December 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Well hello there...
by David White 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello there, I haven't been on here for oooh ages. Over 6 months probably. I have to confess that due to having joined the rat-race and got myself a job I have been a bit too busy to keep up with Sinister but I try to read as many of the dozens of posts I get in my inbox every day. www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk Don't know how many of you check out my site on a regular basis (maybe none of you do) but if you don't why not do it now and take part in the second (annual?) B&S fan's survey. Go to the site, click on Votes and then Best of 2001 and fill in the form. I hope to get the results up by the beginning of February, which is not long so I'm probably being a bit optimistic what with having a million and one other things to do. The voting will definitely (maybe) close at the start of January. Eh, what else have I got to say... (scratches head for a minute) I bought the new Beta Band album the other week. It's great, highly recommended. I like the new B&S EP a lot (no 39 in the charts though, do the "kids" have no taste these days?) and have since discovered that I also like Jonathan David a lot more than I first thought. Waking Up sounds reminiscant of the War of the Worlds song that I saw mention of on Sinister the other day. I Love My Car is class, but it is basically Itchycoo Park, but hey that's not a bad thing is it? Marx and whatsit is alright, but probably the least interesting of the 3 but it's B&S so it's alright though. The band were good on the telly the other night too. Shit, you wait ages to write a letter and then can't think of anything to say... David White david(a)djwhite47.freeserve.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: Is Fred still on the list?
by matt＠spitefulrecords.fsnet.co.uk 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

I'm looking for Fred. You sent me a copy of Belle and Sebastian on video tape for trade. I never sent you the copy the B&S show at Ipswich this year. My computer broke and I now have a new one. I've lost your e-mail address and you didn't put a copy of it in with the video. All I know is that you signed the yellow post-it note with Fred. Hear from you soon I hope, Matt (PS: this goes to all those other people who sent me a message about trading the show, I don't have any of you e-mail addresses anymore, sorry. E-mail me directly) _______________________________________________________________________ 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: Logic of a blind herd
by Kenneth P Y Chu 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Dearest everyone, It appears that I'm the only person who likes Christmas so I'll stop bloating now about how I'm going to have a great fun time with 9 days off work and watching Belle & Sebastian live. max said: >I hope some of you can empathize for one reason or another, with this >mutual pain and exhiliration you receive when there's someone out there >you love, and just doesn't love you back. I have never felt that before, everyone I loved have always loved me back. They always have a funny way of showing me that tho, like for example snogging other boys. Right, there's the girlie moan out of the way, time for Reporting Back. (Reporting Back is great, it has the same initials as Red Bull) Not much to report back, actually, apart from STUART SAID "WANK". Rock On. Poor Isobel had another asthma attack, and had trouble playing the recorder, but then I saw her smiling when she was dancing around clapping to Ben Dover (that's my new dirty pet name for "the boy with the arab strap") and I realised that I still want to have her baby, heh. I think I messed that expression up again. Idles talked about Jools Holland's face thing, actaully I noticed that too, but I'd just dismissed it as him being a weirdo. He always had those weird face things, actually, and talked weird. But he so obviously didn't like B&S, there were no interviews, and he didn't say "great" or "brilliant" or "fantastic" once when B&S played - when he doesn't know how to say any other words! Didn't they take the piss out of him at the fast show about that? Anyway, I am shocked to notice that none of you have mentioned the real star of the "Later..." show, not Stuart Murdoch, not Stevie Jackson, not Mick Cooke, not even Tom Jones, but Souad Massi! I want to have her babies too. I was a clever boy who used two VCRs to record "Later...", because I knew that I am a clumsy idiot who would mess up at least one of the recordings, and I did. I set one of the VCRs to record Channel 5 by accident and instead of Stuart singing about wanking with an Arab Strap I got footages of people actually