August 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Ease Your Feet In Southsea
by Robert Brennan 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Bloody hell. I go away for one day and EVERYONE went to Portsmouth. Well - Ken and Jen did. After shagging every available woman in Southsea (probably), Ken naturally found the only DDR machine for miles and miles (Clarence Pier DDR fans!) and visited the city's very own CHAOS which is indeed RAWK. I used to go there when I was about 19 and they've been playing Sabotage followed by Killing In The Name Of for about eight years. Jen saw the ships. There's loads of them - grate big ones with guns that you can pretend are shooting hard kids. Except they're normally crewed by grown-up hard kids which is not swell 'cos they tend to go to pubs in the city and be hard. Well done on the results by the way. My long search for shoes is over: Canvas Converse All Stars (low) are rock. Listening: Go-Betweens 'The Friends Of Rachel Worth' Reading: Love & Rockets and Jack Chick tracts Robster ____________________________________________________________ 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: giving receptionists everywhere a bad name
by elise j. spry 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Sinister: Providing quality entertainment at our respective (if not respectable) workplaces since 1997. I got into work four hours late today, but still took the time to read and reply to most of my 13 waiting emails! One has to keep one's priorities straight. I had a dream about a fox last night, and I'm not sure if that's trying to tell me something. Also, I started reading a brilliant book, it's called "45" by Bill Drummond. I know him as that guy from the KLF, but he does other things as well, apparantly. Cool things. He's really into Iceland too. My fashion forecast for fall: Corderoy, corderoy, more corderoy (did I even spell that right?) Tweed elbow patches on a leather jacket (why ruin one when you can ruin TWO perfecty good jackets?) Sparkle eye makeup, hello kitty brand, assorted colors Hats with feathers in them Tops that are too long to be shirts, too short to be dresses That is all. love, elise __________________________________________________ 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: toronto gathering
by debbie spiers 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

okay, meeting a couple of new sinister people has inspired me to attempt another meetup in our little city. i know its short notice but we're thinking of next weekend, Aug. 25/26, either day. going out to centre island sounds like fun, so possible meeting spot would be by the ferries going out there, around noon or one or two i guess. bring the usual, food, drink, blankets etc. this kind of just popped into mind, so any adjustments can be made. if people could at least mail me (offlist) to let me know if that is a good/bad weekend, that would be great. then i'll post proper details. cheers, debbie ps...should i use the resident angel blackwell as a drawing card? he'll be there of course. (won't you sweetie? course ya will!) _________________________________________________________________ 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: at least i'm a queen
by lindsey baker 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

hello sinister. in response to the somewhat desparate calls for posts, here i am again. it has been brought to my attention, as of late, that i, your very own lindsey, am a drama queen. this is a label i use infrequently myself, bestowing it upon only those truly worthy of the title, but to bear it myself, well, comes as a bit of an eye-opening surprise. it occurred to me yesterday as i was cleaning out my inbox that almost all of the emails i had exchanged with a former friend of mine were riddled with dramatic, james-ian descriptions of the smell of rain or my hatred for history assignments or my anger at his treatment of me, as were his letters. i have been missing him, as of late, you see, and i wondered yesterday whether it was actually he i missed or those big, long harangues i wrote to (and subsequently talked about with) him. i liked talking about icicles in the beginning, and i think somewhere inside, when he started to get heavily involved with drugs, i liked talking about why he did them, too. he always told me he loved me, and i always told him i didn't love him like that -- which was eventually the sticking point that drove the whole thing to pieces. so do i really want to regain that spry, curly-haired kid who used to try to kiss me, or do i just want the opportunity to refuse the kiss? funny how everyone spends their whole lives trying to figure everyone else out when the biggest enigma is the self. and i'm really no further ahead today than i was yesterday except for being wrapped in an icky sense that maybe, for a little while, i loved someone in a way he never wanted just because he made me feel as i never wanted and always hoped for at the same time. so is that using someone? maybe. but maybe it's not the worst way to be used, though even as i type that i doubt it. so i leave you now feeling like a) a drama queen (or just an addict) and b) a somewhat horrid girl. have you seen the loneliness of a middle distance runner? lindsey _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Does AuntSadie Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Matthew Henderson 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Hello one and all! Recent posts have been complaining that work is boring without sinister, and they're damn right! "They" are making me do real work now, and it's actually difficult. So instead of using Sinister as a way to pass the time, I'm using it to distract from doing what I really should be. Ahhhhh Mum. Grate CD. Beautiful. Between them, Bjork, and Sigur Ros, I think I love Iceland. I can't think of anything bad that's come from Iceland, other than that hockey coach from D2: The Mighty Ducks. not that i've ever seen that.... #sinister has also been mentioned. In my newfound boredom, I've begun to frequent it more and more. It passes the time nicely. I don't have much to say, but it's an interesting read (even though I don't know what the hell is going on half the time), and much more enjoyable than listening to Saliva or Drowning Pool on the radio. If I could, I would give my listcrush vote to AuntSadie. She's so sweet and terribly clever. I hope everyone has an ace time at the Great Lakes picnic. So what happens at American Picnics? If they play "football" in the UK, do we play baseball here? Or perhaps american football? You know the sport, it's like rugby, only wussier. shit...boss...bye -matt _________________________________________________________________ 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: CONCENTRATE!!!
by u07lec＠abdn.ac.uk 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

