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Sinister: It's only time
by Amy Baggott 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello Sinister, So, Ive been lurking around these parts a while. Ive not been away, I just havent had much to say. And thats not to say I do have something exciting to share with you now, in case anyone was getting their hopes up unduly there. Sorry. I just saw this little quote in the Times the other day and thought of you. My worst festival experience was travelling on an overnight rockers bus from Scotland to see Deep Purple at Knebworth in 1984. I was 15. The only seat was at the back with the stinking denim-and-leather brigade. I got to sleep, bolt upright, between two heavies. I woke up with one of their tongues in my ear Stuart Murdoch, of Belle & Sebastian. Eh? Anyway, Im not going to whinge about the fact that the free gig in Glasgow is two days before the scariest exams of my life so far and that I wont be able to go. Because if all goes to plan, I should be seeing them at Glastonbury instead. But still. A free gig! In Glasgow! With Camera Obscura too! How cruelly fate times these things sometimes. Ah well, at least the new single looks promising. Maybe Ill see some of you in Glastonbury Bye for now, Amy x P.S. The subject line is a truly lovely song off the new Magnetic Fields LP. Listen to it. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: with your newfound love of neu and pad thai
by rrrrobyn 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

periodically, elements: since last we spoke, sinister, i have not managed to unlearn how to read. in fact, i have learned whole bunches of new words, some of which may or may not be made up. of letters or non-letters. i also found a pink raincoat, 60s style. that totally goes with my pink mini-skirt suit, 60s style. totally. goes. reporting back (now with informative sub-headings): between 'responsibilities', 'unresponsibilities', and growing my hair, i've been to see shows, entertainments, flashing lights and on-stage sweating. - the dirtbombs: wow! whoa! yes! two drumkits (and two drummers)! spasmodical robotic dancing girl guitarist! mick collins! leg kicking to punctuate guitar riffing! it hurt me, how real and good it was. - julie doiron/damien jurado/rosie thomas: this was lovely. i love julie. she makes you love things. everything seems warmer when she sings. the world is a nicer place. i'm cheesy, but it fits. and it was a cold night. everyone seemed to be wearing nice scarves. - le tigre/lesbians on ectasy/les georges leningrad: let me begin with this: check out my awesome green les georges leningrad t-shirt! it fits like a glove, is soft like fake-fur kittens, and on it is a white drawing of a bat carrying a severed head! *and* it's a non-musical material representation of one of the most bizarre and entertaining (in a watching-your-8th-grade-math-teacher-get-attacked-by-bees kind of way) bands around. so, y'know, t-shirt! lesbians on ectasy is a montreal band as well, with a definite e-energy vibe goin' awn - dance-y, electro-y, fun-y. and le tigre, well, i mean, LE TIGRE. matching outfits, motown style (y'know, same fabric, but kathleen's got a strapless minidress, johanna's got a dress with sleeves and an a-line, and jd's got a button-up shirt and pants. rad.) old songs, a few new songs (which were goood), synchronized dance moves, and a fancy way of following a set list (computers! graphic interfaces! etc.) i was happy. (for 5 minutes early on i was unhappy b/c a crew of goonish indie men began to 'mosh' near the front, causing some annoyance. especially when some pulled out, i kid you not, digicams. i'm just, like, er, do you not listen to lyrics? please put away your collector/capturer personas for an hour and be decent. i'm an asshole. no. i'm decidely not. i just hold le tigre near and dear.) so: always good to see le tigre, feel like you can do anything you set your mind to (it's true-oooo!), and dance like a maniac to 'deceptacon'. when buses strike back: holy crap, there's a bus/metro strike on in montreal. how am i supposed to achieve a nice, protective layer of fat for the winter months when i have to do all this walking and cycling everywhere? criminal. i guess i need to drink more beer. while walking and cycling. just all the time really. oh, and eat chocolate. see, i know my fat-making abilities and those two things will do it for sure. remember back when thespark.com had a 'gain x number of pounds in x number of days' contest? i would have kicked ass in that by eating beer and candy alone. and not walking or cycling anywhere. when i see hot pink graffiti, i say that's the graffiti for me: before the bus strike, i saw some pink graffiti in a metro stn on a billboard. it was in that graffiti language i'm not cool enough to understand, but i think it was along the lines of 'rraaarr, we write graffiti! now go and write an essay about it somewhere you silly little academic wad!' haha, aw, pink graffiti. visit montreal, i will try not to be too weird: helen of australia rocks right back. i saw her in the summertime and we walked around montreal and looked at things and i babbled about stuff and i'm sure was awkwardly quiet at times too, yet she still thinks i'm O.K. And she's a world traveller and therefore *knows*. one day i will go to australia and be a world traveller too. but mostly i will go to the beach and drink beer and eat candy. you were always on my mind, you were always on my mind: i bought a new walkman for $15.97 plus gst and pst b/c my old walkman broke a while ago and i am too cheap (ppoorr) to go for a discman and too damn *smart* to go for an mp3 player just quite yet. ipod ipod ipod. want. not going to get. unless it's $15.97. which, nope, it isn't. anyway, so i'm back listening to my tapes again, enjoying mixes made pre-2000, featuring the pet shop boys, the pixies, b&s, mag fields, you know the drill... the only downside to the walkman is that it's ultra sensitive (read 'cheap', not 'lubricated thin latex') to radio waves and things, so that every time i walk by a big construction site or a taxi it buzzes and sometimes even clicks. it's like the city is remixing my tunes yo. and damaging my cochlea. ow, my cochlea! hahahaha. love and bits, robyn p.s. despite having a pink raincoat, 60s style, i still want loralai's pink coat, the one she was wearing last gilmore girls episode with the awesome black and pink dress which i also want. p.p.s. thinking about tv has just reminded me that rupert got kicked off survivor last night. it was sad. both b/c it was a sad event and b/c i yelled at the tv and then at the heavens and then at myself. but really: why? rupert was the best thing to happen to reality tv since do-it-yourself liposuction on the home and garden network. yeah, so that never happened except on the TV Screen in My Head (8 p.m. Wednesdays, CTV), but man, Rupert gone? i'm writing him a letter. (yes, just like the windchill factor, reality is but a feeling too. a FEELING.) ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Montreal, QC __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.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. 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Sinister: please speak into the microphone
by laurel lemming 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

