September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Plea for help in transferring computer sounds to tape!!! (from a techno illiterate fool)
by Kin WOO 28 Sep '99

28 Sep '99

hello there peeps! hello also to ex-trading partner, Joe who has kindly helped me out with this problem before but I STILL need help!!!:) Okay, I know people have helped me out with this problem, but since I am completely technologically inept, I need aid again. I've been trying to tape mp3's onto cassettes, and I've got the plugs running out of the line out socket on my computer, and into my stereo. Unfortunately, where I'm supposed to plug in the plugs into the "line in" on my stereo (like everyone has so kindly told me), it says "line out"! There is NO line in! And when I play the sound it's all crackly and staticy and horrible. And no matter how much I adjust the volumes on both stereo and computer, nothing helps. That buzzing noise is still there, and the sound is a little distorted. What can I do to prevent this? Can anything be done? Is it because of the line in/ line out problem on my stereo? Or do I need a new jack? and what is a "shielded cable"??? I need help! please email me privately at above address:) thanks in advance! 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: I've been down at the dog park...
by Brandt Fundak 28 Sep '99

28 Sep '99

I just wanted to let everyone know that I just saw dog park and I think that you all should see it. It is really a wonderful movie and would probably be even better if you have a sweetheart to see it with and you both happen to love dogs. Luke Wilson is great in it, natasha Henstridge is great and beautiful and Bruce McCulloch is great in his role, although you would never expect it (I don't want to ruin the movie.) My friend and I were being antagonistic toward each other tonight and had a battle over the car stereo and a crossword puzzle. If we were together it would be cute to an onlooker (or perhaps sickening) but since we aren't I guess it is kind of depressing. Oh well, at least i saw a fatstic movie at bargain price. Ciao, Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: Hello everyone!
by photojen＠excite.com 28 Sep '99

28 Sep '99

Hello all at sinister! I'm sitting blindly at a computer screen in the University library in Reno, Nevada, trying to figure out exactly what to say, as now I can send stuff to all of you (and perhaps get some feedback) I never thought that one could put so much thought into what they wanted to say, but today I am proving that theory wrong! I suppose now that I have a voice, I can give you all a bit of backround information about myself. (Is it wicked not to care? of course not!) Well I am one of the few in this town that have even heard of B&S, let alone listen to it. It's hard to find anyone in Nevada who isn't going through a Metallica or Garth Brooks phase. I am a twenty-one year old history and english major, who loves B&S and some other bands. Its actually not too bad in Reno, despite the lack of obvious good taste in music. There are snow-topped mountains, huge clear lakes, lonely desert, and casinos and legal prostitution!! My only complaint that has any merit at all in this town is the fact that there are no good record stores! I special ordered a Trembling Blue Stars albulm and it took five months to get here. As convienient as on-line ordering is, I really enjoy spending hours in record stores, checking what they have and I do not. Well, I have ran out of things to say. There are so many things that I could write, lots of people I would like to meet on this list, that I am going to save it for another time. Hope you are all having fabulous days! Jenny PS if anyone would like to e-mail me, (and I would love to hear from you) do so at photojen(a)excite.com ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: The birds swoop down upon/The crosses of old grey churches
by Michael Jones 28 Sep '99

28 Sep '99

Cor ! September. September, September, September. A whole month and Ive not posted to the list. Sorry, The List. A very different agenda prevails in Sinisterania to the one I was once familiar with. Its all townies, upper-middlebrow TV quizzes and experimental syntax. Still, I thought I better crank up the generator once last time before Lady P and I retire to Cosy Nook for the winter months, and spend the gloom-hours in a fidgety doze or engaged in achingly slow games of Scrabble. On the subject of television programs in which unsightly children reveal their prowess at Swift Recall Of Absorbed Facts, does anyone remember "Ask The Family" ? Perhaps theres someone on the list who appeared on the Robert Robinson-helmed barf-fest ? If so - you have my sympathies. Talk about stigma. Is Richard Stilgoe still alive ? Is he, ahem, Still Going ? If anyone can recall a kiddies quiz show from the early 80s hosted by said beard-owner (clue: its not "Screen Test"), please write to me and your name will go in the Grey Ring-Binder. There is a prize for the suggestion most offensive to my personal spiritual beliefs. A beacon of good sense in a fog of lunacy, PJMiller said this: > Yoko's most recent albums, entitled "Rising" and "Rising > Remixes" featured Wee Sean's group IMA, which must stand for > something. I thought about buying them at the time, but thankfully I > didn't bother in the end. The remix one has got a twenty or thirty > minute thing tagged on the end. I think hes right. There are some fine moments on the remix rekkid, notably those efforts from Ween, Tricky and Cibo Matto. And now SeanieSean is a fully paid-up member of Cibo Matto. Aw, how entirely satisfactory and cyclical and whatnot. Meanwhile, the mysterious "b j" wrote, more in Seurat than in Ingres: > His **** of the ****** is not so much second to my own, as not even > second to my own. I reckon he means "fear" and "reaper", folks. As the Oysters said - Dont. ThaiFact: "Yoko Ono" in Thai means "Cousin Lucas, the steely-eyed janitor, does not drink sherry". Hmm. Profound. Begob - heres me bus. Cheers. Mike na Gopaleen. __________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: The Revenge Of Maxwell's Silver Hammer
by Laura Llew 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

