December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: a glass of red wine and a ciggarette
by zoe charaktinou 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

it's been a while!missed me?nah!nevermind.i'm too happy to get annoyed. merry xmas and best wishes from sunny Athens! yer,finally made it home and it's soooooooooo goooooooood! it's been a week since i got here and it's just party! xmas eve was BRILLIANT!got home 6am.mmmmmmm so,what's everyone doing new year's eve-and i don't care about millennium-sorry,willennium-crap!i'm trying to figure out how am i going to get from one side of Athens to the other with no ca that nightr-no one's driving.they want to drink.bastards!oh well! yesterday went for a walk downtown.it's all bright and shiny.oh,yer and we have the worst xmas tree ever!our mayor is the biggest wanker in the whole wide world! but the best thing was that i got to spent the afternoon with one of my best mates drinking red wine and getting drunk and happy in the old city of athens.mmmmmm best of times.... BAD MOMENT:yesterday i went to this record shop,right?so as i go through a pile of flyers i see one saying 'a night with belle & sebastian".SHOCK!then i realised it was dated 16/12.WHYYYYYY?i was still in the uk that time! then i read in the newspaper of this club i go to, that when deus played athens this october-i wasn't there.grrrrrrr.-after the concerts they played music in that club!my fav club!the club i go every night!(or used to).WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? do university studies deserve sacrifices like these?yes.even if you get miserable,but i'll get over it.the world won't stop spinning(it will!~). anyway,that's about it from here.hope u all have a greeeeeeat new year's eve.PARTYYYYYYYYYY PEOPLE!LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO GET MISERABLE AND SAD. be well and drink a lot. cheerio,zoe ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: crucified santa and goodbye Curtis Mayfield.
by kevin parker 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Festive greetings from Tokyo in the land of the twee.Apparently last year one department store in Tokyo chose to celebrate christmas with some lovely posters of a crucified santa something got lost in the translation. I am not rerally sure why i am posting but this morning I found out that Curtis Mayfield died on Sunday and i am pretty upset. So rest in peace Curtis I loved your voice. BandS content coming up i saw some schoolgirls looking at their CDs the other day in HMV and the general opinion seemed to be "Kawaii" which is the only word i could understand but I believe this means cute so there you go soon they will rule the schools here too.oh yeah could any Uk listees tell me if " The Great Escape " is on TV this year it was always on TV on Boxing day when I was a kid everytime I see it I think Steve Mcqueen is going to make it over that bloody fence but he never does but he looks pretty cool riding his bike, all his own stunts you know, anyway so you believe he's gonna make it. Anyyway so when its the middle of the night and he or she has just popped up in your dreams again and you think they are there beside you and of course their not. Or when fuckin Margaret Thatcher appears on tv and you get the same shiver of fear or hate of what you might do to her if you got your hands on the evil bitch as you did when you were at school. Then Curtis is often the only man to listen to because he makes you believe you are going to make it and that human beings despite being capable of great cruelty are also able to be absolutely beautiful. I'm just sorry he didnt make it. Kevin. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: Sini-Surivors of the holidays
by Alexander Borgia 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Good Evening Sinister Sini-Survivors of the Christmas Holiday.... I think Spike may have a career on the net. Sort of like the way those other hamsters are the "Beatles" of the hamster rock and roll world with the good boy image. Spike could be the Stones version of Net Hamster. Get him a leather jacket, an agent, a fast hamster car. Throw in some loud awful sounds and create a scandal then sit back and collect royalties. In a few weeks sell the bugger on e-bay for a few hundred thousand, (well, I mean, who wants a hamster so starved for attention that he plays dead and messes up your emotions, plus you will have all that guilt from exploiting the little guy and the best way to combat that is to make him go away.) Then invest all the money into short term investments. Buy yourself a degree and retire in the Caymen Islands ordering Belle and Sebastian cd's over the internet. The Major, who couldn't be with us this evening because he is exhausted from having played Quake 3 and other computer games all day, would like to say that he is looking forward to spending next Christmas with his dad rather than the lunatic bin which his mother always gets guilted into attending. You will notice that when the annual Christmas specials appear on the televsion that every year when you see it, you see something a little differently than the last time. At the institution where they seem to give unlimited day passes, everything will happen exactly as it does every year. There will be no deviation from the set pattern. Grandma will stay up all Christmas Eve drinking and making enough food for an entire subdivision. Eventually near when the time is about right she will pass out until around 11:00 in the morning. Then the psychotic behaviour starts. The oldest sister, and alcholic with serious epilepsy and mental deficiency will arrive with her husband, equally resticted to a very strange world. Medication seems to stabilize him. Naturally they will arrive quite under the influence and will no doubt be in a snit over some minor inconvience. Of course she will be bruised at some place for having had one of her twice weekly seizures. She's not supposed to drink, but she is supposed to take her meds. She got it backwards. Oh, and they eat lots of onions so their farts, many of them, smell really bad. Then will arrive the oldest brother, a person on welfare in his mid 40's because he broke down 5 years ago when he decided to reveal to the world that since he had been 18 he was incapable obtaining anything more than a semi. He thrived on weeping to anyone who would listen all about his sexual dysfunction. Eventually he will come out of the closet. Most like will arrive with the oldest is the next in line. He is the one that a fringe order of Franciscan monks decided to send home until he could resolve some of his problems. My understanding was that was why people joined up with the fringe elements. They had a midget amongst them and they dressed in brown robes and sandals. So now he is managing a doughnut shop and I am quite certain he still has not gone out with a woman. However the monks did share underwear. But they ate alot of cabbage so their farts smelled really bad. Next there are the indetical twins in their mid thirties who have never moved out of the basement of their mother's house. They keep each other company. They are very quiet and drink excessively. Their career paths are wallowing in a factory somewhere and applying undercoating on cars. The truly have no life. The youngest of the brood will possibly arrive with his girlfriend, and although normal in appearance, spend most of his formative years in substance abuse and now appears to be enlarging himself through over eating. The next member in the gather is the televesion in the living room, and the radio in the kitchen. They will be turned up loud and and nobody will be listening nor watching either. They are used only to somehow insert a sane person into the room. (Sorry, not allowed to say anything bad about the Major's mom, as much as I would like to.<g>) Everyone will drink too much, eat too much, and argue too much. All until it's time to go home. Same thing every year. The Major survives in true commando style by eating gobs of chocolate, much like many people out there, and rushing on sugar all day. He is the only young one, and it is highly unlikely that ay of them will ever propogate, which is a wonderful thought for humanity, so he will be overwhelmed with toys to help him on his sugar high. He somehow landed in complete Pokémon heaven by amassing a few hundred cards and other stuff like chunks of coloured glass. My own traumatic experience was that my lighter ran out on Christmas Eve and I only had 18 matchs to last me the entire day. I lit a candle and used that for me smokes until Boxing Day when I went across the street to the store to get a new lighter and discovered that they had remained open 24 hours because they are Muslims. I hope Archel keeps me in mind when she has completely exploited the hamster for having come up with the idea. Isobel Campbell can do no wrong. She is who she is and that is why we like her so. One must accept the lovely miss exactly as she is, and love her dearly. Same goes for List Mummy who we all hope is feeling better. Alexander +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: my 'zine
by Katorina C. 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

