August 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

RE: Sinister: re : I'm puzzled
by PJMiller 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

>Adrian wrote: >> Duracell Bunny. Probably crept in your room and changed them while you >> slept last night. Something else very wierd is going on. I haven't got Adrian's message yet. (That Gus Honeybun incident certainly had a profound effect on Young Evans, didn't it?). Also, my school assembley didn't even get back to me before we were all standing in the dinner queue, which made a mockery of the whole thing. >Hands up everyone who likes that Hillman Minx song "I've Had Enough"? I like The WHO song. Is it a cover version? A thousand thanks to Mister Helmut "Keith" Watson for the delightful package that arrived on my doorstep this morning. I've just spent the whole afternoon listening to it. All. My pleasure knows no bounds, it's true, Keith's taste in music is without parallel. And the person who first recommended "Stormbringer" - name escapes me, likes a punt on the horses and dancing round the room with his kids. Connolly? Anyway, top one, not a million miles away from the B&S "vibe". John Martyn's voice seems to have changed quite a lot over the years. Yes Keith, Clippo the Helpful Paper Clip is a fucking twat. I have no idea why your batteries don't run out, but please keep me informed. If they don't run out every five minutes, I'll treat myself to one too. Most of them have little stickers on them making outlandish claims like "35 minutes battery time" and so on, which has always put me off. I beleive you can also plug them into your car ashtray as well, which is good. Trousers wrote: 65AD The first message arrives in Edinburgh. Sadly it is obscured by mammoth dung. I don't really have anything to add to this fine piece of research, except to point out that today is also a momentous day for Sinisterines the world over. Why? Because I have just this minute learnt how to quote bits from other messages, as in not the one you're answering. Which is what I've just done. Hooray! Just over a year it took me to work that one out. Let's see if I can do it again.... this letter has nothing to do with bras. Ha ha ! Success! Brad wrote that. Another one..... Y'know their lead singer is gay? We all know who wrote that. Somebody who hasn't realised that ALL lead singers are gay. It's in their contract. Most of them are going out with the drummer. But only the dedicated few actually end up LIVING WITH the drummer. I've just finished reading The Rough Guide to Reggae. I don't think it's intended to be read from start to finish like that, but it was very good, highly instructive and entertaining. I simply must rush out and spend all my money on ragga. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dublin and the summer
by Jonathan Willett 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

hello all. This is my first post, being one of the numerous recent converts. B&S has been a soundtrack to many events of the past year since I discovered them last summer in Massachussetts. I've since met numerous fanatics who have, once testing my faith, let me hear copies of bbc sessions, live nyc shows, and the much coveted tigermilk. Needless to say I became a follower. So now I am in Dublin working at a bar and making the best of it. One goal of coming to this part of the world was being closer to a possible B&S gig. So I am awaiting patiently news of upcoming shows. It would be painfully ironic if they took off for the states and I missed them while they were here, and there when I go home. I'm quiting my job at the end of august and heading off on one of those backpacking hostel deals that so many people seem to be fond of at this time of the year. Scotland, England, and a few other places are all on the agenda. If anybody could suggest events, places, festivals, cheap eats, or lush fields to see in my travels I would be much appreciated. Me and about fifteen other people were treated to the amazing Michael Hurley here in Dublin the other night. I don't know if many of you have heard of him but he's this old american folk singer who has been kicking around since the early sixties. He played with the likes of the Holy Modal Rounders and the Clamtones. He's generated a renewed interest in the indie world as being 'outsider folk', which as far as I can tell means he's been ignored his whole career. Anyway, it was a great show, with sad ballads and goofy songs about flowers and refusing to work. Having to come to a cypercafe and spend inordinate amounts of money for email, I don't know how active I can be on the list. I've seen the future and it looks expensive. "In the city in the rain I hear the screaming of tires In the city in the rain I'm lighting myself on fire." -m.f. jon. ______________________________________________________ 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: How I learnt to stop worrying and love Begbie
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Rod wrote: > >The Idler is my favourite magazine at the moment. A magazine dedicated > to >people who'd rather sit around all day, watching telly, listening to > music, and >partaking of recreational drugs, written by people who are > intelligent, witty and >very, very funny. > Tag wrote: > ... Rod is right. "The Idler" is full of the sort of writing we should > all aspire to. Sarcastic, well-informed, politically incorrect in all > the right places, and in none of the wrong ones. > > There's Louis Theroux's unfinished jokes... Isn't Louis Theroux the bloke who did that "Weird Weekends" thing on BBC2 a while back? Seeing him playing acoustic guitar (sarcastically, if that's possible) with a proselytising mission for The Family in some godforsaken American town was a peach, it really was. Not to mention the episode on the porn industry. Hi-larious. > Oh yes, sorry. The Idler strikes the right balance between witty > cynicism at careerism and the work ethic, pleasure from simple things, > and plain old subversive decadence. And it rules. Alright, I'm sold. So how do you get hold of it, then, if it's not too much trouble, O Idle Evangelists? ByeBye, Liz. ************************************************* Tsuki-Yuki-Hana Twitch the blind and peep at the moon. The big round moon like a piece of soap. It washes the daylight out of your eyes and fills them with night-time. Ivor Cutler ************************************************ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: How I learnt to stop worrying and love Begbie
by Mctaggart, Robert 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Hello, Sit down with a stiff drink. This is going to come as a shock, but ... Rod Begbie wrote: >Have 'The Idler' been sent review copies? Cause they were very complementary >about the EPs last summer. >The Idler is my favourite magazine at the moment. A magazine dedicated to >people who'd rather sit around all day, watching telly, listening to music, and >partaking of recreational drugs, written by people who are intelligent, witty and >very, very funny. ... Rod is right. "The Idler" is full of the sort of writing we should all aspire to. Sarcastic, well-informed, politically incorrect in all the right places, and in none of the wrong ones. There's Louis Theroux's unfinished jokes...where he has the idea for something funny, which he can't quite get a punchline for, but he uses it anyway (damn good idea, how many times have good jokes fallen by the wayside for want of a punchline); the Days Out bit where the reviewer lists the most spectacularly boring places to go and praises them - along the lines of "you'd have to be fucking mad to miss Tarquin and Camilla's eight week basket weaving course in rural Dorset". There was a really good article entitled "Nice" a while back, which was just a list of low-key but lovely things you see on trains, or buses, or in the street which somehow cheer you up. And they had a whole piece on balconies once, and how great they were. Oh yes, sorry. The Idler strikes the right balance between witty cynicism at careerism and the work ethic, pleasure from simple things, and plain old subversive decadence. And it rules. Sorry, if you know all this already. But in spirit I think it's far more on-topic than the rabid dribblings of Manics fans, or yet another mail saying "oh-I-like-Ben-Folds-Five-too-they're-good". Of course, that's just my opinion ~ Love tag x PS Genevieve, come back. Some of us miss you even if the "grown-ups" don't. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: re : I'm puzzled
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

