June 2003 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: a post in quotes
by Laura Llew 22 Jun '03

22 Jun '03

"A boy can be mad ugly but if he smells good he can still get the filly." In 1998, my brother heard the above from a hairdresser from Queens who worked at the prestigious Von Curtis Salon. I once read an article about Von Curtis after a car had jumped the curve and ran into their building shattering glass and partially entering into their business/school. I remember one dedicated beauty worker being quoted as saying something to the effect of, "We just kept on working. We had dyes and perms to do - you can't let broken glass keep you from things like that." It somehow reminded me of that touching quote from King of the Hill, "You know, at the beauty academy they teach us that people aren't black or white or yellow or red, but their hair can be." Employees of Von Curtis - I tip my trucker hat to you. But - and this is said in my best Sophia impression here - I digress. Since hearing this sagacious piece of wisdom my brother has married, had a child, quit his teaching job to work for a grocery store, and now lives in a two bedroom apartment with an air conditioner with a remote control. What other sign of advance civilization and luxury living then an air conditioner with a remote control? Thus, I would feel remiss if I kept this secret key of insight into female nature to myself. Sadly, I don't have any equal advice on how to make the boys swoon. This is obvious since if I did Kevin Hyde could be quoted as saying, "as she always rock my pants off" rather than just his socks being obliterated. However, I shall dispense my own personal motto of life which I try to center my life around as I find that it help keeps me on the straight and narrow. This personal statement is, naturally, stolen from Oscar Wilde*. It is this: "Life is too short to dance with ugly men." Repeat that one to yourself in the mirror. No truer words were ever spoken. And if that doesn't work for you then just do what I do and follow the wisdom of Morrissey: Word Magazine: Did you hear t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now?" Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them. WM: They are teenage Russian lesbians. Morrissey: Well, aren't we all? Lastly, to those who are happily coupled and who have no need to hear such words I must send out my congratulations. This is specifically going out to Julie Sexpot of a Sauer and Werther David Hewitt who were married at the first of this month. Aw, I remember back in the day when they were just beginning to make eyes at each other from across the sides of the globe. I would be hard pressed to find two people who I like more so the best of luck to both of you. I only wish you didn't live all the way in Australia as I miss visits with Julie tremendously. She once said she'd snog me and now that will never happen. Now, every time I kiss someone I'll just sigh discontentedly and say "*You're* no Sexpot." My life is forever ruined. But congratulations anyway! Well, being the bookshop girl I am I feel as if I've been attacked by a swarm of rabid snitches with all of the Potter madness. There was a midnight party at my own little bookshop where two other sinisters were in attendance: the ever esteemed GayJay and then Eric (of former half bee status) who I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting before. I was distracted by the stress and dread of the looming crowd so I apologize that I wasn't very good company. In fact, they spent most of their time in #sinister even when I was just behind the counter nervously straightening things or staring at my shoes while trying to calm myself down for the impending stampede soon to come upon me. At some point, I realized I should be nice and try one of those "conversation" things I hear everyone always talking about or, for that matter, talking because of but I went with the "socially awkward and silent" card instead. It's a good hand for me. Nevertheless, I'm glad they came and I made them both give me hugs at the end because I don't let cute boys get away from me without one, even if they don't really like girls. I hope I didn't give either of them cooties... Ll *"If, with the literate, I am impelled to make an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it" - Dorothy Parker PS - Yes, I meet people when I'm in the mountains of North Carolina but I have no sinister meetups to report back from from my three week cross country roadtrip which I just returned from. (Started in North Carolina all the 2,000 miles to San Diego up the western sea coast to Seattle and then a slow saunter across Montana to South Dakota until I dipped myself so far south I ended up back home). This wasn't from lack of trying though and I'm sorry that I missed SGS, Markelby, and Billzebub - all of who I wanted to see. PPS - I got tickets for the b&s show at prospect park in August. Whoot! _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 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. 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Sinister: Belle and Sebastian News Mailing List - Roy Moller single launch & more NY ticket details (fwd)
