March 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: re: Toast, Bears, and Random Acts of Give Me a Break
by Andrea Kittenmouse 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

Hello, hello (to be read as if you were Bubble from AbFab), Everyone keeps talking about mix tapes, and I just realized that I make a two hour mix tape every freaking week with my show. So, I was thinking, if anyone were interested in making me a mix tape (though a mix cd would be way cooler), I might be persuaded to make them a cd of my show and sending it through the mail. It would be neat, because sometimes I don't have time and money to listen to cool bands that I haven't heard of or can't find at stores, and I should be doing that, since I do a radio show. Also it's fun. Like, for instance, bands like Felt and the Field Mice...two bands that I haven't heard, but have been mentioned many times on the list...it would be super to have a song or two from them to listen to. So anyway, email me if you are interested in making a trade. Next topic: Has anyone checked out the Radiohead videos fromo their new album? They're in really short quicktime segments on their site. They're really neato, just like the album insert from kid a. Does anyone know where I can find Radiohead videos on tape? Last topic: I agree with Jules; it is really cheese-y to do something nice for someone and then give them some little card telling them they're obligated to do something nice for someone else. Talk about strings attached. If you are going to do something nice for some stranger, just do it. Don't invade their personal space by trying to become pals with them. But anyway, that's just my opinion and this post is becoming TOO LONG. Your friend, Andrea _________________________________________________________________ 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: im the ugliest guy on the lower east side
by The Narrow Wizard 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

hey folks just a couple of things today firstly archel foreplay said nice to hear from owen again, even if he was boasting about his sex appeal while pretending to be just an overwhelmed indie kid. but I would like to point out that this aint true as she well knows.... she's met me and so knows that I have no sex appeal to boast about and ally cook said go-beetweens go-betweens go-betweens and what can i do but agree with him oh and finally sweetie got in touch with me the other day and told me that damon and naomi are playing king tuts in glasgow in may... so glasgow lot... I'll see you there.... cos d and n are fuckin brill, the bestest band ive ever seen live...even better than the go-betweens (sorry ally) then again I've never seen belle and sebby live (hey look that was almost some b'n's content) right im off to the pub luv and jaffa cakes owen with that the narrow wizard buggered of leaving behind a funny smell +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Karaoke is more fun than DDR
by elenita99 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

(I know some of you hate me already for my subject line but I won't change it, nerner) Yesterday was Karaoke night in London for some fellow listees and myself. If you were not around it is a shame cos you missed a bunch of great songs, including "Life is a rollercoaster" by Martin Robinson (his biggest hit), a cover of "Space Oddity" by Ken, and "Parklife" by CarsmileSteve. (That even made my day today because I heard it on the radio when walking into work this morning, as a result my boss caught me giggling on my own and now he thinks I am nuts.) Anyway that was great fun, and then Brian and Sarah and Ken obliged us all to go DDR. Well not really under armed threat but you know... Still I have to admit that Brian is THE world champion for DDR. Even after quite a lot of drinks he still makes everyone else look as bad as me, that is a lot rubbish. Then I went home and it was snowing so all the way back from the bus stop I kept my mouth open to eat snow flakes. Yummm almost as good as Guinness :). I was hoping to do snow men this morning but it's all gone now. So instead of doing snow men I went to work. Which was obviously less fun. I couldn't find the courage yet to read all the posts about the gig in Glasgow because I am going to be so green with jealousy. I might leave it for next week. And then I will make all of you jealous posting about Camera Obscura gig next Saturday as a revenge. Ha! I have my stereo back after three weeks without it. That is such a RELIEF. Byebye... Elena ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: they couldn't get over your nine-leaf clover, oh-ho-ho-ho
by GardeningAtNight＠aol.com 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

