November 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: The State that I Am In.
by erin 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

I'm all for new experiences; Experiences like getting drunk at frat parties are new. So that's precisely why I went frat hopping last night; Something new. Everything must be experienced at least once (except perhaps eating sauerkraut, I know without having tried it that it can't be enjoyable). For someone who never drinks, I was remarkably able to consume. 2 beers, a Zima, and 5 straight alcohol shots (does anyone really drink tequila straight? I wouldn't recommend it). It didn't make me feel adult, but it did make me feel like I'm living up (or down) to society's expectations of me as a teenager. And a Uni student. No hangover, but no sleep + 2 shots of espresso in the morning made for an interesting philosophy lecture, especially given as how the prof kept using the phrase "The state that I am in" ; "The state that it is in" ; "The state that you are in". Understandably I was in a state of semi-dazed Belle & Sebastian reflectionism. I can heartily endorse it as a nice state of consciousness to be in. Fodor & Belle & Sebastian. Who wouldve thought? I must agree that crushes are wonderful things, even when they hurt. Its a sort of revitalizing pain. Sometimes I forget that I exist and need that pain or that passion to reaffirm my humanity. Sinister crushes must be some of the best; I have never had a boy who understood Belle & Sebastian, no matter how many mix tapes I made. I still send tapes to the one I left, but he still listens to his trip-hop and cannot understand The State That I Am In. Being the most prosaically mundane and un-hipster Belle & Sebastian fan out there, I can probably assume I wont 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? It usually feels that way. (No worries, though, I am perfectly comfortable with my terminal unhip-ness). I havent managed yet to ascertain if there are any other Sinisterians in the pacific northwest. There must be; now who are you? Peace, Love and Poptarts! erin _____________________________________________________________ Are you lazy? Get your Free E-mail at http://www.Lazymail.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: Work, work, and more DC
by Simon Fallaha 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

Hello once again all. I haven't been posting much recently, largely cos of my workload at uni, and it's going to be even worse this month. Good news anyway - the concert I sang in last week went really well. Unfortunately, I've got three more to do this month as well as all my uni work. Still, I think I should enjoy them while I can. And, if I'm lucky I could be seeing the Super Furry Animals with my mates next Friday. At long last a decent band comes to Derry. That was odd, last year we had JJ72, Ash and (sigh) The Divine Comedy all playing in the space of a month. In fact, nothing seems to come to our supposedly wonderful city. We get a lot of visitors, but no decent films or bands. They've yet to release Amelie here and every critic's going on about what a lovely film it is. Shame. On top of that, I've been trying to get the Perfect Lovesong single the last two days - it was released on Monday, and yet (surprise, surprise) there's no sign of it here. Funny really, a lot of you seem to have had brilliant Hallowe'en's, and mine was average at best. What else can I say apart from the fact that I saw the fireworks and went out for a drink? Anyway, all your messages (including the ones I've had time to read all of) have cheered me up a lot. And here are my notes to all: Ian Rivamonte - Your DC messages were great. I don't know if Parlophone intentionally caused the break-up mind you. I still believe the whole thing had something to do with the poor sales of Regeneration. Great story about the postcard from Neil as well. Paul Arathoon - Funny that you hate National Express, it's excellent. Lawrence - Europop is far better than Electronic Renaissance. But then, am I saying that cos ER hasn't grown on me, or is it just cos I'm a massive DC fan? It seems you like High Fidelity as well. It is a really good film, although they did mention B & S in a bad note at one point. Stuart - the live TV message was excellent. Andrew - you stated the TDC split-up was 'A very sad business. My view is that they went from being a big small band to being a small big band and it didn't quite work out. The world is a poorer place without them, and I for one do not believe that Divine Comedy=Neil Hannon.' How right you are. Joby Talbot has played a massive part in their albums since Casanova, at least. And I wouldn't say they were that small before Regeneration - the orchestra was massive for Fin de Siecle. 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. Rachel Sunset - I'm sorry to hear you've a lot to worry about. But if you had my workload, it'd be a lot worse. Christina - I haven't enjoyed Trick or Treating since I did it in the States when I was 7 (seriously...)! 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: like taking candy from a terrorist
by Rachel Playforth 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

