January 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Hello
by Philip Boucher 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

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Sinister: Slafes to the Rafe
by Michael Jones 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Need a bass ! January. Jan-U-ary, JAN-uary, Janu-ARY. I hear some adventurous folks are injecting conc-Benilyn into their lungs to banish this 'flu thang. I'm not surprised at such desperation; it's no fun being a walking percolator by day, and condensing an entire season of "Daktari" sound-FX into every laboured rasp by night. Of course, I generally pay enfeebled street-urchins to be ill *for* me at this time of year. Most of them don't make it, poor blighters. An enormously long time ago, back in the days when you could still write a cheque without having to delete the pre-printed '19' in the top right-hand corner*, Stevie T and Peter M concocted a humourous little tale regarding the ludicrous nature of Lawrence Felt's new pop construction. Except, it now transpires, they were being horribly factual. Lady P and I gave it a spin the other night; mouths - opening and closing. No sound. "Lots of anger in Rwanda... drinkin' Um Bongo, drinkin' Um Bongo". My head was sticky with bewilderment from that point on; my critical faculties snapped off as soon as the synthetic kiddie-vox kicked in on "Mrs Back to Front...". Someone else can review this properly for those who are interested; I don't think I can stomach a second listen. The man's a genius, of course. (* - I like to think that this is an indication that the humble cheque was never supposed to persist beyond the 20th century; that banks fully anticipated that we'd be exchanging money-fluid through glittery tubes fastened to our hips by 2001. I think the tragic consequences of NatWest's Ashton-under-Lyme trials in the mid-80s took everyone by surprise. No matter how often they hose, you can still see the stains on the Town Hall steps.) Chad, in a thread concerning Bibbe's boy-wonder, said: >Does anyone really >think what modern pop musicians do is new? In the bold truth, music >stopped being something new and original many decades ago. Well, let's not confuse the terms 'new' and 'original'. It's entirely possible to juxtapose a clutch of existing styles and produce something fresh; if one can see the joins or catches a whiff of cynicism in the execution, it's supremely irritating; if it seems as natural as breathing, you're onto a winner. This, I reckon, is where B&S qualify as something 'new'. I'd say the same for Arto Lindsay and Stereolab. Or Windsor Davies and Don Estelle. Beck, I'm not too sure about; one could make a case for his thrilling "nowness", or dismiss him as patchwork-pastiche - Lenny Kravitz with a broader record collection. I'm not about to do either. Some nice songs on "Mutations". As for the idea of music ceasing to be something new and original, I don't think that's strictly possible. It renews itself whether we like it or not. In the pop realm, I don't recall anything remotely like Missy Elliot or Richard James in the top 10 (or anywhere else) a decade ago. Where are the pop theoreticians when you need them ? You can see I'm struggling here. Duke, Timbo, Starry, Trousse, Brooking and da rest... cock your kultur-pistols and blast me back on course, you foolz. Ste' Mik' __________________________________________________ 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: Why did I wake up?
by BrnToEnd＠aol.com 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Hello everyone, Well lets see its 6:31 A.M. but thats not what matters lets see I woke up to find well to be frank dog ::insert favorite poop word:: everywhere. The whole house stinks and I can't clean it up or else the mean kids at school will make fun of me. Whyyy Me Whhhy Me. Then if that wasn't bad enough I went in the shower and the hot water doesnt work so I had to take a fast cold shower as opposed to a hot shower where I can be lazy. Then I looked in the fridge and all the coffee is gone then I realized I had'nt done an essay to do in english. So now I'm cuddled infront of a piece of crud heater the kind that takes till the next messiah to heat up and I'm listening to TIJAMRS E.P. and crying to Slow Grarafiti when a choclate coffin and milk but I'm not very hungry after seeing the dog doo. If this is just the start of my problems then I dread whats next. -Damon "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better."- Samuel Beckett +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Don't read this mail if you're stupid.
