March 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: I'd give my glasses to write like Woody Gutherie (Re: last night something
by TeaandOctane＠aol.com 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

In a message dated 3/18/01 12:02:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, hamibe02(a)wfu.edu writes: << 2. i just got contacts and they are ripping my self confidence to pieces. i just can't open up my eye to either stick those things in or rip those things out. i do achieve my goal eventually, albeit thirty minutes after i start. i think it will get better. i hope. i pray. love me, contacts, love me. >> you know. i had the same problem when i tried contacts ... i just kind of gave up after i realized how vulnerable i felt without black frames around my eyes. i might equate it to loosing an arm ... although i'm not entirely sure that its that bad. after all this time i'm not sure that i would feel like i'm all there if i don't have them on. besides, i'm blind as a bat and walking into poles is not a terrific option. -kim (yes, this is my first ... "contribution", of sorts.) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: Why in the world would anyone worry about W's?
by Rinaldo Thatchez 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Well, well, well. I've just returned to Washington from my wee holiday in San Francisco, which you may remember was taken to see a certain band called Weezer who seem to have been taking a little bit of criticism from our members lately. That's okay. I'll allow it. They are not the perfect band. They are a bit whingy (an odd complaint for B&S fans though). They have a few too many midtempo numbers, neither full on rockers or real ballads. The song 'Butterfly' is a little embarrassing. But what you must appreciate is that for those of us who have a deep desire to RAWK but cannot abandon our pop sensibilities and don't want to be made miserable or complicit in someone else's nonconsentual mosh pit groping, they fill an important niche. Also, a friend of mine works for Amazon.com and has looked up Rivers Cuomo's account to see what he's buying and it is really quite touching. The entire Beach Boys and Beatles catologs were purchased on the same day and the books have mainly been self-help: "How to Talk to People", "Finding Your Comfort Zone", "How to Excel in Social Situations." Twee enough for you? I think it was Archel who said: apropos of nothing much, i seem to have a strange phobia of bands whose names begin with 'w'. wheatus. weezer. ween. wilco (criminally overrated). wheat. they all make me think of whining, whingeing, wimping, wetting and other dismal things. purely a trick of phonetics (maybe), but hard to get over. That is so unfair. What about WAR, the Who, Tom Waits, Wings, Warrant, Whitesnake, Winger, the Wallflowers, Westlife, Wham!...er, I was supposed to making a point wasn't I? Nevermind. So now for the personal stuff for all the voyeurs. While I was in SF I was staying with an ex-girlfriend I hadn't seen in a couple of years (a very serious and long-term one). It went about as well as could be expected: we had fun together, we still like each other and without having to talk about it at all I think it was clear to both of us why we don't go out anymore. That kind of closure I think was necessary. It was I who broke up with her and she was very hurt. For my part everything since then it has been a series of nothing-worth-mentionings and one utter disaster which have left me longing for the kind of closeness that she and I had. After this weekend though I think she feels that even for all the hurt she wouldn't want us to still be together and I know for sure that that part of my past is something I don't care to visit except in memory. A weekend older a weekend wiser. Why do I tell you all this stuff? Rinaldo, who also drank his first Dr. Pepper in many a moon at the Weezer show _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: sleeping eating walking typing.
by Chan Toby 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

