October 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Help me god!
by Jason Andreas 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Well, I'm about to head off to my first Sinister meeting, in Glasgow. I just hope that someone turns up :) I'll let you know, cheerio -- Jason Andreas -- Hailing from Glasgow, city of half a million souls and one million people ICQ: 45821217 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: TASTE THE WASTE
by GEORGE DICKIE 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

YO YO YO I FEEL HAPPY AT THE MO IT IS NOT A GOOD HAPPY THOUGH IT IS ONE OF THOSE OTT HAPPY MOMENTS THE ONES CAUSED BY A BUILD UP OF UNLEASHED NERVOUS ENERGY YOU FEEL GREAT FOR A WHILE THEN YOU JUST FEEL LIKE A TWAT SORT OF LIKE SNIFFING POPPERS SORT OF LIKE WHEN YOU GET IN TO A B&S SONG SO MUCH YOU ARE AHEAD OF IT YOU WANT IT TO SPEED UP AND EXPLODE CRAZY CRAZY HAPPY KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL TWAT MMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM AND THAT'S THAT I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE THAT WITH YOU LOVE AND THE FIRST TIME YOU DRANK COKE GEORGIE AND HIS MAGIC TEAT PIPET ______________________________________________________ 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: Belle and Sebastian in Toronto
by all hype 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Hello, Well though the band won't be appearing, mark November 4th on your calendars...I am hosting a Belle and Sebastian night called Songs For Children at Vox Central, 585 Yonge Street in Toronto. I would love it if anyone of you who can make it would come out. It will be a great night filled with Belle and Sebastian of course, plus other Jeepster acts, Matador sweeties, as well as great Scots like Mogwai, the Pastels, Arab Strap and the list goes on. We will have quizzes, giveaways and videos to watch if you're not the type to get up and dance. It should be a great time, and Vox is quite a nice club. If you need anymore details, feel free to email me davies(a)pathcom.com Take care, Laura +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Yo !, bum rush the list.
by Craig 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Is "bum rush" two words or one ?, it's probably not all that important right now. On separate occasions yesterday two casual work acquaintances asked "how's married life was treating you ?". I just smiled and said "it's great" and they seemed to go away satisfied. I'm not married though - so I've no idea where that came from. <traditionalsinsiterheading> ALCOHOL I </traditionalsinisterheading> Don't do it kidz*, it makes you feel ill and behave strangely. ALCOHOL II Tiger Milk (product of Slovenia) exists. It can be obtained from the more exclusive Off-Licenses (see jLucy & co for address details). It's rough tasting and plainly bottled but I urge everyone to purchase a crate, even if it's just to support the struggling Eastern European B&S themed vineyards. ALCOHOL III be warned: when combined with tiredness, emotional frailty and the most warped decision making process outside the military, it can lead to directionless wandering around unremarkable London suburbs relieved only by the early opening of Tube Stations. I assume Marcus had a incident free night though as I seemed to attract the strange people who normally target him. I've a handy tip for early morning revellers - those self contained and cleaning loos may cost 20p but they're great for hiding in when trying to avoid scary street folk. Anyway sorry to all concerned, I was probably quite rude. BUT WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION THERE IS A SMALL FAVOUR I'D like TO ASK THE L I S T Next week is possibly my final week @ the job I've been doing for about 3 years. And as is the custom I'm planning to get rather drunk with my workmates on my final day. I'll be sending out a mail to invite them all along and would very much like to fill it with clever B&S quotes. So if anyone had any ideas or can compose a great little mail for me then let me know. Please remember that apart from one fellow listee who'd probably get the mail and understand it I don't want to confuse and scare people so nothing too morbid or bizarre thanks. Sleep - that's what I want. Bye. I like feather boas now, Craig xoxox * I don't mean this obviously. - stuck shift key (c) G.Dickie 1999 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: and finally...
