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Sinister: Phil Lynott, Seymour Stein, Sinister, the GNP, and Ethan
by Ethan Gold 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

Dear Sinister, I have been gazing silently on your lovely and mulitvaried countenance for too long. You have floated quietly into multiple email addresses and desktops and laptops over a few years. I wondered if or when I would ever actually post something myself, and finally another insomniac evening has me listening to the new record as the sun comes up in Los Angeles and feeling giddy enough to type to a thousand geeky phantoms in the wires. I almost chimed in during the mad 'twee' debate just to say 'stop the madness' but the debate was so deliciously geeky I didn't want to break its groove. Stuart seemed to psychically respond to it in his own liner notes two months later with his remark about talking with a friend about favorite words: "Whatever, you can bet the conversation did nothing to contribute to the GNP of the Glasgow area," which I thought was great. Twee debaters take heed: you also did magnificently little for global economics, which is great. Actually, so far that moment in the liner story is my favorite on the record, oh well. But I do like the record. And no, I'm not one of those johnny-come-lately yanks somebody posted about who likes "Legal Man" best. I was actually a dropout for a while. Kind of got lost in TBWTAS and it went downhill from there. I'd gotten in with IYFSinister through a friend who was trying to explain to me the meaning of the word "twee" (no kidding). My worldview shifted, and I got gentler. I went backwards from there to Tigermilk. Then came the gradual decline, and I got lost in the mishmash of the dreaded Other Songwriters In the Band in the next records, although I did like "Seymour Stein". I don't know if y'all know the music business stories about that guy: Seymour was not your average a&r man. He's a legend, not only for signing huge people for several decades, but also for seducing one young boy in each of the bands he signed. So the mocking send-off Stevie (right?) gives him is pretty hilarious. And it softened the damage that democratization did to B&S. Anyway, IYFS is still my favorite, yes, that and Tigermilk are like gentle rain patting on your roof when you're inside on a grey day, and what can be better than that. So far on "Catastrophe" I like "Piazza", and not only cuz it's all about my foggy hometown San Francisco. The rest of the record is still percolating. The 'My Shepherd' references start to come on a little thick in "If You Find Yourself Caught in Love" and "Roy Harper" (oy). But I have to say I think "I'm a Cuckoo" is great. It's like sprinkling flowers all over Phil Lynott's grave. For those of you who never rocked, that song is basically Thin Lizzy, but in fairer tones. The guitars chords change on the 'and' just like "The Boys are Back in Town" and the twin 3rds guitar lines were THE Thin Lizzy trademark, so the Thin Lizzy-o rhyme is just perfect, and not a forced rhyme as some have claimed. Anyway, that song makes me happy this morning. I feel like the heroin is leaving Phil Lynott's body forever and he's coming back to life and dancing. 'Big ups' as they say in my town to the other shy former silent partners who made me less bashful by recently coming out of the woodwork, or the wainscotting, as the case may be. (claddie, ann, mike, etc.) And hello to all you regulars. Wish it were dreary and raining, Ethan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me.
by miss lou 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

hello sinister. well. i bought it. i unwrapped it my car, the soothing sounds of 'i know where the summer goes' preparing me for newness. i appreciated the lovely cover, the lovely cd art. i put it in, lit my cigarette, put the car in reverse. and then i suddenly could not move. i couldn't. was there some sort of accident? i thought. is someone next to me listening to some awful rabble drowning out my band? no. it was just 'step into my office, baby.' at top volume. i almost dropped my cigarette on my leg. *** so. i don't like it. at all. we begin with 'belle and sebastian SING BROADWAY!!!!!' and then neatly lead into stuart murdoch's playdate with big john shaft and prince. piazza provides one gleaming moment of hope, only to collapse into a series of songs i suspect i already heard once in the waiting room at the dentist's office. yes, 'lord anthony' is nice, another tiny shred intact among the tatters. but then it just all goes to hell again. as for all the talk about 'if you find yourself caught in love,' i have two words for this song (and maybe for the album): boxed wine. 'roy walker.' right. 'stay loose' offers a weird the clash-the faint thing with hints of 'and your bird can sing.' which, when wrapping up a whole that really reminded me of pet sounds, was disconcerting for me. i think this may be the weirdest thing i've ever heard. and i don't know if it will grow on me. people have said i am being too harsh, and perhaps i am. i realize all bands must grow and change in order to maintain interest and creative genius, etc. but still. this near-total reinvention adds up to a really loud sound missing all the charm belle and sebastian used to swim in. i always liked the band for sounding twee without really being twee lyrically; i liked the happy flutes and strings and effeminate male vocals singing about dying, killing people, etc. not that those things were an extenion of what i like to do, of course, but the wierd, dark, near-creepy lyrics made the songs perfect, i think. now, we have sunbeams. prayers. lots and lots of happy love. and while those things may have their place, i'd like to hear them done well if i must listen to them, with some discretion. saccharine sentimentality has no place in my stereo, at least. so here, i will say, with much sorrow, i think isobel's solo album is BETTER than dcw. . .. ..... *weeps* xo.lou. ===== www.somewhereinbetween.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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: Wait for it..Wait for it..There! Actual Content! At the Bottom! A Party Invite!
by Jay Eckard 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

