September 2002 - Sinister

Sinister: one final inquiry(for now)
by howard shady 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Good morning, good afternoon, good night...where ever you are. This is my last call out here before I take my little trip o'er the ocean. A week from now I will be droppin into London for 10days of screwing off and many other things that I will not disclose. I'll only be in London for a couple of days and then it's a bus ride up north the Sheffield for a few more days of dilly dallying and lollygaggin there. If any of you people are in those locations and are up for a drink or twelve I promise I won't bite, scratch or kick. Feel free to drop me a line off the list and maybe we can arrange something. Not too much else happening in the world of mr. Shady though. Last week was a milestone for me...another birthday that is. Some friends of mine gave me a great party, full of good cheer and all that other stuff that revolves around a possible midlife crisis. Many beers were consumed and things smoked in funny looking apparatuses(hmmmm). It was a great time indeed, even got a couple of nifty cds and other fun stuff. Oh and the best gift of all, some nutty guy gave me a nice big dent in the side of my car. What a guy....oh well, it's just a car. Still the nerve of some people just gets me sometimes. If any of you see this man(doubt ya will) but if ya do, kick him in the shins really hard hold him down til I get there. Thanx:) Well thats it from me. I'm gonna sit back and take in the new Doves cd and maybe have a glass of wine or something like that. Oh and curse the man who keeps cutting my hair....why is it everytime I get one of these damned haircuts I come out looking like I should be holding a book bag and waiting for my mommy to pick me up from school. The key to eternal youth....a cheap barbershop haircut. There ya go people another secret of the universe unravelled by me........Take care of each other. Mr. Shady...aka skinny hips rivers ===== I'm gonna be an international pop sensation __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.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: My little experiment
by Sam Steddy 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

This is yet another first post, well official first post (thank you to Honey for helping me previously) so I thought I should really send a message before my memory of Reading deteriorates. First of all I'll say hello to everyone who I met at Reading (I was dressed as a Hive on the second day and in a sheepskin on the third). Also I'll reply to that message about the polyphonic spree. I went to see the Polyphonic Spree at Reading as supposed to the bloody boring Strokes. They were rather amazing but I was so tired and that poor French horn player was so energetic that I couldn't help but feel guilty as he smiled and waved at us. They were very good, especially their cover of Bowie's "Five Years". I like the flute player, and the fact she was only in the band to make noise on a flute. They're worth going to see if you can, tickets are cheap I think. Finally, to my titular experiment. You might say I belong to two sorts of obsessive groups, but just to test something here, does the word "Shigsy" mean anything to anyone here? If it does, erm, find some way of notifying me I guess. Goodbye all. __________________________________________________ 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: September spawned a Keano
by paul hardman 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

Alright kids. Just writing a short note in support of "The Stars of Track & Field". Hell of a song, not a good opener....?!*&?!£..you've gotta be kidding. We all can't like the same thing granted. Never used to like "Judy & her dream of Horsedick's", think that's the best finale, Rollercoaster ride....PAP!....nice slide though. I've almost completed my tape for the tree you'll be glad to know, just the one B & S song on there for you all. I know we were told to not bother but it's a beatiful live version of "Here comes the sun" from the Rotterdam gig. Whenever will Keano learn. United 4 Smoggyborough 2 Just a guess. Vines are playing 10th Oct in Amsterdam. Anyone up for it? Manics 5th Nov Let me know as i'll have to pick tickets up soon, think i'll be back in Warrington for the Manic's though. Tis my birthday week. 7th, just like Roger Moore. 'H'. _________________________________________________________________ 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: I just find them confusing
by Dirty Vicar 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Hello Sinister, a quick mail from the Dirty Vicar before I unsubscribe to pay a quick visit to the Netherlands. I've been to some interesting musical things. As you know I live in Dublin, and consequently I went to the first night of Wonky, which was this kind of festival thing in a converted industrial space that was once used to manufacture Guinness. The space itself was very striking - a huge industrial edifice from which you got wonderful views of the city at night. but also the music was top too, with local bands like the Dudley Corporation, the Jimmycake, and Large Mound turning in G*R*A*T*E performances. Best of all though were the Chalets. I mentioned them last time, now that I have actually seen them in concert they are truly the best band in the world that aren't B&S. They even include a former Sinister subber among their numbers so they have to be good. If you like the idea of a band fronted by two Betty Page lookalikes singing sharp boy-girl vocals and playing with xylophones you will like the Chalets. I'm hoping they go on to release some actual records before I lose interest. I also went to some world music shite which was T*O*P. Some brass band fellows from Rajastahn met with my approval, their blaring sounds calling to mind the Sun Ra Arkestra. And the Gotipua Dancers were also impressive. they were these boy dancers who dress like women and do dancing and stuff. the whole dressing like women thing was a bit bizarre, because it meant I was eyeing up people onstage and thinking "mmm, kinda tasty" and then remembering that they were i) male and ii) underage. ah well, beggars can't be choosers. And so I must leave you. 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: Re: sinister: the polyphonic spree
by John Hyllegaard 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