hi everyone. i have a feeling i will be very frightened in a minute. i'm listening to a mixed tape from the sinister list and it starts with a pink floyd song that sounds like an eerie heartbeat and some person just started wailing but it suddenly stopped and now there's some creepy music. i wonder if i'm the only person who is terrified by records sometimes. like when there's ten minutes of silence at the end of a record but you forget that it hasn't stopped playing and all of a sudden something loud and scary pops out and you hit the ceiling. well okay, nothing scary happened.. i feel dumb now. thanks a lot, jan imgrund. it's a really nice tape though, i dig it. anyway. it's too bad that struan lost out on rector. although if he hadn't won, alisdair gray really should have. i'm reading ten tales tall and true and people look over my shoulder, like they do, to see what i'm reading because they're shocked to see someone reading by their own free will i guess.. and all the illustrations lead them to think i'm an overgrown kid reading fairy tales. which i am, really, but they aren't supposed to know. i made jen a mixed tape in november or something and it's really grate looking, it has bunny stickers all over it actually. and i found the envelope i addressed to her and a letter inside from january. maybe i'll send it anyway.. i really can't be counted on for anything in general and i'm surprised people put up with me. i'm supposed to begin tutoring a boy in violin tomorrow. i'm worried that i won't have the patience, though. i've never tutored anyone and his mother is so nice over the phone that i hate to ask for money. my friend grace referred them to me and told me that she charges $10 for half an hour. which would be incredible because i'm so very poor. i can never ask anything of people because i feel guilty. i'll have to think about how to bring it up before she calls me tonight.. i'm not a people person, apparently. i don't even know the kid's age or if he's at all cool or anything. that really should be a prerequisite. six months' experience in the realm of indiecoolness or at least an eagerness to learn. will stuart david's new book be published in the us? i'm very much looking forward to it. i've lent nalda said to many friends and they all adore it now. i wanted to lend it to my english teacher, except that i bought him a book (the haiku year) for christmas. i hate that when you do something nice for someone who doesn't expect it, they react really rudely. he gave me a funny look and sort of thanked me but i felt really stupid and immediately wished i could've taken it back. i was just trying to be nice and i thought he'd be really happy and appreciative but instead i thought i was going to cry. bastard. would anyone like to finance a trip to new york so i can visit colleges? when my name's with the best, your name will be on my guest list.. or at least on the side of my cardboard box. love, samantha +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm beginning to understand
by tmalone3＠uswest.net 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

This is weird, I'm beginning to understand Art. Not that I was completely clueless before. I mean, if I looked at a statue or a painting I could easily say, "gee, thats pretty". Or wow, "He must've loved her" or something like that. But I would've been damned if you asked me how the artist used composition and line to give movement to the work. I always thought it was made up so that people could become Art History majors. Or to give people something to talk about in museums when talking about the beauty of art is no longer enough to fill the silence, and you have to start talking about it in a technical manner. Like when I talk about Belle and sebastian to people and they get tired of me saying, "but listen! The lyrics, the piano, the strings! They're great", and I have to start talking about the interplay of Stuart's guitar with Isobel's cello (how dirty :). What makes me think that if somebody doesn't get the beauty of the music, they'll understand the technical aspects of it. Anyway, my world has been expanded and I just might be able to finish my art history paper. Prince is on MTV2 right now and his video, I don't the song as the sound is muted while I listen to Felt, has these dancing batmen and jokers in this fenced in, fogged up area that looks like a cemetary. This is very disturbing. Oh well, CDNOW just emailed me to tell me that they are finally sending me my copy of "Pixies F***ing Die". I can't wait to hear the Bonfire Madigan version of Monkey Gone to Heaven again. Jules wrote about not so random acts of kindness and I must agree. Buying a pastry for a man who is about buy pastry himself is nothing compared to buying lunch for somebody who has been living off of other people's thrown away food for the past 3 years. eh, how depressing, I'm going to go fill my fat face with breakfast. -- Tim Malone +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: newbies first post
