November 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Chu wears the clothes of an emperor
by Rachel fruitloop 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

HELOOOOOO SINISTERINEYS!!! I am back to summarise, to dazzle, to entertain and to generally RAQUE YOUR WORLD! Can I just tell you how excited I am that it's Friday?! Also, Halloween ending means that I can go shopping for cheap Halloweenie thingies for my Tim Burton-esque kitchen that I like to call "The Nightmare Before Dinner". This is the only time of the year I can get new oven mitts, dish towels and tablecloths, so I must take advantage!!!! So, this is another MEGA POST because y'all have been writing some very engaging things to the list lately! I'm glad that some of you actually *look forward* to this!! You make me smile! *****************SINISTER UNDER 20/KEN CHU/OVER 25**************** Peter Carter wrote of Rach Cornflake's legion of Sinister under 20: "ME! Can I join? Please please please please!" and it was really weird because the date of his post showed up in my mailbox as 9/30, which is my birthday. What a weird glich. But wrong date or not, it's over seven years too late for me to belong to the club, so I don't know what I'm getting so excited about my birthdate being on his post for! and Cola Cube Cay wrote: "Can I join the Sinister under 20s club please?" Another under 20!!! Wow, you kids are so cool and so young! Pez just turned 22! Hoorah! Happy Belated Birthday!!! Madeleine wrote of the Sinister's Old Codger's Club: "Vic and I always carry clean pants and a toothbrush, we never kip on floors, we often prefer a quiet meal and a chat to a yeard of ale and a kebab session. We prefer comfort over "fun" any day." I'm not quite there yet, I have been known to "kip" on floors... what a british term that is--kip, how does it mean sleep? Where in the world did it come from?! Jonny wrote: "and then rachel fruitloop reminds me of my own mortality with talk of a sinister retirement community." Ahhh, Jonny, I just wanted you to know that even crazy fruitloops like me are old-timers! But the best part is that we secretly kick ass, despite our "Codger" facade! Joe Vester (to those in the know, Rachel Pancake!) wrote: "Sinister under 20s would rawk. And I can be a member for the next 5 years or so." My goodness, that is a scary thought. You're fifteen and brilliant!! Where were boys like you when I was fifteen, dammit!? ********************JERK-OFFICE SPACE********************************* Lisa (Rachel Ranchero, to those in the know!) "said to the clerk behind the counter, "You know, Loverboy falls into that category of music that I call 'Earnest Rock'. I am never sure what kind of emotion they're trying to communicate, but whatever it is,they're trying to do so very forcefully and earnestly." Someone thinks it's funny and it's me! I, for one, am ALWAYS working for the weekend! Mark wrote an amusing tale of office life, and the Stationery Master. Writing "Live animals: Do not eat" and something about "Fetish City" on the outside of his order that had arrived is so very amusing. I love office entertainment at the expense of others' who make themselves targets! Nice one! Helen McLean wrote: "At my work we have a woman who has a small obsession with watching planes fly, and so at the slightest sound of a plane flying overhead (which can happen quite often) she will literally drop everything and bolt out the door and will be staring at the sky smiling." WHAAAAT? That is just bizarre! I can't imagine what I would do as an employer if my staff did that. Unless you work as an air-traffic controller...then it makes sense (the cocaine, ya know!) Robster wrote: "Now I don't think there has been any formal declaration of war on this front and I certainly have nothing against any of the Robins or Robyns on the list... Ah what the hell - Oi Stout! I'll see you in the playground at home time. Bring yer anecdotes. We'll soon see who works in the more bizarre office!" Now I'm practically choking from laughing at this one!!! What's next--James' v. Stuarts in a battle over who can quote the most lines from Jimmy Stewart's movies!! I'm getting ready for 'It's A Wonderful Life' on TV straight through the holidays! **************DRESSING FOR HALLOWEEN IN SMARTY PANTS!***************** Rach Grapenut wrote: "Yesterday my mum and brother and I carved some kickass pumpkins, the best we've ever done, and it made me very happy." Yay, kickass! Yay, pumpkins! I carved a "kickass" pumpkin this year, too. A white pumpkin, and I carved a skull into it. I named him "Scrappy". Not to be confused with the shitty cartoon dog nephew to Scooby Doo, but much less annoying and a lot scarier. Kara Jean wants to be David Bowie for Halloween every year, in which case I'd give Peter a run for his money! Mmmmmmm, Bowie! Vel-Gal wrote: "Rachel titled her post "a spooky witch in a sexy dress" and gave me thoughts of my dog, spooky, in a sexy dress... you know the only piece of cloth she ever wore was these self-made knickers i made for her for obvious reasons (her being a she-dog) with a hole at the back for her tail to pop out!" AWWWWWWW! How cute! I once made socks for my cat Agnes. Pink kneehighs, they were. Her twinkle toes are always cold. I got a picture of her in them once, but she was very unhappy. I hope that Spooky doesn't mind being dressed up! Archel Toast wrote of Halloween being silly because kids are told to DEMAND sweets from strangers. She also remarked on the scare of anthrax in lovehearts, which she ate anyway! But I really liked it when she wrote: "incidentally, one of the writers in the festival i'm currently involved with had to pull out because of a'perforated colon'. which is quite an appropriate sounding injury for a writer..." and if you're gonna die from anthrax, punctuate it with a witty comment, I always say! (you ARE still with us, though, aren't you?) Hey, speaking of punctation and semi-colons and such... well, you know I like these referential posts, but when I want to quote somebody