by Marcus Omond 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

right, i'm off to cambridge now, and so i'm going to have to unsub. thank you to everyone for making things so much more interesting around here with your wonderful posts, and massive props and a half to everyone who turned up at the pub last night to see me off. i got the last bus home, after sitting at the bus stop for half an hour with some weirdo walking around me for about ten minutes talking into thin air: 'yes steve, i've fucking got it. don't fucking do this - i'll be round in ten minutes. steve, for fuck's sake!' maybe he was talking about the book he'd written, 'mothers in pop', and he was talking telepathically to mr troussé. or maybe not. anyway, if anyone wants to get in touch in cambridge (ha ha) my e-mail is mjmo2(a)cam.ac.uk. all that it remains is for me to tell everyone how much i like natasha. i was sitting downstairs writing a song, and the doorbell rang. there was a gentleman outside with a rather attractive bouquet of blue and white flowers, and so i said 'wrong address, mate'. but no! the heavenly, lovely and for some stupid reason far too far away natasha had sent them to me. so she gets the maddest props of all. maybe she'll remember how to post some day, and you'll all see how great she is again. right, enough of that, see you all soon, a whole lodda love, Marcus XXX +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: All you sinister people...
by James Gilmer 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Beatles and Acid Joy to all my sinister brothers and sisters, especially the ones that are feeling a bit down . Nick wrote that the LSD didn't start until after 65 for the Beatles. Pulling out my copy of A Hard Day's Write, an exhaustive book with the story behind every single beatles song I see it repeats the story about the dentist friend spiking their coffee... However, it has an interesting story about how in the august of 65 they rented a house and in the company of Peter Fonda and others dropped acid for the first time, all save Paul that is. Helluva book and I recommend it to any diehard Beatles fan. Norwegian Wood was brilliant wasn't it? And it was written before their trip so Nick's still right. Hmmm, never really saw the Beatles as drug-addled hippies anyways (drug-addled at times yes, hippies...that's a bit of a loaded term). As to the Beach Boys-Beatles discussions the groups had alot of mutual respect for each other, hell Mike Love and the Beatles hung out together when they all went to India with Donovan and others during their experiments with Eastern philosophy. College I'm fairly lucky I think. I was dismayed when I first got to college and realized it wasn't the haven for positive, nice, tolerant people I had dreamed of it as. But I've learned that the sad fact is that we're all human. Even those poor close-minded bastards I have to deal with everyday. At least I'm blessed with a college radio station that plays a bit of B&S. Okay, it plays alot of b.s. too, but on the whole it's a rather nice station where one can hear all sorts of cool stuff instead of blocks of mass marketed *alterna-teen* rock or pop metal. Which I must say I listen to and enjoy a bit of that too, I just want a world where I can hear music as eclectic as my tastes. Indie (whatever that is) and Mainstream(whatever that is). Hippies & Sitars The hippies are taking a bit of a knocking eh? I'll admit some respect for what the hippies accomplished (turning american on it's ear for a start) but I suppose in retrospect if they'd had had their shit together they'd of made a bit more of an impact in history instead of just ending as a bit of a joke. Favorite description of what happened to the movement : "We were gonna change the world, free everyone's mind, and overturn a facist establishment. What happened? We all just kinda got high and forgot" Sitars can be a bit much can't they? I won't say I hate the things, but George really should have left it at home for a few of those songs. Music Judging someone by their music makes about as much sense as judging by their clothes. I'm sure most of the list would hate half of what I consider my favorite bands. However, I see Beth Orton gets mentioned alot on the list. She *is* one of my current favorites, what a talent. Anyone else think K's Choice is brilliant(or did I just ostricize myself there?)? Happy Happy, Joy Joy To all you wonderful sinister people, cheer up boys and girls. Don't let the bastards get you down because that's when they win.Nuts, it's two thirty in the morning and I've been rambling a bit,time to crash. Luck all!-Jim "We're all out there somewhere, waiting to happen"- Jeff Noon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: since you went away it's been night time all day...
