October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Sydney Devine
by Ian Nicolson 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

...and then that Sir Francis Drake, right, him that recorded the album 'Pink Moon' about the time that Catherine the Great rode through Coventry on the back of a naked horse called Lady Godiva on the way to the Crimean War...oh hello there! I was feeling rather pleasant this afternoon, which was a surprise as I was at work. "Jings!", I thought, "I'm feeling rather pleasant and I'm at work. What a surprise!". So I decided to look at my emails, which I really shouldn't have done since interweb access was restricted to lunchtimes a while ago by the people I work for because people (mainly me, I imagine) were using it all the time and not doing any work. The shower of bastards. But I looked anyway and there was one email, a post by our antipodean chum Helen McLean, which I decided to look at because her surname matches my middle name. And Helen used the word 'pleasant' in her post, which made me realise how pleasant I was feeling. Reading her post reminded me of the time when I used to read Sinister posts all the time, when I was at college and had nothing better to do. And it was funny to feel like that cause I've not really been keeping up with Sinister very well of late. I like John Cale. I'm not sure if I like John Cale actually. He might be a bit of a wank. Has anyone on the list ever met John Cale? Please tell us if he's a bit of a wank. Go on! It's these little things that keep us together. I should have said I like John Cale's music. That's not entirely true either. I like some of John Cale's music. The bits of John Cale's music that I like are the bits that aren't wank. A John Cale song that I like is called 'Sylvia Said'. It really reminds me of a Welsh viola player singing a song. It doesn't remind me of Belle & Sebastian very much. Is a viola player called a violainist? Someone once (only once) asked me what the difference between a violin and a fiddle was (is?). I thought it was going to be a joke, but was sorely disappointed. If anyone can think of a punchline then you can win all our admirations and rest in the knowledge that you're far funnier than me. Or at least cleverer. I went to see John Cale a couple of years ago. He was playing music to a crowd assembled in a hall, so I didn't get the chance to find out if he was a wank or not. He didn't play 'Sylvia Said', but he did do 'Hallelujah' which is another song he sings which I like, but he didn't write that one. It reminds me of something that a Canadian Jew might do. Or is it a Jewish Canadian? I don't want to offend anyone. 'Hallelujah' doesn't remind me of Belle & Sebastian either. Another thing I like is the song 'The Trees' by Pulp. It's spiffing! I like it because it's about trees and it sounds big. If you like big sounding songs about trees then you might like it. What it doesn't remind me of is Belle & Sebastian. Have I ever told you how much Richard John Gillanders really doesn't remind me of Holden Caufield? I hadn't realised until today just how sticky-out Serge Gainsbourg's ears were. They're huge! I think I prefer the version of 'Je t'aime...' that he did with Brigitte Bardot to the Jane Birkin one. Belle & Sebastian should cover that song, if they haven't already, with Stevie doing the Serge part. Because he loves it. Sometimes I think I'd like to be French. My brother's going to France tomorrow. I'll ask him if I'd like being French when he gets back. I spent a lot of time on this. Don't blame me. Ian N. ps Is Clive of India still on this list? I do miss his posts. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit
by kieran devaney 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather, life is a succession of habits... The periods of transition that separate consecutive adaptations... represent the perilous zones in the life of the individual, dangerous, precarious, painful, mysterious and fertile, when for a moment the monotony of being is replaced by the suffering of being... - Samuel Beckett There are loads of reasons why i like that quote, partly because it sounds clever and a just little bit pretentious, but not dangerously so... and in the context of the rest of mr beckett's work it fits perfectly, like a mini manifesto. earlier in the year i went to see 'waiting for godot' at the mac in birmingham, and of the people i went with, one fell asleep and all the others pretty much denounced it as incoherent rubbish... silly them. i like it so much i was tempted to write about it in my english exam in the summer instead of crappy 'death of a salesman' but i couldn't remember it well enough and despite being super cool in class and being a rebel in all my essays, during exams i am a real wimp, you'd hate me. the stuff i write in exams is the type of hollow crap that gets people their grades it's worth it though thats what i keep telling myself anyway, i'm pretty much new, i got my wings and fled the nursery (is that what it's called?) a couple of weeks ago, but one thing or another has prevented me from posting... laziness mostly i guess but everyone here seems so nice and stuff, how could i not say something? one qualm i have is to do with the near cult status that ribena has here... and perhaps you'll say i'm taking ribena much too seriously now, but you know that it's made by smithkline beecham who fund animal testing? i stopped drinking it when i heard that not wanting to sound overly politicised, their advertising net has ensnared john peel too, who i'm sure is everyones hero, since he advertises aquafresh which they make too so sad but i don't want to impose these views on anyone, just please bear it in mind i've digressed, i was introducing myself when you opened