May 2003 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Primavera meet-up and other stuff
by elenita 99 06 May '03

06 May '03

Dear Sinister, Spring is back, sun stays out longer, when I get home at night there is still light: soon it will be summer and summer is my favorite season. You can lay in the park, hang around out late, wear sandals, and be generally happier. Sinister meet-up in Barcelona: I know some people are going, at least 4 or 5 I am aware of. If there are more of you, please email me off list (stating primavera in the title so I don't delete you!) if you want to meet up. We will try to sort out something with Mister Jordi in order to find a convenient meeting point before the B&S gig on Friday. That is, if you want to meet up :) Two weeks off is always nice: I am coming back from holidays, and although work has been hectic since I am back it was good to be away for more than a few days. I went to Tunisia for more than a week, and it was good. And exciting also, and amazing in some ways. I love travelling so much. I am even managing a few basic words in Arabic, wooh! I also went diving, it has been ages since the last time I did so, and finding myself 20 meters under the sea with fish and corals all around made me feel incredibly happy. I reckon I might have been a fish in a previous life. Mentioned in some posts a while ago: I was fairly surprised to learn what a cankle is. I find this word fairly interesting, to be honest. Someone also mentioned cloche hats. Cloche is the French word for bell, I suppose the shape of this trendy accessory is vaguely looking like a bell. There you go, more explanation. Also I shall not forgot to mention that when you call someone a cloche in French, you are calling them stupid. So use the word carefully. Gigs coming up: Spring is around, new records are plenty to be purchased and bands are touring, including in France. I am trying to get tickets for a great Canadian band called Tegan & Sara, who are touring Europe this month. People in Madrid, London and some places in Germany: watch out they should play in your town and they RAWK (at least their first album was, I cannot take any responsability for the new one out soon). Boys: Boys are a pain in the bum. This is a fact. On this desesperate note, I shall go back to the piles of work awaiting on my desk. May someone smile at you today, Elena _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Who said money isn't everything?
by Matt Campbell 06 May '03

06 May '03

How y'all doin, sinister? I've just fallen foul to one of the most annoying things in the history of mankind; the discovery of a hole in my trouser pocket. £13.50 is probably in the possession of some annoyingly lucky person after it decided to sneak out of my pockets. It kind of got me thinking and I estimated that was probably the third or fourth time that I have lost a considerable amount of money THIS YEAR. Twice was when I was drunk so we can sort of disregard those occasions, but twice in just over four months is bordering on a piss-take! What really hurts though is that I can only remember finding one ten pound note in my entire life. Now i'm no statistician but that certainly puts me in the wrong end of the whole money losing/finding ratio. Which means by the law of averages, there must be people out there who find much more money than they lose. If you are one of these people then I want you to know that at this moment I hate you. :) When will clothes companies start lining pockets with steel plate? Is it really too much to ask? If anyone is looking for any summer work you might want to follow me around. Its very rewarding and the only requirements are that you are able to bend down and lift numerous notes and coins. Ta-ra, Matt xx P.S. My favourite Pixies album is Surfer Rosa. I hope that doesn't make me gay! __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: It hurts my head MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOGS and other remembrance of things past
by Laura Llew 05 May '03

05 May '03

Like Sarah, I have to be careful with pixies lyrics myself. Sometimes I will mutter songs under my breath and, really, the last thing I want to be heard saying while at work is, "I was hoping to get her in the sack." However, I suppose if I changed "her" to "you" it might be better for sales. For whatever reason, I happen to associate the Pixies with Spring so I tend to listen to them more around this time. In fact, this year I decided to listen to a different album of theirs each week. It was ideal to be able to be completely immersed in one album for days on end. I fell in love with them all over again and rediscovered things I had never picked up before. A couple of years ago I did a little poll asking different people what their favorite Pixies album was. Boys usually answered with Doolittle or Trompe Le Monde. Whereas girls usually liked Surfer Rosa the best. Only one person liked my personal favorite the best as well. Poor Bossanova. Today last year, Belle & Sebastian were playing their first show in New York City which I was happy enough to see. Of course, I didn't see the second show where they played "Slow Graffitti" or I would have had to die on the spot from having all my dreams come true. It was absolutely the most fantastic weekend of my entire life as I stayed in downtown Manhattan by my lonesome while spending the evening aimlessly wandering the city by myself with my days occupied by going to the Booksellers convention with sinister Laurel who I completely adore. Of course, it was also around that time that I decided that the world should never count on me to create peace or solve hunger problems if I ever come across a lamp on which to make three wishes. Though I might feel mild regret as I sit with perfect skin and health until I am distracted my very own chocolate covered boy. I also told Laurel that she shouldn't count on me to stay with her if I had happen to lay eyes on Daniel Handler while at the show for I would have latched myself to his leg quicker than you can yell, "Count Olaf!". The cover b&s played that night was Staying Alive. I remember that when Stuart asked the crowd if he should play Staying Alive because it had such a huge potential to be really bad, I found myself wanting more than anything to hear the song. It's either a sign of devotion or a sign of a psychotropic drug prescription just waiting to be written. Either way, I was happy-- Laura _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Hey you!
by Hazey Jane 05 May '03

