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Sinister: Wiggedy Wiggedy Wack Cha
by Starry 22 Aug '99

22 Aug '99

Yo, Yo, I just heard the Pernice Brothers song called "Overcome by Happiness" and I like the jiggy piano bit on it. Did you know that "jiggy" doesn't actually mean sex of ANY KIND, but its actually the "next state" of cool? Something ala higher state of conciousness, but with cool? Will Smith told me that. Not that I've met him, I just read it in Smash Hits, which surrealy enough is giving away an inflatable Kian from Westlife or an ADAM RICKETT inflatable head. Wowsers! Why doesn't the NME give away a free inflatable head of Stevie Jackson, or one of those cheery chaps from Travis? I hate the latest Travis song. "Why does it always rain on me", well ONE because you go out in RAINY SEASON, TWO you do not take an umbrella and THREE because I am actually a native american indian or someone who knows rain casting spells and thus MAKES it rain on you by force of my psychic powers. Bastards. If Stevie Jackson was a chocolate bar, which one would he be? He'd be the most SATISFYING (prrr) thats for sure!!! Eh? I don't know where THAT came from. I don't want to know. But, its a thought to ponder...Stuart would be a carrot stick. I know thats not a chocolate bar but its JUST THE WAY IT IS. Abs from 5ive would be a lettuce sandwich. Steve C: >Are the Beach Boys better than the Beatles? Sometimes I'm just not sure... Yes they are. Yup yup yup. Peter, I always knew John Lennon was on the choo-choo train of love to Bumhaven ( I just like to say it) cos he snogged his manager called Brian Epstein in that black and white film, about the Beatles, or something. They got in the BATH together, and then John Lennon ran away to marry some bird called Cynthia. What bollocks, eh? There was a great scene in Queer as Folk when Vince is in the bath scrubbing himself with a loofah (!brilliant!) and yapping on about Stuart and all the nights they had out, and Cameron storms out in a strop, and then comes back and declares "I LOVE YOU", and storms out again. The silly fool! Queer as Folk is the new 70s WHO. Alix complained about boring socks! Why Alix you should go to Topshop, they have a quite frightening variety of brightly coloured things with slogans like "babe", and "chocoholic" on them. Is it being trrifclly pomo to wear them, or is it just being quite foolish as the socks are very hideous? Ah who knows the mysterious and potent symbolism of socks. Ah thats it, Sarah xxx Thanks everyone who congratulated me on the alevel results :) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re: 2 questions regarding possible B&S related releases
by damienfranciscathalfrost 22 Aug '99

22 Aug '99

hi, the following is from the matador website. there seems to be no mention of b+s on this. it's funny looking at what songs they chose from what bands when you consider what better ones they could have. though, there's 'no accounting for taste' etc. blah blah CD One 1. Pavement - Stereo 2. Cornelius - Count Five Or Six 3. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About The Blues 4. Cat Power - Cross Bones Style 5. Chavez - Flight '96 6. Nightmares On Wax - Fire In The Middle 7. Non Phixion - Refuse To Lose 8. Jega - Pitbull 9. Unwound - NO TECH! 10. Helium - Cosmic Rays 11. Lynnfield Pioneers - Maximum Sunshine 12. Guitar Wolf - Fujiyama Attack 13. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain 14. Bardo Pond - Flux CD Two 1. Mogwai - Xmas Steps 2. Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube 3. Guided By Voices - The Official Ironmen Rally Song 4. Sleater-Kinney - Banned From The End Of The World 5. Solex - One Louder Solex 6. Matmos - The Banjo's Categorical Gut 7. Arab Strap - Here We Go 8. Khan - Booker To Hooker 9. Red Snapper - Image Of You 10. Arsonists - Blaze 11. Boards Of Canada - Roygbiv 12. Burger/Ink - Do The Strand 13. Pole - Tanzen 14. Void - X-Factor CD Three 1. The Lynnfield Pioneers - Windblown 2. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Naked 3. Non Phixion - Sleepwalkers 4. Arsonists - Universal Skills 5. Pizzicato Five - One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls 6. Solex - Oh Cripes! 7. Khan - Body Dump (Super-8 Mix) 8. The Wisdom Of Harry - Schtumm 9. Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube (Live) 10. Pavement - Grounded (Crooked Rain Version) 11. Guided By Voices - Choking Tara (Creamy Version) 12. Mary Timony - Aging Astronauts II 13. Bardo Pond - Long Ride 14. Mogwai - Hugh Dallas 15. Cat Power - Sea Of Love : : : : object not found : : : : http://www.renewal.org.au/object : : loser-fi(delity) radio : : http://www.renewal.org.au/loser +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: two cents on Eyes Wide Shut debate (no B&S content!:))
by JLGodard＠webtv.net 22 Aug '99

