November 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: A Sinister Road Trip
by chris perriman 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

if anybody is looking for ideas for a road trip, here's a perfect one. a prize to anybody who supplies me with photographic evidence that they have undertaken such an arduous task. Route Summary Origination: Belle, West Virginia [38.14N 81.32W] Destination: Sebastian, Florida [27.50N 80.29W] Route Distance: 839 miles Route Driving Time: 12:55 0 0:00 Starting Trip Start East on I-64 I-77 for 49mi 41 0:37 Approaching Vicinity of Beckley WV 49 0:44 Junction With I-77 Turn South on I-77 for 30mi Cont. South on I-77 for 274mi 88 1:17 Entering Virginia 109 1:37 Approaching Vicinity of Wytheville VA 156 2:20 Entering North Carolina 242 3:33 Approaching Vicinity of Charlotte NC 262 3:52 Entering South Carolina 268 3:57 Approaching Vicinity of Rock Hill SC 329 4:55 Approaching Vicinity of Columbia SC 353 5:21 Junction With I-26 Turn East on I-26 for 53mi 406 6:10 Junction With I-95 Turn South on I-95 for 426mi 493 7:29 Entering Georgia 503 7:40 Approaching Vicinity of Savannah GA 605 9:15 Entering Florida 617 9:25 Approaching Vicinity of Jacksonville FL 670 10:15 Approaching Vicinity of St Augustine FL 832 12:40 Junction With Rt 512 Turn East on Rt 512 for 6mi 839 12:55 Ending at: US 1 & Rt 512 erm.. god i'm bored Pez* P.S. Nice to see some familiar faces returning to the sinister fold. Welcome home Owen 'The Narrow Wizard' Lowery and Lisa 'List Dom' Morrison. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Returning, We Hear the Larks
by Peter Miller 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

I'd like to begin by welcoming myself back after another spell in the archives. The reason I am back is because it has always been my ambition to post on the same day as both Pinefox and Big Dave. And because there's a JAPANESE TOUR coming up. Thank you to Big Dave and Genvieve for Reporting Back so beautifully a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember what it was about, but it was good. I haven't got much to Report Back on. Those 'In the Studio' photos were good. I particularly liked the one of Mike Hurst sidling along the curve of the piano in an Isobelly direction. You'd have thought the string players would have got dressed up for the occasion. The ones on 'Ocean Rain' got dressed up, I think. I can't quite remember. There was a photo on the inner sleeve. Can anyone help? But then again, in those days, string sections were a thing of the past. Now they are so common it gives you lockjaw just thinking about it. I'm glad they were up-front about Sam Fox. She had been unfairly airbrushed out of the equation earlier on. And let's face it, she had massive knockers. I recommend the film 'JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK'. I have written a poem in the style of LLOYD COLE: Isabelle Huppert Went to the cupboard To fetch Norman Mailer A bone. When she got back, He'd gone. As you can see, the first stanza is in the style of early LLOYD COLE, while the second stanza is more in keeping with the DON'T GET WEIRD ON ME, BABE period. I'm really looking forward to a rash of Reporting Back from Japan. Sod Belfast. I wonder what appropriate songs B&S will cover in Japan? Some achingly hip J-Pop? And in Belfast? I don't know any groups from Belfast. This month is the last 'chance' to read stuff that has already appeared in the now legendary Papercuts at http://www.badosa.com There have been one or two changes, but it suffers dreadfully from not being sandwiched between a Caleb Rudd interview and Lucy Alder's top tips. It would be good if Papercuts came back, I think. I think it's good that the new PINK FLOYD compilation finishes with BIKE, too. Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Benicassim Review
by David Moore 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Hi All, I realise there's a flood of posts all excited about the rare prospect of another Belle And Sebastian gig so I'll keep this one very brief. On the Segundosdeluz list dear maria amélie p/Maria Sierra posted a link to a review & photos of B&S @ Benicassim, so for the benfit of all of you, here it is: http://www.frequencerock.com/articles/view.php?id=152 its in French but I'm sure that you'll figure out what it all means. I only had to go for the dictionary twice. Some nice close ups of Struan. (I *know* who's hitting that link now!) Camera Obscura album's out tomorrow ... And they play 2 gigs in London during December, one supported by Chris Leonard (nice to hear from you again Chris, its been too long since you posted here) Regards, 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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Sinister: As Real As It May Seem
by P F 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