Apologies. You always know that a post is going to be good when it begins with pleadings for you to forgive the author before you even read the e-mail. I am at the local library (you know, the one that doesn't believe in having any books on my lovely literary list) trying to fit all of my mindless drivel into a letter before the librarians run me off. Oh they are a scary little breed - with their white purple tinged hair and their stern faces. So, if this ends abrubtly and I have just enough time to push the send button before I meet their rule filled wrath - please pray for my soul (or what's left of it). Why am I reduced to pecking away at a library who doesn't believe in books computer? Well, ummm, erh. I had a mishaps. While trying to spread good cheer, happiness, and literary joy, I crashed my computer. I had downloaded this webpage maker (Homestead. Don't use it - its of the ) in hopes of being able to post my list on the web. After I installed it and then restarted my computer so I could use it, my computer wouldn't restart. I tried coaxing it into booting up. Cooing softly in its ear, singing soft lullabyes, making promises of sweets and such. But nothing.. only grring and foaming at the disk drive. Maxwell (my computer) really does seem to be quite disgruntled with me. Oh, so much for being good to the last drop... With the advent of the computer crash calamity of 99, my name has become a hiss and a byword in my house. I have been keeping to myself and not really coming around much. So, all the more time for reading! Unfortunately, I don't even have a recent printed out copy of the list and so that's not good. Because of the failure on my part and the hatred of my name where the computer is concerned, I will not be able to post Laura's Lovely Literary List on the web. Anyone who would like to post it is certainly welcomed and encouraged to do so. I, for one, would praise your name for eternities (or at least until I fell asleep that night). I know of one person from the list who *might* do it. If that falls through than anyone with times on their hands and knowledge of how to put the list on the web to spare, let me know! If not, I can always e-mail it as an attachment to anyone who would like it. But for now, I really will not have regular access to a computer for another week. Oh bother. So, please forgive me. Well, I did have a lovely trip to Virigina this weekend. Yes, we started for a drive and ended up right close to where this beloved list's Jygsaw Dave resides. I was even on the same road as the exit sign to where the college he attends is. *Shivers* It was like walking in the holy land. There is a billboard on that road for a country music radio station that has the slogan "Feel the music" on it. I wonder when people when they look at that billboard with Shania Twain stuffed into a pair of leather pants and a leopard print halter, if 'the music' is what they're feeling? Just a thought. I would like to thank everyone who has been so kind in taking their time in recommending books. And one member of the list who will remain nameless (here's a hint. starts with a Bl and ends in an Ache.) has been quite a doll in helping me with the whole literary list compliation. Much thanks to him. Don't worry, lasses, next time I'm in Winston Salem I'll be sure to procure a more recent of our nerdy shy eyed pacifist. Though, I'll have to obtain it from where I usually see him. Hopefully the blinds won't be down that day and the tree limbs won't get in way of the ... hehe. Just kidding - his blinds are always up.. This post draws to a close (and there was much rejoicing), my computer time draws nigh (and there was much librarian stomping), and I shall bid my farewell. farewell~ Laura Llew "Failing all of your laura llew literary list needs since September" ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: on saturday the stars are gonna fall from th sky
by bUgleT 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

