March 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: but small details do matter
by P F 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

ROMAN FLEUVE Llaurra L sometimes talks about hot chocolate, which sometimes reminds me of Proust. Isn't in vol 2 (of 3) when he goes to live in the barracks and has chocolate with the soldier? I have to tell you gals, the way the soldiers love silly Marcel really rankles with me. The way he treats the gals at the end of vol one is even worse. I 'like' Proust and all, but I sure dislike it too. THE QUIET PUB WHERE WE FIRST MEET Ally96 sometimes talks about the Visitors and wonders why no-one else openly likes them. I know what he means: I like them, but only in the back of my mind. I mean, I think abstractly that I like them, but that they're mostly not so special. BUT - this is the point - then I play their CD again, and the first 3 tracks never fail to excite, to move, to thrill. I'm serious - the melancholy jaunt of 'Goldmining' with its bravura chorus leaps; the extraordinary tumble into the horses'-hooves rush of 'Bliss' with its backward guitar shimmering in, its incredibly poignant chorus; the audacious way the singer hurls himself up the enjambement* of 'sleeping / pills', which I think is in 'Back At My Pied-a-Terre'. These songs do buzz, do take me along with them, wherever it is they're going for a minute. And frankly, the rest of the LP is pretty good too; but I've usually managed to tie my laces by then. [*: a tube station in London.] TODAY I LEARNED AN IMPORTANT TRUTH ABOUT MEN People talked about Sex & The City. I have this to say about that programme: the obvious thing to say about it is, 'It's pure froth and fantasy, nothing to do with real NYC life'. But the funny thing is that when I saw it last week, it really *did* remind me of real NYC life. Only the facial hair was missing, really. That is one of two things that I have to say about television&NewYorkCity. But they're such *twentieth-century* topics that I'm going to bail out of the theme now. What next, a book about How And Where Miles Davis Recorded Kind Of Blue? IT REMAINS UNRESOLVED Has anyone ever thought that the gift of melody might be genetically transmitted? Has anyone yet bought the Lollies to serve as an Art Pop Project once a year? Where is Miller anyway? Not to mention Utah. COOKIE CHALLENGE Cookie96 once said: >>> I felt I could almost have been seeing the band myself. Perhaps I could have been. I was in the city at the time (I usually am) which I think was funny; why did nobody write and say so? >>> I was too distracted with dashing into coffee-shops (houses?) looking for Nu-Yoikers. Which Nu-Yoikers? ANY Nu-Yoikers. I don't understand. >>> Someone should write a song about it. They probably have. They? >>> Maybe I should write a song about it. No, that would probably be a bad idea. It would never live up to expectations. It would never live up to Expectations. Oooh! >>> As Calumn Shearer once said whilst driving down a side-street with parked cars on either side at 60mph; "I like a challenge". We were in pursuit of a bus. It's a short story. I thought this was really funny, too. Again nobody said so. I wonder why not. Do 96's posts only get delivered to my account or something? >>> But Pinefox, surely YOU are a sensitive boy? Aren't you? I'm a fluorescence. >>>the go-betweens. if i had to justify my love, it wouldn't be love You See? No. Or rather, yes. I said all that on my Orange Juice post weeks ago, mon. WITHIN THESE CINEMA WALLS About that soundtrack. Sorry there'e been no news for a while, but things are moving again. The title has been changed to 'A Delerious Kiss In The Dreamhouse'. It was something else last week. It'll change again. Mark my Cazzas. Right now I'm renegotiating with the guitarist from Camera Obscura to play the lead stuff, after we scrapped the stuff we had in the can by Ally96 and Stevie Jackson. The former was too expensive, the latter not really talented enough. This CO guy could be the answer. This movie is going to play big, see. It's all about the money, it's all about the money. It's all about Cynthia Stevenson. It's all about Louise Lasser. I need a drink. Marcel? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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: Belle Vs. Lucksmiths Vs. The Smiths
by JASON A. 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

