November 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: We Are Young
by Brier Random 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

...no one can tell us we're wrong Heartache to heartache we stand No promises, no demands both of us knowing........... And I find myself hoping for something Belle & Sebastian-related to happen to me, so I'll have some content and an excuse to post. But f*ck it, if I feel like posting I should post. Just to say HI. No content. These days, it's the PEOPLE on Sinister that touch my life even more than the band itself. That's a natural progression, and a function of the list itself, i think. There comes a point where we step beyond what brought us together, and INTO being together. Anyway. My life has gone so many places that I never thought it would go; I never could have dreamed of more historic or wondrous grace than this Brier thing. Not to say that y'all have been the reason, but you're (each of you) a piece of broken plate in the mosaic. So, yeah. I wish the "Legal Man" logo, like on the patch, was on a sticker. I would put it on the front of my Vespa and ride so proud. God knows no one in Santa Barbara EVER commented on the "&" t-shirt that I wear constantly, or the badge that's on the armstrap of my backpack. Where are all the B&S fans of California? Are there any? A meetup would be in order, to show them all that we exist and we are indeed Cute as Cupid. Love & Portabellos, Brie(like the cheese)r P.S. Love is a battlefield. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ding dang walla wall bing bang
by Phillip Runion 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

dear sinisters, just a quick question: Does any one know if the lovely burd, Nicole Johnson, that sings back-up on some of the Modest Mouse songs has a groop of her own, b/c if she does i must have their records because she has one of my favorite singing voices, especially when she says "Flourescent lights will always = Empty". Currently experiencing a mini culture-shock and on the verge of collapse and/or devastating explosion - phil r _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Got a pretty pretty garden; pretty garden, yes
by green 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

***B&S FOR JUNTA*** hi folks. this message originally contained lots of political stuff, but it was meant pretty much for stuart gardiner, and since i just found out that i accidentally sent this post to stuart's address (sorry stu! cheers!) i will remove the political stuff, it was just sort of a discussion with him anyway. the orginal title was "Vote: Kim Gordon wants you to" and basically all it said was that i think it's better to vote than to refrain. but it did inspire this scenario of a sinister revolution, which has now been extrapolated... ***SINISTER REVOLUTION*** Cardigan-wearers of the world, unite and take over! A plethora of indie kids mumble shyly into megaphones, heads bowed, shuffling down the street to the sounds of "Panic" by the Smiths. their placards, extolling the virtues of corduroy, are upside down. they are flanked by hundreds of vespas and those little bottle-green cars with white racing stripes on the top, but most of them are just washed along on a flood of tears. indie record store assistants from around the country stand and watch with their arms folded, cos they're too cool. the line of stormtroopers blocking the children's path wave their batons menacingly, but there is something niggling at the back of their (collective, cos they are police) mind. it starts having flashbacks to when it was at school... and what it sees causes it to go against years of training and divide up into its original constituents! the pigs' visors start to fog up as their individual minds return and memories flood back: some of them were picked on at school... some of them were the dickheads throwing the rocks... DISSENSION IN THE RANKS! one half starts beating the other half up, as their highly-trained bully instincts revert to just plain bully instincts. meanwhile the indie kids just shuffle past, and the inflatable Stuart Murdoch and Morrissey figures float overhead in a charmingly revolutionary manner. once the state is toppled, the very next item on the agenda is to destroy ibiza. ***JENOWL ROCKS*** i'd like to offer support to Jen, whose posts i have loved and eagerly anticipated since i joined less than two months ago. everyone knows that the highest levels of indie hipness are only reached by those who had it rough in their school years. i can't imagine you ever giving in or selling out or whatever, but still... don't. you're GRATE. ***I AM A MISSIONARY MAN**** and i'd like to congratulate myself for creating my first B&S-luvvin friend, simply by lending her TBWTAS. hopefully before long her love will turn to an obsession. hope it works on my girlfriend too, who has the cd now when i reelly feel like leestening to it. also i will soon be a part of a tape trade, so i can spread the soft word even further. has anyone ever considered a sinister tape trade? that'd be BIG. ***O COME O COME. O COME.**** what was that address where you could hear the come song? *(political stuff removed here... if you really want to hear why i think you should vote, email me:)* it's hard not to be extremely concerned about political things if you live in australia at the moment. love ben, who hopes australia's "left" party doesn't continue down the path it is treading, lest we end up like america. and who spends his spare time hanging DJs. xo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: where's the sixty quid you borrowed off me?
