May 2003 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: *another oldie de-lurks*
by Ailsa Watson 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Blimey, it's been a while. Mark has inspired me to write for two reasons. One because he's been banging on about great old folks from Sinister history who never post, and DIDN'T MENTION ME, and secondly because he asked if anyone had a spare standing ticket for the Glasgow gig. Which apparently someone did. As do I. Which means I still have one. Does anyone want it? Mail me off list please, and it will be sorted out (or not if lots of people mail me as I only have one). someone said >In small but significant ways this lot has shaped and moved a bit of the >path I walk now... I'm ever so thankful and bitter. >It couldn't have happened to a more impressionable girl >at the hands of an unforgivably right bunch of kids. >Though I'm nearly 30 now... it doesn't feel old in sinister years-it just >makes me feel experienced. Which is almost exactly how I feel about Sinister. It's given me some of my best memories, my best friends, and it'll always have a place in my heart for that. Even if I don't need it so much any more, it's nice to know it's here. And that it still matters to people. Actually the reason Mark maybe never mentioned me is because I have nothing to say. Sorry. Ailsa xx _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/mobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Frankfurt-Berlin
by Fleur Bélanger 31 May '03

31 May '03

Hallo! Finally I'll go to Berlin, I don't really know why, but I always wanted to go to Berlin. After a lot of hard work I decided that I worth a trip! For the first time in my life I'll be travelling on my own, with my own money, for me it will be completely different from all other trips Ive done before. The last week I've been planning what to do, what to see, so if there's someone out there that can give me some advice of nice places to go or even that would like to meet me, that would be great. By the way, Ill be leaving Rome on the 15th of July to Frankfurt and I'll be in Berlin on the 16th to the 22nd of July. Tschuess! _________________________________________________________________ Comunica in un altra dimensione con MSN Extra Storage! http://www.msn.it/msnservizi/es/extra_storage_tag/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: This town is too hot
by James Thorniley 31 May '03

31 May '03

Well, its definitely summer. You can tell because all the girls start wearing funny shaped t-shirts that loop around here and there revealing random bits of flesh just when you weren't expecting it. Breifly glasgow reporting back. Jen described most of our wonderful trip (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/latest/msg00061.html) but missed out later bits so I will just mention the gig. Well, we were both quite tired from walking around in a massive circle (we got lost) in the afternoon, so I was kind of regretting getting standing tickets. Fortunately we sat out Mull Historical Society (or Dull Historical Society, as Carsmile mused, do you see what he did there?) and so had the energy for B&S. Having got quite drunk the night before, I only had one bizarre and disgusting tasting bitter type drink, and thus experienced B&S sober. They are really good that way too! Stuart's trousers were difficult to take your eyes off, except to look at the cellist replacing Isobel. She was quite stunning, sort of the icing on the cake of Isobel leaving. Someone mentioned there might be a new album on the way in November ish. Haha. Also I like the nostalgia about going back to classic sinister and stuff. Haha. Lets all sit down and have a nice cup of tea and complement each others cardigans and discuss how Stuart Murdoch would make a great porn star. It would seem that you should not hang around near me if you value your knee caps. I recall recently cracking knees with Casarotto at sinister football, then Miss Jennifer Knutsson maimed herself in Glasgow (at least in part my fault), and yesterday it was Sam "Orc?" Walton's turn to be horribly wounded in the mid leg region. Whoops. Oh well, If thou a bruised knee hast, Mr Samuel N. Walton, Then knowest thee what it is to be Jennifer Knutsson Goodbye James 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: Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:28:15 +0100
by Rask 31 May '03

31 May '03

I would like to add to dirty vicars endorsement of the jimmycake gig in london. Manitoba are pretty grate too, you sinister hepsters will love it. Now im not comparing the music, because I don't like to do that but anyone that likes godspeed, jagga jazzist, mogwai, do make say think etcetera will probably get a kick out of them. they kick fucking ass live. rask (olnikoff) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: friend of the stars
by Dirty Vicar 31 May '03