About five months ago a friend of mine introduced me to a band called The lucksmiths. Ahhhhhh, now I cant stop listening to them. There music is MADE for spring time. From what I have read on there web site is that they have toured With b&s a few times . Has anyone ever seen them live??? I hope they play in Califorina soon. My dream show would be Lucksmiths opening for B&s and Morrissey jumps out of the crowd and sings some Smiths songs and then PULP comes from thin air and plays a long set. ahhh its nice to dream. Well back to The Lucksmiths if anyone gets the chance check out the song (T-shirt weather) it's soooooo so good. It makes you want to just cut class and ride your bike all over town in a t-shirt. just like B&S sone (Legal Man) makes me want to call in sick to work. hehehehe!!!! anti-hero Jason A. _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shampoo, rinse, repeat
by Brier Random 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

So i come knocking, asking for submissions of photo-booth strips to be included in my attempt at the world's greatest photo-booth archive. Dig out yer old ones, scan 'em, send 'em to me. Because so far, i have too many of me and not enough of YOU. Results in progress at: http://www.brier.homestead.com/photobooth.html The main flavoring ingredient in Dr. Pepper is PRUNE JUICE. But i still like it. Never tried Ribena, but the snack i miss most is HOBNOBS. Milk chocolate or dark. Except when they get all melty, then fuse together. Separating them is like opening an oyster. And Slush Puppies. Anyone who's had one in the last 30 days, I'll send you a postcard expressing my appreciation. Include your mailing address. And yr not gonna believe me, but this incident has absolutely NO sexual connotation: I was crossing Victoria Street, going east & eating a banana. I passed a young woman walking west, she too eating a banana. We both smiled at each other. But this does have sexual wink-wink-ism: due to foot und mouth disease in Europe, those returning to the u.s. now are asked about their contact with farm animals. Now that's getting personal. I could live on cheese & Woody Allen movies quite happily. -middle distance brier +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Puff, wee, he's back from around the corner!
by Mummy I've Grazed My Knee 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Hello sinister people, I've been gone for quite some time, but now I have returned. Since I last wrote, I have grown bigger. I'm now at big school, although as my girlfriend keeps rreminding me, I'm still not big enough for big school. I have moved to a big city, York, it's got lots of people in it and lots of great shops for purchasing second hand clothes, CD's and Ribena, but more importantly it has lots of sinister people. I feel very proud to have introduced Mr. Stuart Hallifax and Miss. Jo Shepherd to the list, and am also aware of other list members here in York. I have managed to avoid Feather Boa ever since I got here which is quite bizarre in a university of 6,000 people; she remains a myhtical figure. I keep looking at people with badges, but I'm sure none of them are her. It's very embarrasing. Why do people wear badges on their lapels? It looks as though I'm staring at things I shouldn't be! Belle And Sebastian have been the best way to make friends at uni as well. A Bus t-shirt is *the* fashion item to have around campus if you want to make friends. All the talk of gigs is very exciting, although I've been poorly with glandular fever for some time and don't know if I'll be fit enough to go and see them. Boo hoo. I must commend Mr. Hallifax on his bands cover of TIJAMRS in a recent campus gig; most entertaining. I've failed my exams. I've decided philosophy is hard, economics is boring and politics is a mixture of the two. Saturday is home time. I get to move back to my small village which will be nice because I will get away from the big scary city which has lots of floods and ducks (refer to post by S.Hallifax for more information). Bye bye for now, Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Pull Your Tights Up Peasent,You're Killing Monks
by David Strange Strange 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

