December 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: I don't have any puns
by Kenneth P Y Chu 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

How not to write a sinister post 1. Sit yourself down at a state of the art computer. 2. Twiddle your thumb a bit realising that with a thumb so small, there's nothing else to do. 3. Make mental (no really) note to self that constantly referencing B&S lyrics for a hobby is sad. 4. Decide to write a sinister post because you're bored. 5. Start the whole thing by thinking of a witty B&S song title pun. 6. Fail, and shout to yourself "I DON'T HAVE ANYPUNS". 7. Pose, whilst a thought bubble with a lightbulb on it appears over your head - and then exclaim "Eureka!" in a really patronising voice. (in Ken's case speak normally) 8. Put that down as your subject line. 9. Copy what someone else has written, and then change it slightly to make it seem as if you are remotely witty, and highly original. 10. Try and at least think of contents, or at least something that someone said on the list so you can reply to it and make everything suddenly seem relevant. 11. Remember that it is Monday morning and you're at work, you had 5 hours sleep last night and thus has a memory block. 12. Sign off, giving shouts out to everyone that you want to get into the pants of, then realise that that list would get too long and a few people would still be left out and thus not sleep with you. 13. Remembering that it is ok, because they wouldn't sleep with you anyway. 14. Give shouts out to your elbow, who is a fine kisser, despite being so untouchable - to you, but not to everyone else. 15. Story of your life. 16. Be glad that by merely trying to sign off you have put in some mandatory moaning about no-one you like falling in love with you contents. 17. Get sacked for doing no work at work. 18. Plot a career as a modern artist after being inspired by the Turner Prize winner last night which was "a light that goes on and off" - which was the best piece of modern arts you've ever seen, although "a pile of shit" by T.A. Lentless came close. 19. Feel relieved that you haven't actually been sacked, and so celebrate with a speech in the style of David Beckham at Sports Personality of the Year awards 2001: "like, I'd like to obviously thank everybody, like, obviously, my mum and dad and my two sisters and my whole family, like, obviously I'd also obviously like to like thank all my teammates and my manager, like obviously and, like" 20. Write something about Red Bull. 21. Write down your name so people will avoid your e-mails the next time. Ken P.S.: 22. Have a PS section that says fuck all. _________________________________________________________________ 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: opinion
by idleberry 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

The new single. Its crap. It�s a half hearted attempt at writing something, that sounds like bad Britpop during the days when it was popularity was waning and it was a word used to describe the likes of Catatonia, Space and Sleeper. Belle And Sebastian should really wait until they are actually in the mood for song writing because this doesn�t actually sound as if they are. It sounds as if they�re running short on funds for trips to the off license, and patched this mediocre indifferent piece of nonsense together, stuck a few lines round the internet saying �ooh look we�ve got some famous producer, therefore it must be good and we�re going up in the world!� To grab your attention, shoved it on the shelves and you lot bought it. I did too, but hey, at least I can say I notice a bad record when I hear it, rather than fawn over it. I bet they�re laughing right now, sitting on their arses, counting their money, Isobel in the courtyard eating bread and honey, and laughing at you lot for being so incredibly gullible and pouring your little hearts over it, hailing it as a masterpiece. It�s a bit like the latest piece of art to win the turner prize- a room with a flickering light. Its utter drivel. There�s absolutely no emotion in it at all. As throwaway as pop can get without giving it away with Happy Meals at MacDonald�s Drive-Thru. It�s a shame really, because you know that they are capable of so much more. And yet here�s the proof that they couldn�t be arsed. It sounds like they didn�t really care when they wrote it, as if they just got together. Belle And Sebastian, in my humble opinion, have taken to resting on their laurels. Why should they care? They have a record deal, a dedicated fan base who will buy and accept anything regardless just because it has those three little words on it: Belle And Sebastian. It�s a weak song, with weak lyrics, badly thrown together melodies, and a blas� attempt at music. Its as vibrant as a power cut. It�s a record that�s been done, and lacks the adventure to explore anything vaguely new and challenging. It�s a safe record, it�ll keep people happy, and what�s the point in exploring new lines of music, when you can churn out the same-old stuff and stay dependable within the tried and trusted boundaries of creativity? Is this creative? No, not at all. It�s unimaginative, dull and insignificant. Yes I bought it. No, I didn�t hear it before I bought it. Yes, its one of those records I�ll probably never take to the second hand shop, simply because I�d feel too ashamed to admit to owning it. Yes I�m still going to listen to Belle And Sebastian. Why? Because I live in hope that this was a one off blunder, a weak one amidst a back catalogue which is mostly flawless wonders. This is not Belle And Sebastian�s greatest moment, it�s a forgettable one. I hope that this is a mistake they can learn from and take a return to what they are renowned for: classic, undisputable genius. Its not ironic or clever, it�s just a stupid record. Rant over. Big hello to Paul Laird, for a great nights work at The Egg on Saturday, and playing some funky little numbers that I could wiggle away to. And he�s not the bloke I went to school with. He�s got a far cooler record collection. End of stuff. Idles ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.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: Just about italian and brazilian books and desperation... nothing of interest.
