March 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Village site goes public - hurry hurry
by Simon Aurell 08 Mar '00

08 Mar '00

The list is still incomplete and the e-mail addresses are wrong, but since the rest of the site has been done for a couple of days now I thought you could as well look at it, just don't whine about the addresses, we know they're wrong. Here's the address: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-63235/sinister I'm not really sure how it will look in old browsers and netscape, but it should be functional anyhow. Remember, contributions to sinister_village(a)hotmail.com If anything looks strange, report immediately to simon.aurell(a)swipnet.se. cheerio, 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sinsitre is freaky
by kerry 08 Mar '00

08 Mar '00

hello sinisterines. hope you are having a good march thus far. i have a couple questions/comments that actually involve some content (!). first things first: while mummy's away, lets have a party! we can rip the place up real good. okay, that was a joke. nobody take it seriously. second things second: last december someone posted about programming B&S tunes into their mobile phone (it was chris leak, and i already wrote him asking if he found anything out), and i recently (= last night) got a little program for my palm pilot that lets me put in my own alarms. so, basically, i'd like the piano bit from the beginning of "seeing other people" to play every time i have to take my birth control pills. i think it's funny. but here's the problem, kids, i have no idea what the actual notes are for that little bit of piano music, and since i'm cripplingly tone deaf, i can't figure it out for myself. so, have any of you figured out piano music for this song? or any songs, for that matter? if so, send 'em along, because i think it'd be nice if you did. and that should be reason enough. if you need more motivation, i'll give you a smooch, too. so my sleep schedule has been totally fuzzocked for the past week or so, and last thursday night/friday morning i stayed up all night because i wasn't couldn't. and in a stage of delerium and caffeine-induced stupor i got a song from my old summer camp stuck in my head. don't worry, i won't burden you people with it. but i will note that i wrote a letter to McSweeney's (http://www.mcsweeneys.net) with the lyrics to said summer camp song and they actually printed it. so now i'm famous. sort of. my sister wrote me this morning and proclaimed "mcsweeney's put your letter up!!!" and that made me happy. then i drove to new hampshire and bought cheap cigarettes. and that made me happy. and now i'm downloading an episode of the simpsons to watch. but you people don't care what i did today, so i'll stop talking about it. and, while i'm here, i suppose i should complain about not having a single vote for list crush. so that was the complaining. i don't want to burden you with more than that. hope you have a loverly week. the days are indeed getting longer, -kerry "red usually means caution. or beef if it's a bullion cube." -"toys" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Read this
by Simon Aurell 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Anything about the Village can be sent to sinister_village(a)hotmail.com, at least for now. This is important, mind you. Honey's right - the village thing has taken too much space on the list, though this is NO reason to give it up. So go ahead and contribute, don't be shy! love & care, 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:22:23 -0000
by James Glossop 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

hi all this my my first post, so rather than wasting my time typing it, please imagine the words -as if you care- after every sentence i write. ok, here goes. i kinda e-mailed a couple of peeps before getting out of the nursery; and sweetie was kind enough to put some of my poetry/ 'poetry' on her webby-site. listening to new fiona apple album at this moment in time. anyone else think it's good? or do you think it's some stuck up american girl releasing lots of sell-out records? sinister village: i reckon we should all take over (non-violently, of course) a place like 'roysten vasey' like in the league of gentlemen. and we could apply all the nessecary stereotypes from there (ie. in-bred shop-keepers etc). i don't think i deserve to even think of a role in the all-impotant-sinister-village, being a mere first-timer as i am (poster to sinister, you filth ;) i guess i could fulfill a nice slave-role. or is there gonna be no class structure? hope you're all fine and dandy love j glossop. worksop [roysten-vasey 2] england. ps: b &s content, oh, err, right............... fantastic, aren't they? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 cynical sigh and a non commital shrug...
by Mr Smiley 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