who had used quotation marks, I am resisting the urge to change the inner marks from "" to ''... but that would be tampering with the integrity of your quotes, you lovelies! So please don't hold my bad punctuation against me! ;) Jim Gilmer sent a link to "Cleaning the Fucking Kitchen for Dummies" and it was soooooooo funny. I need that for my house. My brother and new wife are STILL at my house despite the fact that he said that he was just coming for the weekend to get his stuff. They have torn the place up. I have to be mean tonight. :( Madeleine, I am really aware of how hard it is to live with other people, I am *not* in the mood for this at all, either! Cunning Andre wrote: "I never dreamed in a million years I'd get support to do in an academic philosophy setting-studying the writings of a Rennaisance magician and discussing it as a philosophical text. Can I get a BLOODY GRATE YAY, my brothers and sisters?" Bloddy great yay Andre!!! I am impressed by your academic endeavors! I guess talking to people on city buses pays off, eh? Olalalala (Rachola Cinnamon to those in the know!) wrote: "i've started reading 'lord jim' by joseph conrad.. he was polish, you know? :) he changed his name, which was a good decision i guess - i doubt if he'd have been published a lot, had he signed his works 'korzeniowski' rather than 'conrad' ;) perhaps i should change my surname too" Me, too. I wanna be famous but I'm Polish born and french bread, ha, french bread! (that was for you, sweet crush o' mine!) Really though, my last name is straight from your motherland, Ola, even though I'm only a quarter Polish. People have a real problem with polish names around here. It's not difficult, I promise you, but I will stick to fruitloop! ********************THE HURTY-GURTY GANG*************************** Kara Jean mentioned slipping and giving herself a fat lip. She also is a good singer of "Slow Graffitti". Angela was: "limping cause i have just about totaly knocked off my little toe last night on the corner of the couch in my room last night." And Matthew Willson wrote: "*random fact* I woke up with a bruised toe this morning. I also had no idea where it had came from until I realised I was kicking inanimate objects in a drunken manner last night :-( After dealing with a rather confusing/tearful 'I really like you but I can't get involved' talk with the girl who's leaving before christmas..." OH WOE WOAH!!! Why is everybody hurting themselves!? I guess we are all clumsy from being pulled in every direction by our heartstrings! Matthew, try to keep your head up. That situation is very hard to cope with! I'm sending you hugs! Vel-Gal posted a grate poem and told the tale of nursing poor ill Stacey Dahling back to health! Hope you're better, Stacey! Robster would say: "Doctors describe their condition as 'stable but twee'." I would also like to send "get well soon" messages to Big Stu's car! Does it have a name, Stu? (the car, I mean!) ********STOP THE PRESSES (ER, MODEMS)! MUSICAL CONTENT!************** Tim Banning wrote: "speaking of Women's Realm, did anyone else notice that when they played it live, they skipped the last verse?" Yeah, what's up with that? What happened! I feel cheated, as if I should wait around for a bit and see if we can have another go at it! Ian wrote about the time Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy sent him a hand written card! That is so wonderful!!! What a nice guy! Chris Pez wrote of Nick McCabe: "I wish he'd make a comeback with a new band or solo as he is a tremendous guitar player, but that might be a bit too much like the seahorses. but then again McCabe was never as self indulgent a guitarist as John Squire was so maybe it might work." Yes, indeed. Nick McCabe is genius. Really truly. Not that Squire or Butler aren't, don't get me wrong. But I have to agree with you on the self-indulgent quality in a guitar virtuoso taking them down. Also, Mark Collins from The Charlatans doesn't get enough credit for being brilliant. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed Butler's solo album 'People Move On'. Being an old Suede-obsessed die hard, I was devastated when he left Suede. And actually, he sent me a 2 page handwritten letter after he "left the band" and it was extremely bitter towards Suede. Such a shame. But he can be really nice, too. Another guitarist I adore is Phil Cunningham from Marion, remember them? Youn wrote: "I was struck by this line in the song: "I don't know you if you're gonna show me everything". There's the obvious contradiction." And KEN CHU wrote: "I am going to pretend that I don't know you if you're going to flash your boobs to me in public" and I WRITE: "It's not like you to bare your soul to me, so when you're confessing, it goes against the personality of yours that I know" That's what I think, anyway. Rach O.J. wrote: "what i didn't know is thet my mother like.. loves belle & sebastian!!" hoorah! I hope that you have a GRATE trip visiting your mom in London!!! But i hope your mom's passion for B&S doesn't turn out like my mom's passion for Morrissey. It sort of gets in the way, I think! Paul Arathoon wrote: "I heard the whole B&S EP yesterday and very sonorous it is too. I would say go buy it but preaching to the converted and all that..." It's driving me crazy that I haven't heard this yet!!! The suspense is killing me! James and the giant Dancin'Hatchback wrote: "Miss Jenni of picnic mummying fame has the new Single and says "It's got a really twee retro design on the cover" and that she feels very proud to have it a month before everyone else, so. List crushes are brill and should be encouraged." I wish MY list crush had an advanced copy of the EP! If he had it, I would lend him 200 quid for a flight across the ocean! MR. B THINKS I'M PRETTY!!! Whooo hoo! I am smiling! :D That made my day! Rachel Sunnyside Up wrote something beautiful about the music of B&S: "These songs have protected me from things that I fear by becoming my friends and holding my hand at the bus stop, or