February 2002 - Sinister

Sinister: the opiate of the populace
by lindsey baker 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

hello sinister. i think i shall try this again, in light of recent postings and states of mind. february 5, 2002. (i accidentally put 2003 there. freudian slip, perhaps, taking into account of where i am supposed to be in approximately one year. in other interpretations, i suppose it, too, was me trying to speed time along, as i usually do, to something. another day.) woke up early, not by my own doing. today by the little beeping alarm, which regularly goes off about a half hour before the big radio alarm kicks in. got ready in half the usual time, because earliness does not equal getting ready happiness. cleared out all the sweaters and half-crocheted potholders from my beloved car (found my wutu single!!! joy ensued, as did content), and drove it to the body shop. got dropped off by body shop man at the newspaper, which put me here at 8:55 a.m. put in desa and tried valiently to waste time. took five minutes to make calls about the story i am supposed to write today. got call from insurance company. boy who hit me still probably doesn't have insurance. called father. settled in for a long fight in small claims court and potentially weeks without my little blue baby escort.missing missing missing many things at this point. how is it that people make it through some days? oh yes. grapenut told me. brownies. and now, canadian fiction. who doesn't heart duddy kravitz?* xxx lovelou *me _________________________________________________________________ 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: boo!hiss! Big Brother *is* watching
by trish delish 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

toodle pip, squeaks not wanting to pre-empt david white (that is his name, isn't it?)(the guy who runs belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk) and i'm sure he will, and indeed should, post to give us the whole story, but basically it seems he's had to take down the entire downloads section because of threats from some nonsense british antipiracy watchdog.... now this makes me cross because a) my friends were just getting used to be bopping manically around the room to "poupee de circe" just before we head out for the night, that song never once failed to make me smile b) if i remember this right, the band were well aware of the site and its downloads, cos i remember at one stage they asked him to take down some stuff that they were planning on releasing, or something like that. surely that means they didn't object to the rest of the stuff being on there? how sucky is that? the site had all the latest peel session as well, and it was my only way of hearing it because for some reason, we poor irish kids are also deprived of any decent radio stations....our "youth" station, 2fm, is the best we have, and the highlight of its day is a guy called larry gogan who's long turned 60, playing his "golden hour" of songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's between noon and one on weekdays. and by "golden" i can only guess that they are severely vocabularily challenged....golden it ain't. david white suggests people who are (rightly) teed off about the BB strong-arming suggest we bang off an email to the organisation concerned. being as i am in a foul mood anyway today, i would just like to say that they have just been on the receiving end of a rather cross email, but i do think we shouldn't leave it there. is there anything neil or anyone can do? i might be forced to stamp my feet, and believe me, it's not a pretty sight well, i have absolutely nothing to say other than that, except also to say to david that i really enjoyed the site for the last year or so since i discovered it, and a big thanks are owed to him indeed. let's get cross! trish delish ps the email address to give off to is antipiracy(a)bpi.co.uk we all know what sinister can do in terms of email campaigns, so let's get flexing those giving-out-muscles (to start, try gently shaking extended forefinger with furrowed brow...repeat x10 - it's harder than it looks!) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: when in doubt, say "spacepet"
by Kirsten Kenyon 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

yesterday's wind was so dry and so bitterly cold that a warm drag of my cigarette felt significantly healthier than the fresh, unfiltered air that froze my lungs as i made my way up the hill to my first class. i just looked out the window, and today doesn't look much better. in the summer, i usually long for winter. in the winter, i don't long for summer but i do long to regain the feeling in my toes. i've had an exciting revelation. if i relate NUMBERS to WORDS, i am not half bad at mathematics. this occurred to me roughly fifteen minutes into yesterday's lecture. it was glorious. i sat there, beaming, as a shaft of exuberant light broke from the heavens, bathing my little desk in golden brilliance and engulfing me in a warm embrace. i could be mistaken, but it seems to me that the entire episode was accompanied by several passages of handel's "messiah." **a bit of family shame: my father, for as long as i can remember, has insisted that we listen to the "messiah" in its entirety on the way to my grandparents' house each christmas. over the years of restless cartrips (and brief engagements with various chorales) every member of my family has learned virtually every word and note of the whole damn thing, not excluding the complicated arias. when you know the words, it can be hard not to sing along...yeah. painfully lame. and almost creepy.. i can recall an afternoon...i must have been nine or ten, my brother being seven or eight. it was summertime, and we were in the car in the parking lot of pick'n'save (i cringe even as i type that most loathesome of names). okay i lost it. OH. in the car, listening to some vivaldi dad had put on for us and waiting impatiently for him (dad, not mister antonio v.) to emerge and whisk us away to a fun-filled afternoon at the whitnall botanical gardens. i loved to look at the roses, and my brother loved to chase the squirrels. dad must have been in the supermarket for half an hour. sometime during his absence, we grew restless and began belting out the hallelujah chorus over the strains of the four seasons. we were getting to a really good part (and quite enjoying the dissonance we were creating by singing one piece over another) when our father opened the car door. my little brother and i looked at each other, then stared at our dad and gleefully adapted the lyrics "...and we shall wait and we shall wait and we shall wai- ayayait AND WE SHALL WAIT FOR-EV-ER AND E-E-EVER!" my goodness. looking back, it's now quite clear that my present state of dorkiness is the cruel denouement of years of...dork training. right. class. love kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:59:52 -0000
by Doyle Patrick 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hey there, just thought i'd tell you all about a funny thing that happened to me the other day at school, before i have to unsubscribe fro fear of getting caught,,,,,,,,,again! I was in PE and the student teacher noticed i had a Belle and Sebastian T-shirt on ( Russian Dolls to be precise!) "Their from the 60s aren't they" he said "No" i said "70s?" "no" "80s then?" "nope" "yes they are" he said "my mum likes them, one of them has curly hair, right?" "i think you'll find thats Simon and Garfunkel" I said "thats it.........isn't that the same band then?" he said oh deary me! Oh well back to exam revision for me then! so who's all going to the Edinburgh Usher Hall gig on the 1st of April? If so get in touch, id love to see you all there Laters Patrick, the kid with the crimped and overheated hair +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: additional
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

hm, somehow ben apps (aka 'captain sensible') posted without me noticing and already mentioned that the sinister express arrives at 2.27. so, all being in agreement, that's when we're meeting. sorry. archel x ps. sorry ****************** 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: east, west, home's best
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

well, i'm back from the grim north, where as friday's post suggested, i did indeed get drunk with the york sinister massive (ysm), plus some non-sinister people who probably thought we should be sectioned. in fact, before i even left for campus one of my hosts asked me how i knew the people i was meeting. the silence after i replied 'well, i don't actually know them, as such, technically', spoke volumes. anyway, as Reporting Back goes this will be sketchy, because i find as i sit down to type that i can remember very little (apart from asm's middle name which i will probably never forget - oh, it's not 'studmuffin' by the way). guinness was drunk. sinister gossip was exchanged. i listened to the official ysm band through a computer. we tried to get onto #sinister and failed. i hiccuped. there was that strap-on incident. i have a feeling that the meaning of life was discussed in a kitchen, though i couldn't swear to it. i do recall that everyone was simply lovely, and not twee as fuck at all. apart from chris, who was, though in the best possible way :) the rest of my weekend was marked by a) more drinking, b) enormous amounts of food, all of it consumed as a hangover cure, and c) guitars. there were four guitars in the house where i was staying, and none of them lay idle for more than 10 minutes at a time. luckily three out of the four were played very well. i also visited my married friends which was terrifying. i mean, i know i'm already co-habiting, but compared to their domestic bliss i look like bridget jones. it was like there wasn't a single chink in the armour of the marriage where their single selves still poked through. so, i left their flat while i could still breathe and went off to get drunk again. on sunday i went across to leeds for the afternoon and ended up in a cafe where the proprietor, a large italian lady, felt it her duty to start belting out 'o sole mio' and 'amore' as soon as a customer appeared. she also only spoke in italian, despite understanding english perfectly, so no-one could tell if she was asking if you wanted milk or telling you that the special spaghetti was off the menu. it was quite bizarre, and i was relieved to come out and see borders