playing with Arab Straps instead, okay actaully it was just soft porn but that's rather less dramatic. Are there any girls who wants to play the Flirt Over The List Game with me? Basically you can tell me how good I am publically on the list and then I can write back something about how wonderful you are? Or are you all just going to snog other boys too? Praises and Red Bulls Ken P.S.: Right, that mix tape challenge thing, are you still playing? Who's playing? From my "database" i have Chriss, Wills and Rachels, is that still right? What about Rob/ins? Can someone from each namegroup send me an e-mail so I can give you my address? _________________________________________________________________ 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: keys & psychobabble
by Chris Butler 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

this is off-topic a bit. yes. totally off-topic. ah. our London-based indie pop band (Jinx) is looking for a female keyboardist. we're in the vein of the Lucksmiths, early Cure, etc, with indiepop boy/girl harmonies. generally we're looking for creative sorts above and beyond music. piano players encouraged - and we actually have a Roland keyboard for those who might be discouraged by lack of equipment. the key ingredient would be enthusiasm for indie pop. email me off-list for access to songs and more info. btw, sorry for lurking for so long. i've had little to say. maybe i've been just living in the doldrums. somehow that reminds me of Shel Silverstein - the poet of "Where the Sidewalk Ends". A good read for any of you who love children's books. oh and on a personal note, i'm sick. why is it that holidays and colds seem to go hand-in-hand? is there a parallel between the warmth you feel inside in both? as for b&s content, i had a bit of a question. given that Tigermilk was 'produced' for that uni songwriting contest, has anyone kept up with the goings-on of that contest post-Stevie/Stuart? i'm curious if there are any other stars in the rough there... does anyone on the list actually attend there now? last bit: go see camera obscura/tompaulin/chris leonard wed night (london, spitz) and then see tram/the relict at the spitz (dec 15). chris [ aka senor droolcup ] PS: i may be breaking two rules here (1/not B&S topic, 2/indie bands don't advertise for members in public), but tough. i couldn't resist because generally some of the nicest folks i've met are from this list, and getting along well is pretty key in a band. if honey wants to admonish me, i shall take it with distinction. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you saved for a bass guitar...
by Hannah Brown 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

greetings people, just like to apologise for my last post, i didnt mean to offend anyone, i just have a habit of saying things i dont mean sometimes. It felt really autumnal on sunday. My new house has real fireplaces so we made a fire and i went for a walk in the leafy streets of Herne Hill. It was brilliant. We have only lived there a week and we have already had complaints from downstairs, mind you, we did decide to break-dance at one in the morning. My attempts were quite poor, i managed to roll on the floor and wave my legs in the air a bit but was told i looked like a puppy scratching its back. In the end i opted for standing in the corner with my arms folded trying to look "hard". I also bought some records on saturday. Camera Obscura is outstanding. It makes me want to be in love or at least be all gooey about someone, in fact, i want to go home now so i can listen to it. my favourites are "Eighties Fan " and "pen and notebook". Hopefully i will see some of you at the gig on wednesday, i am very much looking forward to a good old indie night. I also bought the the B&S ep. It's quite dreamy and wandery and the trumpet part in the second song reminds me of the last track off of Radiohead's album. I have to say i really dislike the cover, the text is just all wrong, but that's just me being a fussy graphics student. Joan of Dark mentioned sending christmas prezzies(i think?) and i agree that would be a fab idea, we could have a site to see what everyone sent each other. Good luck to Rachel fruitloop and Ben Apps, you are both very brave but i'm sure you will have a fab time. this messege board is fab love hannahxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: We've got class
by Madeleine McNeil 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

