February 2002 - Sinister

Sinister: loops and dots
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

the bbc are at it again. as well as the anomalous daytime backing music mentioned by lovely liz (rilke = GOOD), a massively long loop from the boy with the arab strap accompanied the nomination clips in the lawrence olivier awards last week. since it was all theatreland and musicals and such, i would have expected something from les miserables or south pacific. but no. it meant i had the tune in my head all night, anyway. dodedodo dodedo dodedododo. that bit. currently in fierce debate with myself about b&s in brixton. one minute i really can't justify spending a total of �24 on them, bu then i remember how great the RAH gig was, and... the gig is also my last day of holiday from work, and it would be a perfect finale, especially as there will be a certain greek muse of epic poetry in london who i HAVE to see :) but there seem to be only circle tickets left. maybe <LIST ABUSE ALERT> if someone had an *unwanted standing ticket* they could sell me? i'd love you even more than i do already, i promise! i wish i had the gift of pastiche so wonderfully demonstrated by ken, bapps, mark, and most recently rob. it makes my day when i get those posts, it really does. has someone thought of compiling them on a site? or perhaps getting the band to record them for a special christmas 'fan club record'? (what did become of that noble tradition?) i have nothing else to say except, monsters inc: go see, and have the fairly scary experience of falling in love with a computer-animated baby. luv archel xxx ps. rachel and max - i did read and love max's post. but if i mentioned every post i loved, i'd never get space for my own demented ramblings, and what a loss that would be to the world. plus, we all know how scary declaring love is... pps. i think i'm addicted to ellipsis. maybe i should have given it up for lent... oops. ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Neil takes on the world! Round One!
by CrnflkgrlO＠aol.com 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

Apparently Neil posted this on the Matador Records bulletin board after hoards of people came whining and arguing over the high price of tickets on the tour. I'm so impressed by Neil sometimes, he's such a badass! And have you seen him, ladies? Not so hard on the eyes, as well..... B&S' Management Ticket Prices - Dry Your Eyes Mon Feb 18 12:07:15 2002 62.252.128.5 I have every sympathy with folk who genuinely can't afford tickets for the shows. Life's like that. But Anonymous (Brave name by the way), when we're in Canada I'll put you on the guest list and you can come down and call us "money-hungry hoards" to our faces(and explain what a hoard it is). And then I'll punch your fucking lights out. We've walked away with money from a gig TWICE in the last four years. And we're not making a cent fromthese upcoming dates. Quite the opposite actually, as usual we'll subsidise it to the tune of several thousand dollars. If you'd gone in to Matador in September last year, one look at their faces would have told you how much the last tour cost. Incidentally, it's nice to see you all know that we're planning on the next tour. There's not 8 people playing, there's 13. Quite a difference. I see that we are one of the more expensive tickets. Understand though, this is what it costs. There's no fucking mystery. Either we tour at this price, or we don't tour at all. It's not fucking compulsory. We've given you the choice. The obvious thing to do would be say to yourself "No, I'm not paying that", rather than come on here and spout shite about a bunch of people you've never met and, for your sake, you better never meet. Either it's worth it or it's not, and personally I don't give a fuck whether you think it is or not. Especially given that following your thread you eventually decide you don't like the band, and they're a parody. Why do you care about the ticket price if the band are so shit? Confused? I am. Pretty girl on the cover? Err, it's one of the band. Sorry about that, I'll slap her about a bit next time I see her. Really, fannies like you coming on talking like you have a fucking clue. Piss off. Life's too short to worry about the likes of you. Go and like somebody unpopular. You seem more suited to that, and at least you'll be in the company of like-minded people. Neil Robertson Banchory Management +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ken chu feel the love tonight?
by Alyson 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

