August 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: important "indie" rantings
by Thefoxxinthesnow＠aol.com 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

hello there. for quite some time i've been a lurker, but i feel now the time is more important than ever to write, not for any particular reason other than to question the whole indie scene (thus encompassing an entire scary subculture). don't get me wrong, i listen to indie music. but if you saw me you might not think it. i work at (gasp! a corporation) banana republic, and i like my hair to look washed (because it is). i like to consider myself a purist; i don't listen to belle to belong to some strange and snobbish subculture but instead for the music, plain and simple. the indie-rock scene lacks diversity. go to any concert of any other genre and you'll find some many "types" of people, people who have joined with a similar love for music. go to an indie rock show and you'll only find indie rock people. so silly. people who will only talk to you if you look like you love the music (?!) based on my own experiences at indie rock concerts i can conclude that the indie rock scene is pretentious, fake, and breeds snobby, judgmental people. the music of the indie rock scene is supposed to contain more beauty, to have more meaning to the people who listen to it than fans of other types of non-indie music yet indie music fans can only turn and judge another person on how vintage their clothing is.... explain how that makes the indie music scene more mature and enlightened than any other. lauren +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dippin in my big toe..mm warm and fuzzy!
by Katie Balmforth 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

got a voice and no time to say anything (at work) well the quick stuff is me=Katie,Glasgow,loved em since 95 but gave tickets I had to concert in 96to an ex(niceness gone feral), mid life crisis booked in for the next week and now I must go to slog Katie _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Geezer, Butler, Soldier, Spy
by Peter Miller 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

>I agree with the geezer that anything by Hornby is >bad. But he is mistaken to imply that the Boss is bad. >Surely the Boss is the best thing in that picture. If I appeared to be biggying down Bruce Springsteen in favour of Cameo, it's because I recently bought a CD LP of Cameo and I have to convince myself that it was a good idea. I like Bruce Springsteen. Of course I do. Everybody likes Bruce Springsteen. I like that song "41 Shots" that rounded out his latest CD LP. Get killed just for living, it goes. I once borrowed a copy of "Nebraska" which was recorded by Bruce Springsteen in one of his living rooms. I objected to the fact that everyone in the songs was called Frankie. So I suppose we can safely say I didn't really listen to it properly. Bruce Springsteen *is* the best thing in that film, but that doesn't alter the fact that Cameo would have been better. Have you seen their outfits? >DON'T DO IT, KIDS > >The geezer Miller writes to big up prop his novel. I >haven't read it. Have You? I'm sorry, I was just trying to muscle in on the burgeoning Ken P. Chu market. Read Buzzwords. Or Tangents. Duke of Harringay says he ain't gonna write no more music journalism. I hope that means he'll have more time to write to us. Dear Diary, I went paddling on a gay beach yesterday. It really was quite an eye-opener, even though I tried not to look. After their stunning return to form with YOU'RE MY MATE, I'm very disappointed with the new Right Said Fred single. I knew that film Storytelling would be crap. I said all along it was going to be crap, even if I only said it in my head. Was that song over the end credits sung in English or Spanish? Didn't you make a note of the lyrics? Pah! Thank you Princess Honey for that brief glimpse of Sinister Heaven. I mean Keith and Genviève, not the film. The film sounds crap. I was thinking that perhaps a list of top songwriters is a bit like art freaks making a list of top paintbrush manufacturers. I don't always know who writes the songs. Johnstone says "I write the songs" but obviously it was Wilson, under normal circumstances. I had a look who wrote some of my favourite songs and it said Hayes/Porter a lot of the time. Sometimes it said "features an interpolation of...". I could go on, but it's not going to get any better, is it? Sister Disco +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: red pant day picnic details
by cbrown2＠mmm.com 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Afternoon kids, picnic uncle cabbage here again with details and everything about this weekend's picnic. Venue: Regents Park, if you look at the multimap link at the bottom of this post, you'll find us right where the two o's of zoo are, which is in the park but right next to the elephant enclosure of the zoo, so we'll have some cool animals to look at. Date: Saturday the 25th of August, 2 days before the Fourth birthday of sinister and also happens to be the birthday of a certain Mr S Murdoch I've been reliably informed. Meeting point: Shal we say the cinema on Camden Parkway (nearest tube = Camden) where we meet for Primrose Hill picnics? good, as that's where I'd say as well. Right there at two pm (and it's a much shorter walk than the one to Primrose hill) Attire: Anything you like, so long as you're wearing red pants, that's red, not pink, not purple but red! Bring: Bouze, Food, Footballs, Frisbees That's about it I think, there will be dancing afterwards but I'll leave it to the Kommandant to post about that. And if you have trouble finding anything (picnic related) then call me on my mobile 07951 588536. Pip pip Cabbagexx PS here is the link to Multimap: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=25000&X=530000&Y=185000&gride=… +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 dress to wear next year
