February 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: nothing really special to say
by Jordi Trenzano i Vilar 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

I only needed to post something. IŽm gonna be on exams the following two weeks and I wanted to post something. Oh, IŽm waiting for the day that Fluffy Sarah will post something in spanish. Meanwhile, IŽll keep studying, listening to the Joy Division box set. I know itŽs not quite happy music, but itŽs really touching for me, however "Unknown pleasures" was made the year that I was born. ================================================== Jordiet (somebody who really has a big bottom) ================================================== Tu E-Mail Gratis en http://www.olemail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shoot your shot
by mctag＠bigfoot.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Dearly beloved, Being the hard-nosed reporter that I am I've waited mere seconds after arriving home from Glasgow to give you warts and all coverage of last night's hoedown at Saint Stan and Tami the Immaculate's Parish Church and subsequent drinking till the wee smalls. On entering the church after the cutomary B&S delay due to problemas technicas, Duglas BMX Bandit, the lemonade-guzzler's Robbie Williams, introduced us to an old man called Chip, who we were reliably informed had written every 60's song we had ever heard, and some others we hadn't. Nice bloke, but a bit crap, to be honest, and I thought Anne waas going to burst in an effort to stop laughing in the house of the Lord. Then Evie came on and she was indeed very short. After the disappointment of hearing Billie Sunshine slowed down to a Smog-like tempo, and lots of songs from her new CD, I was getting a little twitchy, especially after waxing so lyrically on the subject of the Evester last week. But it was all OK when ver S!E!B! came on stage, and we got "Take me for a little while", "Anyway that you want me", "I can't let go" and "Angel of the morning". It was just fucking magic, to be honest. My favourite 60's singer and my favourite 90's band playing together, what can I say? Then Chip introduced "Wild thing".... "I wrote this next song and went to play the tape to Al Gorgoni, and he said...." "YES?" we said, expecting to hear some nugget of rock legend "...he said..." "What????", we cried, on tenterhooks now, "I forget what he said" But it still rocked like buggary, Chip n' Evie ogling each other throughout, rather unnecessarily I thought, and the Murdoch bass solo is something none of us will forget. Apres, as they say in foreign, we went off to the 13th Note where Keith and co missed the bus, Kriss Kross style, and then Warrender John and his twin brother Joss entered the building, and a wall of loveliness ensued. I declared my obsessive love of gay disco to Claire Timmins, and a fine time was had by all. Joss and Warrander are going to join Roolz, I've decided, and we're going to be bumping for a buck in a town near you, managed Svengali style by Ruthless Pookie McLaren, the Wall Street Banker. Today we went to the Grosvenor where the worse for wear Warrender went very pale and disappeared to the toilet for a long time, and Spinmaster Symington assured us that Australian big band soul was the next big thing. Apparently Evie and ver S!E!B! have "cut some wax" together today and the very thought makes so excited I'm going to piss my pants. Love Tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Britpop Night in Philly?
by lisa 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Hey Philadephia listees... I've heard that there is to be a Britpop night in Philadelphia this Saturday evening (the 6th) and that it's tons of fun. I'm trying to find out where it is, but I can't get in touch with the girl who told me about it. I think it's at Helena's? Please respond privately if you know anything about this or if you want to know more. Sorry about the non-Belle & Sebastian post. Lisa devotchka(a)psu.edu _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: poorly conceived competition time
by Joss Moorkens 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

God, I'm bored. How I long for those happy hours spent at Prestwick airport. *sigh* So anyway, I thought I'd amuse myself by setting a wee competition, if I may be so bold. The prizes, firstly, are: 1. A promo CD of the Tindersticks/Isabella Rosselini song. 2. A small furry leprechaun fridge magnet which plays 'If you're Irish, come into the parlour' - a great favourite of my granny's after a whiskey or two - when you press his belly. Good or what, eh? These fine prizes shall be winging their way to the lady or gentleman who can provide me with the finest limerick. However, these limericks must contain as many as possible of the following Irish based terms: Bollix (rubbish or men's bits) Gooter (men's bits) Scobie (ruffian) Gee (ladies' bits) Shift (snog) Arse (bottom) Oxter (armpit) Now, I realise that these are all rude, but hey, there's been a general lack of list smut recently. My workmates and I shall diligently pick out the finest limerick and the prizes and list glory shall be yours. Please send yer rhymes to Jmoorkens(a)esat.ie <mailto:Jmoorkens@esat.ie> Cheery-bye. Joss +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Disconsolate, the frantic man summons the spirits of Rzyi and Jymmera and weaves a mighty spell which turns Janet into a fish.
by Greg Pallis 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