infiltrating my speech, gently reassuring me, in even the most difficult circumstances." I feel this way, too. I thank my lucky stars for music! I have been indulging in Muse a lot lately. I just recently got a tape from a pen pal and I can't get enough of it. It just seems to fit my mood and the weather. Psi wrote: "Rachel Fruitloop - Surely the release of "Something For The Weekend" doesn't have anything to do with the SFA song? I haven't actually heard the SFA song yet, but the words have got to be different." Yeah, the words are different. Don't get me wrong, I like both songs, but it's just that the SFA one RAQUES and TDC one is more whimsical and twee. But my heart belongs to SFA, especially since my current list crush will only endure as long as there are SFA lyrics for our subject lines! But HE has voted for me 2 times now... so you see SFA are very proliphic! *************IT'S FUN TO TRAVEL AND PICNIC WITH CHU***************** Lawrence wrote: "hopefully there will be the first inaugural Sinister Auckland picnic sometime before or after Christmas." That would be super cool!!!! I'd want to see pictures of that one! Michael Vance wrote: "We could have a Sinister hike up in Zuma, but maybe some have been sitting in front of the computer typing up your list crushes too long?" Yes, well... I SUGGESTED a picnic here in Los Angeles on November 10th, but only one person has expressed any interest. So I guess I'm just not fit to be a picnic mummy! What am I, Scotch mist? ;) Upon receiving the news that the Primrose Hill picnic is being switched to the 17th, The Beautiful Mr. B wrote: "I could suggest a full weekend autumn sinister extravaganza with two days of picnics/pubs/dancing/drinking/fitba/singing/redbulldozerslive(Ken?)" And I say you guys should just go for it and make a weekend of the picnic situation!!!!! oh, to be in London! Sean wrote the most charming travel guide to Baltimore and is hoping that someone out of b&s will read it and insist that the band play there. Sean said: "I will personally show them all around so the leave with the proper impression of the town." I hope that you will take me to see the sights and then drag me home. I plan to visit you and Elise there next year!!! Especially now that I know how wonderful Baltimore is!!!! Plus, I just want to hang around with you kool kats! Jonny said: "the other more reason was the disturbing piece of graffiti i saw on a crossing at clapham common last weekend during my six-monthly visit to the big metropolis from the northern hinterlands that are south manchester. it read "chu was here". what can it all mean?..." I think it means that the next B& S album is going to be called "Chu was here"! Katie Cheeriodle (Rachel Cheeriodle to those in the know!) wrote of an earthquake in Southern California the other day: "my bed started shaking worse than a vibrating bed in a cheap motel. Not that I'm personally familiar with such a bed or anything, lest you get any ideas about my character." Well, we know that you only have reference to such bed from the visit you made to Mr. Ken Chu's house to insure the success of our !Viva Rachels! movement! ;) Toby C is leaving us for the Silk Roads of China. Funny, it sounds like innuendo to getting down Chu's pants! Stacey Dahling wrote: "I somehow managed to lure Ken Chu to make an utterly spontaneous trip into London a few weeks ago, can I entice anyone else into Athens?" If ticket prices are still only 50 quid from England, you all have to go to Athens, I insist! That is a picnic I have to experience vicariously through a whole bunch of you kids! ********************FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY************************ Big Stu wrote the commentary for: "the big match: Rachel Rovers v Wills United." Big Stu, you are so clever and brilliant! I can't believe how grate your Sinister TV live report was!!!!!! I could *kiss* you for being that witty! An Monchichi wrote: "I often wish I had Rachel F's brain. But then if I had her brain, who's brain would she have?" My cranial cavity would then be filled with cotton candy, I imagine! I doubt anyone would notice a difference, though! You are cute An!!! Elise J. Spry wrote: "a list of alternate merit badges for scouts that my friend Ben Carter and I made up" I think that "Faking Term Papers" needs to be another one of those. Elsie is sooooooooooo very clever and I love her! *************************LOVE************************************ Kenneth PY Chu wrote: "I think I'm becoming a Cult figure.. look, I'm Chinese - I can't pronounce my l's and my n's properly." That makes me want your ass. I'm single but not nearby. Plus, I don't know if I could handle the "status" of dating a c**t figure! But damn you're cute, Chu! Eric the half bee wrote: "I just need someone to hold and to hold me. smoking at my window while listening to galaxie 500 just isn't cutting it." A sentiment so many of us share with you Eric. It's difficult to be confident enough to move beyond these suckers who don't "like us like that" and go fishing! Amy Longcore (Rachel Apple Jacks to those in the know!) wrote: "there is a difference between knowing you are using someone as an "escape" from your working week or whatever, and having a flat out dillusional relationship with someone you've never met." Ain't it the truth!! That is why you must try living in the real world instead of a shell!! Cola Cube Cay said of list crushes: "The only thing you'll ever get out of them is love children and heartbreak and a boy living in your room for three weeks eating all your bread..." Love children?! What?! I don't want to have a love child! And I need all of my bread for myself! Maybe I should rethink my stance on list crushes...hmmmm... nope, still a fan! ;) Caleb Ben (for those in the know, RAW) wrote something that has stuck in my mind: "sometimes love is a match applied to a pile of damp twigs and sticks, starting softly and subtly but soon is blown into a all encompassing fire raging with energy and passion." B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! I think that's the sensation I've had with love in my life most often. If I accept the fact that it is love I'm feeling, that is! I like Jim Gilmer's interperetation of love, too. It makes it seem so acquireable! And Jim, I will wear my fan club badge proudly, sweetie! Rachel Sunnyside Up wrote: "Tonight I'm worrying� All I want right now is to be with someone. Safe within their arms and for them to tell me things will be okay. But that isn't going to happen tonight." Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! I need that, too! What will we do, what will we do? I'm going to listen to "Whatever Happens, I Love You" by Moz to soothe my savage soul! Grrrrr! Erin wrote: "I can probably assume I won�t ever have a boy who understands that aspect of me (admittedly a very big & important aspect), or am I wrong to assume that all other B&S fans are terminally cooler than I am?" No, of course not. I think one grate thing about being a B&S fan is that we are typically "uncool" and that is what makes us cool! A lot of boys love B&S, or can be introduced to them by you, and some of them even turn out to be straight! ;) Just don't give up hope, Erin. I'm trying not to! Matea Basta is suffering from the younger child complex, so I am sending a big old hug and a shout out to you because you're grate!!! I am the big sister and I have seen my own sister aflicted with this complex, so I know how it is! Kara Jean wrote: "We have a flowering cherry tree outside my house and I once stood underneath it on purpose on a windy day, but the flowers weren't ready to rain down yet." That is GORGEOUS!!!!! Yay, Kara! I like that picture in my mind! Will Spike wrote: "She sees me as only a friend. Sigh. Why does this always happen to me?" Because of The Smiths. That's why it happens to all of us. "I want the one I can't have and it's driving me mad, it's written all over my fayeeyayyeyyaahahace!" *******************FAVORITE QUOTES********************** "It's possible that over the weekend someone from Sinister may be EXPOSED as a MURDERER. But I'll keep you posted." --Andrew Williams "The staff were so happy, you'd have thought Jesus had arrived with a big box of sweets."--Robin Stout ********************************************************* On that note, I shall leave you to ruminate! Extra special hugs to my two favorite boys, Ben Apps and Ryan, and also to Elise! And of course kisses and high-fives to the Rachels !VIVA RACHELS! The battle is underway (or is that underwear?) love to you all, Grrrrachel fruitloop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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Sinister: Do you know the way to Camden Town? la la la la la ala la la la laa...
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Everybody! Leicestershire's a great big freeway, put a Twenty down and buy a car. In a week or maybee two you wish you'd saved for a Lada. Ohhhhh, I've got lots of friends in Camden Town, la la la la la la la al. Yeah, you can't really breath in Camden Town, la la la la la la la la la. you can keep singing if you like but I'm going to write a bit now, so.... How are you? I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone ringing and at the other end comes a voice..... "Hellooooo James, sooo sooorry, I'm afraid we've had to rearrange your shifts, soooorry, is that Okaaaay?" This is the voice of my *employer* and his latest transparent excuse. He got a reply of "No you useless gimp, thats not Ok" Finishing with "Take me off your books, I shan't be requiring your services any longer!" Now, telling your boss to get lost is all well and good but it had me chewing finger nails at an alarming rate as I was without income and still had a complete lack of "feeding myself" funds, let alone "get me back to London" funds. I then walk out the door to see Triumph car making out like I'm not so bad after all, pouting her bumpers suggestively as I pass by. I know she's only doing this cos I'm trying to sell her and really thinks I'm a terrible driver. So having a clingy motor car and no income was getting me a bit miserable. That was this morning, cos now all is well again. I went to another interview earlier on and was delighted to see the agency lady was infact Fergie's identical twin, what could go wrong now a disgraced royal was going to find me a job? Absolutely nothing!, She came bounding back from her office with all the enthusiasm of newly born giraffe, legs all over the place, collapsed into her chair, flung herself over to my side of the table, looked up, pushed ginger hair out her eyes, caught her breath and spluttered "how about a job at Disney!" Having escaped Sarah Ferguson's rather loose sister I leave the office EMPLOYED, and with the title 'order picker' to add to my collection. I feel like dancing about with JOY at finally getting a well paid proper job with a real boss and a real place to do this work in. mmmmm, lovely. .............................................................................. Datsun 260Z (love) Got her loser bits of rust brushed off and painted back over with "Magnolia" emusion which makes the her look all the more tatty, as is the fun of owning 27 year old cars. She really shot off down the lanes this afternoon very enthusiastically and I think secretly she quite enjoyed getting tarted up in house paint. Perhaps it has the same effect on cars as cotton wool buds have upon humans. .............................................................................. .................... By means of a change and that this is a B&S list, I have some Belle&Sebastianish content in my post today. Miss Jenni of picnic mummying fame has the new Single and says "It's got a really twee retro design on the cover" and that she feels very proud to have it a month before everyone else, so. List crushes are brill and should be encouraged. If you've read this FAR it must be 'cos you got HIGH.... 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: ROCK ON STEVIE!!!
