October 2004 - Sinister - missprint.org

Re: Sinister: Just another list of consequences of things that we do
by anakin_sky＠gmx.net 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

hi... > Hello! > > Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think > about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll > hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal > Audio by the Delgados. ...is that a thread, because nobody's answering... anyway, my favourite album of the year is by that amazing band called !!!. not just great music, but also fantastic lyrics, a kick-ass live show, and they seem like the nicest/craziest/most confident guys without even being the slightest bit pretentious or arsy. yeah, so that one and the new pinback album "summer in abaddon". they are always amazing and one of my favourite bands ever. i saw that thing on british television yesterday, where a pregnant woman complained that hardly anyone on buses or trains gets up and gives their seat to pregnant women anymore, and then there was this guy saying that it's because men nowadays are really scared of women barking in their face "no thanks you wanker, i'm bloody well able to take care of myself and certainly don't need a MAN's help" like ALL women do nowadays when men are nice to them and show good manners. and he also said that they are so scared, because when this happens to a man (a woman barking at him), he loses his faith in humanity completely and has an emotional breakdown, because women already gave him a really hard time at work, and then when he comes home, there's the missus to face, who, again, set out to make his life really miserable... how sad is that. as for content: sorry, i can't really think of anything except that i listened to "dear catastrophe waitress" yesterday for the first time in a long time when i was on the phone to my friend for an hour and he had it playing in the background. love, anne. -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the Boston Sinister Massive
by Joanne Hill 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Wow I don't think I've posted here properly for like a year nearly. Finishing uni and getting jobs takes up a lot of time. I don't have anything much Belle and Sebastian related to say *wracks brains* um, nope. Fans Only is sitting here on the desk waiting to be watched but the computer needs fixing first. So I just wrote to say that I've recently moved from glorious Coventry, England to glorious-er Boston, Massachussetts. I have been lured here by a boy, my internet boyfriend yeah whatever. All my friends who don't have internet social lives don't understand...nor the people I met through work - when I told them I was moving to the USA to be with my man all they did was laugh incredulously, ask had we already met (yes, we met first in real life before we really spoke on the net) and say 'wow long distance...how do you know he's not cheating on you?' Yep that was the number 1 question. Well maybe some of you lot understand a bit more. So I'm here and very happy, but me and him can't spend every second together - especially when he's at work and I can't (legally) work - though we'll see about that and I'm looking for some DJing at a club or bar... It's hard for me to meet people, an English girl in big scary America. And coming from a house filled with 6 or 7 people, and having two jobs, and loads of friends living nearby (hi Dave), all of a sudden I've got just one person to speak to and it's weird. But I'm happy here. I've been here a week and didn't think til now to ask if there are any Sinisterettes in Boston and if any of you would like to meet for a drink or whatever. Let me know! Hopefully there's loads of you and I just haven't paid enough attention. Bye for now Joanne DV - thanks for the birthday email! _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I close my eyes....
by KMitchell 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

...and wonder if this works. So here I am again. I had this idea, with Sprouting Robin, to email sinister more often. It never actually came to be, but nevermind. You still all missed my birthday. As did the folk at work. I dunno. Not that it matters. Much. Robin emailed me and asked me to return to the fold of Sinister chat. I did, after my initial request, but there was nobody there. As is so often the case with Sinister chat. What's wrong? Said all you need to say, now? Surely not. So I am going to be in London on Wednesday, given I have decided that the country's second favourite capital will do fine as a nice place to go and stretch my legs. And I'm going to be meeting up with some Bowlie types on Wednesday evening, and thought, hey, why don't I invite my sinister lot along too? I hope this time I might see Marianna. So I'm sitting here, and I'm not afraid to tell you I've turned gothic for the night. I'm practising for Hallowe'en. Unfortunately, there was little I could do when the milkman came to the door, to get his weekly money, and I just tried to hide my face, with little success. "Goin' out somewhere?" he asked. "Yeah" I lied. "where?" he asked. "um, Embra" I said. "drinking?" he asked. "maybe" I said. Gave him his money, and then after a prompt goodbye, I shut the door. He looked startled at first, then amused, and had tried to keep the conversation going (I think for his own sense of amusement if nothing else) if it wasn't for my unusual desire not to continue talking. Love idles 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: Slinted and Enchanted
