July 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: leave no bones
by Ruth Allan 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

hey sinister today I looked at a tube of savlon's arnica paste for bruises and the first thing into my mind was to apply it liberally. It's not so much that there is anything really wrong , more a collection of stresses each bearing his load on my skin till I feel like one of these days I'm going to wake up after flutter light sleep with a beating heart and find a big strawberry mark on my belly. not so beautiful but at least then I could point it out to passes by, get arrested for flashing my navel and generally receive waves of sympathy. But my mum recently was hit on the leg by a golf ball and looking at her proudly blooming thigh I thought it was pretty but didnt make me feel like she desparately needed a big hug. So maybe the strawberry mark isn't the thing. My most vivid memory of a bruise was after me and a friend were attacked by robbers in tanzania. we'd spent the trip picking tiny fault with each other's smoking or what we'd like to eat or whether or not bananas for lunch and dinner and breakfast were parching us of our mini intelligence. The attack awful as it sounds was something of a relief. I had the bruise measured for posterity and it was at least 20 centimetres across and felt like a real thing but left no marks. I was going to the flaming lips tonight but I cant make it. I'd also like to thank idleberry ? and rachel for talking about suede. okay this is so dull to non suedettes, but frankly this band completely changed my life. My friend says that I'm lying and that the only band was pavement, but pavement et al sounded to me of Guy's car and never quite making it to america , which shows perhaps that its never so much the music as where you were when you hear it, but suede were my thing and if there was ever a reason to compile a book of band like memories from one period it would be suede. Melissa who is now a great writer wrote me a review of the london gig , somewhere with balconies on her shi**y typewriter and I was so inspired I transformed the school magazine froma raving review of female sports to a horribly suede skewed journal of my so called and really quite dull suede filled life. Wasnt popular , but what other than rampant born again christianity could drive a person to bore their contemporaries in such a public way... I'm moving back to manchester in a week, so if there are any sinister mancunians? I know there used to be some, but I think they've all got married, so maybe the ones, married or not still there might like to shout? rx _________________________________________________________________ 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: PICNIC REMINDER
by idleberry 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

I've heard, through my spies, eyes, flies and pies* that there has been questions raised about when and where glasgows picnic is. Just to confirm again, for those of you who only read the subject line of post, and DIDN'T READ ALL OF MY PICNIC POST. (mind you, you won't be reading this now will you? oh well.) ***GLASGOW PICNIC*** DATE: SATURDAY 6TH JULY, 2002 (thats this saturday, btw) TIME: 2PM LOCATION: WEST 13, GLASGOW If anyone wants to meet in a park, and do the whole police mantra thing again "no cunstubble, honest its not wine, its only ribena" and also make any hayfever sufferers have attacks of sneezing JUST so that they don't miss out, then go ahead. Meet in a park. NOBODY else had bothered to post anything about this, I don't know parks/ underground train type things/ how to get to wierd little places in Glasgow and knowing which ones not to stray into where I'll get mugged for being gorgeous/wealthy/intelligent- ie. not from glasgow; so you know. Someone else can suggest parks and train stations to loiter around. Personally, if i thought you'd do it, I'd say meet around the womens lingerie section in Marks And Spencers on Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow. All welcome. Please don't whinge at me about being rubbish at making arrangements. ANyway END OF PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT tata idleberry * all things M15 could use for secret intelligence bugs. except the pie. Especially in a little cafe on a motorway. Thats just asking for trouble. ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.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: back from my exile
by howard shady 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Howdy all...It's been a while since I have posted on here so I thought I would just whisper in your ears letting you know that I'm right behind ya still. I've had some family crisisisisissssss over the last month or so and have been running myself ragged. Just wanted to say HI to everyone on here...the ones I chatted with regularly and the ones I've never talked to as well. You know who you are....wink wink. So nothing too serious here and really no content thats important. Sorry for that ahead of time:) I do have one little thing I must say. If there are any sinisterians in the Sheffield UK area would you please email me offlist. I'm planning a trip in september and would love a little info and maybe a few contacts whilst I'm there. HOpe to hear from some of you if in fact there are some. Anyways...Have a great day folks and be good to each other. c ya howard shady(ray Humphrey) or skinny hips rivers pick one __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.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: The Boys of Summer
