February 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: the art of quitting Valentines Day
by idleberry 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

hello all I am currently trying to quit smoking. I think its the hardest thing I have done yet. Its totally driving me to distraction, if not a bit loopy and potty and incredibly agressive. My dreams are even becoming slightly more agressive. Tarintino has nothing on the dreams I've been having. So, I'm just going to try and bite my lip for however long it needs to be biten, or possibly avoid everyone ever who has the ability to wind me up. Aside from all that... Is everyone looking forward to Valentines Day? I like the idea of Valentines Day actually. Hardened softie that I am. But I was discussing this recently with a friend of mine. His reasoning was that it shouldn't be the only day of the year when you say I love you. I agree. If I was to be going out with someone who could only express their feelings on Valentines day, then I would probably dump them. Harsh? maybe. But we all need to feel loved a lot more than one day. My whole point is, that I realise a lot of people are really cynical about the whole thing, that its all too commercialised. Same with virtually every season. Christmas, Easter, etc etc. All except your birthdays. But you know, Valentines cards started way back in the Victorian times. So its hardly fair to blame it on a recent thing. And it was a christian tradition. So in that respect its a bit unfair to dismiss it. I'm not too fussed by it at all, if I am truthful, but I like the idea of it. Heck, if I had my way, a bunch of flowers, chocies (lots and lots and lots of chocies) and lots of regular little notes of "I love you, by the way." would be a feature of my letterbox. Okay, maybe not the flowers, but you get my drift. Its nice. Nothing extravangant, but just a little unusual token of love. Actually, I would probably feel embarrassed if I got really extravagant things at all. I like gifts that don't have to be materialistic. And you know, gifts don't need to be materialistic. Just something for you to think about. If you don't like the commercialism of Valentines Day, try and do something non-commercial. Does that make sense? Urgh. I dunno sometimes. Sorry if I sound like Jerry Springer bombing Starbucks. ;) Idles ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: she watches...she takes notes...she asks annoying questions
by Ruth A. Deller 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Hello everyone No, of course this isn't a nice, content-filled post. I'm after a couple more favours.... Thanks all of you who've filled in the questionnaires (there's still time...). Now I'm looking to get info off anyone who was involved in ye olde Sinister Village - I mean those who participated in the site and used that (I've read all the list mail on the subject, albeit ages ago). Also, if anyone has a copy of THAT Steven Wells article from last year (you know the one...) they could lend me or transcribe for me or post me a link to...well, I'd be grateful (even if you could just supply me with an issue date and page numbers etc that would be a start..). //rad// If you're as sad as me... ...you should stay in on a Saturday night +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: is that trance???
by angel blackwell 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

ummm...i seem to have lost my head. has anyone seen it? i remember having it yesterday, but sometime last night it seems to have gone missing. i can't see or drink tea, this is terribly embare-assing...ladies at work are screaming, "that silly little kid has gone and lost his head." yes, the angel blackwell has gone into work hung over again. and i've just found out that i'm going out to dinner with my department at work tonight, fuck me gently with a rusty chainsaw. it's bad enough that i have to deal with these people during the day, now i get to "hang out" with them after work...yay. apparently this place has lot's of video games and fun things to do, but of course it's no where near where i live, but it's right around the corner from where the boss lives, funny that oh and i met a cute boy, and he has a crush on me. but, he likes boy bands and britney, so i'll have to kill him. i was explaining to him about strangefruit toronto and what kinda music we play...man i lost him. i first just mentioned a lot of bands that we play, and well, now the subject line comes into play. it seems a lot of people i've met in the last little while seem to think that i'm a hardcore circuit party kinda homoboy. i guess my mother was right in that i always look like i just molested a boy who models for knitting patterns. anyway, i'm making a mixtape for this boy, and believe me, it's gonna be so good, he's gonna be on this list in no time...yes i'm that cute. actually i can't believe i'm making a mix tape. i'm sooooooo bad at it. but i promised him okay, i had a really weird weekend. i went to international colouring contest on friday to flyer. i went with the sisters grimm and man, we were just crazy. the bar isn't that big, but our flyers were on every table, every bar, every windowsill...when the dj is getting lessons break dancing on the dance floor, you know you've shown up too early. then on saturday i went to the homohop at u of t, and saw cute boy...and got hit on by 18 year old porn stars, again. oh well, i had to leave early to go see monolake play. hmmm...a bit boring. 2 knob twirlers with two powermacs and a dj...it was just like listening to the cd's... all this talk of new singles and touring, making me a little excited. but, i know it's in a galaxy far far away for now. young jedi stuart is busy doing other things...and this peacock thing is a little odd well, i must go now and find my head, i'm getting hungry and will require my mouth... i love you all a. The crudity and sparness of life is to be found in public lavatories." -Leoni Orton-Barnett, sister of Joe Orton. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Your wife? I wouldn't go home...
by Gardiner, Stuart 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

