December 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: just like a miniseries, or it's all over but the re-counting, courts, lawyers, shouting....
by carle groome 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

friends, minisisterines, country-rockers, lend me your eyes... (guess all this post-erection oratory is making me more roman than usual. i'm hot for your bauds...) took me another three days to catch up on the last week. tweensters are voluable beyond any conception i've ever had! (i had to get some sleep before finishing the read and felt that i should be able to get through the last thirty or so this morning...and another 30 show up!) so i feel justified in using half my time on posts and the other half on jabbering like a monkey...butler superfurrygrrrrl wrote about her affection for the gorkys? is that name short for zygotic mynci as well? if so, i second that emotion: classic prog in an alt.rock vein. anybody that covers kevin ayers gets a place on my permanent playlist. cbrown wrote: Someone mentioned Grandaddy, they?re ace, I?d say that they?re in the mercury rev, flaming lips (not that good but you know what I mean?.I hope), Scott 4 sort of mould, not only that, I?m going to see them on Wednesday and they?re on the Jeepster Christmas album with a lovely little ditty about Alan Parsons (who he? Producer type fellow?) yeah. beatles engineer on last albums. and has his own series of concept albs dating back to mid-70s. they wrote a SONG about him? JENOWL, i hate to give advice on such a breif acquaintence...so how about a suggestion? teflon body armor and helmet. oh, and steel-toed shoes. several mentions of allan moore have prompted me to say: omigawd! PROMETHEA! this could be the best thing for anthology story-within-story writing since SANDMAN! has anybody on the list seen any of his legendary live performances? i've heard a couple CDs and they are mindblowers. content: i have the feeling that this must've come up before, but it's been on my mind for some time. it's about stuart's falsetto voicings. we all know about the level of androgyny in the lyric (i think i needn't cite chapter and verse to the faithful), but when coupled with the high register, the wistful quality doubles the effect. that whole thing about the boy trembling on the edge of manhood and all, that underscores the searching, tenuous quality of the storylines... even sonic youth had an early alb called 'confusion is sex' and hendrix's song 'love or confusion' sort of says a lot: when we don't know what we are, we are most likely to be shaped by that which we desire...even reflecting the other in ourselves... (i apologize for the scattered nature of this transmissive. i'm trying to stay in the 15 minute ballpark figure. and failing.) and it's not as if i'm saying the boy lacks testosterone; we all know that some of the greatest lovers in song were famed for their near-castratii range. think of marvin gaye, smokey robinson, stevie wonder, curtis mayfield--and, you will note: all soul singers. ok, motown. mostly. but that's a minor distinction. if you doubt, ask pauline l. shivers...if she really IS the same PLS who's realplayer song i checked out from a link on this list (princess honey, can you confirm?) oops. i digress again. no. wait a minute. i do NOT digress. what i wanted to say is as i am a USAer, my knowledge of the phenomenon called 'northern soul' is somewhat limited. so i'll put it to you scots et al who do know this genre. is 'struan' a soul singer in this tradition? (i mean, i'm not saying rick astley--he's the only one i'm halfway sure of, but, well. you know.) ok, b&s rock--granted--but... oh no. this is really ALL over the place. first i'm making an arguement for sexual indeterminacy and then i stray into whether or not he's a soul man... (yeah. told you i was roman...roamin' all over the place!) enow. eeyow! happy trails, carle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: oh, dear...
by Jordi Trenzano 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

IŽll never leave Rosseta go out from her room !!! damn cat :))) Brier was damn right, Le Tigre are GRATE !!! but I donŽt want to know what should happen if she starts impersonating Kathlyn Hanna. ThereŽs too much noise involved. Love and kittens Jordiet Sinistre ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: chapter eight: despair, chapter seven: hope
by *Boygirlorder * 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

