July 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: some quick rubbish
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

HI everybody!! _Hi Dr. Nick!_ I'm back from my whirlwind adventure in DC. Looper was nice and the new Y2K song deserves to be a massive hit single and rule the world. i swear it would be possible. the hospitality and kindness of Christa and dan the man cannot be overestimated. Dc is really hot. i saw some joan of arc paintings. i ate tofu and hummus, i took tons of photos, i drooled over claudia gonson and met some sinister peeps like jennifer pulpbot, Eran and xavier the mystery man......sorry we missed you ! where did you get off to? Stephin merritt wasn't as scary as i feared, and the show was very laid back and nice and the Dudley guy was very sweet, he smiled at me during the show and then talked to us afterwards. i got a ton of new thrift store clothes, and some seven inches by team dresch and sleaterkinney for that dyke-core flavor. if i think of anything else interesting to say, i'll write it later. oh and i kept getting ogled by really disgusting men. all the cute indie girls in DC, and what luck i have!?? not one of *them* gave me a nasty glance. no it was all hairy fat guys with krusty the clown tattoos. i'm not fucking kidding on that one. it's an outrage that women can't pleasure themselves on film and be awarded the same celebrity as osme punk-ass boys. hey i'm going to jack off in an inanimate object, it's just as good as jacking off into a woman, i mean a twat with legs. yeah well i have issues. but i agree. i think masturbation should be taught in sex ed. Joycelyn Elders is like the BOMB. she kicks ass. that was like the best idea i ever heard. anyway. people are so threatened by female sexuality. it's okay to see as long as it's done for the voyeuristic impulses of men--we can have fake lesbians pretending to make out on the friggin TONIGHT SHOW!, but god forbid Ellen kiss another woman on her show,that would mean the women are in control of their own emotions, and we wouldn't want THAT would we!! that would just fuck with the whole status quo. i'm sorry i should really stop talking about it cos it makes me pretty angry. It's nice to see that our preteen idols nsync and backstreet boys are REAL MEN who enjoy exploiting financially blackmailed and abused women. i'm just so glad that they can promote the wholesome redblooded american ways of life for our god=fearing nation. http://www.theonion.com/onion3113/antidepress.html http://www.theonion.com/onion3301/divorcepoetry.html http://www.theonion.com/onion3523/hot_chick_psycho.html http://www.theonion.com/onion3001w/collage.html go to the onion. you know it's the right thing to do. with a kiss from me to you, LJ http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange "Strong like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a NERF ball" SAVE MST3K!!!! http://www.mst3kinfo.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: Legal eagle
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

Hi. It was just suggested that I may be an Ally McBeal viewer.I despise McSqueal with a passion. The writ is in the post. Steve S 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: meetup last thursday
by Rebecka popgirl 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

thanx you darlings who showed up at the picnic on the 22nd and the pub later.. you're all so very sweet people see you again some day I hope mail me and keep the inbox jumping :) hugs becka btw what's teh listcrush adress again?? huggles beautiful people # go and have a peek at my page it's constantly developing, http://www.angelfire.com/me/Mizzy # ______________________________________________________ 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: Monday:Reach for the razor blades.
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

Hi kids. Oh,God I really need cheering up.After 3 long,lazy drunken weeks I finally went back to work to-day.I was damn near suicidal this morning,so if anyone knows any good jokes please feel free to share them (the filthier the better). Anyway,to business.Brandt was wondering about a "perfect" mate.I think you'll find that if such creatures existed there would be no relationships.Ever.We'd all be waiting for the perfect person.The best anyone gets is"good enough" or "the best I'm going to get".In my somewhat limited experience anyway. Steve S xxxxx "There's nothing cushy about life in The Womens Auxilliary Balloon Corps" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 cars, trains, and airplanes will stall
by Dan Cohen 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

It warms my heart a bit to see people posting from belleandsebastian.org addresses, because a certain Mr. Heath Seals is far swanker than any of you could imagine, and it's swell how you've all patronized him and lily and the happy swirl of nothingness that is b&s.org. but i digress. I hadn't posted about my Looper experiences this weekend, so I suppose I will do so now. Wednesday I saw the TLA show with my good friend Gina; Bardo Pond was a sorry opener, especially with the flute-smacking lead singer and the mostly out-of-tune band, but DJ Pinkai was acceptable, and my very first Looper show was an enjoyable experience indeed. The Y2K song is extremely pretty and the tape I made came out quite well considering the poor acoustics of the place. Then on Friday it was New York City with Gina and our friend Leigh. We got there somewhat late, but managed to make it near the front of the stage. (that was me in the blue spaceboy shirt, "being that guy" cf. PCU, by the way) The opening band, whose name I think was Summerbell Roundup, was good if a bit depressing, and Khan was a riot. I said, quite loudly, "I like heavy metal!", at the beginning of their set, and the lead singer handed me an autographed (by Khan, anyway) copy of a really horrid Kiss tape. I suppose he took that as a bit of an advance, because he kept swinging his hips and microphone in my and Leigh's faces in sort of a psuedo-homoerotic fashion (in contrast, the singer who looked a lot like a third-rate member of Men at Work was a bit more reserved), and it was a bit distressing :) Later on, they did their striptease, and he handed Gina an autographed packet of Wet Light brand anal lubricant, which was a bit unnerving, but 'twas all in good fun, I suppose. Looper then came on, and while it was the same set as Philly (with the exception of the encore, which was pretty and acoustic and distinctly non-Looperish), the crowd was a lot more rabid. The bass, by virtue of the rack of speakers at our feet, was also more vibrant, which caused in me a bad case of tinnitus and in Gina a fainting spell, which was a bit frightening as Leigh carried her outside while I stayed on to bootleg. I was a little confused as the show went on, but the tape turned out even better than the TLA show. Tramps was a fun venue, and the freebie CDs Spin magazine was handing out was a nice touch as well. At any rate, I'd like to hear people's recollections of the show(s) if they were in attendance, and also get in touch with the girl and boy who wanted to contact me re: trades for the bootlegs and whose address I seem to have misplaced or run through the wash. Now I will go lurk somewhere far, far away from any form of culture *sniffle* -Dan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Area B&S fan injured, twee
by Gary Lawler 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