hello people, Is anyone else finding it difficult to concentrate on ANYTHING at the moment? Summer is great.....if you don't have to work during the day. And even if I wasn't working during the day, the weather is unbelievably crap here: it's all muggy and horrible, but without all the sunshine that usually goes along with summer. And I had to get a job with a company whose office is on the industrial estate where the sun never shines, and we're lucky if there's no haar (sp?) coming in off the sea. (anyone in Aberdeen will know exactly where I mean....). I have spent most of this morning listening to new cds on borrowed headphones at work; idleberry recommended the appendix out album 'the night is advancing', and it truly is grate. Also grate is the film I went to see last night at my friendly local arthouse cinema (or the closest aberdeen has to such a thing); it's called 'code unknown' and is a french film, it has juliette binoche in and was up for awards at cannes, so i assume it will be on fairly wide release, and I thought it was fantastic, quite frankly. My cinema partner didn't like it quite as much, he said it didn't have much of a 'theme' (he's a conceptual artist, so these things are quite important to him; I'm a science person, so I'm not fussy),and he liked shrek better, but he still agreed it was a Good Film. Go and see it if you like people-watching. Don't go and see it if you like car chases, explosions, or plots that involve somebody killing the butler, and everyone thinbking it was the cook, but then it was actually the cook's arch-enemy back from a long trip, dressed as the cook, and the cook was actually in the coal bunker, dead, all the time. (see? I could write detective novels, no problem). Content for this post is that I may be in London for the next picnic, depending on money and whether the lovely priscila can put up with me for a whole weekend. I've got several pairs of knickers in various hues packed already. Congratualtions to Jenowl on getting straight ones in her exams. And congratulations to richard's mum for making sure jenowl got to find out she got straight ones in her exams before she had to draw her pension. And no congratulations for me for successfully spelling 'congratulations'.... This may seem like a silly question so ask on sinister, but it's almost twee, so... does anyone know of any nice places to go on holiday in spain? I'm looking for something out of all the resorts, a little cottage or villa or something in the mountains, to take a week's holiday in september, so if anyone knows of anywhere, or any good travel agent-type places where i might find somewhere, please email me off-list. Any advice on which part of spain is nicest for that sort of thing would also be appreciated, as I haven't even decided that much yet. And what's happened to all the posts??? Show some consideration for those of us who have to work all day, and rely on sinister posts to entertain us!! Everyone post more, post every day, ten posts a day. Or, alternatively, avoid being thrown off sinister, and send me stuff instead. take care, lyns --------------------------------------------- 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: blow flies and mum
by Megan Conniff 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Eeek, someone send me some sinister mail, I'm practically banging my head against the side of my cubicle. You guys remember mum? The band belonging to to Fold Your Hands Child cover stars? Well, read this: Iceland pop experimentalists Múm were formed by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, and classically trained twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir. Formed in 1997, the group met while working on a children's play. Smárason found his perception of music changed through hearing Aphex Twin and decided that he would abandon the guitar-based concepts of his prior bands. This was fine and dandy with his bandmates. Following a number of singles and remixes, the full-length Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK was released in 2000 through TMT/Thule in Iceland and Tugboat in the U.K. Each of the band's four members was in their late teens when the record was released, which was hailed for its playful and imaginative use of all things musical and not so musical. 2001 saw the release of Please Smile My Noise Bleed on Morr Music, a compilation of remixes from the likes of Isan and Arovane. A second full-length was released later in the year on FatCat. - Andy Kellman, All Music Guide Sorry if that was so long that it ceased to be interesting, but I found it entertaining, and it passes the time . . . There's also pictures of them if you go to http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?oid=2042991 and their web site http://www.tugboatrecords.com/index.html?mum.html (hope those work) Thanks to everyone in #sinister last night (it was my first time), you were all very friendly (ken, aunt sadie, countless other people) until the incredible fantasy team golf thing began . . . I still have no idea what you were talking about. I'm just putting off sending this so that I don't have to stare at my empty inbox again. If I get one more phone call from a hysterical employee about the blow flies breeding in their vents and the blow flies getting caught in their hair and the blow flies falling into their coffee mugs I'm going to forward my phone to the fax machine. I can't do anything about blow flies! I don't even know what they are! Anyone know what a blow fly is and/or how to get rid of them? Apparantly the sticky paper isn't working. I don't think the govt. is going to spring for an exterminator. Are blow flies anything like mayflies (lame attempt to insert something b&s related in here)? - Megan _________________________________________________________________ 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: Newcastle Picnic - 3 days to go
by chris perriman 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

