August 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The Poetry Parrot Hiccups
by oon 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

PJMiller wrote: > Right, go back to your classrooms - WITHOUT any noise! - and get your sums > books out. I don't want to hear any talking AT ALL until playtime. Except > for you, Ooon, it's your turn to choose the next poem........ but Mrs. Bosoms, i am a foreigner! i hardly know enough English language to buy a pair of English socks to be honest. can i pick Thai poem? but then i don't know how to use Thai font in email anyway. so, English poem it will have to be. tomorrow i shall embark on journey to library in the holy quest of a P!O!E!M!. i'd probably end up choosing something because i like the sound of it. maybe someone can tell me what it actually means later. what time will the Glasgow shows start, please? i heard the Pearlfishers are playing Edinburgh this month? what about in the first week of September? anyone have info could you email me? and Uncle Trousers wrote: > So let me dandle you a while on the knee of Old Uncle Trousers, as I bring > you.... THE STORY OF SINISTER....... may i nominate this as part of Sinister FAQ? what can make a new listee feel more welcome than this...dandling on Uncle Trousers' knee listening to heartwarming folklore of our origin. nice weekend to you all, oon xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Number Ones
by Steve Genge 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

> I know this is counting chickens rather, but when was the last time a number > one album didn't have a single taken off it? It must be a very long time. > Unless, of course, that woman who sings on cruise ships counts. Was there a > single off her album. If there wasn't, it makes my question very redundant > indeed. Err you've answered your own question sadly. Jayne MacDonald for it is she is meant to be making a personal appearence in our basement soon! I can't wait. Oh that's the basement at my place of work by the way, not the basement here where she'd feel at home with the other middle of the road pub singers I have captured there. "Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows" Sabine Strohem steve(a)seahorses.demon.co.uk Red Roses For Me Fanzine & Records For Sale http://surf.to/redroses +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: You ain't ever gonna get ahead, giving head to The Man
by poetryplace2 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

I have four things to say to you lot: 1) Strolling around Covent Garden, like the modern-day flaneur that I am. I have been slightly alarmed to see a number of enigmatic posters proclaiming honeyz are coming. I could only presume that Mr Mitchells offspring had matured at a frightening rate and were preparing to wreak Godzilla-style havoc across the western world. Imagine my suprise then, when I switched on Channel 4s Fresh Pop the other day, to see that the honeyz are, in fact, three lissome lovelies in an Eternal-esque schmaltz soul troupe. I can only say that they obviously get their looks from their father. 2) A poem for Pistol Pete Miller and Kool Keef Paul Muldoon Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? 'Like being driven over by a truck was how Pete Townshend described the effect of the wah-wah on I Dont Live Today. This predated by some months the pedal Clapton used on Tales of Brave Ulysses and Im taken aback (jolt upon jolt) to think that Hendrix did it all by hand. To think, moreover, that he used * four *-track * one *-inch tape had (jolt upon jolt) evoked the long, long view from the Senior Study through the smoke, yes sir, the smoke of battle on the fields of Laois, yes sir, and Laos. Then there was the wah-wah on Voodoo Child (Slight Return) from Electric Ladyland. (This is from Mr Muldoons forthcoming collection, Hay. You may be interested to know that Paul is the beloved President of The Poetry Society. What a funky organisation we are.) 3) I saw that Avengers film last night. And you know what? Its not bad. In fact, for the first twenty minutes it is superb. The styling is terrific, the direction at times is like Tim Burton directing Alice in Wonderland, Uma Thurman looks like a sexy preying mantis, and Ralph Fiennes is almost... witty! I give it a big trousers thumbs-up. 4) On the rare occasions I switch on XFM and dont have to switch it off again to avoid another track off the new lp, I keep hearing a song which has the charming chorus You aint ever gonna get ahead, giving head to The Man . It is my single of the year, already. Can anybody enlighten me, please, to who this band is? That is all Trousers xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Tuesday Well
by Reid Dossinger 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

