March 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: It's all Katy Cooper's fault!
by Mikey & Jules 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Dear Sinister, It's all Katy Cooper's fault! She organised a sinister tape tree, and we both joined, and got each others tape and thought 'wow!'. So we started emailing each other, and then there were letters, and parcels full of toys. And then Bill Bailey was playing in Sheffield, so we HAD to meet. It was like impossible things #2, but with chips and the internet, and jiffy bags full of sequins... After the first day... well, that was it. A little black fox and a yellow fox called Karma (although he doesn't necessarily believe in karma, even though he's proof of it) wandered the streets of Sheffield. And the black fox decided not to leave. So, after a quiet night in the pub with some friends, Jules and Mike braved the snow and went home. And Mike whispered in that nervous way of his 'I've been looking at rings... engagement rings. Is that Okay?' I guess you've worked out the ending by now. So blame Katy, even though she didn't know it was her fault (but does now) And Honey, you can be bridesmaid, you'd look great in taffeta! I guess there's a twee Scottish band we should thank too... Jules & Mikey (Who decided to tell you guys before our parents!) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: gallivanting, Paddington Bear, and older women
by Gordon 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

It's Mother's Day today in Britain... generally a time of washing more dishes than normal and uprooted flora, fancily packaged cocoa bean derivatives and thick paper, folded in half, with pictorial references to afforementioned blooms on one side and inky squiggles intimating loving respect for one's *mater* and eternal gratitude for washing dishes every other day of the year etc. etc. on the other. It occurs to me that Honey is our list mommy. So happy Honeyday! Mwah! Mwah! Perhaps some Glaswegians can help me out, here. In particular, those who frequent the Cumbernauld Road in the vicinity of Stepps (not the S-Club 7'ooohh TINA you are so gorgeous' rivals btw Miss Cyberglam) . Somewhere along it are traffic lights (as is roads' wont). Going northeast, looking to one's left is a house. In the front bay window of this house used to stand Paddington Bear. If it wasn't the real Paddington it sure looked like him. [further reading #1 http://www.paddingtonbear.co.uk/ ] Anyways, this bear stood looking out at the traffic every day, year in, year out. In the winter he wore the standard duffel coat and in the what we wistfully aspire to being the summer months, something more seasonally appropriate. Probably a sou'wester. Sometime in the mid 1990's, a fancy new road was built: straight like a racetrack with big, empty lanes and an absurdly low speed limit, but I digress. Evidently, around this time, said bear was no longer to be seen looking out at the traffic. Perhaps he got bored when all the commuter action left for the big road with the low speed limit: drivers, no longer stuck at the traffic lights; no longer there to smile or wave at him. There were letters to the paper about it. I'm sure I remember there were letters to the paper about it. Does anyone know what happened? Has anyone, perchance, come across a slightly furry personage wearing a hat and smelling faintly of marmalade? Dreams For a small person (or probably because of it), I have an absurdly large ego. Which might explain yesterday morning's dream. Its denoument involved me ripping the superstructure off the hull of a scale model luxury yacht and hurling it at the feet of Tom Cruise, no less; me yelling 'What the h*** do you call this sh**e?'. At the time, Mr.Cruise is the director, co-producer and star of the latest Bond movie, I am the set designer and we are both standing on the upper lawn of my parents' back garden. The route of the problem, see, is that I've come up with this idea for a fight scene on the etched-glass roof of a yacht which has an *entirely glass superstructure* and a pool below which divides the main deck clean in two and continues out the front like a cross between a large fishtank and a bowsprit (I have drawn sketches of it, btw). However, behind my back, Tom has been browbeaten into opting for a conventional yacht by the fat, cigar-smoking, illiterate bully of a man who is the principal co-producer. I rant, rage, rant at Mr.Cruise screaming words like 'integrity' 'critical visual idea(l)' and 'Fellini' at which point Tom turns into a talking sunflower, but without the stalk. And the sunflower is violet, not yellow, but it does have his face surrounded by petals. He says his hands are tied. I threaten to walk off the set. I'm so angry I wake up. I spend the next half hour curled up in my pyjamas on the floor with a sketchpad, a biro, and a blue highlighter pen for the watery bits. Sorted. If any of you *do* wish to hire a yacht, try this ref: http://www.cnconnect.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?lnk=http://www.cnconnect.com/char… One of them comes complete with resident violinist, which would be nice at breakfast time somewhere in the Med. A little Pagannini with one's cornflakes and orange juice. Running to catch the bus that is the midnight hour I think 'erk!' content: ah, soundtracks... lurvely. My big brother took me to see 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' at the Curzon Mayfair, which is a nice cinema. We were both in London at the time, so it seemed a feasible thing to do, as indeed it was. A good time was had. Mr.Solondz is clearly a remarkable fellow. The dreamy boy/girl theme of that movie, shot in lovely colours... I see why he chose both Belle and Sebastian to provide the soundtrack for his new excursion. Good Good. There's a movie called *Gallivant* by Andrew Kotting that some of you might like. It's a road-trip movie around the coast of Britain featuring the director, his granny, and his daughter, who has something called Jouberts Syndrome, which means she can only communicate using her own kind of sign language. Kinda kooky kotting, you might say. Out on video (British Film Institute). gold medal: you had the good sense to skip this post silver medal: you managed to scroll all the way to here bronze medal: you read my post. I love you. You're right up there with my mother. x Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Keeping Mum
by Madeleine McNeil 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Today was a good day and I felt like a really good girl. I looked after my mum and didn't play Belle and Sebastian as she drove me home in the car as ecen though she likes them, she says, but only in small doese. Not sure why this is, though. She's more of a Radiohead gal and is still mourning Bernard Butler's departure from Suede. And I didn't shout at my dad either when he was driving me crazy so all in all I was a very good daughter. Since I came home I've been playing on the Wu name generator (http://www.recordstore.com) which is the best game since Sardines. My Wu name is Contagious Specialist. And I will use it wisely. My funniest B&S moment is when I was wearing my 'colour blind' T shirt for the first time and my friend said "You have to look hard" and I said "No, no, they're sweet Scottish types." "No, not hard like a thug" she replied "You have to look hard to read the words!" Well, I laughed. Love Madeleine _________________________________________________________________________ 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: insanity as usual
by jessica stuart 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

