November 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: Lurking on the Left Coast
by Jason McKinnon 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hey All, "In a high-rise in San Francisco, there worked a Jason. Clicking away at his computer and listening to B&S consume his day. Ticking away the hours and days, waiting for something forgotten. Happiness isn't conducive to the creative process. So I wait happily rutted in a ditch of my own digging. Forgetting what it looks like outside. Waiting. For something." I just wanted to introduce myself. Jason McKinnon is my name. It's nice to be here. I guess the first step to recovery is to admit you're a B & S addict. But, you know, I don't think it's a sin for "like minds" to converge. It's kinda beautiful actually. Until next time, Jason _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Lurking on the Left Coast
by Jason McKinnon 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hey All, In a high-rise in San Francisco, there worked a Jason. Clicking away at his computer and listening to B&S consume his day. Ticking away the hours and days, waiting for something forgotten. Happiness is conducive to the creative process. So I wait happily rutted in a ditch of my own digging. Forgetting what it looks like outside. Waiting. For something. I just wanted to introduce myself. Jason McKinnon is my name. It's nice to be here. I guess the first step to recovery is to admit you're a B & S addict. But, you know, I don't think it's a sin for "like minds" to converge. It's kinda beautiful actually. Until next time, Jason +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: If you ever need self-validation, its all over my face...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hi, I've got a bit of a problem on my hands and I need some good advice. I'm into a girl thats been hurt very badly (I stress badly) in pretty much all her serious relationships. Eventhough we both really like each other and have great times together, this obviously weighs heavily on her mind. As a result, she's absolutely terrified to open up to me emotionally or show me any affection in the least, other than the fact that she keeps me around. At first I thought it was a problem with me, but now I realize its the thoughts of the beasts that came before that are still hovering inside her head. They've crushed her self-esteem and I have no idea what to do anymore. My problem is two-fold: #1) we've only really hung out for a month, so we're still very much trying to figure the other person out and what they're all about, and #2) even when we do get a good thing going, her fears kind of put the kabosh on what could be. Its frustrating the living hell out of me because I really, really like this girl but I'm trying to lay low and give her all the time she needs to deal with whatever is on her mind. Its like, I want to show her affection and be there for her, which solves problem #1, but problem #2 stands in the way. I only get short snippets of what she's like emotionally, like when she plays with her cat, and I know that if she opened up to me, everything else would take care of itself (we're already completing each others' sentences). I know someone out there HAS to have gone through something like this and ANY advice on how to approach it and things to keep in mind would be deeply appreciated. I'm so confused as to what would be the best thing to do: show her affection and try to help build her self-esteem? Stay away and give her space? Words? Actions? Both? Neither? For the first time in my life the Smiths make more sense than anything else in the world. Please help! Steve C. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Which Paul?" "BLAH!" visit http://callowkids.tripod.com or your crush will hate you forever Call WRNR 103.1 at (410) 269-1031 and request Callow's "Lessons in Shut-eye" or you will have bad luck...forever or something. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: gospel-yeahyeah 'round the rink
by lisa morrison 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

coughs and colds to you all (if you don't have them already you soon will so why wait any longer, get them from lisa... at least you will have caught them from a cutie... its not what you got, but how you get it...i wink) causing all sorts of mayhem: peeking sheepishly from side to side...lisa (that would be me) managed to set off the fire alarm in her dormatory and send 500 pajama-klad 19 yr olds (dumb girl) slippering onto main street at 10pm last night. chewed on my bottom lip and scurried out along with the masses and cursed and rolled my eyes and lit a smoke and tried to look tough...had to listen to the irritating exclamations of 19yr old (dumb girl) slipperings "don't panic the buildings on just fire!"; "yay! no more school!" "shit-i have beer in my room and i left the door WIDE open(giggle giggle)"...and all of this fiasco b/c little me had a pasta craving, put the pot on and retreated back into room, forgetting all about pasta to talk unmentionables with friend paul...i feel rather powerful, having 500 (dumb girl) slipperings and the fire dept. at my cravings beckon call...lala content: began rather racey "hand-over-the-window" (notice content)affair... i sigh and justify that "its something to keep me warm during long approaching winter"...blankets just don't cut it anymore. (pish) -lisa (says) _________________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: Christmas
by Lucy Alder 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Wahey! Not only can you pre-order at the Xfm site, you can listen to a whole 30 seconds of the ADVENT HYMN NOT CAROL, ASK NICK DASTOOR, HE KNOWS! I think it's Stevie and it's definitely Isobel. I was hoping for more of a belting hymn with them all going for it big style accompanied by some Sally Army brass, but I suppose a softly softly approach with an acoustic guitar was inevitable. Still, it's quite nice, don't you think? Hello everyone I met/drank with in Glasgow! Mmmm, I had a nice time, in spite of lashing rain and freezing winds and no taxis for ages along Suck Yer Hole Street (is that an old joke or am I being stunningly original there? Hmmm.) Somebody asked about Glasgow architecture. I went to the Art School but it was bleeding well full of drunken students and you get told off for snogging in the corridors, which just isn't cricket, is it? For wonderous architectural beauty, I suggest Stow college. It has a nice sign welcoming you in several different languages and a lovely view of a great big car park. Who are you Biddy Baxtering for in the auction then? I'm thinking of going for Jo's hand knitted jumper. Speaking of knitting, I'm starting a knitting circle in London so if you'd like to come and click needles, drink gin and gossip, whisper privately into my inbox and I'll let you know what's going on. All welcome. And still speaking of knitting, I went to see the Magnetic Fields last night. I am pleased to report that the trend I started of wearing a long, woolly, stripey scarf has caught on because each and every one of them (including guest performers) was also wearing one. I doubt they knitted them themselves though. Marc Almond looked a bit peeved at having to wear something so frumpy with his lovely undone shirt and silver necklaces and twinkly gold tooth, but we jeered and pestered him until he did, the big softy. Right, I'll luv yer and leave yer. Juicy Lucy ps. Jenowl, my lovely, sorry I didn't get to meet you at the weekend. I've left a message for you in the 13th Note (second door along). --- Stéphane Buron <sburon(a)club-internet.fr> wrote: > Just a quick note to let you know that "it's a cool cool Christmas" can > be > pre-ordered on the XFM website, (http://www.xfm.co.uk) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.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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Sinister: I'm just off to bid in the auction...
