October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: (S)he's losing it.
by Brandt Fundak 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Or more precise to the point, I am losing it. Yesterday I felt like the coolest kid on my block (which is not saying much) because I got my belle and sebastian isobel and fox shirt and pins for my jackets in the post. Then I felt like the luckiest kid on my block because the New York Giants won and I won our office pool for the second time in 4 weeks (and one week I didn't play!). And then I went to sleep because I knew that my mum would have her surgery the next morning and come home and everything would be cool. Then I woke up. Now those of you who have been kind enough to read my melodramatic postings to this list know that I have a lot of pent up frustration and rage. Some of it relates to my mom's illness, some to elements of my personal life. And it keeps building. And I keep trying to vent. Unfortunately, that is tough to do when you have few friends and having just moved back to cleveland in August, I really haven't had the time or opportunity to meet people. Unfortunately this didn't make much of a difference yesterday after work when I felt like i needed to be held by someone for a whole day. But that doesn't even close to what this morning was like. First thing I found that the puppy had chewed up a Microsoft Office 2000 installation disc. Then I went down into the laundry room to find that someone had pulled my wet clothes out of the wash and threw them in a laundry basket--someone who doesn't live in my house. They were there because my mom's house is also her store, but that doesn't give them leave to not observe laundry ettiquette, especially when the laundry ISN'T IN THEIR HOUSE. Then to top things off, the puppy didn't have to go out because she shit all over the floor (she's old enough to know better, she's almost a year old.) So as it stands, I'm about to go spare. I really don't know what to do. I'm trying my hardest to concentrate on other things, but it's a lot easier to be pissed off now isn't it? I'm so flustered I have no idea how to end this post, so I guess I'll do it now. Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Curry in my fingernails
by Mark Casarotto 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

For what it's worth, I saw The Exorcist in the cinema 9 months ago and laughed my tiny nose off! When I wasn't cowering behind Miss V, anyway. The Omen I and III are better for thrillz. We even have legal hardcore pornography over here. Andy D and David G pointed out the precedent setters, but the BBFC gave 18 certificates to 2 dirty vids last year, both of which had lots of penetration on full view. No up the bum sex, though, buggery fans (and there seem to be a lot of you on this list), or, ahem, money shots. Or close-ups, apparently, though that seems a bit stable door minus horse. Wonder what the fundamentalists would say about that :-) Clockwork Orange is banned, and a bloody good thing too, as it's one of the most astonishingly bad things I've ever seen in my life. Jesus. Peter Miller referred to my chat-up lines. This is possibly the biggest compliment I've ever had. If you'd like a copy of my chat-up lines (well, line), it's available *somewhere* in the archives. If it's the one I think he's referring to :-) How do I get my boss to take me with her to Vancouver? She's decided she needs to go and what would make more sense than taking a tour guide along? Why, my 2 weeks there in the summer of '95 would certainly come in invaluable - I could show her Kitsilano (sp?) Beach and that island place where they make beer. I could show her snakes on Bowen Island and skunks bumbling down Davie Street. Oh, what a lovely town... Still, Toronto next year will probably have to be my entire Canadian fix. Canada in Spring - I think I feel a song coming on... Now, that'll do Casarotto Mxxx ******************************************************************* The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 0171 224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oh, the new looper song was called 'all of these things'
by andrew dean 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