So this morning, I'm flipping through a Spin magazine that I bought to read about the history of the Beastie Boys (which, by the way, I think is one of the most fascinating histories/transformations in modern music), and there's this little two page article on the "new wave of 'folk'". I was interested...it had Elliot Smith and I wondered if they would mention B&S. Thank God they didn't, because they actually seriously used a word that I had only used as a joke before: "acoustica". You're excused for the dry heave. "Electronica" is bad enough. Everything played on an acoustic guitar is all of a sudden the same genre? Let's hope this doesn't catch on. But my real business is to set the record straight (pardon the pun): > well i must omit,or at least dispute against this rumor that all new releases > in the US come out on Tuesdays,for this is not true. The latest Beastie Boys LP(hello > nasty) came out on a saturday,disproving the only-Tuesday rumour. > I swear, on any holy book or lyric sheet you can find, that ALL (except independently released) albums in the U.S. come out on Tuesdays, including the Beastie Boys album, which I bought on the TUESDAY that it came out. Now, once again, it's not a law that record stores can't sell it until Tuesday, but if labels find out that stores have sold it before Tuesday, they (supposedly) will stop selling new releases to that store. I'm not just trying to be argumentative, but I spent 6 years of my life working in three different record stores in two different cities that were over 6000 miles apart. I read every Billboard and ICE magazine, and I promise that new releases come out on Tuesdays in the U.S. It's the way it's done. You may have found a store that decided to sell Hello Nasty early, but the OFFICIAL release date was on a Tuesday. It's not a rumor. Sorry for making this a public letter, but I had to make sure it was known. I swear to you all, Reid +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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RE: Sinister: Idle Loafers
by Hopkins, Tim 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

Roberto di Charietta Miller wrote: > I'm very much in favour of ska music. > Me too, although I think the current crop of US alt.ska-punk things miss the point a bit. Then again, what would I know? I once shook hands with a man who had shaken hands with Clement Dodd, aka Coxsone, the most important record producer in ska history. Having said that, the fellow whose hand I shook was in a band supporting Rancid, and no doubt he'd shaken the hand of somebody Rancid more recently than Coxsone's. So I decided to wash my hand after all. I have to admit to never having heard Rancid, but they don't sound very good to me. I think it might be the name. I expect they R!O!C!K!. Keith, oh keeper of the Sinister guitar, can you enlighten me? > I'm going to get some one day. Quite > possibly "The Best of Don Drummond", who murdered his wife. Probably because > she said Don was a great trombone player and, no doubt, a great bloke, but > ska? No way, Don. 2-Tone is my cup of tea too. Do Nothing. Ska is one of the > poppiest forms of pop in pop history. > Poor Don D, reckoned to be one of the two greatest trombonists in the world, (along with J J Johnson), he ended his days far too early in some asylum. But his records touched genius. I'm already planning my ska/rocksteady tape for Peter, here. It'll start with the marvellous 'Fat Man' by Derrick Morgan. It will also include 'Fatty Fatty' by Clancy Eccles, and 'Fattie Fattie' by The Heptones. Can you spot a theme? But, yeah, ska is absolutley poppalicious. Music for listening to and dancing to. Yum. > Tomorrow we're going to a pre-nuptial celebration in some vulture infested > mountains, enabling us to play my favourite form of Chicken - who can lie > still the longest. > You got that idea from The Idler, didn't you? Keith wrote: Here's one of my current favourite pages... the dotmusic all-time greatest album charts. Keith likes this site becase it has 'My Generation' by the Who listed as a '90s album, and it makes him feel contemporary. I read Smash Hits. Cheers Tim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: club
by Dunphy, Kevin 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