(subject = my first "ken chu" pun, i don't even know you ken, and already i am punning your name! *giggle*) hi sinister! i am sitting here, grinning like an absolute fool, because... ... ... I JUST GOT MY B&S TICKET!!! YEAH!!!!! b&s-listening will no longer be limited to my bedroom and my car stereo (when i am driving alone), i will finally get the chance to see "our band" live. with other people (howdy to the texas sinisterines!). oh i am so excited! and, i also received my sinister valentine. it is a wonderful mixtape (with powerpuff girls stickers on it!). thank you, dear. i have been meaning to visit #sinister lately, to learn more australian vocabulary. maybe tonight i will pop in! i will talk to you darlings later. love, alyson (who is super-excited!) p.s. shoutouts to aruni =D +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i love my car
by scooby6＠uboot.com 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

as much as i love my pc i do find it all so complicated. ..so this is my first as a listee and sort of a test run... i love my car because i drive to and from work listening to b and s all the time over and over .This has never happened to me before ,as in i have never had musical addiction scooby x _____________________________________________________________ new: now with cheeez! the foto community of uboot.com http://www.uboot.com - who r U? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm Wa-Ken up to Posts
by Robert Brennan 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

I need some posts to bring some joy and something to do I am a man who's neither rich nor obviously cool You know I love you, that's no irony I read you every day, in fact I love your free-floating anxiety You like Struan and you like Mick, Stevie and Chris Bob, Sarah, Bel And Richard, too Thank god I'm waking up to posts I'm a disaster I want to meet you all 'Cause you love music and you move me when You talk about your lives They are the best band in my life, I hope that they know And if I look like death today It's 'cos I'm hungover I never wanted to do harm to me I only wanted, once, to see The beauty of the world of Sinister And when I stumbled up the hill I drank too much The day was gone I saw a guy Who takes the prize for DDR, he really showed me Digging all the puns I felt much older The swearing and the smut It made this old man smile That night I saw them live (Instrumental - mainly strings and woodwind) Honey's the one love of our lives She showed us the rules I love your Splat and Sadie's gaze, oh list never close (list never close, list never close) I really should wish all the best to you I hope you never go away When we grow up we lose a part of us But we still wonder at great songs Music can change you and that's why I'll never be the same person At work I can't contain my boredom anymore But lucky for me you are still around My boredom turns to laughter and to love When all your words arrive When all your words arrive With all necessary apologies Robster __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Posting
by LilGrape25＠aol.com 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

I've been wanting to title a post Posting for a long time...who knows why.. and now I finally have. Just got back to school from a very nice four day weekend. I went to a friends house in Pennsylvania, and had the most lovely and childish few days. We played Life, this awful board game where your peice is a small car and you stick a little plastic peg in it for yourself, and another peg when you land on "get married" and an additional one when you land on things like "baby girl" or "twins" or "adopt a child". Blue pegs for boys and pink for girls. We made our own pegs though, out of bits of wire and string, so we had some funky looking people, and we also made our own Career cards and House cards, so we all had unusual jobs and abnormal houses. I was a performing artist who lived in a Haystack, and my friends had such lovely jobs as a duck, a crematorist and a central tunel control officer, and lived in a tank submerged in the ocean, a mobius strip and a duck. Now is the part of the post that I usually say something that some of you would care about, that isn't just some useless story of mine...but I can't think of anything. I'm thinking. A while ago my friend and our fellow sinisterist Max wrote one of the most lovely posts I have ever read, and no one at all commented. The post was almost all Belle and Sebastian content, and also about me! Maybe I'm partial to the post because it said such nice things about me, but I really think it was wonderful, and it made me very sad that you all either didn't read it or didn't realize how great it was. I think ya'll should go through the archives and find it, or atleast hang your head in shame. Where is Joe Vester? I miss him. Ah right, I knew why I started posting...I GOT TICKETS TO SEE BELLE AND SEBASTIAN IN NEW YORK!! I know I am not the first to say this, and am probably not any more excited than all the other americans who have recently gotten tickts, but boy am I excited! I have been waiting for this day for so long.. Well, so much for being interesting. Sorry. Atleast I'm not lurking anymore, eh? Love, Rachel Grapenut +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: In the land of the epic, a mere novella
by Liz Daplyn 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee; Drink like a fish. As Mr Cassius Clay would have no doubt said if hed had the nonsense he was born with, oh yes. ** That good old chap Rainer Maria Rilke, however, wrote that We are bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible which is very true, although there is sometimes a bit of a defecit in the quantity/quality of the honey available, or at least seems to be until you shut your eyes, breathe deeply, then take another look. Hmm, very Pollyanna, but never mind. The sun and wind seem to have become inextricably conflated into a single entity today and have blown away the cobwebs with vigorous light. Also I made a cracking Thai soup for lunch. ** You see the best things from the calmly floating top decks of buses: Bursting from Bucks into Oxon through the high giants footstep of the Chiltern Gap, the plain below spread out in submission under the fresh hazy February sun and planing away palely into the distance all around like graded layers of chiffon. Hot air balloons rising slowly slightly to the north of the busy weekend motorway. Which is all that fits onto one page of the cute wee notebook that I carry around with me in case of an emergency prose attack. ** Watching shoddy daytime television, in the course of 10 minutes of just one home makeover programme, the soundtrack contained Pink Moon by Nick Drake, Dont Falter by Mint Royale (feat. Lauren Laverne) and something off The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy that I cant remember the title of. Weird. Is there some mighty peculiar mechanism in action that makes the quality of TV ever more crap and conversely makes BBC sound editors ever, well, sounder? Anyone here from the Beeb who can enlighten me? If this carries on Ill be requiring a mute button for the images. I believe its called radio. ** Phone phobics of the world unite: You have nothing to lose but your Best Friend Discount! This affects moi aussi, although doing temping work has helped immensely. Crikey, one can now actually call people one doesnt know and retrieve meaningful information from them. How quaint. But there is still a certain kind of moist panic that springs from the palms of my hands when I am required to make a call without forewarning and the attendant thorough mental preparation. Yecch. Anyway. Love Liz :x Currently considering listening to my mothers copy of Radioheads Kid A - the only copy in the house, for I am a tad tired of whinging, however beautiful. But still. -- Habitual contempt does not reflect a finer sensibility. Jenny Holzer -- _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Off-Rhoda
by Kenneth P Y Chu 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

