December 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: single question, please read..
by Corduroy Boy 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Hey, guys... I looked on the chat systems link on the sinister webpage, but the option "undernet" has gone from the "network" drop down menu. I'd be really grateful if anyone who chats *without* downloading a client (eg. purely on the webpage) would give me a fairly foolproof overview of how they get on, preferabley asap! Smile'n'stuff, Tom +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: etta and andy leave the big city...
by Andy Capps 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

hello again to all of you. i tried posting the other week but i don't think it worked. so i'm going to try this again. it seems technology and murphy's law have not been my best friends lately. about a month ago my little kitty and i moved outta the big city. well it's the biggest city in this country at any rate. my poor little bedroom is filled with boxes and boxes and catfood. etta and and i now live in this big house with lots of furniture that we can't sit on. i was also fortunate enuf to not be able to put insurance on the car, so i'm not very mobile in a town built for drivers. but etta and i have been curling up watching eastenders every day at noon and terrorising the corgi that also lives here. i hope all you lovelies have a wonderful christmas or that you had a beautiful hannukah. i'm having star wars'mas this year. i keep getting these little star wars ornaments, so etta and i decided to only decorate a little rosemary tree with them. it was quite satisfying to put a bough of rosemary right up queen amidala's you-know-whatsit...well she was the only thing that i could put ontop of the tree. i think it would be rather dark to have darth vader on top...or maybe is that a better idea...hmmm. i'm sorry i've been absent from the list but i promise i'll be better now. i've been reading all my digests and everything. i'm even starting to go to shows again which is nice. i bought the new single, and stars comback ep, and downloaded too many others. i'm also living in the town now that spawned both the groups sum 41 and do make say think. i'm not sure what to make of that, but i think it should get this little town on the map soon. i should go now, the angel blackwell wants to go shopping and doesn't have the train fare to go by himself. i'll chat with some of you guys later in #sinister...see you there. andy capps P.S. big hugs to amy and her almost winnie the pooh overalls. _____________________________________________________________ the early bird get's the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: asm's opinions post...
by Sam Walton 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Hello all. My, it *is* quiet round here at the moment, isnt it? Ill brighten things up. Maybe. Well, prolly not, but Ill amuse myself for 20 minutes or whatever by writing this. Firstly, a request Im currently in the midst of making a mix-tape for a friend of mine. The theme for the tape is lyrical genius, ie songs which have just absolutely amazing lyrics. Its not about the tunes, its just about the words. Obviously the songs have to be good songs, which therefore needs them to have good tunes, but the songs **must** have lyrics that blow you away/lyrics that move you/lyrics that are socially spot-on etc. And heres where you lot come in. I cant think which B&S songs to include, and so I need suggestions, and reasons for the suggestions answer on an email to the usual address ;-) Theres been a lot of talk on the list at the moment about end of year polls. People seem not to like them much, so just to spite the lot of you, and following on from Asms List Of Top 10 Albums That Say © 2001 On The Back, I proudly present ***ASMS LIST OF TOP 10 SINGLES THAT SAY © 2001 ON THE BACK*** 1. Missy Misdemeanour Elliott Get Ur Freak On 2. Pulp Sunrise 3. Belle & Sebastian Im Waking Up To Us 4. Radiohead Pyramid Song 5. Eels Souljacker Part 1 6. Belle & Sebastian Jonathan David 7. The Strokes The Modern Age 8. Beta Band Broke/Won 9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Whatever Happened To My RocknRoll (Punk Song) 10. Coldcut Re:Volution Why? Well, a few of them touched me and made me smile (Pulp, B&S), some are just incredibly musical creations (Pulp, Radiohead) but most of them just screamed at me DANCE! DANCE, YA FUCKIN MOOK! GET UP AND DANCE!, in particular Missy Elliott, Eels, BRMC and Coldcut, and I just couldnt resist them. So there. That s *why* I like them too. Finally, as an afterthought, heres ***ASMS TOP 3 SILLY QUESTIONS ASKED IN DANCE RECORDS THIS YEAR*** 1. Why do we build castles in the sky? Ian Van Dahl 2. Wheres your head at? Basement Jaxx 3. Do you really like it? Is it is it wicked DJ Pied Piper & Master Of Ceremonies And on that bombshell, Ill shut up. I love you all, I love you all. Asm.x ================= "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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: Nonsense, darling, I wouldn't lick a German if he was glazed in honey...