by P F 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Mooro said things about Hillary sewing and stitching and stuff. I think that's lovely. I would love to sew stuff with Hillary. Not to mention bake. My own mother can't believe how much I like Hillary. But what is Hillary actually doing out there? It seems a bit like a potential Ken Livingstone situation. That's no bad thing, really. >>>Thanks to The Pinefox for calling out to me in my hour of loneliness. Thanks for the definite article. I read it, agreed with some of it, but wanted to ask you about one or two of its more, shall we say, 'definite' assertions about voting patterns. >>>I've got a weblog now, devoted to day-to-day apparitions of The 70s WHO. >>>It's called My 70s WHO Loghouse Project, and it's pretty much cornered >>>the market, I think. So come on, 70s WHO, Let's See Action! Notwithstanding The Return of Frank Cannon and even The Revenance of Ally96, this is the funniest thing on sinister for ages, in my book. Have you read my book? It's called 'Funny Things On Sinister, 2000' (London: Harvill, forthcoming 2001). >>>She could make Paradise Lost sound like a shopping list. Eh? >>>I wouldn't have thought that Christmas album would make a great deal of >>>profit, due to the wilful exclusion of The Eurythmics. I heard their 'Seventeen Again' in a crockery shop lately. I thought it was OK till I realized what it was. That's ironic, for once my response to them might have been the opposite. >>>Pinefox, I don't know if I'm in Papercuts or not. Nor do I, anymore. I thought I was, but it's all gone like mongoose. I mean, mangoes. >>>Trousers is too busy hand-rotating the top of the Post Office Tower. That much I knew. >>>But I'm working on stuff, I'm working on stuff. Based on the homosexual >>>gangster orgy in "Performance". Really. What kind of 'stuff'? A challenge to Colin MacCabe? Let's offer a Papercuts challenge to Colin MacCabe, that'll show them down in the West country, where they've all been living off Hardy tea-towels and the undying reputation of that Visitors flexi-disc for far too long. White leopards, mulberry bushes weave, Hillary, wove _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Sinister-Friendly Establishments
by Phil Two 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Hi! I've been on the list for awhile, and been going onto chat for even longer, but this is finally my first post. First I would like to thank Julie for introducing me to Belle & Sebastian and saving me from the doldrums of a hiphop-only musical existence. Okay, so Ive been travelling for the past few months and am constantly surprised where B&S seems to pop up. I have begun to compile a list of Sinister-Friendly establishments across the globe, if anyone is interested, where I have either heard a song or album being played! Berlin: Circus Hostel - Boy With Arab Strap playing in lobby. Prague: Clown & Bard Hostel - Tigermilk playing in bar. Beirut: Smugglers Bar - Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying Krakow: McDonalds - I think I heard Legal Man. I could be wrong. Malev Airlines: The girl seated next to me heard of Looper. Thats about it so far. Also, while I'm at it... I'm running out of money spending way too much time at internet cafes, so, like, if anyone on the list lives in Israel - can I have a floor to sleep on? I'm harmless, really. Love, Phil ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 remember the last time i was here
by sweetie something 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

sinister ah tis one of those days today christmas-is-a-coming and to get in the christmas spirit ive attached a bell to me wallet chains :) i was in glasgow yesterday eve me and my matey snowflake we squatted right in the very middle of george square oh yes (this is not a very cheery post -youve been warned) we were going to c vast & my vitriole (supporting) in king tuts and we were inside but there was no seats so went away for a wander came back and they wouldnt let us back in was well pissed fortunatly managed to sell our tickets outside but it still cost us 3squid each way to get there and back bloody 6squid10p journey grrr well me boyf as been an gone and it went.. badly :( basically he was a complete bastard to me on the fri nite i caught him with his hand on my little sisters leg "it didnt mean anything so theres nothing to think about" is what he said i didnt c him on his last day (sat) an he was leaving early sun morn then at 1.30am sunday he called me drunk demanding that i go over to his right then or that was it he had called me mobile and was accusing me of being with someone else saying i wasnt even at home i was obviously at some others guys house he said hed call me a taxi and if i didnt arrive at his house in 20mins (thats how far away he stays by car) it was over i went i was well tired so we just slept then the next morn i saw him off at the train station and thats it were still together hell be back at xmas my parents r getting a divorce theyve been split about 2yrs now and me being the oldest well i get to stand up in court against my dad she asked me if id talk to her solicitor i said ok she didnt tell hed find out let alone that id have to go to court :( fortunatly i wont have to lie i wouldnt anyway hes the liar my mum and marshmellow (her b/f) went away for the weekend so my sisters had a party on fri nite and me on sat it went pretty well i thought more ppl came than i expected and i think they had a good time so that makes me pleased :) your friend always sweetie xox my phone never rings my clocks never stop ticking my music always playing like my mind games with other people _________________________________________________________________________ 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: BOXING FOR HONEY (GIRLS! GIRLS ! GIRLS!)
