September 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: clear spot
by stacey dahling 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

lordy lordy two posts in just as many days! can anyone tell i'm procrastinating in a huge way? indeed. it's horrid. today i made a pact with myself NOT to go into #sinister until i complete some work on this monster article i'm writing about a basketball team that dicked me over in the worst way. i have to put on my rosy-tinted glasses as i write, however, which makes me growl and mutter horrendous things to myself as i pace in my pajamas and curse the outside world as i try to find something other than rotting grapes in my empty kitchen. i console myself with the fact that after it is printed i will be able to write a note to some administrators and get an asshole fired. or at least reprimanded. yes. i'm not really a bitch, i swear. but sometimes a girl has to kick some ass, you know? ANYWAY... now that i've gotten COMPLETELY off topic here... RACHEL GRAPES DEAR! welcome! and max too i suppose :) and everyone else in nursery or lurking in the shadows reading this shite. thank you for rising above this strokes debate and mentioning my second favorite band ever - THE PERNICE BROTHERS! *sigh* (ed: warning! long pernice brothers tirade to follow, then some actual b&s content...) i actually believe it was someone from this very list here who turned me on to the pernice brothers a few years ago. i bought overcome by happiness on a whim, thinking other belle and sebastian fans in the know just cannot be wrong!, and i quickly added it to my small list of "albums i can listen to all the way through and ot get sick of" otherwise known as my desert island list. also on the list, of course, is if you're feeling sinister, portola, rushmore, classic sinatra, the source hits from the vault volume 1: the pioneers, and some heavenly album i have only on tape and can never remember the name of. anyway... after putting "all i know" on repeat for hours while sulking the summer away waiting to move from greece to rhode island to northampton, MA, i ran into my Great Indie Friend Mike, who casually informed me that mr. joe pernice LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM MY NEW NORTHAMPTON APARTMENT and that he would be performing that weekend next door. so i moved in a few days early. i stayed for TWO DAYS in an apartment with no electricity or hot water, just so i could see the pernice brothers. sacrifice. worth it! they opened for some shit band i cannot remember at this overpriced club downtown. i was THE only fan there. it was heavenly, despite the couple who talked through almost the entire set. afterwards i shyly approached joe and local-celebrity-of-sorts thom monahan and said hello. mmmm. it was later learned that joe worked directly across the street from my apartment in a music store. mike taunted me continously about how my joe pernice stalking was going, but in truth i was way too shy to attempt any stalking. see, this wasn't a cd store or anything this was a store for musical instruments, and i wouldn't even know how to begin walking in and casually browsing. truth is, joe pernice is a BIG DORK. actually, a rather short dork, of the stephen merritt variety. he's not that attractive really, and my strange obsession had nothing to do with attraction of any sort. i do not fancy joe pernice is what i'm trying to say here. but he's achieved this odd sturan-type status. as i continued to live and work in northampton, i got to know almost everyone in the local music scene. i befriended michelle, a drummer in a fantastic local band, king radio, whose husband, frank, was in the scud mountain boys, joe's previous wonderful band, and who is still a close friend. i got to know every other member of the pernice brothers, and i know every other supporting cast member of all joe's side projects. but i still CANNOT talk to joe. i think joe performs more in australia and the uk than he does in his own home town. this is because he is afraid of all the old hard-core scud mountain boys fans who are still bitter that the band broke up and blame him for it. he's afraid no one will show up at his shows, which is just silly, as they are aways packed on the rare times he takes the stage. at one performance, he was sitting alone, mournfully scanning the crowd, nursing a beer in obvious boredom. i decided to make my move. ha! i can easily talk to criminals, rapists, perverts, cops, judges, politicians, child-molesting psychologists. but five minutes with a dorky rock god is TORTURE. i have no idea what we talked about, but it was so awkward and forced. i think the topic i chose was australia. yup. dork. but he was very nice. right before i left to come to greece, like, a few nights before my flight, i went to a final show in northampton. it was a pernice brothers show. i was there with michelle, and we were quite popular. everyone came over to say goodbye to me, including a keyboarder and tambourine player from the pernice