by owen lowery 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Well hello there Big news of the week is that Slint are playing ATP, this means that I need to go, therefore if anybody needs an extra body to fill a chalet then drop me a mail and you can have me (so to speak). I promise I'm clean, tend not to get too drunk and my days as a legendary womanizer are probably at an end. Thanks to all the people who replied off list to my last post (especailly the adorable girl with the coolest email address around) it's really good to know that people do read this stuff and bother to have an opinion about it. It all got me thinking about Sinister which scared me a bit 'cos I realized that I've been on here for over 5 years now. In that time I've met loads of cool people from the list (and even kissed a few of them), I've urinated next to Stuart Murdoch on a night out with the sinisterines, I've chatted in nonexistent spaces with foreign folk and I've went to see lots of bands that I otherwise never would have got to see. When I first joined this list I kind of figured that everyone here had been listening to the band far longer than me but now I feel like listening to them since 1996 probably makes me some sort of boring old fart who could bang on about the good old days and how the list was so much better then (it wasn't it was just different, livelier, more volatile, less international). So I've spent 8 years loving B&S and 5 years loving Sinister and at some point turned into a sad old git but what the hell, B&S still have a strange appeal for me and even if I don't think later albums have been lyrically as good as the first two I still think they're pretty special. Well time for me to get back to work Thanks for listening (for all these years) Owen so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens (William Carlos Williams) Support Care2 Email: 1,400 whales may be killed this year. Take action! http://www.care2.com/go/z/17954 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fancy a picnic? [November 6 - Austin, TX]
by Alyson virdell 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Sinister! It's been almost a year and a half since I've last written to you; I do believe it's past time for my annual post. This time, I'd like to invite you to a picnic. I think it's about time we had one down here in Texas, and since it's not so blazing hot out, why not? So, this time instead of gauging interest and then deciding not to do it (like last year), I will tell you where to go and when to be there, and even if it is just myself and my dashing friend Bruce, so be it! TEXAS SINISTER PICNIC Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 2:00 P.M. Mountain View Park in NW Austin Bring your friends and picnic food! R.S.V.P. to Alyson at kittypower6 at hotmail dot com or 512-659-4640. I can give you directions, if you need them. It's a very nice park, a little hidden so it's not completely crowded on weekends (a la Zilker). I will be making lovely sweet things and cider for everyone. See you then! Love, Alyson _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Just another list of consequences of things that we do
by Mark Hester 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hello! Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal Audio by the Delgados. I've no idea exactly when this album came out (other than "sometime this year") but I bought my copy last Saturday and it's rarely been off the stereo since. I was forewarned that this album doesn't have the epic strings that were found on Hate and the Great Eastern and so could be reasonably described as a more conventional album than either of these, but wow does it have tunes! Everybody Come Down and Girls of Valour are amazing songs! I think this is the strongest Delgados album lyrically as well - I wanted to have "Every single person who has told you that you couldn't lives in fear that you'll achieve the things in life they think you shouldn't" as my subject line, but it was too long to fit in the Subject box! Which is a shame, as it's a great line and one I broadly agree with. I'm going to say something vaguely sacriligious now - Keep on Breathing reminds me a bit of Sweet dreams my LA Ex! I'm sure this is just a bizarre coincidence - I doubt if the band intended it as an homage to Ms Stevens. Someone at work who has met the band tells me that they are not keen cyclists as I'd always assumed, having been named after a cyclist and having 2 cycling related album titles. Not that this matters mind, apparently the Beach Boys didn't like surfing, either! I'm going to be in that London for a few days, fom tomorrow (Sunday) until Tuesday. Tomorrow is my birthday (yay!) so I shall prolly be relaxing at my Mum's house and then on Monday I'm going down to Brixton to see Kate St Claire (ex-Lollies)'s new band the Kissing Time, who are playing at the Windmill. So should you. I can really recommend them - ok, so i've only heard mp3s so far, but it's sure to be good. I hear that Simon Aurell is back in town, too, which is excellent news. bye for now, Mark. _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I don't want to play foosball
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi dere! Whoosh! Look it's October already! Time flies, doesn't it? Even when it isn't May. Writing from my work is always fun, because the view outside never really changes, it's just a courtyard and all you can see are reflecting office windows and a big tall new hospital that's almost completely built. There's a gap of sky through where you can see clouds and the occasional aeroplane flying by. Seeing an climbing plane always fills me with thoughts and I'd always imagine each one of them to be flying to somewhere really far away over oceans and land and a couple of thousand houses, and that half a day later this plane in front of me is going to be the other side of the world. It's kind of exciting but also kind of sad. The view from land to plane is nowhere near as exciting as from plane to land, though. There was this one time I think I was on a plane that was flying above Siberia, and I looked down even from that high up you can see a lot of details on the ground that you try and make out as roads or trains