October 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: do your dance; do your funny little dance
by Ian Rivamonte 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hello Sinister, I'm just sitting here "chillin'" after reading some Torts and doing a Contracts hypothetical. For you kids planning on going to law school or its equivalent, hope you're having as much fun as I am!! (note sarcasm). So, I haven't had a chance to listen to my new CDs of late. My friend just came back from England and she gave me the most wonderful present: Pulp. The new CD was "weird" at first to me. Jarvis talking about shrubbery and all that (weeds, weeds II, and trees). But now I absolutely love it!! My favourite line in the entire CD is the subject line above. Jarvis says it so sexy like. And I'm still mourning about the Divine Comedy breaking up. Does anyone else here think that Parlophone intentionally did this? Why is it that Parlophone only contracted Neil Hannon but not the Talbots and the others? Regeneration was the first album, to my knowledge, where I actually saw the entire band in full. Usually, it's just Neil on there looking all pretty and witty with his scarf. I was listening to my Divine Comedy bootleg from their Edinburgh Liquid Room gig on 25 February 2000. It's weird to hear the Regeneration songs in there in it's infancy. Did you know that line in "Timestretched" where he says the said title was originally penned as "let's dance"? And one of the songs (sorry, forgot the title) sounded like a rumba with the bongo drums? And now Tim Booth of James is no more as well. What gives? New SFA in the USA on Tuesday. Support your local Welsh indie bands. I hear it's a superb album. Anyways, enough of my yapping. I'll let Kenneth Y P Chu, the Rachels, and the Williams' do the more creative yappin here. By the way, my second first name is Wil. Do I get to be in the Williams' group? Cheers, Ian Wil +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Expelliarmus!
by Tim Banning 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

FORGOT IF I SENT IT, IF ITS ON TWICE, I'M SORRY, IT'S THE SAME THING. Hello All. So...I buzzed my hair off last night. I kind of like it. My scalp is dry so it itches and is cold at the same time. I had to do it for the dumb play I'm doing, where I'm the learning disabled brother of a skin head. it sucks. But the Good thing is that I'm starting to make friends again via cast mates. I know that sounds sappy but when I moved, all of my friends moved away too, and when I moved back they were all gone. So, now with the exception of the a few random people I've known for about 10 years, I have very few friends. The girl, who continues to be very very lame, is pretty much my best friend, but she's far away. Morning becomes eclectic (public radio show) played some Belle and Sebastian this morning. I was actually on the web looking for the new songs (which I can't find, and if someone would like to put me in the right direction it would be much obliged) and Nic Harcort said, "And some Belle and Sebastian after the break" I say "Sweet!" and it just turns out to be Women's Realm HEY!! speaking of Women's Realm, did anyone else notice that when they played it live, they skipped the last verse? That is my favorite verse and one of my favorite moments on that album!! I was sort of disappointed at that (but at the same time thrilled that it was live!). I mean, its the verse with the actual line "...with a torch and a WOMEN'S REALM" the title of the song!! arrg. I have to work at 7:30 in the a.m. tomorrow, or today, as you all be reading this. I'm working at the coffee shop. Selling Latte's and FruFru drinks to crusty loud caucasion women...but i'm not bitter. ahh the life. all of you take care, thanks for all your emails, tina, rachel and the wills. out, tim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Expelliarmus!
