May 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: God Bless John Hughes
by Madeleine McNeil 15 May '01

15 May '01

I was awful happy to see CarsmileSteve mention John Hughes and this vision of loveliness that is Molly Ringwald. What a truly marvellous woman she is (well, was). I spent quite some time in the pub discussing my fave 80s teen movies this afternoon, and shocked all my friends with the fact that I had to write an essay on The Breakfast Club last year. Yes, a grand a year tutition fees and I end up studying a big nostriled, yet oddly attractive boy called Bender. What an education I'm getting. I forget what I learned about the film, exactly, except that through extensive research I found out that Bender's joke doesn't really exist and thus has no ending. May I also recommend Some Kind of Wonderful, which is my best all time 80's film. Starring Eric Stoltz as the boy from the wrong side of the tracks and Lea Thompson as the rich bitch (although she isn't really) it's a wonderful example of film-making by numbers but it's cracking. And Joy Division are on the soundtrack. I got my tickets for Birmingham today but I'm a bit too sleepy to feel excited. It will be nice to go to Brum, though, as I spent the first three years of my life there. Very few memories except weeing in places that I shouldn't and getting laughed at by my big sister. I hope that doesn't happen every time I go to Birmingham.... Love Madeleine xxx _________________________________________________________________________ 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: super
by Hannah Brown 15 May '01

15 May '01

ah ha! im afraid it takes two weeks to develop the film so i dont know yet. Im gonna chop it up, jig it around, add some music and then try and get it on the site, although honey says it wont work, it will probably make peoples computers crash. Maybe i should have a private screening of it, anyway, some how some way you will all get too see it im sure ( hopefully b&s will use it as a music vid HINT HINT) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: biscuit shmiscuit
by Hannah Brown 15 May '01

15 May '01

up until about 4 months ago i thought foxes ate sheep,much to the amusement of my flatmates. Thats my dads fault, he has missinformed me all my life. "Dont eat chocolate and orange together, it makes you ill," er yeh, thats why they merged the two into one? "NEVER re-boil water"????"Dont open you eyes whilst crossing the road", ok, so that one wasnt real. MOLDY PEACHES, as fab as they may or may not be that is a bit of a shit name isnt it. I had a vision this morning, we should all get together and write a b&s football song. we could each have a line to sing and we could all get together for the video and hug/ sway in that kind of football fashion.AHHHHHH imagine it??? Perhaps at the end we could all disperse and start jigging around to the instrumental bit.YES!!!! ...and sets of the smoke alarm... sorry, that is what i was listening to, i thought it would be fun to write it as i heard it.i think thats me done, any fottbal song lyric suggestions? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Baroque Music
by Linus loves dogs. 15 May '01

15 May '01

Hello, is there any of you who likes Baroque music like Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, Henry Purcell ? Linus _________________________________________________________________________ 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: RAH!!!
by Flanagan, William 15 May '01

15 May '01

hello all, this is my first post so bear with me... sometimes it seems although things couldn't get any better, and then somehow they suddenly do... i'm a lazy physics student who spends far too much time playing a strange sport called Canoe (Kayak) Polo. yes, it is a real sport, played by over 30 teams at international level. it could be described as a cross between rugby, waterpolo and canoeing. anyway, i'm the captain of the University of London Union Club, and play in the men's a-team, and at the weekend we managed to win the student championships, which in the world of kayak polo is a VERY BIG THING. so when i woke up on monday morning nursing an almighty hangover and slowly remembering clinging to a minibus roof at 2am as it was been driven at 40mph down a main road (really!), i was ecstatic to hear that b&s were playing the Royal Albert Hall. for once being at Imperial College has it's advantages... my department is virtually opposite the R.A.H., and the union is next door to it.... therefore i suggest a picnic in hyde park (which is next to my college as well) in the afternoon before the gig and/or a 'few' drinks in our lovely Student's Union. as the 29th june is the last day of term, the Union should have a big carnival thing going on in the evening. so if people wanted, they could walk the 100 yards from the RAH after the gig to carry on drinking till 1am. unfortunately the dj's at our Union are world-renowned for their lack of taste, so we might be better off finding a decent indie club. ...details and times of this little venture can be worked out nearer the time... anyway, the ugly pile of revision calls... 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: gorgeous book, shiny shiny
by brenda milton-bradley 15 May '01

