January 2005 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Yule made me forget my dreams
by ken chu 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello my favourite corn dogs, How are you doing? I hope life isn't too unpleasant - although I can't imagine it'd be too nice having a stick stuck around the region where your bottom would have been if you had one, but it makes for convenient consumption, so at least it was for a just cause. I've watched this one reality TV program the other day, it was called something like changing spouses or something. The program itself wasn't really all that noteworthy, although it did almost make me cry in the end when I learnt of this dysfunctional family with the dad who had once walked halfway around the world, during which time his brother had died back home and he couldn't make it back in time (by that time he'd walked all the way to Thailand) and as a result of this he became ultra protective of his children who grew up to be dorks. It was very emotional. I can't even remember what I was going to tell you about this show anymore. Oh actually I remembered, one of the kids said something "Er.. I didn't do something cause something or another" and this mother from another household was like "Don't say Cause - it's not a real word", which was silly. What a funny story. There was this other time I sold this powertool to a second hand shop, and a few weeks later it was Christmas and my brother gave me the same powertool as a present. I know this because one of the cables was missing. What a funny story. Anyway. Speaking of Christmas, how were your Christmases? Mine was okay, the weather was cruel, and although the season of yule warms the heart, it still hurts. I still remember last year's super dooper 9 gigs in one night night at the Winchester Club. That was awesome. The opening act was particularly good - this dude did an acoustic guitar cover of The Darkness's (Christmas Time) Don't Let The Bells End, with Gavin Dunbar from Camera Obscura on the drums. He did TWO key changes at the end chorus! TWO. He went from A to B to C#!! It blew the house down, and everyone had to relocate to the project. I miss this Winchester Club thing. If you celebrate Christmas at Old Trafford, would that be a Man U yule? Would Shaun Ryder ask "Oi! Are you Man U yule you? Are you Man U you? Are you Man U? Are you Man U yule you?" Happy New Year kids, Ken +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 first mail....
by Javi Sorribes 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Well, it's already been a couple of weeks reading what you write, looking forward to write something myself, and now I don't really know what to say... Actually I could say many things, even though I don't know wether if you care or not. I could (like I always do) talk about myself... yes, I think that would bo the best thing. You know, John Lennon said the only one you really know is yourself!!! By the way, before I forget, Javi is a boy name. It's not that important, you know, many times I feel I wouldn't be that different if I was a girl, but anyway, it's something worth saying... I am Spanish, I mean, it's not that important too, I hate bullfighting and flamenco and beaches and mainly anything people tend to know about Spain... And here I am, listening to the ronettes and wondering if any of my new-year-things-to-do is gonna get done by itself, so I have some free time to say hi to you all (you seem really nice people)... But they taught me at school that you have to resume the main points of your speech at the end, so... HI. I really just wanted to say that PS... Bruno I loved your best-of idea!!! -- ---------------------------------- Javi Sorribes javiersorribes(a)gmail.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: Chris Geddes playing in London - this Thursday down The Mall
by Robb Mitchell 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Halloween Society Short Film Festival Launch Party Eat Your Own Ears & The Chateau present a Glasgow night @ The ICA London * UNCLE JOHN & WHITELOCK (LIVE) already causing a stir with their incredible live sets which sees them mixing art-pop-rock-blues in the vein of say Pulp with Joy Division * F*** OFF MACHETE (LIVE) fronted by the singer from the post rock Domino act Ganger .... an energetic live set....fractious guitars flanked by mighty bass, solid rhythms and vocal melody ranging from quietly beautiful to sultrily threatening * MY LATEST NOVEL (LIVE) one to watch out for in 2005...sunshine indie-pop with delicious multipart harmonies, lovely instrumentation and heart-warming lullabys * DJ CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE AND SEBASTIAN) * MYLO (rare DJ set from Mylo whose debut album "Destroy Rock 'n' Roll" was one of the electronic albums of 2004) * POLYESTER * TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN audiovisual set with live fish (no animals will be harmed) * EAT YOUR OWN EARS DJS AND VERY SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS Doors 7pm Thursday 13th January 2005 Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, SW1, (CharingCross/Piccadilly Tube) Tickets £8.50 / £7.50 / £6.50 from ICA Box Office tel: 0207 930 3647 http://www.chateaugateau.co.uk ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! 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: Past... present... where?