looks like i am too late for rachel fruitloop's inevitable report back. but anyway i find halloween stupid, mainly because for 364 days a year children are told NEVER, not in any circumstances, to take sweets from strangers. then on halloween the poor things are positively encouraged to go round to strangers' houses and actually DEMAND sweets off them. wrong. so b&s have uk dates coming up in december, apparently. although i'm never normally inclined to trust jo whiley, who doesn't even know that being barefoot does not a good interviewer make. now for my own stab at being fruitloopishly referential: rob wrote: I regard semi-colons as a grammatical offside rule; ask people to explain it and they start confidently, then hesitate before backtracking and starting again. Did I do that right by the way, Archel? hm. do you know, i would have used a full colon there personally. however, i'm not going to make an idiot of myself by trying to explain; nor am i going to use a semi-colon ever again in a sinister post, just in case i don't do it properly after all. 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... robin has multi-coloured pens. i'm so jealous. i hope i get them in my new job, also colour-coded stickers for the revolutionary filing system i will undoubtedly implement. as for anthrax in lovehearts - this freaked me completely as my friend gave me some lovehearts the other day which he had apparently got through the post from virgin mobile. i was a bit dubious about it at the time, but having determined not to let paranoia get in the way of my sugar consumption, ate them anyway. so if this is my final post, you know why. pez mentioned the two versions of harry potter. why *is* the title different in the us? considering that the 'philosophers stone' of the title refers to the specific alchemical legend (which i doubt has a different name stateside) what is the POINT of changing it? if you treat audiences like they're stupid, you'll make them stupider.... elise's hilarious merit badges reminded me of matt groening's 'life in hell' stuff, and had a similar effect on the dryness of my pants :) but then my sinister Post of the Week, possibly Year, came in from big stu, and i was really in trouble. almost out of clean dry pants. i never thought the idea of me rendering a will infertile would make me laugh so much. genius. luv archel toast xxx (luckily mr hatchback's bread revelation will not interfere with my toast plans - when we are living together matt will be baking fresh bread for me every morning. i've decided.) *************************************** 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: Longing... so what's different today?
by Sunset . 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

When you are worrying about something it is quite difficult to think about anything except what you are worrying about. And that's a pity because if you could stop thinking about it for a little while little while things wouldn't seem quite so bad. If you could just stop for a little while and start thinking about things like orange moons or pink skies things would be infinitely better. But when you are worrying your mind goes round in circles returning to that nasty something lurking just under the surface. Even when you aren't directly thinking about the thing you are worrying about you can feel its presence somewhere in the pit of your stomach. So you keep your teeth clenched and head down and hope that it won't find you just yet. Little things become big things. Big things become even bigger. 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. Instead I let my dog sit next to me and I pat her head and tell her things will be alright. After a while I start to believe it too. But it isn't easy being reassuring on your own so I enter someone else's world for a little while. I put on a CD. Maybe the red one. I listen to someone else's voice. I let the music carry me through me. I let the music make me feel less alone. I concentrate hard to distract my mind from the path it has become determined to follow. Gradually I relax and I find myself trying a little less. I am swept up in the songs. These are songs I have taken with me from place to place and return I have found them taking me to places. 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. Tonight they don't take away the worry, or even the loneliness, but they make me happier. Take Care and !viva rachels! Rachel (sunnyside up) _________________________________________________________________ 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: baby, it ain't over til it's over
by AN 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

so I don't only have a bad memory, I'm clumsy as well! I got interrupted in my mail writing so I put it in the outbox for the moment. Just that when I opened outlook again it automatically sent my unfinished post. doh. Maybe it was a sign that I had used up my 15 minutes? or that it's time to stop anyway? Naah. I went out yesterday, had a great time and managed to get myself invited to 2 birthday parties on the same weekend, and that weekend I was planning to visit a friend in south sweden who's also having her birthday around then, and so is my cousin's daughter, yikes! As my friend said: "Too bad you can't clone yourself" I'm a bit confused, I'd like to be everywhere. On saturday it's Halloween in Sweden. Yes, that's right. We have a difference between Halloween and Halloween. One is the original H when you remember those who's passed away, light candles on graves and honour their memories. The other one is the trick or treat and masqurade H. Cause Sweden (the people who "are in charge" so to speak) don't want to "make fun" of a solemn occasion it seems. So they decided to separate the two. Which for some people is satisfying, and for others (mostly younger people) means an extra weekend to party, really. Astrid mentioned Acid House, and if I may suggest, make sure your parents or somebody unsuitable are not around when you watch it! I saw it with a friend while being an Au Pair in Nottingham. We had no idea what the film was about so it didn't bother us that the parents (they were christians) were sitting in the kitchen next door to the tv-room. For those of you who've seen it you know it gets a little noisy during certain "Sxenes". We were totally unprepaired for it and when it came to that we got sort of startled almost and looked nervously at each other and grabbed quickly for the remote to turn down the volume. I don't know if the parents heard any of the noises (I certainly hope they didn't!) but I don't think so. Or they just have good poker faces. I never dared to ask. All these picknicks and sinister meet-ups everywhere but here makes me feel like something is missing. And it is. I seem to have so little time and money to do anything out of the ordinary but it doesn't stop me from longing and wanting and longing and wanting and.... Someone once said something like that if you haven't read posts for a while you can always read Rachel Fruitloop's posts to get a summary of the best parts of them all. And oh how true! I often wish I had Rachel F's brain. But then if I had her brain, who's brain would she have? Finally, most people seems to be cheering the Rachels in the mix-tape battle. So to show my good will I'll give my cheering to the Wills. No offens Rs ;) W is for Wonderful I is for Impressive L is for Legal L is for Legendary love and bob dogs -AN Monchichi ps. belle pps. and ppps. sebastian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: love is a drug.....
by caleb ben moore 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