hellllo, if theres any andrews here hello,any starfighter pilots here by any chance?,just checking :). i would love to be a starfighter pilot but i would feel bad about zapping aliens i think (i nearly typed allens then hehehe) i'd just fly around and look at space and stuff,that would be kinda neat.better than the job i do at the moment,i hate it soooo much and asked to leave but they offerd me a contract so now i cant leave and am stuck there.as my mum points out to me its only a 3month contract so 12 weeks and my pay does go up s thats quite good,but its just mind numbingally dull :(.but never mind :). April is going to be 1 fantastic month as ther are loads of stuff going on in our nations capital on the 5th AnTiciPate which should be groovy and then on the 14th the T&F pow to P!O!P all dayer thingy which should prove grate too,i'm such a happy little B&S fan :). i am rading a book at the moment called the beautifull and the dammed (bad title i know) and thers a great little story told by the main charector about a monk.This french guy (sorry i forget names) used to be a right womaniser and he decided to stop his womansing ways he would go to a monestry,anyways he is climbing up to his monk bed on his 1st night at his monestry,incedently he is sleeping at he top of a tower called chastity,anyhow.he looks out of the window from high up his tower and sees a beautifull peasent who'se stocking has fallen down.this peasent girl not being pround pulls up her skirt to lift up her stocking,the french monk guy leans so far out of the window to see this that he plunges to his death.so there boys :). ohhhhh by the way everyone should buy the new Dj shadow album its super duper record scratching fun,i love it,its like a dj set with loads of soul etc on they're great to dance around too and the like. and just before i goooo all the london listee people listen to XFM tonight as the 2 boys from Track and Feild are on they're Dj'ing it should be tunetastic to the max,i shouldnt actually force you to listen to things i'm sorry and apoligise in advance. take care and i love you all Dafyd xx P.S bad news Glasgow listees i might be going to uni in Glasgow in September,if they let me in :). byeeeeeeeeeee p.p.s Cherry Coke is a grate drink too _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: but not today
by Sweetie Something 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

sinister yesterday i rescued a pigeon i had been at falkirk college open day (for all of 15 minutes- what a waste of time) and i was walking up towards the town centre with my friend ali and i saw a pigeon sitting on the ground it was sitting up but not moving, i went over to it but it didnt move i couldnt leave it i moved it so no one would see it or stand on it and ali phoned direct inqueries to get the number for the RSPCA we got put through to the edinburgh branch they put us onto the central headquarters or something and they said 'take it to the nearest police station and well pick it up as soon as possible' i ran back down to a shop and got a box to put it in then i carried it to the police station we got there but the police said 'im afraid we cant take it, we arent allowed to take in wild animals under any circumstances' and the nearest RSPCA place is in stirling so we foned alis dad (he keeps birds) and he said that ali could take it home and he would look after it or something but just as ali was about to get on the bus i decided to take one last look at the pigeon perhaps to say 'later' or 'good luck' or something i had been carrying for at least the best part of an hour but it had died :( and ali wasnt taking home a dead pigeon so she said 'do something with it' so i was left with a dead pigeon so i wandered round falkirk for the next hour/hour and a half with a dead pigeon in a box i was going to take it to the pet shop and ask what they did with their dead animals but i decided theyd probably just bin it eventually i decided and took it to calander park and buried it next to a tree way up the back where no one would see me and planted a snowdrop on top of it today i went to stirling uni info day i even managed to get up at 7.30 am well done me it was very good i thought and it WAS a beautiful day i would really quite like to go now but my mum wants me to go to college because if i go to money my dad can stop paying child maintenance or something like that and i said to her i wanted to go and she said "well if u do that leaves me right up shit creek" her exact words so i feel bad now but i want to go to uni (if of course, i get the grades) but i feel really guilty if i do :/ today in bargain books i saw a book called 'filth' and it was 6500 sex slang words and phrases and i thought to myself 'is everything about sex these days?' with reference to other posts the ribena 'scussion and addiction i need to know i really really do someone please please tell me what it is? what it is about ribena? also about ribena i saw a flyer today that said ribena was tested on animals and also in 'The Hodditter's' post i am thinking this is true then?? which means that well i am thinking very nasty things about all u ribena drinkers but not saying (my attempt at growing a mean streak is failing miserably) all i will say is i hope u feel bad. very bad. addiction i think i used to have a minor addiction to caffeine