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Sinister: happy birthday imke
by Simon Bateson 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

from a fellow sinister-ette(a silent one, until now)....happy birthday imke!! in one of your previous messages, you talked about wanting to "feel lonely and happy at the same time", well, in those words i found the perfect expression of all the vague thoughts and feelings about how i want my life to become in this year. no more long nights of chemical and dance music enduced feelings of togetherness, i'm going to find fulfillment on my own, in my room, listening to music, in a cafe, drinking tea and watching the rain fall, walking around the park and daydreaming, and be alone and happy. and maybe i'll find some other people like me. peace and love, simon ********************** "there's more to life than books you know, but not much more" ********************** +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: SUDDENLY AN ANGRY FAN
by hannah brown 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

I'm sure none of you give a monkies about this but i have got to have my say. About a year ago i got an e-mail asking for merchandise ideas for B&S. I sent off some designs and didn't hear a sausage from anyone. I have just looked at the merchandise site and THEY'VE NICKED MY BLOODY IDEAS. I feel like an angry Cartman. Some of my designs included FLIGHT BAGS with COLOURED TRIMS that look very similar to the ones on the site. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, i feel cheated.I am going to go and eat the TV now, ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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: what,will,i,say,the,next,day,to,whatever,i,drag,to,my,hotel,tonight
by hannah brown 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

hello strangers, This Christmas was quite exciting, mainly because my flat mate bought me the new B&S album on vinyl. It was most unexpected and much appreciated. when i came back from the festive jovolities i had a listen to it. Now, i am going to have to admit that i haven't had much faith in old B&S of late, i really didn't like Storytelling and decided to put off buying the new one in fear of more disappointment. However, i am REALLY impressed with the new one, at first i thought it was slightly over produced but when i listened again to FISHYCLAP i decided that it isn't, it is infact brilliant. I think it works very well as an album and they appear to have found that perfect B&S sound. It even has slight elements of Feeling Sinister in it. My faith in them has been restored. And the last track is F@@@@@G cool!!!! That's all i have to say really, wooohoo hannah b _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Whoopie!
by Imke Wiggerts 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

First of all my excuses for my rediculous subject but hey, that's how I feel right now. I don't know if you really can feel whoopie but I do... The reason why?? Well, I'm sitting here, wearing my really cool Stressee moi? tee and it's my birthday! Whoopie! So everybody who's in town (=Holland) come to visit me..! Friday I'm giving this really cute birthdayparty and it's gonna be great so... you're invited (hmm, don't think you all going to make a boattrip or going to step on an airplain just for my twentieth birthday but I can ask it anyway. But that's not the reason I'm sending this mail to ya'all. The reason I'm sending this is that I want to wish you the very best for 2004. Make it a year worth living for!! With love, birthdaygirl imke +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 BOWLS are back in town (aka I'm a cuckoo/turkey)
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Helloooo there! Ken's back! And his front's not bad either! I've been away on a couple of weeks of over-indulgence of various substances, and now i'm FAT! Hence the now not-below-average front that i just spoke of. How are YOUs? I went to a club the other night, and due to having so much to eat and drink, and bad planning, I ended up needing to have a poo!!! And my goodness, toilets in clubs are grim. But anyway! Whilst I was at the shitter, the DJ put on BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! >From the new album, and all. At the time I was about 3/4 through with my business, and the song had only just started, so I thought, if I strained a little and get a decent lap time, and not wash my hands, I'll make it out in time to DANCE to B+S. AND I MADE IT!!!!!!! The song was just about half way through, but THEN! just as i was about to throw some shapes, THE DJ CUT THE SONG OFF SHORT AND PUT ON SOME SCHIDTTY ARSEWIPE OF A TRACK ON INSTEAD. AND SPEAKING OF ARSEWIPES oops I had better go back to wash my hands. There's an anecdote for ya. Anyways! Just wanted to REPORT BACK on the INTERNATION SINISTER BOWLING DAY (LONDON BRANCH), mind the gap. The Cast (in WORLD DARTS stylee) ------------- Archel 'Fore' Playforth Sam 'Boy' Walton Liz 'Dappers' Daplyn Ken 'more than you can' Chu Mark 'The Jester' Hester Paul 'Sexual' Healy Lucy 'L' ElleBelle Sally 'Mustang' Lucysfriend The Event -------------- Waiting outside Finsbury Park station was potentially a bad idea considering that it is the middle of Winter, however, the weatherman was kind to us, as was the weather, which was mild and non-threatening. I