How have sinister been? I've - like that man who has been sitting in his house all day and not shaved and coughing and has the fever and wanting to kill people - been laden with flu. Except, I went to work this morning - don't do it kids, even the extra money you get for working (I'm a temp at gets paid by the hour), it's still not worth it. Then, I spent the whole of lunch time sleeping, rather than eating, so I'm now officially ill, cold and hungry. But never mind, from reading the posts of other sinistees it would seem that I'm one of the lucky ones, what with their broken hearts and failing interviews.. oh hang on a sec.. I... bah. ho hum. And also from the refreshing contents of posts in the past 2 days it would seem that those who wanted tickets for B&S in America have now finally got to the website and clicked on yes and bought one. My congratulations! Speaking of B&S gigs, was there not meant to be a trasure hunting activity before the United Kingdom concerts? But the sebastian's website still seems to just say "wait for it...", like how God keeps telling me about a Playstation 2. And archel advocated about an alms, aiding an aggrieved Asian. An admirable advice! mmm space channel 5.. mmmm channel 5 girl dancing and going "shoot shoot shoot!" huh, sounds like my kinda game.. Although, the game would also require a Playstation 2 to go with it.... :) Okay now I'm just being altogether avaricious. And now, totally unrelated, and in true "High Fidelity" stylee, I bring you.. Top 5 reasons why sending a crush vote to ken is better than snogging Robbie Williams... Go! - You don't have to fight over 749 girls to do it, since all 750 of you can do it at the same time. - Ken is ten times more adorable than Robbie Williams - You'd appear as a statistic on the sinister crush page, which is way better than a crumpled back page of a "hello!" magazine. - You won't catch Nicole Kidman's herpies - It doesn't involve snogging an arrogant twat (unless you want it to) What are you waiting for? Crush Votes and Red Bulls Ken _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The early bird might get the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.
by Gardiner, Stuart 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

