December 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: karate
by Andrew Churchman 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

You're talking about the Karate from Boston right? Did you see karate at Wheaton college on Friday? They're playing the middle east this Saturday too. My friends the helms played with them at Wheaton, I wished I coulda gone. They're an amazing band (both karate and helms). Glad to see someone bringing up something besides blabbering about their day, which a lot of people have been doing recentely... were's honey? --- andrew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.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: Hollyoax and 'Enders
by Apps Ben (Mr B) 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

There is misery in all I hear and see >From the people on TV After my tea when Corrie starts again I'll be watching channel 3 There are a million people slagging Emmerdale on Points of View, I saw today It was Dot I met in the Launderette with a girl from Weatherfield She spoke of Doctor Legg I didn't understand But the one thing she made clear Jim was not coming on to her There were no glasses left That he could collect But he couldn't see That Dot just wants to be Left alone with Mark and Ethel for a while (I'm writing in the style of one of KenChu's posts) hmm......apologies to non-UK (and non-soap watching) listees. Hello Everyone! This will be the last post to sinister by Apps Ben (Mr B). PFW (thanks Rener!) are asking questions. He's gonna miss you all dearly. Watch your backs though, while he's away his evil kid brother "benapps(a)hotmail.com" will try do assume his identity and do all manner of silly things. PF spoke about George Harrison - I've grown to appreciate the Beatles as I've got older, and the way my mum talks about them really emphasises what a special time they lived through and I suppose influenced too. In a way I think it's an especially sad death because of the number of people around the world who will be saddened. Christmas. I'm pretty ambivolent to it really. As a kid it meant extra choir practices, carol concerts and midnight mass, so I've got fond memories. I don't remember ever believing in Father Christmas though. Now I kind of switch off to it, my family don't speak much round the year and that doesn't change at Xmas, even if we're in the same room. Aren't I a bundle of joy! Hopefully this will be rectified by drinking and dancing tomorrow night to Tompaulin and Camera Obscura. I know I'll see YOU there ;-) humbug Ben xxx P.S. I think I forgot to say Fruitloop!! how could I? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Rener 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

hello, i got a big fat warning from yahoo this morning, telling me i was nearing my 6MB storage limit and to get my arse in gear and clean out my mailbox. unfortunately this happened at a time when i was very busy at work, so i was forced to do a rather thorough job of it and get rid of the pile of mails i'd stocked up to reply to in one fell swoop as soon as i had time. so no individual mail comments, sorry - although two or three managed to catch my attention as they whizzed past me into the dustbin ... pinefox, your piece on george harrison knocks the socks off anything else i've read about him recently. respect. vodkabird, your piece on flatmates made me chuckle, laugh, and guffaw. i now feel like i've had it very easy flatmate-wise. dahling's greek meetup in march sounds soooo tempting, especially today looking out at the wintry sky. don't know if i'll make it, but what an idea! ... there were too many more mails, so i'll stop there. i've got a PFW (person from work - people from work are always weird, don't you find?) interested in belle and sebastian! he saw my computer wallpaper, composed of ken chu's winning entry in the TOTP drawing contest, and he said "who the hell are belle and sebastian?". i played it cool, replied "oh, they're a band", but he wanted more info as he'd never heard of them. so i pointed him to some web sites and off he went. i thought no more about it until i got a mail later that day - our PFW had perused the websites and found the whole thing so intriguing he went to amazon and downloaded what he could find of B&S ... and he was most impressed. "i didn't know there were still bands like this - a sort of early smiths vibe, isn't it?", meaning not just the music but the whole fan community thing. really, it was a great feeling, enabling the discovery of B&S by someone who'd no prior knowledge of them at all. and a PFW as well! my prejudices vis a vis PFWs have taken yet another battering recently, having met a lady PFW who - gasp! -likes comics. how strange. the moral of the story is: never underestimate PFWs. contrary to appearances, it's very possible they share the same rich inner life you do. the person you seem in the work environment is seldom the whole you, after all. so, embrace your PFWs! share the love! dare to throw cultural references into conversations by the water cooler! because *you never know* ... that's it from me. i hear the tea machine calling. rener ===== "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx ________________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: I love his car, i must admit my life is quite bizarre.
