March 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: A cautionary note about love and music
by Sunny set 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Music. Some music grabs you. You listen to it over and over until you fix each line and each lyric in your memory. It's a compulsion. The song rolls around in your head like a broken record demanding to be understood, to be memorized to be given life by you. Greedy music, selfish music it competes for attention at the expense of other songs. Finding such a track is exciting. A new compulsion to occupy your thoughts. Quickly through repeated listenings you learn the outline of a song. Enough to lessen the urgency of your addiction. Your brain focuses in on specifics. Lazily noticing the odd phrase that it had bypassed. Taking pleasure from small victories. Eventually as is inevitable there comes a time when there are no more surprises. The song rolls on, a comfortable, well loved, well understood tune. A long the way it loses something. The mystery and the excitement of the first hearing are no longer there. You start to listen to other music and forget about that much loved extraordinary song. Love. Sometimes you fall in love. I first fell in a small room with bricks that were painted blue. It happened sometime in that first week of meeting. Lying on the bed listening to the Trash Can Sinatras album "A Happy Pocket". That was our album. He had bought a few days before we met. We would spend hours in that room. The light would fade from mid afternoon to early evening. The small cassette player would temperamentally sing out our songs. Occasionally stopping in its paint splattered tracks to chew up a cassette or two. We lay next to each other talking and reading and just being together. Together on the single bed with music and the biro on the wall where he had anxiously written something for fear he might forget it by the time he found paper. We moved to rooms with more space and double beds and wall paper. We moved further apart. The urge to be in each others company subsided somewhat. But we still loved each other. We still found the odd surprise that would remind us why we were in love in the first place. That look on his face when he gave me that ring. That impulsive hug he gave while we were walking down the street. We knew each other well. We could read each other like an open book. I knew if he was lying to me. He knew when I was too tired or worried to talk reasonably. But somewhere along the line, a line that now nearly stretched 4 years, we stopped wanting to understand. We stopped wanting to remember the reason we were in love. We fell out of love. An unhappy end to the story. Don't let love slip away. Old songs can be re-found and re-loved. Old love can never be reclaimed. Take Care, Rachel _________________________________________________________________ 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: sinister is law -- YOU ARE CRIME
by Rener 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

hello all, i've been listening to the Hives recently. they're GRATE. in fact, they are my new favourite band (well, not really, but it was too good a line to waste). they're coming to dublin in may, and i will be there, admiring their impeccable dress sense. i like bands with a sense of humour ... but not joke bands, which are completely different and somewhat annoying. as usual i've left it too long between postings and all the mails i'd intended to say something about are too old. gah. i have read every mail, though, and basically yer all fab. just one or two things that i can squeeze in (missus) before i go home for my tea: stewie louie ratatouille's mention of Singles Awareness Day and Commodify Your Love-Life Day made me laugh -- I also am in full support of open hostility to manufactured holidays. personally i'm looking forward to Patronise Anyone With A Set Of Ovaries Day ... oh wait, that was last friday wasn't it? i enjoyed robster's photos, stacey dahling's too, and liz's. brighton looked bluddy cold. welcome to oscar (nice dramatic intro to the world of B&S there!), and gudmundur too. and anyone else who's new. astrid is very lucky indeed to have snogged all of the strokes. do they appear black and white in real life as well? i suspect they do. hannah reminded me of how fab Underworld are. their first album (with darren emerson, not that scary-looking mid-80s one) is still my favourite post-club chilling-out album. mmmm skyscraper ... i've just read sophia katrina's mail about australia's sins. i saw a bit of a program recently about aborigine children who were taken from their parents and reared in horrible-sounding orphanages. the program tracked down some of the children, now adults whose lives have somehow never worked out and who have never got over the trauma of being (often brutally) taken away from their parents for no other reason than that they were aborigines. as the camera followed them, recorded their conversations, there was such a sense of lost potential and lives wrecked beyond repair, which i found terribly sad. ken and carsmile mentioned horse racing, which reminds me of my night out at greyhound racing last week with my workmates. in the first race there was a dog called - wait for it - Sebastian's Earl! ah hah, i thought, this must be lucky. so i put two euros on him to win .... and he came last, the pathetic pooch. bah. don't go gambling, my friends, it is a mug's game. i'll try to write more next time ... begob, here's me bus! rener ===== "Do not teach the world to sing. They'll only start singing" -- Jane Bussman __________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: Damn you High Fidelity, Damn you to a closed sheep pen!
by Red Geisha 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Jack Black didn't dismiss the band (as far as I know) outside of the film - his character may have. And if I remember correctly the other two characters liked B&S. I have not encountered anyone who watched the film and dismissed B&S, although it's a shame they weren't on the soundtrack. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if the film did a lot for the Beta Band. In an age where we can get samples at our fingertips and download asap - it's rather easy to investigate new music without spending $ on something that may collect dust. Jack Black's band Tenacious D is no stranger to horrible reviews :) >From: Adam Leier <al717(a)nyu.edu> >Reply-To: Adam Leier <al717(a)nyu.edu> >To: sinister(a)missprint.org >Subject: Sinister: Damn you High Fidelity, Damn you to a closed sheep pen! >Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:06:53 -0800 > >Has anyone else encountered fellow humans who automatically >dismiss Belle and Sebastian just becasue Jack Black has told >them to do so in the seething High Fidelity? It's really quite >infuriating, just like the times i dismissed The Strokes as >telephone-talking Television ripoffs and Stephen Malkmus' cd as >Diet Lou Reed. If even I can come around do you think it's possible >these unfortunate souls will? >Adam >(AOLIM=BlurryBoy13) > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world^Òs 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: re: high fidelity
by Andrea Kittenmouse 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