My God! Don't you just ADORE that Sir David of Stankin Cooter? What a lovely chap he is, with his funny, warm and affectionate posts. And yes, he is a lazy (though devilishly handsome) swine as I believe I am a recipient of one of those piles of gifts in his room. Although goodness knows how he's managed to neatly stack the dingo and kangaroo he's promised to send me.... I also adore Stacey "Dahling" Stackford. She's a Sinister SuperHero, you know, and is simply wonderful. I think she should subvert those children she's working with. She could teach them stories about charming little children called Belle and Sebastian who played in a band and went touring in a big bus. It could be a kind of Monkees/Jem/ Scooby Doo type hybrid thing. Jem was a funny woman, with HUGE pink hair in a mullet, a la those singing women in bands like Heart. I was wooed by someone who gave me a Jem book instead of a birthday card once. I think it was the inscription in the front of the book that did it: it was addressed to Maddie Magik. How could I resist? The new single (*gasp* content shocker!). Well, at the risk of alienating every single one of you: I don't like dogs. I really really don't like dogs. Their dewy eyes do not warm my heart. Their wet noses and excess saliva terrify me. There is one dog I am slightly fond of, but only because she's so incredibly stupid it feels mean to hate her. I digress. The cover put me off. The first listen didn't rock my world. Neither did the second. However, by the time I'd turned the volume right up and stood up for a little dance, I was sold. It's magnifique! The bassoon and oboe are grate, and make me laugh. When I was 14, I played the oboe in two school orchestras and my best friend played the bassoon. We were the reed instrument gang. The clarinets could join in because they were single reed, but we were double reed. Aren't teenagers exclusive? I enjoyed the Later... moments. I didn't actually get to watch them until yesterday. Even though I was taping it, I wanted to come home from the pub on Friday night to watch too. Instead, I got dragged to some snooty over-priced after hours bar. Last things I remember from the night? Haranguing a man who tried to trick me into kissing him two years ago (I have a long memory for tricksters) and watching the loved one dance, mad as a bucket, to Stevie Wonder in the middle of the room. How I got home.... who can say? Christmas is making me very excited at the moment. I can appreciate why it's horrible if people don't feel they can spend it the way they want to. When I was younger I hated it, as my family were all at each others' throats. Now, we just pour wine, gin, beer and other toxics down out throats and get on swimmingly. Also, I'm a big greedy fan of materialism when it comes to Christmas. Where's my stuff? Give me more shiny, useless plastic STUFF! It has to be useless, that's the most important factor of a gift. While I was very grateful when my Dad gave me a television arial, a wee frying pan and a tool kit, my heart sank when I realised they would actually *do* something. I like things I can put on the shelf and look at while they collect dust and fade slightly in the sunlight. I loved Sir David's idea about a #sinister Top of the Pops. There could be garish graphics and irritating back ground music. Honey and Linda could present it. Vicky Vodkabird could be the roving reporter. Ken could be the pervy bloke in the audience who pinches girls' bottoms while they're watching the 10 to 2 run down. I would be the disappointing chart entry at number 18, I think. A poor showing, due to my lack of publicity and promotion. I make no appearances at picnics, pubnics, gigs, etc. I never have my photo taken. I don't do interviews... well, it worked for B&S. After expressing a general indifference to each and every one of you, I am now quite overcome with affection. Props to you all, but especially to Rob Brennan (he has Stu M brand arms of sex, you know. That's what he told me anyway. Gullible? Moi?) Dannypants Farrell who is grand and class and all the other daft words that I use Lovely Miss Honey, who I am slowly but surely corrupting Lluscious Lliterary Llaura Llew, who underneath her benevolent exterior hides a heart of true malevolence. You're all darlings and I heart the lot of you. I will be vile and bitter again by the next post, I promise. Love Madeleine xxxx _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: "I'm just a little 2 up/2 down..." (yes it's me again and it's a long post and i'm sorry)
by Ola Szkudlapska 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

