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Sinister: Jazz and Cajun Food
by Robin Stout 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Hello, my pesky sinisterines, Stuart Murdoch has always cited the works of C S Lewis as being one of his main influences. Now, I was re-reading The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader the other day and I came across this on page 145: ' "Yes," said Caspian, "and let there be grog all round. Heigh-ho, I feel I could sleep the clock round myself." ' Ah! I thought. Maybe he's more influenced than we thought. Odds-on their next song being called "And let there be grog". Stephen mentioned the #sinister chatroom. It's something I've always said I'd try but never have, as yet. In fact the only time I've ever been in a chatroom I was a bit silly. It was a hot day and I was bored so I decided to go for a walk. On the way I passed Alex's house and thought I'd see if he was in. Alex answered the door, tucking in his shirt, and told me to come in. He'd been on the internet he said, and I could come and have a look if I wanted. Now, I'd never seen such technology before, and was pretty amazed that you could communicate with people on the other side of the world with this machine. There didn't even seem to be a place to put the coal in. Alex showed me a site where there were loads of chatrooms on lots of different subjects. As a couple of aspiring young sophisticates we thought we'd try the one labelled "Jazz and Cajun Food". We bluffed our way on this for a few minutes, saying how we thought Jazz was "nice", and how we liked to drink Bourbon "from a straight glass". Then somebody decided we looked interesting and started to talk just to us. Alex ran out and got his "Best of Jazz" CD and we tried to appear knowledgeable by reading things off this. I said I played the trombone (truth) in a famous band called The Jazz Kats (horrible lie) and liked Miles Davis. We said he was "cosmic". Now our friend happened to be a huge expert on Mr Davis, not surprising really seeing as he played in the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, or something. Aslan's beard! Alex dropped the "Best of" CD and we fled the chatroom, mumbling "I have to go now" and falling over our tails that were firmly between our legs (ooh!). Then we felt really guilty that we'd decieved this chap who seemed like a really decent bloke. So I've never tried it since. I guess I'll give the sinister chatroom a go, but I'll be honest this time, and I'll admit that I know very little about Jazz, and I've never even tried Bourbon unless you include those chocolate biscuits. I'm reading a book about Yuri Gagarin at the moment called "Starman". It's dead interesting. The only hero that communism would allow, apparently. Sorry about the lack of relevance of any of this as I know nothing about female masturbation and little about love. But I do know this: I like being in love, it's the best thing in the world. I like the way it's always a surprise when you stumble upon it (love, that is not masturbation, although that would be a surprise, certainly). And I like to see people who are in love. It always makes me feel happy. To make up for the lack of smut, here's some rude words: bottom, nipple, nob, nob cheese, arse. See you folks in London. I'll probably be keeping a low profile cos I've got some Cockney's on my case... love from Robin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Love and science: a geek speaks
by geoff 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Hi kids I thought I'd share with you a little of what I know about the science of falling in love. It may sound terribly unromantic but *I* think it's interesting so listen up or hit the delete key NOW! A recent study into the science of falling in love had some interesting findings. When a person gets the love-bug, a heady cocktail of neurotransmitters (chemicals which affect the brain) is released. The main one is dopamine, the same feelgood chemical which gives runners 'highs' and which hits the same receptors as heroin. The study found that, like junkies and athletes, lovers can become 'hooked' on this feeling, craving the company and attentions of their adored object. So far, so banal. However, they also found that this chemicaly sustained love-drug high would only last a maximum of 12 months, just long enough to complete the reproductive cycle. After this time, (the researchers rather unromantically suggest) the lovers may stay together either out of habit, or to look after a newly dropped sprog. (or 'born baby' to our american readers, if I've got any left) Otherwise they may leave the relationship to find the same feeling elsewhere - wandering love-junkies in an ever more desperate search for a quick fix. All this (if we take it as true) may lead us to certain conclusions. If we can only expect *that* feeling to last for a year at best, then we'd better be pretty sure that there's something deeper there, like those feelings of friendship, trust and respect that other sinisterines have been rightly focusing on. Although being in love in the all-consuming, early-stages-of-a-relationship and _biological_ sense is THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD, it ain't gunna last forever. So if you want to stay together (and boy, girl, *I* want you to, I love you both) be ready for the 12-month blues. True love, geoff PS Who needs girls when there's Marcus round? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: back from london