22 Aug '99

I've sworn off posting, but I had to write in response to some innacuracies. I LOVED Eyes Wide Shut, and think that its 'slowness' is merely relative. There is no rule how many events must happen within a certain length of time in a film. The film has an aura of too-bright Christmastime with something rotten inside, and it's maintained from beginning to end in each visual, plotting, and even musical respect. In the 12 years since Stanley Kubrick's LAST 'slow' masterpiece, our attention spans have shrunken to microscopic proporions, and the film biz has changed for the (EVEN) worse! It's been so long since a truly didactic (and I don't use this term pejoritavely AT ALL) film has been allowed to be made even on the indie circuit, let alone a studio film starring Cruise and Kidman, that people can scarcely believe the ice-cold dissection of a universal human conundrum that awaits them. But it's a Kubrick film and that's what he does, and it's done well in Eyes Wide Shut. Oh, I thought it was wholly inappropriate all the laughter that Marie Richardson (who in fact is NOT the prostitute who saves Tom, but the girl whose father died) was greeted with when she appeared on screen. Let's consider some Marie Richardson/Eyes Wide Shut facts, shall we? -Marie is Swedish, and a VERY fine actress. She has been featured in many latter day Bergman offerings (written by Bergman, not directed of course, as he's retired) and was presumably hand picked by Kubrick for her acclaim. Her accent may have contributed to the misunderstanding of the scene, but the informed film-goer, aware of who Richardson is, her nationality, and her stature in the acting community, will recognize the accent as entirely natural and frankly not out of step with the serious tone of the film at all. I'm sure there's many a wealthy international heiress residing in upper-crust New York. Her character is one of them. -Her character has just experienced a profound emotional loss. Her reaction on screen, though laughed at as too corny or melodramatic, is in fact the very kind of hysterical, dazed reaction a person would likely have when presented with the stark shock of the death of a loved one. -The irony of the scene is precisely the same as that of the final scene, and in fact several scenes throughout the film. Richardson's character has experienced this emotional devastation, but her animal instincts take over. She throws herself at Cruise in a panic, uncontrollably, desperately, and I thought rather sadly, while her father's freshly dead body lies in the background. The horrifying arbitrariness of this instinct is driven home when her boyfriend arrives and is revealed, in fact, to be just as fine a specimen as Cruise is. Why would she do this, behave in such a pathetic way when her father is dead and she's already comitted to a man equally accomplished and sexually desirable to Cruise's doctor? The point of this scene is the point of the film; you can ask "why", evaluate, explore, and discuss the issue all you wish, and your only answer will still be: As a human being, you're stuck in an endless balancing act between your animal drives and your evolved ones. Viva Kubrick! -2 or 3 Things I Know About Chris Post-post test courtesy of miranda july Section 5: Word Use Pupil uses three given words in one sentence. Example: Disco/Hope/Apocalypse: "When the apocalypse comes, I hope I'm at the disco." 1. Merchant/Bread/Buy 2. Wake/Up/Bitch 3. Slap/Slap/Slap 4. River/Fish/Boat +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: all apologies:) (Eyes Wide Shut)
by Kin WOO 22 Aug '99

22 Aug '99

thanx to Christopher McQuai for pointing out my mistake in the film, "EWS" re:Marie Richardson/hooker conundrum- now I feel like a bit of a dill:) But that still doesn't detract from my opinion of the film- which is not bad by any means but far less than one would expect from someone such as Stanley Kubrick. it's cold clinical dissection of people was unnerving but I have seen other films that do that just as well, if not better. so to summarise, filming, lighting, major themes, Vinessa and Nicole- PROS, CONS : gratuitous and unnecessary sex scenes, 'stately' pace, and Tom Cruise. I'm not the type who expects every film to move along at a cracking pace, after all I'm a sucker for period films and they don't exactly rip along, but there does come a point where one says "hmm, this scene could have been cut out" and the film would have been the better for it. Ah well, to each his one huh???:) Well films I will be looking forward to (and hopefully won't be disappointed by) include "American Pie", "Election", "Blair Witch Project" (sure to spark up another debate here in Aussie land) and "Sleepy Hollow". In my stereo: Wilco and Billy Bragg: "Mermaid Avenue" One Dove: "Morning Dove White" anxiously awaiting to get my copy of Alpha's "Come From Heaven" and Pavement's "Terror Twilight" ok seeya Kin Woo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i need a fix
by Kt788＠aol.com 22 Aug '99