by Blake E. Hamilton 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

well, i'd like to say helloooooooo to everyone out there who is home right now on this friday evening. of course, it's only 7:45 er so right now, but all those UKers are dancing like the brackish fire gods that they are. happy wooooooooooing! i checked out douglas coupland's 'generation x' today from the z. reynolds smith library, here on campus. jygsaw dave told me to go read 'girlfriend in a coma', but alas, the Z didn't have said book. it's quite good. i actually like the color pink. it's got that lazy quality to it. colors can have feelings too, you know. the hideous Floyd passed us by here in lonely North Carolina. my insatiable (one) laura llew can attest to such things. we only got a bit of wind and rain, but nothing to ruffle any skirts, sadly. and stephen merritt wrote a song with north carolina in it! oh but it's on the new box set, vol. 1. i'm not sure if i dig the new sound, though. i like synths. they sound like bubblegum. unwrapped, of course. laura, we must get together. how about the gybe show in winston, and then in chapel hill? i think young puzzle-happy dave is interested as well. we can be the young team, hip, modern, and southern. buyah. all of these b&s side projects, whoa! can we please have the new album? anything, please! i need some new stuart david basslines to learn (laugh at) and hammond organ power chords to dance like a rabbit to. that's right, i just ended a sentence with a preposition. i'm a scoundrel, a dirty empirical SLUT. i felt like lesley jo with that last bit. sinister schizophrenia, whoa!! a while ago i added jessicaxo to my aol instant messenger list, and then when she came on, i tried to type a few pithy phrases, and she never answered back. jessica, honestly, i'll wipe that little xo right off your screen name. i'm kidding. blakie was hurt. he cried himself to nap, had sleep for dinner, and wrapped himself in green knitted curtains that still had a bit of dust on them from the winter of '73. i bought two 'random' albums the other day...yo la tengo's 'i can hear the heart beating as one' and guided by voices 'under the brush under the stars'. at least that's what i think it's called. i'm not really getting into either, actually. it's not making me all hot and swarthy. not like beer. not like b&s. ok, it's obvious i've become neurotic and insipid, simultaneously. like i said, it's friday, i'm in my room, and this desk lamp is LAUGHING at me....wheeeeeeee i'm flying down the slide, it's 1981, and my diaper needs changing.... love blake xx the nerdy shy eyed pacifist ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials." - Jarvis Cocker +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The sound of violins drowned in gunfire
by Michael Jones 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

October. October, October, October. Oct meaning eight, Ober meaning add another two. Ah, isnt this is what its all about ? The winds, the falling leaves, the sodden turf, autumn all thick and creamy and running down your shirt. Better go and change before the housemaster sees it or youll be eating your breakfast in the Lesser Shed with Swarther of 8C and he has whooping cough. Oh, marvellous. Ailsa: > Oh, and not liking something doesn't make you marrow-minded > does it? How fortuitous a slip ! I often characterise folks who disagree with me as [i] vegetables or [ii] having an abundance of the fatty tissue normally located in ones bones where their brain should be. To be honest, I dont really know what to infer from so vague a phrase as dance music thesedays. That could mean anything or it could mean nothing - pertaining to something entirely imaginary ("yknow - that dum-dum-dum-dum rubbish... people in nappies blowing whistles... ingesting cod liver oil and swaying in some muddy field til 5 in the morning... *that* sort of thing"). Alasdair C: > The overwhelming majority of people hate the music > that most of the people on this list like, it's just something you've > got to get used to. And the overwhelming majority of people on this list hate the music I like, so there you go. I hover near the stereo at a social gathering and suddenly its "well, it is really that late ?" and "anyone fancy some fresh air ?". "Oh come on, guys", I plead, "Beyond Dentistry by Hexen Kaiser isnt *that* bad - theres definitely a tune lurking in there... once the orphans stop weeping, and just before the buzz-saw car alarm theres a brief snatch of Totos Africa... Guys ?" Mark C: > Was the Richard Stilgoe programme the one where they did > something a bit > like Battleships? I thought it was fantastic. Couldabin. Dunno. Youre now almost imperceptibly ahead of two others in the race for the Top Prize. Essentially what Im looking for here is simply someone to make a strong case for what the Stilgoe show *might* have been, since weve already established that no-one on Earth can recall what it actually was. In fact, Id go so far to say that