August 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The Fury of a small furry animal
by Joe Vester 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Well, I wold like to say that I'm truly off piste about this next picnic. Every time there is a picnic, I seem to be somewhere else. Let's see: Primose Hill, 1st picnic: Not out of nursery and not really comfortable in Sinister surroundings yet RAH: At school, evil teacher gave me detention and I only got there after the doors had opened. Greenwhich, after RAH: Prior engagement for my Grandmother's birthday near Manchester which was so boring, evil of me to say but it was. B&S Day: only got back from Greece that very afternoon at about 5 and had flu. Red Knicker Day: Catching Plane from Heathrow to Ireland at 12:30. Maybe should just miss plane and pretend that there was some kind of problem like I fainted on the tube, was helped out and had lost all my memory except location, time and place of picnic. Either can have memory miraculously return as soon as picnic finishes or can live rest of life under name of Jim Anderson, or maybe something seriously simple like John Smith as would never have to spell name like do now. Vesta, honestly. Also, no-one could ever call me any of the following: Swan (Vestas) Curry-man (Vesta Curry- most revolting food on earth) Transvester Sylvester Vester, do you wear vests? (Invented when I was 6 and has been used ever since) Matchstick-boy (The humour of this one eludes me) Vestaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (a is long streched out and has been known to last for almost thirty seconds) Don't suppose I could previal upon everyone to have some kind of eleveneseseses (?) picnic? Also, have grown (upwards) out of corduroy trousers and need new pair both for school and also because I wouldn't be able to show my face on sinister without some. So, here comes the list abuse. Does anyone know a place in London where it is possible to buy a nice pair of preferably flared, black cords? SorrySorrySorrysorrysorry... B&S content: Read The Lonliness of A Long Distance Runner and liked it although I can't really see much connection with the song aside from the title. Never mind. Someone said I was like Brian from Spaced. Having never watched Spaced, did not know if this was good or bad. This was far too long but partly because there were lots of line breaks, so it's not as long as it looks, Joe P.S. If "The Dark is Rising" is the song with a big strings as the refrainy bit, I taped it off the Radio a while back and referred to it when I said I had taped the best song ever. Would have mailed you off list but did not say who you were so couldn't, if you see what I mean. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: indie dos and don'ts
by Miss Marianna Longmire 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

hey there sinistereenies, being a lazy sunday type of day with the rain pelting down outside, i've been going through some old notes and photos and stuff, and came upon this lovely little list that a friend gave a few years back. it made me laugh out loud so i thought i'd share it with you and hope that you haven't already read it (or something like it) before. indie dos: 1. Be pretentious 2. Cut some bangs 3. Continue to wash your hair, but make it seem as though you don't 4. Follow the latest craze (ie vegetarianism or parkas) 5. Collect sneakers, sneakers and more sneakers - adidas, old skool nike 6. Carry old airline bags 7. Renounce anything mainstream 8. Listen to college radio if you must listen at all. Otherwise , send all your money on cds from obscure bands that no one has ever heard of and probably never will 9. Wear a scarf, inside, outside, all the time 10. Forget you ever knew how to dance. If you must dance, reduce your repertoire to a series of jerky movement paired with a blank expression 11. Put on some flared trousers 12. Practice looking aloof in your mirror when you have some free time 13. Only watch pretentious art films. Know all the directors names 14. Always talk about bands and people in bands. Make people think you know everyone personally 15. Wear those black framed glasses, even if they make you look silly 16. In public, only drink imported beer or something pink and frothy 17. Old skool jogging suits, wear them! 18. Kiss up to important people, ignore everyone else! Indie Don'ts 1. Never wear light coloured jeans 2. Never wear a t-shirt that looks new 3. Never admit to liking a band that gets air time on radio 4. Never be openly friendly to non-indie people, unless you can prove they are cool.5. Most importantly, never date anyone that isn't as indie as you. Your date is your biggest accessory, keep that in mind. :) On a seperate note, I recently came back from my holiday in France. It was lovely. Lovlier still was when I wore my Belle and Sebastian shirt and was asked by random Frenchies if it had anything to do with the childrens tv show, and what was the point of the pink car. Sweetness. Hugs Marianna _________________________________________________________________ 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: Of trees and twigs
by Jason Andreas 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Well, Mice And Men are dull now... I think the Pinefox is just jealous because Everton are nowhere near a good team. <winks> But if he thinks Everton don't get enough mentions on the TV, he should try being a Scottish footie fan... Lawdy! Don't you just hate working weekends? There should be some sort of law against it or sommat. I could always say it's against my religion - I'm creating Andreasanity - a splinter group from just Atheism. My 10 commandments as your God are: 1)Thou shalt not make thy god work at weekends. 2)Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's P!O!P! 3)Thou shalt not suffer bland "alt-rock" like Coldplay and Starsailor 4)Thou shalt love Japanese stuff, cos it rocketh. 5)Thy wallet shall be emptied each month into the coffers of thy church (me). 6)Thou shalt have sillier names than me. 7)Thy oxen and thy ferrets must be kept down thy trousers. 8)Honey shalt be sacred food, only to be consumed when he sayeth 'please.' 9)Thou shalt adore Father Jack and all his wisdom. 10)Woulds't thou partake of toast? Of course, to join the Andreasist movement, you must make a tribute to me of a custom CD, Minidisc or cassette with cool and groovy indie-pop, or rare Radiohead stuff that I haven't got. Especially interested in their cover of Cinnamon Girl. Bow before your God, you! *zap!* *coughs* Ok, I'm getting slightly out of control. Let's return to as close to normality as I ever manage - which ain't much, as you no-doubt know. Going to see Ben Folds tomorrow night in the Liquid Rooms (if I manage to find it) with my ex. Which may or may not be cool, depending on, umm, things and stuff. On Friday, I go to see Space with that punk princess Sweetie. Which should also be fun. And I finally got my AIR tickets sorted for the Barrowlands! Hurrah!!! I wish something more had come from the Angelina Jolie thing, like nudity for example. Or "Womb Raider" - the battle to escape Isobel's thighs before they open and suck her in... Ok, I have a sick mind. I wish the Amphetameanies were playing again - I keep missing them, it's so unfair! *screams* I'll go now. I'm too too strange, duude. - Jase xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Move On Down
by P F 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

First off, congratulations to EVERTON, who recovered from a Deficit against one of my Favourite Teams. People are banging on about Michael Owen resuming Normal Service, but not about the Toffees winning away on the opening day. Footy on ITV = Dud for the simple old-fashioned reason of ADVERTS. I don't know how I'm going to stand watching the same smarmy, ironic, beautifully-shot, manipulative stuff week in week out. (NO I don't mean watching Manchester United.) I Love The 90s = somewhat Dud. Worst TV personality ever = Gina Yashere. The programme makes great capital out of Ignorance. (NO I'm not talking about reading Spurs' programme.) *** Note to my Editor: after seeing that, I *insist* urgently on my right to revise my PAPERCUTS contributions. This is Important, and Key. *** The Care Bear said: >>> Well done to Camera Obscura for the excellent Peel session, it was really lovely. If you havent heard them yet you might suck. What's THAT supposed to mean? >>> It's all about the music innit. What is? I don't know. You tell me. I have realized that the reason the geezer Miller didn't like my list was cos it didn't extend down to #76 to include his favourite, Curtains Mayfield. Curtains used to play political elegies in the back of a bus with the nipper Miller. But this time, somehow, that doesn't seem enough. 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. Miller also talked about a band called Felt. I can inform him about this band. They are very overrated. They had a very nifty guitar player who was everywhere, as Gascoigne once said of Remi Moses (he said more than that). But the axeman was always getting terribly let down by his singer who mumbled very average words over the top, and spoiled everything. The facts are not savoury, I know, but there they are. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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: Latex Lobotomy.
by David Clark. 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

I was hunting around at Animation Express, and found this little flick, with a subliminal soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian, check it out. http://hotwired.lycos.com/animation/collection/scott_bateman/latex_lobotomy/ Unfortunately (or otherwise) I have nothing more to say to you people, except that maybe there is something inherently dodgy in this compulsive need some of us have to write lists of ultimate songsters, as ultimately they end up as more of an exercise in posturing than anything else. You know the drill, " my taste is not only diverse but also exclusive, here are the thirteen most obvious choices and here are a few from the left field and to stir the porridge here is one that I made up". It just seems so flawed. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: that ginger beer really has a kick to it, i can still taste it now
by chris perriman 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

newcastle sinister meeting in parks and pubs honey was absent home made ginger beer sandwiches and bad haircuts free juke box was nice which powerpuff girl do you all fancy the most? we think the brunette narrow pool wizard beats off all comers like the ghost of jimmy white sorry about the drunken post last night, mike is not that short at all hope you all enjoy who CarsmileSteve is bringing to the london meet (but i'll let him tell you who it is) is five syllables then seven then five of them the haiku structure? ken chu ken chu chu chu chu ken chu ken chu chu chu chu ken ken chu Pez* _________________________________________________________________ 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: Dont give up your dayjob...just be content with your lot...empty your head of those big ideas....
by Desmond Torpey 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