" Let's pretend that we are seven years old again and start a club. Any name suggestions?" the elbow kissers +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: chicken lover chicken lover
by blink＠inexpress.net 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

hello...(warning:ok yes yes ima immature high schooler,but 'gosh darn it all',i'm trying!) Did all you lovely people get a good nights sleep?? i thought i was hallucinating because a little flash kept moving around my room then i realised it was a firefly..aren't they neat (they must have a light baulb in their butts or something)i could look this up in my Big Book Of Questions And Answers but ummm,i'm not! i hope you all have a good time at these concerts,you lucky lucky muffins I don't know when they are but judging by frantic 'oh GOD i'll kill someone for a ticket!' i tink prettty soon,yes? i still think Belle and Sebastian would like playing in quebec..they can come to my spa (you can all come for free) well it's a crik (creek) but there's lots of fun squishy mud and no leeches and i'll sit back and watch stuart murdoch mud wrestle...there are thistles,but i expect them being Scottish to love them...and lovingly gather boquets of them and dance a merry dance... i still think my mother should take me to see them..i mean she love them really (plus she has same birthday as mister murdoch!) but welll more likely i am going to sit on top of a hill with old man withers (98 years old and he can still bake his own bread) he even wants to go...but he just wants to find a yugoslovian supermodel and eat corn..well just me as old man withers has no teeth. i don't have to worry about hearing The Boy With The Arab Strap and ruining the surprise.(but that ok..i cna be patient..just the other day i was listening to The State That I Am In..in the car, what can i say? the breeze..the sunset,i thought my heart would burst fom the sheer lovelienesss)..because that's just not going to happen OH and Belle and Sebastian were played on the (college) radio! The lady played Dog On Wheels and she's like 'this is all we have of Belle and Sebastian) and at first i felt sumg 'har har! i have more than the radio!' but then i though..oh poor things,and now i want to send an anonymous brown paper package tied up with string of all things belle and sebastian... Keith's discman sounds lovely...never ending batteries....oh how i wish that were true with mine..at first everyone made a fuss over mine because it has a radio (even tho i barely listen to radio) but now it is Mephisto Hellfire The Discman..it seems i hear only a few songs then...BEEP BEEP..LOW BATT...LOW BATT... I was going to see the avengers but i keep hearing cries of pish into the night..so perhaps i will wait and see 54 instead.And what is this movie with the pi sign...?? uh-oh..better stop now!!! yours sweetly, Genevieve how come the manics are growing beards? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: patience is a virtue... and i have it
by Todd Beatty 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

" Let's pretend that we are seven years old again and start a club. Any name suggestions?" how 'bout "In the dark youngsters?" ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Rehak, Kimberly" <kfr9(a)cdc.gov> To: "'sinister(a)majordomo.net'" <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Subject: Sinister: patience is a virtue... and i have it Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:34:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Rehak, Kimberly" <kfr9(a)cdc.gov> Good morning and Happy Friday! (please don't read this to sound as happy as it seems, for i am still working) Well, while all of you are talking about the forthcoming album you've already managed to lay your hands on and about all of the times you've heard b&s on the radio, I treasure the three times that i actually have. And like the minimum few who are waiting until the actual release to hear the next album, way to go you virtuous creatures! Let's pretend that we are seven years old again and start a club. Any name suggestions? Nevermind, Kim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: patience is a virtue... and i have it
by Keith Watson 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

Let's pretend >that we are seven years old again and start a club. Any name >suggestions? Bluesoda? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by yaniv gafni 14 Aug '98

14 Aug '98

i first heard b$s on the "alternative nation" on mtv. i loved theur music - melodic,innocent and charming. the video clips were amazing as they reflected perfectly the music's atmosphire. than i bought "sinister" and fell in love completly. i think its quite rare to find bands who write songs so beatiful as b$s do. plus they have a great singer and a sound that reminds me of arthur lee (love),syd barret,nick drake,byrds,early david bowie but much better! this is the music created by and for good peple. b$s are the greatest folk-pop-rock band i have ever heard. i can't wait to listen to their new album. - yaniv - ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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