by Linda Kerr 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:02:23 -0000 From: band(a)banchory.net To: lulou(a)crockery.org Subject: Belle and Sebastian News Mailing List - Roy Moller single launch & more NY ticket details Hi all, As most of the tickets have already sold out from the Music Today site, we've just found out that a limited number of tickets will on sale in person only for the Brooklyn show from OTHER MUSIC (15 E. 4th St. NYC 10003 Tel: 212-477-8150), starting at 12 noon on Sat. June 21st. They'll be cash sales only and each ticket will be $36 which includes all booking fees. We've got a new item in the online shop too, a 7" by Stevie's mate Roy Moller and we're selling these on behalf of Félicité. Here's what Tom who runs the label has to say about the record: "For every one who wondered who "Roy Walker" (a new Belle & Sebastian track) is, this is the answer: It's Roy Moller! He recorded his stunning debut single for the German label Félicité and produced it together with Stevie Jackson, who plays - like on "Legal Man" - the Sitar. They were supported by an Glasgow all star band of Bob Kildea, Gary Thom, Bill Wright and Brian McNeil. Tracks are "Maximum Smile" and "David Niven" . It's on white, heavy vinyl and it's very limited (only 700 copies worldwide). please feel free to visit Roy's lovely page http://www.roymoller.com/maximum_moller/ and the Félicité website http://www.felicite.de, where you can find more information on Roy." The launch party for the single is TOMORROW on Saturday, 21st June 8.30pm at Nice'n'Sleazy on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow with Roy performing live. Tickets should be available at the door. You can buy the single from the Banchory Shop at http://www.banchoryshop.net/ cheers, Katrina @ Banchory. http://www.banchory.net http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit www.banchoryshop.net/belleandsebastian/list/list.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Hiding in Hyde Park
by Stefano [Steady-State] 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Hello my dear sinister I´m leaving for the Unites States tomorrow. It is just a short staying of about of eve less then a week, but still quite exciting. I haven´t realized how this would have been great since I´ve come to the actual day I am leaving. And I haven´t packed yet. That´s not wise. At all. *Owner of a broken hard-disk* much better the owner of a lonely heart. Sorry this was silly, but definitely definitely. My computer is going burst like a Sunday road. Yummy. This actually means I´ve lost at least the last three months of work. Will they ask for the money back since I can produce no evidence I have actually did some job during all this time. By the way, did I? Mhmhm *HYDE PARK * Since I won´t be around for a bout a week, this should be the last chance I have to launch a call for a picnic. This is for the 28th of June. Outside hyde park corner tube station at 2ish! I try to confuse you (I won´t admit my spelling rather poor even if it is quiet apparent) but mr Carsmile gave you the right answer already: well done!! It´s one of my best mate´s birthday and he is on the list as well, so come and bring some cakes! Again: yummy. Hide Park is a lovely location and rumours shave been heard about a naval battle on the Serpentine* that day. Hope to see many of you ,soon, and newcomers!!! Your are more then welcome!!! Love and all the best Stefano ~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# in the time of the winter the waiter fell into the snow he could hear a voice but will he ever find his way if I'm so far from your heart why do I feel it beat and time won't wait for us ~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Goin' North
by Jay Eckard 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Okay folks. Concert. August. New York. Fo' sure I'm going. But plans need to be made. Anyone planning to travel up and don't want to travel alone, let me know. My car is solid and dependable (and with good gas mileage) even if my drivin' ain't. As for me, well, I'm flighy and and with limited attention spans, but highly amusing and come with a supply of excellent mixes. Yours, Gay Jay (le Murph) -- "The Posby falls into a Trance In which it does a little Dance." Edward Gorey _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP 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: Its all out there!
