August 2002 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: when the open road is closing in
by rrrrobyn 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

about all those things you said, i've been thinking. oh god, it's a hazy late-summer morning. i feel a melancholy coming on. nooooooo! stevie t's post made me cry a bit. i can't even embellish on it. thanks, stevie. and ken's faq post made me lafff. and there were also other posts, of course, that made for other emotions. aw, i luf yous guys sooo mush. :) so, as if to help the melancholy go full-blown systemic, i have been packing. and have thrown out: 11 pairs of old shoes (still have 19 pairs left, not to worry), 6 boxes full of old papers and pamphlets and stuff i looked at thinking,"'why the hell would i keep this? is there some kind of sentiment attached to this club flyer? is there a memory associated with this mutual funds pamphlet?" NO! purge, purge, purge. so that's good. but then i look around my little apartment and get sentimental again - this is my first apartment and has been called by friends "a real professional single girl apartment." aw. i think this is only b/c i have a desk area ("professional"). otherwise all the furniture is hand-me-downs and it's not like i don't have band posters up on the walls still (chosen wisely, of course, i.e., beautiful little b&w aislers set poster.) aw. sigh. how long did i spend downloading the 'new' belle and sebastian songs? let's just say i went shopping. but when i came back, there was new b&s waiting for me. and it was jangly, poppy, birthday-y, and good :) hurrah for radio! hurrah for the internet! (i'm really into cheering the latter lately. internet, sometimes i think you are a means to all my ends.) oh, sorry, the melancholy. i have exactly two weeks left in vancouver. ow, that sentence makes my heart palpitate. you know that sense of impending 'something', not necessarily doom, but something that makes you look in your daytimer to check if the days are marked by momentus occasions, only to realize there's nothing momentus written at all? only: 'dinner with soandso', 'suchandsuch concert', 'plane to montreal, 11:30'. i should put exclamation marks and asterisks next to these things. the marks of 'important things'. everything seems both important and trivial right now. bah! to perspective, apparently. but it might not all matter b/c greg's 'gorgeous' riddle is going to be the death of me anyway. but, before i die, i will direct your eyes to some photos of the may 2002 brighton picnic (and a few of vancouver): http://photos.yahoo.com/rfadden . people look cute in them. there are none of me. there are some of the ocean. some of them are blurry; i have no idea why... yours in resurgent happiness, robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.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 homeless cheese
by Paul Field 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

I have been reading sinister with interest of late. I admit, similar to most of you out there I am sure, my interest in the list varies based on a number of factors, the chief factor being how much spare time I actually have to devote to reading emails from complete strangers. Having a job in an office again, that is once again rather a lot. One thought that has crept into my head recently is does anybody here consider their relationship to be romantic in any way? That's romantic, not sexual for the smuttees out there. I ask this after Andrew Churchman's post. Had he been ending a romantic relationship it would be decent of him to let his partner know that he no longer wished involvement with him or her. And also to point out the ways in which said person had changed as a reason for his change of heart would also be fair and relevant. But things, by nature, change. With the possible exception of Ken's underwear, Everything. Why should a mailing list be any different? Whether that change is for better or for worse is surely a matter of perspective. Many of the "old guard" will inevitably say for the worse, but this is just the same as a pensioner saying how much better things were during the war. Our rose-tinted spectacles have such intense power when we reminisce. But I refuse to wear mine coz they make me look like a ponce. Sinister is soon to be 5. How many 5 year olds do you know that havent changed since they were born? It would be a pretty scary 5 year old had they not. I wish I had changed since I was 5 though. Proust may well disagree with my ideas of always looking back in a favourable light, but then I am