The leader of tps is the former Tripping Daisy Tim DeLaughter. It's miles away from their planet, but this debut is anyway from a planet on it's own. The first 9 sections (the tracks is called section 1-10) is marvellous - beautiful popsongs... the last track is one of those tracks you would possibly delete forever, if your CD player had the option. It's 35+ minutes of keyboard sounds... like Metal Machine Music without metal (just my opinion). So my recommandation: Never let the monster out on random play... play it from the beggining stages and onwards: There's pure pop classics within. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 polyphonic spree
by anakin_sky＠gmx.net 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

hello, can any of you tell me something about a band called the polyphonic spree? i´ve heard a song by them on a night radio show recently, and i had never heard of them before, so any info would be appreciated. thanks, love, anne. -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Thus The Adonis Made Out (alive)
by Laura Llew 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Dearest Sinister, Three overnight guests, an unfortunate event, one dirty hippie, and a stilted roadtrip to Montreal were required of me to fill this post for your innocent entertainment. It has been a few days since I have last seen a Sinisterine. Things, since then, have not gone well with me. I went from a place with a lounging London boy to a place where there was no lounging London boy, and from a place with a full bottle of Scotch to a place where there is no Scotch. That is to say, from the comfort of my cozy home to a family vacation. Before I left, I had two weeks of sinister filled fun with guests including: *The Boy "Screw Jim Gilmer - I'm the one who is so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis & if I keep up this addiction to Fuddruckers' hamburgers I'm going to have trouble seeing over my stomach as I will be HOKEY CHUBBYLICIOUS, baby" G *Jay "Un(der)employed" Nagy *Kirk"mmm Cheerwine"Us and *Jay "All I want is a vaguely Byronic underwear model who can play Chopin and discuss Descartes while making a chocolate martini - Is this too much to ask?!" Eckerd. All but the latter allowed themselves to be lured into staying several days at my hostile hostel. It was a relief that I didn't have to resort to my usual threats of grappling hooks and truck drivers named Earl to convince them they really did want to stay. After three years on this list and reading a multitude of reports back from picnics and days o red knickers, I finally have been to such. I've met members from Sinister before. The first time I met someone from here I broke out in hives beforehand, the second I fell down a long flight of steps the day of and bruised myself over my entire body (many parts which I didn't know were in existence before the incident), the third meeting I hadn't slept for weeks prior and was reduced to incoherent drivel, the fourth one I spilled chemicals on my face leaving brutal marks and appearing as scarface, and after that I've blocked it out and it can't be recalled without the use of hypnosis and dancing midgets. Suffice it to say, I didn't think I would ever make it to a Sinister gathering without some accident occurring which would make me wish I had taken out that large insurance policy. It was lucky that I escaped unscathed. We had a smallish gathering at the bookstore in South Carolina on Sunday a couple of weeks ago. There were 13 in attendance (5 sinisters, 1 Miss Flannery, & variously imported bookshop girls and the like) , one tombstone cake, undrunk wine, suspiciously colored water, and plenty of pictures taken. However, I suck at websites so I haven't put them on-line anywhere. Mr. Un(der)employed has some photos of the surrounding areas at http://www.jaynagyphoto.com/North%20Carolina.html Sadly, the goat wasn't in attendance. Actual pictures of people have been cut up, made into terrifying collages, and used in puppet shows which are now touring the nation. My other thought concerning sinister gatherings was how everyone's post-posts always painted things and people as picturesque. No one ever has a bad time, was shamelessly hit on by some heinous halitosis pretentious prick, or couldn't get anyone to say more than two words to them. However, I - *I* was going to be the one to unveil the hideous underbelly of Sinister while employing hideous grammar no less. Oh yes. Show it as it really is - exposing the seedy side that everyone else keeps quiet. No such luck. Once I shivered and stated I was cold and one of the sinister boys fetched me (the supposed hostess) a blanket. Others graciously helped me out with moving things at the bookstore, one gave me an ace Johnny Cash record, and there were numerous other acts of kindness. Plus, I thoroughly adored all of them and thought they were neurotically charming and hysterically witty. The bastards! O Perfidy, thy name is sinister boys! I grow too faint with frustration to continue. It is a dreadful thing, at such a moment, to have absolutely no one at all to be irritate in such a manner, but I shall post this immediately and it shall be somewhat the same. I remain, in the meantime, Yours, as always Laura PS - Yes, along with Eugenides'"Middlesex", I read some Sarah Caudwell on my trip and it has affected me tremendously. Curse Laurel & Brian of the trendy New York set. Heavens knows I didn't need any more encouragement toward verbiosity. PPS - It is not my fault that The Boy G is addicted to Dennys as well so don't even try to blame me. PPPS - For those of you who didn't get to go to the Atlanta b&s gig just go to http://sorehead.org/jd/ and have a lookie at Bernard. Trust me, that's exactly how Stu-ey boy looked. He's *so* cabanaboyerrific. _________________________________________________________________ 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: That was the longest weekend on record