anyone who now claims that they *do* know the real answer is lying and, as we all know, lies make the baby Jesus cry. This is by far and away the greatest response, on- or off-list, to anything Ive ever posted. And it regards Richard Stilgoe. This just isnt healthy, is it ? Paul R: > The "WHO" referred to in the text is an > acronym for the well-known(apparently not) World > Health Organization [snip] > I am in a > fraternity and it has been a wonderful experience Did they give you a keg in exchange for your sense of humour ? No, Im kidding. Im having you on. Im pulling your chain. No, *seriously*, Im *joking*. Marcus O: > i think french rap sounds really suave and sexy > like rap in most other languages, works best when the rapper > just constructs complex plays on words, and puns away for a while > (à la tribe called quest) My mum used to make that. Duck a la Tribe Called Quest. Not edible in the strictest sense of the word. But hes right of course. MC Solaars yr man in that regard, and that fella "Prose Combat" is what youll want to be carrying on with. Some Tories got together today to choose their man for this London Mayor business. I see around 1% of the ballot papers were spoiled. Ive often wondered what this entails exactly. I mean, I think I know what *soiling* a ballot paper would involve. Just how difficult is it to spoil your voting slip ? Suffer a stroke just as you make your cross ? Give it all the sweeties it wants until you fundamentally weaken its character ? Suggestions to the usual PO Box. Courage, little ones. Mike. ===== __________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: People on trains.
by Laurel Girvan 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

Brandt admitted sheepishly: >I have been working in a large North American city for the last two months >and every day I take the train to work. I am sure this is rude, but after >two months I recognize people and I watch them. I, too, spy cheerily on people on trains. I duck behind my books and papers when they get suspicious, but as long as they don't notice me, I'm free to give them pet names and make up their life stories. Rude? Oh, probably, but it beats ignoring people altogether. Though New Yorkers are famous for that, too, aren't they? Ta. *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 hate annoying people
by Todd Herrmann 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

I really hate close minded annoying people. Maybe I'm the one being closeminded by considering others to be complete idiots but sometimes in life you just run across those you can't stand and are so completely opposite from your view of good person, you can't help it. First a little background to make this story relevant, I'm a student at University of Maryland and I work at the desk in the lobby of my dorm building which is staffed by 1 of the 15 of us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So I was working the graveyard shift last weekend and it was about 3am on a Saturday night so a there was still a fair amount of people coming in from a night of drunken revelry. I was listening to everyone's favorite band "....Modern Rock Song" I think and this drunk sorority girl comes up to me and says she lost her keys in her drunken stupor. Fine, I give her the spare key to her room and while I'm doing this she asks me what I'm listening to. I tell her Belle and Sebastian and after listening for about 10 seconds she says "You like this music?" I say "Yeah its some of my favorite music" She just gives me the weirdest look like I just said I'm from another planet and sticks her nose up in the air and makes some noise like pssh! and laughs and walks away. I almost cried. She just managed to dismiss what has brought so much joy and relaxation to my life, that is the musical experience of Belle and Sebastian, in a few seconds of ignorant sorority girl bullshit. I don't care if she liked my music or not, everybody's entitled to their own opinion but she didn't have to just totally shun something just because its not within the realm of her little conformist, sorority world where everybody looks alike, talks alike, and thinks the same thoughts. I'm sorry if I don't listen to the same 5 songs that are deemed most popular and played over and over again by mainstream radio stations. No wait I'm not sorry, I just have to say fuck her and her sorority bullshit. I'm sorry to take this out on the list and I hope I didn't offend anybody involved in sororties that might be on this list, but if you are on this list then you can't be closeminded so this doesn't apply to you. My music infringed on her perfect little world and she used the same ingrained thoughts that everyone else in her perfect world uses because she couldn't think a thought of her own. And I thought college was supposed to be filled with original people with original thoughts. A disillusioned, Todd +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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