people: dear people i am sick of all the capitalism things at this moment i am looking at the lights in the city outside my window i do not like this feeling just drink some chinese herbal drink and think about all the ribena and cherry coke things i wanna walk out of my home and get a cup of hotwater plus JD and brown sugar and howl to all the people on the street on the fucking street i heard that someone kill 12 people cause he thought if he kill 12 people his mother will be cured from her serious illness i smoke Silk Cut Ultra Mild Toby C __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: Can dictionaries be wrong?
by Dairy Fairy 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hello, Do you ever get that funny lead like feeling in your stomach. I used to get it all the time and I could never work out why. Sometimes it would progress to an aching throat, thena desire to just curl up in bed at home. I used to get it when I was sleeping over at people's houses and i felt homesick, or when i didn't want to go to school. Now I mostly just get it when I'm drunk. Usually in that moment when you sit in the toilets and it's fairly quiet and you go 'aaah shit. where am I. I want ovaltine. help.' Anyway, I was reminded this morning of how horrible it is, when my sister rang me up at 3am. She's six years old ( awww, sweet ) and she was at her first sleepover. Or rather, in her case, her first night of tossing(no, not in that way you naughty people) and turning in a house that just doesn't smell right. My best friend Zoe's house always used to smell of stirfry. which may be the subconcious reason for my subsequent decision to end our friendship. Apparently my sister's friend's house smelt of dogs. I can understand why she decided to sneak to the phone in the middle of the night to ask for my help in escaping. Which i willingly gave. How nice am I? I got her home, and we sat and watched Babar the Elephant together. I love the french accents in that.Are they real. i have always thought they were very sexy. probably not the intended response. we also listened to Tigermilk. Colette( mys sis ) is a big fa. She knows all the songs and thinks Struan is lovely. her favourite is 'She's Losing It' Particularly the bit about coffe tasting like washing up. Which makes her laugh. Does that make her one of the youngest fans. I got her hooked about 2 years ago, so she's had the habit for 1/3 of her life. Which makes it sound like I am forcing some wierd addiction on a young and innocent mind. But I reckon it's ok to be addicted to B+S. hmm. Better than ribena. can't stand the stuff. Give me fruit juice over fruit flavoured juice drink any day. Cheerio, Grace --- And she spent the rest of the day separating the bits from the marmalade, or, if you prefer, the marmalade from the bits. Who needs Cupid? Matchmaker.com is the place to meet somebody. FREE Two-week Trial Membership at http://www.matchmaker.com/home?rs=200015 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: Clearlake welcomes careful drivers...cherry coke welcomes lawsuits from Dr Pepper...Table top mountaineerers welcome a new game...
by Nik Ovenden 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

CLEARLAKE. for a dose of ultra-sickly-sweet twee, see "Jumble Sailing", from their first single. You think B&S have the twee market cornered? Man, in comparison to Clearlake, B&S appear as tough as Slipknot et al... Anyone going to be @ Borders book store on April 9th to see The 'Lake? mail me... DRINKS Dr Pepper IS Cherry Coke. what's the difference? thick, black, taste exactly the same (different ingredients or no), noxious fizzy fumes...uh oh, can i feel my fingers getting burned? On that note, Ribena is hardly the mecca of drinks, unless you like the 'purply-pink' chic teeth look. However, like all things, toothkind is a waste of time. If you're going to poison yourself (cigarettes/ribena/alcohol), it's best not to do it by halves (filters/toothkind/mixers respectively). On the cigarette note, has anyone noted the paradox with menthol cigarettes? i mean, do they REALLY freshen your breath?! BEYOND THE SUNRISE has been covered recently; refer to your archives for the cream of the crop. However, i will reproduce (without permission, so i am liable to legal action) the wonderful message by Mr Phillip Runion on the subtext to the song: > Verse One: Joe hadn't had sex in a while and had quite a large supply of ejaculate. He was oh so lonely. > Verse Two: He was about to lay down to another night of sleeping alone and a quick session before turning in. And then some chick showed up. > Verse Three: "Taste. . my skin and. . . you will rise." Self explanatory. > Verse Four: They knock boots until the sun comes up. The girl knows it's a one night stand and doesn't care. > Verse Five: Joe thought that the whole thing could have been drunken reverie, but then the girl indicates that she is ready for another go. > Dirty Dirty Dream Number Three. Congratulations, and i am sure the cheque's in the post. DRINKING GAMES congratulations to mr Peter Carter for (yet another) buvez jouez that we can use, but my 2 sense say that Table Top Mountaineering will forever be the hardest of tasks made harder by excessive pan-galactic gargle-blasting sessions. B&S DREAMS finally i am on my own...even my crush has had a B&S dream (well, she said Mr David was there, and possibly 2 real mambers). Sob sob. Thankyou for getting me out of bed. long term apathy was set in. Niko xxx PS is it productive to attempt to complete monkey island I - IV in 4 days? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: last night something pretty bad happened
by blake 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

