April 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: heeeeeeeeeey "idle"berry...
by brenda milton-bradley 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

so anyway i've been illin bigtime since the DREAD ATP scene and haven't been able to put in my all-important views... no! wait!! come back! i'll be brief. really. really: it's just that i think i met up with a bunch of ya sinister types at the pub one night but i was so mashed i can't remember. much. i was the girl who'd lost her voice and was playing obsessively with a very tiny pikachu. yeah. i know. so anyhow it was nice to meet yas (i think). i got my foot stuck down a loo and my homeboy deanie got ambulanced (hypothermia, insanity, violence - accidental) on sunday morning following a simply luverly B&S singalong on the beach. and arab strap man pashed my pikachu. and we saw blondie lady from stereolab crying her little dutch heart out near our ace barbie cabin. so there. see? not that bad. and yes, ladies, yes - there are more dykes on the list than you'd think. probably. isn't that nice? all my love, Brenda XXX ***i can see the house where you live/ i can see the house where you give...*** YES! ------------------------------------------------------------ . +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: When Cars attack
by Chris Paluch 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

Hello Sinister people I remember about three years ago there was a spoof on some US network called when cars attack...it was done seriously enough to be a reasonable spoof. It had the comedian-TV cop from "law and order", acting all serious, as cars with no drivers mowed down people, buildings, and other cars. Plus I related more to the when cars attack then the when animals attacked anyway(especially after being in an accident where i got "attacked" by a VW). OH, I Am probably the Chris person with P!O!P! friends in St. Louis, but I have pop friends all over. Yes i finally heard legal man thanks to a very nice listee and law student in new york...it sounds like well...something that the elephant 6 collective would do(Ya know, minders, apples, neutral milk hotel, essex green, of montreal). Sorry for any of you listees who have no clue what E6 is, but I think B&S are ripe to be the first english band to be in it, especially after legal man. Kinda like a newer apples in stereo song(who I am going to get to see, which makes up for me missing looper, well in my mind at least). Oh on my punk rock roomate, I was kinda jokig o him being blinded by revolution, in fact i would probably end up in washington dc too, but i have reasons not to be(mainly papers), and he is ok... Sorry about the long post. Chris ===== The sole member of the Lost Letter Society A society dedicated to turtle lovers everywhere. Http://www.mp3.com/LostLetterSociety __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.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: "Legal Aid - The White-Collar Sports Drink"
by Pelican303＠aol.com 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

I'm sorry...with all this talk of Passions and animal attack programs, I just can't keep my mouth shut (being a large fan of both). What more could you ask for out of a soap opera than a magic doll the turns into an annoying midgit, a which with large hair, a bunch of hot teenage girls, and very very very poor Elvis impersonations involving horrid lyrics and casio keyboards? Well, my answer to that too-long-of-a question is absolutly nothing. It's even got that "freakish midget not as cool as Webster" versus the "mean cat they never actual show" thing going on for all you people who enjoy watching people, and more especially those with disfiguring genetic diseases, get mauled by animals. I had a whole lot of links to info about the whole World Bank thing e-mailed to me...I still have to check it out. I'm too busy being mad about the Corporate State I am starting to see, having been reading "The Greening of America" (as anyone who has been in #sinister can attest to, for I've turned into that books official cyperspace promoter...kinda like Don King...only white). Anyone wanting to see all the sides of the issue though, I will pass along the links if you wish. They are mostly from the Washington Post and sent to me by a very good friend who left the World Bank a few years ago. Oh no...content...well the subject line is round about content...doesn't count eh? Oh I know. my friend made some joke about Looper yesterday and I asked if he'd ever really heard looper and he said no so I smacked him around. Tis all for now Rob (the mod :Þ) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: just let me kiss your watery hands
by christa 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

