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Sinister: new york picnic
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

i hearby call for another nyc picnic. it should be in april, or some other time that will be reasonably warm and before i leave for the summer, and not too close to the bowlie weekender so at least a few people will show up. i wouldn't mind organizing it, but if i did matt would boycott so someone else should lead, or we could do a committee type thing. but i feel like i've been hibernating long enough and want to get outside in the light and the warmth and sit on a blanket and wreck some bicycles. xoxox megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu visit the NEWLY UPDATEDmagnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: and the award for best Latino gardener goes to
by Pulpbot＠aol.com 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

Well I'm not so displeased that my local ABC opted to show the new "Dukes of Hazard" revamp starring Scott Baio and Chris Cornell as the boys and Jarvis Cocker as Boss Hog instead of the Brits as the edited highlights were apparently about as valuable as the Euro. Whoever recommended reading "Ask the Dust" is my new best friend. Such a sadly unknown writer! Oh, and I love Frederick Exley's "A Fan's Notes." One of the best books about failure. And since I missed the brief Oscar discussion last week or so as my computer was throwing up meanness, I'd like to give my own predictions for this, my absolute favorite television-related night of the year: Okay, you're a dick if you don't like the Thin Red Line and don't want it to win. Velvet Goldmine and Rushmore shoulda both been nominated for everything. Judi Dench and Kathy Bates are acid queens. My boyfriend Ralph Fiennes isn't nominated for anything, which automatically makes it a sad, bad year. Pleasantville is underrated, if only for the amazing scene when the tree bursts into flames the first time Joan Allen comes (feminist moment of this sorry year when Gwynny Paltrow and Cate Blanchett both get dissed by a lesser Fiennes). Ed Harris' character is called, um, Christof? Oh, hi, lame metaphor from ninth-grade English. Next. I'd like to see Affliction very much. Saving Private Ryan. Oy Christ. You could light L.A. with the glint from Spielberg's halo. I saw "Life is Beautiful" today. What a weird, creepy movie. What was the pitch? 'It's about the Holocaust, except, um, more uplifting.' There is just so much to worship about the Oscars. The glam! The glittering drunks! Anorexics bloated on air kisses! Versace track marks! The golden calves giving it up for God! If Billy Crystal falls in a forest, does Whoopi Goldberg make an ad-lib? I won a bottle of champage an Oscar bash last year for picking the most winners, though, sniff, now I'm being reminded that I haven't drunk it because I have no one to drink it with. Us list-dwellers may fear B&S capsizing under the weight of impending bigness, but the true terror, I tell you, is some Hollywood hotsie nabbing Stuart Murdoch, a la, Winona Ryder and Dave Pirner. If we don't want to see him dangling like a erudite poodle out of a Prada handbag we'd best be vigilant. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: no mention of kubrick
by TheeXVirus＠aol.com 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

