January 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Camera Obscura
by Derek s 02 Jan '01

02 Jan '01

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Sinister: frozen ducks,chubby cherubs and the bride of frankenstein....
by Desmond Torpey 02 Jan '01

02 Jan '01

hello..... ...well happy new year to everyperson and i hope you all had a lovely christmas.....i'm sure you're all sick of tales of other peoples festive celebrations and mine arent really that interesting....but i'll make you all suffer anyway..... ....well christmas itself was offically great...on christmas eve all my family went to church in a big draughty school hall which wasnt really that tinsely but there were lots of chubby faced cherubs looking excited at the thought of mr claus so i couldnt help but feel all warm and spangly....it did cross my mind that by 11 o clock the next morning said cherubs would be vomiting up the vast quantities of chocolate they had consumed and stamping on the new pokewotsit toys they had recieved from exasperated parents...but youre only young once and i felt spangly all the same.... ....christmas day was lovely as well...got some WOW! presents including pulp,david bowie and kathryn williams cd's....if you havent already got the kathryn williams one (little black numbers) then i cant emphasise enough how good and wonderful and beautiful it is.....if you buy a copy and dont like then you can come round my house and poke my eyes out with a pointy stick....and thats as good a recommendation as i can give....had a nice crimbo dinner with asorted relatives,got a wee bit tipsy,ate some more and snoozed while people with bad irish accents drowned in a big icy boat (titanic was on)....so it was a normal,safe,boring.....but fantastic christmas.... ...hmmmmm...as for the rest of the festive time....it was a bit mixed...like a kind of post-christmas/whole year burnout....i've just felt a bit low all week....no paticular immense reason....just the usual paranoia,lonliness and general arggggghhh feeling...but i went and sat in a big park in town while the last of the snow was melting...it was about four o clock in the afternoon, the sun was looking a bit tired and the big pond was half frozen over so the some of the ducks had to stand on the ice and shiver..and i felt a bit better after sitting there for half an hour.... ...as for new years eve...hmmmm....that was kindagood but kindadepressing at the same time....started the evening by drinking cheap champagne and blue nun...i felt like a real yuppie...and then went to the only safe haven for goodish music here and got drunk....but everyone was being really miserable and i seemed to be the only one determined to have a good time...which makes a change because its usually the other way round...so evryone got sick of being in the pub so we went to someones house,smoked bad things,saw in the new year,hugged everybody,watched the bride of frankenstein,felt ill,felt better,felt sleepy and walked home about three o clock.....i then felt really awful and cried for the first time in ages..then i wrote down loads of resolutiony type stuff and felt much better before finally going to sleep in the smallest of hours.... ...so thats been my festive time.....not too gripping but quite nice overall....i hope everybody has the best year ever..... ta ta! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.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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by James Pattison 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Someone mentioned a while ago you could get B&S ringtones for mobiles .. does anyone remember where i like the sound of that. Cheers J -- James Pattison +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Happy Nude Year
by Robert Brennan 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