and marks and spencer rather than the leaning tower of pisa. although then i saw stuart murdoch which freaked me out again. of course, it wasn't actually him, but it was only the fact that he was accompanied by a group of what i suppose could be described as 'neds' that convinced me it wasn't. i finally got home yesterday and remembered that in 5 days i'll be welcoming yet more sinisterines into my lair, i mean my lovely home town of brighton. yay! the plan as far as it goes is to meet at brighton station at 2.30, or whenever the sinister london-brighton express arrives (?). i propose that we then retire for a while to the george pub at the bottom end of trafalgar street (sharp left and downhill under the road bridge outside the station). so that's where we should be if you arrive later/not at the station. lost souls can ring me on 07944 074873. i'll say all this again on friday, because let's face it, the rest of this post has 'delete me' written all over it. see you soon! luv archel xxx ****************** 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: MP3 subject
by Jordi Trenzano 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hellooooo Regarding the recent facts about David´s Freeserve website, I think I won´t say anything new if I say that I find it completely nonsense. I heard once that everything that is being done against mp3 would be like coming back to the 50´s and have some official governments trying to forbid radio. Anyway, for those of you who still haven´t got the Peel Sessions (I bet there must be only a few on this list), the website of segundosdeluz hosts the 4 songs, actually the same mp3s that David hosted until this last week. For those of you subscribed to yahoogroups, just look for a spanish-list called "segundosdeluz", or write this url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/segundosdeluz For those of you who aren´t, you have to get a yahoo ID, which is something that I never remember how its done properly. I don´t have more space on the website to get more mp3s, sadly. i´d love to have there either the Black Sessions or the mp3s from those pop saviours that are the Red Bull Dozers. Umm.....Paris gig ???? some news, pleeease..... Cheers Jordi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Belle & Sebastian in Paris !!!???
by Stephane Buron 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I've just seen an ad in the metro... Belle and Sebastian are playing in paris on 9th april (at the grand rex, for those of you who know paris...) katrina, neil, wake up! tell us more about these european gigs! _________________________________________________________________ Rejoignez le plus grand service de messagerie au monde avec MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com/fr +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: :tcejbuS (Now that's a riddle)
by Steven M Rhodes 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hello ahain (Note to Self: ahain should be spelt AGAIN) (Self: Roger that.) Hello Again, Last week I was making a cup coffee and after pouring in the milk, I had this momentary lapse of reason and instead of putting the milk back in the fridge, I put it in the cupboard. Have you ever done this? I actually did a similar thing the other day. I was driving home from work and instead of driving home I flew to Geraldton, Western Australia. It was really embarrassing. Another time I went to hang the washing on the line and I ended up driving a bullock plough across a rice paddock in the mountains of Cambodia. Boy, was my face red. I was walking near my house and I walked past this grass paddock that had a sign on the fence that said "CAUTION HORSES. DO NOT ENTER" And I thought "what a shame that horses can't go in there because it was a perfect horse paddock. It had hay bales and stables and water troughs. How inappropriate. Here is a perfect horse enclosure and they're not allowed in. I mean, that's ludicrous. I felt personally offended by that. Although as I walked past a little bit more, I noticed that a couple of horses had actually snuck in and were eating a bit of the hay, so that cheered me up a bit. Aren't jellyfish weird? When God was making all the animals he was famished and so went on a lunch break. He took a bit of chill time and he had a snack, and everyone knows that God was quite partial to a jelly-based treat. And he was looking at it and thought "I like this jelly. Thy jelly speaks to thee." And I'm quoting this from the Bible, it's from the original texts. And God said "I will make thee into an animal," So he brought it to life and he sat and looked at his creation but he felt it lacked something. Just then Moses wandered into the holy snack room and fixed himself some rice pudding for he was famished from having parted thy sea. And Moses said to God "I know what it's lacking. It needs arms and legs and eyes and ears and a mouth and a nose." And hearing this God said unto Moses "Moses, why don't you just get the hell out of here. You've made me lose my train of thought." After looking at the jellyfish for a long while God said "I know, I've got it! What this jellyfish needs is thousands upon thousands of poisonous stinging tentacles. Of course! Not another thing." And Moses said "But God, what