by Neil Robertson 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Alan, Cool I can handle, but geeky? Or Roadie? Easy there. Not a bad game eh? Are you an Ayr fan? Neil +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A catalogue of immaturity
by MyMomSays＠aol.com 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

12/3/2001 9:58 p.m. and I'm writing a professor begging to make up a grade. You'd think a 21 year-old in her fourth year of college would have learned to grow up by now and quit procrastinating and well, get on the horse. And get it done. But--as I creep toward my septic thirties, I find myself scuttling toward the antithesis of what I am supposed to me doing--that being, taking care of business, scheduling appointments, doing my taxes on time, cleaning up after myself--the truth is, I am far from that. I am a messy little beetle who couldn't save herself to save herself (props to the Lucksmiths for that one). Here's a catalogue of my growing immaturity. ITEM A00985-- TOTALLY FULL OF SHIT Here we have what we call a pretentious tone of voice and propped posture, a cigarette balanced between a claw-like hand, and a confident rolling voice. Underneath her own skin, the petitioner is very much creeped out by the completely full-of-shit tone of voice she has--everything the defendant says, the petitioner accidentally mocks, accidentally rolling her eyes--and my god, it's like someone else is talking for her. See; what it comes down to is that I am the most full of shit person I've ever met. I am just absolutely always blowing smoke. Count on me to completely embellish something. Whenever I am conversing with someone I do not know very well my mind just wriggles at the lameness that escapes from my mouth; how I can manage to sound soooo pretentious and yet, completely self-deprecating at the same time. I'm a daft ho-bag. ITEM Z-56UT A GIMMICK I seem to always be involving myself with something gimmicky. Three months ago I decided I wanted Ice Cube to be my favorite actor. It wasn't like anything really drove me to a point where I thought he was a really great guy, or even that he had really great hair, but I just liked the idea of it all. Ice Cube. Whose favorite actor is Ice Cube? Nobody. A week ago I decided that I should like Duran Duran. Like, be Duran Duran crazy--have my handbag covered in Duran Duran badges, talk constantly about the genius of Simon LeBon, have a room peppered in Duran Duran memorabilia. For the same reasons as Ice Cube, there was no real motivation for behind this gimmick, so it failed before it even began. ITEM 45re4480 TOTALLY FEEL SORRY FOR ME My life is really boring and uneventful, but oftentimes I totally feel sorry for myself. I just wail on my bed and cry about the days when I was goth. There is oh-so-much more.. to be continued. Side-stepping, Mandee m a y +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: strokestickets, euphoria and strange meetings at bus stops.
