March 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: rah
by ribena-queen 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hello tigers, Well, despite being on this list for nigh on 6 months (argh) I have so far failed to post. Why now? Well, I quit college last week, leaving me with sooo much time I'm scared, and an inbox crammed with sinister digests screaming to be read. I had so much fun and amusement flicking through them, mug of ribena in hand, that I was inspired to post myself. It's amazing that since leaving Exeter College where I felt a complete retard for two years, I suddenly feel inspired and intelligent. And I've started using big words that I thought I had forgotten the meaning to. This seems ridiculous to me. But then I never did things the normal way round. My mother reliably informs me that as a child I never crawled, but rolled instead. And I apparently had an odd fixation with the regional news music (Spotlight, anyone?). Anyway, in my new enlightened state I went back to see the doctor today. Aren't Health Centre waiting rooms THE most depressing places in the world?? I have only two strategies to cope the the monotony. One: play "Guess The Ailment". This failed today as the place was practically empty, and the one woman who was in there I labelled with flu got up and limped away, much to my distress. Two: scare small children. This also failed because there was only one child there; Leah Elder. And she scares ME by looking like a 6 year old Melanie Healey (who incidentally I saw in an old Men Behaving Badly the other day, complete with freaky fringe and out on a mish for Marlboro red. Classy girl.). If anyone can suggest any other ways for coping with doctor's waiting rooms I'd be glad to hear them. Our Health Centre is so bad I can't bear to go too often, so very often I save up my illnesses and go in with a kind of shopping list to see the only nice doctor (who is only available every two weeks or something ridiculous). On the agenda this time were a repeat prescription, two ingrowing toenails and my left ear which needs syringing. Nice. I really really hate having that done, bent over a kidney bowl while the nurse brandishes a pneumatic water shooter saying "Tell me if it feels uncomfortable, won't you love?". Argh. Adam made it particularly unpleasant for me by likening the contents of the kidney bowl afterwards to the left over bits in deep fat fryers. I will never look at a piece of battered cod the same again. I came home and panicked about my sister who was supposed to have returned from "babmington" [sic] at 5. She's probably lost a shoe. So now I'll sit here and panic about whether I've managed to ingratiate myself into your society of cliqueiness instead of worrying about her. Only one more thing to say. Ribena. Godlike. Unrivalled. No arguments. I got caught in a freak rain shower on the way home. I think I deserved it. Love and ribena stains, Lucy xoxo +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oops, i did him again...
by angel blackwell 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

monday mornings seem to just creep up on you and bite you on yer sorry, tired ass don't they? i visited my parents on the weekend, i believe that is the reason i'm so drained, or it was the gin...it's a toss up. one good thing came outta visiting the family that forever scarred my conscience, i made a mix cd. actually, i was playing with this napster-like entity and i just burnt everything i downloaded. i saw all this b&s live stuff and in light of past posts thought, fuck'em, so i downloaded other schtuff. i put beulah, boards of canada, apples in stereo, and olivia tremor control on the same cd. the great thing was that the songs aren't very long so i got to put 21 tracks on the same cd...loverly. (okay, i live a sad existance.) /me flutters around the room spreading fairy dust... strange fruit toronto edition was an odd affair. the sisters grimm and i were playing our beautiful songs to the bar staff and our loverly doorman, dusty. midnight saw us still playing music to the barstaff and the loverly dusty...so we thought, fuck'em, and sat at the bar...THEN ALL THESE PEOPLE SHOWED UP AND WE WERE SPINNING AND EVERYONE WAS DANCING AND HAVING A REALLY GOOD TIME AND TWO OF US WERE REALLY REGRETTING DOWNING ALL THOSE PINTS AT THE BAR AND I WAS WISHING I HAD RED BULL AND VODKA AND KEN POURING IT...oh and it was this humble angel stumbling down college street at 3am with the biggest grin on his face. i was having one of those elated moments that you get when you realize how big the buildings really are, how pretty the moon is, and how far away the stars are...and then i tripped on the sidewalk cuz i was too bluddy busy looking at the stars. well, i was looking at the one star you can see living in the city. i have made the decision that i'm not going back to school. that is not good, but i have no money so it's prolly for the best. i think that means i hafta buy a suit or something... /me screams and runs around the room... okay i should close this...i love you all, i love all the virgin posts. every morning i get into work and read all about you loverly people and it makes me happy...(i'm never this nice in person...) sorry, no smut this week, i just wasn't the angelic tart this week...i was gonna write something dirty but i deleted it... 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: lost stories, playing games, and any suggestions?
by idleberry 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hello all.... Hope you had a good weekend and stuff. Mine was alright. Spent it doing not very much, except tidying and cleaning. The floor was black! It really was! filthy! Not been washed since before Christmas. So I washed that, twice. And I was tidying through my desk, sorting out uni notes that were all over the place when I discovered a story I started writing back in '99, when I was in Norway. Actually, the first few pages I started when I was 18, in '97, but then ran out of steam. I didn't throw it away, I never throw things that mght be useful away. So I rewrote the story when I was in Norway. I was very bored in Norway you see. I didn't realise that I'd written about 77 pages of the thing! Its quite good to read through it again, but I think now I need to edit it, cos some of the points the character makes aren't very clear. But otherwise, I like some of the descriptions I used. "Transexual chicken who'd been cut off the hormone tablets half way through the course". I quite like that. The only thing that struck me, when I read it, was how some of the things that happen to the character have in essence, since then, happened to me. Some of the characters also seem very familiar, to people I know now. Even though I didn't know them when I started writing, and took it all purely out of my imagination. So I decided, that I'm not going to kill off any of the characters. I will, however, have to change some of the names, cos I now know people with those names. Hmm. If any of you are bored, and needing something to do, can I recommend exploring www.itsyourturn.com its a games thing, you play battleships, chess, all sorts. Good fun. Okay.. I need some suggestions for characters names. I have four character names to change, one girl, three boys names. any ideas? sensible ones only, please. And no, I'm not going to name them after any belle and sebastian reference. So "no" to Judy, Laura, Belle, Stuart, Stevie, Chris, Richard, Mick, Isobel, Sarah, Sebastian, Lisa.... sensible names as well. No names like "Ivor Biggun" or anything. I know you lot are in a smutty mood at the moment. Thankyou, 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!? 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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Re: Sinister: picked up for deliberation by the people watching on the telly
by chris perriman 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

