March 2007 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Shadowy Cabals R Us [PICNIC AHOY!!!]
by Hewitt, Stephen 25 May '07

25 May '07

ello babies The other day it crossed the collective hive mind of the 12 ft lizards that lie unsleeping, deep in the depths of the ocean of sinister, that this August sees the TENTH BIRTHDAY of this list and that appropriate celebrations should take place. Also that WORD of these celebrations should be spread FAR and also WIDE to gather in those who have strayed from the fold, to the whole variety of Other Places, so we can all come together to have a jolly good time, and probably get too drunk. AND LO, the details are as follows: Saturday 25th August GRATE BIG BIRTHDAY PICNIC Primrose Hill That London Followed by dancing all night at Tigerw@nking: THE RETURN, hopefully at the Union Tavern, Kings Cross Road. So, y'know, pass it on innit. xoxo CarsmileSteve DISCLAIMER: **************************************************************************** For the latest City Lit news & information, please visit our website www.citylit.ac.uk **************************************************************************** The City Literary Institute Registered Office: 1-10 Keeley Street, London WC2B 4A Registered in England no: 2471686 Registered Charity no: 803007 *************************************************** PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. *************************************************** This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information. The message and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the recipient or organisation to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, no action may be taken on the information nor may it be copied or shown to a third party and you are asked to notify the sender named above. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where specifically stated to be the views of The City Literary Institute. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 have no idea how long it has been ...
by Katrina House 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

... since I posted to Sinister ... it could even be years maybe? Hello to all of you, hope all is well where you are, I just have an extremely small public service announcement that you may or may not be interested in ... it's kind of a what-I've-been-up-to, but also a total plug, so take it whichever way you will. Since I returned to Australia, I have been managing a Melbourne based singer/songwriter called Ned Collette, who has been doing quite well down here, supporting and making friends with lots of international folk when they come to tour Australia. Some of them have liked him enough to then invite him to play with them outside of this big brown land we have down here, which leads me to the plug ... If you're in the UK or Europe and are planning on going and seeing Camera Obscura or Joanna Newsom in the next month or so, please get down early and catch Ned in support as he strums his little heart out to try and convince you all that you should be his record. He's not playing on all the dates, just these ones:- 27th March - Edinburgh Liquid Rooms 29th March - Inverness Ironworks 30th March - Aberdeen Lemon Tree 2nd April - Newcastle Academy 2 3rd April - Birmingham Glee Club 4th April - Southampton Joiners all supporting Camera Obscura 14th April - Dublin Olympia 16th April - Paris La Cigalle 17th April - Cologne Gloria 18th April - Brussels AB all supporting Joanna Newsom 19th April - Oxford Zodiac 20th April - Manchester Jabez Clegg 21st April - Glasgow ABC all supporting Camera Obscura Maybe if you're undecided as to whether you can be bothered to go to the show early, you can take a listen on his myspace at http://www.myspace.com.nedcollette He will also be playing in London at the ICA on May 4th at the Roots and Shoots night and in Bristol on May 9th supporting Paula Frazer w/Tarnation. There will be other shows too - once I get around to booking them - but you'll probably have to join his mailing list or something to find them out, as I don't think I can abuse the list again with such nonsense. So there, a new artist for you to go and listen to! I'll be over for the London show, so I may see some of you that I know there. I could recommend a bunch more Australian artists too that you might like - namely, New Buffalo, Rand and Holland and Emily Ulman - but again, that's kinda flagrant list abuse. Sorry Honey. Much love from across the miles ... Cheers, Katrina. InHouse Management http://www.nedcollette.com http://www.mana.com.au +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 am the fucking best.