players. we hung out with joe's new girlfriend, a gorgeous tall, slim thing from nyc. joe stood with us, smiling at me, and i just stared like a fool. how does this happen??? anyway i am soooo sorry! i was intending this to be my very first short sinister post and i have just rambled on for 10 minutes about my really dorky obsession with a northampton band. egads! what i meant to say was: RACHEL, overcome by happiness is a super fantastic album!!! and if you like it, you should get "massachusetts" by the scud mountain boys. (their other albums are a bit alt-country). joe also released albums as big tobacco and chipaquiddick skyline. that's all. since i've come this far, i might as well add something b&s related. my favorite B&S album is if you're feeling sinister, and more and more lately it has become woven with greece for me. it's very odd. it all started in 1997, when i was on a plane by myself, setting off on the biggest adventure of my life, finally leaving behind everything i knew and hated and loved. my restless soul had been pulling me away for a long time and "get me away from here, i'm dying" had become my one-song soundtrack. as it played in my headphones with the plane ascending from logan airport, it never rang truer. it was a Moment. my apartment in athens was situated near a monastery, hospital, two archaeological schools, and an elementary school and as i walked under fragrant lemon trees in my new foreign home, i could hear the ringing of school children nearby and it reminded me of the opening of if you're feeling sinister. it put me instantly at ease. now, four years later, i'm back here, my back balcony overlooking a school yard where piercingly loud children gather all day long to scream and wake me up and distract me. it makes me feel a bit sinister, but in the very best way. when i was being restless in massachusetts, b&s to me represented this liberating foreign ideal place and state of mind. in some ways, i've tried to reproduce it in athens, but it's failing me at the moment. in less than a week's time, i will be in london and a few days after that in edinburgh and glasgow and leeds and sheffield and... i really can't wait. i will be with other sinister people, which seems at the same time wonderful and scary. have you ever tried to explain the sinister phenomenon to someone? isn't it difficult to describe what makes it special and ok and not scary and full of perverts and strangers? we don't feel like strangers do we? why? it's so weird. i can't understand why i feel the absolute need to spend lots of money to go meet a bunch of near strangers. they don't feel like strangers to me, they feel like friends. and the few sinisterines i have met have been almost instant friends. what is it about this band that makes nearly all its fans so gosh-darned compatible with each other? why do i spend hours bearing my soul to someone i've never met in daily 50K+ emails, but haven't written my friends back home in two months? there's so much i want to say, but i've already said too much. argh. verbosity. i've been thinking an awful lot about fate recently. it scares me, but is also oddly comforting. i have begun to think that fate had a lot to do with why i am sitting on a bed in a room in a brothel district in athens, and i've been feeling recently that i am ready to just resign myself to fate, but that feels a little bit like giving up. someone sinister also posed a simple yet way-too-complex question to me recently: what do you want? and i can't answer it! do i want people, places, a career, a future, freedom, stability, stories to tell the kids, kids? why am i still restless? who do i love? who loves me? who am i? it's tough being human, isn't it? ok, get me away from here i'm dying just came on and i want to cry! this whole album makes me want to cry. why oh why? at the final moment i cried, i always cry at endings... yes. on that note i should really end this now and get to work on the stupid goddamn article. grrrr... thanks to joanna darling for an absolutely fabulous night that i still smile about and for your super-kind words (happy and pleasant? me? oh dear). and to paul, nicholas, dafyd, will, maddie, ally, calumn, gavin, sweetie, richard, vic, honey, jeremy, ken, kev and stoo: i absolutely cannot wait to lavish you with cigarettes and ouzo and cheesy postcards, give you all bone-breaking hugs and maybe a few kisses, and drink so much i cry and tell you embarassing secrets. and warning: i plan to take lots of pictures of my obsession, which is you. to the rest of you: hello. be good. and um.. twinkies. MWAH! ~dahling _________________________________________________________________ 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: The Freeloader Section