by GEORGE HENRY DICKIE 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

A LITTLE GIRL B YER E SHE WEARS THE CORRECT SHOES I AND THEY POINT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION N G NO TIME TO BE HAPPY NEED TO BE EXACT STYLE H FASHION A ART P I THINK THEREFORE I AM P SMART Y IN BED SHE LAY NEXT TO ME ASLEEP I S I WANTED TO TALK I LAY MY HEAD ON HER BELLY A TEAR STARTED TO ROLL FROM MY EYE B MMMMM E MAGICALLY I THE TEAR FELL FROM MY FACE N G AND SPLASHED INTO HER BELLY BUTTON MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM S E IT REMINDED ME OF L WHEN I WAS A KID F AND MY DAD GAVE ME A 2 PENCE PIECE I TO THROW INTO A WISHING WELL S THAT H WE FOUND ON ONE OF THOSE LONELY FAMILY WALKS I ASKED MY DAD IF I WOULD GET CHANGE FROM THE 2P MY DAD SAID D *DON'T BE STUPID U JUST THROW THE MONEY INTO THE WELL AND MAKE A WISH* I IGNORED HIM THREW IN THE 2P AND WISHED FOR CHANGE E MMMMMMMM WE ALL WISH FOR CHANGE DON'T WE? LUCKYLY MY CHILDHOOD MEMORY MOMENT WAS STOPPED BY A VOICE TYPE NOISE HOWEVER SHE WAS STILL ASLEEP A MMMM WHERE DID THIS VOICE COME FROM? AMAZINGLY IT WAS FROM HER BELLY BUTTON BB - HELLO HEN T GHD - HELLO BB - WHY ARE YOU NOT ASLEEP? GHD - MMMMMM NOT SURE I WANTED TO TALK WITH HER BUT SHE WENT TO SLEEP MMM DO U TALK WITH HER? BB - YES SHE TELLS ME EVERYTHING WE ARE VERY CLOSE GHD - YES I CAN SEE THAT MMMMMMMMM SO WHAT DO I CALL U? H BB - WHATEVER U WANT GHD - I WILL CALL U BELLE BELLE - YES ERRRR I WILL CALL YOU SEBASTIAN THAT WAY IF YOU REPORT THIS CONVERSATION ON THE LIST YOU CAN FOOL THE SCROLL KIDS INTO THINKING THAT IT HAS SOME SORT OF B&S CONTENT SEBASTIAN - I LIKE THE WAY U THINK MMMMM SO WHAT CAN U TELL ME ABOUT HER MMM SHE DOESN'T TELL ME MUCH BELLE - SHE ISN'T LIKE U THINK SHE IS SHE HIDES THE REAL HER FROM YOU SHE LIKES CONTROL SEBASTIAN - MMM WELL YER I KNOW THAT SHE HAS TOTAL CONTROL OF ME SHE WON'T TALK TO ME UNLESS I AM WEARING MY DR WHO (TOM BAKER) Y-FRONTS AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A KOOOL IDEA I MEAN THE Y-FRONTS R KOOOL U CAN STRECH THEM AND MAKE TOM BAKER'S FACE LOOK FUNNY BUT THE KOOOOL GAME IS THE HARDEST GAME ONCE IN MMMM THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE TO ESCAPE IT LEADS TO AN EMPTY LONELY LIFE BELLE - WHAT ARE YOU B TALKING ABOUT SEBASTIAN? E I N G SEBASTIAN - MMM BELLE EVERY OTHER ACTION EVERY OTHER WORD MUST BE KOOOOOOOOOOOOL MMMM PRESSURE BELLE - I THOUGHT YOUR EVERY OTHER WORD S WAS MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM A D SEBASTIAN - MMMM THAT'S TRUE BELLE - WHAT DOES MMMMMM MEAN? SEBASTAIN - MMMM IT REPRESTENS LOST LOVES I LOST THOUGHTS ETC S BELLE - REALLY? SEBASTIAN - MMM NOT SURE BUT IT SOUNDS KOOOOL BELLE - SEBASTIAN ERRR WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP TRYING TO BE KOOOL B E I N SEBASTAIN - MMM K THAT SOUNDS KOOOL G MMMM LOOK BELLE I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HER TELL ME ABOUT HER THIS CONVERSATION IS GOING NOWHERE BELLE - WELL THAT IS YOUR FAULT BUT I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT HER ERRR FOR A START SHE DOESN'T LIKE B&S SHE THINKS THEY ARE DRY LIKE PUFF PASTERY I ALSO N SHE IS INTO HEAVY METAL D AND LINE DANCING U L G SEBASTIAN - WOW MMMMMM E MMMM OUR RELATIONSHIP IS A LIE N GIRLS CAN BE CONFUSING T MMMMM HEY MMMMMM HANK MY ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH MMM HE LIKES LINE DANCING BELLE - OH PLEASE TELL ME YOUR NOT STILL TALKING TO YOUR TOOTHBRUSH IT ISN'T HEALTHY IT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE BE CAREFUL SEBASTIAN - HOW DARE U TALK ABOUT HANK IN THAT WAY BELLE - SORRY ERRR HOW IS HE? SEBASTIAN - FINE MMM HE HAS A CRUSH ON NEKO CASE HE WANTS TO BE ONE OF HER BOYFRIENDS MMM HE THINKS HE HAS A CHANCE BECAUSE ON THE BACK OF HER LP JUST BEHIND NEKO THERE IS A SINK MMM WITH A TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE BUT NO TOOTHBRUSH IN SIGHT MMMM HANK