August 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: squashing toronto rumours
by teri vlassopoulos 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

hello fellow friends, from reading the list these days, one would deduce that toronto is a city full of cold, scary people and psychos. for the record, it is, but in a good way, you know? toronto is actually a very pleasant place.. all the sinisterines i know are gorgeous and fun and fabulous so i don't want anyone thinking otherwise. aside from the occasional arson, looting and rape, we are gentle types. gentle waves, you might say. anyway, anyone in the vicinity should be aware that there will be a few sinisterly get-togethers in september during the first week when there's that plethora of good shows. we'll all be broke, but happy at least. teri x read: http://members.tripod.com/~meltingsnow/ ______________________________________________________ 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: hurrah!!
by Ian McKinney 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

A voice at last! Oh joy and rapture! I hadn't intended to post immediately following my release from the nursery, but when the message appeared, I couldn't contain myself. Some of you may already know me as 'gibber' from the sinister chat-channel, however I feel a brief introduction to the group may be in order. I am a 22 year old irish male, nominally a student in Belfast, but most of my time is spent sleeping and drinking and eating burgers and twixes. I've been on a few mailing lists before, but never on one which people put so much time and effort into their posts. I hope I can keep up the standard. Firstly, remember there was an article in the Guardian about two weeks ago with all the ludicrous claptrap about how its trendy to dress like an arts student now? Well, there was a delightful little photo of Isobel, and me being a bit of an obsessive, I went to the trouble of uploading it for the benefit of the non-guardian readers. For all I know everybody might've seen it before, but what the hell. Here it is: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Maison/2842/isobel.jpg Secondly, if you share my puerile, infantile sense of humour, you may enjoy this slightly modified version. I apologise in advance. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Maison/2842/isobeard.jpg The devil will find work for idle hands. Oh well. Thirdly, I've come up with some cracking compositions on the java magnetic poetry device on the jeepster site, but I can't figure out how to save them as a gif file, or any type of file for that matter. If somebody could help me I would be very happy. I've got Win98 and IE 5. Fourthly, if anybody else on this list is resident in Belfast, (apart from Daragh, who is my v.b.f. anyway) why not drop me a line and we can go out and get hammered? Yours with tremendous expectations, Ian ______________________________________________________ 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: Yes, ha ha, Johnny!
by Robyn Fadden 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

hello all, I was listening to electronic renaissance the other day (okay, yesterday) and even though I though it's "funkadelic is the way to go, boy", I keep hearing: "Ed McMahon is the way to go, boy." Oh, yes, har, har... perhaps this has been said before on the list, but it's funny. Finally Belle and Sebastian on the CBC?! I don't believe it. I will be listening to (and taping) the show just to see if they say anything new, anything at all (which would be surprising for a station seemingly focused only on the wants of 50ish men (and their spouses) and cottage country lifestyles. Ech.) Yes, Jason D. of Toronto (near the above-mentioned cottage country), a poetry thread would not be a good thread for the list, esp as it might lead to *bad* poetry and there is certainly enough of that on the web already. But what we have seen here has been poetry by other people, usually well known poets, not listees (for the most part, I think.) Anyway, point here is: why do people have such a hate on for poetry? It doesn't even get a chance. yes, a lot of amateur stuff sucks and there are plenty of terrible poetry nights around, but c'mon the root of poetry is language and what we do with words, how these little black lines take on so much meaning. And this is done every day on this list, right? Perhaps the education system scares people away. Okay, that's it. More to say, but will stop. P.S. song lyrics are poetry, and every song quoted is a fraction of a poem (if we get down to nit-picking) - melody and rhythm, instruments, etc. complete the setting of tone. Poetry. In defense of. I like it, but yes, let's keep it very minimal on this list (this is directed at me too.) Waiting for my glitter badges, Robyn === I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC _________________________________________________________ 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: two wee questions.
by Thessaly1＠aol.com 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

