June 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: NATION of Ulysses.
by William Pym 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the word Ulysses in an e-mail to the list. Sadly it was just a less-than-interesting thread about cartoons. sigh. I have always fantasised that Stuart Murdoch would suddenly tell the world that Ian Svenonius' shrill screams urged him to become a pop star. Hell, the Nation of Ulysses had a horn player too. Still, it was not to be. However I was moved to write because I felt that the two most important bands of the 1990s deserve union. Hey, if Make-Up can do a remix of the Pastels, which they have, then maybe Belle and Sebastian is the next step. Well, sorry if this made no sense. It's only as irrelevent as conversation about Count Duckula, which is my only defence. ULYSSES LOVERS MAKE YOURSELF HEARD! sorry in advance, Will ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: smurfs
by BCapirigi＠aol.com 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

hi ok i know the smurfs werent the GREATEST thing (although i did love the one where smurfettes thumb turned green bcause she had been in the garden too long) but i have the BEST smurfs tape!! its got them doing 80s songs and if i remember corretly they do walkin on sunshine, keep me hangin on, i should be so lucky, a bunch of others and (i swear to buddha) GET OUT OF MY DREAMS GET INTO MY CAR it is the BEST thing imaginable matt (but not that one) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: ROMPer room & USA tv
by barzy＠networkmags.com 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

> well i must have had a really messed up american childhood because i do >not remember any of those shows. i was raised by macrobiotic >sharecroppers in the suburbs of NYC, and all i remember watching on >television as a kid was Romper Room (the use of the word ROMP was >dedicated to Tag.) oh and i remember the magic garden because i think >sylvester the squirrell was an old favorite. OOOOOH and ZOOM, i can >still sing the theme song to this day (zoom zoom zoom zoom ZOOM ZOOM >ZOOM ZOOM zoom zoom zoom zoom) and i have stripey shirt memories... > >on to more modern things though, speaking of Pufinstuff and the Sid and >Marty Kroft shows of seventies america has anyone seen a show on HBO >titled appropriately Mr. Show with bob and david? it rules and is >totally worth staying home on a friday night to watch. anywho...last >year they did a wickedly funny take off on HR pufinstuf and it was >*shock shock horror horror* all drug take offs...i remember loads of >those old shows my favorite being *THE BUGALOOS* because all the bug >characters had british accents...and they sang and they flew and they >battled the evil forces of phyllis diller (something which most of >hollywood did for most of the sixties) and did i mention that they sang >and flew...at the same time!!!! and the other one i remember is the one >where the boy fell through the hat and wound up in some strange land >where all the inhabitants are midgets dressed up as hats? well its all >true. > >seriously though i think my favorite thing about those shows had to be >the second chance it gave to adolescent former child actors, remember >poor Jody from *a family affair* when he hit say, 14...the poor dear >couldn't act with anyone except for a foam octopus with rags for arms. >if only mrs beasly could have done some more acting. i think that had >gary coleman and his *Different Strokes* brothers and sisters had gotten >some jobs on those television shows they would not be in jail right now! > >ah well...hope this clears things up. > >*I LOVE YOU ALL* > >rachel. The hat one was called Lidsville..the boy was Butch Patrick. :) beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re:For all your childrens TV
by Charlotte Sims 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

Dear Sinisterians, I can't thank Rod Begbie enough for the tv cream address, reliving all my childhood dreams of when Floella Benjamin was (and still is) my all time heroine. Gradually learning the ropes of Sinsister's mailing strategy after getting over the initial shock of subscribing and then not checking my mail for a few days to be welcomed with 173 new messages ALL from people I'd never heard of! No, there was one failed delivery notification.... Charlotte ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: a request
by Mark Smith 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

OK, so when's someone gonna post the guitar tab for "Dangermouse"? Love, Mark S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: mrs. frisby & the rats of NIMH
by Kimberly Rivas-Plata 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

