September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Attention Darren Savage: "The Smiths" and the like
by Mark Niciu 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

Darren, I wholeheartedly disagree regarding your claim that the self-titled album by the Smiths is shite. You may believe that one who contends otherwise doesn't know their arse from their elbow, but I would love to hear your reasons for such an asseveration. I believe that it is their best album from top to bottom, albeit there are undoubtedly better singles on "Hateful of Hollow," "The Queen is Dead," and "Strangeways..." How can you contend that songs like "Reel Around the Fountain" (which Belle and Sebastian covered, I hear), "You've Got Everything Now," "Miserable Lie," "This Charming Man," "Still Ill," "Hand in Glove," "What Difference Does it Make?" and "Suffer Little Children" are pants? And several of these songs are repeated without alterations on "Hateful of Hollow," so what gives? More importantly, I live in New York and would love to know what bars in the big apple play Belle and Sebastian. Are their albums (and if so, which ones) in juke boxes or are D.J.s responsible for the tracks? Most of the bars around me (Westchester County) only play shite like Sugar Ray, 311, and other club hits to the reception of an audience ostensibly eager for such crap sounds. Belle and Sebastian would be lovely to hear as I romp across the city bar scene. Later, Mark ______________________________________________________ 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: "say aye tae a pie" - POPULAR baker's slogan
by BabyChris Crystalballs 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

I saw that in town testerday. I'm sorry that I'm mailing again, but the biology teacher said that we didn't need to bother going to class, so I am checking my mails again. 100. bugger. I saw a program the other day about nature and nurture. It led me to wonder about why I like b&s. Or, more specifically, would I have liked b&s if it weren't for certain experiences which I had gone through. I'm not saying that I like b&s music because of the "scene", and things associated with it. I like it because it is some of the most beautiful music that I have ever heard - I can bring tears to the eye, or a smile to the face, it can be uplifting, or gorgeously empathatic. At primary school people would make fun of me. It was only names, and the occasional punch, but when you have to suffer this from the age of 7, it can be bloody horrible. I didn't have many friends, as I was quite a quiet boy. Then, on moving to secondary school, I had gained a reputation as an easy target. People stared jumping me, beating me up, you know, and some stuff was really frightening. Say, on time, an 18 year old and his cronies decked me because one of their little brothers said that I was a cunt. I was 13 at the time. Another time I was stabbed because I had seen a guy dealing drugs in the pe changing rooms. I had my nose broken 4 times, and numerous beatings. This went on till I was about 15. On average I was attacked about once a week. It wasn't fun. so, for about 8 years, which is about half my life, I had suffered at the hands of other people. I don't think thatb it was through any fault of my own - I never provoked anyone - althogh I was sometimes told by people that I should have hit them back, but I wouldn't as I don't believe in violence. I once took the "turn the other cheek" thing literally, and ended up with a severely bruised face. anyway, this lead to me having a severe lack of trust in people. And I figured that the people who were tormenting me were really poular (which they were, for some reason) and also really stupid. so I sort of equated these facts to come up with the crystalballs theory : popular people are stupid and cause pain. therefore poular culture is stupid, and followed by fools. people who are popular in wide circles follow popular culture, so to find decent, intellegent, kind people, look at non popular "scenes" (I0 hate that word, and don't consider myself to be part of any scene, I don't believe in scenes, which sort of defeats my argument) the following generalises a bit, so beware posible scenes - moshers - smelly, don't like the music junkies goths - scary, tend to do it for attention ah - glasgow indie, and other ascociated types of music. really nice people, happy to listen to beautiful music, do not strive for attention, kind people. added bonus - music is fantasticly lovely. but I'm not doing it for the scene. I'm quite a quiet guy I think, not many people at school know who I am, and most who do beat me up at one point or know me beacause I'm tall or because people pronounce my name "melon" and make jokes about my mum having big melons. I have to say, I haven't met anyone on the list. But I think that my assumption was correct - really nice, caring poeple like really beautiful music. hope I didn't bore you. I meant to say other things, but I've been writing for so long that I've forgotten them baby chris CRYSTALBALLS ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 'hooray'
by Jan Imgrund 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

