April 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Birthday Thankyous
by Andy Flynn 24 Apr '01

24 Apr '01

Thanks very much to Laura for her special prezzie. It was most appreciated. And thanks to everyone else for their advice. I'm slowly working through all your private offers.....very Nice Has anyone got a cigarette??? Has anyone ever been to one of Jeepsters release party in Le Bateau in Liverpool?? Andy _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Richard Keys has got no knees
by Robin Stout 24 Apr '01

24 Apr '01

1. I've applied for a job as a weatherman. I don't know if I've got much of a chance, but at least it will be fun trying. My best qualifications are that I know all of the words to John Kettley Is A Weatherman and I look a bit like the weatherman on the Big Breakfast. I don't know if these are really the sort of thing they're looking for. Oh well, if I don't get the weatherman job maybe I could be a weathergirl instead. 2. My sister has a book about Australia that has in it a dictionary of Aussie slang. It's funny, because it's written for Americans so apart from all of the usual things you'd expect like dingo, ute, panel van and "you great gallaar" it has lots of English words in it too, like pub, abseiling and "tip top" and nappys, and explanations of what they all mean. You crazy yanks! 3. I was searching the web for news about the new single (there isn't any, unfortunately) and I stumbled, trousers round my ankles, pants round my knees, onto the Super Furry Animals mailing list. The first email I saw, as I pulled myself together, was "What's a bollard?" and the next one was from someone explaining what a bollard was. I'm glad I'm on this list and not that one. r. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Happy Families
by Linda Kerr 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hullo Sinister is, of course, a lovely happy family with two mummies and quite a few wicked uncles. And as in all happy families, it is probably best to stay off money, religion and politics, well, religion and politics. These things can bite very deep, and the most open-hearted, loving people start digging in for the winter. Honey would never forgive me if things got a bit heated. They haven't so far, which is good. Can we leave it here, please, and the usual stuff about not talking about whether we can talk about it. :) Peacock Johnson - what can I say. I found it worked better if I took my glasses off. I did buy a book and got it signed for a friend of a friend. Mr Johnson had problems spelling Filippo, but then I had problems telling him how to spell it. The off-the-cuff chat was the best, and the audience appeared to have members of Looper in it (are there others?), one of whom was Quite Cute. I put my glasses on for that bit. The book is now signed by Stuart David and Peacock Johnson. It had been done before, according to Mrs Johnson. Linda xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Let's refill the photocopier!
by Will Salt 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hello! I've just got back from Mr Peacock Johnson's Edinburgh book-signing session, which was a Good Thing because it featured Free Wine! Yay! More of that below, though. I know I like to rant, sometimes, about the library I work in, and how annoying the stupid bloody readers are. However, today I just want to say that there was *one* student in our library today who evidently does have good taste, because she was wearing an If You're Feeling Sinister t-shirt. I filled up the photocopier with paper for her, and she was very reasonable and didn't ask stupid questions about where books were or anything. So, if you were in Edinburgh University library this lunchtime, and got some boy to put some more paper in the Reserve Room photocopier, then, um, hello. It was me. Jonathan someone said that sinister people should wear a badge or something to distinguish themselves. Um, I already do some of the time. It has a picture of me on it, so you can see who I am. Anyway, as I said, I've just come back from Peacock Johnson's Edinburgh book-signing /stroke/ stage-play, or whatever it's meant to be; held in a small heating-duct somewhere under Princes St. I'm not going to describe it all in detail -- surely that should be ListMummy's job? -- but I do want to mention the gaggle of old wives that were sat just in front of me. Evidently, they go to all these book-signing events whoever is supposed to be at the front, and they were all a bit puzzled when a bookstore minion came in to explain that Stuart himself couldn't be with us tonight due to "controversy", but he had sent in a video. "Shocking!" muttered the old women (who had very hairy chins) at Stuart's explanation. "Grr! Mm-mm-mm!" they grumbled at his tale of being-forced-into-hiding. They read closely the small-print on the bookshop leaflets ... "It does *say* Stuart David!" The fact that we could hardly hear the video probably didn't help. Ooh, they *were* shocked when Peacock came onstage and started swearing all over the place. "There's far too many tits here" said one, when Peacock called Mr David "titlicker" for the 798th time. Their jaws dropped open at the word "cunt". They giggled approvingly at Peacock's wee wifey when she poked him and complained at his language. When she started reading out a passage from the book, they were in stitches; and by the end of the performance, they though every single "tit" was hilarious. I don't think they bought the book, though. I also don't know if they noticed that the one time Mr Johnson didn't insist in mumbling into a microphone to speak, his voice sounded strangely like that of Mr David on the video. What a mysterious coincidence. They *did* notice, however, that right from the start -- when they were going "dear, dear, dear" and tutting at Mr David's appalling lack of whatever -- the boy sat behind them was having to try *very* hard not to giggle. Oh, Idleberry challenged us to guess something about a politician who left politics to go back to being a priest or something. I don't know his name, but I bet he's Icelandic. They do things like that. I had a teacher who was a priest, once. Every so often he would go in a mad rage and start throwing tables at people. Taraa, then. Will +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Like a lip lifted from a lip
by Brian Pennington 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hello List, My roomate and I have turned my apartment into a facsimile of a very slow wind tunnel, thus alleviating a little of the heat. It feels like I'm outdoors, and whenever I eat it tastes like I'm eating outdoors. You know that subtle difference in the way food tastes when you eat it on a patio or a picnic? Onto answers: The Pinefox queried: > And for that matter why is 'Age of Consent' so called? That's an easy one, just listen to the lyrics. In addition to missing on the Go Sailor background of Amy Linton as someone else mentioned, Ian Connelly also failed to mention drummer Yoshi's connection to Poastal, who I always thought were very good, and released a split single with #Poundsign# I always liked #Poundsign# but they appear to have become fairly inactive. Someone told me Stephen from #Poundsign# moved close to my neighborhood, but I haven't spotted him yet. So Mr. Robertson, it is next week. Where are those single tracklistsings and tour details? I have been spending my days tracking down demos for songs from Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express. I have always felt B&S would probably give a nod or two to this album if given half a chance. The strings at times remind me closely of fishyclap, and of course Struan and Isobel have never made secret their love of the Go-Bs. Anytime someone asks me to recommend the purchase of a random album to them I always recommend Liberty Belle. It is an almost surefire success. I never thought I'd like a country song as much as "Spring Rain." And the piano of "Twin Layers of Lightning," mm, if I had one album on Earth right now it would be this one. Tell me know, why does the ice cream van always twinkle past my window at 8 PM but never at 2. I could really go for a rocket pop right now. Mmm. Brian Pennington | cellophanesky(a)mac.com | AIM: aVespertineDream Semi-regular observations: <http://mcmcmc.scribble.nu> the Cellophane Sky: <http://www.mp3.com/thecellophanesky/> Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: a quickie before I get insulted further....
by idleberry 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