31 May '03

I went to a concert last night by Japanese outfit Acid Mothers Temple (actually various sub-projects thereof) and met a chap from popular local band the Rollers/Sparkers. My special friend was wearing an ampersand t-shirt, and this triggered a conversation about the band. Mr R/S is one of those people who feel that B&S went all wrong when other members of the band started being let write & sing songs. I asserted in the strongest possible terms that this is an objectively false view which will not be tolerated when the Republic of Tobit is inaugurated. The Acid Mothers Temple bands rocked like motherfuckers. Main AMT guy Kawabata Makoto engaged all forward thinking people with his guitar dronings, which managed to incorporate that Occitanian tune 'La Novia' that AMT love so much. The Pardons (Higashi Hiroshi & mad woman Cotton Casino) served up some quirky synth music that some felt was the weak link of the evening. Then our night was rounded off by Tsurabami (Makota on guitar, Hiroshi on bass, and Emi Nobuko on drums (bollocks, do Japanese people have their surnames first or second? Ah well, in this context it doesn't really matter)). This was the most straightforwardly hard rocking of the three acts. It would be great if B&S were more like AMT... if they all lived on an island together in a somewhat cultish setup, and all were in sub-bands which staffed by subsets of the B&S collective. Eh, why would this be great? It just would, trust me on this. The Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective are playing various other concerts in these islands over the next week or so... if they play near you you should go and see them. In other developments, I feel I must tell you that important Dublin band The Jimmycake are playing in London next Friday at the ICA with Manitoba (are Manitoba an Irish band? I don't know). The Jimmycake's textured instumental sounds might appeal to London based Sinister subbers, or it might not. There will be a lot of them onstage, so you'll get good value for money. and now I will roll away and leave you alone, bless 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: Javelin flight
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 29 May '03

29 May '03

Hello sinister, In the tradition of fucking up the program, there is no smut or sub-headings in capitals, or whinging, in this post. Yeah, we're all individuals innit. --- Yay, it seems that the summer is finally here. In honour of the arrival of the summer I went schwimmin' yesterday. It was excellent although when I got there I realised that the last time I went swimming before that was like 2 years ago, and that time I went swimming I couldn't swim! Haha, I remembered those facts just as I was drowning at the bottom of the pool. It wasn't even a Municipal Pool so there wasn't even a Junior Lifesaver (whose friend are all Serious Ravers) to save me. But I survived, due to my excessive rock and rollness that kept me afloat. My rock and rollness otherwise known as the grabby bit on along the sides of the pool. ---- Tamra Thomas talked (<-- alliteration!) about "Loneliness of The...", I might be wrong but I think the book is actually called "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", which incidentally is also the name of an IRON MAIDEN RAWK EXTRAVAGANZA, mmmmm \mm/. Haven't read the book though. And for those of you who like to do everything B&S, I've just searched on the web and there's a FILM with that title (I guess it's made of the book), available on DVD. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000089ASP/ref=sr_aps_dvd_1_1/202-7 525788-4983841 .. mmm Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner DVD on Amazon for £16.99... incidentally, I wonder when the B&S DVD is coming out. ---- Anyhow. The best posts on sinister are obviously the ones that involve BITCHINESS AND/OR WHINGING... Here are my choice of the top five best ever posts to sinister... 5) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200208/msg00023.html 4) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200108/msg00050.html 3) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200101/msg00348.html 2) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200202/msg00089.html and my personal favourite... 1) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200210/msg00060.html TFFT Ken P.S.: Someone buy Patrick Doyle some glasses for his birthday for he keeps talking about seeing people who were never there. ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: End of june picnic(s):and early call!
by Stefano [Steady-State] 29 May '03

