February 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: t-shirts and zoning
by keith mclachlan 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

am i the only one who thinks the jeepster twee-shirts are a bit flimsy? i can see through mine while it is on and that is not very neat. did i get one from a bad lot or are everyone elses of the same low quality? someone asked about the field mice, yes they are wonderful, of course they are much more obvious than belle and sebastian with all of their heart on their sleeve sentiments but bob field mouse/blue star is one of the loveliest persons to ever walk on this earth, most assuredly. as life would have it then my girlfriend kate beat me to a used promo copy of the new trembling blue stars record 'broken by whispers' just last evening. it is wonderful, no anne-mari lead vocals(woo hoo!!!! cause that picture centre record is ridiculous). i can't seem to figure out if all of the songs are still about her though, they could be fictitious? but it is is likely they are not and that bob still rides his moped past her house every day rain or shine. lots of countryish songs too, country is great. oh but the sub-poop logo is awful. i don't want to be anything in the sinister village. i can sense it will be one of those controlled development communities and therefore leagues out of my price range when it comes to affordable rent. then will come, inevitably, the dictates from the enlightened elite similar to those found here in boulder, you know the sort that say you can not put plastic frogs in the front yard lest you decrease someone's overinflated property value. communism has found its last bastion in home owner's associations. american beauty is the worst movie ever. well it is if you don't count happiness. keith m the hefner rockers for jesus ep is splendid. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: continuing randomness..my apologies for crapness
by caroline smith 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

hello there wee chicks, how are we all? i'm presently feeling a little bored and have sore feet. a little imp is stealing into my room at night and beating up my feet, they are all bruised for no apparent reason. speaking of imps, elves and all the rest is there yet a brownies in the sinister village. i think it would prove most useful in teaching us how to make fridges, and proper cups of tea which is v.important. today i found out my boss used to be a punk, which i found v.funny. he went and saw the clash when he was 13, how cool is that? anyway sorry i' m rambling again. ooh ohh the other thing is many failed attempts were made in enetering the chatroomy thingy, apologies, i think this may be a lost cause due to the complete crapness of my computer. oh well i should get going, but before i go, my spiky haired friend liam says hello to you all, he is the best as he likes b+s, plone, godspeed you black emperor, mouse on mars, and always has a carton of ribena in his bag...what a guy lots of love, from the girl with the newsprint stained hands i love you all caroline xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Me and my M65
by Toby Chan 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

Hey u girls and boys. Action:Reaction Jen: "I out my b&s tee shirt in the wash and it turned out blue. Oh dear. Me: "ooh... really? it will fade? which tee do u huv? I ordered Belle with Fox (large, coz they say Large is just Medium) weeks ago. Oh, i am worry bout it... so where do u put the badge? will it be strange if i put them on my Parka???" Ian: "what do people think about the field mice?? i heard them on the tape tree thingy, and thought they were quite good, and the last time you kids recommended cds t'was felt. and that could be put down as quite a life-changing experience, on a par perhaps with the first time i picked up 'sinister' from my friend's desk . . . i covered my bus t-shirt in southern and red bull on new years eve. but it came out in the wash. so it's not really the same i guess. oh." Me: "I ve just got the "Me and a Monkey on the Moon" the storeman said it is the best one. It is heartbreaking. I recommend Jack's "Pionner Soundtracks" i ve just got it at second hand shop. cool. also i ve got Bungalow's "pop tics" Compilation. But the greatest fulfilment of listening is............ IYFS!!!!! Robyn: "someone made my mind go off on a tangent with the mention of big hair and b&s. which made me think that along with upside down badges as identifiers, sinister types could make their hair very big and wear tight black jeans at all times. it's quite the identifier. " Me: "God, Big Hair???? I ve a hairdo which is a Mod identifier. and what is upside down badges???? to pin it upside down???? God... i dunno wear tight jeans... Regular Staright forever!!!!" >>>>>>>Me n My M65<<<<<<<<<<<<< Can't find no M 51 and can't afford a N3B. I get a M65 instead. it is smelly. after i wash the Liner. the cotton go messy... and the hood is the main problem..... dunno how to modify the shape... Viva 1994, Toby Chan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Me and my M65
by Toby Chan 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