At the turn of our century - no, start again, at the turn of the previous century, W.B. Yeats went to see A Doll's House: '"Art is art because it is not nature", I kept repeating to myself, but how could I take the same side with critic and washerwoman?'. Imagine sitting next to him. You wouldn't be able to make out much of the dialogue, with WBY mumbling about art vs nature the whole time. I hope she slammed the door good and hard. A semi-wise man once advised me to keep walking past open windows (I think that was how he phrased it). I trust that the lad Gillanders is doing the same. Mind you, the windows are not so high in Glasgow. Except the ones from which the Care Bear regards her domain, the city of the living, the city of the dead. The lad G was talking recently about all the books he'd read, and I can't say his taste was bad. Far from it. Let me advise him not to go back to D.H. Lawrence. It's not worth it. It may *sound* like a good idea, but it's actually a very bad idea. I wonder what Scotland is like for New Year's Eve. I really do. Youn talked a while ago about what a certain line in 'Judy and the Dream of Horses' meant ('Judt I don't know you if you're gonna show me everything'). It was ingenious stuff. My own reading is: he 'wrote' the line spontaneously, happy enough to get something rhythmic, while he chugged away oan his wee guitarr. The Sense didn't come till later, when you did him the service of putting it there. I was cheered to see Edna Welthorpe back in the mists of space, a while back, talking about the way that the pinefox's endless repetitions are a mirror image of Lloyd Cole's. I wonder whether anyone else has a view on this line of Simon Reynolds': 'Demystification just kinda took the mystery out of everything'. Is it a joke, very poor writing, or - in between the two - a very poor joke? This reminds me of the story that Simon Reynolds has been buying up old 80s music papers - just think about that for a moment - and of the Saturday night programme Forever 1989. Actually it was Forever 1988 the first time I saw it, whihc was, whisper it, even better. It reminded me of how I've *always* liked Debbie Gibson. I must remember to use that as a bargaining chip in my next crockery-throwing pop argument with my editor. Also featured: Taylor Dayne, 'Give It To My Heart' (unforgettable); Climie Fisher, '...' (I've forgotten already); Jane Wiedlin, 'Rush Hour' (look, here's another bargaining fish. I've *always* loved that record, ever since going to watch Paul Gascoigne lose a boot on his home league debut and hearing it on the tannoy); T Vamp, 'I Want Your Love' (I have always wanted to see more than 5 seconds of that video); Primitives, 'Crash' (I think we've said all there is to say about this record, Elton); Morrissey, 'Suedehead' for goodness' sake. I have a feeling that I know the narrator of the programme. 'Know' is an exaggeration. Mr Moore sometimes comes on and talks about how good new bands are. In his absence let me report back that I, like most folk round here, saw the Red & White Stripes on TV the other day. They looked good. The concept - yes, that was good. But I can't quite stretch to saying they *sounded* good. I think Peter Miller has been reading the archives. Are you glad? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.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: monochrome in the 1990's
by paisley christina 11 Nov '01

11 Nov '01

Quite a while ago, in the early summer ...there was a Sinister debate about indie kids. And someone said that Nick Hornby wrote that it wasn't what you were like, the thing that mattered was what (books, films, records) you liked. And that may have been true in the "High Fidelity" film. But in the book, when his Laura girl gets back together with him...she takes him to meet some of her friends. And he likes them. And she shows him their records: Tina Turner, Simply Red, horrors etc. And he still decides he won't look down on them. Because it *really* is *not* what you like that's important after all. I had to clear Hornby's name of that. Though I still think Penny was treated abominably. My favorite from the book: "The whole episode defies any rational explanation. But all these things happened, and they happened again, most of them, the following evening, and then evening after that." About the first girl who kisses him, specifically. But the sentiment can be applied quite broadly and aptly. To me, if no one else. "We can still see you, you know." I'm studying English & Philosophy during the day, working at the student radio station at night, and working in a department store on weekends. I was dancing because I was happy. There was just the store music, and no customers around. And I was getting cold. And I already spent the morning draped in melancholy. So my manager called me on the register phone and told me to quit that dancing. She called a couple of times, every time she caught me on camera. But my joy was "not to be daunted!" It would be pretty cool to be written up for dancing on the job. Anyway, the customers who did see me seemed to enjoy my kinetic interpretations. "Dance Fucker Dance" indeed. Right. On. I'm having my own little electronic renaissance, and all are welcome to join. Dancing in public is the next best thing to being naked. In public. Also a long time ago. Robin wrote about egg cups. And a birthday balloon bursting on the ceiling. Those beautiful images are still in my head. Thank you. Douglas Coupland came to speak at a bookstore, where I was curled up on the floor with my chin on my knees to hear this soft, thoughtful hero of mine speak. One thing he said was that only 20% of people actually get irony. Terrifyingly, then, the other 80% must be taking everything literally. Boo! It ends my first post. --paisley _________________________________________________________________ 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: winter draws on
by Grainne Lynch 10 Nov '01

