April 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Century of lamers!
by Guðmundur Jóhannsson 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hello all! Hope you are enjoying your weekend! Did anyone perhaps put the B&S performance from Conan to a digital format? It´s pretty hard to get Conan here in Iceland so I have a little chance of seeing them. I ripped the Vancouver concert from justconcerts.com to a big mp3 file. If anyone wants it and has a fat internet connection just send me a line! Best of wishes! Gummi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Masters and servants, servants and masters
by Matthew Henderson 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

I'm leaving to the see the Super Furries in a bit, but I have to write a paper before I go. However, there is one thing I have to ask. For those of you who saw our lovely belles on Conan last night, was isobel not there? The cellist didn't look like her, but they never ever showed a closeup. They just cut right as the camera got onto her. But why would they sit a back-up musician so far away from the others? And in, what is genearlly, isobel's place? Is she not on the tour? I would also like to apologize for endorsing the Top 10 list thing. I did not realize it was against list rules. Come to think of it, I really don't remember that in the list rules. My mind is going in my old age, so I'm going to go reread them to refresh my memory before I do something else. However, you have to understand that many on the list are music geeks, and music geeks LOVE top 10 lists. It's just a can of worms that should never be opened. One last point, an old lady came into the record store where I work. She picked up the "I'm Waking Up to Us" 12" and asked what it was. I told her it was the newest Belle and Sebastian single. She told me that was her favourite breed of dog, and she promptly bought it. It's kind of endearing in a way, but I don't think she'll play it. I wonder if it could have gone to a better home. Ah well, it made her happy. Now if I can only explain the old lady who came in looking for deleted nine inch nails and smashing pumpkins singles...for herself. Red-faced with top 10s -Matt _________________________________________________________________ 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: work work work....chew chew chew
by idleberry 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hiya.. Its been a while since my last post, so a quick personsl recap on my life so far,for those of you who enjoy reading my posts and having a good old nosey about other peoples lives. (I bet you watch a lot of docu-soaps and fly on the wall type programmes too, don't you? Sinister I guess, is a bit like that sometimes). I've started a new job,working for The Scottish Parliament. I'm working in the Bills unit (making up Bills to be passed and argued by a bunch of MSPs and turned into laws and stuff.) Its quite an interesting job. We're up to all sorts of things, including creating one for children's rights, and one about windfarms, and one about improving train services, and one about litter, and one for prostitution tolerance zones. Its all quite interesting, sort of doing things that might affect the lives of everyone living in Scotland. Its not about arguing a case why a law or Bill should be passed, but collating information from all sources about the topic, which then goes on to help crate the Bill itself. I got to sit in a meeting two weeks ago with lots of MSPs. Lord James Douglas Hamilton was sitting in front of me, and I was taking notes for my boss. I had my notes on my lap, and kept dropping all my bits of paper under Lord James' seat. The novelty factor still hasn't waned yet. Theres a big x ray machine for visitors (like at airports) in reception, and theres lots of police wandering about who chat to us. I missed seeing the sniffer dogs on the first day back from recess unfortunately. And theres is underground tunnel between two of the buildings. Its quite odd, the other day, when I came back from lunch, and there was all these protesters standing outside my office. After five minutes of politely trying to get passed, I decided enough was enough and pushed my way through. Nobody was going to stop me from sitting at my desk eating my Marks and Spencer sandwiches. But then they were getting cars to toot their horns as they drove by, which was most annoying, as it put me off reading my horoscope in the Metro. Silly people anyway. There was no MSPs in my building. We're just ordinary joes and josphines, sitting doing background work with no influence over what goes on, and eating our lunch. I keep getting stopped in the street by people asking questions about the parliament or about Edinburgh in general, whenever I wear my seurity badge. I've taken to calling it my wierdo magnet, and not wearing outside the office anymore. I got some good news yesterday! I found out that I'm actually earning more than I was actually quoted by my agency when I took this job. Two grand more. Two grand can buy you an awful lot of belle and sebastian tea towels. In fact, you could probably buy one, and then when its dirty, throw it away and buy a new one. But I'm not really going to do that. I've also given up smoking. I went out last night with a bunch of pals, and went to dinner and then out to the Citrus CLub, where I shook my funky booty to lots of 70's and 80's punky alternative indie stuff. Was it called indie in the 70's? Anyway, I only had one lapse, one ciggarette, out of the whole evening, which is pretty good considering I'd usually smoke about twenty in a night. I've only given up for a week, but I'm still quite happy. I'm chewing nicotine gum like its oxygen. Seeing as theres been a top ten theme going on in sinister recently, I thought I'd add my own top ten. TOP TEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NICOTINE GUM AND CIGARETTES 1. Chewing nicotine gum is not seen as anti social, but smoking is. 2. You can chain chew and nobody comments on it. 3. Nobody gets upset it you chew the gum while other people are eating. 4. You can chew the gum in no smoking areas. 5. It costs �5 a pack, but a pack lasts me 4 days. And that works out as being �4.60 cheaper for every four days than cigarettes. 6. It doesn't smell, or make you smell, or make your clothes smell. 7. You can do it at your desk at work 8. Unlike menthol cigarettes, the minty taste of gum is a lot nicer. 9. Its not bad for your health, nor addictive. It has nicotine in it, but its not something you can transfer your addiction onto, it curbs the feeling rather than give you something new to get hooked on. 10. People are more approving of it than of cigarettes. I'm sure theres a lot of better reasons, but those are my ones. Anyway, better go... love idles ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Sinister: in the city with the chick and the hairy guy
by scooby * 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

