September 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: a week in the life of a toy design student....
by Bipedalboy＠aol.com 02 Sep '00

02 Sep '00

ciao fellow sinisters, im sorry to intrude with such silly tales of my studies but i have to tell you all its quite a silly mission to do "research" at toy "r" us. the professors highly recommend for us to go to toy stores to look as well as play with the latest toys that are available for children to play with, sounds like a doleful event in my book, i think not. all in all i still cant believe i am studying to create playful things to stimulate and corrupt (hehehe) young minds....more tales to come.....luis p.s. some musical content for everyone to enjoy, everyone should pick up a pizzicato five cd and dance like soulful simian, wash it down with a good art book of joseph cornell so your eyes can devour dreamlike landscapes of an innocent nature +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The scars of scratch and peel
by Kenneth P Y Chu 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

Hello everybody, Hmm.. I am feeling a bit sinister today, so naturally I should either see a minister, or write to sinister, and since the houses of parliament is quite far away I have no choice but to bother you. I have no reason to feel bad, I have given a presentation yesterday which went really well, I had a part with free drinks yesterday, and it's weekend. But I have just been very tired and worn out. Only one more week in lovely London and two more week in Minging MK and it's back to Notbad Nottingham for me. I think I'm going to miss London a lot. A big HUG and thanks to all of you who have been holding my hands and looking after me whilst I was getting lost, confused and corrupted in the city, yes you know who you are and you should all award yourself a can of Red Bull for being so absolutely lovely :-) Is it selfish to post silly things on Sinister just to make yourself feel better for the night? I think it is but sorry it's too late now.. :-) Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (catches breath) Soft Beds and Red Bulls Ken P.S.: I feel a dark cloud is looming.. yes, I think the dark side is about to take over the world.. A Milton Keynes meety-upty-picnicy-thingy is being organised for around the 16th September.. If you are around that area, you better get in touch, or you will be, er, dunno really. :) But you should... more details to follow :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ====================================================================== Now I'm feeling flat you seem mile away I'm so tired that down on the pavement I'll lay Till the blossom on the tree comes falling on me.. Fall on me - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: New York, put on your picnicking shoes.
by Julie 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

Okay okay, I've been stuck at my parents' house in Pennsylvania and thought that I couldn't get to this account from here, but I can, and I did, and I had 200 Sinister messages. But more importantly, I can SEND a sinister message, because I have a PICNIC to make you all come to. The New York City Sinister Picnic 2000 will be held in Central Park, Saturday, September 9th, from 2 pm until we get bored of each other. The picnic spot is pretty easy to get to. Do you know how to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? If you don't and you can't figure it out, email me. From the Met, walk down one of the pathways into Central Park on either side of the building. You'll come to a silly archy thing. Trot through the archy thing. On the right will be the Obelisk, which has always served as a highly unnecessary phallic symbol in the park, if you ask me. Walk straight down the path and to the left will be a little splotch of grass and trees where we will be picnicking. This splotch is in the southeast corner of the Great Lawn, above the turtle pond, in case you're coming from another direction. It should be pretty easy to find, but if you need more directions, email me and I'll...draw you a picture or something. Please bring some food or something along that line so we can have something to do besides sit and stare at each other. I know of at least 10 people who will be at the picnic already, most of whom I already know and including everyone's favorite listee from Thailand, OON! After the picnic there will probably be some drunken revelry as it's my TWENTY FIRST BIRTHDAY on September 10th, the day the government deems me mature enough to purchase and imbibe alcohol, those silly bastards. Feel free to bring me presents or booze! And email me if you have questions, I can give you my phone number if you want. Please come to the picnic it's going to be fuuuuuuunnnnnnn. I have to give a shoutout to my favorite Spanish listee, now, Jordi. He can folla a mi mono tonto anytime! HA HA HA! I said "fuck my silly monkey" in Spanish. *giggle* Love you all, come picnic with me! xoxo Julie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Ricky Ross Versus The Smog Monster
by Peter Miller 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