by Vanessa Roseline Siegl 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Why is it, that whenever I return from a holiday people ask me whether I have recreated now and am all full of fresh energy and feeling good etc etc? Why do I have the feeling that I am meant to reply "Of course I am, yes of course I do" and mean it? The people who asked me this questions are all friends of mine and their question of course was genuine and friendly and they mean well with me... but this is exactly the type of pressure I tried to avoid during being away. I tried to feel good and enjoy things while being there and not having it in back of my mind that I would have to go back and feel recovered at the end of the 2 weeks. I did not always manage --- to feel good .... and to avoid these thoughts. But I tried. Why are we meant to do so many things with the future in mind? I still have dresses I bought because I liked them and thought I would probably get to wear them one day. Some I still haven't. They have been hanging in my cupboard for over 3 years. I won't give them away because they are beautiful .. and I might wear them one day. Maybe next year. This is not what this mail was going to be about. I meant to tell you all about Benicassim (at least the Belle and Sebastian related stuff) and leave out everything else ..... So here it goes ... I arrived in Barcelona on Wednesday 1st of August... rather tired and hungover already after having spent all night at Munich airport because the last train left my hometown at 8 pm and my flight was due at 7 am. I wasn't even on the passenger list as they had managed to book me as Mr Vanessa Roseline. (Roseline is my middle name and in the passport so it wasn't a big problem) So I got to barcelona and found out I had made a mistake and not properly booked my train ticket which meant an hour-long wait at the station there. I hated it because there were men reading porno magazines wherever I decided to sit down and I had to drag my bloody bag around everywhere I went. Then I spotted Rachel and Dimitra (I recognized Rachel and Dimitras shoes from the picnic photos on Gordons website) but was too shy to talk to them at first and only did so when they were walking past me the second time. Got on the (very much noble) train finally and landed in Benicassim about 2 hours later. Met up with Jordiet at the station (we were sharing a room with two more friends of his for the week of the festival) Olivier arrived the following day .... I think it is nice to meet people in person because it adds to the picture a lot if you hear people's accent and especially the way they laugh. :-) Belle and Sebastian were fab. This was the first time I'd get to see them and I made my way to the venue very early to ensure I'd get a place at the front (which I did very much to the left but still very much front. I took lots of pictures but sadly lost my camera much later that night) I liked most of the Spanish bands that were playing before B&S... except for the fact that the last hour I was very much in agony and had to go to "wash my hands" very urgently as I'd had a bit too much water. That did not stop me from enjoying the show, though....:-) The new songs that got played are excellent I think ... I knew some of them from the Peel session but Wandering Alone and another one (the title has slipped my mind) were new to me and very beautiful I think - I look forward to hearing them again ---- Some people stormed the stage to dance during Legal Man .. I thought of joining them but was too afraid my bladder would not make it. And I am too old for that sort of behaviour anyway ;). So this is it... a lot has been said already and there is not much new I can add and I think I will leave it at that ... v/xxxx -- honestly, normally I am not like that ... but.... http://www.clodia.f2s.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: hey you sexy little muffin you
by Sweetie Something 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

sinister "I feel like more than flesh and blood and guarantees were made to me that I can be tomorrow whatever I choose to be" Regency Buck- More Than A Man last night something happened or rather in the early hours of this morning its 8.30am this *is* the early hours to me but im talking about the early hours before you sleep not the ones you wake up to but i am feeling so incredibly happy i went to bed at 4am and read some more of my book or rather, almost all of the rest of my book its good, Nick Hornby- About A Boy. once ive done this post, ill probably finish it (must add-i enjoyed high fidelity-book and film) before i read about a boy i read Nick Revell- House Of The Spirit Levels thats a good thing, i hope i do finish it even though i always hate to see the back of a good book (dont you ever get that? when you read a great book, but you dont want to finish it for various reason-my reasons being-what if inever find a book this good again? and what if the ending ruins the entire thing? although i must admit, i dont think that the former