by Tim Banning 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hello All. So...I buzzed my hair off last night. I kind of like it. My scalp is dry so it itches and is cold at the same time. I had to do it for the dumb play I'm doing, where I'm the learning disabled brother of a skin head. it sucks. But the Good thing is that I'm starting to make friends again via cast mates. I know that sounds sappy but when I moved, all of my friends moved away too, and when I moved back they were all gone. So, now with the exception of the a few random people I've known for about 10 years, I have very few friends. The girl, who continues to be very very lame, is pretty much my best friend, but she's far away. Morning becomes eclectic (public radio show) played some Belle and Sebastian this morning. I was actually on the web looking for the new songs (which I can't find, and if someone would like to put me in the right direction it would be much obliged) and Nic Harcort said, "And some Belle and Sebastian after the break" I say "Sweet!" and it just turns out to be Women's Realm HEY!! speaking of Women's Realm, did anyone else notice that when they played it live, they skipped the last verse? That is my favorite verse and one of my favorite moments on that album!! I was sort of disappointed at that (but at the same time thrilled that it was live!). I mean, its the verse with the actual line "...with a torch and a WOMEN'S REALM" the title of the song!! arrg. I have to work at 7:30 in the a.m. tomorrow, or today, as you all be reading this. I'm working at the coffee shop. Selling Latte's and FruFru drinks to crusty loud caucasion women...but i'm not bitter. ahh the life. all of you take care, thanks for all your emails, tina, rachel and the wills. out, tim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: it's winter now i waken
by Kirsten Kenyon 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

so it's not really winter...it feels like it. it feels good. the cold led me to hurry to my car after work tonight, and i worried for a bit when my key would not turn in the lock. it wasn't that cold. glancing through the window, i wondered when and why and in what state of mind i had purchased this month's issue of "cosmopolitan." looking more closely, i then wondered when and how i had acquired a baby, necessitating the small white child's seat in the back of the car. i looked around for a moment, then removed my key and walked two spaces over to my own car. no "cosmopolitan." no baby seat. the key turned and i got in and shivered. partly because of the cold, and partly because something just felt creepy. it wasn't a big deal..i was just really glad.... i'm starting a new job on thursday, serving all varieties of noodles to the good people of brookfield. they're all talking at the shop...placing small bets on how long i'll last before i come crawling back. i probably will, too. i'll probably be a fine noodle bar employee for two weeks, and then one morning ann will go in to open the shop and when she turns on the lights she'll see me standing outside with my nose pressed against the window, shivering in my beloved girl scouts shirt and clutching a plastic grocery bag full of cds, pleading please not to send me back, they make me wear a uniform and listen to wklh. and they'll take me back, i know. it's good to know. it's an okay job. besides that, it's just nice to have something...stable. i've been thinking about the holidays. the christmas tree went up in the mall today, which is almost terrifying. my mom wants to go to the cayman islands for christmas. the whole family. it's a nice idea, but it would be like this: mom and dad walking on the beach. allie picking up boys. david and kirsten sitting in a tiki bar. the whole time. i told my mom that, and she reluctantly admitted it herself and i don't think we were really going to go anyway. i thought some more...about taking my own little trip after christmas. i need to stay for christmas....apparently. the church choir is still counting on me for the hallelujah chorus, like every year...i'm surprised they remember me, really. but they do. and i have to do it. again. i'm not sure about going anywhere anyway... i spoke to a certain ken on the telephone today...cool. kewl. he does a mean jerry springer man-who's-actually-a-woman accent. my left leg has been hurting for several days, and i have to say i'm a bit worried about it. there's just no reason...i'm a horrible hypochondriac. sitting in the grey stairwell on my break reading a book this evening...there's a man who has walked past and found me that way nearly every day for the past year and a half. and every day, the same conversation. "good book?" "hm? oh, yes. quite." "good, good." then he usually says something about how it's not really that nasty outside and that i should go downstairs and join him for a smoke on the sidewalk, and i always say no, thank you. but he says it anyway, every time. it is a good book, anyway. my leg is hurting something fierce. i must have meepmeeped into a parked car or something. *sigh* love kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: trying to sell a sucker a style
by lindsey baker 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