not talking about the perspective of a formula 1 veteran. It's my great sense of humour and remarkable wit you love me for, isn't it? I even look back at what happened on Wednesday with a bit of a smile now. I can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible. On Wednesday afternoon we had an enormous storm here in London there was a torrential downpour! It's very rare to see rain so heavy in England. Anyway, I left work & went to get the tube, but the district line wasn't running at all because the track was flooded. So, Bugger. I went to get the bus to Earls court, but a lot of people had the same idea and there was no way I was going to be able to get on a bus for ages, so I walked up to another station, and as I was walking the bus I would have got sped past me & through a huge puddle - soaking me from head to toe, and I mean head to toe. I got to the other station, managed to make my way home and everything, though it took me 2.5 hours. When I got home I discovered that because of the bloody builders next door being disgusting, messy bastards, the debris they had left had all been swilled in the rain to the drain at the entrance to my house. So the drain was blooked and there was a knee-hight puddle of filthy water I had to wade through to get inside. I then got changed into old clothes & had to go out and kneel in the filthy water & pull all of this crap out of the drain. Yuk! So yeah, by the time I had done this and let me takeaway food etc. get cold, it was late-ish anyway and I was in too foul a mood. I belive New Yorker's Brian and Matthew went to Cape Cod, which is a strange hobby but props to the diversity of sinister interests. It also brought to mind jen owl as she had a bit of a cape obsession. I think 5th birthday celebrations should involve certain older regular posters coming out of their shells, including...well, I don't know who's still here, but you know who you are. Maybe even Calumn could come up with a competition to mark the event? For those of you who remember French elena, she's just called me - apparently we can't have a picnic tomorrow because it's raining in Paris. Hmm. We bashed the pegg last night. I think. Did we? Or did we just knock him slightly sideways? Also, if its red knicker day soon, is there going to be else to be on the 5th birthday? Red gloves, with a finger for each year? Red leather knickers? The sad news, as far as I am concerned at least, is that I won't be at a sinister event as I have to attend a friends stag night. I think! Therefore I am off. See some of you tomorrow! Bye! Paul xx __________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: All-time middle
by Simon Fallaha 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

Hello again everybody. Occasionally flicking through your posts (especially Laura's - you mentioned Storytelling, I'll come to it later), still looking for a placement and generally messing about with an odd job in between. How else can I describe my current situation? It's not exactly an all-time high, so the title I'm using for this message gives the second best way of describing it. Still, few won't realise that the title's a lame 007 pun (the Roger Moore season on ITV finished just days ago). Anyway, last month there was Tunisia. It was great while it lasted (one week, that's all it was). The place we stayed, Port El Kantoui (I'll never remember how to spell it) seemed to have been purposely built for tourists! Not that that's a bad thing for us visitors (I encountered many English people there, and even a few Irish) but I wonder how the natives must find it. However, no matter how cynical I am about the tourist aspect, you shouldn't let it detract from the enjoyment of the place. There was plenty of chances to go swimming (either in the Med or the hotel's pool), an arcades room (even though most of them were ancient and me and my brothers preferred to play pool) and even a discotheque (I only went there one night though). There was also the chance to play many sports, but I think what really stood out for me is the activities you could do at the beach. Especially paragliding. The thought of it may scare some of you, but if you get in the right seating position and hold on, you are sitting comfortably while you float up high in the air, and the view is tremendous. Enough about that. Now, my last post before I left suggested how "excited" I was about seeing Storytelling. Well...having seen it now I am very divided over it. Now that I know how Todd Solondz treats the characters in his films I'm not so convinced that I want to