"these things almost make me smile..." nice heavy bass but otherwise more of the same. nice video, shots of the tour in america, the band sitting on stools in the street, the sound man dancing around in circles, shots of LA and new york and The Chicago Loop. "all of the things we use and we need will break down or fall obsolete" andy ===== andrew dean (koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Hairs at the back of your mouth
by Sarah Wheeler 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Kids, Sister Encyclopedia said: >According to yesterday's paper, everyone in thailand eats their weight >in insects every single day, so some insects are now endangered >species in the land of the rising ooooOOON. Well, I think that's what >it said. And according to Family Fortunes on Saturday, everyone swallows 6 spiders a night. The contestant who relayed this disturbing fact said that she was so worried about this that she taped up her mouth every night before going to sleep. Pity she couldn't have kept the tape on for the recording of the programme. I actually only watched Family Fortunes to see whether it could meet the entertainment value of last weeks show. Alas and alack, 'twasn't to be. >From last week's show....... Les: Name something you's associate with the sea. Thicko 1: A coffin Les: Eh????? Do you mean burial at sea? Thicko 1: No, I meant the letter C (Audience guffaws) Les: Name a type of TV programme Thicko 2: Brookside Les: Eh??? What kind of programme is that? Thicko 2: Duuh, a documentary (Audience are stunned into silence; Les cracks open a bottle of gin) Family no. 1 went home with £72 between them. Hardly worth the humiliation. Talking of humiliation, Friday night was good, wasn't it Glasgow people?? I must wholeheartedly apologise for my behaviour. My drunken nature was solely down to the Pitcher and Piano only serving doubles unless specifically asked for a single measure. I didn't know this until it was too late. When can we do it again??? Lots of love Sheeny xx PS Next time, I insist you remove any fags that make their way to my mouth. It's not big and it's certainly not clever. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sinister: turn write now
by Helen 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Come on give us a try... Degrassi Junior HIGH. (the last word must be sung with an upward lilt loudly for full degrassi effect) After Degrassi High, all the kids at my school thought Canada was *the* coolest place,(and I'm led to believe that it is quite lovely),and used to walk around with ( quite appalling) Canadian accents, although I was chatting to the little brother of a friend the other day and trying to explain what it actually was .He had not a clue. The younger generation will never understand the magic that was Degrassi :) The banned book debate was rather intriguing, the last thing that there was controversy over in Australia was the film 'Sick: The life and death of Bob Flanagan super masochist'. But they still let it through, although one can only see it if one is over 18. Funnily enough there was no controversy over the film "Happiness", which I'm led to believe is slightly 'worse' (in the context of censors,(for lack of a better word)) in content. A laughable incident occured though when a play based on DH Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' came to Perth last year or so, and certain people were using the same arguments for banning the production here as they were when the book was first published. Didn't happen of course, because we don't live in the 19th century or so anymore.... Funny thing censorship, quite an arbitrary pursuit. At least B&S hasn't been in any danger of being censored... (seamless link). That was kind of pointless as I actually have little to none B&S related stuff to say.... ummm....that Tigermilk's a cracking good album ain't it?. Laura Llew wins prizes* for the lovely subject line "like telling e. e. cummings to use caps. Would he listen? No. Little n. Little o" I once wrote an essay on ee cummings and decided to fittingly not use any capitals. However, I realised if I did that then I'd have to not use conventional punctuation, and space rather erratically. Might have been a bit of a mess, perhaps, so I scrapped that idea. Could have started a craze, though I sincerely doubt it. I apologise for a long winded post about little, I will try to be more restrained and lurk for awhile. Helen. *not confirmed ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Thai Me Up, Thai Me Down
by Peter Miller 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

According to yesterday's paper, everyone in thailand eats their weight in insects every single day, so some insects are now endangered species in the land of the rising ooooOOON. Well, I think that's what it said. Brandt, tell your mum that Sister Disco will be thinking about her when she's having her operation. On second thoughts, perhaps you'd better wait and tell her afterwards. I've been to Merrie England this weekend. I didn't even *see* a record shop, but I did stock up with three pop mags. Shocked to see that Uncut are putting their prices up to finance Robert McTaggart's Curlywurly habit. I'm listening to the free CD now. It's total pish so far. And yes, 20 quid for Tindersticks is bloody expensive, nigh on Bryan Adams prices. I've been trying to think of a good question for Pete Townsend for next month but one's Q magazine Cash for Questions feature. It's got to be a good one, so perhaps we should put our heads together and see what we can come up with. I see Dougal and the Blue Cat has been rerelased on video - Dylan in the Movies. It says somewhere that The Secret Goldfish get help from B&S - I don't think I've seen that discussed at length on the list, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been discussed at length. It might have been discussed at length for all I know. I went past Bull in Slough as well. I think that might be where Andy Dean used to work. The last message from Beepster was called "Sinister adverts" which I thought was quite appropriate. Paul, why don't you set up one of those crappy Amazon "associate member" links from the list site, then at least we'd reap the benefits of our own spam and you could buy that funny Chitty Chitty Bang Bang machine you're after. Trousers, have you been using Mark Casarotto's chat-up lines? Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: woefully off topic: banned films
by andrew dean 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