by Rebecka popgirl 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

hello listees finnaly I'm home in sweden and there is soo much do to at the moment.. yeasterday i went and bought myself a TV and video for my flat..I got the contract today...yiii it's scary to move somewhere I do not know a singel person.. but 4 years there will make me meet new people I suppose..everyone is free to come over for a private skiing lesson:) as the skislopes are just around the corner from my new flat.. I went to the listcrush site..and found out wow I've got two people who voted fro me..:) sweet wonder who they are:) lovely seeing you guys martin, marcus,geoff, mark, jessica, jenn, debbie, dougal, and the rest I seem to have forgotten your names..:) hugs kisses becka ______________________________________________________ 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: Back to the SSSR
by Arantxa Sanz 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Hey! I am back to the Sinister Republik, tovarich and tovarich-ladies.I finished not very sucessfully my work to be shown at the conference next week after a hard struggle vs. PowerPoint and Bill Gates' tricky tools.My poster, together with a picture of me, will be on at Imperial COllege next Tuesday, if anyone is interesting in a meet up and he/she is also a spanner.Please, I would not like to be shot now, Romantic Flying Scotsman. Not now because I am in love! All these discussions going on about L*O*V*E, and female masturbation lack totally of direct B&S content but are interesting, however...Well,the state that I am in about love and relationships is basically 'stupidization', so I am not going to be very objective.Maybe there is one more than 'person' , maybe as a friend of mine usually says : 'Imagine your half orange (the perfect partner in colloquial Spanish) is in Congo and you never popped in there and he never leaves Congo. What do you do then?'.I don't care about theories as I found him, and I cannot continue on this praising because it is going to be embarrasing and blushing and so on. Female masturbation is different. I am 'Continental' , or so I have been told in these Islands, so I can speak as straight forwardly as Shere Hite without hesitation.But even when I am a female myself, I hardly know any testimonies but mine, and my best friend's, the one talking rubbish about oranges halves. It is not a topic frequently discussed at office coffee breaks, not even at mid-school breaks.However, it is a totally different concept from males point of view about the topic... My name means Orange in Italian ,by the way, as Mark 'D' Tony Casarotto probably knows, and its true meaning, in Basque, is 'the one among the blackberries'.Does it make of me a very fruity person? Well, now that I am free (is that enough as 70's Who quote?), my first task is to organise my attending the Picnic and see those International Bright Young Things.I will maybe arrive pulling my case, though I won't look as beautiful as Claudia Cardinale.That's why I never put any picture of me on Sinister's shop-window. Robin and I kind-of-have somewhere to stay, but it is not very sure, so if someone could offer some floor to us would be very welcome.And I promise to behave well in spite of my 'stupidized-by-Love' state! And some poetry to finish : 'Future is whatever she touches with her hands', Pedro Salinas , 'La voz a ti debida'. Arantzazu or Arancia or Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Trinidad and Tobago ? Yes, I forced her to go.
by Michael Jones 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Dear One-Finger Soloists, Well, sprinkle my brow with vinegar, I do believe we may be in for something of a spell as they used to say in the music halls. Just warm enough to wear indecent clothing, and a nice breeze to spirit away unsightly dampness. Precisely the sort of weather in which one should 'romp' in a 'meadow' with 'Susan Hampshire' to the strains of The Free Design. But first, this: I know there are a lot of Magnetic Fields fans on this list, which means there are an equal number of Magnetic Fields fans' brains on this list and it is into these brains I wish to place the following three-word phrase - Early Brian Eno. Whaddyasay ? An unconscious influence on the young Merritt ? It was my live-in pop consultant Lady P who first noticed this - a few songs from the "Taking Tiger Mountain..." era are strikingly similar in structure, production and vocal phrasing to the glorious Mags. Contradictory views to the usual address - don't forget to mark your envelope But That's Noodly ArtRock Dross You Moron. Of course, living with a Yankee Doodle Dandy means I find myself absorbing certain aspects of American Culture (it certainly isn't forced down my throat - except on one very literal occasion when she tried to choke me with a copy of The New Yorker, but that's all salmon under the aqueduct now). One of my favourite Crazy Things That Americans Do is their use of the definite article to invert a word's meaning. Hence: "bomb" - something of very poor quality that one might wish to avoid; "THE bomb" - really quite good ! "Shit" - contemptible, foul-smelling, rank, hopelessly dire; "THE shit" - utterly essential and excellent in all respects ! Isn't it great ? Oh sorry - isn't it THE dumb-ass ? PJ [Jim] "O'Rourke"['s Drift] Miller['s Crossing] had[daway] this [heat] to say [you love me just because you care]: > "L'Amour > Aux Troussés", a 1974 thriller known in English as: "Hot Acts of > Love". Trousers, what have you been up to? Think of the neighbours! > Oh > well, at least it wraps up Steady Mike's fantastic How Did Trousers > Get His Name competition, although I'm not quite sure how. Are you sure you don't mean "THE fantastic" ? But yes - you've blinking well gone and won... Visitors/Lucksmiths tape on its way to you as soon as you send me your address. Yes, that's the catch. William Messent formed these words from thin air: > I want to get > drunk with her, but doing so will mean staying over, and I don't > want > her to think I'm just after a shag. Get very, very drunk. So drunk that it really is quite obvious that you couldn't possible 'do' anything and she'll put you to bed. The following day you feel hugely unfulfilled and nauseous but you *may* get to see her in her bra. Remember to pack a camera. Thanks to my spiritual leader, Rik Mayall, for that last paragraph. B&S content: the beginning of "Slow Graffiti" is a close blood relative of "Tennessee Waltz". Apologies if this has been mentioned before and I missed it. What's an Arab Strap again ? Tindersticks (officially the only band worthy of taking the stage after Belle & Sebastian) were fabulous in Brixton last night. Almost all new material - and a whopping great soul influence this time around. I'll trust it to someone who can tell their Gayes from their Mayfields to be more specific about the sound of the forthcoming album, but it sounded like a peach to me. They were THE rubbish. Goodnight, Mike. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.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: love and Celine Dion
by Marianne Bratlie 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

..hi I wrote a mail last night to say that I agree on lots of the things that has been said about love, it was mostly a re. to Jan I. to say that if he had "the" feeling for his soulmate friend it would be what i would call the perfect love. Anyway, I just won`t bother to say all the things I wrote about love, as I am tired, and it seems to be "over" with the subject. Just one thing, ..If you have ever been totally ...(some good english expression which I haven`t the knowledge to use is supposed to be here...)..in love., then you should be glad to have ever felt it. Imagine dying without ever having done so. (Glad even if you don`t "get" the person) The only problem is that you will still seek the same feeling later, and it can be a bit tricky-since this feeling is rare. Know what I mean?? .. I also said, (, funny enough -I saw someone else mention it as well.,in fact, in a mail written to sinister during the time I wrote mine-the very same lyric)..I love the sentence.."if you want me I`ll be there a boy,....but part of the deal, is for you to feel something". The last part is very true, a relationship must be "both ways". But I guess the problem can be that people like eachother in different "levels", there are many "grades" of liking someone. Maybe it`s not a problem. This became more than one thing, sorry. I also mentioned something quite different from the subject love, maybe I`ve said it before ? (in that case -write me an angry mail) Ànyway, this is it: I know about a girl who has a goldcard in Celine Dion fanclub, she is really proud of it, an idea for us??? I don`t mean to say that people who like C. Dion are bad or something (..one must respect...etc)..but -a GOLDCARD??????????? It`s a good thing we all are different from eachother, or else the world would be quite boring. Then I`ll leave you all, (and hope my mail get`s through this time.) Take care Marianne ______________________________________________________ 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: love and Celine Dion
by Marianne Bratlie 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

..hi I wrote a mail last night to say that I agree on lots of the things that has been said about love, it was mostly a re. to Jan I. to say that if he had "the" feeling for his soulmate friend it would be what i would call the perfect love. Anyway, I just won`t bother to say all the things I wrote about love, as I am tired, and it seems to be "over" with the subject. Just one thing, ..If you have ever been totally ...(some good english expression which I haven`t the knowledge to use is supposed to be here...)..in love., then you should be glad to have ever felt it. Imagine dying without ever having done so. (Glad even if you don`t "get" the person) The only problem is that you will still seek the same feeling later, and it can be a bit tricky-since this feeling is rare. Know what I mean?? .. I also said, (, funny enough -I saw someone else mention it as well.,in fact, in a mail written to sinister during the time I wrote mine-the very same lyric)..I love the sentence.."if you want me I`ll be there a boy,....but part of the deal, is for you to feel something". The last part is very true, a relationship must be "both ways". But I guess the problem can be that people like eachother in different "levels", there are many "grades" of liking someone. Maybe it`s not a problem. This became more than one thing, sorry. I also mentioned something quite different from the subject love, maybe I`ve said it before ? (in that case -write me an angry mail) Ànyway, this is it: I know about a girl who has a goldcard in Celine Dion fanclub, she is really proud of it, an idea for us??? I don`t mean to say that people who like C. Dion are bad or something (..one must respect...etc)..but -a GOLDCARD??????????? It`s a good thing we all are different from eachother, or else the world would be quite boring. Then I`ll leave you all, (and hope my mail get`s through this time.) Take care Marianne ______________________________________________________ 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: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
