October 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: "Pratical me!, you must be joking"
by David Strange Strange 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

I've been on the list now for 2 years well actually 2 years and a few months cos I first subscribed at college but never had the time to post anything, I'm trying to make up for that now though. I asked a French men what poupee de circe, poupee de son means and they said it was about paper dolls and paper sons, is this correct or was he pulling my chain, so to speak. After asking this French man I statred to think about pratical jokes like those flies in ice you get and itching powder. I was wondering who invented them, who thought them through, someone in the midst of time must have thought I know an brilliant way to get back at him I'll put two really itchy things together and put it down his back, then I'll find away to make his cigarette explode that I'll teach him. I mean someone must have really thought these things through or am I just being silly, yeah I'm just being silly. The people who make these gags must be really stuck for ideas because I've not seen any new pratical jokes for years, jokers block. We had a joke shop near us once, it closed down, people in Dorking have no sense of humour. Battle Of The Planets is ace, they show re-runs on Bravo on sky, 7sark7 is funny like R2D2 but cooler if thats possible, that Susan obot sounds quite a babe for a robot I mean. I was more into 80's films like The Goonies, Teen Wolf and Back To The Future, I even brought a denim jacket because al the kids in the Goonies had one and because they used to get them wet i used to splash mine with water to achieve the final Goonie look. awwww bless him. I'm going now as I've already said to much, byese bye David Strange (Dafyd) xoxoxoxo _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: morph
by Alex Tobin ＠ KindaMuzik 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

You're going to hate me for this - yes, especially you, list mummy. Not only is my own list lying decrepit and dusty and shattered on the floor, waiting idly for some sort of salvation, but I'm going to annoy you even more and contribute to this whole TV/cartoon shenanigan. Morph. England, help me out. Morph. Claymation. Extremely lovable. Was on telly a few weeks ago as part of BBC2's 'I Love 197_" series... In fact, I was never the cartoon type - although Calimero is still hard to resist. No. Claymation was my forte, and Morph was the Stuart M. of sensitive clay figures. Bright, funny, emotive... The works. In a world full of running chickens, Wallace and Gromit, isn't it time to make a Morph film... I do believe so (no live-action though, please). Ah, it's good to be back... Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MIKE LOVE, NOT WAR THE KINDA MUZIK YOU LIKE - the modern music magazine get yourself connected @ http://www.kindamuzik.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: it takes yo la to tengo
by yellow bananas 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

hello villagers! i'm going to see yo la tengo tomorrow. i'm very excited. sodastream is opening for them too, so that's... eating 2 oranges with one mouth. whatever. sodastream was part of perth's artrage festival this year, and i really wanted to go see them, but unfortunately, they were playing on school nights, and more importantly, no one i know wanted to see them. being the good student that i am, i stayed home to do reading logs on a bloke called Habermas. i would like to be named Habermas. it's a cool name. in fact, i'm going to named my soon-to-be goldfish/cactus Habermas. yesterday was friday the 13th, but i had good luck cos i found an unopened bottle of VB while walking to the carpark after the uni tav's oktoberfest celebrations. i did not get drunk. i decided today that the mere fact that i'm 20 and don't have a MAJOR drug and alcohol problem is a good sign. <b&scontent>i realised that the 3 EPs are a good soundtrack to hang out laundry by on a lazy spring/summer day.</b&scontent> bye now, sinister public sphere! HY ps. the subject line was plagiarized from xpress magazine. http://www.bad-karma.net/ 'personal enlightenment for the masses.' _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: And I think to myyyyselllllffff... what a wondafuuuullll world...
by Jason Andreas 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

Hiya. Ever been in one of those situations where you're with some people and every single one of them has the power to hurt you, and none of them hold back? I was last night. It was pretty hellish. Which is why I have a sarcastic subject line today. B&S(ish) content: I determine that Belle is terrifed of me. I've met her twice in the last couple of weeks, and when I say hi to her she jumps a mile in the air and her eyes dart around looking for an escape route. I scare Isobel. I bet that pleases a few of you guys though ;) Christ I hate love! Isn't it the worst thing in the world? You just can't get away from it. I really am considering taking up drinking for the first time in my 19 years on this Earth. Does it help? Can you forget with the help of alcohol? I need an escape route, not a pleasure drink. Strange occurences abound at the moment. Couple of my team managers at work almost kicked the hell out of each other. Oh well. Better luck next time. Bye. --Jason Andreas "If you live your life in fear of death, then you never live at all." It is said, that when He saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, that He moved one aside. Later, when He saw that the weed was flourishing, he placed the rock back on top. He explained to us; 'That was its fate.' ICQ: 45821217 AIM: RadioJase +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i found love on a two-way street
by Jacob Laurent 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