is all the likely to happen....) because that will give me another reason to do something that something being walk down to denny that may not seem like much and i suppose it isnt but for the last few months ive barely had the motivation to get up in the morning-usually rising and greeting the day betwen 12and2pm but suddenly i have this new found motivation and it feels good i have actually done something and actually made a move on something i want to do i have given myself a reason to actually bother i suppose thats what happens when you are bored pretty much all the time for weeks on end eventually, something will happen and you'll do something then you will realise that you did something. it may not be much, but its more than you have done in long enough and its *that* that gets you going, especially when you realise that its a bit late to turn back without looking a bit foolish as i said, i went to bed at 4am and i read more of my book, but only 2 chapters or so then i tried to sleep, but after half an hour of trying i gave up i got up, made myself a cup of tea, then went back and read more of my book after reading say another chapter i heard something it was someone talking whether it was someone in the house talking or the tv-i didnt know either way it meant someone else was up-they had to be-if a tv had been left on i would have heard it earlier i got up and went into the hall, it was coming from downstairs. it was the tv. strange i thought-i didnt hear anyone get up was the book really so good that it managed to captivate all of my attention and stop me hear them walk past? i went to investigate no one was up, and the tv wasnt on-but the amp was. so thats why i could hear the tv. i still dont know why the amp was on-it hadnt been on when i went to bed-i would have heard it. strange. still cant work it out. went back to bed. before reading more i looked out and it was dark it was also wet and quite miserable next time i looked out-it was light and it was dry but the sky wasnt all grey in fact, it was quite alot not grey maybe it is going to be a nice day i felt like going for a walk-but im not feeling *that* motivated ;) i saw the postman, thats what made me want to go out then not half an hour later, i looked out again and it was raining and grey another miserable rainy day i looked up at the sky and noticed that my little blue spaces hadnt completely disappeared i thought again about the postman and how much i was glad i hadnt went for a walk this depressed me a bit and in the space of a few seconds, my refound enthusiasm faded and i remembered why i stayed in bed till mid afternoon each day and feeling much more down, i decided to read more of my book i looked at the last page to see how many more pages i had to go, not all that many i almost accidentally looked at the last few lines while i was checking the number if the last page so closed my eyes quickly and turned away and flicked back to the page i was at whilst i was reading i noticed out of the corner of my eye and through my curtains that it at least *appeared* to be getting brighter outside however, deciding that the weather had already depressed me enough for one morning-resisted the urge to look out after a few chapters i gave in and looked out it *was* brighter there was a lot more blue and white and even though the grey clouds were headed this way it made me happier-if just for a while and *that* inspired me the grey clouds cant stay there forever i came downstairs and turned my computer on leaving the curtains open next thing i know but could hardly believe it even made me utter obscenities out loud to myself sun shining in and onto my screen and although it made my screen a little harder to see, i left the curtains open its still sunny now-an hour later the grey clouds are still headed this way but at least for now the sun has even started drying the roads and the pavements it looks like the grey clouds will be here later maybe even sooner but hey who knows they might even change direction it might still end up a sunny day I've got to tell you that the future is undone sweetie xox ps psst this is it: http://msn.communities.co.uk/abetterplacetoselfdestruct not much i know but its my something, its my baby :) but she cant grow without knowledge help her grow, tell her about new (UK) bands and once she knows enough she will bloom from this pod into a nice little e-zine at least, thats the plan i'm hoping she doesnt reach an awkward adolescent stage where she thinks she is all mature and knows enough and but ends up falling flat on her face and sounding stupid... ;) i finished my book and i smiled so much. it was a brilliant book. (and i got another book Iain Grant - Small Town Antichrist) the day did get sunny and i did get my walk down to denny :) ICQ #42242252 MSN instant msngr: something_sinister(a)hotmail.com Yahoo and AOLim id: IIIsecondcreep *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Corresponding angles use first class stamps. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: <please supply one b&s lyric containing the word "holiday", "heterosexual" or french-related theme>
by honey＠missprint.org 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

[EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: we're on holiday, be good] Shouting across the offices of Miss Print Inc. this morning, Miss Print (fragrant as ever, stockings and mascara only a little run from the weekend's adventures) informed her staff that a total of 40 people on Sinister currently live in the domain ".fr", and that a total of 255 ".fr" addresses have graduated from the nursery since records began. Being a wise old bat, she pointed out that of course this is merely the tip of the iceberg where the Frenchness of Sinister is concerned, as many french sinistereens will be safely ensconced in .com's, .org's, .etc. She suggested that a mail to Sinister asking if any of the 40+ live near Saumur might just elicit a response. If anyone "fancies a pint", as Keith would say, between the 25th of August and the 3rd September near Saumur, please do get in touch in the next day or so, because we're going on hols there. Although I'd rather hope it would involve less pints and more lazy glasses of wine in pavement cafes, slingbacks idly dangling from one's toe, heart fluttering as one watches Johnny Depp in an outrageously striped t-shirt playing boules with the equally gorgeous Juliette Binoche in that film about chocolate. Well that's what it said in the brochure. If you email after Friday, include a mobile phone number I can send a text message to in the first 160 characters of your email and I might still see it, through the power of telepathy and mobile phones. This of course means I'll be away for the SINISTER FOURTH BIRTHDAY on August 27th, so I'd urge you all to treat the event with the gravity it deserves when the 27th comes around, and air kiss each other for me. "Oui Madame, les culottes roses..." For the small proportion of the rest of you *not* living near Saumur (and if you don't why don't you!), this is to say that the list will be free-wheeling for a couple of weeks, and it is therefore YOUR responsibility to BE GOOD! If I come back and find you all crying with scratch marks on your arms, stains on the carpet, broken toys in the kitchen and plasticine all over my best sofa, I will HAVE WORDS! All I can do is urge you all to think before you post, don't start telling each other what to post, and stop impersonating Tony Doogan(*). You'll have to be patient if you can't unsubscribe, or the archive breaks, or indeed the whole thing falls in a heap, but it'll just make you ridiculously grateful when I come back won't it? As I keep telling them all at work, to dubious blank stares back. PF: Cookie spun some Mr Cole at the weekend and SANG ALONG. (*) If you get a mail from MrRipley(a)ihavepms.com, it isn't Tony Doogan. Please discard. Tony is neither 23 nor works for Jeepster, so if you're thinking of impersonating him to promote your band, please do a bit more research first. Tony is a nice person who some of us know from the chatroom. You are neither. It's not nice to impersonate others and your sins will find you out. On the subject of the archives, I'm still waiting for more space to restore all four years' posts, the photos etc. It's coming, I promise. Before I go, some *weekend news*. If you go to http://www.missprint.org/sinister/sillustrations/No003.html you will see a surprisingly accurate artist's impression of absent listee "Keith" by present listee Pookie. Remarkable then that these two listees, who come from before the Jurassic Period of Sinister when we hadn't even passed our first birthday, actually met this weekend. Pookie was celebrating her 19th birthday, and Keith his 115th. Girl atomz whizzed around, thumbs were raised in the traditional greeting of "Cool! Sorted!", relative finger lengths were measured and heterosexuality scales weighed. As Carey pointed out, unlike most of us Keith came out as very very heterosexual, as Aunt Sadie knew all along: "<auntsadie> keith has a gay-o-meter reading of -12, pathologically attracted to the opposite sex". A good time was had by all, I hope. Oh and I was complimented on the quality of my Sea Breezes by someone with a PhD in Vodka Studies. Only those few who have been on the list more than three years and/or have been in the chatroom will be remotely interested in this paragraph. <FILM SPOILER ALERT> Anyway, in the course of the weekend's events in Edinburgh, we went to see the UK premiere of Storytelling, you know, the film with the B&S soundtrack, which turned out to consist of 20 seconds of The State I Am In as a prelude to a boy-on-boy blowjob (blush), 20 seconds of instrumental while running up stairs, and a rather nice song sung by Sarah(?) as the credits rolled. Oh and some plot and stuff, the kind that makes the audience laugh in an uncertain way then WHACKS them on the head with a magazine by flinging in a poignant bit to make them feel guilty and stupid. Apparently 2/3rds of the original film seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor, including most of the songs, and the remainder is, to this viewer's eyes, of limited appeal. Scooby's flares were however magnificient. Be GOOD, Honey xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: Blue pills for the morning
by jarkko frantila 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Yo. I'll keep it short and under 15 minutes, sorry: anyone out there have a copy of GYBE's All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling? If so, would you like to tape it to me? My fixation with GYBE is getting a bit out of hand, and I NEED this one. I have all the other "official" releases, but if you'd happen to have some Peel sessions and/or bootlegs by them, I'd also like to get some of those. Check out http://www.angels-gone.com . Things to wait: New album from Stina Nordenstam and A Silver Mt. Zion in september. That should get me through hell. Hopefully. -Jarkko, therapy loves company ps: I mentioned Stina, so I quess listmummy won't mind this being so short? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 'we live with elves'