ha! don't be fooled by the subject line. my heart was NOT broken last night. i had you going there for a second, didn't i? i thought so. now onto business. 1. the other day, no sooner did i post, grab a sandwich, and return to my computer, that several emails were waiting for me that stated "pale skinny guys are sexy". i really must have lost the memo on that one. actually, i don't think i ever got it. so i celebrated that precious kernel of truth by getting lambasted in the sun today. so i'm not pale anymore. i'm just a lobster. this is a good look for me. very very red. well at least now my blushing won't be so awfully visible. so i'm pale no more. at least for a couple more days. wheee! 2. i just got contacts and they are ripping my self confidence to pieces. i just can't open up my eye to either stick those things in or rip those things out. i do achieve my goal eventually, albeit thirty minutes after i start. i think it will get better. i hope. i pray. love me, contacts, love me. 3. i listened to FYHCYWLAP last night. hmmm. i still just don't know what i think. i think i liken it to suede's "head music" (no sighs, no laughs, no groans!)--i consider both EPs. there are some songs that are brilliant and grate and lovely and represent some of the group's finest work but some of the other songs are just blah blah blah and i skip right past them. i can't get enough of "the model" and "there's too much love" (the latter being one of my favorite songs ever) but was there a need to put "beyond the sunrise" or "nice day for a sulk"? (i'm sorry the latter hurts my ears. anyone else struan is off key on this song? i don't think it's been mentioned on this list before) so it's a mixed bag. and it's way too overproduced. that's the B&S snob in me. i want more anonymous noises like the cardigan zip on "expectations". more more more! maybe the unzipping of isobel's skirt? boy that would make a track memorable. oh doctor. oh me. oh my. 4. sorry for posting twice in such a short amount of time. i will now go into hibernation. for another week or so that is. hardy har har love blake the nerdy shy eyed pacifist the palace of heartbreak - http://members.tripod.com/nucleartrout - newly updated! more stuff for everyone to suffer through! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

2 1

Sinister: NoT EveN A MayBe...
by velocity farewell 17 Mar '01

17 Mar '01

Hello the land of sinister... Long Time No See... it's Saturday... I still haven't decided which day I hate the most, Saturday or Sunday... Saturday... the day of DistRaction... the day the masses are going out to have some fun... seems almost obligatory to go out on Saturday night... and have fun... clubs, loud music, smoke, tasteless bad music, tasteless people... the Field Mice are playing at the back... it's Field Mice night... "if you need someone to hold you when you're afraid, I'll hold you..." Interesting... interesting place that is.. I think I'll stay and see what happens, like Dan Treacy would say... but Dan Treacy is homeless in London and all his friends are big and successful, eg, Mr. Alan McGee, the devil, as someone called him... oh, I'd buy Wichita 7"s over POptones 7"s any time... you see, Wichita is the label of the guitarist of Biff Bang Pow! and in my humble opinion a much better label than Poptones... Wichita has Her Space Holiday and Bright Eyes... both excellent... especially Her Space Holiday... Anyway, and I'm afraid Dan Treacy will die soon and then all the big labels will fight over his dead corpse and then a box set will be released and everyone will buy it and say what a great band the TVPs were... I'm very ill with a bad bad flu... maybe that explains it all... worse thing is I smoke and it tastes awful... what a cuRse, not to be able to enjoy a ciggie! I was riding on my scooter today and I was listening to my walkman as usual... "century of fakers" came on... what a great song that is... my fave B&S 7"... definitely... sometimes I ride and making video clips in my head... people are passing by... I sing out loud... a middle-aged woman sees her son off at the bus-station in her pyjamas and she's wearing trainers... an old couple is crossing the street holding hands... I went to the post office to post some pressies to someone... there was this huge queue... a girl came in and she looked so much like Sarah (B&S)... she was holding a bag writting SUMMER on it... with big orange letters... blinding letteRs... then I went to the uni and I saw her again... she went into the lift with me... she asks something in english... I reply and ask her where is she from... Belgium... she looks like Sarah and I avoid to look at her big bag with the blinding letters... I hate SummeR anyway... it's very hot... I love the Rain... Rain is betteR than snow... it's clear... it washes the earth and leaves this smell... I dreamt of our Honeyboobles the other day... she was wearing this long white dress and under that a lace silk slip... she was telling me that we should go for a walk by the river near the honeyhouse... so we did, and we were holding hands like best giRlfRens do, looking at boys and giggling... Honey was wearing this white dress with puffy sleeves and I was so jealous... She whooshes brightly, like Mazzy StaR would sing... I was talking with someone on the phone... he was in London... and I could hear Mazzy StaR playing at the back... their first record... and we talked about petrol bombs and roofs and pRomise-Lands... I've got BRieR's parcel a couple of days ago... thank you BRieR... there was a nice children's book in there... and in my dReam I was giving to Honey BRieR's book... stRange... On a maRRieR note, Paul booked our tickets to see CineRama on the 27th April in London... his, mine and Elena's tickets... I think that is a good thing since it'll make me go to London and not postpone it again... And CaRey is coming too... I love CaRey... and we're going to have a picnic again on the 1st May... 1st May, 1st SinisteR picnic... hide your vodka bottles in your handbags... But I think I should go now and leave you all alone... that was a bit too long... and it's late... take care, VeL xxx "waR is the last possible creative act" MT "If" "the new creation will arise from the ruins of the old world", IsidoR Isou (International Lettrist) ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: to inhale a sky smoked morning:(on a personal and therefore insignificant note)
by lisa morrison 17 Mar '01

