October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

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by Tim Banning 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Hello. I'm visiting my girlfriend at her college in norther california today. I got up here on saturday afternoon. It takes about ten hours to do so on the Amtrak. It only takes abou 5-6 in a car though. She broke her foot earlier this week and it's been kind of rough on her so I'm trying to help her out, though sometimes she gets all pissed that I can't read her mind. I'm in the SSU library right now. There are a lot of lames. There is this guy with this huge "white-guy afro". He's wearing sunglasses indoors and looks around to see if anyone is looking at him. Another guy I walked pass in here was doing some studying, he was an older guy like 45 or somthing, he was all wirey and looked at me like he was going to ask if I need any help but didn't say anything. I walked passed and he said "I'm not crazy, I'm just thinking you know?" i should have said, "yes, you are crazy." I don't go to school here but I walk around with my back pack full of Community College homework like I pay thousands to come here.....I should go I'm really really sorry for the sort post but I have to go pick up my one leggeded wonder from geology! tim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: on returning
by s.arnot＠talk21.com 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

INTRO after a summer of full-time work during the day and full-time hedonism at night, both of which prevented me from both posting and reading posts, i am now at uni, and therefore have to use a computer everyday. i'm afraid i had to delete a lot of posts unread, but the ones i picked out to read were very nice and good. HUDDERSFIELD are there any sinister people in huddersfield? that's where i am at uni. i am doing music technology and audio systems, a rather unwieldy moniker, for a course that only seems to involve messing about with things that make noises. huddersfield has some quite nice things in charity shops and at the second hand market. i bought a belt today for £1 from the world cup in spain in 1982. also, i bought a cardigan the other weekend from the market for £1 but left it on the taxi, which i wasn't very happy about as it was a double-cool cardigan. at least i hadn't put any badges on it that night. DREAMS to be honest, i prefer nasty dreams to nice dreams, because in the morning after nice dreams i always feel inferior to the dream version of myself, who is really cool and popular. actually, though, the other night i had a particularly horrible dream which meant i couldn't get back to sleep. in the dream, i was sitting on the floor and a four-year-old in a white puffer jacket hit me in the face with a half-brick. regards, piddlemonkey -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A Reluctant Interview with Mandee Wright
by MyMomSays＠aol.com 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Q: Where have you been? A: Wandering the halls Michener Library, looking for a boy named Douglas who has a high-speed internet connection... but everytime I open the door to his office he isn't there. But his jacket is, propped upright into the shape of a person and stuffed with a few brightly-colored hankerchiefs. I usually end up rummaging through his desk drawer and find condoms and cigarettes and scribbled notes from absent students: "I came down with shingles."; "I had a familiar emergency"; "There's something wrong with my lexicon". Other similar excuses along those lines, sometimes even quickly-drawn illustrations of the problem--for instance, the girl with shingles drew a messily pegged torso dotted with inklets of red: what I took to be a pictorial representation of the shingles themselves. Q: When did the problem arise? A: When I noticed that every one of my CD cases was missing the actual CD. Q: Who do you miss most? A: The usual bunch. A lot of initials composed of K's, R's, S's and L's. Q: Are the rumors true? A: No. Absolutely not. Q: When are you going to get it together? A: Once I figure out where I left off. Then, after I figure the starting point, I will do a series of difficult math equations--FOILing out the algebra, doing synthetic division--hopefully it will all come out to an equation with a few plus signs that can finally make some reiterated sense. Q: What happened in the channel? A: Oh, nothing.. Q: Give us your top ten reasons: A: 1. Life ends in a big sigh. 2. The necessities of life include a few mice drunk from fetal alcohol experiments, two unopened boxes of some crunchy and tasty, yet very nutritious cereal, and my dog, who is dying. 3. Photojenny--what was Stevie thinking(Hushed: "I dooon't know)? 4. I bought Nintendo's THE GLOVE. I wear it to dance clubs and do the baggly bagg, which is a dance intended to be performed along to Blackstreet's "Yo Diggity". 5. I finally ran into Douglas 6. I was making a compilation tape 7. School is littering the countertops 8. The Pinefox 9. Gnostical Turpitude 10. For once in my life--oh god--just get it together. Q: For what reasons? A: I've just lost my bookmark is all. This is open for interpretation. On one hand, a story of mine is being published in a journal called 3rd bed. http://www.3rdbed.com It's hard for me to phantom this. Mandee. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i gave myself to sin......
