October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: ultra-violet ultra-love
by elise j. spry 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Dear Sini-Kids, Just wanted to say "hello" to everyone, and to share a funny thought (well, a few other thoughts too): Belle and Sebastian and Destiny's Child should get together and do a duet. They could do a song called "Judy-licious". Hee hee hee! Ahhh, I crack myself up sometimes. Shouts out to Sean, my brilliant and sweet love, we double-crushed each other! (is that the right phrase?) And to Rachel Fruitloop (is that the right Rachel?), I adore both of you for your support and for being oh-so-special. Also, a not so fun thought: I believe it was a "Priscilla" who made some not-so-nice comments about sad and lonely people, and how they shouldn't share their feelings on the list. I do not want to start any static on our beloved Sinister, but Miss Thang, some people HAVE feelings, and sharing them with other kind and sweet people (unlike you) helps them deal with being sad or feeling unloved. So go on with your bad, aristocratic, and elitist self, but don't make those people, like myself, who venture out to get some help and a shoulder to cry on feel even worse. That said, I'll sign off and wait for the flames to come. :) Love, lipgloss, and lingerie, -elise P.S. Any word on a Chicago meet-up/picnic? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.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: Only the sea makes sense
by u07lec＠abdn.ac.uk 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

hello sinister! I returned home from a field trip to find you all waiting for me in my inbox, and I was glad, because I'd spent a whole week sliding around on rocks, and losing my feet in rock pools. It was nice to be warm and dry and reading all your posts. I especially liked kirsten's posts, as always, and I loved the thought of the graffiti that gina mentioned. I think I might adopt "ah good, the sea" as my own phrase. It sounds so happy and relaxed, like you expect the sea to be there anyway, but it's still a warm, quiet, lovely surprise when you see it there in front of you. I love the sea too, although my devotion has been severely tested this past week. Everyone I know can recall me talking at great length about the sea; conspicuously, I haven't felt the urge to talk about it this week, after spending eight days on various beaches in the north of scotland, getting up close and personal with the North Sea and the surrounding geology. brrr. The best part was going to Dunnet Head, the most northerly point of the British mainland, one evening, just as the sun was starting to set, and standing on the edge of a cliff (behind a stone wall, of course...I may be stupid, but I'm not brave...). I don't think I've ever stood somewhere like that before, where you can look straight ahead, out to sea, and there's just nothing. All around, just a uniform grey sky, punctuated to the west by a low smear of pink, to the east by the vague form of the islands, smudged and vague behind the fog and the wind and the grey. I could have stayed there for the whole week; instead I gave myself a cracking cut/bruise at Portskerra (on a big nasty piece of gneiss - "that's why they call it hard-rock geology" apparently. hohum), smashed bits of shale open in the vain hope of finding some fossil fish (it turned out to be not such a vain hope after all!) at Achanarras, and erm, trampled through a lot of bracken at Helmsdale. All in all, it was a good week, although I would recommend any visitors to Helmsdale not to buy their sandwiches in the Spar there. It is inevitable that whatever you ask for in your roll,you will be given what is essentially a mayonnaise roll with small inclusions of whatever you actually asked for. And it's not very nice. Things have been all exciting around this way recently. University has started again, and I have to say, there has been an increase in the number of B&S t-shirts around campus. I have seen two this week already, that's a 100% increase since last year, which, mathematically speaking, is pretty damn good. So if either of those two Aberdeen university B&S t-shirt wearing folk are on sinister, show your faces now. Speaking of Aberdeen: I have noticed there are a few sinisterites currently in Aberdeen, I have spoken to one already, and I know of at least one more. Myself and Sunset are having preparatory talks on the subject of a Grampian Region get-together (picnic??? It's never picnic weather here!!), either in Dundee or Aberdeen, so if anyone is interested, I'll volunteer to be 'picnic' mummy (eek!). If nobody else is interested, I suppose the two of us will just have to meet up in the pub and get drunk instead. A pub-nic, I suppose. Without the -nic. ************B&S content*************** My brother has just started university in dundee, and a friend of mine was kind enough to drive me there to do my big-sisterly thing, and make sure he did all the things he was meant to, like eat, and drink water and find his timetable. On the way, we listened to B&S in the car, and my friend was quite happy with this, until LLPJ came on, at which point he said "this is that one I hate!!!", and switched the stereo off. Even though I think it's a cracking song, his reasoning for hating it was actually quite well-justified. He lived in a lot of british holiday resorts as a child, you know the sort, Ladbrokes and Pontins and suchlike, because of his dad's job, and consequently he saw an AWFUL lot of ..well, AWFUL cabaret acts. He said he likes the song, apart from the part where Monica Queen is singing, because it reminds him of a particular brand of dodgy cabaret he saw a lot of. You know the sort of thing: a short, middle-aged man, with a receding hairline, wearing a polyester suit with dandruff on the shoulders, crooning away with his face all twisted and full of "passion", pointing at the ladies in the audience while he sings. Then there's the middle-aged woman, with green sequinned cocktail dress, shoulder pads, blue eyeshadow, fuschia lipstick, lots of blue eyeliner, sequinned stilettos, starting to wail into the microphone about "the greatest love of all" or something along those lines. Then the little old man at the back gets his turn, on the organ, (this is usually the best part - and he would probably be wearing an old dinner suit and a polka dot bow tie, have no teeth, and sit grinning maniacally behind his organ) and all the old dears at the front get up and slow-dance at the front of the stage, before the stage has to be quickly cleared for the presentation of the prize for the children's fancy dress competition. This image has made me giggle every time I hear monica queen hitting the higher notes, thinking about that green sequinned dress and probably some american tan tights to boot. And on that note.... Hasta luego sinister lyns xx ps: If anyone is interested in the above-mentioned get-together, email me offlist and we can assess interest levels. --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using DISS Web Mail. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/local/mailman/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Dublin Is Dead
by Dirty Vicar 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

I'm a bit depressed about the incredibly poor response to my mail floating the idea of a Dublin Sinister picnic. Are there really only five Sinister listers in this city (and one of them was actually in Cork, which is not Dublin)? My suggested idea for a Sinister get together was to take the DART out to Bray and then walk along the sea front being Byronic and windswept. Then we could go and throw away money in the amusements before hitting the lovely pubs of that blessed town. So are so few people really game for such incredible fun? In other news I went to see the Preston School of Industry on Saturday, mainly because their name reminded of The Mull Historical Society. They were very exciting. At the disco afterwards the DJ played Legal Man so Rener and I danced like lunatics. I gather Legal Man is the B&S song they always play at indie discos. party on. DV` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ThanQ Honey *** *** ** laid etc....
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

The title? ..well those in the know, know, you know. So. Hey this weekend was rather energetic! London's like that tho isn't it, and did I have fun! After the initial "WOW" of Londono San Pancarous, and the "Oh this is dangerous"of the tube, and the "So that place is real and not just a set they use on the news" as you stroll past the power-places. I got lost in a Virgin Megastore, cos they had a sale and lots of things were very budgie-like, Just a pound for Craig David's latest mumblings, search as I did, I just couldn't find it tho (probably sold out in a mad rush when the doors opened that morning) hmmm,yes James. All was not lost mind, I went for the door then stopped and was compelled to pick up a record by some band called Hefner and then another by The Aislers Set. I don't know !, whatever next? --------------------------- Met Lovely Miss Jenni at Camden Town Tube. ----------------------------------- Camden is not quite the quiet little suburb I was expecting, aww! innocent little country gent, It was MEGA!! with all the market area (James rubs his bruised chin, caused by walking about with a jaw scraping the floor after a particularly strong trip on 'London' ) we had a fantastic little wander round there. SILVER SCREEN If I had my way I'd send every single one of you Sinister people out to fill the nations Cinema's and order the showing of 'Together' Ever so good, it is, with lot's of 70's Swedes in amusing situations. Brill ! Sunday had a warm glow all of it's own. ..even if I did have come back to Leicester that evening, all was well ! because I met up with Ken and Maddie in a fave continental cafe/bar place called Bossa (Luvies!). Details of the night would only complicate what was simply a piss-up and I don't think you lot need one of those explaining.. Some weekends catch the light, weekends like diamonds, said Mr David, sort of. If anyone really does read this FAR then you're are absolute STAR. Contented, James. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 back
by Daniela Varanda 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

I´m back just for asking brazilian sinisters if they don´t want to arrange a picnic before the concert happens. By the way, don´t forget to buy your tickets, cause they started selling them today. Love, DAniela _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm a piece of meaty goodness
by Sam Walton 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hello, you 'orrible lot. Talking of 'orrible, don't you think that the Johnny Vaughan sitcom thing is utter cobblers? I do. I've never seen so much steaming cack in all my life, and I was at Glastonbury 1998. A good show, though, is The Armando Ianucci Shows, which I thought nobody else watched, but I'm glad that BigStu does ;). It's rather good - comedy, with a *message*. In a few days time I will officially begin my membership of the YSM (The York Sinister Massive), when I arrive at the venerable institution that some call The University Of York. All that anybody seems to be asking me these days is "Are you prepared/excited/nervous about starting university", and all that jazz, but the funny thing is that I was cool about it until everybody started asking me if I was okay. But I've come to the conclusion that Fresher's Week will be very much like a Strokes LP: over-hyped, easily forgettable and surprisingly short. I'd also like to say happy birthday to Beans for tomorrow. David Moore posted the birthdays of the members of the band a few weeks ago, but Belfast Bob appeared not to be included. I've come to the conclusion that he is therefore God, for the following reason: if he never had a birthday, he was never born; therefore he has always existed, and so he must be God. Oh yeah, and he has long hair too. Maybe he does have a birthday, but he's just being mysterious, trying to fit in the with the classic B&S mould, before they sold out to the Man, man. BigStu also mentioned that "The Boy Done Wrong Again" was his least favourite B&S song. I'd like to suggest "Nice Day For A Sulk", for the same reasons that Stu suggested. It's even more completely innocuous and impossible to have an opinion on than, say, knitting patterns. Just a point of view. Until next time, you slags... Asm.x ================= "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield _________________________________________________________________ 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: are you calling mr simpson a liar?no but have pics of him with his pants on fire
