December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: All my little words...
by James Gilmer 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Greetings to all my Sinister brothers and sisters!! As kerry said our lovely list has been a bit dreary as of late with all these dark messages of the passing of beloved pets and dire omens of faceless corporate types sending out their winged monkeys to destroy our lil' list and torment our dear list mummy. So first off let me say cheers to our sweet mummy for defending our list from Esosoft and Topica. On the eve of our dissolution we salute you mummy! Ahhh, strange days indeed. I have just this week joined the ranks of the graduated. The only thing I await is the real diploma in the mail to put the final touch on the end of my undergraduate life. So now armed with my BA in English I am well prepared for a life of washing dishes and scrubbing toliets. Nah...grad school looms on the horizon though I find myself wondering if being an english prof or editor is what I want. Hmmm, I must be getting old, I have this strange feeling I have to do something with my life, either help people or animals in some way. I may end up falling back and getting my vet tech certificate. Only time will tell since I don't go into grad school til the fall. Onto B&S related material! While in East Lansing and Ann Arbor this weekend I picked up Tigermilk on vinyl and almost picked up Looper's Up A Tree on vinyl. I also snatched up Dog on Wheels and was pleased very much with my finds. Cheers to Brandt for letting me know about the Ann Arbor connection! I also managed to get two of my friends hooked on Looper as I played them on the ride up to Lansing. I was quite suprised since I didn't think they'd enjoy the spoken word style, yet they loved Impossible Things #2 and asked me to do a mix tape up with a little Looper and B&S. The revolution continues... Schools out but I keep having these flashbacks when i start to relax a bit. I go to grab my backpack to look up whatever work I might have only to remember I've finished with the semster. A bit hard to believe it's over. The best thing about this is that my graduation present to myself is a vacation in Hawaii. Ten days spent ringing in the new year on the white sand beaches..ahh, yes. I'm almost missing the snow even though I dislike the cold. Still, I really do enjoy winter. Winter means another year. Winter means moving forward. Winter means something better on the horizon. The new year to me always means a new chance, even if the whole thing is just rather arbitrary and not a true reflection of any massive change but a human system of telling times, bugger it! Damn the topedoes and charge forward! I have also found myself using english slang as of late. Too much watching imported BBC programs and movies and reading books by english authors. I caught myself saying shite yesterday out of the blue. Arse has already found its way into my vocabulary and bugger is flirting around the edges of my conciousness. Should I be worried? A squirrel stared at me thursday as I took my english final. Silly little thing just sat on a tree limb outside the window and stared for a full twenty minutes. I half expected it to hold up a sign; "We have Isobel...demands to follow". Doubtful I know, but disconcerting indeed. So I've 'discovered' the joy that is Looper and also really starting to dig Magnetic Fields and Felt. I'm thinking I might try Hefner out next, any suggestions? Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't say I'd just tuned into Black Box Recorder and have really started to dig them. On the Magnetic Fields front I picked up the 3-cd set of 69 Love Songs last weekend after hearing All my Little Words on a mix tape from a friend. Solid stuff and I enjoyed it quite a bit, though I'm not sure if *all* 69 songs were needed, but I respect what was attempted. Any other Magnetic Fields albums I should look for? Anyways, heads to the storm all you beautiful sinister people! Be Sinister all you wonderful twee people! Jim "It's not the world that needs saving, it's people"- Grant Morrison +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ()()()()()()
by vlass＠interlog.com 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

i remember when headings were the revolutionary thing in sinister world. now it seems as though writing posts as if the y ar e p o e t r y is what's hip. i'm not complaining - it makes for easy reading. except when the posters throw in all those tricky metaphors and symbolism things. no belle and sebastian dreams lately, but if dreaming about dead pets counts, then i have a tale to tell. really it just involved a friend of mine crushing a chick (as in a baby chicken, not a girl) with her fingers. then there were a bunch of dogs with tumours on their backs, and it was pretty disturbing. my cat (who is very much alive, thank you) ate a twist tie last week and barfed it up onto my carpet at 5 in the morning. poor thing. youn mentioned > olive the other reindeer i managed to catch that on tv on friday! it's this new christmas special and michael stipe does the voice of a reindeer named schnitzel. he even sings a song about promising not to throw olive off a roof. it's kind of sad. now, wouldn't it be great if belle and sebastian did an animated christmas special? they could even put a religious spin on the whole thing if they wanted to, what with stuart living in a church basement or whatever. stuart m. would be a tiny tim kind of character, all hopeful and with a limp. stuart d. would be the guy who doesn't believe christmas is going to happen and isobel.. well, she can wear a cute outfit and feed cookies to the orphaned kids. happy holidays and let's hope that esosoft gets a big lump of coal in their stocking this year, teri +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: high school
by ipecac spice 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

