March 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: WiLLiaM ShaKespeaR's GoT FucK on mE...
by velocity farewell 03 May '02

03 May '02

Hello the sinister*land... Seems like things have been changing rapidly these last months... "2002 is going to be MY yeaR", i told my sister in New YeaR's EvE... and it seems that yes, it's been my yeaR so far... faR gonE and OuT... 3 weeks and a half till I'm in London... and this time i won't be going back to greece... it feels weird but it makes me so excited... it never felt like home here anyway... I miss posts from fRiEnDs...where is CaRsmiLe-Stephen-LaD? where is the PF? where is my Care-BeaR? thankfully our Luscious-Lucy posted recently!! even BG Mark hasn't posted for some days now... and ARchel! I keep having these images of ARchel dipping her quill into ink and writting poems with her hair all messed up, swearing as she can't find the word! You know I'm getting to share a sofa with our Archel on the night of the belles' gig in london... what's interesting is what's going to happen after the gig... we're going to shake our booties in a hip-hop-rap club in bRixton, oh yes!! Jordi said "i've heard the rumours, vel, are they true?"... the rumours about the booty-shaking after the gig, that is... sultry news travel fast, i'd say... so anyone who wants to come over to the Venue (i think that's what the club's called) and shake their cute bums with us, let me know... and even better, the day of my arrival, 31st March, the Camera Obscura are playing at the Monarch!!! oh London hasn't let me down... yet... you should all be there! talking about the obscuras made me think of glasgow... so back to Lucy... I was biting my nails whilst reading Lucy's post actually... all this 'moving to glasgow' shenanigans!! Oh me God!! I hate moving! I should be packing like mad, but i cannot be arsed really... all these records, all these books, all these clothes, my fave duvet and pillow... how am i going to take all that to glasgow? Life's running frantically and i'm running after it trying to catch up... a suite of faces, places, words, gestures passing by as i try to find a formula, to sort everything out, to put everything in some order... and i fail every time... I'm so happy I'm leaving here... all bad memories... all putrified stories... Do you remember Little John? the 8-years-old-boy who used to leave flowers on my doorstep? his mum's in a mental hospital... she couldn't stand her alcoholic husband's abuse anymore it seems... grandparents are looking after the children... no more coming at my flat at midnight sobbing with bruises all over her face and with little john hiding behind her, trying to escape her enraged husband who'd wait for her at the stairs throwing curses and threats, calling little john a poof and threatening him that he'll 'show him afterwards'... Sleepless nights all these have cost me... these nights i'd wish i had a gun... with no bullets... just to stick it to the tosser's head and watch him pissing his trousers with fear... and spit on his fucking face! and what an ugly face that is... People seem to become more and more bored... and lazy... when it comes to their heads... people seem to become more like amoebas... like they're returning to a protogenic form of life... everything's fine as long as they're easy... everything's fine as long as they're offered to us on a silver plate... and yet, everyone seems to struggle in their everyday lives... struggle with bills, struggle to make ends meet... but that's where their struggle begins and ends at the same time... Meanwhile, there are others who live their own tragedies... my Mao's always used to say to me "don't be ungrateful! look at all those people who have REAL problems, like health problems. You should be grateful".. the defeatist's philosophy i'd say... why should i look at the worse around me to be happy with my situation? isn't that self-indulgent and a losers' trait? I wonder... I've become to learn one thing, tragedy's subjective... it takes the dimensions, it takes the shape of your own soul, it moulds with your body... looking at a beggar starving on the pavement won't make you feel any better, why should it? will it make your life look better? isn't that the silliest thing ever? Oh but anyway, enough with these... sorry for boring you all... I keep walking by the new hospital building which is still under construction, looking up at its roof and thinking of that night that i, zozo, paul and stayc went on the rooftop... looking at the lights of the villages on the mountain opposite to us... thinking of chocolate cake spread all over my face and on the walls of the frontroom... thinking of spooky licking chocolate off paul's sleeve... thinking of the magnum bottle of champagne paul and stayc drained! and that's the kind of memories i'd like to keep... I hope Kyla posts soon... take care you lot, hugs, vel xxxxx "WaR is the last possible creative act" Mick Travis "IF" "true creation will rise from the ruins of the old world" Isidor Isou, L.I. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! 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Sinister: Procrastination, Paczki and Paranoia
