April 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The Sinister Midnight Lending Library
by Honey 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

Hello you wicked saucy little things. Some stuff. - The Sinister Midnight Lending Library - Today's municipal council meeting in Sinister Town Hall (attended by me, Splat, and a nice cup of tea) has resulted finally in the signing of a contract to build the Sinister Midnight Lending library, over there, beside the church and opposite the sweet shop. Although the best time to pop in is midnight when you can't sleep, you can go over and view the foundations now - go to: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/library There you'll find the beginnings of an idea, which you fresh-faced listees may or may not take to: a fiction section so that any of you budding young novelist or pornographers can have your works pinned up somewhere central and homely for other Sinistereens. There are currently just two books on the shelves, and one of them is stupid, but the good news is that there's an infinite number of copies of each. The un-stupid book is a short story written by our very own Ciara, someone who's visage you are all unknowingly extremely familiar with because she's draped in red on the cover of "If You're Feeling", frozen forever in time where Stuart snapped her and a copy of Kafka with his Olympus. Ciara's story is called "Fried Scampi >From Hell", it's REAL (well it's appeared in paper, with binding, and people have bought it) and it's heartily recommended, especially to anyone who likes HP sauce. So anyway - this is a call to ANYONE else who has some original fiction (fiction only please for now) or just a little story they're secretly quite proud of, to stop being shy and biting your lip, but to send it to me to pop up on the shelves. Rules for "submissions" on the WWW page. If the library is popular, I might expand it into a little Sinister township, with a recipe shop ("Richard Colburn apple turnover") and an S&M dungeon - suggestions welcome as long as they don't take too much maintenance. It just seems to me that with our 1000th coming of age, and the staggering wonderful resistance of you all into reducing this into some humdrum indie music resource, it's time we had a go at just creeping beyond our roots a touch and seeing if we'd like to become a little township. There's a lot of talk about online communities these days and I'm not a big fan of theorising about it in public, but we do seem to be neighbours don't we, rather than B-side swappers, and some of you keep hopping over the fence and disappearing into each others bedrooms. I'm happy to report that this is not normal music mailing list behaviour. Anyway if no-one sends me anything I'll pretend I never suggested it and it's all someone else's fault. If we get a nice little stock of paperbacks - who knows? One day we could do a "Sinister Cuttings Vol 1" on paper for you all to read at bus-stops at small cost - but I'd need to talk to Mr Stevie Trousers about that, who knows much more about paper and staples and copyright than I could ever pretend to. Your fiction doesn't have to be anything even B&S related, you just have to be a Sinistereen, and you don't even have to be on the list: you can be a regular WWW archive reader too. So don't be shy, you, think of it as somewhere to pin something up on the fridge door. You can even ask to remain anonymous and I won't whisper a word, although you might get a kinky pseudonym. - 1000th listee - Yes we have reached 4 figures - Sinister puberty? Someone had better dash down to the chemist for some Clearasil quick, and nip into the offy on the way home will you and get some cans of Kestrel lager? And yes I would bloomin' well tell you who the bloomin' 1000th listee was if it wasn't someone called Lulu Kerr who, instead of doing any work today, decided to watch until it reached 999 and then leap in. The 1000th REAL listee was someone who I won't embarrass just now, but you've been here before so you aren't a listee so you might have been cheating as well *(a)hotmail.com. But we don't mind :) - Timmy - Timothia Hopkins said: > If I'd wanted to listen to a bunch of hopeless hippies > playing arse space rock I'd have been listening to Pink Floyd all > these years. Or The Verve, who I saw five or six years ago and who > played arse space rock. It was horrible. I hate rock music Oooo handbags to the ready! I now know what I'm getting Tim for his birthday: "Trophies - The Lyrics Of David Sylvian (Vol III)" (yes, really, that's volume 3). Wrapped up in "Tales from Topographic Oceans" wrapping paper. Remember folks, you're quite at liberty to speak your flipping mind as loud as you want on any topic here, but it then becomes your responsibility to stop the resulting thread if it becomes boring :) But this one I think I might enjoy. Tim, do you like Camel? Don't look at me like that I was jus askin'. - Doctor Dick - Right, finally. Trojan's new 3CD box-set of Ska classics are heartily recommended to one and all because it's only 15 quid and really yummy - along with the spookily titled "Wrong Embryo" by The Rulers (sorry Keith, Tag, they got there first) I'm currently grooving to the sounds of "Doctor Dick" by Lee Perry, "Want Me Cock" by Owen and Leon Silveras, and "One Eyed Giant" by Baba Brooks And His Band. It's important to say that these song titles are not weak jokes of mine, and nor do they represent a theme, although they sure as hell look as if they do. It's all just blistering 60s Jamaican ska and it'll keep you smiling all day. Honey 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: last night i dreamt...
by Graham MacArthur 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

