June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Re: Sinister: "Ah, but did i say ping or boinngg?"
by FearofMops＠aol.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Mr. Ovenden said: "You know in the Bowlie set when Stu said "anyone have their life changed by the Flaming Lips last night?" thought it was a tad excessive, but their set on Saturday was just that. I was front row centre and was visibly overwhelmed at many points...i dont even know their stuff that well!" nonono..... our stu was not being excessive. the flaming lips are absolutely positively fabulous, and any & all who don't own their music should rush right out and buy some now. okay okay i'm gushing and being a bit too dramatic but i can't help it. i get all excited when i see or hear mention of my boys the lips. now for my brilliant segue(is that how you spell that?) into relevant b&s content................ oh, sorry. i seem to be lacking content. hmmmmm......people seem to be mentioning dreams a lot lately, specifically ones of the b&s nature. unfortunately i haven't had any, unless you count the one in which 'tigermilk' was playing in the background. i don't remember what actually happened tho. the only really cool band dream i've had was about the pixies. but that was years ago. which reminds me. i got the most awful email today. mr. frank black has cancelled both the in-store performance and show scheduled for tonight. i go to all the trouble to ask off for work and save my money up, just for him. and he cancels. oh well. i can always blow my money on more cd's. all who have made it this far, hands up......anyone? ......anyone? okay i'll take that as a hint. buh-bye p.s. despite what critics and others say, the new album is beautiful and everyone listen to bright eyes....they're super +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "Ah, but did i say ping or boinngg?"
by Nik Ovenden 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Sorry for the abstract header, you probably all saw my name and deleted this anyway... Greetings to all you sinistereenies, I expected my mailbox to be overflowing after 6 days of neglect (usually with an average of 15 emails a day, i expected a full ton or so) Luckily, you all seem to have lost your voices over the festival, so i had a mere 50 to wade through...phew. Still didnt meet any of yous at the festival, sorry, sorry. I asked siniglasto (so sorry for the duplicate message) but is a sini-edinburgh or sini-reading running? It might be nice to meet some of you instead of attaining my usual ineptness. You know in the Bowlie set when Stu said "anyone have their life changed by the Flaming Lips last night?" thought it was a tad excessive, but their set on Saturday was just that. I was front row centre and was visibly overwhelmed at many points...i dont even know their stuff that well! Sorry, no B&S content...how about this - HMV are charging me �15 for the CD! bloody cheek...i have to find it elsewhere, which means i need money, so i'm screwed. I'm too honest with repaying for gig tickets etc. My credit card should get overdrawn a tad sometimes. I'm too sensible. Is a B&S tour still a rumour? is it serious? when will the dates be out? Many of you possess eerie powers of 'insider information' and to you average B&S loving schmoe (me), i feel a bit like i'm not entirely looking at the picture. Another thing. Should i feel worried that i havent had a B&S dream yet? It's nearly been a year of obsession with them, yet i have had not one dream. Yuo all keep emailing with your abstract interpretations of your love of the band, while i still get stuck dreaming of turnips and such like. Sorry for the rambling. Can anyone out there set up a picnic in the SW/Wales area? i feel left out (again, what a bloody whingebag, you all say). Sorry again, Niko xxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: anyone in San Francisco
by Alexander Bartilson 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi, I'm currently on holiday with a friend in San Francisco. Actually I live south of S.F. in a city called Los Altos. Just wanted to know if there where any listees in the S.F. neighbourhood who could give me some tips on must-do:s. Please don't be mad at me for using the list for this... ///Alexander +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Aaaay! I'm the Fonz!
