July 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: uncounted soapy-liquorice moments
by P F 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

BUT IN OUR WORLD OF PLENTY Now here is a thing. Wait till I tell you. World War II. UK. Rationing. A shortage of sweets. Your man takes up the story. "Even Africa felt sorry for us.In an act of charity that mirrored Live Aid - and predated it by forty years - the citizens of Nairobi were asked to give up their sugar coupons: each one donated would provide half a dozen barley sugars or pear drops for one of Britain's orphaned or homeless children. It would be, as one Ugandan newspaper put it, 'a touching demonstration that we children of the mother country do not forget her in times of need'". [Culled from Nicholas Whittaker, SWEET TALK: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CONFECTIONERY (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), p.111.] This, boys, is a true story. Girls, also. Too. Uganda donated to Britain's - let us call it - "candy fund" during the Emergency. Think on. THE BODY AS LANGUAGE I see that Herbert McCabe has died. Could there be a story in this? Yes. It goes as follows. Professor Terry Eagleton will attend the wake, to be held in Manchester. Jokes will be made viz. the following: [re. a statue of Christ, mistaken for Prof. McCabe:] "It doesn't look a bloody bit like the fella!!" [re. Michel Foucault:] "A true micropolitics of the prison would be in every sense cellular". Ah, I've never forgotten that one, and you can't say I have. ENDGAME IN CHELMSFORD It seems I owe Mr David Moore an apology. In a previous contribution I both berated him for lack of clarity and compared him to Mr David Trimble of the UUP. Mr Moore has since explained that clarity is his daughter's middle name. All I have to do, he says, is click on the blue attachments, and I'll see a sight for sore eyes, if you catch my drift. But about the Trimble episode. Words were exchanged. A full and frank exchange of views. There was a Broadcast blackout. A Testcard. "Let's just say that I walked into the Minister's office and told him that Caliban might have been easy for the colonial imagination to pacify, but we would be a harder job." Well done, David. David tells me that Anita O'Day is going for fifteen quid. That makes me feel like Mervyn Day, let alone Melvyn Bragg. WHAT'S THE POINTSMAN? Pynchon update has been held over due to lack of progress. A clue arrives from that beautiful undiscovered valley region, My Editor. - It's all on the first page of the book, quoth she: 'not a disentanglement, but a progressive knotting into...'. I am discouraged. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Ken Chu kick it? Yes you can.
by Sam Walton 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

...okay, fair enough. Crap subject line. But in the words of the mighty Super Furry Animals, "Happiness Is A Worn Pun". Hello all. Its been a while since my last offering. I havent really done anything much in that time, which probably explains my absence. I think I might have enough Content to post now. So here come some random ramblings I was listening to 1977 by Ash the other day, after Amy commented about seeing them at T In The Park. However, I can no longer listen to the sixth track without hearing the following lyrics: >>Ken Chu you do what you do to me >>I havent been the same since my teenage lobotomy >>etc etc etc Perhaps Im just developing an unhealthy obsession with the man himself. Maybe. Answers on an e-card to the usual address. I love it when people say umwell Ive run out of things to say now, so Ill shut up, and then spend a paragraph detailing exactly how theyre going to go about the act of shutting up. Im not being sarcastic either, I really love it. It makes me SMILE. A while back (in my last post actually), I wondered whether B&S were any good any more etc, and after much self-debate Ive come to the conclusion that actually theyre still fab. I wasnt feeling too good recently and so Tigermilk came out and I played it quite loudly and waited for the music to ooze and wash around me and seep into every pore in my body. And it did, and it made me feel better for the 40-odd minutes whilst it was playing, so thank the Lord. Miraculous Technique is also truly gorgeous, so Ive