hello sinister. halloween shenanigens have hit the newsroom, and i am frightened to say that the few spangled and feathered masks floating around down here have been worn by almost every staffer except your miss lou. thank goodness, as i was never much of one for communal images. we always have candy down here, and i do think the gossip and innuendos and cheap posed attitudes serve as masks enough to say that every day down here might, in fact, be halloween. which leads me to talking about my halloween costume. i have decided to be the same thing as i was last hallow's eve. a bride. yes. me. in white. after labor day. yikes. the reasoning for this decision is actually threefold: 1. i was planning to be velma from the illustrious scooby doo gang. and those of you who have had the privilege of seeing my photo will have to agree that i would have made the perfect velma, albeit with daphne's facial features. he he but. the boy. who was to be shaggy. well. he's having fun with that other girl who's apparently more fun than me. so. next reason. 2. dressing up as a bride is fun fun fun. glitter and tulle and flowers and miles of fabric. i'm a girl, and when i wear big dresses, i get especially happily girly. and finally 3. i am never getting married, so wearing a wedding dress every halloween is the perfect excuse for me to wear the dress! and, if i ever happen to get married, i'll be wearing a dress on halloween anyway, so halloween can be the blessed day for the blessed and unexpected event. i am quite happy about this new tradition i am about to instill, but, in the back of my mind i hear... ...danny. lindsey you must not think like this. and people keep telling me that i'll get married one day and blah blah blah the same old comforting shit from the same old people getting ready to don costumes over costumes for the party at the end of the week. the party is at the managing editor's house. my cronies, the news desk, pretty easily despise the managing editor. so. costumes over costumes. arrive at the door with gin and fake smiles and leave on the arm of whatever sports writer was nearest and more drunk than you. this does not sound fun. which is why reason two in the list above is so important. the glitter and tulle and such. so. friday. i will be a puffy sweet-smelling cloud of bridal goodness. and i will be the most single bride to ever run around lincoln. maybe. he he at any rate. long live miss havisham. and as i intend to close this chapter in haiku-lou's latest stage of grief over her ever-present love crises, i suddenly realize i should send some kind of post with some kind of content. so. i loaned out my boy with the arab strap cd a bit ago and still haven't gotten it back. this makes me happy that i must have spawned another ravenous b&s fan. but. bwtas is my favorite b&s. and. i. want. it. back. love. lindsey _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: she summered every winter
by Robyn Fadden 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

sinister! wow, the pernice brothers! i saw them last night and it was great. there was pop and rock and even ba ba ba's. and depressing lyrics! and catchy hooks! my boyfriend said that someone should tell joe pernice to lower the mic stand so he doesn't have to bend his knees and sing 'up' and such, but i think that's just his style. right? eh? yeah. i like him just fine. and stereolab on thursday. lots of stereolab goodness. and laetitia on trombone. trombone! what a good instrument with all its slidyness. and her haircut is good too. i did see the nick drake documentary at the film fest here. and it had danish subtitles which i kept trying not to read and then inadvertantly finding them funny b/c i was reading them as i would read english. because i don't understand danish at all. anyway, the film was good. and sad, but you know that going in, don't you? and it was just lovely to hear nick drake songs in this big dark full theatre with surround digital sound. it was double-billed with some short films/videos for sparklehorse songs. my favourite being the guy maddin film. guy maddin! yeah! he is the rocks. but the films were part of an mtv show hosted by someone who's probably famous but i'm too ignorant of such things to know him. actually, it might not have been mtv - it was called 'sonic cinema', the show, so i don't know. regardless, he reminded me of the chicken lady of kids in the hall fame and i started laughing about 10 seconds after he started introducing the show. and then my friends started laughing. and then by halfway through everyone was just laughing at the guy no matter what he said. it was *how* he said it, yo. i like how the list of b&s covers includes my embarassing entry of 'a left banke song'. holy crap, i should do my homework and listen to some music now and then so as to be able to distinguish songs and their names. but really though i tried to make a mixed tape yesterday and realized i have three times as many cds as i had the last time i tried to make a mixed tape. *is* more better? is it? i've actually been hurt when piles of cds fall off whatever surface they are on, becoming plastic projectiles of pain headed straight for my bare feet. yeah, so i thought i'd visit eng-a-land in november, but obviously i've spent all my money on cds. i don't know. i was a fairy (faeirie) for pre-actual-halloween. usually i am something evil or dead or evil-dead. with blood. but i had this dress (gown, some might say) i never wear and got bored of it's unwornness, so i put some wings and glitter on. and my red boots, which i really think are what fairies would wear if they needed shoes. later i drank some gin out of a jar for a while. from what i observed it seemed a lot of people were dressed as hunter s. thompson. or maybe just *like* him. just contemplating a graduate degree, not to worry. back to working, robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ 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: Eyes don't bluff anyone
