April 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: shrub
by * carla * 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

normally i am a lurker on this list (in fact this is my first post) but i just had to break my silence in repsonse to idleberry's post about us americans picking the stupidest president ever. i dont disagree with the fact that he is an idiot but i would like to point out that we did not in fact elect him. al gore got more votes and in reality "won". but dubya's brother runs a very key state in our out-dated electoral system and the supreme court is majority republican-nominated and so there ya go... _________________________________________________________________ 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: Vexed and Texted.
by idleberry 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

hey hey, sinister type people! It has been a while, I think, since my last post. Since then, what has happened? I've been making lots of growly noises, about the world, and gernerally sounding like an old man. Possibly like Father Jack. 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. 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. 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. 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. B) I haven't got a plan B yet, but that's okay, cos I think plan A will work. Other things vexing my vex at the moment..... 1. temporary work Recruitment agency. In particular, mine, who have been messing around NOT PAYING ME. this is not good. They spent easter messing me about, therefore not getting me work, which is definately not good. Cos I had plans for the money, and now its just going to be tighter to acomplish my plans. Maybe its gods way of saying "No, Idles, you can't take over the world just yet." My plans, by the way, don't actually involve taking over the world as a whole, but over a club in Norwich for an evening. I am not going to tell you yet how or what, cos sodes law dictates that if I do, it will all go belly floppingly bad and I might as well start auditions for the next "Popstars". 2. The lack of decent music everywhere. With obvious exceptions, of course ;) . Why has the majority of majorities gone all MOR on us? Why don't they just all go home and listen to Phil Collins instead of forming bands and call themselves Toploader? Why are they crap? why don't they attempt to break barriers and do something original, instead of sufficing with the barmy nothingness that they insist on pouring into the brains of poor and deluded youngesters, who at this impressionable time in life, don't know any better about decent music? Do they really want to scar these little people and leave us in the wilderness, three years down the line with shell suits becoming retro classic? Do you remember that Sleeper song "Inbetweener" (of course you do, you were all shamelessly bopping away to it five years ago down the local indie club, despite the fact that you are now too cool to confess such crimes of indecent music taste.) Well, all the toploader kids, are all going to become the characters out of that song. They are! give them five to ten years. Thats whats going to happen. And what will happen when that happens? you're going to get Sleeper tribute bands singing about ageing Toploader fans. Mark my words. Its your toaster. And the Beatles were rubbish, otherwise if they were any good, how come its been so easy for people to rip off their songs with such ease? 3. The train I was on yesterday, it was too full, and a German man kept touching my leg, and then smiling appologetically. It might have been funnier I guess if it wasn't my leg he kept gropping. There wasn't any harm meant, really, he was just grasping around for his bag, which was next to my legs, and accidentally ended up touching my leg. He looked like your dad by the way. And he listened to Oympic Anthems, obviously covered by awful 80's big stadium rock bands. More amusement has come by way of three of my pals. For reasons I won't go into, lets call them Miss S, Mr BD and Mr J. Miss S and I were sitting in the 13th Note, on Saturday, Miss S complaining that she felt she didn't look freaky enough to fit in. I said that alone made her a freak, the fact that she wasn't a freak, therefore she fitted in. Miss S and I sat talking about everything. Then she brought up Mr BD. I told her about Mr BD at Christmas, cos he's single, so is she, and in many ways, they have something in each other that the other looks for. ;) Miss S gave me a look, that said "no blind dates" so I shut up. But last Saturday, Miss S asked how my pal was, meaning Mr BD. I told her what he was up to in his life. Miss S smiled, and asked for his mobile number, and was it okay to text him? Yes, said I. So they started texting each other. Cheesy flirty text messages were flying, and I sat reading, giggling, blushing, buying more drinks, and texted another pal while Miss S and Mr BD were being anti social. Miss S sat giggling. It was quite enjoyable to watch. Mr BD stopped texting, so I asked him why, cos he was letting the side down. And whatever else Miss S told me to say. So Miss S asked if I had anymore "fun friends". She read a few texts exchanged between Mr J and I about double standards. And she asked for his number. She started texting him. Sunday. I got text messages from Mr BD, and Mr J, about Miss S being lovely, and how shes been texting them, and asking Mr J to leave a message on her answerphone to hear what he sounds like. Miss S called me, despite her raging hangover, in a giggly mood. Mr BD asked me what Miss S is like. Mr J didn't ask a lot, but tells me what's been going on between the text messages he's exchanged with Miss S. Miss S texted me frantically, asking whether Mr J or Mr BD is fit, and yeah, I better be saying shes foxy, cos she is, apparently, (her words) and yes, she will kill me if I say otherwise. I wasn't going to do that, now was I? Miss S and Mr J texted each other all day. Miss S and Mr BD texted each other all day. Last night I spoke to Mr J and Mr BD. Mr BD spent two hours on the phone to Miss S last night. And I won't tell you what Mr J said to me, cos its far too telling and revealing, and knocked me sideways for six. Mr BD and Mr J keep asking what Miss S looks like. I reply: Tall, leggy blonde, blue eyed, and curvy in all the right places. Good legs. Mr J replied: "Hubba Hubba!" (followed by giggles.) Mr BD replied something along the lines of "Sultry Glasgow Vixen!" followed by giggles. I told them to keep me up to date on whatever happens, but to leave out the gory details. Not to blame me if it goes wrong, and I want no bitchy text messages from anyone about my pals. But I want credit if it goes right. BTW: Mr J knows Miss S is also texting Mr BD. Don't think Mr BD knows about Miss S texting Mr J. I'm keeping well out. Anyway, theres my nuggets for the day. Play nice with them, and don't squeeze. ;) love, 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. 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Sinister: Oh No
by Andy Flynn 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