dear sinister, my mood has now balanced after all mad swings of the last days, after my gig-excitement and exam-stress. only the exam-stress has evolved into post-exam stress, with me being catastrophic and thinking i'll fail the CPE (which is very important for me). (cpe-certificate of proficiency in english. half of the people from my class are taking it this december. comprises 5 parts - speaking, listening, writing, reading + use of english. boring intro bit over) the 'speaking' part was on saturday. 2 people and 2 examiners in a room. talk about some pictures, passages; discussion, etc. one is supposed to be fluent and use sophisticated words and structures. and i HATE oral exams. i get mega-stressed and forget everything and probably come across as a stuttering idiot (which i'm not. i usually don't stutter) i did, however, try and un-stress myself, and here's how: 30th november, according to an old tradition, is a fortune-telling day in poland. :) it can be quite fun, provided you're not on your own. so, i went round to Charming Kamil's place, and we amused ourselves by taking part in the most common fortune-telling practice... olala's fortune-telling know-how: 1.take some old candles and melt them in a pot. 2.prepare a bowl full of water. 3.find a key with a hole (it's not that difficult, honest. maybe you're shutting your cupboard with one every day, take a look around :) 4.ha, now's the best bit! ;-) you've got to pour the melted wax through the key hole into the bowl, wait a moment for it to set, and see what shape the now-solid wax makes. :) lalala :) sounds exotic, doesn't it? ;-) apparently, a star or a human are good omens, a heart means you'll find love in the coming year, and a ramshackle house symbolises danger and all things bad. hm, wonder how one can recognise a ramshackle house in a lump of wax ;-) ooh, and the wax can't be too hot, because a) you may set your kitchen on fire (almost like me, when heating oil on the pan a few weeks ago ;) ooh the big flame that burst out! so beautiful! ;-) b) when it's too hot, the wax doesn't really make interesting shapes, it just spreads on the surface of the water. kamil and i initially made that mistake, and all we got were flat nothings. ;) however, we did get some fascinating shapes in the end. for example a swan (according to kamil) or a turkey (according to me), and a small lump on a flat piece of wax that we (ok, i) named: A Marmot On A Desert. not sure what that symbolises. ;-) i also got a heart, but not the heart all valentine's cards are shaped like - just the muscle that pounds when you (ok, *i* ;-) see my name mentioned in lovely Rachee Fruitee-Loopee's post :) so it probably doesn't symbolise love. damn! perhaps it wasn't even shaped like a heart, only like a liver. i never was good at anatomy. kamil got a human-shape twice, though! :) one was a Sculpture Of A Man Who Sits Thinking also known as The Witch Without A Broom, and the other was Zorro With A Crippled Leg, who turned into A Man, Billows Of Cigarette Smoke Surrounding His Head when looked at from a different angle ;-) he now occupies the privileged spot on Charming Kamil's fridge :) lalala, and music was also played a lot. mr k introduced me to some lovely bands (mascot, jack, girlfriendo etc. - there was more of them, only my silly self is too silly to remember names correctly) and i played him some songs by birdie. i only discovered them recently and am truly infatuated. oh, and i'd like to sound like their singer. :) hm, the super-fab mood i was in after that pleasant time was spoilt a bit by mum, who was really angry for some reason, and started yelling at me as soon as i walked into our flat. so i decided to go to sleep. -------------------------- friday was a fab day, but then came saturday, and the Horrid Exam. 'what one should do to fail an exam', courtesy of miss lala in the morning: get stressed get very stressed get so stressed you actually start to shiver and can't string 2 words together find out you had forgotten to wash your b&s t-shirt and therefore can't wear it as a lucky charm during the exam: stutter say rubbish forget what you wanted to say and only remeber it after the other person had said it let the other person speak twice as much as you do quote the smiths find out the examiner doesn't know what you're talking about and probably thinks you're an idiot stutter some more after the exam: burst into tears as soon as you leave the room and escape from your classmates ummh, i actually *cried* because i was so UPSET after an *EXAM* now that's not very james bond-like, is it? ;-) not very normal either. and i'm supposed to be all rational and grown-up in less than 2 weeks. tut tut but hey - speaking of which, you're all invited to my birthday party! :) i'm turning 18 on december 12th, and have invited loads of nice people over for 15th. and people say my flat is nice. (i'll tidy my room, promise). and i've got some nice cds. and my friends are farr more interesting/witty/pretty/clever/talented than myself, and you'd get to meet all of them :) come on, flights to warsaw can't be expensive, and you'd have free booze/birthday cake/tour of warsaw the next day ;-) mm? and i keep using 'and'. AND i'd like to END this ridiculous mail by sending e-mail hugs to all my friends.. most of whom aren't on sinister, but shh. 