by lazylinedavid＠netscape.net 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

If anyone hasn't seen it yet, the photo of Stuart and Stevie that accompanies www.dotmusic.com 's review of the Glastonbury performance is really adorable. Save it on to your desktop and swoon... Saw Ben Kweller play a free show last night down by the East River - nothing special, but nice enough. And he looks *exactly* like that kid out of Almost Famous. Later, David xxxxx __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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: Ken Chu 4 Prez
by Reggie Whitecastle 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Greetings & Salutations Earthlings! And a happy early Fourth of July to you Americans who are celebrating our country's birthday tomorrow. I, of course, have been called in to work; apparently making telemarketing calls on holidays is a great opportunity to reel in some customers. Let me take the opportunity to introduce myself. My name's Reggie and I am from West Virginia, USA. I recently discovered Belle and Sebastian a few months ago after my sister's oldest daughter left a copy of "The Boy with the Arab Strap" in my stereo console. Wow, but what a treat to behold! I am sure my niece is embarassed that her square of an uncle is now an obsessed fan. I've been reading all of your posts for the past few weeks with great interest. I just read a message from a girl named Lindsey Baker who has a very interesting style of writing. Of course, I keep hearing about this Ken Chu guy and Neil Robertson, who apparently swears a whole lot. Hearing curse words gives me the heebey-jeebies, but whatever floats your boat, that's what I say. Anyhow, I am an avid coin collector and reptile fan, so if anyone wants to e-mail me off the list on those two subjects, I'd love to discuss them both. I'm looking forward to reading more of your posts. Toodles! Reggie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.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: just dust my heart, and you will find there are no fingers printed there.
by lindsey baker 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

hello sinister. it's july now, and i wonder if i am supposed to feel something for my country. *** the boys are cutting their hair, i've noticed. the temperature rises and it all comes off: welcome the shepherdess and her shorn flock. sometimes i wish i could be the one to wield the scissors, but the boys i know castrate themselves. i must rob them of something else. *** independence day never makes me feel very independent. i always end up trapped in my grandmother's house, eating dry, stringy chicken and corn on the cob, trying not to go outside in the sweltering heat and pumping myself full of advil to fend off pending headaches before the pyrotechnics start. it all has this uneasy sense of the obligatory about it; this is a holiday, thus we must eat together around the table and say one of the four annual prayers thanking our probably absent god for food and family. and then we eat, and roll our eyes behind each others' backs at everything everyone says. there is always a low-lying feeling of panic, i think, a need for escape into the normal regimes of our world, not the slowed, warped timezone of the picnic table on my grandma's patio. *** when i was a little girl, there were few highlights to the fourth of july. i loved sparklers, and those, along with those little snappy things that resemble sperm and make a nice pop when you throw them at the sidewalk, were the only reasons i didn't sleep the day away. i always hated fireworks. i hated those stupid little tanks and snakes that curl around the end of your driveway. i hated the smell of sulfer, and i was never allowed to light anything. so i sat around, threw my sperm poppers and sparkled for a while until i got ultra-bored, then went inside to read a book. and at night, i hated the booms of the big, flashy fireworks that everyone knows about. they were pretty, but i wasn't patient enough for that kind of pretty. i wanted one big ten-minute spectacle with a good bit of neil diamond and then an ending. but there was always the neighborhood rivalry, who could have the bigger, louder, longer, more colorful sky shows. and inside, televised, there was the fireworks spectacle at the baseball stadium in omaha. and there was whitney houston's national anthem and a picture on the television of bombs bursting in air superimposed over a picture of the the liberty bell. a big stone bell with a big long crack. and this was is america on the fourth day of july. cracked and competitive and on fire. *** it's a boys' holiday. and the boys keep telling me the reason they keep cutting their hair