IS BEGGING ME TO SEND HIM BY POST TO HER MMM BUT I WOULD MISS HANK MMMMM BUT I SUPPOSE IT IS A KOOOL IDEA BELLE - I LIKE NEKO CASE SEBASTIAN - LOVELY MMMMMMMMMM FORGET NEKO BACK TO THE SUBJECT BELLE MMMMMMMM DOES SHE LOVE ME CARE FOR ME LIKE ME ETC BELLE - NO SHE ONLY LOVES CAMEL CIGS ERRRRR I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP NOW YOUR RIGHT THIS CONVERSATION IS GOING NOWHWERE SEBASTIAN - MY LIFE IS OVER MMMMMMMM AM I BORING U BELLE - MMMMMMM SEBASTIAN - YER U GOT THE HANG OF IT GOOD APPLICATION BELLE - MMM WHATEVER YOU CAN ASK ME ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT HER THEN I MUST SLEEP MAKE IT GOOD SEBASTIAN - MMMMM K MMM LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WATCHED TEENWOLF AND SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T LIKE IT MMMM WAS SHE LYING? MMM DOES SHE SECRETLY LOVE TEENWOLF? BELLE - MMMM YER SHE WAS LYING SHE SECRETLY HATED IT MMM APART FROM THE BIT WHEN HE TURNS INTO A WOLF SEBASTIAN - MMMMM GOODNIGHT MMM AFTER THIS CONVERSATION ENDED MMM BELLE WENT TO SLEEP MMMM AND SO DID I MMMM I CAN'T REMEMBER IF I DREAMT THAT NIGHT MM BUT IF I DID MMM IT WOULD OF PROBABLY INVOLVED A PINK GRAPEFRUIT AND NIGELLA LAWSON IN SOME WAY MMMM STRANGELY AFTER THAT NIGHT OUR RELATIONSHIP BLOSSOMED FOR A FEW SHORT MONTHS HOWEVER SOMETHING OUT OF MY CONTROL HAPPENED AND THE RELATIONSHIP WAS TERMINATED MMM THINKING ABOUT IT NOW IT SEEMS QUIET FUNNY BUT AT THE TIME IT WAS DEVASTATING MMMM WHAT HAPPENED WAS ........... MY TOM BAKER Y-FRONTS REGENERATED INTO PETER DAVISON BOXER SHORTS MMMMM MMMM YER THAT IS WHERE I HAVE BEEN MMMM I MISS THAT BELLY BUTTON WOW GHD 2000 PUFFTHEMAGICDRAGON TRAVELS - http://members.aol.com/WarrenW999/index.html _________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: A Winter's Tale
by Pamela Tait 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

As I meandered throught an empty Glasgow street I noticed the loneliness that Christmas brings. The Oxfam shop, trying it's best to make the window display as festive as possible, a Silent Night LP sat at a jaunty angle, next to a Phil Collins record. I peer in the window and notice the revolving book case filled with dog-eared Mills & Boon novels. I walk on. I think about how a shop like that survives throughout Christmas. When everyone else is busy buying VCR's and clothes and turkeys and trimmings, that little shop struggles to survive, hoping that the regular target audience will remember to grace it's doortstep and not leave it out at Christmas. It's the same with garden shops. You'll be hard pushed to find a busy one at this time of year. Who'll be buying plants for this weather? While other shops are looking for Christmas staff, those shops will be having to lay people off, cause it's getting a bit quiet. As I walked on down the street, I just thought all these depressing thoughts about homeless people and how they're going to hate Christmas. People are always so much more crueller and uncaring for the homeless at Christmas. People are too busy to care about other peoples feelings. It's not right. I really don't want to go into all the horrible thoughts I have about lonely people at Christmas. Suicide rates go up, no one bats an eyelid. Think of children who are beaten, abused and maltreated. Do you think Christmas is going to be any different. If anything, it'll emphasise the divide between themselves and kids who are lucky ewnought to have a stable homelife. Anyway, if you can be happy, please do so. But just think about others, eh? Thanks.... Pamela xxx ...................................................... I AM OBSESSED WITH BOTTLE GREEN MINI COOPERS. FEAR ME.. _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband 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: What's the matter with just counting each one?