Seemed kind of strange to me that noone has made any mention of this here...or any of the other mailing lists which i have to stumble through every day...maybe it wasn't in todays paper or something. hopefully this is typed so it can be read by anyone who's interested, it's all bolded and different fonted and stuff... Director Stanley Kubrick Dies Director of '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' Dead at Age 70 By ROBERT BARR .c The Associated Press LONDON (March 7) - Stanley Kubrick, the director of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' and ''A Clockwork Orange,'' whose films often puzzled and shocked audiences only to end up as classics, died Sunday at his home in England, his family said. He was 70. Police were summoned to Kubrick's rural home north of London on Sunday afternoon, said authorities in Hertfordshire, where he was certified dead. ''There are no suspicious circumstances,'' police said. Kubrick's family announced his death, and said there would be no further comment. Kubrick's films included ''Spartacus'' in 1960, ''Lolita'' in 1962, ''Dr. Strangelove,'' in 1964, ''2001'' in 1968 and ''A Clockwork Orange'' in 1971. He also made ''Barry Lyndon,'' released in 1975, ''The Shining'' in 1978 and ''Full Metal Jacket'' in 1987. Malcolm McDowell, who starred in ''A Clockwork Orange,'' issued a statement through his publicist calling Kubrick ''a heavyweight of my life.'' ''He was the last great director of that era. He was the big daddy,'' said McDowell. His latest film, ''Eyes Wide Shut,'' is still slated for release on July 16, Warner Bros. said Sunday. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in the story of jealousy and obsession, which Kubrick made in great secrecy. ''He was like family to us and we are in shock and devastated,'' Cruise and Kidman said in a statement released by their publicist. Kubrick was born July 26, 1928, in New York. At 17, he was hired as a staff photographer by Look magazine, which had been impressed by a picture Kubrick had snapped on the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. While working at Look, he studied film by attending screenings at the Museum of Modern Art. ''I was aware that I didn't know anything about making films, but I believed I couldn't make them any worse than the majority of films I was seeing. Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie,'' Kubrick once said. In 1951, he sold a 16-minute short documentary about a boxer, ''Day of the Fight,'' to the RKO film studio. Kubrick was drafted by actor Kirk Douglas into the film ''Spartacus'' when the production - then the most expensive ever mounted in the United States - ran into trouble. The film, about a slave revolt in ancient Rome, included some footage shot by the original director, Anthony Mann, and Kubrick did not regard the finished product as a great success. ''I tried with only limited success to make the film as real as possible but I was up against a pretty dumb script which was rarely faithful to what is known about Spartacus,'' Kubrick told an interviewer. ''Lolita,'' starring James Mason and Shelley Winters, was based on Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a professor who is sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl. The work was filmed in Britain, in part because of censorship problems, and thereafter Kubrick was based in Britain. ''Dr. Strangelove,'' starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, was a black comedy about nuclear war released in the early '60s during a period of great fears over the bomb and Cold War tensions. ''2001,'' a science fiction film about the evolution of man and humanity's place in the universe, used dazzling visual imagery and an inspired use of music that proved to be a great success for Kubrick. In an interview with Playboy magazine, Kubrick said he had ''tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content ... just as music does. ... You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning.'' ''A Clockwork Orange,'' set in a violent future, is a graphic film about a young thug who carries out rapes and beatings before being sent to prison where he is brainwashed. The film was one of Kubrick's most controversial - it was even disparaged by Anthony Burgess, whose novel was the basis of the film, and Kubrick eventually removed it from screens in Britain. One of Kubrick's memorable touches was to have his hero sing ''Singin' in the Rain'' while dishing out a brutal beating. Kubrick married Suzanne Harlan in 1958, and they had three daughters. Details about funeral arrangements were not immediately available. 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Sinister: Re: das capital
by Mark Kolmar 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

I mailed this to someone at Jeepster. Since discussion on this topic is ongoing, I thought I should forward it to Sinister. --Mark ---------- Forwarded message ---------- I think the label is too involved in discussion among fans. That is at the core of the bootleg issues we've talked about, as well as the awards problem. It's a fine line between keeping in touch with the fans, and not knowing when to mind your own business. The former is a wonderful thing that I appreciate. Even just that it shows that you are, above all, fans. But the latter can cause trouble. To host a discussion list, rather than a news list, I think is to be too involved. The community can and probably should organize itself without your involvement. You would have been able to solve the dilemma with a news list. The domain and the rest of it all seems perfectly reasonable. --Mark +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sooooooper looooooper
by Steve Genge 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

MY GOD they were brilliant. I was relieved it all went without a hitch, having arranged the whole thing. But when Looper played Borders today it was an utterly fabulous performance. The atmosphere was like being in someone's living room, with the band playing for just a select few. Stuart's stories sounded perfectly suspended over the backing beats (and Ronnie's guitar) and Karn's images made the whole thing a delicious multimedia feast. IF YOU CAN GO SEE LOOPER, DO IT! And Karn and Ronnie and Stuart are delightful folks. They even had a chat with us post-gig, which will be posted to the Red Roses site (in interview form) along with a proper review of the in-store performance as soon as we get around to it. :) if you were there today, that was me who (feebly) introduced them. and remember, there are 20 AUTOGRAPHED copies of the album for sale at Borders Brighton starting at 8AM tomorrow! hope everyone else had as superb a time as we did. cheers, Amanda & Steve "Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows." Sabine Strohem steve(a)seahorses.demon.co.uk Red Roses For Me Fanzine http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cabaret/9043 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: back from a Ben marathon
by PaperSun23＠aol.com 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