by Robin Stout 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hello I haven't been doing much recently, just getting wet and catching colds. The little town of Bewdley, where I live, is on telly all the time at the moment, because it's flooded, and there's a man there who's put his furniture on stilts, apparently. Ah, you see, we haven't forgotten these country crafts. We remember the days of table-leg tax, when stilts were all the rage. My little town is a backward place really, but it's always on telly when it floods. I think it's because Steve Lee, the sports reporter lives there. And Rusty Lee (no relation) too . The only other time we're on telly is when lions escape from the safari park, or all their monkeys have to be shot to contain an epidemic of monkey fever. It's true - they shot 150. Bastards. I went to a talk yesterday, given by a Japanese lady. She kept talking about her friend who lives in "my chest hair". That's my chest hair near Leeds, apparently. Life would be much easier if I wasn't a biscuit. I go a bit soggy around the edges sometimes, especially in this weather. Robin. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sex Dwarf
by Joe.Ballard＠arcadiagroup.co.uk 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hey Listerines! It's my second-to-last-day at my hateful job and ***HEY*** I'm as happy as a toad in the hole. Infact I'm the happiest toad in the whole hole! Jobs are pretty much all hateful - I know - but there's something delicious about having a new job, just like nu shooz and grate new albums. Gratest new album (even though it's nigh-on twenty years old) has to be Soft Cell 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret'. Bought it last week and it's the dog's whiskers! It even has a song on it called 'sex dwarf' that is *actually* about a sex dwarf. Obviously you knew where you stood in them days. (Yeah - about three feet tall and dressed top to toe in black rubber. Arf!) These days I find everything dead confusing and regularly forget where and how I stand. This is why I subscribe to la list de la Sinistere. I luv my list cos: It's a non-stop stream of stridently uncommon sense in a world that has turned into a pasty tasteless mush. It's oh-so global (hello New Zealand!) yet pushes on all your local buttons (i.e. the buttons in your heart labelled Belle & Sebastian). And it gives us all relief from death-by-spreadsheet at work / death-by-essay at college / death-by-Lara Croft at home and is SO much better than rubbish Fwd jokes and chain letters and often even the telly. And it allows me to impress my friends by talking knowledgeably about (for example) the Magnetic Fields even though I've only heard ONE of their songs. AND it's a wonderful way to make new friends. Hello new friends! ***CONTENT*** There can be no real content because as far as I can see there's nothing really going on, but....... I was looking at the luvverly piccies of Isobel in Select magazine and I thought "Hang on just a minute!" cos all the pics were of the left side of her visage and isn't that a trifle vain a la Mariah "Scary" Carey? But happily I was wrong cos if you look harder there's one of her *right* side too, and that's just as luvverly as the left one, so all is well and I will sleep soundly tonight. ***END OF CONTENT*** Well that's it. I've run out. Keep the fun coming! luv JOE x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "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: Aye, Nokia war
by Kenneth P Y Chu 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hello, Yeah mobile phones, I think the people who worship them are rather silly, cos, like they're not really that good are they... but then I don't think I hate the mobile either, otherwise I wouldn't have one for a start, and it's cheaper than having a phone on our campus with an NTL monopoly. I don't think having phones ringing is such a bad thing, it reminds me that I may well have some friends, afterall.. and a phone is like the best thing that you'd ever have if you are looking for someone's house, and you get lost. Then there is of course text messaging.. sending little bits of text to your friends and get lovely replies back that makes you curl up and smile, no longer are long coach journeys and lectures a pain. Also, if your phone does WAP, the adorable and clever princess honey has "wapped up" the sinister site, so you can read the most recent sinister mail on the move! So even if you are away from your computer you can check out what some cute Chinese guy in Nottingham is up to, for example... :) Anyway the "wapsite" address is http://www.missprint.org/sinister/wap surprisingly :) Finally if you live in Europe and if you ever fancied composing your own ring tone but your phone doesn't do it... you can do it on www.iobox.com, you have to sign up and they give you 30 credits for free, and it costs 4 credits each time you send one... but they have a nice java applet thing that lets you compose your favourite b&s song. I have just beaten my own record for bowling today, so I am quite happy.. just thought I'd share :) Bowling Pins and Red Bulls Ken ====================================================================== but if you're feeling sinister, go off and see a minister he'll try in vein to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 know where the jumpers go