hi. i am posting as if everything is normal in sinisterland. today we had christmas at my house (well technically my parents). i got new pyjamas and mittens. they are warm. suddenly it has gotten cold here. i had to work today and it was cold. we can't figure out how to turn up the heat. i nearly fell asleep. we only made $3.45 in cash (and that's cdn, so not a heck of a lot). tonight i am going to this pre high school gathering party. every year my old high school alumni get together at this hellish bar. i don't want to see old high school people there is a reason i don't keep in touch with them. i am hoping that we will not venture to the br after the party. we'll see. i have trouble with the "a" key on my computer. i pologize for any missing a's. hmmm...all i ever want to do is sleep. i am finding lately that everytime i drive anywhere there is some moron who nearly causes an accident. it makes me esp mad when they have children in the car. i borrowed the b&s singles from my boyfriend's friend (i m too poor to afford them) and am very surprised by lazy line painter jane. i quite like it but it's so different from everything else. well i must be getting dressed. merry christmas all. -di "i want to defy the logic of all sex laws" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 do the Snoopy dance too!
by Curtis Heath 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

I accidentally killed my hamster by administering a lethal dose of REDHOTS... y'know, those little cinamon candies? Anyway, he promptly croaked. I was young. I thought he'd enjoy them. Regarding the EsoLimp catastrophe: Live every post like it's your last! CURTIS LYCOShop is now open. On your mark, get set, SHOP!!! http://shop.lycos.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: socialism in theory and practice
by Youn J. Noh 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Cher Sinistre, I wish everyone would post again. The holidays probably have something to do with it, but it's no good to do nothing in a state of siege. Me in this big house watching time pass (if I had fleece I would wear it) and you locked in your room making ribbons fly ("experimental syntax" borrowed from Michael Jones, not experimental so much as revival but I don't know the source). That must be why they had such detailed descriptions of the toilet in _All Quiet on the Western Front_. Yesterday or today or at some point I read that start up web sites are incurring huge losses to establish themselves as brand names. SO this means that we should take advantage of it while it lasts, but as armchair socialist revolutionaries immediately switch after the special offers pass. (Come on, it's the dialectic!) I'm listening to one of my purchases now: Gram Parsons/Greivous Angel. It's only my second listen but I definitely like it better than I did the first time when I was still a victim of the anti-country music stance that is the mainstream position in the US today, in a Marxist view the pathetic attempt of the bourgeoisie to distance itself from the proletariat, which makes no sense really as the teeming middle classes are the majority here. Hence a nation chokes on a so-called alternastance. I have to say I like the folk side of country, what little I've heard of Fairport Convention, Bob Dylan, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, the Byrds, etc. This year I watched Charlie Brown's Christmas Special, Olive the Other Reindeer, and I'm waiting for the Simpsons to come on. Tomorrow is Monday, the day to get started. I just realized the kind of person Linus is supposed to be, brainy but childlike in the way only brainy people have about them. The other day I was still asleep at noon, periodically being awakened by messages being left at ten minute intervals on the answering machine by my mother, when I decided I'd finally had it and leapt out of bed except there isn't a phone in my room so I ran and answered the phone in a really snappish but also groggy tone of voice. But of course it wasn't her but him, and I just thought his voice makes him seem like Linus (well it just occurred to me now). Disembodied voices are very suggestive. Asking for my housemate. The problem with The Boy With the Arab Strap is that it sounds too much like the Gentle Waves. I can say that with perfect confidence without having heard the Gentle Waves. But Isobel sure is lovely and she has a beautiful smile (captured by Lesley Jo Miller who definitely has the best photos of the band, aside from Sarah's photo of Stuart and Mick, Stuart grinning like mad) and she has style, in terms of appearance. I'm all in favor of band dictatorships. Yours, Youn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: this is where your sanity gives in
by sweetie 19 Dec '99