by caleb ben moore 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

why does bacon have to taste so good? sometimes i crave it something awful.... and whenever i actually give in to my desire, i end of feeling quite wretched. there's a little breakfast joint in my building that will give you ample portions of: crispy bacon, cheddar covered scrambled eggs, and "american fries"--thick sliced seasoned fried potatoes (with the skin on, mind you!) and onions.....all for only $3.50! and everytime i do this i feel like shite and i vow to never do it again, but before i know it, the bacon is calling out to me.....and i give myself to sin. so i'm hoping that this gigantic ass bottle of cranberry juice will revive me a bit from my grease-induced malaise. anyway........yeah. been listening to james taylor and america alot lately. any opinions? i do think b&s would do a smashing version of muskrat love. or a horse with no name. or even ventura highway. well i'll shortly be contacting those who want to get in on the translation game.....any more takers? the more the merrier! so far we have portugese, estonian--i hope, i havent actually asked ulla yet, dutch, swedish (i think) so are there any more languages out there willing to participate? russian maybe? french? any solely english-speaking people (such as myself) can pick a language to translate it into.....nothing too hard please (i was going to do gaelic, but i figured those dictionaries are not that easy to find)....possibly flemish or welsh.....or lakota! that would be kewl. ok that settles it. i'll do Lakota. i think i have a lakota-english dictionary at home somewhere. so just email me and let me know your interested! i'll be sending out rules and such soon. come on, it'll be fun. caleb ben aka R.A.W. ===== And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die I'd lie down and die ------morrissey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: summer come winter
by Toby C 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

my 15 mins mates, At a boring night of my unemployed life, i record some noise at a small room with amps and drums with my band mates. My band is called Seatbelt i play bass. i wrote a song called jellyfish http://roppi.com/mp3/seatbelt_20011018_jellyfish.mp3 Mind u this is cantonese. I ve only got the lyrics for chorus. and Broken String is a jam.. i play bass and sing http://roppi.com/mp3/seatbelt_20011018_postrock.mp3 remix of it http://roppi.com/mp3/sb_postrock_remix.mp3 New York City Cop, i play bass... we are just playing it for fun... my mate sing it... like singing a karaoke... he speak terrible english.. http://roppi.com/mp3/seatbelt_20011018_nyc.mp3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "I love talking about nothing... It is the only thing I know anything about."
by Ola Szkudlapska 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

the first person to guess the author of this quote gets a prize..! ;) hello sinisters :) it's really annoying not to be able to sing for over 2 weeks. trust me on this. however, it's even more annoying when you try to sing and end up sounding like marylin manson in a well. now that's really baad. i hate being ill. the only good thing about it is that i don't have to go to school and hence have more time to read sini posts. i've especially enjoyed the 'indie football teams' ;) most of my types have already appeared in some mails... but not bernard butler. he could be a midfielder... or even a sub - the lad is obviously frustrated and in need of a job. otherwise he wouldn't be collaborating with heather nova, would he? ahh... and i used to love early suede stuff so much... *sigh* another additional player i'd have is badly drawn boy. feel free to laugh, but i'm seriously smitten with mr damon ;) he could be the goalie. or, on second thoughts, he could serve as the ball too.. ;) anyone knows if darren 'hefner' hayman is good at football? ;) *approaching the gist of the mail now, namely me mis-using the list* hearsay became true, and a nice Polish band Myslovitz is going to play in London! (loud cheering follows) *****attention all gig-goers from the London area!***** the concert will take place on 4th november in the ealing/windsor hall. the band is really good, trust me, and they'd surely like to see a few nice people at their gig :) the tickets shouldn't be expensive too. plus, if you don't like the music you can always spam me saying: 'your taste in bands is rubbish!' sounds tempting? thought so ;) sorry for using the list as means of advertising - i just felt it to be my patriotic duty to tell you all about the concert =) about patriotism, i'm *really* happy i didn't have to vote in the last general election (i'm not entitled to vote yet, yahoo). even though it didn't mirror the last presidential election (when *13* candidates ran for the post), the choice was tough still. among the parties were The Doing-Nothing Smooth-Talkers (most of them got rich in the times of communism and later sort of swiftly changed their beliefs ;), The Screamer-Critics Without Any Plan Of What To Do, The Screamer-Critics With A Faint Idea Of What They'd Change, The Pretend-We're-Flash-And-New Party (mostly comprising people who used to belong to lots of different groups but decided to form their own for a change) and so on, and so on. this is depressing. or perhaps being ill for over 2 weeks has made me over-sarcastic ;) anyway, sorry for getting long, boring and political(!) take care everyone (and go see Myslovitz! ;)) luv, olalala -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Important lucksmiths glasgow gig info.