hi there, re: the issue of people not liking b&s because jack black told them they suck, well, to me, that is ok. b&s is my fave always, of course, but everyone i know, even if they like them a little bit, makes fun of them so much that it would creep me out if they all started to like the band now. plus it was funny that they made a joke about them in the movie. i can't really explain why. i guess it's that they bothered to mention them at all in a movie that was cool at the time. -andrea _________________________________________________________________ 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: re rule the 6th form!
by will haigh 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

hi there to everyone at sinister, this is my first post so hope it goes well. im lovely benny, bunny apps little brother, well not so little.....but neva mind. so ive got a ticket for the april gig and i was just wondering who was going? somebody said there was gonna be a meet-up that day which could be cool. a guy called nafees got in touch with me about the gig, anyone else going in a group? well, the weather today has been utter pants, but i suppose thats the problem with living in derbyshire. sixth forms crap and im wondering how i came to the decision of 'its good for me', im thinking of packing it all up and making my own films. on a brighter note, rachel fruitloops gonna be in the country in about 5 days so it will be good to meet her, anyone that can shut my brother ups got to be good! (just kiddin bro) so, big shout out to mr ken chu, (coz he sounds cool with a capital  K) _________________________________________________________________ Join the world^Òs 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: who doesn't remember their first time?
by Jennifer F 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Greetings to everyone out there; this is my first post. Although I seem to write better after a few glasses of red wine, late at night, Im trying it out here, at work, after a cup of Earl Grey, early in the morning. Well see what difference it makes. Ive done far too much thinking lately, thinking about how long Ill be living in Chicago, about when Im going to decide to go for my PhD, about how much longer Ill stay in this job, to which I have no ties. Also been thinking too much about love, which has eluded me for far too long. Made a corny pact to myself to find someone before my 25th birthday in October but am questioning both the pathetic-ness and the plausibility of that pact. The closest Ive gotten to achieving the goal has been during messily awkward fumblings with a male friend, after establishing that there will be no "us." We all know how those episodes turn out. So Ive got to put a stop to that and find a new playmate. A psychic I saw a few weeks ago during a trip to New York, NY told me Id meet a man with the name David very soon. So far, no good. Where is my David? Will keep you posted (can you wait?). The dry weather inside my Chicago apartment has wreaked havoc on my skin. I find scaly patches on my arms, and feel my skin stretch tight after I dry off from my shower each morning. To counteract this, I apply moisturizer (as one does) both on my face and on my limbs. After getting ready in the morning, my face is transformed from crusting with mild flakiness to glowing with dewiness. Then, approximately 10 minutes after I get out into public, the dewiness turns sebaceous and Im like an oily teenager again. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever feel adult. And then I think I wont ever want to. Its incredible the volume of mails I get from the Sinister list. I foolishly jettisoned them into an email folder for three days and am now plowing my way through 47 separate messages. How may people will plow their way though mine? Doesnt matter much, I suppose. And now for my credentials: been listening to B&S for about 5 years now, am going to see them in Chicago and at Coachella, have never seen them before. I cannot wait. Jennifer {To know me better: its4me.diaryland.com} _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.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: nice month for a sulk
by Kenneth P Y Chu 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Is March a sad month to be in? Or just a month for retrospective thoughts? Personally for me this month is a good month, when winter is finally (more or less) over. This winter seems to have gone especially quickly, too. I suppose I'm finally away from academia, and hence away from the torment of the exams of winter, the queuing up outside examination halls, in the cold winter days, and the lonely walks home in the snow. This winter, I think I have only exclaimed "Gahhh it's fucking cold" about 10 times, normally the figure's around 100, which means either I've turned superhuman and now in possession of an extraordinary tolerance for the cold, or global warming is going it's crafty work, or that I've been pissed out of my brain a lot more often than in the yesteryears. Dimitra denoted her sentiment that after Easter all there is left is counting of days until the summer arrives. I think that she is correct up to a point but I feel that if you go out and make something happen then maybe things won't be looking so bleak. It's spring and it gets warmer outside, the day gets longer and the pubs are open. I have a feeling that I'm going to have a lot of fun. And there were talks of patriotism and rememberance of a country with an ignoble history. The purpose of history is to reference the past in order to not repeat mistakes, rather than to dwell on about the bygones. Things that happened have happened, sweeping things under the carpet isn't right, but remembering doesn't mean that you cannot move on, and change the bit you can change that is the future. The funniest thing I saw this week was when I was travelling on a Jubilee Line train on the London Underground, which had, mounted on the wall a really really old London Underground train map, on which it said "Jubilee Line - Under Construction", a funny week I've had. Earl Sheridan d' Orange said that horse racing is cruel and untwee, it's true. Horse on wheels racing, now we're talking, when those horseys break their legs cos they're too crap to jump a bloody fence, we give them bionic wheels with a big motor, with a high horse power, and watch them go wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, still won't jump them bloody fences though, not without a ramp. Oh now I really want my own remote control horse. There was used to be a horse called "Young Kenny" at the Grand Nationals, but it never won, useless, much like its namesake. Horses and Red Bulls Ken _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.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: Lovely, lovely Copenhagen
by Rebecca Wright 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