dear Sinister, all of you are always talking about lots of other bands that people who listen to B+S also listen to. the only band I listen to in that sort of 'category' is Belle and Sebastian. oh, I listen to lots of other stuff, mostly in completely different genres; a lot of bluegrass, a lot of emo-ish rock, some 80s pop, and stuff my parents like to listen to. and someone once gave me a mix CD of stuff that was supposed to be "B&S-like," by which I guess they meant t*ee-pop, not that B+S are, but whatever. *stumbles away hoping not to provoke another discussion of "t*ee."* and nothing there really struck my fancy. so I guess my question is, are camera obscura and the hidden cameras the same band? I mean...I don't know. I'm so confused. and is it wicked not to care about all these other bands? not cool enough for you, lem __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 saga of the 358
by Ruth 30 May '04

30 May '04

just one more example of how stupid a person can get... but i had had a stressful day! 9:00 GCSE IT(short course) exam. the questions were something along the lines of "would it be better for the company to use a computer or a box with the word computer written on it? give three reasons for your answer" and i really felt like there hadnt been much point getting up for it. 10:30 finally get let out of IT exam after finishing it in the first half hour (some more stuff which isnt very interesting) 4:45 have to catch a train in the rain for my piano lesson which will arrive and hour early 5:00 the train actually arrives... im soaking wet 5:30 i finally reach my lesson (jazz piano if youre interested. i switched form classical a couple of months ago and its great)... which doesnt start for another half hour... i sit in the shop and drip 6:30 i leave the shop and have to run to get to the train on time 6:40 i get to the station on time but the train doesnt, a scary old man sits down next to me and insists on telling me about his freind who was a ballerina but her choreographer kept telling her she was fat and she stopped eating an the killed herself. i could have walked away from him... but that would have involved standing in the rain. 7:00 the train finally arrives. after getting home i have just enough time to change before going to get the bus. i was supposed to meet my freinds at half seven 7:30 i get to the bus stop to see a bus pulling up. hooray!! a bus! i run for the bus and get on with out checking the number. when i see the sign saying "welcome to darbyshire" i begin to wonder if it was the wrong bus... 7:45 it was definately the wrong bus. im in new mills and theres a large gang of scallies loudly asking the girls behind me if theyre virgins and telling everyone how the country is rubbish and that its better where they live on one of the council estates in manchester. at this point the best thing to do is ride the bus all the way round and back again 8:00 we reach the end of the line. hayfield! and start going back. 8:30 i get back to marple, nearly go home but finally decide that since the place doesnt close till 10 i can at least turn up, see my freinds and apologise for not turning up at half seven. 8:55 the right bus turns up 9:10 i arrive in romily but thanks to my freinds sketchy instructions cant find the place and have to wait half an hour for the bus home... total time on buses - and hour and a quater total time waiting at bus stops - an hour sooo... that was a fun night but i should probably give you a proper update too. ive done 2 of my 14 gcse papers, my art display is up and has been marked but most importantly i have officially left school!!! we when to first lesson the day we left and then straight to the leavers assembly. the two bands our year have managed to form both played (rodine (www.rodine.co.uk) and homeless joe (who are much better than rodine thanks to mikes actual talent but dont have a website)). the dance class did a couple of dances involving as little clothing as possible and some of the guys did a strip (ripping off their boxers to reveal.... another pair of boxers!!) but the actual amusing part was all the teachers attempting to do the chacha slide. next the foam fight... it kicked ass! noone brought hair removal foam instead of shaving foam like they did last year thank god and i ended up with my hair stuck up like a troll doll... and looking a bit like all the non-romantic leads at the end of ghostbusters. my personal mission was to foam everyone who was only watching and not joining in. i got five of them! and then the prom! limo et al. well ok... limo to the school and then coach full of drunken skallies loudly listing everone they know who isnt a virgin the rest of the way. but we did get a wolf whistle when we were waving out of the limo... it was from an eight year old but whos counting? rodine arrived in a 4x4 limo.. someone arrived on a harley davidson (riding pillion) and everyone looked spectacular. the actual prom was like a primary school disco but with big tables. the music was all anoying so called r&b but after half an hour of complaining ashleys campaign to make me enjoy myself succeeded and i was dancing away. i was the first to take off my shoes (very painful 4 inch stillettos) and then everyone else started to take theirs off too. we even got a little break dancing circle going when they played run dmc... a lot of guys trying to do head spins and falling over :) very funny! i discovered the guy i liked is a reeeealy bad dancer but i danced with him anyway and i spent the last dance in a giant line that was like a sideways conga... if that makes any sense to anyone... so thats about it now i get a week off before my exams start properly so i probably wont have anything to say for a while (i can hear that sigh of relief) as long as i dont get the wrong train and end up in scotland! ===== RUTH __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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RE: Sinister: Various (New York & Surrounding Area Sinister Wing responding)
by Janice ... 28 May '04

