June 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: I don't want to watch football...
by Robert Brennan 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

... It did, however, prove a lot more enjoyable than work on Friday afternoon. A successful penalty and the subsequent frantic defence in the second half provided more of a giddy thrill than data integrity problems ever could. But football's still a load of poo. So I bought Sorry Smelling at the weekend. Not sure whether I like it or not yet - I think it's a 'grower' which is good but the other albums grew on me in the time it took to play through once. Sign of a band maturing Y/N? Wandering Alone is nice though - it'd be right at home on Wake up to Wogan. This is a GOOD thing. Casarotto and Llew have both bigged-up Cat & Girl. This is because they wonderful human beings with impeccable taste - C&G does indeed rool. Dorothy Gambrell's site at http://wso.williams.edu:8000/~dgambrel/ is worth a peek as well. Especially the Thomas Pynchon paper dolls. So anyway, Robster http://liquid2k.com/robster75 __________________________________________________ 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: a discourse on brian mcbride, or, saying "hello"
by clairk＠carleton.edu 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Hello, sinister. My name's Kevin and this is my first post, and I'm pretty happy today. Right now I'm listening to the Dismemberment Plan, which always puts me in a good mood. I rather like their last album, and I think "The Face of the Earth" might be one of my favorite D-Plan songs now. I missed them when they toured with Death Cab For Cutie because it snowed that day and I couldn't drive to Chicago. Oh well, such is life. I'm done with school now, which is good because I don't have to deal with silly things like finals anymore, and those have pretty much dominated the last few days for me. Now I get to look forward to summer, which I'm spending right here in Minnesota. A bunch of my friends will be in town, and many of them will have cars so trips to the Cities will be plentiful. It's not Chicago but it's acceptable. I heard _Storytelling_ for the first time a few days ago. I wasn't expecting too much out of it, since it's a soundtrack and I heard from lots of critics that the movie sucked. Although I did like "Wandering Alone" when they played it at the Chicago show. But the songs were actually really good, and I guess as a whole the record exceeded my expectations even though the spoken bits are stupid. Now I just need to wait until Friday when I get my paycheck so I can actually buy it... I'm also happy because my World Cup teams are doing well. I'm following three closely; South Africa because I'm studying it to get my degree, Ireland because it runs in my blood, and the U.S. because I live here. The U.S. plays tonight, of course, and per tradition I'll be slaughtering my sleep schedule to stay up until 3:30 watching it. This has become a ritual for me of late; that Mexico-Ecuador game last night was better than I thought it might be after the first half when nothing happened. anyway. I'm getting longwinded. So much for brief introductions. ^_^; --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: What do you do when you think people have more fun when you're not around?
by Fernando Brito 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Hello! How are you, sinister?! I'm terrible! But I don't want to bother you with my problems anymore... so this is going to be a quite happy post. First a warm welcome to Gillian... Welcome, Gillian! I'm sure we'll become friends, you came to the right place! You know, some of us are quite like you, being self conscious and depressed, so we already have a lot in common! Thanks to B&S for joining us! They deserve the Nobel prize of medicine! Now my atempt to bring you some cheerful stuff... I'm really proud of being brazilian today! You see, we are a very benevolent people. We could have crushed China... but what for?! And Viva England! I wanted to buy the english shirt, especially the red one, it's beautiful... but it's too expensive, and I don't even have the brazilian shirt... Just in case you haven't noticed yet... I shaved my head!!! Wow! And it's like I don't exist anymore! HAHA!! I had a kind of long hair, it used to cover my ears, and I didn't cut it for about 6 months, except on my nape, my mother cut it twice, cos I didn't want to be a mullet boy... My brother once told me I looked like Richard Ashcroft! And I girl told me I looked like "that guy from Oasis"... well, I suppose it was Liam! ...ahem... Now I look like Casper, the friendly ghost! It's like I don't exist! Everytime I took the subway or the bus, or when I was just walking down some street, there was always some girl who looked at me... you know, looking interested! For me it was nice but I never really paid much attention to that... I'm terribly shy, and those girls were just walking by, nothing could really come from just staring at a girl for a few seconds! But now... it's like I told you, it's like I don't exist! I'm ugly!! People don't look at me anymore! Well, except