I was thirty yesterday....anyone give me advice on coping with it!! Or just prezzies! Sexual favours from Isabel lookalikes and attractive young things will be accepted! Thanking You 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: The Loves
by Charlie Farley 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Yes I do. The Loves are indeed from Wales. They are pretty fine. Not sure about the B&S connection/fandom but it's certainly not inconcievable. The singles club in question is the utterly fab Cardiff-based Boobytrap club. Go to www.boobynet.co.uk for more details. They've got sound clips of lots of the singles they've released so far, but not The Loves as yet. Check out MC Mabon and Tommy & The Chauffeur for starters anyway! Happy Monday, people. xox C "You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life" Maria Sierra wrote: Yesterday I was listening to a Spanish radio station called radio3 when the Dj played a band called The Loves. He said (I don't know if that's true) that this is one of the favorite bands of the members of Belle & Sebastian at the moment. He didn't reported much more information about them: they are from Wales and they have just released some songs for the single club of a recording company whose name I can't remember. Does anyone know anything else about them? Thanks! maria _________________________________________________________________________ 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: The Loves
by Maria Sierra 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Yesterday I was listening to a Spanish radio station called radio3 when the Dj played a band called The Loves. He said (I don't know if that's true) that this is one of the favorite bands of the members of Belle & Sebastian at the moment. He didn't reported much more information about them: they are from Wales and they have just released some songs for the single club of a recording company whose name I can't remember. Does anyone know anything else about them? Thanks! maria _________________________________________________________________________ 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: any Los Angeles meet up ideas?
by Jennifer Juniper 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

hello fine sinister folk, plans are in the works for a sinister picnic or some other kind of meet up in the Los Angeles area. if you are interested in attending, or in helping to plan this momentous event, please e-mail me at Belle1974(a)yahoo.com cheers, jennifer juniper :o) __________________________________________________ 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: Nyarko Ticks
by P F 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Which is side one, and which side two, of Power, Corruption and Lies? I thought about making that a Freaky Trigger thread but it would have been a bit too specialized and would not have aided thread congestion. And for that matter why is 'Age of Consent' so called? And what *is* the type that you need to be told to tell you about the birds and the bees? And stuff. I have only just discovered that the Velvets' 'Who Loves The Sun' (shouldn't it have a question mark? If so, it can have the one from my henceforth redundant question) sounds, lyrically, like some kind of model for 'I Don't Believe In The Sun'. This raises the meta-question of Merritt's relation to the Velvets. My feeling is that he shouldn't like them too much, thanks to their amateurish formlessness. I hope someone writes in and says, - !hey, dirtsucker! the velvets wernt formle.s. or amaturish. I don't always agree with my editor, but watching Bacharach last night made me think that his ** very long-standing** argument that songwriters shouldn't sing their own material was, if not 'correct', then at least wise. In a sense I've thought this for a while - have I ever told him? - and this was just further confirmation. All of that is NOT a way of saying that Burt Bacharach is a bad singer who shouldn't be allowed to sing. He's a lot better than lots of other singers. I would LIKE to have 'Burt Bacharach Sings Burt Bacharach'. (In a sense perhaps it would sound like a covers LP.) No, it's just the creativity of distance - the extra level of complexity and play that you introduce by getting somebody else to sing your song - that I think is valuable here. I should have been able to assent to this long ago. I think it was my editor's declaration that 'The Beatles ruined everything' that spoiled it for me. Despite her sometimes dodgy views, I think the gal 'Julie' gives good mail. At least she responded in detail to 'Sugar World', citing paragraphs and stuff. Plus, she's feisty and fights her coin, I mean, her corner. But 1. What did she mean about 'embrace and filter'? These are very different things: virtually antithetical, one might say, in some contexts. 2. Looking at the cover of a magazine doesn't tell you what a band sounds like. (Unless the cover is written by Simon Reynolds.) I don't know what Destiny's Child look or sound like. I don't think they have much of a reputation or profile in my country. We have this silly band 'Sugababes' instead, see. 3. We don't have MTV where I come from. 4. To talk about Salman Rushdie was a nice touch - but have SR's pop-cultural admissions done him much good? I think my editor would disagree. He never liked SR that much in the first place, but what respect he had paled and palled once SR started expounding about very well-known Van Morrison records and the like. 5. Still, I like the near-synasthesia of 'knowledge is golden', green, etc. Julie is the Milly Bloom of ice cream studies. __________________________________________________ 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: Hey, you sass that hoopy Peter Carter? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
by ArtsyDeco＠aol.com 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

