May 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: fueling my exhibitionist tendencies
by jessica 07 May '99

07 May '99

hey sinistreeees, thought you might like to know that i've got some photos from the toronto sinister picnic in october up on my website, at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/3733/picnic.html but for heaven's sakes, use the 'back' link and do a little exploring, as i've also got photos of a couple pecola shows (including their very last show on may 5, where i encountered the lovely teri and her friend emily), polvo and velocity girl, as well as some arty polaroids and gratuitous pictures of me. oh, and if you're one of the unnamed people, just write and let me know who you are and i'll fix your name. i'm terrible with names, so please don't feel hurt. and you'll all be thrilled that i've found out mono is only contagious until the fever breaks, which was 2 weeks ago when i was feeling most crap. so i'm up for some kissing. someone is listening to dmx outside my house. "i love my niggaz but where's my bitches" makes me giggle. although he's all hardcore and scary. kisskisskisskisskiss, jessicaxo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * someone had spied on us, i suppose, as we sat beside the canal and ate the sandwiches, drinking not even orangeade or coca-cola but hot milk out of a thermos. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * t i n y s t a r @ w o r l d y . c o m (it's lovely being a girl) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Warning: reasonably serious post
by Alasdair Cook MS1996 07 May '99

07 May '99

OK, I'm sure no-one's at all interested anymore, but here's my contribution to the whole doom laden B&S low self-esteem discussion thingie. First of all Ailsa said: > Maybe they're not low-self-esteem "I > hate myself and I want to die" stuff, but as a long-term bullying victim > with chronic self-esteem problems I identify far too much with certain > lyrics, especially "Mary Jo", "the one thing that I learned when I was > still a child was to take a hiding, if there's one thing that I learned > when I was still at school was to be alone", parts of "She's losing it" > and "Expectations", OK, maybe not what you'd all call low self esteem > music but I see myself in a lot of (especially earlier) Belle and > Sebastian lyrics and that's part of why I started to listen to them. > I'm pretty sure there must be a couple more people who see them that way > too? Yes? No? I mean there are a million other reasons I love them > too, but that's my view on the low-self-esteem thing anyway. Then Nicholas Das(tardly)toor said: > There's > something about the observational, third person nature of most of Stuart > Murdoch's lyrics, along with the smallness of his voice and the fragility of the > music that makes all the tales of persecution and awkwardness that Ailsa > mentions so bloody affecting. And then Robin popped in with: > I agree. I reckon the best thing about Stuart's lyrics is that > they're always pretty detached, even when they're written in the > first person, so they're never self indulgent. I think B + S are > about the people who don't wave their hands and shout "look at me I'm > soo miserable" Yes, I also like the third person view, when you can look at someone's life from a distance, but sometimes wonder how much is simply made up and how much is a reflection of the songwriter's life. Or is any of it made up? I mean they always tell you to write what you know, but I suppose it depends on how good your imagination is. On the other hand I am also a great fan of first person lyrics, such as Bob Wratten's, which are a great deal simpler but even more effecting for me if done well. Also, as a sufferer of occassional mild bullying, but mostly just being ignored by 'cool' people at school, I can identify to some extent with lyrics/themes. It was the Fannies who said "Don't always look for comfort in a song" but I don't see anything wrong with it (finding comfort in songs, that is). But but but, for me it's a lot to do with just being able to appreciate the beauty in things ("If the sun going down can make me cry, why should I not like the way I am?" etc) and wanting to hear music that makes me feel happy, sad, everything, and my favourite B&S song is "Get me away..." which has that kind of theme in parts of it ("I could kill you, sure, but I could only make you cry with these words"). It isn't about lyrics all the time either, as I found myself pulled apart (not literally, like by a tractor or anything) while listening to the Goodspeed You Black Emperor EP the other day, and certain Mogwai tunes have the same effect. In the end it doesn't really matter what you listen to or how you interpret things, as long as you get something out of it (no, not a free gift), and you're passionate about whatever it is you choose to stick on your stereo. Otherwise stop listening and take the CD back to the shop. Or become a ned (no, actually, don't do that). Bloody hell, that was far too serious a post. Must go and watch The Simpsons. Bye for now Alasdair xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: to see if hands across the ocean shake or wave...
by Sam Devere 07 May '99