by Gardiner, Stuart 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Sinister is five years old now, which can only mean one thing - tomorrow will be the list's first day at school. The uniform has been bought, the packed lunch is being made. Will mummy shed a few tears after dropping us off at the school gates? What will our teacher be like? I hope we don't get bullied... So we have another sinister marriage. Congrats to Colin and Amy. I've never met them, but it's certainly put a smile on my face this morning. That message probably scored a few hundred milisinisters. It's the new way of measuring postings, you see. In this modern scientific age, everything has to be measured and quantified. For example: Beauty is, as we all know, measured in milihelens. Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships, so one milihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. Computer software used to be measured in milihotmails - a program that breaks down one thousandth as often as hotmail. These days of course, people have realized that that is far too large a unit of measurement, so people prefer the microhotmail. Music quality is measured in repeats. This is the number of times you play a song / album before it leves your CD player (divided by the number of other CDs in a multiplayer machine, where applicable). (More observant readers will have noticed that I am using the old imperial measurement here. The metric equivalent is the milicocker, where a one milicocker song is one thousandth as good as Common People by Pulp. The metric system does have the advantage of being able to give negative scores to Nickelback songs; I leave the choice to the reader.) Happiness is, according to Dave Gorman and others before him, measured in happys; where one happy is equal to the amount of contentness a person gains when you give them a pound coin. Of course, this can be translated into other currencies; an American happy is the amount of contentness given by a dollar bill. This also explains why Australians are so cheerful all the time, because the Aussie dollar is worth bugger all. Now, there are 1331 members on this mailing list, of which a few hundred will be either people with two email addreses subscribed, or people on holiday not reading their mail; so there must be approximately 1000 people looking at each message. So, a one milisinister posting is one that makes one member of the list glad that they read it. The likes of Archel and Trousers can register a couple of hundred milisinisters very easily; I'm happy if I make it into double figures. Of course, that's not all that matters. Saying in a post that you love me and think I'm great might only score on milisinister, but it will give me personally about fifty happys. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: south coast picnic not in brighton shockah
by Robert Brennan 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hello Apologies for the short notice but this is to let you know there will be a small Sinister gathering on me home turf of Southsea this weekend *so* for anyone who's already coming and for those who have just been made aware in the last 3 seconds... WHEN? Saturday 7th September @ 2:30pm - When the 13:08 from London Waterloo gets in. WHERE? Portsmouth & Southsea station before navigating out of the somewhat dull city centre and past Peter Sellers' birthplace to the far more pleasant evirons of Southsea common where there is bags of green space, a beach and D!D!R! within easy access. The usual pubbery and stunt drinking to follow in the evening - for the RAWK inclined there is the option of CHAOS and a chance for Ken to dance to Terrorvision. Trains back to London stop running at about half eleven but there is space and toast available at Robster Towers for the stranded and hungry. WHO? Any of you who can make it. ISN'T IT LIKE BRIGHTON BUT CRAP? Yeah but at least both its piers are still working. And it has sea forts - they rock! Mail me off-list with queries and complaints. Or just to let me know if you're coming. Robster __________________________________________________ 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: Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:34:49 -0000
by Guðmundur Jóhannsson 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Hello all! Yesterday was dramatic allright. I went to see the first proper Mum concert that they have held in Iceland. It was held in the Icelandic National Theater, a great big old building all oozing with history. After a great intro Mum just kicked away with some great stuff. The only thing that troubled me was that I could never understand what the twins were singing. Not even when I realised they were singing in Icelandic. ;) If anyone would like to hear a cool new band then find stuff on the Net with Apparat Organ Kvartett. A great band with four organ players and one drummer. They really rock. Went to see them on friday and they blew me away. Hope you all had a great weekend. The news here are all warning of us a storm coming our way! Hurray for have to lurk inside because if I am outside I will blow all the way to Greenland! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!! Ble ble Gummi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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