15 May '01

Here in my cheerful, primary-colours-coloured outfit i flog chart pap to the witless public and wile the hours away by reprogramming listening posts and giving cute customers discounts.... ah yes, confession time oh my sinister friends, i do indeed work at Virgin Megastore (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!). We sell a LOT of Tigermilk here, to all sorts of people. It's even almost intersting... To the point, then - imagine my surprise when i clocked a couple of lovely copies of a glossy and gorgeous FISHYCLAP tab book in amongst the corrs/david MINGIN gray/abba etc stew we call a book section. oh JOY! anyhow, just thought ya'll should know that it's £12.99 and if you buy it from me and demonstrate in some way shape or form your sinisterness (cos sometimes i'm not sure i can always tell. like, i've been VERY VERY wrong before...) then we'll cut a deal. Oh, it's the London Oxford Circus one, too. Oh, and i'm not sure how you'll know which one is me but WHO KNOWS maybe you can tell?? longtime no write, anyhow, love Brenda "spooky lurker" Milton-Bradley. ps. Neil Hannon from Divine Comedy sung "Beautiful Lady" to me in the stairwell of the store yesterday as they waited to go onstage. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! aah. ------------------------------------------------------------ . +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: stress, stress, breathe, stress, stress and.... *relax*
by idleberry 15 May '01

15 May '01

hello all. Yay! exam time! Good luck to everyone else doing some sort of exams now. My thoughts would be with you if I wasn't feeling particularly selfish and trying to keep them aligned to myself at the moment. It was just difficult last week, cos it was so sunny, and I wanted to sit outside while my hayfever has yet to appear. I've got an exam on Thursday, by the way, and had my first one last week, talking about Norwegian babies and why its a bad idea to live until 150 years old. Going to the B+S gig on the 16th at the barrowlands, as a sort of treat for finishing my final year exams. Also, I believe thats the same day I get my results. Its starting to feel odd at the moment. Now I have (almost) achieved two of my childhood dreams. I decided I wanted to be a student when I was a kid. And I also wanted to work in a shoe shop, (I was a sensible child with aspirations within my reach. Except the chocie box.) and now I've done both of those. And now, with these B+S gigs.... blimey. Life after the 17th of June... what will be left to look forward to? Where will my life be without essay deadlines and sitting in the cafe all day talking to pals who wander in and out? Where will my life be, I ASK YOU!!!! I'm not sure. I'm going to miss uni, having no money, and being able to see all my pals without making any effort to call them up cos I just bump into them on campus (a common problem if you don't look where you are going.) I have decided not to try and achieve any of my teenage dreams, cos I seem to have gone off the idea of snogging Johnny Depp totally now. (Hes getting a bit old these days). Nor am I ever going to get a starring role in Beverley Hills 90210 (nor want one) and also have totally gone off the idea of being a top lawyer (it involves studying.) Um, thats it for now. Oh, and I can't sleep too well at the moment. Last night Norwegian grammar went through my mind. begrave begraver begravd har begravd Anyone got any suggestions? (note: Eastenders plot lines don't have the effect of getting grammar out my mind when I'm trying to relax either) Later you lot! Idlebumfluff. ===== 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: Now we know how many holes...
by Hewitt, Stephen 15 May '01

