January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: We're Off To Button Moon, we'll follow Mr Spoon...
by mconnell＠utas.edu.au 11 Jan '99

11 Jan '99

Hi Sinister-ites! Me first ever post huh? Best make it interesting. Some things about me Me Name: Michael My football team: St Mirren FC My place of birth: Irvine, Scotland My favourite drink: Rum Favourite kids show: Button Moon and/or Sooty Favourite Normal Show: Lano and Woodley Song that's going through my head right now: The Universal (Blur) Favourite part of Eat Your Peas, the new Martin-Molloy CD: Daniel saying the President is a goose... Favourite Toy: My Tickle Me Elmo At the moment I'm drifting through today, wondering some key things. That's all! Hello to you all! Michael +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: first greetings
by Lauren Caulfield 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

hello there, i just read an email from jonelle in the states which inspired me with the confidence to send my first post, having quietly observed the nature of proceedings for several days and being somewhat new to the whole mailing list type thing. so this is just to say a friendly hello and to growl about the overbearing assistant in a record store i visited in liverpool today. to be more specific, the aforementioned individual who, in an aggressive and belittling tone, loud enough to include everyone in the store, attempted to convince me that B&S have released nothing since arab strap. and indeed implied that this is just a modern rock song is not in existence, and furthermore that i was foolish to engage in debate regarding his superior musical knowledge. grrr. um, sorry, i didn't intend to fill this with whingeing but i thought maybe you'd sympathise/feel i was justified/reaffirm my faith in people etc. here's hoping, lauren. ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (no subject)
by JOE DIEDRICH 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

Since this is my first message also, I will be brief. I want to see if this is working, so in order not to waste your time, and seeing as how I will be a regular poster, or at least reader, I will tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Jonelle and I am from Detroit, Michigan. It seems that there are a lot of people here from across the ocean, rather than the states. My first Belle & Seb. album was Lazy Line Painter Jane, I fell in love with it. I am excited to get to know all of you so we can talk about Belle and Seb. and everything else. So I'm expecting a welcoming, happy bunch. Well that wasn't as brief as I thought it would be. Oh well. Bye for now, Jonelle. joe005(a)ameritech.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (no subject)
by JOE DIEDRICH 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

ok checking if this works. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 & sebastian on aceeeeeeed!
by paul dean 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

ok i was drunk, it was late & the sound was terrible but if you were in boston beer works off fenway park on friday night i'm sure you would be able to corroborate. The radio station was WFNX & it was about midnight..the announcer mentioned something about b&s and then proceeded to play a bangin' chuune - about halfway through my girlfriend nudged me & said that it was belle & sebby. I obviously scoffed but then slowly it creeped up on me that it was 'the boy with the arab strap' with the music speeded up & the lyrics at the same speed. someone please help - what is going on here - is this a WFNX joke or have 'tin tin out' managed to do the same to our heroes as they did to the sundays!!? i'm going for a lie down s'later paul. ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: You can kees my wife
by Mark Casarotto 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