was a lazy gett and didn't get there until 10 minutes later than 2:00. And was warmly welcomed by a by then slightly-chilled gang of AP, SW, MH and PH. LD was to arrive a little later, just to be fashionable. And the six of us braved the 30 seconds journey into Rowan's Bowling, and bowling soon commenced. The first game was an all round high-quality affair, with the game going to the wire and had to be settled on the last frame. And FOUR bowlers were within 10 points of each other in the race for second place. Half way through the game LE and SL appeared, coming all the way from <somewhere far away>, in a gruelling expedition that saw them through all the way to North Finchley, to come back to Finsbury Park!! The committment is honourable. And they were to join in on the Battle Royale that the second game turned out to be... First of all there was the obligatory "SPELLING SOMETHING WITH OUR INITIALS ON THE SCOREBOARD", and K-SAMPLES was the result. What a k-sample is, one would never know, K-SAMPLES, however, was a group of people who were up for a top notch, final end-game game of bowling. Through the gauntlet of screaming kids and kids who drop their bowling ball backwards whilst bowling, the eight soldiers bowled, hauling the gigantic rocks down the road to oblivion, destroying everything in its path. Okay, fuck this, I just want to say I SCORED 219 IN THAT GAME FUCKING HELL YEAH! YAY! YEE-HA! WOO-HOO! etc. so there was the bowling. And later on we were involved in a POOL TOURNAMENT, and the champions league trophe were handed to SW and LD after a nail biting final round victory over KC and PH. And after that, it was to the World's End for BEER and BURGER and CURRY and ANECDOTES and FUN and STUFF, and then we all went home, fitter, happier, more productive, etc. Wasn't that great?? I wonder if there are any other reporting backs......... 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: the invention of ordinary everyday things
by anders 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

sinister, last night when i went to bed, as i do every night, i did something i don't do every night, though i happens far too often. what i did was to find my walkman from wherever i put it down the last time i used it, probably by the bed, i only ever use my walkman by my bed, or, of course, at buses, but lately, due to it being christmas holiday, i've been in lack of reasons to take a bus. i've been riding buses sure, but not that often, so i guess i found the walkman by the bed. but still i got up i think, at least, in one way or another i had a certain record called dear catastrophe waitress in my hand, soon it was in my walkman. quite a lovely walkman by the way. a tiny walkman. cool. and i pressed the "play" button, heard the disc starting to spin and soon sound poured from my hearing aid, i laid back and "she called me up today" and i was off. for christmas i got a poster. the promo poster of dcw, and i put it up on a wall in my room so that i can lie down and see it from my b! ed, not on purpose, i didn't try to find a place where the waitress and the band would be the last thing i saw in the evening and the first thing in the morning, it just turned out that way, it was a free space. i was quite glad i did that yesterday because i quite like to have a look at the cover of the record i listen to when i listen to it, but sometimes, especially when in bed, i get tired of holding it so that i can see it all the time, in this case about 48 minutes, not that i would have, but it was very convenient having the poster to peek at instead. and so i just listened to the whole record. before i did that i'd read quite a lot. lots of reading. first i finished the hobbit, which i had to finish, we read it at school, well, at least those of us who'd already read holes by louis sachar. i have read both. i preferred to read the hobbit again rather than holes. and so i did. but i finished that, i've been reading like hell the last few days, mostly because i had to ! be done when we started school again tuesday, but also because ! when i finished that one i could finally focus on a book that i want to read, because it's just amazing, which is the house of the spirits by isabel allende, i've read most of it, but finally i can read that book without having the feeling of doing somthing i shouldn't. if you haven't read it you should. it's wonderful. though i'm not all the way through it yet, but the time will come. so will the time when i will be at b&s's gig at rockefeller. 26.03.04. doors open at eight o'clock. i'm.....excited. i guess i'm the only one here to see that gig, if no one fancy a trip to oslo in march, but frankly, the weather's usually terrible at that time of the year. today, though, the weather's actually lovely, no not lovely, but okay, now that i've realised that i love the snow. hit the snow. i went out yesterday and spent all day playing and fooling around. came in drenched to drink cocoa. lovely, but as i woke up yesterday and saw the snow i wasn't at all pleased. the snow totally r! uined my plans for the day which were to walk to a lake nearby and skate. for miles in one direction. it had been cold for a week but no snow, then when i would finally take advantage of that, the snow came, turned out to be quite a lovely day anyway. i had good company. still, imagine being able to put on your skates, and then get up, and just skate for miles and miles and miles.... i was so looking forward to it. i know it'll be a while until i get that opportunity again. pity. today though, i'm fond of the snow. it makes the world outside the window look so beautiful. if the snow was gone i'd have said the weather was depressing, when it's there; it's beautiful. both. and so was dcw when i heard it again last night. been a while since the last time, and i was reminded what a great album it actually is, not that it's their best, not even close, but it's just amazing, lovely pop. and i just lay on my back thinking about the world and things happening, quite much like you've! heard now, for all 48 minutes. when i went to sleep it was 01.! 