October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The Man Who Loved Beer
by Robert Brennan 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

Hello Sinister... I nearly posted the other day while in a bad mood. Glad I didn't now. There's a thing called the New Seriousness - apparently the Old Seriousness wasn't good enough anymore. My New Seriousness was largely due to being sat around trying to kill my latest beer, Wild Turkey and hip-hop induced hangover with my current favourite hangover cure (banana sammich) and my current favourite album (How I Quit Smoking) while constantly assailed by thoughts of a summer well and truly gone. Bugger. It's all temporary of course. The hangover goes. The album stops. The sun shines. You find yourself among friends and you make them fried bananas with sugar and cinnamon. Bananas are good. Re: subject line. The album liner notes credit this song to an 'unknown Egyptian, c. 1990 B.C.' I'm intrigued. Anyone got any info?? I've won some art! Courtesy of Damien Hirst and that fine publication The Idler ( http://www.idler.co.uk ). Apparently it's a painting rather than any sort of gigantic sculpture or pickled livestock. This is good cos I don't have the space for a dead shark in my flat. Can't wait! Laura and Vel are planning to release cupid. Good thing. Despite what that Murdoch chap said, there really isn't enough love right now and the poor blighter's been shut in that basement too long at the mercy of the spinisterines. Hope its not too late to save the World. Thanks to those who Reported Back on the LondonIndieUSA do and congrats on raising all that cash. What a lovely bunch of people you lot are. Wish I could've gone :( Robster ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: it's days and months since i've seen you last
by JohaN HUGO 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

hallo everyone your solitary soul bringing glad tidings and even more full inboxes to all from the increasingly sunny southern tip of africa. ("have you missed me" is the sort of question i've learnt not to ask, and damnit! (sorry) who do i think i am anyway?) well, to start, actually there are several things wrong with the willfully misconstrued and misquoted subject-heading-thingy. they can be listed, in order of no particular significance, as: 1. it hasn't really been that long. 2. i've seen YOU, you just haven't seen ME (as if you've noticed) 3.... okay, maybe not that many things wrong. rest assured, though, it wasn't you, it's been me... in fact, after the whole wtc thing, i didn't want to post, because i feel quite strongly about it, but not in the way it would've done any good to tell all the world about. i am SOOO proud of the way you all reacted though (it's been said before, but not by me) then i went away for a while, and since then have been fighting the backlog of mails in my inbox. for some reason i can't delete any of them without reading them (it wouldn't seem right, and i'd have missed so much!) and so have been about - at least 2 days behind everyone else for the last i don't know how long, and not wanting to post before i've caught on. somehow i can't resisit anymore though. and there have been SO many amazingly brilliant posts (it would be no use trying to even remember them all now, nevermind start mentioning). so many i've wanted to respond to off-list (am i'm so sorry i haven't, but time! time!) and others that are so special... just to say then, in general, thanks for all the uplifting ones, and the witty ones, and the grate stories etc. and good luck and hugs for all the people who've felt sad and who will feel sad, and who are kind to enough to let the rest of us know we're not and will not be alone... i wish i could be as geographically close to all of you as i feel otherwise. oh, the magic of a kind word, but hugs are better, mmh? so where have i been? yes, the correct answer would be at a small arts festival in potchefstroom, which NONE of you will have hear of (steve, apologies if i am wrong). how was it? not very arty, but VERY festive. at least 3 good things happened: made lots of money! (just shows, pick material suited to elderly audiences, and the crowds will come - especially if your venues in an old-age home. we had people with walking-frames in the audience, i'm not kidding, oh my brothers! who'd have thought it, hey, your malenky droog making a living for himself by fleecing starry vetches and ptitsas! - sorry if my nadsat's a little rusty, it's been a while!) secondly i have been completely converted to the red bull and vodka brigade (hats off to you, mr. chu!), and lastly spent a very enjoyable afternoon having coffee with a dancer who must easily have been both the most sexy and the most interesting woman in the whole town. (self- described as the result of a one-night stand between her married german mother and a spanish gypsy!) trust me, you have not lived until you've seen rapid and comprehensive costume changes backstage!!! but what's this? me actually talking to people who both interest and attract me? nonsense! the world would end! but wait... isn't it? anyway, have her phone number (which she volunteered, ha-ha!!!) and an invitation to go see her paintings sometime (although, it should be noted that "i'm not ashamed to say that i'm okay, with the girl next door whose famous for showing her chest" - if only i could find her!!!) amongst other good things to have happened: hung out with a really real and really mad scot for the first time (from dundee), got drunk and broke into the rugby stadium to play midnightly football with a tennisball, then gave it up when we realised visibility was really not what it had been made out to be. bought LOTS of new music and books, amongst which the standouts are the ridiculously marvellous and also japanese pizzicato five (whose insane cheerfulness have been driving my wqrryingly trance-prone brother up the wall) the delgados (which took me a while to get into, but has been more than rewarding), mercury rev (which made me angry in a sort of irrational way, because it seemed at the time that only an international conspiracy of vast - or is that, sinister? - proportions could have kept me from discovering them for so long) apples in stereo. then also an album which would win prizes in my book both for greatest band name, and greates album name also ("lips that taste like tears" by the trembling blue stars). very beautiful. can anyone tell me anything about them though, as sleeve-notes are virtulaay non-existent? i think the name comes from the same neruda poem that someone (madeleine? kirsten? sorry can't remember) quoted after the wtc attacks. lastly, must mention that i FINALLY got the sinister album!!! and it's not been overrated at all!!!! can already play the fox in the snow, and do so constantly (my poor brother - he really doesn't have it easy!) maybe more about that at some other time. just had to write again though - it feels so good. sorry for those of you who have now wasted the time to read this - if you don't feel it's been a waste, then this post is dedicated to you. loved jenowl's smile advice, adn would like to re-iterate it here (i'm sure that she won't mind: there's too much love to go around!) love JohaN ps. hang on nisie. i WILL write again soon, i promise. 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Sinister: in a town so small there's no escaping you
by Apps Ben (Mr B) 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