And only two months until he visits. Thank you sinister! And now: things I say... Mr. Snuffalupagus: I was listening to Fold Your Hands... today (I don't skip Beyond the Sunrise, it's got a lovely Rip VanWinkly feel to it) and it struck me that Nice Day for a Sulk would've been put to great use on Sesame Street back in it's glorious 80's heyday. I mean this as the highest compliment. I am ever the victim of hate: I was at a tag sale today, trying to buy some old tins. I tried to haggle a bit and the surly old man running said tag sale growled something about "Jewing down the prices" and stalked off. Great. In SanFrancisco last year a surly old man crashed into me while I was standing outside my hotel and screamed "Jew Girl Inn!" then proceeded to glare at me from five feet away. Charming. Here's the best part: I am not Jewish. I wonder if I'll have to put up with this nonsense all my life. Morrissey: Samantha mentioned the scary-old-baby-eating-manness of morrissey. Still, a friend of mine decided that he is the ultimate sexual catch, based on the whole celibacy thing. Harder to get than a priest, though why anyone would want to do that is beyond me. Just picture someone saying to you "Yeah, I got Morrissey, how bout you?" Can't beat that can you? Feeling Older Already: Try saying to yourself "It's not the nineties anymore." Depresses the hell out of you doesn't it? Salako: I like them. I bought Musicality for $5 at a used cd store with very steep stone steps which I always fall down, causing me to fall into the store every time. Anyhue, it was January when I bought it and I hadn't really given it a fair chance up until now, and now I really love it. Why do I always neglect my cd's? Be excellent to eachother. Party on dudes. Kara Jean* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: we will capture all of london on disposable cameras
by Rachel Playforth 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

i now know rather more about DDR than i want to... thanks mainly to the, erm, expressive photos david moore sent me. martin wrote: "Unfortunately, I believe that there are photos in existence of me doing this so called "DDRing" which much like Geri Halliwell's ballet dancing in her new video involves the photography trickery of superimposing my head on an admittedly very talented droopy arsed dancer. Much like the Geri video, I recommend you avoid these photos." sorry martin, too late. a hahahahahahahahahaha aha ha ha ah ha. (by the way, i've decided that we should raise the booze funds for the london picnic by putting david and sally on 'who wants to be a millionaire: couples'.) i for one am glad the picnic will be on primrose hill, because a) after the last greenwich picnic i was waiting for a train for a hour at maze hill station at 6am on sunday morning and it wasn't an experience i fancy repeating, and b) primrose hill is a fertility site. i don't have mark's football, but have just remembered that i did acquire someone's frisbee last year, which i'll obviously bring along and pass down the sinister chain of sports equipment larceny. enough parochialism... my friend clare, who introduced me to b&s may moons ago, has just passed on the judgement of another friend of hers, coming late to the twee party: "they may actually have meaning but sound like every other group of tossers trying to be fey and interesting". i would like to think he's wrong. in a related story, i don't want to offend stuart david, but the peacock @ borders idea was the most ill-conceived, badly executed, generally embarrassing promotional event i've ever not spent money on. even if we did get free beer. oh, looks like i do want to offend him after all. sorry. now, it's been a harrowing weekend, so i'm going to stem the flow of superfluous witticism with the band-aid of necessity and ring my mummy (the non-sinister one.) luv archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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: nightmares
by s.arnot＠talk21.com 22 Apr '01

22 Apr '01

hiya. somebody mentioned the film willow. if i remember correctly, this is the name of the first film which i ever saw at the pictures, when i was about five, after which i had nightmares for weeks about dragons eating me. did the dragons have 3 heads? maybe that is just my suspect memory. also, somebody mentioned something about good days and bad days. i used to believe that there were two different types of days, days when people liked me and days when people hated me. these days alternated. this also meant, because there are an odd number of days in the week that if i saw a person on the same day each week they would like me on alternate occasions. the phenomena seemed to go away after i told someone about my theory, though, like it became untrue because something so nonsensical couldn't exist in the real world, which i had let it into by telling someone. i also think that line in some girls are bigger than others is hilarious, but i couldn't say why. his tone of voice? who knows. piddlemonkey -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.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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