by colin thornton 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Dear everyone, I was listening to the live mix of Belle and Sebastian in Los Angeles yesterday, and I came upon a moment in the concert when Stuart called a young couple up to the stage (and they better hurry before he changes his mind). The song that Stuart played for them was "Wrong Girl". I thought- how appropriate. I wonder what that song meant to that young couple, but I know what it meant to me. That girl dancing might've been the right girl for "Jarvis", but she was probably the wrong girl for me. I must say, though, that the girl made a wonderful crush and deserves a good guy who lives a lot closer. I find the current thread of love and crushes to be entirely relevant to my life, since I have found one and lost the other. I agree with Rachel when she said that an e-relationship can cause people to write things that they normally wouldn't. For instance, I would flirt wildly with my crush (without thought to consequence). The problem came when I was faced with the very serious proposition to move very far away and live with her- this wonderful, yet very anonymous girl. Suddenly, I became confused (and pretended I wasn't) and I fumbled around like an ass trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. In the middle of all this, just to completely turn my world upside down, I found romance (when I least expected it). Amy Bancroft, Michigan's own MIA, re-visited my life, and I fell in love, whether I had plans to move very far away or not. I covered my ass by not telling the truth to my crush (which was very wrong), but I was finally honest when I had made my decision, which I'm very happy with. I've wanted to tell the list that I've found a special sinister person, but its rather difficult because it managed to hurt one of you. Anyway, it doesn't do any good to keep things a secret. I do want the list to know that love between sinisters can be found, that it should be with someone you've actually met, and that all crushes should be honest with themselves and each other. Belle and Sebastian are more than just great music to me. They are a lifestyle, a personality, a philosophy. I do think that Sinister kids have a great deal in common and that there are all kinds of potential matches on this list. To think otherwise would be depressing because (I don't know about you), but I have a hard time meeting people that think and act the same way I do. This is a grate place to meet someone special and (I disagree with Mr. Gilmer on this point) an e-mail relationship can be better for a couple because they have to focus on communication over physical attraction. But, ultimately, I have to agree that there is nothing like holding someone close and kissing them on the neck and dancing with them next to creepy day-of-the-dead skeletons (for instance). Thanks for considering my thoughts on this subject. If anybody happens to know my x-crush, please tell her that I would join her cult any day and that I still think she is pretty cool. Shout out to Amy- Stars of Track and Field are Beautiful People. Love, Colin _________________________________________________________________ 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: Harry Potter and the blonde nutcase.
by Spike 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

In case you are wondering, I am the blonde nutcase in the title. I coloured my hair at the weekend. I was hoping for Spike from Buffy (shock) but it looks more like Marshall Mathers. Yup, I'm going to see the Harry Potter film a week tommorrow. I got the ticket yesterday and I can't wait. Hopefully, Chris Columbus will redeeem himself for inflicting the horror which is Home Alone upon us. Saw the girl I love today. She has a stalker who had a nervous breakdown. He claims to be alright now. He phoned her yesterday to complain about repeats on TV. Is that the action of a sane person? I think not. She was upset because she found out that her ex was cheating on her. And all of her friends knew this. And no-one told her. So I gave her a hug. It made her feel better. (She says I'm a good hugger.) I did not want to let go. But I had to. She sees me as only a friend. Sigh. Why does this always happen to me? She did agree to lend me her copy of WWF Rebellion. After she tapes it tomorrow night. Christ, I have not half rambled on, have I? I'll go, before my inane rambling causes you to lose the Will to live. Will Spike == Sanity is not my strong point. _____________________________________________________________ Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Christmas Presents Exchange
by chris perriman 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

is there going to be a christmas presents exchange again this year? (sorry if this is a wee bit early) i really wanted to take part last year but i was just a newbie and a bit wet behind the ears so i didnt but i definately will this year if its on is joan of dark still around? if so will you organise it again this year? if you don't know what i'm talking about check out the archives: Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:30:10 +0200 From: Joan of Dark <silmaril(a)stargate.gr> Subject: Sinister: Christmas Presents Exchange i know its only just november but the chrimbo decorations are up in town and all the adverts on telly are christmas ones (it seems) so i was just feeling in the spirit and remembered about this so then, how about it? eh? prezzies and red bulls Pez* www.pez.com - the wonderful world of pez ;) ivorytowers.8m.com - ivory towers records www.drpez.com - Dr Pez, Spain's premier fish doctor (i think) _________________________________________________________________ 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: sometimes even cinnamon tea doesn't help...