22 Aug '99

Wow! thank you everyone who sent me suggestions for my radio show. I'd personally thank you all, but there were lots of you (how sweet you all are) and i am sleepy now. There was some really interseting stuff suggested. Now comes the hard part of researching everything and finding it. And buying it. Not that I mind, I get a keen little discount at the record store I work at and I am a music junkie. I actually crave new cd's/records like drugs. Does that happen to anyone else or just me? Well anyway, you can all feel free to continue sending me any new dicoveries or whatever. Goodnight, kristie Love is surely gospel. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: we are the tablecloth and also the table (only youre not, are you?)
by Alix Campbell 21 Aug '99

21 Aug '99

hello virgin have a sale on. i went into town intending to buy useful things, like stamps, but i came back with more bloody cds that i dont particulary want. so now i have a cd by the incredible string band. they were on some mentalist shit, for sure. like an aesthetic menage a trois involving gorky's, monty python and the cast of the wicker man. and a stoat. the cover has children on it dressed like contestants for a 'who can look like a madnut druid and wear the best poncho' competition at a village fete. but they werent on such mentalist shit as freedesign blatantly were. beyond psychedelia, they were. its easy to be drug addled and sing about minotaurs horns, but to sing about forget-me-nots and sesame street? that shows proper skeelz. i wonder what theyre doing now. farming little baby puppies, and selling them to lovely kind caring people, for no money at all, just for the sheer pleasure of watching baby animals grow furry. or theyre trapped in a basement somewhere being forced to watch 'police, camera, action' with the sound off. i saw something once on 'youve been framed'. it was a cat on a spinny office chair being spun round and round until its eyes went all spinny too and it fell off the chair. thats cruel, i thought. but 'youve been framed' is an essentially cruel program. its because jeremy beadle is so bitter. i know hes deformed, but theres no need to keep showing people from 1991 falling into wedding cakes. i tried to buy some socks today. i swear theres no socks in oxford that are not brown, navy or black. if i want socks like that i steal them from my brother. if i have to buy them i want them to be exciting, orange, maybe or something equally exotic. like pink. littlewoods (sorry, thats far too relevent) is depressing, isnt it? i got in there and couldnt find the socks at all. then when i did i despaired and had to leave in fear of being overwhelmed by the beigeness of it all. im moving to london soon. i need a job and a house, if anyone has any spare ones about their person. means ill be leaving the list and therefore changing it not one bit seeing as i never post. if anyone caught a cold recently, that was my fault and im sorry, but im suffering too... love lixi Go and see Droolz at - http://www.droolz.ukf.net/ It's more fun than skinnydipping with nuns +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: YOUR THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS BUT IT SEEMS THAT MY DREAMS NEVER COME TRUE
by GEORGE DICKIE 21 Aug '99

21 Aug '99

YO-YO LIST AND OTHER FADS REGARDING THE MOZ/MARR/BECK SHAG .tickets for the Coachella Festival at Indio, California go on sale this Saturday, August 7, 1999 (select Ticketmaster outlets, 9am). Although it is a two day event, MORRISSEY will only be performing on the first day (October 9, 1999). Along with Morrissey performing on the main stage will be Beck, the Chemical Brothers, Perry Farrell, the John Spencer Blues Explosion and Cornelius. Ticketmaster "Internet Onsale" date and time is also Aug. 7, 9am. So far this is the only concert that has been confirmed. IT SEEMS THAT MARR PLAYING IS NOW ONLY A HOPE A HOPE IN HELL BUT A HOPE FOR THE UK LIST PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE YOU TO CONSIDER WATCHING THE LATE NIGHT POKER FINAL ON C4 TONIGHT AT 1.20AM IT IS SURE TO BE A CLASSIC I THINK THE DEVIL FISH WILL WIN HOPE U JOIN ME THAT IS ALL 4 NOW LOVE AND LOVING PARENTS WOW GHD99 ______________________________________________________ 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: why does it always rain on me (in edinburgh)?
by Archel1978＠aol.com 21 Aug '99