see Welcome To The Dollhouse or Happiness, no matter how highly they've been rated. >From what I've been reading about them, Welcome To The Dollhouse makes you glad that you're still an adult, rather than back in high school, and Happiness just seems like American Beauty. But Storytelling...well, what was the point of it? The fiction act made more sense than the non-fiction act, but in my opinion the whole film was virtually directionless. Some of Solondz's characters may live long in the memory, but you don't really want them to. Nearly all the characters in this film are dislikable or warped (with the possible exclusion of Selma Blair's Vi). That little kid in the non-fiction act - now I know most kids in films are brats, but this one is more so than any other one I've seen. I can understand now why you all thought Storytelling "sucked", but are Solondz's films meant to be attractive viewing anyway? A few scenes are disturbing. There's some things in that film which you really don't want to see again, and other things which are just boring. What gets me, though, is that Belle & Sebastian's music seems out of place in a film such as this. I did like the end credits theme (sung by Isobel) but doesn't it seem a little too cheery for the setting? And I was glad when the film ended, even though it's only about 80 minutes. Apart from Storytelling, the only other film I saw recently was Austin Powers 3 - and there's very little to say about that. I avoided Men In Black II on a friend's advice - have any of you seen it? Enough for now. Take care, Psi __________________________________________________ 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: Today I bought a record that your new boyfriend has never even heard of
by Lucy Alder 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

Oh dear. Carsmile Steve screamed PS Oi! Alder! once a week? where are yer?? Ahem. I believe I said I was going to keep on posting to Sinister once a week (no more, I wouldnt want you getting sick of me, right?) So, in the spirit of recent posts, I am going to do a whole host of replying. Mark said Excitedly, I scrutinised the lamp, and found SEVEN tiny spiders attached to it! A couple of them got a bit frisky, and started abseiling like the cutest little marines, so I moved them into a shady corner to start their spidery lives. Last year, I found a nest of baby arachnids in the corner of my room. I put an end to their spidery lives by hovering them up. Mwah ha ha! Then, Linda said On another tack, I was watching a programme on Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, recently, and they showed the film clip where Orlando likens his/her lover to a "pineapple, a fox in the snow." Any of you literary people know if this is the first conscious grouping of those words, and is that where the song title comes from, and therefore Stuart reads poncy girl's books? The Reference Fox sez: In her book "Orlando", the eponymous hero(ine) refers to his Russian Princess lover as being "like a fox in the snow" twice... Props go to Mark for spotting this! The Reference Fox enjoyed it especially. I have a funny feeling Mark is our very own Casarotto. For more foxy references, see http://www.fineran.demon.co.uk/basrefs/ Now Adam: Does anyone know what Stuart and Co. are going to do about the songs that feature Isobel on main vocals? Sarah seems to have stepped right into Isobels shoes for the vocals. She did them very nicely at the last QMU gig and her arse isnt as big as Bels either. They had a guest cellist that night, too Rosie, I think but I dont know anything about her, whether it was a one-night fling or if its a long term relationship. Or if shes snogging any of the band. Stevie T did some nice ink polaroids in hour of Sinisters buffday, so I thought Id add one of my own. ***** This is me in an office in West London. Its my first time in Sinister Chat. If you look very carefully at the computer screen, youll see Ladylike has written Honey, when I first joined Sinister, I thought you were a girl and honeypie has replied I am ***** Juicy Lucy ps. Whos coming to the Winchester Club tomorrow night? ===== The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ ************************************************** The Winchester Club http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_winchester_club/ __________________________________________________ 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: smut? check. references to obscure indie bands? check. ken and l lew? check. being rude about cassarotto? check. time to press send then.