by staralful - 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Dear all I hope this finds you in fine fettle- I am in fine form finally-even though the ould leaving cert is getting on top of me I feel fine and dandy. I really cant believe four weeks have passed since the events in New York but with that time I have become more reflective on the whole thing. 5000 people at once is a lot of people but in the last month at least that number have died of hunger in the world and other unavoidable situations. The other day I was reading that since 1916 (since the country I live in was officially recognized) at least that number again have been killed as a result of the trouble in and around the North and the sectarian divide there but over time and especially since the late 60s the people here have grown used to hearing about pipe bombs and car bombs going off and murders and punishment beatingsso much so that it has grown a part of life here and as horrible as it is people really ignore these items that appear 3rd or 4th in the line up in the news if that. People have grown immune to the whole thing and nothing really shocks people here that much when they hear about things. Nothing that is up until 4 weeks ago .On the Friday after the planes went into the buildings Ireland had an official day of mourning meaning that all the shops and schools and banks shut. It felt like Christmas in a weird way as the country was suspended in a state of Limbo. The minutes silence was supposed to be observed but no one I knew did it. The government here said they stood in solidarity with the US but the impression that I have I got from speaking to people around that I know. Was there a minutes silence when the gulf war was on or when 5000 people died cos of hunger.Like arse there was.People here think that the chickens have come home to roost. The person that supposedly masterminded the attack was about 15 years ago funded by the cia to aid the Mulaajah in the fight against the Russians and was trained. On top of that the tunnels and camps where he resides were built with assistence from the states. But it really is a case of the right hand doing one thing and the left hand doing something behind the back hoping that the right wont realise. The USs ethical foreign policy of bombing and punishing the people of Iraq for their leaders stupidity (in the gulf war 100,000 Iraqis were killed but who cares about that when Americans were) This leader was again funded by the US. Countless others have been killed by the sanctions being placed on that country. The US tried to have it all ways and the events really have showed that you cant both punish and reward a people because you are the most advanced part of civilisation. So it really is a case of the chickens coming home to roost and although the events in New York were dreadful and a lot of people were missing people just think for a second about the families at the moment who apart from the sure conflict in Afghanistan are losing family members to hunger or the 100s of thousands of people going with less food because of sanctions placed on their country while the country placing the sanctions also take the oil supplies which could make that country better off. Even for a second think about the 28 people that have died in the time that it has taken me to write this sentence . The message is a lot of people are suffering apart from Americans who are a lot of them realising that for the first time-not everyone likes them. (one of the reports I read had the questionwhy are they doing this to a country universally loved and worshiped) I hope I havent offended anyone. ********staralful******** _________________________________________________________________ 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: brighton belle
by Rachel Playforth 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

i nearly posted on saturday night when i got home from a night of b52s and latin jazz, drunk and extremely happy in a sickening, hippyish, 'i've just walked home through the silence of a beautiful starry night in the city i love best with only the b&s tunes in my head for company' kind of way. so count yourselves lucky that i've had a whole rainy sunday to sober, and toughen, up again. i'll leave the tender touch to dimitra, astrid and will, who do it so much better. yesterday i had to negotiate police lines to get to my favourite restaurant. there were about 4000 protesters outside the conference centre and elsewhere, and about 5000 armed police... some very good (if utterly utterly pointless) speeches were made about why we shouldn't go to war, but i found it a bit annoying the way every grievance and agenda was crowbarred into the protest. i'm sure we're all very upset that baby seals are being clubbed, but... i have listened to dead media now, and can imagine the studio conversation going something like, 'hey guys, we've written all these cynical, bittersweet rock songs like we normally do, but you know what? those daft punk chaps are doing terribly well, why don't we play around on this equipment and see if we can sound like them'. cheers darren. i say lock them in a garage with nothing but some saucepan lids and a banjo. i've been reading ghost world. it's very good, and reminds me a bit of jenowl (sorry if that's a bad thing.) can't wait to see the film, especially as steve buscemi's in it. i'm going off to convert a japanese oasis fan to belle and sebastian now. wish me luck... luv archel toast (although today i've been mostly archel bagel) *************************************** archel(a)iname.com For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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: you made me forget my dreams...