am reading emails and watching pepsi chart show(waiting for 'popular'! sad but true) and it said that 'in the city' by the jam is being re-released next week in limited copies and at original price , also on subject of all things retro>> please read 'the rotters club' by jonathon coe<< his best yet scooby xx ps the temporary anarchy was fab _________________________________________________________________ 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: exploding starfish
by Dean Gillon 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hello everybody. Well i don't know. I was thinking about my top ten postings (I'd like to add smashing pumpkins - siamese dreams and pavement - crooked rain cooked rain) and i know it's against the rules and a bit of a boring post. I'm sorry to anyone who got a bit pissed off about it, I won't do it again, and here's a top ten list of reasons why I won't - only kidding! Then again, it did get quite a few responses and I did get a lot of ideas for new music to buy. Cat stevens (sp?) will be investigated! (Thanks to Caitlin for her support) I realise the group is for other stuff apart from music but surely music is the main reason and the subject matter in most posts. Fair enough, all I'm saying is I know I shouldn't have posted it but no harm done *smile*. I'm hungover and want to go to the pub again - have i got a problem? anybody want to join me? I'll be in the southfield at about 2ish, probably playing pool. see you later sandinistas Dean XXX __________________________________________________ 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: seeking a man who's either rich or using an accent
by juju fox 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

halo sinister. this will be short, as i just stayed up to watch conan, and am now going to sleep with dreams of sugary stu dancing in my head. b&s were grate as expected. my tv usually doesn't get decent reception on major networks, especially on rainy april nights when there's a full moon. somehow the rabbit ears worked wonders tonight, and i watched happily along with my cat harrison as the sweetest working band alive crooned onscreen. also on my side: housemate was out, so my sporatic outbursts such as "stevie, you're soo cute!" and "aw, sarah!" did not disturb... it was a keen surprise to find a former crush, alan cumming, was a guest as well. the boys at work used to giggly incessantly whenever i'd speak his name... i never did understand it. *sigh* single white fox seeking scottish love, juju __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.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: B&S on TV
by Tsong 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Man I was kind of disappointed that they played I'm Waking Up to Us... I didn't really like that song... And it wasn't like, a catchy song people play on TV... I guess that's good... If they played like The Model or something people would probably run out and buy their albums and stuff... I'd rather them stay aloof. -Elsa +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dot dash dot
by KevShindig＠aol.com 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

The surreal high point of my day was the Greek pizza joint. I work for a television station in Boston, and today I had to get up at a ridiculously early hour and set up video equipment to record a Superior Court Hearing. It involved a lot of waiting around for things to start, but I did manage to finish reading Aimee Bender's "An Invisible Sign of My Own" during all of it (really, really great book.....but you probably already knew that). After more work-related tomfoolery, I was really, really hungry. Spending nearly all my cash on an ill-conceived plan to see as many Belle and Sebastian live shows as possible next month (200 dollars for second row seats in Boston? Sign me the hell up!) has left me a bit on the broke side, so my options were basically pizza or gumballs. At the pizza stand (I'd had gumballs for breakfast) the jaunty Greek fellow who ran the establishment saw me emerge from the work-mobile, with the big t.v. station logo on the side. He then proceeded to harangue me, at len gth, about satellite television stations. Sometimes in Greek, sometimes in English. I caught about every, oh, fifth word. I did not, however, want to appear impolite, so I tried to nod a lot and interject with positive, non-commitall statements like, "Boy, I hear that!" and "You ain't just whistling dixie, Bucko!" This seemed to get him even MORE animated, and he shouted "Do you know how many people in Greece watched the American Superbowl?", then he paused, as if he expected me to answer. After a too-long silence he blurted, "TWO AND A HALF MILLION!" "Wow", I responded, not knowing what else to say. I was enjoying the good-natured back-and-forth with my new pal, but all this human interaction was, admittedly, keeping him from giving me the slice of pizza which, at this point, I was anticipating so much that I kept singing the bit in the Turbonegro song "The Age of Pampirus" where they yell, "So you say you want a piece of pizza? WELL NOT LIKE THIS!!!" over and over in my head. I figured the only way to really kill the conversation was to explain, in great detail, the plot of a comic book I had read when I was elementary school (which has stuck with me lo these many years in the parts of my brain where, say, the ability to tell right from left should be) wherein the culinary dish known as "pizza" was invented by the evil G.I. Joe villain Serpentor during one of his past lives. I didn't actually tell the pizza guy this; I figured he'd find it boring (luckily, I have no such compuctions now!) but between the Turbonegro song and the comic book plot and the instinctual parts of me screaming "HUNGRY!" my brian was getting pretty noisy. "I'm sorry", I told him, "I really have to go." I took my pizza slice and left. I've had better, but not recently. Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: staging the plagueing of the top ten list / fancy a quick one? re-visited BABY!
by Mikesjobeck＠aol.com 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

