October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Call it whatever you like. . .
by Intellectualvoid＠aol.com 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Good evening, dears! Or morning/afternoon, as it were. You're everywhere, scattered strategically round the world! I've been made famous! By the illustrious Rachel Fruitloop! Well, okay. Maybe not. Certainly, not everyone can reach the Ken Chu levels of notoriety in life; I don't know that I dare aspire to it, even. But, thanks Rachel Fruitloop! I am basking in your warm glow! Really. Big long-distance smooches. It's been a . . . weekend, and since you asked so kindly, yes, I will tell you all about it. I receieved a stunning package in the mail on Saturday*. It contained FOUR tapes, yes, count them. And more. And I must say, it was brilliantly done, as was all the accompanying writing. Mmmmm. I'm still pouring over them, avidly. You know how it is. I'll be doing that for months. I have a perma-grin. My face actually hurts. Well. Moving along. It rained! Sadly, this is probably the second most interesting thing that happened over the past couple of days, the long-awaited arrival of aforementioned package ranking first, of course. So, maybe it wasn't that interesting of a weekend. Hush. Not only has summer slid quietly into autumn, leaving the nights and mornings cool and lush, but clouds are still hanging low in the sky, the moon just a faint outline behind them. While it's not raining now, the air is thick and heavy, and surely it will during the night. I hope I wake to thunder, and raindrops pattering on the window. That would be perfect. Even more perfect than right now, that is. So what else? Well, I've tossed together a mixed tape for a friend of mine tonight. It lacks all pretense of artistry; I just went for the sampler concept. Apparantly, she is too busy making music to listen to it, which is fine, and where I come in. See, anyone within a 50 mile vicinity who has not heard of B&S, Nick Drake, The Clientele, etc etc, well, they're fair game once they fall into my clutches. She will be educated. Indeed. You may sleep easy. I certainly will. Sigh. Speaking of which, I suppose that's what I'm going to do now. After my rendevous with a smooth Turkish blend called Camel Light. Right. I'm off. Much, much love and sweet dreams, Shannon. * I'm writing a full report now, Sam, but it's going to be LONG. Hold tight ;-) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: labyrinth: b. applied to other organs of intricate structure (1774)
by Gordon 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Labyrinthodon: having the enamel folded and sunk inward. Labyrinthodonty... dinousaur dentures... There is a sub-tropical and almost somnambulant character to the sound of underwater bubbles and an endlessly repeated chordal duo from the strings pre-set of a synthesizer on the default channel of the Hilton's TV set. I write at a desk topped in whirly walnut veneer with marquetry in ebony or somesuch before the blonde oak. The lamp is a ghoulish affair in brassy corinthian but sports, above the capital, an energy saving bulb: the result of an environmental audit of fevered men on a mission and promotion, ticking boxes on photocopied forms from independent bodies brought from high. One thinks of the pretty Hilton sisters, quite oblivious, making tasteless jokes whilst simultaneously re-kick0starting the Manhattan restaurant scene, but my reportage is rusty: that was, so like, several days ago and I wasn't even there. I'm here, looking over wet flat felt roofing and a city blocks' worth of car-park: like the afforementioned metropolis, Glasgow is also in a Grid-Iron plan, except where it meets the Green, where the 'Housing of the Future' development stares shinily across to the People's Palace in commie red Glasgow sandstone with the Big Yin's banana boots inside. The synths continue their rise and fall with the aqualung loop in the room with no character except for the fluid international corporate balm, which reminds me to make haste stealing the elongated vessels of bath foam &etc. that I'm not ever going to use: give 'em to mum and in any case they're pretty. My CD player, by Sony, has a 'hold' function designed for joggers rather than people like me, who sleep and leave CD players in rucksacks. It has chosen play mode, chosen to 'hold' it all night so my glimpse of Heather Nova this morning has a battery life of about 5 seconds... enough for one of her lustful scrawling on the face of an octave. Ah... the Bermudan angel. It is now 11:08 and I have a choice of places to go on level two before mid-day. Level two is, actually 'ground floor' in English parlance and 'Garden Level' in EMBT's Catalan, which is rather sweet, don't you think? In any case, said level claims to accommodate Raffles, Minskys and Camerons. Three continents, right? Raffles it is: the man of Singapore, but more of Cameron's (sic) Bloody Mary than Pink Gins for me. The aqualung twitches. Raffles has mock wickerwork, real wickerwork and a two foot fringe of fake corrugated iron in line with fret-cut softwood dyed with dark stain above an opening into an area housing an ill-tuned piano and some 'oh so tropical' louvered doors. Whiny scotch pop in the Travis format drifts from the tannoy. My eyes cast around for a celebrity or two, but it's B-grade territory: either at home, asleep; walking a dog, say a wolfhound, around newly acquired wooded policies in Gloucestershire or Upstate or, alternatively residing in a more discreet hostelry such as One Devonshire Gardens. Each room there is individually decorated. Wow. Anyway, it's not so bad, wittering here with a wonky fountain pen whose cap keeps falling off- the weight of the cap is supposed to balance the writing tip- on linen embossed *Toile Swiss* paper with HTML aspirations, in order to re-state my case; this time with fake fringes and a cocktail umbrella. Stating so much dyspepsia belies ghosts of a quiet beauty. All is not destroyed, and what remains might live. 