by Stewie-Louie Ratatouille 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Procrastination: So ... there is this big chalk board in my office that had some sort of (American) football-related diagram on it when i moved in. Today I decided to clean it and use it as my own larger-than-life to-do list. It looks like this: 1. Finish grading papers 2. Edit submissions to journal 3. Prepare speech for Toronto 4. Prepare article for publication 5. Post to Sinister OK, it doesn't look like that - it looks like a chalk board - but that is what's written on it. However, the fact that you have this post in front of you should not be taken as a sign that I finished the other four things - oh, no no no no no ... Polish Paczki: Have I mentioned that I lived in Poland for a year? Though it was only three years ago, it rarely comes up in conversation anymore. The only reason it comes up now is that - much to my surprise - people in North West Ohio celebrate Paczki Day. For those of you who don't know, this is a traditional Polish practice that is the same as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday ... whatever you call it, wherever you are ... and to take part you just eat loads of jelly doughnuts (in polish: Paczki) on the Tuesday before Lent starts. When I was there, I ate about 15 of the things. This was not (only) due to my American eating habits but because every time I turned around, someone was handing me one. Of course, all my Polish friends gave something up for Lent on the following day, unlike me). I went out drinking - as usual - that Paczki Day night and the bartenders were even giving them out to the revelers. While beer and paczki may seem like Heaven Version 6.5 in theory, I found the practice to be less than agreeable. Paranoia of Provoked Privileges: I looked up twee on the internet and four of the links listed on my first page of results were B&S related. So ... I hope no one minds that I substituted twee-full content for B&S content (I am fairly certain that eating any pastry while drinking would be considered at least a bit twee ... hmm ... did I mention I was wearing a light blue cardigan sweater at the time?). I'm not sure if this substitution is officially sanctioned procedure but it does seem to be a fairly common practice. This Post has been brought to you by the letter P, Stewart [Amour Fou is always illegal, whether it's disguised as a marriage or a boyscout troop--always drunk, whether on the wine of its own secretions or the smoke of its own polymorphous virtues. It is not the derangement of the senses but rather their apotheosis--not the result of freedom but rather its precondition. - Hakim Bey] _________________________________________________________________ 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: London Pre-gig Picnic Announcement (pt 1)
by Dimitra Daisy 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

The general plan goes as follows: For those coming from exotic places all over the country/continent, and anyone else not working on that day: The picnic is at Green Park. Meet at the park entrance opposite the tube exit under the same name -it seems easy even to me- at (around) 2 pm, which means sometime between 2 and half 2. We'll try not to be late this time. Very hard. Then we'll walk to some place in the park (currently the plan is to walk to the bandstand), and have a picnic till about 5ish. Anyone wanting to join us between half two and five, phone me (+30 932 757685), Rachel Sunnyset (07836 788928), Greg (07903 097867), or Archel (07944 074873), and we'll give you directions/come and pick you up. If it's raining I guess we'll meet at the tube station itself, then probably walk to the nearest pub. Which is what we'll do after five or so, so if you want to join us then just call/text us. Then sometime (quite early seeing as some among us are obsessed -not me) we'll leave that pub/other place we might be in and take a wee ride on the tube to Brixton, find Brixton Academy and wait patiently for Belle and Sebastian to go on stage. (Maybe wait impatiently for Life Without Building to go offstage too). Picnic Mummy Archel told me she might look around the area tomorrow and come up with a more definite plan, so wait for part 2. Bye from me, see you soon, Dimitra Ps Green Park was chosen after much thinking, because: a) it's central, b) it seems easy to find c) it's on Victoria line, where Brixton is too d) it's said to be nice e) it might be the park from Martha meet Lawrence Frank and Daniel that me and Rachel were dreaming of having a picnic in, though it probably is the one next to it. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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: A Cockroach on the Wheel (l. cohen)
by toy stephen 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Infidel and Hope on the Meat Wheel ----------------------------------- At work on Easter Sunday (which is unholy enough), I think I'll fill out my tax forms. As I poured coffee into my mug, I saw the dead cockroach belly-up on the floor and had an epiphany: if I dare to do my taxes on Easter Sunday, I'll either be reincarnated as this beastie here, or suffer being cast as the evil one ejected by Jesus from the synagogue when history replays itself. I'll post to Sinister. That's holy, that'll help my soul progress on the quivering meat wheel, won't it? sex sex sex ----------- I don't observe Easter Sunday really. It's an important day, I think; it might be one of those few days left that inspires --gasp -- reverence in people. The ritual of spring affects me more now than the memories of Sunday school Easter bible stories. the resurrection of the wine god. youthful stirrings. and everywhere you look in Nature, sex sex sex (unless youre lookin into my bedroom window which, by the way, if you are, why not come in? I've been watching the mating dance closely and