is because of the heat. but i suspect it's so their hair won't catch fire. *** i think i've been on sinister a year now. and i think i may have written of independence day before. but it's better to listen to it, and nod with elliott when he says don't go to far, stay who you are. and right now conor says i'll be grateful for this day, i'll be grateful for each day to come. and i wonder why. nobody needs a sparkler to sparkle, something in me says (in the voice of bron, i think). but i somehow have doubts for america. for an america sparkling. and independent. and free. and if it ever happens. the way we celebrate it happening. then i will look down again and write: she was free. to waste. away. alone. *** and this is where i say goodbye to people who never bid the rest of us farewell. love, lou xxx ------------------ THE FOLLOWING IS AN ADVERT FOR EXCELLENCE: never learned how to ride a bike? merely flailed helplessy in a chlorine-laced pool when trying to learn to swim? come to Camp Kids Who Gave Up 2002, sponsored by lindsey baker, dave snyder and conor oberst to learn to ride and swim like nobody's business! while you're temporarily residing on our beautiful, secluded island paradise camp, enjoy lessons from friendly guest instructors such as mandee wright and listen to a different live band every night (we feature saddle creek gems and omaha rapists)! dating lindsey is also an available option, so long as conor is off-island. SIGN UP TODAY!!! _________________________________________________________________ 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: how to be a HIPSTER in five easy steps
by Danny Farrell 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

hi everybody, I'm dr nick. Actually i'm not, i'm danny but that's how dr nick introduces himself in the simpsons which leads me nicely onto my first lesson. 1. QUOTING CULT OR LITTLE KNOWN TV SHOWS OR MOVIES = COOL It is very important to build a good base of solid dependable quotes that can be adapted for almost any situation, the simpsons being one of the best places to get quotable material as it's quite popular but it's also a little "kitsch". If anything is ever described as "kitsch" then any content within should be remembered and quoted frequently as you will be awarded extra hipster points for this. One must remember not to quote over frequently or people will think you're just blah and don't do anything other than quote. Remember to quote from cult/little known shows that other hipsters will know about, a little known botany show is not a good place to obtain quotes from. 2. THE HOLY TRINITY OF HIPSTERDOM - PASSÉ, GAUCHE, KITSCH in the dictionary these definitions are put forward: passé - past it's best, outdated gauche - socially inept, graceless, tactless kitsch - art, literature, regarded as pretentious or in poor taste in hipster terms passé and gauche retain some of their original meaning and kitsch is changed almost entirely. An activity is pass%e9 if it is something once interesting to hipsters but is now out of fashion. The next step on from this is gaucheness, something is gauche if it is pass%e9 to the point of cringeworthiness. An affectation for destiny's child is now passé. It was once cool to like destiny's child as part of some outreach program to pretend hipster is not a musical snob, now however liking destiny's child is passé. It's outdated. Gaucheness however is far more serious, this could be liking movies for 'ironical' reasons, it's just so bad it's good a lá the early gen X movement. "Oh i know it's terrible but it's just so funny to watch, let's play a game of spot the hollywood cliché." This is now gauche beyond words, liking something because it's so bad it's good could lead to the hipster learner being hung drawn, and perhaps even eighthed. Kitsch on the other hand, i'm sure, had some meaning in hipster circles before, now it's just used to describe anything that's good although humour is usually involved. If anything is described as kitsch take note and remember never ever to make disparaging remarks about said kitsch activity. Things that are kitsch can quickly become passé though and this must be watched out for. Musicals used to break kitsch barriers, but now in a move away from irony towards populism musicals are now gauche. GREASE! in the year 2002. Puh-lease. 3 POPULISM IS THE NEW IRONY Previously as mentioned above, liking something for ironical reasons was cool as eff. It's so bad it's good was the motto heralded by the hipsters. Now however there is a move towards populism as irony becomes more and more passé and is now in fact gauche as eff. However as irony became more and more frowned upon a new system of dealing with mainstream culture appeared known as populism. Rather than liking something because "it's so bad it's good" hipsters now like movies, show's etc. in mainstream culture simply because they're good. Previously big brother was terrible, it's dreadful but the hipsters watched because it was just so bad it was good, it was funny. Now however there is no irony pretense, it's simply good. There is a catch with populism though, big brother is not simply liked in the way