hey everyone. i am making a magazine. if anyone wants a copy or wants to contribute, then lemme know or emial me your snail mail address. it is not online. spark_mag(a)hotmaill.com >From: "nickie" <elfie(a)indigo.ie> >Reply-To: "nickie" <elfie(a)indigo.ie> >To: <sinister(a)Majordomo.net> >Subject: Sinister: GET BENT!! >Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 03:01:51 -0000 > >this is the slogan i'm pushing for the next national gay week. i think i >might submit this to the Gay Council of Ireland, upon which the gaylords >and high queens rule with an iron fist (crude). hegemony is a wonderful >thing. tricky to pronounce though. i've never been able to tell whether it >should be a soft or a hard 'g'. somewhat similar to the pronunciation of >yer one 'Ling' from Ally McBeal...but that's a skeleton in my closet that i >really ought to have buried under the patio of my wasted youth by now. oh, >folly! > >thus, you see, get bent can be a sentiment for the season that's in it and >this mail isn't from someone who wants to ruin yer christmas. or from brad. >i've never been able to understand people who don't like Christmas. >particularly this year. four NEW episodes of the Vicar of Dibley in the >space of a few days. usually we have to wait a MONTH to get these beauties >onto a blank tape before they're gone forever. mr. bbc ownerman will be >paying my dry-cleaning bills. yes sir. > >apparently the bbc are in cahoots with off-licenses around the country, and >this year are dedicating their christmas schedule to encouraging their >license-holders to drink themselves into a stupor...which is a laudable >sentiment in itself. it's the highest form of entertainment we have. and >don't forget, kids, this could be your last chance to be hospitalised >before the new year. and if you overdo it on new year's eve who knows if >the ambulances will be working what with the millennium bug an' all. no, >best to get the good beds while they're still going begging. > >get drunk for christmas. and get bent aswell. > >love > >nickie > > >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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 +-+ >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: 10, Brookside Close
by David Moore 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

