December 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Strange mailing from Stu D
by kerry 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Hullo sinister, long time no write. anyway, just wanted to know if any of you got a bizarre email from Stuart David today containing something that i think is supposed to be an mp3, but it's not got the right file type/creator listings to be one. No subject, no text, just this bizarre email from a treehouse.clara.net address. i won't post the whole addy, since i think that might be rude if it really is stu's address. needless to say, it made me feel special, even if i can't appreciate it. so i was wondering if anybody else got it. on different notes, i'm planning on attending la sinsietr meet-up in chicago tomorrow, but since a few of you have posted saying you won't be able to make it (c'mon jason, a bus ticket up from chambana can't be *that* expensive. ;) ), i'm slightly worried it's just going to be me and james gilmer standing in the entrance to the art institute looking sad. as for christmas jeers, i'm not really paying much attention. tho i have decorated my office with dozens of paper snowflakes i cut out of printer paper and aluminum foil hanging from the ceiling. i tried to put up lights, but then this maintenance guy walked in and said we couldn't have them or we'd be written up. dang. it's not that i'm a big fan of christmas cheer, tho i do enjoy the lights. but i hate all the perfume and electric razor ads. but there are plenty more ads i dislike even more, so i guess it's all relative. the aforementioned james gilmer posted earlier about losing an old girlfriend to her own hand, and it reminded me of a similar situation i found myself in a couple years ago. i'm not going to go into the details, but it's nice to know someone else out there has lost someone that way, and found out months later to boot. my condolences go out. tho i can just give them tomorrow, i suppose. still haven't bought the new EP, but chalk that up to laziness and a desire not to lose my parking space. when i get a reserved space behind the building, tho, there'll be no stopping me. i'll shop my little tushie off. ;) so, i've had to save your posts about the single to read after i hear it, i don't want to influence myself before my first listen. i'm also still a little sad (okay, a lot sad) that b&s didn't grace us with their presence here in the plains on this last tour. shucks. my sister got to see them in santa barbara, tho, so i suppose i'll just live vicariously through her. i saw them 3 years ago in boston, sad to say the memory's faded, though. okay, i've rambled on enough. looking forward to seeing (and meeting) some of you tomorrow. -kerry -- "red usually means caution. or beef if it's a bullion cube." -"toys" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 queer one from the start
by amy.longcore＠ch.novartis.com 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Hello. another friday night on the job. good thing it's not too demanding. what i'm doing besides work to kill the time: 1) wrapping big boxes in lovely foiled christmas paper to set out for my local toys for tots campaign 2) listening to an electrician tell me that if i never get married or have children, he'll keep me supplied in batteries (ha!). he's having a rough time with his daughter. a little too rough, he won't stop pacing. he's advising me to stay "aunt amy" to my friends children and never put myself through the agony of being a parent. 3) trying to figure out who in their right mind would send me a crush! goodness! lil' ol' me??? if someone doesn't fess up, i'm going to crush on all of you! 4) listening to tigermilk 5) drinking copious amounts of coffee 6) taking phone calls from girlfriends about our night out planned for saturday (sorry chicago) 7) calling around to see if i can get better prices on faucets and such for my bathroom. i paid $150.00 today for some new bathtub water works 'cuz, well, it's too long too explain. a repairman is coming by saturday (another reason i couldn't go to chicago) to cure my plumbing ills and it's all just getting so costly. but, it will help save in the long run too. my water bill is trippled and my gas bill, you don't even want to know.... 'cuz i'm wasting so much hot water right now. 8) mailing sinister! wow! it's really bad when you email people about your plumbing. maybe i should go back to this book about the taliban i picked up the other day..... a "liberal reader" the woman at the hallmark store called me as i purchased said item. ha. or, i could write a pocket novel about the state that i am in, 'cuz it's an interesting one. i don't feel "christmas-y" yet. there's no snow. so, it's just not happening. i like lists. today, as i left a hardware store, i saw a group of about 60 school kids dressed up all goofy and touting instruments. i imagine it was the local jr. and high school kids making some christmas-y rounds. they followed me out of the parking lot for a moment. 60 kids in stripes, leopard prints, clashing argiles and clown suits banging away on their drums and such, following the super tempo. i wish they would follow me around all the time, during the day that is. would make the odd trip out for milk a bit more .... of an event. belle and sebastian song of the day: "she's losing it" amy knows a tub that's been abused it changed her financially and put her in a mood she's always redoing her pilot light she freaks out about it every night sometimes goes elsewhere to shower her back she's using loofas and sponges and rags she wishes someone would help her out 'cuz her wallet's got a lot to be mad about and just after the first tooth brush she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when the first stream of water takes a rusty dump she knows she's losing it oh yeah she's losing it amy met andy, a plumber who's keenly new he didn't charge too much and took away her blues until he showed her another bill and she tossed a few amy was the girl who's unlucky too her pocketbook is broken and kisses are few she says, "cent for cent and pound for pound who needs a plumber when I'M AROUND?" and with the first dew of morning she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when the millionth stream of water costs her a whole bunch she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it when she shuts off the hot water just to save a buck she knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it adlib to fade, la dee da. and ta ta and hello and goodbye and love to all, amy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Final Reminder: Sinister meet-up-Tomorrow/Chicago
by JAMES GILMER 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