> Keith wrote : > >What's going on? Adrian wrote: > Duracell Bunny. Probably crept in your room and changed them while you > slept last night. > What, in a kind of tooth-fairy stylee? New batteries for old, Mrs. Aladdin? That'll be it and no mistake. My, what a very pixie/elf-centric list we are. It's probably something to do with feeling sinister. Hands up everyone who likes that Hillman Minx song "I've Had Enough"? Marvellous if self-conscious. ByeBye, Liz. ************************************************* Tsuki-Yuki-Hana Twitch the blind and peep at the moon. The big round moon like a piece of soap. It washes the daylight out of your eyes and fills them with night-time. Ivor Cutler ************************************************ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Wonder Years
by poetryplace2 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Brothers and sisters As we fast approach our anniversary it has occurred to some of us that the newer recruits to our joyful congregation may as yet be unaware of the traditions and glorious history of this august institution. The mighty oak of Sinister can only flourish in ever-replenished soil, and so, to remedy this potentially calamitous situation, for several months now we have been employing workshy students on their summer recess to venture deep into the cobwebbed catacombs of The Archives by candlelight. We paid them with Spangles. Some of the students were never to return from these perilous regions, but do not weep... They were only Media Studies students. And they died to serve the greater good. So let me dandle you a while on the knee of Old Uncle Trousers, as I bring you.... THE STORY OF SINISTER. Part I: The Early Years Date ????BC* A traveller from The North brings news of delightfulle mufic among the Pictish hordes. Enthused by these rumours, a young cleric by the name of Andrewe Dene ventures into these godless, pestiferous regions as part of a Sabre-Toothed-Tiger Safari. Hearing the queer minstrellry emanate from the forests at night, he feverishly takes primitive field recordings, etching the notation into stone tablets. Since he belongs to an ascetic cult which forbids the consumption of flesh or wine, Dene is nourished in his labours solely by the produce of the local dairy. Hence his recordings become known as Ye Sabre Toothed Tiger Milk tablets. *Date illegible due to the vandalism of Viking invaders several centuries later, who covered the archives with crude Norse etchings... Scholars suggest an approximate translation as This is pish etc. Date 23BC The cult of Brother Denes recordings spreads thoughout the country. By the banks of the Thames, an innocent Kitchen-worker, David, is granted a mysterious epiphany as he burns the days Cake... a Voice commands him to take his wench Katrina and establish a Holy Order, based on The New Music, the wearing of Velour, and strange hilltop rituals, known as picnics. Shunned and laughed at by the locals, the couple take refuge high in the branches of a tree near modern day Kew Bridge. Meanwhile, The Word spreads... 50AD Advances in modern technology lead to the formation of a network, uniting the far-flung members of the fledgling cult. Through observation of the heavens, and careful study of ley-lines, the brilliant druid Pol Mitchelle deduces that a centre should be founded in the small village of Edinburgh. With techniques later used in the construction of Stonehenge, huge obelisks bearing messages of crucial importance are dragged vast distances by teams of highly-trained mammoths. God-fearing Christians rightly term this unseemly activity Sinister. 65AD The first message arrives in Edinburgh. Sadly it is obscured by mammoth dung. 70AD The second message arrives, bearing only the mysterious rune P----O----P?. Detailed study of the calligraphy makes it clear that it is a message of peace from a terrible Warlord somewhere in the vicinity of Harringay... Uncle Trousers xxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------- Next week! The Discovery of the New World Young Bobbie MacRaggartTaggart falls asleep while inhaling a new fangled tobacco cigarello. and invents the smoke signal.... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: re : I'm puzzled
by Adrian Evans 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Keith wrote : > changed the batteries in it before going to London last week and used >the walkman a lot on the train down and back up and stuff, I checked >these batteries this morning before coming into work and they were half >full, and after half a day of having it plugged in at work, they now claim to >be full again. >What's going on? Duracell Bunny. Probably crept in your room and changed them while you slept last night. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I'm puzzled
by Andrewnic＠aol.com 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