To anyone who might be thinking of calling me a "little Brit" due to my last message about how crap the American president is when it comes to thinking long term environmental policies (he can't think long term.) I am NOT British. And for the record, I think there is only ever been one good politian, who came 50% up to scratch on my requirements of someone to keep a powerful seat warm, and he resigned sadly to go off back to being a vicar. Guess who he was? Ahhhh! Thankyou. ===== 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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Sinister: 2 years (-1 day ago)
by Jordi Trenzano 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

.....thatŽs when I saw B&S playing live. And the following day I said "hello" to Stuart Murdoch. And, blimey, they have only played one "normal" gig since then. In fact, I was sharing some chat at #sinister last day, and some girl from Buffalo, NY, who know lives in France but who is now visiting England (iŽm so terribly good that iŽm hiding her name) was checking at the same time if Swing Out Sister still existed. And they do, really !!! and whatŽs best, they have "no plans for touring neither Europe or the US". How funny, like our kids. Well, I really want to see them play live !! I want to check how Peter Miller shouts "you twee f*****s, play some Pink Floyd !!". As far as I know, Peter only is interested on bands of traditional japanese drummers, tough. So, we need some japanese drummers. IŽm really touched by The Clientele, I must admit. Their singer said to me on a showcase on a record shop: "theyŽre a very nive band, we just donŽt want to be compared to them anymore". How come the bands that slam against B&S are three times more "arty" than the band itself ?? Julie wonŽt speak to me in ages.....but I can say that I have never heard anything from the Sugababes. Finally....a request.....mr.David Moore, send me your home address again at my other e-mail address, please !!! Hugs & kisses Jordiet ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Vexed, Hexed and (Out of Con)Texted.
by Jason McKinnon 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Idleberry got up on her soapbox and proclaimed: >No offence to any American Sinisterians, but you have >picked the crappiest most moronic president ever. And >I disagree with 99% of everything he says. >Particularly on environmental issues, abortion, and >his ideas about his countries economy, and defence. Hey, big surprise....we do too. You have to understand. In a democracy, scuse me i meant oligarchy we have no say whatsoever. But hey, the propaganda machine has convinced even you that we are actually in charge of our own country. >So heres my plan of action. >A) We boycott the USA. Any sinisterians who live out >there and don't like him and want to be on this side, >feel free. Mmmm....boycott the USA. I generally do that now. But as I am American and live here, you may ask how? And here is where I mutter something about counterculture...blah..blah...90's......indie music...underground...something or other.... >We build a great big fence around America, and refuse >to let them export their Nikes, Big Macs and Pepsis. >It won't be a bad thing, really, we'll all just see an >international improvement on health, and heart disease >will fall. Great plan! Except for the fact that this was already done (in a bizarre metaphor gone mad called the Iron Curtain.) But hey, Idle(berry) hands are the devil's workshop. Don't blame me I VOTED for Satan! We could do with a little more of "wilt as thou do shall be the law of the whole." >Thats what they do with anyone they don't like. Well I >don't like George W(anks in a) Bush. Until he agrees >with everything I say and does whatever I tell him to. >Trust me, my plans are good, clean, environmentally >healthy and fun. >The first thing I would ask him to do is resign. >A resignation speech from GWB might be the most >sensible words to ever come out in a coherent sentence >from him. Well..SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE...ahem....*cough* (sounds of clearing throat continues on for some time) I'd have to agree that the U.S. uses tough love to get it's own big-brotherly way. But as the boy in the Antidrug Ad says when his dad catches him taking drugs and asks him where he learned such sordid behavior... "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!!" (cross-reference: Imperial England) Is anyone else getting bored? Ok...here's the brass tacks.... 1)This argument has all of the political conviction and well-informed opinion of a RageAgainstTheMachine cover band. 2)Leave Americans alone.....(sounds of a prim lady in the background screaming... "Leave that child alone! Haven't you done enough already!") I mean "Jeez"! 