'No man is an island, entire of himself' said Donne (forgive me if my memory is faulted at this instance). The world is too cynical to recognise a straightforward failure and too daft to see a subtle success. I'd be the world on both points were it not for... dreams. Last night, I bumped into the Dudley Corps in full, tight flood. I apologise for not expecting it 'me of little faith' but you were darned good. I've seen plenty of basements in my time but I'm counting on two fingers the last times I've seen musical quality of the sort that was thrown from the speakers. One corporation has done well. Hovering around, a full sinister picnic's worth of familiar faces plus STACEY, the globetrotting dahling, no less. Then I went mad. One of these links to hell engaged my brain. I don't know if I conjure them or they conjure me, but they aren't phantoms at the time. Thankfully, two people who I shalln't mention by name were extremely kind; a kindness which reverberates I 'check out' then discover that the room of the ill-tuned piano actually has some surprisingly well-stocked bookshelves- the kind of leather-bound multi-volume sets that can be purchased by the foot and are favoured by members of our legal establishment. So I pick 'Law and Government- In Principle and Practice' but, firstly, I'm interrupted by the vain desire to write this down and then, by my mother. Had she arrived seconds later, I'd have stood up and offered some tea... as it was, I was half way through a sentence and raised a finger, rather than my head. Pretty rude, I suppose... wrong priorities, I suppose... what do all these suppositions add up to, except mistaking giving for taking? Next was the Western General, ward 3, on a floor trapped between floors as one would percieve it from the lift at the main entrance. A maze results in the interstitial conveyor, and my father's mother is looking good and I attempt sweet-talking her to move nearer us (the other place is a den of incompetence and snobs) and my dad has arranged a nice room in bread-throwing distance of the duck-pond. The almost limbic thrill to be attained when being chased by 70 ducks is quite re-affirming. So that's then. This is now. Transcribing this has made me very late for work, but made me feel better, and it's better than not going to work at all. This morning has more Heather in it which is, in general, a good thing. To paraphrase, in a somewhat underhand manner, Evelyn Waugh, rather 'love-making'. Were that a substance! Some dreams are lovely. Gordon. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name
by Kirsten Kenyon 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

if you've never sat down for an after-shift cocktail and listened to a jolly stoner interpret greek mythology into layman's terms, well, then you're not me. for some reason, i thought about hieronymus bosch today. i remember giggling at my little parochial high school and thinking that if we had to buy brand-new bibles for our biblical archaeology class, they should at least have come with some nice bosch-ian illustrations. maybe i'll publish my own bible someday, complete with bosch paintings and little knock-knock jokes in the footnotes, and a handy ring-bound day planner with photo sleeves sandwiched between malachi and matthew. i'm watching the "cheers" marathon instead of the news, and gosh, do i loathe kirstie alley. but i like nearly everyone else on the show, and the theme song is just SO GOOD. i live on a place called "regal park." it has some swings, and a few slides and monkey bars and there's a path that crosses the road and leads down to a nice little pond full of cute slimy frogs and happy snapping turtles, the occasional fox or heron and, of course, hissing geese. the past few days, driving past regal park...it's just looked really nice, for some reason. maybe i'm just imagining it...but it's...well. it wouldn't be a bad place to live. i promise. i wrote a story about love and puppies. except i didn't make it up. it's the simple story of a pretty brunette and a shaggy-haired boy in a rock band and a beagle named "sexy." and the girl and boy fell in love and went out to restaurants with red curtains and candles on the tables and got married, and the beagle had her name changed to "molly" and the boy and girl had three children and moved to the suburbs...it's a silly story...i always find that the true stories are the silliest ones. don't you? chicago....sounds like a good time. i will do my very best to make it there. to buckingham fountain, right? or navy pier? i'm a bit confused but that's not out of the ordinary. and i'll figure it out. tomorrow's a day off and i have applications to fill and letters to write and drink to...drink. goodnight xoxo 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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Sinister: tonight I am on top of the world
by AN 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