by The Hodottir 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Hiya Folks It's been ages since I posted. It was around the 11th of September I was thinking about it, then the world stopped, so did I. Not that it's all better now, but I know I'm not alone in the determination for those who still have life to get on with living it. That's what me, Joe, Flo and Sam did last night when we, thanks to a miracle by the great God Gratis, went to see 'The Thing' concert at the Royal Festival Theatre. The Reindeer Section headlined, although typically they insisted that was a twist of scheduling, but since the run-up acts (Spearmint, Simian, others I forget) were clearly practising to be as good, it was no accident. The Reindeer Section, line-up reading like a job-centre database c.1992 proved themselves to be well worth their giros as they ebbed and flowed from pop through folk to rock. As Flo noted, the final product sounds more like a cheerful Arab Strap than anything else. Unfortunately, as yet I don't even know who's in there, although I gather B&S, Arab Strap and Alfie are all represented, and none of them is called Rudolf. Whatever, it's a perfect recipe for the ultimate folk soupergroup, and there's an irish fellow up front who prefers to finale in the nude. Let's all do our research here, and bombard The Reindeer Section with our snowballs of support. There's lots of them now, but they're gonna be even bigger, methinks. Yey new music and free tickets! Because we're worth it, Miss Ho the Hodottir x _________________________________________________________________ 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: The Reindeer Section
by John Hyllegaard 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Well - yesterday I was visiting my local record-pusher, and was half a minute from buying Angels Of Lights new album, but my girlfriends eye caught a small labels on a record on the listening post... "featuring members of Arab Strap, Astrid, Belle & Sebastian, Eva, Mogwai, Mull Historical Society, Snow Patrol, V Twin" - I immedeately skipped the Gira-album and bought the title called "Y'all get scared now, ya hear!" instead (It's late in the month£- ya know) I have to admit... I'm embarrased. After the wonderful multilayered beauty of Snow Patrol's latest album - the deep, dark soul within Arab Straps The Red Thread and good 2001-efforts by both Astrid and Mogwai this is just not to believe. Despite the wonderful last minute of "If There Is I Havent Found It Yet" and the wonderful up-to-standard "Sting", the album is filled with too low-key and boring performances from some of the most talented musicians these days. Just my opinion after four listenings...; And now the recommendation: Has anybody heard of Lift To Experience?... I think that they maybe have made the album of the year; It's the power of GYBE, the beauty of Jeff Buckley and the beast of My Bloody Valentine put into one conceptual album of both borrowed and new developed genius. So much from Denmark this time... PS: Does anybody knows, when the B&S music from the new Todd Solondz film will be released? So long - and don't get scared now, ya'all John +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: glasgow, edinburgh etc.
by Andrea Kittenmouse 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

hi everyone, i'm sorry this didn't take the normal 15+ minutes, but i'm in a bit of a hurry. i just wanted to tell people from glasgow and edinburgh that i'm here in edinburgh and i'll be in glasgow in a few days. i'm studying at the art school this fall (i'm from the u.s.). i think it would be fun to meet up sometime once i get settled into my apartment in glasgow this weekend, so if anyone is from there, maybe email me or something. recovering from jet lag, andrea http://web.pdx.edu/~andreay (completely updated and new) _________________________________________________________________ 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: Go and buy Dead Media by Hefner today
by jarkko frantila 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Let's all give a big hug to our main man Lawrence Mikkelsen! He was the first one here to step out from the crowd and had the nerve to announce that maybe The Strokes really aren't that great. If I weren't heterosexual I'd give you my body as a reward. But really, 33 minutes of music that is ok but nothing more. "Ooh, but the boys are really cute!" Yes, but have you ever read their interviews? It's always bad when the people who are hailed as the new everything actually believe they are cooler than all the other bands in the world combined. Kick them in the head, I say. So my crusade against people who try too hard to be stylish and rawk continues. What you should do, though, is to buy Dead Media by Hefner. Analogue synthesizers, the same old groove, perfect album. Ace. And finally I get to hear The Nights Are Long in cd- form, rather than the wobbly taperecording from Peely. My favourite line: And since my honey moved, To the south side of town. Been hearing ugly rumours, She's been putting it around. Now there's a line I can.... Naah, it just sound great. -JF _________________________________________________________________ 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: well I like Ken Chu, I know he likes you...