Hey you Cynthia with the nice surname said: << my buddy robert's been chatting up a girl in a flowershop of late, and that's always the best sort of story, even if there's a bad ending, or even if there's no ending, and the romance is just sort of forgotten before it's really begun.>> I agree; my favourite kind of stories, even if most of the time the ending is.. not the best part of it. But, as someone else said recently, grown-up stories often have bad endings, (or none at all), so lets just say that crush-stories are very mature stories ;-) (BTW why does no one on this list ever use those smileys? Is there some hidden rule against it and everyone who uses them is despised in the Great Sinister Underground Community? I think they are very nice when used sparsely. I sometimes really miss the possibility to use them when I am writing a pen-and-paper-letter) Some days, dear sinisterines, some days are too good to be true. Ive always wondered why all bad things normally come together on one single day, and its the same with good things. Mystery, mystery. The day I want to talk about was a good one. The sun shone, everyone was nice to me.. after university, I went to my fave record-store... I thought to myself: today is a good day, so you never know, they might have Lazy Line Painter in today... Yeah, sure. Ive never seen it in my life, so why not today? and... What shall I say? A purple record cover smiled at me. Then I went to the tea-shop. There are about 3 tea shops in Paris, because, as everyone knows, the French have no culture ;) (see why you need whose smileys? Without it, Stéphane would be furious at me and never talk to me again). Anyway; I am on a lonely quest to double the average French tea consumption. But back to the tea shop. The first one or two times I went there I had been served by a girl I immediately fell in crush with, that had been at least 3 months before... she had those irresisitible green eyes and porcelaine skin and wonderful small br.. ho-hum. She was great. But of course, being the Don Juan that I am, all I managed was to have interesting conversations.. about tea. And after those first two times - you know what the nightmare of shop-crushes is? SCHEDULES. No matter when I went there, she wasnt there, and even I can only drink a limited amount of tea. But this one day was a good day. She was there. When I entered the shop, she smiled broadly at me and said something like: Hello, good to see you. You havent been here for a long time, havent you? Dear me, I almost fainted. Crushes are not supposed to even notice you, do they? And this after 3 months.. I was surprised, I was happy for a while. And then, dancing to LLPJ, for the first of many times... maybe youll have a girl tonight... and you know what? I had. It was a good day. And for all those who are tired of picnic-entusiasm-posts, you can stop reading now, cos here comes the picnic-entusiasm part. Im not one for crowds, and even though it was a crowd of amazing sinisterines, first I was afraid, I was petrified.. but it soon went away. Friendly hello to those I talked talked to.. (funny how everyone asked me what my sig was.. "oh, you're the guy with Oscar Wilde and the tindersticks page!" I must confess that I'm doing the same thing, identifying people by their sigs more than by their names.. we should have worn them on a badge. Only Ailsa does not need such things. Ailsa's got her dufflecoat) The night after this was, erm, strange. I just remember sitting silent in a corner, busy being amazed; probably not very entertaining I was. Mirrorball, shopping cart.. it was all a dream, no? I hope it was ;-) bye Jan The Dark Site of the Moon: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/index.html Tindersticks page: http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/tinderpage/tinder.html "Nobody ever listens to anyone else, and if you try for a while you'll see why" - Mignon McLaughlin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: altTP
by sean hopson 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

hi all, can anyone help with my activities between the hours of around 9pm saturday night and 11am sunday morning? my memories have been stolen. hello to all those i met either again or for the first time - let's do it again soon. would anyone be interested in 'little stabs at happiness' at the ica next month? fantastic school disco/film extravaganza hosted by mark weber of pulp. you *know* you want to. love Sean ===== Dr Sean Hopson e-mail : sean_hopson(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ 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: fuck-all to do with metaphysical lunacy
by Georgine Skeene 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

