October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: no one will ever love you honestly
by keith mclachlan 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

i have seen american beauty and i had the exact opposite reaction to brandt's. i though everything about it was ugly, magnifying all of the most vile and base characteristics of modern life made me queasy, i don't relate to the characters on screen(i suppose that is the point of fiction eh?) and seeing people around me laugh uneasily made me feel miserable? i suppose i am sounding rather pedestrian here, all donna reed even but i didn't care about anyone in the movie, the climax had absolutely no effect on me and the malaise of the movie infected me for days. is this the movie's triumph? the fact that it drags you deep into its dire domain. i am still hoping for a revival of beauty as hope not as simple irony. for the elephant dung/virgin controversy, what is shocking to me is how cheap stunts still ellicit such reactions? public funding is censorship so to claim the threat of refusal of funds is censorship is all a bit redundant. keith 'lovers of the arctic circle' was beautiful, sad that i must cling to it because everything else i have seen this year has made me wilt. anyone have the new moose ep yet? i have only just sent my six dollars off to roy saltwater this evening. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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: anyone in NJ, PRINCETON??? NYC peeps!
by ISawUfall＠aol.com 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

just curious if anyone's around.....any NYC meetups? any good places in NYC to dance to B&S, indie, britpop, etc...what nights? likes to dance, dave! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 was born Ready...
by foxinthesnow 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

--- so i was reading the list a bit because its been so long since i have had the chance...and i was so happy to see the refrence to the myers/briggs personality tests....because i have just learned about them, and taken my first in my education class at school...i was also pleased to see that the type given was totally different than mine, i'm an ENFP, like most of my class mates are, which i suppose shouldn't come as much surprise since we're all art students--but don't get on my case for generalising, i don't want to be stepping on any list toes...but yeah, just a comment. now, about the spinster bit at twenty-two. i too, have reached that peachy age, and last year, while taking a break in iowa from a roadtrip, my grandmother, a sprite seventy two year old red headed lady, wearing tight calvins, mind you, lectured me on how i should wait for a long time before i get married. she even made me promise that i wouldn't marry for quite a long time after that...maybe this was due to the fact that she thought my boyfriend, who was present during all of this, didn't make her cut, but what is really odd about the whole thing is that just earlier that summer my cousin, who is now twenty-eight, recounted to me that when she was twenty-one, the same grandmother told her if she weren't married by the time she was twenty-three, that she's be a a spinster.... what is a girl to do? well good luck to you, and don't swallow any of the familial pressures of mate-dom. crum, crum. hey, is the other rondelle's fan still on the list? if so, maybe we could do some music swapping? i still haven't been able to get a copy of that last cd! so let me know. i hope everyone on the list eats a piece of chocolate cake with strawberries on top today, that is unless it doesn't suit your tastes... andrea get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.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: I was born Ready...
by Laura Llew 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

This is my first post and so I'd like to introdruce myself. *in my best beauty pageant voice* My name is Laura Llew and I'm from North Carolinnnnaa. I simply adore trees, rainy days, people watching, literature, star gazing, music, roadtrips, lists, elbow touching and Belle and Sebastian. I discovered B&S from a friend. While listing what his 5 favorite albums were, he mentioned "If you're feeling sinister'. Since I had never heard of them and generally trust his taste, I picked up the cd. I fell in love with them and plunged head long into an obsession with them (which I usually do. I've always wished I was a minimalist but it's just not in my blood). I just recently got my grubby hands on their ep's and such and LOVE it. So if anyone else on this list has been thus deprived as I was, I will be more than willing to share. Because that's what kind of person I am.. Tee Hee Hee *lying through my twisted and gnarled teeth* Ok, ok. So we all know that this isn't my first post. But I realized that I was never did the hip first post introduction. Indulge me this one time. This weekend was my birthday and it was absolutely miserable. Plus, I spent the whole day listening to my mother worry about how her little girl is going to become an old maid. I'm 22 and still completely single. Obviously, there is some flaw I have that makes me undesirable. Obviously, this is her fault. Obviously. I could take out a personal ad and find someone to calm her mind. But knowing me, it'd end up reading "Bitter chic needs barely tolerable man with vulgar social graces, below average looks and inconsequentil means for occasional dates as a reminder to remain univolved." For my mother's sake, I won't. I was thinking (scary prospect I know). Are we a single parent list? I mean I just know of our list mummy, Honey, but I've never heard of a list daddy. I was too young to remember when it all happened. Did he run off on our mother for a new younger limp biskit list or some other trampy hoochie mamma? Is Honey depressed and lonely and I just have missed the signs of the red glassy eyes in the late afternoons when he rolls out of bed? Do we have to fear a new father coming and taming us, the unruly children. Or can we just blame the fact that we were raised in a single parent list? The Laura Llew Literary List is completed and up on the web. It still needs a bit of tweaking (not really. i just wanted to use that word. tweaking. *shivers). But the unveiling of it will be soon. I am on my fifth suggested book already *showing off and making you all chartreuse with envy*. This one was recommended by our very own Pursed Lips Boneboy. Its "Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole. I'm not that far into it but so far its made me chuckle more than once. Something that I need. So far, so good. I'm an INTJ. If you're curious as to what you are or what we're talking about go to http://keirsey.com/ it's about a 50 multiple choice question test thats pretty quick to take. I took the test in high school and then took it last night from this website. Guess my personality hasn't changed in 6 years. I didn't have one then and I don't have one now. Laura "Filling your Laura Llew needs since 1977" ***Laura Llew's List Member of the Week*** That member who I've never had any contact with but I think is just the tops.... Randomness Really.... anyway, hush hush... It Is James Gilmer...... ______________________________________________________ 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: Train etiquette
by Brandt Fundak 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