00. thanks to allende and murdoch. i was supposed to go to bed early, and get up early. failure. a catastrophe actually. i got up at 10.15, to hear that my mum had arranged things so that someone would be expecting me at 11.00. this someone was the hair dresser. and there i went. i look better now than before i went so i can't complain. my plans for today was originally to do as little as possible as it is the last day of the holiday, but then i found out that i have to go to football training. yay. i don't feel like playing football when the snow is falling. i don't know if that's weird, but i don't. seems like to most norwegians that's no problem. i think football's to be played in the summertime. on a green field with good friends. but that's not what everyone here thinks. but norwegians aren't famous for their knowledge of football. knowledge maybe. in organising. but not in how to entertain. might as well do it on a rainy day in autumn or a snowy day in january. who car! es. as long as you learn how to "play". but i guess i have to go. i will. it's just that i'm totally in lack of motivation. moral is on an all time low. when it comes to football. but i'm not at all sad that school starts again tomorrow. moral is on an all time high. it'll drop quickly when things starts to happen sure, but in the end of my holiday, school is comfortable. naturally. but it was not natural what happened on the first day of the year. it didn't make any sense. it was surreal. surreal but nice. it was unbelievable. i don't know if most of you know about it, you probably do, but there was something called world idol on that day. and what happened. the world idol man: "the winner is kurt nilsen from norway!". oh dear. what...? i couldn't believe it. kurt nilsen. he looks, apparently like a hobbit, i don't think so, but i agree that he's not what most people would call good-looking. he is a plumber. a plumber! with a wife and two children. i thought it amazing that! he won in norway, but world idol... and he's from arna. a wee ! place not too far from bergen. bergen though has lots of great artists like sondre lerche, kings of convenience, royksopp, julian berntzen, nathalie nordnes and ralph myerz and the jack herren band, but still. it can in no way explain why a man from somewhere not very far from there, a plumber from not very far from there would win world idol. runner up being kelly clarkson. who's sold about 2,5 millions or something, of her record. surreal. but great fun. i love kurt. he's just a nice guy who can sing. that's all. well, except that he's world idol of course. the same day sigurd pettersen won some ski-jumping thingy too. big thing apparently. in garmisch partenkirchen.... erm, or something close to that. it's in germany anyway. good day for norway. and for me. most of the days these days are. how to make days good: -get up late -eat -drink -take a long shower -play a good record -do something good for someone else -do something good for you -think about things you SHOULD do -don't do them -laugh at people that has to do boring things -do something fun instead -forget all about your troubles -go to bed late -do most of this together with someone you're fond of there's one weakness about this list though, and that is that the things you should do, well, you'll have to do them later. so maybe it should be like this instead: -eat and drink and all that -do everything you should -try to do something you want to. if you've got the time -go to bed early, there's plenty to do tomorrow. sigh, i fear that'll be more like it when school starts again, but i hope it won't. neither do i think so. moral is high. hmmm. what else can i say. oh yeah, i can mention that i am now one of you. i've got hold of those badges, and they are now on my bag, upside down, some at least. the red and blue that says belle and sebastian is at least. i think that's enough. there's no one here to understand it anyway. well well. and i didn't go bowling, i'd have loved to, erm, not that i'm fond of bowling, it's yuky with those holes in the balls, all the burgers and fat food, eat with your fingers, and...yuk. it's not even that much fun, but still i do it sometimes, but none were in the mood on that day. sorry. so i will now go back to try and do as little as possible. i'll read. i'll drink tea maybe. if i feel up to it. lazy is the word. on a monday, the first of 2004. and now finally i'll come to the point: hope you'll all have a happy new year, and that you've had a wonderful christmastime. happy new year once again! take care, anders +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Always put a temple in every town...