by Rachel 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Hello again, Sinister! I know, I just posted the other day, but I have had such great responses that I just had to tell you all how kind and sensitive this group of people is... it's astounding. Also, a few other reasons to post came to mind. For one, I woke up this morning to find that I am somebody's list crush!! Until today, I had no idea what it even was... we didn't have that last time I was on Sinister! Maybe I know who has a crush on me, maybe I don't... could it be...you!? What a great way to start the day! And to Psi, well, the subject of my last post 'Crazy"Beautiful"' was indeed a clever attempt to refer to the movie, but I haven't seen the movie, so I am just a big poser! I hope that what I was trying to be clever about isn't a pile of crap. Arrrrgghhhhh! I'm obnoxious! But oh well. Kirsten Dunst sure is pretty, anyway! Now it's time for a news bulletin. A little something special I like to call ***************************** DIDN'T CHU KNOW?******************************** Ken Chu has informed me that Red Bull is a great anti-depressant that doesn't suppress your feelings :-) I don't believe it's been approved by the FDA here in the states, but it is readily available on the market, so cheer up everybody! And Ken, wait 'til you hear this, get ready to be dazzled: I have a "red bowl" haircut! errr... Congrats to Lawrence who is getting married! I'll bet you'll have them play "Bridge Over Troubled Water" at your wedding, eh?! I guess your bride won't make her entrance to Ted Nugent, dance with her father to Def Leppard, grab a mouse and then procede to squeeze the life out of it!!!! (for real, Kara?! That's so... sad) I've enjoyed all of the pet stories: johnjohn and his cat, Kirsten spotting a man with a cocatoo on his shoulder, Mandee and Reggie the dog, Grainne and Lucy the dog... So sorry about your dogs... I also have a pet, a cat, named Agnes, who is 15 and arthritic. It's so strange how animals are such a huge part of many of our lives, and they are mainly there for our entertainment, unless you're blind or disabled and have one to help you! But we still miss them so much when they're gone. I wonder what it is like to not love animals... Stacey and Joan, rocking out in Athens!!!! RIGHT ON!!! I loved reading that!!!!!!! It was so well told, I felt like I was there with you! Guys, I'm kind of nervous about this Strokes issue... such a hot debate, so far it sounds like I wouldn't like them, so I am not rushing out to find their stuff. But what about The Faint? They are pretty cool, and they're playing here in L.A. a week from Thursday! I'd much rather faint than have a stroke any day... Loulou, you're lovely. *see "DIDN'T CHU KNOW" above* !!VIVA RACHELS!!! Another Rachel to join the ranks! I'm so excited (I know it's only a name, but it just happens to be a good one!) Welcome Rachel Grapenut, I gave a shout out to all of the Rachels on the list when I posted my B&S show review and I definitely meant you, too! Hi to Max! Cornflake and I are wondering how many more Rachels there are out there on the list, (right, rach?) so if you're a Rachel, send me a note! I haven't heard from you yet, Archel! In other RACHEL news, Ulla has posted a Sillustration about Rachel Cornflake's experience being the 9th member of B&S for 3 minutes!!! It's really adorable, so you should go to the Sinister site and look at it right now! How do you suppose on this short west coast tour, Stuart managed to ask 2 Rachels onto the stage in 2 different cities? I have never "met" this many Rachels in my life! Jenny Darling, please tell us how you fell out of a moving car!? I hope you're ok! That's pretty much all I have to say, except for thank you for your kind words of encouragement. It really does help. Love to you all, Rachel Fruitloop __________________________________________________ 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: There are some days that sparkle, days like diamonds
by LilGrape25＠aol.com 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