We rule the school - a true story I met a sinisterette last week and it turned out she went to my old high school. We had the same clarinet teacher and form room and everything. How ace is that? Crushed - another true story How crushed would you be if your crush announced that she had been crushed by who she crushed but it wasn't you? This happened to me. boo hoo. LondonIndieUSA Fanbloodytastic. Pulp segues (I've always wanted to use that word) seamlessly into S Club 7 into B&S into PJ & Duncan (props to Starry Sarah for Let's Get Ready To Rumble) I will have to put up a blue plaque above my front door, to commemorate that "Ken Chu played here" cos he did you know, and it was GREAT!!! Reports of a live performance by "benapps's band" are vastly exaggerated. London Sinister Xmas/winter meet-up? I reckon first snowfall. Primrose Hill. Dawn. I often wish I was as eloquent as some of the lovely souls that post to this list. But I'm not. As eloquent. So I keep it short. But not. As short. As richard. Gillanders. ttfn Ben xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Flagrant London list abuse
by Kayemess＠aol.com 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

My little rabbits, Does anyone know of anyone who might have a friend with a spare ticket to DJ Shadow at the Scala on the 28th of this month? I wouldn't be so bold as to ask any of you lot for your spare tickets, but should you wish to volunteer them, I'm willing to pay for them in pounds, dollars, or cakes depending on what works best for you. You can send your responses to my work address, which I check about 9000 times a day: kschaffenberger(a)beso.org. Much love, Kristen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Snezana Vlajkov 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

Today is the first day of my vacation. I'm happy for it,but I'm also worried because I don't know how I will spend all this free time. A chance for fun is almost a no-chance here. Over the week it seems like time is stopped,and weekends are basicly the same. I listen to the same music,look at same people and drink the same beer for years. Maybe thats because I live in a small town,or maybe is not. In this small town clubs work until 00:00. Can you imagine?! Thats the reason I travel to other cities. At least there I drink some other beer and listen to music I love... Last saturday there was a clubbing called earth-dance. In 700 cities all over the world was ment to be played the same tune at the same time. My town was one of that 700,but we didn't heard that tune. Where do I live?! You possibly wonder. And I wonder where I and how will live for next two weeks. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Real Glasgow Bands
by Emoflute＠aol.com 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

as much as i like Belle and Sebastian, you should all check how good Stapleton from Glasgow. check out a file of a song from their new album at www.subjugation.co.uk thanks ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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'm a little dinosaur
by Mark Casarotto 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

Dear Sinister. As I am 44 digests behind, can I ask that you all stop posting for a bit so that I can catch up? Very good of you. Thanks! Markx p.s. saw Jonathan Richman the other day after being largely unaware of his genius. He IS good, isn't he? And I've never seen a crowd so happy! Shame the Shepherd's Bush Empire doesn't always produce a good gig... ********************************************************************** HIT Entertainment PLC, Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF 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 +44 (20)7 554 2500, and delete this message from your computer system. 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 www.hitwildlife.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: Is This It?
by Ian Rivamonte 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