by Niall Barr 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Hi everyone, It's really important that those of you who're planing to go to the Lucksmiths gig in the Postgraduates' Club on Wednesday organise your tickets and get put on the guest-list in advance. Because of the type of licence the club has only members and people on the guest-list will be allowed in on the night. To organise tickets and get put on the guest-list, or to find out more about the gig, e-mail dani(a)ecosse.net Niall. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Something GOOD is going to happen to YOU!
by Stankin' Cooter 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Yes, you. And very soon indeed. I promise. Im still grumpy and tired and confused and difficult like I normally am, but Im also filled with affection today, so it seems like as good a time as any to post. A few good things have happened lately, and I feel like I might be turning some sort of corner, even though my very favourite Aunt Sadie reliably informs me that my karma is sitting at minus one. Im sure that cant be right. She also tells me that Im the ultimate tart, and Ive got no idea how that rumour got started either. Not that I mind. Its nice to have a reputation, no matter how unfounded it might be. Here are some headings with some things under them: SILLUSTRATION One of the good things that happened to me lately was that I found out that I've been sillustrated! Perhaps I shouldnt say that this is a good thing until Ive actually SEEN the sillustration; it might be most unflattering. Ive been checking the Sinister page at regular intervals today, however, anxiously awaiting its arrival. Celebrity at last! I always knew Id be famous one of these days. Ill just stand by the front door of my house and wait for the truckloads of cash and girls to arrive, shall I? Grand. Given the brilliance of Ullas previous sillustrations (of which Im an enormous fan), Im convinced that Ill be absolutely thrilled with it when I finally get to see it; Im not at all worried. Now, Ulla, you know that Im tall, bronzed, buff, and devilishly handsome, yeah? A fair dinkum hunk, I am. So long as thats understood, Im sure therell be no problem whatsoever. TRAVEL The other quite amazingly good thing that has happened during the week is that Ive made some travel plans. Travel is about the best thing you can do for yourself, I think, and best undertaken as a rash, spur of the moment decision, with no proper planning or forethought. It was in this spirit that I went to the travel agent last week, and started making all sorts of half-baked plans. If these plans do, in fact, come together, I should be able to spend New Years Eve in New York City, although it will mean spending Christmas Day partly on three aeroplanes and partly in Sydney and Los Angeles airports. Ive found out that its nigh on impossible to get any further away from Adelaide than New York City; its quite a haul. The thought that Ill be travelling away from my temporarily and artificially reunited family at high speed, towards the most distant point from them on earth, while theyre busy shouting at one another, though, is deeply comforting. Plus, Im travelling halfway around the world in an Easterly direction, so Christmas Day ends up being enormously long. Im not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, yet, but Ill let you know. I normally end up drinking and arguing at Christmas time (its a time-honoured family tradition), so maybe Ill just get stuck into the drinks cart and have a go at the poor sod sitting next to me. Ill blame it on homesickness, if questioned. A benefit to the fact that New York City is so far from home, though, is that a round the world ticket is only very slightly more expensive than a return fare. So, if I can get an extra week away from work, Ill be able to spend a little time in the UK as well, on the way home. Which is obviously enormously exciting, particularly since Ive never been. Ill most likely spend the majority of my time in London, where I have my very favourite cousin to stay with, but Im hoping to be able to see a little more of the country than that too, and possibly a little of Scotland, if I have time. There are a couple of you Id love to visit, for a start you almost certainly know who you are, and Ill keep you posted. Its a shame it wont be picnic weather, really, but then its always the right time of year for a pub-nic. Perhaps the most exciting thing of all, however, is the fact that this trip will enable me to finally meet up with the listee on whom I have a great big crush. Ill not make her turn pink by naming names, but she knows that I think shes simply the bees knees. Itll almost certainly turn out to be a complete disaster (its me, after all), but Im still rather curious to discover what sort of disaster it will be, exactly. I wont say any more than that for the time being, and I might or might not let you know how it turns out, depending on how embarrassing it is for all concerned. Im also spending a few days in Melbourne in a couple of weeks to visit my sister and attend a conference. That would normally be pretty exciting in itself, but seems a bit ho hum in comparison with whats coming up in a couple of months. My sister is showing some signs of promise, though, despite suffering some dreadful taste in music of late. I bought her The Boy With The Arab Strap for a present last year, and she now tells me that shes gone and bought IYFS and FYHCYWLAP off her own bat. Apparently even her fiancée is listening