November 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Conclusions
by Katia913＠aol.com 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Hello sinister. I woke up the morning to us. Actually, I woke up to all of you. Got up and read some good posts from before Thanksgiving and up until now. My sister left this morning for uni again, and my two younger siblings are playing the piano and yelling at eachother. And my daddy is watching "Meet the Press." And our house smells like pizza. I made two scarves this weekend. One was red and the other was orange. I am making all my friends scarves because I have no money to spend on them because I want too much music. Jenny, my baby sister is making weavings out of my extra yarn. She is being really cute about it so I am trying to save all the yarn I can for her. I went horseback riding this weekend for hours. My legs hurt. And then yesterday I had to work all day and couldn't move because I was really sore. Archel wrote about hearing a lot of the strokes and the White Stripes, but I have a better story. I had to go to a catillion this Friday because my momma has some weird notion that I should be "high-class." Luckily, two semi-decent friends of mine were there and a really cute boy with shaggy hair named Ron. Ron and I complained about the music, which we looked through the DJ's collection and I asked for something decent. Nothing! not EVEN the strokes. Ron likes B&S, I talked about it for a while, because it excited me. I think I put him off. So, Archel, think of yourself as lucky. You know the song Bootylicious? that's what I heard. Conclusion: catillions are garbage. I am not high class much love all Kate +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: At this rate I'll need a dog on wheels...
by Mark Sweeney 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Greetings to all and sundry, and sorry to be so abrupt in my first ever post, but does ANYBODY know ANYTHING about that alleged bus from Dublin to the Belfast gig? It's beginning to feel frighteningly Kafkaesque, all these blank expressions at every turn. Enlighten me somebody, please, and convince me that my sanity hasn't gone irretrieveably west. Oh, and I'll buy you a cake in Mandela Hall. Cheery bye for now... _________________________________________________________________ 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: Virus....Sorry
by Madeleine McNeil 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Hello folks, Sorry... this is not another forwarded mail about viruses. Please don't get fed up with me. If you have received an email from me, or anyone else, with an underscore in front of their email address, please do not open it. It will probably have two attatchments. Do not open it, just delete it straight away. If you did open the attatchments, chances are your computer is going mental and emailing people all over the place. If so, look for a file called C:\Windows\System\Kernel32.exe. This is the little bugger that Sinister Superheroes Honey and I spent the afternoon hunting down. We got it, we killed it. We are grate! I'm really sorry to have to mail the list like this, when I'd much rather be writing clever witty Dorothy Parkerisms. But such is life. It shouldn't have got through security on sinister, I don't think, but there maybe people who I've mailed off list that may have fallen prey to it. Once again, very very sorry. I owe you all Gin and Tonics. Love Madeleine xxx _________________________________________________________________ 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: OFFTOPIC: Any listees students at Guy's Hospital and Whipps Cross in London?
by Kin WOO 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

heya you crazy kids:) Just a short email imploring (and considering poor response to last email-maybe beggin would be better!:)) to ask if any listees are med students like moi and workin' at Guy's and Whipps Cross in London? Cos I'm gonna be doin' an elective at both hospitals starting from Jan 7 (a month at guy's doing paeds and 2 weeks at whipps cross doing a&e) and would love to know what to expect! I know whipps cross is very busy and err guy's is very erm old but what else?:) It'd be great to meet up with some listees so I don't feel so lost in the hospitals! anyone willing out there? Well hope to hear from some of you soon! later Kin Woo "With a star upon your shoulder Lighting up the path as you walk" Stuart Murdoch +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 had a window day
by Kirsten Kenyon 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

elizabeth were quite collegiate last night. at least, that's what someone said. it didn't last, anyway. we sat down with two boys i sort of know and had a long discussion about milwaukee's public education system. then one of the boys got distracted by elizabeth's exciting new cigarette lighter, and the conversation sort of fizzled into something silly. i mentioned emily and her song about anemia, because one of the boys had played it on a guitar a long time ago, in the same place where we were sitting. one of the boys pointed out that he was wearing the outfit emily said made him look like holden caufield. there was a strange old couple sitting in the corner. the woman was wearing a fringed blanket as a dress and heavy jewelry, and the man was in a flannel shirt. they had their eyes closed, and they weren't talking at all but every few minutes they would both laugh as though one of them had told a joke. they were quite isolated from everyone else, and far enough into the corner that they couldn't well have been laughing at overheard bits of conversations. we decided they must be 'too cool for verbal communication.' and got sort of jealous. so we toyed with the notion that we might be 'too ool for onsonants,' and for several minutes we only used them selectively. but none of us could talk that way with a straight face for long. so i guess we weren't ool enough. i drank six glasses of water at the teahouse before i realized that it was a bit pointless trying to do something healthy in a place so thick with smoke that i was tempted to pour the water into my eyes rather than drink it. my parents have gone to the wisconsin dells for the night. three boys just walked through the front door with beer and guitars. my brother's worried i'm going to blow out a speaker. i think i might. it's quite loud in here...my parents. they said they'd have a lot of time to 'talk' in the car. i can't imagine what else they'd be doing. i would much rather smoke in a car than talk in a car, but my folks probably wouldn't agree. so....yes. today at work, my boss asked me if i'd have trouble telling people what to do. i think that i would..but it means a raise, so i said no. so now i have noodle authority, apparently. officially. rock. love kirsten (who would be 'irsten,' if only....) 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: i'm so vain i probably think this post is about me
by Archel Playforth 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

