December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: green
by BradWhiddon＠aol.com 16 Dec '99

16 Dec '99

so i was lying on bed last night and i was visited by the poetry roach. and he gave me a copy of the new jim o'rourke thing and told me that it was my duty to spread the gospel all over the world. then he crawled in my ear and now all i can hear is this munching sound. _________________________________________ "halfway to a threeway" by jim o'rourke i used to have none now with you i've got one if i could get just one more then you know what you're in for you ain't getting any sleep tonight i hope that two girls don't bite and i hope that you won't run away cause i'm halfway to a threeway i tried again and again to indulge in just one sin all you have to do is lie there while i push aside your wheelchair and i'd do anything it takes to change your mind and unlock your brakes so i know that you can't roll away cause i'm halfway to a threeway can't wipe this smile off my face when you strut by in your leg brace you just can't climb the stairs and you ain't got any hair i just can't get you to sit you and your stupid invalid defense and i know that you can't run away cause i'm halfway to a threeway as i lay you down on my bed it don't matter that you're brain dead i can get so close to you now that you're in a coma i'll make it sweet but short when i pull out your life support and i know that you'll just fade away now i'm halfway to a threeway and i know that you'll just fade away now i'm halfway to a threeway __________________________________________ fuck the parrot, brad +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: am pool
by Jan Imgrund 16 Dec '99

16 Dec '99

hello useful link: http://www.ampool.de why useful? it's where some 'cool' young german writers publish pretentiously unpretentious texts. OK, i hear you say, but we're doing this all the time, but at least in a language everybody can understand, so what the fuss?.. what does it have what has it got to do with B&S? Well it's cos they have published the words to le pastie de la bourgeoisie (13.12.), and it's for sure the best piece of prose that's on there. And the page where guests can publish own texts is called 'loop'. their side-project, so to say... Fear is creeping. loop-looper.. i tell you, there's a conspiracy going on! They want B&S to become cool, a murmured hipster-tip! don't let them do this! B&S to the normal people, to the twee next-door! who knows, maybe they're even spying on us.. komm raus, christian kracht, oder ich barre dir ein stück rad, dass es goetzt! ho hum.. sorry. it's a thing between tscherrmans, you know. oh and to answer the question someone asked, you can get the B&S- albums fairly easily in germany.. i've even seen TBWTAS for just 20 DM (6 GBP or so) in a cd-megastore. It wasnt like that in the 'ole days.. IYFS was the most expensive record i've ever bought! It was probably the only copy in cologne. I'm very proud of this ;) Mentions of fraggles on the list again.. be careful, kids. we dont want another fraggle-crisis. >> And also bizarrely this week I've been told I could possibly be sent to Paris, France for 6 weeks to do some "user acceptability testing" << oh, great. I'm a user and I'm quite acceptable. Test me. Oh wait.. i got sent a questionnaire about everything today, from car (previous, current, next one) to how often i clean my windows, and with what. Now I see the connection.......... two conspiracies in one mail. it's gettin' spooky. >> You *are* kidding. You do know if you speak of a "flurry" in England...or perhaps The North...or perhaps just me.... you mean VOMIT??? Or do I mean "Slurry"? Either words do, they still remind me of vomit. Which is never USUALLY what McDonalds does of course...<< it's called McFlurry in france too.. hmmmm... 'mec fleury'='flowery man'. very strange. owen flowery, have you ever been to france, or how could they come out with this? - i see, hence the new cinnamon perfume they've got for the McFlurry. it contains substances that makes you hurry to the crush-site and vote for the narrow wizard. 3 conspiracies in just one post! i better go before i find out that isobel is an undercover agent sent out by pete waterman. bye Jan PS: the trout is somewhere in there. be careful though. it's nuclear The Dark Site of the Moon: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/index.html Tindersticks page: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/tinderpage/tinder.html To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Heaven doesn't want me and hell is afraid i'll take over.
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 16 Dec '99