to them at home now, which I consider a huge victory. I bet Ill giggle when I go to visit, though, and see those three sleeves sitting quietly in amongst the Cold Chisel and ACDC that so conspicuously dominated the CD rack the last time I visited. WILLS VS RACHELS VS CHRISES MIXTAPE CHALLENGE MADNESS Um, Id love to join in this one as an honorary somethingorother with a humorous nickname, but unfortunately I dont have a tape deck. If any of you would like me on your team, though, please email me for my postal address. You can then post Ken Chu out to me directly, and Ill play him some songs round at my place, making sure to swap the CDs over really quickly between songs. Its the next best thing, I promise you. Plus, I can get him drunk while hes here, and introduce him to some girls, which might swing things in our favour. Any takers? FANTASY INDIE FOOTBALL Im not getting in on this one, though, Im afraid. I was tempted to say it was because we dont have the talent here, but thats completely untrue. The real reason Im not entering is because Im too lazy, and I dont even remotely understand the rules. I remember being challenged to come up with a best of all-time fantasy football team by some mates in high school that knew considerably more about such things than I did. I put Jesus Christ in goal, and figured that whoever else I had on the pitch, I could at least count on a nil-all draw. They claimed that I knew nothing about football (actually, we call it soccer here football, or more commonly footy, is something else, and even more inexplicable). I claimed that the rules needed to be better defined. I think we were both right. HANGOVERS Um, heres some content, sort of. The song Ease Your Feet In The Sea seems somehow to be perfectly suited to a hungover mental state. If I wake up feeling particularly bad, Ill often listen to this song three or four times before doing a single other thing. The perfect hangover cure, by the way, is a fried egg, vegemite and mayonnaise sarny, consumed along with large quantities of strong, black coffee while listening to this song. This is then followed by hair of the dog, administered as soon as the pubs open. I strongly recommend it. Just be careful not to get hold of so much hair that you wind up with enough to constitute a whole new dog. Its a trap for young players, that, and one to which Ive fallen prey more than once. Still, you live and learn, huh? Well, you live. GIVING UP THE FAGS I havent had a cigarette in sixteen days! Woohoo! But, um, whos counting? Ahem. ON THE PULL Many thanks have to go, surely, to Lindsey Baker. Your posts always contain valuable pulling tips, and trust me; Im taking notes. Youre a thoroughly entertaining and informative resource. If only youd put together a handy pocket edition (The Concise Lindsey Baker?), Im sure all of us chaps would become completely unstoppable. But why be a community service when you could be making a killing in the commercial world? With the number of influential bookstore and library sorts on this list, this could be THE book for the rapidly approaching holiday season. Whether you want to be held responsible for unleashing the book that will surely instigate some sort of worldwide indie-boy shag-a-thon is something to consider, I suppose, but you really need to ask yourself whether the juggernaut that would be this collected repository of precious knowledge should, or indeed could, be contained by one person alone. It might be sheer folly to attempt to stand in its way. I think that, ultimately, history will be the judge. APOLOGIES To those to whom email is owed: Im not only very busy this week, but a terrible, terrible person. To all of you, actually: Ive just realized how long this is. I must REALLY be procrastinating today. Eek. Sorry to you too then, boss. Stay lovingly coated in full-cream dairy milk chocolate. Bulk love, -David. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Offbeat B&S night, Sheffield 23/11
by Chris Stride 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>...full details below!</color> ** Offbeat ** Sheffield's Real Indie Night presents a Belle and Sebastian Night playing the usual Offbeat mix of classic indie, punk-pop, C86 and new indiepop underground plus loads of Belle and Sebastian tracks... Friday 23rd November, 2001 from 9pm to 1am @ The Raynor Lounge, Sheffield University Students Union Admission £2.50 Free Lollipops, stickers, plus other goodies, a picture raffle! For a poster / flyer for the night, check out http://www.shef.ac.uk/~offbeat/scan/opos54.jpg For the playlist from our last Belle and Sebastian Special check out http://www.shef.ac.uk/~offbeat/frames/pl010601.htm * VERY IMPORTANT - 1 * We do not do advance tickets - it is first-come first-served on the door on the night. Arrive early to avoid disappointment - the venue has a small capacity and we are expecting lots of people. So to be sure of getting in, turn up before the doors open at 9pm! * VERY IMPORTANT - 2 * If you a non-student, also see http://www.shef.ac.uk/~offbeat/frames/wherefra.htm for directions and admission details, or email me. For more info' on Offbeat such as other dates, playlists, reviews, etc, check out http://www.offbeatsheffield.com/<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param> <nofill> C.B.Stride(a)Sheffield.ac.uk *** daytime: 0114 2223262 *** *** FAX: 0114 2727206 *** "Watford FC Supporters - South Yorkshire branch" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sixty-two and a half per cent isn't bad
