August 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Mike Love, Not War
by robhalcrow＠lineone.net 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Hello people, I'm not bored and I'm not at work so maybe I shouldn't post at all. Beach Boys better than Beatles? I reckon The Beatles win cos they did their stuff and split up before it got diluted and dull. The Beach Boys, well Brian, Carl and Dennis (Bruce at a push) were capable of some heartbreakingly gorgeous stuff (God Only Knows, Cabinessence, Don't Worry Baby, Till I Die...) but Mike "What is this shit?" Love hardly helped the cause. Al was " a man waiting for a bus" according to Dennis. Mike Love aged 75 singing California Girls scares me. Anyone else see the V-Twin video last night on Alternative Nation? Frankly I was shocked at the tying up nurses content. Thought I'd stumbled on The Fetish Channel free preview. I did like it when they all went swimming in their pajamas, though. I reckon the best performance in a music video is Stevie Jackson in LLPJ. That bit where he has his lunch break on the bench is hilarious. It's just the little satisfied look he gives. The Wit and Wisdom of Ailsa Ross- I think we should pay her for her down to earth homilies on the nature of love (and parts of the country named after her), all delivered with just the right mix of compassion and sarcasm. Whoever mentioned the Incredible String Band I heard John Peel play "Swift As The Wind" a while back and it scared me silly. Lots of moaning and wailing with lyrics about swords and medieaval (?) sinister gubbins. Creepy. What else? My fave rave songs at the minute are Arab Strap's "Cherubs" and Stevie's "Chickfactor". In fact anything beginning with Ch it seems.......... Bye Rob +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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'm back (sorry)
by James Thorniley 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Hi Sinsters, I'm back from "holiday": It rained. Oh well, I never enjoy holidays. I did have a different mail to send you, but I scrapped it. I keep doing that; there's got to be like 5 would-be sinister posts in my drafts folder. I scrapped it because the list inspired me with some more interesting subjects: SOCKS Oh yes. My socks smell after a day of wearing them, which is probably the case for most people (I hope). It's annoying, isn't it. As for disappearing, it reminds me of Blackadder the Third. Ho ho, the prince regent kept losing his socks. As for cashmere socks, it seems I have not lived life to the full, as I have never even seen a pair. B&S underwear seems like a cool idea, but what I really want is a B&S cardigan, these t-shirts just aren't enough in winter. HONEY I SHRUNK THE CHOCOLATE It's inflation, see. The chocolate has to shrink or the prices have to go up. They're being nice to us, really. Did you hear cadbury's are planning to shrink those kilogram dairy milk things down to 800 grams? SPECIAL PEOPLE I found Dave's (Jygsaw18@aol) comments very interesting: >> there's been a trend in the last several decades for people to assume that they, along with a select few, are different from the masses. When in reality they aren't, simply because there aren't any "masses" << I think this was a reply to a previous post (something about they might be giants seems to be on a similar point), but I think that post must have come whilst I was on holiday, so I don't know who to credit for starting this thread, but well done to you, anyway. My thoughts arethus: It is nice to think you are different from the masses, and I think we are, after a fashion. Dave is right, that we cannot say that everyone else in the world is "normal" and we are the special ones. But we are special in a way. On this list we can all call ourselves "sinister", or something like that. That makes us all special. That makes us different from everyone who is not on the list. But this list is not the only small group in the world. There are lots of other small groups of people who can consider themselves "special", and to them, we are part of "the masses". Actually, having just read kaite's post (something about being remided of a conversation...), I thought that was interesting too. Some people do prefer to think they are normal. But these people will probably find that there are more strange people than normal people. Oh, and kaite, that magazine was Select, it's sitting on the desk I'm at right now. I hope I didn't offend anyone, because I love you all really. That wasn't very interesting, was it? At least it wasn't very long ;-) -- James Thorniley Sorry, is it Jon Lennon? We are sinister. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 much B7s content) mix tapes....
by erika balsom 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