by Retro^Sec 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Two weeks today, and I'm off. Off on a holiday, for the first time in *counts on fingers* six years. Off to France, y'see, with the family. And the boyfriend. I'd asked, back in December, that if my parents were heading back to Norway, could I go too. I'd been starting to feel something again, it might have been indigestion, but something that made me yearn for five days solid of sitting in a car, or throwing up in vacuum toilets on ferries, to get to the most isolated little village in Europe. It was as if there was some sort of homing device that had been triggered in my brain, and I needed to go back. I needed to spend time there. But no. My parents announced they were going to France. Did I still want to go? Did I really need to think about passing over the chance of a free holiday not done on the cheap? My one concern is it will be sunny. And hot. And with my Nordic blood very much against the idea of heat and sun, I'm starting to wonder how I will cope. How can a girl be acused of being all gothic if she is wearing a sarong and a sun hat? Oh well. I am looking forward to the sunny bits where it is a bit cooler and I'm not melting entirely. Sort of first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening. ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * It strikes me (with a big old ugly stick) that B&S aren't doing that sitting-round-on-their-arses thing they did for a while, a few years ago. Maybe that was just me, but there was a spell, I'm surely not mistaken, in 2000, when they didn't seem to be doing anything. A whole year passed without a gig or a record. I remember threatening to turn Travis. And now we are blessed, with lots of little gigs in different places for different reasons, and we've even had records, on an almost regular basis. I don't want to speculate on what got them to get their arses into gear, but I'm thinking it was my threat. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * The upshot of this, of course, is that people are right back into discussing things again. Stuff like what Marc Bots said, about the second coming of Tigermilk. Oh, I wish. But I doubt it. *goes into Simpsons comicstore owner mode* Best Belle and Sebastian album, ever. */end dodgy impression* Tigermilk was fantastic. But I think it'd be unrealistic for them to do Tigermilk 2. We'd just (I would) complain it was just a rehash of old stuff, and not groundbreaking. Certainly though, something as refreshing as Tigermilk would be ace. But maybe they know their stuff far too well now for that to happen, the naiviety and innocence has been swept aide for lots of expensive little flashy lights and twiddly knobs that cost thousands to press. And theres people like Lucy, who I have forgiven for ruining my moment of glory by pointing out my car shares the same name as squashed-trout-face Jamie Olivers baby. She has been posting news, before even Aunt Linda could say "B&S", in a cloud of dust, not unlike Mr William Windsor in his Golf GTI on country estates. And there are those who are planning their trips to go to America t see the gigs, being greedy and stealing tickets away from the locals with their credit cards while America, America, sleeps in a different time zone as the news is posted up onto the website. (I am teasing.) Anyway. Thanks to my little contigent of people who popped along and met me on Monday night. You know who you are, but I had a lovely time, and I invite you to Scotland and to stay anytime you like, as long as its not at my house. ta-ra idles xxx ===== <a href="http://retrosec.blogspot.com/">http://retrosec.blogspot.com/</a> thoughts ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.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: Brooklyn meet-ups?
by angela smith 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

I'm going to the Prospect Park show, which is also on my *birthday*, so it's only fair to celebrate. I'm coming from out of town, so is anyone locally planning anything? angela _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: third's the one with the hairy chest
by David Hewitt 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

G'day Sinister. NEW MUSIC Is mostly terrible, obviously. But then again, most music, at most times, has been mostly terrible. There's nothing new or strange about that. I think my problem is that it's getting harder for me to find that little bit that's not terrible. The harder it gets, the less I look. The less I look, the less I find. The less I find, the more terrible it all seems. The more terrible it all seems, the less I can be bothered looking, and so on. And it now seems that I've crossed some sort of event horizon, where the amount of 'unspeakably awful' in the new music I'm exposed to has reached critical mass, and the effort and unpleasantness involved in finding the new good music now outweighs the benefits to be reaped from finding it. Or I could just be old, cranky and stuck in my ways. It's easier to go back rather than forwards, after all. Still, I'm beginning to understand how most people's record collections get sort of frozen at some point in time, where the well-intentioned newer purchases never seem to quite sit comfortably alongside their more worn-in and well-loved older shelf-mates. I used to ridicule my parents for their (at the time) hysterically out-of-touch record collections, but it looks like the joke will be on me, when at fifty, I'll still be listening to The Queen Is Dead and possibly even warbling tunelessly along. A terrifying vision of the future, if ever there was one. What sort of sense is