by Dewar 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hello folks, Ah, that's better! No more students pouring on about what a hard life they have. Little do they realise the REAL boredom they have ahead of them. I heard a statistic that an average computer programmer writes about 10 lines of code a month or something. In the last 2 weeks I have written -2 lines. Yes, that means that if I hadn't turned up in the last fortnight the company would have been better off. As would I have probably. I'm really not a programmer I don't think! The question is how long will it take for the company to realise this? Anyway, has anybody got the new Sonic Youth album and was at All Tomorrow's Parties? I am asking because i was wondering whilst listening whether they played anything off it? I realise it was difficult to distinguish between songs. Also, if anybody witnessed a late-nite drunken spectacle at ATP of 2 young men robotic dancing and play-acting around chalets with beer boxes on their head obscuring any vision that they may have had, then that was me and my pal. We are called the Beerbots by the way. I can send photos if required. It was funny at the time. Had to be there. Iain R - how can i have good taste yet meet in the Tams? No, only joking. I haven't been there in aaages. Not since they had some band with 2 members that used to be in the Fall. It is not a surprise they are not now. Anyway, I will be able and willing to meet for a swift half. B&S content - am i getting bigger or are medium sized t-shirts getting smaller? Rafe! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: belle letters
by robert smith 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

hiya! i got your letter which is grate! especally the croc! one prob though.... can't read your address is it 5 Ailstone Cotts Atherstone on Stour S-O-A Warickshire CV37 8NB if this is right or wrong then drop me a line to sort it out. hope you have fun in the lakes hopefully there will be a nice letter waiting for you when you get back much love robert smith ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I was so embarrassed that I missed Chapati
by craigrm 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Legal Naan, Century of Fakirs... maybe ? While I'm on the subject of Indian influences in popular culture, the much feared sitar onslaught on FYHCYWLAP never quite materialised now did it ?. Maybe the band took the Tim Hopkins threat not to purchase new album if it involved sitars seriously and hurriedly re-wrote it all ?. That would certainly explain the recording delays and may even be the *real* reason Stuart D left. You see I always pictured him as the George Harrison of the band so it makes sense that he'd be the biggest proponent of the sitar, perhaps he found himself in the unenviable position of having to deliver an ultimatum along the lines of "if the sitars go then so do I". And we all know what happened ....Murdoch called his bluff & the rest is history. How did FISHYCAP go in the charts when it was released, I forgot to check at the time. The more cynical amongst us know that sales charts are nothing but a corrupt capitalist tool of oppression and subliminal mind control, but I still can't help but wonder how the al-bum went. The Canadian chart though is obviously based on musical quality (Legal Man at number 4) so is justifiably exempt from my previous rant I've heard that last week several members of the Eastenders cast, high on a potentially lethal combination of meths and airfix glue accidentally tunneled in the Jeepster Office's from the basement of a nearby 24 hour Photocopying Shop. Naturally Jeepster HQ is as secure as Fort Knox and a silent alarm was triggered well before the rampaging thespians managed to get their hands on any rare Gentle Waves demos so the damage was minimal, which is a massive relief for all concerned. So St Etienne didn't deliver the goods at Glastonbury, I can imagine they'd struggle a bit in that kinda setup. They're normally quite excellent live so lets all blame the poor acoustic qualities of canvas and continue to think Sarah and co are the Bees Knees, cos they are. That's about it I think, as uaual there's very little of substance - sorry. Craig x ps: apologies is the formatting goes a bit weird on this message. I'm using a suspect webmail program that has mangled posts in the past, I'll never learn. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Fwd: Re: Sinister: I'm a very patient person
by ineffable 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

----- Original Message ----- > Message-ID: <11407101.962108782961.JavaMail.imail(a)almond.excite.com> > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:26:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: ineffable <mindmonkey1(a)excite.com> > To: Magda Boom <magdaboom(a)chickmail.com> > Subject: Re: Sinister: I'm a very patient person > > > Hello again! > > Thank you all your comments. > > I am probably a complete muppet to admit this but what does Isobel look like > then? I guess I should be hunting the web rather thyan e-mailing you but if > she is such a numinous personage than I am eager to find out! > > I was trying to work out Magda's comments - I think (if I understand her > right - forgive me if I mis-represent you flower!) that Bax(pox)endale are > poppy, witty, creative, vibrant (add lots of other good adjectives) but not > ironic - and that she was criticizing 20+ people for having to have their > pop with added irony and not being able to simply enjoy it. I think she has > a good point - it is a bit of a danger in getting too reflective about > things. Certainly though a lot of their soings as I hear them have some > pretty dark undercurrents.... But as we say in the shrink trade 'I guess > that says more about me than it says about you'. Or something like that. > > Anyhow, I had better justify my existence. > > MM > > PS tip for positive living - driving through Brixton at 7.30 am with > Tigermilk on very loud > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite > Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: nice day for a jam...