by Gayle E. Anderson 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Sinister. #sinister Sitting with a glass of Jacobs Creek Rose Shiraz, which was gifted...I'd buy red, myself. #sinister Having just fed my little sister and me...Here is what was made Monkfish wrapped in parma ham Breaded scallops Mascarpone and white wine sauce #sinister a side salad of rocket, avacado, spring onion, orange pepper, tomato and french dressing. #sinister There was a bit olf discussion about St Valentines day...sort of. Wll, this was my first single St Valentines day in 3 years. Hurrah! So I thought I would celebrate this by cooking myself a tasty dinner... Tuna steaks glazed in honey and soy sauce #sinister Miso soup with spring onion Couscous, avacado, spring onion, rocket and lime salad I started a new job last weekend. Being a full time student at all. #sinister yup, thats all :) #sinister GEA 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: Rinse: Repeat
by ian 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Last night, I had the strangest dream.. A GRATE BIG corridor, lined with evil shoes and chocolate cake. I am being chased by Dimitra Daisy, Stephen Hewitt, and Archel Holland. I run until my feet turn to leg-warmers, and eventually I reach a marmalade fountain, and I know I can run no further. They wave at me, one by one, screaming: "say something INDIE, ian!" and they cackle, like whelks do when nobody is looking. I know they won't be impressed by anything I can say. Perhaps I can fool them with Barry White... no, Dimitra has an extensive knowledge of music, and an effigy of Barry White in her cupboard, where she thinks nobody can see it.. Only one thing springs to mind.."err...love is like a bottle of Pimms, but a bowl of chips is not Mike Love" It is at this point that I realise I'm not wearing any clothes, and we're standing on a bridge two thousand.. - Oh okay, that's all utter bollocks. I thought it might be nice to come back with some sort of half-arsed story and gimmick. It was nice, once upon a time, to have a gimmick here. I don't know why I needed one so badly, whether it was some reluctance to ask you to accept me, or whether it was some attempt to stand out, in a place where one of the best things was that I didn't stand out, that I felt there were people around me, albeit in a strange computery and occasional picnicky way, who just accepted me. My that's a long paragraph. Remember when it was the done thing to write in really really long paragraphs that just went on and on and talked about peas, and ditches, and scratching one's arse. I scratched my arse this morning. My fingers still smell.. no, stop it RIGHT THERE. I am actually very clean. Well, reasonably clean, anyway. Perhaps it was knowing there were 890890483908430983 people out there getting the email, and even if 8908439084390843908 of them pressed "delete", that still left someone I'd never met in Nova Scotia, and a group of shepherds in Milton Keynes, who I had only known that one, brief time.. See, Ian, you're at it again. Just get to the point, and fuck off. Well, I miss you lot - and even if life got kind of JIOJAIORJEIOJFAEIOJFEIOJEFIO, as it does, I still wondered what a lot of you were doing. The weird thing about meeting internet chums is that you've already offered so much of yourself before you get to "know" them in a conventional way. That either means the barriers come straight up, or, if you're lucky, you can have less of that crap that we do when we first meet people, and we can just, vaguely, attempt to be honest. Through the power of cheap alcohol, junk-food and dancing, of course. Maybe that's why you can feel so attached to people you've only met a few times, and you don't have to see them that often to feel that you have very real and important friendships. So, erm... that 10th birthday picnic sounds great. This wasn't quite what I meant to write. I wanted to write something clever about people going off and having sex and not posting on Sinister, which seems to be the current theory. It would be nice if it were true. Perhaps it has something to do with...whisper it...Belle and Sebastian being less important to people's lives - not only because NU-B&S don't seem to sound like anything other than nice, clever pop whereas once they sounded like someone that I knew, but also because, at some point, we accept a band isn't going to change our lives. Not without a bit of our own input, at least. I still read the posts quite a lot, and I wonder about things like Butcher Boy - whether I should be happy, or even care, that they got a good review or not. I even thought about entering Ken's karaoke competition (is it still going, ken?) - but its not the same as being here, is it? Can we just come back and not talk about Belle and Sebastian? Thinking back, did we ever actually talk about Belle and Sebastian? Hey, someone post about something completely random, and we can have one of those conversation thingies. Hey, why shouldn't it be YOU???? Finally, I met two very Famous Sinister List Lovelies at a BIRMINGHAM PICNIC the other day. Sort of a picnic. In that there were more than two people, and we ate and drank. So that's a picnic, innit? I wanted to take them somewhere very exciting, and more bangin than a box of squirrels on drugs, but couldn't think of anywhere. We