that going to make to my potential offspring? Precious little, I'd imagine. When I was buying new records every week, and loving them, I swore: "it'll never happen to me". But then again, we all swear that about all sorts of things, I suppose. The tricky thing about pop music is also the same thing that makes it great, though - the fact that it sticks to things. Times, places, people, events. You know. Things. And the sorts of things that are responsible for forming me - making me who and what I am, if you like - have mostly already happened, and therefore already have soundtracks attached to them. A lot of the really important ones happened before I left school, and are accompanied by all sorts of ridiculous music, the recorded versions of which I should probably hide in the study. But I don't, because I'm married now, so I don't need to impress girls any more. Besides, there's nothing wrong with Hall and Oates anyway. So let's say a really good album comes out now. One every bit as good as my own current, personal, all-time top ten, for example. Unlikely. Then I somehow become aware of such an album and purchase it. Less likely still. But let's say that I do. What chance does it have, really? What's it going to attach itself to? I'm hopeful that I still have great, exciting and new things ahead of me, but they're not realistically going to shape me in the same way as things did when I was 15, are they? Nope. Plus, I'm less likely to have headphones on when things do happen, these days. So really, it's not music's fault. It's probably a little bit mine. But mostly, I think there's a point where you know you've already heard the best song you'll ever hear. It's not going to get written when you're 45, or probably even 25. Not because songs are getting worse, or because your taste is any less discerning. It's just that truly great pop music is always about a heck of a lot more than you can actually contain within a pop song. That's why it's important and special. Having said that, I recently listened to the new Blur, the new Radiohead and the new Dandy Warhols, and I thought they were all varying shades of shit. GETTING MARRIED Yeah, I did that. Thanks for your song suggestions, by the way. We ended up settling for The State I Am In, for several reasons: 1. It kicks arse. 2. It's as close as I can imagine to the definitive B&S song, and (in a roundabout sort of way, via Sinister) they're the reason we met. 3. It features the line "got married in a rush, to save the kid from being deported", which is fairly fitting. 4. Julie wouldn't let me play Maneater by Hall & Oates. The only problem was that they let the CD play, and by the time we were actually signing the certificate, and the room was quiet enough to really hear the words properly, it was playing She's Losing It. Still, it could have been worse. Later on, it was. My mother got drunk, and for reasons best known to herself, started singing Queen's We Are The Champions at the reception, in full voice. Bless her cotton socks. Oh, and there has, unbeknownst to me until just now, been some sort of effort made to get some photos of the wedding displayed on a website. I'll show you the link when it's ready. You can thank Jay (one of the kindest and indeed most handsome of all listees) when the time comes, as I understand it's his doing. Married life is much the same as it was before, with a nice new ring, and a bigger telly. So on the whole, I can't complain. Plus, now Julie's going to have a harder time getting away from me when she finally comes to her senses. POETRY Thanks to Lucy for her poem. It put a smile on my face when I got to work. Jolly clever. FOLKS There's nowt as funny as 'em. Or at least that's what my dear old Grandfather used to say. He was a wise man. People posting lists of things they think are great just reminds me of how diverse a bunch we really are. For example: I think most of what you like is completely shit. It's a good thing that we can all get along despite our differences, eh? Incidentally, I don't suppose you want to hear about the cup of tea I just had, or what happened at work this morning, do you? Thought not. Just as well, really, because it was extremely boring indeed. Forget that I even mentioned it. YOU LOT I really miss some of you. You know who you are. Seppos, mostly. In fact, let me finish this project at work, pay off my last couple of trips, and generally pull my head out of my arse, and I'll come and see you again. Now I've landed an American wife, I can probably wangle a green card as well, and stay for a bit longer this time. That's by no means intended to exclude the extraordinarily kind representatives of the UK massive, with whom I've had the pleasure of spending a criminally insufficient amount of time - I'll come and visit you (hopefully under much more pleasant circumstances than the last time) on the same ticket, though possibly not until the return leg of the trip. A round the world ticket is actually cheaper from here than an East coast US return. I won't be able to buy any sort of ticket for a while, though. I've got a lot of work to do, particularly if I keep writing long emails like this instead of actually doing it. Bloody Sinister. Still, the satisfying size and bulk of this email should help cover up any lack of actual quality or content therein. Just because I don't spend as much time online as I once did, doesn't mean I don't still love your guts. 'Cause I do. Bulk love, -Vanilla Flavoured David. _________________________________________________________________ Get mobile Hotmail. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: never mind Beckham, let's talk about....