by sophie harris 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

the sun's out! and i have a quiet little joy in my heart today, so i thought i'd make my first proper musey outing on la sinisteen (before i was just talking about picanics and the like...) but then today, like i said, i feel a bit musey... cuase i got up, and the it was newmorningsunny...but i didn't feel gleeful in a throwing flowers around type way, just curious to see what the day would bring... so i got on the train, and i was listening to 'into my arms' by nick cave, which is my fave lullaby, and i looked over and saw a littl boy (2 maybe?) in a pram... and his mum and nan were teasing him by not giving him the book he wanted, which made me frown... but then i realised he had a really bad skin condition, and was really scratching away round his neck, and it was so sad that he was in so much discomfort and so little and crying... but the mum and the nan just shoved crumbly biscuits at him... and i looked out of the window and felt sad but confused 'cause it was so beautiful outside... hmmmm and another thing is i keep dreaming of spiders, not in a scary way, 'cause i've always thought spiders are quite friendly, but there's this big web and baby spiders and one big mama spider in the middle. hmmmmm... i used to just dream of water and sea *all* the time... wonder what's going on... anyway, i think that's me done for rambling just now, but just wanted to send love and little squeezes out to all, for being so lovely - kisses and waves on this funnysunnyday xjam ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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RE: Sinister: maths. that's right, with an "s"
by Michael Barrett 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

> "Three is a magic number" is from an album called > "Multiplication Rock" from > (maybe) 1970 ish? I don't know the artist's name, unless they The chap's name was (is?) Bob Durrough, and the track can be found on Blue Break Beats vol. 4, which contains lots of other funky tunes and can be bought for very little money. M *************************************************************************************************** Confidentiality Notice: The information in this document may be confidential. It is intended only for the use of the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and then delete this document. Do not disclose the contents of this document to any other person, nor take any copies. Violation of this notice may be unlawful. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. *************************************************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: coherence isn't always my best point
by Heather H 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Someone wanted a review of Glastonbury? I can attempt that. A bit of a background: I went down with my exboyfriend of 2 1/2 weeks, whom I'd had a bad bad bad breakup with but he's my best friend in this country so what can I do, and his housemate that I kinda-sorta knew. Fun! We were all multi-day festival virgins. We went down on a coach from Leeds on Thursday and were feeling quite Old, as the average age of coach-rider seemed to be about 16 or 17 (we being the ripe old age of 21). I was a but nonplused by their conversations about the various attributes of Burger King and KFC. I began to worry a bit about the average festival-goer. It rained the whole way there and of course the radio claimed it would rain all weekend. When we finally arrived it was raining heavily but we waited for 15 minutes and all was good. We found a nice place to set up our tent (why are there always extra pieces when I set up a tent?), and wandered around for the rest of the evening. It rained more Thursday night and I was a bit freaked out by the racist Hartlepoole scallie neighbor of ours who passed out outside of our tent right next to my head. mmmmm. friday was a good day. We spent almost the whole day in Jazzworld (a theme for the weekend). I wanted to go meet up with sinister-types that afternoon but a)I was too shy/scared/nervous all day b) I was practically passed out/asleep in the field at jazzworld achieving a lovely sunburn on my face. I saw the Wailers twice that day and both performances were very good, but I preferred the one at the jazz stage because there was a better vibe and I don't like really huge stages/crowds too much. That day I also saw the Oil Experts (I know its wrong to like French hip hop but i just lovelovelove it), Lynden David Hall (I felt so smoove), Nitin Sawhney (all three of us concurred that JC 001 is da man), Moloko (the band actually seemed to *gasp* like each other! which is