January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: My sadness
by Blake E. Hamilton 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

If there's a certain quota of music that uplifts one, makes one happy, and joyful, and elated, then there is an equal half that throws one into despair, sadness and longing. Right now, our friends B&S are throwing me for a nasty spin. Why? It's that painful thing known as song association. I just spent my xmas break laughing, playing, and dreaming, and now, i'm at school, and I'm depressed, and I miss my friends. All last month we'd be driving around, singing along to B&S, with the windows down, and the wind was everywhere. I can't imagine how bright the sun was those days, for it might have blinded me instantly if I had glanced into the yellow core. Now, as I lay in my room, and listen to Slow Graffitti, I become a prisoner of my own sadness. It's all I think about--how it used to be, and how I wish it was again. The fault doesn't lie with B&S, but rather, with me. My own legion of sadness comes from this association with B&S--happiness. I think that's why they make music in the first place. Has anyone wanted to tell someone honestly how much they mean to you? But you didn't for the reason it might sound silly, or sad, or strange? Sometimes I want to tell everyone that I miss them so much that it prevents me from walking, and chewing. Yet, I resist, for distance is often times the most effective way of persuasion. I've got more, but I'll save it. Love to you all, blake ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- I'm sorry like atari... "We try harder and harder, tryin' to get our way, but it's a long, long wait until Judgement Day. So settle your affairs and take your time, for everything in the world is yours and mine. Yours and mine." --Pete Townshend, '68 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Adieu adieu to you and you and you!:)
by Kin Woo 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Hello my dear sweet listeesAnd now I, the writer of many notoriously off-the-subject postings (Tanya Donelly, One Dove, Mercury Rev etc!) must go offline for a month or so to journey to the spiritual home of B&S (sort of) that is London. YAY! Wish me luck listees and lots of fun. Hope the weather won't be too punishing too. And thanks to those extra cool people who have enlightened me on the best record shops etc to go to. All power to you! If Philippe whom I've-tapes-to-months-ago-and-has-now-gone-to-Salt-Lake-City contacts the list, please do tell him of my whereabouts and remind him of his obligation!:) And to keep in the tradition of my non B&S content postings, I must urge all UK listees of this wonderful list to go and watch this new series that's just hit your screens. It's called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and no, no don't be put off by the title or your recollections of the misfired movie, this series is far, far, FAR superior to it, and also coincidentally most TV shows today. I honestly think it as one of the best TV shows to have come out since "Twin Peaks" (my all-time favourite), yep THAT good:) Think "My So Called Life" mixed with "Scream" and the "X-files" and how can you fail? It's not kitschy at all, but effectively blends genuinely suspenseful horror, comedy and heart breaking drama into first rate entertainment. The first few episodes are pretty good but it definitely gets MUCH better further along the series.Over here in Australia, it's series two and I can tell you it's a ripper (no pun intended). Plus it also helps that the star is one Sarah Michelle Gellar who is one of my favourite actresses (along with Christina Ricci)- she's absolutely terrific in her angst-filled role. Give the girl an Emmy I say! Well that's all. Keep the peace Sinisterines and the B&S faith. And let's all vote B&S to win that Best Newcomer Award!!!:) How excellent would that be? (and weird too). Seeya in a month or so Kin Woo With A Star Upon Your Shoulder Lighting Up The Path As You Walk ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: semi-naked in somebody else's room
by Archel 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

dear list, glad to see that we're all keeping up this exalted topic. i am absolutely convinced that the women of the world can usefully be divided into the two categories mentioned: those who wear matching undies and those who don't. i have one, un, uno set of matching bra and pants, and they're from BHS so they don't exactly make me "sorted woman of the world with an understanding of silk and underwires whose chest of drawers/washing routine would put mussolini to shame and who will not be laughed at if she gets run over". speaking of which, i really don't understand how it could be important what your underwear looked like if you were in a road accident - i'd like to think that our medical professionals would be looking at your injuries rather than your skid marks... i think on the whole i prefer the sort of women who don't always match, and who on occasion dye all their knickers grey (like me), although no disrepect to the listees who have so beautifully described their floral/lacy/silky/push-up combos. i'm really quite jealous. damn, i seem to have expended all my mental energies on pants. sorry. and beth, i'd love to be your friend, as long as my mummy and your mummy say it's okay. write and tell me about your pants. god, that sounded disgusting and pervy - didn't mean it like that. lesley jo has clearly traumatised and corrupted me with her version of "we rule the school". by the way lj, i had been considering the very same questions about that song as you, and am also confused. luv archel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101(a)york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "We're the younger generation, we grew up fast. All the others did drugs, they're taking it out on us." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: undies but not mine
by Evan Gregg 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