Ricky Ross used to be a teacher in Maryhill. And somehow that really impressed me. Lloyd Cole, on the other hand, has never done a day's work in his life. And it shows. Ricky Ross, for all his gleaming production, was in the business to ENTERTAIN. Lloyd Cole only seemed to want to show off. My mate's brother threw a shoe at Lloyd Cole for "being boring" in concert. I was dead keen on "The Rattlesnakes" for a while, but eventually I started to find it embarrassing. It's just a tuneful reading list. I know who did the strings, it was Anne Dudley of The Art of Noise. She would have been better off slapping on huge swathes of their trademark "Hey! Hey! La la la!"s instead. Ditto for her later soundtrack to chick with dick flick "The Crying Game". I once saw Stephen Pastel in Maryhill, in a kind of shopping centre for unemployed people. It was quite early in the morning. I think he was drinking a can of lager, but that might be the effect of those "YA CUNT!" stories that we used to enjoy so much back in the old days. They're never coming back, are they? They changed the dole office in Maryhill from an old pre-war one to a swanky new one. It was like the difference between the Twisted Wheel and the Blackpool Mecca. I'm thinking of organising a Maryhill Dole Office Reunion All-Nighter. I'm getting on quite well with my Northern Soul book. It certainly takes me back. It's high time someone put together a study of the eighties anorak scene. It was nice to see Lawrence from Go-Kart Mozart speaking so highly of Mad Dog Murdoch. Fancy him noticing those Felt lyrics! Stuart is a one, isn't he? Thanks for sending it in. Ronnie Lane is the Poacher, isn't he? Why's that then? I believe Mojo has something to do with voodoo, so a Mojo Pin would be a voodoo pin, ergo hypodermic needle. There's some American gentleman who answers questions like this in magazines and then collects them in books. Stephen Gould? There was a good one about gay men stuffing gerbils up their arses, which I rather enjoyed. Deacon Blue were really terrible. "I saved my money". Yet they were less offensive than the Wets. I suppose Deacon Blue were more intellectual. Lloyd Cole had a manager to get a band together for him, they weren't mates or anything. It's time that manager told the whole story in a no-holds barred blockbuster book, called "Cole Scuttle". Much as I love the B&S strings, I would have preferred them to be more Bunnymenish than Lloydish, more magnificent. Lloyd Cole was from both Derbyshire and Sheffield at the same time. We need a Lloydography and The Pinefox is the man to provide it. Lloyd used to walk around (on his motorbike) with about a hundred quid in his pocket at the time of that solo album's release. I can't imagine Ricky Ross telling us how much money he had in his pocket. "That's between me and the ballot box!" he would say. It's Friday night, time to get ready for the Cleethorpes all-nighter in my head. 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: re: oh, my sweeties!
by Adam Conover 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

hello sinister people... i've missed you so! i am ex-adam apparatus... i would be still, but my college won't let me change it... so now i am Adam Conover (capitalized and everything! sigh.) ... and my new e-mail is ac484(a)bard.edu . and to everyone who e-mailed me... Vicki Rider, this means you! you must e-mail me again, because i can't even use my old e-mail address anymore, though i can read things that were sent to it... so this is an experiment. if i have enough time to keep up with sinister -- for i love it so! -- i will. but sometimes i don't have the time... you know how it works. thank you, sweeties! - adam +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I know where the literary list has gone
by Jan Imgrund 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

... and I'm even going to tell you. See what a nice guy I am :) It's moved to http://iodin.tripod.com/litlist.htm I hope not too many of you wanted to consult it last week, only to find a 404 error. Really, I'm sorry. Laura Llew, don't slap me even though i've been evil. I'll write a poem for you (yet another one??) to appease your wrath. And someday i might even really post something again.. Jan -- tindersticks page: http://members.tripod.com/iodin/tinder.html "they're only songs" -- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: 3... 6... 9... seconds of shite
by jonnyfive 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

