January 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Lazy Pant Loosener Bob
by Robin Stout 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Hey popkids! I've just had a look at the Jeepster B+S site and there's a lovely picture of the cover to the new "Lazy Line Painter Jane" collection of the first 3 e.ps. I don't know what she's doing with her hands but she's either giving someone the traditional W or she's dissin' my ho. She's a very square lady isn't she? I'm so bored Robin x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: more senseless speculation.....
by craigrm 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

All this talk of "traditional W"'s has got me quite excited as you can probably well imagine. But after a brief search of the SPIN website I'm sadly unable to shed any light on the whole percussionist-hand job phenomena. Do we have any drummers on the list who can perhaps clear this up ?. I suspect it's probably an indisputable Rock fact along the lines of bassists always getting the weird groupies. Cheers & 24k solid gold props to all involved and present at Friday's TigerMulching extravaganza, it was tops and I for one had a great time despite my terminal lack of dance floor skills. Anyway that's all I really have to say cos I'm quite busy at work (Y2K got a bit messy round here) but before I head off here's a nice TM review I found while trawling through spin.com. Enjoy... and love me forever. Lol Craig xxxxx "The problem with the hype surrounding Belle and Sebastian is a very unusual one. You see, it's all true. Brilliant songwriters? Check. The best new band in a decade? Probably. A band who can make you believe in music again? Absolutely. Oh, and all that stuff about their unreleased first album--the one recorded as a college economics class project, the one pressed onto only 1,000 vinyl copies, the one that recently went for over $1,200 on an Internet charity auction--being a lost masterpiece? Yeah, that's all true too. Recorded almost four years ago by local older-than-he-looks songwriter Stuart Murdoch and the five musicians he recruited to help him, Tigermilk is finally being released on CD by Matador Records. It is not the shambling, trembly musical baby-steps a cynical critic might expect. Far from it. Don't let the Belle's unassuming manner fool you: they knew what they were doing from the start, and here's the proof: Tigermilk is in no way an astonishing first album. It is an astonishing album. Simple as that. Though there are some stylistic surprises, the ten songs collected here are constructed in the same basic way as every other Belle song: Murdoch's high, warm tenor appears, supported by an acoustic guitar, before quietly being surrounded by rich flourishes of instrumentation; Stevie Jackson's massively underrated lead guitar fills, Isobel Cambell's understated cello, and the occasional burst of trumpet or recorder. But what is immediately striking about them is their overall looseness. If the Belle's most recent LP, The Boy with the Arab Strap, deserved any criticism, it was due to a certain tightness in the performances. The songs were there, the aura intact, but perhaps the raised expectations affected Murdoch more than he let on. In comparison, Tigermilk positively swings. From the jaunty, irresistible "She's Losing It" to the album's crumbling, fragile Nick Drake-worthy numbers, "We Rule the School" and "Mary Jo," Murdoch's music is so unassumingly confident one can't believe it was the band's first time in a studio together. Even the record's biggest "reach," the Love meets Pet Shop Boys rush of "Electronic Renaissance," reaps huge dividends, somehow managing to be both a clever analysis of Britain's post-Ecstasy social climate and kind of groovy at the same time. What the long-awaited unveiling of Tigermilk ultimately proves, though, is that whether he likes it or not, Belle and Sebastian's success is inseparable from Stuart Murdoch's. The onetime church-sweeper has long been a fan of immortalizing his musical career in songs ("It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career," etc.) and Tigermilk is no exception. Rather, its content is even more self-referential. Opener "The State I Am In" (familiar to those diligent enough to pick up the Belle's four essential import EPs) is a masterwork of self-revelation and deception, relating pre-success tales both poignant ("I was surprised, I was happy for a day in 1975," "riding on city buses for a hobby is sad") and fantastical ("I got married in a rush to save a kid from being deported / now she's in love"). And then there's "My Wandering Days Are Over," the album's best song and one of the finest the group has ever set down. Perverse as ever, Murdoch makes the crowning moment of his debut a notice of his retirement: "You know my wandering days are over/Does that mean that I'm getting boring?