15 May '01

heehee i've got my tix for a prince albert now, but OH! NO! it's graduation day at college!! will they let me have the day off!?!?!? they are deciding as we speak :/ i spose if the worst came to the worst i could tell them to stuff their job UP THIER COLLECTIVE ARSE and then ride sting's scooter off the white cliffs of dover, but hopefully it won't come to that... i went to see mj hibbert on friday. he's GRATE and also VALID. Clarke, Sarah J (EU) [Sarah.J.Clarke(a)maff.gsi.gov.uk] was there also and gave me poke-cards in an attempt to suck me into her world of oddly shaped cartoon characters (and that's just her flatmates ho! ho! <cough>) twas my birfday yesterday (i am now very old) and i got the "BIG BOOK OF HOW MAN DIDN'T GO TO THE MOON ACTUALLY" which looks ace and also the "BIG BOOK OF WASHED UP BRAT PACK ACTORS" which potentially looks better. Did you know Antony Michael Hall (the geeky one) was having HOT TONGUE ACTION with Molly Ringwald (the ginger one) whilst they were filming the breakfast club?? bastard... Mind you by the time he was 17 he was drinking TWO PINTS of vodka a day. How come no one talks about John Hughes on this list any more? He's still subscribed isn't he? The Miller claimed that he wanted to come to england for the gigs, but look what happened to Ronnie Biggs when he came home... The day that thatcher dies will be one of the happiest days ever. I have the bunting and application form to hold a street party all ready to go. There seems to have been a right old influx of cam.ac.uk types recently, come on ox.ac.uk where are you all?? Prolly out standing on the correct end of a punt or something... Speaking of which, must organise oxpicnic soooon, suggestions for dates please the kids. Maybe we should all get dressed up, tuxes, ballgowns etc if we're going somewhere as posh as the Albert Hall. We could recreate the prom from Pretty in Pink... xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: On the count of three, everybody smile and say 'clone'.
by Peter Carter 15 May '01