did sit in a place that served strange cocktails (they burn the skin of the orange a little bit, then float it on your cocktail... I've never seen that before - is there any point to it?) and played CLIFF RICHARD videos. Also, it was in gayville, and the gays are always exotic, aren't they? Like papayas. Strange, dancing, papayas. Oh, such juicy goodness. I guess that's reporting back, of sorts, haven't done that in a while...don't even know if Starry and Lixi are reading, but if you are, it was nice to see you, dears. We should do more Sinister things, and post, and stuff, because, like, it was sort of fun, wasn't it? yeah yeah YEAH TYEHATETAH! So, no more making up crap about dreams. Not even that dream where I'm being chased up a totally different corridor by Ally Cook and Robin Stout, and they're holding... no, not that dream. come back to sinister, lovely children. Let's celebrate each other. Celebrate yourself while you read. Did you know it was the FEAST OF DIONYSIUS today? So that involves goodness, at least. Have some nice goodness. Take may good care. I love you all. I kiss you. Twice. Structure is over-rated. xx Ianjamesanscombe And is it too late to ask how one gets to play at Tigerwanking? I miss that musical masturbation. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: marco#7
by marcobraca＠libero.it 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

sinisters... i'm Marco#7. i'm in the sinister mailing list 'till August '98. i stayed in silence, reading all your posts. i want to write now 'cause i've realize my dream. my band (ORANGE lem www.myspace.com/orangelem) will play in an italian indie festival (www.motron.it) with belle and sebastian djset (stuart and stevie). what a dream!!!! if you want listen my music. www.myspace.com/orangelem cheers, marco#7 (the boy with black glasses) ------------------------------------------------------ Mutui da 200.000 euro? Tassi ridotti da 4.25% solo per richieste online. Mutuionline.it http://click.libero.it/mutuionline5mar07 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A thespian with a caravanette
by FP 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hello, Sinister. I was given a voice the other day, for about the third time now. I hadn't posted yet, for reasons much the same as the ones GEA outlined recently. In the past few weeks I've not been online, I've not been in #sinister, because I've been spending time away from my computer. Those of you who remember your Tigermilk lyrics will remember how to work out *where*. (I once dreamed up a Grand Project to document all the differences between recorded and published lyrics in B&S songs. Unfortunately I started with Tigermilk, which has such vast differences between the recorded and published lyrics - one song, I forget which, even has its verses published in the wrong order - that I gave up) As I'm nominally posting for the first time (despite not really), I should, I suppose, introduce myself. Hello. I'm FP. Nice to meet you. When I'm in a good mood I get compared to "that bloke out of CSI, only younger", even though I look nothing like him. Years ago, when I had long hair, I got compared to "that bloke out of Sodastream, the one with the long hair". When I'm in a *bad* mood I've been compared to Hugh Grant, but it only happened the once and I'm hoping they'd forgotten their glasses. If you actually want to know about me, go down to the bottom of the page and follow the link to the website. I've not even been on *** much - it's called Nu*** now, for those of you not in the know, and is a slight pain. How is *** pronounced anyway? Given that *every* article *anywhere* about the band !!! seemingly has to include "pronounced 'chk chk chk'" in parenthesis or a footnote, even when everyone in the world already either *knows* how to pronounce !!! (because of every single article forementioned etc) or has never heard of the buggers. How do you pronounce ***? My own suggestion is "blat blat blat", but this may lead me open, I suppose, to physical attacks from recently resurrected All Saints fans. (ooh, whips!) The other day I drove three! hundred! miles! But not for any Interesting Musical reason. It was to meet someone's parents for the first time. They liked me, apparently. "It's a bit soon, isn't it," said Dimitra Daisy (of this parish). "Soon is when you make it. Time is relative," I (also of this parish) would have said, if I was capable of thinking up snappy retorts. Not that that one is particularly good. I knew an alchemist who was bitten by a snappy retort, once. Horrible injuries. Had to take three weeks off work and his temperature every day in case he self-distilled by Sympathetic Action. (that last paragraph there may be a lie) Sympathetic Action: action at a distance. You wound someone with a big sharp knife. They say "ow", or something similar. You sprinkle some Powder Of Sympathy on the *knife*, and the victim, wherever they are, either gets a bit better or goes "ow" again depending on exactly what sort of Powder Of Sympathy you're using. Cunning. (that last paragraph, oddly, was once indeed believed to be true by many, many people) Right, then, I'm off to hum Stars Of Track And Field to myself. Taraa. FP http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 day you lost your arrogance, it broke my heart.