will the rain never cease? i swear its been raining for like 4 days. i like rain, actually. just not this much of it, its starting to bring me down. the flowers are drowning. i'm drowning. where is the sun? i didn't move to Philly, silly. i'm still here in DC, witnessing the love between the protesters and the cops. my boy works at 21st and K streets, mere inches from where all the shit was going down yesterday (and Friday), so he was quite excited to check out the scene. i stayed in and watched it on the news. i trust it was just as thrilling. i found the cops and the protesters to be equally as irritating. oh, is that un-PC of me? let's just say i'm glad its over. :) i have to agree with WalknSteve that those "animal attack" shows are an unending source of entertainment. basically, i'm rooting for the animal in every case. i mean, if you're standing with a camera and a microphone in front of a bear that outweighs you by 400 pounds (and invariably will have on some kind of stupid hat), don't be surprised when it eats your face off!! what do you expect!? or, when a poor elephant has been chained to a truck out in the hot sun all day with little kids grabbing at it with their sticky fingers... and it randomly stomps on some people and gores a couple.... i mean, hey! who is shocked by that? it makes total sense. down with people! yea!! sheesh, i'm really not in such a bad mood today. its the rain, i tell you. my tomato soup and grilled cheese are calling to me. mmm, such a purrrrfect lunch for a rainy day. at this point you may be asking yourself "now, why is christa at home at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon?" and i will have to reply "because i quit my job, you sillies!!" there is a fake Amish person on Jerry Springer right now. i am fully convinced, as of this moment, that absolutely nothing in this world is sacred. down with people! eagerly awaiting Legal Man, and legal aid- christa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you're my miss washington dc
by Steven Kado 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

how odd.... i should have held back on the post yesterday...because now i have much more and nicer things to say. today i woke up early to find that there was narry a crumb for breakfast so i went to the bakery, throught the driving piddling rain and got there while the bread was still warm and fragrant. also i got some of those montreal style bagels that go hard only minutes after they are bought and was able to eat one before it turned to solid rock....this is rare. in my childhood, growing up in the incredibly jewish neighborhood where these bagles are made each morning before being shipped out as luxury goods to other bakeries, i used to be able to have them fresh all the time. i used to have this one metric tonne bicycle that dated from the 50's and i used to ride it in childhood. and i tried to play sports and was bad at them. then i listened to lots of nirvana. also i saw sinister jillian and sinister leslie today, we listened to DISCO music! fuck this indie pop shit...no four on the floor then NO THANK YOU! humph. and someone mentioned 'when animals attack' which is almost as good as 'when good pets go...BAD!' as if people who own boa constrictors or other such animals as pets don't expect them to eat the occasional baby or grandmother. when i go to my parents house with their luxurious cable tv, i watch only nature type shows and its great. i also saw a fabulous show on lemurs. (it was not called when good lemurs go bad) and yesterday i watched 'passions' at leslie and jill's residence building and i almost shat myself.....what an incredible show....when my exams are done i'll stay home afternoons just to watch it...well well well. television is so neat sometimes. i advise all those of you who are into 'litterature' to check out www.sovlit.com its absolutely incredible. also, somewhere you can find an ok online translation of konstantin vaginov's 'goat song' novel under the title 'the tower' its pretty neat too. although its his first and he's a bit too into himself if you know what i mean. i'm glad puzzling dave was sticking it to the man in dc. i wish i could do things like that but unfortunately advanced capitalism is rather fun sometimes.....sigh.....i will just sit here on my fence and mope. i signed a petition to cancel the third world debt the other day tho'. but then later today i'm going to go buy a copy of my neighbor totoro, and maybe some shoes. as long as i can still get nice shoes and japanese animated childrens movies after capitalism implodes and i don't have to watch granola movies of dirty people dancing in circles in fields worshipping goddesses and things and taking apart all the lovely skyscrapers, and as long as i can still keep my urbane nice job and not have to work in an organic hacky sack making commune and wear inticraft clothes, then i'm really into capitalism imploding. s t e v e n k a d o ! and a reminder to toronto types that the 21st of this month will be some sort of thing. that is a friday. so come to it, even though we aren't sure what it is. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 black fox fable
by julesmarkham 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