you know, i try to be a good listee and save up scintillating comments until i have a proper, substantial post, but it takes a long time to build up a sufficiently interesting narrative, and i do worry that people might forget who i am in the meantime. like so many of us here (don't deny it) i am a vain vain person and i like the sound of my own voice (well, the look of my own words...) some people just seem to live in a world of ready-made amusing anecdotes (kirsten, ken chu) whereas i can go for literally days without anything happening. at all. or maybe it's just the way you tell 'em. but i have yet to find a way of making 'i got up, i carried some bookshelves, i ate chocolate, i made a salad' sound quirky. i shook hands with the german ambassador yesterday, which you'd think would form the basis of an anecdote really. but you know, that was it. he came to visit the university, i shook his hand (mine was very cold, as always, and he looked a bit pained), he left. and not a ferrero rocher in sight. the other thing that happened at work was me joining the pension plan (omigod). you have to specify a recipient of a lump sum if you die 'in service' - sounds like the army. also since i have never stayed in any job for longer than a year, i'm not sure that i'll accrue enough contributions for my bereaved ones to even buy a wreath. on thursday i went to the only thing that passes for an indie night in brighton any more. the unsalubrious atmosphere was forgotten as, as if by magic, the opening chords of 'she's losing it' greeted my entrance. how we danced. also got 'legal man', although only after an unfortunate episode involving rage against the machine. the strokes and the white stripes were heavily represented, obviously (and the verdict on the latter from my friend george was 'they sound like early beatles'. hm.) have been watching lots of slightly strange films lately, involving amongst other things superintelligent ex-lab rats (the secret of nimh) and dead david nivens (a matter of life and death). and did you know that the original animated lord of the rings film is out on dvd tomorrow? yay! speaking of films, i recently read this summary of Storytelling: "Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/ troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation." replace the word 'Storytelling' with the word 'Sinister' and 'two' with '1500'... and voila. us in a nutshell. (although as austin powers might say, us in a nutshell would be more like 'help! we're in a nutshell.') <content> i hope that amongst the crazy seasonal covers at the QM Union they do fairy tale of new york. that would be great. and maybe last christmas by george michael as well. right that's IT. better go and live some more so i've got something to write about next time... luv archel xxx *************************************** 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 care, i know.
by Astrid Wiezell 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Hi Sinister, yes i *am* feeling sinister indeed today. I do not really know why. Maybe because I am at my dad´s and I want to be at my mum´s. Maybe because my stomach hurts. Maybe because I am so sick and tired of all my friends and all the boys and everyone else in my town who´s just.. too much at the moment. I do not know. On monday school ends at 12:15 for me, as every monday. Yes. But. This. Won´t. Be. Like. Any. Other. Monday. On this monday, I will take the bus to Stockholm, then the subway to "Medborgarplatsen", then I will walk to my favourite record shop Pet Sounds, and then, I will buy I´m waking up to us. Since B&S aren´t doing any concerts I can go to and my friends don´t care about B&S: this is a grate moment for me. It really is, sorry if I sound too pathetic. I am glad that I haven´t heard any of the tracks yet, that kind of ruin the whole thing if you´re asking me (maybe you don´t, but since you can´t say that whilst I´m writing this, I´ll write it anyway). Ah, I am dead excited. It´s like the one thing that brightens it all at this point in my life. It just feels like it will give me the kind of rescue from this world that I need. Because that´s how it works for me. When I listen to B&S in my discman or freestyle, everything gets nice again, and Stuart avec copains sing me to calmness when I´m excited, makes me happy when I´m feeling rather down, and just makes everything better for me. Oops, going a bit twee there. But B&S are like the older wiser friend that I always wanted. Then I discovered sinister and found out there was about 1499 older wiser friends to be found ;) No, honestly, I do appreciate all the posts, they put a big smile on my face even when I just want to sing the saddest songs. Tons of love and cuddles to you all, Astrid x P.S My bandsite: http://brightenyeah.cjb.net My B&S-site: www.angelfire.com/darling/poetry _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Ny chatt på Spray! Fartyget M/S Spray har anlänt till http://www.spray.se/ohoj +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: We're a disaster