by Rachel 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hello Sinister! This morning I woke up knowing that another girl is asleep in my boyfriend's bed next to him. And it's my birthday... I am trying to not be "the girl" about it, you know? Jealous and suspicious...but i think I have a right to be. This said girl asleep next to the boyfriend is actually his ex girlfriend. They are good friends. I can't deny him that. She's been here since Friday and I haven't met her. Part of me wants to, but part of me doesn't. Maybe I give him too much power over me. He is very young, only 18. He is going through an intense art school and it's his first time at college and living on his own. He keeps me at arm's length a lot because he is afraid of falling in love and being distracted from his work. My mind is telling me that I'm an idiot and I shouldn't have gotten this far into it. My heart is telling me that he's special and I just need to be patient. And then my mind scolds my heart for being so naive and that there is NO WAY this is going to work out. See, the thing is, if I were 18 too, I would be FLIPPED OUT over this ex girlfriend thing. I would be HATING HIM. How dare he allow her to come to visit over MY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!!! But now that I'm in my mid-twenties, I see that he has no control over these things. Especially because he's 18. I think I am learning, the hard way, the process of the male mind. And he tells me that I always know what he's thinking, that I can see down to the core of him. It bothers him. It bothers me today because if I truly know what he's thinking then this situation with his ex girlfriend is not as innocent as it seems. I think he wants something to happen between them. We're supposed to see Ivy play tonight. He *forgot* and made plans to meet with his cousin about a project they're working on. He changed his meeting with his cousin, but GOD, he didn't even have it on his mind that it is my birthday and we made plans for this 2 months ago! Now he's saying he'll bring his friend along. I told him that he doesn't have to go with me. But he says he wants to, but I told him to call me when he figures it out. And so far, no call. I think I'd rather go alone. I don't want it to be tense and be this THING and I'm a little bit afraid I might act like a big bitch. It's just so weird to think that less than a month ago, everything was good, we danced onstage with Belle & Sebastian together! I felt like we were...I dunno...grate together. Even Stuart noticed. This is a wake up call for me. it's not easy to admit when something that you want to work out so badly is just not going to. THIS IS MY WEEKEND DAMNIT!!!! Last night as I drove up Highland Ave in Hollywood, on my way home from a club that I went to by myself, I decided that I will go to this show tonight by myself as well. Colin in Lexington is brave enough to move to Chicago by himself, so I can certainly go out on my own. Besides, if I don't get out there I'll never meet any nice boys... It just reminds me of a Morrissey line "You are repressed, but you're remarkably dressed" and I will be smartly dressed, after all. so... That's my story. I know this is long, but I just have a couple other things to talk about. here's something I like to call **************DIDN'T CHU KNOW************** It's better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved Red Bull... And in !Viva Rachels! news, Rachel Sunset, who I will aptly call Rachel Sunny Side Up in accordance with our breakfast theme, has just announced that she is in fact a sinister spy. That would explain why she has used the name Rachel, she thought she's just slip right into the ranks...and a fine plan it was... There are 5 of us now? I think we have enough Rachels to challenge the list Williams to a "battle of Wills". What that entails is another matter altogether. Maybe some other Rachel or William listees have some ideas? Or any non-rachel or non-william listees, feel free to give us suggestions! What do you think Rachels Cornflake, Grape-nut (hey Rachel Grape, please e-mail me!), Archel Toast, Rachel Sunny Side Up? Did I miss anyone? I'd like to tell Will, JenOwl, Kirsten and Astrid that your posts are...well, grate. I really enjoyed them, so thank you. The Boy Colin sent me the most adorable presents and a mix cd that is superb. He is a sweetheart. I'm so lucky to have friends like him and all the rest of you sinisterines!! (that means you, too, Elise!) And one more thing. I think we've sort of passed over the fact that Belle & Sebastian did a cover of BILLIE JEAN!!!! Where was that? Seattle? WHY do they rock my world so!!!? I wish I could have seen and heard that. I'm off to get smartly dressed for the Ivy show... Love to all of you, Rachel the Crazy Smartly Dressed Fruitloop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.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: absinth makes the heart grow fonder
by Stankin' Cooter 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