good day... hmmmm...i'm increasingly forgetting how to post these days...everything comes out as a jumble..not that it didnt before..i would say that it was the sun getting to me but..well...perhaps its the abscence of stereo thats addled my brain...i've been forced to listen to a crackly old tape deck with hazardous wiring for the last week or so..not having made myself any new tapes for quite some time also means that i've been digging out old recordings from third division britpop bands of years past...some do still hold certain charms though...again, perhaps the heat has addled my brain, but the supernaturals seem to have burrowed their way back into my head..i'm even tempted to go out and re-purchase albums i sold ever such a long time ago to fund some stupidness or other...where to draw the line though? is Space perhaps a step too far?...hmmmm... ...so are there any more details emerging of this second single/EP then?..i was under the impression that there would be two releases, one at the start and one at the end of the summer...the days are already slipping past and of course i havent done a lot with this summer...things just vanish before you've had a chance to think about them or what you're doing...i now find myself working full time in telesales...seven hours a day of being told to 'sod off we dont want any free books'...lord only knows how i ended up here...now i have to try and find my way out...i never realised quite how much fun full-time work wasnt...i'll have more money than sense of course but when it comes down to it...i'd rather have more time than i knew what to do with that more cash than i knew what to do with...hours and hours just pissed away trying to sell things that people dont need or dont want...i've been employed for precisely three days and its already beggining to erode my brain and soul...i was eighteen about two weeks ago and responsibility has me running scared...its such a well worn cliche but i sincerely do wish i was young forever...to get back just a tiny bit of the innoncence and entirely unblinkered view of the world i used to have ten years ago...to be able to run around yelling my head off in the streets with nobody calling the police...to roll around in muddy puddles or just sit in the middle of town and cry my eyes out...but no...its all about appearances and what i should be doing..its all about holding down my steady job selling memberships to video clubs...i dont think i like being grown up...does anyone?...oh lord this didnt mean to turn out so depressing...i'm just rambling in a protracted and tedious way...i'm sure this has all been said before...even my quite nice exam results didnt seem to cheer me up...things like that never have really...they just seem to be...letters..i dont feel i paticularly deserve them or even paticularly want them...that sounds terribly selfish and stupid i know but i've always had a kind of 'hmmmmm so what' attitude to being educated...people always tend to educate themselves through experience anyhow...it was just an excuse to get a bit tipsy i suppose...hmmmmm..i've gone on too long and been completely miserable...another succesful post :) ta ta... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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: As WC Fields would say - I'd rather be here than Philadelphia
by Laura Llew 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

I just met the first person I have ever known who also likes the group formally known as Smog (now remember I've never met another b&s fan so such things are completely rare for me). I am so utterly DISAPPOINTED. He's recently married and his wife ended up taking her last name, squeezing a hyphen in the middle, and then attaching his sur name as the caboose to her concocted train of a name. I suppose this quite normal, except for he did the same thing so now their last names match in some odd lopsided fashion. His name is William Bird so I suppose I might want to change my name too if I had gone my entire life as a Bird, Bill but still there's something a smidge saddening about the whole process. If everyone who likes the same musical groups as I do is going to be such a let down, forget me going to any Sinister picnics. Pffft. Of course, I don't know about Sinister anymore. The Angeline Jolie thing wasn't so much of a shock to my system as finding out that Honey reads the SUN. Not that I'm at all familiar with Scotland's newspapers but I'm having rather delicious thoughts of Honey all curled up with a tabloid reading about royalty flitting around half naked on Jet Skis. Tell me, Honey, is there any update about the treasure map they discovered in the ladies' varicose veins? Then there was the much talked about the post from Dazzling Dimitra who said, "I was in a church the day before yesterday, and people where chanting and praying at it felt great, so I tried to pray too, and I realised the only words that were strong enough inside me were lyrics. I found myself singing Fox In The Snow. Someone said that I was singing it to god -and that if he was listening he must have loved it." If I were God (and really - who is to say I'm not), I don't think I would approve. Or rather I think I would if you'd let me make requests. Perhaps a nudge for a little "If You're Feeling Sinister". I'm sure the vicar, or whatever, would really love that one. Fox in the Snow though isn't nearly spicy enough for my choir boy tastes. However, I just discovered while visiting http://www.fineran.demon.co.uk/basrefs/lit.htm yesterday that in Virginia Woolf's book "Orlando" the Russian Princess lover chic is referred to as being "like a fox in the snow" twice. The complete list of books and authors which B&S refer to amounts to fifteen. I've been trying to decide for an appropriate prize for the winner of the TRANSATLANTIC MIX TAPE CHALLENGE (which is still underway) and this site gave me an idea. In addition to the unadulterated envy and admiration of all of Sinister, I can also send the winner of the illustrious best mix tape in the world challenge a set of books to which B&S refer to in their songs (providing I can find them). Sexpot Sauer has already said that I am SUCH a book geek but I can't help it - so the following books will be in the set: 'Belle Et Sebastien' by Madame Cecile Aubry Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving The Trial by Franz Kafka Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Bible - King James Version John Polkinghorne's "Reason and Reality : The Relationship Between Science and Theology Salinger's Catcher In The Rye Kerouac's On The Road though I might get feisty and send you his Book of Dreams instead because I got two copies free Mark Twain - My favorite of his which is The Diaries of Adam & Eve Dostoevsky - I don't know which of his I'll send yet. I'm quite fond of Notes From The Underground Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (which is responsible for "Sleep The Clock Around"). Though his Screwtape Letters is my personal favorite of his. I met someone off the Mere Lewis mailing list which was Oooh scary. Too religious for the likes of heathen me. Captain Courageous by Kipling (Another Sleep The Clock Around contributor) Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal That's a rather substantial parting gift if I do say so myself (though quite a deal smaller than putting every book on the Literary List on there) so perhaps this shall spur even more people to compete though I have my hands for at the moment. At the moment I am enjoying very lovely entries and wondering if I have gotten myself into a torrid mess by falling in love with mix tape makers whom I've never met. Mike Winship includes the BEST Simpsons' and Twin Peaks' quoteage - Dahling's tape is my heartbreak find - my favorite Virgin-ahhh-an, Jenny Payne, does beautiful blue artwork - Jay's tape is like himself, completely perfect, and Peter's is a political statement of a masterpiece. There are a few which have yet to be listened to. I think that Dorothy Parker is a glaring omission from Stuart Murdoch's allusion list. Perhaps someone should alert him of this - I'll try to remember it the next time he is making a cameo appearance in my bedroom. Of course, some others on the list might complain as to the absence of Jane Austen. An editor among editors elaborated, "You see, Austen can be credited with not only developing the style of dialogue known as indirect discourse, but with the very genre of the novel itself. Furthermore, she wrote with great wit and irony about the great political topics of her day, all the while cloaked as mere gossip about men with big inheritances." I've never read any Jane Austen but I've read Mark Twain quotes referring to Jane Austen: "Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book." "I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death." "I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shinbone." You can't blame Mark Twain - he hadn't had the nightmare of reading Nick Hornby (hehehe*). Sorry for the length of this post. No matter what your girlfriend whispers in the dark of the night, size does matter. I'm no Mark Twain but I might be as sad as Dostoevsky, Laura *That was written precisely to incense Jay PS- Madeline, Kitty Collars? Next thing I know you'll have been telling me what you heard the wise Bob Barker say about spaying and neutering. _________________________________________________________________ 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: If You'll be Be My Enemy
by P F 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

