March 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Dirty!
by Alder, Lucy 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

Dear little innocent Holly, straight out of the nursery and all wet behind the ears said >>It is so refreshing to come across a list where the biggest debate is not...who do you most want to shag How long is it that newbies stay in the nursery these days? Two weeks? Does that mean there hasn't been any filth for TWO WHOLE WEEKS? Where are the Sinister smutmeisters when you need them? I feel the burden weighing heavily on my shoulders, but I'm far to good a girl to write about that sort of stuff. I might blush. I might blush even more than when I mentioned wanking in front of my manager this morning. You know when you get an email that makes you laugh out loud and then everybody around you asks "what's so funny?" and you're sort of obliged to explain? That's what happened today and the email mentioned the word 'wank'. So then, I became embroiled in a discussion about wanking in America and whether or not it exists, and I said "I think the word is not so frequently used, but as for the activity..." and it all got a bit embarrassing, see? And I hung my head in shame that my colleagues could hear me talking so. Now you see why I'm no good at writing smutty posts and why I'm burning up as I type this. And here I am, being an old miseryguts about the dearth of rude stuff, and into my inbox pops psychic Sam with >>naked people which will do for now. But come on folks, spring is sprung! Birds are NESTING on the windowsill outside my bog! Bunny rabbits are presumably AT IT like, um, bunny rabbits up and down the country! I know it's Lent at the moment, but honestly! Sinister smutmeisters! Show us how it's done - make me snigger! And the rest of you, let me recommend an author called Georges Bataille, who is a master of all things rude. And I really do mean ALL things rude. Right, on to other stuff. Why does a brand new denim jacket cost £30 and a second-hand one £40 in Topshop, eh? What is this? Antiques Roadshow? When I was a kid, you wore second hand things because they were cheap, and then PRETENDED you were being groovy. Why, it wasn't unusual to mistake a student for a tramp, especially if they had a bottle of White Lightning in their hand. And what are those ridiculous new pantaloons that people are calling Levis? (Lucy shakes her stick and growls menacingly) Young'uns these days, really! Pass the Werthers Originals, will you? According to new research High Fidelity is a 'boy book'. I read this in Metro, so it must be true. Terry Hall was 41 on Sunday. Socialise with Pukka Pies. Juicy Lucy ps. according to my spellcheck, Topshop should be Topcon and Pukka should be Puke, which seems about right to me. -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The squids are all right
by stevie troussé 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

At ease, comrades What ho! I was shocked to read an article in today's Guardian on the top 10 rock and roll hellraisers of all time, referring to a feature in this week's Melody Maker (the kind of journalism that has made it the vital force in British music it so obviously is), and find no reference to our beloved oddball twangling-jack-and-jills. Wither Stu M's auto-destructive guitar abuse in Dublin? or Sarah's alka-seltzer and haliborange binge at Bowlie? or Mick Cooke's nude rampage through the streets of Edinburgh...? Gah. I was interested to see the return of Simon Reynolds to the sinister list, courtesy of my learned Brockley correspondent. The essay is certainly interesting, mostly - from my point of view - for illustrating how far his vision of criticism has moved from a broadly subcultural-Hebdigean analysis to the Barthesian formalist abdication of analysis he favours today. I think he would do well to have a second look at it himself. Mr Reynolds did actually list B&S as one of the most over-rated things of (was it?) 1998 on his website, which I can't be bothered to look for the url of. More in response to the doxa of indie-pop opinion than anything else I imagine. Indeed, I think he's a subtle enough critic to appreciate that the unclassifiable beauty of melody is just as radical as the most jouissant code-jamming. Ahem. Mr Tony kindly mentioned the low-key launch on Thursday in London of a fanzine I'm involved in. Loathe though I am to deluge Sinister with self-publicity, might I ask people to point their tapetty-lightboxes in the direction of www.papercuts.co.uk later this afternoon for fuller details. It has also come to my attention that some people who had ordered previous issues may not have received them because I am a lazy git. Rest assured that I am also too lazy to have cashed cheques. If this is the case with you, please email me at my swanky new email address: trousers(a)papercuts.co.uk and I will apologise in a fashion so abject it is not becoming a man who just noted grey hairs peeking through his stubble this weekend. And you will be fully compensated with apes, ivory and peacocks. You know, it has come to my attention that several of our old guard have defected to a gothlist devoted to the new Al Stewart, called "Bat Wings". I say we challenge them to a fight in the quad at first light, before the deportment mistress is up and about. As you were Stevie Troussé +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 tired whiny boy
by brand new shoes 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