19 Dec '99

im sitting here in my wee room with the cardigans gran turismo on rather a depressing album but i am so incredibly fluffy and effervescent nothing could bring me down i think its must be the tinsel or the after effects of the vodka i have a pile of tinsel in front of me, behind my keyboard but in front of my moniter. i was gonna stick it up but i havent. its all the bits of short-arse, reject, half-cast, useless tinsel. and there is blue and pink and purple and white and silver and gold and red and goldandsilver and green. and say a big glittery hello to sinister :) i ithnk for i think the first time ever ill refer to recent discussion here animal deaths i have kept rather alot of the wee beasties in my short time.. and its always hard when pets die. my first own pet was a rat called dusty and now ive had too many to list. anyway back to tinsel its like string innit? and string, i mean, what can i say? string string string string!! its ace! it is without out a doubt *the* most useful thing ever ever my 2 most favouritist things, string and tinsel. im mad for them! ooooh! i was told i was 'very philosophical' because of my veiws on the colour purple. muriels wedding good film. like. :) i know a lassie who does what muriel does, and makes up loads of stuff about her life. i dont, im a self confessed bore. :) kuuuuuuule! im doing it again reffering to recent discussion!! body parts well i have to confess to being a touch on the vain side. yes, i have taken quite a shine to myself. and im an outrageous flirt as well, so im told anyway. ;) anyway body parts my favourite parts of bodies are shoulders and fore-arms. and i like make up wearing skinny boys as well..... but not shoulders and fore arms of make up wearing boys. uh huh. :\ ok my best body part of me. legs, without a doubt. i have great legs. oh yeah and my neck, i also have a lovely neck. anyway as paul mcartney once sang or at least wrote 'we all stand together' bon nuit my friends all my love sweetie 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Eat a lot, sleep a lot, brush 'em like crazy
by robhalcrow＠lineone.net 19 Dec '99

19 Dec '99

Dearly beloved, I know I don't post as much as perhaps I should, but if we all posted as much as perhaps we should............then there'd be perhaps a lot more posts than there are. I was told boys are pragmatic and technical while girls are intuitive and spiritual. Wrong. Iam a boy yet I do not understand about Esosoft and Tapioca. If I did, why I'd sort them right out and no mistake. So if I'm not a boy or a girl am I .(Yiddish joke ahoy)....a goy? Trousers almost gave me a postmodernistdeconstructionist heart attack with his Deleuze and Guattari fandango. It's the holiday, I thought I'd seen the last of them for 4 weeks. I know people at college who'd like to get them sainted (if that weren't such "a patriarchal, oppressive" thing to do). I merely wrinkle my brow and say "Hmmmm" in a dubious manner. How enigmatic I must appear, to be sure. Mr Mitchell, I haven't seen Rosetta but I have seen Rosita a few times. Which brings me onto Mint Royale and Lauren Laverne. It's a shame they only got to do half of their song on "The Priory" but at least Zoe'n'Jamie were able to fit in Guess Who's Under the Sheet and the inimitable Funny We Heard Words on The Telly beforehand. If you wrote half a song would they only let you do a quarter of it? Sinister bodyparts? I'm shocked. My favourite is legs btw. While poll rigging is our forte can I suggest that British listees bombard C4's Planet Sound's "What do YOU want?" with the call to get that nice Mr Eastwood back on their staff? I mean it's gone right downhill since the spring or whenever it was. It's good to have Ailsa back. More Sinister OAPS please. We must all join together and strive to survive and stay alive. And I thought the Esosoft sign meant happy motoring................. Yours Rob +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Summer in Winter
by Alexander Borgia 19 Dec '99