by Corduroy Boy 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

I found myself pulled into an awkwardly shining post, not recognising the e-mail address of the sender. I should have recognised Gordon a lot sooner. Feeling quite tranquil, to say that B&S are playing tonight and tonight and tonight I shall be at home, enjoying the company that my melancholy reasoning has to offer. I don't think I can bear to listen to them this evening, at least I hope I'm not the kind of person who sits in a glorious technicolour quilt listening to a band whilst turning the lights on and off, pretending I'm there until the bulb goes. I'll probably listen to "The Kings of Convenience", a mellow situation where Nick Drake and Simon and Garfunkel meet in a spherical room with lemongrass scented candles but only have one guitar between three of them, and are encouraged to make percussive sounds from the pile of husky palm leaves in the corner. In fact, the object making the most noise in the room is the pistachio ice cream fountain, which casts slightly textured opal-green light on the sides of the porcelain sphere. I can't believe our favourite Histrianic thinks us to have forgotten, why, in my day we would receive a sturdy post every four days from the very same, and think ourselves the luckier. If only I could remember how long ago my day was. There is a girl, in a cafe, who used to go to the educational establishment I still occupy. She is probably the most beautiful girl that exists in the places near me, so I go there to drink hot chocolate. Luckily, if she *happened* to be on the list, she still wouldn't know as I haven't worn corduroy in there, I don't think. *Damn*, let it out. Oh, well, looks like I'll have to order something different next time. *Damn*. There's always the possiblity of wearing a hat, glasses and fake comedy nose. *Damn*... There is no greater sin than self-indulgence, but I feel strangely relaxed as I know you won't be reading this now, you'll be reading this when you get back from the B&S gig, you lucky, lucky swine. (Plural). I feel an eerie sense of long term deja vu (or however it's spelled/spelt...)... No, wait, I've been here before! What happens is.. we get a trickling of posts as people wish us bon soir before going to the gig. Some non-gig hopefuls suddenly perk up, thinking that sinister might not be as dull as the gig-happenings would suggest, but are only to be disappointed, as they repeatedly hit the send and receive button just waiting for something to receive, but in vain. They like to think they can leave it, but something tells them to keep checking. Finally, at two in the morning, they have to connect again and it takes five incredibly frustrating minutes as the modem buzzes and clicks into life, but they do find a single post coming through. if it was paper, they'd rip it with fumbling hands, but instead the silent cursor wavers over the inbox icon. A short intake of breath, and their sagging eyes read the from line: "Postmaster: re: failed mail." To those other lonely hearts, I'm going to try and have a go on #sinister tonight. (For some reason I couldn't get on last time.) I've never been on before, wish me luck and be gentle. Toxic Girl Corduroy Boy XOXOXOXXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO X PS: Laura: Blackadder again. PPS: To everyone: yup, boring again. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: And little Cindy-lou Who said "That Belle & Sebastian mob are ok, ain't they, Mr Grinch?"
by Jason Andreas 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

So, the QMU approacheth soon. Should be interesting. I wonder how many of the kids will last out until the 2am chucking-out time. If anyone wishes to say hello to me, watch out for the tall skinny kid, dyed red hair, wearing a red spiky collar. I may or may not be glittery. Time shall tell. Events will no doubt be of a festive bent. Mayhap there shall quaffing of festive ales and stuffing of chicks. Umm, sorry, I mean turkey. *grin* My head is pounding. Nurofen is not strong enough. Damn the makers of such feeble painkillers. I wonder if I should throw an item of underwear at Belle. It may be amusing, in a surreal way, to see her instant expression of disgust and/or lust at the skid-marked boxers flying towards her. Only kidding. My undies are as pristine as always. Mainly because I'm not wearing any. *grin* Volunteers to start a mosh pit? - Jase +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "hey, remember when we dated and you were 19 and you thought I was 16? well, i'm really five years younger than you!" "i see." "do you?" "i do."