I think I should start quoting Whitlams lyrics for all my subject lines, because a) They are a wonderful band who most people on this list have never heard of; and b) I can never think of anything better, I ran out of original imaginative subject lines to use in my postings about 3 years ago. Speaking of bands (now how's that for a tenuous link?), thanks to the people who told me about the Kings of Convenience, a unanimous vote of approval. So I've bitten the bullet and ordered the album. It hasn't arrived yet, probably because in the same order I asked for a Shakira album which there seem to be no copies of anywhere in Britain... Meanwhile, David gave us his Sinister drinking game: 1. You get the urge to snog Mark Casarotto. 2. CarsmileSteve puts something on his website. 3. Genevieve makes the boys blush! 4. Someone downloads a song off napster. 5. Someone who isn't you goes to a sinister meet up and your sooo jealous. 6. PineFox mentions a band you've never heard of. and I would just like to make it perfectly clear that I have never had an urge to snog Mark Casarotto. Calm down ladies, he's ugly. And Genevieve doesn't make the boys blush, she just makes us daydream about being the lucky guy in her dream who saw her frolicking naked through the meadows. Forget the tape tree, what we need is a Valentine's Card tree. All the single listees could just send each other anonymous cards with little messages of love inside, and the world would be a better place. Of course, it's a bit late now for the actual day, but if we don't start it until Thursday we'll all be able to get the cards at half-price. Ah, the romance. Two new B&S singles? This Spring? Oh look, is that a flock of pigs up there in the sky? Still, maybe it's time to revive the long running campaign to get them to play a gig at the Royal Albert Hall... OK, time for a bit of a rant (translation: you've read the relevant bit, time to delete now): Turn your mind back two or three years. We'd just had a couple of very hot summers in the UK, water shortages all over the place, even rationing in some places, and the reservoirs were almost empty. And we were told that it was all because of global warming, and we'd better get used to it. Now, in the last few months we've seen the worst flooding for many years in parts of England, the reservoirs are overflowing, there's no way there'll be any water shortages for the next couple of summers, and we're told that that's all because of global warming as well. Erm, hello? Does that make any sense at all to anyone? I've just been waiting for someone to go on the telly and say that last week's heavy snow in Scotland was because of global warming as well... I'll probably a few replies now from environmentalists slagging me off, but before you do, just answer me one thing: surely even if every single bit of ice-cap at the North Pole melted, it's floating anyway, so doesn't Archimedes' Principle say that the sea level wouldn't change by a millimetre? <\rant> Lots of romantic slushy kisses you all, Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I dont wanna change a thing when theres magic in here
by The Narrow Wizard 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

hallo peeps Im back from a winter wasting two months of suffering small town life watching daytime TV and of course listening to music but now I'm back in sunny scotland and whats more I got tickets for the best show in town actually thats a lie I've got a ticket for Atomic Kitten tonight oh dear still its better than when this bluddy uni got the Baha men to play (they were booed off stage though...which was funny (and the ents exec were taunted with "who booked the shite act")) anyway if I manage to perform any sexual acts with britains current chart topping band you'll be the first to know but I wont be proud of myself obviously anyway time for a hearty welcome back to Archel and jason andreas and miss foreply now has a tatoo which reminded me of this joke a women was upset because her husband didn't pay her enough attention. he was a big boxing fan and spent all his time and energy with boxing. so in order to get his attention she got tatoos of boxers on her inner thighs. Ali on one and Tyson on the other. when he came home that night she lay back and spread her legs and asked him what he thought. he replied Well the Ali and the Tyson dont look very good but that one of Don King in the middle is fucking brilliant. Oh and someone mentioned looking like a gangster at a funeral (maybe it was daniel who said it) and the last funeral I was at ended with all of the males present going to play pool, It looked like a scene cut from reservoir dogs, tres surreal. anyway I better go and psych myself up for atomic bloody kitten speak to you cool kids soon owen with that the narrow wizard waggled his bushy eyebrows and disappeared in a flash of blue flame leaving behind a faint smell of cinnamon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: you're one thing greater than all the things that you are together
by Adam Conover 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