Hey u girls and boys. Action:Reaction Jen: "I out my b&s tee shirt in the wash and it turned out blue. Oh dear. Me: "ooh... really? it will fade? which tee do u huv? I ordered Belle with Fox (large, coz they say Large is just Medium) weeks ago. Oh, i am worry bout it... so where do u put the badge? will it be strange if i put them on my Parka???" Ian: "what do people think about the field mice?? i heard them on the tape tree thingy, and thought they were quite good, and the last time you kids recommended cds t'was felt. and that could be put down as quite a life-changing experience, on a par perhaps with the first time i picked up 'sinister' from my friend's desk . . . i covered my bus t-shirt in southern and red bull on new years eve. but it came out in the wash. so it's not really the same i guess. oh." Me: "I ve just got the "Me and a Monkey on the Moon" the storeman said it is the best one. It is heartbreaking. I recommend Jack's "Pionner Soundtracks" i ve just got it at second hand shop. cool. also i ve got Bungalow's "pop tics" Compilation. But the greatest fulfilment of listening is............ IYFS!!!!! Robyn: "someone made my mind go off on a tangent with the mention of big hair and b&s. which made me think that along with upside down badges as identifiers, sinister types could make their hair very big and wear tight black jeans at all times. it's quite the identifier. " Me: "God, Big Hair???? I ve a hairdo which is a Mod identifier. and what is upside down badges???? to pin it upside down???? God... i dunno wear tight jeans... Regular Staright forever!!!!" >>>>>>>Me n My M65<<<<<<<<<<<<< Can't find no M 51 and can't afford a N3B. I get a M65 instead. it is smelly. after i wash the Liner. the cotton go messy... and the hood is the main problem..... dunno how to modify the shape... Viva 1994, Toby Chan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A sinister shop, for sinister people
by Grace Howarth 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

Greetings, I have just been considering the state of the rapidly growing sinister village when I realised that, unless I am mistaken, there is not yet a corner shop. I have tried in my own little way to promote the good old local store for many years by shopping in a small grocers shop as opposed to the large chain store stylee supermarkets. The sinister village could mark a turning point in the sorry tale of corner shops. The choice of stock would of course need much careful consideration , but I imagine no-one would protest to ample amounts of sherbet lemons, toasted tea cakes and large pots of birds eye custard. Rather than investing in trolleys, customers could be given wicker baskets with checked table cloths to cover their purchases with tus making the weekly shop an enjoyable experience. As much stock as possible would be stored in large glass jars behind the counter to increase its attractiveness and tempt shoppers into parting with cash. The possibilities for transforming the genre of supermarket music are endless. With all this food for thought I don't know how I'm going to get any work done today, but I will try, with my future as a sinister store manager as a very worthy incentive. au revoir mes amies Grace ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: That nice morning feeling
by Tobias Lilja 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

Hi I'm new here but I've been lurking around on the list before. During the whole "vote for the brit award scheme" now wasn't that fun to be reminded of. It's saturday morning and I just got out of bed and got the message I've now got a voice. So now I just had to let you know it's a pity I dont get to sit around every morning, just in the weekends, and still I'm a student so I think I deserve a few more lazy mornings. On to the BnS content, i've listened to them since I found IYFS a couple of years ago and started to vacum the record stores for the other records. On the whole Stu D thing I think it's sad cause I 'm the sort of person who can't be bothered with a whole album of spoken word but I love how a space boy dream breaks up the album and a century of elvis is a bit funny. But then again who am I to tell StuD what to do. Now I'm listening to and old mix tape I made maybe two years ago. It's funny how you just stop listening to some music even if you love it when you hear it again. Like right now "wide to recieve" with Mozzer is on and I haven't heard it for at least a couple of months, probably more. But it's great. And the T shirts you could buy at the concerts where it said wide to recive at the bottom bit of the back. Now that's funny. Hobart paving with st Etienne came on gotta go. See you soon /Toby +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: please, please not the wig
by Colin Mowat 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

Saturday 26 February 2000 03:29am Dear People, just got woken up by two Steps fans pulling each others hair out in front of my house, they weren'y fighting, they enjoy that sort of thing.........well checked for mail and...... GardeningAtNight wrote: <<Did you ever stop to think about the Sinister members who may be lacking in the hair department? That's not me of course, I think I've got too much hair actually but at least I know I'll never go bald. I'm just thinking of the less fortunate, as always!>> please, please not the wig........let me have the upside down badge. Colin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: wig shops, duct tape tales, and love songs
by GardeningAtNight＠aol.com 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