there's been alot of talk of list crushes. there are alot of opinions on the subject and i have my own also. but i'm biased to this matter because i am right now, caught up in the midst of love. and i say simply that love is grand. it's a supremely intangible thing, a thing of myth and dreams, of emotions that can't hardly even be expressed in words. "love is a holy word", she told me. and i agree emphatically that it is. it is a sacred state of emotion, no matter what it's incarnation is. stated even more simply: love is. love is what you make of it. sometimes it flares up like a lit match only to be extinguished by a stray breath or breeze. 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. sometimes love is just a kind word, a soft look of the eyes from a passer-by on a city bus. the first chords of your favourite b&s song....... love is! i whole-heartedly sympathize with those who have been hurt, as i myself have been hurt and have inflicted hurt. we are all human, born of dust and despair. but if for even one second your heart is filled by that aching, blissful & blinding energy of love, in any form, and all your pain and sorrow and guilt dissappear for that one amazing moment, time freezes and you see yourself perfect....a true vision of what you are truly capable of, then your life has been well lived. pure experience! love is. with a pounding heart, caleb ben aka raw ===== And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die I'd lie down and die ------morrissey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the nights are long and the thrills are short
by Paul Arathoon 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

Hello sinister, All this under 20's sinister stuff is making me reach for my pension book. Even when i joined sinister I was 20 so I have never qualified for this exclusive club. Lots of people said lots of things in lots of posts but I deleted all of them so i can remember little except: hurrah a London picnic I might be able to actually make for once as I am staying in London that week. and I remember someone saying something about the Divine Comedy. Their existence has passed me by somewhat. I liked Generation Sex, hated National Express and just remember Steve Lamacq/Jo Whiley playing a lot of their old stuff in the days when the evening session was an indie kid bible. ahhh.... golden evenings in front of the wireless doing my GSCEs. i was glad not to be at home last night for the trick or treating crap that goes on. Kids round my way dont even want sweets, they want hard cash. Half of them dont even bother dressing up. I wasnt scared at all this Halloween. Until I checked my bank balance that was. I've got an exam tomorrow. Multiple guess and only an hour long but I really dont want the ignomy of failure so i have done work for it. Not enough to feel supremely confident but pass mark is something sily like 40% 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... I will recommend 69 love songs by the Magnetic Fields though. i dont play it enough and when I do, it's tremendous. This post seems to be all "me me me" so I will end by saying have very nice days and evenings everyone. _________________________________________________________________ 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: What's a "lazy gett"?
by Joe Vester 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

Sinister under 20s would rawk. And I can be a member for the next 5 years or so. Speaking of which, there seems to be an abundance of 15 year olds flooding the list.Ok, I know of 3 (Astrid, Rachel Grapenut and myself) so far, but I spent a long time (ok, a couple of months) on this list thinking I was the only sinistereen even nearly my age. Anyhow, my birthday's 22nd Feb (same as George Washington), when's everybody else's? So, I came home from School today thinking, right, today, I will write a really bitchy post. Well, not exactly bitchy but a bit pissed off at stuff. Because yesterday, I posted a post I had written the day before yesterday (when I was feeling all happy). And yesterday, I felt pissed off, but felt it would be wrong of me to post twice in just a few hours. But now I'm feeling all happy again, so my posts are back in synchronisation with my moodiness. I have good reason for feeling happy this week. I beleive this to be the first week (so far) since I joined the school (2 and a bit years ago) that no-one has even attempted to humilate me, insult me or otherwise make my life a living hell. Isn't that nice for me? Actually, this almost certainly _has_ happenned before, but I've just forgotten it or didn't notice. Lastly, I am going round to dinner at a friend of my mum's house. This isn't just any friend, though. You see, when I was small, her son was my best friend. We always went on holiday together and stuff. But it's changed since then. We went to different schools and then started growing apart. Recently, though I discovered him to be a friend of the biggest bastard in my whole school. I wonder what he's like nowadays. It will be an odd experience. Re-visting childhood memories when you haven't really stopped being a child yet. Anyway, That was quite a short post, but sometimes it's satisfying reading a short post as you can just drop in, and then go, having gained soemthing without really doing anything for it. And as one final thing, What is a Lazy Gett? Is it just scottish for Lazy Git or does it mean something subtly different. !Viva Rachels! (being a rachel really makes ending your posts in an interesting way sooo much easier) Joe +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Up, up, up, up, down
by AN 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

