January 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: john ashdijan
by nick kinsella 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

hello everyone! john ashdijan used to live in a guest house on givendale road. i know because i saw him cimong out of there on his bicycle a few times. he played football for scarborough, my (then) local team who i supported for years, who spent most of their existence wallowing in the depths of lower league football. i still support them, but more passively now (i live 300 miles away). the thing is, (stay with me here, i'm going somewhere with this. at least i should do if i ramble on long enough). anyway, the thing is, what do you do when you meet one of your heroes? sure, J.A. was a bit rubbish, but he played for my team and i watched him week in week out for years. i had an emotional attachment to everything him and his team-mates did. i was elated when they won, devastated when they lost, and long-suffering when they were bad (and at times they were very very bad indeed). but he didn't know me from adam. it was just his job to play football, not emotional obligation to me. i thought about speaking to him, but i just felt clumsy and unwieldy in my words. so he just rode off, and i never did get to speak to him. or tommy mooney, darren foreman, george oghani, steve richards. they all lived in the town, dammit. they were only ordinary people. but i guess this is what we do. we have people in our lives who exert all sorts of emotional influences on us, such as sportspeople, musicians, etc, without ever realising it. they mean alot to me, but i mean nothing to them. they don't even know i exist. i think thats one reason why i like B&S so much. there's no sense of detachment or upper-handedness. they're just people, like you and me. and they don't try to hide it, bless 'em. ho-hum. its nice to be back, by the way. i was away from you all for a while, but i'm here again now, mummy. night-night. nick ____________________________________________________________ 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 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: bachelors and spinsters
by mike windisch 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

hey lot, band content up top, courtesy of an aussie slang dictionary. Some quasi-poetic spiel below, courtesy of my simmering conscience and aversion to this damn day job. >>>> B & S Ball: Ball held for Bachelors and Spinsters, singles crowd, often held in the bush or a remote location and often involving copious amounts of alcohol and sometimes mud! <<<<< sounds like a hoot. perhaps in winter we can substitute snow angels for mud pies, mulled cider for alcohol, and steady sweethearts for bachelors and spinsters. On second thought, lets keep the copious amounts of booze. <<< poesy woosey infusion <<< I know the poetry parrot has flown the coop and it's friday, but a mid morning morose spell has spawned some purple prose... proceed at own risk because even the beats could do this better. sometimes even the silence isn't quiet, what with the stomach rumblings of affection extended outward with the unconscious expectation for expedited requited-ness, the streaking rage of the stress bind to a business world that rewards dilligent fakeness and proceedural conformity but affords verbally-oriented-individualist-types a compensation scheme amounting to economic impotence. Ack, upstream against that charges the blasted wrack which forces drive, drive, drive onward outward in an ecstatic strive towards euphoric alive. ahhh. so nice that alliterative euphoric alive. like a sweatheart's smile, a soft sweater against yr bare skin, or the stylish satisfactions of moving well within your body. But sadly, like a hangover that gets up before you to ruin the recollections of a perfect evening, the moments of bliss evaporate into such conditions as empty pockets, sore lips and swollen hips. I guess the problem with bathing in a fountain of youth only emerges when you dry off. The awareness of a discontinuity between you and peers that are still on track and have stoicly sidled up to the adolt responsibilites that cause rambuncious teens worldwide to pity their parents. (You know, the type of people who only ride the bus to get to work, get up early for chores on saturday morning and give you wide-eyed disapproving looks when you try to explain what you do for fun. Or the central role that fun still plays in your by-all-rights adult life) Kind of like trying to explain the appeal of b&s to those who only hear the strings, falsetto warblings and homoerotic intimations yet fail to feel the earnest emotion and honesty that has hooked us all not feeling the suchness all too much mike <<paying for the sin in sinister>> ______________________________________________________ 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: vinyl love affairs...
by velocity farewell 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