***wARNING... aLMOST zERO b/s cONTENT AND 1100% mEANINGLESS BLABBERING***** ***delete immediately unless you are ready to be fucking bored out of your skull****** i confess i haven't been reading the list the last cople of days, just because i've been alternatly manic and comatose. i took this allergy pill--only one mind you== that fucked over my entire sleeping schedule. the shiznit be just like morphine or something, it knocks you into horizontal faster than anythign i've ever experienced. i'll have to remember that next time i want to go out of commission for a day or so, in any case i've felt curious strange for a while now. i'm a nocturnal creature of the night er having visions and things..... Today in the coffee shop i saw a bloke that reminded me of stuart murdoch. thusly he was rather attractive, much liek a lithe Greek youth, or an androgyne (we all know androgynes are the holiest of beings). i would hav eliked to sit him down and draw him. just his facial structure and his build, were murdochian in some abstract way. i don't know. btw gareth i got your email and sweetie i will write you....err...soon... *) so anyway, i'm sitting here listening to Moonshake with a mint julep mask on my face and watching my Jasmine Mist tea steep in it's clear plastic glass. cheap loser i am. my stomach is flipflops, and i'm having visions again. just a minute i'll be rt back...well i apologize if this post is totally irrelevant, but if we didn't have room to be so it would be a Nazi list ruled by the iron fist of HoneyFuhrer, relegated to comments like "What is Century of Fakers about", and "i'd really like to have sex with isobel". i was just thinking that sinister is almost like a support community in some ways, at least for me--just in the sense that i have met so many beautiful and sincere people here, and i'm so grateful for that. i've never experienced that on this newfangled whatchamajiggy "the internet". ugh. i just feel like.....i went out wiht my friend stacy and it's raining like fuck here, i mean in Arizona! we have monsoons here, it's totally mad! but beautiful. and there was a message on my machine when i got in from my mom. i called her cos i couldnt understand what she said. she said my dad had been in an accident and was in the hospital really bad. like he has bleeding on the brain and can't walk and they have to do surgery or something, and she doesn't know yet. see my mom and dad are split up for many years, but anyway... i'm teh weirdest person about things like that happening. i just have my own ways of dealing with tragedy. like when my erstwhile love deceives me, i cry at the drop of a hat, i bawl for days, but when terror descends upon mortality, i just walk around in a trance, thinking about the miraculousness of life, wondering what it means, becase everythign means something. I mean....i dont' knwo what to feel about some things. When bad stuff happens, like if i hear about a plane crash or like Princess Di's accident, my first thought is like "FUCK, i'm gonna be hearing about this for the next 3 months". you know? i'm cynical in that way. you feel sad, but then again it's like frustrating, because you can't just stop living when things happen, it's not a shock that they do, because that's just the way the universe is, it's all the same in the long run. I always feel the same emotion if i hear someone is pregnant, as when someone dies. it's almost the same thing to me, birth and death. but the thing is that when someone has an accident who is like, a little kid, or mother theresa or someone unreproachable (well some ppl think mother theresa had some issues, but you know what i'm referring to) everyone knows how to feel about it, it's all sad and it's like innocent victim. but when the person is just totally fucked up in the head, i just think "Jesus christ" i mean what DO you think? families are the hardest thing in life, i believe. because so many of them are just fucked. i know my family is mostly bastards, and i say that in the most understanding way, cos i know where they came from....it's not their fault. but they'r enot conscious. and they fucked me up in the same way they were done. so i have this ambivalence about my family. they're not bad people, and i love them because they are jsut....there, but they hur! ! ! t me in so many ways. so right now i'm just thinking....mostly i'm angry when bad things happen, because then you know everyone is going to put their lives on hold and freak out for a while, and when you dont 'know how to feel about it, you're just stuck in a kind of limbo state. I keep thinking how miraculous it is that important things happen, tragedy fascinates me when i'm involved deeply in it, i keep wondering if i'llb e like Sting or someone who writes important bloody works of