hello pumpkins! it's my second mail I think. still here, no reason to leave :) I admit, I don't read exactely every word of every mail but I do read most of it and something from every mail not to be unfair to anyone! And I smile, and laugh alot! I had a quite unexciting weekend. The last 7-8 weekends I've been going out every friday, same time, same place, same people, kind of. So staying in this friday made me wonder what day it was all the time. Is it already saturday? oh, it's sunday!? but I haven't done anything yet! But no worries, I'm gonna catch up next weekend :) Cause then Fosca is coming to sweden, yay! And I'm going there, to Stockholm to meet up with a couple of friends I haven't seen for a while, do some shopping and "grab fikes", it'll be grate!! :) Today I met up with my psychology group from school. No no, there's nothing wrong with me, honest! I'm perfectly healthy and stabil (mum, why are there so many green stars and moons spinning around my head?) well...almost perfectly. Anyway, we're doing a job about extreme sports and what makes some people (idiots?) risk their lives to climb mountains, parachute etc. We're gonna talk about this in front of the class on tuesday, and hopefully I won't puke or faint or anything :) I don't know how I got involved in this subject. We started out with one guy - a multi sporter, me - a lazy slacker with big planes and dreams but no ambitions, and another girl - one who said of herself that she was mostly "fluffing" around. I think that scared the guy just a tiny little bit :) But now there's five of us and we're all really involved. We're the best group, I'm sure! I also went to a warehouse today, the only one that was still open when I got downtown, to kill some time while waiting for the train. So I went through their cd collection, not very much of interest. There's a very good swedish band called The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, and I spotted their latest cd there. You know where it was? In the FILM SOUNDTRACK section!! I couldn't help but laugh Haha! And I lost the little respect I might have had for that cd department, shook my head and walked away. The meaning of life? Happiness, I'm sure. That's what we all want, to be happy, to feel good. I know you do so don't deny it! ;) And if we love, we're happy. And if we're loved, we're happy. And if people we care about are happy, we're happy. Happiness must be the solution to everything!.....I think. And if I sometimes feel good about being depressed then for chrissake, just let me be depressed! :) Keep those love hormons running! ;) snogs -AN (the respectless) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sinisters in Sweden
by daniel.cederberg＠swipnet.se 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Hi all! I´ve been reading with envy of all the nice and wonderful picnics arranged all around our wonderful world (well, maybe not so wonderful considering the latest turn of events). So I thought it would be nice with some kind of gathering in Sweden for those poor souls that live here. A gathering outdoors sounds like something exceptionally outrageous with these weather conditions and all. but something indoors would be nice. something in stockholm perhaps. or maybe I´m the only lonely poor Swede here? hope not. maybe some nice people from england could come here and visit? no? ah, well, only wishful thinking. I know. By the way, this is my first post. And I liked it. Kind of uncomfortable at first, but then i relaxed and it felt good. I hope i´ll have a chance to post again. Daniel ------------------------------------------------- WebMail från Tele2 http://www.tele2.se ------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (not so) dirty dreams
by Feather Boa 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

dear sinister, around this time last year i sent a post saying how much i liked being on sinister, how cool it was, and how many great people i had met through it. well i think that that is even more true now than it was last year. i have loved everyone i've met through the list and few more so than mr Stuart h who is currently playing rose to my bob (contemporary british tv reference sorry). i had a dream the other night that we were all on a coach (very much like the one on which the york sinister massive travelled to scarborough) and someone was listening to ...miraculous technique. and i was talking to her, and then either Stuart m or Stevie (i'm hazy as to which) jumped on board the coach dressed as robin hood, while another song played in the background. i turned to the girl and she said "oh don't you know, we're in the video for marx and engels, Sarah starts singing in a minute". and that was when i knew it was a dream, because it's Isobel who sings on it, i think. anyway, that would be a cool video, one of the boys dressed as either robin hood or dick turpin, stealing from the rich to give to the poor in a marx and engels styleee. but it wasn't as good a dream as the time they played in central hall and started with the peel session in order, and migmk (Chris) got all irate, and then Richard Colburn was sitting on my windowsill. i dream about music quite a lot. the other night i thought i saw ian brown live and he was really good! i'm going to see pulp twice in november, once in york and once in london. i'm very excited, and my fanzine is going to have a pulp special in honour, even though not everyone likes them. i have spent the weekend making far from lifesize models of my favourite popstars in clay. so far i have Jarvis, Struan and Richey. i think that's enough. i'm *so* jealous of smartly dressed Rachel. anyway, i hope everyone is well and doesn't have a horrible cold like i caught off mr Stuart. pip pip, FB X ps, Ken Chu _________________________________________________________________ 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: cappuccino's,ape-men and public schoolboys...
