July 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: A strange note from the guy at the back of the room
by Paul McPherson 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Hello: I'm am one of those notorious lurkers. I hide in the shadows, letting your messages brighten my days. I imagine I'm quite a bit older than a lot of you, not that it really matters. Like Christopher Devaney's friend I had a decently substantial meltdown awhile back. I applaud you for hanging around Christopher. I now visit with a psychiatrist who could really care less about me except when I'm late. The medication I take makes me sick but it keeps me from wanting to drive my car into a light pole anymore. I figured that if I could make my self termination look accidental then my corpse wouldn't have to continue showing up at that dreadful job to pay off my debts. I suppose I feel lucky that I've managed to pull it together enough, so to speak, to work and the way my family looks at me now makes me feel like I'm the subject of a made for TV movie. I wonder who will be playing me? As I've been reading this I feel even more dreadful about myself realizing that someone would have to find me like poor Jay. I hope my blathering hasn't brought everyone down too much. I really just wanted to say thanks. You've reminded me that sometimes my life isn't that bad. By the way, I went to see B&S in Toronto. It was the best night I'd had in years +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 doctors told her years ago that she was ill.
by lindsey baker 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

hello sinister. i thought for a moment there about how much those two words have become a part of my life. of me. hello sinister. and the melodrama begins again. *** i stared for a long time at the dinosaur wallpaper border, tilting my head and shifting my eyes, trying to make the two rows -- one real and one some kind of refraction of reflection or distortion or something -- converge back together as one lumpy row of pink and green and orange t-rexes and brontosauruses. double vision seems like a good name for a story to me. it has a ring to it. all double things do, really. doublemint. double wide. double happiness. the mirror across from me showed my fifteen-minute morning preparations; my dad had said the doctor worked me in for 11:30 at 11:00, and i threw my standard bobby pins in. no eye makeup. i managed to put on my favorite patent leather mary janes on before i left, thinking my favorite shoes could combat the doctor and the rain in one big swoop, leaving me with some stress to reduce in order to regain solitary sight and a day left empty and open for sitting on my bed at home doing nothing. i was wrong, all things considered. *** they always make you read the letters at eye appointments. and since i still go to a pediatric eye doctor, i also got to track a plastic cartoon character. the doctor selected one of his rubbery finger puppets from his drawer and began moving it back and forth and up and down, watching my eyes following. i don't remember now what the puppet was. he got out a box of clear plastic squares and held them up to my eyes, asking me to look for a letter 'h' projected on a screen across the dim room. and he called out numbers to a nurse writing things down on a clipboard. and then he said we had to call my primary care doctor. we had to call the hospital. i had to get an mri. today. *** the floors in the children's hospital have this wavy section of color that flows into all the rooms. the whole place has fish tiled on the ceilings and floors and walls. blue and green and purple, and it's kind of like being underwater in a disney movie. i stared at the fish on the ceiling as the doctors wrapped a big piece of medical tape across my forehead so i wouldn't move my head once i was inside the big metal tube. my mom had hold of my hand, and the nurses asked me if i wanted ear plugs or headphones. i vouched for ear plugs as soon as i realized i had left my bright eyes cd in my sister's car rather than my handbag. if i couldn't have conor at that moment, i didn't want anything else. when i was in eighth grade, i had paul and john singing into my ears for some outpatient surgery i had. through my haze, i could hear the doctor singing along with across the universe, and i fell asleep somewhere around penny lane. but today. without cds or mixtapes. it didn't matter. as soon as the clanking and buzzing and beeping started at two-minute intervals all around my head, a song came anyway. i hyperventilated and cried claustrophobic tears into the cloth covering my eyes, in time with a tempo and words: and everyone she knew thought she was beautiful. *** i put my bobby pins back in at home later, after i washed the hospital smell out of my hair. i ate for the first time all day at 3:30. cheese and tomatoes. and at four, the phone rang. everything was normal. nobody knows why i see two people, but they assume it will go away. go to the doctor on monday, miss baker, and maybe we'll figure it out some day, they may as well have said. and so i nodded, and got in a fight with my sister. apparently the cripple is too tired and too sick to go out with my sister tomorrow as planned, so i shall stay in. thank goodness everyone knows what's best for me, even if they don't know what's wrong. even if i don't know what's wrong, and i do, and i don't, and i do. *** i had a glass of wine tonight. it's been that kind of day. *** jay eckard: i'm hugging you. can you feel that? xo love, lou ------------------ 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. 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Sinister: It's been a bloody stupid day