07 May '99

My one absentee Bowlie comment is that it would have been worth it simply to hear Mogwai cover Joy Division. Thanks to the local news media, our only consistent 'rave' has been shut down because of the alleged Ecstacy abuses that go on inside. What happened to the good old days when our mayor would partake in such an event rather than try to shut it down? By DC's standards, this is an outrageous oxymoron. Sam NP: 'baggy jeans and long blond hair, without a care in the world'...the Farm _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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: sinister paranoia
by John Kerr 07 May '99

07 May '99

hey, as a near resident of the fair city of Glasgow, I'm really rather fond of walking through Kelvingrove park, but recently it's been getting mentioned rather heavily on this list, now when I walk through I find myself wondering, is he on the list, what about her ? Maybe we should get big name tags or something ? On another point, I had a wee wander into irc land and found a sinister channel on a dalnet server, I know that's not the one I'm supposed to use but well, I couldn't be bothered changing all my settings. Anyway, in this sinister channel, there was a strange lady who seemed to be under the impression that it was a satanic channel, although after chatting to her for a little while, she seemed quite nice really. thanks, John. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: nice as knitwear
by Fluffy Sarah 07 May '99

07 May '99

Hello! Bowlie pictures? You got em... http://www.elsato97.demon.co.uk/images/ I'm not in any of them. But you might as well look anyway.... Hehehehehe! I have the best thing cooking in the oven EVER. Sausage chips and beans, IN A READY MADE TRAY!! Oh my god how terrible! How mad! Fantastico! I have my first alevel on Monday the 17th of June starting at 9.10, where I will have to speak in Spanish for a long time about such stimulating topics as "the extreme right and the catholic church", hey, why couldn't I just pick "me and my cat"? Bastards! I think I will just sing 'Donde estan las llaves, matarile rile rile?' and say Arantxa told me to. I wish I knew the tune... Ooh me tea is cooked I may finish the mail later...like right about now! yumyumyumyumyum! That was so CRAZY! Warrender - where did you go in Blackpool? Did you got to RIPLEYS believe it or not? I, am seriously considering getting my summer job with the pleasure beach corporation. Or I might just sit on the beach shooting the moronistic fools that wear those tartan hats with ginger hair...and of course the fake tits on fat men with their under-skirted ladie friends. In white shoes. Someday people will analyse my emails, and those sentences will be underlined and annotated with the notes "shows predjuice". Well you fuckers its true. I'm predjudiced because they are shit. Fuck! (use of taboo language, intended to shock) Enough... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "Banana Yoshimoto: meet the man who sweats."
by jarkko frantila 07 May '99

07 May '99

Nice to see Dougie Coupland is popular here, although I personally think "Polaroids from the dead" was a bit boring. Hmmm... Was it called that? Can't remember. Talking of books, I'm reading Banana Yoshimoto's "Amrita" at the moment, something like 50 pages to go. Pretty naive but wonderful. Not as good as N.P. was, though. Can anyone tell me why all those Japanese writers seem so gloomy but cheery at the same time? Yoshimoto writes about death almost all the time, it's sad and suicide and spirits etc, but still she manages to keep it a bit happy at the same time. Maybe it's their culture? All in all, her text is sooooo beautiful (insert schoolgirl tone of voice here). And a writer who's obsessed with Sonic Youth and also likes Shonen Knife is always nice. Oh, sister I'm a poet. Anyhow. My groin is getting better after that footie-accident. Just this mild pain when I try to strech it, but nothing serious. What is serious, however, is my big problem with sweating. Now, I like black clothes as much as everyone else who likes black clothes, but every now and then I'd like to get all summery (that's not a proper word, is it?) and wear these yellow or light blue t-shirts. But I can't do that, since I'm sweating all the time. Looks horrible, these big stains of sweat. Even when I'm lying on my bed without my shirt on my armpits just... Well, you get the picture. I'm using this deodorant at the moment, but it consists almost merely of alcohol (something like 96 per cent, I think?) and it HURTS like hell, burns right through my skin. Any suggestions what I should do? It can't be because of stress, so... Oh, and btw, Big (?) john Warrander wrote: >PS I wuv woo King of Finland Eh? "Wuv woo"? Ok, I'm off for a ciggie now. And do not hurt the trees, they have feelings too. "Pink pink pink pink moon." @-->--- jake, not the stationary chooser. ______________________________________________________ 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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Sinister: you're cozy and the rain comes rattlin'...
by Marie Elia 07 May '99