28 May '04

Dear Sinisters, << If the Sinister Icelandic Wing has any suggestions of cool places/things to go/do in Reykjavik for 5 days in the middle of August, then do be in touch. The same request applies to the New York & Surrouding Area Wing too >> This is the New York & Surrounding Area Sinister Wing responding.... hmmm, some things to do here: visit Chinatown, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, the Met, the MOMA, the Guggenheim ... the rounds of the museums. picnic in Central Park. take photographs in Times Square. walk around, eat in quaint cafés in the East Village. plenty to do here in NYC... -Janice ***************** "you dance and techno fascists are never satisfied. i think you should all open a record shop for yourselves, only and ONLY containing electronica." _________________________________________________________________ Best Restaurant Giveaway Ever! Vote for your favorites for a chance to win $1 million! http://local.msn.com/special/giveaway.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: Various
by Sam Walton 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hello Sinister. I write with little to say, I'm afraid, although this gem in my inbox from those wonderfully thoughtful people at Amazon.co.uk was too good not to share. It's the personal touch that gets me: > >Dear Customer, > >We've noticed that many customers who've purchased albums by Various are >also interested in >music by Various. For this reason, you might like to >know that the new CD by Various is now available. > And indeed, I was interested to know that nugget of information; I am a big fan of Various after all, having many of their albums, though unfortunately I don't think I will be indulging in their latest offering. There was a York picnic a while back. I don't think anybody reported back as far as I can remember, and it seems that the time for doing so has kinda passed now. As I recall though, it was a fun day attended by the York Sinister Massiv and then more people besides. You missed out, if you didn't come that is. I finish my degree in a week. As in for good. Sam Walton, BSc. 18 years in the British education system for 10,000 words, due by next Friday, midday. I've written most of them already actually, so I should be okay. But then what? Jeeze, I don't know. The Real Life, I suppose, as Freddie M might have said. I do have a holiday booked though, which is cause for excitement and a little request: If the Sinister Icelandic Wing has any suggestions of cool places/things to go/do in Reykjavik for 5 days in the middle of August, then do be in touch. The same request applies to the New York & Surrouding Area Wing too, as I will be visiting that neck of the woods for the three weeks before Iceland. Maybe a picnic even? Okay, well I won't push it. Anyway, that's about it. love Asm.x P.S. Who else is coming to the Somerset House gig on the Sunday? Picnic beforehand? ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Performance poetry, Ian, Crap Music and THE RAIN!
by Astrid Wiezell 28 May '04

28 May '04

Dear Sinister, I am bored so I am writing you, sorry about neglecting you in other moods. I love you, baby (babies?) you know that. True and forevah. 4-evah!!! Sorry, i am so tired that i most probably will keep writing fake-hip hop slang that really is not funny for anyone but me and Amanda. Today, I am meeting up with the very nice Ian Watson, it shall be very interesting indeed! He is interviewing THE HIVES, yes he is one cool guy. And also my first sinisteree that I meet that is of the sinister london massive. I am worried I will not be cool enough, but if not, he can always flee I guess. Ha ha. Also, today Popaganda starts (yes you read correctly), which is a free three-day-festival at the uni in Stockholm. You have to be 18 to go there. I am 