wow! my first commission! someone asked me to write about a jewellery project of theirs. I hope its okay, cause I'm not sure about this one... PS. In case you don't know, in England we call a 'broiler' a 'grill' The black fox jumped lightly onto the table and watched jubilee with interest. She had a large rock resting on the table, and she was poking it carefully with her fingers. ~What are you doing, Juby? the fox finally asked. Jubilee frowned at the stone and patted it thoughtfully. -I found this in the park. I think it's the wrong shape. she picked up the rock and turned it over in her hands. It was porous and grey, flecked with silver. -But I don't know how to shape it. It's rock. It's solid. She put the stone down and sighed. The fox sniffed it carefully. ~Where did you find it? -Just uphill from the river. Where all the hazel tree's are. The fox touched the rock with her pointed snout. ~It doesn't smell like a Gollem. -A what? ~Gollem. Little mud guy, kind of like a mass-produced Eric Cantona...In mud. with little beady eyes. Wizards get them to do their heavy work. Except the laundry, cause then they just gloop down the sinkhole and... -Fox, what's your point, Jubilee interrupted the fox quickly, sensing a long and meaningless story about a lump of clay called eric or something. ~My point? Uhm, I can't think of anything else it can be then. She rolled the stone around thoughtfully. ~I think that it's not the stone that wants to change. I think there's something inside it that wants to get out. maybe that's why it was near the river, it was going to wash itself out. ~But stones are inanimate, Jubilee said doubtfully. ~Yes, but what's inside them isn't. Jubilee tapped the stone. -It's hollow, how can anything be inside it? ~It's porous, so maybe something got stuck... Jubilee picked up the stone and put it in the sink. She turned the tap on and waited. The water poured over the stone, it's surface darkening with the moisture. -Nothings happening, fox, Jubilee said finally. The fox looked around the kitchen. ~Try the grill. -What? ~The grill, melt it out. Jubilee gave the fox an incredulous glance and put the rock under the grill. she set it on full and waited patiently. After a few minutes, the silvery flecks in the rock started to liquefy, they dripped out of the rock and collected in the grill tray. Jubilee stared in silence as the silver flowed back and forth like mercury, making curved, organic shapes as they moved. When the rock stopped dripping, she turned off the heat, and took the tray out from under the grill. She rolled the stone onto the table, where it began to melt the Formica, and took the pan to the sink. She poured the liquid into the sink bowl, where it writhed and twirled like a serpent. When it was cool enough, she picked it up. It curled around her fingers, splitting at one end to form a two-pronged fork, which probed at her skin. -Fox, what is it? The fox sniffed the metallic shape, which briefly assumed a vulpine face, before shifting into a shape like a sprig of mistletoe. ~A beautiful mutant, the fox said finally. -What do we do with it? The mutant leaped onto Jubilee's woollen jumper, stretching out soft little spikes that hooked into the fabric. It stilled, hanging from there in a shape that, from a certain angle, could be the face of a fox. ~I don't think you should worry about that, the fox replied. Jubilee stroked the silver surface of the mutant, cool and bright. jules +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 not knowing was easy...
by julesmarkham 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

oh the confusion! the uncertainty! the doubt! i am on the crush list, yikes! it could be anyone! someone i know, talk to every day! yelp! so if i have no idea who it is how do i find out? do i just nominate everyone on the sinister list as a crush until i find a match? that would take forever! and what if, by flippantly listing people I've never even mailed, they start going 'I don't know who it is, I'll have to mail everyone to find out!' then all the people they mail will do they same, and everyone will match everyone, and it would be CHAOS!!!!! sorry... overreacted there. so, as Stuart staples once said, 'the not knowing is easy/ and the suspecting, that's okay'. but now i know, but don't know! oh, the confusion (etc etc) so put me out of my misery, whoever it was! jules, (who is making black fox badges out of fimo clay) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Are you really going to wear that t-shirt???
by elenita99 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

