May 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: electric honey night in manchester
by Katrina House 08 May '01

08 May '01

hi all, just forwarding this on ... cheers, k. *** The 2nd ELECTRIC HONEY - A Night of B & S - is next Friday 11th May @ The Star & Garter Fairfield St Manchester. Admission is £3 or £2 to anyone with a B & S badge or t-shirt ! Starts at 10pm & finishes at 2am. A B & S track every three songs plus loads of related bands/music. (LOOPER/METROVAVAN/GENTLE WAVES/CAMERA OBSCURA etc) Next one will be in September and details will follow soon. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead.
by Boy G 07 May '01

07 May '01

Anne Boleyn, that is. She had twelve fingers, you know. Including thumbs. I went to the Sinister picnic. Some people there, they knew of the Boy G. They said "Hey, Greg" or "Mr Pallis!" or other such comments. Other people, however, gave blank looks of unknowingness. I have therefore resolved to post more. But it was good, oh yes. Better than Grandaddy even, although not quite as good as A1. I'd rank it level with Ladytron, myself. At the Odeon cinema, the meeting point, they were playing Death in Vegas over the tannoy. This was a good omen. The first alcohol was therefore consumed around 2.10, as the Pinefox led a small exploratory party up the hill. There was jesting about the death of Richard Ashcroft's career, which is always fun. It strikes me that "sinister" would be a good word to play in Scrabble. At the picnic, people talked. Peter Carter claimed to know three people who liked "Beyond the Sunrise". Erica confessed to owning a pair of trainers. Dafyd asserted Kit-Kat chunkies to be the kings of the chocolate world. I ate Haribo. Nice. The football was a triumph. The loathsome black-Tshirt army were annihilated 6-2, thanks to superb goalkeeping from Ken, a pitch-invading defender in a suit by name of Jeff, and Cazza's tactical genius. The Pinefox suggested I stole a hat-trick, but in fact my searing last-minute run was curtailed by a blatant tackle from behind in the six-yard box, so I had to stick with two. Less than Owen. More than Shearer. Stewart and Hayles prepare to rock the Premiership in '02 as Bristol Rovers, my Bristol Rovers, sink beneath the waves. Traitors. Then on to the Spread Eagle, where beer was drunk and a certain rowdy Spanish woman said raucous things about the size of Cliff from Gay Dad's knob. A vote was staged as to the fittest member of S Club 7, and won, inexplicably, by Hannah. Ken attempted to disprove all theories relating to Vodka dilution in one stroke of Red Bull genius, and almost made it, almost. He's a geezer, Ken is. Together, we've vowed nothing shall stop us moshing and headbanging come B&S London. Unless they play Family Tree. Then I, for one, will fall over and theratrically clutch my throat. A look at the half-eaten box of Celebrations revealed Sinisters, on the whole, prefer Maltesers to Bounties, did you know that? You do now. Finally, on to Tigermilking, where there were free Flying saucers. Yum. Blondie, Baxendale and Kenickie were played. And some B&S, also. Carter digged my R'n'B groovings to 'No Diggety', so he made me perform some sort of secret handshake with him. I suspect I may be his blood brother now, or something. After the event, he tried to get me to miss the last tube (caught with four minutes to spare) with talk of "getting some food", so maybe he'd sworn to be my Supervillain nemesis, instead. These things are useful to know. In conclusion, Descartes' family was from Cartes, and Dave Eggers is a poor man's David Foster Wallace. Then we had some tea. Greg. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 84 sitting, 8 standing
by Robin Stout 07 May '01