Dear list, First I'd like to offer some hugs for Dave's Mom. Also, I'd like to respond to Oliver regarding Ben Harper. Ben is possibly one of the best songwriters around. He's simply wonderful! Oddly enough, I just had a Ben marathon before reading that message. I suggest him to anyone who hasn't heard him. He's almost a strange mix of Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, and James Taylor. Hmmm, maybe you just need to hear him. On a sadder note, I was violently ill the past couple days. I had eaten some food that was cleverly hiding meat within its funny shaped macaronis. The minute I discovered a bone, I stopped eating it. Needless to say, I became quite ill later that evening and have just regained composure. The saddest part of the story is that I had to remove my baby blue Study at Stow shirt as I was afraid it would be ruined. hugs, Moon Patroller Carrie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm a Slip Kid Slip Kid, second generation...
by Blake E Hamilton 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

This message is written for our very own Fluffy Sarah Being the biggest Who freak around, the song you are indeed questioning is "I Can't Reach You", which appeared on the 1968 epic "The Who Sell Out", which is a very overlooked album, in my sultry opinion. The expanded remastered edition of it is superb. It's an album that pokes fun at psychdelic whimsy and of course, the BBC, while touching on a subject that is everywhere today--selling out for money, sponsors, et al. Great song, getting back to the point--Pete didn't write that type of a love song until the early 80s. B&S (semi) content--No Brits on ABC yesterday! I was disappointed, so i cried into a bandana and now it's all dry and it smells like a tulip. Being down here in Hilton Head, South Carolina, the weather is steamy so my Spring Break is a bit surreal. Everyone stay warm and pretend you're a butterfly. Works for me. -blake -----Original Message----- From: Fluffy Sarah <sarah(a)elsato97.demon.co.uk> To: sinister(a)Majordomo.net <sinister(a)Majordomo.net> Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 6:24 AM Subject: Sinister: Fotherington-Thomas is a wet and a weed and I shun him utterly. >hello! > >Stuart David gets his name written on poncey poetry in Underground >stations??? This world is crazy! What is the world coming to!!! Ooh but >that reminds me that I must say: > >Impossible things are all our dreams >a moment of existence hoped for all time >the beauty of the rose >ever young and eternal >the laugh of the child >ever innocent and joyous. > >I don't know where that quote came from, but my friend ROSS THE GOTH >wrote it on my file, after seeing the words "Impossible Things" on it. >He didn't write a flowery quote concerning the other thing written on my >file, this being "Feb 26th Duration Assignment deadline oh NO"... but if >anyone knows where it comes from let me know. I hope its not from Nine >Inch Flippin' Nails. > >He also wrote "Conformity is the straitjacket of the development >society". He'd know all about that, being a dead individual goth... hem >hem. > >Chris "crystal balls" whatever the hell your last name is, congrats on >being the youngest'n'all... I miss Jong and Bethey myself. If you're >still on the list POST one of you two and be all cute and winsome. >Aren't the little ones CUTE! I remember back in dem days... > >Keith and Sister Disco!!! But mostly Keith because I want him to post. I >like a song by The Who that is on my tape twee. Tell me if it is SIXTIES >Who or SEVENTIES W!H!O!. It's called 'I can't reach you'. Which is quite >telling, cos I literally "can't reach" (is that a pun? or a simile? god >knows) the person who put it on my tape twee. Which is you Mr Ed Mason. >emason(a)move.u-net.com ?? > >Warrender!!! Hooray!!! Shout TU MADRE ES UN PUTA!!!! There you go. Or >shout HUELO DE BRAGAS DE LAS SENORAS VIEJAS!! Which may not be the right >Spanish but I'd giggle if I heard you shouting that anyway. > >EVERYONE should wear an I LOVE MICK COOKE tshirt to Camber Sands. I >will! I love him... *sighs happily* I'm so glad he's alive... I don't >love him in a coo, um, gosh golly wouldn't kick him out of bed for >eating toast way... I just love him in the way that I'd love to buy him >a drink and gaze upon the lovely bequiffed face and ponder why it is I >think he looks like a Wurzel when he OBVIOUSLY doesn't. > >Wierd that. I've got a friend who REALLY reminds me of Mariella >Frostrup, but looks NOTHING like her. Thats just the sheer madcap life I >lead eh readers? >I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! >Fluffy Sarah > >http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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" +-+ >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: More colonic irrigation than you can shake a stick at
by Rod Begbie 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