Hi All (& A Happy Boxing Day to GHD), It's your fringe media correspondent again, with too much time on his hands. CH4 teletext p453 has a penetrating interview with Stu D conducted by one John Earls. Edited highlights below for non UK/non TV people: "OK Stu, what's your fave album? "It'd have to be something by Elvis Presley. I don't have a preference between his early and later period. His early period was the most influential - I can't imagine how shocking he would have appeared. Then in the 70's, to give the kind of performances he did when he was so ill is equally inspiring." Do B&S or Looper plan to inspire us this Millennium Eve? "No plans to, no. And no plans for the new year, either. I should have a good celebration with my wife Karn because I worry a lot about what's going to happen on New Year's Day. Nobody seems to take the Millennium Bug seriously in Britain, but I do. I've stocked up on a lot of tinned food. No, I'm not joking!" What's your product of the Millennium, then? "Coca-Cola, of which I drink a lot. Regular, not Diet." Millennium No 1? "It won't have anything to do with what's the best song, it'll be a case of whichever is the biggest band who chooses to release a record just beforehand. Spice Girls would be the obvious choice." Millennium Dome: "Ah, who cares? Of course, you could say that there are many more deserving causes, but when does Government money ever go to the deserving causes? I won't be going so it's of little interest to me" UK only bit, sorry. Sally says that Steve Lamacq will feature some live Belle & Sebastian as part of his Fantasy Festival tonight, but we guess it will only be a previously broadcast Bowlie song. Bye now, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: Go On, Grunt!
by Peter Miller 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

Dear belle and sebastian Die Hard fans, Have I eaten one Smartie too many or did Archel say she'd had an overflowing dogs' toilet lapping at her door? Have I eaten two Smarties too many or did Isobel Campbell say some "men" had shouted encouragement and thrown sweets at Leeds? You all kept that very quiet. What kind of encouragement? I once saw the Mint Juleps, and some men shouted encouragement at them too. "Show us what you've got!" were the precise words. "I haven't got anything" came back the reply. A mysterious exchange. I've been showered with job offers since I made it clear I was going to grass on you all for abusing work facilities, but I'd like a few more before I decide which one to choose, so come on, don't be shy! A nice fat salary would be nice, because I want to buy a house next to Isobel's, so I can shout encouragement to her whenever I see the bathroom light go on. And I want to throw sweets onto the drive, so that the huge burglar floodlight turns on. Isobel will think it's a camera flash and automatically pull that little girl lost face that we all know and love, even though she's tucking in to her bangers and smash. A morsel of mashed potato substitute will dribble out of the corner of her darling mouth and all her robots will fall about laughing metallically. One of them will topple over. I watched a film last night, "Twister" it was called. What a fucking swizz. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: it makes me sick
by triumphant loser 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

the continued popularization of 80's songs in car speels and movies....i.e. How soon is now, Please please let me get what i want, and others has a disturbing trend to it.I think before too long everyone will know about long gone bands because of the persistant need to use them to sell something. The fact of the matter is that new music(with the exception of a few bands) is very substandard, and companys have to dig deep to find something that will appeal to people.So say buh bye to the songs you hold near and dear....intel or microsoft is going to rape it for all its worth. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: Re: sinister-digest V3 #417
by MM_KULIK＠ACAD.FANDM.EDU 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