I had a brush with the law at the weekend. And I hadn't even done anything wrong. They decided to stop me because they thought my car might have been stolen. Apparently the reason we looked suspicious was because: a) we were in a dodgy area of Leeds - 2 minutes walk from the bus station b) there were 5 young people in the car c) we were driving round looking a bit lost. Well, we were in the dodgy area to pick someone up to go to a volleyall tournament; that's why there were 5 people in the car; and the reason we were looking a bit lost was because we were lost. And, thanks to the police, late as well. In the end, all I had to do was take my driving licence to a police station within 7 days, since I didn't have it with me (you don't have to have it with you in the UK). All added up, a couple of hours wasted just because the police have to stop a certain number of people each day to get their numbers up. I tried to see their point of view, I really did. Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. that way, you're a mile away from them and you've got their shoes. Really, all the time I was just trying to be as polite as possible so they didn't breathalyse me after my night out the previous night... Still, not a complete waste of a weekend, since we had a good night out, a fact which had absolutely nothing to do with the abundance of good looking women around Leeds Met Uni on a Saturday night. Because I'm not that shallow. No, really. Personality is far more important. It's just that a person's face can say so much about them. Especially the mouth. In three months' time, I'll be in Honduras. I might have something vaguely interesting to write about then. But don't hold your breath. Big Stu Today's top tip: Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Interview
by Kieran Devaney 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Recently, my friend applied to Oxford University to do maths. They gave him an interview because he got good AS grades and was predicted good A level grades. So he went off to Oxford all prepared, he even did a couple of practise interviews in school to make sure he had the interview technique down to a fine art - he was told that even though maths is quite a straightforward thing to interview for, he should still try to be witty and engaging and put across his personality in the interview. On the train on the way down he read through an undergraduates maths textbook that his maths teacher had given him, and was happily unphased by the complicated equations and graphs he saw. He knew his maths, he knew how to do the interview, this would be a cinch. When he got to Oxford there were lots of other people there for the interview too, talking to them he noticed that they were confident, with the odd hints of nervousness and awkwardness, much like himself he thought, not much to worry about in terms of competition then. When the time came for his interview he strode into the room with an air of casual confidence, but inside he found that he was more nervous than he had anticipated, his legs felt quite shaky and his head was fuzzy and a bit unclear. The room was long and imposing, typical Oxford University, a faded dark red carpet, plush, the walls lined with shelves full of leatherbound books, hard dark wooden chairs, a gilded ceiling. At one end was a large desk, behind which three stern looking figures sat, two greying men and one greying woman. "Sit Down" said the man sitting in the middle, motioning to a chair some distance away from the desk, my friend felt as though he would have to shout across the room to be heard from this distance - was this some sort of assertiveness test? Should he ask to move the chair a little closer? No. Don't be ridiculous, they don't play tricks like that here - but his head was still swimming, if they asked him a question now he wouldn't be able to answer it at all, "You are Christopher J______, yes?" the man asked in a severe tone, "Er... yeah..." my friend squirmed "... But before we carry on, I was wondering if I could tell a joke, it wont take long?" My friend knew that this was a rubbish stalling tactic, but he needed time to get settled in, compose himself and focus properly on maths before he could start properly - and besides, the practise interviewers had said that humour was sometimes a good icebreaker if you aren't connecting with the interviewer, and he certainly wasn't. The stern man in the middle looked at his colleagues who sort of half shrugged, "Well alright, go ahead" he said in his stiff, cut glass accent, and then my friend remembered, he didn't have a joke planned, his mind worked on overdrive to try and think of something for a moment until in the heat of the moment he came across a vaguely maths related joke in the back of his mind, "Ok..." he grinned "Why was six scared of seven?" he said weakly, and insantly regretted it. The man in the middle again scanned his colleagues faces, blank. "I don't know" he replied glibly, staring coldly at my friend. "Well... er..." my friend knew this wasn't going well "...because seven eight nine" he blurted, and for some reason this punchline, so long embedded in his subconscious, relegated to the 'trite and unfunny' drawer of his mind, struck a chord and he suddenly found the stupid pun absolutely hillarious and he started chuckling away to himself in that hard wooden chair in the middle of that imposing room. When he regained control he looked up at the three interviewers. They sat stony faced, unmoved by the joke, almost with an air of disgust about them. The greying woman wouldn't meet his gaze, she shuffled with some papers and pretended to write something. The man in the middle held it though, contempt and disappointment in his eyes. "Right." He said, with what my friend knew to be a hint of 'you've failed already, you might as well just go' in his voice, "Shall we begin?" The rest of the interview progressed sedately, my friend unable to find even a semblance of enthusiasm for the questions they asked, and the inerviewers the same, it was a farce, he had failed before he had even begun. Six weeks or so later a glib letter confirmed the rejection, and though he had never really wanted to go to Oxford in the first place, a bullying headmaster hungry for reputation had cajolled him into applying, he still felt sad that you can never be well prepared enough for something. - Kieran _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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