by arlequim＠osite.com.br 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

Oh, Sinister... Wednesday I was downtown, near the office I work at, and had the almost brilliant idea to go to a bookstore spend my time, as I was out of work for at least two hours from then on. I went to my favourite one, called "Berinjela" (egg-plant). It's really cool. It's in the basement of a business building, and you reach it after descending a long spiral ramp, as if you're going to some kind of medieval dungeon. In the end, instead of skeletons in chains, you find a pharmacy, a small restaurant and two bookstores - one of them being the so called "Berinjela". At first, everybody wonders: "how can people have this kind opf commerce underground!?!?". For me it's no longer so mysterious... At "Berinjela" you can find a lot of cool stuff, among books, CDs, LPs, comics and bibelots. When I am out of money, that's the place I go to spend a couple of hours listening to records I won't buy and reading books without taking them either. Once in a while, I freak out and buy lots of stuff, some really desired and some I won't remember why are at my house a few weeks later. That's just what I felt when I bought three albuns of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions at once. I like Lloyd Cole, but not with that...urgency. But, this wednesday, as I arrived there, I glanced at the bookcases, as ever, and saw something amazing: one of the books I searched more desperatly in my whole short and unsufficient life!! It's called "A Pedra do Reino", by a brazilian author called Ariano Suassuna. It's sold out. It's rare. It's perfect - and, at that time, it was cheap!! But - oh, irony! - I had no credit card in me, no cash, no one to bring me the money - I was alone in the office - and no chance to get the book immediately. I said to the the atendant, a very sympathetic middle-aged man, with agony in my eyes: "Couldn't you make a reservation, keep it out of sale for me until tomorrow?". He was so cruel: "sorry, our policy doesn't allow us to this anymore". I stacked. said: "so it's better saying goodbye now, because this book is going to disappear from the shelf as soon as I turn my back". He agreed: "I don't even know how you've come to find him today, as I put it there yesterday. It's a miracle!". I didn't laugh, as he probably thought I would, and went away, to try to find someone to lend me the money. Two hours later I made contact with my elder brother, who was casually nearby, and he said he'd come with the money. I was happy, of course, but I decided to go check if the book was still there after asking my brother to change his plans for me. And my fears were fully confirmed: not a trace of the most awanted book... It was gone, took by some other book-adicted as myself... so sad. I still hope to find the book someday... wish me luck. Until then, knowing there's an italian writing for the list (Stefano, I guess...), I must congratulate him for the greatness of his country's authors: I am just finishing another Alberto Moravia's novel, "Il Conformista", and had already been delighted by "Paura Alla Scala", by Dino Buzzati, with delightful short stories. As I see, the twentieth century was generous to italian literature. Beto (and his boooooooooring messages) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: tangent ahead
by Zoe 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

