August 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: sinister:the girl with the red shirt...
by {USER_FIRSTNAME} {USER_LASTNAME} 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

I don't post often [or at all]. But when I do, its usually about some wonderful person I met that day. And today was no exception [before we go on...notice the 2 sentences that started with coordinating conjunctions, HA! only an English tutor will find that funny...] I met a girl today, her name's Christina, and she's a self professed B&S fan [yay!] (of course, if she is on this list my red will turn the color of an apple, and not those granny ones). But not only that, she is one of the coolest people I've had the pleasure of meeting in a long time. She dresses like a goddess; meaning that she can wear things NO ONE else can, and look fabulous in them. Today, she had on a red dress shirt, some charcoal pants, and wonderful lime green shoes. Her hair to is something that the ugly curly mop on the top of my head could never be. She sits in front of me in my "film making" class [which it isn't, but that's another post]. Anyway, just another post about another girl who I'll never have the guts to have a conversation with [anyone who said shyness is cute obviously isn't shy, else they wouldn't have said such nonsense]. sorry to waste your time, but I typed all that, I'm not going to hit the delete key a hundred times when you can just once, so get to it, hit the delete key for me because I'm too much of a lazy guy to do it for you. Jason - we got heads on sticks - Radiohead Kid A +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: somewhere not here
by Michelle R. 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

how are you you know that feeling you get when you are somewhere, but all of a sudden you feel like you are in another time or country? Not deja-vu, because that would mean you have been to that place before. Well I guess it could be deja-vu, if you've been there in a past life. I'm confusing you aren't I...hmm. Well that is a great feeling. Last night driving I all of a sudden felt I was in Tokyo. Not that I've ever been there, but just had a feeling based on what I *think* it's like. Only happens regarding places you'd like to go to. This also usually happens to me at night for some reason. Listening to certain songs can do that to you. Ie. when listening to "like dylan in the movies," I get the feeling I'm in some snowy place, especially towards the end of the track. Same thing with Broadcast...I get the impression I'm in Europe on a cloudy day. It's nice..kind of a vacation in your sub conscience people have been talkin' (ok like me and 1 person) about fall. In the spirit of this, here's a bit of Akhmatova Let any, who will, still bask in the south On the paradisal sand, It's northerly here-and this year of the north Autumn will be my friend (1957) Did you ever see 'Lovers of the Arctic Circle'.... really nice movie that screams autumn/winter. That and "O Brother Where Art Thou," the scenery is purty. So that's another thing to check out to get ya'll in the mood. So if you saw Aerosmith in San Diego recently, chances are you might have seen my aunt. You see, she practices the lost art of bumrushing the stage. She rushed the stage with a couple other people and, eyewitnesses say, she grabbed onto Stephen (Steven?) Tyler's leg as he said 'get her off of me!' Now, I've bumrushed 2 stages in my life (in once case they were inviting people to do so), but nothing as big as Aerosmith though. I think it's a dying art really. Save the bumrush. Can I just say, I thoroughly enjoyed Perriman's post. I'm down with anyone using the "on a scale of 1-10" rating system. And yeah, Miss Chan Marshall is lovely etc etc, but I hear she's crazynuts live. I commend Marikka 110% for going to Mongolia. Take lots of pictures. xx michelle mitten xx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.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: A Half-Life Disappears Today