/You tell me." Bringing back Sebastian and Belle as characters (the names seem to be the alter egos of Murdoch and the band's are-they-or-aren't-they chanteuse, Isobel Campbell), Murdoch spins scenes of urban ennui into melodic gold. More than anything else, Belle and Sebastian's songs work because of their honesty. Murdoch can paint and catalog sad-sacks and dead-end streets like no one else, but in his voice it's never objectification: he's been there himself. More famous in Glasgow at the time for making up band names rather than playing in them, the Murdoch who put this record together was hungry for opportunity himself. With Murdoch finally able to put his strumming where his mouth was, Tigermilk is the sound of an aimless life picking itself up, and he knew it: "It's got to be fate that's doing it/A spooky witch in a sexy dress has been bugging me/With the story of the way it should be/With the story of Sebastian/and Belle the singer, yeah." Sounding like everything and sounding like no one but themselves, Belle and Sebastian are, and apparently have been, the real deal. These songs have nothing to do with hype, with being the new Smiths, with refusing interviews, with watching French films and carrying on. Simply put, these songs are pure magic. Play them again and again. It's Belle and Sebastian's world. We're just glad we live in it." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The traditional W
by Nick.Dastoor＠guardian.co.uk 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

>I was glancing through an old issue of Spin magazine, (well not too >terrible old January's issue, but February's issue is out already so >it is old by magazine standards....)>but I found this pic at the back of >the magazine it's of richard colburn the drummer, for B&S, drr.He's on the >far left and some unknown girl is giving him the traditional W for >whatever reason.the other people are just people. no one of importance >unless it's you. Huh? Call me old-fashioned but I can only imagine the W stands for wank. Some girl giving Richard Colburn a traditional wank on the back pages of Spin magazine? Is it traditional in the sense of 'classic wank', with no fancy finger work, or traditional because Spin magazine has a long-running New Year feature involving photos of drummers getting hand-jobs from unknown women? Terribly glad to see some heavyweight pop theorising resurface on the list. Perhaps we can provoke the thin white duke of Devon to burst, bluddy and raging from the stomach of the piezoelectric unit and tell us why goth is still an innovatory force to be reckoned with. I can't put my finger on why, but I can't imagine Stuart Murdoch's lyrics being written before the 1990s. It's not just the references to mobile phones. I might like a band, but I couldn't imagine them being so important to me unless there was something new about them. And with B&S, it's Stuart Murdoch's lyrics. Dance music has now matured to the degree that it can't claim to be intrinsically more modern than inventive music in any other genre. The last really new sound I can remember was jungle in about 1992. That doesn't mean I don't like it. However, modern R n' B, hip-hop etc is undoubtedly more 'cutting edge' in another sense - it's what excites most kids, black and white (at least in urban areas). I can't even talk about this without feeling like an old man. I dunno - I think it's been that way since the 70s, really. Comparatively few worthwhile indie bands have come out of London, because MOBO (I can't bring myself to spell out the acronym) is the prevailing culture. Even members of the shit ones probably only moved here when they went to college. There's something about the kind of witty, romantic post-punk pop tradition (hey - snappy!) that is forever... not London. Nick xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: can someone answer a question for me?