when they look at my clothes, because they're weird or because they're nice, or sometimes because they're thinking "poor boy, who bought him those paints?!". Anyway, now I'm ugly! My head is too flat! And I don't exist! But, hey, let me try and stop writing only about me for a while, let's talk about... hmmm... Belle and Sebastian. You know that band Belle and Sebastian? From Scotland... ??? Yes! That one! That's it, the twee band! First Isobel Leaving the House... No surprise for me. I once have read this on NME, and then I thought that could also be suitable if related to B&S: "It's coming out under my own name," she (Isobel) says. "I'm a little bit older now and I was sort of thinking, 'Why hide behind something?' I've always had so many different people playing on my records; there's no point in pretending it's a group. It's just a lot simpler really." She was talking about Gentle Waves but... you know... So... all in all, I think she wasn't indispensable for the band... I fell in love with them when they came to Brazil and she didn't even come along. So all I can do is wish the best of luck/lock/lick/leak/lack to Isobel 'Brian Jones' Campbell! Goodbye Isobel, have a nice life! Maybe I'll buy your next album. Maybe I won't. Too bad if they're not going to release The Magic of a Kind Word in an official record... I love that song. S-torytelling... They said the album would be released on the 3rd of June in Britain and ROW, and on the 4th of June in USA. Today is 9/6 and I still haven't found it here in this bloody country! What country is this which is not Britain, USA or ROW?! As once said Gen. DeGaulle, "That cannot be a serious country"!! But I don't mind, I have been listening to my CD-R bootleg for about a month and it's enough for me until I find the official. It only lacks Jersey's where it's at, which I suppose is a dialog... Well, who cares about a dialog? Perhaps if it was between Sturat and Isobel... And people's been talking about prices... if you come to Brazil you will know what is a cheap album... here it costs about 20,00 reais... or 5,20 pounds... or 7.60 dollars! Is it cheap or is it cheap?! Yes it's cheap, but only for you, in case you bring your money. For us it's like you had to pay 20 dollars or 13 pounds. A salty price, as we say. OK... that's all... poor post, but from the heart. Oh, welcome to everyone else... Kristi, Thomas, Kjetil, Jason... And kisses and hugs for all Fernando Brito +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: Ken: An Early Letter, Man.
by David Moore 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi All, Happy Birthday Chu You Happy Birthday Chu You Happy Birthday Dear *** Happy Birthday Chu You *uck This *hit sounds a bit like Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head to me, but I think I have said that before, so sorry. Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: just like honey
by James 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

hello everybody! hope everyone in sinisterland is good on this fine day. things have been very hectic lately, what with Isobel calling it a day and the new album being really rather good... well, maybe not hectic, but eventful nonetheless. I think the band have changed a lot recently, in very subtle ways. But at least the new album was good; i was worried that they'd not have done so well when they were making music for someone else. so, i went to London to try and forget the project, which, wouldn't you know, i now have to repeat. (I'm sure the evil perpetrators of computer programming languages will eventually get their comeuppance, but until then I'll have to stick to my voodoo dolls... oh, and therefore many thanks to Cay, Simon, and the badly drawn girl for keeping me sane, relatively speaking of course.) London, as ever, was quite fantastic, and the vast amounts of bookshops kept me grinning as i sauntered about with my London-mates in tow. but carnaby street has turned into a tourist trap, and they took the really big spider out of the Tate modern... grr! aside from my weird obsessions with strange art and books however, i was also introduced to the quite fantastic Mr Chu and Miss Longmire, both of whom were very personable, amusing, and didn't take the proverbial too much when i'd had a lot to drink at the utterly wonderful Track and Field night in Farringdon. apparently one of the blokes from the trembling blue stars was there, and idiot here didn't realise. But speaking of music, i was wondering, not to start a thread, if anyone else had noticed that pop, that dreaded little freeze-dried commodity, has become much, much worse of late? i only noticed when my mate Ron compiled a rather thorough 'best of kylie' compilation, and crap though much of it is, it's nowhere near as bad as some of the utter bilge we've heard of late... maybe it's just me. I felt that the pop-idol people should have been imprisoned, at least! Well, sorry for going on, sorry if i should have written to you and i didn't, and thanks for listening. or reading, I'm never sure which is quite right... James +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Storytelling...