about a brain. Everything needs a brain?" And God slowly pointed his finger at Moses and said "Moses, I'm telling you for the last time, just back off. I make the animals here. I decide whom will get a brain and you part the seas and do things relating the parting of seas." And that's a true story kids. You probably never heard that story growing up at Sunday school and I think that's a real shame. The world's all the more poorer for the lack of it. I think one of the most optimistic animals is the ant. When you're standing in you're garden, these little things the size of a pin head just charge up to you and bite you between the toes as hard as they can. What do they think they're actually doing? They're saying "You're going down buddy. Come on, bring it on. I wanna see what you got! What are you scared? C'mon!" Very optimistic. Because of course you then reach down and kill them. I think it's a pretty well known fact that cats don't like the beach. They don't like the ocean, they don't like the sand and I think I know why. When we look at the sand, we simply see a beach. When a cat looks at the sand, all it sees is a giant kitty litter box and this intimidates them. This amount of diversity of choice of places to shit is all too confronting for them, too much to comprehend and quite frankly, they don't feel comfortable with it. Well there, I think all the important issues have been covered..........oh wait, yeah. Belle & Sebastian. Right, of course. What a great band. They're definately my favourite. That Stuart character; what a guy. Isobel? Isn't she delightfully foxy. Indeed. Best (and worst dressed) wishes, Steven +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 sky's a hazy shade of winter
by JAMES GILMER 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Snow. Im a bit tired of winter, and Id quite like to see the sunshine and green grass of spring soon, but weve a couple more months of winter to trudge through. Madison (and things are quite toadie up here ~stine, thanks for asking) didnt get hit as hard as Chicago did, only a few inches if that to be honest, but Id still be quite happy to see the back of winter. The cold thickens the blood, makes me feel a bit sluggish when Id rather be out running about, taking stock of the new city with its streets beneath my feet. Getting lost in a new city is one of my favorite past times. Every city has a different feel, a different vibe. I like to cut loose, get the city under my feet and walk aimlessly until I get used to the city, get to know it and let it get to know me, then I can be comfortable. Its too bloody cold for a decent ramble though. The Situationists had a term, derive, for the act of walking a city, making it new and strange. Fancy that, the Paris intellectuals had a term for something Id been doing all my life out of habit. Ive been domesticated, as Elise pointed out in her email a while ago, and yes, much to my pleasure it is indeed bliss. Domestication suits me far better than I ever thought it would. Id have never guessed six months ago that this is whered Id be right now, in the best place Ive ever been in in my life. Hell, just a few months ago Id been thinking about fucking off from going to grad school or back to college and taking another trip; maybe overseas in the other direction. Japan or India (obviously before the war and such) or somewhere and racking up some debt exploring the world. Now Im working for the Man (actually the VA hospital here in Madison) and working 9-5 and coming home to the girl whos more perfect for me than anyone has a right to be. Ill spare you all any gushing about how wonderful Elise is, Ive already said all the important things to her and I dont want to bore you. I will say that Ive found a lot more novelty, a lot more challenges and thrills and emotions and real fucking life in the few weeks of domestication than Ive had then in every trip, every club, every night of drinking, every drug, and every other experience thus far. You want to experience the whole universe? Its all there in the interactions of two peoples lives. Quantum love. We just found out the Moldy Peaches are playing Madison tomorrow, and a free show as well, so it looks like well finally get to experience the joy that is a live Peaches show. If you havent checked them out yet, you really should. I do believe I have a new favorite movie of all time: SIX STRING SAMURAI Dear lord, its brilliant. No really. It is. And if any of your artsy friends give you grief when you go to rent it, just tell them its all a metaphor, them artsy types like words like that. Toss in the words transcendent, allegory, and (and this ones the deal breaker) edgy. They love bullshit like that. Seriously, its a movie about a Buddy Holly lookalike in a post-nuclear war wasteland whos trying to get to Las Vegas and be crowned the king of rock and roll. It also features such stunning dialogue as: Nice tuxedo...nice tuxedo to DIE IN! Best movie of 2001? I think so. Does Amelie have sword fighting? The Russian army? The final showdown between Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal? Didnt think so. Though, Ill cop to the fact that I really did like Amelie, and I strongly recommend it. Elise took me to see it and I was a little