So... I know The Strokes are somewhat taboo on this list, but since everyone here writes about anything they want (for the most part), I'm going to put my two cents (or pence) in on The Strokes. I just saw them here at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The greatest things about shows playing in Bill Graham venues are the posters. I got a free one for Belle & Sebastian and now one for the Strokes. Anyways, these guys rawk! I needed a good rawking since I've been listening to lo-fi indie for the last month and a half. Just pure rawk and it was so nice to jump around and get hurt. Oh, and the Moldy Peaches were funny as hell! I have to get their album now. Anyways, that's my rant. Cheers, Ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Tim Banning 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

my team... 1. Neil Young 2. Rivers Cuomo 3. Stevie Jackson-Belle and Sebastian 4. Kim Deal-Pixies 5. Isobelle Cambell-Belle and Sebastian 6. Ben Folds 7. Mike Daughty-Soul Coughing 8. Mark Mothersbaugh-Devo 9. David Byrn-Talking Heads/solo 10. Isaac Brock-Modest Mouse 11. Nick McCabe-Verve subs 1. dougie from travis 2. Frank Zappa 3. Stuart Murdoch 4. Tim Wheeler 5. Frank Black sorry about misspellings, it'll probably change tomarrow _________________________________________________________________ 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: auburn...leviticus
by Kirsten Kenyon 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

the sky was an odd smokey blue color (i believe crayola used to call it "cadet blue") and made the factory district look very red as i drove over the bypass this afternoon. they're not factories anymore...not most of them. i've often thought about renting a studio space in a certain warehouse with a tall brick tower, but if i worked there i'd have to live there...studio space isn't cheap, i guess. sometimes it looks like it might be fun to wander around the burned-out factories and the warehouses under the bypass. so i did it once and, believe it or not, it was something less than thrilling. i'm not sure what i'd expected. that was years ago, and what i recall of it now reminds me of "sunflower sutra" which, in turn, reminds me of a seemingly-sweet boy from leeds who turned out to be quite unpleasant. or i could look on the bright side and have it remind me of someone genuinely lovely. either way, the factories aren't all that interesting and my copy of sunflower sutra is gone for good...somewhere in leeds, probably shoved under a dirty ashtray and forgotten. i had a good giggle over caleb ben's al caplum joke. i don't know why, but something about plums strikes me as silly. maybe it's the fact that my dear grandmother once got confused to the brink of laughing tears trying to play "clue." or it's the memory of being drunk off wine in the afternoon, sitting on a park bench in nice with aimee, giggling and feeding plums and brie to an ugly mob of moulting pigeons. or it could be ezra pound. and if it's ezra pound, it might as well be a boy i used to know who once described a bottle of gatorade in his refrigerator as "so sweet and so cold." gatorade is certainly funny. tonight i enjoyed my tea and the company of a nice boy named matthew, and we talked about sacré coeur and vonnegut and easy cheese, and a strange man at the corner table yelled something to matthew in a language i didn't understand, then walked by and dropped a folded napkin in front of him and said "enjoy. is for free." i giggled, thinking that was a funny thing to say when handing out one's phone number. but it was a napkin full of marijuana instead, and i gasped and matthew giggled and stuck it in his bag, and we talked for a bit about amsterdam, and when i think of amsterdam i think of my poor lost sketchbook and a pub called the blarney stone. and of quentin tarantino and the hotel tamara and acrobats. leslie and i had something of a tournament tonight...taking turns balancing on a giant red "exercise ball" and timing each other on a little silver watch. there wasn't a lot of space and it was quite dangerous, really. no blood was shed, but the contest ended with me standing on a chair with a mouthful of screws, trying to reattach a curtain rod to the crumbly plaster wall. old houses like that...you're really not supposed to put screws in the plaster. but someone renovated and took out the crown moulding...anyway, i'm not exactly bob vila and we ended up sticking the bracket to the wall with masking tape. pretty shoddy work. and so. it sounds like chicago was a good time. the art institute is nice. the last time i was there, i saw some installations by bill viola. raining and burning and owls and televisions and a birthday party. and we had thai and wandered into a church and ran through a sprinkler, and it was supposed to be a field trip but mostly it was just walking and looking at frank lloyd wright coffee mugs and smoking cigarettes. well that's quite enough. love kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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