I've got the steps down: I shake my rump feather, and flit away, you chase me, I squawk and chirp, you don't give a damn, and you try some more, with a persistence that's not ashamed of itself -- Nature gives you license). Belle and Sebastian Anonymous -- Can I see some flesh? ------------------------------------------------------ Apart from my one friend Rachel I don't know any blood-and-flesh B&S fans. I mean, I'm sure you all really have blood-and-flesh, but none I can see. Rachel tries her hardest, last night she made impressive use of a broom, a jug of laundry detergent, the plastic softening ball for the washer, and a cutting board for melody while we danced to Sinister. As I walked her home, I resorted to an amplified squawking of Sinister songs, hoping to see the head-jerk reaction of a stranger who recognised such a foreign language. It feels like that sometimes: running off a few lyrics as if they were words of your native tongue that no one seems to understand in this oasis. Sigh. Does anyone else strategically drop lines, like say, when passing a girl walking in the opposite direction? Well-wishes for the lucky concert-goers -------------------------------------- Buon divertente to the Edinburgh Sinisterines seeing the show tomorrow. I'm sure with Monica Queen you'll get a perfect version of Lazy Line Painter Jane. Remember too April Fools Day. Maybe you should dress Goth-like, long black trenchcoats and loadser dark mascara, and give the Belles a start by chanting 'Nine Inch Nails! Nine Inch Nails! before they come on. Just to take the piss like. Like Ken enthused, it's good practise for the release of Storytelling. Tony Blair as Jesus Christ? --------------------------- Sad to hear the Queen Mother died. I cynically thought for a moment that they faked the death, so PM Blair could stage some kind of Lazarus resurrection in time for Easter Sunday, and rescue the faltering PR machine of New Labour. I'm definitely going to end up as that cockroach. I know it. resurrections and pease, t.s. p.s.: your haiku dose: A combo: mud and Snow -- the young girl is perplexed. Memory. Desire. p.p.s.: has anyone read Niall Griffiths? I finished _Grits_ yesterday and loved it. Very much like The Perks of Being a Wallflower. __________________________________________________ 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: Tickets for Edinburgh
by crockery.org 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi there I have two standing tickets for Edinburgh tommorow. Due to ill health, I would like to try to swap them for seated tickets. Especially if Stuart does another raffle, which seemed to take half an hour last time. Might be too much for someone in delicate health. Anyone interested, can you mail me off the list? Cheers Linda +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 2 Brixton Tickets Available
by gareth.jenkinson＠btinternet.com 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Have two spare tickets for Brixton. Genine and slighty tragic reason for sale involving Rachel and the Fall from Horses. Available for collection in Salisbury or will send by Royal Mail Special Delivery on Tuesday, guaranteed to arrive Wednesday am. Offers by email to this address and NOT the list, please. cheers gareth +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
by anakin_sky＠gmx.net 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

it´s easter sunday and the sun is not shining but still it´s quite warm, and i´m listening to the jazzanova radio show via the internet, and it´s lovely. tonight there´s gonna be a special nine hour jazzanova show on radio multikulti which probably none of you will be able to listen to as i suppose there aren´t any berlin or even german people on the list (or are there?). can you fall out of love with someone you keep seeing? i´d have thought it to be possible, but i´m not so sure anymore, cause this has been going on for so long... what is it with men that they say they´re not in love with you but still keep on telling you all sorts of nice and sexy things and how fantastic you are and stuff? i don´t understand. one moment i feel strong and think i can be all cool and distant towards him, next moment i am so desperate i even consider asking him to sleep with me once, just to feel close to him. god, this is killing me. i´m going to rotterdam next weekend to see belle & sebastian, alongside four tet and david kitt and others. gonna be nice. need this. steppin out a bit. how i envy all of you london peeps that are going to see camera obscura tonight... but then i envy london people almost every day, as there´s always some good band to see... anakin -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Queen Mum Addendum
by Sam Walton 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Xfm has just played "Demons" by Fatboy Slim featuring Macy Gray as part of their "more suitable" music schedule. This surely shows that somebody out there has a sense of humour - the opening lyrics appear to be "They said she had a heart attack/ It seems the witch ain't coming back". It's moments like this which suggest that there's somebody out there looking after things... love Asm.x P.S. !!!STOP PRESS!!! As I'm pressing send, what song appears on Xfm, but Slow Graffiti - my favourite B&S one. Perhaps life ain't so bad after all. ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ 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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Sinister: Wolstenholme, Milligan and Moore R.I.P.