Lots of talk about the all-powerful Onion . . . the chances of getting a weekly copy outside the US is remote, but there is a book called "Our Dumb Century" by the Onion which is published here by Boxtree, and is well worth a look (*accepts brown envelope from Boxtree executive hiding in the shadows*). Today the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the sky was clear blue and I was . . . in a library studying cofactor matrices. I *really* wish I'd studied months ago and passed my tests the first time around so I wouldn't have to do all this crud for my repeat exams now. Bum. I've been listening to Tigermilk a bit more and it's probably my favorite B&S album now. Also, it got a nice review in Select, but I have to admit to being well creeped out by the thought that they're reading everything we write, waiting for something interesting to come along that they can print in their next issue *shivers* -- Gary Lawler ---------------- ICQ: 11115268 AIM: seclite369 ---------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: not just a boy who plays guitar
by marie elia 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

hello, kids. because i feel the need to share my thoughts with 1,100 strangers (well 1,095 strangers and 5 people i actually know), i will tell you that i have a newfound respect and admiration for StuD, who is worthy of the "stud" title! but seriously, when i saw looper in london, most of the music was prerecorded or something, and this time (nyc) it was mostly live and stu actually Talked to us! chatted us up a bit and was too, too charming. looper really know how to put on a show. and between the looper encore and the bowlie tape that kimmy dubbed for me, this winterwooskie song is my new favourite. it better damn well be on the next album or Someone's gonna get it from me! anyway, where the hell are you all getting the "wooskie" part from? was it ever referred to by this name? b/c the phrase in the song is "winter wardrobe," ya? la la la... well, no matter, it is beautiful, and looper were great, and the khan boys & their boxers were quite entertaining, and magnetic megan and mick mcmick are awesome, as are the D.C. kids and others that ended up at the tomato before the show. and this is a boring boring boring post.... i deserve to be sent back to the nursery for this one, although i never was in the nursery, but maybe that's why i ought to go there, have a look around, make me appreciate my voice more... oh, i'm going on and on again, aren't i? sorry. right, right. take care, kids. xoxo, marie ps. i think it was mentioned before, but anyone who has not read nick hornsby's "high fidelity" needs to go out and do it right now. right now, damn it! go! pps. oh, and see "run lola run" while you're out. === ************************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass (jds) "to me she was just marie." -mersault ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ 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: Alliaceaephilia (a fancy-ass way to say "Onion Love")
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

