August 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: um.....
by the original pixidustlady 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

my grandmother died today. i have no idea what i hope to achieve by telling you all this. sorry. k. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Argh! School! Mmm, Polly Pocket
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Hewwo (i'll warn you now, this is quite long, and all about little dolls), Well, today was the first day of the new term. Which wasn't too good. Though on the plus side, my new uniform is cool, and pinaforey, and I didn't get spat on. Oh, but I have the world's best pencil case. Does anyone remember Polly Pocket? Y'know, the little dolls, that were a centimetre or sp high and a really big choking hazard, and they had little houses, with toaty wee beds and tellies and things? (There are still Polly Pockets, but they're bigger now, because of all the kids that died from choking on them). Anyways, I was in a retro toy/games/stuff like that shop, looking for old Bunty annuals, because I sort of collect them, and I found a Polly Pocket Pencil case, which you opened up, and it was a house, only with lots of space at the bottom for pens and stuff. So I bought it, only I had no tiny dolls to put in it. So I went up to the loft, and dug out my old Polly Pocket collection, which was massive in it's day, and found four little figures, two that looked like me, and two that looked like my friend. So I decided that these could be our Polly Pocket selves. Y'see, we have this thing, where we made up magical alter-egos for ourselves. So mine is a cheer-up fairy, because I wear fairy wings, and I have a magic hat, and always worry about cheering people up and my friend's is a dominatrix with special powers, because she's all sexy and bossy and violent. So I found a fairy polly pocket with red hair in a bob, and wings, and flowers in it's hair, for me, and a blone one with a white and gold catsuit on it for Debs. And then I found a little red haired one like the fairy, only with dungarees and a headscarf, so I decided that could be my daytime non magic polly pocket since I like dungarees and headscarves, and I found a blone one like the dominatrix polly pocket, only wearing a purple mini dress and holding a little baby, because she has a baby sister. Then I found a big grey cat to live stay there too, in case the Debs polly pockets go off in a mood and my polly pockets need someone to talk to (because they can't really talk to each other, because they're the same person really, and I don't want them to be mad schizophrenics) So now they live in my pencil case house, which me and my friend play with in class when we don't feel like paying attention. And my polly pockets live in the upstairs, which is blue and has pictures of boats on the wall, and is all neat and tidy, with a computer and a little kitchen, and my Debs' little dolls live downstairs, which is all pink, with a big mirror and a messy kitchen and a telly. And best of all, I've got somewhere to put my pens and pencils (which are all Barbie ones). My B&S patch for my bag didn't arrive in time for school starting though. But I can't wait till the grungers see my cool patch, which is better than the iron maiden and nirvana ones, because it doesn't have monsters in it. Does anyone know where I can find guitar chords for Ooberman and hefner songs? Sorry, if I bored you, Hugs, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the relevance of cloning in the Magnetic Fields debate
by Paul Rudolph 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

I overjoyed by the enthusiasm for the auction so far. This is a great idea! And now for the science debate (Pixidustlady asked for feedback so here it is - with smiles of course...) margarita said: "With all this talk about cloning going on i can only come to one conclusion.....people who want it hate themselves, trying to make a better "you" through the marvels of science.The thought is rather idiotic when you think about it, i mean whats the sense?... Even if this idea does work out the copy is never as good as the original....and do you know why? Because we are not and never will be as smart as god." Personally, I think the Magnetic Fields are a clone(or clones). What with Mr. Merritt playing all those instruments, rather badly I might add. I think he cloned himself for the purposes of his band. The argument presented by Margarita is quite relevant here. The Magnetic Fields will never be as good as... But, I don't know of an example where the harnessed power of the atom was used to wipe out small nations (if the atom bomb is being implied here). Maybe I'm being careless but I can't think of anything. Pixidustlady essentially said that humans must "thin out our herd" in order to make the necessary evolution; that we are allowing too many bad genes into the pool. I think humans may be tackling this issue through gene therapy and the like - the idea of replacing bad genes with good ones. Aren't they looking into this as possible cures for disease? Lady Pixidust makes a valid point but I still think this is a hurdle that will be cleared. I also think that we messed up a lot of things because of misuse of science - not science itself. And we will need science to correct/amend our mistakes. Thoughts anyone? bye +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: money... who needs it?
by n|ck g 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