hi there kids! i have two very small questions that i would appreciate finding out the answers to. okay? first one. is easterhouse a mental institution, council estate or what? i was watching a cheesy detective series located in glasgow and they went off to easterhouse to look for someone who was visiting his shrink there. other question: i *finally* saw "the acid house" because it is playing at an art theatre in la for a week and i was curious about whether it was a coincidence that there is a "johnny" mentioned in slow graffiti and the character from the short story shown in the movie; or if the song was written specificly for "a soft touch" from the acid house? mucho gracias, jennifer juniper +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: And I really want to thank you my parents, my grandma, that gay teacher...
by Arantxa Sanz 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Dear all: After the eclipse, I have overcome my hippy-hipster (because I spent more hours on roads than bloody Dick Moriarty in all his life,mainly)tendencies and now my biorrythms are into spinster moods.My interests are crosswords,blankets and I wear librarian glasses because Mr Stout got my current ones.Our left eyes seemed in perfect synthony, not the right ones, he complained. I feel about Tigermilking night as people not attending the picnic felt, so I am not going to bore the lot of you with my sorrows.But on that night I attended an spontaneous Flamenco night in Exeter, hey! You cannot see that sort of things everyday.And to beat Tim Popkins walkaround's Paris, I was escorted by two young gentlemen around Birmingham on Saturday morning.That's attitude,you cannot deny it. Basically, the only purpose of this aimless message is to thank my four crush votes,making a Paltrow since the subject.I am actually sobbing gratefully, maybe you can notice the teardrops on your screen when you read these lines.More on votes:Alisdair not only has conquered Mrs Clarke's heart,and I am trying to be persuaded I should vote for such a great bloke and footballer.I have never voted for anyone, but I should exert the right and duty of all Sinister citizens, shouldn't I ? You can start campaigning! No more nonsenses today.And more vida loca! xxxxx 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: want to go for a swim?
by Giita . 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Hallo(inIcelandic), How have you people been? Today is exactly ONE MONTH UNTIL BOWLIE2 TIME!! YAY!! ..And today is also two weeks since I left Iceland to go to Ireland and now IŽm back in Iceland again... :( <- ItŽs not that I hate this country or anything, itŽs just that itŽs where I live..Places where you live are often places where you donŽt want to stay in.. I had a wonderful time in Dublin..*sigh* :) Met listees Joss and Paula Cullen..there wasnŽt a picnic, but plenty of drinking..- A good thing :) Not that i drink that much..but.... On my way back to the cold land I stopped over in Glasgow and went for a coffee with Claire Timmins, bought some music in Stephen PastelŽs record shop and flew back to Iceland. I would have liked to have stayed in Glasgow a little longer..IŽm sure that day will come.. The rain has been following me around this summer..But the first day back home and the sun wonŽt stop shining :) ..Well, I better shut up before someone gives me a slap in the face :) ...IŽm off to take pictures of this sunny day (real estate) .. Take care! XXX @->-- Giita @->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->--@->-- "And we all say we donŽt want to be alone, we wear the same clothes because we feel the same.." End of a century - Blur ______________________________________________________ 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: Take A Straight Break!
by Starry 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Evenin', I am halfway through my Queer as Folk video and thus have decided to take a "straight break" from the land of ourtrageous camp fools, Irish sluts and a supermarket manager with no self-esteem all trying their best to get sex, and lots of it too! Three at a time in one case!! I swear, you can't get ANY better than Queer as Folk. I'd become a gay man so I could LIVE it, but I'd have to take testosterone and lose weight so I could wear some of those horrifically tight shirts. I already have the mobile phone thangyewverymuch! "THEN along comes Nathan Maloney. Young wild, and coming out with a vengance, he crowbars his way into their world and once he arrives, nothing is ever the same again." YEAAH! George Dickie, its a real shame you're on the dole cos you look like complete and utter fucking druggie, and we know how much complete and utter fucking druggies are useful within the houses of parliament. You should apply to be an m.p and do something useful with your life, like earn lots of money and have a front page scandal in the Sun after two months, and then kill yourself in a quite rude way, involving a poster of N'Sync and a small aubergine. Andy Dean? I've waited for a bus for TWO HOURS before so your 30 minutes waiting for a bus, well just be thankful for it. I hope your work days are going along fine - if they need me to work for them, please will you put me forward? I can make tea, hand round biccies, type 50-60 words per minute and probably fix Unix Solaris servers despite not really knowing what they are. I bet they're like...cake. My favourite actress is Kirstie Alley. She was good in the "Look Who's Talking" series of films, I reckon. The way she pretended she couldn't understand the babies! Ahahaha! Wonderful!! Um....I can't think of any other actreses, apart from Christina Ricci who still looks like Wednesday Addams in my mind. She has bigger boobs now though hasn't she? Won't that be nice for her. My favourite actor would be either Craig Kelly (who is a friend of mines second cousin! AARRGH!), Aidan Gillen, or Charlie Hunnam. Or Mel Gibson. I can't think of any other actors either. Films are overrated! TV rocks! Films are the last resort of pretension. Aaaaaah. Yes, aaaaaah. Especially if they are in black and white and have subtitles. Even though I was going to buy "Bringing up baby" the other day cos it was 6.99 in the sale - but then I changed my mind and bought three singles for 99p each instead. My mum was looking through my Bowlie pictures. Alasdair, she thinks you're "nice looking". I think we've gathered that the Amphetameanies and V-Twin are playing in Glasgow by now. It's stamped onto my mind. The Amphetameanies are very SKA SKA SKA. Not in the sense of Ricky Martins ska "fusion", but in the sense of a big fat dude running up and down on the spot dressed in black and white checks. They had a song which I really liked, but I've forgotten it now. Was it to do with cake, or do I just have cake on the mind?? I'd like to get the V-twin single, but I haven't been into Preston to get it. And I forgot when I was in Manchester. Will it have sold out by now do you reckon? Oh well..I could look. I go to Preston on Thursday anyway. For EXAM RESULTS. My my. Madre a dios! I've just remembered I'm going to study Spanish and it would be good if I remembered any by October. I like the fact that Spanish is an awkward bugger of a language, cos I met this Spanish dude called "Jorge", and whenever I had to say his name I hacked away a little bit more of my throat lining. I reckon Spaniard either have stronger throats than English speakers, or that there's a very high sore throat count in Spain. I could open a business selling throat soothers. Yeah! Don't steal my idea David. I now officially copyright that idea for ME. And if anyone else is selling throat soothers in Spain, they gotta pay ME. Hurrah for the business world! Sarah 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: pleasantries and pedantries
by Kevan Cooke 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