the email you might have clicked on kieran which is my name i'm from birmingham in the uk someone a while back commented on how pretty all the cranes look in birmingham city centre and now that i have the chance i will belatedly agree sometimes i hang around town until sunset because there is a kind of skewed beauty when they are silhouetted against the darkening sky... i wont come up with a crap similie because one doesn't really spring to mind so many nice situations are ruined by overly rampant poetic license speaking of poetry somebody showed me this poem the other day I Am the Only Being (1836) I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought of gloom A smile of joy since I was born In secret pleasure--secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day There have been times I cannot hide There have been times when this was drear When my sad soul forgot its pride And longed for one to love me here But those were in the early glow Of feelings since subdued by care And they have died so long ago I hardly now believe they were First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there - Emily Bronte she wrote wuthering heights too y'know... i think this is proof that if she emily bronte was around now she would be a female morrissey type... or, more fittingly, morrissey is a male emily bronte type, there are definite thematic similarities in their work i think so anyway what else did i want to talk about? oh yeah... the new hefner album this has been causing much consternation in the past week or so since its release, so i wont help by adding my opinion i guess the reaction has been akin to the one from radiohead fans after kid a but as a radiohead fan who loved kid a straight away i can totally dig this new hefner direction... it's not as immediate as the older stuff, and their are a few crap songs on the record, but all in all it's a winner á mon avis also it's interesting to see a band who on paper look like generic indie types really branching out and being sort of experimental i get to see them live on the first of november which should be great, and john peel might even be there too since it's being broadcast on his show i hope so although if i meet him i will undoubtedly make a fool of myself by either embracing him heartily and begging him to sign my face or berate him about advertising aquafresh, despite the numerous apologies on his show, he does it to get his kids throught university he says sorry in advance for any untoward behaviour john isn't applying to university an immensely demeaning and essentially hollow process? it annoys me so much i'm going to save up my bile about it for another post since this one must stay happy oh yeah... i managed to convince my (rich) friend to buy 'if you're feeling sinister' on a whim (i really like whims) and he loves it now so i've instructed him to buy more stuff, and knowing his budget, he will have their entire discography and all the merchandise by the end of the month *sigh* my love for marks and spencer egg and cress sandwiches is tempered only by their cost they are indeed a giant in the sandwich world if only my pocket would run to making them the mainstay of my diet thats all for now i guess, except to say that paul theroux's 'my secret history' is such a good book that you should go out and read it right now, it mentions VS naipaul in it too (under a different name obviously) and i can't think of anything cooler than that i feel as though i should apologise for the length of this post since everyone else does peace and love kieran +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Chicago picnic
by elise j. spry 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Hello darlings, Okay. The Chicago picnic this Saturday. I do believe we're meeting up at Stine's house, to carpool into the city & to figure out what exactly we're doing. Museum-ing, drinking, shopping, aquarium-ing, drinking? Her email is toadie291(a)home.com. I'm hoping she won't be too put out at giving directions to everyone. Thanks to the lovely Stine for volunteering her home as a meet-up spot. How about early afternoon, like 1:00-ish? That's what time I'm planning on being there, at least. I shall also bring (as yet unspecified treats). Is there anything else we need to know? love, your surrogate picnic mummy. -elise xoxo __________________________________________________ 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: Chicago Meet-up
by JAMES GILMER 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Hullo all, The meet-up is on for Chicago this weekend, Saturday the 13th. Stine has offered up her place as a meet-up point and then possibly taking the train into Chicago, or at the very least carpooling. I'll be sending out directions to Stine's to those who emailed me already. If anyone else is thinking of going, PLEASE EMAIL ME TODAY OR EMAIL STINE FOR DIRECTIONS prior to saturday morning. I'm leaving home tomorrow morning so I'll be out of the loop until we all meet-up on saturday. I figure a good plan is to meet at Stine's between 12:30 and 1pm. We can set a second meeting point up in Chicago proper, that way late arrivials and those who can't make it/can't find Stine's will know where to go. Hopefully Stine will post a good spot in Chicago for the back-up meeting point. I figure 2pm is a good time for the back-up meeting point. In case anyone's wondering, there's a half-dozen of us confirmed for sure, three strong possibles, and two more unsure, and that's just the ones I know about. Come, play with us in Chicago. There will be Red Bull, and quite likely vodka as well. Until Saturday... Jim _________________________________________________________________ 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: Chicago Meet N' Greet!!!