by Ola Szkudlapska 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

oh no, i caught an autumn low..! hello dear sinisters, i love cinnamon. i love everything cinnamon. that's why i always enjoyed reading the narrow wizard's posts... "with that the narrow wizard waggled his bushy eyebrows and disappeared in a flash of blue flame leaving behind only a faint smell of cinnamon" -- how lovely!! :) alas, today even drinking cinnamon tea didn't alleviate my strangestrange mood. worth to note i drank it while listening to 'sally cinnamon' by the roses! still nothing... autumn makes me so melancholy sometimes... looking out of the window i see the trees, their leaves a mixture of yellow and orange; grey buildings under grey clouds... and instead of singing 'orange crush' by r.e.m. i just want the sun to come out. for the past couple of days i've been wandering round the house after school, in that not-having-the-will-to-do-anything mood... ooh, i've just written 'will' there - well, apologies to all Wills and Will-Wannabes, but i'm in the Rachel Rovers team, teehee. :) my name's ola. rachola. and i'm the goalie ;) school's been fine so far.. at least a change after having to stay at home for 3 horror weeks of silly illness. i still get tired really easily, though, which is mighty annoying. whatever you do darlings, avoid going down with mononucleosis. ;) i've started reading 'lord jim' by joseph conrad.. he was polish, you know? :) he changed his name, which was a good decision i guess - i doubt if he'd have been published a lot, had he signed his works 'korzeniowski' rather than 'conrad' ;) perhaps i should change my surname too, then i could become the female... err, edward lear? :) i'm quite good at writing nonsense rhymes, i can easily see myself as the Queen of Limericks. and why not? ;) i've had a huge row with mum today. we just can't seem to get along ok, for more than 2 weeks anyway. she's made a few allusions that perhaps it would be better if i lived with my dad. i'm not sure if she really meant it. that's stability in my life... i watched 2 documentaries last night. one was about afghanistan and the taliban ruling, the other about freedom fights in east timor... some of the scenes were *so* cruel and shocking.. i couldn't take it all in... i know it's a cliche, but all the wars and conflicts and people's cruelty make me worry about where the world is heading. 'come armageddon', as morrissey sang. or something ;) in the 18th century in france there lived a utopianist named charles fourier. among other things, he claimed that if people helped each other and co-operated for each-other's benefit, the world would change as well. for example, a lion would become an anti-lion, and there would be lemonade in the seas. i find it sweet :) yes, i am a fan of utopianism. ;) i set out to change the world by blowing bubbls in the streets. mind you, it makes some people actually smile(!) :) just one last thing and my random rambling is over. i need a boyfriend. but not some seduce-disappear guy, not again. and preferably the tall, skinny type or a lookalike of jónsi from sigur rós. or ken chu ;) (i could be one of your dream-girls, ken. i've got green eyes ;) ...the seduce-disappear guy said i had fantastic eyes. he also said some other things. and i fell for his damn smoothtalk. stupisstupidstupid. but that was 2 months ago. time to move on and plot a revenge. erm, sorry. i should be back to my cheerful not-mentioning-boring-personal-stuff self soon(ish). otherwise you'll all hate me. love, rachola (lalala) ps. *hugs* to rachel oj and other sini darlings in love-distress. i hope everything turns out fine for you. psps. also *hugs* to all other sinister darlings, i wouldn't want you to feel left out :) -- Zamów odbitki ze zdjęć cyfrowych lub archiwum zdjęć na CD! [ http://lab.foto.onet.pl/laboratorium.html ] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: nice clay for a poke
by Kenneth P Y Chu 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Hello, I saw a couple of rabbits in the carpark at work last night, they were so cute. They were playing piggy back with each other. Bless them, heh. Less than a week out of the nursery and already 5 posts under my belt. Yeah volume over technique, that's my motto. I think I'm becoming a Cult figure.. look, I'm Chinese - I can't pronounce my l's and my n's properly. My job at the office is the epitome of repetition, epitome of repetition, I emphasise. Yet for some reason, during this epitome of repetition, my thoughts have been running much more, than ever before. Whilst typing all day long yesterday, I have managed to write three songs for the Red Bull Dozers, all three were absolute gems, like, top of the pops quality songs with all catchy hooks and everything. Then, as soon as the work, the epitome of repetiton, ended, I got home and all three songs were forgotten. This morning, I was thinking about criterias, milestones, benchmarks, about different things, like, for example, what defines a band as successful? Does it have to have at least 1,500 fans? Maybe its own mailing list on the Internet? Its own "Best-of" album? Or, as Terrorvision once said during a popular ITV daytime show "You know you've made it big if you get to be interviewed on Richard and Judy."? I never figured that out, but I do now know what classes a film as having "hit big time" - it has to have its own pornographic spin-offs! Classics such as: Shaving Ryan's Privates Star Trek: The next penetration Buffy: the vampire layer Zipless in seattle I was stumped however when I, came, to porno films themselves. Do porno films get their own porn-spinoffs?? And also, are films with a porno name automatically a winner? Well, I guess we'll see when, "Harry Potter and the philosopher's stones", comes. Big Stu said: >>Several hundred years ago, on November 5th, Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament and kill all the politicians. Can someone please explain why we celebrate the fact that he failed?<< If he had succeeded, then we won't have a parliament anymore, and hence "The Day when Thatcher died" wouldn't have been written, which means no dancing like a prat for Ken, which would be bad. I see as well as an under21's love club, we are also having over 25 meetings too, soon we're just gonna have a "everyone except ken" club, grr! :-) James Gilmer said: >>All you people going on about how you've never felt REAL love, sure you >>have. Real love isn't fireworks and thunder, it's Kimba impersonations and >>holding hands, and just bloody getting on. << I haven't, I did Kimba impersonations to many girls and they were having none of it. Maybe I growled a little too loud. Knowing how love works is all fine as long as there is someone to love, I don't think I even know any single girls who live in this town, definitely not one who wants my ass. Butt I digress. (Sorry I stolen that pun from someone but it was a good'un) Growls 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: inferiority, my feelings of being unloved
by matea basta 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

sinister im so frustrated right now i just had to write-- im always feeling inferior, the little person, you know...compared to someone in particular..okay ill say it...my sister. its just shes 3 yrs older and favored. ive been tagged the immature ungreatful spoiled brat and my sister the smart kind gentle one. my parents think im vain and they think she's unaffected. arrrggg!! i only act the way i do for attention. its all i really fudging want and now for some reason im writing all of this to people i dont know and i feel like such a fool. im sorry. its just the way ive always felt and today some things happened that made all these feelings come undone and i want to rip my hair out and yell! im sorry for complaining and whining and being a baby. i guess i really am living up to everybody's very low expectations. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim and me......