by Astrid Wiezell 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello hey sinister cuties! I hope that you are all feeling good tonight, i know i do. i haven´t got the slightest idea why, but i am in a good mood. oh well. i shouldn´t complain, hee hee. The nowadays married Lawrence Mikkelsen wrote: **SODASTREAM** How come no one has ever told me about them? I discovered them about a month ago and have become obsessed. Any other fans? Their new album " A Different Lifetime" is a work of genius, if only for the song "Scottish Pop" which namechecks both Stuart Murdoch and Edwyn Collins. They remind me of Orange Juice in a way, along with a bit of Hefner and Cinerama and "His'n'Hers" era Pulp thrown into the mix. I guess it was just a mix-up, but it is Spearmint that you are talking about. They´re albums Songs for the colour yellow (early singles & b-sides) A week away Oklahoma! and A different Lifetime is absolutely gorgeous, I love them so much. And just the singer´s name; Shirley Lee! You can´t help but adore him. Spearmint are great, they make really grate and lovely pop. A friend recommended them to me back in easter 2000, the same time as when i discovered the fluffy cardiganworld of B&S. and i haven´t regretted it since :) We´re celebrating Saint Lucia in Sweden. It´s originally from Italy, so I think they celebrate it there too, but in Sweden, we all get to wear like.. robes.. kind of.. well..er.. a white kind of robe, often with horrible lace collar on it as well, looks like something that you´re supposed to sleep in. and you make like walk in a sort of procession (dunno if it´s what it´s called but i do not have the strength to go to my room and get the dicionary), with the girl who´s the Lucia first, she has the white-robe-thing, a red, silk band tied around her waist and a crown with burning candles in her hair. (when you´re a wee kid you have small electric one´s instead of real candles of course, imagine lots of candles and lots of restless kids, not a good combination). and after her, the other girls walk, holding one candle each with the white-robe-things and silverglitter in their hair, it looks like soft gloria´s resting on their heads, relly beautiful, and some of the boys have the white-robe-thing on, and little papercones on their head with golden stars on and a stick with a big golden star on it. as being 15-yr-old-boys, most of them start to duel with the sticks instead of looking like "starboys" (that´s what they´re called, pretty, huh?) but they´re kinda sweet anyway. after them, three boys or girls walk in brown clothes, supposed to be gingerbreadboys (or girls) and they have a special little song to sing that´s a real swedish classic ("we come from gingerbreadland"). after them, some boys and girls also dress up in red clothes and are santa´s little helpers. then we all stand with our burning candles and whiterobethings and sing way too high-pitched-songs made for seven year old-girls and not for us. but altogether, it always turn out so incredbily beautiful, all dark except for the lucia and the girls with candles. it must sound *so* strange. i´m going to be one of the angelgirls this year. i always am. although, one year i was a gingerbread girl and i´ve been santa´s helper quite a few times as well. if you think *that* sounds strange, wait til the time when i tell you about midsummer when we dance around a leaf-clad-pole in a ring pretending we are frogs, mosquitos and elephants. i´ll tell you about that some other time, kids. I love the new single. I think it´s bloody great. I´ve got two friends getting intereted in B&S through it. YAY! I´ve only just started to appreciate Marx & Engels. And now I fully love all of the tracks to the max. They are all gorgeous! There are so many sweet and nice people on sinister, I want to say hello to: Tom: miss you miss you miss you miss you. *sigh* Rachel Oj: you´re the best! ever! i hope we get to meet soon, come to sweden again, now! Ken Chu: Well, um, hello. I listened to some of the Red Bulldozer´s tracks. Actually just Like A Virgin, but I downloaded it at a friends because she can download so much quicker than i, and it just came on repeat and none of my friends or i notices until we all realised that we were having a great singalong, all of us singing the lyrics whilst looking at photo´s and me at sinisterposts. hee hee. James: Look out for Sally :) And to everyone I´ve forgot to mention because of my ruddy memory: hello to you too. I got tickets to go see the strokes today, yay! i might get backstagepasses as well, but that´s not clear yet. anyway, i made an excuse fo rmyslef to go earlier form class, went to the telephonebox and called the ticketplace. aah. it will be so great, but it´s on the March 4th, so it´s some time left before the actual event. today our band, brighten, (http://www.brightenyeah.cjb.net) met up with a strange girl from the internet that might sing in our band. we had decided to meet at a bus stop. we did. it was quite strange, but she seemed quite nice actually. but i don´t know. hmm. we´ll have to rehearse with her and see how it goes. we might take in a boy on the drums also, christopher, he´s a very kind person. i like him. not in *that* way, but he´s cool and a very good drummer. now my friends, i shall not torture you with weird swedish traditions or my rambling. take care! love and stars, Astrid x _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Spray Jul 2001 är här! Roligaste julen på webben. http://www.spray.se/jul/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: First audition to "I'm Waking... "(plus KARATE and answer to Daniela)