I had to sit next o a large woman on the train today, who felt she needed to take up parts of both seats. Had she moved over a bit, even as large as she was, we both could have sat comfortably. I think it is this sort of rudeness that makes me want to talk to no one on the train. I think that when you have a train full of people, you should be nice enough to conserver space for others. I also don't understand why people are in such a rush to get off the train when you are getting off at the last stop. One day the woman I was sitting next to asked me to move so she could get off at the next stop, but everybody had to get off at that stop. Was her sitting by the train door really going to make much of a difference for her ETA at work? And I must say I am rather shocked that no one on the list has really said anything about American Beauty. I just saw it last night and was blown away. Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his career (and as brilliant as he has been in other films, that's a tough thing to do.) Take care all, 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: belle and sebastian daytime t.v. shocker!
by Colin Campbell 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

Was what i witnessed this lunchtime the first b&s appearance on a daytime topical news show? Oh no that was after the brits, but anyway the tigermilk billboard at ayr united football ground was on scotland today, being ran past by lots of scotland football chappies, on their way to trouncing bosnia, and progressing manfully in a most untwee way into the euro 2000 playoffs. It was red youknow, coz it like looked dead black'n'white in that photo. feel it cheesemonsters. colin. recovering +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Getting it off my chest
by Alder, Lucy 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

I'm having the crappiest, shittiest day ever. I hate work and I nearly cried (which I only do very rarely) and I've been told by one of the nice people to take 10 minutes and recover from what the nasty people have been doing. So I'm using you to calm myself down because I know you're all lovely and good listeners. Hope you don't mind. Last weekend I went to a stately home called Upton House and it had an amazing garden. I think I might have told some London people about it on Friday night (booze obscures memory - plus ca change) but I wanted to share it with all of you because it was the most wonderful place I've ever been to. The garden falls away down the side of a steep hill and there are high walls, wooded bits and topiary hedges everywhere, which means that wherever you are standing, there is always a part of the garden you can't see. The effect is that you turn a corner and suddenly discover another part of the garden you've not seen before - it seemed almost enchanted in the late afternoon autumnal sunshine with its butterflies and scent of lavender . I thought what a good place it would be for a game of hide-and-seek, and also that it would be perfect for hand-in-hand walking and secluded snogging. But what it made me think about most was that you never really know what's going to happen next in your life - one day you could be doing the same old things in the same old places, the next you could turn a corner and discover brand-new, brilliant things. I don't think I'm expressing this very well... I'm just a hopeless optimist and when the things in your life that are going rather well become obscured by the things that aren't, you need to have something to cheer you up, don't you? Sorry for the cod-philosophy and thank you for being my medicine. I'll try to be perky and amusing next time. Juicy Lucy x =================================================== This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Acid Rock - Issue 567
by Peter Miller 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

