August 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Bricks, broken bottles and sticks
by Lucy Alder 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

Right, it's not fair for a thread to be done and dusted in 24 hours because it doesn't take account of the fact that people who worked a TWELVE HOUR DAY yesterday, then went home to clean the house and pack all their stuff for an imminent move and are absolutely cream-crackered this morning, didn't have time to read a single sinister message yesterday. I'm sorry, OK, but I've just got to add my piece. For all the frighteningly intelligent musings on tautologies and oxymorons, nobody has mentioned the following: - The phrase is 'pure as the driven snow' and 'cold' appears to have been added because an extra syllable was needed to make the line fit the music nicely - Snow is cold, always. It may perhaps be less cold or more cold, but it's certainly never warm, hot or scalding* - Should you stress the y or the second o in Oxymoron? (I favour the o) Oh dear, I was hoping Mark Casarotto was gone for good, but nay, he only left our company for a little over a week. Ah well, at least I can take the piss out of him because he mentioned that he received a nice cheque from http://www.bananalotto.co.uk but omitted one small detail - he won 50 new English pence. It's true, you know. I'd take his claims of gambling prowess with a pinch of salt, if I were you. PF said It will be a good record with > Pamela Berry on it - which is the last definition of a tautology that anyone > needs round here and I'd like to second that, while adding that people who join Ms Berry in her musical endeavours aren't too bad either. Honestly, the youth of today! Pyromania, bouze, miraculous ungayings, blood, spunk, pish, shite, nipples, tongs and raw meat all in one night? And I bet you stayed up past your bedtime too, Miss Jenowl. Shameful. Keith M said someone needed to reclaim > velocity girl's glory from the disaster that was the > band that stole the name. But I think our own Velocity Girl has done a very good job of that. Well done for organising the next picnic on the 27th, Vel. This is most fortuitous because (a) I will be able to make it and (b) it is on Sinister's 3rd birthday and (c) it is on the first anniversary of me getting a voice on the list. Those of you that can make it, I'll see you there - as always, I'll be the one with a big bottle of gin. Those of you that are further flung and won't be there, pull on your red knickers to celebrate our birthday and flash them about as much as possible. Go on, make Honey blush. That's all I'm writing for now because all my drudgery at home and at work has turned my brain into a gigantic frazzle. Literally. But I suppose it might come in handy as a mid-afternoon snack. Juicy Lucy *sorry for stating the bleeding obvious there. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts 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 +-+ +-+ "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: Sweetheart of the Rod-eh-oh!
by Peter Miller 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

I refuse to get drawn into this ugly Magnetic Fields argument that is clearly brewing on the horizon, but I suspect the suggestion that their earlier records were better than their "new", "popular" one is a well-ploughed furrow in the world of indie pop, or indie rock as Mister Merrit calls it. I've been reading his Jukebox Jury in the huitieme issue of Chickfactor. He is relentlessly negative, the very antithisis of an acid jazzer. He is frighteningly well-up on indie rock. What are those bald patches on the side of your head called, you know, like as if you used to be in Showaddywaddy or Rocky Sharpe and the Replays? I'm thinking sideburns, but that's wrong. He's got them, whatever they're called. PF, I haven't heard any other Rod albums, but if I were you I would stick to the ones with stickers on them saying: ROD STEWART THE CLASSIC YEARS Newly Re-mastered Original Artwork ...and be prepared for a quick trip down the secondhand shop. Purley on the basis of its cover "Smiler" has got to be a winner. Other than that, it's The Faces. I used to have a Faces record, but I sold it. How's that for lack of foresight? It was very raucous. I think it was called "An Old Handbag Won't Let You Down" or something similar. Quite good, as I recall. I've looked up "tautology" and I feel compelled to express, I must say, that it is the very bread and butter, the meat and two veg of pop lyrics. If only Trousers were still here, he could commission a book on the subject. Incidentally, is the next Papercuts launch party going to be held in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Post Office Tower? Just asking. By the way, I looked up "tautology" to see whther PF was slagging off Pam or not. He wasn't. Does anyone know any versions of "I'd Rather Go Blind" except those by Rod, Etta James and Paul Weller? I need to find the best one, it can't possibly be Rod, much as I love him, the wee pervert. Speaking of which, I bet quite a lot of the people going round ganging up on former child sex offenders are very frightened unconvicted sex offenders themselves. It's often the case. Now all we have to do is get that idea into the heads of the mobs and hey presto! Pop Will Eat Itself. Great drumming on those Rod albums. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re: Train Thoughts
by vodkabird＠gurlmail.com 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