05 May '03

Are you irish? Do you live in Ireland? Please, email me. It's very important. Hazey Jane _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: No. 13 baby
by Sarah Garrett Sonner 04 May '03

04 May '03

Fellow sentimentalists, It's time to briefly play "This Time Last Year," which found me in a theater in Chicago standing a few feet away from the stage, watching the band be brilliant...at one point Stuart began a little a capella of some lyrics I didn't recognize. It's fair to say the audience was reactionless. He chastised us all gently for not knowing a song by the band Chicago, of whose plentiful oeuvre I might only recognize the "More Than A Feeling" chorus if pressed. (Or was that by Boston? er, one of those city bands.) I think he may have even said we were too young to remember Chicago. "The Boys Are Back In Town" rocked though, especially with Beans stepping up to the mic. Thanks to all who wrote about the live cover-playing--it's nice to think back. There's a late-night Woody Allen movie on TV now and I'm drinking orange juice and writing to you all during my latest bout with insomnia. Current local news in Denver involves a hiker who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife to escape after the limb was pinned underneath a boulder. Would I do that? Y'know, if a boulder fell on me? I have no idea. Thus ends the overtly diaristic portion of this post. Thanks to Ken for clearing up what those Pixies lyrics are. I refrain from trying to quote Pixies lyrics for the most part since it would be a bunch of Black Francis's guttural yelps in among pearls of pithy melodic wisdom like "I'm in a state...I'm in...a state...I'm in...a state I'm in..." Unfortunately good songs like that, intelligible lyrics or no, never get stuck in my head. Instead it's stuff like this morning's mental loop of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe." I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. Back to the woodwork. xox sgs PS: I have been wondering if my Christmas Exchange recipient ever received the book I made. I was worried about the packaging, as I'm better at sewing pages together than sturdily taping the thing inside an envelope, apparently. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.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: and now for something completely different
by Retro^Sec 02 May '03

02 May '03

Here I am. Tired having only had a night of four hours sleep. The reason: I was an election anorak until 3a.m. Here in Scotland, we had our council and Scottish Parliament elections. The Welsh Assembly also had elections, and in England there were council elections too. But it was the Scottish Elections I am most interested in. While the Executive might be the same - the Lib Dem and Labour coalition - for the next session, some changes have been made: some faces will be leaving, and new faces will be taking their place. The Election was significant for other reasons, of a more personal nature, as I managed to convince my vote-shy dad to go and vote, for the first time since the 1980's. My brother meanwhile, was given a quick how-to guide on Wednesday night; and a brief explanation of the system of regional and constituency MSPs. So all three of us headed to the polling booth, to cast our votes on great big two feet long "slips" of paper. My brother and I voted the same way. He has asked me who he ought to vote for, but I told him that was up to him. I had already decided, and at the end of the day, when we compared votes, we'd both cast identical votes. Like I said, I was up til 3 a.m. watching the results, the pundits opinions, the schwing-o-meter with Mr Snow. I even woke up early and the first thing I did was switch on the telly. I got election rage at BBC Breakfast, wishing they'd tell me the results I missed, getting impatient and running over the road and grabbing a free Metro from the newstand to read before heading out this morning. So, in with the old, and in with the new. I guess for some of the politicians, it will be business as usual. For others, it might be like a first day at school - finding their new desks, learning what happens in the mysterious Parliament, finding their feet, learning the rules, the faux pas, the who does what and why and most importantly, finding where the toilets are. So, did everyone do their bit? Cast your vote? love you-know-who __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: immerse your soul in love
by Christine Irene 02 May '03