It's the middle of the night and I am pretending that I'm writing an essay.It's about News values on TV.Now that's a subject, huh???I'm bored...Plus today I had my first jealousy crisis.Yeap!It was great! My boyfriend knows this person -not very well- who is editor of my uni's newspaper, and they met in this meeting(sic) about the newspaper and then she sent him an email saying that she fancies him and if he'd like to go out with her!OK.So she didn't know he had a girlfriend.Fine...So he told her that he is very happy in a relationship-with me. Then , and after they have exchanged a few business orientated emails, she sends him an email starting with "Hi, sweetie"...HI SWEETIE???? ARGH!!!! I saw it today and I got SO JEALOUS that I got embarrassed for being so jealous.So I'm a bit possessive...SHOOT ME!!!HI SWEETIE???*#%&@ So now I'm calm...I have also just ready Laura Llwe's latest email and it's greeeeeeeat!!!I loved it..especially the sock part. Oh, yeah.Just remembered.This will be of more interest to the Greek members of the list or the ones who reside in Greece, anyway. Erm,I met a few people online through an Athenian radio station website (Rock FM 96,8), where there is a forum under the name Belle & Sebastian.Anyway, some of them are in Athens, others study somewhere else in Greece and others reside in the UK-like me! So, we were thinking of making a move to meet in the Christmas holidays and maybe create a Greek fun club or have a meeting anyway as we all like B&S. I did advise them to check the list, too 'cos some of them didn't know about it. So, my point is that any of the Greek or Greek residing sinisterines, if you are interested in this email me.I thought talking about it on the list would be the best thin gas I don't know how many people from Greece are registered nowadays. I know the usual suspects but you know... So, yeah..I'm going to see the strokes in February..I like them..they are funky and make me wanna dance.I got a ticket out of sheer luck too.Just cam to me to be honest.Thought they were sold out and then,bang!an email from their mailing list talking about something like tickets for funs...great stuff, huh??they were saying how this happens in the US all the time!How great is that?I liked it anyway... Oh, yeah.Does anybody know where I could listen to some garage punk in Birmingham?Where can one go?I found this place called Sputnik which looks great and all-it even played Legal Man!!!- but it's VERY small and has this huge speaker in one corner and it blasts music in high volume which is great when there are a lot of people in a huge, high ceiling place but there?it's a small low-ceiling cave...grumble....well, to be honest I have so much work this year that I just don't have time to go anywhere. But I did go and see this band called The Prefects...huhuhuhuhuh....These guys were around with The Clash and The Sex Pistols. Apparently John Peel had said that they were better than The Clash and they were a personal favourite.The fun part is that one of my lecturers in uni was a member of the band. When the band broke up some of them went on to form The Nightingales.Anyway, in late September this lecturer I'm talking about was the organiser of a Punk conference in my uni along with some more people.It was great!There were members from Crass there and Caroline Coon and an ex-Blondie person and lots of academics...Good stuff.So The Prefects grouped again and have played a few gigs since then. They even had this CD which was compiled mainly from two Peel sessions they did in '78 and '79 and 2 songs from the Electric Circus in Manchester from '77. It was so weird seeing my lecturer on stage banging his guitar and singing and stuff..I love this uni....Now the Nightingales are playing again in B'ham on Tuesday...I might go.What the hell.It'll be fun I guess. My best gig this year, so far, has got to be PJ Harvey in Manchester.She was amazing... This year I have Filmfour and I am recording amazing films everyday.I have also decided that sod media studies,I am doing a Film MA next year.Film is in my blood and I love it...I also discovered a really nice song because of a film.The film is Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas (France 1996) and the song is Bonnie&Clyde by Luna.Well, originally the song is by Serge Gainsbourg sung with Brigitte Bardot, I think but I have only heard the Luna version. OK.I'm all finished...Until next time, eat chocolate and strawberry cheesecakes... lots of kisses, Z. www.studentpaper.co.uk info(a)studentpaper.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: perfect mixtape?