by idle berry 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

what is this deal about everyone saying tigermilking all the time? flu is feeling a bit better today. i recommend a few drops of tea tree oil in a hot bath for anyone who is currently suffering. And olbas oil on a hankerchief. And lots of paracetamol, bananas, nasty cough mixture and diluting juice. don't eat too much cheese though. ===== visit the idle site:www.geocities.com/SoHo/Easel/5117 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: re: Slafes to the Rafe
by andrew dean 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

belle and sebastian (remember them?): the tube thing was odd, 3 hours and then 2 hours and then one hour, highlights of highlights. and two showings of different takes of the same song (including one where he forgets the words) rather than playing both the songs they recorded. most odd. and was that stuart david playing bass? i'm not sure. he was well hidden and it didn't look like him somehow (i paused the video and all). was it groucho instead? does this add more fuel to the 'stu d to leave b&s' rumours? and isobel. there's something odd about it all, it's like she's trying just a bit too hard to be how she is. maybe she was just a bit selfconscious cos of the cameras and all but the whistling (and that hair) looked a bit laboured. maybe if someone'd thrown sweets... andy i was kinda hoping that =?iso-8859-1?q?Michael=20Jones?'s mail was going to be an expose' of everything that happened at the turn of the millennium at chez mike down in greenwich. here's a list, see if you can map them to prominant sinister personalities: a) dancing to headsplittingly loud gabba at 3 in the morning b) singing smiths songs by the river at midnight in an attempt to drown out a dozen other people all signing a robbie williams song ('angel' and not 'millennium' strangely enough). this was followed by a very public piss c) shouting insults out the window to the crowds of people who'd previously been subjected to simply red in a tent somewhere down the road d) copious vomitting e) sitting (and eventually sleeping) on the kitchen floor like buddha f) 'ugh, it's on me!' and, most outrageously considering the circumstances: g) going to bed at 1:30 um, chewable vitamin c tablets. 500mg. one tablet contains 833% of the recommended daily allowance and the bottle still goes on to say take 1 or 2 tablets up to 3 times daily. what's 6 x 833%? haliborange overdose anyone? they dug up the blue peter time capsule the other day, buried in 1971. you'd've thought they'd've made the box waterproof knowing it was going to be there for that long. i've seen bodies that looked better after 29 years underground. ===== andrew dean (koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister:in the reliable fashion of ink polaroids
by Januarythaw＠aol.com 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

They all said It couldn't be done, well mostly my mom said it couldn't be done, no one else knew about it. but I made pants today. I've always been good at sewing butmostly i would just make cute patchwork purses or jean purses, or add panels to my preexisting pants to make them more 'wide leg' I can't stand those pants that are like carrots. soo straight with terribly narrow legs and ankles too. The only person they look good on is ewan mcgregor in that heroin movie. so i made them without a pattern and they came out amazing i am sooproud, even my mom likes them so i know i must have done something right because she never likes the things i sew up the material was insanely cheap at wally world.two dollars a yard so i snatched it up and it's great material the one is thick grey and heavey not so like canvas but close, and the other which was only a dollar a yard is sort of an olive colour,and it is more like tweed, four yards each. woo.So i'm excited. yeah. So now i'm having this weeklong argument with a friend online about my 'heritage' or whatever you want to call it She's telling me that i'm not english because I wasn't born there, nor have i been there excluding whilst i was gestating. my whole famille is from england excluding my father and my grandfather who are both GI. and my uncle who happened to be born in america. when my grandparents were stationed in california. it's a stupid argument eh? she's 'italian' but she's never been to italy so i tell her she's not italian. it didn't sit well with her, oh well i'm not someone you want to argue with. I never never lose...most of the time. B&S CONTENT: I was glancing through an old issue of Spin magazine, (well not too terribly old January's issue, but February's issue is out already so it is old by magazine standards....)>but I found this pic at the back of the magazine it's of richard colburn the drummer, for B&S, drr.He's on the far left and some unknown girl is giving him the traditional W for whatever reason.the other people are just people. no one of importance unless it's you. < I thought perhaps you all would like to have a gander so I scanned it for you all but the listy thing won't let me send an attchemnt so i reckon if you would like to see it i'll glady mail it to whoever asks for it.the caption says richard colburn drummer for Belle and Sebastian stops by between shows. It is for the college music journal in New York they are at CBGB's or the hilton and towers, the caption isn't clear and it states these two locations for the goings on. Iris I am drunk with gravity +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Dirty Dream 3
by Alexander Borgia 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Dear Sini-victims, Here is my rant for the day. Today I got a call from an ex-girlfriend who I broke up with a year and a half ago. She was near where I work so she wanted to meet for lunch. This is the same ex-girlfriend who contacted meone New Years Day to see how I was doing. So we went for lunch and....well.....she tried to get me to ditch work for the afternoon and go to my place. There was definitely strong overtones to which my body responded favourably. You may recall, or not, that on Christmas I was contacted by yet another ex-girlfriend, she ended up sending me her pic and asking what I thought of her home perm. I told her she looked like Queen Elizabeth I. She did. Now the problem with my lunch date is although she was insanely jealous, something I can't stand, she was quite fun in areas where considerable nudity occured. Tha't stuff you don't forget. So the idea of spending an afternoon, and quite