by Ben Apps 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

GIGGS! or, rather, Gigs! Woo hoo! Say yay of you're going to the Prospect Park Bandshell, say yay of you're going to the Greek Theatre on UC Berkeley Campus (YAY), say yay if you're going to the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park LA (YAY), say yay if it's all greek to you! :-) And....new album is *almost* finished and features the sound of dropping coins onto a plate and smashinh bottles (RAWK!). I wonder if it'll be ready in time to sell at the Gigs, probably not, oh well, but soon after(fingers crossed). Exciting times! And with that, I am content! (psst, geddit...content!?) bapps _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Electronic Reminiscent
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Dear sinister, Seeing some old names appearing in the "Sinister" folder of my in-box has made me feel a little nostalgic, indeed I do have regular patches of listalgia. I often wonder whether the old sinister kids (are they now sinister adults?) have just disappeared altogether or if they've just become less outspoken and rageful with age. And the other day I was looking through the inbox of a very old email account, and there was an email from someone I knew from a long time ago with whom I have lost contact, so I sent an email but unfortunately the hotmail account had since been closed down. Which made me sad of the frailty sometimes of this e-mailing business, how easily one can lose touch with another, but then I suppose it's no different from in real life, or rather "real life", in this technological age maybe the internet is becoming less virtual a reality than what they tell you in films, which is very much an escape from reality in itself. I do hope one day email accounts will never be closed down. Especially sinister(a)missprint.org cos it's rather good, I wonder if i'll still post here when I'm 82. Ken P.S.: My work is very dull P.S.2.: I got a PS2 the other day! And it arrived on my birthday! It was the greatest thing ever. P.S.3.: Now that Stuart Murdoch is planning to organise a treasure hunt in America, I wonder if th...... ********************************************************************** 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: quick and dirty proof of inductive fun
by Kevin Hyde 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Hello everyone, There exists a small but elite group of Australian businessmen in my hometown. They all work in one store, a pawnshop, called Cash Converters. I find this odd simply by merit of the fact that my hometown is in Pennsylvania, in America- and is a very small town, a former steel industry center, now sort of brownly decrepit and sprawling. And I wonder why it is that these people (all unrelated, I might add) would come all the way from Australia to (presumably) live and work in a small suburb of Philadelphia, in an unglamorous (albeit very successful) store which, besides having a name that to my mind suggests money laundering, is located in perhaps one of the worst parts of the entire county. The only hypothesis that springs to mind is that, somehow, through complex and arcane networks, the mayor of my town has forged a kind of draconian marketing contract with various travel agents and career counselors in the metropoli of Australia, where enthusiastic and (again, this is me speculating) towheaded antipodean youngsters are suckered into selling all their fantastic Dirty Three albums and bootlegs in order to buy a plane ticket to the exciting and impossibly-bustling-and-cultured Pottstown, PA. My God, this confused me. I'm not exaggerating when I say I thought about this deeply for the five or so hours it took me to drive home to Virginia on I-95. Could it be that my confusion was just sublimated anger at having one of the sales clerks ask me, upon the purchase of a cheap electric guitar and practice amp at said store, whether this [the guitar] was for me "as a rock and roll star, or is it a gift, mate?", (and I promise, he actually did say 'mate' I'm not making that up) to which I responded by nodding my head and saying, in a sort of shy and lamentful way, "uh, rock and roll style?", having heard the 'star' as 'style' and now consequently feeling slightly embarrassed in front of the witchily pretty female sales clerk. I know there are some Australian sinisterines + -ettes on the list, and I was wondering if, hey, are there any large and unwieldy roadside billboards over there with pictures of Pennsylvanian landscapes, mottled with fall colors, and featuring some sort of sentimental and catchy slogan in a sensible font? Maybe even vaguely authoritarian in tone? Ok. So there is (at least) another Kevin on this list (hello other Kevin!), and I think I need to confront this fact head-on. In my opinion, it's really a good thing, you know, because, heck, our name means 'gentle and lovable' (uh, in Gaelic, if I remember my grandmother's tiny namecards correctly), and with all the sort of rippling hostility and thinly veiled sexual threats that are always flying about on this list, people of a kevin-nature are here to serve as a buffer (feel free to hurl invective at either of us, and like egg-carton insulation foam, we will absorb and dampen). Plus probably all the Rachels too, 'we can never have enough Rachels' = story of my life. So, that's enough meta-list talk I suppose. I really wish I could write long and consistently-themed missives (a la Kieran and the PF), but really, my attention span is far too short for that. And plus I'm at work. Which place is populated mostly by diminutive secretaries whose faces look as if they would explode into thousands of tiny green mosquitoes if given the proper stimulus. I'm looking forward to: the fourth of July, which for me is one of the saddest holidays; going to see the Giddy Motors next month; applying to grad school, and getting engaged so that I can have a fiancee to give me the OED as a present like the inestimably lucky Michael Vance. Oh, and any sort of post from Laura Llew would be great, as they (the posts) always rock my socks off. Seriously. Hosiery --> obliterated. off to lunch, xo, Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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