by Dunk1erEnge1＠aol.com 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

well well well.... i woke up one morning to find that i was no longer in the "nursery" and so i am making my very first sinister post. Hi all. introduction: name's jessica but you can call me whatever you want ( but don't be surprised if i don't know who the hell you are talking about)... definately do not call me "j-dawg" .... you know who you are. I am 19... and i am from Allentown, Pennsylvania. My social security number is... no... on the serious side of things... i don't know what to post. I don't get the time to read everyone's... but i try. I only have this bit of writing to offer..... read on if you wish ...... ______________________________________________________________________ "SHE" AND I BECOME AS TRAGIC AS THEY COME >IN HOLE EATING DIRT CAN'T EAT WAY OUT DIRT CAVES IN HOLE BECOME DIRT FOR MOMENT< There have been times where hours passed slowly, like the elderly people on the sidewalks outside of this dingy apartment complex. There have also been times, where the hours just flew by so quickly, and i couldn't wish more that there be over twenty-four lonely hours to a day. But i hold onto every minute, like the cigarettes I continuously savor at night when the room is black, but the darkness is complimented by the citylights below my terrace. >I AM REMINDED THAT THERE IS AN END TO EVERYTHING< I take my pen in hand and attempt to write more, but the lines are blurred, and my throat grows dry from every shot of whiskey i endure. Looking out at everything below me, i watch as people roam to thier seperate destinations... and couples kiss gentle farewells. >I AM REMINDED OF HOW YOU'D ONCE SAID TO ME, THAT GOODBYE WOULD NOT BE FOREVER < Oh how the hours seemed to go by so slow, and my tears were dried each night when you arrived home. And I would shout at you, claiming i did not want your pity..........when in essence i did. (head games) I remember the times you would lay in bed with me, and i only wished you would hold me as i pushed away. Instead you walked to the opposite side of the room, where you would just stare at me like there was nothing you could do. >YOU SAID YOU WERE LETTING GO, WHEN YOU WERE IN FACT, NEVER HOLDING ONTO ANYTHING BUT RESENTMENTS< I remember, ofcourse I remember, how could one forget? Those moments when you were crouched between my thighs, burying yourself deep... and the room was spinning... and my life's battle was forgotten. Oh, but then there was my resistance... when i held up not just one hand, but two. Attempting to push you away due to weariness of pain. A pain i ended up creating on my own. It was inevitable.... I DID NOT want a savior, and I DID NOT want a lover. I wanted a friend, and my words seemed to just leak through your ears ( >in one ear out the other>)... rather than soak in your brain. And I was offended. >YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO OPEN UP YOUR HEART, BUT I ONLY WANTED YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH.....TALK TO ME< I was offended How do you sleep at night now my dear? I could never imagine, for i can not sleep. You said, "tragic people are the most beautiful, and the mystery contained behind thier eyes drives me to yearn for more." But you see, I knew from the moment those words left your mud-filled mouth, you didn't know quite what it would be. You were unaware of the efforts involved. >NEEDLE STRINGING FLESH TO SHUT, NO BREATH....CAN NOT BREATH, DO NOT CARE< When I sat back and waited for something to happen, I never stopped waiting. For even now as we are supposed to be friends, you leave my ears teased by fragments, a break, and an insult. Trying to be profound, but you make no sense to me. Maybe it was the fumes from the polyurathane, or lack of sleep... or even my insanity alone could be blamed... but i no longer had the energy to read between the lines. I grew tired of your obscure way of conversacion.... and so i grew tired of you. Yes the hours pass quickly now, and I still devour cigarettes, and drink tall glasses of brandy at night to help the insanities along. You ask how i am holding up, but you know the answer kitty cat. I am not devistated by the loss of you, for i lost my mind long before we met, and still have yet to find it. Nothing more could ever concern me until i remedy this misfortune. >WHERE IS MY MIND?