June 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: whore in one
by KIMberly Rehak 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

YO, steve p. asked: Why don't African-American frats and sororites have houses? and my response doesn't even attempt to answer that question, but what you asked reminded me of something funny regarding sorority houses. mind you, i don't want to contribute to the little thread any more, i know you are sick of reading about this but i think that this is interesting. so here you are: KIM's FACT OF THE DAY~ in the fine state of pennsylvania, usa, where my life has been so kindly been dumped, any house where 6 or more females are living together is ILLEGAL. why? because it is then considered a brothel, or, as i like to refer to it as, a whorehouse. the end. KIMberly 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ...let me ride away...
by andrew dean 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

from nme.com > BELLE & SEBASTIAN's set at the Bowlie Festival last month will be > broadcast on Radio 1 on July 5 on the Steve Lamaq show. Insiders > say as much as 45 minutes could be broadcast. and us sceptics say that they'll do what they did to the Black Sessions and play roughly a third of it... pah. they played for over 75 minutes at the actual show. i just hope it's the second half they broadcast. a friend of mine knows steve lamacq and says nothing but good things about him. bit i think he's the devil. that said, the same person talked all the way through The Pine's set at the recent church hall gig thing so what does he know? pah! andy (off topic stuff follows) getting rid of ants without killing them? it was easy in the end, i just stopped leaving half empty glasses of weak lemon drink around the place and they went looking elsewhere for their sugar rush. (i also had to wipe down all the surfaces where the weak lemon drink had been standing cos that seemed to be enough to attract them). i see the odd one or two now but i can live with that. and remember: don't step on an ant, they've done nothing to you... i'm off to los angeles tomorrow for two weeks. just thought i'd give everyone else in LA a chance to move to new york rather than have to endure eating indian food with me... pah! (oh john m: i'll take your tapes with me and post them when i get there. dave m: thanks for that. nick d: md is in the post.) the computer thing in pretty in pink: it was a film, it wasn't real. keanu stops bullets in mid air in the matrix. that wasn't real either. (whoops, given away the ending, sort of. still, go and see it, it was good in a cyberpunk / hong kong film industry acrobatics and shooting kind of way) oh, and didn't roger hargreaves die? isn't that why the books now say copyright mrs roger hargreaves, cos the rights are in her name now? just a thought. i've read 'imaginary girlfriend' if it's the john irving book you were talking about (arantxa? was that you asking this?). i liked it but it's a departure from his usual stuff in that it's strictly autobiographical, it's stories of his past and mainly about wrestling (greco-roman rather than the hulk hogan type)(actually, having just flicked through it again it's ALL about wrestling although there are plenty of asides). never did get more than halfway through 'son of the circus' though. one of these days... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Tigermilk @ Kilmarnock
by Honey 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Hey everyone, as I keep saying at the moment, I'm not really here. But a little something from Stuart M to you all: click on "Tigermilk at Kilmarnock" near the top of the Sinister WWW page at http://www.majordomo.net/sinister If anyone can tell me the story of this, that'd be nice, if not I'll find out, and sit you all down and have a bit of a natter later on. As for all those people waiting for me to do little sinister things for them.. um... "Tell everybody waiting for Supermum That they should try to hold on best they can She hasn't dropped them, forgot them, or anything It's just too heavy for Supermum today" Anyone seen my cape? Honey trying to be Supermum xxx -- "In Europe the big word is tolerance. Homosexuals are riding high in the media... and in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are." - Pat Robertson, shaken after being attacked by Big Gay Rabbie in a supermarket in Leith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The beach was deserted, except for some kelp...
by stephen hewitt 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

which, in my world, is a very funny line from a Dylan song featured in 'Don't look back' (especially when said in sing-song Dylan accent). Hurrah! Pretty in Pink [snip]. I may waffle at length to the people who mentioned it later but I shall contain myself to the list in general. I'm very hung over today cos I got battered with The Yo-Yos (Danny from The Wildhearts' new band) last night after they played in Cheltenham. They Rawk! (and roll too) And they are very funny. And they have quiffs (but their roadie has bigger one). The Cardiacs are playing tonight, but I don't know anything about them, any opinions (like, duh, stoopid question). That's the best thing about this list, someone always has an (usually informed, or at least funny) opinion on everything. Is anyone else going to Glastonbury? Perhaps we could have a picnic in the Stone Circle (preferably when The Corrs are playing, as I want to be as far away from **that** as is humanly possible). For anyone who is going, please repeat the following mantra five times a day between now and the festival: itcantpossiblyrainthreeyearsinarowitcantpossiblyrainthreeyearsinarowitcantpo ssiblyrainthreeyearsinarow (but I'll certainly be taking my wellies with me, anyway) That Graham bloke said: but like it or not, cliff [Jones from Gay Dad] is a stud and no mistake. Erica, darling, how can someone so right be soooooo wrong. I'm not sure why I don't like Gay Dad (which is very annoying, like having a itch in the middle of your head that you can't scratch), but I'm coming to the conclusion that it's got something to do with Cliff Jones' unerring ability to be completely wrong about just about everything, eg on Jo Whiley saying Suede's new stuff is better than their old stuff [WRONG!] and that the Hepburn single is good [WRONG!]. As I said before I love opinionated people (Billy Bragg on the same show the previous week was ace, and he mentioned Thatcher and everything), but he, oooh, he just annoys me, and that isn't what I want from my pseudo-glam pop stars, oh no. What I want is Ewan McGregor getting his willie out, lots of glitter and blue hair. I thought Velvet Goldmine was pretty cool, esp. the fantasy bits, but had to stop thinking "so is he meant to be Bowie or Bolan" about half way through as it was driving me up the wall. Oh, I think I might have found a drummer too, so Carsmile could yet be resurrected from it's still smouldering ashes. Apols for the very waffly nature of this post, will try harder next time xoxo CarsmileSteve > ---------------------------------------------- > 'Slightly Anal About 80s Pop' > > carsmilesteve(a)geocities.com > > visit the historic record of Carsmile at http://fast.to/carsmile > > 'Anyone need a singer?' > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: searching...
by daragh lynch 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