17 Mar '01

i am irrelevant as usual...brook babbling in my own haven, so mind me not...: sex tape turned out rather disappointing...sexy but not likeable... but i suppose sex is sexy and not likeable in one way or another...and that's coming from sex-crazed me...a turning point?...(i love how i drag sinister thru the mud and into my personal revelations and revisitations. sinister doesn't care a damn. and why should you, you beautiful people?...but i suppose its the same as those of us who share the joys of hippie girls with pink hair who make them happy and the like...) and on the A# note of happiness...i do believe its struck me with the strengh and shock of a terrible minor chord...and its not falling in love...its realizing i loved everything in the first place...and now i sound like a happy hair-ed hippie girl (no offense to who ever posted about her. good luck to you and she has been beautiful enough to make it into the post of a girl who's never even met her...damn her fascinating.) but it will pass soon and quick as it came...and i quote (in the hokiest of ways) connor oberst of our beloved bright eyes (jessica: shhhhiittt!) in saying that "joy: it tends to hold you with the fear that it eventually departs"...(oh buildings break in the bad plaster of paris scenery) and that's it. i leave you dry. no content. no nothing. just...no. no just. just nothing. -lisadomlisa sign says: out to lunch in personal haven. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: i AM puzzled by a dream (my first b&s dream, with some anime trea t)
by Lu, Liqin 17 Mar '01