Well, well. I hardly ever write because the address I subscribed to this list forces me to do so through telnet and I really hate that. I could rectify the situation but I don't see much of a need. Anyhow though. I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season. I received the last two B&S CDs I needed to complete my collection -- no more scratchy copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy Tigermilk tape. Now if only they'd put the Evening Session on CD...Oh, and the other one was Dog on Wheels, incidentally, of which I only had two songs on my bootleg copy of Tigermilk which somehow got scratched up and skips to a degree I cannot deal with. So yay!!! Christmas itself was pretty swell...I got many things that I asked for, including this massive Russian dictionary that I had to ask for because I couldn't afford it myself -- $50 US, so roughly 35 pounds. And also a little mini stereo to take back with me to Scotland -- oh, I didn't mention that I've been living in Glasgow for the past three months studying at the Uni but that I'm now home in the States for Christmas/New Year's/term break. Nice. But strange to be back. My dad painted my room a new color so I'm very disoriented. And I also left at the point when the kitten we got this summer was still very tiny. Now she's 6 months old, has her cat fur (i.e. no longer as fluffy) and do you know how kittens have that cute little meow and then it turns into an adult cat meow? Well, that's what happened and she's all big and it's sort of sad! But she remembers me and I know this because she's been following me around and sleeping in my room at night. So she still likes me. But I miss being in Glasgow and I will be flying back in less than two weeks! Too bad I hate to fly. p.s. Tiago -- you're right, Charlie Brown is very twee and I started listening to the soundtrack from "Charlie Brown's Christmas" about 3 weeks before Christmas, and everybody laughed because they said it was too early for Christmas music but I love it. But I especially like Snoopy. Charlie Brown is very sweet, though. Well, I have gone on and on quite long enough, so I will leave you now. But if anyone knows of any meet-ups or worthwhile events -- of which there are many in Glasgow -- please please let me know because I am always on the lookout but somehow I always miss things! Or if anyone wants to meet up let me know because I would be more than happy to arrange something. Or even if anyone wants to meet up in the Phialdelphia area before January 8, which is when I will be heading back. Bye bye!!! Moira +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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 can still remember when MLS sounded nice
by Chris Jones 26 Dec '99

26 Dec '99

I hope you all had very twee Christmas's, and I hope your floods go away soon Archel, they looked horrid (that words sounds very pre-pubescent). Did anyone get a Steps album from an aunt or uncle trying to be 'cool'? Did anyone get love, joy, laughter and eternal peace? I was listening to My Life Story's 'The Golden Mile' in the bath and wondering why they aren't as good as that anymore. Then I started listening to Speedy. I'd forgotten I had some of their stuff, and it's great. Does anyone else remember 'Boy Wonder' and 'Anytime, Anyplace, Nowhere'? What happened to them? Are they still around? I would love to know. This e-mail seems completely pointless, but it whiled away a few minutes. Bye Bye, Chris Jones. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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.missprint.org/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: And I still got love for the street
by Erica MacArthur 26 Dec '99

26 Dec '99

Hiya peeps, Has anyone else noticed the comic factor in the new Dr Dre and Shoop do be dawg song? Despite the frankly scary bouncing cars/bottoms in the video, it struck me that "Still.....having barbeques every day" - "Still....driving fancy cars" sounds more like something my dad would boast about rather than gangster rapper. It's All Tommorows Parties this weekend and I'm quite excited despite the fact that it's raining all the time. Nick I promise not to flash my knickers and make scenes in teashops shouting "hot willy action" a la 'Wish you were here', but I fully reserve the right to shout 'Up your bum!' as she did. What a brilliant film that was. Espcially the bit at the end where she's all dressed in yellow with a big huge pram. "It's mine, aaall mine". It made my mum furrow her brow quite a few times. I've got an umbrella that could give the millenium dome a run for it's money. I saw the millenium dome from the docklands light-speed railway the other day, it doesn't look that big, but that's perspective for you. I went to Greenwich and bought a brilliant dress. If you're ever there, The Obsertory is *the* place to go for frocks. Make sure you don't get carried away, though, I had to be stopped from buying an op-art print dress that made me look like a box by force. Talking of ATP, it's not like I know of any of the bands or anything, so if anyone has suggestions/ones to avoid, I'd be delighted to recieve your advice. Can we have a quick hands up who is going to AnTiciPate this thursday at the betsy? I think I've said enough. Erica x The House of Scarlet - we're watching you. http://www.chickpages.com/rants/golighty/index.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/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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