i am currently dating a snob. the biggest snob ever. she changes her mind more than she changes her shoes - of which she owns hundreds. i come from a family which doesn't have much money and on her 21st birthday she inherited $20 million. constantly she waves this in everyone's face and i sometimes think that she dates guys with no money simply so she can be in "control" of the relationship. she does things like pay for dinner and trips (she claims because she wants to) but then turns around and throws this guilt trip at me the second that she thinks that i am not trying hard enough to please her. anyways... enough of the background. today she tells me that she wants to by a Carmen Gia. she has a range rover and a saab already. i have told her on many occasions two of the most beautifully engineered cars, in my oppinion, are the porsche speedster and the vw gia. i was furious. so i told her. i told her that she was not allowed to buy that car because she knows nothing about cars and could never hope to appreciate that car like it should be. now i know that people buy cars every day based on looks (why else would someone buy an american car?) but it pisses me off that people like her exist. people that can go out and buy up the best cars in the world and know nothing about them and can't appreciate them for anything more than a trophy shouldn't be allowed to drive anything but ford escorts or fiats. so of course she blows up at me and tells me what an asshole i am. the only reason that i continue to date this girl is because she has such excellent taste in music. the fact that she had the belle and sebastian box set in her car on the day we met told me that she was ok. i am starting to rethink it. box set or no box set... she's still a snob with no taste in anything but music. ng ________________________________________________________________________ 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: piquenique pieces in an old style
by Elizabeth Daplyn 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Bon soir chickadees. Composite post assembled from snippets typed hastily at work. Has taken rather longer than 15 minutes to compose. Like about a week. So Ive reclaimed my portable stereo from the living room where its resided lonely as a cloud since our last party in the flat (next ones going to have a Bond or Bondage theme, ladies and gents in the Oxford area), and brought it back triumphal to my room in the eaves with the sloping roof and the lumpy but comfortable futon, and now I can listen to music as Im falling asleep again. In particular our olde friends (369Seconds and Modern Rock Song E.P.s the other night I fell asleep halfway through I Know Where The Summer Goes thats where its going, snatched away cruelly by weeeerk and sleeping) and, last night, Lambchop. I had to listen to The Man Who Loved Beer three times before I could let the CD carry on, and I dont normally believe in interfering with the running order of albums. Febbbruerry to December: we had such-a trag-IC year As. Seprutt as the fingerrz; And - Suddenly, As one As. The. Hand To put it in an eec stylee. The man Kurt Wagner, despite sharing his surname with a minging operameister, is a genius. > That was a bit from last week. Last nite I listened to Bachs Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1. Mmmmmm, harpsichords. The world of popular music needs more of them. Mind you, theyd be a bugger to take on tour. But then I could be employed full-time as a harpsichord-tuning roadie! Thus my fiendish plan to take over the popscene may be realised One. One, two. Triad. Augmented 7th. One. Bwahahahaha! Spent the weekend singing in Ripon cathedral on a choir tour. Very nice indeed, although the post-harvest muckspreading got a bit aromatic at times. Also, camping in North Yorkshire, even in midsummer, is probably not the most comfortable method of insomnia-inducement. Bloody sheep. Whatever has happened to Eighteen Wheeler? Is there no longer a market for plaintive/brutal Scots pop-rock which has always had a dance element? Evidently not. Seeing as how the picnic season got off in such fine style with the efforts on the Not-So-Twin Hills of Greenwich and Primrose for the Southern ponce elemen (+ honorary Southern ponces), not to mention the alarums and excursions in Sheffield (home of my ancestors), Glasgow, my sweet old etcetera, howsabout having one in superfoppish Oxford to round the summer off nicely? Our numbers here are growing, and with a suitable display of Miffy backpacks and knee-high socks Im sure we could beat the townies and students at their own game: namely, getting ratted and falling over I could also possibly provide punts from my bastion of privilege (see email address) if people want to try falling in the river. Come home, Lixibell! I suggest that the weekend after the London piquenique would be eminently suitable, to avoid conflict with the million other things that people want to do over the Bank Holiday weekend. On the other hand, I could just get me coat. Whatever, I'll see a small proportion of youse lot in Greenwich at some point. Just tell me when and where to turn up, 'cos I is a submissive girlie type. Hah. Anyhoo, back to photocopying. You wouldnt believe how exciting the office equipment is around here the copier staples things for you and everything. > Wrote that last bit while still at work, unsurprisingly. This disjointed writing-at-lots-of-different-times game is playing merry hell with my prose style, I can tell ya. Now typing in my flatmates bedroom while she packs to go home for the weekend. Nice crate assembly, Bec! So, Ill bid thee all adieu and toodle off for a cup of tea, then. Tara a bit. Liz :x "Love without hope, as when the young birdcatcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter; So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by." Robert Graves +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: money... who needs it?
by n|ck g 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

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Sinister: Spare us from these thoughts that shake us nightly
by David with a 'D' 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

"I love riding trains, and feeling responsible and cool, listening the best of B+S." Too right, Lila. Belle and Sebastian are the perfect soundtrack to travel, in my opinion. I spent endless weeks going to college on the train, with B&S in my ears. Three things I loved were firstly that I never seemed to get tired of hearing them, as normally happens with any other tapes of mine, secondly that all the albums fit nicely on one side of a 90 min tape (I have still to upgrade to a portable CD player, minidisc or MP3 player. Someday...), and thirdly B&S had the curious effect on me that when I met my friends on the train, I really did not want to turn them off. Down, maybe, but not off. Which is going to come in handy when I go inter-railing next Wednesday, for five weeks of train riding around Europe. On the subject of cloning and so on, somebody once mentioned the following - or something similar - to me (I have forgotten my source, so if it was a post on this list, may I take this opportunity to apologise for the blatant plagiarism which now follows and to commend the original person for getting me thinking for so long): In evolutionary terms, we are the next step towards self sufficient machines. Nothing more. As time goes on animals get smarter, we develop and get smarter, we design machines which develop and get smarter to the point where they don't need us any more, and they can continue to develop to "perfection". We're the equivalent of monkeys in the greater scheme of things, only we created the machines and we have bigger egos. And less hair, usually. I wonder, though, if machines that become conscious and "alive" will actually want to stay alive. Will they enjoy life at all, when they see the sunrise or go out in the rain? Maybe machines will realise, in their conscious states, that they don't need or want to do anything and so reproduction is futile and they will die out and the world will be organic again. An Electronic Renaissance. Goodbye for now. Go and suck the marrow from the bone that is life, my friends. David P.S. I do not necessarily like or agree with some of the things that popped up in the last few paragraphs, train thoughts apart, and if anyone's beliefs/hopes/dreams/feelings/little fingers are upset, incensed or aggravated by what I've said, I apologise. I just like things that make me think without getting me too depressed, like the real world. Farewell. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the view from the sixth floor
by Kate Funky 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