been going through something of a B&S renaissance recently. Thank you David White for putting all of the Black Session on your site. I now have it in its entirety, and it, too, is marvellous. Anybody else madly in love with Pulp? I am, and am now the proud owner of a promotional white label twelve inch thingy of their new song, Sunrise, which is A Very Good Song Indeed. I love Pulp.As I said in a previous post, the new Beta Band LP is fanTAStic. Hopefully the new SFA will be equally blinding. Does it strike anybody else as slightly odd that B&S have a badge and a t-shirt that says BSPD on it? Presumably this stands for Belle & Sebastian Police Department, but it dont understand the link between the, ahem, pigs, and the loveable indie scamps whom we all love. Id understand if fans of Dr Dre sported a badge of NWAPD on their cardigans. Because that would make sense. Irony. About 2 months ago, Eric The Half A Bee decided to change his name from Eric to Eric The Half A Bee, so that he was more memorable on the list when people met him at picnics. I think this is a Good Idea, so Im gonna rip off Rachel Playforth, and simply swap the first two letters of my name. So, hugs to all, Asm.x _________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I cuffed my car
by Ken Chu 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Hello, Laura Llew said: >>Is the NME really qualified to make such diagnosis as calling us a "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans"?<< Evidently some psycho-fans are more lucky then others.. then she said: >>I Love My Car You go through 160,000 miles with a car, you love it, you care for it, you lovingly call it Hubris because never before has a car had a brighter shine or a engine that purred as sweetly..... Then on a hot sultry day in South Carolina it decides it doesn't love you anymore. << Aren't cars great? I have had a few days of fun packed advanture with my car myself, which involved: 1) Parking it in a car park at night, went to the pub and got back finding out that the car park was locked, and thus had to wait an hour and a half for a taxi (which, is a long time as we all know) 2) Promised by a friend to give me a lift at 9:30am the next day to get the car back, woke up and friend never arrived, who phoned me at um 12:30 saying sorry he had a hangover. 3) Eventually got back to the car at 3. 4) On the way back home a woman tried to take me off the road with a Michael Schumacher type manoeuvre, and almost killed me. 5) On the same journey back home, one of the tyres got punctured. 6) On the way to the pit stop I exceeded the 75mph limit and got a 10 seconds stop-go penalty. ok I made number 6 up, but BLUDDY HELL. I thought I loved my car but I might start loving big 18 wheeler trucks instead. Actually I won't cos that's 14 more wheels to get a puncture on. Christian V. Pampinella said: >>But what's not interesting about Jonathan and David? Its almost a love story (which I find odd, since it is in the BIBLE after all). I think knowing the story makes the lyrics for the song more interesting. BTW, is that Stevie on the cover with the hair, and is it the same boy (Stevie) from the Albanian Steel Beds/Arab Strap poster?<< The boy on the cover with the hair is (it says inside the booklet thing) Bobby Kildea (Belfast Bob). I must confess that I thought he on that cover was a girl for a long while. Oops, and also when I was in Edinburgh I was very drunk walking down the street one night, and found a post-it note saying "I *heart* monkey jism" stuck to a lamp post so I ripped it off and stuck it to that guys chin on a Jonathan David poster on the wall, I don't know why I did it, but it seemed funny at the time. Has anyone compiled a list of who's who on B&S CD covers yet? I only know about the Jonathan David one, and the guy on the boy with the arab strap is Chris Geddes innit? Rener said: >>....and isobel said that she was a bit scared of them, especially the ones who send her their favourite childhood cuddly toys in the post. she then elucidated: <passable chirpy scottish accent> "i wouldn't mind, but ... well, some of them haven't been washed for years, and they're really *smelly*"</chirpy scottish accent>.