10 Nov '01

You step outside, in your thick coat, buttoned up so that you feel like a little girl, like Maggie Simpson in her snow-suit, your hands in wooly gloves and realise that the year is almost at an end. the wind chills your face and steals breath and two after two minutes outside you have to press your tongue to the top of your mouth to stop your teeth chattering. Chattering teeth make you feel colder. You try to walk faster to get warm, but your legs aren't having any of it. Your muscles have been sore all day, due to the fact that last night you slept curled up in a curled in a ball, because to stretch out a leg meant leaving the only warm part of the bed. It's the time of the year when the main reason you want a man in your life, in your bed is to steal his body heat. Ah well, you think, at least there's Christmas to look forward to, and the Sinister Christmas Exchange perhaps? I want to add my voice to Chris Pez's plea to bring back the Christmas Exchange. Last year I joined the list a couple of weeks after the deadline, but I thought it was the most charming idea ever. So much so that I mentioned it in my first post, at the end of January. Please can we do it again. Gr�inne. PS Does anyone want to come to one of the last ever Divine Comedy gigs with me, in Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Monday 19th? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Exposed to the Super Furries at last
by Simon Fallaha 10 Nov '01

10 Nov '01

Hello again everyone. What a week it's been. I had yet another Operatic Society concert in Coleraine on Thursday night (and I have to admit it went well, though the acoustics were quite bad, the place we were singing in being a hotel), three film reviews of mine got published in the student magazine at uni, and - I was finally exposed to the sound that you call the Super Furry Animals, last night. Don't ask me why they took so long to get onstage. We (that's the whole crowd, including my friends Dave and Jim) were stuck in the Nerve Centre for about two hours waiting for them, and all we had in between was someone playing his very old guitar and singing songs we didn't know. Never mind. Minor complaint. Well, now that I've heard Griff Rhys and co., I have to say that I was entertained the whole time. I've also got to admit it was the weirdest concert I've ever been to. It wasn't as good as Ash last year (probably cos I knew no songs) or JJ72 (probably cos they don't have a cute bassist) but it was still a lot of fun. What I liked most was the way they played all their videos on background screens while the band themselves were playing. Some cheeky quotes came up on those screens too (I'm not at liberty to say what they were). At one point we had Schwarzenegger on screen repeating the same thing over and over again. Zzzzzz.... I liked Rings Around The World, the one about the Presidents (I forget its name) and Run Christian Run. And also a few others. I also met a lot of people. This guy called Dermot is one of the few people I know (my friend Jim aside) who can claim to know as much about The Divine Comedy as I do. When I finally get my website up he'll understand what I'm saying. Then there was my old friend from school, Alana. Great to see her again. She's looking prettier than ever. As for the others, I'll probably forget them by next week. TDC's last ever gig in Belfast is the same night as my Millennium Forum concert for the Operatic Society. Not good. However, I will be going to see B & S in December (when my workload has gone down). Right, time for me to get back to work. (No notes to people this time, sorry). Take care, Psi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: where's chutney?York???
by Graham Henderson 10 Nov '01

10 Nov '01

Hi all, So anyway is anybody out there from York? I'm trying to track down an old mate from Scotland, a twee B&S type by the name of Mark 'Chutney' Tripney. Any information leading to the apprehension of the suspect will be rewarded with cheap tacky japanese novelty shop goods. If you do spot the suspect, do not under any circumstances approach him. He's from a very bad neighbourhood. Tobi- tbwthe _________________________________________________________________ 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: don't you aim your spear this way!
by stacey dahling 10 Nov '01