sadly enough over summer i would drink rediculous amounts of the stuff (actually, i started on coffee but then someone told me tea has more caffeine, can anyone confirm this, coz i changed the morning drink of a lifetime when i was told that) mainly to try and stay awake 3rd song on fyhcywlap beyond the sunrise i love it i really do makes me want to sway whilst sitting cross legged on the floor and looking up at something i always imagine joseph being in a desert i see him take his bag off and lay it on the ground then lie down using it as a pillow i wonder has anyone here ever followed someone just to see where someone like that goes i have i was in glasgow on my lonesome and i saw a hippy girl and i followed her for a bit just to see where hippy girls go but i got bored after about 5 minutes geoffs post about the kids going wild at soggy digestives 'rolling' i can sympathise i go to a rock/indie/punk club every friday and over the last few months it has become over run with 12-14year olds or 'slip-neds' as we refer to them oh they are so annoying and they give the rest of us a bad name names i used to know what names i liked but i dont remember anymore i know i like chester for a boy at least i think i do. no i definately like chester i like colin too girls names hmmm. i think i would call a girl hannon. maybe. maybe not. coz i have had 2 pets with names divine comedy esque and they both died nasty deaths :| i still think its a pretty name though. on second thoughts. it is a pretty name but not for a person. Lucy alder mentioned that struan has lovely hands so does neil hannon like struans, small but oh so perfectly formed although they have one fault one his fingers has been vandalised damn wedding ring. grrrr. ;P big brother i thought jack dee trying to escape was hilarious mmm my mum just gave me the rest of a can of sweetcorn :) hmm sweetcorn is difficult to eat with your fingers... your friend always (the grumpiest person ull ever meet- u just dont know it yet) sweetie xox ps i have just read all todays and yesterdays posts this list truly is sinister and/or food and drink obsessed! for goodness sake! it could be renamed the ribena, cheese and dr pepper appreciation list this leads to me being scared i remember when i first joined sinister ooh, almost 2 years ago and being warned about the list getting stoopid and i also remember what happens so honey IM SORRY MUMMY! (in advance) icq #42242252 msn messanger something_sinister(a)hotmail.com AOL instant messanger: IIIsecondcreep *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* If I wasn't psychotic I would never have found my true self. "dont like the cover of this months magazine so shallow must say alot about the words that are in between so hollow" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: Mekon took a trip, across the sea, to find me Boy G, the queen of MCs...
by Greg Pallis 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Right now, the thing that matters to me most, much more than B&S, much more than Hysteric Glamour, more even than Baxendale or This Week's Crush or Sega or whatever, is tennis. This is true. I'd forgotten how much I love it... it's a hybrid of chess and boxing, and I really do think it's beautiful. Really. Cheese? Ribena? Give me jam, jam and red bull. Or maybe peanut butter and apple juice. Whatever. I write this easyEverything in Trafalgar square, which really /is/ rather an impressive place. It's, like, huge in a way that really strikes you... I'm in Westminster Abbey most days and that's never once stuck me as being big, it's a design thing of some sort. Plus, there's this cool little display telling you how much time you have left, way dinky. Spaced series two, episode three, was a half-hour moment of pure telvisual magic, I'm thinking. Can you even have half-hour moments? Oh well. Aaaaanyway, I'm here 'cos I just had a job interview nearby. Not a very interesting story all round, but, y'know, whatever. My mum always taught me to always peel oranges using this bizzarely complex knife method. I don't understand why. This morning she tried to kick the bathroom door in because she thought I was taking too long brushing my teeth. 