<< I know exactly how she feels, the Red Bull Dozers regularly receive presents from fans, and one female fan sent in a head scarf, I don't know what was on it but it was really *smelly*. Maybe Belfast Bob would like to have that scarf. I've also been meaning to make T-Shirts for ages, but I can't afford any T-shirt transfers and my printer run out of ink... I was going to make one that says "CoRn" on it (with a backwards R) and a picture of a corn on a cob at the background. Not very ironic, although I saw a T-shirt the other day in the shop that said "ladies man" on it, now we're talking. Head Scarves and Red Bulls Ken P.S.: I was really bored and looked on the Internet for the etymology of the word "fuck" and found the following page http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorf.htm#fuck which may be an interesting read if you are also a bored unemployed sweet heart like me. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Greetings to all,
by Brian Svendsen 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Greetings to all, I am not one particularly known for my presence upon this list, maybe the occasional scoff about America's dwindling musical capabilities. But besides that It seems that I will have the good fortune to be in Glasgow and Edinburgh this August and was wonderiong if any body could give me the names of any good haunts, you know' bars ect...This would be rather valuable information given my high regard for drink. Thanks, Brian P.S. I must bring to point The first true Sinister is Pete Nice of the legendary late 80's /early 90's rap group Third Base ( well at least legendary where I come frome) " Now for the Prime Minister Sinister Pete Nice....." +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S for the masses
by Priscila Moura 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Hello kids I came across something in a mag a couple of weeks ago that really made me laugh and thought was worth letting you all know about. I don't suppose any of you superior minded people ever read OK magazine (neither do I, it was lying around at work, I SWEAR!). Anyway, I was tearing off the telly pages to take home when I saw this gem: "Respected indie DUO Belle& Sebastian released their new single Jonathan David...". I can't remember the rest but I wish I could because it was really quite amusing! Cool. B&S a duo. Sebastian is probably the guy who sings on most tracks and Belle is the girl with the gentle whispery voice. Makes sense, doesn't it?! Next thing you know there will be a 5 page spread with the title "BELLE AND SEBASTIAN SHOW US THEIR NEW GLASGOW HOME. The respected indie duo move to a more spacious mansion after the birth of their twins, Jonathan & David." Anyway, on the subject of picnics, I don't know if I can make Primrose Hill yet because I might have to work. I didn't go to Greenwich but did attend pre-RAH. I was the girl who went round shoving strawberries and cream down people's gobs because I naively thought that the idea behind something as caring and sharing as a picnic was to take stuff and pass it round. Imagine my surprise when people showed up with individual pre-wrapped Boots sandwiches and 200ml cartons of Ribena. If you all promise to make me feel welcome when I show up on my own on the 28th I promise I won't impose strawbs & cream! (unless you want me to and ask me nicely). I'll see if I can think of something more sinthetic and individual to take next time. Well, that's it folks! Can't think of anything else to say even though I am always brimming with ideas when I'm lying in bed on the night before I post. I should just embrace my saddo devotee mantle and get out of bed at 3 in the morning to write. All the gigs and recent events have had a curious effect on me. I used to be normal human being and listen to all sorts of music but since I joined Sinister I seem to have become completely addicted to B&S and don't bother with the rest of my record collection much. If somebody has a remedy for this terrible affliction will they please let me know? NME were right about at least one person. I have become a total sick, f***ed in the head psycho fan. And proud. Take care, children. Pris. P.S. Lyns, ta for the stuff. I was going to get in touch via my next posting but you were one step ahead of me! (clever girl) > > _________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: at work. ssh.