hey hey everyblubby -- i'm not sure if i'm out of the nursery yet (i got stuck on the nasty bounces list), so i'm not sure if this will go through... so here i am, announcing myself out of retirement! thanks to The Narrow Wizard for making a post with a title that DEMANDED i read it! the go- betweens are beautiful and i want to have sex with them now! - adam +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: beyond the bedsit infamy
by Rachel Playforth 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

some of my best friends are indie kids. most are not. funnily enough, in real life one doesn't meet that many pure stereotypes, however amusing they are when they spring fully formed from the minds of music journalists. and long may their powers of invention flourish. i mean, it's not as if anyone actually believes it. speaking of fiction, juicy lucy (ever a watchword for good taste) swooned over gilbert blythe, who was indeed a junior heathcliff, majestic in his thrilling cruelty, unexpected heroism, and intellectual power. but my heart was already lost to... dick from the famous five, a michievous and maverick spirit, though sturdy, amongst the cloying fog of ginger beer and ice cream. i never met a real boy who remotely resembled any of my literary crushes, and it never occurred to me that this was because most of what i read was written at least 40 years earlier. <sigh> re the 'challenge archel' proposed by chris: i might be wrong, but isn't the tape tree organised by the (ahem) dear departed lark girl up and running under its own momentum by now? but if someone informs me otherwise and instructs me on how to go about it, i'd be happy to plant the acorns and watch as mighty musical oaks spring forth. re my tattoo: much as i doubt anyone is really on tenterhooks, i have 3 stars on my upper arm. the tattooist seemed to think there must be some cosmic significance to this, and was rather disappointed when i said that i just thought i'd be less likely to get bored of them than, say, a pokemon. i've been pretending i'm a stoodent again and going out clubbing in the middle of week, then going to work wired on caffeine, labouring under the illusion that i am actually at my best. (5 people have been sacked in as many days, so i don't think i'll be burning the joss stick at both ends again for a while, just in case.) wednesday was the monthly visit to brighton of gay indie night popstarz, which is possibly the only event where a young man wearing pink bunny ears and very little else offers you quality street to the background strains of 'smells like teen spirit'. then on thursday we went h.i.p h.o.p. at cut to the chase, a really fantastic night which i haven't been paid by my friend matt (aka dr mook, in da house etc) to advertise. honest. yesterday i was in olde london town. tate modern... nft... covent garden... theatre. how civilised am i? our choice of play was 'art', which i highly recommend despite the current cast being culled exclusively from coronation street and spandau ballet. there's a great bit with olives... brighton meet up/dirty weekend still going ahead for the 24th, with an option to come to the launch of divebomb, a new indie pop night, on the 23rd. we shall fight them on the beaches... luv archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: light at the end of the tunnel
by Jules Markham 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