Liz wrote: In the wider animation genre "The Secret of Nimh" has to rank up there pretty high too. It took me over a year of working here at the NIH (National Institutes of Health, for all you non-science, non-US listees) before I realised that "The Secrect of NIMH" was actually referring to an institute here, the National Institute of Mental Health. cool huh....whatever. Just thought I'd pass that on. It was also one of my favorite animated films when I was a kid. But my favorite animated flick of all time has to be "The Last Unicorn." I even have it on videotape. It was the only cartoon I knew of that actually had curse words in it ("damn" and "hell" - not really that harsh now, but to an 8 year old, they're pretty strong). The guy who wrote the story, Peter S. Beagle, went on to write a Saturday morning cartoon called "Wildfire" about magical horses or something - I can no longer remember exactly. It was ok. Anyone ever see "Aminalympics"? It was, as the title suggests, about the olympics for animals - pretty cute. The soundtrack was by 10CC. I still have the album somewhere - not half bad for a kid's movie. enough for now, kim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: kids tv keep on a rolling!
by Boodle Boodle Boodle 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

oh wow! now we're getting to the good stuff... trap door was always a little on the majestic side. that theme tune! i hope you damn well know i will not have that tune out of my head all week now..... but round the bend! now teh adventures of doc croc and his merry bunch of chms. i always thought it the telly extension of the mighty oink magazine - anybody remember that? better than viz will ever even dream of being, the first truly intelligent kids comic and possibly written (or so i've heard) by the boy lard. what a long twisted life he's led... i find this tell reminscing all very strange because it shows people of different ages. nostalgia about dangermouse or thundercats or ulysses 31 when all these were going while i was at school, when i get all dewey eyed about watoo watoo (little owl dude?) and that frog with the orchestra on bod. i suddenly get all old (yay! last exam today!) but the oddest thing of them all is whenever you mention these programmes i picture myself in front of the telly in my school uniform and - well - the moomins (original scarey version) reminds me of eating ham sandwiches and lemon squash, chorlton and the wheelies bizarrely reminds me of poached eggs, bad boye reminds me of salt and vinegar crisps, it all goes on. isn't it bizarre how you remember things in terms of what you were doing at the time? anyway i'll shut up now. i'm sitting in the omputer lab of wht won't be my department for very long and the french students are howling with laughter at their equivalent of boyzone whose homepage they have found on the internet. not that you really wanted to know that... anyway i'll get me coat chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: there is nothing of interest in this message
by Hopkins, Tim 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

They say that good things come in threes, and over the past few days I've found myself with the urge to be irritatingly pedantic on the list. Three times. So that must be good, yes? No offence to Cory or Chris, and only mild offence to Tag. Cory wrote: > I make all of my own tapes so the recordings are quite good. > I have to say that I have had a fair amount of success with tapes bought from shops, and am not sure that home made ones would be any better. Not that I'm maligning your craftspersonship, you understand. I'd like to see a home-made tape though. I'm imagining it made of plywood, and decorated beautifully. Tag wrote: Actually ruling is so passe and now the word on the streets is "romp". Je rompe, tu rompe, il/elle rompe, nous rompons, vous rompez, ils/elles rompent. The verb takes the avoir form in the perfect tense, incidentally. As in, "ce weekend, nous avons rompe, et je voudrais romper avec toi encore, parce que c'etait genial, mon petit gateau au pate d'amandes". You don't know what I'm on about, do you? And you're asking us to believe that you do? Furthermore, Chris, while apparently referring to the A-Team, wrote: Duh duh duh duuuh Duh duh duuuh Du du duh duh du duuuh Duuuh du du duh duuuh Sorry, Chris, but you've been confusing 'The A-Team' with 'Little House On The Prairie' there, old son. I understand. It's an easy mistake to make. Especially in the title sequence when the little girl tries to escape from her tormentors by impersonating an aeroplane, but gets cut down and sinks beneath the waves of grain...it's so poignant... See? Nothing of interest. Don't say I didn't warn you. tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Fantastic Planet
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