by Hewitt, Stephen 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

ello babies david (no relation, to my knowledge anyway) said: I was going to apologise for the fact that this post consists entirely of childish smut and single-entendres. Then I decided not to. which is the way it should be considering over the past week or so there have been entendres a plenty, for example, jen said: John Wayne Bobbitt was going to box Joey Buttafucco fnarr, snort, than hannahb said: all over my chest and half a soggy biscuit teehee, fnarr etc and the kaiser said: gnarled buggers takes one to know is all i have to say ;) helen asked about radio shows. apparently it's all about radio 3's late junction these days, although i've yet to dip my toe in the water, "becoming as essential as mark and lard's evening show was in the early 90s" says my correspondent (or words to that effect, the message-board-that-shall-not-be-mentioned on which it was posted is currently up the spout). luloululouboobles then said: It also made me want to reread Orlando, and see the film, and listen to Fox in the Snow. which reminded me that KIKI AND HERB ARE IN THE UK!!! they are playing at the soho theatre on dean street (in that london) until the 17th, which implies to me that they might be off to embra for the fringe after that, although i have no confirmation of this. FAAAAAAAAAAACKS IN THE SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOW, FAAAAAAAAAAACKS IN THE SNAAAAAAAAAAOOOW, little matchgirls etcetc... there is http://www.kikiandherb.com if you've no idea what i'm dribbling on aboot. ken said: "I DUNNOOOO" but i think i prefer the little scottish boy shouting "COOOOMMMEE OOORRRNN" at the start of that song, oh you know, erm, for some reason i have now completely forgotten as in my head it's getting mixed up with "run ride the runway" by the boo radleys (this may be due to the fact that i only have four tapes in my bag to listen to on the bus, one is IYFS/TM, one is TWATTYBUS/TIGGERJAMMIES and LLPJ, the third is giant steps and the fourth is my TAPE TREE TAPE which i still haven't sent to John Jennings because i am a bad boy). NB the boos song does have playground type noises at the beginning as well (i think, oh dear, just ignore this bit ;)) adam asked about replacement campbell. well judging by recent gigs, they have a new cellist person (name unknown (to me anyway, i bet DMCUK knows) and sarah is doing most of the vocally bits. he also mistyped "asthmatic hamster" as "raspy female vocals" for some reason... Welthorpe, Edna, Mrs went on a tour de force, and who can blame him. if you trawl around the beepster site for long enough you can find some old ink polaroids hidden away there too... Ronnie asked what tw** was. ah, the blessed innocence of youth ;) ask archel, she'll tell you <carsmile runs for cover v. quickly> idles mentioned spaceboy dream which i do like, but which was slightly tarnished for being the music on the trailer for that fat tongued c-word's last cookery series... boy g and migmk and lleweth revived the ancient stylistic touch of THE HEADING, which is always welcome, especially as migmk said: WE'RE GOING OUT - ON BRIGHTON PIER. blimey i thought i was the only YY28s fan left. look they're doing this now: http://www.heavenevents.com/OneHitWonders.htm scary... unfortunately i'll not be able to join in this weekend's festivities as i am off up north for mother's 50th birthday party, anyone got any spare nicotine patches lying around... Ian asked about "I'm..." songs, and having seen the answers I still don't believe that "i'm doing fine now" by the pasadenas got to number one. However, I'magine by john lennon should be on the list... and with that terrible pun it's time for me to do some actual work, come here database, mr baseball bat wants a word with you... xoxo CarsmileSteve PS Oi! Alder! once a week? where are yer?? **************************************************************************** For the latest City Lit news & information, please visit our website www.citylit.ac.uk **************************************************************************** The City Literary Institute Registered Office: 16 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LJ Registered in England no: 2471686 Registered Charity no: 803007 *************************************************** PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. *************************************************** This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information. The message and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the recipient or organisation to whom it is addressed. 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Sinister: just wanted to break the drought, really
by David Hewitt 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

G'day all. John Jennings said: "I went on a wee tour around Scotland a couple of weeks ago... Stirling, Glasgow, the highlands, all the tourist attractions." You wee-ed in all of those places? Blimey. He then said: "I was in Glasgow on the day of the 'big floods' and almost drowned." You poor sod. I had no idea that wee-tourism had become so popular. Then he said something about British and Scottish Gas. I giggled like a schoolgirl, but maybe that's just me. Bulk love, -Vanilla Flavoured David. PS: I was going to apologise for the fact that this post consists entirely of childish smut and single-entendres. Then I decided not to, as the post you would have otherwise gotten would have been one of those "I haven't posted for ages" ones, combined with "what Sinister means to me" and "I had a big trip and met all these people who are great, and now I'm going to list them all" and "here's my heartrending story in full and pointless and overly-personal detail" seasoned with a little "aren't I clever! everyone look at me!". You know, like all my posts used to be. You wouldn't have liked it, and are far better off with what you got, so you should be grateful. I think everyone that would care what I've been up to knows most of it, so I won't bore the other 1500 or so of you with it. PPS: Hug Stevie Trousers the next time you see him. Go on. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Children can no longer be dubbed "little shits". Now they can be diagnosed with impressive acronyms like ADHD.