by arlequim＠osite.com.br 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Ok, yesterday I sat in front of the stereo, turned it on softly and, while I was preparing my own dinner (my parents are travelling and I'm home alone), the "I'm waking up to us" audition began. I try not to make this first audition too solemn, because the more solemnity you allow things to have, more disappointing they get in the end - this is what usually happens with first dates and first working days. So, I tried to listen to single casually, as if it had been part of my collection for years and years. The result was just satisfying, what is terribly strange... I usually feel a perfect connection between B&S songs and my own life, but, this time, it was only satisfying. I listened in random mode, so started with "Marx and Engels". The song is pretty, undeniable... pretty, fluffy, adjusted. But was that enough? The second, in my random mode, was "I Love My Car", and I found it was excessively long and a little too monochordic. When I listened again this morning to this particular track, I liked it better, but I don't like the sensation of "assimilation" to songs. I didn't have to assimilate "Jonathan David", and either any track from "Fold Your Hands...". They all just slapped me in the face and mind, some a little more enthusastically, some a little less... but I didn't have to experiment "assimilation". Then "I'm Waking Up to Us" showed, and I considered, at first, the best. ok, I agree it may be because it's the "poppiest", the more easy-listening style. But that was the one that made me feel something real. Stuart sang in the beginning so dramatically I thought it was going to turn into a very corny song, but then things started to fit and I realized the track was really fine. The best, I guess... I don't discard the possibilty that I am going to say that "Waking..." is fabulous, until the end of the year. Impressions are mutable, and that's the reason for calling them "impressions" and not "convictions". But that's what I'm experiencing now. Beto P.S. : KARATE is a very nice band! Past year I ordered "In Place of Real Insight", but the guy never brought it. Complete frustration! I have to consolate with my subterranean mp3 files until a new opportunity appears. P.S.(2): Daniela, I bought my imported edition through a small store from Rio, but you can find the local edition in São Paulo, at FNAC Pinheiros. The price is R$10,90. If you want, you can order online from FNAC. Their shipping and handling service is ok! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I love his car, i must admit my life is quite bizarre.
by Alan Whyte 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Sometimes a lot of strange things happen. Power doesn't work. You come close to death. You see Stuart Murdoch. You refuse to speak. You bleed a lot. Love triangles. Friends re-appear. Bizarre goings on last week... and today. Last week my friend Dré came home after 12 weeks in the army. Still his old self, perhaps a little more somber. He's not enjoying it though, he's a bit depressed and i worry about him. He's not suited to it at all, just too lazy to get a job. Strange. He shot someone in the leg... his friend. He'll survive though :) Found out that my two friends had split up. They keep phoning me for advice. I'm hopeless and i'm also caught in the middle. Oh well. I really like them both too. They're not right for each other though, but what can i say? "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." Losing control of a car is a bad idea. Don't ever do a 360 degree turn on a country road. Swerving onto the other side and spinning round in circles, while fun, can be quite frightening too. I laughed. Others didn't. Today i bled for no apparent reason. Nothing serious though, just my nose and lip. But it did run onto my clothes. It's stopped now, thankfully. I decided when i got up this morning, again for no apparent reason, that i wouldn't speak today. It lasted a while. Till 12.30 or so when my lecturer moaned at me and i had to reply. I relied on facial expressions as a response; a kind of social experiment :) I acted very strangely today; a mixture of tiredness and a cluttered mind. It got me thinking whether everyone sees me as strange, or whether my close friends are immune to it. I think i'm immune to them now, though they still have their little idiosyncrasies and bouts of senselessness. We