April 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: No one reads American posts anyway
by C. Ford 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

Many thanks to whomever supplied me with my subject line a few weeks ago . . . So the other evening I was talking to this woman that I work with, outside of work on the telephone, because she had hit on me in the most aggressive of ways the prior day at work, and I was attempting to explain a bit about myself to her, as people often do on those first phone calls when you're each feeling the other person out to see if an actual face-to-face outside-of-work meeting (a.k.a. 'a date') is warranted, and I kept coming up short on one point. (How's that for a confusing run-on? Go ahead, read it again, absorb it, the rest will be there for you when you've finished. . . ) See, she was in a state of disbelief about the fact that I haven't dated in four months, which isn't a long time in my book really, and I was trying my best to explain why I don't find such a dry spell to be disheartening at all. I kept searching for the proper words to describe how I feel about the subject, and during my quest, I stated that I'm an only child, so being alone doesn't bother me, that I just don't feel like going out these days, that maybe the winter's lack of sun has got me down a bit, etc., but none of those reasons were really true, and although she didn't know they weren't true, I did, and it bothered me. I began thinking about it tonight again, as I was sitting home alone all evening, eating dinner, watching a movie, doing some light cleaning, all the while longing for someone to do all of these things with, or better yet, to be doing things outside of my apartment with some special girl. I was feeling quite the hypocrite, wishing that I could be out somewhere, or in even, but wishing I was in the company of an attractive woman whom I could share a Chianti with, and hold, and touch, and smell, when I had turned down an attractive woman for a date just yesterday. This woman is attractive, yes, but no one that I'd be interested in having a long term some-thing-or-another with. I still could have used her to fill the space temporarily at least, why didn't I? This was my dilemma. Then it struck me, the words with which I can express how I feel: I would rather be home alone, yearning to be with the woman of my dreams than out with another woman knowing that she was only a temporary substitute. This may strike you as odd, seeing as it's difficult for one to meet the woman of his dreams whilst sitting at home, so here's where I say that I do go out with friends to the bars and places of that ilk often enough, and I know that it's possible to meet the woman of my dreams in a rather passive manner, because I've met two in my life who've come damn close, well, that leads me to believe that it's possible anyway. I'm not sure I really KNOW anything. So, my point is, because I'm sure you're wondering if you've read this far, that I'm pleased to have realized that I'm secure enough in my own company to wait for someone to come along whose company is truly better, that I don't have to always have someone else here to make me feel comfortable about myself. I hope the same sort of peace for all of you. . . This was my first post. Apologies for it's length. You all seem to be lovely individuals, Chris +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: marie, marie, hold on tight!
by marie elia 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

april is upon us, and i must dig out my modern poetry anthology from when i was a carefree styudent and begin my annual somber undertaking: every year on 1 april i read "the waste land" out loud. it's almost always raining and/or grey, and i end up staring out the window, contemplating where i am, where i'm going. the cruellest month indeed. fear death by water. tmalone mentioned seeing "is it wicked..." on M2 or something, and i was suddenly shuttled back in time to when i joined sinister in december of 1998. i had just joined, and while there was no nursery yet, there was still the "recommended" two week waiting period. i had every intention of waiting. but then i saw "is it wicked..." on MTV and i was so excited that i had to post. unfortunately, my post went something like, "i know i'm not supposed to post yet but i just saw a b&s video on t.v. and oh my god i must be the first person ever to see them on t.v." etc etc. why is blake working out and getting contacts and otherwise ruining his perfectly good indieboy appearance? now you'll never get a girl-who-wears- glasses, blake. never. they'll think you're some bud-drinking, football-watching tough guy. tsk tsk. johan talked about hitting on cute girls on public transportation. this once happened to me. i Was that cute girl. a nice art student sat next to me on an almost empty bus and immediately started out with, "so what bands do you like?" i looked at his badges on his schoolbag and said, "i like those bands." heh. quite flattering. he was on his way to buy art supplies at a store that i live near, though, so he doesn't take that bus very often. i always hated when the working folks on this list took little shots at the lazy care-free students. because i Was a student. but now i work 9-5 and then come home to a full box of sinister mails by lazy carefree students and i envy them. "cuz school's out forever, and i'm never gonna let it go." ribena and vimto tie for the scariest beverage ever. one morning at mell street, julie and i scoured the kitchen for JUICE. all we found was carbonated syrup that tried to pass for juice. y'all drink some weird-ass shit. xoxo, ree ===== * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "to me she was just marie." -mersault "Let me, for our happiness/ Be the one to love the less." -dorothy parker http://www.chickpages.com/poetrypod/lilarsonist __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dancing like headless chickens on speed
by c.f.p. 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

i'm just reporting back on the first leicester sinister meet-up. twas quite a success though... everyone was really cool and seemed to have a good time... we got to know each other at the pub then headed off for a night of dancing manically (ok i was dancing manically, everyone else looked good (^_^) ) at a club night called brighton beach. twas mostly northern soul which always makes for a brill-yant night. there were probably about 10 belle and sebastian fans in attendance, although not all of them were sinister peeps (does it still count?) overall i think it was quite a roring successs (*;*) byeeeeee love n hugs tom s e a c f p /---\ e m a i c q # 5 3 s e a e p h c f p | C=| t i c i c q 1 0 7 e p h p e a c f p \---- c o m i c q 6 4 3 p e a +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: mirth...in a jiffy
by AkaNoAsuka＠aol.com 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