hello everyone... this is a slightly weird post... i was wondering if anyone (preferable in canada, but not necessarily)wanted to trade mix tapes with me. i have all the b&s ep's (in case anyone doesn't) and lots of other stuff that's generally classified as indie rock..... email me for the specifics.... i love trading mix tapes, and i figured this would be a good place to ask since we all have at least one band in common........ erika +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: South Central Rain (I'm sooooowwwwrryyy!!!)
by Jason Scott 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Greetings puppies and kiddies: I recently went mad with my remaining pocket money and bought Lazy Line Painter, Modern Rock, and 369. When you have as much money as I DON'T, that's a spree! I threw the Acid House soundtrack on the pile, too. Then went to Taco Bell for salvation. The thing is, music is the food of love, so play on...music can get you through certain times moreso that food can...or people...or anything, you know what I mean? "A simple prop, to occupy my time" as Stipe sang last night in concert. My favorite moment was probably when Stipey hauled his shirt up over his head for the song "Tongue", which is the 7th track on Monster, the one with great lyrics sung in high falsetto... symbolizing a woman's voice. Before singing the song, he annouced, like a warning: "This song has tits!" (Which I assume were his.) Anyways, my roomate works for the National Post in Toronto as a photographer, and if anyone in the Toronto area pick's up today's paper, you'll see his greeeaaat pic of Mike Stipe in there somewhere. It's kinda neat to come home after the show, and see the pics that are yet to be unveiled to the public eye. Today his assignment is to photograph pictures of 2 recently named Canadian spies, who've never been seen, who are on their way to court. Let's call it "Operation: Terrance & Phillip"! Nyuk! Ho hum. Another dry day at the office.I need hugs from the arms that don't exist. What's a boy to do? Yours, at my most beautiful: Jason D. "Sad Professor" Scott ______________________________________________________ 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: bien sur!
by Graham MacArthur 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

hip-kittens, All this talk of socks, you're *so* passe. Don't you know legwarmers are de rigeur this season? Of course you can't wear them unless you have legs like very long sticks, but tights can do magic things these days. I used to quite hate 'Sleaze nation', and style programmes like 'Slave', but you have to admit, they're laughing at *us* when they send us out buying shell suits and legwarmers under the guise of an eighties rivival. If the eighties was the decade style forgot, what is the nineties? The decade where style couldn't be bothered, and took the best bits of old things, threw them all together on a pretty frame and claims it's doing something exciting? Like Spanners and his Parka-angst, I *hate* the ironic hipster brigade. Yes, I mean you! With your designer trainers and your waiting list aviator Chole shades. I got a new mAKE UP cd called Afterdark, which is like Aftermath, only better. It's live, so it sounds like it's been recorded in a barrel, natch. Someone has stolen my other mAKE UP cd, but bizzarely left the case behind in their crafty theiving spree. Of course it's not down the back of the sofa, or stuck behind my chest of drawers. Oh no. I like the mAKE UP because it scares the neighbours. R U A Believer? Can I hear U say "yea"? Play them LOUD and play them PROUD. And if they tell you to turn that terrible racket down, you tell them from me, we can't be contained. I've just got my photos back from the last london picnic, and I think you should all feel very, very afraid. bunny-eared Erica x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sang while jumping out of a cake
by Genevieve Wesley 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Hello list, How are things? Mmmmm...I dont have too much to say right now.I am reading the serge gainsbourg biography `Gainsbourg: ou la provaction permanente` is that the sort of fact you would say at a cocktail party mmm hmmm! Well, Happy Birthday Stuart Murdoch! You are growing up to be a fine young man indeed.Here is my (unorginial) Ode To Stuart, george dickie style! I THINK ITS HIGH TIME YOU KNEW....WHENEVER I THINK OF YOU MY MIND BLOWS!!! A FUSE (BABY)WHEN I LOOK IN YOU EYES MY METER STARTS TO RISE...AND I BECOME CONFUSED I I I... IM JUST A LOVE MACHINE AND I WONT WORK FOR NOBODY BUT YOU TO TURN ME ON..JUST SET MY DIAL AND LET ME L O V E YOU FOR A LITTLE W H I L E (HAPPY BIRTHDAY) Pah..none of the other Canadian listees have offered to meet up.I cant imagine why! They must think I`m strange or something.I think it was Ailsa who had the idea for the 27th all round the world,a sinistereen should be in a pub? Well,I shall be drinking in a ditch somewhere,celebrating, if everyones going to be so cold and unloving. cheers! genevieve-brain-drained-in-canada ______________________________________________________ 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: judy and the dream of arses
by Fredrik Appelberg 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Hi there boys and girls! I finally got around to buying tigermilk yesterday (I know I'm propbably the last one on this list) and must say that it's absolutlely fabulous! Hot dang, that's some good tunes! "She's losing it" is probably the best ever. Which got me thinking about something: I loved sinister (except maybe "Fox in the snow"). Arab Strap wasn't as good (even if that particular song is excellent!). And tigermilk is the best. That kind of suggests a degrading curve on the belle-and-sebastian-album-quality-measuring-chart. Think about that for a while. Also, I think smoked cheese is the food of the gods. --Fredrik +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Isobel joins Orbital; renamed Sorbitol
by Michael Jones 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