And so, Mandelson had to go. Here we go now, rockin' borders, chasing the velvet ruby across 27 timezones. I've started thinking of myself as "The Boy G". This is Erica's fault. Spent the weekend at my dad's, and did Further Maths coursework for eleven solid hours. In the most disgusting room you can imagine, every surface coated in cigarette ash (and I don't even smoke), food cartons covering the floor. Some degree of yukkiness. Then there was a tube strike this morning. I was going to take a bus into school, but then in the morning I discovered what 36 hours in a smoke-filled room with no fresh air does to one - a great red abomination on my forehead. And, horror of horrors, on my left side too. No, there was no alternative but to stay home, and claim the busses were too crowded to get on. I'd be a good rude boy. Maybe. (weird and contextless memory from last Friday: spitting out the whole rap to Skee Lo's "I Wish" in synchrony with Bomber Jacket Kru member Pierre.). Also, my english teacher wants me to write for a fanzine called "Shoreditch Twat", which is apparently a bitter hate-zine against trendy Hoxton types. No, really. She's set Naomi Klein's "No Logo" - the top anti-brand tract widely linked with the Seattle riots and written in 1998 - as our coursework book, too. The rest of the English teaching department are furious about this, but they know where to stick their John Dunne sonnets, as this is the single best thing ever, I'm thinking. Did manage to grab the Number 31 to Cambden this morning though, and saw inarguably the single most out of order thing ever: in a crowded bus, a young man of about thirty is in a small space near a door. Another man, fiftyish with a grey beard, requests that he "move up a bit" so that he can get through. The young man, thinking he wishes to get off the bus, squeezes up against the other passengers. The oldster simply walks into his space, and stays there for the next three stops. Astonishing. "Clusterfucking" is a great word, isn't it? So expressive, yet so meaningless. Yup. I found my old Sonic the Hedgehog guidebook for Sonic 3, a game I have never completed. The was one tiny bit in Carnival zone, where there was this bit where you had to jump up a down on a platform to make it go up and down and I simply couldn't do it. I must have spent the ten minutes in took to run out of time something like fifteen times on that bit alone. The guide book was quite magnificently unhelpful, although it did inform me that by carnival zone you should have Super Sonic, whereas I never had more than three chaos emeralds. Oh, wait, you don't care? You wish I'd go away? Oh, right. Well, in that case... Enough about me, lets talk about collectible card game, as were popular circa 1997. Anyone still play Netrunner? I always thought it was a very flawed game - the Corp was clearly stronger unless the runner had a Mouse, in which case the runner could really only be defeated by a good Tag 'Em and Bag 'Em deck. Another thought, the Magic: The Gathering Computer game. It was great. But, here is something you may also know, there were two sequels. The last and best was called 'Duels of the Planeswalkers', and at least one person on this list MUST have it, I'm sure. I cannot find it anywhere. I will trade so much, so very very much for a cd copy/original cd of this game. It will be worth your while, if merely helping a fellow sini out is insufficient. The main way I differ from the twee faithful is that I really don't like busses at all. I also suspect I may be getting carpal tunnels. PJ Miller & Duncan said: "Hefner for Agriculture and Fisheries Ministery - it's cool for cats!" but this is madness. Hefner, you will remember, Love The Cities. How about the ministery of the Interior? Roxanne Shante, Mister so-called PJ, is the obvious choice for Agriculture and Fisheries. So there. What's that brittle cracking sound? Greg. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by Stanley,L (ug) 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

As the new world expert on how Christianity can really fuck you up, I have to agree with LJ: Christian music - like Christianity itself and religion in general - should be a celebration of all that's good about the world and the emphasis placed on Christ himself is misleading and dangerous to a certain extent because - like our dearly beloved B&S, Divine Comedy, Fairport Convention, Pulp, Tindersticks ("when do you lose the ability to step back and get a sense of your own ridiculousness?" is a question that should be asked of any religious fanatic) and so on and so forth - music at its best should be inspiring and the lyrics - if any - should *say* something about the state of humanity. That is why "If You're Feeling Sinister" means more to me than "Shine Jesus Shine" which is both vacuous and unnecessary. Just another random musing from Depressed@lse Louise l.stanley(a)lse.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Church do
by Keith Watson 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Just wanted to say that it was a good time at the church, and at the 13th Note afterwards, sorry that as soon as people (Claire, Joss) I hadn't met before, I had to bugger off to miss the bus and then get a taxi back to Edinburgh, hopefully some time soon we'll get a chance to meet properly. Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Pulp... No B&S
by Larissa Slurpee 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

I know there are a few PULP fans on this list, so if you get Canadian Much Music, you might be interested in "Pulp in the Park", a concert they did in Finsbury park last summer. It's on Monday Feb. 8. Check the muchmusic.com site for more info and times! ~Larissa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: it's beyond me what a girl can see...
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