Skips jollily out of the nursery clutching her Mr Man mobile. I for one would love to live in the States. I mean, they have Taco Bell there don't they? And pie shops in California. ________________________________________________________________________ --> get your free, private gURLmail account at http://www.gURLmail.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: train thoughts
by Lila Matsumoto 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

Hello people with confidence, This is my first post. I had to say that, because it seems to be some rite of passage. And I couldn't have slipped through the cracks, could I? Someone was bound to find me and label me a fraud. And I must say that everyone seems to know what they are doing, like those people on busy streets who don't look left and right twice like I do. I live in Florida, amidst the humidity and falling coconuts. Anyone else in Florida? Someone once said that they would like to live in America. And I think: Are you out of your mind? Maybe in New York, with its subway system, or somewhere else, but definetly not Florida. Every time I go to England I wish I lived there, but maybe this is a naive thought. So I would like to ask.. would you like to move to America? And if yes, why? I am infatuated with trains. For some they are dingy but for me they are wonderful.. . I have only been on three systems, New York, Tokyo, and London. Admittedly some are shitty in smell and appearence but I love riding trains, and feeling responsible and cool, listening the best of B+S. I try not to make eye contact with the passengers, but I do stare at them when they're not looking, and make mental notes about their dress and make stories about their lives. I know I'm not alone. My favorite band of the week.. Cornelius. What a cool guy. Horrible haircut, however. A list #2 songs on B+S cds, excluding singles, in order from best 1. Seeing Other People 2. The Model 3. Expectations 4. Sleep the Clock Around I love them all, the #2s. For me #2 songs are significant in that they must try to overshine the first songs on the albums. I think numbers 3 and 4 on my list succeed in doing that. Thanks for listening to my palling incessant chatter. You can go now, to do better things. Lila ...On March 1997 I was the only one in the world humming a song called "Just Like Honey"... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Rod and Chips
by P F 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

bref, as they say in Lower Volta. I fear this will reach incompletion, and be cut off suddenly past its prime. There are questions to answer, you know, and they won't just answer themselves. Casarotto bleeped: >>> I have The Sims. Naturally, my families are Belle and Sebastian. Isobel has fallen in love with Beanz (sic). Though they haven't shagged yet. I even got the patch that takes away the fuzzing when they're nude. It's not at all like Big Brother. But I didn't realise you could add your own MP3s! Fantastic stuff! What the helmans are you on about this time, MC? You have totally gone and lost me. Steady Mike stoned: >>>Which sounds like a description of my entire 1992. Be grateful for small mercies - back in those days we only had Drop Nineteens and a countryfied Moose to sustain us. Are you sick of people telling you that "something will turn up" yet? The thing is - it does. It does - and you know what? Goals can change a game. I could have sworn that you had the Mary Chain's 'Almost Gold' 45 as well. That makes three average early-90s indie records, not the paltry two that you claim - so things weren't *so* bad. Can anyone remember anything re. Drop Nineteens? I wish I could. Peter Miller pRodded: >>> PF, I've got two Rod Stewart albums, "Never a Dull Moment" (1972) and "Every Picture Tells a Story" (1971). Both are BLUDDY GRATE. "Dull" features what I suspect is the definitive version of "I'd Rather Go Blind", one of the best songs ever written, while "Picture" features a version of "(I Know) I'm Losing You" that gives The Temptations a run for their mummy. Combined with Rod originals like "You Wear It Well" and "Maggie May", both albums represent excellent value for money. Let's get this straight - I know this. Another way of saying that would be: I agree. You are absolutely right. You could have gone into more detail re. certain moments of genius like 'Every Picture' (the title track) or 'Mandolin Wind' - but that can wait. We are in (an) accord. My original point was, were there any Rods *apart from* these, Gasoline Alley and Raincoat that were essential? And Mooro had some daring answers which I'm still trying to decipher. Finally, Youn used language to say: >>>>I decided to keep my Clientele cd. I'll be able to hear it in a week. >>>>Then I've got to find the one featuring a duet with Pam Berry. Would >>>>Steady (Mvi) * (~kve) happen to know if it's going to be on the upcoming >>>>album? (This question will never get answered down here.) It will be featured on the downgoing album. It will be a good record with Pamela Berry on it - which is the last definition of a tautology that anyone needs round here. But look, if you're looking for great new records featuring Pamela Berry you should listen t ________________________________________________________________________ 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: 3, 5, 7, 9 seconds of light
by Mark Casarotto 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