'i love you all', as cuddly damon gough sings. thankyoui'mnotworthy. special hugs to johnny, andreea and olivier 'strawberry boy' (one of the most gorgeous lurkers around :) and also to chris j, ulla (sorry i haven't mailed in ages!) and robert s. and a biiig hug to the whole of sinister, thank you for making my inbox so full of beauty, amusing anecdotes and detailed descriptions of the new b+s songs i probably won't be able to hear for ages. oops no, that last bit was not supposed to appear here ;-) have a nice day, olala/rachola cinnamon ps: stacey - i'm full of admiration for your child-controlling skills. :) i'm so terrible with kids, they just get bored and then play havoc with my room :) -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: karate
by Tyler Rentz 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello I'm not much of a contributer to this here list, but, i have to send some insignificance into cyberspace about the show i saw tonight. The band is karate. The music is....inspired. I love these guys, and it turns out the singer is almost my neighbor. How cool is that? Anyway, had to tell someone before i exploded. thanks _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.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: Lewis Carroll sucked at scrabble
by Stankin' Cooter 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

My sweets: I managed to buy the new single the other day, and Ive been listening to it as well. When I first heard Jonathan David, I thought it was complete rubbish, and now I absolutely adore it. When I first heard Im Waking Up To Us, I felt sort of indifferent to it, and now I quite like it in a vague sort of way that doesnt really seem to matter, somehow. Its a tidy unit: the B-sides are both worthy, and I like dogs as much as the next chap. Even if the next chap is someone who has a rather particular fondness reserved especially for dogs. Itll almost certainly be the soundtrack to a few things that happen over the next little while, but it hasnt impacted on me in quite the same way as some other things Ive heard this year. Hearing some of the earlier records was like getting fitted with a new pair of spectacles. Some things became clearer, and other things went all fuzzy. Ive been looking through them for some time now, so I suppose I shouldnt grizzle that the new record seems more like a matching jaunty hat than a new prescription. Yikes, Im writing to Sinister about Belle and Sebastian, arent I? I feel all dirty. Lets move on. Love and Christmas. There seems to be a fair bit of both about at the moment, so Ill just briefly have my say. Because I can. Love is a curious thing, and means different things to different people. Theres been a lot said on the list about it lately, and I agree with all of it unreservedly. For me, love happens in the summer, and Ive certainly been enjoying it much more since its involved people Im not directly related to. Theres a lot of anticipation, and wondering what am I going to GET?, but inevitably you just end up mopping the grease off your face and dozing in front of the telly, wondering whether youve seen this Bond film before, or whether its just a lot like that other one you saw that other time. I pulled a cracker last year, but on the inside, there was just a bad joke and a general feeling of bloated disappointment. I think I had Christmas once, but its hard to be sure. Id like to have one again at some stage, but Ill be far more careful who I spend it with. I like the gifts and everything, but when its over, theres just a great big drunken mess left to deal with. Next Christmas is going to be perfect, and its going to last forever. I may not have that quite the right way round. After all, its a confusing time of year. On Christmas morning this year, Im going to wake up extra early and catch a taxi to the airport. Then Im going to spend all day sitting about with bags and my Gameboy and a headache and small collection of the more fashionable phobias, alternately in lounges and on aeroplanes, heading away at varying speeds from the rut in which Ive spent this past year. What Im heading towards is far more exciting, so I shouldnt let the fact that its scary and uncertain worry me overly much. Im actually hoping that the experience will help me to decide what to do with the next little bit of my life; Im sure that in one way or another things will be clearer then than they are now. Or at least different. Or maybe Ill just be less tired; who knows? In any case, travel seems to put a different sort of perspective on things. So does meeting beautiful girls that youre crazy about. Ive been off the fags for two months now. As a result, Im not nearly as sexy, but I do smell a bit