by P F 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Some mails to sinister have been awful long lately. I thought I would do the same, just to make sure that Captain Marvel doesn't read my post. That would never do. It insults him several times, for one thing. For once, though not for the first time, I intend to spend a mail (and I mean Spend - this stuff's expensive) 'replying' to what people have said. I was surprised to see the mysterious 'Astrid' informing us that she was going to write a 'boring' post. I'd thought her incapable of such a thing. And I still do. Don't I? In the event it was so exciting, I received it twice. 'Astrid' mentioned that she was thinking of getting Chu stickers and the like. This feels like one of the worst ideas I have seen in a lifetime of bad ideas. If you can't see why, perhaps you will someday. After a conversation on licensed premises the other night, I was practically, though not theoretically, touched by the mail from Desmond, who followed great chunks of text by thanking my editor for showing him the way home. Yes - touched. I like the name 'Desmond' too. Where did you get it? The Kids these days are so young that they could probably be named after Desmond Lynam. There's a thought. Another is that Desmond must mean 'of the world[s]' or something thereabouts. I noted a poignancy in the way that the farewell from Stout was swiftly followed by one from Narrow. These farewells I find sad: I always cry at, etc. (Content.) Not many beat that of my editor, which I remember to this day. Sabre-tooth tigers and Emile Heskey, mes braves, that kind of thing. See, I remember it to this day, though not yesterday. Stout's and Narrow's could hardly be in that class, but they still bore the innate poignancy of the form. I feel that they will be back. Possibly it will take that ace footballer geezer 'Ben Apps' to run off and drag them back, as he seems to have a yen to do. Lllaura Lllew posted about bookshops. The best bookshops are ones that charge a pound per book, of course. I took my editor in one once, and he found the very book he was looking for. This is true, though it's so improbable I almost think it isn't. It's a good thing I missed that fabulous picnic. This Radio1 lass might have asked me, the pinefox, about Belle&Sebastian, and then where would her 'fans' programme have been? Having missed the picnic, I managed to get to a different park the other day. Water pistols in Knightsbridge, as Joe Strummer used to say in an early draft. I was knocked backwards by the fantastic (I use the word in his 'fantasy' sense) opulence of the district; or if you prefer, the vicinity. I avoided falling into the path of a passing taxi, though, and spent a long time seeking the kids on the grass. It was very Henry Green, tr�s Liz Bowen. I saw a motorbike helmet, which turned out to be wearing Mark Casarotto. I digest, I mean, digress. I also saw the film THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST the other day. Why, asks David Thomson, is there only the one film? He's a point. He praised Dorothy Tutin, who was indeed a succulent gamine; but I still think that the palm for ingenuity and intrigue must go to Joan Greenwood for the way her voice suggested silliness and understanding (a very Wildean combination, maybe) at once. Look, I have found this about her on the www: >>> It was the voice that set her apart. Husky, plummy, sexy. It cut through her essential gentility and made her seem like a woman of the world even when she was playing it innocent. In one of the most memorable cinema quotes, Karel Reisz described her speaking her lines "as if she dimly suspected some hidden menace in them which she can't quite identify". >>> It also says, >>> With glowing skin and cheek-bones to die for, she photographed beautifully. Unlike many beautiful actresses she could deliver wonderful performances. >>> Cor! After watching the film I had to listen to 'Frankly, Mr Shankly' and try to make the connections. I felt it was an Event when Alasdair96 posted the other day. His post was right next to Llew's, too - a double event. I feel that the timehas arrived when I must reply to him. >>> Happy birthday Sinister! It is today isn't it? I don't know. Who says? >>> My girlfriend told me to write this. She also told me to write that she told me to write this. She told me that you were not into vegetables. But she didn't tell me to write it. >>> I particularly liked the one that mentioned Ken Chu, however the person who sent it seemed to make an error, as it appeared 