by Hewitt, Stephen 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

OK, so I didn't go bowling, but there you go (I was in Cranfield, of all places). If I HAD, I certainly would have REPORTED BACK by now. Then again, I haven't even told you about the gig yet and that was agesandsges ago, mumble mumble, lots of work before xmas, mumble. Anyway, suffice it to say (this is Thursday at the astoria, by the way), they were good although S a little moody, lots of old classics (Beautiful!!! Dog on wheels!!!), the new ones sounding good too. And hey, franz ferdinand RoX0r also, which is nice. Also when they played DoW just for a second I got a whiff of the main room at Camber Sands, which, if you recall, stank of cheap pizza all weekend, which was very odd, I mean, I'm certain I've heard them play it live since then. Also youn said: I've been waiting, in vain, to hear reporting back from the Chickfactor shows, L'age d'or de pop. And daddymoore and ian did a bit, but just to add my tuppenorth: aluminum (sic) group are grebt, steven duffy was rub, and the pines were magnificent, as was the fashion show. On Thursday of this week I am going to see JUSTIN TROUSERSNAKE and am very excited. Also I thought struan was on my bus this morning, but maybe not (the bloke's nose was a little pointier). Also I got an ipod for xmas and it is fun. This also meant that I had to buy a new computer (well, I didn't *have to*, but it seemed like a good enough excuse), and, oh no! good bye life, oh no! it came with Civilisation III which has taken up most of my waking hours (and some of the non-waking ones as well, mmm, dreaming of computer games, niiiice) since then... Also evey time I hear about the beagle2 mission I start humming a song called beagle that I downloaded off t'internet about a million years ago. I knew it was sinister-related but couldn't remember why. Fortunately the archive search is a wonderful thing: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199909/msg00540.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199911/msg00189.html Unfortunately <ahem> "sinister martin robinson's" site seems to have fallen off the interweb, which is a shame as it is a lovely little track, if rather heavily indebted to b&s (judy and her dream of horses in particular). Maybe if beagle had had that as it's tune rather than blur's noncesense it might not have fallen into a hole/been eaten by mars monster/worked... Anyway, stop hiding you lot, or I'll be round your house... xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: smashing dandelions with a stick
by Jenny Payne 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I'd just like to take a few seconds to thank my SINISTER SECRET SANTAS.... both of whom came through (via New York and Australia) with lovely and thoughtful gifts! And of course, thanks are due to The Llew for organizing the grand scheme as well! My secret Santas received a copy of my latest winter mix. Anyone up for a CD mix trade? I hope you all had a good New Year's Eve. I went up to DC super last-minute and ended up having a blast at a party where it seemed all the boys were librarians and the girls, DJs. Lots of sushi, soul & indie music, window-markers, remote-controlled cars, Italian cookies, jackass noisemaker horns, monkey masks, and dancing all around! I've been reading Jack Kerouac haikus (the plural is technically 'haiku,' but JK preferred the 's' at the end) lately and have found them interesting, especially how he took the traditional form and ran with it. I'll leave you with a couple of my favorites: Those birds sitting out there on the fence - They're all going to die. You paid yr homage, to the moon, And she sank. Nightfall, boy smashing dandelions with a stick. Jenny +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Wrapped up in Development Books