by Histrianic＠aol.com 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

'ello sinister. I haven't posted in a while, so for those of you who've made it a point not to recognize my ramblings: hello. I think I'll start off with a new name and call myself sethe, because that's usually what my pen name is. So hello, I'm Sethe, and yes, I took that from a Toni Morrison book. This week I let an old boyfriend know I was five years younger than him. A feat accomplished! Someone posted earlier about the perks of being a wallflower, which would be a great book except it was published by mtv. I read some poetry last night which was insanely pretty. It drove me nuts for hours, and left me lonely to no end. When I listen to Tigermilk, the first four minutes and 56 seconds leave me lonely to no end. (IS 'state' four minutes and fifty six seconds? seemed the right number..) The Belle gig is tonight, isn't it? For all of you lucky enough to be attending, have a positively GRAND time. Are any sinister types going to be in New York on january 2? I have nothing planned for that day and it would be nice to meet.. whoever's on the list now and is living in new york. I think I'm meeting up with my friend Max that day, who's also on the list, so you can meet both of us (us being very interesting and.. erm..). Well, I'm vegan. If anyone wants to yell at me for being unreasonably uncompromising, they can email me. If they want to do it in person in NY, even better. :-) I feel an impending sense of responsibility over my head that says "talk about something that's been on the list lately, talk about something that is belle and sebastian related, talk about something that these people can relate to.." Lemony Snicket is brilliant. Along with Nick Bantok. And Sempe. I like books with pictures. Pretty pictures... pretty books. B&S content: an aim conversation had with a friend friend: what do you liiiiike friend: er who me: who do i like? me: i like myself me: and i like men to kiss my arse, expensive clothes.. still me: :-) i talk too much: i crack myself up disgusted and not a belle fan friend: oh you sped sped being special ed. kids, always cracking themselves up, of course... I'm off to read chabon and to think about the reasons why I don't want to see myself on speed. lots of love to you all! cheers h (..i mean) cheers sethe xoxo +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: so i broke into the palace
by marc bots 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

HIEPERDEPIEP. as of yesterday i have officially entered the world of popmusic. last evening we played our first gig, and it was okay. right now i am listening to the minidisc that was recorded, and it actually is better than i thought. but the really really really good part is, that the first song that was played when we finished was... BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! and then they played the flaming lips! and then they played placebo! and then they played some more songs but i don't remember them. i think i started jumping around on stage when i heard the first tones of electronic renaissance, and i still want to jump around if i think back. that's all for now. have fun tonight. love marc +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: It's Summer in *my* head
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Oh! I'm so excited about things now, Isn't it amazing how putting on a record can totally grab you and make you see the world in a big summers day light, I just realised that all my dreaming and plans are soon to come to fruition. I have so much to do very soon and all of it is fun. The winter just can't get to me at the moment cos Saint Etienne is playing and I have found a body for the car I'm building, the place I'm working at is dishing money out at me the like of which I've never known and soon I'll be visiting Maja in Poland! Feels like everything I've been working for months is coming into bloom. Wow! I love being me at times like this. Sorry, but for some time I really have felt like I was in a rut getting nowhere and my (somewhat lofty) plans would never come into being and now that hard work has paid off and I may well just run down the street and shout at people with excitement after I've written this. Also today, when I was on my bike coming home from work this morning the thought "what is beauty(full) and how do we define this" and why is it that not all people see certain things as beautiful" Lada Riva Using one of these fine automobiles as an example, have you looked at one lately in depth? cos I reckon they possess a kind of simplistic beauty yet most people would agree with most other people that they are totally ugly. Is this the 10,000 thou' line between very beautiful and ugly? So (in a very roundabout sort of way) putting my newly discovered "Lada Riva theory" in to practice I question music. Broadcast are brill! but... Are they really any good? Much as I now place them ever so highly, when I first bought "Noise made by people" For about the first six months of ownership I only ever listened to "Come on let's go" cos rest of it just did sound like some noise made by Brummies. Then as l gradually heard bits of other songs they didn't seen so bad and tunes appeared from beneath the bleeps and drums. Now getting back to the my theory, I'm not sure if I have come to appreciate the music or that perhaps Broadcast only made one good song and the rest I just kind of got used to? I've just read back through what I just wrote and it's possibly not as much of a breakthrough as it first appeared because it would also explain the reason why people like drum 'n' bass, hard house and anything else that is without dought utter shite. Oh Ben (of Swiss Cottage) Do I ow you money? If it's more than ten pounds then you understand the chances of seeing it again are rather slim. Seriously though let me know won't you. Bloomin sister She goes off and gets herself in BIG (monster) debt and I have to lend her like nearly £200, Thats one thing but why did she have to coincide this with the week I go to see B&S. I can't afford to go now and I feel poor. ^ look, content Anyhow... I'm working nights at the minute and I quite like it After yesterdays shift I was really tired but some of the gals were going to have a drink round Roy's house, I tagged along for a *couple* of drinks. Suddenly I was wide awake with excitement as beakers were being filled with Tia Maria and offered around. The couple of drinks turned into an all day event anyway and it came out that this Richard bloke had a peanut allergy and the thought of Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels flashed though my mind. After spending most of the day there we made our way to work and hoped "Drunk in charge of a label gun" was not a serious crime. It's a good job without dought but I'm saving and having *plans* about visiting places. I was thinking that being as I'll be in Poland in January I could start there and then perhaps go and get lost for a couple of months in Europe before meeting up with you Greek picnic superstars in March. Yeah sod it, I'll do it! If you've read this FAR then you must have taken leave of your mind. James. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: What's purple, orange, and sinks?