10 Nov '01

Ok, so it's nearly 6 a.m. and I was determined to go to sleep before the sun rose, but Jimmy Gilmer's post made me come directly here instead and run with the cheesy pick-up line thread. Oh lord. Oddly enough, today I was actually meowed at. Yes! A random boy in the street slowed down, looked directly at me, and said "Me-ow." I was confused. Was that a compliment? Was he calling me catty? Or a pussycat? Or? Coral giggled and said, "It was a CAT CALL. it was!" In that case, it was better than some of the other ones I've gotten recently. Case in point: The elderly man who could hardly walk who stopped me to ask: "Douleueis?" Which means, "Do you work?" I got all insulted and said, "Yes, of course!" He had started to walk away, but hearing this, jumped and ran back with a grin on his face. Then it all came together and I screamed NO! and ran away. See, it was his clever little way of asking me if I was a prostitute. Oh yeah. Usually, however, it's the skanky young men who dangle their wares for me so tactfully. Many of them roam the streets of Athens, trying to pick up women, especially foreigners. They have a name: Komakia, or spearfishermen. A very apt metaphor, especially considering the greek word for vagina is literally "bay of woman." Anyway, I digress. My favorite story about the komakia is that they once tried to unionize and demanded recognition and benefits from the state because, they argued, they provided an invaluable service - they bouyed up the tourism industry by enticing single European women to the country. I don't think they were successful, even with such stellar rhetoric. The rhetoric they use on the street is even better. Usually, they just talk to you in English. Not very original. But sometimes you hear some gems. My favorite was: "You break my eyes!" Um. Yeah. So complimentary. The youngest komaki I've been chatted up by seemed to be all of 8 years old. He said, in English: "Hey hot stuff." Frightening. As annoying as the komakia can be, at least they tend to limit their advances to bad pick-up lines. It's the public masturbators who trouble me. And I've had the pleasure of encountering not one or two, but at least five of these characters. Wanking off in my general direction - in parks, on beaches, in the street. Yes. Side note: i have been known to use some embarassing pick-up lines, completely unintentionally. The worst was: "Has anyone ever told you you look like a Renaissance painting?" Oh yes. I employed this gem on a boy with delicate blond curls and a harsh nose who seriously looked like he should be leaning against a desk with a dog at his feet or something. I stared at him throughout a mandatory Classics department meeting, amazed at the similarity, and thought he light like to know about it, so i chased him out of the room and bombarded him on the stairwell. His response: "That is THE strangest thing anyone has ever said to me," and he looked a bit frightened. It was only afterwards, when I proudly told my art friend what i had done, that she burst out laughing and said "that is the worst pick-up line i have ever heard!" Eeps! I was so embarassed when i realized how horrified this poor chap must have been. another time, at a party at my apartment, i was talking to a boy everyone was trying to set me up with and asked him if he liked frank sinatra, "cause i have him on in my room right now." which i did, oddly. it wasn't necessarily an invite. luckily, he didn't think so either. but my friend nearby started laughing insanely and yelled to the whole room to inform everyone about what a charmer i was. ok that's all i must go to bed now oooh btw: I GOT A TOAST MAKER today! finally! and it's shiny! also, I DID IT! i lasted a whole week without #sinister. well, not a 7-day-week but... yeah... i went out more and wrote more and..mmm..errr.. stuff... i should sleep. sun. shining. shit. MWAH! ~dahling _________________________________________________________________ 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: I was talking to peachy-peach about kissy-kiss
by JAMES GILMER 10 Nov '01