that the prole's like it. With populism comes the belief that the hipster can appreciate things on another level and have a discourse regarding things on this other level. The hipster watches big brother and detests every contestant and then analyse the characters and show on a level undreamed of by their un-educated, un-cool brethren. This is populism, and populism is IN. 4. FAKING POIGNANCY All hipsters must write, this is such a given that it isn't even a lesson, however there is a lesson and it is this: the hipster must always try to be poignant, beautiful. Their words should be transcendental. The hipster can keep a journal, a diary, they could work on a collection of short stories or poems but still they must always strive towards poignancy. Faking poignancy is therefore a very practiced art within hipster communities and goes something like this: take any sentence at all, turn it backwards, repeat it again slightly differently or describe it: I was walking down the road, the road i'd walked down a hundred times before. Ah such a road. Here simply walking down a road has been turned into the beginning of a poignant piece, what comes next is your choice, just remember to keep it poignant: I walked to the pier and sat. As i sat on the pier a thought entered my mind as i watched the waves. The waves crashed tempestuously against the rocks, crashing, tumbling, crashing, forever stuck in their pattern, never getting anywhere. Stuck, just like me. Always remember to describe things in great detail and always turn to nature or BIG things for descriptive comparisons or for describing your mood. Also any story can be started with a paragraph or two about the weather. For example when talking about a day you bought a loaf of bread, the hipster may start like this: I stared up at the sun, it's warmth making me feel comfortable, safe. The feel of the sun, it's warmth, it's brightness, took me back. It took me back to that day in 1996, i felt myself slip away as the memory of that day overcame me. 5. REMEMBER ALL THIS IS LIABLE TO CHANGE IN TWO-THREE WEEKS TIME *********************************************************************** I was in a car crash the other day, except it wasn't really a crash,just an emergency stop,but still. It was close. It was my fault too, i really shouldn't be allowed to drive,my mind works too fast and it also shoots off in a hundred different directions at once. It's why i can't sleep and it's also why holding concentration whilst driving for any length of time is difficult. Anyway maybe it was some sort of life-changing experience or something. I went for a picnic afterwards, it was alan's birthday. i organised it. and during it, i sat on the pier looking out at the waves, thinking. The waves crashed tempestuously against the rocks, crashing, tumbling, crashing, forever stuck in their pattern, never getting anywhere. Stuck, just like me. I thought: what's the meaning? the purpose? of anything, of waking up and getting out of bed? does anything have meaning? well. does it? Dannypie xxx _________________________________________________________________ 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: Miss Midlands and all her Misery
by minster＠fsmail.net 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

This is a Call, a Plea if you please to those of you with a life... Shes brought us to our knees. We've got friends coming from both up and down, I've only recently returned myself and haven't got a clue what to do with them. Places to go, people to see. Too much has changed in this area, and I'm at a complete loss here. This week has been too busy to notice that there isn't anything to do, other than that which needs doing. Now desperate for a bit of fun! Three years away hasn't done this place a bit of good.(Have car, will travel if need be.) Coventry, Brum and the bits and bobs between If you kids can tell me where to go and how to get there the first round and the last is on me! It's not a bribe, but we miss our fun show us the way!!! All good things All of the Time Carla xx _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: leave no bones (and a lot of suede.. )
by Ruth Allan 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

hey sinister today I looked at a tube of savlon's arnica paste for bruises and the first thing into my mind was to apply it liberally. It's not so much that there is anything really wrong , more a collection of stresses each bearing his load on my skin till I feel like one of these days I'm going to wake up after flutter light sleep with a beating heart and find a big strawberry mark on my belly. not so beautiful but at least then I could point it out to passes by, get arrested for flashing my navel and generally receive waves of sympathy. But my mum recently was hit on the leg by a golf ball and looking at her proudly blooming thigh I thought it was pretty but didnt make me feel like she desparately needed a big hug. So maybe the strawberry mark isn't the thing. My most vivid memory of a bruise was after me and a friend were attacked by robbers in tanzania. we'd spent the trip picking tiny fault with each other's smoking or what