by Kenneth P Y Chu 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

Hello, You know how the clocks go back is supposed to give you an extra hour to sleep and that, and so you should feel very energised and stuff for work on the Monday, well it hadn't worked. I slept for the whole weekend almost and had hours upon hours of sleep last night, and I still woke up tireder than ever. Woke up at 8:30am which is when I'm supposed to arrive at the office, I rumbled around for ages had to iron work clothes and that, and then I realised that I couldn't find my tie anywhere and that was the final straw and I called into work sick. I felt a bit stupid as I found my tie as soon as I put down the phone to the office. But then I felt great cos I just gave myself a bank holiday Monday. Yeah I'm making up my own holidays dude, I am declaring it "MON day", which stands for um.. "Monday Otiosity's Nice" day. Then I spent the whole day then tidying up the kitchen and sorted out all the bills and everything, i.e. doing everything that I should have done on Sunday, so my house looked spanking great and shiny again. Then tonight I cooked myself the BEST curry ever, which was a bit better than the second best curry ever, and as a result the kitchen is now a mess again. The moral of the story is.. um.. that girls should invite Ken out to dates soon. and that red bull is great. There has been a lot of talks about a Sinister under20's love club, I think it is grossly unfair idea, for I have just turned 21 a few months ago, and have therefore missed out. I've already missed out on Student grants by being a year too young, and now they're reinstating it just as I LEAVE university. I can't take the trauma of missing out on some filthy love affairs too. Can we start a sinister club 18-30? But then I have a feeling that we already have one of those.. DansonHatcher said: >picniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18thprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehill< whatifitrainswhatifitrainswhatifitrainswhatifitrainswhatifitrainswhatifitrains Right better sleep now so that I don't have to declare another holiday called TUES day... Chu's day? Holidays and Red Bulls Ken _________________________________________________________________ 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: Umm, what shite shall bore them with today?.......Oh I know!
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

picniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18thpicniconthe18th primrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimrosehillprimro sehill It's not a typing error but a secret message that'll burn itself into your subconscious. Got that? Good. Hello sinister This just in.. Sainsburys 15p bread is no more. They've have replaced it with something of similar quality but upped the price to 19p, Bastards! As for Farmhouse loaf, thats just an excuse to make bread that falls apart really easy and put 14p on the price over proper bread. I may have a new job tomorrow to fill a two week money gap till I'm back in Beautiful Camden Town I sound's like a proper nasty job but it is in Walkers crisp factory so maybee I'll come out a bit bigger round the middle (and with big ears and be good at football, right?) .............................................................................. ........ BIG PAIN I'd forgotten, but a few weeks ago I agreed to *spar* with our local policeman/Bruce Lee. Just for a laugh like. Well, he found me this evening...... What the fuck have I got my self into? as a blur of fists and shins chase me round the patio. Then local constabulary's meanest combine harvester suddenly asks "Having fun?" I look back at the kitchen window to see horrified looks on the three little kids faces watching daddy beat fuck out of the lad from the over the road. This goes on for about 45 minutes and towards the end I'd stopped thinking how much it hurt and just found myself laughing like a loony at the craziness of trying to fend off this bloke when you can't feel your arms or shins anymore. .................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.............. .................