21 Aug '99

i have returned from edinburgh, where i got very wet and cold, and on the plus side got to bond with complete strangers while sheltering in doorways/pizza hut/under the scott monument. i also saw some, like, culture. three australian blokes singing songs about mucus was obviously a highlight, but richard herring's play was good too. i imagined that bonnie scotland would naturally be b&s-friendly, but all that happened was that i lost 2 of the badges adorning my bag. a thief/fan or just the effect of struggling past huge crowds all day? managed to sort out accommodation in the end, although our hostess' flatmates didn't seem to like us much, especially when we were eating battered sausages at 2am in their kitchen. killjoys. still, at least i wasn't far enough away from home to have jetlag, unlike my best friend who has just got back from canada and keeps on getting up at 4am to eat biscuits. meanwhile, sophie has been badgering me for recordings of b&s ever since tigermilking, which initially she only came to because she was bored and liked the idea of walking the streets of london in the early hours, the hussy. so, another successful conversion job. i haven't got much else to say now until i catch up with life again. well done A level survivors, i've got big nostalgie de la boue. luv archel xxx ******* Rachel Playforth archel(a)iname.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: In the mirror of my steamy bathroom
by Robert Foster 21 Aug '99

21 Aug '99

nothing too grand this time. Sorry but this is for UK listies only, well it's not my fault! It's probably a bad idea but tomorrow (Sunday) on channel 4, er, around 02:25 there is a film called The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner. Reading that sent a little bell off in my head, it's probably nothing to do with anything B&S, but you never know. Also, if you do not have a social life watch The Ruling Class, tonight BBC2. I know I'll be watching. Sorry if this is boring +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Slow Graffiti
by nickb 21 Aug '99

21 Aug '99

kerry wrote: 'instead of knowing i was losing it in the first moment of waking up this morning, i thought of slow graffiti. and that made me decide to write to you. and i guess that's all i have to say.' I should be in bed asleep but I can't doze off. I feel like I should be up and doing things. Later I know I'm going to crash out and probably wake up at 11 pm having missed all the good shows on TV. When I got in from work I listened to the Slow Graffiti EP because I wanted to hear 'The Gate' and when Slow Graffiti came on I remembered that someone here said the song was used in The acid House to very moving effect. What I thought was this: I'll go out and try and get the film. Actually I took a detour into cafe Astoria and had a breakfast number 2; I eat far too much. It's odd but I always feel alot better in there. I think it's something to do with the way the sun shines in and the place is laid out. I hoped the girl who works there who looks like she might have red Indian blood in her that I sort of fancy might be serving, but she wasn't. After that I continued wandering down the high road and went in WHSmiths and Our Price and Woolworths but it wasn't these. I couldn't be fagged to go to Blockbuster Video. I ended up in Our Price and wanted to stay there all day when I saw the girl working there. I'm sure all girls who work in Our Price look like goths, really pretty goths. She had a pierced lip (her actual lip was pierced with a ring) but she was still gorgeous. But, anyway, I wanted to buy something to cheer myself up. The Our Price in Streatham high road is a bit rubbish though and I couldn't find anything I wanted. I ended up buying the new Pavement album for just over a tenner because I couldn't justify paying £15.99 for that Beth Orton album I've wanted to get for ages. Unfortunately I was served by the bloke. Oh well. I also got a Darth Maul mug which cheered me up as well. It has 'AT LAST WE WILL HAVE REVENGE!' on the back in capitals. Oh dear - I really have rambled on. Must be the effect of 'Slow Graffiti'. Unfortunately, the other song on the EP 'I know where the Summer goes' always reminds me of when I was in bed for a while suffering from Glandular Fever. I was in bed on my birthday as well unfortunately and I was just listening to the song over and over thinking '*I* know where the summer goes, I spend it in bed with the mother of all sore throats on my birthday' For what it's worth I think They Might Be Giants should be played on the radio show. I really like Birdhouse in your soul, Ana Ng, Santas Beard and Narrow your eyes. I'm sure They might be Giants must have a cult following somewhere. Also, how about playing the Eggs? I think some of their stuff is really great, especially A pit with spikes and The Government Administrator. Oh well, I should really stop typing and sleep. spritser +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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