10 Nov '01

Ahh, the weekend at last. Been a long bloody week, and a fairly boring one to boot. On the positive side of things, this week has seen the return of stine (PUNK ROCK!), the planning of a sinister Chicago picnic the last weekend ni november/first weekend in December (I think that makes the planned date December 1st, but I'm too lazy at the moment to be bothered to get up and find a calender), and a long and lovely post from Miss Fruitloop herself. I'm listening to the Reindeer Section at the moment. They're not bad, nothing earth-shattering, but still lovely. I think "Will you please be there" is the real stand out for me, gorgeously simple song. I won another person over to B&S this week by playing them "There's too Much Love" and "Woman's Realm", they thought both were ace and called B&S "light, summery pop music", and I suppose that's as good a description as any, especially since they're moving much more into the realm of summery, 60's mellow-pop. Whatever you call it, I like it. I've been listening to the Strokes, they're a bit shit aren't they? Put a bit of Velvet Underground, Television, and the Stooges in a blender, and viola! You get a so-so band getting a balzacing amount of press. Check the clock, has it been 15 minutes yet? A friend summed them up as; "Skinny NY kids playing skinny NY kid songs", and that decription amused me. I think I'm coming down a bit sick, I had a horrible headache all day yesterday that got to the point where it'd literally blind me if I turned my head too fast. Lovely little bursts of light dancing in front of my eyes. It would have been fun except for the accompanying spikes being driven into my frontal lobe. Thankfully, my dad had some vicodin laying about which I stole and four pills and two hours later the pounding stopped and I had a nice long nap. As typed this I've switched over to listening to Lamb, not bad at all, picked them up on a recommendation and I'm happy so far. I had a bit of political garbage written, then I went and deleted it because I didn't really feel like ranting about what a gigantic cock Attorney General Ashcroft is (Jim waves to the nice Homeland Security Gestapo reading this if the NSA Echelon software gets tripped). Anyways, I not sure, but I think my headache stems from overhearing a conversation while me and my friends were out to eat a few days ago. Out of the blue I hear a rather loud, obnoxious bloke at the next table say; "And I told him, if he didn't learn how to suck the salt off his celery, there was no way he was going to get that promotion" I really wanted to turn around and ask the fellow what the hell the context was for that remark, instead I kept quiet and that phrase bounced around in my head all night. I'm sure I probably don't want to know the context of that remark. I've been hanging about #sinister a little, but to be honest, I've never liked internet chatting much. I never feel comfy chatting over text, or even email, I always feel too stiff and stodgy, and a few sinisters can confirm that I'm nothing of the sort in real life. I know I never really like how my posts come out. I'd much rather meet you all over a Red Bull and Vodka and chat about useless crap and talk shit until the early morning hours in afterhours resturants, that's where I'm in my element. So, enough with all these twee stories of love and crushes on the list, it's time to amuse me: What's the best or worst pick-up line you've ever given or recieved? Come on, share them, I'm sure you all have plenty of stories. Let's try for happy or amusing stories, but twee sad stories are acceptable as well. I think my personal favorite chat up line recieved was; "Hi! So what are the drug laws like in London?" Interesting night, that. Especially when I found out the lady in question was nearly eight years older than me (and didn't look it at all). or (another London one): "You know, you're the first guy who's talked to me for more than ten minutes without trying to get in my pants. Congradulations, you passed the test...[pause]...you can start trying to get in my pants any time now". Of course, I can't forget the girl who I was talking to on the train to Amsterdam. A good Christian girl who was over in Europe studying with a group from her Christain college. As we're nearing Amsterdam she suddenly explains her plan: Her: "I've decided I want to make out with one boy in every country" Me: "How's that working out for you?" Her: "Pretty good so far, though I don't know anyone in the Netherlands....so, what are *you* doing tonight?" God bless those repressed Christians. Worst chat up line recieved? "Hey, how drunk are you?" For the curious, I wasn't *that* drunk. I now have to watch "Will & Grace" because in addition to Elise and Sean, the girl at the local Starbucks said I look like Jack from that show "from the right angle". God knows what angle that could be, or if that's a compliment of not. Oh, I did have a few pictures of the Great Lakes Sinister Picnic. You can see one of me deep in thought at: http://server25.hypermart.net/patchworkz/pics/02_002.JPG I've one of Kirsten too but it's a bad scan, you'll all have to wait until I get access to a scanner to see a better version. Rachel Fruitloop said: "and then I'll get you, adorable Jimmy G.! Oh, I'll get you...." Eeep! And my little dog too? Not that I'd exactly struggle that hard, mind you. Ahh, but see, she said 'adorable' she must be talking about the little dog. Shouts and love to the usual suspects, you all know who you are. 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