29 May '03

Dear Sinister The season has definitely arrived. The sun is shining, tress has flowered and blossomed and are all dressed in shiny green reflecting leaves. The surface is melting when ones walking his way down to the tube or the bus stop, of course if you dont have the comfort of a nice green lane one your way, but, the most interesting of the things is that people show the bizarre tendency of wearing sunglasses till about well midnight. Which is amazing as much as puzzling. This is all quite a bit of nonsense. Anyway, in few weeks woo-uuhh Glasto! Why woo uuh! I cant really go! Damn me! (indeed I will be on a short visit To Rhode Island [this is a pale tentative of some content, sorry] in the United States I was wondering if any sinister in the area fancy well might be a pic-nic??? well that would be my first picnic in the US, not that I have been there many times, and also my first conference there. Hope they wont select me for a talk because that would be S!c!a!r!Y! = help = some drinks. I have heard that there is still some residue of prohibitionist legislation in some states there, is it true or just rumbling ignorance of mine? Anyway, yes, Ill be back write in time to miss glasto, which this year appears to be terrific, even if our beloved ones are going to be there, which make it just a little bit less bitter missing it for.. just a few hours indeed. Accipicchia would say my granddad. But !AGAIN! what about a picnic in London ? [yes this was just a long story to get to this I would admit that!] All the ones who didnt make it for glasto, or who just dont give a thing to that or just want to meet somewhere on the top of the hill, and have fish&chips, lalalalala, who dont do drugs (would you belive it?) and all his friends are on a holiday (to Glasto, probably, damn them!). Lets get you can and cake ready and bring a football and eventually your dancing shoes youll never know what will happen in the never ending Londons night.[moreover it has hile since last Mr. Ken P. Chu sinister galore picnic bowling weekender!..] Looking at the calendar the most suitable day seems to be the 28th june so this is a relatively early call, but it is never too early if someone is kind of the messy I can be, and often ammhmhmh that sound like being a scary picnic mum(until is not !s!c!a!r!y! that can do) .. yes, well if anyone fancy the idea please keep in contact!!! More instruction to follow Week end and distant island (though I think rhode island isnt a proper island is it gross ignorance exposed) Yours Stefano (almost steady-state) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: end of june pinnic(s): an early call
by Stefano [Steady-State] 29 May '03

29 May '03

Dear Sinister The season has definitely arrived. The sun is shining, tress has flowered and blossomed and are all dressed in shiny green reflecting leaves. The surface is melting when one^Òs walking his way down to the tube or the bus stop, of course if you don^Òt have the comfort of a nice green lane one your way, but, the most interesting of the things is that people show the bizarre tendency of wearing sunglasses till about^Å well^Å midnight. Which is amazing as much as puzzling. This is all quite a bit of nonsense. Anyway, in few weeks woo-uuhh Glasto! Why woo uuh! I can^Òt really go! Damn me! (indeed I will be on a short visit To Rhode Island [this is a pale tentative of some content, sorry] in the United States^Å I was wondering if any sinister in the area fancy^Å well might be a pic-nic???^Å well that would be my first picnic in the US, not that I have been there many times, and also my first conference there. Hope they won^Òt select me for a talk because that would be S!c!a!r!Y! = help = some drinks. I have heard that there is still some residue of prohibitionist legislation in some states there, is it true or just rumbling ignorance of mine? Anyway, yes, I^Òll be back write in time to miss glasto, which this year appears to be terrific, even if our beloved ones are going to be there, which make it just a little bit less bitter missing it for.. just a few hours indeed. ^ÓAccipicchia^Ô would say my granddad. But !AGAIN! what about a picnic in London ? [yes this was just a long story to get to this^Å I would admit that!] All the ones who didn^Òt make it for glasto, or who just don^Òt give a thing to that or just want to meet somewhere on the top of the hill, and have fish&chips, lalalalala, who don^Òt do drugs (would you belive it?) and all his friends are on a holiday (to Glasto, probably, damn them!). Let^Òs get you can and cake ready and bring a football and eventually your dan ever know what will happen in the never ending London^Òs night^Å.[^Åmoreover it has been a while since last Mr. Ken P. Chu sinister galore picnic bowling weekender!..] Looking at the calendar the most suitable day seems to be the 28th june^Å so this is a relatively early call, but it is never to early if someone is kind of the messy I can be, and often am^Åmhmhmh^Å that sound like being a scary picnic mum^Å(until is not !s!c!a!r!y! that can do^Å) .. yes, well if anyone fancy the idea please keep in contact!!! More instruction to follow Week end and distant island (though I think rhode island isn^Òt a proper island is it^Å gross ignorance exposed) Yours Stefano (almost steady-state) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// takes a long time sometimes but is worth to find how pinback ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: disturbing sights
by Retro^Sec 28 May '03