oy... i just wanted to post for pity as i haven't slept since my last post and it is 8:00 in the morning here. i can't sleep either because i have a class in half an hour. (whimper whimper) I went home hoping for unconditional love from my kittens, and they were grumpy at me because they were low on food and i had locked them out of my room because i have feathers everywhere for this dress i'm designing. they hate me now. no i guess they still like me, but they were very distant. (whimper) i have to go draw naked people for my anatomy class soon and i just want to go take a nap. at least we don't have to draw cadavers today. that would be the worst. okay, sorry for this little bitch session. i don't mean to be so pathetic. i'm really not in so bad a state, just a little whiny. hmmm, a bright smiley "ciao" to all, (see, not so bad, yeah?) love, sam ______________________________________________________ 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: I'm a grown-up!
by elenita99 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

This morning my first coffee tasted like washing-up, as very often on Tuesday. Tuesday is even worse than Monday cos you realise that Monday wasnt just a bad dream and youll had to go through all the week. Anyway, I arrived at work in a quite grey mood, I admit, wondering if something would cheer me uphere it is, I am going out of the nursery said Honey, Im a grown-up now ! !(what a joke :-) Soshould I introduce myself ? I suppose I should. My name is Elena, Im 20 (I'm supposed to be a grown-up indeed..), Im a mix of French and Spanish blood living in London ; I suppose it wont surprise if I say I like music more than lots of things, and what else? Oh yeah Im running the toyshop in SV, I enjoy that much more than my real job in the real life ! AnywayI accept any further question! I'm happy to be part of you, I feel quite comfortable here reading your posts and hanging around the SV And for the B&S content in thiswell Im afraid theres not ! Sorry about that, Ill do better next time! :-> Love to you all, hope you'll have a very nice day Elena ______________________________________________________ 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: The glitterati arrive by limousine
by Tony Charles Green 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

The showbiz world is all-a-buzz, not by the news that Madonna is up-the-duff but by the rumour that the wholly glamourous and devilishly stylist Miss Erica MacArthur is to be the cover star of the next issue of Papercuts. Hello Kitten. and even as we type adolescent young men with consumptive complexions and stars in their eyes are queing up outside the Spitz ready to buy this vestige of their idol when it goes on sale on thurs... t Tony http://simplethings.weblogger.com trembling blue stars live @ the Spitz 23/3/00 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: i am too wussy...
by RythSoul＠aol.com 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

This is my first time contributing to the list, and I'm not really sure why I haven't before, but I just felt strangely compelled to make tonight the night. I guess i'll start off by introducing myself. My name's lissa, pronounced lisa...for some reason my mother felt the need to stick an extra s in there. i'm 17 and was introduced to the magic of belle and sebastian last year by this incredible boy whom i was madly in love with, who (as my luck would have it) later announced HIS interest in incredible boys. But that's okay...i am dealing with it well and have since moved on. So with that I respond to Sam and his feeling like "a complete dork". I too have branded myself a dork, more often a nerd, and at times a spaz...it depends on my mood and sometimes my caffeine intake. No need to feel like a dork because you could not ask for an autograph, feel like a dork only when there is absolutely no excuse that you shouldn't. Such as when you have begun to plan your future with your "straight" best friend of three years, only to find out that he too is interested only in incredible boys. Wow - i think i have just depressed myself. yes, i definitely have. time to spend the evening with radiohead. and if anyone knows whether they share an interest in incredible boys as well, please let me know. that way i can crush all of my dreams by the end of this week. goodnight- Lissa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 am too wussy...
by brand new shoes 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

So okay... I go to a show, that i don't even really want to go to that much (the smugglers, the fast tracks, and the donnas: a pretty good pop-punk/rock collection, but not really my thing, y'know?) with the sole intent of getting the Donnas to sign something for my friend angela who is a big fan and is off in Melbourn Australia. So i sit through the whole thing and at the end i am to wussy to go up and ask them to sign anything, because i feel all dorky. i'm too self conscious i think, i got all concerned about seeming like some crazed fan, or one of the many ditsy pop-punk boys there swooning over them. grrr. now i feel like a complete dork. damn. trying to rekindle a sense of pride, sam ______________________________________________________ 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: I may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