by Katia913＠aol.com 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

Hey all- I know this is a bit of list abuse, but...what would all of you consider the perfect mixtape? I need to make this girl a mixtape for chirstmas because she used to be my best friend, but i've come to realize she is....well...not. I need some help. Please!! send me what you would put on it much love sinister kate +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: jazz in Alexanderplatz
by figure2＠fsmail.net 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

---~metaphor alert~--- LIFE! *-lite*, and it makes me happy, like someone emerging from the overindulgent ministrations of three geisha-girls in a Turkish bath whilst a bathrobed and sweating Marlon Brando sits in a corner reading aloud passages from *The Perfumed Garden* accompanied by a wrinkly woman with unfeasibly russet hair on the cymbalon. The morning outside is sharp and chill: sunlit and open. The bells (for this is Sunday) peal over a frosty valley here. Rails of the Inverness line wind joyously parallel over oily-filth-coated sleepers, in elongated sighs, tuggling a low winter sun northwards. Tesco are now stocking frozen tiger prawns again after some six month's absence. *Carry on Nurse* is on television. I have an easy job. It doesn't bore me. Yes, the little things in life haven't been dull this week; they've been *nice*, *pleasant*, *easy*. -the pantisocratic velociraptor is snuffling in turpitude-* She's got a German accent, and she's got a Glasgow one. The chap singing with guitar and synth (it's a wee analogue monophonic number whose keys he occassionally dunks with the headstock of his Stratocaster) 'He's so droll' enthuses a member of the largely art-school audience as either 'The Rebel' or something vaguely compound in German beginning with the letters oh dubblya el and sporting a rather fetching fedora works through his wittily composed tales of girls over garden walls and Hungarian accordion artistes. I'm leaned against a square concrete column, alone and gradually retreating up the ramped portion of floorspace as the Girl with the Glasgow accent is slowly but surely reversing against me whilst the German girl speaks over her shoulder and into her ear whilst staring, unwaveringly, at me. I'm kinda baffled by this intense if elliptical onslaught. Over the space of the guy's musical set I've retreated a full three feet in a steady, relentlessly glacial or tectonic shift. Now I've to try and reach down for my shoulder bag without appearing to be making a health and safety inspection of the girl's jeans as she yells back into the German girl's ears about the status of the working classes. I'm not dressed right and my complexion is a mess. Furthermore, I feel old. Real old. At least I'm not drunk. Haha! I knew there was something needing, so I turned for the bar. But my brain dragged me out of the door and up the stairs. Just a pinky trace of the sun's illuminescence filling thin lines of cloud-vapour now. Beeswax candles have a delicious scent. Its flame is against a sky of fadings and gradients registered through black sticks of an empty tree. A soft rush of electric fan heater inches from the carpet and a penetrating whine from this beige-clad hardware sitting next to the monitor, occasionally burping as the Hard Drive performs some unfathomable chore under the windows. *Yeah, this is a bullshit phrase to save you time with the dictionary: 'pantisocracy' is a utopian community where all are equal and all rule 'velociraptor' is a dinosaur with long, grasping forelimbs 'snuffling' is to sniff at a thing in a contemptuous manner, and 'turpitude' is a rare breed of dwarf ferret indigenous to the Siberian Olyei and subsists almost exclusively on a diet of rotting gherkins. Someone has read a post of mine! Why thank you, Corduroyboy:) Jazz in Alexanderplatz Isn't the instrumental coda to Belle and Sebastian's *Marx and Engels* adoreable? Lilting piano, cello, descant recorder then some softer, deeper woodwind? Take four 'crayzee' East Germans on Alexanderplatz. It's raining. One is a ghost, or is, now... The man directing all the filming is called Jurgen, and now he's sitting in a stainless steel and wickerwork chair in front of cinema 2 screen in Glasgow Filmhouse with an interpreter called Fiona to one side, a cine-bloke asking questions to the other and a lady with a plummy accent in the row behind me requesting them to 'speak up!' The ghost is the recently deceased artist responsible for an unusually friendly giant bronze sculpture of Marx and Engels commissioned by the Hoenigger reigime in the 80's, in front of which play two virtuosically mad jazz musicians: a saxophonist and a percussionist. The saxophonist's brass horn is full of water which gurgles in Dolby surround sound in the cinema as he blows in. The percussionist slams droplets of water into a dance on the hi-hat then clangs some joinery hammers against Engels' sizeable metal feet. How many feet is that. MMmm. Dada is such a relief. Freedom to crazyness! Half-baked must be the opposite of biscuit in the mirror of the number one. If my computer didn't keep crashing... I'd be 'coherent lad'. and if my mind didn't keep wandering I'd be 'straightforward lad' /rouss toys with a toy boat and looks at more mails maybe... eek oh. If I don't post now I'll be too scared of Laura's dexterity, so I'd better get outta here and skulk around the chat room a bit. Gordon _______________________________________________________________________ Never pay another Internet phone bill! Freeserve AnyTime, for all the Internet access you want, day and night, only £12.99 per month. Sign-up at http://www.freeserve.com/time/anytime +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: QM tickets