17 and 11 months. My boyfriend will be spending his weekend there. EVERYONE will be spending their weekend there. Never mind me and Amanda, oh no, we'll have FUN ourselves! We'll record songs on the cassette porta and we'll dance in our Justin Hawkins + Caleb Followill masks that we got from NME. WE WILL BE HAVING FUN. I'm just a wee bit bitter, you see, and now the rain is POURING DOWN, and I am gloating. Ha ha ha ha. Take THAT. Oh well, really, I would wish that everyone would have a nice time, or at least boyfriend + friends + other friends in general. But it is quite annoying. Today this performance poetry guy came to our school and had a show/ lecture/ performance. It was pretty damn cool, his name is Bob Hansson and I thought he'd be a "tormented" poet or something but he was pretty fucking cool, it was nice to see something uncontrolled and sort of - well spontaneous - at our school. Yes. The people with the music computer in this computer room are playing - cue drum roll - BACKSTREET BOYS! Ugly shitfaced crap band, ah I hate them so badly! Now, I've had my crap taste in music during the years, like the fact that I was quite the avid,er, Hanson fan (I WAS TEN YEARS OLD, DON'T JUDGE ME!) or stuff like that, but Backstreet Boys... I was the only one who never liked them in my class, along with the boys, and I am still proud about the fact that I never gave up in favour of their beyond crappy music. Hrrrrrr. "There's something missing in my... heeeeeaaaaart" they just sang. Hope they stay that way. I am sorry, I am not usually this evil and aggravated but I am very hungry and I don't want to go out in the rain and er, yes, I don't know, let's blame it on something more . The Josh Ritter gig is coming up, will be pretty damn amazing, I hope. I am on the guestlist + 1 for the Stockholm show (thanks Darius!) and hopefully me and Amanda will get in without any questions, would be really nice since Josh is a very humble and sympathetic man and a real joy to watch perform. Also was told yesterday that my favourite teacher in the whole school - my English teacher - is going on paternity leave all of next year... NO! I have my hopes for some other teachers that I might get now, but you never know. Hmmm. I will keep you posted since I gather you are all extremely intrigued by which person will be my English teacher next fall and spring term. I am so tired. I am so tired. I am so tired. I am so tired. I am so tired. Why? I can't remember. Oh, right, my boyfriend called me at like 2:45 a.m because i told him to call when he got home from his experimental music rehearsal and wanted him to but i was really fucking tired and now i can't seem to shake it off. Hrrrr. My day has been nice though. Organisation and leadership: my nice teacher let us watch the office (we're on the 5th episode by now, that is how many times she has let us watch ricky gervais being v. funny instead of studying business law etc.) and had brought with her chocolate. One of my best friends, Zebine had been making great chocolatey stuff to eat and brought to class, and so I ate about 70% of the content in her tupperware box. Oops. Then I had English where we performed Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller as Reader's Theatre, it went quite well I think. Hmmm. Yes, I think so. I am pleased with the outcome. Then lunch and then some performance poetry. How could I be tired, i've been doing nothing all day! Ok, must rush off and try to socialize, one more Backstreet Boys song and I will became morbide and dangerous and not armed, but then again, you can use many things to kill someone with. Weekend lovin' Astrid x www.katsite.tk _________________________________________________________________ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: initiating initiative
by Aurora Borealis 25 May '04