by Alasdair Cook MC1996 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Well spin my top, knock me down with a fork lift truck and call me Simon, that were a top weekend. Tigermilking had the advantage of starting at 8pm so I kept looking at my watch, thinking I'd been there for ages, and I had, and there was still ages to go! Always! Until it finished of course. I'm still filled with the memories of being continually taken from behind by Drunken Matt, who wrestled back his sobriquet which he almost relinquished to me a few months ago with a superb display of unsteadiness. Being followed by strange men, walking past shops with the windows newly smashed and avoiding street brawls with men screaming "NO, PLEASE NO! AARGH!" were also undoubted highlights. Hackney is such an up-and-coming area. I also managed to set a new record for tiredness, by combining no sleep in 44 hours, 5 hours of dancing and enormous amounts of alcohol to produce the desired effect. That of death. Fun though. The only depressing thing was being reminded by Alix Campbell that she's not on the list anymore, but we can't have everything in life, can we children? Mum Robinson: > I'd like > more info about hippy shit please Michelle. And obviously this is not just > to annoy someone who turned down booze for a snooze on a Saturday night. That was the man who had his name changed by deed poll to "public house" at the age of 18. Left me questioning my entire belief system, that did. I mean half past eight! Unfortunately I then made the mistake of reading his contributions to the last (not latest) edition of Papercuts, and was forced to forgive him. Damn. I was also reminded that Peter Miller is the dirtiest man in the universe. And I think I love him. Ian: > i have some news...i am expecting jesse spencer's baby! yes, its true. the > eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that the irresistable billy from > neighbours was appearing in panto in wolverhampton. well, let's just say > that he couldn't resist a nice boy when he saw one. My mum saw Live and Kicking (saturday morning kids tv show, non UK types) the other week, and Ian's latest lay was on it, and apparently his favourite singer is Jeff Buckley, which I would never have guessed. My mum was very pleased, because everyone on the show looked very confused, but she knew who he was! (He's the dead one, right?") Anyway, here's a story about a squirrel which I'm going to make up now cos I'm bored. One day, Toby the squirrel was driving through the forest in his 1964 Pick-Up, when he heard a cry. It was "Help, help, someone please help me, I'm in terrible trouble !". Toby stopped suddenly and got out. He knew he could be wrong, but he had a hunch that someone was in terrible trouble. Anyway, on the way to where the voice was coming from he tripped over a guava and scratched his nose a little, but that doesn't really matter, I mean he didn't need a plaster or anything, though even if he had done he wouldn't have got one, I mean who ever heard of a squirrel with a sticking plaster, the idea is patently absurd. Anyway, he finally got to where the voice was coming from and found a rabbit standing outside the front door of his house, shouting and bawling. "I'm Toby", said Toby, not wishing to lie at such a perilous time. "What's the matter?". "Oh, hello", said the rabbit, by now slightly calmer though still shaking slightly. "I'm Mr Convenient-Plot-Device, thank you for coming to help me. As I said earlier in the story, I'm in terrible trouble. The situation is thus: I need to get my house (actually it's called a warren, thought Toby, but he didn't want to make the rabbit more upset by telling him this) redecorated because the famous Brer Rabbit is coming to tea tomorrow afternoon, and the place looks terrible, I mean look at it, it's all seventies browns and lava lamps. As soon as the famous Brer Rabbit sees it he'll laugh his fucking head off (there's no need for that kind of language, thought Toby, but he could see that Mr C-P-D (it was funny the first time, now it's just long to write) was very upset, so he forgave him), and then I'll never become a member of the Board Of Trade. "Oh, that's easy", said Toby, "just pop down to Ikea and they'll sort you out a treat, what with all their cool coloured chairs and modern Scandinavian outlook, fashionable yet functional with lots of great little bits and bobs and well". "Oh, cheers", said Mr C-P-D, and off he went, leaving Toby at the end of the story. Epilogue: Mr C-P-D redecorated his home and had the famous Brer Rabbit over for tea. Unfortunately he accidentally poisoned the famous Brer Rabbit with a piece of dodgy veal, hid the body in his wine cellar and is now a fugitive from justice, like Harrison Ford. Toby had a chance meeting with Dexter Fletcher from TV's "Press Gang" in a massage parlour, which has led to a successful acting career. He already has a part in the new Star Trek film, "It's An Even One So It Must Be Good", (as Lt Commander Bushytail) and is currently shagging Julia Sawahla. The author takes no responsibility for this short story being donkey shite. Them's the breaks. He will however claim copyright infringement if he finds anyone using the name Toby. Anyone found using the name Toby will be ordered by law to change their name to "Cocksnatcher" forthwith or face the consequences. Anyone found using the name "Mr Convenient-Plot-Device" will be ordered by law to spend the rest of their life in a mental institution. Hope this is one of the good ones, Mum. Love and funny tinglings, Alasdair xx "Utterly unoriginal" PS. I know she still reads the list even though she's not on it, so a huge thanks to the only good thing in Hackney, the gorgeous Muncher, for putting me up and doing general looking after me duties. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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Sinister: I was given a voice...
by sara sebastiao 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

...and I have to use it, but I dont really now what to say. First I should introduce myself: sara sebastiao, 21 years old, portuguese. I must say that Im a bit shy because the messages that I read were all so witty and I fear that... well, well see then. I first met belle and sebastian when I was 5 years old and we (me and my older brother)woke up at 8 oclock on Sundays to see this fantastic cartoon of an enormous white dog, belle and his young friend sebastian. So, when my boyfriend try to tell me about B&S I thought that he was inviting me for a ride down the memory lane. It was after a few explanations that I realized that he was talking about a band. Or should I say The band. Im a recent fan of B&S but Im trying to to fill in that flaw singing B&S songs all day and, of course, driving everyone else mad. Like Calvin (calvin & hobbes) I think I am a misunderstood soul. I think Im going to stop here and try to write again when my sanity returns from its long vacations qleoca --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 future isn't always about foil mini skirts
by Robyn Fadden 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Hi all you future stars of pop and circumnavigation, I just wanted to say I was in a bookstore the other day and spotted "Oral" (ed. Sarah-Jane Lovett (I may have her first name slightly wrong, sorry)). So finally I got to read some of Stuart David's prose: "Piano Window Piano". And quite liked it (though perhaps i'm a bit biased...) It's about a narrator (or stuart) thinking about being another person, a person who wrote a song sung by Elvis. So A)it's all postmodern-like and B)Elvis is mentioned and C)that's just the superdefinition of a good thing. I mean, at 11:26 on a Monday night anyway... On getting my ass kicked on sinister twice in a week: ow. i don't fcking care though b/c i'm a black leatha masochist w/ mulletude. beck was fun for new year's, i have no other opinion b/c i don't own any of his albums so i can't rightly say what else i think of his music. And magnolia,well, I just said what i felt. yum, pretentious is fun. I'm no critic and definitely not one for argument (yet somehow i keep writing about movies to sinister. it's a sad winter life, I think, requiring media media media. maybe it's the new glasses and the clear mouvee screen.) anyway, let the ass-kicking continue! Yeah, so it snowed in Vancouver last night. And then melted all day. Now the streets are treacherous (and i'm not even on them). I've binged on film and am now onto books again, trying to pace myself, but it's not working. Can't help but race through Haruki Murakami's "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Maybe it's my mood, but i'm finding it damn good. But isn't everything mood... erm. mm. ooh look, pink wafer cookies. i love me some red dye no.5. gotta go. i've become frequent and obsessive. sincerely yours in stumbling apology, Robyn but ps for coupland fans and those at all interested in whether west coast canada is different from the rest: "The city rewrites itself almost daily, and that's a big reason we love it here." - Douglas Coupland in jan/feb Vancouver magazine. I, um, er, okay... i may have to move to a less abstract place. i think what got edited out was "and also why we simultaneously hate it."... but, yet again, the value of contradiction goes unappreciated. ohwell. also, i don't really have a mullet. it's more of a squirrel stuck to the top of my head with glue. ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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: Prepare for trouble, yes and make it double....