someone: >You want to examine a country/culture that in recent >times actually bans artwork because it's citizens >supposedly couldn't handle it? Then meet me in London >to watch Clockwork Orange, the Exorcist, and The Evil >Dead. Oh wait, you can't....Those films are >banned/illegal. er, wrong, wrong and wrong i'm afraid (and that's 'its' rather than 'it's'). the exorcist can be hired from pretty much any video shop in england these days and they're talking about making sell-through copies available next year. you can buy copies of the evil dead anywhere, albeit the version with a few cuts. a clockwork orange is slightly different in that it wasn't banned but stanley kubrik himself withdrew permission for it to be shown or distributed in england (a lot to do with his family getting death threats when it was shown). there's talk of it being made available again now that he's dead. besides, french ports sell PAL copies of it and i've seen it broadcast on satellite tv in german. the bbfc has become a lot less rigid in the last year of so. the bloke in charge (furman?) retired and, even as part of his leaving speach, spoke out against the rigidity of the system they had to work within. last week, i believe, a french film ('romance') showing an erect penis was cleared for distribution, a first for england. speaking of stanley kubrik, the new mogwai single is rather good. mogwai are from scotland. so are belle and sebastian. good eh? (which reminds me, the techno pagan octopus bloke from last night (who'd've been better if he actually had 8 limbs) rhymed 'buddha' (pronounced 'boodah') with 'dude, eh?'. genius.) speaking of erect penises... oh, i'd better not... funny about all the trouble with the Sensations thing in new york. there was trouble in england when it was on here only over the portrait of a serial child killer made out of handprints of children rather than a religious icon painted in dung. i guess we've just as many bugs up our arses, they're just different bugs. sorry about the off-topicness. i'd've tacked this onto the end of last night's (perfectly on-topic) post if i'd've read the doofus' post at the time. could've been worse, i could've told you my 1000 favourite records of the nineteen hundreds. and apologies if tag's already written this post (only more eloquently) but i'm a digestive. andy ===== andrew dean (koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Stu�s interview
by Jordi Trenzano i Vilar 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

If iŽm not wrong, then Stu gave an interview to Radio 1, isnŽt it ? Does anyone have the interview in a tape ? IŽm really curious about itŽs content, and I can trade it for the lovely Barcelona gig of Sep.97 or the Bowlie one. If anyone can give a good answer, please use my other adress: jordi(a)belleandsebastian.org ================================================== Jordiet Sinistre ================================================== Tu E-Mail Gratis en http://www.mixmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: I always thought "The Good Life" was what marriage was all about
by === 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

not at all, not at all. no harm. What does 'Abigail's Party" refer to? >Sorry, later reading what I wrote I said racism, that was a bit strong. >Sorry about that. Infact, the more I read I did over react a bit. But >this Christian stuff, ugh, it's a bit Abigail's' Party. > >Erm, thinking about things, I saw Evil Dead on telly here a few years ago. >If they're putting it out on TV those custom boys must have been pulling >your leg. :) > >Sorry about screwing up a bit. > >Rob > >xxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: looper: london
by andrew dean 18 Oct '99

18 Oct '99

looper played an instore at the virgin megastore this evening. it was ok, i guess, spoilt by the waiting and techno pagan octopus messiah bloke that went on before. 'doesn't it make you proud to be an american?' he kept asking. but i'm not an american and neither was anybody else in the crowd. a lot of them were japanese, some were undoubtably scottish but i didn't see any americans. except him, on stage, with the see through-shirt and the dastoordly looking orange trousers, spouting crap about doing drugs. not big or clever. look what happened to zammo. looper played half a dozen songs, er, up a tree, burning flies, ray suzuki, the one about the wee girl, a new one written on the american tour, the one about him and karn meeting and 'who's afraid of y2k?'. i think that's it. he also read a six minute chunk of his new book beforehand, the bit about the bloke stealing leaves so that the winter lady wouldn't know it was autumn. it made sense at the time but i'm not sure if it'd stand up in any court. afterwards he signed copies, he's probably still doing it now, but given that he finished at something to 12 rather than something past 10, well, i didn't hang around and will have to pester the bloke in books etc, hammersmith for two copies tomorrow. oh, and afterwards i saw trousers holding a girl's hand. sorry to have to break this to all the ladies out there who had their eyes on him, the list's most legible batchelor and all but there you go. i guess what miller said about papercuts was true after all. andy dum de dum, this was mentioned a while ago but i've not written anything since someone brought it up but i will now. it may sound trite and all that but i've felt better about death since reading neil gaiman's Sandman. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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