by Chris Horkan 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

hi sinister! i was just saying in #sinister the other day that i didnt want to post to sinister. because i have nothing to say. but here i am nontheless :o) summers are very temporary things for me. i avoid sunlight as much as possible so im often found spending a couple of months a year tucked up in mid-scotland. i cant even take the chance that the rainclouds apparently owned by manchester city council will disperse and reveal ibiza-like cornea-burning white light. and scotland really is delivering! i havent left the house much this week and when i chanced it, a t-shirt and extra-wide flares didnt fare well in the fringe-ed embra village. new tigers were squelching under my feet and all i got to see was a (crap) photo exhibition in a foyer/reception area. not that i was prepared to pay £10 to see people (badly) juggle with fire. not that im bitter or anything. speaking of juggling, ken (who has more sense than to juggle with fire) has a webcam! so, if all the kenchurians want to see ken juggle live, i suggest you give him a mail. it sounds to me like the only thing stopping him is laziness (and maybe a power supply). pah! random surfing (told you i havent been out much) has led me to find http://www.humanforsale.com and http://www.stor.co.uk/troopers.php . the former gives an accurate value of yourself (i was worth just under $2million) and the latter lets you create an e-model of yourself with their wardrobe of bodies, clothes and accessories (bulldogs, etc). both fun wastes of time in my opinion. amazing music recently acquired: daivid kitt - the big romance prefuse 73 - vocal studies ~ uprock narratives several amazing camera obscura mp3s not so amazing music: another mp3 from audiogalaxy called "k.belle and sebastian - down a road (live)'. to save you all the ensuing excitement, its not an unheard of live rarity but just some crap. youre much better off with st ettienne's sylie :o) anyway, im being told this is a 'big email' so i better stop. damn, still cant quite *do* this whole sinister-post thing chris_t_opher ps. the subject line is from fortean tv, a bizarre post-midnight program on channel 4. i seem to be watching it every night since the summer started. ____________________________________________________________ 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: blue and alone... or something like that
by Astrid Wiezell 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Hey, Just thought I´d write one of those posts that no one cares to read. Er.. yeah, something like that. Today, my corduroy boy Tom left for Newquay for three weeks.. Iiih.. I do admit that I miss him really much although he left this morning.. He HAS promised to send a postcard, so I feel quite good anyway.. Those of you who read his last post maybe wondered what he meant with that people should write their b&s-story and send to Astrid.. First, I am Astrid, and the thing he´s talking about is my site, http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/darling which is about the fans, and why they love belle and sebastian. Why WE love belle and sebastian.. I have just started it, so It´s just four stories up at the moment, but if you lot write me I´ll put it up.. I just want to make clear that I DO NOT want stories i.e novels, I want stories about how YOU found/discovered the magical world of B&S, and how it has.. no, I just CAN´T write changed you life.. I would be just too much of a kliché.. Yesterday I went to an outdoorsconcert at Stockholms biggest entertainment park, to see a swedish rock band called bob hund.. They were ok, I´m not a really big fan, so maybe I´m not the right person to ask.. Today I´ve been in the local mall with my friend Anna and looked at stuff we want to buy (and that´s a lot, I´ll tell you that!). We also sat down for a while eating huge ice cream´s. It was dead nice, the weather was lovely today, blue sky, the sun shining, wonderful! About two hours ago, Anna, My elder sister Hedvig and my mum went into Stockholm to watch firworks. I love to watch it.. Sometimes I try to feel guilty about the air pollutions it causes.. But it was so preyy that I couldn´t think anything but "wooooooow!". It was the nicest one I´ve ever seen, I think.. Tomorrow, my semester begins (*sobsob*) and I begin the last year at my school.. This autumn as well, I have to seek into a gymnasium with the sort of education I want.. I think I´ll try seeking into a program with education in english for the forthcoming years.. I´ve had ten weeks of holiday, and I haven´t really done anything.. Well, I went to England for two days to see my sister Mikaela take her bachelor (Oooh, I was just so PROUD!) and that was so nice.. Now she has a job at a literary agency in London.. I miss her really much, but I know she´s happy there, and she has a wonderful boyfriend that can take care of her if anything happens, so I should being so paranoid.. Have to get some sleep now, since I am going up REALLY early tomorrow *sighs loudly* Love Astrid xxx _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Ring upp till 70% billigare med Spray Smart http://www.spray.se/smart/allman +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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