brothers and sinisters "The Hodottir" wrote: >Did anyone else see a TV trailer yesterday with TBWTAS as its soundtrack? >I missed which show it was for, but it looked like some kinda new ITV drama >or summat. i heard that the show's called teachers i just heard the little piano motif just before the verse starts, playing under the voice over and i couldnt figure out what it was and then the second time i saw the trailer i figured out what it was and gave a wee yelp of recognition and my parents looked at me strangely. and i was going to write to the list about that first, pah! but i have figured out the sitar bit from the beginning of legal man for all you guitar minded people out there it's this:- e|--------------------8----------------------- B|----------------------9-7------------------- G|--------------------------8-6-5------------- D|--------------------------------6-4-6------- A|------3-4-6--------------------------------- E|-4--4--------------------------------------- and the melody is this:- e|----------------------8--------------------- B|------------------7-9----9-7---------------- G|---------5-6-8--8------------8-8------------ D|--456--6------------------------------------ A|-------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------------------- god that took me hours when i had more important things to do so bye then pez* www.pez.com - the wonderful world of pez ;0) ivorytowers.8m.com - ivory towers records _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Poetry Parrot coming in for a landing....
by Brier Random 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

I was asked to parrot a poem, so I give you some Bukowski: an almost made up poem I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the fountain is in France where you wrote me that last letter and I answered and never heard from you again. you used to write insane poems about ANGELS AND GOD, all in upper case, and you knew famous artists and most of them were your lovers, and I wrote back, "it's all right, go ahead, enter their lives, I'm not jealous because we've never met. we got close once in New Orleans, one half block, but never met, never touched." so you went with the famous and wrote about the famous, and, of course, what you found out is that the famous are worried about their fame -- not the beautiful young girl in bed with them, who gives them THAT, and then awakens in the morning to write upper case poems about ANGELS AND GOD. we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't so sure. maybe it was the upper case. you were one of the best female poets and I told the publishers, editors, "print her, print her, she's mad but she's magic. there's no lie in her fire." I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a cigarette and listened to you pee in the bathroom, but that didn't happen. your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. "kid," i wrote back, "all lovers betray." it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over a river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you. I wrote back but never heard again. a friend wrote me of your suicide 3 or 4 months after it happened. if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this. -Charles Bukowski +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: picked up for deliberation by the people watching on the telly
by The Hodottir 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Good Monday Snistas Did anyone else see a TV trailer yesterday with TBWTAS as its soundtrack? I missed which show it was for, but it looked like some kinda new ITV drama or summat. I have to wonder; did they choose B&S so that all fans will cancel their priors to watch it (in case of more tune treats) or just coz it's nice music? Is this marketing or wot? Did I claim to have all the answers? (yes, i did). Well I don't. Miss Ho x _________________________________________________________________________ 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: La Pastillie de la RIBENA
by Chan Toby 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hey my sini-mates, Hey yo, Slim Ken, I like the rewriting shit u did with "stan", this shit is FAT. ^o^ STan is a incredible song. Hip Hop Musical, man. Sorry Pedro, i ven't write u back... Thank you for your answer of my the smith question I drank Ribena when i was a kid. We mix it with hot water... I ve found Ribena favour pastillie in Hong Kong, I guess it is a world-wide thing, rite? Now i shift my drinking habit from "JD (not JB!) and Coke" (Was Vodka and Red Bull!) to "Red Wine/ JD and Coke". I am not crazy for red wine like some people do but... I am not a pure JD-ist. Last week i was drinking Tsing Dao at the pub. Tsing Dao is a trendy thing now...haha.. like Ribena. Kara Jean wrote about "chinese black currant tea". oh... man... as a Hong Kong person, I ve never heard of it before... man..... SILM KEN.... do u know it? 2000 and One and Fovever, Red Bull, Vodka, Ribena, C'mon Yeah... Toby C __________________________________________________ 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: hear the city hum underneath the pale moonlight
by adevens＠antioch-college.edu 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