07 May '01

hello The London picnic was especially tasty. I think I was most pleased to meet so many people who I'd never met before, including some who'd only been on the list a few weeks. I don't think they realised what a seedy world of tweeness and betwetting they were letting themselves in for. The music at Tigermilking was, of course, fantastic, and I did more dancing than I ever did at ATP. So hi to everyone I spoke to. I won't say names because I'll only leave people out, but it was delightful. On the way home I lost my brand new sleeping bag on the tube. It was quite distressing. I don't have much hope of ever seeing it again. As we sat in the train back to Nottingham, it was probably taking part in a controlled explosion. My mum says I've got a letter from the Met Office asking me to go for a screen test. Oh god, I'd better start learing about the weather. What exactly is a warm front? How many degrees Celsius to a degree Farenheit? Has it been cold this year, or is that just our central heating playing up again? They said I'm not allowed to wear anything blue, so after toying with the idea of painting myself completely blue, so I'd just be a couple of floating eyes and a mouth, I went into town and bought a purple shirt. On the bus on the way back, room for 84 sitting and only 8 standing, the man next to me was wearing hearing glasses, but his hair was so long and thick that it filled his earholes so he couldn't have heard anything. I don't know why he bothers wearing them. Robin x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Function vs Form
by Chris Leak 07 May '01

07 May '01

Evenin Another purely functional mail. Sorry. It's just that I am going to be spending a few days a week down in Bournemouth, with work, over the coming couple of months. Any places worth checking out? To those who pointed me in the diretion of "We Love the City", by Hefner in reponse to my "Painting & Kissing" question, cheers, I bought it yesterday. Even better than "Fidelity Wars". Finally, if any of you are in the region of Castlefield, Manchester on the Sunday of the bank holiday at the end of the month, please check out the Art & Design Market at Dukes. If not for the fact that my lovely lady friend has a stall there (lily b design, www.lilyb.com) then for just checking out some of the other stalls there too. Byee for now.. Leaky _________________________________________________________________________ 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 miseducation at Primrose Hill
by Arantxa Sanz 07 May '01

07 May '01

Next edition of Lonely Planet guides are going to include a tour of where/when to spot Sinister meetups and the like, given the number of punters congregated at the top of the aforementioned hill and contemplating a bunch of pasty vegan, sado bedroom devotees exchanging cake recipes ( Liz Daplyn's is the new Delia Smith and r*o*c*k*s!)and discussing the, personally, obscure charms of chippie girl who managed her way to stardom. Was my foul-mouth-ness fuelled by the ingestion of DafM's Celebrations? Or Honey's Marshmallows (no pink ones, weird...)?However, sorry to Mme L' Editrice, Lambeth North inhabitants, Boris Johnsson's enthusiastic followers, whoever the telephatic DJ who matched 'If you are feeling sinister' with my red-means belt. Laura Ll., NY-LON accent and wit is all a modern girl needs. Prof Higgings anywhere? x Arantxa +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Agent Wagon Wheel
by P F 07 May '01