ow my head hiya sinister! Playing think-while-you-drink for 5 hours on the trot is not something I recommend. hope all your hangovers are as mild as mine isn't and that the xmas fairy brought you everything you wanted and nothing you needed. This year I'm going to stop taking the piss out of the Gentle Waves since I got Swansong For You for xmas I've been listening to it lots and I think its a hooj improvement on the last album. Right now it's getting me through the difficult year-long B&S withdrawal period. I've also resolved to see more live music. Just a shame that hardly any good bands play Portsmouth (and when they do they get heckled - like Eels). But we're all tossers here you know - just the majority. ah well. Have fun in '01 (shit nearly-rhyme I know) Robster ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: All Righty Then...
by Histrianic＠aol.com 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Okay, I feel really stupid after reading that mail... I guess Jane of the Waking Universe is the one on Under the bushes Under the stars, or maybe something else... Maybe I wasn't looking forward to Under the bushes Under the stars at all to begin with, maybe it was Do the collapse, but I just got the names confused... Heh. It started snowing here today, and frankly, a twenty hour flight in snow is not fun. I have to leave my house at six in the morning to miss the morning traffic. I heard it snowed 11 inches in New York, is that true? Because if it is, I'm screwed. Screwed for good. I have two gigantic suitcases and a backpack to carry. I wonder if my plane will be cancelled. I hope not. Okay, I'm assuming no one has seen the Still Alarm. It's about these two friends, Ed and Bob, who are in a hotel room. The hotel goes on fire, and these two firemen come in and start playing the violin while waiting for a wall to fall. The second fireman, whom I double cast to play the part of the bellboy as well, has to giggle and learn to play the violin in two weeks. He was last minute cast because the guy that I had been counting on to play the part turned me down. He was apparently "too busy, because [he's] taking two history courses this term" or something of that sort. Blech. The second fireman is rather baffling. At our first rehearsal with the entire cast, a girl named Juanita came and raped him during rehearsal. It was rather disconcerting. And then on the last day of school, he did something entirely confusing. My school charters buses, because we're in the boonie town of exeter, way up in new hampshire, and it would be very difficult for us students to get to New York, Boston, etc. on our own. So there were three buses heading to New York on the street, and the second and the third buses were almost full, while the first one was practically empty. So I climbed onto the bus, dragging my friend Cathy and my incredibly sarcastic but funny roommate Meg along. Then I went to make sure my name was on the list, because I had lost my ticket. On the way back to the bus, I run into Rob the Second Fireman, who asks me which bus I am on, and then proceeds to switch buses immediately after hearing my response. I assumed from this act of whatever the hell it was that he would tal k to me or somehow acknowledge my existence on the bus, during the seven hour ride. However, he chose to pace up and down the aisle about twenty times saying "I don't know where to sit" and then sat all the way up in the front. And I was sitting all the way in the back. And he didn't talk to me once during the entire ride. He just sat there listening to his CD player, and I have no clue as to what he was listening to. Maybe B&S. But that's not the point. The point is, why the hell did he switch buses if he didn't want to talk to me? He didn't seem very interested in talking to anyone else, either... Aghhh..... I don't like travelling. I enjoy seeing new places, I just don't like plane rides, or bus rides, or trains... A lot of people call me the psychotic bitch. I wonder if there's a reason to this? I'm not feeling up to the travel stuff. I really want one of those Jetsons things, where you step into a cylinder thing and you're at your destination. Someone come up with a way to travel at velocity... I'm feeling crappy overall, I guess. I don't want to leave home, but I want to see my friends and ask Rob what the hell that bus thing was, but I'm not feeling up to a twenty hour plane ride and then a seven hour bus ride, but I really miss my dorm, but home is so comfortable, but I belong there, not here... that was one heck of a run on. I am going to go take a shower now, just because I don't want to take one tomorrow morning when things are going to be hectic. Lots of love and a Kevin Spacey movie, because he's a really good actor. Did that mention of B&S count as B&S content? In case it doesn't, here's a little commentary on The Model: I like that song. It makes me wanna laugh, not the hysterical, hyper laugh, but the deep, really happy laugh that you feel inside yourself when you're high. I get high off of that song. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Two More Days
by Histrianic＠aol.com 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