Hello to all and every single one of you! This morning I went out and it was sunny (for once), and I thought Im lucky, I can open the door and I can walk down the street (*B&S content*) but unlucky I was going to work so Italian: Id say Paolo Conte, better than Sabrina anyway, isnt it? Is he a real Italian? Cos after all this American-Italian stuff Im not so sure ATP: Im sooooooo jealous!!! But I read all your post with interestwould we have the chance to see any photos in the gallery??? (OK you caught me Im also thinking about that football-chest-Stuart photo) Legal Man: I missed itbut would be deadly-and-totally devoted to the person who could tape it for me (to see if it really sounds like Eurotrash Theme, now Im so curious!)so if you feel like doing it just for doing a good action today or to be nice to me, please dont hesistate, Ill be very glad! That was short but well, I dont feel like telling you all the ugly things my boss does to me, so here I stop This week-end is Easter WEHope you all have a lot of chocolate eggs!!! Love Elena PS: title refers to my flatmate seeing the lovely t-shirt i dyed last week myself-with-my-little-hands ______________________________________________________ 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: When Animals Attack
by Katy Dutton 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

Second post in a day, I know, but hey...I'm bored. I'm stuck at home 'revising' for my imminent A-Levels. Which, in reality, means I am holed up in front of my computer looking at B&S sites in the vain hope of finding more pictures of the lovely Struan. Walkn10(a)aol.com wrote: "Doeas anyone laugh like an ass during those "When Animals Attack" specials? I guess its supposed to be really serious and dramatic and stuff, but when they have they supposedly "tame" animals just going apeshit and mauling some unassuming passerby, I can't help it...sue me." I know that this is an American phenomenon (oh the pleasures of Sky TV), but Lee and Herring did a great parody of it on their TMWRNJ (*oooh sounds like a B&S album!*) show. It started out 'When Insects Attack!' and then moved on to such things as 'When Tins, Cans and Bottles Fall Off Shelves'. The attack of the killer beetroot had me laughing every time. Is this just me that remembers this comedic high point of last year? (I apologise if someone's already writtent his, I haven't finished reading my mails yet :) Idleberry, I think your laws are exceptionally good. Especially the alarm clock toilet thing. Although it may make for a bit of noise pollution at the Sinister public toilets, non? Annnnnnyway. Back to daytime TV and pathetic attempts at revision. I'm going mad here. Raowr. Katy x ______________________________________________________ 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: desperation smelling of struan soccer sweat
by GardeningAtNight＠aol.com 18 Apr '00

18 Apr '00

I'm back from Toronto as of Sunday night and conveniently skipped school (well, my mom called in for me) yesterday. My penpal from Coventry sent me a tape of Gorky's and put Legal Man on the end, so of course I rewound side B to listen to it. I just finished.. and maybe it's because of all the bad teen movies we watched on the bus ride home, but all I could say was "duuuuuude." I think I like it but I'm not quite sure. It's got a good tune though, I think. marie said, like a billion others but i like how she said it: << i'm supremely fecking jealous of y'all that went to ATP, especially the ones who witnessed a shirtless struan Doing His Thang >> Yeah, same goes for me. He owes us a jog across America, at least through 48 states. The Sinister bus would follow close behind, screaming girls (and boys) hanging out the windows. He brings out the worst in me, I can really imagine myself screaming "STRUAN!! DO YO THANG BOY!!" I misread that at first as "struan dong his thong" which would be just as good now that I think about it. ken needs a shag: << I just read idleberry said that her boyfriend will be coming over to shag her this weekend, how comes my girlfriend isn't coming over this weekend to shag me???? >> I would guess that there are some people that are always dependable for a shag when you need one, but why can't I find any of them? I've been kind of sniffly lately because everyone I know, even the weird icky people, have at least had a date. It makes me feel like a kid and I guess being so fucking twee doesn't really help since kids around here hate that sort of thing. I think Jen's picture is by the dictionary definition of twee and she's even been out (with a moke, but still out). My one friend who's in the same situation as me doesn't care about boys - if she said anything remotely sexual I'd have a heart attack. If I didn't care it wouldn't be a problem. I should put up an application on the internet too*. A Chris, I forget which, told me of an P!O!P! fan in St. Louis. But that's all he said, so I'm left to only guess how wonderful this person must be. Please drop me a line and tell me more. andrew is sad too: << If anyone out there has any comforting words/advice, feel free to e-mail me. * B+S content: I played 3....6...9 seconds of light, about three times driving around with a lump in my throat. >> Come here! Let me love you! Samantha * regarding that, girls as well as boys are welcome. i can see them queuing now.. in my dreams. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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