h'looo peeps, Mark said: On the Elephant 6 tip, I saw Beulah at the CMJ in New York and they were fucking top! Personally, I prefer them to both Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control. They also have an extremely rare first album (released in 1997) which wqs available at the show. Not as good as "When Your Heartstrings Break", but it is worth the investment if you can track it down. wooo! a fellow beulah fan. they've just released 'when your heartstrings break' over here in the UK on oxford's shifty disco records..they're residing in oxford at the moment, and i saw them play the point about a week ago and they were very very good indeed. i the had the honour of being an extra in their promo for 'score from augusta' the next day.....they wanted lots of people from oxford bands to stand around dressed in black with sunglasses playing various instruments and looking deadpan...it was a lot of fun!]. i'd strongly recommend the l.p. to anyone..go buy it now. oh, and watch ou fot the klyvz as well..indie drum 'n' bass...yey. love and stuff *bug* xxxxx Hidi Ho, Well, I guess this missive is intended for an underwear-obsessed chap named Steve, but I am interested in others' opinion on the topic as well. Personally, I like the Scottish folk-singer who appears in "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and whose name escapes me now. And, incidentally, "Lazy Line Painter Jane" is in my top five favorite Belle and Sebastian songs because of Chris Geddes work on the hammond organ (isn't it time that he gets more credit for creating the Belle and Sebastian sound?). Nevertheless, I would much rather listen to someone like this bird than the breathy, five-year-oldesque lyrics of Belle and Sebastian's gentle wave. Albeit she is extremely cute (and this initially endeared her voice to me - call it the Backstreet Boys syndrome in reverse), her voice is progressively getting more and more annoying at every listen, especially on "Green Fields of Foreverland". Give me an off-key belting Scottish bird who isn't obsessed with being cute any day of the week. On the Elephant 6 tip, I saw Beulah at the CMJ in New York and they were fucking top! Personally, I prefer them to both Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control. They also have an extremely rare first album (released in 1997) which wqs available at the show. Not as good as "When Your Heartstrings Break", but it is worth the investment if you can track it down. Rememberin' the punks and the hippies too, Mark ___________________________________________ ***the tiny zine on the net*** http://ds.dial.pipex.com/sage/tartrazine ***and the best band in oxford*** http://www.sage.dial.pipex.com/moonkat/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: The Boy With The Anti-Aristotelian Aesthetic
by b j 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

1. JUDE. HEY > PLUS today I went to one of those preview film screening that you get >with vouchers in the paper and FINAL CUT is dead dead good if you want to >watch obnoxious posh people be self indulgent. Is there a list for folk who went to school with Jude Law? We need to tell our side of the story. And why, in his new film, is he called... 'Jude'? 2. JUDE. OBSCURE. CHRISTMINSTER. I liked this: > Which reminds me, I'm back at Oxford in a week. To the offical B+S >flavoured sinister picnic hosting spires of St Anne's college. Oxford's nice. Cos of the "U"niversity - or despite it? > And Mr Dean, I just went to a dead nice pub in Hammersmith (it shows, >doesn't it?), cool conversations at the bar about lit, film, chicks, etc. >Oh and me big bruv milked every drop of The Who from the Jukebox. I thought >of Sinister. This too. It's good to know that people have started having 'conversations' in pubs again. I haven't had one since - christ - last Tuesday. 3. RING THEM STEVE BELLS Watched 'If...' when I got in on saturday night, which is a stunning >film. Public school boys, eh? woof! Bark. Howl. Yeah, good film. Viv Anderson. Lindsay Anderson. Either way, one question (we're getting ahead of ourselves here, and Belgium have to defend a corner) must have been asked with reckless abandon: 'Tell me, Mrs Anderson, why did you give your son a GIRL'S NAME?' Malcolm McDonald. Malcolm McDowell. Andy. Andie. Pretty In Pink? Time for an article. Speaking of which, 4. TEN REAL REASONS WHY PAPERCUTS WASN'T CANCELLED I'll >send out copies to contributors in the next day or so. Hooray Hooray Hooray! Good news at last. re. Stevie's mother / pop thing. Mothers in pop. Two words. In block capitals. (Why not?) HARRIET WHEELER 5. GEORGIE AND HIS RIVAL I note the presence on the list of a George Dickie. His **** of the ****** is not so much second to my own, as not even second to my own. [CENSORED.] But I've just come across another George Dickie, an aesthetician. Here's a quotation from Ted Cohen's foreword to his 1996 book: 'Dickie is one of the first among contemporary philosophers to supose that the C18 offers us important, defensible philosophy in aesthetics, while continuing to insist that Kant is not so good. Dickie's background and energy suit him perfectly to place Hume's remarks on taste in their context, for he has worked long and well on the texts of Hutcheson and Hume's other near-contemporaries. Dickie's temperament makes him impatient with Kant, and even angry at Kant for dissipating Hume's achievement. His background, energy, and instincts give Dickie a philosophical voice worth listening to. It should not be ignored, and especially not by those who love Kant. Dickie is giving them a chance - slim as Dickie thinks it is - to show that they have not been taken in. Good luck to them. And thanks to George Dickie'. >From George Dickie, *The Century of Taste* (New York / Oxford: OUP, 1996), pp.vii-viii. Now, I'm serious here, folks. (Is anyone reading this? It's taken me ages to type in.) Either: a) The George Dickie on the list wrote this erudite book. b) The GD on the list is using a pseudonym borrowed from the philosopher. c) There's no connection at all. It's mere coincidence. d) Here's a good one. GD on Sinister is the son of GD the anti-Kantian. Somebody, humour me and give me a view. If GD the philosopher really were the fellow that ***** the ******, I'd have to bung him on the reading-list pronto. [CENSORED] ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