painting usually keeps me sane but lately it only gives me sleepless night. i sit there... staring at it... i close my eyes to go to bed and i am still staring at it... still working on it... and it is consuming me... i don't think this is a good thing. jeia* _________________________________________________________________ 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: When you can't decide whats on your mind, its clear...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Howdy folks, Not to engender the idea that us Americans are a melancholy and depressed lot, but like Ms. Morrison I've been questioning the proposition that someone out there exists for me at all. Sometimes it all seems so certain and other times I can virtually guarantee I'm gonna drink myself into an early grave by mourning each misstep over and over again. Fighting spirit is such a fickle thing isn't it? I keep re-reading this passage in the Great Gatsby where Gatsby recalls how he went searching for the lost time between he and Daisy after she had left for her honeymoon. As the train is pulling away, "he stretched out his hand as if to snatch a wisp of hair, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him." Sums it up quite nicely, I suppose. Hot on the heels of the Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl victory, the Maryland Terrapins have reached the Final Four!!!! Ms. Laura Llew and your crappy Tar Heels, I simply say...TAKE THAT!!!! Next Saturday we do battle with the Duke Blue Devils for the fourth time this year, with the winner playing for the National Championship! Anyone wearing red and yellow or drinking Killian's Irish Red will be amply appreciated from afar. "I have nothing to say and I am saying it" -John Cage Steve C. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Which Paul?" "BLAH!" visit http://callowkids.tripod.com or your crush will hate you forever Call WRNR 103.1 at (410) 269-1031 and request Callow's "Lessons in Shut-eye" or you will have bad luck...forever or something. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Scandinavia
by d s 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

this is a rather specific request, sorry for the list abuse. my roommate, former sinisterette, is heading to Scandinavia for two and a half weeks from April 6th to April 22nd. she's flying into Copenhagen, and heading through Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Bergen, etc...but would also love to head to some other places where she could meet up with some friendly faces. anyone one who is up for a drink with a lovely Canadian chick, or wants to show her some cool record shops, please mail me back privately. thanks, debbie _________________________________________________________________________ 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: from the bank of the kat and curious.
by lisa morrison 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