28 May '03

I'd been busy thinking about my trip to the bank this afternoon, where I had proven my ability to get what I want, although to be honest, I said very little to do that. I'd gone into the bank, which was a miles walk from the office. I'd wanted a transfer of money to another bank account, and when the girl said it would cost me, I said "why?". She explained, so I asked her to close my account. That was all it took for the manager to take me into a little room and do the transfer for free, provided I kept my account open. This was a new experience. I suppose I can be, on occasion, rather frosty, but generally I tend to accept the rules as they lie. I just didn't want to walk another mile down the road, with a cheque in my pocket, then have to wait for the cheque to clear. In the middle of this, the rther sweet salesman from the car dealership called me, and I must have still been in Ice Maiden mode, because he sounded a bit hesitant when I answered. I was sitting on the train, feeling a bit guilty for being a moody cow, especially to the nice salesman, and perhaps slightly to the over-helpful manager of the bank. I didn't mean to be, it just came out that way. The train trundled away from the platform at Sighthill, in Edinburgh. As it passed by some council flats, I took a look in through the windows of the owners, casually. A broad shouldered, tatooed shaved headed man, standing topless in his living room, wearing tracksuit bottoms and holding something that looked like a squigey for a window. >From another, a child. Probably about 4 or 5 years old, with long blonde hair, wearing a white tshirt and white shorts and socks and trainers. She was standing by the window, and was climbing out. The window itself was large from the floor upwards, with about a foot at the bottom of fixed glass. I watched her as she climbed out, leaning her feet and legs to the left, and slowly, but surely, making her way out the window. By the time she had passed from sight, she was dangling from the first floor window, by her fingertips. Below her was a little white picket fence, marking out a patch of flowerbed that someone had designated. It changed my thoughts completely. My thoughts on the train. I've not been able to get those thoughts of that little girl out of my head. That little girl in her white t shirt and shorts. I wonder what happened. I've consoled myself with the thought that I couldn't do anything from a moving train, nor could I call anyone, as I don't even know what street that council flat is on. But I wonder tonight, what happened. Did her parent catch her in time? Did she fall? At worst, did she perhaps break a leg or an arm, that will make her feel sorry for herself and hopefully take away her fearlessness? My imagination is running away with me about that white picket fence. Not a very high one, just a cheap one from any DIY store. Imagining crimson red on the white fence, and her white clothes. I shudder to think. You read these stories in the papers, but to see it potentially unfold before your eyes, when there is nothing you can do, and nothing you could have done to prevent it. And to see her, dangling, literally, by her hands, by the edge of her fingers. She was going to jump. I don't think she realised how far it was to the ground below. Yours, retrosec ===== <a href="http://retrosec.blogspot.com/">http://retrosec.blogspot.com/</a> thoughts __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: YEAH!
by ian 28 May '03