by GoGoEcho＠aol.com 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Well- It's time to decide where and how our picnic will happen. So please post and tell everyone where and when we are doing this. I just thought we should figure it out. adam +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Going out in London is a great way to relieve oneself
by Martin_F_Conneely＠finance.gov.ie 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

SUBJECT LINE I couldn't resist that quote from a post by Robert Brennan, which came in the same digest as Rachel Toast's nude adventures and Shannon's revelation about what she was doing over the tapes. I don't know if I can be seen in the same company as this list much longer if it's going in that direction. PERNICE Elise wrote: <<Can anyone tell me about the Pernice Brothers>> I was at a Joe P gig in Dublin very recently. Stacey Dahling had warned that he was very serious, but I imagine it was intensified by the P Bros having flown out of NY 10 hours before the crashing. So the live gig was quite serious, beginning with the line "Gimme some more of that morphine..." (approx) and references to suicide in 3 of the first 6 songs (approx). But I was reared on Leonard Cohen and, unlike so many Irish males, I got through my 20s without hanging myself. So I was fine with that kind of stuff. The females in the party were a bit shaken by the gloom but that could be the fault of the excellent sound system which delivered every word clearly. If you don't listen to the words, the Pernice Brothers sound chirpy and very melodic - Beach Boys meeting Teenage Fanclub with very rich vocals and resonant guitar. For example, Working Girls in the background sounds Joe is very happy that there are working girls. But listen to the words and there's a vivid guide to the barren nature of existence in a way that Start Murdoch could have written before he was famous. Joe did nearly 2 and a half hours,with a local keyboard player (John Hegarty?) coming on for 30 minutes and he played nearly everything the crowd asked for. But the Dublin crowd, who had got Bill Callahan to smile, couldn't break down that determination to "make the worst of a bad situation." But it was a great gig and I reckon GO AND SEE HIM/THEM - YOU WON'T REGRET IT. SANDY DENNY The fully digested Peter Miller wrote: <<I've been listening to a bloke called Sandy Denny..>>. That solves the mystery of how the late Sandy fell down the stairs to become "the late Sandy Denny". Now I realise it must have been that he couldn't handle high heels. Not many people know that Philip Lynott was taught bass guitar by a guy called Brush Shiels and was in a Dublin band called Skid Row, led by the same Mr Shiels and they released a single (for Irish market only, I think, 1969 approx) called "Sandy's Gone". Maybe it was about Mr Denny. NATURE OF LOVE Madeleine McNeil's interesting comments sparked off some responses on LOVE. With more life past than life future, I was going to Report Back that it's probably most vivid from 20 to 25 or so and that it's just chemical, but that it seems to provide the biggest hit at that stage. But I won't. Instead I'll remember that I went into a church called the Madeleine in Paris on Good Friday many years ago and there were literally buckets and buckets of flowers and a smell of incense and candlewax and the stained glass light and it was grate. Happy second decadence Martin C, who didn't ask for the F and doesn't want it This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 do not do drugs, i am drugs.......