Hey ! Thanks to the Virgin sale, I finally have a copy of the Gecko Whores record for less than 50p/min (I could call Gay Xchange for cheaper than that). It's lucky I have such a sweet tooth - much of it is like ploughing through a big block of coconut ice, with extra twinkling and froth. If one suppresses the impulse to demand that someone administer oxygen to the singer *and soon*, it's really a pleasant frolic through a land where the grass is knee-high and tulips whisper weather warnings to each other in the language of ice-cream. Sorry, just lost my mind for a moment there. Occasionally meltingly pretty, which is just what I want right now. That, and coruscating digital filth. The unexpected joyous scree of accelerated Bo Diddley on "A Chapter In The Life..." damn near loosened my foothold on the Tube this morning; I nearly sprawled across two Metro-reading backpackers. Which would violate my probation. William Messent said something about UK confectioners over-reaching themselves. Too true. I think the BPI, being the standard-bearer for all that is Good and Right about Britain, should intervene. They cracked down on 'limited-edition' double-choc Kit-Kats soon enough, didn't they ? How about a blanket ban on the sort of ruthless exploitation of brand loyalty that has seen 55 different incarnations of Smartie seep onto the market ? I reckon only three types of any particular sweet should count toward overall sales; and there should be some guidelines in place regarding how far from the original brief an item of confectionery can stray whilst still retaining its identity. I mean, those miniature orange Polos have less to do with the GB's favourite annular breath-freshener than they do with those Vitamin C tablets I was addicted to in the early 80s. They know what they're doing, the bastards. Mr Miller - your tape(s) is/are almost on its/their way. Though any more of the g-word (especially in the collective noun sense) and I might have to re-consider your status as competition winner. You still get the tapes, but the Bronze Fist Of Triumph stays here. Them's the rules. I now owe the list such a backlog of ThaiFacts, that I might have to start making them up. Which would be wrong of me. Especially as the lovely Oon sent me a genuine Pissing Boy recently - anatomically dubious though it was. Next time, I'll sort me head out and do it all proper, like. Michael. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: keep on keepin' on
by Cairns, Joe 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

hullo there, browsing about, I stumbled upon joyous news about a club we already like lots: >DA DOO RON RON is a monthly celebration of classic 6T's girl groups, Motown minxes, northern nightingales, Detroit dollies, searing soul sirens and playful popstrels. It is held every THIRD Wednesday of each month @ PO NA NA 259, UPPER STREET, HIGHBURY CORNER FORTHCOMING DATES Wed 20th October - Guest DJ - Beans (Belle & Sebastian) Wed 17th November - Guest DJ - Andy Smith (Portishead) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/1268/uknite.html Dunno if people already knew about this, but it sounds wonderful, no? People should also catch Andy Smith, too. He is probably the third best DJ I ever saw (for choice of tunes rather than technics skills), and his mix album is tree-mendous. dave wrote: >After all, Stuart Murdoch says he likes AC/DC, a band normally associated with longhaired guys who wear flannel and tight black jeans, and drive loud cars In the paper today, Richie Fearless from Death In Vegas sports an AC/DC t-shirt. He also wears a Casino sew-on patch on his denim jacket, and is therefore down with the kids. 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'll say something now I've got something worth saying...
by Alan Singfield 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

The other great thing about Lord Anthony coats was that they were bright orange quilted inside. This was great for skinflint parking attendants, who would wear them inside out so you wouldn't run them over for pointing out the blatantly obvious (where the next free parking space is. Duhhh I think I'll park in that space which already has a car in it) I must vent a pet hate towards those so called *ironic* hipsters who wear parkas now. They pay £100 for them from Camden market, and yet they were the same bastards who wore sportswear at school and stamped our parkas into the mud. We should set up a register of genuine parka owners, verified by school photographs, and any non-member should get *their* parka stamped in the mud. There. I've vented my spleen. So *thats* what the vent with poppers halfway up the left side was for! See you people at ATP. Sorry I won't be wearing my parka, it doesn't fit any more and I still haven't plucked up the courage to ask my mum to wash the mud off. Kisses & hugs where relevant, manly bearhugs where not. Spanners. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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