07 May '01

I'm waiting. The last farewell was - start again. The first picnic of 2001 was effective in the extreme. The organizers were not where they had told everyone to be at two o'clock, which was appropriate. I wasn't where I had told anyone to be either. I was on time, mind; from time down to mind. I remember that day / I was reading a book / By Ernest Hemingway / She signed it / In her handwriting / Then she went off and became a librarian. Ah: it's middle-of-the-adult, road-oriented rock; but still it moves me. That reminds me: someone in NYC said that 'Spring Rain' was country&western. I was about to say: never argue with Ally96 about the Go-Betweens. Then I remembered that that's all that Ally96 and I ever do. Still, I'm on his side: rootsyish, maybe; full-on country, no. If I'm not mistaken, you misquoted '100,000 Fireflies'. Surely the line is 'sounds like a mountain range IN LOVE', which is a heck of a lot more lateral (yet still 'topographical') and thought-provoking than 'sounds like a mountain range to me'. Lll Lll is starting a Pynchon support group. This will involve people like us paying for Pynchon to carry on shopping. He needs support, now he's retired. I have read enough to Report Back on the phenomenology of the banana stuff, and I'm afraid I have to say it's overrated. Heck, it's the, um, Pet Sounds of Pynchon moments; apart from all the other ones. Plus, also, we should have a support group for ex-Pynchonians - I mean, folk who thought they loved Pynchon, but have just realized that they're *never going to read him agaim*, cos he's too wacky. What will they do with their lives? Bring out magazines and stuff? I seriously doubt it. People said they saw Finlay Quaye, Graham Coxon and 'the Aphex Twin', and, like, don't worry chuck, I really admire their, like music. I don't. Coxon has been involved with a few good records, but is a goofy bastard. The others are worse still. Sod 'em. Look, stop distracting me. It's time to talk about the picnic again. For instance, the way that David SS of the SS had made loads of special biscuits. Where? At his house. Think about it. I tried. Then I stopped. The way that daf m turned up brandishing computer print-outs and asked me to comment on them. I was happy to do so. That's an understatement. I was *merry* to do so. Campbell - not that one; no, not that one; no! not that one either - look - *another* one, OK? - yes, *that* one - gave the lead. Coventry Crumble as Sad Strach Sobs. There was a mysterious presence off of the I Love Music pages of the Freaky Tigger tiger-breeding empire. He was incognito. It was a cameo, if you catch my drift. It was Primroses or Jasmine, sinister village or the Japanese Embassy. He admitted that Lloyd Cole had been consistently Lloyd Cole. More than this I had better not say; I can't afford to blow his cover. Mind you, I don't know what I'm talking about - ----------------------------- 96 INTERLUDE I don't know what I'm talking about. Somebody does. Perhaps. But they're not telling. They're just banking. Somebody has to do it. Don't they? Maybe not. We wondered about it. We're still not sure. We're still standing. That can't be said about Elena, though. ------------------------- no, I don't know what I'm talking about, here, because plenty of people were banging - and I mean, 'banging'; this was a *picnic*, for goodness' sake - on about their intention to buy the S********' LP. I mean, there was even someone who was slagging off Lloyd Cole while declaring that intention. What this means is only hitting me the next day. What does it mean? Ow. Someone went mincing, I mean, camping, I mean, walking, I mean, hiking. Let's offroad. It's gripped. And that's just the handle. Cazza looked unusually tough. Various posters were putty in his hand, which makes a change from china. Somewhere in China turned out to be better than Cabbage Patch Man thought. By the end of that debate - surely the best of its kind since April 1999 - even Cabbage Boy had to admit this, though the Foxgloves also accepted his point about cover versions covering one's perception of a song. Really, cabbage, you made your point and you did it well. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Not that much, anyway. Larry is not a toy he is my friend. I have to hand it to Marvel, the original Agent Wagon Wheel - catch my drift? - who scored a hat-trick and had it stolen from him. By whom? I'm not sure. Could it have been the boy G? Someone told me that the boy G was an 80s revivalist, but that's not such a bad thing. I know a couple of 80s fans myself. And they're aliens. Tigermilking was enjoyable. And that's saying something. I think I finally know what the FT bods mean by a 'Scooby record'. On Sunday we worked out who had plastered the billboards of the 1990s. Now we're past 1990, we need to know these things. Actually, darn it, I've managed to miss out Laura Cantrell, haven't I? Laura Cantrell, who has an initial-sharing arrangement with Lloyd Cole, sings songs a bit like 'Spring Rain', I mean, country songs. It's possible to sing along with her 'Churches On The Interstate' in an appropriately deep voice if you've had a few ices first. We did. Really, I have a lot of time for Cantrell. After that I'm afraid we had to give 'Long Vermont Roads' another spin. I seriously have come to feel that 'LVR' is one of the great driving songs. That's what you would expect it to be, I admit. There's not much counter-intuition going on here. In that respect I'm just trespassing on your valuable spades. The roads are dark and long. So, like I say, David Thomson got his turn. Tarantino got his turn in the grey winter sun of May, for goodness' sake. Remember him? Northern Soul as the other of 'Southern Man'. After that it all went a bit pea-shaped. Some people wouldn't even give peas a chance. We needed to up the potato intake; they seemed to understand. Cabbage Man behaved himself. We thought under clouds about utilitarian designs, housing estates, architecture, that kind of thing. In a boozer the kids behaved themselves - unusually well, I thought, for such a bunch of old lags. Marvel went twisting by the pool table. Cookie looked unusually photogenic flattened over his cue too. Certain people I don't know were diuscussed. Obviously I can't reveal any details. That would be out of the question. Oh, lemur. If we carry on like this we won't need Peter Miller anymore. And then what would become of us? We'd get covered in black bean sauce and fed to the ducks. We are only prawns in their game. It's not over. I'm not even waiting any more. They are. __________________________________________________ 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: I thought Stuart Murdoch was a good person
by Alexander Bartilson 07 May '01