by Will Salt 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Hello. Me. You don't have to read this if you'd rather not. It's that picnic report time again. Have you head of a man called William McGonagall? I was sure he'd been mentioned on the list before, but I searched and found no trace of him. I think that's how you spelled his name. He was a nineteenth-century Dundee man who was convinced that he was a truly great poet, and spent lots and lots of money publishing his truly awful poetry. I should really go to the library and look up some genuine McGonagall quotes but instead I'm just going to make some of my own up. It's easier, and it means I can mention B&S. Saturday was a grey horrible rainy day all over the country, but a few of us still bothered to empty our bank accounts and come to Dundee. Well, we were expecting Dundee to be grey and horrible anyway, so we were quite pleased to find that it was only the same as anywhere else. It wasn't as bad as Aberdeen, even. Picnic Mummy Rachel Sunset met the other three of us (yes, that's all) at the railway station and showed us the delights of Dundee's supermarkets before taking us back to her house. I'm sure Llew will have heard of William McG. I'm not sure about Chu, though. There, that's the obligatory mentions over and done with. We're still annoyed that Chu couldn't be bothered to come to the picnic. He (McGonagall, not Ken) would probably have said something like this: On a day in the year two thousand and one To fair Dundee came a great happy throng Except that really not many people came Bacause of the prices of tickets on the train. Pastiche McGonagall is much easier than pastiche Nostradamus, I'm telling you. They bought food and drink at Tesco's, the shop Whilst worrying their picnic would be a great flop They travelled to Rachel's through rain and through fog And got licked, bit and jumped on by a small furry dog. /me giggles. This is fun. OK, not for *you*, maybe. Some of these rhymes are actually too good to be McGonagall, I think. He's that bad. He'd probably rhyme "dog" with "dog". Rachel has a lovely house, with varnished bare floorboards and a very cute dog rushing about and licking everyone she meets. I felt guilty, because it's much nicer than mine. It's a little house, a lodge at the entrance-gate to a big school, so we were just the right size picnic to fit round her living room. We didn't talk very much when we were sober, but as we drank more we talked more. I'll have to remember that trick. I've met quite a few listees in the past week, actually. A few days ago, I was sat at home of an evening and there was a knock on the door. A boy wearing lots of corduroy was stood there, and somehow I just knew that it was someone from the list. Well, I had been vaguely expecting him, but I thought he was going to phone me. He brought me a bottle of wine, the loevly chap. I'm glad I realised who he was. We journeyed for miles to the city of Glasgow A fair city through which the broad Clyde does flow To hear voices, singing, like an angelic choir At a gig which someone had seen on a flyer. (W. McG really does re-use cliches like "fair city" in every verse of a poem, or introduces irrelevant geographical stuff for the sake of a rhyme) At the picnic, we phoned as many people as we could think of and said "why aren't you here?" They gave silly excuses like "I've got no money, "I'm on the wrong continent," or "I've lost my puppy." I gossiped to Kirsten about the boy she sent a crush vote to, and to Dimitra about the boy she hasn't sent a crush vote to yet. After a while, we had finished eating and drinking and Danny told us he had seen a "Stevie Reverb" gig advertised in Glasgow for that night. So we all went off and caught the train again. This whole mixtape competition thing seems to be getting serious now. I'll have to get in touch with the Will Team and sort out what we're doing. Watch this space, people. <-------- space In Glasgow we met more people: Rich, Sweetie and Sarah. We went off to the gig, which was lovely and nice and had at least five members of B&S on the stage at some points. We all loved it, and Rachel seemed especially excited for some reason. Stevie asked for requests from the audience, and a listee persuaded him to sing Wonderwall, once he had remembered what the first line was. Other covers requested (and played) included Maggie May, In My Life, and the theme from Cheers. I can't remember the names of any of his own songs that he played, obviously. <------ more interesting space Stevie stood singing, with fey-looking moves And noone dared get up to go to the loo Beanz, Bob and Richard looked terribly mellow And Mick Cooke, as usual, was a right classy fellow. Afterwards, we all wandered off, of course. Sweetie had to leave early to get her bus home, but apparently didn't leave early enough. Rich was rather drunk, disappeared, so Sarah thought she'd better go and look for him. Danny had to get a taxi back to Ned Country, and me and Rachel fell asleep on a sofa. She told me about some of the nice dreams she had in the past, but only dreamed worried dreams about the lovely Bellepuppy, hoping she was OK. We returned to our homes that are spread far and wide Rachel Picnic Mummy with feelings of pride Lyns falling asleep, for better or worse And me with a penchant for terrible verse. OK. That's *really* enough McGonagall for one day. xx gneissy -- http://www.btinternet.com/~wpsalt/ ICQ 66321009 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. 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