May 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Iechyd da fy ffrindiau tlws...
by John Jennings 02 May '02

02 May '02

gordon bennett i haven't posted for ages. actually i've been ignoring all sinister related stuff for ages. i've had a lot of work don't y'know. its looks like i missed another one of those civil war things you lot erupt into every so often. probably just as well. anyways... i'm getting excited about the new b&s album now... i've given in to the ever present temptation of the songs being on audiogalaxy and given myself a bit of a preview of some of them... i don't want to play football is grate... i've also been told (by claudia and others; thanks people) that the live songs i was giving around and trying to put a name to some time last year were fuck this shit and big john shaft. so there you go. and thats the b&s content for today kids... the people on the cinerama message board are talking about horses with cinerama album names... should be all bunch together and buy a horse called the state i'm in? maybe? ok maybe not. ahem. i was walking home today, as i do whenever i've been out, because bus drivers don't seem to like me and i've never taken the opportunities to learn to drive (also, its bluddy expensive)... and i was just walking down a nice little alley thing with a canopy of really tall trees over the top of it, and wild grasses on either side, which i like because just for a moment its like i live in the countryside, but then i come out the other side and i'm on the A6 london road with loads of choking traffic. sigh. anyway, it started raining and i heard the sound of rain on the top of those really tall trees and i thought about how, if i went deaf, thats one of the sounds i'd really miss, and how i probably wouldn't miss b&s at all, provided i still could look at the nice sleeves and remember what 'shes losing it' sounded like... nothing would remind me of those little things though, like the rain, because you never think about them otherwise.... sorry, i'm rambling. i know there are a few sarah obsessives around the place, and whilst i couldn't claim to be a bit sarah records fan, i really want a copy of the sarah 100 album... doesn't anyone know where i can find one? anyone? i'm not sure why i do this... don't post for ages, and then re-establish my sinister-ness by posting a load of crap that everyone ignores anyway. its probably something psychological. dum de dum. JP p.s. 'iechyd da...' besides being a drinking song (?!) is a gorky's lyric. they're brilliant them gorky folk. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Spare tickets for Toronto
by andrew andrew 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hey, If anyone is holding on to extra tickets for Toronto, please let me know, because there's a small list in my mind of people who'd like them. I'd be willing to trade for a Detroit tickets aswell. There might be two tickets for Detroit that we could swap. Cheers, Andrew __________________________________________________ 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: A Conspiracy Theory
by sgazzetti 02 May '02

02 May '02

Caitlin Pigtails recently wrote about conspiracy theories: >>>If two things look like coincidence, it's because they're related. If two things look similar, they must be the same. You go from there. Coincidences are the times when you didn't spot half what's going on>>> Hmmm. Could it be a coincidence that she brings up conspiracy theories just as I have come up with the biggest frighteningest conspiracy theory ever? There has been a spate of discussion on the list lately about the twin cults of personality surrounding Ken Chu and Laura Llew. And although these phenomena are sinister (pun obviously intended, but I mean it in the real meaning of the word), I have detected a whiff of something far more diabolical than a mere skinny self-deprecating girl-fancying bloke riding on trains and hoping to pull while distributing self-aggrandizing badges, or a literary Dot Parker type gathering a fawning Sinister coterie of Algonquin Round Table stand-ins; no, this goes far deeper than mere self-absorption and brainwashing on an individual level. I have come up with a theory that explains why these two have captured so much common imagination, and I will advance this hypothesis in all CAPS just in case some people READING this are not really paying ATTENTION/are still in bed: CHU AND LLEW ARE THE SAME PERSON! I could here trot out an immense trove of evidence in support of this theory by culling the archives and taking things out of context, but I think that on some subconscious level you all know I am right. I mean, first and foremost, THE NAMES RHYME. Is this a coincidence? This is a rhetorical question. Rather than living in North Carolina, USA, or the south of England, this one, single, monomaniacal being probably has his/her/its headquarters in a hollowed-out volcano guarded by Guns N Roses roadies, and a propaganda staff of mind-numbed sneaky scurrilous southern get slaves slaving away beneath productivity-enhancing mottoes stenciled on the walls, like You know a girl whos tax free on her back and making plenty cash or You will be working in the morning and I wont be there to see you go off your head. This single-minded attempt to hijack our affection and primal need to worship some deity should be abhorred on all levels, and in fact some international judicial body should step in to break up this cult monopoly, not unlike the Microsoft case currently under consideration. But resistance to the tentacles of the Chu-Llew axis must first come at the grassroots level. Burn your Ken Chu badges on the fire of history today! Tear your Laura Llew poems from your tear-stained diaries! Save yourselves-- JDS Conectate a Internet GRATIS con Yahoo! Conexión: http://conexion.yahoo.com.ar +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: dying for a ticket (or two)
by andrew utter 02 May '02

02 May '02

If anyone can help me out with a ticket for NYC Sunday or Monday, please let me know! Will pay handsomely (within reason). ----------------------------------------------- "Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." --Ludwig Wittgenstein _________________________________________________________________ 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: this is not a list!
by Marisa Privitera 02 May '02