by Gayle E. Anderson 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Sinister. Sitting, with my favourite wine (having had to visit three shops before I found the right vintage). Listening to The Divine Comedy. Aside from which I have mainly been listening to Supersystem and David Ford. David Ford...beautiful. Give him a listen. Really. And he did the most enchanting cover of 'There Is A Light...'. http://www.myspace.com/davidford They have built a windfarm on the Campsie Fells, which I can see from my bedroom window. I like seeing the turbines. Although, I think WINDMILLS is a better word, whether innaccurate or not. So the other day this happened: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6385189.stm Thats on the motorway that is very near my house, I drove past it on the way home from job II. Then stupidly drove to Tesco in Cumbernauld later that evening, driving past the 5mile tailback of diverted traffic from Bonnybridge to Castlecary thinking, 'glad I don't have to go through that to get to the shop!'. No, not on the way there I don't. Fortunately, I know a detour :) Its been suggested that the main reason people stop posting is because they start getting regular sex. That sounds reasonable. It has also been suggested that other people are only mentioned in posts if the poster has snogged them. I thought it was because they left for ***. Either way, it makes them a bunch of fuckers. :) I work (temporarily and not for much longer) 25miles away from my house. The other morning I left the house at 7.19am. The mileometer read: 79miles. At 8.24am the mileometer read: 88.9 miles. Recalling what was said earlier...I work 25miles away from home. Fortunately at 8.24am I escaped the worst of it and my average speed was upped from 9mph to maybe 19mph and I made it into work at 9am exactly. I started at 8am. Ha! :) The American came. I showed him the sights. Well, as much as you can reasonably see in 2 days. He arrived on Thursday, so I took him out in Glasgow. Sort of. We met up with some..."Sinister" sorts and got very drunk. On Friday we took a drive to the west coast, once back in Glasgow we walked along the Clyde, for hours. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/iiisecondcreep/Glasgow%20and%20stars%… On Saturday we walked around Kelvingrove Park, through Kelvingrove Museum, to the Necropilis. A late lunch and it started to get dark. We drove towards Stirling. I took him up to the Wallace Monument, we walked up to it, but it was dark by then so it was closed. Then we parked at Stirling Castle and went for a coffee in Stirling. It was getting late. But he was leaving the next day so instead of heading towards Glasgow I turned towards Callander. And kept going. We ended up at Balquhidder, so I took him to see the church and Rob Roy MacGregors grave. It was very very dark out there, there are no streetlights for miles. The sky was amazing. I do not think I have ever seen so many stars. We sat and watched stars and talked until late, then I took him back. And said "see you later". And felt...unsure. It was never meant to be anything other than straight forward, I was never meant to feel anything. He came back. Just...to see me. I left the house on thursday morning to pick him up at Prestwick with 150miles on the clock. I arrived home today, Sunday, with 670miles on the clock. Hes such good fun, wonderful company and handsome. Hmm. This is a new and strange feeling. Just...unusual. I pace around the house 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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