...itching all over with curiousity like powder...and there's that hard-to-reach spot on my back that i can't seem to reach. anonymous crush: could you possibly scratch it for me?...a little to the left...no up...god, right there...(now put yr hands over my eyes and tell me to "guess who." and i'll get it wrong and feel awful and that's when you turn me around and identity is revealed and i can stop itching all over.) nature has gusts of wind. i have gusts of feeling...gusts that bend a sapling trunk over backwards and send it snapping to and fro like a rubberband...lastest gust: i am completely and utterly alone...how existential of me...standing in some dark and shadow drawn alley way shifting my eyes narrowed to slits and hundling into myself for protection from the desolation, the cold. damn this gust. this is irrelevant. and contentless. bare. (but not beautiful) oh well. no one reads american posts anyway. -listdomlisa _________________________________________________________________ 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: soundtracks & duets
by Youn J. Noh 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Hi Sinister, Yeah, so you might say "indie schmindie" about independent films, too, but Todd Solondz does a much better job satirizing American suburban family life in "Happiness" than the director of "American Beauty" does. That film was creepy cos, even though it was supposed to be satire, it was more like Hollywood taking itself seriously as being really superficial but trying to laugh ironically about it at the same time. So it was no surprise to see the daughter's girlfriend in the film posing on the cover of some women's magazine weeks later. Did anyone see "Ratcatcher"? Gosh, it would have been nice if Belle and Sebastian did the music for that film, esp. since it takes place in Glasgow and all. The boy who drowns in the beginning looks like a younger version of the male cover star of 3,6,9..., so Stuart I guess. And when the film opens with the boy twisting himself 'round in a gauze curtain, the end of "You Made Me Forget My Dreams" - when the music seems to be spiraling madly - could be playing. And the end of "LLPJ" should be playing when the main character is running through the fields surrounding the new housing project. Or maybe the Foxgloves could contribute a speeded up version of "Daystar" then, with loud guitars. But the boy probably would be too young to relate, so there would have to be another scene when he's older and is visiting his old neighborhood... They do have interesting shoes in the film: the mother of the boy who drowned buys these sandals for him, which remind me of shoes from Stride Rite when I was young, and she gives them to the main character - his mother forces him to take them and say thank you. I guess they'd be considered sort of sissy, but they're really nice. I got the Relict/Clientele split single and another single by the Relict. Gosh, 7"s are the perfect format for highlighting individual songs. There's something about having just the amount of space you need. And the homemade look of the split single is really pleasing. On "(i can't seem to) make you mine", I love Pam Berry's voice when she sings 'GARden' and Alasdair's when he sings 'aWAY'! Her voice really reminds me of pines - something fresh and green - delicate but strong at the same time - there's a quality that I can only describe as 'reedy' to her voice. Alasdair's is more like the heavy perfume of flowers and dew and intoxication. I was spying on lacewings again and Joey Sweeney, who's a writer for the Philadelphia Weekly now I guess, had a metaphor involving the smoothness of absinthe and crushed velvet sofas for their duet, if I remember correctly. (Joey Sweeney's solo album "Heartache Baseball" is really nice.) So with Alasdair and Pam, it's more how differences in their voices are brought together, but when Joe and Pam collaborate, it really is a perfect match, as the writer of the tangents article pointed out. Matching voices for duets would be fun. I think Harriet Wheeler would sound nice with Alasdair, too. Cheers, Youn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Référence: Sinister: Trail of Dead... T-Shirts
by molly dahl 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

hello folks. phil "i'm the best bootydancer in the world" two said: Because at the Low show in Paris, there was a short, round, bepectacled boy sitting next to me wearing... yes indeed... an And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead T-shirt. yes! go figure. i must say that was the first trail of dead t-shirt i've ever seen, and at a low show. too bad he wasn't wearing a bumblebee suit... low was absolutely lovely and i had the extreme pleasure of spending the past weekend with phil-two purchasing lots of records and eating falafel . we did try to spot out some sinister folks at the low show by keeping my bag with upside-down badge in full view, but to no avail. look at that, i posted. i'm in france for the semester. besançon to be exact. it's such a lovely day out and perfect frisbee weather, but i have the flu so no fun and games for me, unless you count rendering yourself unconcious with cold medecine a pastime. hope you all are well. posse out. molly XO Francemail Votre email gratuit. http://www.francemail.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: crop rotation in the 1*th century became considerably more widespread after...
by Sweetie Something 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

sinister palindromes evil rats on no star live pinched, is the name of remote controls debut album anyway on wiv the post THE T-SHIRT ok my belle and sebby t shirt i think is maybe the first belle and sebby t shirt to ever be in a mosh pit oh yes i went to the engine room with my iyfs t-shirt on and for most of the Alpacinos set i was in the pit anyone else out there have a b&s t shirt thats been in a mosh pit???? mail me, let me know, im curious now the Alpacinos "and we hate people wearing belle and sebastian t-shirts" however, they did say they hated pretty much EVERYthing else and i got a reassuring wink and an apology later on :) GIGATHON uh huh i have just completed a sort of mini gigathon sort of type thing gay dad on wednesday, deftones on thursday, engine room (bovine, alpacinos, caffeine) friday so now i am determined to do a full week with a gig every nite, that would rock then i might build it up to, 9 days perhaps actually, this is gonna be damn expensive oh well, it was worth the thought.............................. on the way to the deftones in the bus my best mate snowflake spent a good 5 minutes trying to persuade me to let her poke me in the eye! and she told me the next day not to grow a beard coz it would go yellow strange girl i have a sore back right between my shoulder blades from being punched repeatedly in that area (at the deftones) then being punched very hard there again tonite (when i was in the pit) by, i think, a member of a band called vinyl reverb. but anyways, yeah, its queet sore. GAY DAD wednesday support glass- pretty cool, lovely people regency buck- WOW!!!! gay dad- DAMN good :) and then <visualise big dumb sweetie grin> we met cliff jones, oh he is a lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely man so nice, so very very very attractive (mmmm) and just so....lovely! "cliff jones man, cliff jones...." and i went to my first ever nightclub but thats ok im not lowlife scum (ah, u know im kiding...) like everyone else that goes to nightclubs, oh no i was in the vip lounge, nothing special maybe, but means that the level of lowness i was at for being in a nightclub, was raised a little bit :) for 3 days an uponed can of diet coke sat on our living room floor just sat there didnt even get moved well, i thought it was funny im sure i must have something good to say... no sucker for romance sweetie xox 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. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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