art or literature because of things like this that happen? it's just too weird cos i was just thinking how i wish i could get away from the things my family did to me. it doesn't bind my thinking as much as it sometiems binds me to the anger that i have,and i question if it's a good thing to even keep analyzing all of that. i think i can handle death more than i could if someone i knew was a vegetable, that's just not a natural state. i wouldn't even want to witness that. i probably wouldn't go to anyones funeral either, because to me it doesn't seem helpful. i think i deal with stuff in my own way. people think it's not proper or seemly not to 'appear' but a long time ago i promised myself i'd never have to go to another funeral. it's not like anyone died, but it feels like it. she said the accidnet happened on saturday, and it seems like ever since that day i've just been possessed by strange spirits. rt now i'm all trembly and my eyes are probably gazing into the great unknown, i doubt i'll sleep, i'll start writing songs or something... i dont' really knwo what my point is, i just felt suddenly urged to write to sinister because you're all so wonderful, and because existence is just amazing and gorgeous to me. i'm perpetually in a state of thrall just opening my eyes and seeing a b! ! ! ird's w ing, or a summer storm. then again, i'm just thinking Bloody fuck, another load of crap for me to deal with. it doesnt' even surprise me anymore. at any moment my whole family could spontaneously combust, and i'd almost expect it to happen. they're just fucked with terrible luck. but i guess every family is to some extent...but nothing that happens shocks me anymore becasue i've seen the entire facade of their contented life crumble befor emy eyes, and all their lies and perversity exposed. you know, they're bastards. they're not bad people, but they're messed up. and you can't do anything about it. I've tried, and nothing gets through. you can't be bound by them, you know, or you'd get bogged down in stuff that doesn't even belong to you. the endless cycle of FUCK that drags everyone down, sometiems you just gotta pull away from it. and i feel guilty at times, but there is no other way to do it.. you can't be responsible for everyone else, it doesn't work that way even if you try. someone could die right in front of me....i might write a big poem about it the week later, but at the time i'll be saying how remarkable it is to me that BAdtz-maru now comes in camo pattern merchandise. isn't it though? i've just seen the most fabulous sanrio things in my life. badtz-maru in a gorgeous hawaii shade of blue and chinese silver patterns all over. it gives you a miniature orgasm just thinking about it, because who would expect something so beautiful? i was thinking about writing an encoded lesbian fairy tale, of course it will be horribly loaded with my own prejudicial autobio and unfair emotional baggage, and be totally bitter and cathartic. sometimes you have to indullge in a little idiocy just to make it through. i'm still thiking about exactly how it will go. has anyone seen the film "Small FAces"? i've now seen the tail end of it oh, about 12 times now. it's on the IFC like every week. it's made in glasgow. and fuck are the accents beautiful. i so wish i was scottish sometiems just to be able to speak so melodically. it's incantatious, it's inconceivable, but true. anyway i noticed that Alastair Galbraith plays a part in it. I"m frankly surprised that i know who alastair galbraith is, and at that only in the vaguest sense. i think he plays violinn or lives in NZ or something. he played on sandra bell's album. for all i know it could have been a different alastair galbraith, but hwo could another have such a beautiful name? it's one of my favorite names, randomly during the day i'll think "Alastair Galbraith" and feel rather pleased with myself. i really dont[ know what that means, but anyway i jsut bored about a thousand people, if you read all of this you're probably as sick as i am.... thus ends my open letter to the great beyond...... LJ time for my hummus i'll be off now. "People cry when the people die i understand... i hold their hand" er something like that. http://members.tripod.com/rebelstrange to the pure, all things are pure--- http://members.tripod.com/rebelstrange/buxoms.html ***The Buxoms: Svengali-free since 1998!!*** ______________________________________________________ Sent by FortuneCity Mail at http://www.fortunecity.com Join now and receive 20Mb of free web space and E-mail +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". 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Sinister: you might not like what I have to say
by BabyChris Crystalballs 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