possibly the evening languishing in the arms of an attractive lady, is something the mind will not easily displace. Even more so, the body's responses were of the type where the effects will be long felt. I declined the invitation because I was too afraid of the possibility of becoming reinvolved with the person. Many times I was given to the impression that she was most interested in me for my cooking, both in the bedroom and in the kitcken. (Okay, so deal with it, I'm a really good cook) I did not want to return to a relationship where I felt like a chinese restaurant will added items on the menu. But damn! she was a good lay. So I walked her to near where she parked her car and bid her good-bye. I also gave her a kiss and wished her a happy New Year. She didn't stop at one. I managed to extricate myself from the situation and return to work to finish my afternoon. It was difficult to concentrate as you can imagine, even worse was trying to be creative on a job that is destined to be ugly no matter what, and I can assure you that I was already having shitty day, so the alternative was quite alluring, but I didn't do it. Now I am wondering what the hell is wrong with me. Am I getting old and my hormones declining so that they no longer rule my life (not that they ever did, uh huh) or is it that my brain is capable of controlling my body and keeping me from harms way. Might also be that may apartment is a really complete mess and I really didn't want to bring anyone home until I cleaned up. But now that I think about it, did she want me for the sex or the Shrimp Fettucini she really liked? I should mention that there is no B&S content beyond the fact that had she and I spent the afternoon, I most likely will have played it while we were dancing about somewhere or another. So please expect me to be cranky for the next few days as a result of my stressful day. I have noticed that I am quite agressive in Quake Arena and I have no idea why. Not that my crankyness will have any bearing on anyone remotely aquainted with the list, but I am hoping that you will let the rest of the world know in case they should come in contact with me. And another thing. I didn't have a really good supper, I only had soup, but I didn't feel like going out. Alexander Oh, I almost forgot. I burned my mouth the other day on soup and it just healed so I stupidly just burned it again, along with my tongue. I'll shut up now. I wonder if there is anything on television? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the nothing new
by P F 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

THE OWL SERVICE 'Jen' mentioned a 'twee' owl. To wit: too true. Here's an owl I've recently encountered in the fictional realm: A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. BARCLAYS? LLOYDS Steady Mike referred to the NatWest experiments of the mid-80s. I was thinking he meant their sponsorship of Slough Town (March 1985- May 1986) till someone else's reference to The Littlest Hobo cleared up the mess. No, the gunge. Or am I conflating two different banks? MAKE THEM ACCOMPLICES Steady Mike - for it is he again - set out to defend the possibility of novelty in pop, and invited responses of a sort. I'm afraid that I've taken the shirlie, sorry, the pepsi challenge. I was keen on the way that he wasn't really polemical - that his defence wasn't necesarily a defence of the horse he was backing. (It ruined many a man the same horses). It was more fact than value. For that reason I'd largely back his non-polemical polemic, rather than yenning to blast him onto a new course. It's true: new things are appearing, if not all the time, then periodically and gradually. (Or would gradually mean all the time?) The radical novelty of what's radically new is, presumably, largely down to technology rather than to any new discoveries in the field of music more abstractly conceived (new notes, harmonies, etc). So 'The Future Of Music' - ie. the development of new genres, forward-looking directions, unwalked paths - would (I take it) lie with genres that have a very intimate relation with new technology - which is to say, 'dance music', 'electronic music', and other things so unfamiliar to me that I must needs surround them with inverted commas. That presumably means that many people will not have much van, I mean truck, with these (actual or putative) new genres. For people thoroughly enmortgaged to banks and estate agents - sorry, I mean, to older genres - 'rock 'n' roll', 'indie pop', 'folk music', 'opera' and the like - there may be much novelty in store, but nothing benevolently new under the sun, nothing much for them to look forward to. SM - for it is he again - is not of this company. Everyone else must take their stand or find their cave as they will. Personally, pop history stopped at about 1993 round my way, halfway through the intro of a Frank and Walters 45 as I turned the radio off to go to Tesco's. Not only will I never get anything out of any emergent new genre, I've got precious little out of 99% of 'new music' in vivid memory. I just meet a few entertaining people who know about it, and nod parsley - I mean sagely - when they name unknown names. But SM also said something more nuanced, which I also agreed with. This was - if I may simplify for my own simplistic ends: yes, pop is apt to be drawing on loads of pre-existing elements - to be retro, eclectic, or what you will - but that this in itself probably doesn't tell you whether you'll like it ot not. Some very derivative music (and most music may be derivative) clicks, some doesn't. The influences get chopped and changed this way and that, hidden or not, used productively or not. And - SM didn't add - one listener's sense of whether it works or not is by anything but means guaranteed to chime with another's. To try to sum up. 'New music' - does it happen? Yes, in the sense that it's new every time you pick up a chainsaw, sorry, an axe. Yes, in the sense that new genres and sounds are emerging. No, perhaps, in the sense that the musical score, the range of notes available etc, is relatively fixed - but that's debatable. (The frontiers of what's music and what's just noise might be mobile. If so, then more and more music is probably appearing as more noise is accepted into the realm of music.) Some of us have a lot of new music to look forward to. Some don't - but at least for that party, the past is a new country. They do things originally there. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Who's Afraid of Y2K?