by Amy Jackson 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

hello im at work. so ssh. they might boot me off the computer forever and then i would be really bored. my phone is out of credit too so i cant get texts or phonecalls. which sucks. it's even very unswell. i had quite a lovely weekend. on friday me and paul helped his aunty glynis clean out a flat, then we had a fight which was all my fault cos i am a paranoid nutter. sorry paul. then on saturday to make up for it all i kicked him out of bed at lunchtime and we went into town and then to the gallery of modern art. only by the time we got there it was almost closed so we went into the dean cemetary which was really cool. it was dead (ho ho) quiet and peaceful and lovely. and they have cool mausoloeums there. then on sunday we had a wee birthday celebration for glynis cos we were late with it. her birthday was really saturday but we thought it was monday so we just decided to make it monday instead. we got her nice presents, made her dinner and paul made his special fruit salad which rawks yr maw. i *really* want to be at home right now. i want to be listening to b&s and mogwai, all sleepy and warm and stuff. instead i'm in a cold office in the most uncomfortable pair of tights you've ever seen and its all a bit crap. oh well, only 7-and-a-quarter hours to go... i have a squeezy ribena berry. amy xxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A tale of terrifying turtles
by MyMomSays＠aol.com 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Ok, I have a bone to pick... Christiaan just came into #sinister and accused me of loving turtles. Well, that is just poppycock. I do not TRUST turtles AT ALL. Christiaan, you should know this... it's written all over my face (especially with the scars and all)... Let's just say I had a BRUTAL ATTACK from a mean pet turtle... he mutilated me! It took me a very long time to even be around a turtle again. I freaked out and started crying and screaming at the zoo exhibit, even! Let's just say whenever the turtles start crossing the road and I see them squashed on the pavement I do not get sad AT ALL.. not in the LEAST. Oh, and I don't trust hamsters either.. I used to have two of them and one of them ate the other and then the other one escaped and lived under my couch for a month... when I finally captured him again I gave him away to my science teacher for dissection (Actually, no.. he just lived happily in a squat elementary school building for the rest of his years). But good riddance to that hamster, I knew they were trouble from the start. Believe you me, it was quite a shock to be 10 and walk in on your fun hamsters that you just want to put into their exercise ball so they can pee into it and run into the wall countless time, and find one of them (your FAVORITE, in fact) chewed up, guts splattered all over the walls, the other hamster licking his lips maliciously. It's so hard to trust again. So, B&S content.. I went to a party last night, brought a few CDs, and someone requested that I play "Get me away from here I'm dying". So I played it, and sang along! Sincerely, Mandee L. Wright +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "well sir, that's easy; you just take the picadilly line... to HELL!"
by eric the half a bee 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

and that'll be three pounds fifty. how are you all doing, sinisterites? well, I hope. the weather here in new york has been absolutely lovely the past week or so, which makes these long summer days much more bearable. what doesn't make them more bearable is my having not found another job yet. no one will hire me to do anything, and this is bad, as I have credit card bills from london still to pay. I still have another year of uni left, which is a Good Thing. this whole job fiasco doesn't make my post-college job aspirations seem very good. so I'll be going off to graduate work, possibly in nottingham, possibly in chicago, possibly in london... I really have no idea. all I know about nottingham was learned from robin hood, and I'm pretty sure that modern nottingham has little in common with middle ages fable nottingham. well, that and the fact that I saw a roadside for "sherwood forest" from the motorway on my way to sheffield back in february. ken's "carriage clock" parody/tribute was a small bit of brilliance. I see that a new series of "absolutely fabulous" is scheduled to air sometime this year. oh, how I wish I still lived in london. oh, did anyone catch "the dave gorman collection" on, um, bbc1 a while back? he had the most insane sideburns I've ever seen. even more insane than ken's. and I don't know what any of you who think the single version of "middle distance runner" is worse are thinking. I can't really hear any difference. maybe it's the rocks in my head. "mary jo" is perhaps the most underrated b&s song. -eric ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: One slice with butter and marmite, and one with butter and blackcurrant jam - main course and dessert
by u07lec＠abdn.ac.uk 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