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

I know it's not the first time i've said this, but my yet to mature mind really warms to Team Rocket out of Pokemon (with a little slash above the e). Hello Sinister-land. Is everyone happy in their new home? To be honest, I think it's much tweeer than the last one, though the lack of money-grabbing poo eaters trying to destroy our list might account for that. I've been reading, oh yes I have. Books about ships. Since ships are my new hobby. Ships, for all you who don't know, are big boats which float on water. And I've decided that I like them. Today "The Little Grey Rabbit" was on telly. It's very twee indeed and there was an owl in it. Also, I'd like to see the other programme someone mentioned about the owls. Which sounds very fun. I'm knitting a patchwork quilt now, and it's coming along nicely, when i can be bothered working on it. I once thought I might try rugby for a hobby, but it didn't work out, because I didn't like standing on people's necks to get a ball off of them. But I like watching other people do that on telly. It looks fun from there. I bought Looper's Y2K single last week when i was in glasgow. I also got a blue pinafore thing made of very weird material, because everything's cheap because it's January. I was at my gran's too, who lives in glasgow. But I just fell asleep on her bed, after dinner, because I didn't want to talk to people. My scanner's working, so I might send a photo of me to the sinister site.Then again, I might not. I'll end up with lots of mail telling me how ugly I am. I watched the tube. It was ok, but I didn't really like isobel's jacket much. Stuart Murdoch was looking a bit like the actor, Jamie Bamber. The song was bluddy good though. I'd better go and eat worms. Chocolate ones. Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: tell you what
by P F 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Heavens! I just saw several mails in a row about a 'Mr Hansen', Cor, I thought, this is one epistolary gravy bandwagon on whose caboose I'd better get. There ain't no stopping us now. Then I saw that they were about Beck. ______________________________________________________ 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: new, nouveau, neu, etc.....
by Miss Cressida Jane Darwin 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

hello! i'll be very surprised if i ever see this e-mail again as my computer has a very creative little sense of humour when it comes to messaging people. although i now know several people on the bbc news team because of it (don't ask). i am new, but especially observant people may recognise the name, as andrew dean kindly enabled me to make a special guest appearance sometime back wittering on about beanz' djing skills (skillz). fortunately i recovered. the tube appearance was good but short, surely some outakes should be forthcoming, (perhaps an It'll Be Alright on the Night appearance?). i think the pod 2000 will also go far... i'm enjoying our tapetree and making some excellent compilations out of this. it makes up for the imaginative Christmas presents. What I Wanted: Original Tigermilk and portable record player. What I Got: Juggling balls. (sweet jesus!) it's nice to finally talk to you as well as read you. hope you excuse the formal full name line. i cannot get this thing to behave. cress ----------------------------------- Cressida Darwin c.darwin(a)sghms.ac.uk St. Georges Hospital Medical School Opinions expressed those of the author and not the institution +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: as if by magic an old friend returns
by Owen Lowery 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Well I'm back at uni for a week or so with the intention of doing some of my dissertation so in order to avoiding having to actually do some work I thought I'd say hi to you lot. Christmass and new year were fun drunken times for me and and not very wide magic users throughout the globe and I've only been threatened with violence in my home town twice since I finished uni for the break so as you can imagine I'm in a pretty good mood (laast time I was home I got threatened twice and I was only there for 4 days so you can imagine how much better it is now) as you can see I have no real news so I'll go now but first I have to thank Ailsa (again) for giving me somewhere to stay when I was in Glasgow (again). thanks see you all soon owen (the narrow wizard) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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