by lulou 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi everyone We have had this email from insound - we don't normally endorse things via sinister, mainly due to the paltry sums involved (joke), so we are just passing this on. It doesn't beat Ken's magnificent 8.49, sadly. "i was just checking out your belle and sebastian site. I wanted to see if you would be interested in doing some special coupons for members of your site from Insound in celebration of their new album. if you wanted to send it out to the site members that would be excellent. we are just doing it to celebrate the release of belle and sebastian's new record. hope that is cool with you all. Anyways, the coupon code is "storytelling" and it is good for 15% off http://www.insound.com/annex/searchperfect.cfm?query=INS14069 John Thomas Beachboard johnb(a)insound.com Insound 149 Wooster St. 4th Floor New York, New York 10012 (212) 777-8056 ext.26 (212) 777-8059" 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: One red M&M in the bowl and the whole bloody thing is off!
by Laura Llew 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Boy I Met At A B&S Show: I posted to Sinister once. It was to arrange a cover band and we were going to then perform at an occasional party or something. Me: Ah, I don't remember that particular thread. BIMAAB&SS: At the time, you said we could play in your bedroom. Me: Oh. Join one mailing list and find half a world cordially invited to your boudoir. Sacre Bleu! After it was all over and done with, I ended up going to three of the shows and meeting several fellow Sinisterines. There was: Nicola & Karo: I actually didn't realize I had met them until after-the-fact. I'm looking at pictures of the Boston picnic and see the attractive foreign couple which had stood behind me in line at the NYC show. I ask someone who they are and realize it was only two people who I see on-line all the time. Hello! I was the girl reading the book right in front of you in line. You asked me if the three different lines meant anything, I was tempted to lie and come up with a completely outrageous falsehood but then realized that would require talking so I simply shook my head no. Brian Krakow: Actually, he refuses to admit he owns this name anymore but who can blame him after that disastrous choice in parts of raping the pink ranger in Felicity during its first season. Anyway, this was the random boy I stood beside at the nyc show. He's was on the list four months and I remembered his posts. I've been on the list three years and he has no idea who I am. I SEE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME, SINISTER! Y'all should be proud of me though as I behaved rather nicely. I only flinched a little bit when he said he liked Hemingway. I didn't convulsively twitch while frothing at the mouth quoting Nabokov ("I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it.") or ANYTHING! Go me. Kirk: I actually met him on purpose - daring of me, I know. He was very kind to supply me with my ticket to the DC show. I was delighted to find out that he talks with his hands - not just little movements mind you but entire dramatizations. He doesn't just say, "My ancestors are from Sweden" - he does the motions of them crossing them ocean (he paddles), looking for a home in the new land (he puts his hand above this eyes and scouts about). Fantastic! When Belle and Sebastian play a show in my bedroom, I want him to be the opener. I almost declared my undying love to him when in the middle of the DC show Bobo the brainless wonder in front of us started jumping around wildly to impress his girlfriend or something (who knows the intricate mating ritual of the monkey boy?) and Kirk put his foot up so that Bobo's head would smack against when he came back down. Of course, Kirkus pulled his foot back before contact actually happened or otherwise I would have propose on the spot and that was already done at the Chicago show. (And we know how I like to be original.) I realized halfway through the show that I had somehow ended up between he and his girlfriend - eeep! I mean if I had known I was keeping a couple apart I would have.. laid out vertically and invited an army and national guard to help me in my endeavor. Laurel: Oh my favorite! If you haven't met Miss Laurel of the lovely hamlet of Jersey City, then you haven't lived. She is witty, clever, loves children books, and is all things wonderful. She stormed the booksellers convention with me in nyc. I've always hoped the world doesn't ever count on me to create peace or solve hunger problems if I ever come across a lamp on which to make three wishes. Though I suppose I shall feel mild regret as I sit with perfect skin and health until I am distracted my very own chocolate covered boy. Likewise, I also hoped that Laurel didn't count on me to stay with her if I had happen to lay eyes on Daniel