... heralds the return of Mr Smiley. Mr Who? No, Mr Smiley. I lost my voice when I change accounts, and rather than bother Honey I decided to spend two weeks playing in the sand pit. Actually, I might just keep unsubbing and subbing again, so I'm perpetually in the nursery. You see time moves slower in the nursery, so I'll have more time to revise for my exams. Perhaps. But more likely not. Maybe I could use this rebirth as an attempt to actually write something interesting and get people to talk to me. No, looking back over this post I can see this is probably a lost cause. OK I give up. I have to ask. Someone else asked but no-one answered to the list. All searches to the archives have yielded only very cryptic clues, without giving me anything concrete to chew on (not that you'll ever see me sinking my teeth into a wall), so... what the hell IS the tape tree? I presume it's where people grow sellotape in a greenhouse or something. Or more likely it's where people make tapes for each other. But where on Earth is it? Answers in machine code to: smiley(a)rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk God be with you Mr Smiley PS. Honey said: >Anything that's witty, wise or wicked will probably be ok Which led me to conclude that anything beginning with 'w' is OK. So I sent this post, which is wan- #Transmission failed# +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: posting for the list - new album tracks. (fwd)
by honey＠missprint.org 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Oh. Before I go, Stuart M just popped into the chat channel #sinister with Ciara, our poster girl from "If You're Feeling Sinister". Here's the new LP title and tracks. B&S content :) See you in a week, Honey xxx P.S. FYHCYWLAP? ------ Hi Honey, just before you fly off across the pond, Stuart told me the new album tracks and I thought I tell you too. The album's called Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant. I fought in a war The model Beyond the sunrise Waiting for the moon to rise Don't leave the light on baby The wrong girl The chalet lines Nice day for a sulk Women's Realm Family Tree There's too much love +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ha ha! a voice...at last, shall i talk about sinister village?
by Nik Ovenden 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Just kidding, and i bet 1200 people don't want to read this... my first order of business is to say hi, nice to finally speak to you all. Special hi to my lady friend vikki, who is currently dwelling in the nursery...ha ha ha ha... so, let me get this straight...if i talk about my body parts, i have to add a picture? yahoo won't let me, but when i get a better account i will. Next - I am wholeheartedly in support of B+S's stance on section 28 - anyone got any idea when any marches are on? Finally, pink carrots are very bad for your health. And banjos. and other fluffy three legged ostrich-like creatures. Stay cool, y'all Love niko xxx __________________________________________________ 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: the last time
by rachel tucker 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

<sniff> <restrained sob> <deep breath> ummm....i'm off. hopefully not forever but at least till the summer when i finish my a-levels. it kind of hit home when my web of deception fell apart and my teachers realised that i haven't written an essay for any of them in nearly 4 months...all my subjects are essay subjects so that's fairly impressive...that actually i do want to go to uni and do english and stuff like that. but i need to do a lot of work and basically restructure my life and get it back on track. so i'm leaving this sinister land. i've been using it as an escape more and more lately. i always knew that at some point i'd need to face up to things in my real world and now the time has come. i don't know if i'll manage it, but i'm going to give it my best shot. i'd just like to say thank you to all of you, hugs all round and especially to honey for being honey. also major teary shouts out to various people, some of who i know, others i don't but for the last year you've kept me entertained and kept me going when things were bad...so cheers to ailsa, adam, scottie, owen, glam pam, carsmile steve, jim gilmer, nick dastoor, velocity, and jason andreas, though really every single one of you should be singled out cos you're all special. if anyone wants to keep in touch, please please do, and for the very last time i'm going to love you and leave you rachel xxx p.s that issue of select has cleared up lots of things that have been bugging me...i didn't realise that the new shack single 'oscar' was basically about a disabled guy having sex with a prostitute in holland...instead of hearing that oscar is 'wheelchair-bound', i've been hearing it as 'wiltshire bound' all week...nb: non-uk listees - wiltshire is a county in the west of england, so cue lots of jokes about inbred farmers, swindon town fans, bizarre sexual practices etc. (my tongue is firmly in cheek here, i grew up as far west in england as you can get and boy do i get people looking for my tractor....) also it sorted out the syphilis/sinfulness confusion over the primal scream track 'keep your dreams'...the bobmeister seemed quite insulted that everyone thinks he's singing about nasty diseases, serves him right for bad pronunciation.... but till my dying day i *still* think that my misheard version of llpj is far better than stuart's...instead of him singing about the girl who's been making 'plenty cash' in an illegal manner, i swear he really does compare jane's miserable existence to that of 'lesley ash', her of debs-in-men-behaving-badly fame.... and on that (bum) note, i really am going xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: It's Pancake Day!
by Robin Stout 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