16 Dec '99

hello sinister. Soon it'll be my first christmas on sinister. Won't that be nice? I found my Gregory's Girl video under the bed where it had been festering for the past month. Yay. It would have been nice if I could have found it in time for my friend's sleepover, but it would prolly have been banned. Like everything else I brought. My mum bought me Bunty the other day. It's still ace. And WH Smiths are stocking it again. They've STILL got the Four Maries and The Comp. I was pleased to find that out. And a million other stories about orphaned kids whose aunts don't want them, or people getting injured playing hockey and having to pull out of pantomimes and all sorts of boarding school crap that makes me wish i lived there and not in the real world. I nearly had a heart attack when I found out I had a listcrush vote. Someone must have voted for me by accident. My brother's getting a computer for christmas, which is better than mine and he doesn't deserve it. Because he never lets me use his nintendo. Brandt wrote: " 2. Unfortunately Kate Bush's voice is not what angels hear when god speaks to them. that would be Rose Melberg's voice. " Isn't God supposed to have a voice like the paper cut out god in monty python and the holy grail. Which was on last night and made me squeal with laugher. Classic. I think God should have a speaking voice like Stuart David's voice, which is very nice to listen to. Even if he apparantly does smell of wee. Not that I've actually smelled him or anything, but i'll take it on good authority. Everyone on sinister seems to have pets dying. My goldfish is looking a bit peaky. Maybe he'll snuff it and i'll have something to post about. I hope not. I love my little Sodomite (i change it's name weekly to give it some excitement in it's life. I'm thinking Dildo for next week because that's the latest rude word I learned). I know someone though who squeezed his goldfish till it's eyeballs shot out. Just for a laugh. I think that's really sick. And it must have made a bit of a mess on the ceiling. Poor fish, i like them even if they smell like the school girls toilets. There's so many poetry animals we should start a poetry zoo. I'd invent a poetry owl. Maybe if Owen the Narrow Wizard is really magic he could become the list santa claus. Or maybe not... Sorry about the lack of B&S content and the fact that this is a crap post. Happy Christmas! Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: primates make good friends
by Colleen Laden 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

hey hey, i was reading all of the emails that mentioned losing pets and it reminded me of a wierd story my friend had told me about his mother ( who's got some issues ) telling him that his guinea pig looked dead, and he said "well are you sure maybe it's asleep"..she was sure it was dead so she buried it in a box..BUT put holes in the box just in case. Anyways i can relate, i have had every kind of pet from frogs to ducks, mice, cats, guinea pigs, lizards etc and when they died or had to leave it was the worst. Instead of playing with the other kids i would take a bag of bread, go to the park and feed the ducks and the geese and they knew me pretty well so they let me hold them and on occasion i would carry one home and Jerry-atrics would find it, yell at me and make me take it back, i did get to keep one duck though, his name was Bill i came home from school one day and he had flown away,i was a mess, it was real sad nobody understood, fuck em. music music music, i saw morrissey last weekend and the show was awesome. During the encore of the second show some people decided to mall the stage and they had to stop it early, I did manage to sneak in 2 fifths of whiskey and a camera with success, i even got a piece of shirt! I am kinda disappointed and burned out with the SF club/music scene. The music is so so , there is a variety of local music and it's always nice when a band you actually like plays or comes to town..but as far as not planning a big expensive night out in a cheesy club with smelly people and being able to just go out knowing the music is gonna be good..it doesn't really happen. I don't know if anyone is from this area that would know something that i don't BUT it would be nice to know of a club/bar(even a decent jukebox) that isn't just hip-hop or trendy house. Does it exist? troodaloo, colleen current # of unpaid parking tickets: 25 www.firetalk.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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: The year of the depend adult undergarment
by Adam Dobrodt 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