As everyone's been going on about how nice the list is at the moment, I thought I'd apologise for my frankly undeserved outburst against Linda McCartney - she's just as worthwhile as any other wife and mother and human bean of any age, creed etc. dying before their time. But no more. I also was obviously not on song that day, as it was I who called Keith "winsome". Well I think he is! Surely it's a good thing? I'm glad he's back, anyway, and I hope I'll be able to bother him again next time I'm in Scotland. Arantxa, you sweetie, you! I'm blushing with undeserved praise... So I spent part of this afternoon helping my chickadee put up her new shelves. She clevely managed to hold the spanner wrong or something, thus resulting in me saying "no, like this" and beavering away for the next few minutes while she sat there with a shadow of a cunning smile on her lips... This all came after my first ever trip to IKEA. What a scary place! Not as scary as going to B&Q, though. I found myself lusting after wrench sets and door handles, despite not a jot of interest in DIY, and bought myself some de-icer. God, impulse buying, how can you resist... I'm going to try and buy a house this year. This spring, if I sort myself out quickly enough. If any listee estate agents have any advice, feel free to let me know...if I do manage to get a place, then I'd have a job, a house, a girlfriend (if she'll still have me), and pretty much everything I could want. Am I right to find this a bit nerve-wracking? I must admit to being a bit bored by "Crumbling the Antiseptic beauty", which I was listening to this morning. Bits of it are...nice, but that was about all. Is it a grower, like, say, If You're Feeling Sinister? Hope so, as it's not every day that bands are so highly praised on the list. Actually, when I'd been subbed only about 2 weeks, someone said how great Hefner are, and they then went ad released the second best album of last year. Stars. Which is why anyone within 200 miles of the Poetry caff should go and see them (is it this Friday?) at the next social. And that's an order. Well, I've just found a remnant of my diet-breaking Crunchie, so I shall nibble on it while relaxing in front of an association football match on the box. Has everybody heard about the bird? love and snowflakes (I wish), Pizza Boy 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: A Call to Action, from Noam Chomsky, et. al
by Robert Morris 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

I would like to belong to just one mailing list where Chomsky never comes up. Is this too much to ask? Thanks for the Spam Jeffrey. Robert Morris winboog(a)gis.net now playing-Elvis Presley, the Memphis Record ---------- > From: Jeffrey David Hyslop <hyslopje(a)pilot.msu.edu> > To: sinister(a)majordomo.net; nandre(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu; galaxie(a)listbox.com; barth.33(a)osu.edu; accraig(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu; ferrell.55(a)osu.edu; Marta Maria Kline <klinema1(a)pilot.msu.edu>; hover.10(a)osu.edu; ra274798(a)oak.cats.ohiou.edu; Sarah Megan Brown <brownsa5(a)pilot.msu.edu>; Douglas Glaser <glaserdo(a)pilot.msu.edu> > Subject: Sinister: A Call to Action, from Noam Chomsky, et. al > Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 4:30 PM > > > > > ***************** > Please distribute as widely as possible > ***************** > > > A Call to Action on Sanctions and the U.S. War Against the People of Iraq > > by Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said, and Howard Zinn > > January 8, 1999 > > At the end of 1998, the United States once again rained bombs on the people of > Iraq. But even when the bombs stop falling, the U.S. war against the people of > Iraq continues through the harsh economic sanctions. This is a call to action > to end all the war. > > This month U.S. policy will kill 4,500 children under the age of 5 in Iraq, > according to UN studies, just as it did last month and the month before that, > all the way back to 1991. Since the end of the Gulf War, at least hundreds of > thousands -- maybe more than 1 million -- Iraqis have died as a direct result > of the UN sanctions on Iraq, which are a direct result of U.S. policy. > > This is not foreign policy -- it is sanctioned mass-murder that is nearing > holocaust proportions. If we remain silent, we are condoning a genocide that is > being perpetrated in the name of peace in the Middle East, a mass slaughter > that is being perpetrated in our name. > > The time has come for a call to action to people of conscience. We are past the > point where silence is passive consent -- when a crime reaches these > proportions, silence is complicity. > > There are several tasks ahead of us. First, we must organize and make this > issue a priority, just as Americans organized to stop the war in Vietnam, and > to protest U.S. policies in Central America and South Africa. We need a > national campaign to lift the sanctions. > > This kind of work has already begun, and those efforts need our help. For the > past several years, individuals and groups have been delivering medicine and > other supplies to Iraq in defiance of the U.S. blockade. Now, members of one of > those groups, Voices in the Wilderness in Chicago, have been threatened with > massive fines by the federal government for "exportation of donated goods, > including medical supplies and toys, to Iraq absent specific prior > authorization." Our government is harassing a peace group that takes medicine > and toys to dying children; we owe these courageous activists our support. > > Such a campaign is not equivalent to support for the regime of Saddam Hussein. > To oppose the sanctions is to support the Iraqi people. The people are > suffering because of the actions of both the Iraqi and U.S. governments, but > our moral responsibility lies here in the United States, to counter the > hypocrisy and inhumanity of our leaders. > > Also, there has been a virtual embargo on news of the effects of the sanctions > in the mainstream media. For the most part, the American people do not know > what evil is being carried out in our name. We must continue to apply pressure > on journalists at all levels -- from our local papers to the network news -- to > cover this tragedy. We should overwhelm the major press with letters to the > editor and put pressure on journalists to cover the story. > > And we must realize this could be a long struggle. Preparations should begin > for all the possible strategies, including civil disobedience once a sufficient > number of people are committed. Direct action that forces a moral accounting > likely is going to be necessary. > > Whatever else we are doing, we should treat this as an emergency and put it at > the top of our agenda. Existing groups can work on the issue, new groups may > need to be formed, and national networks need to be built. A good central > source of information exists on the web at http://leb.net/IAC/. > > Without action by us, the horrors will go on, the children will continue to > die. We must appeal to the natural sympathies of the American people, who will > respond if they know what is happening. We must therefore bring this issue, in > every way we can, to national attention. The only way to avoid complicity in > this crime is to do everything we can, and much more than we have been doing, > to end the sanctions on Iraq. This issue must be discussed in every household > and every public forum across the country. > > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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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Sinister: sinister
by bluefishy＠alloymail.com 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