< I believe i mistakenly sold it with the wrest of my belongings. When I auctioned off my every worldly posession, my mind went for a mere fifty bucks. With that I purchased a beaten acoustic instrument in which i strummed at hopefully day after day. Sat there as onlookers and passer-byers generously dropped candy wrappers, broken lighters, lint, and used condoms... rather than money. I wanted to weep... not for myself... but for thier passive and numbed souls. I wanted to weep, not for myself, but for those who've lived within a poverty i was only existing in at my own will. For those who'd hoped for something more than the remnants of a haughty and belligerent man's clean, silk lined pockets. Weep for those who had not the choice to leave the corner at night. They say if you want it bad enough, you can taste freedom. That if you work hard enough.... you will have an establishment, shelter, and a name. If you are lucky, you might even have a voice. But this society, and all surrounding falter, and I only see that if you do not spend thousands of dollars to attend an institution, you are not considered an educated person. That if you do not attend church, you are condemned to a hell you may not even believe exists... and that you deserve nothing but to be silenced. I only see that even those who have attended the fine institutions, and withstood sleepless nights with books of literature in thier naive hands... yes even they have trouble finding work. No matter what you do, you may never escape some sort of poverty. For, most who have obtained a matter of "wealth and status", still lack the novelty of true rapture. Not everyone, but a good majority. Plenty of them only see in black and white..... >WHAT GOOD IS A RED RUBY, TO SOMEONE WHO CAN NOT SEE THE LUSTER OF IT'S SHARP COLOR? TO ONE WHO ONLY SEES HER/HIS OWN REFLECTION PEERING BACK AT THEM?< I shudder to think that i should ever become one of the types to be so ignorant. So i fill my glass, and light another cigarette. I sit motionless, in the midst of tragedy. Staring through a box that seperates me from the despair of a remote and desolate culture... destined to collapse in it's very own self-adorning obsession, and self-righteous mindset. to be continued.... *laughs* ______________________________________________________________________ well that is all i have for now... perhaps next time i will go for something a little more personal. or was that personal? yeah whatever.... ciao all. jeia~* p.s. shout out to my grrrl... "Seductive Snakebite Susie" *chuckles* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Oh oh oh, we want to learn to defend ourselves against pointed sticks now do we?
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Hewwo, How's tricks? I've found a band to be in. But they all like Oasis, except one who's an Ooberman fan. And I bought a nice pair of flares. Flares are really grate. I don't actually own any trousers which aren't flared, which is pretty sad and obsessive. Gav the Ex Boyfriend had a big go at me, cause he showed up at my house at the worst possible time demanding to see me and my mum wasn't happy. So he messaged me on Yahoo and made me cry a lot. That wasn't very nice. My mum reckons he's going to stalk me. I've got a bet on with her though, that he won't, and if I get stalked again I'll give her some cake. Here's my question for sinister. What is the best Monty Python sketch ever (not including the Dead Parrot one cause that's too obvious). I have to fall down on the side of the Joke that's So Funny It Kills People. Or maybe the barber who's afraid of hair. I'll shut up now. Peter Carter wrote: << I was sitting in the front room reading a book and drinking Ribina through a straw >> Yay! Yeeeah! I love Ribena. It's the best thing in the whole wide world. I was drinking it in Chemistry, but I didn't get caught. People reckon that I'm turning purple. Someone just walked up to me on thursday and said "you look kind of purple". I seem to be sleeping a lot lately. I mean, more than is usual. Have you ever noticed how Nice Day for A Sulk is not nice at all. I always thought Struan was really sensitive to girl that weren't all that nice, but Nice Day for a Sulk is just cruel. I saw a six year old accountant the other day. He was talking on a mobile phone, all "buy buy buy sell sell sell". It made me upset, and I thought he was going to just live to be the dullest little boy ever. Then he started beating up his little sister's Winnie the Pooh. And I figured he was going to be a violent chartered accountant. Which isn't funny. Did I tell you, I might be getting a cat, for when I move house? I'm well excited. When we find a new house, I'm going to have my own purple bedroom and my own cat. And hopefully we won't have neighbours who are hard, who come and smash in our front door, or have mad parties, or set the lock-ups on fire, or beat me and my family up and tell them all my dad's a peadophile which he's not. So that should be fun. I like a boy. I should go now. Hugs, Jen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: My feeet are cooooold