another in a series of pointless stories from my life: ;-) there was a cute girl on a bus with me a few days ago. we didn't talk to each other and i wondered the whole time why she wouldn't want to talk to me, which of course is ridiclous but i guess i'm a bit ridiculous sometimes. we got off a the same stop and we both sort of glanced at each other at the same time, that sort of "they look intresting, i would like to meet them" glance and then i started down one side of the street and she started down the other. that's when i realized it didn't make any difference what side of the street i was on to get where i was going. i bet i never see that girl again. i was walking back from some place in sf tonight and it was late and i was, as usual, amazed at just how many homeless people there are here. but i wonder if there are really anymore homeless people here then anywhere else or if the homeless here are just more out in the open. and that thought makes me much sader. i don't have any big plan to save the homeless and i don't really do anything that helps, i just wish... i'm sure that sounds sappy and it is... but i mean it. arik +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: It all belongs to Czar
by tmalone3＠uswest.net 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Howdy Sinister, I should be studying for finals, but nothing seems to stick. I think my brain is too filled up with song lyrics. References to family trees going back to the Romans, it all belonging to Cesar, and St. Etienne keep popping into my head, and I can't help but run through the songs in my head. Its a sickness I think. I don't think I've learned anything of consequence since grade school. I just remember things like why the rulers of Russia called themselves Czars (because it means Cesar and they believed themselves to be the heirs to Byzantium (Rome)). Oh well, it doesn't really matter. People keep mentioning the Pixies (I think I did initiate it though, so I'll comment) and I'm all about that. The Pixies only making it to no. 81 is a travesty that should be remedied immediately! They reinvented rock when it most needed to be reinvented. We owe them so much. BTW, 'Pixies fuckin' Die!' is an awesome tribute and I strongly recommend everyone get it. You haven't lived until you've heard the goth version of no. 13 baby. I can't wait until we're all 30 something (I'm sure some of us are already though) and listening to Belle & Sebastian tributes. I haven't decided which song would get the Goth make over yet, but my preliminary winner is 'If you're feeling Sinister'. What do you all think? Now I have to go listen to all the albums and singles and decide how each song would be covered. :) -- Tim Malone currently listening to 'Motherless Child' by Tom Jones, featuring Portishead. I've never really been a Tom Jones fan, but I'm obsessed with this track. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Kiss a little longer, hold tight a little longer...
by Julie 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

There's been a lot of talk about Ribena lately, and while I'm not a fan of it, nor can I purchase it in my country, I hear that if you buy a certain amount of 2 liter bottles of Ribena you get a little beanie ribena berry with antennae. What a bargain, says Martin Robinson, yummy Ribena and a beanie berry alien. Why can you buy juice in 2 liter bottles there, and also what is a blackcurrant?? You brits are weird. Yesterday I went to see Get Over It, Kirsten Dunst's illustrious teen-comedy follow up to Bring! It! On! I wasn't expecting much, but little Kirsten didn't let me down. This movie has Shakespeare, Sisqo, and the Big Red theme song. Go see it immediately. I found out that you can play DDR Euromix on a US playstation with just the minor annoyance of it being horribly offbeat. Anyway, I have nothing to say really, I just thought you might want to know about the Ribena aliens. OH I almost forgot!! Belle & Sebastian are mentioned twice in the Smash Hits special issue for the Brits (aptly titled "Smash Brits"). 1) In an article entitled "AAAARGH!! (Uh oh! It's the bits the BRITs would like to forget...)" "1999: Belle & Sebastian's triumph. What Went Wrong? Unrecognizable duo (one in ill-fitting safari suit) beat Steps and Five in Best Newcomer award despite having sold very few records. Excuse Given: Hey, the public voted for this award. (Even though it was largely nerdy students on the Net influencing the vote in rum way) Upshot: Steps and Five both won Brits in 2000 anyway." Oooh, Honey did you hear that?? Smash Hits called us nerdy students! *sob* 2) A photo of Mick and Richard is captioned "Belle & Sebastian: Left to right - Belle, Sebastian (You're sacked - Ed.)" (Smash Hits is no stranger to the fake editorial comment!) The article says "...The Sun newspaper had found out in advance about Robbie Williams' three Brits and the arguments continued when Belle & Sebastian beat Steps to the Best British Newcomer award." Not very interesting. It doesn't seem like the pop world or the Bible Of Pop (aka Smash Hits) will ever get over that award. Hooray!! xoxo Julie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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