22 minutes left. That's £0.74, apparently. Some sinis like the Magnetic Fields. This: http://www.roadwaffles.com/oily/d/20010101.html isn't even remotely connected to them in any way. But it's a bit like the the Bad Art Collection by Jhonen Vasquez. Who is better than Stevie Meritt at hockey. Maybe. I was in #sini the other way. Minka said the secret of romantic success is, among other things, to be "yourself". I have not been myself, at all, for even a moment since age, oh, fourteen. Should I be worried? I'm not overly concerned either way, I wouldn't want to go back to being me even if it did lead to gettin' squidgy. Yesterday: Girl who is a vague acquaintance: Hey Greg. My friend really fancies you, by the way.... Me: Ah, right, cool... who? G.w.i.a.v.a: Ah, she said not to tell. Me: Um, what's the point of that then? Gwaiava: Errr... dunno. Me: Right, then. I mean, really. It's just silly. I was wrong, and Supreme by Robbie is actually a better song than Teenage Dirtbag. Only just, but nevertheless, Robbie returns to the podium, and Wheatus are relegated to merely Second Best Single of The Noughties. I used to think that if I shouted as loudly as I could, I would keep getting louder forever, until buildings fell down. I never did, because I was scared. I believed this until years later, when I did, only to find puberty had robbed me of my superhuman shouting ability. I can still shout underwater so loud it can be heard across a swimming pool, though. That's apparently quite rare. 2 minutes left. Ummm... Yes. Right. Gorillaz, man! Blinding, blinding record. Something. Yes. Goodnight. ----- Greg +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Not for animal lovers...
by Gardiner, Stuart 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Amazing, the first time for a month that I haven't used a Whitlams lyric for my subject line. I think 'Dawn' is one of the most gorgeous names ever invented, and I fully intend to name my kids that. All of them. Even the boys. All I've got to do now is find someone daft enough to want to have my kids in the first place. >From Elena: ----- >a woman has been caught in Greenwich park while dropping there a Guinea pig, a hamster and a rabbit. If more people do that, this summer's picnics will be even more fun. ----- They eat guinea pigs in South America. Apparently they're an ancient Incan delicacy. And they taste a bit like rabbit, but without as much meat on them. The only problem is, when you order one from a restaurant, it appears on your plate whole, with the head staring at you, still with its eyes and teeth and fur in place, just so you can't forget what you're eating. So if someone brings a pot of boiling water to the next picnic, we can go hunting around Greenwich for them. I'm sure they would go well with cheese. We could even go on a haggis hunt while we're at it. >From Ken: ----- >I went to Nottinghams' RAWK club, rock city (aka the more precise "cock shitty") the other night where they played the delights of Marilyn Manson and Limp Bizkit, but I actually very much enjoyed playing tremendous air-guitar and head-banging whilst hileriously changing the lyrics of a Limp Bizkit classing "Rollin'" to "Bowlin'Bowlin'Bowlin'Bowlin'Bowlin'...." ----- And the sad truth is, however good a city Nottingham may be in other ways, it lacks any decent indie club. Which means we're reduced to going to 70s music nights instead. No night out in Nottingham is complete without dancing to YMCA at least once. >From Blake: ----- > some people have foot fetishes, i have a glasses fetish, for reasons i cannot decipher. ----- Personally, I have a 'naked woman' fetish. Does that make me strange? Someone else said that we shouldn't drink Ribena because it's made by a company who have taken over another company who twenty years ago used to test cosmetics on animals. Which is kind of like saying we should boycott all English products because in the last century English people used to organise slavery. Or that we should hate all Americans because in the past their army used to invade countries and kill innocent civilians to protect their own interests. (What was that? They still do? Panama, Somalia and Iraq you say? And 90% of the world really does detest Americans? Oh well, that's pissed on my bonfire then...) You know I love you all really, 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: oily cows lying there about their age
by stuart hallifax 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

....what an odd subject line. oh well. hello. does anyone else live in the colchester/north essex area? i'm going home there soon. don't really want to, its a rubbish town, but nevermind. very distressing situation the other day. three ducks crossing a busy road in convoy. the last one was literally inches from disaster but managed to run to safety . big sighs of relief all round, i think we need a 'ducks crossing' sign there. on a b&s note: i found that i takes almost exatly the length of every belle and sebastian release for me to write and type an essay. it was a lovely soundtrack to my first open exam at uni, and i even managed not to skip past 'beyond the sunrise'. why do all towns/cities have to have complete bastards in them? heard a story that some rugby player from the other york uni (who, from the account i heard sounds as if he looks like sloth from the goonies) beat the crap out of some poor deaf bloke from this uni outside a club. bastard. going back to the girls with glasses debate, i think they can (and do) look nice. some people look better with glasses than without. thanks for reading, bye stuart h ____________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the Stars of Soundtrack and Blackboard