RE: Sinister: Mum's the word
by PJMiller 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

Two messages in one day. Perhaps I'll get thrown off the list... Trousers wrote: >Nicky Dastoor, who was shakin' his botty with gay abandon on Friday night, >asked about mums in pop. And what a rich vein it is! Ladies and gentlemen, >I give you: >>>Yoko Ono: Surely the Queen of Screech has appeared with one of the Lennon >brats at some time or other? Ah yes. Yoko's most recent albums, entitled "Rising" and "Rising Remixes" featured Wee Sean's group IMA, which must stand for something. I thought about buying them at the time, but thankfully I didn't bother in the end. The remix one has got a twenty or thirty minute thing tagged on the end. Correct me if I'm wrong. Also, Lee "Scratch" Perry had a habit of recording his sons shouting, singing and gurgling on his records, but he's not their mum. I've got one by Jumior Byles called "Thanks We Get". It is a joyful noise. That mad woman from Throwing Muses used to put her baby's gurgling on records too. Montserrat Caballé sings and sometimes records with her daughter quite a lot. Wait a minute...can you have "sometimes" and "quite a lot" in the same sentence? To be quite honest, I don't know how often they jam together. Folk mum Norma Waterson was on the radio this afternoon doing "River Man" by Nick Drake. She turns it into a pleasant drone-a-thon, sung by a right crabby old bat. Quite good. As for fitting in with other people, I suggest you all follow astro-philosopher Jimi Hendrix's advice and go fly your freak flag high. 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: IS IT ME OR IS IT JUST ME
by GEORGE DICKIE 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

COME ON GO GO I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed AT THE END OF E-MAILS I DON'T LIKE IT WHERE IS THE TRUST IS EVERYTHING ONE DOES ONLY BECOMING A REALITY OF LEGAL DEFINITION AND THUS BARE OF TRUE FEELING ?????????????? *THE SMITHS* ERR MOZ DOES NOT CONDONE CHILD ABUSE IN THE FIRST SMITHS LP HE IS JUST SHOWING HOW CONFUSING THE SUBJECT OF LOVE IS LOVE CAN COME FROM MANY AREAS OF LIFE IT IS NOT JUST THE SEXUAL *CHASING AMY* I LIKE THE FILM BUT IT IS PART OF A TRILOGY THE NEW JERSEY TRILOGY CLERKS MALLRATS CHASING AMY THIS SHOULD ALWAYS BE STATED IN CONTENT OF CHASING AMY APPRAISAL ***I PAINTED MY LITTLE NAIL ON MY LEFT HAND BROWN SO I COULD GET NOTICED BY THE KOOOOL PEOPLE IN TOWN*** LOVE AND NEW SHOES GEORGE BY NAME GEORGE BY NATURE ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

2 1

Sinister: re: list abuse
by Matt Powell 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

hello everyone i send this message as a friendly warning to any unemployed, bored, aspiring graphic designers in the london area. i know geoff very well and if any of you feel tempted to respond to his offer of work experience for the week, then i feel i should warn you about a few things. Where to start really. sinister it very much is. everyone he knows (me included) thinks the shop is a front for something. i mean, how can a business survive with no clients, and two idle employees who sit around playing computer games all day? unless of course, there is something shady going on behind the scenes. spill the beans geoff! another interesting thing to bear in mind if you were thinking that a week working with a qualified graphic designer would be very beneficial to your career, then consider that geoff has no more 'qualifications' in design than a biology degree from nottingham uni thus making him a fraud and a charlatan. he'll also pinch your lighter. oh, and how 'funny' to call a small office located above a stationary shop in East Ham 'Premonition Towers'. Twat. strange really that i should say these things about the man who is one of my best friends, but you must be warned! matt xx p.s. geoff, i'll see you at the pub later, yeah? ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0