by Amy Skelton 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Dear Sinisterites, HOLIDAY SEASON AND SARIS! Well, I shall start by wishing you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope youve all had great holidays I certainly have here in Bangladesh. Plus, I get the added bonus of another New Year in a couple of months - the actual Bangladeshi one. It sure sounds like it's going to be one mother of a mela. I made a fair old effort with Christmas type activities, most of my spare time in December was spent, putting up decorations, singing carols, making mulled wine + mince pies and feeding the cake with brandy. For the day itself my friends and I actually had a big roast dinner and shared out stockings etc., it was great fun and surprisingly I didnt feel all that homesick. It totally outdid any expectations I had of my first overseas Christmas. On a B & S note I did indeed get the new album for a present - months after the rest of you guys but better late than never. I really like it but as so many of you have already discussed the songs I won't bother now. After three months of Shalwar Kameez wearing I finally went the whole hog with six metres of material wrapped around me yes my first sari! I was a bit naughty and threw caution to my volunteer allowance and used my credit card. Its a beautiful design made of Tangail silk I couldnt resist I am a girl after all. This type of material is unique to Bangladesh so it had to be done really. It took two people to dress me I havent quite mastered the art of putting it on myself yet. WHAT IF I WAS LEFT BLIND? Out of everything Ive done this month the most enlightening thing was getting a taster of what it might be like to be a blind woman in Dhaka. Blindfolds werent required as I was taken into a pitch-black space there wasnt really any scope for your eyes adjusting. Then the noise hits you. I know that I said before that Dhaka is at least ten times noisier than cities like London but when one of your senses is cut off its even more intense. Walking just using the aid of a stick and your ears giving you a sense of direction definitely takes practice. I was exposed to issues such as groping by unidentifiable people along with being ripped off with goods and cash. If I had an accident that left me blind today it would take so much adjustment. Whilst I used to appreciate this before the exhibition my feelings are much stronger now. Disability is an issue that is not addressed a great deal in Bangladesh at the moment. Things are improving gradually, although its at an aste aste (Bangla for very slow) pace. Im showing management at the NGO I work for the latest research on water and sanitation provision for physically disabled people. My aim is to show how simple it is to integrate better designs at the initial stage. With little or no extra cost you can benefit so much more of the slum community (where we work). Poor health from an unbalanced diet and not having money to treat an injury are some of the reasons why there are a higher proportion of disabled people in slum areas. This master plan of mine should hopefully be backed up when the peeps from Loughborough that did the work come over here this month. GETTING WET For international hashing I am no longer known as Amy but have been re-christened Soggy Drawers. This new name resulted from an embarrassing end to a run. A little wobbly bamboo plank with disgusting water below was involved. Thankfully my mouth didnt go under though. I blame my lack of balance on the Christmas puds and listening too much to my hecklers. A soaking wet t-shirt in Bangladesh is not advisable. So if any of you happen to go to international Hash meets look out for me. GETTING MESSY Us VSO volunteers are now so adept at eating with our right hands that we managed to eat ice-cream cake without the use of utensils. Its pretty easy really just use the thin but solid chocolate layering to scoop and anything thats melted can be soaked up with a mince pie or two. THE CIRCLE GAME Its definitely a case of out with the old and in with the new here. Several volunteers have come to the end of their placements just as I was getting to know them. A new group should be arriving in a few weeks and so the wheel turns. Take care, Amy _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download 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. 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Sinister: Message for the New Year
by Paulo Stinsoni 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Yo you lovely mo' fo's, Lie back and let the stream flow over you, but don't hide your head in the sand. Lots of very druken and naughty love from your Paulo _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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