nicer. Um, Ive been a bit crap about sending packages lately, and there are FOUR people on this list, would you believe, that are patiently waiting for items that are STILL sitting in neat little piles on my bedroom floor, rather than winging their way across various large bodies of water (and some land-y bits as well, I suppose) towards their intended destinations. This is not by any means indicative of a lack of loveliness on the part of the recipients, let me assure you, just of a general laziness and disorganisation on mine. Im deeply sorry, and (it should go without saying) a truly awful (though dashingly handsome) swine. Alright, thatll do for now. Embarrassingly long and almost uncomfortably tight hugs must go to the kind few that responded so delightfully to my last post. Youre good eggs, the whole job lot of you. God bless your cotton socks. Cotton sock blessings also go to Honey for (along with, you know, everything else) the #sinister stats page, which is my new obsession. Id like to see a punchy half-hour programme, shown weekly on the television, giving a rundown on the big movers in the chart, and spreading wildly inaccurate gossip about the celebrity #sinister types. If you didnt know me, youd think I should get out more. Stay stuffed with breadcrumbs, sage and onion, and oven roasted until cooked through, yet still moist and tender. Bulk love, -David. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Here's the Irony
by Max421＠aol.com 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello Everyone, This is my first post. I've tried to do this about ten times, but it never seems to come right. Despite being a lurker and religiously drawing solace from reading your wonderful posts, I'm confused as to how to address you all, how to NOT comit list abuse, and how to make myself understood as someone worthy of your time. As some have you have probably figured out by know, I'm max, rachel grapenut's and Hye Min's friend. I've had a horrible week. Ever since mid september, I've been hopelesly in love with this beautiful freshman at school. He's thin, and lanky and has beautiful gray eyes and incredible longer than average blond hair. He also doesn't know that I exist. We've never spoken, but I just KNOW that he must be a wonderful person with great taste in guys and a secret love for Belle and Sebastian. I know I shouldn't make assumptions like this, but I just know that he's gay. There's no way that he isn't...but him not being open about it sort of nullifies the whole thing. In the last two months, its grown from a casual attraction, to a full fledged obsession. I find myself writing about him in my free time, and actually coming face to face with him has become such a painful experience. At the beginning of the week, my eyes started tearing whenever I saw him...as the week progressed I found myself in severe physical pain everytime I saw him. I feel my heart and stomache are being ripped out of my body, and that I am! disappearing. becoming negative space. I hope some of you can empathize for one reason or another, with this mutual pain and exhiliration you receive when there's someone out there you love, and just doesn't love you back. Things picked up on friday afternoon. I got a job at the housing works bookshop and cafe (to fulfill a community service requirement). I've always wanted to work at a bookstore, and I'm glad to be making money for a cause that I find important (treating people for HIV and helping them kick drug addictions). Wonderfully enough, the store is located in soho, and I can frequent expensive clothing stores and my favorite CD shop, rocks in your head, on a regular basis. I bought the sing....and I was so moved by "I'm waking up to us" and "Marx and Engels". I don't love the cover art...but I thought that the single was just as great at Jonathan David, If not better. I spent saturday with my friend saya...so uneventful... Then sunday, Rachel (my partner in life) came back and we trapsed around the village. I bough a Jeff Magnum live Cd. Everyone should listen to Neutral Milk Hotel (aeroplane over the sea) and Olivia Tremor Control (dusk at a cubist castle). I also aquired a beautiful pair of pants, that I'm waiting to wear, because tomorrow I must make a statement by wearing purple pants. We also went to chinatown, where we bought some delicious chinses candy. I think artificial strawberry coating is an abusable substance. Well, on that note, I'm off to go hit myself on the head with the frying pan of reality a few times before school tomorrow. ~Max~ P.S. I think that joe vester is BRILLIANT P.S.S. I butcher puncutation, and I have no remorse :::""!@ P.S. S. S. I want scarf guy too!!! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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