by aale002＠ec.auckland.ac.nz 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

First off, apologies to Lawrence for not replying to your email before sending this off. I'll reply to you in a couple of days. Promise! :-} Secondly, today has been a good day. A very good day, in fact. So, I thought I'd share it with you all. In contrast yesterday was horrible. I had an exam (second to last, yay!), and all day felt...disjointed. Like I couldn't quite get a grip on what was happening, even though nothing much was going on at all. Ordering a coffee was a nightmare, and I don't even want to talk about the filled rolls. The exam itself was a doddle: a third-year psychology paper called "Evolution, Behaviour and Cognition", which is the sort of thing I've been studying since Year Dot. The lecturer for the paper even rang me up the night before to make sure I was OK, because he hadn't seen me in class in a week and I hadn't come to pick up my essay from his office, which was nice. Not to be too cynical about the whole thing, but this is the time of year when lecturers start looking around for students who want supervisors for their thesis years, and this particular lecturer knows that I share an interest of his in the philosophy of biology, so I've become something of a teacher's pet. Many of my friends have bandied the word "protege" about. :-P Once that was over, I went to work, then went home and had an early one, hoping to put the day behind me. This morning when I got up, I felt much better. I went to my mentoring session (I help run a voluntary mentoring programme at a local school, and also mentor a 12 year old boy) and had a jolly good time, discussing long term planning and critical thinking as it applied to the computer game, Baldur's Gate II. :-} Then, I got on the bus. I like buses. I think buses rock, and frequently ride them as a hobby, not unlike a certain boy. Buses are a great place to meet interesting people, and to see the sights of the City of Sails, the Queen City if you will. I did my usual thing, sitting down near the back, so that I can people-watch without feeling crowded. A few moments into my ride, I realised that the person sitting in front of me was my Mediaeval Philosophy lecturer. I said his name, he turned, and I then had a _very_ pleasant conversation, all the way back home. This is what we discussed (amongst other things): I am almost finished my programme, but not quite. I am doing something that sounds much more impressive than it really is. What it is is called a conjoint degree, which is where, if your marks are good enough, you are allowed to do two degrees at once, at an accelerated pace. Many people do Law and Commerce together, but I am doing a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Philosophy) and a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Psychology). Such programmes usually take 4 to 5 years. I am just beginning my fifth year now, and need only to do one more psych paper and one other science paper to graduate, which I have decided to stretch out over the whole year, taking a few other papers at the same time for interest. Effectively, I have finished my BA already, but will not graduate formally until the requirements for my BSc are complete. My lecturer knows this, and said that, if I would like, he would look into the possibility of me doing Masters level Philosophy papers _next_ year, before I officially graduate, to prevent me from getting bored with just doing more undergrad philosophy (this is not likely, because I love philosophy and intend to go straight into my Masters in it after I graduate, leaving psych in the past, where it belongs.) This, of course, made me rather happy-not only was one of my favourite lecturers saying that he would like me in one of his advanced papers, but I was also suddenly faced with a significantly expanded choice of topics-grad students get to do all the _really_ interesting cutting- edge stuff. Yay for me! Then, we talked about tutoring. Traditionally, tutors in philosophy have been second year masters students, but with the philosophy department growing rapidly in size, demand has far outstripped supply. The HOD has stated that he would be willing to consider people such as myself, who had completed their major in philosophy but had not yet graduated, for these (paid) tutoring positions. Now, tutoring in philosophy has always been a dream of mine-I have had some _outstanding_ tutors in my time, and really want to be just like them. Also, tutoring is most certainly the first step on the road towards lecturing in philosophy. My lecturer, when informed of all this, said that since the philosophy department was absolutely filthy rich right now (in NZ, university departments get funding based upon the numbers of students they have enrolled each year, and philosophy one of the biggest departments with very small overheads) and since they were always looking for good potential tutors, OF WHICH I WAS OBVIOUSLY ONE (yay and double yay!) I was shoe-in for any tutoring job I applied for. I later confirmed this in discussion with a group of graduate students that I know, some of whom had been my tutors in past years. (They also really liked my beard.) That, you would think, would make my day, but oh no! the best was yet to come. As we got off the bus and walked towards the philosophy department, I broached a subject that I had been dwelling upon for over a year, but never had the guts to mention before for fear of being laughed at. I obliquely asked him if he'd done much reading on the works of various Rennaisance magicians and alchemists (of which the delightfully-named fellow in the title is one), to which he replied that that was a particular area of interest of his. Encouraged, I began discussing my interests in examining the texts of such folk not in the traditional way (i.e. that they were all ignorant, deluded fools with no intellectual ability or appreciation of the history of philosophy and science) but that they were genuinely attempting to set the groundwork for a methodology of science that, while now obviously false, has significant forebears in the works of Classical researchers into the natural world-Pliny, Aristotle, Hippocrates, etc He looked at me for a second, then said that that sounded like an excellent idea for a thesis topic (yay, double-yay, and dare I say it, triple-yay!) because there are a lot of primary sources available, but not much has been done on their thinking from a philosophical standpoint. He also said that he'd be happy to supervise my thesis if that was what I decided to do it on (YAY!). Before this, I was intending to write my thesis on a book by a guy called Robert C. Solomon, entitled "LOVE Emotion, Myth and Metaphor", but I was struggling with a rather problematic academic issue. Bob Solomon is a regular visitor and lecturer to the department here in Auckland (being based at the University of Texas), and earlier this year