25 May '04

ok, i've had enough if someone doesn't show me how to play a bar-chord properly in the next month i am going to remove ALL songs containing F's, B's, C# minors and any other variations thereof from my tab collection...certain bands that we like, not Blaming Anyone Special, have a tendency to positively litter their songs with these evil little creatures... i've had a guitar for FAR too long to be still not sounding 3 of the 6 notes every time i step off the safe ground of the CAGED based world...aaargghh. and why does it get so much easier with a capo...my arms are of a regular length, i am fairly sure.... so rants aside... nope i think that may have been about it. i did have an idea but i don't think it is either orginal or worthy of mustering a large effort for but in the interests of my own musical education i wonder... usually, i make blatant use of musical recommendations from sinister mails as a means to expand my personal music collection and i've seldom been disappointed. this got me to thinking that it would probably be worth asking u folks (if you fancy wasting an extra precious few moments at work....yep, i'm definitely a 'work' user) to tag on a small collections of bands or albums that u may profer up to a recently arrived stranger from a music free planet...i'm fairly sure this musical tree is a leafy one and i'm still sitting on one of the lower, albeit darn sturdy and life-supporting, branches. that and how to play bar chords, especially standing up... 24hour sunshine to you all ;o) politics is the new punk, good stuff. will join in shortly, just as soon as we join the EU.... ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Same same but different
by Stuart Gardiner 25 May '04