by Arantxa Sanz 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Earlier in the week,the only subject I could think of it was' I have never tasted Ribena and here I am',and later,'Blue veins,blue (no bread for me neither,please)'.The first one had a certain Nancy Reagan quality to it,all American princess saying 'NO' primly and with a degree of hairspray on the top of her bun absolutely environmentally unfriendly;the second was somehow false.No bread required but feta if possible. Wednesday night arrived in the shape of a content refuge. After a somehow disastrous evening, I quit my bedroom for more relaxing landscapes,seeking inspiration.That is, I got the table disposed in parallel with our TV set,armed with pen and paper in order to do some work combined with clandestine spotting of the screen,which involves from that angle a twist of my neck which if repeated too often probably gives me a crick. And here it is , that advert someone mentioned with the instrumental part of 'TBWTAS' in the background. I have been flicking through the latest msgs from UK listees trying not to provide right the same info as the one posted inmediately before,and could not find anything about it,sorry if it has been said...It is some C4 new series by the name of 'Teachers'.Despite that very original title,it does not take place in a whisky (or in Finnish,viski!)distillery,but portrays some struggling comprehensive,I am afraid, with that guy called Egg in 'This Life' in the main role.Against all odds,I would say he will be a troubled but brimming-with-good-intentions individual,showing some interest in that feisty but not too new feminist English teacher. It will take the current 'Sex and the City' slot.Substituting the weekly fix of glamour sex in lofts inequivocally styled by Starck's disciples by the misadventures of a lot earning 20000 a year if lucky, flirting in the grim common room not done up since the 1976, perhaps bumping one into another unexpectedly at the bar of the local Starbucks sipping caffe latte providing the most sophisticated touch of one episode, is somehow methadonically curious. The use of TBTWAS in the promotional campaign could try subtly to lure SATC regulars into watching that very different product.However orangey and scruffy the common room carpet, and however IKEA the futons in the bedrooms, hardcore action happens there,as this tune suggests...etc,etc. >From one school to the next.I zapped and click, there was Hal Hartley's short film inaugurating the new genre of martial arts mathematical musical.If the general conclusion about Belle and Sebastian providing the score for his new movie proves true, I wonder if it will also involve mock kung-fu choreography.In a more personal level, mock revolutionary equations, as so far, my most remarkable contribution to the cinematic art consisted of splashing an old-fashioned blackboard,not unlike the one in 'The New Math(s)') with token equations to be wiped out furiously in an out-of-focus shot very similar to some in Hartley's work.Only that my equations were not actually a bag of rubbish as those, they were just a pile of nonsense.Fiona, did you see THAT? I was due to send a covering letter to Mr Hartley offering myself as 'Token Equations Provider' in his future works.It was a bit dissappointing to read the credits and discovered that no explicit mention of the author of such was to be seen. Not that I care much about the mathematical quality of the props, I just want to fly free to NY, and hang around with soundtrack composers and drink Manhattans in Manhattan and perhaps seduc some of those Strokes boys who are both punks and heirs to fabulous fortunes,somehow an extremely appealing combination. Today in the morning on my way to work, I crossed recklessly and found myself suddenly in a traffic island.Don't know if it was a happy one.Can anyone tell me if they have read Dawn Powell and if it is worth to spend my meagre graduate budget on it,by the way? x A. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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