i wont speak about my underwear since ive been told chicks hate tighty whiteys and add a big belly to the equation and it gets real icky, oh wait...i just mentioned them didnt i? well im wearing long undies now so forget what i said thats some other guy good timing with this thread cause for those in US or anywhere that gets the TV network A&E they're having a special on underwear throughout time on Sunday, sounds like fun to me -----Ev np-Mojave 3-Out Of Tune (wowie wow wow) -- ----------------------------------------------------- I was happy when I put my new record on But I was sad as I listened to it all alone ---"Feeling Fine" by Class my home page: http://www.angelfire.com/ma/dixiecluck +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Belle and Sebastian
by Stanley,L 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Hey, I know we're supposed to wait awhile before coming "online" but I want to comment on the great news that we've been nominated at the Brits: OK so I think the prize will probably be awarded to someone more mainstream (I can't remember who's been nominated, I don't have a list with me at the moment) but it's brilliant because having heard "Tigermilk" just before Christmas - thanks heaps, James E. - the judges must have impeccable taste. It's not exactly too bourgeois, look at it as a triumph for the unbourgeois. And if you want more of the same stuff, check out "Rising for the Moon" by Fairport Convention - especially track 8, "Dawn" - because Sandy Denny was definitely the Belle of her day. (Having heard "Lazy Line Painter Jane", I know what I'm talking about. OK so there may be no songs sung by a female voice, and I can't remember whether LLPJ is or not, but even so I think her voice has the same mysterious qualities as whoever does sing on B&S records.) Also a question (unrelated to B&S but I figured someone might know...): Does anyone know where I can get my hands on either Steve Bell's "The Big If.." (published in 1995) or some "Fritz the Cat" stuff by Robert Crumb? They're both cartoonists/comic book artists and this would really make my day. Louise Stanley, l.stanley(a)lse.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sinister virgin
by Gary Parkinson 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Many greets I've known some sinister virgins in my time. I know I'm supposed to wait for like a year or something before I start mailing to youse kids, but I couldn't wait. Sorry. Firstermost: snow. It's beauty, ain't it? Unfortunately, it never bloody happens here (Manchester). Here, it just rains. Outside today it's glistening like an open sore, or like a gem of sputum. Nice enough, in its own way. Secondlymost: undies. This is the best list ever without question. I could never talk about pants on any of my other lists. Personally, I go for the all-encompassing Y-front, pulled right up to the chin if necessary. Socks, anyone? Does anybody know where to get those wierd garter things favoured by stars of '60s farces that hold your socks up? Firdly: literature. Douglas Coupland kind of gives me the horn. 'Girlfriend in a Coma' made me cry in the park. When I saw him in our local bookshop, the kid in front of me in the queue gave him a half-eaten bag of Skittles and he was joyful as a pup and said they were like jewels. What a luv. Should you want scary bad stuff to read however, then I heartily and lungily recommend Dennis Cooper. Grisly and poetic all at the same time, beautiful in the way that a bruise can be. Fourthally: The Incredible String Band! The Incredible String Band! The Incredible String Band! Oh mum, I feel I've come home! Have you any idea how long I've been plaguing my friends with Stringband nonsense, to rapturous blank stares or slightly hostile punches in the face. And now, somebody (who was that? So many e-mails, so little attention span) mentions the glorious hippies. Whoever it was, may the long-time sun shine on you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way home. More later, I'm sure. I have to go now, I've knick-knacks to buff. Cheer, Gazzoid. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sweary Mary
by Honey 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Hi I'm new to this mailing list, this is my first post, and I hope I don't make a fool of myself. I'm Agnes, I work on a sheep farm and my favourite hobbies are joinery, eating yoghurt and humming. Oh I can't do this, hello everyone, I hope you don't mind me sticking my head in. I'm still around, honestly, but very much part of the wallpaper just now (think of me as a nice "flock"), and pretty unresponsive unless you poke me very hard with a stick, due to continuing illness, which really has gone on too long now, don't you think? But I'm doing list mummy things in the background, albeit slowly, so don't think you're all orphans, and I'll bring home some iced buns for tea, I promise. Please only mail me administration type requests if you've been through all the suggestions on the WWW site and are desperate and crying your eyes out. All of you who have mailed me other nicer things, gosh, please don't think I'm an ungrateful tart if I haven't replied yet, and please don't give up on me, as I never chuck out an email that needs a reply, even if we might all be living in space by the time you get one. You all seemed to have rallied round, post-Christmas, and made this place a much warmer, cosy and stimulating place to be. Why is this, were you all playing a trick on me? I could of course be wrong as I've only read a small number of the emails so far, but some seem to be jolly fine to me. Your mummy's very pleased, please keep it up to stop this list going under. And here's something dull to set off the year in customary fashion. -- Posting -- I've been playing with restricting the list to only accepting posts from subscribed users, and the results show it's well worthwhile doing, so I'm going to implement it. Although it might be annoying to a few, I hope it'll really help increase the quality of stuff we all have to plough through, as only people committed to reading 30 posts a day will be able to send something back, so they'll understand the pain of reading something inconsequential or knee-jerky. I know there might be some who just read the list from the WWW archive, but the consequences of allowing people who occasionally read a couple of messages a week to post is too much. It's you loyal ones who are prepared to feel the weight of all the mails or digests in your mailboxes, that I want fragrant, expressive posts from. There will of course be exceptions to this, people who read their mail from one account and post from another (say a home account), and I won't leave you high and dry - if you're WELL known to me, and have posted lots of [worthwhile, funny, meaningful :) ] posts to the list in the past, or you're Mrs Murdoch, then I'll make an exception if you mail me privately, and I'll allow posting from a non-subscribed account, but I'm afraid I can't do this if you're someone I don't know who's reading this on the WWW or whatever. Anyone who isn't on the list and tries to send something will get a message back explaining what to do. I've added some people to the allowed list already so don't be surprised if your mails get through OK - if you don't hear anything, it's fine. Just to emphasise, if you're subscribed to the main list or digest, you won't notice any of this, and life will continue as normal, bar a slight decrease in piffle, hopefully. -- Underwear -- I quite like the word "panties", partly because it rhymes with "Aunties" and "sea-shanties". In fact, New Year Sinister competition no. 1 is to send me a limerick with B&S content, which features these three words rhyming on lines 1, 2 and 5. Competition no. 2 is the one I forgot to send in over Christmas, because I had my head under a quilt: write a short Christmas carol, with B&S content, featuring the rhymes "Mary" and "hairy" and "Jesus" and "cheeses". If for some bizarre reason I get any entries, I will post the results back to the list. Linda will provide the prizes. If I don't get any entries I will remain embarrassed and silent, and try and pretend I never suggested it. (By the way, Charlotte/John, what happened to the remaining entries to your poem competition, they were going to go on the WWW weren't they? If that plan's off, I'm happy to put them on the Sinister site if you send me them.) -- Swearing -- I've been most amused in recent months by a swear word detector which seems to be in operation at Yale College, somewhere in Wales. Someone from there is subscribed to the list (hi) and probably doesn't know that she/he isn't receiving a small percentage of mails to the list because they're deemed to have rude words in them, and so get bounced back to me. What's fun is trying to see what it counts as a rude word in the returned mail, and wondering what it's like to be the Yale College Rude Word Collector (hereafter known as the YCRWC), who must have to actually type in all these obscene words in the first place, just so that they can keep them out the doors. Some of these words were very respectable 100 years ago, and other words like "pomegranate" which we unsuspectingly use happily today in conversation with our grandmothers, will be obscene in 2055, as I know from my time travel experiments. You must really have to be ahead of the game in terms of obscenity to be the YCRWC. What I was wondering is: does anyone know any rude Welsh words? Could they try them out please and see if the YCRWC is up on them? I'd quite like that, but I've always had a small imagination. miss honey 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". 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Re: Sinister: hmmmm....
by LZYPAINTER＠aol.com 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