hi there sinisterines, well I'm almost recovered from the nasty gang of bacteria and viruses that wiped out my already depleated immune system. Mike had to rush me to hospital and I couldnt breathe, it was all quite horrible. It's been a week since I finished my antibiotics, and I still get tired walking up the hill, and I cant seem to get enough sleep... I've finally got somewhere to live, and I move on the 21st febuary. I'm moving in with Chris, a friend from University who's moving house and offered me the spare room. I remember the first day of my degree, 5 years ago. We went for a walk through the city together, he took me to all the places I shouldn't walk through at night, and where the sunday market was held, and gave me a cheese stottie. funny how I remember just odd little things like that, the way we sat in the canteen, slowly peeling the melted cheese off the top of the stottie, listening to him talking. He always reminded me of a viking warrior, or winston the dog. He was a rottweiler who belonged to a friend of mine, I was terrified of him, and one time he got out of his pen and came running towards me, I thought i was going to get my face ripped off, but he just leapt onto me and started licking my face.He was the cuddliest, soppiest thing I'd ever seen. I can't beleive I was so scared of him... The same with Chris, I guess. In sheffield there's an indie club called Offbeat, run by this Doctor called Chris. I gave him a Mr greedy the first time I went, but someone stole it, which I was kinda dissapointed about. He does this grate non-profit club and someone steals his mascot. He was so upset about it that I got him a replacement. So it feels like there's light at the end of the tunnel, pretty soon I'll have a place to live, and wont be living out of a rucksack. I'll even be able to set up my altar again, I missed imbolc, which i was really upset about. well, I've arranged to meet a friend for a coffee, so I'd better brush my hair and find a toy for her... jules now playing: red house painters now eating: chocolate hobnobs _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Man, I feel 80% Woman
by James Thorniley 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

Hello kittens! The following post is witty, interesting and very relevant to B&S and *your life*. You'll really want to read it right through, not skipping anything, and not even noticing spelling errors because of my fabulous charm. You'll never want to delete this message and you'll probably get it printed out on A2, laminated, and stuck to your wall as a poster.* I have noticed that the cheeky little Stuart Murdoch has been trying to steal peoples attention by *doing things*. This will not be tolerated, as you should all be paying attention to me, and not him, because I am better, not to mention prettier by far. Frankly, the guy is just full of himself. I have been prompted again to post by the lovely Dafyd, not really by his inspiring me, but more threatening me and demanding that I post. I suppose he realises it's not fair for me to deny you lovelies of my presence. That said, I do have some things to say which aren't *entirely* self absorbed: I was going to the Strange Fruit thingy yesterday after work but someone started a fire in Wimbledon and the trains to London got cancelled :( Mmm, that was a bit to do with myself I spose. I have invented something wonderful, it's called THE SINISTER DRINKING GAME. Basically you get a couple of bottles of vodka, and a bottle of ribena, and a few glasses**. You invite a few (preferably sinister) friends round and save up a few days worth of your sinister posts. You then read the posts together and you have to down a shot of Vodbena every time one of the following happens: 1. You get the urge to snog Mark Casarotto. 2. CarsmileSteve puts something on his website. 3. Genevieve makes the boys blush! 4. Someone downloads a song off napster. 5. Someone who isn't you goes to a sinister meet up and your sooo jealous. 6. PineFox mentions a band you've never heard of. You can make up more of your own ideas for the above list because mine aren't very good, but you get the picture. By the end of the night you'll be very sinisterly drunk and you will have caught up on all the posts! If you can't think of any sinister cliches then just have a shot each every time you finish a post (then you'll thank mummy for that 15 minute rule). At the end of the night you have to compose a drunken sinister post for us all to read. The why we hate indie kids thing was funny, but I think I preferred Ken's townies one; in the words of Homer Simpson: "I like it when they make fun of people who aren't me!" Though I don't think I'm a proper indie kid, because my CD collection can be moved around with only one van. I don't understand why ken likes townie girls though, we have lots at my school and they're all such slappers! They talk like essex girls even though they don't come from essex! And I hate the trousers they wear; they are black and made of cotton or polyester or something boring like that and they're kind of really tight around the thighs and make anyone's bum look really big and ugly, and then they flare out stupidly, not like normal flares, to a kind of ironed sharp point at the end and it's the yuckiest thing I've ever seen! There's a girl at school who's bottom I look at far more than I should but I can't help it, she wears these jeans sometimes with the word "elvis" embroidered in gold on the arse! You can't help looking at it from time to time. They are the coolest pair of jeans though, if you ask me. I've got work experience coming up next week. I'm working at some kind of laboratory. I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm going with a girl from school who looks like someone from this list I think, which is weird for me! I asked Miss Honey if I could have a job writing "Sinister:" at the beginning of everyone's posts, but she said she already had someone to do it. I bet I would be better though, grr. I don't really want a boring job like that. My dream is just to marry Laura Llew*** and open up an independant bookshop together. We'll live in the flat above the shop, and just spend our days being care-free and reading sinister and so on. Sigh. This is getting long so I'll be off, Byebye xx James * You may think this is some kind of ironic antithesis to the traditional opening of a sinister post, but I'm perfectly serious (except the poster bit and the never deleting). That kind of introduction would perhaps however be more appropriate to one of Laura Llew's**** posts, but I know she's too modest for such a thing, so you'll just have to imagine it next time she posts*****. ** I actually recommend you use those plastic disposable cups rather and glasses per se. I just don't want you to break the glasses in your drunken silliness. *** Well, perhaps a milkmaid such as Laura Llew is a little out of my league, but the idea remains, just think of the faceless entity that is your soulmate. **** By this time I have mentioned Laura Llew at least three times, and you might be thinking I have some kind of unhealthy obsession. All I can say is, if you're worried, imagine how she feels! ***** Which will be very soon. More poetry: Laura Llew, Laura Llew, red roses and posies for you. It's nearly Valentines, but I think I'm getting the flu.****** Yuck. Laura Llew, Laura Llew. ****** Don't worry it's more of a sore throat, but don't kiss me just now.******* ******* I'm becoming aware that the amount of footnotes in my post is once again becoming silly. Perhaps I'm reading too much Terry Pratchett. Bye now. Brought to you by the fantabulous Sinister list. "meeting all Laura Llew's needs since 1997 (or therabouts)" "[Grr, sinister is stupid and I hate you and you have stupid hair]" -- Stephen Wells, NME +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: twin versus queen
by marikka 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