02 May '03

don't you think that "Street Spirit" is an amazing song? i do. so how is everyone today? all is well on the midwestern front. i noticed something...usually the first few lines of all of my posts are about the weather. i wonder why....i won't discuss the sunny, cool weather we are experiencing today....i'm going to live outside the box. :o) so i had a thought today. i was thinking how fun it would be to have a sinister gethering at six flags great america. perhaps i am alone in this thought,....in which case i will go to the amusement park alone and think of all of you as i hop from roller coaster to roller coaster. i love great america. i emailed nigel godrich's manager the other day. i asked if i could interview him. i haven't heard back. perhaps my letter got deleted immediately, i had to try though. i am on a music producers mailing list and, some time ago, the topic diverted to tatoos. i don't have any tatoos, so i felt left out. all that i had to contribute to the discussion was this anecdote about downers grove tatoo, and how they have testicles in a jar there. fast forward to 3 days ago. during the course of my music industry studies, i have found that 2 things ring true consistently: 1) i am always the only girl and 2) not many people take me too seriously at first...they think i am just there to shag the musicians or something. i posted to the aforementioned mailing list and posed the questions why are there so few women involved in the technical and business sides of the industry and do you think women are at an advantage or disadvantage. this has lead to great discussions. as i went into detail about some situations i have been in, i got this reply from someone: STINE, AREN'T YOU THE ONE NEAR THE PLACE WITH THE TESTICLES IN A JAR? IF SO, ASK IF YOU CAN BORROW THEM, YOU CARRY THAT JAR AROUND AND NO ONE IS GONNA MESS WITH YOU! hee hee. i thought that was funny....too bad i find the whole thing sort of creepy. i always wonder where they got the contents of that jar. did someone donate them? did someone not pay for a tatoo service and...had to pay in another way? hmm???? speaking of TaTu....when are people going to stop buying the whole teenage-lesbian shtick? probably when they accept that marilyn manson really isn't 1) paul from The Wonder Years or 2) a minister in the church of satan. we should compile a book of musics urban legends. that would be funny. well everyone. have a lovely weekend. love to you all and much love to dirty vicar, whose Gavin Friday cassette arrived at my humble abode a couple of days ago!!!! eeekk!!! ~stine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.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: This monkey's off to heaven
by Five Scal Louis 02 May '03

02 May '03

Ok, I'm not sure how to start... I've not mailed sinister for about three years (and even then ... well I'm not what you'd call prolific). But I wanted to thank sinister and particularly moustafa, Ken and all the people that mailed in between. I've just spend a very happy couple of hours pogo'ing to gigantic and then all the other pixies stuff... (remeber kids to remove any knee level furniture when pogoing, I don't think I'd have gotten' around to writting this if it hadn't been for a hidden coffee table)... Oh and Ken your lyrics to gi-gan-tick are possible better than the originals. And Hannah, don't worry, I had exactly the same thoughts about the hippo and bird (in fact my thoughts are even more sick... because doesn't the chick, look, well, er, underage? Basically this full sized hippo has had two children by a little yellow creature, thats not even grown up to be a chicken yet!)... and its not just you and me, recently I had a conversation (of the email variety) with about eight of my freinds from uni. who all had the same thoughts (well maybe not the underage thing, but the size thing).. Ok, the townie hunter thing... a freind of mine has created the ultimate trap. Its called a mall, the townies see irresistably drawn to them, and they invariabley have no good music or film stores, so there is no reason for sinister-ites to go there ("don't go there").. Oh, I know it no longer seems de-rigger to mention B&S, but I've jsut tryed to look for music video's and what ever you do don't download a file called belle.mpg unless you want to be corupted. And it seems that everything I get when I type sebastian is gay porn... is this just a coincidence, I also tryed sinister and you don't want to know what video's appeared for that. Also the greatest peice of web animation ever is this: http://www.upsitedown.co.il/anim/rest40.html its supposed to teach you about fibre (I think, its in lebanese) Anyway I like to think that I make up for lurking with volume, but this is plenty. Louis "staring out on a rainy london friday" -- "Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when they laugh." -- George Bernard Shaw. Dougal(a)compsoc.man.ac.uk 020 8540 2215 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: There is too much muff
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hello, There have been much talks of the cover songs being played during B&S gigs around the world. Just thought I have something to add (and help).. Sean and Emily (who have been to a scary number of B&S gigs) have compiled this time last year a list of cover songs that were played during various Belle & Sebastian gigs. So check this list for them! http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200205/msg00172.html Just so that we don't repeat any information on the list. Some people can get touchy when we do that, and add you to their list of enemies. Oops, no, I mean they add you to the list of NME! Yup they subscribe you to the NME mailing list so that you'd be bombarded by The Strokes reviews all day. Urrgh. You don't want that. Are The Strokes worse than Coldplay? Obviously since Coldplay are the best band since the 1960s. Personally, my favourite B&S cover was THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. Now that I know that "Freak" on Storytelling isn't a Silverchair cover. Glasgow in May maybe? Well I can wish. Ken P.S.: The song Gigantic (pronounced Gy-ghee-an-tic) brought out the juvenile side in me sorry. Gigantic And this I know Her teeth as white as snow But downstairs it was a different story Walk her every day Into the shaving place as her lips, she said She said Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, i'm growing hair balls {3x} Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff Lovely legs there are shame bout the big black mask What a hunk of muff Walk her every day into a shaving place He likes the park, when it's well trimmed Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, I'm growing hair balls {3x} Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big big muff ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted in it are confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error 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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Re: Sinister: Gigantic....my big big love
by Mayfly5502＠aol.com 02 May '03

02 May '03

at the nyc show on may 5th 2002 B&S covered staying alive by the bee gees..it was great! Very humorous I would say. Anyway...goodnight and I hope everyone is doing well! -Diane +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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