Good evening..... Have finally saved up enough informtaion for a full post, sorry no real content, but in a content-related way, Priscila, your B&S stuff has been posted (finally.....sorry!) and should be winging its way London-ward now. StevePeet mentioned throwing things out; I had to throw out three years worth of NME and Kerrang, collected while I still lived with my parents, every week (except for the weeks I was on holiday, obviously, but even then we had a newsagent duty collective to keep up the supply), and after my living away from home for over three years, my parents decided that they needed the space that my magazines took up to put baskets of pot pourri or lilac bedsheets or something in. Having to go through all that stuff, all the old interviews I loved when I was 16, and the reviews and news that I had forgotten about, and then I had to choose which ones to keep, which ones were worth dragging on and off various buses over four or five hours to keep at my flat, where I don't have any room anyway. (They were all worth it, but I ended up slyly putting them behind some boxes in the loft, thus giving myself maybe another two years before the subject comes up again, by which time I will hopefully be earning lots of money, and have a huge room in my house solely for storing magazines and CDs.......). Laura Llew's comments on the NME were spot on, but I did have a fondness for it when I was 15 or 16, when that particular brand of dim sarcasm was actually funny to me. Everyone seems to be getting jobbed-up, showing the real world that B&S fans aren't all lazy smelly students (or maybe they are, and everyone is just lying). I have a new high-powered summer job at an oil company, frightening at first but actually quite good, really. Can somebody recommend any lovely new music for me?? I've been listening to bleepy highbrow electronica for a while, and I want something new now. I've read a lot about Camera Obscura here, but never actually heard any of their music, what should I buy first? The name alone makes me want to own their music. And does anyone know any reliable internet mail order for music???? Madeleine mentioned "ironic" tshirts; I have collected a few ideas for slogans for 'trendy' people and clubbers, and may start up a printing business if there's enough demand....... "quorn star" "dog is a dj" "prime genetic material" Orders to the above address.... lyns ps:re the subject line - marmite can only ever be served in conjunction with bread AND butter (except when put in gravy, which is a different scenario altogether) --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using DISS Web Mail. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/local/mailman/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: My mind is like an angry swarm of ribena berries
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

Hewwo, What would you call a group of ribena berries? a swarm? or a posse? Ribena are giving away squeezey ribena berries. If you squeeze them their eyes pop out. But not in a sick cruel way, but in a comical way. Now I'm thinking about posse girls with their beautiful perfect makeup, and their playboy bunny tops. And they stand outside topshop, or congregate in Costa's, and they talk in their perfect voices about clubbing, and film stars, and their perfect boyfriends, or they just re arrange each others hair. And when they meet each other they don't hug, but they clop over with a practised walk, just right in their heels, so that their bum wiggles just enough, and then they air-kiss each other, and say "hey babes you look gorgeous!". And they all really do. They're the girls who always get beeped. I never get beeped, except by old men and guys with Stargate SG1 bumper stickers. And whenever I walk by a group of posse girls they always giggle and whisper stuff about charity shops and the seventies are sooo over in that way that rubs it in that they're better than me, and that the world is their place and not mine. And the awful thing is, that if i wasn't such a coward about pretending and not being who i am, I'd probably pretend like them, and my clothes would be straight from a magazine, and I'd probably give anything to do it. But I'm too scared to be anything but what I am, which is a slightly odd looking kid with pointy teeth who gets beaten up a lot. Does that make sense or did it sound quite pretentious? Pretentious stuff is my new thing to not like. That and goths. Argh the art gallery (which is infested with goths). One day I swear to ribena I will burn it down. Or get a huge ghetto blaster and play B*Witched, which will make their head explode like in mars attacks only better. Ah, you might have noticed I bumped into posse girls on the bus today and got a bee in my bonnet. Or a Bob the Wasp. I was on the bus back from Glasgow because I was seeing off the Lovely Ian Hatcher who was up for the weekend. It was swell, we went to pizza hut three times in a row and the third time the waitress recognised us. And we got nearly the same thing every time which wasn't healthy. And I had a really swell time. I always do. Besides, it's always nice to walk about in glasgow with a nice looking boy, because the posse girls stare and go "how did she manage that". I'm becoming quite shallow I think. I even wore shiny girly shoes and namedropped unrealeased B&S songs and bought a JD Salinger novel called Franny and Zooey. That's not very shallow, but I think I managed to make it look shallow. Not on purpose though. I'm not a posse girl, I couldn't carry it off. There's a green wall in my room. I dont like green, so I covered it up with posters. I'm running out of room. It was all the B&S posters from the gig that did it. And they're delighfully not level and a bit creased. I like Jonathon David I've decided. When I went to see the Aislers Set at Stevie played it when he was supporting, and I thought it was ok. But the single version, with all the bouncy bits just makes me want to dance about and be happy. Only not too much in case I pull some stitches. Shrek is a good film. I'm glad of how it ended. Is Warhammer geeky? Does anyone have the words to Landslide? Ok, that's all the rubbish I have to talk about now. I'm off to bed, because I need to sleep. Hugs, Jen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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