by Desmond Torpey 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

hello sinister :) ...i dont like autumn at all...the worst thing in the world is having to turn the light on at three o clock in the afternoon because its too gloomy to see anything and hearing the rain pelt down on the windows...the situation is worsened when you have a first class hangover,no cigarettes and strange pains in your feet...ah well..the weekend was trying,tiring,sometimes fun but ultimatly unproductive...it involved a slightly bizzare trip to Oxford...one of these spur of the moment things fuelled by a need to escape your surroundings for at least a few hours..belting down the ring road at a silly speed in a decrepit green beetle with the moldy peaches blaring into the night air was extremely fun (especially if you arent the one having to drive)...alas it was downhill from there...slightly naively we expected to find a wealth of lovely,alternative places to drink with decent music and interesting people...of course every city centre in the world is usually crawling with scary people and loud but joyless pubs..how we managed to forget this fact is beyond me...where were the students in scarfs cycling along the pavement? where were the distinguished buildings and elegantly unhinged public schoolboys? I must learn to broaden my horizons..there was actually just KFC's,chain pubs and roadworks...among the ACTUAL people we met were a strange bum in a flat cap who badgered �2.50 out of me for a cappuccino...a cappuccino??...why do i give into these people?...even the down and outs had expensive tastes...there was also the inevitable scattering of tanked up football fans waving their stupid flags and screaming like ape-men who'd just discovered the miracle of fire...so we ended up in a lifeless establishement (i think it was called 'the mitre') with warm beer and tasteful muzak playing at the lowest volume possible without being turned off...a quick stumble round some extremely rich-looking buildings with the sound of affluent student parties ringing above and then it was back home again...but not before discovering that Oxford does in fact have FOUR park and ride areas leading to an hour long round-trip on the bus with some scary people yelling on the bottom deck...thus i discovered four things this weekend... i) i should abandon all preconceptions when travelling ii) i should get out more iii) most places are the same iv) i should stop giving money to rich tramps ...are there any Oxford dwelling sinisterines who could give me information for future reference on nice places to go?...on a scarier and more distressing note, it appears that air strikes have begun in Afghanistan...at least there was some kind of restraint shown and it has been nearly a month since the attacks...but there was still a forlorn hope in my mind that things would just get sorted in time and that the taliban would see sense without the need for military action..pretty stupid i guess...i know that military action was inevitable and probably neccesasary but still....the recent debate about the IRA has just made me think though...terrorism is centuries old...once bin laden is captured or killed and the immediate threat is percieved to be over..things will just go back to normal...not NORMAL because things can never normal again...but i'm scared that all this talk of a war against terrorism is just hot air and it wont be long before another tragedy on the same scale or worse will happen again...oh i've gone on too long..um... ta ta... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: **WAS IT YOU SINGING AT RAH??**
by cre 061 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

Hey hey, I have been being slack, suprise suprise. But here I am with a new spelling of my name and I am loving it... I have been reading back, and saw a post by Naffees, I love that boy. (Hi baby, just think Travis) Anyway he was talking about the RAH gig for some reason or another. But it made me think... I think her name was Maria, or something, the girl who sang: ** IF YOU ARE OR YOU KNOW THE GIRL WHO SUNG AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL I HAVE IT ALL ON TAPE IF YOU WANT A COPY!!!!** I know I would want it if it was me... I was going to go to the gig Strange Fruit arranged at Spitz last night but I couldn't be arsed. So I went to see "Battle Royale" at the picture instead. Very funny. Hhaha. I dont think it is supposed to be. They acted like they were in a musical, with really exagerated movements. Brilliant. I recommend it to all, unless you dont like violent films.. Acully, go anyway. Fantastic. Anyway, Im off. If you want a copy lady siger mail me on: reynolds_joanna(a)hotmail.com Dont mail here as I never bloody check it. My pooter is at the menders and I have to use my dads so I just dont bother instead. Mwa, Joie x _________________________________________________________________ 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: There's a lot to be done while your head is still young
