December 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: these stilletto-ed toes are made for crushing
by lisa morrison 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

rather peeved am i and having to declare it to the world b/c i'm some sort of exhibitionist in this way...lifting my mental skirt and shaking the hips of all things that are brain-wise...someone called it "selfpromotion" which shocked me with its accuracey and flattered me in the sick way i get flattered...but no that's not what i'm peeved about...that's me falling off my track once more...i derail an average of four times a day...someone should have a word with my conductor, but no. hes guzzling whiskey in the caboose and hand sliding up the thigh of karen the servant girl while she coo-coos and and train choo-choos. my footsteps have been heavy, too heavy for heels...toes pinched in patent leather while a four-year boot crushes them...the piggies scream and squeal something awful... * i look into a face that is on the verge of tears at every moments...with a new second, the clock ticks out a complete and new verge...the tears could well. and the could well. and they could well. and they could well...for hours. and i look at the sad face of the clock, like the sad face across from me... * tension ties itself like a knot. we tighten it. there's no way to undo it, though the desire to untie it is mutual...so we sit...and look at the knot, like it were a francis bacon painting hanging and hung in some world-renown gallery which essentially just a space like any other...we sit. we look. we let the knot irritate us. it comes alive and nibbles at our lips, necks and forearms...but we antraced, move not a muscle... * this is vague. a trace. but its said. and now i need you all to chorus an sypathetic "awwwwww.." just to confirm you heard me, whether or not you were listening...my drama in lights...neon pink...and this is like opening night... being ideal and pretty pink neon with no content. -lisa wilting like a flower in yr favorite bedside vase. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at 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: if this had been a poptart, we'd be dead right now
by m.e. curtin 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hi there, Merry CHristmas to all who probably wonder what stranger is writing now. Well, it's me and I apologize in advance for the following malicious request. Malicious only because a postal system and an ocean (most likely) is involved. I wondered maybe if some kind soul was in the mood to send me a tape of this silly christmas album business. i'm fully prepared to pick up the tab, and even include my own strange little compilation sure to knock your socks off....maybe. i know it's a long shot but maybe it's possible. write me if you feel so inclined, or keep on ignoring me otherwise. THANKS and Merry holiday of your choice. yours marybeth +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Yuletide and all that
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hewwo, Well, that's Christmas all over. I spent christmas day down the forest, it was truly fab, until I found that someone had drawn satanist symbols all over the trees near my special place, where I go to read and things, and talk to the trees. It made me want to cry. For christmas people gave me things, which was awfully nice of them, since I'm not big on christmas (though I bought people Winter presents instead). I got quite a lot of book tokens, which means people don't know what a party animal I really am. My best presents were Buffy the Vampire Slayer videos, and Final Fantasy 8, and a real sized lightsaber, and candles. With my book tokens I bought spellbooks. Also people gave me perfume, which is a bit useless, since I don't wear it. I might have to start. It's snowing! But I nearly got snowed in all last night at my friend's house, but it was grate, cause I just snuggled up on the sofa with my maybe boyfriend, and I was all warm, and everyone had fun talking about silly things. Which is the best kind of fun. And winter is such a lovely sleepy time. I had a panic today in the forest, because I went out and I wasn't bundled up enough, because I was getting away from my brother, who is a sadist animal torturer homophobe nazi (and he's only 13) and I fell down a hill and nearly into the waterfall, but just not, and I was quite funny feeling, so I couldn't get up at all, and I was just lying there for about an hour, feeling really odd, and I got a bit numb and my hands hurt from all the snow, and I managed to get home eventually, but it was very scary indeed. Someone told me this joke: How many babies does it take to tile a roof? Depends how you slice them. Winter Whatevery is my new B&S theme song, because it's all snowy, and I miss Stuart David, because Looper aren't nearly as grate. I have to go now. Merry Winter things, Hugs, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "He will be your captain soon"
by Simon Aurell 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Dear Sinister, Today I was riding bus number 19, on my way home. As the bus stopped for red lights, I saw a man walking with his bicycle along the pavement, his little daughter on it. She seemed extremely pleased with this, as she waved her arms and laughed, and then began making salutes to everyone, with her back straight, chest out and head held high, like she was the proud captain of some beautiful ship, sailing into harbour. For me, sitting behind the glass of the bus window, the hole scene was silent - except for "You Made Me Forget My Dreams", playing on my walkman, and the faint humming from the engine, running on idle, that occasionally broke through the music - and very beautiful. By the way, could anyone help me come up with a good name for a singer/songwriter-ish project? Simon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: questions and answers
