Bob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: london schmondon
by brad 17 Jun '98

17 Jun '98

i say london sucks. and so does scotland. of course i come from the cultural center of the universe, so it's kind of egotistical for me to say so. you haven't been to a city til you've been to albany, georgia, usa. we got a museum, and three record stores and a civic center that hasn't had a good show since rick springfield in '84 where he had this big inflatable rocket come out from the center of the stage. we got not one main street, but two. there's five mcdonalds and four burger kings. london...ha! there also a club called "the screet ho's" who ride around in those cars and trucks with the purple flourescence beneath them and they give you a mean look if your hair ain't long in the back and short in the front. let's see some of those scotlanders give you that sort of welcome. everybody knows that all scotlanders are strung out on heroin anyway. i've seen trainspotting. i ain't bought shit lately, ever since that arab strap, but i can't stop listening to the monkees or "pet sounds", mainly cause i've been reading that brian wilson autobiography. his dad was a right mean fuck. and i plopped down 1500 smackeroos on one of those new fangled digital 8 tracks. so far, i've done nothing but recorded the opening drum part of my bloody valentine's "soon" and looped it so i could have drums behind one of my songs. it didn't come out as well as hoped for. i've also done a wicked mean cover of dramarama's "anything anything". laughing about london and scotland, brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: banter
by Richard Hutt 17 Jun '98

17 Jun '98

Dear List: Oh please keep up the irrelevant London banter, I for one enjoy it immensely. So, I'm weighing up the pros and cons of being an expat, and considering leaving Los Angeles for home - home being London/Brighton. Advice from any listees with experience or opinions on both would be more than welcome. After all, the list bears some of the responsibility of my homesickness. All that talk of quaint olde english nonsense like public transport, football, television comedy, social lives, etc.- it's driving me mad, I tell you. Richard ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: 3..6..9
by Jpasteles＠aol.com 17 Jun '98

17 Jun '98

hi, can someone please tell me if the 12" version of 3..6..9 Seconds of Light has the extra little "belle and sebastian on the radio" song like the CD version does? sorry if this has been asked before, but i'm not on the list. so if someone could respond privately, i'd be much appreciative. thank you, johnny cakes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Mr. Kravitz
by EmitEcaps＠aol.com 16 Jun '98

16 Jun '98

Rumor has it Mr. Lenny "Outie Belly Button" Kravitz cut off his dreads. AtNatalie's insistance maybe? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V2 #210
by Suzanne Schroeder 16 Jun '98

16 Jun '98

> > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:02:55 -0700 (PDT) > From: Nick Dastoor <nickdastoor(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Sinister: Here there be kravitzmonsters > > Adam Robinson (adamrobinson(a)intelfax.co.uk) wrote: > > >God, I find the Kravitz-monster irksome. He's an eyesore, makes some of > >the most horrible music ever perpetrated and has been "intimate" with > >several women I find terribly attractive - Kylie, Lisa Bonet and now > >the divine Miss Imbruglia. If he ever gets off with Lynda Bellingham > >I'll be well pissed off. The divine Alanis Morrissette knockoff? At least they did a better job disguising her than Meredith Brooks. It had me fooled a while until my friend pointed it out. > You know the funniest thing about him? One of the other high-profile > "lenny-conquests" was of course Vanessa Paradis. On her album of a > few years back, there's a touching tribute to him that goes something > like "Ooh Lenny Lenny he's so fine / Yeah he's the best I've ever had" > ad nauseam. Funny enough in itself, but slide-splitting when you > check the liner notes to find it was co-written by.....Lenny Kravitz. > What a man! Even funnier if she meant it. I wouldn't consider myself lucky to be a Lenny conquest. Look what happens to your career afterwards! Speaking of football, let's talk American football a bit. I was amused to find that the local Fox affiliate was covering the World bowl championship between Rhein Fire and Frankfurt. I thought "naw, this is too weird. americans aren't interested in what's going on in the world, so why are we covering this?" And chalked it up to it merely being a cure for football withdrawal for desperate fans until I noticed that the roster had many American players and was sponsored by the NFL. Let me say that I wouldn't be paying a bit of attention to any sport except that it's part of my job at work. What;s the matter? Do the Europeans not care enough to sponsor their own league, do the Americans have to own everything, or is it like eurodisney? I noticed that the stands were full, but I wonder if it was mostly tourists, or people who couldn't get to a soccer match. In my stay in Europe, never did I get the impression that American football was big. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Unbeatable offer for London footie fans
by Vicky Parkinson 16 Jun '98