131 times in my inbox. Devastating. >>> I jest. I always fill in the address last. So do I. I haven't written it yet. What is it anyway? >>> Sometimes I don't even know the address. No. But I know your address. I also know an REM song that says 'Here's my new address'. Is it 'Letter Never Sent'? I like that bridge. We should talk more about old, good REM songs. Like 'Little America' or - darn it, I cannot remember the name of the one I want to mention. Something about a canyon? >>> LLOYD PORTER This reminds me - I have often thought that my ideal pop personality, whom I still await, would be the offspring of the producer of 'Sheila Take A Bow' and the author of 'Anything Goes'. With a genetic inheritance like that, she could even be named after Michael Jackson's sister and still be guid, though not necessarily good. >>> It's at this point that I start to flag. Union blues. Now, what is Cookie96 saying here? Something about Scotland? >>> City. Please don't cry. Something about Kevin Keegan? >>> one might imagine there to be something rather sexy about see-through corduroy pants, but there really isn't. // And she's so wrong. I fear, however, that it is too late. She is? I think she might be. But why is it too late? And for whom? >>> What bits of paper? Bits of paper that I had written on; or printouts of things that I had typed; or old newsprint; and especially, many many pages of the old inky music press. It's all gone. >>> 62? You're over my head again, mon. Geezer. MOTD Year 00, perhaps? I dinnae ken. Could it be that even Chu dinnae Ken? This is in fact easy: Ally McCoist was born in 1962. October, I think. >>> I'm afraid most of the time, being a Belle and Sebastian fan. You sound like Tom Ewing, mon. >>> I've just completed my life's work, btw. And still I haven't included everything I wanted to. Oh well. It comes in two parts. You have to have the first to understand the second, perhaps, and the other way round. It's all linked, see? It could be called something silly like Secrets Of The Heart. That would be the sub-heading. The real heading would be 1995-2001, The Best Of... I have only just realized what this means. For a while back there I thought I was going to have to write something about you writing your autobiography, or whether you really think you only have another 22 years to go. I think I started to think your mail was a bit spoky, which is the name of the Velocity Girl's dog. Now I think it must be something else. >>> I've just filled in the address. It's going to Maryhill. Now I understand this too - or do I? Jeez - so much for replying 'in public'. Is it true that Calumn Shearer is going to whales? I think he should "delurk" and tell us. A while back I wanted to reply to Peter Miller, but he started talking about paintbrushes and intimidating me. I don't know much about the brush, save that it never figured on old TV show Brush Strokes. I still go by what my old Italian painter-decorator tutor, Signor Duluxoroni, told me: - You gotta rolla with it, you a-gotta no problem. __________________________________________________ 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: So i need advice to find a boy.
by ILIVErug＠aol.com 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Oh yes. My cheesiness. So im in starbucks with my friends... and the best boy walks in. hes the best boy ive ever seen in my life. nerd glasses. tall. pale. skinny. sideburns. i couldve melted... right there. i threw a complete hissy fight. what was even worse... he was wearing a radiohead t-shirt. Aw man! THERES NEVER A GOOD BOY IN MY AREA... and i see one, and hes with his MOM! ARGHARGHA! im not gonna approach him when hes with his mom... or ever! im too shy. he was too yummylicious. and i have to find him. oh god yes, i will find this boy. but i dont know HOW!!! ARHARGHAGR! the thing is... he can be from my town... and be new to the area... and maybe ill see him in school and well fall in love and ill live happily ever after. or maybe hes from a different town which gives me no chance:(. aw man... this boy was PURR-FECT FOR ME! MEEEEOW! so what do i do? lol, post flyers in the town looking for him? ah life sucks yes yes vicky +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The case of the runaway thread rumbles on...