by John Jennings 09 Aug '02

09 Aug '02

Hello Hello. God i haven't posted for ages. Why do i always start posts saying that? Maybe because i leave so much time in between posts. That would make sense. My subject line gubbins is from the Guardian review for today's television. There was a programme about children behaving badly. I watched a few minutes of it... basically there was this one kid who decided it was necessary to attempt to kill everyone, indeed every*thing* that crossed his path. I immediately dubbed him a little shit and turned over. I went on a wee tour around Scotland a couple of weeks ago... Stirling, Glasgow, the highlands, all the tourist attractions. I was in Glasgow on the day of the 'big floods' and almost drowned. That was fun. I was told by a (scottish) friend before i went that in the Highlands the locals are very proud of being scottish and don't take kindly to being called British. I think maybe she was joking... or maybe the snp voters hid in hedges and behind sheep (ahem) when i walked past. I did notice that british gas is called scottish gas in scotland though (now *that* is progress). Last time I posted I mentioned cleaning up cat vomit. A couple of days later I got a (relatively) nasty email saying that i shouldn't be dirtying the good name of cats on sinister, which is essentially a cat friendly place (i am aware of the exceptions...)... well my cat has just delivered three dead mice onto the carpet. I'm not entirely sure I can keep the good name of cats alive for much longer, people. I read that post about sinister being better back in 'the olden days'... this confused me slightly because as far as I can remember sinister hasn't changed much at all. The belle and sebastian content has declined a little, but then what are we supposed to say? Short of spying on the poor people (and i'm aware some of us do just that) we aren't going to have new and exciting information every time we post. Well i'm not. Ahem. I think the young man in question was just trying to get some attention and for that he deserves our pity and indeed therapy. The little shit. I just ordered four cds on the internet. Thats quite a lot for one time. The bills going to shock me. I've only bought them because all four are albums that certain individuals think, for some reason, that I already own. I'm trying to avoid awkwardness. Besides if people think i own them, they must be good. Possibly. I feel like this post was a little erratic. Its not flowing very well. Maybe i should give up now. JP x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: well i reckon
by Dean Gillon 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Right. I think If the prisoners all get together to discuss this, then it'll be in the central room. The next guy says 'yup, all the prisoners have been there' and then whispers under his breath "it was last night, why do they think we won't remember..." Then they can all go free, and/or get sent on a NACRO-sponsored resettlement programme in a factory paying shitty wages. They'll soon be on the smack, burglaries will rise to pay for their habits, the Daily Mail will be, as ever, righteously indignant, and they'll be sent back to the slammer for more light bulb related riddling. The guards won't fall for such mad schemes next time mind. Oh, and the Home Secretary may well want a chat with the Governor. And another thing. Who was that guy who also had some righteous indignancy (that's not a word is it?) about peoples lives being less important than the minutae of B&S songs. We all love them but you judge which is most important. People using this list to discuss problems and things they're going through, happy or sad, with some like-minded people, or "if you listen really close to String Bean Jean you can hear a door quietly shutting in the background". Um, that mass rush for the stereo's of a thousand Sinistereenies to listen out tells me the answer to that one. I'll say no more. Love Dean ps I was only joking about SBJ. pps However, if you play 'The State I Am In' backwards, you can hear Isobel releasing the clues to the treasure hunt. In Swahili. __________________________________________________ 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: Is that your car on fire or are you just pleased to see me?