dearest sini, phew, a-levels well and truly over. i went a bit mad on results night. i had not one, not two, but three cups of tea in a row and watched eastenders. so now i'm going to sheffield to "do" history. if any other Sini people are in the same boat, please get in touch. my estimated number of new friends made for the 1st year is 0 (zero); anything extra will be a bonus. i'm finishing work at the library on sat. and had a card from the staff. the lady i fought with (see past posts for whole boring story) virtually spat "best wishes" on the page. hey, i'm leaving love, so you can shove it, i said in my head. i am going through an aimee mann period at the minute. she is never mentioned here. are there any other fans? and for that matter, elliott smith? i'm just a sucker for melodic, alt. pop. sad, really. B&S: i'm currently re-assessing Beyond the Sunrise (i'm a bit slow, i know). i heard it on the radio and it isn't so bad. i played it in the shower this morning and it spooked my ass off, as Chuck D might say. oh, passport photos for uni. you spend hours in front of the mirror, teasing your hair this way and that, looking mean, looking surly. you re-take the photo 14 times, and still you come out with an face like a smacked arse and a neck the size of the M1. with a spot on your bum chin. right, finally, please can everyone read Francis Wheen's fab biog of K. Marx. It's loveable. oh, and i mail-ordered some clothes which took a week to arrive, and when they did, i found i had accidentally ordered them in Pat Butcher/Roseanne Barr size. they still said Small on the jeffing labels. Everyone boycott Hawkshead for being bourgeois and overly generous in the sizing dept. thanks to eric and miles for their mail, and to Sini for being the best. Happy birthday, everyone! lots and lots of love j.xxx ps: sorry for this being so long. pps: where is honey? _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Weezer show
by Gromit324＠aol.com 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

In a message dated 8/31/00 10:38:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, melvisco(a)francemail.com writes: << I am going to go see Weezer tomorrow. I had no clue that I would be this excited. You see, I do not claim to be the biggest Weeeeezer fan. I enjoy them. Yes, that's true. But the prospect of seeing them live has made me as giddy as a 12 year old girl waving her training bra about it in the air. And I may just end up doing that... >> I don't think I have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I have seen Weezer live. I saw them in the early-mid 90's. They are a great live band. I can't say they are in my top 5 of absolute favorite bands, but you will definately have a good time. Have a couple drinks and get down! CA in So.CA +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Autumn I (one)
by P F 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

" All the colours change You will see Autumn's almost here Regret will bring him back to me " That's what a pop group said in the 1990s. And look, they were right! Autumn *is* here! Specifically September, which means it's time to crack open 'isn't anything' again. I did, and it - is... everything. Isn't it? To mourn the beginning of autumn, I decided to look at what had been posted to sinister on this date in the past. 1st September 1997, and a fellow called (obviously a pseudonym) "Ara Hacopian" said: >>> B&S Studio Recording at West 54th Could someone post the info on when/where this recording is? I think I'm on the guest list, but I have no idea where it is being recorded. thanks - Ara Hacopian >>> I don't know what that was all about. I hope he didn't mean 'Studio 54', or the bouncers wouldn't have let him in. And I hope he didn't mean 'on September 54th', for there is no such date. September 1st 1998, and some other charlatan said: >>> *---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* A rather nice review in today's Select magazine, which thanks to the miracle of OCR I can reproduce for you below. There was also a chirpy little interview with Stevie, but I couldnt scan it cos it was in a funny colour. I haven't bothered to proof it because a) it's more fun that way and b) that's all I've been doing since 7am this bastard morning. Love Trousie xxxx >>> I wonder what those symbols at the top meant? But it's interesting to see that people were interested in this 'birthday' stuff in those days, too. It's typical of the boy, though, to have been using fancy words that no-one else could understand. No, not 'bastard': 'OCR'. By the way, it may just be a perceptual error, but there seem to have been an awful *lot* of mails to this list back then. Perhaps it was the 3rd LP that did it. Finally, on September 1st 1999, we find a character called 'Mark Casarotto' bleating, I mean, bleeping: >>> Pop news: I'm having a bit of a crisis of faith....pop faith. I've had enough, it's all rubbish. I want sounds to soothe my soul without resorting to tweeness or whining. >>> Cor. I wonder if he ever solved his crisis. Or if anyone tried to help him. Or if he is still alive. Perhaps the crisis finished him off. There is simply no way of knowing. To conclude: " September again You come so quick ", sang Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross in 1993, on a track called 'Bethlehem's Gate'. And on this, at least, he was right: for it did, didn't it? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: What the hell is the primrose mafia?
by CaMo81＠aol.com 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

Hmmm. I dont have alot of time to write but its come up on several occasions and i need to know. What the hell is the Primrose Mafia? Derek +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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