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Oh Ken I know the feeling Just the night before last, Helena Bonham Carter suddenly appeared at the foot of my bed dressed in rather less than nothing and whilst this isn't exactly a terrible thing to happen in one's room, her continual plea's for me to dress up in the spare gorilla suit she'd brought and that it was getting on a bit (quarter past three in morning!) I did the only thing I could do, I took her home offering advise regarding a cold shower and half a bottle of something fiery. She rang me today "I'm sorry James, I don't know what came over me" she said embarrased of course I said she could come round later to "talk" it over, ha ha ha aha! ............................................................... Anyway the real reason I have written to you all out there is a cry for your help. See, as you probably know the worlds most fantastic brill picnic mummy Cay (I have not in any way been bribed) has threatened to run off with all my CD's currently stored on a shelf in her wood paneled Drawing room. Unless she see's at least 100 sinister people assembled upon Primrose Hill on the 18th of November 2001. Please don't let us down and you know your duty. Disclaimer. Some parts of the Miss Bonham Carter story are more true than others. Largely the parts regarding me being called James and claiming to sleep in a bed. You obviously have read this FAR so you're all absolute STARS. 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: Waiting for the great leap forward
by JAMES GILMER 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

The Dadaists had it right, it's an absurd world, the only answer to it is absurdity. Which is what I tried to tell the police when they arrested me for throwing live salmon at people, but cops just don't understand Art, do they?* Subject line comes compliments of Billy Bragg, who I've been marathon listening to since Amy Longcore mentioned him in her hello post. I think the subject line sums up how I'm feeling at the moment, the sooner we have a leap forward the better, because it's the 21st century and things feel like we've set the wayback machine for 1955. Odd times. Anyways, I feel like a star because Shawn (of the dynamic due Shawn and Emily) mentioned me in a post, though he did call me "Jim Gilmer (the nicest man in Michigan)" Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to go kick a puppy or start chucking rocks at old people or something, this 'nicest man' image is ruining my 'punk rock' image. Besides, I think Shawn gets the Nicest Man in Michigan title, especially after providing that comprehensive covers list. He needs to post a bit more, it's always good to see the Michigan peeps representing. What's up with old Grand Rapids? It's like Michigan's Sinister Central, as it hosts four of our Sinister comrades. Bit more happening of a town than I would have thought. Rachel Fruitloop (and does she not have the coolest posts?) suggested that I become a Jaime, and I have to say no to that, I don't think I'm a Jaime. Elise thinks I'm a Jimmie, which she informs me is the name of those sprinkles one puts on ice cream. Let's see, I'm colourful, sweet, and I go great with ice cream. Yes, I suppose I'm a Jimmie. Will isn't fazed by Rachel Fruitloop's mix tape-fu, but having seen and heard a bit of the fruity-loopy goodness of her skills, I think it's going to be a tough fight. I went to a Halloween party last night, only it wasn't much of a party, more like a bunch of us (not in costume) going to a local bar. The poor waitress was ace and put up with us far better than most would have. She even came by and sat with us because she said we were amusing and she gave me a lighter, which was odd since I don't smoke, but the others were jealous because she sat next to me and I got the lighter. Girls dig nice guys, no matter what popular opinion says. I need friends who can hold their alcohol better though, i drank the most and I was still the soberest of the lot of us, and I had to drive the other poor drunk slobs to get coffee and food after the bar closed. There's nothing quite as strange as a 24-hour breakfest joint after the bar closes. The place we ended up in was called Lil' Chief, just think of it as Denny's with a different name. You find the most interesting specimens of humanity in after-hours breakfest joints. So we had a bit of crap food and I dropped them off and came home and it was a Good Night. It's already the end of October and I'm wondering where it went to, it seems like just yesterday I was flipping the calender over from september. Does anyone else out there like Poe? I mean the singer, not old Edgar Allen. I've been listening to her album "Haunted" quite a bit lately, especially since I'm rereading her brother's utterly mad novel HOUSE OF LEAVES. "Haunted" is the perfect October album, it makes you feel like autumn and you can smell the burning leaves and see the colours changing on the trees in old, dark woods as you listen to it. Everyone should be listening to The Shins. I haven't been able to stop listening to "New Slang" since Kirsten played her cd at the Great Lakes picnic. Songs like "New Slang" is why music was invented. Kirsten said; "meepmeep", and I think that really sums everything up. It's a Zen thing. Jim (*who's never really thrown fish at anyone...well, not since grade school anyways) "Most people get to 40 and have a midlife crisis, and that's just boring. They bore their friends by going around saying, "What's it all about? What's the point?" I thought it might be at least more entertaining to go spectacularly mad and start worshipping a snake and declaring myself to be a magician. It's been immense fun." - Alan Moore _________________________________________________________________ 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: My proper bridal gift first, and then my desire.