by Jay Eckard 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Oh Sinister. It's been an odd day. Usually I spend my time pestering people off-list (Laura Llew = saint) but today I had a very funny turn. Somebody killed themself in the parking lot where I work. And I was the first person to find them. I had to be at work sehr early -- 6 am. As I was brewing coffee and tea, I heard a big 'boom.' I went outside and saw a little coupe crashed against a streetlamp. There was blood all inside. Before I went outside, I called the police to come and help, since I didn't know what else to do. When I went to see if the driver was okay, I found a thing like a football/soccer ball in the parking lot. It was the dude's head. He had offed it by tying piano wire around his neck and tying the other end to a streetlamp in the parking lot, then taking off in his car. He decapitated himself almost instanteously. Then I found him. I spent a lot of the morning talking to the cops. They were all concerned, but I was pretty numb. The boss wanted me to go home and relax, but all I wanted to do was go on like nothing had happened. I was pretty weird all day, all glassy eyed and all, but I made it through my shift. Does that mean I'm sick, working after somebody offs themself? I didn't know what else to do, and to work seemed the most obvious amd useful thing to do. I'm really quite poor. Officer Chris was the first one on the scene, and I know him and I work with his brother, and he was okay with me working. Everybody -- customers and staff -- was disturbingly nice, like I was crazy, but I was still pretty sane, all things considered. I don't know what to think at all. I don't really want to sleep, so I'm going to a late night show of Gold Member, after midnight. Please, somebody, offer some suggestions. I'm REALLY confused. Laura?! Jay -- "Knowing? That's easy. Everyone does that ad nasueum. I just sort of hope." Dr. Who _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Indie Sweets
by Sam Walton 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Hello Sinister. I just read Christopher Devaney's post, and I feel I should offer my services, not as a purveyor of advice, but of bootlegged music. See, I managed to record the Peel Acres session last night on my computer. I have all the songs on mp3, so I can burn/email them to anybody, really (although I am a little on the skint side until I get paid, so any US residents might have to wait for a week or so if they want a CD). I even spent some time afterwards editing them, professional like. I was trying to set up a website where I could put them up, but nowhere seems to want to hold files greater than 1MB. Man, I sound like a nerd. But if anybody has any ideas where I could put them, then please tell. In other news, I'm 67% twee, according to that test on HDIFTBL. I don't understand how, though, because the only twee thing that I said was that Slow Graffiti was my favourite B&S song. It asked me what my favourite Primal Scream album was, and I told it that I like Vanishing Point best. The first Scream album I can actually remember coming out was Give Out But Don't Give Up, but I didn't get into them until after that one. Perhaps I should've put Give Out... as my favourite - it's not very twee, more Rod Stewart than Stuart Murdoch. I offered someone at work (my work = V-Shop) a Haribo the other day, and he turned it down, saying that he didn't like Haribo because they've "done a Walkers" on the sweet world. It occured to me though, he's got a point. You can only really get Walkers crisps now, and everybody knows that Golder Wonder were far tastier. But when was the last time you saw a packet of Golden Wonder? Exactly. "You've got to support the underdog, y'see", he said to me, and explained that he often craves a good INDIE PUNK RAWK piece of confectionary - something with a bit of kick and flavour, none of this tasteless commercial bollocks. I smiled and sold another copy of the Gareth Gates' single to a small girl with a bag of Haribo in her hand. I felt dirty and longed for one of those horrible gobstoppers I used to get out of a machine in the swimming pool for 10p. There are rumours of a Brighton shindig on the weekend of 10th August, but I'll leave someone bigger and cleverer to give you the news. love, Asm.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ 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: Faking up to us
by Christopher Devaney 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

I never thought of myself as the kind of person to get emotionally trapped in a relationship, but that's how i'm feeling right now. She's not seemed on top form for months, now she's broken down and having to see a psychiatrist. Suddenly i am her rock who cannot live without, despite the fact she has an annoying tendency to treat me like shit. But i know it's not really her treating me like shit, it's the drugs she's o. They're supposed to have calmed her down but they've sent her spiralling into a pit of despair if anything. I cannot seem to say much without it being misconstrued and thrown back at me, and it fucking hurts, whether it's the drugs talking or not. I can't leave her because she needs me, and i know all the bad things are just because she's ill. But I don't know if i can keep on pretending i'm strong enough to cope with it all. I feel like shit, and i'm starting to resent her, which isn't fair on her. I love her, and always will, but if she keeps throwing stones eventually one will smash the glasshouse. I missed Peel Acres. Shit. I am an idiot. Anybody willing to make me a minidisc or CD copy of it if you taped it, or know where i can download it off the net? I'll be your friend forever. Big Love, Dev __________________________________________________ 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: Beirut Picnic?