there was a fire in the elevator shaft at work today. i was in the basement, on the phone with my best friend up in seattle, when i heard the alarm go off. while debating whether or not i wanted to follow the others in their single file formation an announcement came over the intercom system that said... "please evacuate the building! there *is* a fire on the premises. this is not a drill!" flash to me on the sidewalk with all my belongings, lost amid lights and ladders, and firefolks rushing by with their crowbars and hoses. somewhere in the clammor, i notice this cute boy on a razor scooter coming right towards me...and he's wearing a 'gentle waves' t-shirt: the first one i've seen. naturally, i stride right over, through the smoke in my 'le tigre' t-shirt, but when i got there, my vocab was bare, and all i could say was... "the gentle waves! you're a belle & sebastian fan!" duh. yrs, jacob _____ www.morethanjustaprettyface.com "an e.zine dedicated to women in the music industry." coming soon _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: cartoon of a curmudgeon
by gogron 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

Hello. I've never heard of the powerpuff girls. When I was wee and, actually, far older than that (if still short), my preference was for stop-animation puppet shows. My favourite was a one-off feature whose name escapes me. It involved a bicycle repair [puppet] man called Sonny Duckworth who lived and worked at the summit of one of those hills whose vertiginousness one only encounters in fantasy (and Meteora and perhaps in China too). Sonny would have a whale of a time riding up and down the road which spiralled around the hill in his motorised tricycle, probably with a pet puppet riding pillion, but his dream was to build a racing car and win the grand prix... It was all the beautifully made model sets that inspired me, and I spent ages with bits of wood, sheets of tin and the wrong type of glue trying to build my own version of the racing car which, after some dastardley and mutley type shenanigans from the opposition, won our puppet and his pet puppet the race. Wars I suppose it is natural at a time of conflict in the world that peoples' passions should be aroused over a wider sphere than that of the immediate territory in dispute. There are, after all, ideas and ideals at stake which affect us all. So, however errenous or poorly informed or lazily reasoned these passions find their expression, I think it might be even more worrying if nobody did care enough to risk having and stating a view. I would think that our mettle is tested not by how successfully we can side-step unpleasantness but in how we attempt resolution because, inevitably and forever, there will be both misunderstandings and conflicts of interest. "At the age of four, [George S. Kaufman's] mother told him that an aunt was coming to visit and asked, 'It wouldn't hurt to be nice to her, would it?' to which he replied, 'That depends on your threshold of pain.'" I am tempted to quote about war from this book I got from the library today called 'the Portable Curmudgeon' but this is no time for flippancy in that regard so I'll quote Oscar Wilde on music instead: "Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." Then again, Belle and Sebastian weren't around in Oscar's day... have a nice weekend folks #:D Gordon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: cartoon city
by Katy Stevens 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

Well with all this talk about cartoons and the remembrance of, i thought i'd pipe up for the first time ever -- gee, is everyone sick of the whole "look at me! i'm a new poster! oh, i'm so great!" thing yet or has it become necessary?? anyways i was sitting here reading all the stuff being thrashed about in this cartoon thread and i began to wonder why anime was so poorly represented amongst the mentioned series - i mean apart from Pokemon and G-Force which don't count cause like EVERYONE on the planet talks about if not the crazy exploits of G-Force then at least the bratty and insane ones of POKEMON... Is it total geek and passe of me to fervently endorse the potentially enlightening possibilities of japanese animation, not solely of the kiddie kind?? Stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 (obvious choices, but for a reason...they ROCK!. Takahashi is a goddess - she's my pop culture idol!!!!) are top-dog for all out wierdness. Kids can watch em of course but the whole *wink wink* *nudge nudge* bawdy humour of it all is a special treat for us big kids -- both series' are just plain WIERD and consequently quite glorious. Ah! Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess is quite fab and fun -- comedy and romance and more wierdness); Kiki's Delivery Service is quite cute and wonderful... These are all things which kids could get into without feeling alienated and confused (even more that the grown ups anyway). There are THOUSANDS of interesting titles, most of which i've only heard about but the few dozen i've managed to see myself have been largely impressive -- check em out at your groovy asian (or if you're lucky, your groovy LOCAL) vid store!! gosh there are so many fab title to mention but you're all probably bored stiff right?? sorry, i'll try and jazz myself up for future posts. I love PPG too!! so cute and so naughty and grrly that i could just about burst! and Bis doing theme song = YAY! i'm really enjoying this cartoon thread - the insight into our collective childhood warms my dear little girl heart... thanks kids xkaty * * "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." --Woody Allen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Love is a Wonderful Colour
by Peter Miller 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