07 May '01

Hi you lovely people, I'm very envious of everyone who's going to the concerts in Scotland. I really hope B & S will come to Sweden (cause that's were I live, duh). I'm really enjoying the mails that appear on this list. I'm starting to think that maybe this list houses some of the coolest people in the world. But that's just me... Anyway, a friend of mine raised a question a couple of days ago. It's about who the predecessors of twee are. He said Simon & Garfunkle and I had a really hard time arguing with that. What do you think? How come the B & S songs with the strangest name always are instrumental. I mean last year we were wondering why Judy was a dick slap but we never found out why cause the song turned out to be instrumental. And this year they are releasing "Take your carriage clock and shove it" and we all ask why (why you should take your carriage clock and shove it, not why they're releasing the single) ? But guess what, I listened to the song from the Glasgow gig and you know what, it's instrumental. It might not be on the single but it sure looks like it. Are they doing that just to tease us? If that is the case they are certainly very successful. Anyway, hope you're all great. ///Alexander +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: seven weeks of staying up all night....
by Amy Jackson 07 May '01

07 May '01

dearest sinister, as i write this paul is in his bed. it's 12:05pm. what am i doing being up at this time on a bank holiday?!?! yesterday i had quite possibly the nicest day i've ever had. we had a picnic in princes street gardens, just paul and i, and it was gorgeously sunny and wamr. we watched the wee kids with their over sized nappy bums trying desperately to run to freedom away from their mums. we watched a squirrel running about the bushes and then we watched a seagull fly down and steal my apple turnover thing. not impressed. then we decided to go on one of the edinburgh bus tours which was funny cos the guides microphone wouldn't work and she kept cutting out mid-sentence. but the sun was warm on the backs of our necks, the sky was blue and we are both all in love and stuff. which is great :) seems like there's going to be a mass sinister exodus to glasgow for the b&s dates. i can't wait. AND apparently the Proclaimers are playing at the garage on the 14th of june. how ace is that?!?!?! i think i want to make a weekend of it, go see the proclaimers, doss about glasgow getting a wee bit tipsy* on the friday then see b&s on the saturday. sounds good to me anyways. oh yeah, *B*I*G* H*E*L*L*O* to neil milton :) and andy the velvet coat man. and niall if he's on the list but i'm not sure if he is or not so if he is, hello and if not, well then i guess he won't see this. ho hum. ken should try DT. it's like an imitation red bull only when mixed with vodka it makes you much more hammered than red bull and vodka. believe me, i'm still trying to recover from my DT-and-red-bull fuelled escapades at hefner. cut hand, anyone? getting a hair cut tomorrow. bit scared. your friend, amy xoxoxox _________________________________________________________________________ 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: picnic footsie
by Chris Butler 07 May '01

07 May '01

hey - it was quite nice playing football at the picnic on saturday... are there any sorts who'd like to make it a weekly or bi-monthly occurrence? given the vast number of aches i have from just running i figure i could stand a bit of exercise. senor droolcup / 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: somehow we always end up out.
by OnLanguage＠aol.com 07 May '01

07 May '01

all this talk of faraway picnic-ing has been inspiring - are there any kids in the northwest who'd be interested in getting together? we're thinking early june, seattle. gasworks if it's open, but some other fanciness if it's not. so... possibly june ninth or tenth? and if youve got designs on a different location, let us know. hearts. stefanie and megan. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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