Handler while at the show for I shall have latched myself to his leg quicker than you can yell, "Count Olaf!". However, it seemed that someone kidnapped Snicket before we could so I had to console myself with stalking Brett Helquist instead. She was quite kind to indulge me in my ways. And then there was Jayward who I already knew but he was copilot on my *first* sinister roadtrip. He's great fun probably one of the most considerate people I've ever met. But - woo boy - I wouldn't get between him and any tacky porcelain creatures in truck stops. He goes MAD CRAZY. There were others that I missed out on meeting (including Mister Matthew Henderson who gave me a shout out on the microphone at the Atlanta show - woo! and the lovely friend Sara who pines over Trembling Blue Stars tunes just as much as I.) I really shouldn't have waited so long to post as I have so much more I want to say. However, when it comes down to all the shows the best part of it were my friends I finally got to meet so the rest can wait. For now, I shall leave you with a quick list of things which have been entertaining me lately: Laura Llew's Lush List of Lusty Links: *http://sewkits.co.uk/belle.html They're sewkits which come with full instructions, needle, threads, cloth, and a cute square keyring to put the stitching in when you've finished. And they have one for the Tigermilk cover - woo! *http://wso.williams.edu/~dgambrel/catgirl/cgscout.gif Campy Casarotto introduced me to the CatandGirl cartoons. Oh so clever. *http://www.keenmacpubs.com/home.htm You can either get me this or the globe that opens to reveal a mini bar that mori luggage makes. I'm not a lush but how I aspire to be. Forever yours (or until supplies last), Laura ps - welcome to Jay who is from North Carolina too. Whoot! _________________________________________________________________ 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: sunny day, everything's A-O.K.
by Tollefsen Thomas 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi all, I'm new to the list and this here is my first post. I'll spare you all the pain of having to read some sort of intro except to say that I'm going to school in Ann Arbor, Michigan and finally got to see the band in Detroit and Chicago a few weeks ago. It was the best, they simply can't be strangers in this country anymore. I just had an interjection as to the song that "Fuck This Shit" has always brought to my mind. To me it sounds like the inspiration for the song came from the song "Midnight Cowboy" on the soundtrack to the film of the same title. It's the harmonica-heavy theme that appears a few times in the film. Maybe I'm looking for something that isn't there, however, because I've always thought that that particular song is fantastic and works so well in the film. I remember reading something when Storytelling was still in the making about the band wanting to make something like the soundtrack to The Graduate. Maybe the idea blossemed into a full on love of all things Dustin Hoffman in the 1960's. Probably out on a limb. "I'll tell you what you can do with those dishes" -Joe Buck Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.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: misconstrue me
by andrew nicol 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

hello tweetards, it has been brought to my attention that a comment in my previous post was misconstrued by some members of this list. i'd like to clarify: i did not invite the girl in question to sit on my penis, i merely suggested she join us at the pub because heaven knows she looked in need of some contact beyond twitching noses with her pet rabbit. the alcohol thing became tiresome very quickly, so i've found some more valuable ways to waste my time. if anyone in edinburgh (that's in scotchland, foreign people) has a couple of hours to spare, take a look at "facing the light", an exhibition of david octavius hill and robert adamson's calotypes, at the scottish national portrait gallery. it runs until september 15. the pictures in the final section alone are worth the entrance fee, which is exactly no pence (that's british money, foreign people). i'm not going to be around for much of the summer, but some time in august or september i intend to arrange the first (i believe, someone please correct me if i'm wrong) sinister fight, because christ do some people here need a good twatting, and i'm the kind of arse that people would like to punch in the face. we'll all benefit. if anyone's interested, let me know. and to those who wrote following my previous mail, sorry i've not replied to any of you. i posted in a rare moment of pro-action, and really can't be arsed following through. yours, andy -- andrew nicol andrewnicol(a)mac.com +44 (0)7788 414248 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: hellos, apologies, comments on the hot topics of the day.