Dear Sinisterines, I read the article someone posted from the Evening Post, and I thought the style of writing was so quaint and informal. If it's just an ordinary newspaper, then why are they reporting on a band? Reading though the posts, I thinking it's unfair that I, being not British, can't say cute things like "ace" or "suchlike." Eleanor Bluefishy ----------------------------------------------- Get your free email at http://www.alloymail.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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sugar sugar bum cheeks
by mfrx8mcs＠stud.man.ac.uk 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

Dear people as this is my first posting it may not be wise but i just wanted to say it is possible to like the Backstreet Boys ("Am I SEX-shoo ULLL.....(yeah, yeah)" thank you lesleyjo, digest V3 #2) and B&S. honest mary oh dear i think i've just been pigeon-holed +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Blame it on TabbyWars
by weejay 10 Jan '99

10 Jan '99

Hello list - all being very entertaining lately aren't you? Well, hey, here I am to spoil your fun ;) I am quite joyously happy for really silly trival reasons at the moment - The huge pile of work I was expecting is nothing much and quite fun anyway and I'm going to have lots of time free to go exploring around the country, so yeay! I wish there was a B&S thing to go to in the few weeks. Ah well. What is an SUV by the way? Oh, forget all this - I really don't have anything to say except to ask you all nicely to go and write some stuff in my guestbook and that I've found a good new toy which generates Alanis lyrics, at http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy- alanislyrics.html from which I generated Alanis's new belle & sebastian influenced single. Bear with me here. I Think arab straps are really a huge problem I Think filthy laughs are too much on my mind I Think sofas have got a lot to do with why the world sucks But what can you do? Like a blue rain, beating down on me Like a Kerouak line, which won't let go of my brain Like Sebastian's ass, it is in my head Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap I Think horses are gonna drive us all crazy And terry underwear make me feel like a child I Think city air will eventually be the downfall of civilization But what can you do? I said what can you do? Like a blue rain, beating down on me Like a Kerouak line, which won't let go of my brain Like Sebastian's ass, it is in my head Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Like a blue rain, beating down on me Like Sebastian's smile, cruel and cold Like Kerouak's ass, it is in my head Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap Blame it on The boy with the arab strap James(a)twopounds.u-net.com Go on, what are you frightened of? (and remember - stick it in sideways) http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/cabaret/5523/ (Which will no longer crash your computer. Hopefully.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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