by Rachel 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

Hellooooooo Sinister!! There have been quite a few great posts recently! I want to write about some of the things I've read from you lovely people lately! Stine talked about a bad experience she had in a bookstore. That altercation between the outspoken anti-gay lady and Stine sounds very alarming. Ignorance gets out of control all too fast! But I have to applaud you, Stine, for standing up to that ignorant lady, that was super cool of you!! Also your story about being in the movie theater had me laughing so hard! And then, Richard Gillanders posted about a similar experience he had in the movie theater with his family, but then maybe he was really there, and maybe not... and I think at that point I was nearly in tears, as I usually am when reading Richard Gillanders' posts--you're so damn funny!!! Now I see why Kirsten and Mandee adore you so much! My favorite line from Richard's post: "you really find out who your friends are when you get an unauthorised haircut." I am curious what that haircut might look like, and what it is that makes it unauthorised!? Did somebody come up behind you and cut your hair when you weren't looking? Or did somebody's sister do it with some old dull left-handed scissors in their backyard? I just hope it's really short on top and long in the back with racing stripes shaved into the sides of your head and in your eyebrows to match. Now THAT'S what I call an unauthorised haircut! And dear Archel Toast posted "if you could have just one track from each single/ep and two from each album, what would your final list look like?" Aside from being a scribbled up mess, mine would go something like this: You're Just a Baby I Don't Love Anyone Get me Away from Here, I'm Dying Judy and the Dream of Horses String Bean Jean Photo Jenny Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Sleep the Clock Around Simple Things Slow Graffitti The Wrong Girl Family Tree Legal Man Jonathan David ...but, man oh man, it's hard to decide! Miss Laura Llew said "I like tormenting myself through mixtapes and lack of love. It's a hobby"... Yay, I'm not the only one who does it, then?! And Laura, you know WE love you, right? Shannon started out a delicious description of the fall weather in her 'hood with the line "So. Fall has arrived. Lovely, beautiful, aching fall." and I just thought, how grate is that?! Really lovely, Shannon! Jim Gilmer wrote about riding in the backseat of his friend's car with a girl he was utterly in love with and we're riding around and "it's chilly, the kind of first autumn, end-of-October chill where it feels far colder than it is because you're not used to it yet." This story reminded me of similar experiences and what a dream-like state the weather can send us into, especially in remembering love. A beautiful story, Jim! A big ol' hug to Ian for sharing his grate pics of B&S from the San Francisco show he attended! And I thought what you said about seeing Sigur Ros at the Warfield was so true for me, too: "Although, seeing them at the same venue where I saw Belle and Sebastian is kinda weird." For a long time, any show I went to at the Warfield always reminded me of James in '94, but now I just think of The Verve... I didn't see B&S there, but I'm sure if I did, I'd be feeling the same way you do... I remember in '97 seeing Suede at the El Rey in L.A. and then a week after the tour ended, Gene played there and it was just sort of odd to think that only about a week beforehand, Suede was there. I was *REALLY* (unhealthily) into Suede back then, so I know what you're saying completely. Oh, and welcome to Sinister, Ian! Oh, and Mr. Will Salt said, as if he didn't know that his posts make all the girls weak in the knees "Um, I am? Eep. This sort of thing makes reading my email *so* embarrassing lately :-)" Of course you'd be coy about it, that's what the ladies love!! Thanks for clearing up the Krypton Factor mystery for me, everyone who so kindly jumped to my rescue! Sounds a little intense for our "Rachels v. Wills" competition! Guess what?! I got an e-mail from a SIXTH Rachel!!! This one is actually a "Rachael" and she lives in Australia, but soon to be England! I am not sure as to what her nickname is yet...I suggested Rachael