all do from time to time i'm sure :) B&S were fantastic on Jools Holland. As i'm well known for my obsession with them at college i have been receiving phone calls all weekend from people who have berated me a lot in the past, to tell me that B&S are indeed superb. Why did they not listen to me before? Oh well, their loss. I'm now giving people a loan of some B&S stuff in an attempt to increase sales of IWUTU hehe :) It charted at 39 and the price has gone up £1 - a scandal! Anyway, i was very surprised/excited to see Mr Murdoch the following day. I didn't speak to him, didn't want to bother him really and i would have been really nervous. Instead i just watched him for about 2 hours, watched how he reacted to certain events. I also seen max (the car) in real life. He was parked two rows in front of my dads car. Stuart was with a very bearded man who i think was a roadie for the band at the barras. Thick black glasses, very cool/geeky look. I could explain further where it was but only a few people will know where it is anyway. Broadwood anyone? Over excited celebrations, including a raised fist in the air. Yes, a football match. I've seen him a few times now, maybe i'll pluck up the courage to say hello the next time :) Power failure today in Kilmarnock and surrounding area. It was meant to be till six, but it only lasted about 30 mins (about 2.30-3pm). I couldn't get a drink or food or anything. Damn. Lost my work on computer too. It made me realize how much we rely on electricity. People were running around in circles, all the shops closed and there was a general sense of panic. People jumping on buses, going anywhere in search of precious, precious electricity. Reminded me of a story from Generation X. It also reminded me to go to see the re-release of Apocalypse Now... You should too. Oh well, until next time (wee)Alan xxx PS - I read the diaries of Adam and Eve today on the bus. It's not mine, but a very kind lady sent it to my friend and i completely agree with the comments she made on the Post-it note on the front :) "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." _________________________________________________________________ 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: Something
by P F 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

I heard about George Harrison's death in that odd, halfway way - someone was talking about a George, and the film industry, in the past tense. And you put it together, and think you know what it has to mean: and it did. Sadness at this death: sadness in the life too? Maybe it was just the way his eyes came to look. Or the way that a presumed superstar, who should have had anything and everything, looked shifty and reluctant. Tiredness; silence. Absences: where is he? You'd remember, every five years or so, that we'd all heard nothing from him: and sigh. But this could be a mere projection: maybe he found the life he wanted. Gardening, playing music with friends, making lazy jokes? In a snippet of quotation on his involvement with the Natural Law Party - who seem the most foolish of follies - he talks of how if the party won, they might really be able to "take on MI5 or whoever runs this country" - and this kind of fighting talk is good to see: suggests that he hadn't quite forgotten the lessons, or the beliefs, of the decade for which he invented some of the shorthand. I didn't, don't, know his music well enough. At least I can say that my attitude to it and him haven't suddenly changed with his death: the distant interest and sympathy I feel now (as you do for the dead) is (for once) what I felt about his records when he was alive. At least, thanks to a sinister comrade, I got to hear All Things Must Pass, on rotation for weeks as washing-up music, before he went. The extraordinary Spectortastickisms, the tumbling cracker-barrel, of 'Awaiting On You All'. The slow acoustic burn of 'My Sweet Lord' - which is beautifully crafted and arranged despite its silly lyrical coda. More distantly, in childhood - the 1980 (?) LP with 'Faster', about the racing driver. The sort of song that a child would like. And great craftsmanship, real musical skill, runs through his work. I always did think of him as a great songwriter in his way. He had his own trademarks (in chords and melodies), which I've wished before that I could identify; and almost everything he wrote was musically subtle. One reason, perhaps, why it also feels frail - weak, in need of protection, or of a hug. Nicky D, who unlike me knows the entire back catalogue extremely well, has had harsh things to say about him, but writes eloquently of crying at his death - crying for himself: for the passing of time, for a (cross-)generational loss: for our childhoods, that were really gone long ago but of whose vanishing we're occasionally reminded, by vanishing acts like this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.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: avert your eyes children, he may take on other forms ....