One last time with feeling: When: Tomorrow (Saturday, December 1st)at 3:00 PM What: Sinister Meet-up Where: Chicago Art Museum lobby next to gift shop Who: All the cool kids Why: Why not? How: By any means necessary Look for the short spikey-haired git in the wool coat and black glasses standing by the gift shop doors. That is all ye know, and all ye need know. (however, if it isn't all ye need know, drop me a line and I'll try to sort it out) Jim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: laterz with joolz holland
by Paul Arathoon 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

he's got webbed feet that Jools Holland y'know. So does Rachel from Sclub 7 apparantly. But what Jools has is B&S on his TV show, something Rachel has yet to manage. And he has Isobel in a very nifty denimy outfit with what looks like a natty tigerskin (fake of course kids) hat, Stu in a nice black jumper for Magic of a kind Word followed by quick costume change (taking off jumper) to reveal a white tshirt for I'm waking up to us. He dances a bit during MOFAKW but looks arkward in front of the cameras. ahhh bless. During IWUTU Stu does what I think is a cross between Bowie and Lydon but minus the arrogance and huge coke habit. And IWUTU still sounds like Love which is of course A Good Thing. His hair looks nice. His mum probably thinks it needs a cut. and now they are playing a jaunty Boy With the Arab Strap and the whole crowd are clapping along. and just out of picture i am sure that the Lighthouse Family, Feeder and Tom Jones (not a vintage edition of Later really) are bopping along like their lives depended upon it. That might be mere hearsay. B&S also win "most members on stage" competition fending off a late run by the Lighthouse Family backing singers. and he's looking down at the piano and the words are fading out..wanking waitress with cools sets in london and its fading out and fading out and this post has got to end with a wild round of applause right about.... now. _________________________________________________________________ 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: PYC, pretty young chu
by juju 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

halo sinisters and breather-ins. when i see kenneth p y chu in my mailbox, i think of "pyc" by michael jackson. i remember listening to the record at my piano teacher's house while she was away at the grocery.. loving it so much. when she'd come back, i'd of course be in trouble for not practicing, but when you're in 4th grade and you're left alone with the choice of scales & arpeggios or playing LPs on a fancy stereo at your teacher's house, what are you gonna do? also, when i think of michael jackson, i think of germans. and the time when my german friend's little sister and brother would taunt me by slipping notes under the bathroom door (the only place i could seek solace from their torment) that said things like "du bist tot." and i would wonder if they were only writing me notes using simple words i knew to be polite, or if they really wanted me dead... and then sometimes i think about the time belle & sebastian did a cover of "billie jean" and i almost fainted with joy. it was sooooo grate that i cried, ever so happily bouncing in my seat. i was happy enough to almost jump over the railing to my death, for what could be a happier ending.. but then i would have landed on top of my ex-boyfriend who was bobbing his head to the tune as if it was the coolest thing ever, when he had teased me previously for covering the same song in my own band. but then he was a jerk anyway, and it took some time for me to wake up to us. (note to sinister: never date a man ten years older than you unless you love absolutely every detail about him, cos guess what: he'll never change! arg.) and i must take sides with rachel fruitloop about being [some age older than 25], looking like you're still a young lassie, and looking forward to middle age.. i think i've had enough mid-life crises already that by the time i get there, i will rejoice at knowing i'm half done! oh, and rachel, i am ever so glad *he* is coming to see you! i am no nay-sayer on that account! i suppose that is enough of a post from me today. i am a bit off-kilter, as i've stayed home from work for no reason other than to give myself a mullet. yes, that's what i said. i think the feminie touch to a choppy little mullet is just what this cat needs to feel a change. i've wanted to do it since summer, but haven't had more than 2 minutes to stand in front of the mirror with scissors. so i did it. and than i took one of those showers that when you're done, you think "am i done already!?" and spin around a few more times trying to find something to do in there. i read it in a magazine: "argyle is the new black." do you think they're waking up to us? juju __________________________________________________ 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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