by Mark Casarotto 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

An open letter to Frenchie out of "Grease": A couple of inspirational things from the last three digests (I've been too busy escorting two of Sinister's brightest young things around strange suburban sunshiney places to reply more recently). I have spent the last few months absolutely convinced that the Romantic Scotsman has "SpaNNers will be shot" at the end of his mails. I felt dumb, as usual, not getting the in-joke I was sure everyone else was laughing at. Either that or he retains an irrational hatred of the geeky kids from school (I'm pretty sure that's what a spanner was when I were a lad), which would probably be unwise on this list :) The whole thing about love, though. I for one am nowhere near secure enough in myself to believe that there is such thing as a perfect mate, mainly because the concept fundamentally precludes there being more than one. If I had to enter any relationship thinking that either this was the One, and thus about to become the centre of my life for the rest of my days, or wasn't the One, in which case why bother, I'd be either too terrified or too disillusioned (or, more correctly, a frighteningly unhealthy mix of the two) to remain capable of having a grown-up, genuine kind of love. Having said all that, I am currently basking in the glow of a fantastic, doubt-free relationship with a fellow sinisterine and I'd be more than delighted if this whole love thang proves me wrong :) Moving on...at Camber Sands you'll be able to recognise me as the one trying to stop Kevan being arrested for Peeping Tomsmanship, and the only member of my chalet who won't be offered any of Nick Dastoor's wares, though I am going with a pocket full of loose change in the off chance. Add N to (x) - whatever else they are, they're bloomin' loud. I saw them last autumn in NYC with Queen Bee Janine (whose absence from the list is a sad sad thing), and they were quite astonishing(ly loud). And very good in a kind of, erm, challenging way. The best bit was Anne from the band seeing my Stow t-shirt and chatting about how good B&S are - in fact, to this day, she's the only person who's ever approached me because of a B&S related item I've been wearing... Props to the Muji-fiends (I hear the silk pyjamas are quite fine), Mark 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: They're Calling It?
by Peter Airlie 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Perhaps female masturbation would be less of a taboo subject if there were more widely used euphemisms for it. This could be a chicken and egg situation I'm not sure. I only suggest this because I recently compiled a top ten of B&S related euphemisms for male masturbation and found quite a few to choose from. Pondering a similar female top ten I tried to think of terms I have previously heard that could be given a B&S angle but was lost for inspiration. (Actually looking at my original top ten quite a few are gender non-specific but there is still a dearth of commonly used terms.) The official word was that my top ten was too dirty for the band page but maybe it just wasn't funny enough. As this is my first post I have a feeling I'm giving you all a very bad impression of me. Peter "It was the biggest quiff that small town beatings would allow for. " +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Edubation
by PJMiller 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

I agree that female masturbation is a criminally under-discussed matter, and that the list is an ideal forum for just such a discussion. I hope all the girls feel comfortable enough here to tell us about any aspect of masturbation they'd like to talk about, in a warm, welcoming environment. I particularly hope no one was put off by Kevan Cooke's typically immature response to what is undoubtedly a serious topic, ripe for a lengthy in-depth thread covering all the bases, from basic masturbatory technique to elaborate fantasies, possibly involving Stuart Murdoch, who I feel sure would approve. It's about time we got over all these silly taboos. They are relics from the Victorian Age and have no place in modern society. Speaking of masturbation, the other day I was searching the Internet Movie Database when I stumbled upon this intriguing title: "L'Amour Aux Troussés", a 1974 thriller known in English as: "Hot Acts of Love". Trousers, what have you been up to? Think of the neighbours! Oh well, at least it wraps up Steady Mike's fantastic How Did Trousers Get His Name competition, although I'm not quite sure how. Hey Tim, why don't The Visitors team up with Piezoleptic Unit? You could call yourselves The Visigoths. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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