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

OK, brace yourself ... this is going to be a long one. **STUFF ABOUT WEDDINGS** Well, in case anyone is interested, I've just returned home from my honeymoon, having been married a few weeks ago here in Auckland. Anyone interested in the days proceeding read on .. Feel free to skip to the next post, or at least the stuff at the end of this post which is about pop, and not about me getting married. OK. Well, yeah, it all went well. I'd been freaking out, mainly because the whole day turned out to be quite a big event, which is not what I wanted/expected. My idea wedding would have had about 50 people - close friends, family etc., whereas we ended up having close on 200. Anyway, Vanessa and I had both been pretty stressed out . sniping at each other for the last few months etc. (Shawn .. You remember, right?) So when the day came along it all went rather smoothly. The service was at a Catholic Church, with an instrumental version of "You Still Believe In Me" from the 'Pet Sounds' box set, courtesy of Sinister listee Scott Mannion. I can't really remember much of the service, suffice to say I walked out of the church (to an instrumental version of "Wouldn't it be Nice") a married man. My best man, who was a bit of a pain in the arse the few days before the wedding, turned out to be really great, and he, Vanessa, her bridesmaid and I had a lot of fun being photographed at various hip locations around Auckland for the next few hours. (I'll be putting some photos up for anyone interested . URL coming soon.) The best thing about the day, though, was two of my best friends secretly arriving from the UK without telling me. Andrew,, who was originally going to be my best man, but then couldn't make it, turned up on Friday morning wrapped in a blanket. Which made me so happy and then. At the wedding service I spotted another fried, Dave, in the audience. Dave (also an ex-pay NZer) also said he couldn't make it, and then decided to come home at the last moment. Which, again, was amazing, and made the day that much sweeter for me. The reception was nice . good food, and I managed to make my speech without either freaking out, bursting into tears etc. The aformentiond Scott Mannion provided kick-ass DJing, with an eclectic mix of Phil Spector pop, Blondie, B&S, The Modern Lovers, 60's pop and Motown/Northern Soul. It was all great until Vanessa's mother hijacked the decks towards the end of the night and made him play Croatian dance music. (sigh) So that's it really. After a days layover here in Auckland Vanessa and I flew to Hawaii, for five nights in Waikiki and a week on Kauai. It is at this point that I must APPOLOGISE TO AMERICANS. I used to think you were a little dull when you came to New Zealand. Anyway, I spent most of my time on Kauai feeling a little retarded, and very embarrassed. Simple things like filling the car up with petrol, driving on the other side of the road etc. were just different enough to be a little confusing, and I felt like some dumb hick, or some savage who just crawled out of the jungle. I'm very sorry. Still, it was great. We hired a car, and I careered madly around the island on the "wrong side of the road", saw waterfalls, drove through a small river, ate good seafood etc. etc. Arrived back a couple of days ago, and have just been catching up with family, unpacking my stuff etc. Anyway, that's probably enough about all that wedding stuff. **STUFF ABOUT POP MUSIC** **B&S** When I arrived back there was a copy of the new B&S single in my mailbox. It 's brilliant . the last two singles have just sounded so amazing. "I Love My Car" would be my (current) favourite B&S song of all time. The horn section is genius. And the artwork ... Sarah Martin, if I weren't a married man I'd be sending you flowers everyday. Does anyone know anything about the "Storytelling" soundtrack. Reading that interview with Stuart, he sounded a little pissed off about the whole thing. Is the s/t album still coming out? It sounds like the band were working on the LP long after the film was finished. Does this mean with will morph into a new LP proper? Oh please let it ... **CAMERA OBSCURA** Also came home to their debut album. It's excellent .. Highly recommended to B&S fans, especially the brilliant "Eighties Fan" produced by Stuart Murdoch. **SODASTREAM** How come no one has ever told me about them? I discovered them about a month ago and have become obsessed. Any other fans? Their new album " A Different Lifetime" is a work of genius, if only for the song "Scottish Pop" which namechecks both Stuart Murdoch and Edwyn Collins. They remind me of Orange Juice in a way, along with a bit of Hefner and Cinerama and "His'n'Hers" era Pulp thrown into the mix. Anyway, this has gone on far too long, and isn't quite as coherent as I could have hoped. Still, hope all is well in Sinister-land. Will try to post sometime more interesting, and shorted, soon. Lawrence +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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