Hey Shinishtersh! Is there any kind of organised meet-up on Friday for the Looperthang? Cause I'll be in Embra that evening. Almost got myself my own PC, so soon there will be no more Roddcam sightings, and I'll be able to read/post from the privacy of my own brain. I know you're all looking forward to that really. I, too, am rather peeved about the distinct lack of B&Sesque coverage on the Brits last night. Cause I was going to tape A Clockwork Orange, but didn't. Bums! Teri Trainspotter -- I'll see you on the 22nd and the 1st, then. I'll Be The One In The Helen Love T-Shirt.[1] I am collecting "nun" jokes. Currently I have ones with the punchlines: * Liquid Soap * I'm not gargling with it after she's stuck her arse in it * Piss off Dracula, I'm not in the mood right now * Yes it does, doesn't it. * The third one couldn't reach * We're coming back this way, aren't we? If you know of any more, please let me know. Rod. [1] "I'll Be The One In The Helen Love T-Shirt" is a registered trademark of Rod Begbie. As is "Excuse me mate, have you got any Jive Bunny?" == -- Rod Begbie - rod(a)begbie.com - http://www.begbie.com -- "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Brits Gyp and Other Strange Stories
by Mick McMick * Sandcastle Records 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

Hm... I have a feeling that "gyp" is not the proper way to spell the word I was looking for. However, "gype" looked even worse. Regardless, I'm looking for a word which expresses my feeling of having been taken for a ride by ABC. Yes, they pretty much entirely left out B&S from the ceremonies. Well, not just pretty much, they didn't even mention them. Perhaps the reason they didn't have time was they spent 5 minutes in an interview with the Eurhythmics (grrr). Oh well, I showed them, I didn't even watch it, really, except for a couple of times. The rest of the time I was listening and doing something else. Is the Looper album really out on Tuesday? It seems too soon. Right, here's a question: if Ronnie Black is Stuart David's brother, why do they have different last names? Could it be they're only half-brothers? OR does it mean one of them has taken a stage name, like Captain Sensible (my personal favorite stage name). Did anyone else notice Pavement is no longer on the bill for the Bowlie Weekender? I guess that's why they were "T.oo B.e C.onfirmed." For me it's just as well, because unless an airline practically gave me a ticket, I couldn't afford to go (too many visits too Magnetic Megan). If I did go, I'd most likely be found in the arcade when Pavement were playing, much like I was when "Couples Skate," would come on. Hm, oh I've got a couple more questions. I know they're a lot, but look how on-content I am! Okay, it's about B&S webpages. Whatever happened to the band-updated webpage? I mean, it's there, but it hasn't been updated in goodness knows how long. Is it mothballed, then? And lastly, has anyone heard of a band called Arco? Alright then, I'm going! I've got to take some pictures of children reading books in a library... /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick/Sandcastle Records <<->> bp224996(a)ohiou.edu \ / Sandcastle Records Homepage: ICQ#5056758 | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972 | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | -Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Books?
by Aileen Hammond 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

Hi there, I want to read a good book but my mind is blank and I donŽt know any books to read... Does anyone know a good auther/book? Well IŽll be going to The Bowlie Weekender! -All the way from Iceland..ItŽs going to be the best.. :) Take care! Giita ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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