two more days until a twenty-hour flight back to my beloved dorm... two more days until a twenty-hour session of boredom... two more days until a twenty-hour nap that I will wake up from, only to find myself in need of more sleep... two more days until a cramped up seat and three crappy movies... yep, I have two-- one now, because it is 12:12 AM-- days until I have to fly back to exeter, my beloved school and my friends. I will definitely miss home, and the fact that I was able to sleep twelve to thirteen hours a day here. I've certainly done a whole lot of shopping, and I can't fit everything into my tiny suitcase anymore, so I decided to steal my mother's. I bought three CDs yesterday, only I haven't listened to any of them so I can't tell if they're good or not. I am going to need a new CD case thing. I have ordered five, no wait, six CDs from amazon.com the day before thanksgiving, which they've informed me via email have been shipped on december twenty third. it should be in my mailbox by the time I get back. All by Guided by Voices, too. My friend, who introduced me to Belle and Sebastian as well, informs me that only three of the six CDs I bought are good. Under the Bushes Under the Stars, which is the one I'm most looking forward to, to be frank, apparently is by GBV overcome by the devil, or some kind of music satan... I think her opinion may have something to do with the fact that the first song on the CD, Teenage FBI, was in the Buffy soundtrack... GBV somehow reminds me of B&S. Maybe it's just because the same person introduced me to both of them, but they do... Not their music, because the music is pretty different, but just something about them... It can't be the band members, either, because GBV is, well, old compared to B&S. Or at least from what I know. Oh well. I have never listened to any songs remade that was originally by a female artist remotely resembling madonna. Except for maybe a couple of Weird Al songs. That was in response to Jeanette. So I wouldn't know. All I know is that Madonna ruined American Pie beyond belief. (QuickPoll: Did anyone actually like that new Music CD? Sorry if I offended anyone... but frankly, I hate that song. The music video? "What kind of evil are you watching?"!) I went out to dinner with twelve of my family members tonight. It was rather frightening. My family is really quite dysfunctional. I had to sit with my nineteen-year-old cousin who kept on calling her friends on her cell phone and a five year old who ate more than the two of us put together. Then he hit me on my head with a gold balloon that the waitress gave him. I popped the fucking thing with my nails. That was long. If anyone bothers to read this, which I doubt they will after scrolling down, please tell me what B&S and GBV have in common. Maybe they don't have anything in common at all to begin with, and it's just all in my head... I really should stop writing now. Except I haven't heard from any of my friends in two weeks, the only people I've held slightly meaningful conversations with were my mother, my father, and my grandmother, and I am starved of interesting people to talk to. Well, I did try to hold a conversation via aim with my crush, The Swedish Boy, platinum haired, rude, perverted, self-absorbed, and four years older... and really cool. But he didn't seem very interested in talking to me. Has anyone ever seen a production of The Still Alarm by George S. Kaufman? It's with the five guys and the fire in a hotel... I'm directing it, and I have nil clue as to what I'm doing, except maybe flirting with the second fireman. I have a big story about the second fireman, too, but that would take ages to type out and it's quite trivial anyway. Well, in perspective it's trivial. But to me it's quite life-or-death matter. Or maybe good-or-bad review sort of thing. I can't come up with a good analogy. Damn. I, or rather, my friend and I are coming up with another edition of the HMR SATs, a stupid test made for silly people with an obscure sense of humor. If anyone has any questions they'd like to see posted, send me your... well, questions. Just to give you a sense of what it's like, I'll give you a couple of sample questions that represent the true spirit behind the HMR SATs: -If you could choose a brand of windmills (NOT Swedish Windmills, Inc.) to sponsor this test, what would it be? -Why does "upbraid" mean "to blame" and not "to braid upward"? -e=mc squared. Write about someone who has no idea what that means. These are questions from about a year ago, and I don't find them very funny or witty now, with the possible exception of the windmill question, contributed by Will. The questions on the new test are funnier, I think, but as that is confidential until its release time, I think Rachel will be quite angry and flustered if I disclosed those questions. Okay, I'm gonna go now, and you probably don't even care, but that's okay. No wait, you're not Ben, so you should care. Or maybe Ben is on this list, although I very much doubt that, because he listens to banjo music, and I don't think I've heard Belle and Sebastian play the banjo. Maybe they do. Don't hate me because I've got a bad memory, hate me because... I lack common sense, maybe? I don't know. A lot of this is incessant rambling and babbling, in case you haven't noticed. And this has gotten really, really long, much longer than I had intended it to be. Oh well. That's life. ("How the hell do I control my life when I can't control my hair?") Lots of love and an obscure object or thought that I usually insert here but can't think of right now because my brain is dead. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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