Fellow matadors, Massive great tension headache (after 10 days solid coffee, food and bouze, don't limit yourselves straight away to peaches, bran and a chickpea and black-eyed bean curry, kids) is preventing me from working at the moment, so I'm starting my back-in-England sinister letter to you all. Phew! (who is Ric Flair, then?) I still have three digests to read, but unless I forget I'll get through them all before pressing send. Amy, I'm tallish, mousey and what people politely term "thinning on top". Unless they're Tim Hopkins, in which case "hopeless bald cunt" is more likely. I am loaded, though, you were right on that one, after making 300% on my stake at Venice Casino last week. I am rock! Roulette is classy, though there's something to be said for incomprehensible machines paying out dozens and dozens of coins even though you can't work out why on earth you've won. I even arrived home to find a cheque from Bananalotto (www.bananalotto.co.uk) <http://www.bananalotto.co.uk)> . Anyway, I'm not going back in a casino ever again, as that's my luck used up. Though if Ooon is ever stuck for something to do in SW London, I could be tempted to show her how the experts *really* do it. Magnetic Fields - another massive sinister posse for the Shepherd's Bush Empire, then? I'm afraid I have to disagree with my learned friend who suggested 69 Love Songs was the weediest LP yet - I have studied at the Michael Jones Night School of Indie (Intermediate level), and apart from a couple of astonishing slices of naïf-pop like 100,000 Fireflies, Mr Merritt's oeuvre has got far stronger and more interesting in recent years. In any case, they were the fuckin' nail at the QEH, so I suggest you all get off your pampered, over-upholstered indie arses and get your tickets sorted pronto. I have The Sims. Naturally, my families are Belle and Sebastian. Isobel has fallen in love with Beanz (sic). Though they haven't shagged yet. I even got the patch that takes away the fuzzing when they're nude. It's not at all like Big Brother. But I didn't realise you could add your own MP3s! Fantastic stuff! I have also just ordered "International Cricket Captain 2000" over the interweb. Does this make me the saddest sinisterine? Kevin's post (honestly, it has no connection to being sad) was chuffin' tops, mate - nice to see some solid scientific reasoning on the list, compared to the subjective, judgmental waffle we usually put up with :-) Nik, you're dead right about the News of the World and their culpable homicide (or whatever our judicial system calls it). Apart from frightening nazi-esque resonances, the sight of these ignorant, bullying FASCIST scum baying for blood and abusing their own children's innocence (let's seem them work out that moral quandary, then) by using them as flagpoles for their own vicious bigoted agendae. By definition, these sex offenders, irredeemable though some may be, have done their time, and the law says that they should be allowed to continue their everyday lives without fear or prejudice.. But perhaps I'm being fascistic myself, denying freedom of the press? Nah. See you kids at whatever picnic wins the battle of the picnics, BG Mark xxx ******************************************************************* HIT Entertainment PLC 5th Floor, Maple House 141-150 Tottenham Court Road LONDON, W1P 9LL Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500 Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 020 7224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.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: don't hit me plaese. tautologies are mean
by kmhyde＠wm.edu 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