by philip boucher 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

hello, I also really need a ticket for this gig. I have bought my train ticket to glasgow, and am missing a gig with my band, my friends 18th and the last college night out before christmas for this, but I havnt got a ticket yet. there was one I was told I could get, but the girls mum sold her tickets to someone else, leaving me ticketless. please help... :( Baba> if you like ill keep you company as im going on my own anyway (if I find a ticket that is) :) love philip http://philip_boucher.tripod.com/philipboucher/ _________________________________________________________________ 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: How To Write A Sinister Post
by Laura Llew 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

1. Find a computer which is not known for blinking off halfway through an e-mail 2. Make sure that you don't have the list's address already printed in the "Send To" column so it won't accidentally send a half baked post 3. Set your timer for 15 minutes 4. Try to figure out a witty coherent introduction for your post 5. Realize that you've just woken up around 4am with this dialogue in your head: Lady 1: I do love the rain so. It reminds me of my first kiss. Lady 2: Ah, you're first kiss was in the rain? Lady 1: No it was in the shower. 6. Forget the part about being coherent. 7. Realize this is a flashback from the few months where your sister holed herself up in her room and did nothing but watch reruns of the Golden Girls and Designing Women until all of her conversations reflected this fact and were strained of all extranneous fluff until there was only phrases such as, "I'm jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo!" left. 8. Give up on being witty 9. Realize that though you're so dim that people can hear the ocean when standing near you - surely you're surrounded by others who are clever. 10. Replay all recent dialogues in your head in hopes of gleaming something to steal and use as your own: Dialogue #1 Me: Oh, Amelie is a French movie I want to go see. Evidently, the main character in it reminds people of me. Will: I had a french film which reminded people of me once. I was pretty disappointed to find out it was The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Dialogue #2 Me: I almost got a tattoo on my birthday. Man: Where's your birthday? 11. Forget about being witty altogether 12. Sign on to #Sinister in hopes of being roused to post about something B&S related 13. Find yourself typing things like, "I hate to ruin your knowledge of anatomy, Katrina, but what your brothers have that you don't have IS NOT A TAIL." 14. Forget the part about #Sinister being a muse or a motivator. 15. Push play on the stereo 16. Listen to Bright Eyes sing: "Laura are you still living there - on your estate of sorrow? You used to leave it occasionally Now you don't even bother...." 17. Realize you're in love with the song though you think you like Will Oldham's Laura song ("Disorder") better 18. Wonder if this makes you EMO 19. Shiver with the fear that at any second Sexpot Sauer might come swooping down from the ceiling while accusingly yawping a "FREAKING HIPPY" at you before she tackles you with a kamikazee kung fu kick. 20. Wait 21. Become despondent when nothing happens 22. Realize this is written in third person 23. Remember when your mother lectured you in high school for always referring to yourself as "Laura" instead of referring to yourself in first person. Remember how her voice became particularly lovely with shrillness as she said that you were acting like a Schizophrenic and were driving her crazy? 24. Remember your retort of, "It's not a long trip" 25. Make a personal note that even though she's 30 years older than you that you must remember to have quicker reflexes, especially with ducking. 26. Refocus on the fact you're writing a post to Sinister 27. You bought Belle and Sebastian's new single! Alas, CONTENT! 28. Wait, you haven't listened to it since it's in your car which has broken down yet again due to bad engine mounts. 29. Ponder on the fact that you didn't even know Hubris had mounts - much less that they had been straying onto wicked paths. 30. Wonder if your car gets more action than you 31. Remember that a boy tried to kiss you yesterday at the bookshop while you were putting things away in the supply closet but you turned your head so he only made contact with your hair 32. Strategically plan how you can spend more time at work near the supply closet. 