i realized today at two o'clock in the afternoon that i am in fact an adult. what a terrible realization. i laugh at the sixteen-year-old boys who dress for a country club and blast the latest dr. dre album while they drive by the mall. i also laugh at the girls who think those guys are cool. and this means that i am at least a young adult, not a full fledged adult, because as a young adult you understand the contradiction that full fledged adults don't and that kids and teenagers don't. i don't know if i will ever be ready for the moment when i become a full fledged adult. but what was it that made me feel like the college graduate and burgeoning professional that i am? i bought a bed. it is the biggest and most expensive item i have ever purchased. it was the fact that i could buy a bed that did me in. i was even tempted to watch "sixteen candles" just to pretend that i was in high school again and that there was a nice gorgeous guy who had the potential to like me, but i resisted and instead suffered through some horrendous movie with mark harmon as a bad guy. and as a result of all of this, knowing who mark harmon is and growing up in the eighties and nineties, and of course the huge purchase of a bed, i am listening to music that used to make me feel young and now just reminds me that rock is dying due to the influx of manufactured boy bands and limp bizkit. i wonder if the guys in limp bizkit even know how to spell biscuit. that is the question that i would ask fred durst, not why he has such a huge crush on christina aguilera, which is also a good question. and then this week i learned that either someone has a crush on me or believes that i have a crush on him. the only problem is that i don't know who he is. and that is what is aggravating. why would anyone try to hook up with a person he liked through the internet anyway? it all seems rather suspect. but in response to the email that someone has a crush on me, i spent almost an entire night selling out dear, close friends just to find out that the guy has eight or more letters in his first name and seven in his last. so then i thought and thought and realized that the only person i know with eight letters in the first name and seven in the last is someone i haven't seen or spoken to in almost two years now. and that managed to get me depressed. i hate it when good people vanish from your life. except he was in love with his best friend anyway, and i just wouldn't have been able to compete with an already existing love. this is what i have learned. and then on top of all of that, i am six weeks away from twenty-three, which is just not a good number. there just isn't anything interesting about it except that it is a prime number. it's just a number that is there. i don't want to just be there. anyway, i need to get back to cleaning my apartment so that the delivery guys don't trip tomorrow...oh, and one more thing that has been bringing me down...my best friend in the world is going to move to japan with her boyfriend, leaving me to hate him and miss her. and there still aren't any good men in the valley, or at least they haven't found me yet, but unless they are clients, i probably won't ever meet them. marikka. and is it healthy to be obsessed with "slow graffiti"? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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