by Kenneth P Y Chu 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

...on me, that's where they go! Hi all, It's gone so king cold lately, and rainy and windy, a bit mokey, if you ask me. I should be in bed with a cup of tea, or a sexy girly, but unfortunately I don't drink tea, and I am not a fan of tea, I guess tea is not my cup of tea, and I don't know any sexy girly, who will sleep with me. I like my girlies like I like my tea, covered in beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. (Is this when you know that Ken's on drugs?) But yeah it has been king cold and windy, I was supposed to see Placebo last Monday and the moke wind has blown some things off the ceiling of "Rock City" (aka Cocke Schitty), and they had to cancel the funking thing. Then I went out the other night and got far too drunk, and the next day I have totally messed up in bowling and let my team down.. doh I must stop drinking so much. That aside.. things are looking slightly up from before, I'm starting to motivate myself to do work, and I even went to all of my lectures this week. Never knew that working actually make you feel quite good. It makes you feel that you're doing something important. However, since today all of my lectures are cancelled I have to take the chance to doss about ALL DAY.. hehe. and eat pot noodles, then remember that pot noodles are disgusting and I shouldn't have bought it. I just remembered that I lurrrve Terrorvision and Terrorvision are playing in Cocke Schitty in a few weeks, if those stuff get blown off the ceiling again and cause them to cancel I will personally blown the whole place off the face of the Earth. I need to go to the Chinese supermarket to get some proper pot noodles soon which are incidentally waaaaaaaay nicer than the manky ones you get here. If only they make Red Bull pot noodles.. hmm actually that probably wouldn't be so nice, but the stimulation you can get... hmm. I think I've gone mental. :-) Yummy Chinese Noodles and Red Bulls Ken ====================================================================== I spent the summer wasting, the time was passed so easily, but if the summer's wasted, how come that I could feel so free? - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: People always bored me anyway
by nicolson ian 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hardly any posts at all on All Saints Day - were you all in church? I understand that it might have been difficult for those in England to actually get to a computer, or maybe your computers have drowned, but where were the rest of you? Did you all have mad Hallowe'en parties and were unable to stand staring at flickery computer screens yesterday? Just out of interest, after all that mad weather darn sarf of late, is Autumn still allowed to be Sinister's favourite season? Of course some folks have come up with a marvellous idea to ensure that the weather doesn't get even worse in future years - cheaper petrol! Hmm... I'm currently recovering from a job interview of sorts that I had this morning, which was the first proper real life thing that I've done in months. I've decided that now is a good time to make the least of my talents and take on a temporary job for a few months which enables me to put off making any big decisions for a bit longer. This might not be the right thing to do, but heck, I've made an artform out of making the wrong decisions! I've worked in this place before, during summer breaks from university, and then it was enough just to exist and have a bank account for them to give you a job, but today I had to do all kinds of mad tests on computers and stuff. I was expecting that they'd just want to make sure I could hold a pencil. "Jings!" I thought, "perhaps I should have thought about this". I mean, many oragnutangs could do the work if they put their minds to it. Not chimpanzees, though. Too boisterous. What made it worse was that I was wearing my smart shoes, which although fantastic, make me walk like a girl and hurt my feet very much indeed, so I'm kind of hobbling around at the moment. But, hey!, that's enough about me. What have you been up to? Talking about Christmas songs from time to time (or is that passe now?). 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' was always more of an advent hymn than a Christmas one in my book, although I could be splitting hairs there. But it was always one of my faves as it is generally one of the first Christmassy-type songs sung in churches two or three weeks before Christmas, which made it dead exciting. Flicking through my hymn book I notice that there are five verses - will they do them all? If so verse four has a very poor rhyme indeed and for smuttiness, then wait until you hear the first line of verse two! Oo-er! It seems very odd indeed to be writing of Christmas songs when it hardly seems like any time at all since I was listening to poets in tents during the summer. Time's running and passing (etcetera...) November late afternoons in Edinburgh are so atmospheric. The low sun catches and illuminates the tenements and tower-blocks of Leith. It gets even better if the weather's bad. I'm feeling all Astral Weeks. Fill the rest in yourselves... Bye. ____________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "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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