Hello darlings! Always nice to read your wonderful posts yes :) I don't really know how to write a good post, or how to figure out how to write a good post. See, I don't think (I can't think), I just write. I must have the lousiest memory ever. Ok, so everyone forgets the dentists appointment once in a while, or forgets to bring this thing to that place. But all the time? When I was younger and went on holidays with my family (I still go with them) I used to forget my wallet everywhere. I mean *everywhere*. Hotelrooms and toilets were the most common places. Dressing rooms are another popular place. My family got (gets) rather annoyed with me, especially once when I forgot my bellybag in a "road-café"-loo and we'd driven off on a narrow road with nowhere to turn around for several miles. It's not *that* bad now, I almost always remember to bring money and credit card with me, but I do forget keys and other stuff a little now and then. or misplace it. and I often don't seem to remember what I did the other day, or last week. Oddly, I usually remember what I did when I was drunk that night out. Guess I haven't been drunk enough yet. But because of my almost-non-existing memory I thought (ok, I DO think a little sometimes...just a little) I'd start writing little day by day. Like a bit of a diary. Cause that's what this list really is, for me anyway - The Diary. "Someone" you can tell about your problems and woes, thoughts and dreams, joys and blisses, everything. And the best thing is, that there's actually (hopefully) someone on the other side who listens and cares. How would you say in english...shared joy is double joy, shared grief is half grief. I think I'll start saving my own posts in a special map. Sounds a bit egocentric? but it'd be fun to read later on in life. Lots of love going around these days. It always gives me mixed feelings. I'm 21 and I still haven't experienced the REAL LOVE. Crushes come and go, and they're very very nice. But what is true love? I'm one of those people who believe one day she will meet Mr. Perfect (not perfect as in this-guy's-got-it-all but perfect in the sense that his faults and eccentricities are not faults but lovable qualities) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: oxford and picnics and city lights
by Matthew Willson 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

Hullo everyone :-) Having been refered to as a 'lurker friend' by the wonderful Photojenni I thought it would be a good point for my first post :) I'm quite excited by the prospect of picnics as I've never been to a sinster one before - do such things ever go on in Oxford? if not then perhaps we should do something about it - I could think of a few nice places for one. Although I only moved here for uni about a month ago so perhaps someone can suggest somewhere nicer :-) I will be making the trip down to primrose hill for Cay's birthday picnic though, which is doubtless going to rock... she's going to help me find a duffel coat too.. yay! (it's cold here) The sudden keeness on picnics maybe stems from my random wish to get out of the city this morning... (is oxford a city? hmm.. still) one of those claustrobic hangovers that make you want to gasp for fresh air and forget everyone but your best friends for a few hours. I think a picnic would make a suitable respite from 'the big city where a man cannot be free..'. especially the london one :) (humour me, it's part of my ongoing project to describe every aspect of life with my favourite song lyrics :) Oxford is a nice town really though. It's very spooky at night, in places. Or I think so anyway. I like this. I could walk around the city at night alone and not do anything and still feel kinda special... maybe i'm *cliche* in love with the city lights.. i have already named a band after them :-) but they can get claustrophic at times too. I've been planning on going and drawing selected spooky old buildings at night from weird angles and combining them into a kinda city light blur picture... but it never seems to happen. I'm too lazy to be an artist. :-) Stop me if I make no sense at all... *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... and then having to take over the decks after half an hour of nu-metal and convince everyone they want to dance to Le Tigre and the Velvet Underground and Life without Buidlings (and The Make-up! thanks Cay). Surprisingly it worked rather well, although I got one 'play something I fucking recognise' complaint.. hm :) Ooh... I've just remembered I'm maybe supposed to mention something about b&s when posting here :-) As cay will tell you (are you known only as photojenni on here? or will Cay do?...) at our band rehearsal on sunday our lovely guitarist/drummer Al made the following little (perhaps mildly ironic) observation about us poor b&s fans: "It's kinda like being gay... you can see where they're coming from and respect them for it, but you wouldn't want to do it yourself"... Hmm... for some reason that had us all laughing our arses off... I don't think the choice of analogy was intentional :) he does some wicked drumming on my indiepop/post-rock stuff though. And can do kinda one-man godspeed you black emporer material with a delay pedal and a guitar. So he's forgiven. hehe The band by the way is called The Endless City Lights and are going to be great once we get our act together and practise :) Can someone explain the mix tape battle to me? can I be in a team? and why is it rachels and wills? is being called rachel or will a prerequisite? or does that not matter? it's doing my head in :-) Ooh and are there any other oxford kids on here? I've met a few likely suspects so far actually, come to think of it :-) there should be picnics and stuff. although not scary ones. :-) I've just realised I used way too many smileys... I'll stop boring you all now anyway, I have music to listen to and work to do (guess which comes first) Goodbye for now then Matt xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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