December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Not even Christmas...
by Mr Smiley 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hmm Hello. For years (well, a month. Which is a year when you're 17) I've dreamt of this day. But now I can't speak. Or type. I joined up ages ago, and on the eve of my graduation from the nursery my poor old computer died. So I took it to the witch doctor, who sacrificed a goat over it before dancing around it naked waving a flaming torch. This, he claimed, fixed it. So I took it home (icy roads, rubbish car, near death) and desperately attempted to get to my precious list. But it still didn't work... until today. So, here I am. I was wondering if it's criminal to play Tigermilk to fans of Robbie Williams. I played it in my car the other day, and the other's hated it because it was 'too depressing' (?). Oh well. They didn't like Rialto either though, so maybe they're all just completely made. I'd better go no, before I embarrass myself in front of my peers. If I haven't already. Love, Mr Smiley +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 saw 3 ships come sailing in
by Tom Lennox 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

I never intended to write tonight and never today or this morning or yet, but then sometimes life reaffirms itself in the strangest of ways and you remember quite why you`re in on something in the first place and then that's how I came to be stumbling thru the park in these early hours, finally (previously having abused dad's torch batteries as walkman generators) listening to If Your Feeling Sinister - the first time PROPERLY in so long and everything came back as to why I should be here, on this list in the first place and though it's all alcohol fueled music appreciation (which must be soem kind of achievement in itself) somehow the songs seemed to capture the cold and the movement of my feet and when I thought of that friend of mine who said he could never listen to B&S because of Stu M's irritating voice I realised that FEELING, the power of truely FEELING a song passes over so many people no matter how clever - but he always hated Mozza anyway which must be a crime. Stop. And then I heard Dylan in the Movies and I thought can this just be about one sad reference to one great film: Don't Look Back and surely `In the movies` should refer to that 80s film catastrophe Dylan flaunted his rancid wrinkles in.... and I still love him with his hair like old rope... or even Pat Garrett or something - a mannerism that only Stu M knew but I dreaded the reality as a throwaway lyric, no matter how great the group is a crime - one reference to a cult 60s extend pop promo (sacriledge) can never be enough to drive ANY any song, so don't let me down because until tonight I thought it meant escape and excitement and so much more - Dylan in the movies, well that's like On The Road or One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest in terms of titles so it just has to mean more. And then that Sinister guy who nearly got buggered outside Preston well that was just excitement wasn't it? People with too much time on their hands like me and this horrible home crowd of mine seem to fantasise about their sexual persuasions - YES TONIGHT IN THE PUB - and yet each time I think more & more that it really is down to the difference between caring and desire and whether you can feel passion for the same sex in the same sense that most of us can probably imagine the comfort of a real friends arms as enough to feel safe for them to share anything together. Well which man didn't want to lay beside Richey Edwards in admiration but why do these people keep coming to me and saying they're not happy in terms of relationships and perhaps their sexuality is in question because I know that inside any of my own flirtations with the same sex have been vain and showy and sad - exciting yes but in the same way as a car crash or the rush of the bare thrill of being punched hard in a fight - so if you have to debate it with me then your probably as cynical as I and cynical means nothing as it's the sort of made up word that people keep pretending exists like `evil` or `wicked` or `Jesus`. Which is cheap of me. Sorry if this hurts but probalby you can say that if somebody is open enough to question their sexual desires to check properly what they are they probably truely know where they are or at least their not in any kind of scared denial. I wonder what denial of sexuality feels like - is it like waiting to go to the toilet so you get a greater sense of relief? So If Your Feeling Sinister changed everything bad about tonight like it seems to again and again and though it won't take the taste of kebab out of my throat in the morning or even allow me to wish I'd never written or mailed you this in my pretentious haze it does make me feel wanted which is kind so this could either be the best or worst of posts I've ever composed. Oh back again. Friends at home seemed so good didn't they and then you went to uni and realised that the friends at home were even better and then you came back from uni and realised that in actual fact the uni friends were better and that you needed to change your rose tinted glasses and then every time you got back after that your home friends seemed to degenerate even further and then you realised that they weren't really getting worse but were just standing still and you moved off in different ways and left them alone. So get away I say and DON'T LOOK BACK - ah I got it at last so Stu M is saved from my mind of the crime of being shallow. If you look at this mail as individual sentances or paragraphs and it doesn't scan try treating it as a whole and everythings coming into place together. Thanks to those who sent Ralph Steadman info as I neglected to thank them personnaly, but bizarelly remember now when I really should be remembering to lock the house or something more important... but you're all so great and I want to know you make me feel settled all over so this list can never die as complacency is the most radical force in modern life. What happened to all the females on the list recently. Honestly you take away free computing access for the xmas period and we see the real ownership of home computer users - you all need to lose testosterone over some internet porn tonight and come back witrh glittery thighs tommorow. You realise of course as I make all these typos and speeling mistakes I think of the American individual on this list (oh so specific) who commented on the British Sinisterarians over ambitious use of their own language but you must forgive us as few of us on this side of the Atlantic would ever have the indie-chic of being into B&S were it not a part of our university curriculum. Well I may be wrong but American listees just seem so cool in comparison. Which is probably a nice point to wish you all well and say goodnight at last Love and xmas/winterval wishes Tom x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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Sinister: Marketing gone awry.
by Alexander Borgia 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Greetings Sinilicious People.... As the list perhaps may or may not work at any point from here on forward, I figured I would post in the hopes of testing to see. I am listening to Sinister as I write, so this fulfills my B&S content. A friend sent me a link today which made me laugh and I thought I would share it with you. I do not know if all members of the list have been subjected to the "Priceless" advertising compaign currently running on the television. But here is someone's parody of the same. http://home.ptd.net/~telefone/pricless.jpg Alexander +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.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: wanking through new years
by Angel Blackwell 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