33. Wonder what that boy is doing now 34. Wonder what that noise is 35. Realize your 15 minute timer has gone off 36. Panic that that long has gone by and you haven't thought of a Dorothy Parker quip yet 37. Think of how when Dorothy Parker was your age she spent her weekends wearing nothing but a broad brimmed hat 38. Conclude that Dorothy Parker didn't go on a lot of roadtrips in her day 39. especially not in cars with vinyl seats 40. especially not in the summer 41. Suddenly have a vague memory that you were going to post the deadline to the Sinister Christmas Present Exchange 42. It passed 43. Recall how you were going to respond to Matthew Henderson's query of, "What exactly is a tea towel?" 44. Become disgusted to think of how it has NOTHING to do with a tea but is just a dish cloth 45. Wish once more that socks were part of the Belle and Sebastian line of band related merchandise 46. Look down and realize that you're only wearing one sock and that's why your left foot is cold 47. Wonder where the other sock is 48. Realize it's probably in your bed where you kicked it off in your sleep 49. Wonder why you're not in bed ... with the New Yorker sipping hot chocolate. Or better yet with A New Yorker who works in a bookshop in.. 50. Be reminded of how this is exactly what it was like trying to write a paper in college _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: wow, he's really hot
by Histrianic＠aol.com 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

I saw will levin today. It made me happy, of course, but I also felt like a bit of an old duff when I didn't say hello. I was suffering the after-effects of three days of caffeine-induced high. Anyhoo, my friend imed me tonight and the conversation went something like this: Friend: I'm high Friend: I'm high Me: Good for you.. Me: I saw will levin Me: He's really hot. Friend: Really? Me: He's really hot. Friend: I think we've already covered this. Me: He's really hot. Friend: ok. My mind is somewhat one-tracked. Richard Cottyn said: It was Corduroy Boy Tom that prompted me into writing again. The fact that he mentioned my name in his last post made me go all fluttery inside! So I'm doing it too. But to say that I agree with Richard's "But it really is growing on me, I love the way Stuart sings the first line, I dunno why, but I do!" That was the only reason I bothered to listen to I'm Waking Up To Us in the first place. I like that first line. A lot. I really need someone to take some joy in something I do. I'm off to clean my room. I love you all! cheers h xoxo p.s. I bought a nice glass ring for three dollars today. It's a pretty little green thing, just like.. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: <insert subject here>
by Richard Cottyn 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

I've only posted a couple of times before, so I'm sure that you are all very excited by the prospect of another helping! It was Corduroy Boy Tom that prompted me into writing again. The fact that he mentioned my name in his last post made me go all fluttery inside! Autographs later please... Firstly, some B&S content. Everyone else has given their verdict on the new singles, so I will too. (Better late than never!) Overall, good but not brill I'd say. 'IWUTU' is a nice song but it was never going to be that successful, it just wasnt as accessible as, say, 'Legal Man'. But it really is growing on me, I love the way Stuart sings the first line, I dunno why, but I do! Also, I can't remember who it was but someone mentioned that Richard looks a bit 'funny' in his photo. I know exactly what you mean! Everytime I open the CD case I have to have a good giggle at his facial expression-I'm not sure what it is exactly-perhaps it just doesnt look very natural, or...erm...well i dunno! And now, a warning about our favourite festive figure. We all know Father Christmas as a jovial, kind-hearted man. Yet this is nothing more than a myth. He is in fact nothing more than a sinister, selfish adulterer. The evidence?! "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus!" So next time he asks you if he can jump down your chimney, slap him in the face! Don't be taken in by the friendly facade. So be careful! Don't get too drunk on Christmas Eve! (Just realised-I managed to get 'sinister' in that...aren't I clever?! impressed?!) I'm still trying to get my sister (15) and brother (11) into B&S. I caught my brother singing 'Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying' last week so it may well be working! Also, a few people on here have mentioned Camera Obscura and The Moldy Peaches. I think I'm going to have to check them out...any particular albums you'd recommend?! Cheers...Ciao for Now! Richard PS Ken P Y Chu-love your posts! Keep 'em coming! PPS Why have I got 'YMCA' by the Village People in my head?! Actually, please don't answer that. Please? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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