by Dirty Vicar 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

hello everyone, I am the dirty vicar, AND I LIVE TO ROCK. I haven't mailed the list in a while because I am lazy AND BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ROCKING TOO HARD. a while ago it was said to me that I keep posting to Sinister about weird compilations. Well, I have a new compi to namedrop. it is called "sonic mook experiment: future rock and roll". It has the rudest record cover of all time and is full of tracks by bands who ROCK. You know, like The Hives, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Buff Medways, and other less well known bands. It's great. the music on it ROCKS HARD. Which is a good thing. And the record cover is VERY RUDE. If you want to buy this record go to your local record shop and say "Can I have that record with the very rude cover, I can't remember what it's called?" and they will say "Certainly Sir/Madam, delete as appropriate, it's called 'sonic mook experiment: future rock and roll'. I take it you'll be wanting a paper bag?" I love to ROCK. I often wish Belle & Sebastian would ROCK more. Thankfully I saw them at the Glastonbury Pop festival where they finished with a cover of Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys In Back In Town'. That was pretty good, but it would have ROCKED harder if Isobel had been there. No one can shake their rump like Isobel. At Glastonbury I went to what was kind of a sinister meetup, but in a confusing manner it was also a Jeepster/Bowlie (the evil non Sinister B&S internet fandom nexus) & ILx meetup. so I kept meeting people and not knowing from which universe I was meant to know them. But I did meet Carsmile Steve, a jolly fellow and no mistake. And, er, other people. Latterly I went to Witnness, this rubbish Irish music festival. Oh yeah, there were good bands playing at it and stuff, but it was fundamentally rubbish. It's not just that Glastonbury and All Tomorrow's Parties have turned me into a festival snob, it's just that there was a lot missing at this one, and a lot that it would have been better without. frankly I think the world would be better off without festivals where drunken scum tip over inhabited portaloos. But I did get to see THE WARLORDS OF PEZ. Who ROCK. They are a band of Warlords from the planet Pez who have travelled to Ireland to make music. If you do a googlesearch for them you will find their somewhat disappointing website. I also saw The Hives, who also ROCK. If you want to read more about how The Hives ROCK point your interweb browser at Mr Tom Ewing's Freaky Trigger ( http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk ), where I have written an article about them and some of their friends. I'd better go now, as this mail is already longer than most people are willing to read. Hi to Stine for namechecking me. Anyone else want to set up a namechecking ring? Oh yeah, are there any Sinster subbers in the Lebanon? because me and Rener are high rollers we are going there on our holidays in October. Anyone for a Beirut picnic? blessed, blessed be, DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: KenChucky Fried Chicken
by Fernando Brito 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Hi, Sinister! How are you?! Khan Chu wrote about SFC... and I've never heard about it! We do have KFC, though. It's been a while since I saw one, I think they gave up trying to sell fried chicken in Brazil... that's weird because we eat chicken like the irish eat potatoes! Hmmmm... Nice to know that B&S signed with Rough Trade. A couple of months ago Trama, their label here in Brazil, also signed a deal with Rough Trade. So things will probably remain as they are, thank gods! I was afraid I'd have to pay $50 for the next B&S's albums, as we used to pay before Trama... Michael Grand wrote about birthdays, and... WOO, it's true! I forgot about this extremely important date... Stooart's birthday! Guess who was born exactly on the same day?! YEP! ME! Not on the same year, surely not! I'm not that old! Have you ever looked for things that happened on your birthday? I've collected lots of important things, and other completely useless stuff... My sister was born on that day too (and I still don't know whether it's in the Important or in the Useless category...), but not on the same year as I, we're not twins... I wonder what happened on that day, nine months before I and my sister were born... my parents must have had something really special to celebrate on that day! One day I was counting the months to know when I was conceived, but as my mathematical skills are null, I thought it happened on 25th December! I thought: "Whot?! My parents... those perverts!!". I was wrong, of course, in fact i was conceived around the 25th November, which is near to our republican proclamation (we were an empire before, blah, blah, blah...). So I suppose my father is a passionate republican... or maybe my mother! Anyway, I'm going