28 May '03

dear shimmery sinistereenies, i've been thinking of you and the things you do to me that make me love you and, quite frankly, now i'm living in ecstasy. makes leaving the house rather difficult, i can tell you. and its a little messy. TITFUCKER there has been much talk of the old sinister re-surfacing recently. i don't remember the ancient sinister. i do remember the slightly elderly, mildly geriatric sinister and all i can say is there isn't nearly enough mention of bumsex to recreate that old atmosphere. i suggest you resolve this forthwith. TITFUCKER i also notice that headings are back in vogue. sadly, i gave mine away to help the aged. god, if only i'd kept them. could have marked them up, sold them on.. or maybe i could just have pulled them out of the cupboard, blissfully unaware that i'm far too old for such things these days. TITFUCKER so i'm using this heading. just the one. why over-do it? its so marvellously descriptive on its own. and, like the buddha once said, repetition rocks, brothas! actually, repetition rock is a little place in the south of australia. inhabited only by the ghosts of ancient sand dunes. and even they're looking for somwhere better. TITFUCKA so, its been a busy day. i've been writing a letter of complaint to belinda carlisle. here it is, so far: 'dear belinda, you are a lying bitch. i believed all that crap you came out with. i saw you as a wise seer-ess, and i followed your gospel to the ends of the earth. quite literally. cost me a fortune in taxi fares. and i can now, categorically, confirm that heaven is NOT a place on earth. or not somewhere that birmingham taxi drivers have heard of, anyway. you know what you can do with your metaphysical chicanery? you can stick it up your bum, and have bumsex, that's what you can do... you you you TITFUNKAH anyway, you can make recompesne for this grevious deception by sending me a flurry of chorus boys, all tied up in red ribbon, and twenty grand. and a photo. its for my aunty. honest. she's your biggest fan.' i won't hold my breath, though. i had to write to yazz several times before i got her to admit that there was, indeed, a direction other than up. perhaps its just the eighties coming back, as the estonian eurovision entry so wisely opined. personally, i hope the 80s (or, as i like to think of them, the dark, dark days before i discovered bumsex) don't come back. this new decade doesn't know what it is yet. it'll only get confused if we thrust an old identity upon it. the estonian singer seemed quite angst-ridden by the prospect as well. or perhaps it was because he'd looked in a mirror and witnessed what he was about to wear to go on stage. the best entry by far was, as always, the german entry. they have clearly been researching their target audience, and their song was a weighty, philosophical exploration of the essential sadness at the heart of modernity. why? they asked... why? does the girl in high heels look so sad? to which, as we all know, there is no satisfactory answer... except the one they proposed... 'let's be happy, and let's be gay.' well, why not? its very sensible advice. TITILOVEMYFUCK-CAR ah, but they don't make eurovisions like they used to, do they? remember the old eurovisions? remember the glory glory days of 'a bi ne be a bi ne bo?' and 'la la la la?' everything these days is merely a pale imitation. even darkness is a bit lighter than i remember it. and the immense slackening void just doesn't scare me any more. not much. speaking of imitiations, i was reading 'lions and shadows' by christopher isherwood (its not his best...try 'a single man' instead, which is very good, but anyway that's not the pont to this..) the other day and there's a part in the story where christopher takes what he calls ink snapshots. i suppose if you're going to copy somebody, it may as well be our chris (as they called him down the local working men's club) but i still felt a bit disillusioned, as i thought it was the invention of stu david (as they call him at 'manana's slap, sauna and steam emporium'). 1956, this was. anyone who can find an earlier use of the ink polaroid wins a PRIZE. oh yes. fastest fingers first, now.... TITFUCKARMA yeah, like the buddha once said, the more the world is changing the more it stays the same. and he's right. i don't know why, even so, there's a moment every now and then when the unexpected hits you between the eyes. perhaps that's the surprise, you see. everyone agrees that the past was rather a lot better than the present. the present would be okay, if only it would be a bit less like it is. of course, the past wasn't quite so good when it WAS the present. oh no. because then it wasn't the past. what this says for the future can be summed up in a few short words. yes its true what they say-ay-ay better the devil you know. aint that the truth? i think it was socrates that said that, yknow. until another day, my dears, let's be happy and let's be friends. and remember, its not the men in your life, its the cock up your jaxy. oh no, that wasn't what i meant to say at all. oh hang on, yes, it was. xx ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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