To anyone too fidgety to wait a fortnight for the UK gigs and with more time & money than is good for them, I have a spare ticket for the Copenhagen concert. Becky PS. It's my birthday today! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: And they're off!
by Stephen Hewitt 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

ello babies yes, it's that time of year again, following last year's foot and mouth cancellation, for the annual "sinister takes a punt on the cheltenham festival" email. basically we go through all the horses at the world's GRATEest national hunt festival (ie Cheltenham, this week tues to thur), find the ones with the twee-est and/or sinister-related names and see how they do. here are tuesday's picks: 2.00 Scottish Memories (i think a lot of us have them ;)) 2.35 Mr Cool (no horses called KEN, i'm afraid) 3.15 Chimes at Midnight (nice PF reference) 3.55 Robbo (is he still on here?) 4.30 Sad Mad Bad (say no more, teehee) 5.05 either Celtic Pride or Barba Papa (mmm, obscure tv reference) in other news, I'M MOVING TO LONDON!!! mrs carsmile has got a job in the new borders in islington, so it's the big smoke for me in the next six weeks or so, blimey... also, i *might* have another spare brixton ticket, not sure yet, give me a shout if you need one and i'll let you know in a day or two :) giddy up horsey! xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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...can't...stop...listening...
by Matthew Henderson 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Oh dear God. This internet cafe is playing the most terrible music. It's a horrid techno-trancy-thing and they keep playing it OVER and OVER again! These cheesy synths and the boring beat. I just bought a Slumber Party album at an avalanche, but I can't reach into my bag to pull out my cd player. I don't know why. I just...can't. On the plane yesterday, I watched the Royal Tenenbaums. It lacks something on a 7 inch screen in pan and scan. And in the "Judy is a Punk" montage of gwyneth, the big black box was a bit distracting as well. Still didn't sleep. gigs soon. sleep as well. worthless post. perhaps i should include dumb gibberish as i'm likely to do. actually, i already have. GOOD NEWS!!! the Atlanta duty free shop had LUCKY STRIKE FILTERS!!! I was so happy! I bought two cartons (tins)! I'm set for life! life=2 weeks! God, it's windy. -Matt _________________________________________________________________ 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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