ahhh... the fair robyn has alluded several times to a wonderful book, infinite jest (i haven't actually finished it yet, but it is a very good read)(its kindof long)(just a bit). i would like to second the idea of buying the year 2017. it would be a grand year, full of sinister doings.... i have concluded that when i die, my soul will go to microsoft and bill gates. he already owns every word in this email... (incidently, did anyone actually read the warranty information when installing windows 98? he DOES own our souls and half of our bodies). i think belle and sebastian should begin an agressive corporate take-over of america.... first by conquering the major labels, then by attacking the other corporations... ie. microsoft, texaco, philip-morris, abc/disney, cbs/viacom...etc.... it would be a twee takeover... _b&s content_ b&s dreams= zero favorite moment, currently= the recorders in judy and the dream of horses i found a picture of richard colburn while perusing the horribly commercialized pages of spin in a coffee shop (hee hee.... i cut it out, too, but please don't tell on me)(its in the newest issue with trent reznor on the cover)(does anyone know what that girl next to him is doing... very suspicious...) _unrelated content_ i have to put my crushes on fiona and archel on the back burner, since now i have a boyfriend, and he might be jealous, but you two should know that you both hold a special place in my heart.... dreaming of seeing a show (any show cause its so hard to see one.... i missed stereolab, jim o'rourke, hefner, sfa.... everyone) in wisconsin, adam d. ps.... why all the adams cropping up??? could i be part of the problem???? (i thought i was the adam with the little "a" and now theres another....) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: deluxe on the brain
by P F 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

I'm not being pretentious in saying that I nearly typed 'Deleuze' in the subject header. But it was just a slip of the fingers, not of the brain, with or without without (mouth-)organs. Steady Mike formed: >Thought forms in the mouth I'd appreciate an explanation of this. It's very 1990. Grrreat! >To this day, Im haunted by that phrase. And the ghost of Arthur Askey. Me, I'm occasionally provoked by the *revenant* of Arthur Albiston. Despite being well past his best by 1988, he was still appearing in full-page colour 'posters' in *Match* magazine. He also adorns the mid-80s edition (was there ever another?) of Jack Rollin's Soccer: The Records. >*no* Dominique Rocheteau As somebody once said. That *was* George Best, wasn't it, scoring *that particular* goal? Only a few folk in the English-speaking world, by the way (I think I can practically count them on my thumbs), are fully cognizant that Rocheteau is a big-style Simon and Garfunkel fan. 'Est-ce que', he fervently demanded of an interviewer in 1987, 'vous avez ecouté a "Sound of Silence" ou "Mrs Robinson"?'. Not savoir terribly esoterique, I must admit, but it was the passion of his advocacy that stuck in the mind, where thought forms. ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Oh yes, its a mess...but we'll be fine, we'll get by...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

Are there any other Wannadies fans on the list? I've been listening to their US album all week...its truly amazing. I like it even more because every song is associated with something else of the past summer, 'cause thats when I really got into it. Like playing basketball in the evenings once it cooled down, or driving to the Ocean on 3 hours of sleep, or driving go-karts, or waiting outside an all-you-can-eat buffet in Ocean City, totally drunk and sunburned. Plus its a fab album in its own rights. Everything about that band seems to be getting pushed back as of late, and its making me a bit frustrated. I think they're new album is due out in the States shortly after the New Year, but their website has been down for the past 3 months, so thats a little hard to verify. I really, really, really hope they tour soon. I hear they live in London now and sleep in the nightbuses in Chingford or something, so keep an eye out. All this talk about dead animals isn't doing wonders for my holiday spirit. I had a cat named Gobo once (named for the lead Fraggle in Fraggle Rock), but he died two years ago. We still have his ashes upstairs, 'cause we had him for 12 years and he was the first pet our family really had. In the nativity scene we set up under our tree every year, without fail he would plop himself down just behind the manger and squeeze his huge head inside the back of it so that he knocked over half the wise men and the sheperd boys. We'd set them back up, but he'd do the exact same thing the next day. He was funny like that. Someone try to tell me that "It's Christmas Time Charlie Brown" is a total redneck waste of time, and I told him to piss off. Everything Charles Schultz has ever done is pure genius, especially the Christmas episode. I can't think of a single thing you could change about it. I really hope he recovers from his colon cancer surgery (Charles Schultz that is) and doesn't discontinue the strip on January 1st as he plans to. Forget about Y2K, that's a national calamity. Well, that and South Park is probably hanging up the gloves this Spring too. I locked my keys in my car today, with the ignition running. Blame it on my finals I say...they've sapped my brains. Steve C. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die" -Oscar Wilde +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i am not your broom
by aconover＠optonline.net 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

my new rule is to post to sinister every night. but tonight, i am too tired. so i will simply say that Bm is a hard chord to play, and i wish i could play it so that i could play mayfly well. oh, well. - adam (mny ponts for recongizing the subject reference) aconover(a)optonline.net Tempus Fugit is at: http://www.i2.i-2000.com/~conover/tempus/main.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: loitering with intent
by craigrm 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