I don't even celebrate xmas but I'm broke because of it. I'm almost done buying prezzies for absolutely everyone (even crackwhore barbie for honey.) I had a panic attack in the Eaton Centre because of it as well...as some of the twee lil'torontonians know I'm very scared of large crowds of people. I'm also a procrastinator-KABAM!!! Last minute shopping in a mall was just a disaster waiting to happen. hmmm...I'm trying to ease into my New Year's resolutions, trying to give up my vices and it's not working. I'm trying to give up drinking, cigarettes, and pot...I blew that outta the water last night. Well, I can't afford the pot. I had one good moment last night come to think of it. They were playing TBWTAS in the big chain bookstore...I was kinda dancing and these OAPs were looking at me really odd. They're prolly glad that I'm "not their grandson..." I love you Honey Mummy...hope you get better...you are the twee's knees... Happy New Year All!!! the angel blackwell ps debbie...he knows you were dancing... ______________________________________________________ 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.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: *big sigh*
by Jason Andreas 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

I nominate this poem in honour of our lovely list and I know that whatever happens, we'll stick together. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond's glint on the snow. I am the gentle autumn's rain, I am the sunlight on ripened grain. When you waken to the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circling flight, I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die. --- Anonymous Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. --Jason "And in the rapture and the charm Came the tranquil and the calm" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.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: Women of the world, take over. Cos if you don't the shoplifters probably will and that would be bang out of order.
by Mr Beaker 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

SHAMELESS SELF-PUBLICISING. Hoorah yer miserable bastards. Today is my birthday, I am eleventy-twelve years old, probably. I got the King Rollo editors cut DVD which has got a smart Words and Pictures promo chapter thingy on it. Words and Pictures was great. Wordy was the high-end of the BBC graphics department. Apparently it was the extreme cost of his prancing around my TV screen like some sort of luvvy B&S ponce that resulted in Blakes Seven being sooooo bad. I've heard Blake was so pissed off he made Calais bend Dover and Folkestoned her right up the Ostend. Charlie was a righty hairy bastard too. SHAMELESS SELF-PUBLICISING. Peter Milli Vanilla Ice T Rex Williams - do any of your mails exclude the words "tape" and "sorry" ??? SHAMELESS SELF-PUBLICISING (THAI NEWS). I have this week received a postcard from our own Queen of the Jungle Ooonus Minimus. She sounds very happy (coincides with not having a pooter you gloomy gits)and says that the Kings Birthday went swimmingly. Obviously not the affair mine will be. SHAMELESS SELF-PUBLICISING. Tonight I am throwing a party for all my friends - well the furry ones at the end of the bed anyhows. All the real ones won't come because they think I'm just toooo rude...c**ts. There will be no Jelly and Ice-cream as I've got a really bad bout of the shits after a dodgy burger at work yesterday. POO. Honey, your Christmas present is in the post but you won't get it until after the New Year cos apparently yesterday was the last day. Sorry. Happy Christmas you hopeless bunch of nonces. I'll probably be too pissed to read anything from now on. Much Love and Tangy Twiglets. Adrian. xxx __________________________________________________ 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.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 Takes Puffs to Be Gentle and Kind
by Peter Miller 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