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

right, merry christmas. GHope it was nice for everyone, or not actually traumatic. For some reason I always feel a little depressed on Christmas day. It was quite a strange day ... I went to a midnight church service on Christmas eve (highly recommended, even if you're not "that way inclined", so to speak) and halfway through "O Come O Come Emmanuel" I realised I was singing in a very affected, Stuart Murdoch-esque voice. Which was quite funny ... esentially inging a B&S song in church. I woke up the next morning depressingly early (summer here, light at 5:30am etc) and watched "The Filth and the Fury" on video while my parents were at their scary, vaguely fundamental church service (as opposed to my vaguely limp wristed, bleeding heart church full of academics and artists). Then I went to Vanessa's (girlfriend) for Christmas lunch, and was a little embarassed by the fact that most of her family bought me presents, and I only bought her a present, and no one else. opps ..... I got a set of Indianna Jones videos (surely the best series ever) and some music/book vouchers. I managed to kinda out do her ... by buying her a boxed set of *TEN* Alfred Hitchcock videos. No self interest there of course ...... Apart from the fact I hadn't seen most of the videos in the set, and really wanted to .... hmmm. Yesterday I got *seven* CDs, which was prety cool. In the mail, from Amazon.co.uk came "Suburban Light" by The Clientele (more on that later), and the Peel Session albums by Joy Division and New Order. I then went out and bought "John Wesley Harding" and "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan, along with "Mental Notes" by Split Enz, which was recently namedas "the best New Zealand album ever made". I kinda figure I needed to own it, being a huge local music fan, and hell, it was only $10 (about US$4.00) which is a riciculously cheap price to pay for a CD. And then I bought the Badly Drawn Boy album a few hours later because it was on special. Right ... back to ... *** THE CLIENTELE *** The album sounds great .... really lovely, and not nealry like B&S, apart from the fact they are quite mellow and laid back and summery etc. Anyway ... is it actually their debut album, or just all their singles etc? Anyone care to fill me in a bit more about them ... I didn't really know anything, and just bought the album because a few people on the list had mentioned them. And also .... *** AMELIA FLETCHER *** she who does the sublime backing vocals on "We Love The City" by Hefner. I seem to recall someone saying she is/was was in a band/bands called "Tallulah Gosh" and/or "Marine Research" .... or something. Can anyone *please* tell me more about her, what is available, what I need to own etc., because I am besotted ....... Anyway, I'd better go. Have a great new year everyone ...... Lawrence Mikkelsen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: anno is god
by j r kananen 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

There are four things in this world I love more than life it self, in particular order: My Girlfriend Neon Genesis Evangelion Radiohead Belle And Sebastian Just thought I'd share seen as someone brought up good ol' eva...eva lovers of the world unite and take over! For all of you who asked for a copy of my short film based on "The State I Am In" : you should be receiving it anywhere from a few days to a week or so depending on how far from Pasadena you live...It turned out good I think, and I'm ususaly very critical of my work, anyway, it will be sent out soon, and I should stream it soon from my website which also has my music and an anime page, if anyone is interested email me privately, I don't wish to abuse the list by advertising or anything ^_^ later Jason K. - we got heads on sticks - Radiohead Kid A +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 little things that tend to remain the same
by Chris Paluch 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hello Sinister, I have returned home to the land of sea and cake(also known as chicago). I thought missed the food of the wonderful city very much, but it is looking like that is not the case, and i was only longing for something familiar. I also forgot to bring my giant cd book with me so I am deprived of Belle and Sebastian, along with all my other music. So I am stuck with my family watching episodes of evangelion i have on VCD. Which is a very esoteric Japanese cartoon which involves a bizarre interpration of christianity, the sadness that lurks in any good anime, and of course robots fighting. I still cannot figure out why I am amused by the series so much. Finals burnt me out, but that is the life of a student. The nice thing is there is now an ice skating rink on the town green in the small new england town i live in, so i can ice skate during the long winter in vermont. But that is when i take a plane back to vermont. Sorry about the dry post... Oh if anybody on sinister knows of something fun to do in chicago on new years other than see the flaming lips please email me. Chris P. ===== www.mp3.com/sevenstars So many days pass lost in the skyline. Some things still take my heart away and leave me weaping. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.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: Endless, endless, endless...