by dontloveanyone＠netscape.net 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Hey everyone, I have a small request: does anyone have a saved copy of Stuart Murdoch's old entry on the www.myspace.co.uk/belleandsebastian site, where he was talking about his teacher and the fact that they almost got to perform "Eric The Half A Bee" for school? I've been searching for it like crazy and I just can't find it. In fact, while searching I stumbled into this... http://www.michael.phatcatz.net/awtv/Comedy/YoungOnes/yo-summer.html Now, being from the sunny shores of Brazil, I have absolutely no idea who The Young Ones were, or what this show was on about, but if you scroll down to the very end, you can see our dearest Struan was once an actor, too. Okay, so probably not, but it was worth a laugh. Last thing: if any of you are dying to hear the new single, Belle & Sebastian's record label here in Brazil, Trama, has full streams of all three songs (in Real Audio, Windows Media, and Quicktime formats, no less...) so check out http://moe.trama.com.br/trama/rock_js/rock_not.html and click on "Belle & Sebastian" at the top, and then choose your song and format, and wonderful music shall ooze from your speakers. Unless, like me, you forget to turn them on the first time. By the way, the new single is GRATE (or is "grate" out of style now?) Hugs, Mike -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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: On the factory floor
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Hewwo, How's tricks everyone? I am in receipt of the heavenly album Le Jardin De Heavenly. It's perfect. Watch me become obsessed with Amelia Fletcher. Speaking of obsessions and names that sound a bit like each other: Amelie. I beed sad and joined the mailing list even though it's in French and I don't really speak French. I did it in standard grade though. But you can get a one in standard grade french without being able to speak it at all. Me and the Lieutenant have a long running debate about whether france is part of britain. My side of the argument is that it is, and that the english channel is just a little stream, and you can walk over it and little kids skim stones over it. And to support these claims i have been drawn into a web of deceit and corruption. Because now I invented the european union and i own europe and there are only 200 people in japan because it's actually a village and if more than 200 people go into it at any one time then it will blow up so they all went to edinburgh instead. Except for a couple, they went to ireland. I'm glad i don't share a flat with anyone. Once, when I was younger, I had this grate idea for breeding dwarves. I know two dwarves and they're male and female, and I thought wouldn't it be swell if they mated, because their babies would be like thumbalina except really strong and with bigger heads. Because the dwarves I know can lift really heavy stuff that normal people can't. But I gave up on that plan a long time ago. I'm not sure if it's politically correct. I did a talk on political correctness for school. It was more why you should see the funny side in tragedies and things because it's healthy or something. Basically I quoted a lot of stuff from the Viz and everyone laughed except the posse. Does anyone remember Tv Offal? With the gay daleks? Roberto said: When the show started, a guy on the left start yellin' the lyrics in > Sepultura style, guturally. He didn't care about the melody at all, and > cared a few about metrics: he just wanted to prove to everyone around that, > although he had a terrible lack of musical talent, had spent about 20 hours > a day in front of the stereo, so he could memorize every single line of > every single song. I hate it when people have fun too. We should all sit about drinking cappuccinos writing bad poetry and savouring the philosophical message of the lyrics and pretending to be shy. And for good measure we could grow a beard and wear a beret and look down on good old fashioned P!O!P! like s club seven. And get drunk, except when we get drunk we're only allowed to moan about some indie girl who doesn't requite our love, or how no one understands us because we act like prats and be pretentious and how we live in a bedsit with an artist who expresses his feelings through stick people. Oh and completely neglect the fact that the best smiths songs were the poppy ones. And use the world "gutturally" (ps it's got two t's). And generally be art fags. Sorry, that turned into a rant. I wasn't trying to be mean, I just hate it when people dissaprove. Hugs, Jen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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'll never understand the Sinister list
by David Moore 24 Nov '01

24 Nov '01

Hi All, Richard Gillanders said that I "once succinctly described how 'byzantine' worked to a mister shearer and myself. we had an idea. I don't think david moore had any idea. who he was describing to. me. I mean. not the mister shearer. umm. more what?" & I curled up with embarrassment as I bet I looked a right arse whilst doing that. And he's correct. I didn't know. Who he was. But I will. Next time. I visit. Glasgow. That is. Cos I got tickets to see Belle And Sebastian once again this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I'm just a little excited. Thank you Mr Robertson for telling us here about it, its very kind of you to remember us, especially when often we don't appear to remember you. I'm Waking Up To Us must have a doggy style theme, as there was an advert in the nme the other day featuring Stevie also with man's best friend. Did I ever tell anyone here about Sodastream? I can't remember. In any case they have just released a four track ep which is pretty. I don't know whether its easy to get in the UK, but try www.acuareladiscos.com or www.candlerecords.com.au for further details. Standout moment so far is Karl decrying "I won't be this happy again" in his trademark mournful voice. Licksy Wipes. Remember, you heard about them here first. Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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