by caleb ben moore 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

well i moved into my new place last night. my new roommate ballad is a moody sort of guy who doesn't have any friends. he IS a really good musician though, and soon we will colaborate. we were listening to FYHCYWLAP last night while i was unpacking and the only thing we said to eachother all evening was as follows: ballad: "who is this playing?" me: "it's belle and sebastian's latest lp" ballad: "i dig it." he makes music very much in a sort of ambient-beatles vein, but with a little new radiohead atmospherics mixed in. i'd be happy to sing over it. anyway, i awoke this morning to find that a bunch of small children sleeping on the floor in the living room. apparently they are the siblings of my OTHER new roommate andy, who i don't know at all. they are all in town for a day. can i get a shout-out from anyone currently reading salinger? right now i'm reading "nine stories" and i like "for esme--with love and squalor" the best. i'm also currently obsessed with the idea that somewhere in the world someone is doing the EXACT thing as you at a given moment. right now i'm typing. how about you? anyway......................................................word to big bird. -----caleb ben ===== 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: the season of waking up
by Helen McLean 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

here I am. two posts in a year. gasp. Trying desperately to stay awake, which is in contrast to this afternoon where I tried desperately to stay asleep. Neither is working all that well. If I am neither asleep nor awake I must be something else. Hungry. Perhaps stupid. Possibly misled. Upset at least. 'Collateral damage' should be struck out of the dictionary. I'm sure someone on here has the power. Right? 'Waking up to us' is better than waking up to me I am sure. I am grumpy in the mornings and I make other people do stuff for me often. Make me coffee. Make me toast. go get my ug boots. Yesterday I spent a large proportion of time in my ug boots. which are the best thing to wear on ones feet ever. Although wearing them outside means that you get odd looks and possibly sniggers, but if Pamela Anderson can do it, then dammit so can I. Although a friend of mine pointed out that not many people are looking at her feet anyway. Here it is spring, and I would be exceedingly pleased if it stayed this temperature from now on. Today was definitely T shirt weather, blue skies and only a slight wind. My mother would call it pleasant. But unfortunately it is going to get hot and I am going to have to deal with it. Most of my friends dealt with it by leaving the country. I went to the country last week and even worked on a farm. Well vinyard at least, for a couple of hours at least. We went to see the Southern Ocean and ended up seeing a rock that looked like a dog. In the Australian tradition of anything large becoming an instant tourist attraction someone had painted a collar on it and were selling postcards and mugs of the imaginatively titled 'dog rock' for fairly reasonable prices. There was also a 'dog rock' shopping centre, a 'dog rock' motel and everything. I liked it better than the Big Banana and the Big Orange, though the jury's still out on the Big Pineapple and the Big Sheep. Though these lose points by being man-made whereas Dog Rock is a natural wonder. One of the seven of the world I should imagine. Though Wave Rock is pretty good too. Prizes will not be given for guessing what that one looks like. I am distinctly not all that excited about the new single. It is disturbing me actually. Every other single and album I have been excited. Maybe its the change of title, maybe its because of the fiasco that was the lonliness of the middle distance runners' guitar solo. Maybe its because as of lately their singles and records can no longer be referred to as the blue one or the yellow one or the red one or the purple one. I liked that. Then again maybe its just the times we live in. Still I am hoping that in the next few weeks my excitement will grow. Marx and Engels should be good. And I have heard good things about the Season has arrived or waking up to us or whatever it is called nowadays. Anyhow, you know the one. You know I kind of like the new name, it can be shortened to WUTU which is better than TSHA. Well cheers then, helen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Pianta di ampio magnifico Collegio*
by Gordon 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