Pancake or Rachael Frosties... but all the same, !Viva Rachels! Shout outs to Rachel Cornflake, Rachel Sunny Side Up, Rachel Grapenut, Archel Toast, Rachael ??, and our new honorary Rachel, Miss Katie Odle, who I lovingly refer to as Katie Cheeriodle, HR. You know what's funny? I don't even *eat* breakfast! Ben reminded us "ooh, new single in 39 days and counting, y'all get excited now, y'hear!" Ooh, I AM EXCITED, Ben!!! How come you don't want any of the Sinister boys moiving into your house, huh? Sure *everybody* wants Kirsten Kenyon to live with them!!! I can't blame you, she's like a pack of gum--double mint! ;) Thanks to Lawrence who broke this news: "THE NEW SINGLE IS CALLED "WAKING UP TO US" AND IS COMING OUT ON NOVEMBER 26th! (Same b-sides by the look of it, different a-side, obviously)" Maybe I'm the only kid in the class who wasn't aware, either, but I'm glad to be told that they changed the name of "The Season Has Arrived" to "Waking Up To Us" I was worried there for a second, too! Call me ignorant, but when is this Storytelling movie coming out, anyway? Anyone know? KEN CHU KEN CHU KEN CHU!! There, I filled my quota! Just kidding! Ken Chu wrote the most charming post about his mum visiting and about living alone and cooking for himself and being able to record without being embarrassed to sing! *I want to pinch your cheeks, you adorable boy!* My favorite quote was "Mum called back saying she's arrived, and nagged about things, but the nagging sounds a lot more exotic now it comes all the way from Hong Kong." Can my mum go to live with yours in Hong Kong? Exotic nagging would be nice for a change!!! Shout outs to my girls in Wisconsin!! Elise and Kirsten, you rock my world!!! Hugs to Mandee and Danny, too! *******Colin boy, don't read this part!************ Last night, I went out with a fellow Sinisterine, Ryan! We saw the movie 'Ghost World' (which Colin and Katie Cheeriodle, HR, recommended) and it was grate! Then we had dinner and talked for a while and it was really fun. Ryan is *such* a nice boy! And ladies, he's real cute!!!!! *******Ryan, don't read this part!***************** *******Colin boy, read this part!****************** Yeah, so when I went out with Ryan last night... it was alright. Isn't it funny how one week you can feel like the biggest loser on earth, going out by yourself on your birthday and the next week you have 2 really super cool boys taking you out/announcing your marriage?! Ahhh, only in the world of Sinister... I think I'll stay! ;) Love to you all--especially my crush, Rachel the fitter, happier fruitloop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: "he kept withdrawing and withdrawing and withdrawing until he just disappeared"
by chris_t_opher 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

heylo i seem to have become a lurker. i didnt use to be but its just less pressure this way. but, to keep up my twice-yearly pattern, here i am again. tv in the uk is great this weekend. Blade and (the funny bits of) Austin Powers last night, the Thomas Crown Affair right now, the Usual Suspects tonight. its meant that i havent really left the house. so, thankyou tv-networks for saving me money in the long-run. the soundtrack for the thomas crown affair is very belle and sebby actually. i could easily imagine them covering a couple of the songs ive heard so far. just like the Graduate. which makes me think..... if b+s were around 35 years ago, would they have been chart-toppers? theyd definitely be mainstream, wouldnt they? much-delayed reference but im sorry i didnt make it to the manchester picnic. my house is probably closer than anyone else's (especially ken's) to the picnicking place but i didnt hear about it until it was finishing :o( i promise if someone organises another, i shall attend (*hinthint*) a couple of music-related things.... the hefner album is good. maybe cheesy, but good. i mean, its not exactly baxendale, is it? :o) the sodastream album is grate! cant wait for their european tour. someone else (stankin, i think) said it but if they are playing even *remotely* near you, make the effort. and finally, ive borrowed the strokes album (finally) and i agree that some of their stuff is grate. but they could have compacted it all into an EP, couldnt they? or would that have just led to *even more* hype in the end? all hype, no brains... chris ps. im watching two squirrels fighting over territory. fun! ------------------------------------------ http://www.lostharbour.org ------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.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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