hello friends, just a very short note to ask if there are any other sinisterines in belfast? if so, hows about we organise a meetup for the summer? there. thats me done. b'bye, daragh ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Gobi Twins, Sahara Cracknell, Mojave Williams
by Michael Jones 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Ooh, I've peaked with the subject heading. And I pinched that. Best make this short. As someone old enough to remember Emlyn 'Crazy Horse' Hughes rampaging through the Swedish defence only to slam his drive against an upright in an otherwise drab, goalless late 70s friendly, Saturday's Euro2000 tedium was a case of déjà vu for me. Except that *this* time, the shining moment in an avalanche of jaw-slacking misery came 2 hours *after* the match in the shape of two Australians wielding acoustic guitars in a tiny record shop. So, not really comparable in any way. Yes, The Go-Betweens were in town again - or at least Robert 'Ham' Forster and Grant 'Beef' McLennan. A terrific little set between the 'NZ Skate-Punk' and 'West Coast Spaz-Jazz' sections in the Rough Trade shop in London's swinging W11, climaxing, almost unbelievably, with "Lee Remick". Trousers and I summoned up enough courage afterwards to hassle Mr F; he and Stevie T hit it off almost immediately with a shared fondness for Lovin' Spoonful lyrics, while I stood around lemon-like until the Antipodean popster noticed my TBWTAS T-shirt. "'struth, mate - they're bonzer, no worries", he said - or words to that effect. Later still Trou's shameless Eric Morecambe dancing almost swayed Robert F (who now has the demeanour of a slightly hip college professor) into joining us for a drink. But not quite. We applauded them as they swanned off pub-bound with a phalanx of journoscum in tow, which I like to think made their day. The spontaneous ovation that is, not the boozing and schmoozing with IPC hacks. Chris McQuain had this to say: > I know people slagged Velvet Goldmine (Haynes' long-awaited follow up to > [SAFE], a cruelly underrated glam-rock epic) because they didn't understand > what it was supposed to be (a lovely, gaudy-colorful, glittering, bisexually > erotic glam-rock fairly tale with the 1970s as the Emerald City and the > 1980s as a dark place ruled by those twin Wicked Witches, Reagan and > Thatcher), only what they simplistically wanted it to be (a Bowie bio-pic, > which it was NEVER intended to be). Funny, I was rather expecting it to be a gaudy, glittery, erotic fairy-tale and I still thought at least half of it was a hideous, sagging mess. I did like the bits with the kids running through the streets to early Eno. There's not enough of that kind of thing anywhere, really. I half-agree with you about [SAFE] (is it really bracketed capitals ?)... the detached, Kubrickian business. I guess I'm a superficial kinda guy. Back to it... Mike. _________________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Have you wet yourself? (incredibly off topic)
by Graham MacArthur 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Dearest, I went to see gay dad yesterday. I have a love/hate relationship with free gigs - they're lovely because they're free and you don't have to worry about remembering your ticket, but they're awful because when you stamp the word FREE on something, lots if people with no genuine interest in the thing come along and annoy you. Tossers, I tell you. Tall jeery boys standing at the front, laughing like bevis and butthead. I had to stand next to the very same boys at the signing, hearing them grunt and watching them shuffle around (you notice each one of them had to have a big GAY DAD poster board of their own, even though they weren't going to buy the album to be signed, just the single) and I slipped in an unknown liquid (probably wee) on oxford street running in my impractical shoes to get to Soho Square in time, and probably looked like i'd wet myself. Which is always attractive. but this doesn't matter when Cliff signs your cd "Erica you are the Prettiest Star". He loves me you know. You can see it in his eyes. Erica x p.s I bet everyone thinks Gay Dad are crap, or hasn't even heard of them. judging by the type of fan they attract, you'd probably be right in thinking they're poo, but like it or not, cliff is a stud and no mistake. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Did you know that clocks don't mean much to rabbits and owls?