by Gardiner, Stuart 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Idles explained to the assembled throng what she'd managed to piece together so far. "It seems the scmindie case all came to light when Honey disappeared. Then I found out that Murdoch was about to run off to Rio; and now Robin has been taken away as well. Maybe he got too close to the truth - who knows. Looks like we'll never find out now - I'll be suprised if we see him alive again." A gasp of horror came from all in the room, except Murdoch, who remained eerily quiet. "Photojenni - you'd better watch out, you're next on the list. That message you got from Miss Crush - that's just a sham. They try to entice people to a secret rendezvous point, then Blam!, they hit you on the back of the head, and you wake up in a car crusher. They've got loads of people already. I remember when Keith Watson used to get loads of messages from this Miss Crush, and he's not been heard of for ages." "But who's behind it all?" asked the ugly dame, wishing the narrator would stop arsing around and just get to the bloody point. "Well, I've got some ideas." The assembled cast groaned, because they'd been wishing someone would tell them once and for all so they could all go off and be smutty together. "I don't think the evil Chu is the evil mastermind he likes to portray himself as. He's not the one pulling the strings. Otherwise he wouldn't have dared go to the gang's recruitment meeting in London on Saturday. You've got to make sure you don't end up going to one of those, they'll brainwash you, and before you know it you've been dragged along to their initiation ceremony - Tigermilking I think it's called - and you'll never be normal again." "Anyway, as I've been investigating, I've kept coming across the same code letters - B&S. Well, I think I've cracked it - it stands for Buggery and Sodomy. There's a big paedophilia ring going on, and I think that man is behind it." She slowly raised her hand, and pointed at... ...Murdoch. He jumped up, protesting. "It's not true! I swear, I didn't do anything!" "Go on then, defend yourself!" Sunset snarled. "Look, I'm perfectly innocent. B&S stands for Belle and Sebastian. We're a pop group." "What, named after a crap French cartoon?" queried Idles. "We haven't got time to go into that now. Someone's life might be in danger!" Idles gave him a withering stare. "Why don't you just tell us everything, from the start." Murdoch started sobbing. "Everything was going so well. The band were getting good, we'd even started practicing for a change. But then one member - let's call him Stuart David, because that's his name - got upset. It turns out this Canadian gal had dumped him, and she was making moves on me. Boy, she was hot. I can see why he was upset. But he just flew off the handle, and walked out, swearing revenge on us all. "We didn't believe him at first - how can you be scared of anyone who just goes round shouting 'pish' all the time? But he started getting serious. When we got somebody in to replace him, we had to pretend she was a boy - Bob, I think we called her - to protect her. Then there was the incident on the beach, but let's not get into that. Now, he's getting really mad - he's started going for our fans." "What, people actually like that twee crap you sing?" interrupted the ugly dame. "Shut up, toots," said Idles, who was feeling very embarrassed about getting the whole thing completely wrong. That is, if this Murdoch fellow was to be believed - still, he sounded pretty convincing. She decided to hear him out. "He needed some way to get to them, but first he had to get Honey out of the way. That was alarmingly easy - he just had to tell her there was a perfume sale going on in France. Then he got down to his dirty business. Sure, some people tried to escape his clutches. Sam changed his name to Asm. Rachel went even further - she got a sex change operation and started calling herself 'Archel'." The ugly dame cringed at the realisation that the gorgeous bloke she'd been with the other night wasn't all he was cracked up to be. "But a few people haven't escaped his clutches, as he goes on his evil plan to take over the minds of the fans, and persuade them to buy his pathetic excuse of a book. "That's all I know, we'll have to find him quick before he gets anyone else. I'll drive, I've got this great new car..." "But how will we find him?" asked V bird, casually stroking her hamster. "Last I heard, he was living at 10 Roddington Place. Let's go!" But Idles wasn't having any of it. "Why should we believe you? You're still the same person with an account at the sex-toy shop, you've even written a song about it. And we've heard what you do to people with your carriage clock." Murdoch implored her. "I implore you" he said. "I don't trust you. Who knows where you'll take us in that car of yours?" "Look, Idles, if you come with me, I'll give you a snog." "Oh, OK then, let's go!" And so, our intrepid investigators headed out into the night, not knowing what dangers awaited them... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: too bored to die.