by idleberry 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

So that was Christmas, apparently. And New Year. Hello 2005. So far, I quite like 2005. I don't like the fact that I'm still here, still unchanged, but I do like January. When everyone else gets the January blues, I like January. I liked January 2004, it was a good month. January 2005, and I've found myself wistfully browsing through Sinister related memerobilia (also known as "cyber stalking sinister people I used to talk to"). It's a bit like picking up an old photo album, and going "oh my god! whatever happened to them?" and it's still (mostly) all there. There's Laura Llew, there's her Basic Eight quiz, there's Archel, and Mr Casarotto, and Caitlin Pigtails, and Gordon Rouss, and gayjay, and mandeemay (who isn't so much a memory, as a cyber legend who I still see around on the interweb), and Jayward, and Hobnob, and Jenny Payne, and Amy Longcore, Rachel and Ben Fruitloop Apps, and the pinefox, and Marianna and songles and ulla, and so many more. And you know, it gets me wondering, where people are now. That little circle of Sinisterettes, I used to talk to so frequently. Irritatingly, my computer went tits up over Christmas. So I had to change my user profile thing on it, and I transferred as many files as I possibly could, to my new add on profile. Unfortunately, I lost all of the email addresses I used to have, and I can't access my old outlook emails anymore. In addition, I can't get to my bookmarked links, which I'd just managed to tidy into various neat little folders, instead of having this foot-long list down the side of my internet explorer. The moral of my story? leave everything a mess, because it takes less wasted effort when things go wrong. I've also forgotten the logins for various websites I use/update as well. Fortunately, I remembered the one for Pocketbook Angels, which I've not really used in ages. So I'm sitting here, contemplating things to do. First of all I should tidy up. Then I should either read a book or go for a walk. I got a new book today - The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I'm assured it's a good book. I was meant to read it years ago, when I borrowed a copy from my friend, but it sat on my bookshelf, getting old, and then when I gave it back to her, I lied and said I'd leant it out to lots of people who wanted to read it. It was better than saying "Actually, I didn't ask to borrow it, and I couldn't bring myself to pick it up and read it". Like being back at school, I bluffed how much I'd enjoyed it. She looked really pleased. Now, I feel like I really should read it. I always feel like I should read books I've bluffed about reading. I did that at university too, when I had to read three novels a week (not entirely sdure how accurate that is, but I think it was in the realms of three a week, and it certainly felt like it). "Yeah, I really liked the bit where the main character confronted the other person, it was really well written...". I used to read the first few chapters, and if I could, try and read the rest. If not, skim through the remaining chapters, reading the start and the finish, and then, if it looked like something big had happened in that chapter (which you could tell, if the start and the finish were just so completely different, like, someone was mourning when they hadn't been doing so before) then I'd skim read the middle. Then I'd sit in class, and pick up on what other people were saying. Sometimes I'd disagree with them, if they expressed a feeling that they liked part of the book. Just to sound as if I really was interested. However, I wouldn't recommend this method of gaining a degree. I don't know how I managed, at the end of the day, winging it on pure luck and chance. I'm sure there's something waiting for me, somewhere, to teach me a lesson and the karma of my lies will come back to haunt me eventually. I think it already has manifested itself, in guilt. Even the books I did read, I can't remember what they were about, or what they were called. Portait of an Artist as a young man, Portrait of a Lady, Heart of Darkness... and yet only one of those I read. And I can't remember a thing about it. Sometimes I feel rather sentimental and superstitious. Things I haven't thrown out, not only because they might be useful again one day, but because if I do thrown them out, then, what if something happens? Like birthday cards from my gran, I hang on to, incase its the last one I get. I've got 15 years worth of cards from her now. Some still have my grandads name on them, some just her and her dog. Now, it's just the ones with her name on them. And now, I'm going to go. And be wistful elsewhere. Tomorrow, I'm going exploring, because that's what January is for. love idles xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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've Been There and Back Again
