December 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: Saturday...
by Stephen Hewitt 30 Dec '00

30 Dec '00

...is now officially designated CarsmileSteve's offical Pre-xmas london pissup day (and there is at least half a plan and everything). HALF A PLAN Baxendale are playing ROTA at Notting Hill Arts Centre, which starts at FOUR pm, which is a good time to start drinking, and even those of you who don't like baxendale (weirdos that you are ;)) should come because it is FREE to get in and you can drink turkish lager and everything. After that finishes, there will almost certainly be pub related shennanigans, possibly even an armadillo or two. Anyone who fancies it (and indeed can think of the other half of the plan), should drop me a line and it will be FUN and STUFF. I went to see six by seven last night and they were rather good (in a *this* is what catherine wheel should've sounded like kind of way (and that is a compliment, btw)), and very loud, which is always to be approved of. 6x7 will always have a fond place in my heart for giving out those "two and a half days in love with you" badges out at the end of bowlie (i know it was one of their songs/eps, but it did sum up the feel of the weekend in one handy one inch diameter pin on item), although i seem to have misplaced mine, which is a shame. The gig was also a charidee gig for warchild, and it's nice to do a bit at this time of year. I'm going to see league of gentlemen tonite as well, a local show for local people, apparently. Gosh what a busy and exciting life i lead, kind of. Suppose one has to do something to make up for the mind numbing boredom of work. Oh well, back to the photocopier... xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Taking a Walk on the wild side
by Derek s 30 Dec '00

30 Dec '00

Well, here I am (that's one trite opening) posting after a long period of lurking. I am very cold and very bored so now you will all hear the details of my boring suburban life and what I do to try and make it not so boring...like wear nail polish...<glances about nervously> Oh yes. It's a lovely shade of transparent blue with glitter. It's good to have sisters who are too young to wear nail polish because then you can swipe it from them. Watching my parents get all confused and try to rationalize it is quite humorous. I try to explain that it's not a gay thing, but more of a break up the monotony of suburban life thing, to which my mother replies, "You could have fooled me". No, no, not a gay thing, as I've been having my share of girl trouble lately, but I won't go into that, I don't even want to hear me whine. Got introduced to The Pixies over Christmas, very great. My favorite song is Velouria, which is my new female name, for those yet to be experienced forays into transvestitism (is that even a word?). A story regarding Cat Power's "What Would the Community Think" which I purchased with one of my Borders gift certificates. The cashier rings it up, looks at it and exclaims, quite loudly, "WHAT THE HELL CD IS THIS?!?!" At first I didn't even know she was talking to me. Then she's like, "Is it hardcore, rock,punk,?" I just looked at her funny and told her I wasn't going to label the music. I quickly took my CD and left. I'm sorry but I was under the impression that you don't put your customers in uncomfortable positions like that. I would have fired her on the spot, just for talking like MTV's ex-VJ jesse camp. Needless to say, I was disturbed and disgusted with humanity once again. I've taken some really nice pictures and would like to thank everyone who responded to my last post. BS content. After a hiatus from them for about a month, I had a BS revival Christmas day. I'm not big into religion or Christmas songs but I must say Come O come Emmanuel was quite impressive. Ok it's obviously time to wrap up this monstrosity known as the longest post to Sinister I've ever written. Velouria...umm I mean Derek S. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.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: B & S in Festive 50
by David Moore 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

Hi All, Mummy, I apologise for posting twice in one day. I know its really bad form (but I guess it doesn't matter much when the holidays mean there's hardly any traffic anyway.) Thanks to ChrisBrown2 for reminding me that I should have mentioned this earlier: Radio 1's elder statesman John Peel's Festive 50 included (j-u-s-t: at No. 49), this entry from our loved ones: I Fought In A War. This year's poll was dominated by P.J. Harvey, The Delgados, Hefner, Cinerama, oh, sod it, look for yourselves at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/peel_festive_fifty.shtml I've been writing comments on this but then deleting them for a while now, so I think I'll just click send: Regards for A Happy New Year, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the mystery of the missing sinister digest
by yellow bananas 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