It's Pancake Day! At least I hope it is. My dad once gave a school assembly about Shrove Tuesday, and its history and planned a whole day of pancake day fun only to discover that it wasn't pancake day at all, because that was next week. The whole of his staff were sworn to secrecy and the use of the words "whip","batter" and "toss" were banned within a four-mile radius, completely ruining the Women's Institute's S&M party being held in the church hall. It's Pancake Day! Doesn't Pancake Day sound much better than Shrove Tuesday, just like Bonfire Night sounds better than Guy Fawkes Night? I think we should rename Easter as Egg Day, Halloween as Ghost Night and Christmas as Give Granny A Funny Hat Day. Or maybe Sprouts Day. That's a lot better. It's Pancake Day! If you want to know how to make a pancake, why not vist Pancake The Clown "the only clown in England to have a Diploma of Clownology from the United States of America" at http://www.pancake.co.uk/ grrrr! Robin xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 read me
by honey＠missprint.org 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Your List Mummy's going away from tomorrow for a week to somewhere weird called Nude York in "the Americas" to gambol in the fields with other Sinistereens, and wants a word before setting sail. Settle down at the back. The Village. Sometimes a thread of discussion that lots of people love winds on and on and dominates the list. That's because lots of people love it (can you hear me pussyfooting here? *gulp*) but there's always a silent grrring sound if something dominates the list for too long. I've had a few quiet comments and mails about it and I think it's appropriate to be Mum and say "hush" a bit now and let some other stuff through please. With 1200 people on the list we can't all be photocopies of each other, and something that appeals to a lot of people will wind a few others up. The key is "balance" so we can all live together without calling out the Sinister Riot Police. I've spoken to Vel and Simon (who's doing a Village website) and they're going to provide a village email address soon where you can send all your requests to be the village prostitute, or whatever. So please, for now, ease your foot off the village thread and talk about other things, like we used to. I expect you to all be GOOD while I'm away and don't go scaring the neighbour's chickens. Can we also focus a little? New people often love the galloping momentum this list has, but when you're a list pensioner you'll have trouble keeping up. All I'm really saying again is please ask yourself "do 1200 people want to know this?" before you hit Send. Anything that's witty, wise or wicked will probably be ok, but please don't just use it as an exhaust valve. If you're not reading most of the list mails, please don't post. That way it'll get back to something manageable we can all read, and won't fragment. Now whenever I mail a message like this, no matter how much I say, "please don't anyone think this is directed at them", I always get a mail or two back saying "I'm so sorry" or, occasionally "Why did you humiliate me publically". I'd like to go on record saying that I have been composing this mail for ages in between other jobs and I don't KNOW whose mail I'm following on the list, so it's NOT directed at you! Yes you! Or anyone! The Village (of the Spammed). Someone's told me some evil wicked loser has mailed a few of you with irrelevant rubbish that looks a bit like junk mail and it just might be through list membership. If you get anything like this that you know for sure a truckload of other listees got, please send the message on to me, with the full headers option in your mail program if you can find it. But don't just send me any junk mail you get! I'll be swamped and I'm already mopping up madly. If someone's using the list addresses to spam list members, I'll personally remove their vital organs with an ice-cream scoop and use their carved out bodyshell as a bathtub. You'll notice that the WWW site and archive have anti-junk mail stuff in them which will stop the commercial spammers, but I suppose someone who could be bothered doing it manually could get round it. So I'll set the dogs on them. Maternal grrrrrrr. "The Sky at Night". I have to comment on this, Oon Siam Droolz. It's an astronomy program on the BBC, starring Patrick Moore, who is nice and big and fat and mad and as old as Jupiter. I once met him in an observatory in the Canaries, when I was what advertising agencies call a "teen-ult", and he called me "sonny" and I could swear he patted my head. He has remarkable views on race and creed, akin to the Duke of Edinburgh's. Oon, keep watching, sooner or later he will make a massive racist indiscretion while describing a comet's tail, or just die on camera spectacularly. Finally seeing I'm going away for a week, I'm relaxing a few rules that keep just such junk mail and "unsubscribe" messages away from the list, so you might see a few more like yesterdays. Necessary evil, so that any genuine messages don't sit waiting for approval while I'm getting nude in Nude York. When I get back, be assured that I will flick the Big Sinister Switches back on so only I get them. Be good now, I have spies in the colonies who will tell on you :) Honey x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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