announced two graduate scholarships, the only scholarships available specifically for philosophy students. Tertiary education is expensive here, and such a scholarship would significantly help me to pay my way. Of course, assuming that I ended up winning the scholarship, there would be a rather obvious conflict-I would be being paid by the person who's book I was critiquing to critique that very book. Can you say "Conflict of interest"? I thought you could. Of course, now, that's no longer a problem. I'm now able to do a topic which fascinates me, but which I never dreamed in a million years I'd get support to do in an academic philosophy setting-studying the writings of a Rennaisance magician and discussing it as a philosophical text. Can I get a BLOODY GRATE YAY, my brothers and sisters? How cool will it be to go to a party and say, "Mmm, yeah, I'm writing my thesis about a funky German magician"? Better than "Err, actually, I'm a librarian", anyways. (I know, I know, but I'll still be twee on the inside! Go the libraries! Besides, do you know how much time I'll have to spend in closed collections in libraries chasing down obscure references and learning Latin and Greek?) Well, that's what I wanted to write and tell you all about. Not very B&S oriented, unfortunately, but then again I don't have days like this very often. I feel like I need a beer and a kebab to celebrate (What's "Could I please have a beer and a kebab?" in Greek, Stacey?) Today was a VERY good day..... Right-o, that's all, Go the buses! Cunning Andre +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Drinking just for practice
by JAMES GILMER 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Ouch. I got my yearly flu shot today. It didn't hurt really, but there's a sort of dull ache in the muscle now that's letting me know my arm's a bit annoyed at being used for typing. Anyways, onto things that matter. I love it when people talk about what B&S songs mean to them or what they think are meant by the lyrics, because a big appeal of B&S are their lyrics, and the many ways they can be taken. Youn mentioned "Judy and the Dream of Horses", which is one of my favorite songs really, and said: "If you show me everything, then it will be as though, all along, I didn't know you." So it could be a wish to be spared confessions, but perhaps, more than that, a comment on the impossibility of ever completely knowing another person" So, I have to chime in with what Judy means to me. The narrator (the singer) is talking about a girl the singer knew (judy) and how she used to make him laugh when they were younger, maybe when they were children, but now it's later and Judy isn't making him laugh, she's writing sad songs and showing them to other boys (or maybe, to him, maybe he's the boy in school she shows it to). So, Judy steals a book and has a dream about stealing horses and riding away (away from her life? away from school?), so I take it that Judy isn't very happy. She's walking the streets and there's no boys or girls that can make her happy, and she wants to be away from it all because she dreams of stealing a horse and getting away. The boy doesn't want sad Judy, he wants the girl he used to know (or thought he knew), because he wants her to make him happy. He's built this image up in his mind of who Judy is/should be, and he wants her to be his friend and make him happy, and he doesn't even seem to want Judy to be his lover because nothing will happen on the picnic. Poor bugger's built this image of Judy in his head, a Judy he's sure he knows, and if the real Judy pours out all her unhappiness, tells him how she really feels, then his image gets shattered, and he never really knew her. It's a failing we all have. We build these images of lovers/friends/strangers in our heads and it just shatters us when we find out they aren't true. That the sweet girl isn't as sweet as you thought she was, that the nice boy wasn't as nice as you thought he was, that the person that you thought believed in true love was just another user, etc. Which I suppose leads me into the area of list crushes. I think they're a bit silly myself, but there's no doubting that wonderful people who are perfect for each other who might have never of met have been brought together by the list. Whether as friends or something more, it doesn't matter, I know I've made some great friends because of the list, a few I haven't even met. Here's the rub though, it's hard enough to find someone you're compatible with in real life, on the web I'd think it be even harder. Plus, when I think about the things that attract me to people I've loved in the past, a lot of it is stuff I'd never know from the rather impersonal nature of the net. There was one girl I fell madly in love with because of the way she smiled, and the impression of Kimba from THE LION KING that'd she'd do. I'd always liked her alright, but when I heard her laugh and she gave a growl and did that Kimba, ouch, I was head over heels. Hell, I once had a girl tell me she fell in love with me because of the way I held hands. Those are the things you can't explain, that's where the love is, trying to explain to strangers why something as silly as a Kimba impersonation should make you fall in love with someone is useless, because it doesn't make sense. That's the really brilliant thing about love. It's the little things that really make you fall in love with a person, the real things, and on the net I've seen too many people build up an image of someone they fancied over email only to have it shattered when they hit the real life things, as Amy Longcore said: "nothing prepares you for the persons glance, religous stances, political beliefs, belching, farting, secret blue oyster cult obsessions ...". I pretty much concur with Miss Longcore's feelings on the crush list. Everyone's looking to find a bloody epic love story, and sometimes you do, but most times love's a quiet thing, not as epic as you've been told. All you people going on about how you've never felt REAL love, sure you have. Real love isn't fireworks and thunder, it's Kimba impersonations and holding hands, and just bloody getting on. Rachel Fruitloop said; "Jim...you are REALLY SWEET, you know! I'm a fan!" Ahh, I do feel like a star now, and I even have my first fan. Your fanclub t-shirt and membership badge/secret decoder ring will go out in the post tomorrow :P Shouts out to the lovely Elise, her brilliant other half Sean, ~stine, Nikki, and the rest of the Chicago crew, and a loud shout to our long absent lovely Llew. oh, and a 'meepmeep' to Miss Kenyon out there at her new job. Today's amusing webpage: "Cleaning the fucking kitchen...For Dummies" http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/kitchen.html Punk Rock \m/ Jim _________________________________________________________________ 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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