by Laura Llew 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

DISCLAIMER: If you're looking for a sinister post full of wit, charm and fascinating insights to current conversation topics -- one whose levity and mirth will have you rolling in the proverbial aisle while holding your sides as they ache as you laugh and laugh, then you'd be advised to delete this one. This is a dreadfully boring dismal post whose only use might be to cure a case of insomnia or to nurse an illogical fear of catching beri beri. Unless you want to find yourself in the throes of mindless boredom with your nails scratching out your eyes, while making pained noises like the time you tried to learn to play the trumpet for the middle school band, I suggest that you very quickly move to the next button and go find another post to read or another source of amusement, such as making small animals out of pipecleaners and popsicle sticks just as an excuse for you to play with the rubber cement. G GYRATIONS: "August 13th - G flees from shame of humiliating picnic behaviour, gets on plane. Arrives Charlotte, meets the Llew, collapses and dies at tragically young age having achieved all remaining ambitions." At first I was frightened at the aspect of having a dead English boy to come stay with me but then I mused - in Dorothy Parkeresque fashion - will I even be able to tell the difference? One never knows with the British. It's no matter since for his birthday - which he'll have while here - I'm going to make him a red velvet tombstone birthday cake! Oh yes. Personally, I would die for such a treat. I'm trying to encourage other people to come and celebrate with us and so far have promises from people driving down from DC, over from Chapel Hill, and there's one boy who *is* coming up from Georgia even if I have to employ a grappling hook and a truck driver named Earl to help me get him here. The day of excitement will be Sunday August 18th. I think you all should send presents to him here. I promise I won't rifle through them, pick out the ones I like for myself, and leave him with only things like a copy of Fry's "The Liar". I swear! (and not just because that's the effect Fry's style has on me either.) SELMA BLAIR HAS A MULLET AND I DON'T FEEL SO WELL MYSELF: After hearing everyone only say comments to the effect of, "I've seen better film on teeth!", I finally watched Storytelling telling the dirty hippie as we rented it, "From everything I've heard, this is wretched and will suck but I want to see it anyway" so that she had trouble discerning if I was referring to the movie or her music collection. I wasn't aware until recently that the third part of the movie which featured most of the B&S music was completely edited out so I feel somewhat cheated. It's not as if I expected much which is exactly what I received (kind of like the scene where "The State I Am In" is playing, eh?). However, the very last scene changed the entire movie for me and I ended up loving it! I also adore where the title of "Fuck This Shit" came from. Plus, it was nice to see Selma Blair before she went all scary mulleted on the world. What's a pretty girl like her doing with a mullet like that? TAPE TWEE In other Sinister related news, I finally made and received my mix tape for the tape tree. Huge public props to Aruni for setting that up for us. Also, massive love out to Miss Maddie Minx giver of ace hip flasks who might want to avoid ever meeting me as I plan to greet her with a tackle and snogs, Bill "Your posts are OK but they'd be better if they'd mention how sexy and fantastic I am" Harris, Jay Eckerd who is absolutely enchanting, all the suckahs who said they wanted to meet me on the Sinister questionnaire, and Miss Flannery who is currently showing her love for me by biting at my ankles in want of a walk. until supplies last, Laura PS - I don't know what he's smoking but Rouss did send me some Scottish whiskey so at least I know what he's drinking. Of course, he also sent me a small stuffed sheep and mentioned shagging. I hope I'm supposed to draw no conclusions from that. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Riddle me this, Batboy
by Michael Ashbridge 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

The Boy G wrote: THE RIDDLE: 100 prisoners in solitary cells. There's a central living room with one light bulb; the bulb is initially off [...] The prisoners are allowed to get together one night, to discuss a plan. What plan should they agree on, so that eventually, someone will make a correct assertion? Can I just thank That Boy G for completely ruining my lunchtime? I read that just before lunch and was musing on it privately. Then the rest of my fellow grad students came over to the lab and I threw it out for general discussion. There's still a pitched battle being fought out there. The engineers are doing themselves proud against the logical cannons of the mathematicians and probability theorists, while the lone humanities student is busily reassessing her own theories of sociocultural stereotyping. I think blood is going to be spilled soon. We've hit on several workable solutions. Too many, in fact. My solution takes at least 299 days, and there are others who think it can be done sooner. The issue now seems to be proving which is optimal. I stand no chance whatsoever of getting any work done for the rest of the day. Bastard. - M. P.S. I wrote several weeks ago regarding my lack of perspective on the Belles and my disbelief that they could ever make a record I wouldn't like. If they ever commit "Love on the Marsh" to CD, that'll be the first. Beautiful lyrics, yes, but MY EARS! MY EARS! argh! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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