Ahhh...Spring Break...the Nectar of the Gods(tm). One entire week given to college students to get piss drunk and sleep til late afternoon. Being odd, I spent the first day of my reprieve at the Antietam battlefield, which is the site of the bloodiest single day in American History. It wasn't very heart-pumping or anything, but it was pretty revelatory and I guess thats on the plus side. To try and picture these assaults actually happening, given that you know how they turned out, is pretty stomach turning. I had an ancestor who fought there although I can't "feel" his presence or anything like alot of people say they do when visiting the site of their ancestor's struggles. I just felt cold and upset over having to pay $9 for a turkey club sandwich. I found out that Brian Wilson is doing an "Orchestral Tour"(tm) this summer, where he'll perform Pet Sounds in its entirety backed by a 24-peice orchestra. I can't even imagine how amazing that is going to be. I wish he, Al Jardine, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston would make up just for this summer so the shows can really be true to the album. Then they can resume hating each other, but only after I've heard Mike and Brian trade lead vocals on "Sloop John B" and ""That's Not Me." That is all I ask. As Sally Brown said "I'm not being selfish; all I want is what I have coming to me." What does everyone think is going to be the best song on FYHCYWLAP, based on the title alone? I'm going with "I Fought In A War," just because Struan writing about war seems pretty interesting. I mean, I'm sure its not about war itself or anything, but it still seems pretty snazzy. "The Model" is right up there too. Some psycho has taken three hostages and holed himself up right down the street my town. He's in a townhouse community, so about 300 people can't go back to their houses and they all must live in the gym of a local elementary school until all is over with. I'm not sure what the deal is with their pets...I saw alot of old people crying on the news because they can't get into their community to feed their cats. The standoff has been going on for about 75 hours now and I'm guessing it shan't last much longer. The nutjob has already killed 4 people in the past two weeks and my bet is that before he surrenders, he'll be the fifth. A round of applause for Katy for saying she played Nirvana on the jukebox. I think alot of my generation, now that we've all grown up and moved onto other musical frontiers, is trying to downplay how much Nirvana changed our lives. Sure, I don't listen to Nevermind all that much anymore but I can guarantee that were it not for Kurt Cobain most of us would probably be complete toolboxes, myself included. If you didn't like Nirvana in '92, then you weren't really there. Will the long-awaited Sinisiter US Directory(tm) be finished before B&S begin their tour? It would really come in handy to know who lives in what city for those folks who plan to go to several shows and want to meet other Sinister-ites in foreign cities. If anyone else is going to the Flaming Lips/Looper show in Baltimore on April 14th, I'll be there. Cheers and wrecked NCAA brackets (I picked 6 of the Sweet 16 after winning 29 of the first 32 games)... Steve C. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Which Paul?" "BLAH!" visit http://callowkids.tripod.com or your crush will hate you forever +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: whimsy
by feather boa 20 Mar '00

20 Mar '00

my mum's art director called in sick today, and he said "i can't come in today, i'm feeling whimsical". isn't that brilliant? i want to phone the school tomorrow and say "i can't come in today, i'm feeling twee" and go and make super 8 films with the ducks in regents' park. i'm reading behind the scenes at the museum by kate atkinson at the moment, it's amazingly good. i hope the siniville bookshop has it in stock. pip pip, FB X *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. http://www.chickshops.com boutique shopping from chickclick.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: Laura and her wondrous book.
by Cody Petterson 20 Mar '00

20 Mar '00

must say, something like the sinister list is a terrifying thing. high-qual bands like b&s, the mag fields, guided by vox, with their lyrics and "their catchy tunes" threaten poetry. i mean this with no sincerity and would myself prefer listening to sam cooke than reading wordsworth. nonetheless it's good to hear about laura and her wondrous book. by the way, simon reads this batman poem where robin accuses batman of being a "beh'-beh". is that common, pronouncing "baby" (am.eng. bay'-bee) as beh'-beh? incidentally, fat bastard pronounces it the same way in austin powers 2 (sorry scots for mentioning such a demeaning representation of scottish food consumption and clothing style). dearly, cody +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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