we'd like to eat or whether or not bananas for lunch and dinner and breakfast were parching us of our mini intelligence. The attack awful as it sounds was something of a relief. I had the bruise measured for posterity and it was at least 20 centimetres across and felt like a real thing but left no marks. I was going to the flaming lips tonight but I cant make it. I'd also like to thank idleberry ? and rachel for talking about suede. okay this is so dull to non suedettes, but frankly this band completely changed my life. My friend says that I'm lying and that the only band was pavement, but pavement et al sounded to me of Guy's car and never quite making it to america , which shows perhaps that its never so much the music as where you were when you hear it, but suede were my thing and if there was ever a reason to compile a book of band like memories from one period it would be suede. Melissa who is now a great writer wrote me a review of the london gig , somewhere with balconies on her shitty typewriter and I was so inspired I transformed the school magazine froma raving review of female sports to a horribly suede skewed journal of my so called and really quite dull suede filled life. Wasnt popular , but what other than rampant born again christianity could drive a person to bore their contemporaries in such a public way... I'm moving back to manchester in a week, so if there are any sinister mancunians? I know there used to be some, but I think they've all got married, so maybe the ones, married or not still there might like to shout? rx _________________________________________________________________ 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: be not inhospitible to window cleaners lest they be philosophers in disguise
by Jonathan Skinner 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Dear All I hope this finds you in remarkable fine fettle. i should really get a new opening but i really can't think of one so i won't. So thie first thing on my mind- GLASTONBURY- it was great but the gods of fate were not smiling nicely upon me last night. I was tired and i stayed up all the way to midnight- i thought-buggeer this for a game of toy soldiers i'm aff to bid. So i press OTR a whole 5 times incase i missed anything and it turns out that within 5 minutes of me putting on the tape they were there on stage- wandering alone is ace and i want to know where stevie a) gets his glasses and b) gets the coat. Also i must agree with someone on the list who said that sarah has come into her own since the unfortuate incident of last month. SHe has and it is about bloody time. SHe is talented and i think that waiting for the moon to rise prooved it only she has been masked by the *personification of twee* which leads me onto the sad topic once more. Someone said that she embodies tweeness- does she heck. If being twee involves being moody and not performing for your fans while still living off them then slap me in theface with a wet fish. Twee is all nice and fluffy which i don't think her tweeness really embodies. i think so anyway but only cos i'm listening to i'm waking up to us. "I think they are holding a grudge against the Republic of Ireland"- thus spake the words of ms lynch. It doesn't suprise me even though ireland is monstrously expensive ( it cost me a ?2.50 for a normal coffee earlier). The gig wasn't great audience wise but at least it didn't desend into what the pulp gig last year did- lets just say free tickets to northside dubliners is never a good idea. ( i hope i am slowly offending the irish contingent) Speaking of which MEETUP for some reason should be on the agenda- i suggest stephens green then when it gets dark and they decide to shut the park up adjourn to Keoghs just off grafton street- that is if i make it up to Dublin. OH on to the topic line-for once this isn't just a topic line taken from a simpsons episode or a song (Well it make it quite difficult as i am listening to ravi shanker). It is infact my life. Every monday and thursday is taken up with window cleaning-it is a good job, paid well and i get on with the boss. THe down side is people think you are idiots cos you aren't working in a shop or something. Plus you get all these smart arsed comments aobut "ohh you missed a bit" and another one that got quoted at me 3 times monday " will you come oveer and do mine" Stand aside Billy Connelly and jack dee. So summer is working out for me which is more than can be said for last years which both sucked and blew. Days where i am not working are spent in town with friends or at friends housing chewing the cud and plotting ( well writing a script for a going away party) or trying to tell an 11 ukranian ( who is a friend of friends sister) not to watch films such as Hannibal ( which even i refused to watch). THere were a few of us sat around chatting about Shallow Grave and out bursts this kid "ewan mcgregor was really good in that" we couldn't believe that she had seen it. RIght that is all i can really think to saay-this was composed over a couple of days godspeed jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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