to visit me mom this weekend. It's been almost three months that I don't go see her, she must be missing me. I admit I don't miss her much... I'm such a stupid person! It's also an excuse to go see my sini friend Ana! Hi, Ana! She's the only person from the sinister list that I've ever met! She's also the only one I know that loves B&S. I know two or three other people who also like them, but, it's weird, they only LIKE them... I thought B&S was one of those bands that you hate or love! At least for me it's like a religion, everyday I think about them, sing one of their songs... like a mantra. Or sometimes when I feel this or that way I sing one of their songs that fits so perfectly with my feelings.... And everyday someone posts to the list, and as I work with e-mails, I often read them immediately. There's no escape! I even thought I was getting obsessive, but then i remembered The Stars of Track and Field and sung it to forget! babbling... babbling... babbling... Time to go. See you on monday, folks! Kisses and hugs, 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. 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: My nursery days are over
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Dear sinister, Some terribly exciting things happened in the past couple of days. First of all on Wednesday, I saw a Helicopter taking off from the middle of Oxford Street - it was the London Emergency Medical Helicopter, no less, that I've once seen on an exciting TV show called "Situation Critical", during which it had played an important role of turning the tide in all kinds of losing life-or-death situations. I didn't find out what the emergency was that day though, but I think it involved a bus. Second of all yesterday, I was in a situation where I could have saved a desperate man from missing his plane, by lending him £12.50. You see he needed to take a coach from Victoria Station to Gatwick Airport in London, unfortunately I didn't have any money on me. The poor man, he didn't even realise that the plane ticket in his hand was fake, and that the London Underground platform he was on takes him to the total opposite direction to Victoria. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that he was a con-man... Third of all last night, there was a John Peel session, with Belle and Sebastian on it. At first I thought B&S have taken on a totally new direction in their music, by playing drum and bass, but then I realised that it was actually one of the shit records that Mr Peel put on. Later on my heart was put at rest when my beloved B&S played one of their classic Bossa Nova tunes, and I was a relieved man, thank God our heroes are still as bonkers as ever. There were a couple of archetypal Stuart tracks to keep the punters happy though, including one apparently to be from the now obligatory "I don't love you anymore Isobel ner ner ner" genre called "you don't upset me"(?). Fourth of all recently, I have acquired a work e-mail address!! About time too, and my beloved List mummies have given me private tuitions to speed me through the nursery school. I'm a big kid now! So you should all write me to this e-mail address during the day-time to keep me from working. However crush votes should still go to pykachu100(a)hotmail.com! Fifth of all a few days ago, thank you very much for giving me a crush vote, whoever kind soul who sent me one the last time! You should reveal yourself. Sixth of all now, it's almost finish work time! So I'll be off for karaoke, then. Love and Red Bulls Ken +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Happiness (not the film by Todd Solondz)
by Liz Daplyn 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Cor blimey guv'ner. RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH So I didn't stay in to listen to the 'wireless' last night, but I did manage to remember to set the timer record function on my stereo (God bless Mr Technics and all his adorable little children). Correctly, to boot. This enabled me, when I returned suitably refreshed after an evening spent in a dark cellar off Fleet Street, to listen to our favourite Scottish Luddites perform a selection of their new stuff from the comforts of Mr John Peel's home (and, indeed, bathroom, in Chris' case). And my verdict, pop pickers: better than Storytelling, I say probably not at all controversially. Better than Porthcawl, even. Anyway, I found to my surprise that I am genuinely E!X!C!I!T!E!D! about this new material and its patently perceptible joie be vivre and, er, oomph. Now, this may have been due to several pints of bitter and the inevitable cloth-earedness (next sense to drunkenly go after hearing is smell; this has proven useful on occasion) that is my due in these circumstances, but I don't think so. It's all gone a bit Free Design, but I stress, in a _good_ way, for those of who you who are even now heading for the vomitarium. Really really good. SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES Speaking (as I was) of that dark cellar off Fleet Street: this venue was host to a veritable smorgasbord of Sinister talent, a real Thornton's intercontinental selection, including those on their way home (Oon) and those who thought they were on their way home but well, probably aren't (Australian David). Beer was drunk, so were we, crap was talked. As per usual, then. It turns out that despite my own recent move to London, all the really cool kids are now moving to America. Dang, last one on the bandwagon once again. GODLIKE GENIUS Hurrah! My copy of Camera Obscura's 'Biggest Bluest HiFi' has finally arrived from Amazon (I know, I know, but I never look a gift certificate in the mouth) this morning, adding to the joy of summer. And how. Also refusing to leave the CD player: Mr David Moore (Cockernee rhyming slang: corporate whore) introduced me a while ago to Saint Low, otherwise known as Mary Lorson (late of Madder Rose or summink like that), and I picked up their latest on promotional CD the other week. Highly recommended for people who are moving into a properly grownup pop music phase. Well, after that excess of enthusiasm and actual content, I'd best go lie down for a bit before attempting to excercise some dodgy karaoke skeelz this evening. Crikey. Love, Liz :x _________________________________________________________________ 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: I might love anyone
by Matilda Liljedahl 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Hey you out there in the cold So maybe Im not heartless. Maybe I was wrong when I felt I didnt love anyone. This week I loved my family. Ive been home alone for two weeks now and I actually miss them. It would be better to love them when theyre home than loving them when theyre gone, but still, this is a step forward. And this week I realised Im in love (at least most of the time). Im afraid this is going to break my heart rather than making me happy. But I prefer being broken hearted than not feeling a thing (at least I think so, Im not perfectly sure). It took me this long to realise Ill miss Isobels part in Belle and Sebastian (must have been some kind of shock-phase). I really like the songs shes singing and now Im going to mix Gentle waves with Belle and Sebastian but its not going to be the same. Besides she was the only member I could remember the full name of (yes, I know how horrible that is but Im really, really bad at names). Storytelling is now on cinema in Sweden. I dont know if I should see it now or wait until it comes to video. From what Ive heard the movie is not that good. Anyone whos seen it is welcome to give me an advice in this difficult choice Im facing. Ive been visiting second hand record shops frequently the last time. And I saw a guy who was buying Storytelling 2nd hand. I was deeply shocked. How could that happen? Soon I realised there were a lot of reasons that could have cause this occurrence. 1 Some poor B&S fan had bought Storytelling for her/his last money and then acccidently dropped it on the street. Another person, without any conscience, found it and sold it to earn some money. 2 Some poor B&S fan had her/his birthday the day after the release of the record and got, not one, but two records from friends and family who had overestimated her/his admiration of B&S. 3 Some poor B&S fan died recently and her/his relatives sold all her/his records because they couldnt bear the pain of being reminded of the dead person everytime they saw the records she/he had loved. I found Tigermilk in the same shop, which sadly supports this theory. I was also lucky to find The Boy With The Arab Strap to a very nice price and I bought it because (aaaaaaaaargh heres the truth) I didnt have it and Ive never had it. But wait, I can explain. I never buy all the records of one group at the same time. Every time Ive bought a new Belle and Sebastian Ive been happy every night and day for at least 3 weeks. I want to spread this feeling over time so I can be happy now and then and not only one time. Sometimes Im happy even if I havent bought a good record recently, it happens :) But anyway this is my record-buying-strategy and since I discovered B&S pretty late it took me this long. Anyway this buying of The Boy With The Arab Strap made me as happy as always. Im now more convinced than ever of how much I love Belle and Sebastian. They are the kind of band that can make me feel right when things are wrong. I even like to listen to the songs that I wouldnt have liked very much if someone else was doing them, because Im stuck to that feeling they give me. Now I really have to eat some pancakes or something will go wrong, terribly wrong./ Bye _________________________________________________________________ Med MSN Foto kan du enkelt dela med dig av dina fotografier och beställa kopior: http://photos.msn.se +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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