My Treasures: Last week, I was sitting at my desk, doing some work and listening to The Fox in the Snow. This, in itself, is not a particularly unusual thing, and certainly not post-worthy, by any stretch of even the most fevered imagination. The thing is, though, that my desk is in Australia, where it was mid-afternoon; the song was being played on a radio show hosted by a listee in Colorado, where it was late at night; and the song was requested by another listee phoning in from the UK, where it was very early morning indeed. Even over the crackly, intermittent, low-bandwith audio stream, the song sounded pretty good. Mandee: Im a big fan of your work, and Im at least halfway tempted to give you a call myself, if youre in the habit of granting the musical requests of international callers. Plus, you know, it seems to be the done thing. Ken: What on earth were you doing up at such an ungodly hour? And you sound nothing at all like Mojo Jojo, somewhat disappointingly. Some considerable mention was made on Mandees show about Halloween. Unfortunately, we dont really have Halloween here, being the third world and all. I remember being about 10 years old, and my older cousin suggesting that we go trick or treating, and get some STUFF! It sounded like a great idea. I like stuff. (I like things too, but theyre mostly made up of stuff anyway.) The problem was, though, that we were staying with family, at a little house in a small, sleepy country town, where a lot of the locals were somewhat out of touch. We went to the door of one house, knocked, and a confused, elderly woman answered the door. Being something of a staunch traditionalist, I put the question trick or treat? to her, and she responded with neither, thankyou, and slammed the door in our ham-fistedly made-up and otherwise decorated and/or disfigured faces. To be perfectly honest, we didnt really know what it meant either, although my cousin had attempted to explain it. As we wandered back down the path, to try the next house, the understandably confused woman reappeared at the door, holding something large in her hands, and yelled at us. Memory tells me that the object in her hands was almost certainly a shotgun, and that she pointed it at us in a threatening manner. Memory can be tricky, though, when it comes to warm childhood nights in late spring, spent wandering about strange places. Also, one of the houses was full of partying teenagers who thought it would be funny to give us some booze for a treat; that may have had something to do with it as well. A few people have mentioned Sodastream recently. I had the distinct pleasure of seeing them play live not so long ago; it was a breathtaking experience which may have even prompted a post, if memory serves. They were giving out a three-song sampler of The Hill For Company, which I think I must have very nearly worn out in the time between the gig and the release of the album proper. I bought the album the moment it came out, and thankfully it proved to be every bit as spotless in its full-length form as it was as a sampler. I cant possibly recommend it anything even remotely approaching strong enough terms. It sometimes seems as if there are few advantages to living here, being a music obsessive. I pay through the nose for imports that I have to wait weeks for, and Ill never see most of my favourite bands live. Being able to stroll down to the local, and have a band like this tie my stomach in a knot for a fiver in the back room, though, makes it all seem a bit more balanced, at least for a while. If theyre playing anywhere near you, please go and check them out; youll be gob-smacked, I promise. The newly employed, though consistently inimitable Miss Madeleine of Leicester gave me an honourable mention. Im not quite sure what on earth I could have possibly done to deserve such an accolade, but thanks ever so much all the same, mdear. And, straight back at you, with a side order of congratulations, it should go without saying. Ill also take part of my fifteen minutes to welcome Australian Jen to the fold. I dont know how weve made it this far without you. Kirsten Kenyon said: and then you wake up one morning to find frost on the ground and an angry mob of scary geese hissing at each other and doing their dirty business all over your backyard. If I thought that it was possible to wake up to find such a thing, Id never sleep again. I actually may not be able to anyway, just at the thought of this. Add in a couple of cabbage patch kids, a Madness record and some long thin things that poke in your ear, and youve got my own personal hell, right there. Autumn is my favourite season, but I cant think of anything more terrifying that a mob of enraged, honking, great big crapping geese. Im therefore pleased that its spring here, and that Im in a part of the world with considerably lower levels of geese infestation. Ill leave it at that for today. Im at the end of a five-day bender of what might perhaps be best described as Chu-ian proportions, by the sound of things, and I think that Im probably at the end of my rope as well. Im never drinking again. Hey! No chuckling up the back there! Take nothing but the very best of care, and stay double baked, for extra crunch! Bulk love, -David. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. 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