16 Jun '98

I was pondering where to take my patronage to watch the crucial game this afternoon, and we just happened to end up in University College London Union bar for refreshements when - a whole pitcher of Fosters or john Smiths for FOUR POUNDS, which holds near as dammit FIVE PINTS!!!! And they have a large screen and two small tvs. Five pints for four pounds, I couldn't possibly think of watching football anywhere else now. If anybody is tempted it is on Gordon Street, and in Easy J's bar on the second floor. You don't need ID to get in before 5, and if you're scared of bumping into to me because I sound sad, mad or both, then avoid the girlie with short brown hair, orange t-shirt and blue cords and you'll have a whale of a time. Unless the boys do poorly of course. Four and a quarter hours to go, how am I going to survive? Internet shopping - I agree, total waste of time. After falling in love with My Drug Hell, Girl at the Bus stop, and wearing out my boyfriend's copy, I got withdrawal symptoms when we split up, so i went in search of it, and low and behold I found someone who said the would get it for me. Hah, good one. 'OOh, sorry our supplier's run out, but we will get it for you, honest.' So I have to live with the opertune recording I made when Claire Sturgess played it on X-fm, but she talked all over the end of it, cow. Anybody tried MacDonald's bacon double burgery thing with cheese? If you haven't don't cos it's totally revolting. only 4hrs to go, I'll have to do some totally pointless internet searching to make the hours fly by. Couldn't possibly do any work, learning all about internet gateways, networks and Z39.50 would just remind me too much of the impending game, shame. Has anyone heard of Spearmint? yet another band that does the London circuit, but they are ace, bubbly and into rhythm changes halfway through their songs and playing dictaphone recordings through their dictaphone (oddly enough, at least I think it was a dictaphone), and their lead singer's called Shirley. If you ever see any of their singles kicking around or have cash when the album comes out this summer then buy it, and if you really do hate it then I'll give you you're money back (if I have a job!) I think my time wasting efforts have bored you enough now, Vic 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: It's a London Thing
by Keith Watson 16 Jun '98

16 Jun '98

>ooh no, i'm all FOR London, i LOVE all the fabulous posts to the list >about completely random people that I know nothing about and occasions >that also mean nothing to me at all - the first 5 are cool and funny, me >starts to get bored after the zillionth "and then Jasper nicked my >BUCKAROO! god! we ruled/romped/whatever is currently in fashion" - cos >it really means a lot to the ooh few hundred or so listees that are OUT >of London...... perhaps I should tell you about my night out in Preston >and what Lucy ended up doing, but perhaps I won't cos, er, none of you >give a shit. don't mean to offend anyone here but hey some of us face >life miles away from Bow Bells or whatever. > >and why do bands play 4 nights at the astoria or whatever, and then 4 >nights in the WHOLE ENTIRE REST OF GREAT BRITAIN.... Actually Sarah, yeah I'm inclined to agree with you. Sorry Mark, for not always talking about London all the time, unfortunately (or otherwise) most of us don't come from there, so it makes it quite hard to talk about. There are a lot of places worth talking, and a lot of people doing a lot of interesting things - I didn't really think it mattered where they were from, just that their letters were interesting. Indeed London easily has the most people belting on about it at the moment - so there seems little cause for complaint. What I want to hear is the experiences of some brummies - Birmingham gets such a bad rep, and the people are great. Let's hear some stuff about the B+S listees in Birmingham. Rodney/Dave, a couple of weeks ago I thought I saw you in the pub, so I spent a few minutes shouting "RODNEY RODNEY... DAVE DAVE DAVE" across the pub - but it wasn't, it was some fellow from Policecat. If anyone goes and sees Policecat in the near future, look for the bloke who looks like Dave. What do I think of the England victory? Fine, good luck to them, did they win the fight as well? the double? We play Norway today, and in world rankiing terms we're well ready to get beaten, still that's not the point is it, it's the taking part. Most people up here hate England and especially in footballing terms, I'm not one of them. Who's all coming to the longest day then, cause we should all meet up for that, hopefully it won't be raining, I'm going to go early on next year to avoid last year's daft carry on. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Feeling much better.
by rob.dawson 16 Jun '98

16 Jun '98

Huge thankyou for the cheery replies, feeling tones better thanks!! As for the Massive Attack album, it shall be brought on espadrilles advice (on your head be it!) Cheers loads Rob - -x- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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