or rivers or a little house. I never really know whether I got it right or not. But I always wish it was actually possible to just get ejected from the plane then and I can parachute down to have a look, and then get picked up by a helicopter when I get bored of it. I think the closest I got to any kind of wilderness was on some roadtrip to Ben Nevis, which isn't really that wilder, and I didn't even climb it. I went to stay in this small town called Drumnadrochit, by Loch Ness. I was doing to trying to find the monster thing, without realising that Loch Ness was bigger than a Hassid's beard. That place was nice though. I told a walk into the woods there, and the locals told me that there were foxes. I didn't see any though. I saw a lot of highland cows instead, I think they tried to attack me. It snowed, and I wrote "Fox in the snow" on the ground. I tried to take a picture but the picture turned up really crap because of bad lights. Frozen fingers all for nothing. ---- That's what I meant, I always derail to different things when I write from work, even though the view is exactly the same. Does anyone know of a band called the Dance Hall Crashers? I searched the archives and it was only mentioned once, right next to the word "Belle and Sebastian", in fact, for a flyer for a club. They have a song called Whisky and Gin.. I have never heard them. They are from California, yet they drink Whisky. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions also once sang about Whiskey and Gin, too. They drink Whiskey. Does anyone know of this band called Lloyd Cole and the Commotions? There are others, too. A band called Pasty White, whose website is titled "Pure Original Rock Music", also have a song called "Whiskey and gin". The lyrics of the song went "I sip my whiskey and I drink my gin I'm never coming down again" So they copied B+S, and also The Verve, and combined it in one song. That itself is an original concept, I suppose. Theirs is "Whiskey" too, with an e, perhaps they sip their whisky and they take their e. I could go on, but last but not least.. There's country singer Catherine Britt, who drinks whiskey and gin to wash her pain away of having to listen to merle in her hit single "Hillbilly Pickin' Rambling Girl". See here for more http://www.catherinebritt.com. Apparently she duetted with Sir Elton John! I'm proud of her, and it's so good to see that the superstardom doesn't mean that she had deserted her country roots. That's it that's it that's it Ken ********************************************************************** 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: My favourite abbreviations
by robin stout 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

As Jarvis once helpfully explained, Cocker is short for "A sucker of cock". Apart from this, my favourite abbreviations are: flu which is short for "influenza" pram, which is short for "perambulator" and soccer, which is short for "association football" I like it when people add all of the abbreviation marks into words that no one else does anymore. Occasionally I'll receive correspondence at Stout Towers in which someone tells me how they 'phoned the 'bus company 'cause it was late, or some such, and I'll get excited about all of the completely unnecessary apostrophes that they've scattered all over. The other day I received a document from the inventor of a television aerial, and whenever he referred to a television he called it a "TeleVision", including quote marks, as if this was some wonderful new word that he'd coined last Tuesday instead of in 1908. This also made me unfeasably happy. I saw someone in our car park here at work the other day who was wearing an "I'm a B&S Bookworm" t-shirt. I imagine he must have been wearing it all day. I stared at him somewhat, mostly in shock, and he looked quite scared like i might murder him. I'm not so sure about "fall", but my favourite season is autumn. It's a treat being able to wear your hat, gloves and long coat while the sky is still clear and blue. People always look so much better dressed in their winter clothes, I think. Robinx _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: oh the thoughts...
by Kristin Mitchell 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

This may or may not work, so hey. I'm having a bit of a sucky day, and I feel like inflicting my suckiness upon others. However, I can't put my finger on what makes it suck, I think it might be my head, and my memory, and everything I think of. So that sort of makes it difficult to inflict it upon you, you'll just have to have sympathetic suckiness pains for me. Moving on... So Ken Chu survived his trip to Glasgow, and he's still posting regularly, and Matt Henderson and Ally Cooke and Stacey whatsherface all posting as well, and Ben Apps, and Lucy Alder... blimey. And Jay Eckard and David Hewitt, and it's all starting to make my head spin a bit. And even Michael "dance showdown winner" Grant, although if it were 2001, he'd probably be about 10 years old. It feels like 2001 again. Actually, it really does feel like 2001 again. I bumped into an old friend, from pre-anything-related-to-B&S days, at the Winchester, and he's now on my "I'm going to harrass you when I'm bored" list for emailing. We've been catching up a bit, although it's always hard to try and summarise a few years or so into one email. Although goodness knows I do try. So onto worst injuries. Hmm. Getting a broken collar bone was a pain in the neck (arf), particularly because I couldn't do a great deal with myself. I had to be assisted in and out of bed (don't get any ideas, it wasn't interesting) and assisted with washing my hair, and assisted with putting clothes on (I managed to wriggle out of my clothes myself, although it did take 45 minutes to do so, which isn't great when you need toilet). It took me a wee while to develop a knack of doing all