by Krister Bladh 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hullo sinister. So here is finally my long-postponed post. I cant say that Im disappointed with the year as a whole, though Im now almost back to the miserable state I was in a year ago. So what happened in-between? I always used to wonder how I would survive the winter, and a year ago it was worse than ever. I was still in school (dont know what its called in England, but whatever it is you go to before collage/university) and I disdained the place. Ive never had many friends and much less a girlfriend. But somehow I managed to pull through and summer came and I graduated. I was hoping things would change. In the summer the days are light as feathers and I was anxious for what would come next. I was going to study musicology at the university in a city nearby. And the first day there didnt let me down. There was a girl there that I had spoken with briefly at a festival that summer. How big are the odds for that? I couldnt help but wonder if it was fate. I talked with her quite a lot afterwards and it turned out she liked exactly the same music as me. And I thought: at last a girl who can just be my friend, and I was sure I wasnt going to fuck it up and fall in love with her. But I had to reconsider soon. Just a couple of weeks later I wrote a song about it. I predicted I would fall for her as soon as the leaves would start falling in autumn. And I was right. In fact every song Ive written since I met her has got something to do with her. Wait, it hasnt all been about her. There were lots of nice people in my class. I was half in love with several girls. I also joined a program at the student radio that plays indie music. There I met some lovely people too. And on Fridays night I would go to a students club and watch indie bands and dance. The day Pipas came here was the best day Ive had for years. Now I could look all the indie hipsters, who either had a band or did something else to make them important, in the eye and think that I wasnt just a nobody. And all the other days it would be enough just talking to Lisa (thats her name, by the way). But it wasnt always easy and I needed to know how to proceed. So as a Christmas gift I gave her a mixed cd with the song Id written on it. But it was already too late. The last day I saw her before the holidays, as we hugged and parted, I had already fallen in love (although I knew I shouldnt). So when I called her later and she didnt want to meet I cried. That was all the answer I needed to know that shell never love me. Suddenly I was back at the bottom, but the worst thing was to find out Id never really been at the surface. I just feel so stupid for being happy these last six months. And now I dont know what to do or feel at all. My life is still promising I guess, but its going to be so hard to look her in the eye and still I need her to be my best friend. So Im back where I was six months ago, and I shouldnt be sad. Im writing my fanzine too. I hope she will write something for it love, Chris xx -- ______________________________________________ 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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Sinister: best-of-2004, again
by Bruno Gomes 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

the birthday boy, kris b (many happy returns!) claims that the best-of-2004 will have to be ‘Songs About You’ by Belfasters Language of Flowers. and to that i say: "or maybe not" :-) i can also let you all know that the sinister best-of-2004 is not to be found in allmusic or pitchforkmedia best-of-2004 lists... and with this, i bid you adieu, once again... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: best-of-2004 results (pt. 1 of 2)
by Bruno Gomes 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

hi all, happy new year and all that jazz... as for the results, from #28 up to #15: #28 (1 pt) ghost - hypnotic underground; Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike; le futur pompiste – Your stories, your thoughts #27 (2 pts) Guild League – Inner North; mr david viner - this boy don't care; Squarepusher – Ultravistor #26 (3 pts) david byrne - grown backwards; Four Tet – Rounds; Jonathan Richman – Not So Much to Be Loved As to Love #25 (4 pts) Boyracer – Happenstance; preston school of industry - monsoon #24 (5 pts) pan american - quiet city; Vasti Bunyan – Another Diamond Day(reissue) #23 (6 pts) Black Dice – creature comforts; Mountain Goats – Tallahasse; mountain goats - we shall all be healed #22 (7 pts) Fennesz – Venice; futureheads - the futureheads; Nixon – Crazy, Sexy, Cool #21 (8 pts) Explosions in the Sky – The earth is….; Finn Brothers - Everyone is here; Liberty Ship – Tide #20 (9 pts) Divine Comedy - Absent friends; feist - let it die; Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days; Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind #19 (10 pts) múm - summer make good; Strokes - Room on fire; Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway #18 (10,5 pts) !!! - louden up now; air - talkie walkie; arcade fire - funeral; bad plus - give; badly drawn boy - one plus one is one; beastie boys - to the five boroughs; danger mouse - the grey album; deerhoof - milk man; elliott smith - from a basement on the hill; karate - pockets; pinback - summer in abaddon; sonic youth - sonic nurse; streets - a grand don't come for free; tom waits - real gone #17 (11 pts) wreckless eric - bungalow hi #16 (12 pts) Beachwood Sparks - Once we were trees; trachtenburg family slideshow players - vintage slide collections from seattle, vol. 1; Trembling Blue Stars – Seven Autumn Flowers #15 (13 pts) Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels; julie doiron - goodnight nobody; Travis - 12 memories that's that for now... pt. 2 will be posted soon, until then... have fun! ps - some entries are kinda odd, but i just compiled the lists i received, so... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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