by Genevieve Wesley 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

Hi Sinister, David wrote: I'd love to hear B&S play Don't Fear The Reaper. The 7" of that is the only record I have ever had stolen from me & I miss it :( That song reminds me of Keith. Who would have known they were to cover it? I really like that I'm Burning For You song by them too, and I'm not being ironic or anything. The guitars are nice. I was humming it the other day and accidently let slip a little 'burn out the day, burn out the night' and my special friend cried out 'Not B.O.C! Horrible!' but that just made me laugh - I didn't know they were referred to as Bee Oh Cee. I suppose it's one of those things you learn in life, like when you are discussing a Pink Floyd album you say FLOYD: "______". Tina Coffield, your pictures are beautiful! I did feel a flash of jealousy on discovering that little lipstick smudge on that precious jaw. I feel like I should be one of those sad, miserable men who devotes poetry to an unobtainable, fair maiden:"A shower of matched pearls his teeth. Hyacinth blue his eyes: Parthian red his lips. Pure white and tapering his fingers: long his arms. As white as sea foam his side, slender, long, smooth, yielding, soft as wool. Warm and sleek his thighs. Men would say that his hair was like the blooming iris in summer or red gold after it had been burnished..." The master-mistress of my passion. I liked that Alfie song by The Divine Comedy, oh and the Father Ted on as well. My mom always made me turn off Frog Princess in the car though, "Sleaze! Sleaze!". Apparently there was lots of champagne at their live shows. Pulp have a new album out and I didn't even know. Only listened to about 3 songs on that last album though. This Is Hardcore was a fun song to act out and be dramatic to, sliding down walls, fanning one's face and pretend-dying. A Jason from Ottawa (Hi, I live there too!) was not sure whether or not B&S had played there. They have not. They had the potential of being 5 hours away in Toronto a few years ago, but Bel's widdle tum tum tummy was hurtin'. The sad news is that there isn't a lot of concerts in Ottawa at all. Hefner in 1999, I think, was my most recent one. I have not the new single yet, so I will have to make my annual pilgrimage to the record store. The cover is very colourful like the Jonathan David one, but I am nostalgic for the old, colour coded ones with the bits of writing that were just THERE instead of the usual credits. Staralful was not being so sweet on Dublin which made me a bit disappointed because I was just entertaining the possibility of visiting. You have to discover these things for yourself I suppose. My mother says her grandma prayed her granddaughters wouldn't meet any boys from Cork - up to mischief, they were. I took my mum to a poetry reading the other day, and at the end a man from Cork was a real charmer to my mum: "I've met YOU before, haven't I? You look very familiar. Where have I seen you before?" Mother gave me a knowing smile. Anyways, my teacher recited some Welsh poetry there as well. Here is a bit of the poem, seeing as it's monday and all, that used to be The Sacred Feast of the Poetry Parrot. I like the frustration in the poem, because *I* am frustrated with faraway lipstick smudges and freckled arms. The Girls of Llanbadarn I bend before this passion; a plague on the parish girls! Since, o force of my longing, I have never had one of them! Not one sweet and hoped-for maiden, Not one young girl, or hag, nor wife, What recoil, what malicious thoughts, What omission makes them not want me? What harm is it to a thick-browed girl to have me in the dark, dense wood? It would not be shameful for her To see me in a den of leaves. (Dafydd ap Gwilym) Random warm, fuzzy thoughts: I made 12 pounds of Christmas Cake, it's better if it sits for months you know. A little black squirrel visits the porch. The cats are tormented, but still I give him almonds. I haven't had a pomegranate in years, and now I'm going to have one. Love, Genevieve _________________________________________________________________ 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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