hello, just thought i would say that i am from the states, sarah was wondering if anyone was? i don't say much on here, but, i do like to read what others say. more of an observer i guess. the shyest girl, danielle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Lalalaing in London,1968
by Arantxa Sanz 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Queridos siniestros : Lee wrote : "the snow in Nottinghamshire" It has already dissappeared, true.I really miss a good snow, to have a good excuse not to come to School, for example.So Lee,are you in Notts. too? So at least we are three! Fluffy, I have the solution to your enigma : without doubt ,that tacky song spinning in your mind only can be 'La la la',by the unique Massiel. And now I will have seven hundred and ninety British/American/Australians wondering : 'What?'.Some hint: it was the song chosen by St Etienne to make a cover for that album with Eurovision songs released last year.It was the first time Spain won the Eurovision contest! So with this literate reference I have resumed both the most interesting topics in the list later. Massiel's performance and white,ye-ye dress is an absolute must to see for any person interested in the history of camp. Her victory in London was a really huge event en Spain, and it served well Franco's regime interests to keep Spanish youngsters away from their French peers street-fighting that Spring... And I think she beated Sir Cliff's 'Congratulations' ! Underwear note: Matching but tasteless (not even bikini-showing-off-belly-pants, as expert Jessica recommends) Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: undies r us
by Jeanette 14 Jan '99

14 Jan '99

Do you think retailers across the world will see a rise in underwear sales this week, as the entire Sinister mailing list runs out to buy the aformentioned unmentionables? Hmmmm... maybe someone should designate one day as B&S Panty Day. Then we could all go on one huge, world-wide shopping spree! jeanette Question for the Panty Police: I'm wearing a pink satin wonder bra with pink lace panties. Is that okay? Or should both be lace? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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