ALLY62 I have been chucking away bits of paper and writing poetry about it. ITV have got the footy. Are you worried? GENIUS MANQUE The BBC are retaliating with the 1990s not featuring Chris Waddle. FLAME WAR The geezer Miller has stolen my CAPITALS in his latest offensive bit of rudeness. DON'T DO IT, KIDS The geezer Miller writes to big up prop his novel. I haven�t read it. Have You? HOW DARE HE? The geezer Miller said that my list was a headscratcher. Basically he was looking to have a go at me. It�s all very well, but it�s better than His list. I haven't seen that one. I don't need to. I'M ON FLAME He knocked the Boss as well. Bad idea. IT'S UP TO YOU The geezer Miller said all his favourite listees had left the list. My response comes in multiple choice format: 1. I agree � oh, I agree, believe me. 2. Come here and say that, you fruit basket. Take your pick. CRISE DE VERS David Moore wrote a poem about aeroplanes but it is Secret and only I, like Yeats reading Pater, have seen it. SHE'S IN FASHION The former shop assistant nowadays known as The Care Bear wrote in to sinister. That was an event. I didn�t understand what she had to say, though. Perhaps she could be more lucid next time, like what I am. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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: Will i ever be windowdressing?
by jo perry 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

Congratulations, you have been selected to take part in an online quiz that could win you a lifetime supply of Green Jelly. Not only do you get the jelly, you also have it fed to you by a man protesting that he is the real Rod Hull. (Please take a moment to remember the precious children's entertainer) The quiz refers to my subject line. In Family Tree there is the line about "dummies in the window" and it has got me thinking. Being not the most asthetically pleasing person working in North London suburbia i realise just how many pretty people there are strolling around. They embody the "cool" i longed for in my not so distant school uniform days. I believed that i would be like them eventually, perusing fashion magazines and filling my head with false ideals. I refer to these people as mannequins now, because it makes me feel better. Therefore the winner of the quiz will be the individual who can answer my subject poser. Reading this back i sound wan and whistful and perhaps slightly listless. As i am still trying to be the me i think i am. Audrey Hepburn has replaced the trendies, posing an even greater challenge, asking me to be a lady and buy a nice lipstick. Though this time i love her for it. Choose your icons with care, as it is difficult to resent an image of someone you wanted to be. A charade. JoJo. ____________________________________________________________ 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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