> > Here's another oxymoron that might be more interesting: > > > > "I am a lazy gett, she is as pure as the cold driven snow" > > > >but it depends on an interpretation of 'driven' as driven through, or > >maybe driven away, as an outcast? This is iffy and probably has to do > >with my original mishearing of 'cold' as 'coal', i.e. perfect snow that > >has been blackened by human traffic. A point in my favor: snow is suc> h a > >cliched image for purity, he must have meant to use it in a new way. > >Otherwise, what does 'driven' have to do with purity, unless it's purity > >of the repressed or frigid sort, not innocence. > > I don't see what you mean here, Youn. Isn't 'cold driven snow' just a st> ock > phrase? It might sound odd, but I'm pretty sure lots of people use it. I> t's > kind of poetic, as cliches go. I always assumed it meant 'driven' in the> sense > of a blizzard that 'drives' down hard. But I have to say I was never qui> te > sure. yeah, that's what it means- blizzard of snow that's fiercely packed down. it sounded like an old phrase, so i called my eighty year old grandfather, and he assured me that it's an old phrase, and it means like, when the snow is all in drifts and such because there's so much. yikes, that was an awkward call. "yeah, grandpa...no, nobody i know in real life...yes, on the computer...no I still like girls." > > >But aren't tautologies supposed to be literally tautological? Then it> 's > >contingent on either interpretation of 'or'. But this isn't taking > >into account the meaning of 'could'. It's a tautology with a wide sco> pe > >reading for the modal, which is justified because 'either' follows it, > >unless you don't believe it's possible for anyone to be successful. A> nd > >say that we mean something is possible if it is at all possible. > Okay, we can settle this with a little symbolic logic. (that, by the way, is an ace thing to say in bed. try it, and watch the ladies' faces pop into a rictus of terror) in logic, tautologies are true under every interpretation. that means it must be true no matter what *individual* truth values are assigned to the atomic sentences of 'you are us' and 'you are successful'. Stuart seems to be using this in the "exclusive" sense, in that he seems to be saying "you could be successful, or be us, but you can't be successful AND be us." or in symbols- where U is (you could be us) and S is (you could be successful) SvU * (~[U*S]). So, when both S and U are assigned the truth value of "true", it comes out as false. so, it's not a tautology. okay, for that all, I deserve to be hit, I know. I would go into the modal logic and Wittgensteinian language games that would blow all this away, but that would require a special program, and even then, I would hate myself for posting it. to say nothing of all those people who are saying "what the...an asterisk?". i'm sorry.hopefully this ends the thread. if we're lucky.. keep watching the lyric sheets! (oxymoron- the reality of the dream- space boy dream) 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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Sinister: is new and exciting an' stuff!
by Greg Pallis 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

Hmmm. That title won't work for people who get the digest. And I don't doubt literarily squillions of people have used it before. However, I'm but a poor wikkle list-noobie who overuses the word "wuv", so don't throw too many sharp objects at me, mmkay? Could the tautology be "Queen's own army" from Me and the Major? That's pretty much exactly the same as "Queen's army". I suspect not, as otherwise all ye smartnessbunnies would have picked up on it. But anyways. That was actually the main reason I broke I broke my list lurkerdom, so I'm going to have to babble some more here so that this post doesn't look all titchy and pathetic and get beaten up by big long posts about linguistics and Wittgenstein. I'm tempted not to introduce myself, so you can all think I'm some mysterious and impeccably cool man-with-no-name-type figure. However, I've just horrendously burnt the pizza I was meant to be cooking, which seems a terribly bad omen. So I'll tell you all about me, so that when I'm kidnapped by the bad pizza demons, you can all get togethor with some Powerpuff Girls' fans and form the Superhero team "Sinister Dexter" to rescue. Sorry. Sorry. Please, please forgive me. That was truly unspeakably bad. I think go I'll die in a hole now. Bleh. Soooo, moving on from such appaling comic-pun shenanigans, me! Yeah! Right. Well, I'm 16 years old, and 17 this coming Friday. I'm waiting for my GCSEs with roughly the same amount of desperate, gibbering terror as almost everyone else my age in the country. I just burnt an ungarnished cheese and tomato pizza really, really badly. It asked for twelve minutes, and I gave it, like, 35. I look somewhat like a younger version of the mid-period Elvis with my current haircut, though perversely very little like the young Elvis. My eyes are blue, green or brown depending on my mood. No, really. Yes, like in some anime. Except my hair doesn't change colour too. Which is a pity. I own a considerable number of tarot decks, from which I can do reading with varying amounts of skill. My undoubted fave is a deck from UK teenybopper magazine Just-17, which intrigues and terrifies me in equal measure. One of the cards is called "The Steps CD". This may or may not equate to the ten of swords - "ruin". What else? I live in London. I played the horrendously addictive internet game sissyfight (www.sissyfight.com) in which you represent a bitchy four-year-old, and have to humiliate other bitchy four-year-olds by scratching them and teasing them and licking lollipops to rise up the rankings, for about four months solid once, and nearly got suspended from my none-more-posh school for falling asleep all the time after playing all night, every night. They kept giving me urine tests for drugs, and looking baffled when I passed. That's not particually relevant to anything, really. I'm about a 7, tweeness-wise, though that's my own biased view and not be trusted. I've missed the last four track-and-fields, the last seven nights at Trash and I'm going to have to miss the Sinister picnic... various complicated real-lifey stuff. Glurk. I should stop this relentless tirade of vanity now, for this pizza is getting cold and thus even less appetizing, and my mother has a habit of going into my room and throwing away random things as punishment if she comes back from work to find uneaten food. It's a vestige from a best-forgotten anorexic manicsboy phase a few years ago. I fucking hate the Manics. Finally - some questions for you happy Sinister ministrels to answer: 1) Whatever happened to "fluffy candarel"? 2) Did anyone else always think the narrator of 'Belle lettres' was female? 3) How GRATE is Infinite Jest? And that's a wrap, popkids. Mourn Sunset Beach well. I flee now. -v-v-v-v- Greg "Mmm... good taco" - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Taut and Tame, Wax and Wane
by Michael Jones 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