15 May '01

>Mediocrity = popularity. To buttress this assertion by way of example: Gray >David, Toploader, Starsailor, Bridgett Jones' Diary [film and book],Captain >Correlli's Mandolin, Stereophonics. The fact that "Mediocrity = popularity" >has a little to do with the concept "lowest common denominator". Take the >recent example at Glasgow University where a distinguished intellectual >[some might say Scotland's leading author; I wouldn't] was beaten by a >two-bit comic with the catchphrase "Gonnae no' dae that". The case for the >prosecution rests. Erk, Starsailor should always be referred to as Shitsailor, even though that term is hopelessly tacky. If anyone has a better subversive name I'd like to know. Anyway, I have a belief that taste does not exist for any form of art. Taste is limited to food, where it can be explained but the biology of people's tongues and the inability to taste certain flavours. Music, however, as well as book and music is explained by something else. The main thrust of the argument is 1. Ease. If something doesn't break any boundaries or do anything new at all, it's easy to listen to. There is nothing unexpected to get your head round, nothing interesting that you need to dissect. People who have no real interest in art (the majority or the work/money/sex population) just go with anything they can enjoy after listening to it only once, ipso facto Mediocre Music (tm). The only things which usually break through this are bands/books/films/art which can follow all the surface rules, while doing something intelligent through subtexts or complexities or whatever. I use the majority of surviving 60's music as an example here as well as some classic books, like 1984 and such. However there are also other things that seem to make up 'taste', 2. Mood. This is very important as far as I see, and goes someway to accounting for the difference in taste between 'serious' music fans. However, this can usually be bypassed continued listening, and, to some extent, by guessing which mood you'd have to be in to enjoy something. Listening to Nick Cave or Sleater Kinney when you've just fallen in love isn't necessarily the best thing, and everyone knows The Stone Roses are best enjoyed in a field on a hot summers day. 3. Music experience. This seems to be both enlightening and limiting, though more of the former than the latter. You can often listen to something and here it sounds a little like something else you've heard and dismiss it, but I guess this ties into '1', if you put enough effort in, and it is genuinely good, you can usually understand why it's good, and minor differences are the things which shape music anyway. Most music has basically the same formula, but I think that the more music you listen to (properly, not just let it plink away in the background), the more you can understand subtleties, and the more you realise quality over easy hooks and gimmicks. 4. Image. This really is important to bands other than the S Club brigade. Image is a way of making your music say something, and, as that's pretty much all music does, I'd say it was pretty important. While individual songs should not be valued according to the bands assumed persona, I'd say that bands as a whole should, nay, have to be. A faceless band, saying nothing, but doing it with good tunes, is still a faceless band. Having said that, I don't have that much of a problem with bands not writing their own material. If someone can write and someone can sing, why not let them specialise? It's only the 1 writer = 20 bands ratio and the number of devaluing covers of great songs which is currently adding to the hermoginisation (sp) of our pop scene. I also find the contast stream of bands who 'can dance', to be bizaree in the extreme. When the hell was it decided that dancing ability helps to make a good record? No matter how hard a strain, I can never quite make out the footsteps of dancing barbie clones on 'Reach for the Sky'. The pop scene also seems to have a heel of a lot to do with promotion. Seeing as I've introduced bands like Looper and Kings of Conveniace to friends with resonable degrees of success, I think some of the problem with mediocrity is that people don't both filtering. As lot of people just like anything and don't bother to think about it. It's there, it's in our culture... why question it? This seems VERY dangerous to me, and, without being melodramatic, I'd say it's the kind of attitude that made the holocaust possible. Having said all that, I recently saw 'Rock Action' by Mogwai at number 12 in the album charts in HMV. Needless to say I bought it immediately (I've been meaning to buy some Mogwai for ages), and it's great. I'm wondering if this is leading up to a revolution... what with Gorrillaz (sp?) in there too and number 9 or some such. Nah, they probably just put it in the wrong slot, either that or I was dreaming. I didn't pinch myself, and the CD a couple of times though... Anyway, this rant was a roundabout way of getting out of doing an essay... please forgive me. > On a scale of 1 to pish-poor-awful. 1 being the least pish-poor-awful and > pish-poor-awful being the most pish-poor-awful. I reckon I'd have to say > Feeder are about 9. Y'know. Pretty high. "I got a brand new car... *muffled screams*" > PS Just a little note on Disco; it's an unfairly maligned genre of music, > y'know. Donna Summer's I Feel Love. Ah mean, c'mon. "It was > unprecedented. No verse, no chorus, just Summer's purring mantra set over > endless, oscillating, undulating, repetitive sequencer-driven beats." Wow, Kid A ripped of Donna Summer! Who would have thought it. Actually, I love that album, I was just being silly. Many times I've laughed when people said "I don't like it, it's got no guitars", actually it was more crying that laughing, but there you go. >PPS That's my fifteen minutes. Anybody care to debate? Go on, you know you >want to. I've never actually had an argument/convo with anyone on Sinister. >I always shy away from real discussion. Do I qualify? PEter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Party in the Park...NYC Sinister picnic!
by Julie 15 May '01

15 May '01

Tonight while watching Buffy, we (the Powers That Be in NYC Sinisterland) decided to have a picnic. We said the first Saturday of June, but that would be the 2nd, which is a little early for a first Saturday! So I think the 9th sounds about right. So June 9th, 2 pm, we're going to party in the park!!! Right? You're all coming, right?! Okay the picnic will be in the same spot as the one last September (for lack of better planning) and I can guarantee it's not in Primrose Hill or Greenwich and we're not arguing about it like those English fuckers. This particular picnic spot, in case you weren't there (although you SHOULD have been), is right behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the east side of the Great Lawn. (If you ever fly to points east of the Newark airport, ie Europe, you should fly at night and look at Manhattan from above. The streetlights around the Great Lawn form this amazing pattern.) More details later, I'll keep reminding you of the picnic because I really want you to come! It's no one's birthday this time, but you can still bring me presents. If you have questions, please email me. Heck, just email me anyway, I like email. If there are huge problems with the date, like a million people want to come to the picnic but can't make it that day, we can move it, but as of now it's June 9th. xoxo Julie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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