well hello everybody. there has been so much great posting going on lately, that i have caught up with in the last couple of days. you see, my life has been a little busy of late. there was the business of having a birthday, and a party (you would have all been invited, but i couldn't fit all you beautiful people in the pub). and there's a ball on tonight (i SHALL go to the ball- sorry, had to get that out of my system) that i was helping organise, and then assorted crap. but anyway, not interesting. i just read what pixidustlady wrote about cloning and genetic modification. its really quite bizarre. i think what we are trying to do is not breed out imperfections and weak genes, but find a loophole where we will be able to fix the problems the dodgy genes are causing. i think people are trying to outrun evolution. i also thinkg we're trying to outrun ethics. i don't think of a bundle of cells as a living thing, but i wonder at what point do i start thinking of a baby as a person- it's a really tricky question for me. anyway, i'll leave this for everyone else to ponder and debate. the lucksmiths! being a melbourne girl, i share my wonderful city with this womderful band. i was so excited to see that people on the other side of the world are also loving this band. i haven't seen them play in a while (i foolishly missed my last couple of chances ) but they are great. and the rest of the candle roster are pretty good too. the mabels are great, particularly, and ruck rover are also pretty cool. well, i love to read these posts. i would also love to drive across america listening to belle and sebastian, maybe that will have to wait (instead of a picnic, we could organise trans-continental road trips. or something). anyway, love to honey and the sinister fold. kate. ________________________________________________________________________ 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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by Arantxa Sanz 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Hello dahlings: Who needs cloning when one can have TopShop?In the middle of this mild Brit August,every branch is already displaying the Colbyesque 'rich bitch' outfits sashaying off the top catwalks.Fashionistas of the world,that is the trend to follow if you want to be seen by Il Conte Casarotto's arm at the casino next A/T season.Go for it. I was welcomed back by Nasty Nick on every cover.Thought his initial was B,allegedly,which made everything slightly confusing at first.However,Big Bro schedules,both in Spain and here,have been designed just to apart me from plebeian conversations.I could not follow any of the versions,don't really know yet if as part of the promised auctions,there will be finally that coveted B&S cover of this masterpiece of contemporary exhibitionism...hard to imagine our very discreet Struan in such,to be honest.And it won't work unless Stuart D. is introduced surpringly to add the necessary Machiavellian touch.Or would a dose of Kitchenism do? So far,it seems that they would rise a much higher amount if instead of Big Brother,they volunteered for a copycat of the latest Spanish contribution to trash on screen,'Big Fuck'.Three or four couples in a flat,don't know for how long,and the only condition is that everyone has to sleep with everyone,and everything is to be seen by the ones at home who have agreed with the pay-per-view scheme.Only heterosexual combinations allowed...Maybe Mr Miller could shed some light on this topic which would prove quite meatier than his late crusade trying to delete the Magnetic Fields records from the surface of this planet. After my contribution to increase the smut levels which suffer an endless decline,only to comment my intention to rise my glass for all the creatures big and small and balding and gay (and Tim Hopkins) in Sinister on 27th,if my expected hangover after a traditional Cypriot wedding ceremony allows me to cope with it. Love A. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the tyranny of a large breasted boss
by kmhyde＠wm.edu 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

hello... while i (semi) enjoyed that little language thread we had going, it seems it was not quite so popular with the rest of the crowd (i received the lion's share of the death threats on that one, while Youn only got a brick to the side of the head. lucky bastard). but it was intersting to see how many people actually know this stuff. back home most of my kith and kin don't even understand how to correctly dangle a participle, and that's just a sin against god in my book. heh. anyway, I just wanted to say that I enjoy everyone's posts here, but that i won't be able to post for quite some time after this. My boss saw me on email the other day, and I was *severely* chastised for spending too much time on the e-missives. however, this is coming from the same woman who spends approximately 10 minutes on work per 50 minutes of chatting. No one talks to me here, since I'm a temp, and so the only human interaction i would ever have- if not for email- would be when i say "hi" to the guard in the lobby. no doubt i would turn into some sort of half crazed "cubicle man", developing my own language and secret customs after months of isolation. slowly discovering the atavistic pursuit that is data entry. well. hopefully I shall return to the fold soon. until then my sweet lemurs, kevin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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