25 May '04

So B&S are indie veterans now then? I remember when they were newcomers. I really must have been on here too long. OK, so I send a great long email to sinister about Tibet, get quite a few interesting replies, and don't get anywhere near my email for two weeks. So, sorry everyone... So not everyone agreed with me. And others did. That's fine. To be expected. I did present a bit of a one-sided view - probably more enthusisastic towards the Chinese than I actually believe myself? - but the important thing was to present the other side of the story to what you normally hear. Hope I managed that at least. You're right - things aren't perfect in Tibet, most notably the lack of freedom, as elsewhere in China. I just don't like being constantly told in the West that it's an open-and-shut case whether things are good or bad in Tibet, when really it's a lot more complicated than that. Whatever the Beastie Boys might like us to think... I also don't like the idea that China must be a bad thing for Tibet, because of what their leaders did 40 years ago, when the destruction of monasteries and killing of monks etc actually happened. Let's face it, I wouldn't like it if people started having a go at me because of what the British government did in the days of the Empire before I was even born (and that has happened several times while I've been travelling...) On another note, a few people were asking me to explain a bit about what's going on in Nepal right now, since it's not been reported much in the West. So, if you don't care, skip this bit... About 5 years ago, most of the royal family were murdered. According to the official palace version, the crown prince went mad because he wasn't allowed to marry the woman he loved, so he got an automatic weapon out and massacred all the royals present. And then killed himself. His uncle, who was conveniently absent (along with his son) at another palace in Pokhara, became king. So far, so good. Except, if the crown prince was firing an automatic weapon around the room, how come not one security guard was injured? And how did he manage to shoot himself in the left-hand side of his head, with an automatic weapon, when he's right-handed? And how did the only other member of the royal family not present, the prince's sister, die in a terrible helicopter crash two weeks later in which the pilot was un-injured? The only thing anyone knows for sure is that the official version is a load of rubbish. And the truth? Doesn't really matter really - all that's important is what people believe, especially in a country where news spreads by word of mouth in the absence of TV or radio. So now, the Maoists, who have been violently campaigning since before then for the end of the monarchy and an agrarian state (alarmingly similar in aims and methods to the Khmer Rouge actually) are stronger than ever. They're getting money from somewhere, but no-one is sure where - officially China have disowned them, and they're not getting that much from robbing banks. Some people in Nepal even think the king is giving them money, because as long as the rebellion continues, he has an excuse to maintain absolute power. 18 months ago, the king diosolved parliament for not controlling the Maoists and being corrupt (and they were). So now the politcal parties are also campaigning against both the King and the Maoists. And every week there's a national strike called by one or the other, which paralyses the country and destroys the economy. In the meantime, things keep getting worse. Hundreds have been killed this year on both the Maoist side and in the army and amongst civilians. And the only thing rescuing the country from all-out civil war is that most of the population don't support the King OR the Maoists OR the parties. Nepal is just another example of why democracy isn't always the best answer for a country, no matter what the US government would have us believe... Anyways, enough politics. Wasn't that in the list rules once upon a time, no talk of politics? Oh well, nobody is talking about anything else these days... So, I'll get back to travelling. I love this lifestyle. I've been in four countries since last I wrote. I love the hot, sticky weather. I love the challenge of crossing a road in Saigon, or breathing in Kathmandu, or not freezing to death at Everest Base Camp. I love the people you meet, from all over the world (well apart from one nationality, best not say but anyone who's ever backpacked will know...). I love the challenges of putting up with the touts and con-artists without losing your temper. I love the food, and the sounds and smells (apart from the smell of the Durian fruit, obviously). I love the stamps in my passport. I don't love the fact that on the 3rd of July I've got to fly home... Big Stu _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! 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. 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Sinister: The Forgetting of Wisdom
by Krister Bladh 24 May '04

24 May '04

Good evening (or morning (I suppose you got better things than checking your Sinister-mail during Work Hours! (it could be weekend though))) (honestly, I didnt write this just please the god of parentheses) ...now, I always manage to think of things that I should ask you people when Im as far away from a computer as possible, but Ive tried to get a few things together here. First of all I suppose you know as much about Felt as members of a Felt mailing list which CD do I buy to get all the singles? All these Stains On a Decade, Absolute Classic Masterpieces volumes 1 to I dont know just makes me dizzy. And I noticed someone asked for tabs to Wandering Alone. If anyone answered that, could you please send me a copy? You see, Ive got this song with the same chords, but I cant work out which they are. Trust me, its about as infuriating as coming to school at 8 oclock just find out that your lessons in the German language There, Ive done it again! Forgotten it all. Maybe I shouldnt listen to the song in the subject line anymore (by the lucksmiths) (but you knew that). Too bad b&s arent going to same festivals but me. But hey, I get to see Bright Eyes, Tompaulin, Lovejoy, Ladybug Transistor, Boyracer, Bearsuit, the Shins, Go! Team, Electrelane, Franz Ferdinand, Essex Green und so weiter. Dont mean to brag. Now its off to bed/work for you Sleep/work well And dont let those bed bugs/superiors bite Chris, out of work and unable to sleep (the latter because of the former) -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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