I got an ass whipping from erica last week when I mentioned her name, and Ilthough I have personally appologised twice, I would like to say that I regret ever having done it and meant no offence. I'm just no good at explaining my point in less than 200 words. I was talking about the list crush an how the top 10 people had changed drastically since the list was restarted. I'm probably reading far too much into this, but I thought that certain listees who had been quite high on the crush chart now, unfairly, had hardly any votes. It could just be the nature of crushes (one minute the person is wonderful and perfect and you want to marry them, and the next you can't remember who they are), but does anyone else think that this could be a backlash against the imaginary hierarchy who people targeted during the SOS shenanigans before summer? Just wondering. I shouldn't really have wrote that. People might get angry. This morning, I think I accidentally talked to an aunt of mine who I haven't seen for 8 years (my dad and her don't get on well), while I was trying to get some work experience in a hospital. She worked in personel, and asked me for my name. I said"Chris Mellan", and she said "oh, that's an unusual name. That was my name before I got married. hey - hah ha - we could be related." damn right we could. there are only 5 mellans in the south glasgow phone book, and I know who they all are. she said that her dad's name was david. That was my grandad's name. baby chris crystalballs ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: thats why i had dinner with her family.
by .gibby. 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

God... i met this girl on the bus. She got on and sat next to me. she was beautiful... anyways, it was the number one bus down mass ave, towards cambridge from newbury st. she was reading the naked lunch and kept laughing. further down mass ave she asked me what stop we were at. she seemed lost, so i was in the middle of helping her out and chatting when this hideous old fart next to me lurched over and said "i know where you're going, Ill take you there! Im getting off at the same stop." It was horrible. She returned to her book. I put on my jacket. I started talking to her again, and she said she was on her way to her work training... at a supermarket nearby... We also spoke about her home, boston, how she's here for school, etc... the stop came, and her and the old fart got off, she turned and said nice to meet you. I didnt catch her name! I know where her work is... do I stop in? What do i do? -gibby. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: food processors are great
by Darren Savage 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

Hello I've just got back from New York and having read a couple of Smiths type e-mails I thought I'd add my bit. The Smiths eponymously titled first album is by far the worst thing they ever committed to record. Hatfull of Hollow however is superb and one should buy this as the definitive early Smiths introduction. The Queen is Dead is clearly their best album for me, although Strangeways is also superb and Moz and Marr frequently cite it as their favourite album. Basically you should buy all of them but the first album really does pale into insignificance next to all of the others in the Smiths cannon and anyone who says otherwise is talking absolute twaddle. Whilst in NY I was very pleased to hear Belle and Seb played in quite a few of the bars I visited and I felt very cool wearing my Stow shirt. I even managed to overcome my fear of hights by going up one of the World Trade centre towers, something I was too terrified to do on previous visits. However I did get a tiny bit scared when a helicopter passed below me when I was on the roof but apart from that it was fantastic. Cheerio then Savage __________________________________________________ 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: ode to an unknown cat
by Helen 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

This is not a happy story. My friends and I were driving back to my friends flat, after a thwarted attempt to go dancing and drinking. When we saw a dead cat on the road. I immediately stopped. My friend was in shock because we were close to her house and her cat Bella has just recently gone missing. It wasn't Bella. But some bastard had just run over a cat and not even stopped. It was a beautiful cat. We moved it to the side of the road so at least it would not have to be re run over. I mean wasn't his death bad enough? We left a note in case the owners were looking for it as it had no collar so we couldn't ring the owners. I had a dream last night and that cat was in it. On the road. It wasn't pleasant. I'm sorry if you saw the subject line and thought this would be a twee post about kittens. But at least today things started to get better. For me. Not for the cat. I don't think things will ever get better for the cat. I recieved my fabulous Study at stow T-shirt from the kind folks at jeepster. Oh what joy. And then I sat back and listened to 'ocean songs' by the Dirty three. 'Ocean songs' on vinyl on a sunny afternoon.Ahhhhhh.Followed by a helping of Tigermilk. Can you get much better? Probably, but at the moment I'm content. Can't stop thinking about the cat though and the bastard that left him there. Helen. B&S content....ummm...... ______________________________________________________ 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: dc and pickle-ee picnic in the nation's capitol
by lost madflowr 23 Sep '99