by Histrianic＠aol.com 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

I woke up this morning, much in the fear of getting up. I fell asleep on the couch while watching the mindless boredom chatter of the television... again. I left all my cds at a friend's house, along with my address book, which forbids me to call any of my friends or listen to anything other than the crap they play on the radio. Thus I turn to my only other salvation, the television. When you are awake at three o'clock in the morning, not many people appreciate being talked to, and not many shops appreciate being shopped at. With my hamster as my only companion, I flip through channels and look at odd web sites online. Please, someone, go *kill* Britney Spears or one of those blondes singing on the radio... My friend and I came up with another weird list of questions, one of which is: Explain why good songs should forever be banned from being remade by blonde-haired, blue-eyed female singers. Actually, male singers as well. Aghhh... That would be the clock naggin at me to get moving. Someone ban those alarm things....... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: tis the season to post
by Maren Rocket 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hello and happy holidays. I have been lurking for quite a long time and I decided to finally join in with this first post the day after Christmas, since I can finally relax a bit...see, I was at college and then came home to my old job at a chocolate factory and as you can imagine, X-mas is a very hectic time of the year...anywho*~*--content--I've been listening to B&S for about 3+ years now and they can do no wrong in my opinion. Maybe I'm easy to please, but I've loved (almost) everything that I've heard from them...I keep discovering the subtle beauty of B&S everytime I listen... Received a lovely B&S tee-shirt for the holiday and I can't wait to wear it--however, it's too cold right now and so if I wear it, it would have to be under a sweater:(*~* Trying to decide what to do for New Years...anyone in the NY area want to have a party??? I've had quite interesting experiences the past few years, and I think I'd prefer to keep this year a little more low-key. Nothing that will provoke police officers to break in and such. Well, I'm off to shower away this chocolate smell that doesn't want to leave my flesh-- Maren ===== ***hOw ScAnDiNaViAn oF mE*** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.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: christmas is just so *cake*
by Will Salt 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Well ... a verry merry after-Christmas to every one. Insert your religious/astronomical festival of choice above. If you don't want to read an almost-completely content-free post, skip the following. If you *do* want to kill some time (or brain cells), read on. CONTENT! Right at the top of my stocking this christmas was the Jeepster christmas compilation CD-thingy, complete with "O Come O Come E......." [check speeling]. Like all B&S songs, this is truly grate; I put it on auto-repeat throughout Christmas day, much to the annoyance of the family. My mother insisted in singing along, which probably means that she liked it --- or, at least, that she remembered the words. In fact, that song .. lovely melody and all ... is completely *cake* because it combines two incredibly cake things: B&S and Christmas! I prefer minor keys, you know. The rest of the CD is also good (hey, I like listening to almost *anything*), but it hardly compares to !B!&!S! I was a *bit* annoyed that the St. Etienne song was one I already have, though. NOT CONTENT! Coming back home for Christmas reminds me of all the things I was going to do when I was younger. When I was a teenager, I was going to be a Famous Writer, and I've been going through all the truly grate books I was going to write. I had *piles* and *piles* of ideas, and I really should take the time to write some of them. I was going to write about a writer who wanted to write a book about love, but ended up killing herself because she had ruined the love-life of someone else years before. Then, I was going to write a book about a group of men who started to make fake crop circles and found that it changed there lives. Finally, I was going to write a book about two little children who at night would creep into the back of their wardrobe and listen to the distant, muffled voices of whatever grownups they could hear. Their house was haunted (well, they *believed* it was), and when it was dark at night it would be taken over by little goblins who moved things around and took over the christmas tree, climbing up and down the tinsel strings. The voices they heard may have been their parents, or may have been their future selves. Since then, i've added little details to this outline to make it more Sinister in tone. Their milk comes from the Tiger Dairy, and every so often they look outside and watch a cat sniff round the postman's van. I should write that book; it would have been cake. INCONTENT! (you can see where this is going, can't you?) cake ("cake") 1 n. Yummy food, usually baked. 