by Sam Walton 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Bonjour personnes de Sinistre. What a weekend. I got drunk and made a fool of myself in front of a girl I like (but that's prolly for the best if I'm going away for six months next week), and I played so much pool I'm dreaming about it. I dreamt I was playing pool in a deserted pub with an Irish list member (Nessa)who I know (but have never seen). She was very good (at pool, that it), amd she kept on beating me. Anyway... I have a few things to say, but only one important one, and I'm afraid it has very little to do with the mighty Scottish septet. I'll do the important one first. *** THE IMPORTANT BIT*** Some of you may remember that back in September I posted about a friend of mine who got knocked down by a car, and was paralysed. I also said that it probably wasn't a permanent thing, and that the men in white coats think that he may walk again. Well hey: this weekend, following lots of physio (which make him look very silly), he got out of his chair of his own accord! Okay, so he took three steps and then kind of toppled into one of the docs, but he found that hilariously funny, and I was just amazed that he did anything at all. So yeah, uplifting stuff really, all round. After all the shit, a couple of pidgeon steps make things so much better. So that was the important bit. Well, important to me, and I like to share these things. Here come a less important bit: *** US ELECTION *** I'm a bit bored of this farce of a democratic process, but I'll have my two-penneth anyway. This may seem deafeningly naive, but why can't everybody just sit down in a church hall, and put all the Gore votes on one side, and all the Bush votes on another side, and then count up each one, and whoever gets more votes wins? I mean, isn't that what they do over here (in the UK)? Row and rows of people sit at trestle tables counting votes all day. How many people are there in Florida? There can't be *that* many votes to be counted, and, from what I gather, even if a computer can't count them, the human eye can. So hmmm, it just seems too simple... Anyway, I think that's about it for time being. I'm going away soon, so I won't be on this list for much longer, but I'll send a brief farewell post in before I leave. In the meantime, if there are any skiiers on the list who are doing a season this season in France, get in contact! Right, I'll shut up now. love Sam.x _________________________________________________________________________ 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: need help with b+s recommendations
by Liqin Lu 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

hi sinister ppl! hope ur all good. i'm asking u guys a favor. i need help choosing b+s CDs to get someone into b+s. she's this lovely lovely person who also happens to be my italian teacher. she only has 'boy with the arab strap' and she admitted that she's not really into b+s. she says the songs r so sad that every time she listens to them she tries to kill herself, and that 'they r like...the smiths gone wrong.' well, true that b+s songs r sometimes really depressing, but they r more than sadness, and thats what i'm trying to show her. now she told me she likes more 'avantgard' music, and i'm feeling a bit hopeless at this attemp. would any of u consider b+s avantgard? maybe just a tiny bit? i am going to give it a try anyway (this is the responsibility of being a b+s fan =) but i still need help choosing CDs, which ones do u think would be more appropriate for a potential b+s beginner like her? i have all the EPs and LPs except for 'tigermilk' (which i lent to one of my best friends and is on the way home, but it'll not get here in time becuz it takes about 3 months for it to get here from china and she only sent it last month...) a BIG thank-u! liqin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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