02 May '02

but I did want to express my love for what I think is one of the greatest albums of all time.... I've been listening to it so much lately. PET SOUNDS by the Beach Boys. Its one of those albums that you discover over and over again on so many different levels. Its brilliant, really! There's all sorts of rumors about it. Supposedly Brian Wilson was dissatisfied with the music they were doing and wanted to do something else. He heard Sargent Pepper's and locked himself in his house. He didn't leave and he stopped talking to all his friends for a great period of time. People thought he had permanently withdrew and just when they were going to have an intervention he emerged with all the songs from Pet Sounds. I'm not even sure how much of that is true. I guess I'll have to wait for the 'Behind the Music' episode. I don't know if any of you like the beach Boys or not, but if you ever buy something, buy this one. Okay, that's all I wanted to say. Please don't start another string of top ten's because I'm afraid people will hunt me down for starting it. xo to all, Marisa __________________________________________________ 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: scurrilous
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 02 May '02

02 May '02

it's only 9 o'clock and so far this morning i have found an eyelash (not mine) in my danish pastry and have started to feel irrationally annoyed with isobel campbell. (these two things are not connected.) i can't really read posts which report back from gigs, i've found. i don't know why. maybe it's because a b&s show makes such a strong impression on me when i've directly experienced it, and i don't want to experience it second-hand. so, i guess i am dooming myself to skim-reading a large proportion of the coming posts and probably missing out on some really good jokes and stuff... i did read a post from matthew 'nouveau rock god' henderson about b&s tattoos - it would be just toooooo cringe-worthy to get any kind of tweepop themed tat, but if you did then the bus drawing, or the little boy with one finger up, are the best candidates i think. david went to see joe pernice and i wondered for the nth time if i will ever get to see him over here. sigh. it's only fair - we are exporting b&s after all. oh, and as for the truth about gay sex, it remains, i fear, beknown only to... actual gay people. as the participants in that programme were surely computer generated by a state-of-the-art stereotype machine. yesterday was a very interesting day. i wasn't really expecting a response to my note, as i couldn't imagine ian having the nous to work out who it was from. and i certainly wasn't expecting the response i got. at about midnight on tuesday night there was a heavy knocking at my door, and thinking that anyone who wouldn't use a perfectly good doorbell was obviously a couple of red bulls short of the full chu, i cautiously peeked out of my window. imagine my surprise when i recognised the gleaming bald head and leather tutu of george, an old friend from my days as coat check girl at 'torture garden' in brighton! i ran downstairs and let him (and the 3 young boys he had coiled around him) in. i made them all a cup of tea (george has given up the habit of taking his with goat blood, which was lucky as i was fresh out) and asked him what he was up to. 'well, i wouldn't expect you to know much about it, but it's all the internet for me these days. i'm raking it in.' 'oh yes?' i said. 'is it some site like friends reunited?' 'er.. not as such. more like strangers... bonding.' 'oh, like the sinister list?' once george had stopped laughing he told me what his line of business actually was. the boys gave me a quick demo of the merchandise they've just started selling online, and i ended up agreeing to buy a liquorice flavour whip and a pot of Crisco. finally i remembered to ask what they were actually doing round at my house. 'well', said george, 'it was the strangest thing. this guy phoned up for our thrills-on-wheels, in your own home service, as you do. but he was clearly drunk, raving about southern belles and covering them in desserts... or something. i was a bit surprised when he gave *your* address, but figured that after all, you'd had some pretty dodgy boyfriends in the past and maybe this was just another one trying to give you a nice present. oh, and he said he wanted eggs to be involved somewhere.' i couldn't believe it! what was ian's game? was he trying to get on my good side by offering me 24 hours of free sex games with some really very attractive, oiled young men? it seemed uncharacteristic. but then again, how could i expect sensible measures from a man who kept a nun tied up in his laundry room and had 1600 imaginary friends whom he regularly involved in his absinthe-fuelled fantasies? i decided to go with the flow, draw the curtains and surrender myself to the expert attentions of george and his acolytes. by wednesday afternoon i had learned several interesting uses for a dustbuster, but still had no idea what to do about ian. maybe i should just bide my time. after all, there is surely nothing his feeble mind could throw at me that i couldn't handle... 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: scurrilous
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 02 May '02