sinistaar the numbers for the 1st official newcastle pic-nic have now swelled to a mighty six but we need more (we're greedy like that). if you are anywhere near newcastle-upon-tyne this friday night and/or saturday day and can get here then please do so, we're going to have a fantastic time and we want YOU to come too! a few of us are going to see the wonderful Tompaulin on friday night and then we are all meeting up in newcastle on saturday. if you want to come then mail me off-list and i'll send you details and even a map if you need it. i'm making ginger beer 'spechially sor the occation. thanks for listening luv Pez* www.pez.com - the wonderful world of pez ;) ivorytowers.8m.com - ivory towers records www.drpez.com - Dr Pez, Spain's premier fish doctor (i think) _________________________________________________________________ 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: trigger happy under the influence
by Amy Bancroft 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

apologies, apologies - i guess between my excitement of the picnic news, the amount of coffee i've had this morning, and various other factors, i pushed 'send' by accident - its so darn close to the 'save draft' button. so you guys got a somewhat incomplete message from me. because i usually do pause before sending, believe it or not. but i'll spare you any further discussion of my verb, and hope you'll use it - or maybe you already do. anyhow, i'll save the next "exciting" topic and my friend's inventive uses for geehaw for another day when my self-imposed probation is over. ;) alrighty. blushing at her desk, (well actually its just a sunburn) amy b. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: misled for years
by Amy Bancroft 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

hey sinisters, The Great Lakes picnic has a date! I hope everyone in the vicinity and around the world too began jumping about with pure happiness at reading jim's post. I did, but it wasn't true leaping and such b/c I am here at work and I'm trying to email inconspicuously. And as I just blugeoned that word, it brings me to another subject. P F said I coined a new verb "geehaw." But I stood my ground, insisting that it was indeed a real word. And then doubt creeped in, and I thought, well maybe at least a slang word. So I asked around, and I only received odd looks. So then I thought, well maybe its southern slang, so people in Michigan wouldn't be familiar with it. So I asked my good friend Heather. She had never heard of it either, but attempted to use it in a few sentences, which I found most entertaining..... the Amy definition for GEEHAW(v)- matches up perfectly, doing so without any problems. ex. A date was finally set for the Great Lakes picnic, on September 1, a day that geehaws with most area sinsterites. And that just lovelyly segues into the next exciting topic. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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