07 May '99

sin·is·ter \'sin-es-ter, archaic se-'nis-\ adj [ME sinistre, fr. L sinistr-, sinister on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious] (15c) 1 archaic: UNFAVORABLE, UNLUCKY 2 archaic: FRAUDULENT 3: singularly evil or productive of evil § Thesaurus: sinister adj seriously threatening disaster sinister plot syn baleful, malefic, maleficent, malign; compare OMINOUS rel fateful, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, con harmless, innocent, innocuous hello, you evil ones! for some reason i thought i'd share webster's take on us.... anyway, today is odd and ominous (sinister??) weather here in northwestern pennsylvania... i am camped out at a computer to write poems, and it was thundering and drizzling and all ready for a storm, which i love! but just now the sun poked through -- sun is highly uninspiring.... however, listening to Rachel's is very inspiring... on the subject of stuart's smashing antics, i think when i posted that i was dismayed at his actions, i was thinking of the guitar -- an innocent guitar cut short in its prime! i remember being at an ani difranco concert, and some well-meaning obsessive fan threw some sort of gift on stage, and it knocked over ani's other guitar which was in one of those stands, and ani proceeded to seethe to the audience, "this is folk music, okay? we don't smash guitars -- we Play them!" my reaction to the dublin gig was sort of a watered down version of that.... take care, xoxo, marie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: research
by Darren Savage 07 May '99

07 May '99

Dear All There have been some intersting views expressed of late concerning individuals emotional responses to songs. I am doing some research at the moment into the affects of auditory stimuli on cognitive processing. If anyone has any tales of woe or happiness related to particular songs then I would be very grateful if you could send me them. Huge thanks in advance and I hope that you all have truely smashing weekends. Cheerio Savage _________________________________________________________ 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: Tears of a Clown
by skg21＠cam.ac.uk 07 May '99

07 May '99

--On Thu, May 6, 1999 23:00 +0100 "John Warrander" <warranderj(a)bigfoot.com> wrote: > I've just been shopping. And good shopping it was too. You know that > Go-Betweens best of "Bellavista Terrace" that clever sorts like his > Dukester were wittering on about not so long ago? Well nobody mentioned > that it's got an absolutely fantastic extra CD with it which has amazing > acoustic and electric sessions off American radio on it. And there's this > lovely American woman saying some real nice things and the music is beauty > exemplified. I kid you not. It's really very, very good. I'd get it soon if > I was you cos I think the extra CD is limited or something. And it's really > good. When I first heard Bellavista Terrace, I must admit to being a bit disappointed after all I'd heard. But then I put the second bonus CD on, and it is so much better; whether they're just better songs, or better versions, I don't know, but it's certainly convinced me to give the first CD time to see if it grows on me. Still not as good as The Lilac Time album though. Oh, and I'm not one to cast aspersions, but whoever voted 8 times for John on the listcrush site, you've been foiled. I've put him back down to one now. You are only allowed to vote for someone (yourself?) once... Is anyone else really pleased that the rain has come back again and put an end to the summery weather of late? Just because it means there's less temptation to sit outside the pub all day when i should be revising... I might still have time to pass those exams... 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Hello out there.....
by Elish Hope 07 May '99

07 May '99

Hello.... There was a little confusion on my name, so I thought I would offer some kind of explanation - when I lived in Scotland I was married for a brief time to an Australian - and so my last name was Zober and my nickname has always been - Elle. So Elle Zober is Elish Hope and that is me. It's really not as insane as it sounds...... I think. So, thank you to all those who emailed me, it cheered me up as I have just begun my day here at work..... Special thank you to Eliot, my own personal Magic Dragon...... Love and kisses, elle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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