hello from the dark depths of lurkerdom. i thought maybe if i used the word "dark", then lurkerdom would be cool. my poor mailbox has not been graced by the sinister digest for 3 days. is this just me or is it the rest of the list too? or is it just punishment for being a lurker? i tried to post, i did, but i never had anything interesting to say, so i fell asleep. i hope everyone had a good christmas. mine was horribly below par, because i got terribly high on 2 pints of strongbow cider, and fell asleep at 10.30pm, christmas eve. someone should have warned me... my pee smelt of alcohol for the next 2 days. probably because i'm chinese. moving right along... my sweet gay friend got me the xfm cool cool christmas thing. he got it for me, even though only hmv sold it at a ridiculous import price. why are all the nice boys gay? anyway, the local newspaper called it a christmas record "for freaks". apparently, normal people listen to westlife and celine dion and michael jackson. the "upper class" listen to ella fitzgerald. <unpc>i think that guy who blew 7 pple away in massachusetts picked the wrong office.</unpc> also, hefner's latest record makes me want to cry. but i'm asian so i can't cry over songs and films and books. only when a relative dies. hy "You can't ever find a place that is nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck You' right under your nose." - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "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: merry xmas, pass the guinness...
by angel blackwell 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

morning sweeties... well, i for one am glad that this whole scary holiday thing is over. sorry, everyone else i'm sure had fun, but it just turns me into a spoiled brat i think. let's just say i didn't get what i asked for...and guess what campers, when my mother asks what i want next year, she's gonna get the same request that i had this year. my mother felt that i needed pots more than anything, so now i have a box of cooking pots that is bigger than my kitchen...see, i sound like a whiny spoiled brat, but i did get nice things...my mother made up for it by buying me the rubber soul cd. this was the first year that my boyfriend was invited to dinner and everything...and he got to meet my sister's inlaws. there are only four of us from my family in canada, and it's been that way since i was little, so when we have 12 people over for dinner, we get a little crazy. needless to say when boy and i got home and he gave my presents, i got all cheesy and happy and calm... well, it seems there is a visiting sinister presence overseas here, finally...and almost by magic strange fruit has reached the icy depths of toronto...hmmm...coincidence??? nah i'm all excited, i just hope some people show up...maybe the divine mr kado and his entourage will show up...but don't let your friends make out in the bathroom. i don't want to break rancho relaxo that night. i hope everyone is careful at new years or hogmaniacal (or whatever the fuck it's called) and that you are able to remember what you did. i never do. i'm ringing in the new year at buddies in bad times theatre so it should be kewl, i was going to a party with my friend, but said friend is an ass... bye sweeties... /me kisses everyone in #sinister... a. The crudity and sparness of life is to be found in public lavatories." -Leoni Orton-Barnett, sister of Joe Orton. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "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: has everyone except for me heard 'o come...' by now?? :/
by Ola Szkudlapska 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

hello list :) last night i fell asleep listening to hefner and had dirty dreams afterwards. dirty dreams which didn't even feature me. rrah. ;) i hope you all had a nice christmas. :) mum and me went to visit our relatives in another city... on the train, mum dropped my walkman, and it stopped working. grr. being deprived of music (relatives don't have a tape player, believe it or not :) i was reading books *all the time*. and i mean all the time. :) i suppose that, being so engrossed in music, i had forgotten how nice reading actually is. and, mind you, Voltaire is quite cool actually :) to be precise... i wasn't 'deprived of music' completely - i found an old glockenspiel in my aunt's house (!) yay :) i figured out most of the christmas carols in no time, and moved on to b&s songs :) (anyone want me in their band? i could sing as well... nah, didn't think so ;) yesterday i went with a mate of mine to a bazaar... "Europe Fair" it's called. (no idea why :)) nearly everything can be found there - cheap clothes, cheap alcohol, cheap jewellery, pirated computer games, mobile phones - in a nutshell, one big mess :) and going there is truly an unforgettable experience (sarcasm VERY MUCH intended) we were looking for some cheap pirated cds. usually the only ones that can be found there are techno-dance-crap or stuff of similar ilk, but i even saw 'kid a' and something by gusgus :) an interesting conversation i had with my mate's friend: 'wow, i've just seen a pirated radiohead cd here' 'radiohead? i went to their gig a few weeks ago.' 'what? where?? how???' 'oh, sorry. i meant *motorhead* not radiohead' :D no additional comments :D ahh, i still have no idea about what to do on the new year's eve. if my mates won't suggest something quickly, i'll just dance dance dance dance dance to the radio on the night. oh well ;) take care everyone! byeee ola ps. to people whom i've promised tapes ages ago: !sorry!sorry!sorry! i am going to post everything today, though. psps. to people whom i've promised tapes not so long ago: umm.. be a little more patient, ok? ;) -- Szybkosc - Bezpieczenstwo - FTP - SQL - ASP - 100 MB dla Twojego serwisu WWW [ http://www.op.pl/hosting/ ] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Stars in Toronto
by Red Geisha 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