by Astrid Wiezell 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hi there, I just thought I´d write a very boring post since I don´t have anything to do. I´ve had a really boring day, I´ve just been annoyed at everyone, been for myself and very antisocial. Haven´t a clue why, but some days I´m like that.. My friend Anna is just so terrible. I know it´s strong words, but I kind of HATE her! She´s been copying everything I do for about three years, and I haven´t been able to discuss it with her yet! And still, it annoys me every-fuckin-day.. I wanted to kill her today. And you should remember that I am one of those persons who feels really bad if she kills a bug by mistake or something. She just.. takes everything that makes me me. I started to play the guitar - now she´s going to play guitar. I bought apair of corduroy flares - and suddenly, her whole world was about getting as many corduroy flares as she could find. I mention a quite good band - she will have all their records at the end of the day. And worst of all, she is a spoiled little BRAT who gets anything she wants, i.e she can buy anything she knows I want to but just snapping her fingers. Grrr... Anyone know what to do? Really tell her off and then having a terrible schoollife for the rest of this year (and half of the next one)? In art class today, I had such a good time! We get to make record-covers, we can do EP, CD or LP. I chose cd, and I know it´s a bit boring, but.. ehm.. Well since I am going to make like a nice sleeve and all that I think it´s best to make it a CD-cover. It´s going to be an (imaginary) compilation with really good belle and sebastian songs on it. I am actually going to burn the cd with abit of help form my computer, so that my art teacher gets impressed. The cover however, shows a girl putting up a belle and sebatian poster on a wall, and on her backpack she has like these little badges, one which says "Sinisteree". It´s going to be very nice. The inside of the sleeve will have the story of how the band formed etc, and I WILL have a thank you-list as well, hee hee. It will be dead nice, it will. I am thinking of drawing a sticker on the girl´s backpack which says "I luv Ken Chu" (replace the luv with a heart and you get the picture) but I don´t know. What do you think? Still. Visit my B&S-site NOW: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/darling yeah? Luv, 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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Sinister: 11: Thou shalt not suffer a bookshop girl to live (or at least not flirt with her overmuch)
by Will Porter 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Kirsten has a story about a Katie. Katies are potent indeed. I myself have been known to fall under their spell and lose at least one or two of my senses for days at a time, which results in my bumping into a lot of things. The attention of a Katie is liable to take the legs right out from under you, if you're not careful. Someone was talking away about something or other and said something about Will, which I naturally assumed to be about me, only it wasn't at all, because it was in fact about that Salt fellow and too busy being about him to be at all about me. I have decided that there are too many Wills here, so the others will have to go. You can change your names and come back, if you'd like, but ths is too confusing for me. I knew you'd understand. Someone else asked where all the New York sinisterites are. We're right here, sweetie. We had a big fucking picnic about a month ago. The question is not where are we, rather "where are you?" And the answer appears to be "New Jersey," which isn't New York at all, now is it? (The author has nothing against New Jersey and is only teasing so for god's sake tell your cousin to stop hitting me.) Laura Llew is shocked--SHOCKED!--that she might be an abomination. I'm sorry, dearie. You're the loveliest kind of abomination, but come on. Really now, you sell books. For money. That's not democracy, that's capitalism (*winks at Julie*). You'd make a right lovely librarian though, if you came into the light. OW! What's that pecking at me? Could it be...? Oh, no, it is only the Limerick Chicken, which cannot fly, so it pretty much hangs out behind my apartment and eats gravel. I'd gladly FedEx it to one of you, but I've already got enough beak-shaped scars, thank you. At any rate, the chicken had this to say: There once was a Laura called Llew And I swear that the following's true: She worked in a store Pimping books out like whores Instead of just sharing a few. Naturally, I cannot be held responsible for the opinions of the chicken, insightful though he may be. I've really been wanting a motorcycle. This peaked for a bit last night, as I was feeling very rock-n-roll and happened upon a Moto Guzzi whose vintage I cannot be entirely sure of, though it suggests the '70s. I must have it. If any of you knows anything about Moto Guzzis of indeterminate vintage, please identify this bike for me. It kind of resembles a BMW 60/5 and may have the number 3000 on it. In other news, the really cute (though married of course) woman with the really cute spaniel is currently in my library and browsing travel books. I'd swoon if I was smaller. As it stands, I'm liable to break something, so I'll remain conscious. For now. Pecan pie is still the best, and is considerably more American than apple pie. mmm pie. xo will (no, not that one. Will Porter. Don't act like you didn't know.) __________________________________________________ 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: pics, nics and picnics