lots of love, Uncle Peter "Have you got a big bottom? Because I've got a really big bottom." - - Isobel Campbell GAAAAAAHH PJmiller, you stole my favorite quote!!! good one!! you deserve cookies and milk. Skim milk, or maybe that fake milk made of rice. hmmm? I've got a big bottom too, maybe we could do some female bonding over those International Coffees after a bout of monster shopping, and have some nice aromatherapy candles going before we get ready to party with Ally McBeal. ah, girly stuff!! But then i'd have to convince her to throw a lingerie party with me, and invite all our girly friends, and it would just get too messy i'm afraid. I voted for our favorite heroes yesterday, i have to say it made me feel very ciically responsible to the ArtMusick world i pay fealty to. strange to imagine them winning, they're quite unknown in th States as far as the mainstream media in general, though all the indie college kids are mad for them. i wonder if they've ever been mentioned in a rolling stone article even? i wouldn't know. i just realized as i was writing another surrealist email to my partner in CRYME(ancient cryme) jess, how much this band has ALTERED my perspective in some way. i listened to arab strap about 4 times yesterday, interspersed with a couple runs of France Gall, but still, nonstop sleep the clock around for me. Gawd i realized how beautiful it was. is it wicked??? i was nearly moved to weep. but that has a lot to do with the fact that i kept staring at this beautiful girl who is in two of my classes. she usually sits in front of me somewhere in art history, and draws somewhere near me in life drawing, and she has short hair, wears baggy pants and funny shirts and carries a camouflage duffle bag, and she had a big plastic ring just like one that i have but i never wear. and a KDHX tshirt, the radio station i worship. but i've never been able to think of how to start a conversation. yesterday she had on a blue long mohair sweater and a bunch of bobby pins knotted into her short hair, and she didnt' even look at me when she sat down, and my heart was breaking. i almost cried while watching all the slides of Bosch and Donatello, that is when i wasn't falling asleep from being awak for 24 hours, weird things happen when you're up that long, and i was in a fairytale land i started thinking of my broken heart and Seymour Stein, send her back to me!!! I was at my wit's end. there is an adorable Japanese girl in my AH class, she has the most amazing cutest clothes, she drives me mad because i want to make her into a little doll and take photos of her, she's so unique. and i saw these 2 little boys, swinging and running around a small tree on the hill, they were laughing so, i tried to smile at them, and wished i could be with them, and join all these beautiful people, but i'm just too afraid.......I would ride buses all day, only watching them pass by but never brave enough to catch their eyes for too long. it was very belle and seb. i hope this didn't bore you all, but i've been reading all of the dear diary posts lately and they are my most favorite, I love those fragile glimpses, so this one's for m elise, deary, hello out there!!! We should start a Midwestern chapter of sinisterines. anyone up for it?? we're oh so lonely out here, what with the cows outnumbering the interesting people. i want to hear the butchering of fox in a snow, i hope someone can help us out on that mystery. as for the question of christian rock, I wouldn't consider them xtian rock per se at all, in the sense of most christian-named music, which is "we are here to glorify Jesus" which i don't see blatant in their songs, it's more music and beauty for its own sake, purely secular, but with an eye for the spiritual, mostly in questioning. I dont' think anyone would say that IYFS "celebrates" christianity, it's just a study of a particular few lives in questioning. as i'm sure you all know. well it's my opinion. and as such essentially worthless. gentle waves mania: i can't wait to get my hands on the gentle waves special edition Pooh bear and christopher isobel. and how about the gentle waves Wave-maker, for your very own personal pool, so you can sail upon them. DO NOT forget the gentle waves tiny wave box, a clear plastic box containing two sections of blue and clear gelatinous and repelling liquids that float upon them a tiny rowboat containing stuart and isobel on a pea-green boat. it makes a great paperweight for you corporate types. But i'm especially excited about the line of lingerie, it's top secret though, don't tell anyone I told you. TWEE: "affectedly dainty or quaint" if you want me I'l be there, a (girl) to deal with all your problems but part of the deal is for you to feel something LJ http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange "I'm a piece of crap that the world revolves around." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: a ghost of a smile
by angel 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

oh, just thought i'd mention that the 'virus warning' and the accomplishments essay thingy both made me laff today. and then i looked again and saw that they'd both been posted to the list by the same person, so richard connell is my newly appointed provider of chuckles. no, now i have an image of somebody with inadvisedly wide trousers and neon coloured hair, being loud near small children. you know how you get images in your head of people when you don't know what they look like? oh dear. now whenever i see richard connell's name i shall think of this clown. and now i have inflicted the imaginary clown on everyone else. i am sorry. i seem to remember reading in an article which i think was in select around the time TWATTYBUS was released a short interview with the lovely stuart m in which he said he wouldn't mind being referred to as 'christian rock'... i remember feeling a little disappointed at the time but that's me. no, it wasn't that one, i'll check (i have shelves of music related publications, bedroom saddoe that i am)... found- in the big b&s article that select did in their december issue, a quote from a previous interview: "I wouldn't have a problem if people started calling us Christian rock. There are much worse things to be called." fair enough, i suppose. (still think if someone called me christian rock i'd hit 'em). not that i want to give the impression i dislike christians. my grandfather was a presbytarian minister and he was quite nice, in a grandfatherly sort of way. so pay no attention to me. ooh, its quite months since i last posted, bet you've all forgotton me. love anyway, abi xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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