robyn thoughtlessly spake: << sinister types could make their hair very big and wear tight black jeans at all times. it's quite the identifier. >> Did you ever stop to think about the Sinister members who may be lacking in the hair department? That's not me of course, I think I've got too much hair actually but at least I know I'll never go bald. I'm just thinking of the less fortunate, as always! We'll need a wig shop in our village then. With this haven of hair, bald Sinister members will never again have to face the humiliation of being misidentified as fans of, oh, Steps or something. I nominate myself as the owner of this wig shop. Jen, will you be the schoolgirl who works for free in the afternoons sweeping up odd bits of hair? You can pick the shop name, because a day of cough medicine for my non-strep throat has left me kind of loopy so nothing's coming to mind. and also: << also, i've got to tell you something about duct tape. it keeps the badges on, just duct tape the hell outta the back so the sharp bit stays on. and duct tape is silver. silver is always good. ALWAYS (don't even try to negate this, b/c i won't believe you.) >> Wouldn't that make it all lumpy? I guess if I were going for the "cool" look I'd be using a Korn badge or something, though. My best friend duck tapes her shoes. People don't seem to appreciate the silvery "I can see myself in your shoes" quality of it though. I don't own any tape though, so my shoes are much nicer than hers. It seems that whenever you pull the tape off it leaves a nasty grey residue which isn't very silvery at all. A guy named Jason always duct tapes "FBI" on his black sweatshirt and goes around school trying to incite riots far too early in the morning. and still more: << but i have been listening to a lot of magnetic fields lately. >> Me too. I only have volumes 1 and 3 of the Love Songs though. I need someone to recommend me another good record of theirs. When making mix tapes for my friends I can't help but throw on Magnetic Fields songs. But the thing is that you can't put on just one, at least not with the love songs. I always end up breaking the golden mixtape rule and putting on 4 or 5. My mom listens to them sometimes and she loves them too, but she always walks around shaking her head saying "this is nonsense" during A Chicken with its Head Cut Off. Samantha +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: of trux, hair and duct-taped badges
by Robyn Fadden 26 Feb '00

26 Feb '00

sinners one and all, someone made my mind go off on a tangent with the mention of big hair and b&s. which made me think that along with upside down badges as identifiers, sinister types could make their hair very big and wear tight black jeans at all times. it's quite the identifier. but you might get beaten up looking for a tiny upside down badge on that part of the population whose actual style this is. even at indierock shows. oh. abandon plan. abandon now. it's hard to get people into tight jeans, i think. maybe it's just that you'll only wear tight jeans if you're born in tight jeans. anyway, i'm going to a rawk show tonight and tight jeans are on my mind perhaps b/c of this. also, i've got to tell you something about duct tape. it keeps the badges on, just duct tape the hell outta the back so the sharp bit stays on. and duct tape is silver. silver is always good. ALWAYS (don't even try to negate this, b/c i won't believe you.) it goes well with bright spring colours too, like a nice transition from the grey and black of winter. in fact, i'm wearing light orange with shiny grey pants and silver cardigan right now! and peter miller said, "they make an electric guitar sound like a big fucking car that's just slammed its brakes on" which begs repeating and to be a call out in some metal mag with ads for monster truck shows, porn and beer hats. which i mention because i went to a monster truck show not too long ago. a motor extravaganza to be exact, held inside giant and very grey and cement cold and harshly overlit BC Place stadium. TRUX!!! oh, it was so good and strange. and loud! i had big fluorescent orange earplugs in, but the serious people had big headphones from army surplus stores... my favourite truck was "monster patrol", simply for the word "patrol" (well, also b/c the truck was orange and purple and rawked w/ abandon) like, i'm going on record-shopping patrol, or movie-patrol, or what. it's good, really, use it. and one more thing about monster trucking, b/c really, it had a big effect on me and not in some ironic or anthropological way, but in a genuine, this is the world, this is how things can be sometimes way. there was a streaker! yes, he ran naked but for his white sneakers, the full length of the stadium only to be tackled at the other side by security. awesome. so, this letter seems to be very skid-oriented... um. but i have been listening to a lot of magnetic fields lately. ah, good. i'm trying not to let the sin-city occupy my mind too much as it's yet another level of reality to add to what i'm trying to deal with already. but who am i kidding. if someone draws a map, i will look at it for hours. and then go into some kind of paralyzed mind-fucked state due to mini never-to-be-finished essays taking the controls. funny that the whole Y2K thing just was so forgotten when nothing happened. i mean, it's like all that freaking out never happened and it's la de da da da. just something i was thinking (obviously...) so what if the leap year proves disasterous? it's too bad the village can't be up and running by feb 29 (you know, the apocalypse.) You really do make my head spin in such ways. Robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm not a chess problem - I'm a free range chicken
by P F 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Dear Alasdair I'm glad you asked. Most folk are inconsiderate about these things. So much for 'care in the community'. Communitarianism, by the way, reportedly means that if you smoke on the street in certain US towns, your neighbours come round with a baseball bat. (What they do with it, the report didn't say. A game of baseball, perhaps?) Game. O, that reminds me. My move? Knight (the one on the right - that's your left) to Queen's Fourth. That should give you Bishop's Finger. I'm serious - look at it for a while and see if you can get out of it. Only a pawn in their game, W.B. Murphy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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