by John Jennings 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Possibly because i'm not wearing shoes or socks. Who knows. Ooh theres a fan heater on the floor here... its old though... and i remember it setting on fire when i was little and we lived in nottingham... i wonder if its safe to plug it in... hmm... Aanyways good morning Sinister... Its been aaaages since my last post... alas i didn't find any new b&s fans in leicester, but some nice people who lived on the other side of the globe replied instead... which was nice... unexpected... but nice... I'm quite scared of the list now... i know someone who got two abusive emails after his first post... eek... but this is my second so i feel a little more secure... I read someone asked about the sheet music book... i'm sorry i'm too lazy to look who it was... a couple of weeks ago i trailed around every little music shop in Leicester (thinking only the small unimportant ones would stock it - i'd been told it was rare... hmm) and couldn't find it and then, the last place i looked i found it... (waaait for it)... *Virgin flipping megastore* grr... aah well at least i got me' hands on a copy... £12.95 well spent methinks... me and some friends tried jamming it last week but the piano part is just chords (apart from family tree which has got a cool twiddly little bit) and all the violin parts are too high for my viola without going into some scaary position (eek sorry this is musical speak sorta...). Was this paragraph b&s content d'you think? i'm not suure... hmm... All this about gigs and singles is very exciting... i was telling a friend about it on icq who is as obsessed with the nice b&s peeps as any of us, but doesn't want to trail through all the other stuff to get to the news... aanyway he said "i don't need to suscribe to sinister, i get all my news from you"... not sure if that was sarcasm... or telling me to shut up... but if it was neither of these, then thats very nice isn't it?.. Ooh-erk is this showing my insecurity? can't be having that... eeek... Dum de dum.. i'm sure there was something else i was going to put... can't remember... Aah well.. John. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: may the feet remain at a respectful distance from the mouth (unless you're into that kind of thing)
by Gordon 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Hullo. Sewing. Or maybe darning's the word. Anyway, the pocket of this H&M linen jacket is now complete with a wonky repair job, ready for summer (via the washing machine at 40deg.C with similar colours says the label) and, more presently, a trip to Tesco's in search of olive oil and a turnip. Firstly, however, a wee note to the sinister list to keep my hand in, as it were. It's my first attempt to weave in quotations from other posts, as recommended by Kenjuggle (of #sinister fame and competing with Vodkabird for the *acro* championship), so bear with me (or not; it being a free and busy world with lots of finer temptations). Ruvi Simmons wrote of a Marks and Sparks checkout person: ...as I was leaving, having handed over a fistful of change in a feeble attempt at prolonging the entire experience, she said, instead of goodbye of the usual mutterings, "take care". I had a similar experience whilst shopping in Euralille a few years back, in which a girl said "doucement". This sound remained with me for hours, miles even, all the way to St.Raphael on the Cote d'Azur the following morning, where a couple of equally charming (but cunning) women took the trouble to relieve me of most of my luggage, from the rack at the far end of the railway carriage, including a rather fabulous (and brand new) artificial-fibre black polo-neck from... Marks & Spencer. Gneiss (one and the same person I assume?) Will said: I want to take more photographs. I suddenly had this urge, which i've not had for a few years, to go and take pictures of beautiful things. This reminds me of some lines spoken by John Malkovich in the Antonioni film *Beyond The Clouds* which was screened on the British Broadcasting Corporation's second channel last night. The monologue was along the lines of 'I'm no philosopher; I see the world in images; I make my reality by recording the surface of things'. In the background was a view of a vaulted colonnade and the ochre facade of another building across the street. More gorgeous and self-sufficient cinematography highlighting the architectural marvels of Ferrara ensued. Scrumptious. (with a nod and a wink to the jazz commentator on *The Fast Show*). Carrying on the theme, but in terms of sound, was a dialogue between