hiya. owing to the in-depth discussions of ribena, i finally felt qualified to post after trying it for the first time, even though it was ribena spring. i'll save the elegant $7 bottle of concentrate for next time i go to rodman's, the token "international gourmet discount food and drug store," my absolute favorite store in northwest dc. shelves of goya, wine and insane belgian chocolates intermingled with coffee presses, luggage and shower chairs for invalids... also, because i'm wading through a 600-kanji essay that determines whether i go to school in kyoto next year, any distraction will do quite nicely...i'm being a bit over-ambitious with my vocabulary, sure to entertain the admissions board. i'm crunching on espresso candies, and dealing with contact-induced pain...being too lazy and too traumatized by the catastrophic loss of sight to remove them will scratch up and dry out your eyes, so i have learned. the opthamologist keeps threatening me, but for now i'd rather wake up able to find the girls' room and leave the glasses to collect dust on the dresser... and furthermore, any one going to see arab strap this thursday at the black cat? as much as i like my 3-hour cia class, i'm not gonna be sold out of another show, like with the donnas. heartbreak. or anyone going to mac rock...can't wait to descend on the arse-end of virginia with three boys, a rented chevy metro and weekend passes...i'll finally have to prove that i can drink a 40...it'll make the hotel floor that much more inviting. it's the rarity of such drunken situations that makes em so much more memorable. i really have no motivation to get wuh-wuh-wuh-wasted while at school...who here will dance to "raspberry beret" with me? erm...content? my dad likes b+s because there aren't any "wrangling guitars," his stock phrase for dismissing anything after 1962 or so. he's kind of stuck at the stan getz stage...which is not such a bad place to atrophy i guess. thankfully enough, i once played bjork's version of "like someone in love," since he had been torturing us with his jimmy scott cd's, and he has approved of her ever since. ok, gonna pounce on my essay with a vengeance now. hmm. yep. stepheesha +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: that's the first time i've ever kissed your lips
by Blake 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

hey there butter lips, actually, i don't think kissing someone with butter on their lips would be that great. i mean, imagine kissing someone who had just finished a big barrel of butter soaked movie popcorn. let's talk slipping. let's talk sliding. let's talk erotic. anyways, everyone remember to turn their clocks forward! i hate losing an hour of sleep. it's simply wretched. the entire day then just feels rushed, the eyes are droopy, the speech is slurred, etc. i used to be a total slobbering idiot whenever i didn't get enough sleep, but now i'm quite ok with it. it's because i sleep while driving. i'm kidding. pysch. if anyone really wants to know my contacts are superb. i cannot get over the fact that normal people actually see like this. i can see shadows. the blurs have been removed from the lights at night. it's quite glorious. sometimes i just want to walk around at night and look. and see. last week a tree fell on my car. now, i make these jokes that i have incredibly bad luck. you see, now i have no reason to claim that it's a theory. it's true. very very true. my car's ok, but a little banged up. the truth is, i don't have bad luck. luck just never existed in the first place. does everyone know that if you search for your name via yahoo or google or something, and you've posted, that your posts will turn up? that scares me. it'd be like showing my prospective girlfriend logs from my therapy sessions. and no, i don't go to therapy. i probably need it though. there was one point in my sinister reign that i was way up there in the list crush votes. i don't think i've had one in a year or so. this does not help my self esteem. i hope you all have wonderful, albeit shortened, sundays. one of these days i will have something truly monumental to say. unfortunately for you, that day is not today. love blake the nerdy shy eyed pacifist http://members.tripod.com/nucleartrout - the palace of heartbreak +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: never knowing when the Doppler effect will hit you
by kmhyde＠wm.edu 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

retsinis, My friend and I are filming a movie. The movie that I wrote sixty pages of script for- over the course of six months. we licensed "seeing other people" for one of the many Eisensteinian montages in the film. It's called 'Gravity & Grace'- from a line in a poem written by the main character in Jonathan Coe's "House of Sleep", which is, as any of you who have read it may know, an almost perfect book. I'm nervous about the movie though, as I think most people would be. The friend who's directing it wants to enter it into all these festivals and such, and apply for grants too. I dunno. We apparently have a publicity staff now, which strikes me as eerily weird. We're going to have a premier, and a party afterwards. It all seems too 'let's pretend we're grown-ups' to me. I keep flashing back to what Kevin Murphy, one of the writers for Mystery Science Theater 3000 wrote- "maybe someday I'll have a vision, and make a movie, and I fear that it will end up like all the rotten tripe that we riff on"..... I still owe the short stories that I auctioned for the B&S thing- there are five actually written, but still five to go. and I need the artwork from my friend in Chicago.... hmmm. this seems like the point in the post when I have to say 'i don't know why I'm telling anyone this, but thanks for reading if you got this far'. electronic group counseling. geoff farina's new record is quite good. I listened to 'Steely Dan' about 25 times today....troubling. douglas coupland calls, Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: coincidence??
by chris perriman 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

>can i be the first to spot legal >man being played in space tonight? Katie yes you can, coz i'm not i was looking on amazon.com for books by stuart david and it gave me this: >How to Become a Professional Calligrapher (A Pentalic Book) > Stuart David so our foul mouthed stu has many talents up his sleeve it seems it was really sunny today and i'm in a happy mood coz of it, i travelled across the tyne ferry twice today and wasn't wearing a coat all day (for the first time in aaaages) but i had to carry my coat all day coz it'd been pissing down when i left the house this morning. so there smiles to all of you pezmondo* _________________________________________________________________________ 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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