In a message dated 13/08/1998 12:47:41 GMT, you write: > Can anyone technical help with this strange puzzle Afternoon, Guv. It's pixies. Your walkman contains little pixies that pop out while you are asleep and sprinkle moondust on your batteries. Don't try to see the little buggers, though, 'cause they stick hot pins in yer eyeballs and make you go blind. (Note that this is not the case with Akai personal stereos, as a result of a court ruling in 1984 after the chief pixie made complaints on behalf of his workers about lunch breaks and lost pension funds) Technical Andy +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: <snip> ...your heroes... <snip> ....aren't mine..... <snip>
by J Errington 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Debbie wrote: > the lightning seeds are one of the most awful bands to > emerge in recent history (apart from chumbawamba and space) and the > manics are the greatest. Don't mince your words do you debbie? As for me, the more manics I listen to, the more interviews I read, and the more manics fanzines I read, the more pretentious and soundbite-obsessed they seem to me. It's five years now and the only thing that stands up to scrutiny is 'The Holy Bible.' Apart from 'Archives of pain' - It leaves me with a very bad taste in my mouth to like a band who advocate murder. And ok, chumbawamba, the lightning seeds and space aren't the coolest most credible bands around, but they are quite pop or even P!O!P! and there's nothing wrong with that. Isn't 'The Ballad Of Tom Jones' one of the funniest things you've ever heard? ....and talking of only eating 3 foods, I only don't eat peppers, mushrooms and halva. Which is strange 'cos up to the age of 6 or so I would only eat jaffa cakes and garlic sausage and only drink ribena. I hope it didn't stunt my development... ....hey, that would explain a lot..... .....I have to get out of this house. I didn't realise this before, but I cant cope without my friends around me, however little fun I have with them at the time. Well, enough! To martley for a 3 day party! WeeJay PS I've just re-read this and it sounds overly harsh on the Manics. Please scroll up and read it again bearing in mind I used to be a HUGE fan. "...All you can do is laugh All I can do is cry..." james(a)twopounds.u-net.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: I'm puzzled
by John Johnston 13 Aug '98

13 Aug '98

Dear List I'm no Scientist but I think the answer to Keith's battery conundrum is quite straightforward. It's all to do with the little elves that live inside your machine and the kind of music you play. Now we all know that Keith's taste in music is without parallel and that's why the batteries last so long. The elves inside are getting down with such abandon to the top tunes that he just can't help but spin that they don't need any music juice from the batteries. The music juice is only used when duff tunes appear; to lubricate their way out of the machine and through the headphones. Normally the elves do this themselves but when the music ceases to "rule" for a second they need some extra help that batteries provide. Try this at home - just slip "Ma he's making eyes at me" by Lena Zavaroni on your walkman - you'll eat up those AA's like there's no tommorrow. "OK then Mr TechnoPixie" I'm sure you're saying "What about on the train - Keith says that used up some of his batteries - how do you explain that you overgrown child whose inane fantasy life really needs better exercising than here on a kick-ass music list - and don't think that going on about Elves and pixies will get you anymore list crushes - you were bloody lucky to get one so don't go pushing your luck Mister...." Well, I'll explain. One of the unknown side effects of the privatisation of British Railways was that the trains were taken over be evil malevolent sprites who didn't care for dancing or merry making of any sort. The disco pixies who live inside walkmen are scared to dance (The Skids wrote a song about all of this...) and they lay low unable to stop the music juice resources being depleted. And because the elves are hiding they can't do anything about some of the music leaking out of your headphones and running madly around the carriage instead of interfacing directly with your brain material (as Chris Morris would say). That's why you can always hear other people's music on a train. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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