peeps, Last night i dreamt i was the precious first child of James Bond, and had to write an equasion to save the world from the bad guy - who in my dream was christopher walken with a shaved head (simalar to A View to A Kill - the bond film with the best soundtrack - duran duran!). Oh! It was full of terror and suspence! but it was quite funny seeing my mum tarted up as a bond girl though. To follow a trend, i love the imperfections in music - espcially when someone is laughing in the background of a record, or when someone coughs. I can remember who it was that said it, but I read of a girl guitar player who said she coughed on purpose in the back of a recording because she was so pissed off that she had to play - i like that! "I'm ill so everyone else should feel shitty too!" hello to everyone i spoke to at the poetry cafe on friday - and everyone that I didn't. and everyone in america and everyone....(stop me, i'm doing a paltrow) love, Erica 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". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: photo-taking at Bowlie?
by petula 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

This just came to mind... Will we be allowed to take photos inside the venues during Bowlie? I'd hate to miss an opportunity to take snaps of my friends and some of the bands. And I'd certainly hate to get into a brawl with a beefy lump of a security guard trying to take my camera away. elisabeth +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Born Slippy
by Michelle Meacham 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

I'm on the Underworld list and have been reading reviews of the European shows for weeks now, and can tell you that they apparently put on a mind blowing show. I've had my tickets for tomorrow night's gig at the 9:30 club in DC for weeks, and cannot WAIT for tomorrow night. So I'd say, yeah, definitely go. From: "Sam Devere" <samiamx(a)hotmail.com> Subject: Sinister: Born Slippy I'm thinking of going to see Underworld this week, do they put on a good show? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The only thing that's left to do is cure the broken hearted
by KIRWAN LOUISE EMMA 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

This is my first mail so I hope you like it and read it all ( Hey! Come back - you haven't read anything yet....*sigh*) Average kinda day today - pancakes, a bus, and some labs ( yup, I'm one of those students ). The bus isn't as cool as it sounds. Well, I used to think that a bus journey anywhere was pretty cool and somehow made the destination more exotic ( I dunno ) just because you had to get a bus there. But not this bus...nope..my bus was built circa 1972 , and has teeny tiny seats ( apparently people were shorter back then). It's made of lollipop sticks and chewing gum and has a door which is wont to open when the driver goes around a roundabout...( I love that added element of *actual* danger in the morning) What else? Errrmm..oh, entertainment is provided by Dave the bus driver's one tape; the bee gees..live. It was cool for the first few times but not anymore. Oh, and when the bus is getting full, Dave comes along the bus shouting, "Come on now lads, three to a seat, three to a seat" . This *always* ends up with three strangers staring at their knees, hoping that they won't have to start a conversation with one another. *sigh - I'mso hard done by * heehee. I've read this all back just now and I suppose the bus has some good points..cos well it's a bus and buses generally are good things. Maybe I need to go somewhere good in one , as opposed to college. As for teen movies, I've been having a bit of a teen movie fest over the last few weekends. I watched Mallrats ( nope ), Ferris Bueller's day off ( yes) , Clerks ( yes ), Pump up the volume ( yes - plus acoustic version of "wave of mutilation") , Suburbia ( nope - *nothing* happens), Empire records ( was supposed to be good , but y'know what - it's really boring) . As a rule of thumb, beware any teen movie that has "Great alternative soundtrack" on the cover. That's never ever a good sign. The Belle and Sebastian bit; I'm getting nervous about going up to the Dublin gig. I don't know anyone who's going, so I'm just going to turn up on my own and hope for the best. If anyone else is going, I'll be the short girl with the short hair, flowery shirt (+upside down Sebastian badge) and starry bag. Anyway b'bye louise oh again, that thing with the mix tapes always happens. I think it must be a mix tape law that you get that order of songs into your head and there it must stay until the end of time ( or you get a new tape ) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by Amy 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

Does anybody here like the ladybug transistor? I got their last album, it's nice, but I don't know much about them. Amy 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: chicks, sucking and rock
by Tim Hopkins 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