hi there to the sinisterian land... the sun's shining showing his ugly teeth... First of all... I'd like to apologise for my previous post... writing for the list on the list... I hope honey dearest and all of you will forgive me for that... Second... all this talk about the Box Set... I won't take part in it... I guess it's OK for people who cannot find the 12s"... and as it's been already said "buy our records, support our sickness" but... I love vinyl... I love to buy it... to smell it.... to kiss it... yer, I kiss all my new records... to make them feel welcome... silly huh? to play it... it's like a ritual... I've never liked CDs from the start... you can even paint on your vinyls... and hang them on the wall (wow! blasphemy!!!) or even play them...!!! I have to share with you another story... I haven't told but my property comes only to a dog (a terrie that has a frightening similarity to St.Bernard's dogs as my best friend's noticed), a scooter, and some half used tubes of oil colours... and brushes and some camvas... yer, that's all... oh, and my records of course... the funny thing is that my dog's called Spooky... after my corridor which is very long and dark (spooky!) and Spooky used to run up and down in it... and my scooter's called Spootnik... you see, both of their names start with a "spoo"... and that was not intentional...anyway... Spooky likes to chew the plastic covers of my records... I've told her so many times that she shouldn't... that this is mere blasphemy... and you know what she did? She stared at me with a rather scornful eye under her really long eyelashes and said: "you materialistic bastard!!"... she did I swear... the only thing Spooky's afraid of is NME... I'm not messing here... we're talking about a music conscious dog... everytime she does something nusty, all I have to do is to threaten her showing her the NME... and only then she'll stop whatever it is she's doing... chewing my records, my books, my old rocking chair, whatever... and she'll run and hide under the bed... I mean... NME scares the shite off this dog... and... she loves riding on "Spootnik" as well... and... she loves music... when I play music and sing along... she moves her tail left to right in such a charming way... and she loves Belle and Sebastian... when I listen to B&S I like lying down on the floor... singing along... I love that.... she comes then and sits on my belly, looking at me in pure joy... And... finally.... as a beloved friend of mine said... we should vote for Spooky for the list crush thingie... what do you think? If Honey wouldn't object... Sorry if I bored you all to death... I thought I should be more cheerful this time... you think... "cheerful" equals "boring"? cheers, love+spookydreams V.F. ____________________________________________________________ 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 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: outside a butchers with a knife and a bike chain?
by idle berry 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

thanks to stephen hewitt for solving my "why have I read all my sinister mails?" problem. apparently, its cos I was avoiding real work,ie studying. So yay! exams are over! and I have a lot to read in my inbox! and I feel normal again! And I got some gorgeous jeans yesterday, all flared at the bottom, and lovely and snug around the bottom and the thighs. Feels damn sexy to walk around in. so if anyone sees a girl prancing about in norwich (with a pair of new jeans on) its prolly me getting my post teenage kicks from some denim. my flatmates are annoying the hell out of me, I quit smoking again....although I'm gasping, and I'm having fantasies about how I could murder the more annoying of the flatmates I live with. Irritating selfish fucked up whiney muddafunkin' arrogant castration-fearin' elvis-lovin' r-sole. the boy has no idea about anything, and is a tosser towarfds women. it makes me realise, that perhaps I should have done a degree in genetical engineering, instead of languages (studying 4 in all...) and developed a way of removing all hormones from the male, leaving just enough chromosomes to create a willy and some testicles. therefore removing male arrogance and sodding I'm-always-right-and-you-don't-know-what-your-talking-about-woman! attitudes forever. Anyone got an ex boyfriend they wish me to practise on? So do I kill him by strangling him with my tights or an accidental knife in the back? or do I just change the fuse on his stereo so that it blows up? Any ideas? Okay, time to go and do something destructive. Cherrypips *evil cackle* IdleBerry ===== 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: Musicality
by MBP99KLC＠sheffield.ac.uk 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Don't you hate it when you hear songs that are nice enough but make you think, I'm sure I could do that with a guitar and an hour or two to spare? What's great is when you hear a song and think, I could never write this, it's magic. It makes me think music can be magic when I hear:- * little drum intros that mean my favourite song is about to kick in, like on the Field Mice "This Love is Not Wrong" or Billy Bragg's "Sexuality" * the "whoo"s in the background of "Sleep the Clock Around" and the "ooh"s in the intro of Pavement's "Silence Kid" * songs that are just pure magic through and through, like the Pixies' "Debaser" I think it was Honey that said you should go to every Billy Bragg gig. This was true. katy x "So drunk in the August sun And you're the kind of girl I like Because you're empty, and I'm empty" - Pavement +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sinister: concerts and fran healy's dad
by grisham ohairy 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

if the flaming lips are playing such a "trendy" venue, then i know how they feel. my band and i have to play a wonderfully scary venue tonite. we have to perform our songs in front of about 200 nu-metal types, who in my opinion are as bad as your run-of-the-mill townie types. estimated plastic pintglasses thrown on stage = 20. oh yeah...and someone mentioned travis somewhere? well, fran healy's dad lives just down the road from me, and apparently, he and his children (fran's step-brothers and sisters) have been trying to get in contact with him, just because, not for any money or anything, and he has allegedly totally ignored them. makes you think, doesn't it?! i always had him down as a nice young man too... mr matthew hicks marvel at my aceness at: www.melatonin.freeserve.co.uk __________________________________________________ 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: never seen blue
by Januarythaw＠aol.com 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