by David Strange Strange 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

The Future of tomorrow TODAY, I hope all you cool sinister kids had a cool new year and by the sounds of it you all got very drunk and had a good time. So this is Y2K, I've just parked my hover car in my garage and my robot is making me a cup of tea all quite nice really. I spent Christmas in Paris which was fantastic and new year in Jersey which was equally as good but I don't remember the latter because I was slightly drunk and dancing to Millennium by Robbie which they played 8 times at the party I was at. Onto B&S content only a little though I'm afraid, Tigermilking was fantastic thank you to everyone who attended I had a fantastic time dancing to great music, I'm sorry to that American girl for talking utter crap to her but I was slightly drunk and was running out of things to talk about, i hope that little Greg who run away screaming when me Alasdair and Sarah were ment to look after him, iwas never good at babysitting. Thanks to Alasdair 'n' Sarah for putting up with me that day, cheerrs. Nat West are showing the Littlest Hobo adverts again, I love that bank now soooooo much, i might open an account. Anyway got to go now and wash my hover car, see you all soon and remember if you can't be good, don't get caught being bad. just before i go, huge thank you's to Honey for keeping the list going , i know that a lot of peoplw would agree with me that without the list there life's would be pretty dull and it's really good that it was saved soo cheers Honey. love DAVID XXXX 'the milky bars are on me' _______________________________________________________ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Oh my god, you lik Belle and Sebastian!
by James Thorniley 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Hello, I seem to be the only one without any kind of disease, I feel so guilty Well, I just thought I'd share this lovely short story... No, I will share this crappy short story instead, I was walking through the town center, and I was just thinking how nice it would be to bump into someone with a B&S t-shirt or badges or whatever on, and sighing because it would never happen. Strange thing was, the next thing i saw was a girl in one of those IYFS t-shirts. Well, my stomach jumped and I almost screamed but by the time I composed myself she had disappeared into the crowd. I spent the next 20 minutes looking for her to no avail. So there you are. Hmm, lets think of some other stuff i can waste your time with, Jarkko wanted to know about soft cusses. The thing I find strange is it's always the soft cusses that turn out to be rudest, we all know about bugger i'm sure, but just the other day I found out that "twat" means female genitalia, but maybe you all knew that and I'm the stupid one. I tried to write about Stuart Murdoch for my German homework -- write about your idol ;). Strangely I can't find the word for twee in my German dictionary. I did find it in my Oxford dictionary (right below "twat"), and apparently it's "derogatory", so there's something else you probably all knew and I didn't. Oh yeah, TIGERMILKING Well I had to mention it. Yus I went up to London after lying to my mum to get out of the house ("I'm going to a party", not very imaginative, I know). It was of course just luvly, and it was fun putting a few faces to names (Hi everyone I met). I had of course no plan for getting home, but the lovely Archel (blatant name dropping, sorry) lead me and David to Victoria, where we slumped for two hours getting very cold. Of course this meant no sleep so I ended up spending four hours in bed so now my mum thinks it was a really wild party, and I think my sister thinks I was having sex with someone. harhar. Oh god, I'd forgotten how easy it is to go on and on and on. I could do this forever. Bye my dears, James +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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