19 Dec '99

Friends, Romans, and Sinizens: Lend me your ear.....I come not to praise winter, but to herald it's arrival. So much talk of snow, and yet up until yesterday we had none. This is quite annoying considering how much taxes we pay and a common misconception is that we have snow year round in Canada. But yesterday we were blessed with a bit of a squall which filled the air with beautiful ice crystals floating on the breeze and gave the impression that winter had indeed arrived. It also triggered a migraine in me when the atmospheric pressure changed, but that has departed with much of the of the frozen bounty from the sky. This morning we awoke to discovere that during the night a light dusting had stayed put giving the semblance that a giant had eaten a sugar doughnut and the icing sugar had fallen onto his lap and the floor much like what happens to me whenever I eat one at work. Yet, now that over-powered glowing orb which is many lumens too bright has risen from the horizon and I fear that the joke will be on us as we watch the diamond dust disappear into tiny puddles. Alas, I should not complain as I left my boots at work on Friday. Sorry, no dead pet stories. In exchange, I will confess that I get all teary when I watch the animated classic, The Little Drummer Boy, and I see the part where the little lamb is brought back to life. I hope this suffices. Buses.....gotta love them. I won't go so far as to say that it is a B&S thing for me, instead it stems from getting all stressed out in private motor vehicles and the inattentive drivers that seem to manage somehow to pass a multiple guess examination. My love of bus travel was solidified three years ago when I was treated to a completely voyeuristic experience. A very lovely young lady sat beside me and treated me to a visual display of relieving whatever physical tension she possessed, completely aware of my knowledge of her activities. (How could I not be aware when she bit into my shoulder at the conlcusion) A completely non-participative and annonymous experience which I will get to boast about forever. Previously I mentioned my amourous intentions towards the very lovely and talented Sarah Martin. Here I will treat you to a photographic display of our assumed mutual affection. http://www3.sympatico.ca/alexander.borgia/me_n_sarah.jpg Can you not see in her eyes her enthusiasm? How I have captivated her heart and her attention? O! Love is bliss. For those who may be travelling for the seasonal festivities, I wish you Godspeed and a safe journey, and to all others I wish you a very Merry Christmas. 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.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: Dance of the dead hamsters
by James Thorniley 19 Dec '99

19 Dec '99

Hello again, What a glorious day to post something to you. On this frosty morning I can take a second to try and guess which piece of crap will be No 1 this Christmas. Who gives a damn. I hope it's Cliff. Can you honestly find hamsters waving their arms in the air funny? I wish I could remember the URL - I found this site with animated gifs of cartoon hamsters getting killed in all sorts of amusing fashions. Our house is a nightmare for hamsters. The number of small rodents we've killed is phenomenal. I remember at least one hamster died when one of my sister's friends knocked it's cage onto the floor. We've got through at least four guinea pigs all dying in various ways. Two rabbits have run away - the first rabbit was white and when a magician came into school with a rabbit I was convinced he'd stolen our rabbit. Then one rabbit died just last month from that myxamatosis or whatever it's called. Then our cat died at 20ish of old age. We got two lovely kittens to replace it though, so I thought it was alright. I spent yesterday in Dorking with David Strange. We talked about snow among things so I thought it was ironic when I got off the bus and it was snowing. He told me he had played "Fox in the snow" to try and make it snow. We thought it hadn't worked, but it did in the end ;) Lets all play it lots to try and make more snow. Yes, in true authentic B&S style I took a bus. It was an empty bus, just a few grannies on it. There's always grannies on the buses. Grannies and me. My legs don't fit in the bus seats though, that really irritates me. A shameless lack of B&S content I know, that's why I'd better stop now. No, I was going to say something about them. <strains> I can't remember. As soon as I've posted this I'll remember I'm sure. Now everybody repeat after me *the list is not going to die* no pessimistic thinking please. fine £10 and yes i do know i mentioned my legs in this post -- James Thorniley "Punk rock is a virtue" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: underwear is too expensive
by Colleen Laden 17 Dec '99

17 Dec '99

Well, yesterday my friend gave me a test, it was a test he picked up at the clinic to see if you have an alchohol dependancy problem, and if you answered too many "yes" then you were supposed to have some kind of drinking problem! i guess i won! i got them all correct! the first test i ever passed in my life with flying colors! Is is friday, and alchohol will be on the agenda for tonight. I dont think i am an alchoholic i just enjoy getting drunk, and i do it more than the guy who wrote the test, thats all. I guess i am supposed to be working right now but i don't really feel like it and the weather is nice so i might go to lunch and accidentally not come back. I spent the entire day at the beach about 4 or 5 or 6 or something Sundays ago, it was like 75 degrees out and brought my little stereo, got some batteries and listened to good tunes while i roasted in the sun with a six pack of beer and a bottle of margurita that i accidentally took from this restraunt,(i am accident prone) i even brought my video camera and filmed the sun going down and people walking up and down the beach, i watched the tape when i got home and i didn't realize what a perfect sound it was to hear belle and sebastian playing next to the sound of waves splashing in the background. Anyhow, I will be in Las Vegas for the new year, my bestest friend an i are taking the train and staying in a suite ( whoo hoo ) at the stratosphere or whatever ) i have never been there before! FREE BOOZE! yes, free booze in all the casinos!! there is no time limit to when you have to stop drinking either, it is 24 hours! This could be dangerous hehe... colleen 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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