3)Aren't there any groups you could join to actually DO something about where YOU live? I mean, somewhere you might have a stake and some KNOWLEDGE besides second hand info you gleaned from watching space signaled culture brought you by Disney, NIKE, and whothefuck? It's just plain insulting(sad) and misled (sadder still) to think that America is anything like you think. YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG. YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED. (Me? I still picture London like the chimney-sweep scene from Mary Poppins...but I don't draw any political wherewithal from it.....cept maybe some socialist tendencies :) Humbly your faithful colonist, The Exiled Prince of Pickles P.S. Are we self-centered or satisfied and unjealous? (Next Chapter) P.P.S. Oh, when the wall goes up....we're repossessing rock/pop music. Sorry, old chum, you can't pick and choose. _________________________________________________________________ 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: I always find this bit the hardest.
by Jonathan Howell 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Yes, the subject line is for me the hardest part of the email to write, if you don't have a good one then people are likely to ignore your email entirely, which is a shame as I can't come up with anything better than the above today. Jer from New York mentioned that -:lazyline painter jane is one of the funestest b and s songs to play on bass :- Bass playing is grate,,, I'm just starting. I'm on the look out for Belle and Sebastian bass tabs if anyone can help. I mailed the tabs service on the website a while back, but to no avail. Hurrah for Bass players... as well as Didgereedoo or Calimbas players, and players of any other instrument... Hurrah for everyone! Siniter Spotting: Right then... I've been wanderering around the country for the past week, on my travels I materialised at Afflek's (spelling???) Palace in Manchester... I decided that it was a lovely place full of shiny things, and I could easily have spent a lot of time getting lost in there, if only I hadn't arrived there with only an hour until it closed. I'm very glad that my Manchster friends took me there. I saw a girl standing at the top of the stairs who looked like she might be a Sinisterian... whe wore grate clothes, including a tiara... I think I like tiaras. She noticed me noticing her... she was very pretty though. I've decided that I don't look anything that would stand out as a Sinisterian, does anyone have any tips? maybe I should buy some cords... perhaps we should have a badge that we wore to distinguish us. I may look for something belle and sebastianish to stick on my coat. I also went to Alton Towers- which was fun, mainly because of the people I went with I think. It was in celebration of a 21st, and we all weent in a big group. I probably woould have enjoyed wherever we'd gone with those particular people. Has anyone else been there? While I was there I saw some obviously fake trees holding up a little railway thing. These trees were complete with big smiley faces, I thought it might be fun to chain myself to them and demand that the railway be removed. The management could try to persuade me that they weren't real... look at the smiley faces... and I could refuse to believe. Then I saw their Cadbury's Cream egg machines that made chicken noises... These also have potential "free the chickens, it is not fair to coop them up like this"... I might write them a letter. I don't think I saw any sinisters there. I don't think I saw any in Southport at 'Chocolat' either as my grandparents and I were pratcially the only people there, and they only listen to classical music. Now that's quite enoughof that from me... I'm in danger of sounding all diaryesque. Cheers and Love. Jonny. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: new urban sociology
by Nigel R. Townshend 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

damn virgin megastore, they have me hooked on dime bars as everytime i buy something they give me chocolate, which aint bad at all, but now i cant get enough, so i told the nice lady behind the counter as i was buying the lastest pappa roach single and she gave me a big handful (and a big handful of dime bars...arhhhhhhhhh....Nice!) ;) yey! idleberry said some things about G. w. bush which i totally agree with what a mindless cunt saying that america wont meet the targets regarding polluting emissions. (it'll harm thier economy apprantley harm they're economy my arse) Grrrrrrrrrrrr my last political rant for today i would like to apologise to Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Beligum for all the Uk's acid rain that we create and gets dropped on you. (hey look i am using knoweldge gained from me degree) talking of degrees i have far too much work to do and am using sinister to avoid doing any... i listened to belle and sebatsian for the first time in ages the other day and shock horror it wasn't as good as it used to be could this be as a result of too much rock music ? who can say... aye well as i have nothing left to say ta ra love Nigel Love ( i hear the weakest link has become the most watched programme in the USA - this is more than surreal...) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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