02 May '02

it's only 9 o'clock and so far this morning i have found an eyelash (not mine) in my danish pastry and have started to feel irrationally annoyed with isobel campbell. (these two things are not connected.) i can't really read posts which report back from gigs, i've found. i don't know why. maybe it's because a b&s show makes such a strong impression on me when i've directly experienced it, and i don't want to experience it second-hand. so, i guess i am dooming myself to skim-reading a large proportion of the coming posts and probably missing out on some really good jokes and stuff... i did read a post from matthew 'nouveau rock god' henderson about b&s tattoos - it would be just toooooo cringe-worthy to get any kind of tweepop themed tat, but if you did then the bus drawing, or the little boy with one finger up, are the best candidates i think. david went to see joe pernice and i wondered for the nth time if i will ever get to see him over here. sigh. it's only fair - we are exporting b&s after all. oh, and as for the truth about gay sex, it remains, i fear, beknown only to... actual gay people. as the participants in that programme were surely computer generated by a state-of-the-art stereotype machine. yesterday was a very interesting day. i wasn't really expecting a response to my note, as i couldn't imagine ian having the nous to work out who it was from. and i certainly wasn't expecting the response i got. at about midnight on tuesday night there was a heavy knocking at my door, and thinking that anyone who wouldn't use a perfectly good doorbell was obviously a couple of red bulls short of the full chu, i cautiously peeked out of my window. imagine my surprise when i recognised the gleaming bald head and leather tutu of george, an old friend from my days as coat check girl at 'torture garden' in brighton! i ran downstairs and let him (and the 3 young boys he had coiled around him) in. i made them all a cup of tea (george has given up the habit of taking his with goat blood, which was lucky as i was fresh out) and asked him what he was up to. 'well, i wouldn't expect you to know much about it, but it's all the internet for me these days. i'm raking it in.' 'oh yes?' i said. 'is it some site like friends reunited?' 'er.. not as such. more like strangers... bonding.' 'oh, like the sinister list?' once george had stopped laughing he told me what his line of business actually was. the boys gave me a quick demo of the merchandise they've just started selling online, and i ended up agreeing to buy a liquorice flavour whip and a pot of Crisco. finally i remembered to ask what they were actually doing round at my house. 'well', said george, 'it was the strangest thing. this guy phoned up for our thrills-on-wheels, in your own home service, as you do. but he was clearly drunk, raving about southern belles and covering them in desserts... or something. i was a bit surprised when he gave *your* address, but figured that after all, you'd had some pretty dodgy boyfriends in the past and maybe this was just another one trying to give you a nice present. oh, and he said he wanted eggs to be involved somewhere.' i couldn't believe it! what was ian's game? was he trying to get on my good side by offering me 24 hours of free sex games with some really very attractive, oiled young men? it seemed uncharacteristic. but then again, how could i expect sensible measures from a man who kept a nun tied up in his laundry room and had 1600 imaginary friends whom he regularly involved in his absinthe-fuelled fantasies? i decided to go with the flow, draw the curtains and surrender myself to the expert attentions of george and his acolytes. by wednesday afternoon i had learned several interesting uses for a dustbuster, but still had no idea what to do about ian. maybe i should just bide my time. after all, there is surely nothing his feeble mind could throw at me that i couldn't handle... 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: TICKETS!
by Sillylorna＠aol.com 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hi everyone. I cant help but notice an overwhelming amount of people who have ordered extra tickets and now have them spare, therefore causing the tickets to sell out quickly leaving others who want tickets shafted. You'll probably say it's because you have friends who would want to go but let you down. well if that's the case let them purchase them themselves. Last year before I joined any mailing lists I tried to order tickets to a b&s show and was refused cause they had sold out. I wonder how many of you had tickets lying in wallets going un used... Bye bye. Lorna +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: We do what we like (and we like what we do)
by Matthew Henderson 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hello again, I know I'm posting WAY too often, but there's just something I have to get off my chest. I know nobody really likes to be burdened with this sort of thing, and I know I'm probably an idiot for admitting something so personal to the (now) 1600 of you, but it's just got to be said: Andrew W.K.'s "I Get Wet" is one of the most refreshing album's I've heard in a while. It's fantastic. It all sounds the same, it's a 36 minute song. It's fun, it never tries to be anything that it's not, it's completely unpretentious, and it's got cheesy synth. Oh yes baby, when it's time to party, surely, we will party hard. I must give props to my dear dear friend Dimitra (whom I haven't spoken to in AGES) because she sent me a lovely mix cd and an I HEART KEN CHU badge, not to mention a melted chocolate bar from Greece. Now I can proudly display my love for Ken Chu all around town, and nobody will know what the hell it means. Plus, girls will think it's strange and they'll talk to me even less than they do. Of course, any girl worth knowing should love Ken Chu too, don't you think? I was talking with some relatively skanky girls earlier this evening (HI!) about TATs (better known as tatoos). I was wondering if any of you have a belle and sebastian related TAT. Is such a thing possible? What would you get tatooed that represents belle and sebastian. This why they need a logo. I've already expressed my desire for a large Blue Oyster Cult logo on my back. And it will say R.U.Ready 2 Rock. The coolest TAT I have ever seen is a pixelated 8-bit megaman. Now that was great. Anyway, I thought I'd let you know that This is your time to pay this is your judgement day. -Matthew W.K. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Buy my PA ticket!!! Quick!!!
by Ramesh Srivastava 02 May '02

02 May '02

I have to sell my Philadelphia ticket, as I have recently found out. Unfortunately, I found out today, so I must mail it overnight by tomorrow afternoon. Please email me back, it's face value, of course, and in the orchestra. I have to find it to verify he seat, but I think it's pretty good. By the way, thanks to evryone for the compassionate responses. I am absolutely amased at how wonderfully evryone has been, and I am glad to be reminded of the quality of life. I will write more about that later, as I feel I owe people a little more than that, it's just been really wonderful and appreciated. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________ 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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