Do you lot get 24 hour Muppet News? Or is it drug-related? List rule number 246 states Thou shalt not refer to any post-"Get On Board with the Double Deckers" children's television on the list. Isobel is going to Rome for sunshine and horses. Why doesn't she get Stuart and Richard to dress up as a pantomime horse, or get a hobby horse and ask Stuart to run along behind her clopping his coconuts? I'll tell you why. Because The Gentle Waves have SOLD OUT. I bet they'll have loads of STRINGS on their album. They might just as well flatten the place. I had an Icicle Works album. On tape. It started with what I now recognise as backwards drums, or backwards bits of wood knocking together, a leftover trick from the legendary "psychedelic" era. But at the time it was terrible. Because I thought there was something wrong with the tape recorder and it was MY FAULT. Sometimes I think my upbringing wasn't entirely healthy. I think it was quite a good album, but I can't really remember much about it, apart from "my friend and I were talking one evening beside some burning wood". That must be where I got the idea that it was backwards wood being knocked together from. On the day when your technology catches up with my biology, I'll be able to download songs to a micro chip implant in my ear and see whether they really were any good or not. Those fishy psychedelic lyrics that Liverpool specilaised in in the early eighties are surely due for a comeback. Who wrote "stupid bint" on a Papercuts poster? Whoever it is will have me to answer to. Unless it was a poster of issue 1. Don't worry Erica, they're just jealous of your ten gallon hat. Fosca or Fonseca or whatever they're called fans will probably already know that there's a lengthy article about/by them on the otherwise excellent Tangents website. In an article about "the Stuckists", Duke refers to something called "The Tim Hopkins Weblog". Is this public? Where is it? I'd love to "log onto" Tim, although not in the biblical sense, obviously. MMMMMMMMM. I did a websearch for it, but ended up at the Sidmouth site. Looks quite nice to me. I'll rent a cottage by the sea... I've got a new record - "Jack Ruby Presents the Black Foundation". I haven't listened to it yet, but I just know it's going to be GRATE. Increase the peace, Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Whispering lunar incantations
by P F 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

It's just we feel she gets distracted. It's kind of sweet, isn't it, when Yankee people from places like 'America' say things like: >>>tonight i walked my dog and the moon's just fantastic. so bright it overpowered the streetlamps and that orangy glow from chicago. >>> Yeah, this morning at about 5:30, it was still dark out, and the moon just looked fantastic.[...] The sky is beautiful in the morning, dark and velvety, then rarefied and ethereal. I thought it was only folks like us that noticed things like that. Folks like us? I mean English people, from your British 'Britain'. It's kind of typical of the Yanks, though, to put down things like 'that orangy glow from Chicago'. Round these parts, that orang[e]y glow sounds spectacular. I was struck by all that moon stuff, cos I was struck by a full moon last night. Can it really be that the Yanks see a full moon at the same time as us? It's [Ice] Magic. >>>Is it very strange to sing to yourself on a walk? It could be. I do it all the time. I do it when standing still, too. And I have just been told that the lad Cook96 does it while lying down. Settle down. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: cartoons
by Carmel Petra Wright 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

I am sitting here, bored as usual at work, and thought I might contribute to the cartoons discussion. There were many cartoons that I watched when I was little, but few that I still love today. Powerpuff girls though--it's really cute. It's one of those things that are so silly, but you can't help but laugh. Music is great too--I was very excited when I heard the end theme song was by Bis. I find it kind of humorous that kid's shows sometimes pick up really good music. Anyway, that's all I have to add to the conversation. Will-Beards...yes, but on very very few men. It takes a certain kind of face to pull that one off. I wouldn't break up with someone over it...by any means. And congrats on getting back to school for your postgrad work! That's all for me. Have a splendid weekend listees! Carmel ===== "Looking for a star I can tell my troubles to" ---Mary Lou Lord--- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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