Mick McMick wrote: > Stranger yet, as a child I used to watch a program on USA called > Night > Flight. They showed lots of Avant Garde stuff. The strangest thing I > ever saw on it was this odd French animation entitled Fantastic Planet. That is a weird old film. They showed it on Channel 4 a while back in one of those ungodly-hour-of-the-morning slots they reserve for wacky stuff. Speaking of which, they showed "The Wings of Honneamise" on BBC2 the other night, for all those manga/anime fans out there who have any idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, "Fantastic Planet": the wee bloke's attempts to escape from his kindly but mildly bratty alien owner are engrossing. That tracking-device collar is scary too. > I still haven't seen it a second time. It's very similar-looking to > Light Years, which I saw back then as well. Another interesting thing I > saw on it was my first ever Anime, and probably the best animated movie > ever done Nah nah nah, "Battle Angel Alita" is my favourite anime. In the wider animation genre "The Secret of Nimh" has to rank up there pretty high too. > (it puts everything Disney has done to shame), Nausicaa. >>>>>> > The same director also did a wonderful > piece called Laputa: Castle in the Sky, What, Laputa as in "Gulliver's Travels"? Gosh, how literary. Liz. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Ulysses, Cities of Gold, Bananaman...
by iles＠boreas.leeds.icnet.uk 03 Jun '98

03 Jun '98

>From: Mark Smith <mark.smith2(a)christ-church.oxford.ac.uk> > >On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Mark Iles wrote: > >> I beg to differ. Ulysses 31 hardly used the novel as the basis for a linear >> derivative storyline. The characters were transposed into the 31st Century. >> Apart from having the same names and trying to get home, as >> Odysseus/Ulysses was, the storylines were good. And they certainly never >> gave the impression of being aimed at children. > >I don't really think it's relevant to compare (the superb) Ulysses '31 >with the likes of Dangermouse. Coming from different eras they catered >for different stages in my development. Dangermouse was broadcast 1981-83 I'm sure it was on when I was in infants school, which I would have left when I was about seven, in 1981. I remember seeing it for the first time round a friend's house and being very impressed by it. Are you sure these aren't the dates it was shown in the US, or something? >(according to that "cream.tv" thing - cheers whoever it was - Rod?) I must have missed this one. Could someone remind me of the URL... >Ulysses '31 catered for the typical 8-year-old desire for robots, monsters >and space-ships, and took itself much more seriously than Dangermouse, in >a similar vein to "Thundercats"... These (along with BOTP) were great at >the time, but due to their po-facedness just didn't leave as much of an >impression. No, I always thought that Ulysses was quite different to Thundercats. Thundercats were definitely in the He-Man style, although very good. While Ulysses seemed to pay a lot more attention to detail with the aforementioned backgrounds and music - very atmospheric. Shame about Nono, that stupid jokey robot. For smart plotting you can't beat The Mysterious Cities of Gold (one of my all-time fave cartoons). >Ultimately it's just down to how old you were when these things were >broadcast as to how strongly you feel about particular series... True, I was a bit older when Ulysses was on... >PS - "Their bodies will remain as lifeless... as stone" ... "father, oh >father" etc etc. Classic. I always found that dead spooky. I loved that programme. And weren't the Gods mean bastards? He may have killed the cyclops, but it was in self defence Your Honour! Ulysses, Ulyssee-ees, flying through all the galaxiee-ees, in search of Earth, flying into the suuuun. Ulysseee-eee-eee-eee-eees no one else can do the things you do.... >Bananaman yay! 13 Acacia Avenue! "When Eric eats a banana!" (etc etc) Cool! And the voices were by the Goodies, who I used to think were top when i was little. Anyone remember the name of the alien baddy who looked a bit like a Vogon? >If anyone's getting sick of this whole cartoon thang, stop me oh-ho-ho >stop me... No way. I'm enjoying this. Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles(a)boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, "Libraries gave us power" LS9 7TF Manic Street Preachers U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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