23 Sep '99

wowsers. i cannot believe this movie. eight days a week. it's the craziest opening to a movie ever. within the first two minutes the boy [sporting wicked indie rawk glasses. hee.] says some naughty things about his lower regions. "he acts like he's a guard at the tower of london. he's got to check every 10 seconds to see if the crown jewels are still there." oh man, this is so crazy. so far this actually looks promising. nerdy boy falls for this "walking wet dream" [characters words not mine]. wowsers. calamity. hey i needed some sort of light entertainment. okee. i am all for a picnic in the dc area darlings. i'd love to meet all these lovely folks. i have not seen ms. christa for a bit. she's in another country, no? does anyone want to trade zines? umm, if you do drop me a line with something like zine in the heading. i'm on two lists with this email addy and i get oodles of mail so...there! oh today i had a very unpleasant experience. probably worse than going to the doctor. is there *anyone* at all on sinister who is in a frat/sorority? cos i really never ever got that impression from ANY post to this list. anyways, if you are in one maybe close your eyes or delete this mail. at my school, george mason univ. in ffx,va i'm a dj on WGMU 1370 am, our radio station. anyways, for the class we have to choose something else to do to help out WGMU. there are about five things. i chose to work on the WGMU zine. something that the music director just decided she wanted to start this year. i chose to help cos i do a zine and i actually really enjoyed the thought of helping out wgmu. anyways purr. so the other person who volunteered for the zine's name is ian. and he seemed nice enough. but then today we were talking about who might buy ads in our zine and he suggested "greek row" or something. and i asked what that was and he answered "it's right across the street. they sell all sorts of fraternity stuff." and immediately i felt ill and i made the mistake of saying so out loud. turns out he is the *president* of this fraternity. his favourite singer is bryan adams. he spends all of his free time studying or at fraternity related events. he has never seen a zine in his life. he thought a zine was an all black and white magazine. he has only been to three or four concerts in his life. okay. all of this equals disaster. i like bryan adams fine. but all the rest irks me. he asked why we shouldn't get ads from a fraternity related store and that if we didn't take ads that they could sue us or something. and i was like "well i don't want to get ads from a conformist group like a frat/sorority, because that's not what a zine is about at all." and he said "you don't know anything about fraternities." it was seriously a scene out of a bad movie. i was so distraught at that moment. i mean heck, he was talking about adding GRAPHS to the zine saying how many albums say [his example] ricky martin has sold so far. i was completely and utterly disgusted. heck, i still am. so you can see why i need to get my mind off this shite and onto nerdy indie boy in this movie. the sound track is not half bad! whee. okay. << end rant >> okay phew. hello. oh *wave* to newish? kid from sinister at umd. are there any other dc/va/md kids hiding in the nursery? oh i started a dc/va/md list so that us kids can keep trrack of meet ups/picnics/whatnot from clogging up the list. whee. http://sinisterdc.listbot.com so if you want to keep in touch with like the 10 of us in the area [so far] then join. it's not a lot of mails. unless picnic time is near which there are a couple a day at most. whee. okay time to watch this. aiee. evol, madflowr OH MAN DO YOU KNOW WHAT? the innocence mission is on the soundtrack to this movie. WHACK. i have heard them mentioned like at least 4 times this week. neato. OH shite i forgot the other thing. no WAIt. is anyone going to that wierd lounge thing at the 9:30 club on friday? bis/discount/madder rose/? some other band? i'll be there. whee. OR is anyone going to the mousetrap in d.c. on saturday at the metro cafe? come on darlings, i'll be there too. oh and blake, whenever i see your posts and the courdoroy boy at the end...i always wanted to say i wrote a song in 9th grade called "who's that boy wearing courdoroys?" ha! ______________________________________________________ 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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