by michael grant 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

well hello there, oh lovely sinister. we've been a busy lot haven't we? everything's go, go go! new albums, old members, list-marriages, sporting competitions of varying interest, and the return of me! woohoo! i haven't posted in a long long time and i would like to start by saying a huge "hello" to all the sinister people i have met since i last posted, which is quite a lot. so, it's a hearty hello to: edinburgh picnic goers from way-back at the beggining of april, everyone i met at all tomorrow's parties, numerous national pop leagues and (so far) the singular winchester club, and anyone i've bumped into at some point along the way. special mentions go to the marvellous david moore who gave a strange little boy a tape of Ant in concert. this little boy thanks him from the bottom his heart. there are too many others to mention by name, but just so you know, yes 'you', you were my favourite sinisterine. also, apologies go to miss michelle ruiz of chicago. due to numerous factors (mostly centred around my incompetence and general shitness) i did not reply to her email to say i had received her sini-valentine pressies, which i did. i must say my task was made harder by hotmail deleting most of my emails a while back, but this is still no excuse for my excessive tardiness. the valentine present was lovely: ducks and a cat adorn my television, i now take notes in lectures on tiny pads with snails on the front, and i am the proud owner of a kick-ass mix cd. thank you michelle, and again, i apologise for my apalling manners. i hope you can forgive me. :o) if you send me your address again offlist, i shall lavish you with gifts to make up for it. i have many, many, wonderful things to say, but i am only got to say a few. you shall just have to wait for the rest. i've got months of posts building up in the back of my pretty, pretty head. they'll all come in time. but for now, here's a few comments on the current hot-topics. ------------ STORYTELLING ------------ justifiably bad, is how i would describe it. in the context of a soundtrack, it works very well, but in comparison with the other albums.... well, it doesnt really compare. the songs that are there are great. storytelling is a marvellous song. sarah's singing is great. my personal favourite section though is mick's trumpet. i think it is with this album that he has really made his mark. the trumpet is just sublime all the way through. the instrumentals are good, as far as instrumentals go. but i really don't think they can come close to the actual songs. however, b&s' mediocre still towers above most of the rest's best. -------------- ISOBEL LEAVING -------------- i will miss her. she write good songs, she shakes her egg-thing, she pouts, she looks pretty. i am sorry to see her go, but i would like to echo people's wishes of good fortune for her in the future. there hasn't really been much speculation on reasons for her leaving. it seems to be taken for granted that she just didnt want to be in the band anymore. but why? let's start the rumour mill going. working relationships within the band strained since her split from struan? she got upset with the use of too many guitars and not enough egg-shaking? i want YOUR most sensibel or absurd reasons for isobel's departure. chris was there to see her and bill wells support monica queen on friday, so i'm guessing it wasn't anything too serious. [like me, chris turned up too late to catch isobel on stage cos they arsed about with the timings. boo! i know people from here were there, but i didnt get a chance to post and say i would be there. if it helps, i was the boy sitting alone on the stairs on the righ-hand-side of the sound-mixy-desk-thing, making it difficult for people to get up the back. hope all who were there had a good time. monica was excellent.] ------- SHYNESS ------- "shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to" - the smiths. i agreed with what sunny set said. "I wouldn't like people to like me just because I'm shy, but I am happy when they have taken the time and the trouble to see through this mask and know what lies underneath." "Try not to judge people too harshly simply because they don't get things right the first time you meet them. We are all human and we all make mistakes" i also feel that mr.ashbridge makes a valid point. "assertions of being "shy" are applied, willingly, with exactly the same sense of studied self-obsession that the nu-metal kids display when they make their own labels. Perhaps it's just me misjudging some of the younger listees, but it seems being "twee" is just another fashion-choice for kids." indeed. it is false to say that every 'twee fucker' is an nu-metaller inside, but it is true that some people will buy certain records, feign interest in certain bands, and wear certain clothes, which are deemed 'twee' in order to seem 'cool' or 'different' or 'alternative' in the same way that those rawk kids do. i think i probably am seen as twee, but not through any intention on my part. and that's the way it should be. i am seen as twee because of the things i like and do. i don't do and like things because they will make me seem twee. hope this hasn't been too long and boring a comeback post. i shall be moving into a new flat soon in edinburgh, and after i have done so, i may work up the courage to organise a sinister-flatwarming-picnic-thingy. i shall let people know more closer to the time. hopefully i will see people at breams glasgow farewell trip (15th. details anyone?) and at the moldy peaches (17th.) and at the winchester (21st.) that'll be me then, michael.xx _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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