Trinies, I hardly ever dare to question Cardinal Dastoor on interpretation of scripture, but on this occasion I shall risk the rack... > I > reckon We Rule the School's "Written for anyone to read, and to > see" is firmly > in the 'stupid' camp . I think someone else said as much a while > ago. I mean > of course they can bloody see it if they can read it. My feeling here is that SM means "to see" in the (possibly Biblical) sense of "to understand". Mr Mikklesen said: > I'm sure a lot of listees know > the feeling - you're skilled and desperate to work, but because you > don't have "industry experience" (whatever the hell that means) no > one will look at you. I have had so many interviews this year, and > have come so close so > many times, always to get knocked back because some "with more > experience" happens to turn up. Which sounds like a description of my entire 1992. Be grateful for small mercies - back in those days we only had Drop Nineteens and a countryfied Moose to sustain us. Are you sick of people telling you that "something will turn up" yet? The thing is - it does. > I mean, short of whoring myself for crack, how do I get > that exprience??? Er, here we differ. I wasn't actually applying for any jobs where previous experience of crack-whoring was considered an advantage. Which is a shame, because I'd have been in like Flynn. Back to the mild-irritation pebble... (Mvi) * (~kve) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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: An Old Rodcoat Won't Let You Down
by Peter Miller 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

First of all, thanks to the breathtakingly beautiful Annabel for gently cooing such nice things about Sister Disco. Did you know that Annabel lives near to Europe's premiere emu farm? It's true. They (emus) are virtually fat free. I saw it on the news. PF, I've got two Rod Stewart albums, "Never a Dull Moment" (1972) and "Every Picture Tells a Story" (1971). Both are BLUDDY GRATE. "Dull" features what I suspect is the definitive version of "I'd Rather Go Blind", one of the best songs ever written, while "Picture" features a version of "(I Know) I'm Losing You" that gives The Temptations a run for their mummy. Combined with Rod originals like "You Wear It Well" and "Maggie May", both albums represent excellent value for money. Of course, some people prefer The Magnetic Fields, but that's because they're MENTALLY DEFECTIVE or deaf. How I loathe and detest the Magnetic Fields! And I've never even heard them. The other day I saw a video of Don McLean doing his starry starry night hit "Vincent" and the audience was full of terribly serious lank-haired lovelies listening to his every word and gazing at him intently. It reminded me of you lot watching the Magnetic Fields. Mungo Jerry were on too, and Slade. They reminded me of Adrian Evans trying to think up baby names. Adrian, have you considered Rod? It would be a nice tribute. Poor Richard Brautigan. From lank-haired lovelies to drink and despair. Mute Records - is this some kind of money laundering operation? I like Bournemouth very much. There used to be some kind of indie (Wonder Stuff) club near the station. Bournemouth has acres and acres of beautiful parks. The fans screaming on the Byrds' "So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star?" were recorded in Bournemouth. Fact. I was hoping for something like this when we heard about that B&S party being recorded. No I wasn't, I've only just thought of it. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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