Firstly I'd like to thank SteadyMike and St*vie Trousers for sharing the emotional details of their first meeting. As an educated man I've always maintained that Brother Beyond were put on this earth to "bring like minded people together in the name of global harmony" and this just further proves my point. I love it when I'm right. Their shameless public reminiscing has also helped me rediscover a period of my life that I had previously thought lost. After weeks of intense hypnotherapy and ritualistic beatings administered by the cast & crew of the musical CATS, under the able supervision of one "Mr Howe" (a retired Police Officer and unsuccessful Khmer Rouge candidate for Swansea East in 1980's General Election) in a parked van somewhere in Croydon, I'm pleased to share with you what I remember of that happy but turbulent time. It was 1987 and fresh out of Borstal I decided to take my particular brand of populist street magic and petty larceny onto a wider European audience. After a summer of ecstatic acclaim I eventually arrived at the picturesque Bavarian seaside town of Lauf an der Pegnitz. As you're all undoubtedly aware Lauf is a small and unremarkable place for much of the year, but at the end of summer the town's population is traditionally boosted by holidaying Royalty and the illegitimate offspring of the infamous 1971 Real Madrid squad. This particular year proved to be no exception. Before long my cheeky street theatre had attracted quite a reasonable crowd. As they held their collective breath and waited for my grand finale (I'd once again like to state that the boy was never in any real danger & the injuries he sustained whilst unfortunate could not have been anticipated and were clearly NOT the result of any carelessness on my part as the Magistrate initially implied)I was distracted by none other than a pre-Belle's Isobel Campbell flogging her patented homemade lip balm to locals and tourists alike from a sparsely decorated stall adjacent to the Train Station. Even then I could sense she was destined for greater things. We embarked on a torrid affair that was as fleeting as it was intangible and fictitious. I don't want to dwell on the painful details but it resulted in the accidental desecration of a nearby Church and the loss of electrical power to around 23,000 households, both of which events I now deeply regret. Of course the human mind is a funny old thing and some of that might not actually have occurred, or even worse still could have been implanted in my subconscious by Mr Howe and his gang of grinning thespians. But then again, whenever I listen to my advance copy of the new Gentle Waves album "Napalm Tsunami !" between the gut pounding bass and primal screaming I kinda get the feeling that she remembers me too. Hmmm - what I really meant to say is that myself and a few degenerate pals will be in sunny Prague over the Will2K so if there's a thriving Czech Sinstah scene out there and someone wants to meetup then please let me know. Merry Christmas everyone and pleeaze don't buy any of the current crop of seasonal singles, it only encourages them. Toodles, Craig xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Not a Belle and Sebastian dream but...
by Brandt Fundak 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

I had a dream last night that I was at a show or something and someone made me a tape but it was missing one crucial song. So in front of a bunch of people including shelflife ed, I pulled out my old shelflife popfest tape and had them tape pin striped suits by Skypark in the spot. Very strange. Some things I meant to address the past couple of digests. 1. Was it Snow Patrol that wanted to call themselves Polar Bear? The Polar Bear who had the name to begin with was Eric Avery from Jane's Addiction and Harold Barefoot Sanders III from the seriously underrated Ethyl Meatplow. I just thought I'd share. 2. Unfortunately Kate Bush's voice is not what angels hear when god speaks to them. that would be Rose Melberg's voice. 3. You know, if NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority had gone on strike, I wish that MTA's throughout the nation would strike as well in a move of solidarity. But then again, there I go again with my silly beliefs on labor relations. Christ, I just heard an NPR overwriting for Mannheim Steamroller. Isn't that a sign of biblical Armaggedon? Speaking of Armaggedon, is the rest of the world going to blame the US when it happens? I would. Brandt "That lass could use a groundskeeper of her own. Ach! That's Willy!" --Groundskeeper Willy +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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