by Ian Hatcher 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Hello everyone, I have had a request from my Sinisterian friend (if you look at my signature thingy you may notice that a second member of the legendary albino squirrel show, namely ME, has joined the list) NOT to send my first post saying, "hello, I am just out of the nursery and I thought I should post, it is very scary posting to 1000 people, my favourite song is . . ." so I won't. Although I guess I just did :-) Some of you may remember me from a really offensive post ages ago - and if you do I apologise, especially to Dorigen. You see, that was in the days before I discovered B&S (you see, there is some B&S content in here :-), and my aforementioned friend subscribed me by mistake. Then I learned of the calming powers of Isobel's voice, and I'm nicer now, honest guv'nor :-) Anyway, I can't say sorry enough, and I'll probably be cast down in eternal damnation. How do you all think up those fantastic subject headings? I'm trying to come up with something original, but am failing miserably. Hmmmm . . . BTW - how many of you are going to proms/balls? The one here at Canterbury costs 40 squid and for that we get to see Cast, Boy George djing (shame it's not Culture Club) and the official Stereophonics cover band, Monophonics. Oh happy happy joy joy. I can't wait. goodVYYYE, Ian. ------------------ Ian Hatcher igh1(a)ukc.ac.uk Rutherford JCC Ents #1 Tune into the Albino Squirrel Show every Thursday 2-4pm on UKCR "The clock may not mean much to rabbits and owls Depending on darkness and light." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?
by Newth, Tom 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Hi everybody! I couldn't keep my mouth shut or my fingers still any longer (a perennial problem). Bob Dylan plays Alias in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which most definitely does not star Clint Eastwood, but which is the movie with Knocking on Heaven's Door. And it is just a heartbreaking. The best film by the brilliant (tho sometimes patchy and undeniably nuts) Sam Peckinpah. Read If They Move Kill 'em. Watch all his films. He's top notch. And James Caan in The Killer Elite looks like my dad. Most disconcerting. Anyhoo, Bobby D has a super scene where he reads aloud all the labels on the food in a food store. And Kris Kristofferson is in it, which bizarrely is always a good recomendation for a film (don't ask why - all the laws of nature should be against it). At any rate, he's in Cisco Pike which is tops (shifting 100-odd blocks of Mexican weed over a weekend!) and The Last Movie, which is less than tops, but a whole lot of fun (and does star Sam Fuller, which is also always a good recomendation for a movie). JD Salinger enjoyed it too. Bob's also in a whole load of other things (including the legendary Hearts of Fire with Rupert Everett - don't even feel tempted..) but never so good. Shame - he makes a really good western extra. Incidently, nuff respect to Chris McQ - [SAFE] is quite quite excellent, and not "the most boring film ever made" as some would have it... Since everyone is getting all excited about AMerican suburbia, I'd like to throw in my six eggs. Which are ALL the films of Douglas Sirk (but especially All That Heaven Allows - which is one of my favourite films ever - Imitation of Life, and to a lesser extent, Magnificent Obsession and Written on the Wind). Sirk was a studio genius who made ostensibly straight pictures but which have a really cynical bite to them. For example, the studio thought that All That Heaven Allows referred to the bounty of goodness and love and bunny rabbits, and all things twee (see - B&S content at last!) which are the human lot. Whereas Sirk saw it as referring to the miserable sliver of contentment that passes for happiness in most people's lives. Also someone mentioned to me the other day that he thought Sirk was the precursor of all soap operas and melodramatic smalltown/smallmind dramas. Which is (more or less) true. The ur-50's suburban movie tho has to Peyton Place, tho it's kind of long (and not as good as if Sirk had done it). Also Bigger than Life. Class film (Sample dialogue "God was wrong") OK - I didn't intend this to become a "films I like" message so apologies to all (if it's any consolation, I've only just started....) What I did want to say was that: has anyone else found that the Grand Wazoo site is not working right? I visited ages ago was interested in Isobel's "things I like" list, particularly The Hand of Ethelberta by Thos Hardy, which struck me as pretty obscure. And, as luck would have it, a few days later, perusing the shelfs of my local book-selling emporium (actually, not local, cos there's no sodding bookshops in Golders Green) there it was. It was bought and read and thoroughly enjoyed, so I'd like to second Isobel's tacit reccomendation. Maybe I'll meet some of you on friday at the garage.... spoon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S vids
by jarkko frantila 08 Jun '99

08 Jun '99

Well, My turn no: Anyone in the UK willing to tape me that B&S special in Alternative Nation? I'd pay all the usual stuff, posting and such, of course. Mail me, oh thee sweet people who are willing to help a guy in serious trouble. Ok, that one was pretty short, but I'm off for a jobinterview in about an hour, and I have to work a bit here, since I'll be leaving early today. jobswapping is the future. @--->--- Jace le petit. "I think we should have beautycontests for the inside of the human body too. The best spleen, the best liver..." -Jeromy Irons in Dead Ringers. One beautiful movie, that one. I usually never cry watching films, but that one makes me feel a bit... ill. ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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