I'm not going to say thank you to Honey. I think he does a terrible job. I'm all in favour of having advertisements at the end of every message. It would double the likelihood of finding anything interesting in them. Just look at this description of a humble place of worship, taken from a well-known ecclesiastical guidebook: "HONEYCHURCH St Mary * Norman farmers' chapel The sign on the door says simply, "This door is never locked". It should be the motto of the Church of England...The nave is filled with seats so worm-eaten that the rear ones would wear holes in all but the stoutest flannel. By the door is a small poor-box. The pulpit is primitive, as are the floorbords that substitute for flagstones or tiles...The only cuiosity in what passes for the chancel are some medieval cooking pots. These are stored, for some reason, under a table next to the altar. Pevsner suggests that these may have been acoustic pots, to be set in the walls of chancels allegedly to enhance the sound of singing." No further comment is required. I promise to reply to my e-chums tomorrow. Mike and Pam, tape tree chipmonks, sorry I didn't managed to send the tapes before last week's jingle jangle joyola. They might have turned it into a filthy festering funkathon. Glad to hear Hopkins hasn't changed during his absence. 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.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: life is a state of mind
by Robyn Fadden 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

Hello schweetharts, ah, tomorrow the moon will be so close to the earth we may be able to touch it - but don't try, because i heard that some guy tried to the last time the moon was this close (150 yrs ago) and he fell off the earth. Silly man, but we know better, we understand physics and the optical illusion. Do not let this stop you from howling, wild things. Or at least staring in awe. overwhelming really when the moon seems to fill the sky. Space becomes less abstract; I feel very much on top on the earth, a physical thing in the universe. And then I start thinking about this and it's back to the mental universe for me... oh well. moments of clarity are wonderful things. I watched "Being There" on the weekend. It's a lovely movie, a good Sunday morning movie. oh, i cried, of course i did. like the plastic bag scene in american beauty, it's so amazing when the beautiful just leaps out in front of us, dazzling, and you get that warm chest feeling like all is right in the world (though you still know that so much is wrong, but it's okay for a few minutes.) it's bloody beautiful. mmmm. (I have to pause for a while and gather my emotions again as they've been spilled by beautiful things. hm, well, i don't know if that worked. but it was nice.) christmas has started to get to me. i'm all smiles and good cheer lately. Also, my little brother has declared his love for b&s. Story is: he bought me IYFS for Christmas, but my other brother told him I already had it ("she's got, like, six belle and sebastian cds.") But, instead of returning it, he opened it and listened to it and *couldn't stop listening to it*. Whoo! said I into the phone when he told me in true b&s new-fan style, "I'd return it, but then I wouldn't have it, and I don't think I can do that." So I bought him Tigermilk for Christmas. Mwah ha ha! And hey, was it my imagination or did Steve Kado publicly declare a list crush on me a few days ago? And was I not blushing upon reading this? Oh, I was. And I was also thinking about how a while ago he declared the new cool as writing in magic marker on your t-shirts. I think this is damn straight spiff. He also noted that he went drinking last Thursday night and suffered a two-day hangover. I too went drinking on Thursday night and suffered a very long one-day hangover. Coincidence? Or just Canadian? Or was everyone drinking Thursday night? I have a feeling you were... Anyway, Steve, if I'm the bee's knees, then you're the cat's pajamas. Just thought I'd share that with y'all. (cat's pajamas being a good thing - idioms can be so confusing, even in yr own language...) Okay. This was supposed to be a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Joy to the World and Peace on Earth email. And it is because I wish all of the above on all you sinister individuals (even those who have unsubbed for a short while.) And be thankful that my battery is going low (on the computer, not on me), so I must stop writing. Ah, but one more thing: I have joined the ranks of the glasses-wearing. Now that I can see clearly outside of two feet around me, perhaps my world view and ideas about reality will change. ha. (but they *are* nice glasses, I have to say.) Must go now and read all the far away signs that I can see. Like signs of the apocalypse. No, still a bit blurry... nothing to fear here. I do see shortbeard and butter tarts though, yum. love Robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ 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.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: Track& Field?
by jarkko frantila 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

Jsut a really short one: does anyone know if that Track& Field night on New Years eve will happen? Thanks already, @--->--- Jake le petit ______________________________________________________ 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.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: Ohhhh Happpy daaay Whhhenn Jesssus Walked
by BrnToEnd＠aol.com 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

Hello Out There, I took a dreadful mistake today of going to the mall. Dont worry im not a teenybopper or anything but I was downtown bored to death and I need new shoes and looking for a jean jacket and being me who doesn't lead a normal life I tottaly forgot about christmas shopping crazed people. Want a description? Ever seen that flick Easy Rider? Pure *Insert random swear/curse word* madness Holy *Insert another swear word or the Word Jesus* I was pined in in all directions and it took me like a million years just to look at a few stores and of course ran into people I knew. Not to mention way overpriced items. I am still in shock so My fellow sinister listee's stay awaaay from all stroes these past days unless you've got a shotgun. Ok now lets dance to Judy And The Dream Of Horses -Damon "Think I'm alive Probaly Just Breathing" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.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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