by Sam Walton 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

The Queen Mum just died. "Just" as in "recently", not "just" as in "simply". She died this afternoon at quarter past three, and now, five hours later, every broadcasting station across the land has changed its schedules to run obituaries for the poor girl, or just to play "more suitable" music. My mother commented "They've even shifted Blind Date! Bloody hell - I hope it's not going to be like Diana again", and with that, without realising it, probably made the most poignant piece of social commentary of the day. I'm not writing this post to say that the mourning of a dead person for whome lots of people care is a Bad Thing, I'm just saddened that people are making such a huge fuss over *this* death. Over the last 6 weeks, three famous-ish people died, making little more ripple in the cultural water than a column on page 17 in The Sun. This trio was Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore and Kenneth Wolstenholme (the commentator responsible for "They think it's all over... it is now!"). I would argue really quite strongly that these three men did more in their time on the planet for Britain's national cultural heritage than the Queen Mum ever did, but because they weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouths, their scant obituaries will become tomorrow's chips wrapper. Don't worry though, I'm not going to embark on an anti-royalist diatribe. I recognise that the Queen Mum's death is also a symbolic one - to a lot of people she was the last standing bastion of the Establishment, of the Royal Family as it *was*. So with her gone, we're now left with Princesses who write poor chilren's books for tax right-off reasons and Princes who do dodgy dealings with TV companies. And Prince Philip. Also, there's something really quite admirable to having a life which lasts for 101 years. I'd be proud it. I'm simply posting because as the schedules change from Stars In Their Eyes to The Life & Times Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and from the White Stripes to Morcheeba, it makes me feel a bit sad. Sad because somebody died, but also because a death like this simply serves to accentuate what a shame it is that people who made something of *themselves* are forgotton for someone who was always destined from birth to have a "celebrated" life. love, Asm.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ 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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Sinister: How socially unacceptable is a mullet?
by mummy i've grazed my knee 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

MULLET It's playing on my mind today. I woke up this morning, looked in the mirror and saw a perfectly formed and carefully pruned mullet. Will I be mobbed by the Brixton hoards? I don't understand where it's come from, as I had a 'normal' haircut not too long ago, but for some reason the back seems to be growing twice as fast as the front. If I bring some scissors to the picnic, will someone sort it out for me? HELLO KIDS It's been a long time. I haven't kept up very well, relying on Messers Walton and Titchener to keep me up to speed. It's been a busy time, but you don't really want to know all the stuff I've been up to and I can't really remember to tell you, so everyone's happy. ACADEMY I thought only Australia had academies for things? Don't they send kids there age 2 when their parents think that the way they threw a Farley's rusk on the floor means they're going to be good cricketers/footballers/rugby players/swimmers etc etc etc? Why is there one of these in Brixton? What am I likely to learn? Who are the So Solid Crew? I must say, it's all rather exciting. I will be tottering down on my own to meet up with the rest of the York Sinister Massive and take part in some Ribena based antics. I was listening to the Belfast gig last night to get me in the mood, but i just got a shudder down my spine every time i heard Lamacq comment on 'how amazing that version of The Model was'. Does it bother anyone else, or is it just me? LONELINESS OF A...LONELY STUDENT I will be spending Easter in my house, on my own, just like I've spent the last week, and will spend the next three weeks. I haven't spoken to anyone for three days and I think I'm going insane. If anyone is passing through York, PLEASE come and see me. I need company. My greatest pleasure at the moment is wheeling the wheely bin to the end of the drive and back. 'MODERN' MUSIC Hannah was talking about some new fangled bands called Alfie and The Music. I don't understand what it is kids listen to these days. I'm fed up of being harassed by Alfie hoodie wearing swarms who object to my corduroy styles and slick mullet while the gentle melodies of the Field Mice and The Orchids fill my head. In York, we now have the first Oxfam to be solely dedicated to records and it's fantastic. Heavily overpriced, as Oxfam usually is, but it's for charity and there are some real gems. I got two Sarah albums for a tenner the other day. Whoooo!! Mr Halifax has a copy of that there Alfie record and it sounded like badly done hip hop to me...whatever hip hop is. OOOHHH!! I'm so excited about my trip to the smoke, I'll finish talking about it. As far as I'm aware it will be the largest YSM meeting in our nations capital. I hope they play some other live stuff that they didn't do on the last tour. They've had a bit of time to practice. See you on top of a lovely green hill on Wednesday. love Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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