so rare anymore- rosanne reminded me of debbie harry and reminded my exboy of iggy pop [?!]), groove armada (how unexciting can you get?), and Reprazent (roni size!!! yeah!!! i guess I was dancing just a bit too excitedly because I was asked by 3 separate people if i had any pills). It was a good day indeed. The evening was finished off lying in our tent laughing at/scared of our friendly neighbors. it was very cold that night and I was confused when I woke up to my exboy with his arm around me. I don't think he knew. Saturday was a good day again with lots of sun and beer (mmmm carlsberg export 5%) and other such goodies we brought along. We started off the day at the Pyramid stage to watch ladysmith Black Mambazo and Asian Dub Foundation, both of which were tres excellent! Crowds weren't too bad at the stage at that time of day so we could still see the stage quite well. We wandered around for a bit and stopped off to see David Gray at the middle-aged request of the exboy. I felt a bit whiny but was able to keep my mouth shut. We wandered around quite a bit more until we found ourselves once again at Jazzworld and stayed all evening to watch G Love and Special Sauce (brought back memories of high school), Femi Kuti and the Positive Force (by far THE best set we saw the whole weekend!!! the whole crowd was so excited and all of them were incredible performers. my booty was shakin like there wasn't any tomorrow!) and Morcheeba (again more booty shakin action- a booty shake cool down, if you will). I don't remember that evening too well because I think I was still a bit toasty. It was even colder that night. Sunday we were running low on cash and provisions so we were much more sober and tired little children. We wandered around all morning, spending quite some time in the sacred space enjoying the sun. We managed to get ourselves to the Other stage to see St. Etienne, who were a complete disappointment! I'd never seen them live before but have been a fan for fourish years and was quite excited. the back-up singers voices didn't match sarah's and were far too annoying, the acoustics were rotten and it was just bad bad bad. Luckily(?) we had a conflict of schedule that was remedied by this situation and off we trotted to see Horace Andy. We were all tired children so didn't bother to get up and dance but it was very cool. Off we trotted again to see the Beta Band. We had to sit through a bit of Muse before the Beta band and boy was that painful! Beta Band, of course, were incredible. They had a rapper for a few songs that the exboy noted was "like an English Busta Rhymes." Indeed! I was a tired girl and my back was killing me and I was a bit depressed about Things so I cant give a better account of them. Again we trotted away once they were done to see Bowie. I just couldn't believe how many people were there! It was completely packed when we got there so we had to watch the screens, so it was like watching it on the BBC only outside and really far away from the screen with some 6'7" twat who decided to stand right in front of your little 5'3" self and was so high on poppers that he couldn't comprehend you asking politely for him to move his ass. But it was good and it was David Bowie does his greatest hits. He sang perfectly and stumbled around a bit on stage in a silly way. I dont remember much more because my back was killing me 9I think ive pinched a nerve- how does one know?) and the exboy had his arm around my waist for some time. and that was that. maybe more comments from other people? there were so many things we didn't see because of scheduling conflicts- how were: Ildlewild, Moby, Badly Drawn Boy, Nik Turner, Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson, Yo la Tengo, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. etc. etc.?? Oh yeah! this is my first post! how exciting! I'm Heather. I live in England. For 6 more days. I've spent a dreadful six months here but will happily be returning to Portland, OR in August after a stay with the parents. one more (B&S-ish) related silly story: there's a boy here in my college who I don't know but I refer to as B&S boy because he wears B&S shirts. I think I freak him out because at first I watched him because there just aren't too many interesting people around here (or ones that I've met/seen in my six month stay). Now I also watch him out of habit. last night I was a bit of a drunken girl and (at the advice of friends) almost went up and hit on him. But luckily he had just left the bar. eee! this has been far too long and I apologize heather http://www.reed.edu/~hhumble +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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