Hello chums, and welcome to the working week. I know it won't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you. I have a very important spelling test in just seven months time and I haven't started revising yet. Ulp! Anyway, on to business. [Manx Cat Risotto] wrote: >[Mark Casarotto] Becky, is the Bournemouth bit to see an ailing >relative or something? I suppose bits of it are quite nice, but for >real kicks for chicks, get yourself to Royal Leamington Spa, Jewel >of the WestMidlands (and it has JaMeS in it). Or Hull. Ah yes, I have heard of the famous Leamington Spa chick kicking, which happens every spring to celebrate fertility and stuff like that. The first person to fully dismember a cute little easter chick wins, and is crowned world champion chick kicker, and gets to go on a tour of West Midlands beauty spots (Dudley and Walsall)in an open-topped hen wagon. It's truly beautiful. I remember the upstairs front window of my school bus splatting a crow once, right in front of where I was sitting. That kind of thing twists a boy. Incidentally, if you're looking for fine tourist resorts, I hear Hartlepool and Scunthorpe are nice this time of year. I can also recommend finding yourself in Alfspiddle, but that joke may simply be too Two Ronnies for words. [Mark], I love your square brackets. Can I borrow them? Rachel wrote: >Subject: Sinister: not going to bowlie sucks Blowie Sucks? Which chalet is *that* happening in? Enough of such smuttery and low talk. This afternoon, ladies and gentlemen I have proof of what we all suspected all along. The Duke of Harringay is a Goth. Tag knows it: >I want to >play something suitable before the arch Duke comes on stage. It was >going to be "Bela Lugosi's dead" in honour of his vampiric past, but >I couldn't bring myself to pay good money for it. And the Duke of Darkness himself admits it: > i am listening to Spies by Rose of Avalanche. it >is very good, naturally. Can I still have a copy of your limited edition literature, Dukester? Or have I clotted my boppybook? Rotted my poppybook? The Lord of the Manner went on: >i hope everyone is all aquiver at the prospect of the bowlie. chalet >shenanigans sound like they should be a lot of fun... certainly more > fun than watching the pastels, but then again what isn't? Errr...listening to the Pastels? Sucking on the Pastels? 'Hurry Up' Ari wrote: >i also read a beck article >once, where he said something to the effect of "the best parts are >when you >hear some guy in the back go 'hey, the burritos are here'" Yeah. Beck courts imperfection by deliberately leaving out anything resembling a worthwhile tune from his records. It's a fascinating cultural phenomenon. The best part of any Beck record is the locked groove towards the end where some guy goes 'click, click, click' forever. Bed Rugby wrote: >just back from mercury rev concert. excellent -- like how i >reckon the verve probably sounded five years ago, before they >discovered rolling stones orchestral covers and just got on with >making a beautiful noise. luverly. if you're bowlieing, go >see them. Shan't. If I'd wanted to listen to a bunch of hopeless hippies playing arse space rock I'd have been listening to Pink Floyd all these years. Or The Verve, who I saw five or six years ago and who played arse space rock. It was horrible. I hate rock music and I trusted a hippy. Once. Huh. Never again. Give me B*witched anytime, over the overwrought meanderings of sweat stained Serious Young Men. Or old men, for that matter. Opposing all Rock 'n' Roll, [tim] ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Oops...
by Nick Dastoor 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

Big Stu wrote: > It appears that I may have offended some of you yesterday by > something I said. I'm very sorry. I shouldn't have assumed other > people had the same sense of humour as me. And I didn't think of > Cliff Richard before pressing send. Consider the back of my hand > slapped. I can only assume he was refering to this: > It was also nice to see Nick Dastoor again, even if he has turned > into a dead ringer for Neil Morrissey. Hmmmph. People Nick has been physically compared to through his life (most favourable to least favourable): CLAIRE DANES 'A GIRL' JARVIS COCKER TOM CRUISE ALEX JAMES OUT OF BLUR MICHAEL J. FOX MANI LATTER-DAY 'MONKEY' IAN BROWN NEIL MORRISSEY Sadly, I didn't make any of these up. Ooh - Belle & Sebastian content. I think it was at Shepherd's Bush that I suddenly thought 'Oh my god - Stuart is Bernard Sumner before he got old'. Paul's clever computing skills seem to have been employed to cut off all the 'GET YOUR FREE HOTMAIL' rubbish from the end of my posts. This is all well and good, but they often cut off my name and/or kisses as well which makes me look very brusque. I promise that I am not. Nick xx ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: glasgow honeymoon
by Ciflux＠aol.com 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

hi all: My wife and I recently went to Scotland on our honeymoon. We've put up an online scrapbook from our trip, which some of you Sinister listmembers might be interested in seeing. If so, please check out: http://members.aol.com/calliappel/honeymoon.htm It's as much "photo essay" as "photos by people we don't know, so who cares," so I hope it's worth a look... enjoy! mike +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Oops...
by Stuart Gardiner 19 Apr '99

19 Apr '99

It appears that I may have offended some of you yesterday by something I said. I'm very sorry. I shouldn't have assumed other people had the same sense of humour as me. And I didn't think of Cliff Richard before pressing send. Consider the back of my hand slapped. Big Stu +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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