lovers, under the said-same vaulting. The female character, Carmen, says to the dashing young water-pump engineer (I paraphrase) 'isn't the human voice strange: the sound of the sea one comes to ignore in time, like the wind or birdsong but, no matter how hushed or indistinct, one can never ignore the sound of a human voice.' I wonder if this explains my ambivalent relationship to song lyrics. Until my mid-twenties, I studiously avoided music with vocals, or if lyrics must, sung in a foreign language which I couldn't understand. I think it's because the sea, wind, birdsong etc. were the things I wanted to hear, conjoined with almost an embarassment that someone else should be co-opted to act as my emotional spokesperson over the top: that inescapable dominance of the word over the sound. I realise this seems rather ridiculous, and belies an isolationist position vis-a-vis other people. I'm getting over it. De-doo-ra-ra-de-de-doo-ron-ron. And It's making me blue Pantone 292 is a great lyric. Tim Malone wrote: Today I went out and bought a cd walkman...and walked around in the rain listening to Tigermilk. Everything takes on a new meaning when the sounds of life are mixed in with a good cd. I agree totally. I've got this RYKO tape of the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea cutting a tree down in the Bosavi rainforest. There's sounds of frogs and rain too. It sounds terrific to the tune of 'Mind the Gap' and crackling newspapers on the London Underground. Last but not least for now, former lollypop man and lurker from Berkeley/Barclay whatever California James Warner " once spent a winter in Tullibody Clacks." My commiserations. It's not the prettiest of places. Still, there's tons of whisky to nick if you're a dab hand at breaking into the bonded warehouses that stretch along the horizon to the south. Right. Turnip time. Gordon Since Japan's modern theatre attempts to take European drama and wed it theatrically to lifestyles of contemporary Japan, there is no room for the movements of bare or naked feet. Actors, because they must wear shoes to perform, have, in a manner of speaking, lost their feet. -Tadashi Suzuki "The Grammar of Feet" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: charitable upmanship and hyperventilation
by Jules Markham 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

hey cardie-folk, Been laid low with the virus again. Cant tell if it's the old one, or a new one, or just a bunch of them having a party in my lungs. The guy's in the next room are watching wrestling, and Wheat just doesnt seem to be drowning them out. Maybe I should upgrade to songs;ohia... Saw this website today (I'm ill, mike's at work, what else is there to do..?) called Random Acts Of Kindness. I dont know if all the beechams is making me cynical, but it struck me as a pile of tree-hugging, crystal-wearing, feng-shui nonsense. They had these little cards that you were supposed to give to everyone you did a nice thing for telling them to do something for someone else. That struck me as... I dont know, crude or something. That's a conditional act of kindness, not spontaneous or because it was needed, just making up the numbers. It misses the whole damned point! (jules starts to hyperventilate) If someone did a nice thing for you, and then gave you a card saying do something for someone else, then thats a whole obligation to fill, unless you resent the assumption and dont bother, but then you feel like you have to be kind to someone, and grab the first chance you see, and then the whole damn thing is wasted! The site said stuff like if you're in a bakery, buy a pastrie for the person behind you, and give them a card with it. Surely it'd be a more useful act to buy a tea and a sandwich for the guy stood across the street selling the big issue, or asking for change, or buy some food and put it in those charity bins at the supermarket... Am I making any sense here, or just displaying indie snobbery?! I dont know, either way, I still think that Joanna giving change to that guy on the bus is worth a damn sight more than buying a cake for someone who can afford cake if he's in a bakery already. So I need a new name for my haphazard form of world-improvement. I cant think of anything tho. any idea's, or has Jules lost the plot (again) so anyway, If anyone wants their world brightened, check out the new Bob the Builder website www.bobthebuilder.org , and play pilchard mayhem- it's the cutest thing since sainsbury's started making Mt Men cookies! My rant over, I am going to have a cup of tea, and tell mikey i love him. jules _________________________________________________________________________ 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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