boys. suck. thats all i'm saying. especially ex boys. grr. i was in such a great mood. this evening then my exboyfriend emails me and says he stoped loving me when i got on the bus. (i moved back home and went by bus) it was a super day i slept in then i played in the snow and this evening i made cookies and danced with my dog ringo(which my mom took piccies of so i'll send them along to something soon.). my final check came in the mail from my former employee. and then. i come online this evil online....and this is the letter he sends me. greig your picture is loverly. *sticks it on the fridge* by the way. I wouldn't bother you all with this but well. my best friend is away and i have no means of contacting her. so i'm rather lonely. ciao bella/bello iris girl if you think you can turn my violator you'll finally be that woman. thats been frozen in that pretty silver girl_tori_amos_ <A HREF="www.angelfire.com/journal/standhere/index.html">standhere</A> www.angelfire.com/journal/standhere/index.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Time for a nap
by Joseph Askins 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Woke around 8:00 today and took my laundry down to the wash room. Laundry has been piling up in the corner for weeks and I finally got sick of ignoring the smell of dirty socks. Everything fit in one load, but when I went down later to put the load in the dryer I noticed that the clothes weren't clean. Did I forget the detergent, or was everything packed in so tightly that it just didn't wash well? Sigh. I had to get to class, so I continued shoving the dirty damp shirts, pants, socks and underwear into a dryer with intentions of washing them in separate loads later in the day. Spanish class was a breeze. We were dismissed a little early, giving me enough time to hike over to the radio station and have some albums picked out before 11:00. No B&S today (though I did get in "String Bean Jean" and "In the Treehouse" last week), as today was almost strictly late 80s/early 90s shoegaze/dreampop. Received a couple calls from veteran DJs who were apparently very impressed with my set for the day. Seems like I'm earning a little more respect around KCOU after all. Found a couple out-of-print Slowdive EPs in the stacks and slapped them on tape before going home--made my day. Ate lunch at the makeshift Jack Hammer's dining hall at a nearby dorm. They're nearly finished with a huge "Mark Twain Market" eatery there, but I'm so accustomed to having Jack Hammer's little restaurant's sandwiches and pre-packaged salads that I'll hate to see it be replaced by a large, impersonal canteen. Blah. Barely made it to my Principles of American Journalism lecture. Shouldn't have bothered hurrying; I have to put up with enough pretentious jerks as it is, and I don't need a class full of them. Made the return to my room a heck of a lot sweeter, though. Spent the afternoon listening to Material Issue's "International Pop Overthrow," Meat Puppets' "Mirage," and Galaxie 500's "On Fire," three albums that put me in a sweet little mood. Got a call around 5:00 that my copy of "Touching From a Distance" (Deborah Curtis' book about Ian Curtis and Joy Division) was in at the University Bookstore. I ran over and picked it up, along with a copy of Saul Bellow's "To Jerusalem and Back." The only other Bellow book I've read is "The Actual," and while "Jerusalem" is a collection of non-fictional essays and memoirs, I'm sure the writing will be just as good as his fiction. Got home, popped on a tape of Gram Parsons songs my dad just sent me yesterday, and crawled in to read a bit of the Ian Curtis book. Not expecting a whole lot that I don't already know, but there's no sense for a fan not to own the book. I was about 15 pages into it when the "new mail" ping sounded from my computer. I was told that I had passed the test of time and could now participate in the Sinister mailing list. It's about time, I thought. Went back to reading my book for a while, before trying to tackle the tough job of rewriting my latest short story. It's been slow going, and I'm still nowhere near being content with it. Went back to the computer, opened the mailbox, and skimmed the latest Sinister digest once more. Joseph Askins Columbia, MO +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 . . . what the? . . . that can't be right . . . dear god!
by kerry 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