And the day I got my Sinister voice is one of them! Well hello Sinister! I'm Rachel (yes, yet another) and I'm straight out of the nursery just a few hours ago. This is my first post! eek! I haven't felt this excited in a while. To think that I have the same Sinister rights now as all the people who's e-mails I feel like I've been reading forever, people who seem so overwhelmingly interesting...maybe I'll get lucky and someone will mistake me for one of them. I know this is a bit late, but I'd like to thank all of you for your wonderful e-mails on the WTC attack a few weeks ago. I live in NYC, and found them extremely insightful and comforting. Luckily, everyone I know and love is alright. The city, besides the annoyingly fake patriatism, is a better place to live than ever. People are the slightest bit nicer. I'm listening to Overcome By Happiness by the Pernice Brothers for the first time in quite a while. I don't know what to think of it, do any of you have any opinions? A few weeks ago my friend Hye Min posted that her friend Rachel (me!) was in the Nursery. She told you all to say hello. None of you did, but I'm not surprised. I don't think I would have either. But anyway, I'm going to continue the chain and tell you all to say hello to my (and soon to be all of your) friend Max, who is in the Nursury now. Well, I've got a Spanish test tommorrow that won't study for itself, unfortunately. I'm really nervous that my first post isn't up to snuff...but what can I do? Who am I trying to impress anyway, I'm just sending a very long e-mail off into space for lots of nice seeming strangers to read. Goodbye, Rachel +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you're lying as you confess
by lindsey baker 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

i used to think this was a forbidden paradise of people i wanted to be like and stories i should have a byline at the top of and a couch i could take naps upon, as soon as neil the cartoonist vacated the goose-patterned cushions. now i know it's really just a wasteland of empty pop cans and half-filled steno books, governed by four kids wearing gap sweaters, wanting to be adults and professionals and something to compete with but really just trying to pass econ. the newsroom has started to make me sad. and i have started to wonder if i want to be a part of it. or maybe just a part of this one. do things change after school? does the lost feeling go away? i'm sitting here waiting for calls. and i spend my life doing this. even outside of work, which is quite the frightening and different story. i know i can write, yes, that's evidenced. but reporting is black lately, and i'd raher have red feelings about what i do. perhaps i only feel this way because i've just been upset as of late. lost was a good word. i feel like i belong at the paper sometimes, and at the coffee house sometimes, and at home sometimes and in myself sometimes. but i haven't found where i belong all times. i joined sinister and ventured into #sinister for the same reason. to be maybe something to something. and i fit in here sometimes. but i think there's always someone just a little bit better, just a little bit more of what the people look for. and i see them here. so maybe that's why i write the people i do, to hope i see what i have in me to be what the people look for. hmmm. or maybe i should just accept being a lurker. popping out now and again to complain. and then go away and wait for calls, for the whole world is a wasteland these days. loulou _______________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: The Strokes - no thanks!
by vertigo-junkie＠mindspring.com 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

First time posting.... Listen to it a few more times. It took a few times to grow on me and now I think it's the best album out there. I don't like comparing bands to other bands. It only leads to disapointment, especially if you are/were really into them. The Velvets, I agree... no way. Television.. same. They are The Strokes and they count for themselves. If they sounded like the Velvets then I would say they're ripping off the Velvets. The singer does sound like Lou Reed sometimes but...... zorba(a)redbricks.org.uk wrote: > yep lawrence, i'll back you up! the strokes ARE kinda shit. in my shop we play a variety of music (i'm supposed to play world music only really, but after listening to some of those albums for over a year you do get a bit fed up with them). the assistant manager is a big b&s fan too, which is good so we both enjoy listening to them. but he's also into the manics, so plays them too, which is not so good. but anyway onto the strokes . . . . i listened to their album twice over the other week and it was boring and droney. television they aint. velvet underground - uh-uh *shakes head violently. about as much fun as listening to gay dad - probably. or maybe these animal men. another band NME decided to make big & then break. no more strokes in my shop. now where did i put my Parliament album . . . ? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S EP#2 & Reindeer Section
by troy hakala 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

I'm probably WAY out of the loop on this, but.... I just saw on Amazon B&S' "TBA -- EP #2" due out Oct 23. What's the deal on this? And any info on Reindeer Section? Sounds great. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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