The Onion is great, all bow down to its supreme work-shirking pleasure-giving abilities. Some of the best articles are in the Archives (online). My personal fave being the Sports article about how an investigation revealed that the Special Olympics are "fixed" because everybody apparently wins... This week's Onion has a great column that I couldn't resist quoting, because it is all too applicable for us when talking about B&S or anyone else really who has a career spanning more than two albums. There but for the grace of God go us! I should add at this point that I enjoy a few Tangerine Dream albums (pre-Risky Business believe me) and Enya is good. I shun all other New Age related artists though... Xavier -- Today's New Age Music Is Crap By Doug Wortham Boy, nothing stays good for long, that's all I can say. I went to Falling Water Books & Music right after work Tuesday, because I'd heard the new David Lanz CD was finally out. So I shelled out my $15.99, and raced home to listen. And you know what? It fucking blew. I'm not kidding. David Lanz has let us all down. The first three tracks, I'm like, "Okay, this is kind of derivative of the earlier stuff like Heartsounds or Nightfall, but he's probably just reacquainting us with the style before hitting us with the new shit." And then the next five tracks... I don't even know how to say it. It sucked. I'm like, "Is this the same David Lanz who put out Woodlands?" Believe me, I wish it were only The Lanz. But it's all of them. The golden age of New Age music has come and gone. I remember when I first heard Yanni, back in '85. It was my junior year of high school. One Saturday night, I was hanging out at my buddy Steve's, and he looks at me and says, "Dude, you gotta hear this record. This shit will blow your mind." So I'm like, "Okay, whatever, Steve." So he puts this LP on, and I hear the first notes of Optimystique come out of the speaker. Needless to say, my jaw hit the floor. It was like the moment in The Wizard Of Oz where everything goes from black-and-white to color. The next day, I bought my own copy, and I listened to it for like 24 hours straight. I didn't get to sleep until, like, 4 a.m., so I skipped school the next day and just played Optimystique non-stop. I actually wore out the needle, moving it back to listen to "Butterfly Dance" over and over again. After that, New Age pretty much became my life. I started devouring the old masters like Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Kitaro. I spent all the money I made at my pizza-delivery job on New Age, and when that wasn't enough, I started mowing lawns. Then came my college years. The gang on my floor at the dorm would stay up all night playing the coolest shit, like Angels Of Venice and Gordon Burnham. We'd go through a whole box of Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger in a night. Once, we rented a van and drove all the way to Vermont just to see John Anderson live. That was back when I was dating Alicia Leupke just because she looked a little like Enya. That was back when New Age was a real thing. Back when Windham Hill Records was an exciting new upstart indie label. Now they've sold out and are doing all these Beatles tributes and jazz festivals. They've forgotten what it's all about. It used to be about the New Age music! Now, it's just about having the hottest stars and promoting them. Or getting that next album finished in time, to satisfy the record executives who don't even care if it's any good, so long as it's done on time. I mean, can you name one track on Chris Spheeris' last album? I didn't think so. I was out with this chick a month ago, and she asked me what kind of music I was into, so I said New Age, and she goes, "Oh, I just love John Tesh." I'm like, what the fuck?!?! That shit isn't New Age! New Age is about harmony with nature! It's about ambience and calming down! Not about some Hollywood pretty-boy banging on his Casio! I hear Tesh doesn't even have real ocean sounds--that's all synthesized, too. Frankly, none of these idiots on the charts nowadays know the first thing about the true spirit of New Age. I mean, Bruce BecVar? Where was Bruce BecVar during the harmonic convergence of 1987? Moussing his hair, most likely. And what about all these bands that are wearing a different crystal in every photo? They're using crystals for fashion purposes, not for focusing their personal, unchanging chakras! I swear, these poseurs wouldn't know the voice of Seth if they channeled it! It's all been downhill since December by George Winston. A great album, no question, but it was too successful and went mainstream. Then all the phonies came out of the woodwork, the big labels wanted in, and the next thing you know, the scene is totally ruined, turned into a giant, money-sucking corporate whore-beast. I know what you're gonna say: "What about Dreamsea? They're independent." Yeah, but it's so obvious that their whole goal is to sell out. Look how they're promoting Book Of Dreams, talking them up like they're the next Secret Garden or something. Yeah, right--they sound more like me and Steve screwing around in the garage with our flute and harp back in high school. They just want to get a million-seller so they can whore themselves to Time-Warner, you just know it. Ah, well. I guess I'll always have Optimystique. And my memories. -- BXK bkim0(a)dept.english.upenn.edu | www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 It's what kind of hair you have on the inside that counts.--G.S. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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Sinister: London, can you wait...
by ar981611＠student.paisley.ac.uk 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

Yes, I'm definitely going too. I'm just off to the airport to pick up my tickets. I'm famous according to Rob Halcrow so you'll all want to meet me. Though it is advisable to get to me early, before I start on supermodel-lixi's strawberry-milkshake-with-rum-in-it. I'm practising all-day alcoholism for All Tomorrow's Parties (though according to the blurb you aren;t allowed to take drink with you. Hmmm, didn;t they say that last time?), where I shall be endeavouring to drink even more than I did last time. Sinister sighting on the telly: Whilst watching The Boy with the Arab Strap live from Bowlie that I taped off MTV, I spotted that nice Nick Dastoor shaking his head about in the front of the audience. I have been scouring the audience shots in slow motion but that's it, him and DM,C,UK. Any of the rest of you in there? Surely there were more Sinister people down the front than that... List crush: Did you know that according to someone I am going to All Tamara's Ponies with that the members of our chalet account for more than 10% of all list crush votes cast. I quite believe it, we are all great. Despite what Alasdair says. Oh, enough already. I've got plane tickets to buy. See some of you on Saturday. I'm quite excited about this. I bet it rains though. Ailsa 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: Onion Love
by Emily Wilska 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

Ah yes. The Onion. One of the funniest things I have EVER read. Ever. Other classic headlines include "Starbucks to Open in Restroom of Existing Starbucks" and "RC Cola Celebrates 10th Sale". A good deal of the stories are Ameri-centric (is that a word?), but they're damn hilarious nonetheless. Check out the online version at www.theonion.com. Also be sure to look at the USA Today-type polls. Very, very cheeky. In fact, I think I'm gonna slog off on the work I have to do and go catch up on some Onion reading instead. Ahhhh Monday. (Thanks, Kimberly--now I have "Manic Monday" running through my head as well.) xxoo Emily +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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