so i should be working on my thesis right now, but instead i was playing with my hair and found one very very very long strand of hair. i know it's mine because i plucked it right out of my own head. but jeez, is that normal? Your Slip Is Showing so i want to put a piccie of my favorite tee-shirt up on erica's page, but i can't find any on my computer. damn. wish i had a working camera. but here's the good part: while digging through my hard drive, wading through folders of crap, i came across a picture of the boy i lost my virginity to (going on 6 years since then, mymymy). i'd forgotten i had it on here (a friend sent it to me) and it gave me quite a start. so much, in fact, i burst out half screaming half laughing and nearly spilled over the back of my chair and onto the hard hard floor. but i maintained my balance, at least, if not my composure. Looper Opening For Flaming Lips at the Cubby Bear I know where the cubby bear is, tho i've never been. and i think i'd fly back to chicago solely to see stuart david recite luscious bits of prose amidst the many whitehatfratboys and their drunken girlfriends who are all graduates of U of I chambana no doubt, moved up to chicago to be where it's at. unfortunately, i don't think the cubby bear is where it's at. they should at least be drinking their lives away at that blackhawks bar over near united center of which i've forgotten the name. you know, the famous one. something about a goat. bah. i can't remember. but i'll shut up about chicago now. River Runs Dry so i'm in a bit of a dry patch in the music i listen to. i mean, i can only listen to so much palace before i get sick of it, and it's just about the only thing i own that i'm not sick of yet. i still say it would be A!C!E! if will oldham covered a b&s tune. it would be super-amazing-fantastic if they actually worked together. oh my, i'll get my mind off that topic now, as i know the improbability of it is bound to depress me if i think about it too much. for the record: my first computer was an apple IIe. i remember the day it arrived fondly. we had it until 1995, when my dad bought my mom a new computer. she misses the old one. i've never payed any attention to isobel's arse. the new misleadingly-labelled "tummy" pic is scary. -kerry "and i'll tell you, with my tongue between your toes, if there's ever anyone else, don't let them do this." -- tindersticks, "jism" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 awful title belies the quality...
by rachel tucker 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

yuk.yuk.yuk.yuk.yuk.....etc. i have had exams all week they were shit can you tell? tomorrow, however, i am going to complete my record breaking attempt to miss the start of all this weeks exams bar one. that is definitely something to look forward too....i'm pissed off that i was on time for the second one now, i could have made a clean sweep! my dad bought a new remote for the telly last week, we've been without one since, ooh, september time i think. life without one has been pretty hard, i've missed teletext sooo badly, especially planet sound (music pages on ch.4). so i was really excited when i finally found planet sound (it had moved) only to discover it's in some sort of terminal decline. now i knew it could never be as good without stephen eastwood - obsessive b&s fan who wrote wicked reviews , and i'm *sure* was/is on this list - but can anyone explain this whole 'void sez' thing too me?! it's written by journalists, can they not spell?!!! and all this arse licking of celebrity relatives, what's all that about? fran healy's aunty babs can shag struan for all i care...though mind you she could do everyone a favour and tell her nephew to sort his fucking hair out! it's a mess my lad, you used to be sooo cute, and now you're beginning to resemble ade edmondson... <oops, that was a bit of a rant. my subject line is definitely meant in an ironic fashion today...> now chris_t_opher said: >And something else i found this weekend: www.geekrock.com is part of Che >Records and to celebrate it's launch, they're giving away a free 18 track >sampler to anyone*. >* except those of you who live in Swindon i am intrigued as an oxford united fan as to why this should be...do che records just not distribute in swindon, or, far more satisfying, is it just mindless discrimination and rampant piss taking of those who are stupid enough to live there, yes you, you moonrakers* by chris?? i have to know...it's a pathetic football thing * i do not mean this btw....this is how wars start. but y'know, the mighty yellows are not looking too mighty at the mo so i need all the laughs i can get... erica macarthur had at number 3 in her 'top 5 games to play in a sweetshop' : >Hiding under the counter until someone comes right up to it and jump out on them causing them to drop their things and look silly now, although i don't work in a sweetshop (i did go for a job in thornton's once, but i think they were put off by my obsession with the staff discount...), i have often played this game behind the kiosk in the supermarket where i spend most of my time. it's GRATE!!! it is in fact so GRATE it deserves capital letters and bad spelling :-) the amount of people you scare shitless...you have to wait till they're peering over and around the counter, falteringly wondering how they will sustain their gambling/nicotine/alcohol addiction, without me, the link between product and consumer, and then, leap! bang in their face! while giving it 'oh you should have said' in a supremely condescending manner...ahh, the fun.... one that erica missed though, is my favourite: the accent changing. a different accent for each customer, especially good when all your accents are appalling...see the confusion! snigger as they can't understand a word you've said! get caught by your boss mid- welsh accent because it only confirms what he thought of you in the first place! especially when you're negotiating a full-time position with more responsibilities! oh the hilarity.... <i'm sure i was going to be either serious, thought provoking, or witty today...damn, i never quite manage it> one last thing: if you buy the box set, lovely if you buy the case, lovely if you don't buy either, lovely talk, don't talk, it's up 2 you...i watch too many adverts... nighty night lots of love rachel xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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