by Sam Walton 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hello people. Just a quick one really, to say that there are photos from the Benicassim gig here: http://communities.msn.co.uk/abetterplacetoselfdestruct/benicassimfestivalp… The ones at the top are of Jarvis at Benicassim, but there are B&S one at the bottom if you scroll down. They're not very good, but then again, they never are, are they? Oh yeah, there's a second page, too, with more B&S pictures. In other news: the picnic was fab, as usual. Thanks to everybody who was kind to me at the picnic, and thanks to everybody who emailed me about my anaesthetic, too. It was one of the most hateful experiences of my life, thank you very much. Anyway, I'll go now. love Asm.x ================= "Shut up! The man's a demi-god!" - Mary-Anne Hobbs _________________________________________________________________ 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: Goodbye, I'm leavin'
by Robin Stout 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Yes, it's been a long time, but it's time to go. As I'm moving I'll be email-less and listless for a while so I've decided to unsubscribe. I love this list, the people on it are all so lovely and entertaining, even though some of you don't post half as much as you should. You know who you are. Actually, it's not so emotional. I'll probably reappear in a few months, I don't know. I just thought it'd be rude to leave without saying goodbye. David mentioned his favourite sunset a while ago, and so did PeetSketch Steve. They were both city sunsets and they reminded me of an incredible view I saw in, of all places, Birmingham a fortnight ago. When you leave New Street station the first thing you see are six or seven tall black cranes that descend from the sky and root themselves behind a blue plywood screen. This is the site of the old Bull Ring, quite an extraordinary place in itself, which has been demolished - ripped apart by those cranes - to make way for the city's brave cosmic Future. Only a concrete crater remains. There used to be a route through the Bull ring to the market but now a makeshift bridge crosses from one side of the crater to the other, between the cranes, and the folk of Birmingham sit on it, in their wheelchairs and tracksuits, looking through the wire mesh at the metal and plastic bursting out of the ground. It'll be gone soon, filled in and replaced by a "new opportunity", so catch it while you can. In Birmingham I'm always accosted by Scientologists who try to brainwash me. They ask me to come to a room for a questionnaire. Has anyone ever done this? I'd like to say yes sometime but I'm worried I might become BRAINWASHED, and ONE OF THEM. In the library I was reading a book and a woman sat beside me with a carrier bag. Out of it she pulled a pack of Wagon Wheels and began chomping on them. Whenever I glared she smiled at me and sat back, her stomach bulging and her fat legs either side of the table legs. I couldn't read my book anymore so I left. It was horrible. Typically content-less. Bye, then. Hope I see you again. Robin xx _________________________________________________________________ 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: dinosaurs and genghis khan
by marikka 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

i have just made myself sick. well, sort of. i just spent a fortune to travel to a country where i do not speak the language and the occupants do not speak my native tongue. all this to prove that i am young and with a job that pays enough to allow me to do so. i am also desperate to see the friend who promised two years of her life to the peacecorps and mongolia. no one goes to mongolia except geologists and historians. well, so i qualify, but i am not going there for geologic purposes. and after a couple of days explaining my vacation request, the bosses relented. perhaps my boss, who is luckily also a friend, convinced the higher-ups that i might just walk out if denied vacation. i shall have a greater claim now to the "crazy girl" title that has been bestowed upon me. and then to top it off, i will be in san francisco for a week. and i will be seeing belle and sebastian twice on the weekend before that week. i'm terrified. i know that they shall not let me down, but what if i let them down, or even worse, what if i turn into a screaming fan and go into hysterics? what if i go into a fit and injure the friends who shall accompany me? all could happen, but the odds are greater that i will not believe that i saw them and just go about my life as if nothing happened, until i remember a tiny detail about the shows. i am too excited. i am buzzing. i do not believe that i have ever really buzzed. maybe i will travel the world now chasing belle and sebastian simply for the buzz. anyway, little content. and if anyone has any true tales of travel in mongolia that pertain to this century or the last decade of the previous, please send them my way. i need to know that i am not crazy, just adventurous. marikka. __________________________________________________ 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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