I am between telephone calls. Sometimes politeness is insulting. At least I could see it coming and it's gratifying to realize that the people who know me tend to like me and the people who don't take the time fire me, ever so politely, in offstage monologue. I'd like to be described as a paranoid eccentric but all I get is office-style fluff. I even had to telephone for the privilege of receiving so much dust. I could turn it all around with a few carefully chosen words but why play in a team? Why play in a team and the captain doesn't know you and re-assembles stray and ill-researched facts so as to dislike you? I may have a stange way of manipulating my own truth but I don't need to like the see-through shambles of someone else's politicalisms. I suppose I now have some free time. Once I get over the shit I might be able to do something useful. The sweet perfume of resilliance. Thing is, I actually like people. But a lion in a cage looking at visitors of the zoo is not the same as the same lion looking at them in the midst of the Savannah Kandahar, Khugiana, Kajakat, Kash, Kang, Kush Kattawaz Is no ma' faut! He did it ! It wisnae me! Aye. I'm afraid this post is almost delirious, but the new Hefner album's very good... the gloopy synths are, well, bouncy and melodic. And you know what? thanks to you lot I now *listen* to lyrics. Well, sometimes. And I read much more. But I guess my places remain indescribeable and private.Well, talking of lyrics, well I went to this party last night/ a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time and they wanted to know about my life,/ but making me feel like it wasn't quite right like where's your kids and where's your car? I said I don't have either but I have a guitar and I ended up feeling like a freak so I found some wine and something to eat and I talked to the dog to pass the time I suppose if I'm sad the nearest escape corridor is entirely abstract. One imagines being a film director obsessing over glowing extruded parallelograms: visions of flow and spiritual instability. Visceral: appealing as much as it appals? Out of control, as the editor of Silicon Valley's *Wired* magazine entitled his book or the Stock Exchange or the galloping horse: out of control as in 'not being controlled'? Irresolution. Openness. Courage; foolhardiness... for each descriptive appreciation of an action there is a desultory describing exactly the same action. Such are the barely concealed secrets of rhetoric. Be aware. Be wary. I'm letting my mind out on a long leash: giving myself 'a lot of rope' and, if you've actually read this, I'd suggest that you don't attempt to make sense of it. So why post? you might ask. I still am. Asking, that is. I don't know. "Will the gentleman standing behind the bush please stand up. Yes, you sir, Mr. Toby Smythe, of Colefax, West Yorkshire." "Thankyou for your attention, sir." BOOM! ;}' Gordon [quotes are vaguely misappropriated from ms. Heather Nova and messrs. Monty Python, all of whose rights have been vaguely unrespected, but with respects as I am able to proffer] *Piranesi: evidently the only existant plan from a man famed for his perpectives of prisons +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: Wills V Rachels V Chris's V anyone else who wants to join the insanity
by Spike 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

I'm up for that. One question. Do we get bonus points for obscurity? Will --- Rachel <blind_lisa(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: >OK, It's ON!!!! >I was thinking at first that maybe we could have a battle of bad >puns, but I just dont have the will for it...erm. >But I think I've finally come up with a suitable activity for the >battle of wills v rachels v chris', tell me if you think this is a >good idea. >A MIX TAPE BATTLE! >now, I thought of it because a few months ago my housemates and I >made a tape called "Mystery Mix." What we did was we each recorded a >song on the tape and passed it on to the next without telling the >others what song we had just recorded. The tape turned out pretty >nice. My idea for our Battle of Wills v Rachels v Christophers would >be slightly different. Anyone who would like to participate could >sign up under whichever team they choose (i.e. Honorary Rachel, Katie >Cheeriodle!) and we could then determine how many songs we each can >put on the tape to fill it up. It would be ok to let the other team >members know what songs you put on the tape, so we can make the best >addition possible. Then, we can mail the tape from one team member >to the next. Of course, then we would all get a copy of the finished >product as well. When it's all done, we can mail it to the judge... >I chu-chu-chuse Ken Chu! Maybe it shouldn't be a Chuarchy, so, should >we have a panel of 3 judges? What do you sinisterines think? Ken? > >Start thinking about whether or not it seems like a good idea, if you >want to participate, contact me from the Rachels team, and Chris >Perriman from the Chris team, or...well, Will, are you Rachel >Porridge or Will Salt? Are you WILLing to take us on and be the >leader of the Wills, or should we hand over to Spike? > >I'd like to hear some thoughts on this matter. Rachels, are you with >me on this one? >!Viva Rachels! >love to you all, >Rachel Fruitloop > > == "There's no demon in there. It's just a family legend, am I right? Just a bit of spin to keep the ladies in line? You're a piece of work. I like you." Spike, Family _____________________________________________________________ Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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