worried when it started; my pretentiousness alarms were going off, but it turned out to be an utterly charming movie. But still, SIX STRING SAMURAI has cannibals. A lot of people have brought up The Perks of being a Wallflower, and since Elise just read it, I asked her what she thought: Its an okay book, but I dont think youd like it Why not? I like a lot of different things. Is it because its twee? Well, yeah...its twee...really twee... Ive seen it called twee as fuck, is it that twee? It gets less twee as it goes on...but... Is it just like a really long Sinister post? Yeah...but a really long Sinister post written by a total pussy Jesus, thats twee...but you liked it, so Ill try it...by the way, can I quote you? Errr...yeah...but *only* if you say that I liked the book So, I intend to read perks of being a wallflower this week and see for myself whether or not I like it...or if the shear tweeness will overcome me. Hmmm, music....not really listening to much new stuff. I think Ive mentioned The Wonder Stuff before, some very cool old school indie Brit stuff, and thanks to Elise Ive been listening to Tram and the O, Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. Otherwise, not much new on the music front for me. Oh, I should mention that absolutely *everyone* needs to listen to Bran Van 3000. Theyre nothing less than genius. Momus does a guest spot on a very cool track as well as some other hip hop artists and such. If there were more music like Bran Van 3000, Id be a happy man. The whole love and loss and shyness and depression thing has popped up again on the list (though its never really gone is it? On the list or in real life) and I had a few things on my mind that I wanted to say. I know what its like to be depressed and down and just fucking crushed under the day to day shitstorm that life can be; but I think too many of us dont realize that its far easier than wed have thought to get out from under that. (Quick aside; everyone should read Bertrand Russells THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS, its the best book on life and happiness and living ever written. Period.) I think too many of us use our pain, our shyness, our anger, our whatever as safety blankets and it annoys me enough when I see teenagers doing it; I really cant stand it when people who are supposed to be adults do it. Because I dont think we realize we arent our pain. We arent our sadness or our shyness or even our happiness. Those are all things we can feel and ways we can see the world, and none of those things make us special or different or anything. I mean, look at the list, youve all read posts from hundreds of people. Youve all watched them go up and down the roller coaster ride. Youve all read about them falling in and out of love and going places and doing things and laughing and crying and the whole lot. When youre seeing the world through those glasses of loneliness or sadness or anger then the world looks like a pretty fucked place. You look at yourself and you dont like what you see, you look at other people and you dont like what you see. But you dont realize you can take the glasses off. That youre not your loneliness and youre not your sadness or any of that. Im getting into Zen territory arent I? Well, I do respect a lot of the Zen ideas, because I think theres a lot to take away from them. Not too much mind you, sitting on a mountain and staring at your belly button isnt much of a living either, but I do think there are lessons to be learned. Youre not your sexual preference or your sadness or what bands you listen to or what clothes you wear. The hardest part of life is just living, and accepting. You wont be able to truely be comfortable with anyone until youre comfortable with yourself...which is a cliche, but cliches are cliches because they tend to be true. I see so many people using their sadness or anger as a pose and its just so fucking tiring. Little latch key kids listening to Limp Bizkit and trying to act hard and pushing their anger and boring fucking goth wanna-bes and twee prats wearing their sadness like a set of clothes. Its childish, and its sad, and it doesnt have to be that way. Which isnt to make light of depression or sadness or loneliness; but instead I really think too many of us dont understand how beautiful we are, and we let ourselves be defined by this crap because thats the way it goes. We play a role when we dont realize we can be anything. Quantum love. How do you want to see the world? Who do you want to be? Take the sad glasses off and see the world through new eyes. Its observer theory. Matters of perception. Dont use your pain as an armor if you really want to live. Dont make a flimsy excuse. You can be anything you want. Grant Morrison said it best; "I haven't feel geeky or dumb since I was 17. I don't feel marginalised or outmoded and neither should anyone else in this thriving, multiplex society. When will successful, creative, intelligent people stop thinking of themselves as childlike outsiders and start engaging with the real high-stakes world? Wake up fanboy, wake up fangirl. Don't you want to rule the world?" - Grant Morrison _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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