by Matthew Henderson 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

A baby with slashed floaties. The flipside to that coin you ask? What's red, orange, and floats? A slashed baby with floaties. So I'm in an internet cafe on St. Vincent Street in Glasgow. Have I already posted from here? I want to say I have... ...I just looked and I have. But I don't care. Fuck the pirahnas, I'm building it anyway... I have 30 minutes until I can register for classes next semester, so you are keeping me company until that time. Feel good about yourselves. If you've done nothing else with your day/week/life, you've occupied me and entertained me. That's quite an accomplishment. I've basically spent a lot of money in the past few weeks on cd's and drinking. I had a proper meal for once with dimitra yesterday, so I felt a bit better than normal. By the way, everyone should make it a point to meet dimitra. She's just the best. You probably won't have to go far. Chances are, she'll be in a country near you in no time. :) So belle and sebastian are playing tonight. I'm sure I'll get excited a bit later. It's a bit early. Excuse me if I start giggling like a 'wee' schoolgirl and hopping about. Let's all pray it doesn't come to that. The new gorky's cd (is it new?) is pretty good. I suggest you get it. I think the Mull Historical Society album is decent as well, but I can't say for certain until a few more listens. The new Pulp is..well..it's Pulp! Okay, you are all spared. I'll see some of you tonight I'm sure. I'm gonna make some phone calls...and make things happen. -matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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: being taken places
by figure2＠fsmail.net 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Here in a railway carriage: 06:30am; darkness outside; dark shaking sound and feel under: the rumble of unwoken bones and struggling machinery over metal lines seizing in frost-bitten contraction. A sharp rip of ticket from the role in the guard's shoulder-bag electrical dispensary, then a slight G-force as we all decelerate towards a local hault: a shed and short platforms affair in a former spa town. '"Her name is *Rene*/ If she told you her name was Alice, she was lying"/"What the **** is...[the rest is unintelligible]"/I want to take you away from here/...' sings Gavin Henderson* Maybe because these carriages are hurtling through only a black, with a low moan and chattering asides, I'm thinking to see made-ups. A film I saw once, say, that featured an encounter between the painter Egon Schiele and his Viennese mentor Gustav Klimt in a scene of studied decadence: a wintergarden furnished like a merchant's house by the Bosphorous: the soft beauty of golden beading on the edges of expanses of crimson velvet; decanters; tobacco through various contraptions; freckles of lapus lazuli and elephant-ferns intermingling with her shock-tresses: eyes flashing like those of a wild animal in a Blakean forest of the night. The reflections on the window fade to a new focal depth. From the Forth Estuary, the foreshore of the current horizon, rises a flame some 100 feet tall; the product of an oil pipe from the far north; prehistoric fossil-crushing; titrations and filtrations in submarine-technical spaces; heavy industry powering distant agendas; spirits millions of years old finally escaping skywards from their underwater strata. 'Before you eat me',said the graptolite to the orthocerus, 'shall I say we'll meet again one day, in a flame?' " Oil was discovered in Iraq on October 14, 1927, in Kirkuk. As so often happens in the Middle East, the event was violent and unexpected...Shortly after midnight, a worker decided to lift the drilling bit from a 1,500ft hole [so as to clean it]..."** He got 140ft worth of black stuff at a rate of 80,000 barrels a day. The cleaning was put on hold. I can see a BMW 3 series out of the window, recogniseable not from the form of its bodywork, which is shrouded in the pre-dawn, but by the configuration of its break and tail lights swerving in a chunky turning circle by the track. It's an assignation with a transit van, one of whose white flanks is rendered by the light pouring out of this train. And gone again. Pear-infused grappa is settling into my brain now, and the images of a now indolent artist's model leaks into myself and an arc of lights which are the streetlamps of an urban connurbation and the memory of phosphorescent plankton on hebridean waters. Reducing further, perceptions and articulations veer towards sleep, but in a nether state, before dreams gain their own logic. 'The curse of the West' says the Russian writer Andrei Makine, [I paraphrase] 'is the curse of words; when words prematurely replace that which they are employed to represent'. So I'm content almost uttering interverbalisms like a chanting of the mad; begningly hypnotic prefaces to sentences. I'm content to betray these words and descriptions because even caged in argument and counter argument, there are tangentials which make the cage itself part of the scenery, rather than the nature of the situation. The situation is mysterious, child-like, life-like. Gordon * 'Words and Music', Sympathy 7, Starfish Records 2001, SRDC001 [Edinburgh Band] ** 'The Middle East: The Arab States- in pictures', Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Two Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016, 1978 _______________________________________________________________________ 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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