greeting lads and lasses in the land of sinister, somewhere to my left, geographically speaking, past the vomit stains on my couch and farther still from the right, increasingly so. its been a long time since i posted (welcomed no doubt by few, not noticed by more). the events that led up to this post were twofold, doubly ply, please dont squeeze the charmin. first, the loverly miss laurallew wished me a happy birthday, and on that day i turned 20 what i lost in a suffix i gained in a warm fuzzy feeling thanks to the lastingly lambent listee laura llew. secondly it has come to my attention that the one, the only, the object of my crush (even though i swore id never tell, and he hoped it was the lovely jooooooolie) WILLPORTER is at THIS VERY MOMENT less than one hndred miles from my home. praise allah this is a fine day. the convergence of these two events, these two grand celestial sinister sattelites alligning themselves in some nether region of my brain said POST....as anyone knows every post i make is willporter and laurallews fault. --the second act, suspense, drama-- what follows is the short version of the obligatory mark complaints, i will condense for the sake of your sanity: in the months since ive last spoken to you my father had a heart attack, my parents got divorced, my mom collapsed at a baseball game and her heart stopped beating, my sister was in a car accident and shattered her wrist, i got arrested for driving under the influence, i had 80 cds stolen from me, i received my ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth speeding tickets and my third and fourth traffic violations, i dug myself 3,000 dollars into debt, i failed all five of my courses at school due to lack of going, and ive gone to fat.....i will not dwell however -the third act: hope?- a few weeks ago i got to open for bright eyes, i hade a great time. i was told by most people either one of two things 1) you have a beautiful voice. or 2) you have huge balls. the two arent mutually exclusive. so now sinisterines i have a proposition, give me transportation, somewhere to sleep (doesnt even have to be soft, my new favorite place to sleep is on the bathroom floor using dirty clothes as a pillow), $4.20 for a meal at wendys, and a 40 oz of st ides malt liquor and i will provide you and your guests with a night of dancing, love and romance. also some dirty words and a springsteen song or two. also i have now been going ot with the LOVELY emily logan wexler for over nine months now....yay me. i am now taking a year and a half off from school. im attempting to get a job with acorn, the association of communities organized for reform now, i prefer typing acorn. after working there for a bit im joining americorps, doing some service, clearing my head, and moving away. then i will make my triumphant return to the halls of americas institutions of higher learning. then i become a teacher and a minister (yes an atheist minister, what do you want from a unitarian/catholic) hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ENOUGH -fourth act: denouement, belle and sebastian- i would like to afress the issue of mr mcmcmc and missmai "meeting" stuart m in nyc this past week. i shall now inform you of what really happened. the man you thought, understandably though naively, to be the angel voiced thunder god, was in fact one of MY henchmen in a stu m mask (ala scooby doo). the REAL stuart was at my house having a lovely snack of coffee cake and (what else) coffee. its a shame me and my new pal stoobie (he insist i call him that, i find it childish, but who am i to argue, i cant even tell you what he calls me) had to let this charade go on for so long, im sorry mick, im sorry mai, and im sorry sinister. HONK if you demand satisfaction, bgMARK "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."---"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." ...Governor George W. Bush (dubya!) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.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: re: dancing about architecture
by chris perriman 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

>From: "Jeff Burke" <shiplore(a)hotmail.com> >chris if a quote is sited as anon it mean anonymous. or author unknown.... i know that but michelle asked me if i knew where it was from, i was just telling her that i didn't know this is just getting too confusing :) ok. now i've been informed it was steve martin who uttered these lines cheers to jeremy (or props or whatever) out pez* _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.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: Cases, shoulder girls, invisibility, pop stars, and rediscovering the love...
by Blake 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

Dear list: I believe it was sometime, early in 1999 (it was probably a very warm day down here in the Carolinas. I cannot dare describe the weather here during spring and early summer) that I changed my style from capital letters at the beginning of a sentence (like the rest of the world does) to no capitalization anywhere unless I mentioned God, Truth, or Isobel. But as you can see, I am now reverting back to my former ways, and doing as we should be doing: upholding the frank, and dare I say, strict regulations administered by the English language. You all know what I'm talking about: the shoulder girl. Yes, fine and well, she's the can't miss photo on the Sinister body parts page. Now, I have been out of the loop here in Sinister land for quite a while, and I seem to recall that there was, at one point, a bit of a debate as to who the shoulder girl really is. Frankly, I don't care. Because I am in love with the shoulder girl. She sits, so delicately, on my computer desktop (I chose the "set as wallpaper" and never looked back), staring at me. I just can't help it. The way her hair bands are red and blue. Well, it melts me. Now, before you all laugh and/or scream at my screamability, think: have you ever totally fallen for someone because of a small thing like their nails, or their eyelashes? Right, well, then it's not so far-fetched now is it? I feel so silly. But silliness is the mead, and we are just a cronie-filled mead hall, I suppose. I am just so naive. And last night I took my computer (it's a laptop, you see) to my friend's room to have it fixed, and he looked at the picture and said: "Boy those are dick sucking lips." Whew. There goes the naivete. I equate that to finding out Santa Claus isn't real. All the innocence. Gone. Oh well. I apologize for the smut factor. But I had to lay it on the line. You understand, don't you? There has been recent talk of having crushes on Eminem. While I don't have a crush on him, there is a certain element to Britney Spears that makes her cute as a button. Oh heeheehawhaw all you went. She's cute. Mega-cute. I used to have a theory that I was invisible. No kidding. I would sometimes pass my hand before my eyes and think that I couldn't see it. I now get the feeling this predicament is happening again. Sometimes I'll be in the lunch line and I'll just pass through with no acknowledgement. Hmmm. So I've rediscovered the love. Of B&S. That's right, this is list content. I threw in TBWTAS yesterday and almost cried. It's now one of those records that remind of a specific time in my life, and more than anything, I saw colors, and flashes of moments I had forgotten, now remembered. I urge everyone to go play a record they haven't played in a long long time. You never know what you might rediscover. goodnight the nerdy shy-eyed pacifist blake http://members.tripod.com/nucleartrout +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: To Rosseta
by Brier Random 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

Um..... hi Rosseta (and Jordiet).... this is really embarrasing.... um...... Rossetta: my cat wants to meet you. His name is Sir Puss-in-Boots-and-a-Kitty-G-String. He wants to see your photo on the Sinister page before registering a crush, especially a paw or tail on the 'Kitty Parts' page. He assumes you are a girl. Are you neutered? Do you shave your whiskers? His favorite bands are Le Tigre and Modest Mouse, hates Snoop Dog. If you think this could be a match, let me know. Sir PIPAAGS P.S. Puuurrrrrrr +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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