I once got a sitar record out of the library. It had four long tracks on it: Morning Raga, Elevenses Raga, Evening Raga and Can You Start Moving Outside Now Please Raga. It rocked. Poor Stuart David. First he gets slagged for smelling of wee, then he gets slagged for getting songs on B&S records, then he gets slagged for being in Looper and now he gets slagged for getting his book published. Sister Disco says ROCK ON STUART DAVID you big puff. I find the DJ scam more disturbing myself. Ladies! I have changed e-mail address. Please loosen your blouses and update your bookmarks. It's quite an easy address to remember - just imagine a cross between ELO and Olivia Newton John and the Spice Girls: pjmiller(a)wanadoo.es is the magic number. Gentlemen! Have you noticed the similarity between The Stooges' "Search and Destroy" and The Gentle Waves' hell for leather biker rock classic "Weathershow"? They are almost exactly the same, except one of them is by and for knuckle-dragging neanderthal slavering on-heat rockpigs on bad acid. Which one? You decide. Hooray for Stuart Murdoch! I've just donated a cup of rice to some hungry people. Veterans of the Brits-rigging debacle will know that you *can* donate more than one cup a day, just don't vote for another dinner! I've been watching a video by Cradle of Filth. They are BEYOND GOTH. 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: bruinvis and timbuktoo
by andrew dean 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

hello there, comments on recent digests follow. not that i can read recent digests as my mail web software thing truncates messages about 1K in so i get the digest contents and the first three lines of the first missive before the --- truncated --- message. pah. but first: the big hairy cave has finished relocating to hammersmith. the room that was empty last week is now too full of things in cardboard boxes to move about in. oh um. just finished moving the boxes into the new room and was staring idly out of the kitchen window when a fox came and walked along the fence at the back of the house and curled up and sat there sunning itself for a good half an hour. in hammersmith. blimey. i also saw ANOTHER b&s fan on the district line tube through hammersmith on friday lunchtime, that's two in as many weeks. hammersmith surely is a hotbed for closet b&s fans. and no, i said nothing to him either. 'hello' if you're reading this. how's the paul auster? laurel and brandt were talking about not talking to people on trains. we don't do that here either. which always seems like a pity as trains usually have an interesting social mix. the one time i went to scotland i took a little time to go across the forth bridge in a train (which was probably a bad idea cos it's hard to see the forth bridge whilst actually ON the forth bridge but...) and i was quite shocked to hear strangers on the train talking to one another quite happily. buckfast has a lot to answer for. looper book signing: i wonder if i can get him to sign it 'this is pish'? he'll probably just tell me to fuck off. again. trousers: > Now, whatever happened to Watson and Begbie? Hmm > that sounds like a good title for a detective > series.... rod begbie is alive and well and occasionally posts to slashdot: news for nerds. pamelab: >and I said to myself, self, you should post to the >list that brought you and the hubby together in the >first place aah, i remember that first meeting, in the pub on the sunday of the manchester weekend, meeting pam for lunch only to find that the pub we'd chosen was closed and eating instead in the french place across the street, me, pam and my friend from university. i ordered a grilled cheese sandwich expecting cheddar filled triangles and it arriving as melting brie in a toasted baguette. later i had to leave, trains and stuff, leaving those two to their own devices. little did any of us know... >after a boozy night out sometimes I need to drop the >needle on the mat a couple of times before actually >finding the edge of the record. peel, during his 'sounds of the suburbs' series, went and visitied some people who make 7" singles from things like slices of wood, circular saw blades, sandpaper discs and biscuit (they looked quite nice, had proper labels and everything) and they said that they never have any trouble with needles, the needles being diamond tipped and all. >next week: we test-drive a porsche armed only with a >fourth generation tape copy of tigermilk! I'll let >you know how it sounds. pah! i did that tape. and it was straight from the vinyl. some people. ungrateful... 8) oh, and if E.A. Hotstepper doesn't like toronto (or indeed montreal) then she could always go somewhere friendly like los angeles, i'm sure she'd have a wonderful time there, there are some great clubs around, especially on thursday nights... (knowing smile... 8) 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: Not too shy to apply for jobs
by Arantxa Sanz 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

It is time to get a life in Sinister.And the first step to land onto real life and no dreams any longer and painting hearts around Richey's fantastic chins is to get a job,no doubt.So Erica is going all kitchen's sink drama into cantine-service and Tag ,very Dickensianly,has offeres to Chris to sweep his dwelling's chimneys. I have been given too much work to cope with!If anyone would come around to replace me at my 4 hrs of Fortran demos...Nikita D. was into formal logic,but does not help too much.Honey,were you in my position in a previous life before becoming Dr PS Mitchell?55 2nd years calling at you and some smug lecturer making me wave at them as if I was the hostess at Ricki Lake's program,only slightly slimmer. In fact,if I could choose,I would apply for the position as librarian ordering at Mummy Honey's files and books.Who posted not very long ago about nice and not nice assistants at his library,with square-framed glasses and so?The most flattering thing I was ever told was I looked as a sexy librarian,whatever it is,so here you are.In spite of my scattered brains,I smile pretty well,and be dead nice with unknown people who love books.I do. And I can work for free! Love Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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