une. "if your feeling sinister" by > belle and sebastian its probably tacky to confess this on the "sinister" list ? but truely such an impressive collection of sound melody and lyrical charm... much more resembling dream soaked settings of sorts, that un-fold so perfectly well from the opening "stars of track and field" to the brilliant closing "judy and the dream of horses" well i wonder? are these very images that accompany each particular song near to what runs through some of your own minds??? my favorite record of all time!!!! deux. "hatful of hollow" by THE SMITHS although "the queen is dead" which appeared 2 years after, is almost unanimously considered their greatest artistic achievment! its this one that really kills me! bah!! The greatest quotable record of all-time!!! trois. "exile in guyville" by LIZ PHAIR Coming out in 1993, this one exploded on to that post-grunge scene...! 18 tracks of pure terror from a young mans point of view!!! but i sure loved these songs...! esp. > "fuck and run" and "help me mary please" quatre. "either/or" by ELLIOTT SMITH a junkies christmas on earth! but even if you don't fuck with the spoon elliott will be sure to let you know your in for it good for being strong and choosing love instead "between the bars" :/ cinq. "agaelis byrjun" by SIGUR ROS maybe it helps not to understand these peculiar icelandic words??? but YES! they do sound like a family of crying whales lost in a mysterious, fogladen sea... and for some reason, this rather appeals to me...? six. "another green world" by BRIAN ENO like sigur ros, all these seemingly otherworldly compositions provoke the soul to action!!! if your a creative artist, you will understand this completely... sept. "nowhere" by RIDE i was in love at the time!! and I met her on one of those streaking trains with the full moonlight splashed all over us...! "as the train rushes past, like a life gone to fast" huit. "mars audiac quintet" by STEREOLAB what would a top ten list be worth without including these damn socialists!!! neuf. "crooked rain, crooked rain" by PAVEMENT not only a hilarious poke in your face towards the establishment, the man, the cops, the heat, the fuzz but a smashing collection of tunes as well.......! dix. "thank god for mental illness" by THE BRIANJONESTOWN MASSACRE this record cost them barely $17.27 to record! one of these tracks has been covered by the dandy warhols and on another, while it was being recorded in the studio the singer gets a huge extension cord and goes streaking into the middle of hollywood bvd. shouting bible quotes to the horrified passer byes :/ sorry... this won't happen again. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: good music, good sites
by Zoe 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Hello again!Remember me? So, yeah. I have just peeled myself off the sofa after watching Jools Holland. I had decided not to watch his show because it makes me depressed as it features GRRRRRRREAT bands that I want to see but I can't or have seen and want to see again and again and again and again...you get my point. BUT, as I was flicking after watching BBC24-that boring...sigh- he was talking to Patti Smith and I couldn't resist. She's amazing methinks;I had the pleasure of seeing her live a few years ago and she was fantastic. Anyhow back to Live with Jools Holland, she then went on to perform Dancing Barefoot, a great song which it is lucky to have been covered very nicely indeed by U2 methinks again. But the unexpected was a song by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -no bass, but piano by Holland...and there I was thinking shit-shit-shit-my-stupid-money-problems-£123-overdrawn-stupid-Zoe-ARGH!(I'm sure this isn't making any sense...)What I'm trying to say is that Mr. Spencer swung his sexy hips and boogie-woogied like hell doing all the rockabilly moves that I'm sure he practices in front of a mirror ,that had him on Mr. Holland's piano doing the all-time-r'n'r move of being on his knees while his guitar was masterfully abused and I was wishing I HAD gone to THAT gig in Athens in 1997 and then THAT gig in Manchester in 2002. Still, life is great. I will definitely miss Jools Holland in summer-unless he's not on which then makes it ok. OH! I want to tell you now about this ...thing I discovered-even though I am sure that quite of you will know about. OK, here goes. There is this web-design company called hi-res!- www.hi-res.net- that has made , amongst others, sites for films like Requiem for a Dream and The Business of Strangers and is responsible for Playstation 2. These guys do amazing stuff that have you gripped on your desk. They, also, have an experimental site called Soulbath- www.soulbath.com - which is MY FAVOURITE SITE EVER! In summer 2000, and as I was enjoying the then newly discovered fun of surfing the net I somehow ended up in soulbath. I never bookmarked and then I came back to the UK and then had my pc shipped over but it came broken and lalalala..the point is I had forgotten the address. So the other day my neighbour tells me about a way cool site of a film called Donnie Darko- www.donniedarko.com - which I visited and then went on to enter the site of the designers and lo and behold it was them! I know this is a confusing story but I was so happy. In soulbath apart from various installations they have that thing where you can use your keyboard to make music there and then. But you have to explore the place really well. It's got more stuff than you think. I suggest it. OK. I won't go on more. I just really wanted to share these really cool stuff. Many kisses Zoe +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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