Tonight in Toronto Stars perform at Ted's Wrecking Yard. They do a smashing cover of "This Charming Man". I believe the cover is $7. I usually describe them as a nice meld between New Order and St.Etienne. Since I need some sinister content, I finally picked up the Acid House soundtrack, more for the Texas & T-Rex songs but "Slow Graffiti" is also on the disk. ta, Chris >is anyone else as floored by the schneider tm cover of 'there is a light >that never goes out' as i am? the rest of the new ep is mediocre but WOW~! >what a swell smiths cover. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "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 On The Box? 'The Queen's Nose' with Paula Wilcox
by David Moore 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

Hi All, Hope you all had a lovely Christmas & that Santa brought you all you wished for. God Bless listMummy Christmas for making the Sinister pages all snowflaky. Me and my friend the cat are sitting here looking out the window being dazzled by the sun reflecting off the snow in the back garden (which only arrived a couple of days late). Still, though. No cataracts or hurricanoes. My web researcher tells me that there is a Michael Shelley album called "Too Many Movies" out soon (15.01.01?) on Francis Macdonald's Shoeshine Records which has Stevie & Chris playing on it. More info here: http://www.shoeshine.co.uk/index.htm This holiday I have mostly been listening to lots of Christmas records: the Jeepster charity one (I like a Snow Patrol track!), the Low Christmas ep, the Fortuna Pop! one, the Arab Strap one & one from another band who will remain priceless. Wishing you all A Happy New Year, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: self realization
by Ian Wood 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

hey all, i just realized today that i'm a really weird kid. how's everyone doing? cheers ian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.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: if you fart in public, try to say in time, "goodness gracious, what a whiff, it doesn't smell like mine"
by John Maxwell 29 Dec '00

29 Dec '00

hello, what an exciting day i had yesterday. i went into the fun town-that-is-now-a-city Inverness to change the scary jacket that i received fir christmas. well, my father seemed to think i went ot change it. only when i got the refund he lost the plot for a wee moment. he calmed down afterwards. so i got the money to buy a new non-scary jacket & my dad was eventually ok, so i was kind of happy. then we went to the big tesco, coz it's really rather big compared to the old one. well, i went across to mvc because i had just found out that my fiver voucher had another tenner underneath it :) so i went and bought the latest hefner album and some books for 99p each when they used to be 8 quid and stuff. then i found i had enough money for a bag of haribo, so i went into tesco and bought some. it wasn't that easy, though. the place was pretty full, and i was nearly attacked by this shop-guy who had a big trolley thing full of stuff. So i eeked and walked swiftly away to the other side of the supermarket where the sweets were. the checkout wifey was really chatty, so i though i'd be a proper choochter (or however it's spelt) and say, "aye, no bad, yersel'" i went into the car park to look for the car and my parents, to the place where we parked the car. No blue renault clio's about. except at the other side of the car park, but when i went over to it, it was the wrong one. then i saw another one, but it wasn't the right one neither. i was wondering how many blue clio's could be in the one tesco car park at the same time. eventually, near the brink of giving up and going into the warmth of tesco again, my father turns up in the car. he went over to mvc with the car to look for me. grr so i went home and read about half of my book about beck and ate my lovely tangfastic haribo. it might just be me being a lightweight, but i can never have a whole bag in a day of the sour mix without my toungue being all weird & sour & stuff for a few days. oh well, better go to bed and get changed out of this t-shirt i spilled tea on about half an hour ago and is starting to become quite cold... have a happy new year everyone, johnjohn x _______________________________________________________________________ FSmail - Get your free web-based email from Freeserve: www.fsmail.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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