2 v. to cover thickly 3 adj. Absolutely wonderful; grate; the best thing ever. [extract from the "Princess Honey Dictionary of Wonderfully Bisotic Words", Sinister University Press.] INCONTINENT! I have had a truly cake christmas that is also heartbreaking. Well, actually, I had a truly cake night out on Christmas Eve that was also heartbreaking. It's a long story, so bear with me, or just go away. A few years ago, now, I was at school. I was a teenager, and I was in love. Incidentally, if *you* are on the list, and *you* recognise *you*rself, then stop reading cos we'll both be embarassed. As I was saying, I was in love with this girl --- along with several other boys I knew --- but she didn't requite any of us, and so we were all lonely. Now, after a few months, I had to go into hospital for a couple of days. I decided it was time Something Had To Be Done, and so the day before I went I wrote her a letter saying just how grate I thought she was; I wrote it in photography class, writing with one hand and developing a reel of negatives with the other. On the way home, I posted it, and the next day I was in hospital to have my teeth pulled, which meant I wouldn't have to face *her* just after she had received this awfully embarassing letter. Anyway, nothing. Then, a few weeks later, *she* replied! *she* didn't want to go out with me. *she* liked me as a friend. *she* understood if i didn't reply to my letter, but *she* would reply if I did, as long as we kept it secret! So, once a week for the next few months, we would write letters to each other, sending them first class, and telling each other our deepest secrets. At least, I told her mine, and I assume that *she* told me *hers*. Nobody at school knew about this, and although we were often talking, with other people, we never gave anything away. Anyway, this was one of the closest friendships I have had, and it went on for about eight or ten months. In the holidays, we would meet up, or I would phone *her*, and at school we would keep it all to ourselves. Then, suddenly, one of our mutual friends introduced her to A Man. After that, she stopped replying. *She* said that *she* didn't want him to find out. *She* said that *she* didn't want him to think that *she* had a close male friend. And that was the end of it. We left school, and *she* moved house, and I've not heard of or from *her* since. That was four or five years ago. Until, however ... on Christmas Eve, I went round to an old friend's for dinner. There were only a few of us, and most had known *her*, and then one of them said that she was supposed to be meeting *her* in the pub later on. We had said, we might go into the town later, and I had been vaguely against, but now I tried to be subtlely *for*. I probably wasn't that subtle, because I was already quite drunk. So anyway, we went into the town, and we couldn't find *her*. Five minutes before my other friends were *definitely* going home, we finally found *her* and her sister in a pub. She was as lovely as ever, and we didn't even have time to talk properly. I said hello, waved goodbye; she saw i was waving, and waved in return. And that was it. I'd been thinking recently about trying to trace her and get back in touch, but I didn't want anybody to know. I might never see *her* again. The only way I could get back in touch would be by asking round all our mutual friends, who would therefore Suspect Something. *she* was, and is, lovely. *she*'s probably not therefore the one for me. Sorry for telling you. This is down for posterity, now. Normal service shall be resumed shortly. Go and eat some cake; you deserve it. Have a merry few-days-after-christmas, everyone. -- Will Salt ICQ ... damn, I've forgotten the number. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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