these things myself. The thing I think I remember most about it, was that it was my first day in a new job, and they were really impressed with me. They'd already had a few temps come and go, and none of them stayed more than a day, and they hoped I'd return. As for irritating injuries. Well, there was the incident a few months ago, where in the rush to shut my door, I tripped over the bin, and landed on my chin, and ended up with the most incredible bruise afterwards. It took a wee while to calm down. I ended up walking round looking like someone had drawn me a goatee beard on my chin in permanent marker pen. Which isn't great when you've got lots of meetings to attend. "What happened to you?" "I tripped up over my bin". Or the time some bloke from some band called Belle and Sebastian threw a stick of rock into the audience (I think this wins my tweest injury ever) and it bashed me slap on the forehead, which left me with a bruise, which meant it hurt every time I smiled. So I learnt to scowl more. Except when I had my photo taken for graduation, the bruise had subsided, but the pain was still there. My gradutation photo now has me sort of with this fixed smile, the only type I could manage. In terms of inflicted, I think the only pain I've inflicted is - aside from immense boredom - heartbreak. Oh no, hang on. There was the time my brother was racing me, and because he was about to win, I tripped him up, and he walloped his nose on a doorstep. Which meant my parents took him to hospital to see if his nose was broken. There's all these photos of him at his third birthday (yes, I was that cruel) with a black eye which was what he got out of my meaness from tripping him up. He doesn't know about that though, neither do my parents. They don't know it was me. Mind you, he only found out a few years ago, that a toy he thought was mine, was actually his first birthday present. I made him ask my permission before he could play with it. It wasn't that I was an unpleasant child, I just wanted to keep him firmly in his place. And I did incur a few bruises when protecting him in fights. I know, I can't win you over now I've confessed my guilt. But hey, what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger, and he's rather strong now, so, y'know... it all worked out. It's a shame though, because he was rather a cute wee toddler, with such a happy outlook on life, and he seemed to do everything I told him and looked up to me (perhaps because I was taller). All that has changed though. And with that, my confession, I can die and go to heaven. Can't I? Love idles xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: When north-east meets north-west
by Amy Skelton 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hey Sinister, ME REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK? NO WAY! Well Ive been back on home soil again for a couple of weeks now. I must say that Ive been finding it a bit more difficult settling in again this time. I think its because its now all VERY final. My volunteering stint in Bangladesh is well and truly over (although I am going back to visit the boyfriend for Christmas/New Year - he he)*. Seeing family and friends again is great and is definitely helping me settle back to life in the UK. * Ian. Youre right Im not American but my boyfriend is. Hope that clears any confusion. ANYHWERE TO RENT IN GREATER MANCHESTER? So, I start my full on paid first graduate job on Monday. Im very excited. Accommodation hunting is still underway. The only Sinister picnics I ever made it to were in Manchester so its nice to be moving to an area Im fond of. A plea to Greater Manchester sinisterites know anyone with a room/place to rent? Pref. in Heywood, 2nd pref Bury but will consider Manchester itself. Ive been quite steady in settling back to the UK no kayaking or dragon boating or canoe polo since Ive arrived. I guess theyll be good ways of making new friends. A YEAR OF GIG DEPRIVATION After a year of cold turkey with no full on gigs I did treat myself the other week. My mate David and I went up to Newcastle to watch the return of The Delgados with support from Sons and Daughters*. A first class way to get back into the fray. * Im cheating and saying this is content because of associations with B & S Well Im saying the first gig since I got back because Im discounting being dragged to see the oh so ordinary Ordinary Boys the night before truly boring in my opinion. People are trying to re-educate me with bands that Ive missed over the year. Sadly, they got it wrong that time. Im up for suggestions of bands I should listen to/go and see. LAUGHTER YOGA Does anyone else here remember David Devant and his Spirit Wife (most famed for their You Must Be Ginger song)? I saw them on Sat after a hiatus of ? years. I went along because they always used to put on a good show with ultimate audience participation regardless of what you thought of their music. Like some other punters I was bitterly disappeared because the show had albeit disappeared. Taking growing up too far eh. Childish humour still has its place some of the time laughter yoga and all that. Anyway, as Im on some sort of a money-saving regime I have not been travelling to London for gigs (not leaving the north-east can be restricting in terms of choice). To those of you whove been going to see Le Tigre, Jonathan Richman etc. hope you all had fun. I was very pleased to see an article in The Guardian last week about laughter yoga sessions before work being all the rage in certain regions of India. Ever the advocate of the benefits of a good chuckle I wish they were brought in here. Ah, well. Id better go and enjoy my last couple of days of freedom before 40 years of (mostly) hard grind! Scary when you think of it like that. Take care all, Amy _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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