hello folks thanks for your eclipse stories last week, it was very cloudy here so it just went a bit grey and chilly for a while. a bit disappointing but at least i got to reminisce about being in manchester. more importantly did anyone remember to tell lisa not to look directly into the sun during the eclipse? now you know what you've gone and let happen there don't you? yes, safety is a polar bear b-side, and i believe struan adds a touch of recorder playing or somesuch in addition to his vocal stylings. unusually for snow patrol that particular song gets a local dignitary smashing a champagne bottle and declaring my boat officially floated. thanks to everyone who came to tigermilking last friday, and thanks for putting up with the "technical difficulties" that seem to be becoming a regular feature, what with the fuses being blown at the first one, and the equipment deciding it wasn't going to play b&s songs this time (a rather severe handicap at a b&s themed night). congratulations to glampam the dancing queen who managed to dance for three hours or so without missing a song, that girl is on duracell batteries... apologies to pj miller, whose request for "sister disco" was still being digested as i was making my way to the big smoke on friday... and props to archel and weejay both of whom i met for the first time (thanks to whoever explained that props means kudos, it's a lot clearer now). richmal compton may not have been a rabbit, but i think you'll find that richard adams was, and sometimes he was a bloody big bear too. kevan this message was sponsored by duracell - the longer lasting batteries. *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Citizen's Band
by Cairns, Joe 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

hey up! Just a quick one to point out that the mighty Arab Strap are rinsing it out on the Mary Anne Hobbs show at midnight tonight on Radio 1. The last time around they dropped 'Super Galactic Funk' by the Star Wars Orchestra, and the time before that some lovely girl groups, so it should be worth a listen. That was probably only relevant to UK people, although I'm sure that - if you have a big enough ariel - you could catch it in the Netherlands *smirks*. Pete Waterman Update: - The Saturday Times reports that Le Hitman spends £400 a month on cigars - His new wards are a foxy three-piece called Toutes Les Filles, and are ace -Where Did He Keep Them? >Reuters | November 28, 1998 >London - A portly British railway manager known as "The Fat Controller'' was jailed for 27 >months Friday for stealing enough locomotives, wagons, and carriages to start his own railway. >Barry Daly, who gained his nickname from the Thomas The Tank Engine children's books, >perpetrated an elaborate paperwork fraud to steal four locomotives, six passenger carriages, >three breakdown coaches, and 30 wagons. >Daly promised to sell the rolling stock to clients but never delivered. Among those duped was >pop impresario Pete Waterman, famed for nurturing the careers of Australian singers Kylie >Minogue and Jason Donovan. >At his trial in the northwestern town of Chester, Daly admitted to "circumnavigating" the correct >paperwork and dishonestly obtaining checks for almost 43,000 pounds. ta ra, joex +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Love You, You Big Dummy!
by PJMiller 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

I don't think you have to be a lesbian to write about lesbians. After all, Richmal Compton wrote "Watership Down", and he isn't a rabbit. At least he wasn't when he started. Mind you, I bet rabbits think "Watership Down" is complete and utter rubbish, obviously not written by a rabbit. What happened yesterday then? Was it National Lunatic Outburst Day or what? I'm reading a book, it's from Argentina and it's called "Velcro and I" and it's good because it's funny. Did you see that Falklander making wanker signs at the Argentinian journalists yesterday? That was funny too. I haven't seen anyone making a wanker sign for ages. Jimmy in "Quadrophenia" makes a wanker sign when he's at work. I reckon he's going to get the sack or something. I've heard rumours that Stuart Murdoch was recently involved in a massive pub brawl. Could this possibly be true? I also think his dalliance with religious imagery is the musical equivalent of fiddling with he choirboys. I get the feeling that this message was over before it started. Another fuckload of bollocks has just landed in my in-tray. I hope this makes me sound thrusting and dynamic, like the early Buzzcocks. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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