17 Mar '01

Note: 1. this is long, but may interest you. 2. the content of this dream has absolutely nothing to do with what i feel about the band members, but of course if you're so into freud or subconciousness, feel free to email me an analysis. 3. don't hate me, isobel fans, i swear i like her as much as you do. -------LiQin I was at a bus station, and suddenly an old woman wearing a pair of sunglasses (she looked like the old woman in Ranma ½ the anime) came up to me and asked me where she could find a copy of Tigermilk the CD. We then went to Nanjing Road where I said to her, "this is the only place you can find Tigermilk these days."(I had a post-war or post-something-big feeling when I said this in my dream) Because she was wondering why we didn't go to Beijing Road instead. (I'm from China so presumably I was at home when this happened, because Beijing Road is the most popular shopping area, hence the 'why not Beijing Road' question. But the strange thing is, there isn't any Nanjing Road in Guangzhou...) So I led her to an obscure apartment somewhere down the Road. I knew where this place was because someone else showed me how to get there before. So we got in, and when I was about to hand her the CD that I fetched from a shelf, a young woman came in the room, it seemed like she was a management type of person of the band.(Katrina?) She asked me what I was doing, I told her I was trying to get this old woman a Tigermilk CD. Then she pointed to the old woman and said, "well she looked more like a man than a woman to me."(What sense does this make?? It just sounds hilarious to me, not in my dream, but when I type it out) The old woman, upon hearing this, took off her sunglasses. Then suddenly the young woman was jumping and hugging the old woman, shouting, "Jenowl! Long time no see!"(the whole thing is just so manga or anime like) and it seemed to me that the young woman knew all along she was Jenowl but just wanted to tease me. In the meantime I noticed that on the desk right below the shelve there was a letter written to Isobel by some male member of the band. (I just knew it was either Stevie or Mick) I went through it quickly (just couldn't help) and found out that it was basically a love letter. There was another letter placed near by that. I didn't open it (it was well folded) but I assumed it was a reply from Isobel. (by now I was alone in the room, the young woman and Jenowl left) I also found a third letter by the window, and without opening it I knew it was for another female band member from another male band member. Somehow I took all three letters and managed to drop them unintentionally, and couldn't tell each other apart. (why I couldn't tell them apart? I don't know, maybe they all look the same all of a sudden) and I felt something bad was going to happen. I walked out of the room to a lounge, where I saw all the band members and the young woman mentioned above and Jenowl. (this would be a sufficient reason why this is a dream =) They were arguing about something, something involving Isobel and maybe Stuart. Someone said, "There are so much trouble and it's all because of you!" directing at Isobel. And some others agreed, saying, "because you were always 'the main female character' of the band, it's always natural to pair you up with Stuart, 'the main male character' of the band. But it's not right, there should never be a main female character, you should just be like the rest of us." Isobel was mad, I could tell, and she ran into another room (her's I assumed). Then the rest of the band started telling Stuart that what they just said was true and it was for the best of the band to get rid of Isobel. Before long Stuart was convinced, and they started to discuss who should replace Isobel. One of them said it should be someone..., and Stuart said it should be someone that knows how to ...tracking. (... represents the exact words that they used that I forgot) Then all of a sudden they all look at me, and I knew they were going to say, "you know how to track ..., right?" To which I responded with a nervous yes. Quickly after this Isobel came back in with a suitcase (apparently they all live here). She was very angry, and instead of talking back to the other band members, she walked up to Anna (a newly joined band member, it was only in my dream, and for some reason she was called Anna) and said to her, "you have clean teeth, you should use some bloody English..." at which point I woke up. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0

Sinister: "I'm not in awe of technology/ It's not as beautiful as you"
by Nick Horne 17 Mar '01

17 Mar '01

Children of a Sinister God, So Puff gets off, Her�esy release a duff first single which goes straight to Number One, and the financial markets pour their shares of woe down the drains. And the topic of chattering on the Sinister list is still whether people prefer girls with beards, or whatever. I saw The Story of Rachel played forth before me: �nick horn of africa wrote:�I always think electronic communication too fleeting, too brash, for poetry.� �Ah, but that's what they said about print when its nasty black uniformity took over from those pretty illustrated manuscripts. it wasn't true then either. one click is just a choice we make, like the choice to turn the page. the poetry's still there for the taking. at, for example, www.buzzwords.org.uk (ahem.)� Which is a fair point, and should I ever appear guilty of Luddism, I expect to be called to account. However, the comparison doesn�t convince me. We make a choice to turn the page. And, having done so, the page remains in existence. The page remains to haunt us. And, eventually, we relent and turn back to it. Poetry by email? One click. No traces. A memory-free medium. Is a poetry-free medium. I lie in my bed, gazing over to my bookcase. Noticing suddenly the spine of a book; a book not read for years. Intruiged, I struggle to my feet and immerse myself in the words.. Cold words � black on white � which only now, for the first time, reach out to me from their paper prison. I am hooked, at last. We need TIME to be won over by words of poetry. The internet is a medium celebrated for overcoming Time and Distance. It is a medium of immediacy. The sheer volume of information means that one cannot be grabbed so, for one can barely tell, or understand, where one idea ends and the next begins. I find it hard to touch anything. I find it hard to care. And perhaps I am bemoaning another Guttenberg Bible, taking exception to the vulgarisation of a traditional form. For, when push comes to shove, am I not simply grumpy about getting headaches while staring too intently at computer screens? "Maybe you'd picked up a whisper that I could not Before our glass could stir, some still small voice: 'Fame will come. Fame especially for you. Fame cannot be avoided. And when it comes You will have paid for it with your happiness, Your husband and your life.'" Nicholas Passant x ===== ------------------------------------------ All words belong in the public domain. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

1 0