Sinister -- Goodness. In betwixt Miss Llew's and Mr Brier's talk of female masturbation I was left all agog. Such talk, honestly! My ears will be burning for days. We all know girls are quite lovely, but some things ought not to be discussed in a public forum. There are children about (possibly)! [It's understandable Laura Llew would mention such things, being a porn star and all. You know she is. Look at all the boys and girls positively Swooning over her.] Fortunately, I was swooning over Miss Rrrobyn* **. I mean, anyone on Friendster knows I love a good pair of boots, but then there was Le Tigre! And scarves! And THE EAVES! I love the Eaves: their self titled debut is a lovely album, with overtones of 80s Synth and bits of Surf Rick guitar and Cure-y lushness. I managed to get it on playlist for my radio station WXDU (www.wxdu.org/listen) and get tickets for their show. Which they promptly cancelled. Pfft to that. I still love them though, especially their sing Bird Lawyer. Oh yeah. Dear Rrrobyn, I so want to run away to Canada. If only I could deal with the cold in a fashionable manner. Alas, GayJay + cute boots + wintry conditions = GayJay on his less-than-fashionable side. She also likes "Roy Walker". I though I was the only one to do so. I don't understand the objections to it. Am I the only one to remember (selective bits of) being 17? I always mean to get around to saying something serious, yet my venial dedication to the trivial (think that one over) always wins. But here goes: I hear over and over again, "The music of Belle and Sebastian just doesn't FEEL the same any more." I think that was what the ever-delightful and delightfully fiesty Ms Idleberry*** was getting at when she remarked about Tigermilk 5.0. Dear hearts -- and I mean this to the folk what remember when Dr Who was still bopping about TARDIS-style -- I don't think it's entirely them. To be fair, a bit of it is. We can't seriously expect them to keep knocking out Sinister-era songs over and over again. The band are artists, after all, and we can't expect them to keep mining the same thing. They need to change; to move on. Look at Mr Shakespeare. He went from fart jokes in the Comedy of Errors to the fascinatingly rich works like The Tempest, Hamlet and Coriolanus (His best work. Seriously. Pity no one reads it). Generally speaking, I find, like Our Will's plays, Belle and Sebastian's music to have increased in complexity -- and at least to me, interest. [Umm, to say nothing of actual performance technique.] And that's not to say that Dear Catastrophe Waitress is inferior to If You're Feeling Sinister, no more than to say The Comedy of Errors is better than Hamlet. They do different things, in different ways. But -- and this, like my own, is a rather big but -- like the band, we, the fans, have changed as well. God knows, it's been a while since some of us first heard those dulcet tones. In the interim, Things have happened to us. I dare say one or two of us have grown up a bit. I pity anyway who hasn't managed to change in those years, as they will have utterly wasted them. But, if the songs don't reach us like they used to, if they don't MEAN what they did, it may be simply that they oughtn't to in quite the same way. Maybe we don't need music like a crutch as we once did. Maybe wanting the music to be the same is a form of nostalgia, and isn't that always a little self-indulgent? Not that the music (then or now) doesn't still have power and meaning. I see the young people frequently writing into Sinister with a new voice whose opnions echoed mine when I was X-teen. I have incredible memories of some of the tunes when I forst heard them I'll always carry with me. But I keep getting new ones. And new takes on old ones. Does "Seeing Other People" mean the same thing to me now as it did in 1997? Hardly. Back then, I didn't even /have/ a boyfriend to have a tangled, confused past with. Even later, "There's Too Much Love" didn't mean shit to me till I was literally broke, friendless and dazed. Then, it when I was, that song was my little piece of the world. Now, it shows me what I can do with myself to get out of that state (I was in. Sorry. Bad Pun). And that, dear tykes, is the mark of greatness. That something can contain enough Stuff to have that much meaning -- multiple things just to one person, let alone a bunch. But then again, maybe I'm just projecting my incipient decripitude on everbody here. But. Here's the content. Two Fold. One -- and this is directed to the South East regional US Folk--Party at Mine before the Show! I know a couple of folks rolling into town for the show on the 27th. I know more who have a oddish block of time between work and Show. What to do? To Que! I'm going to have a little Barbeque that afternoon/evening before the show. There'll be grilled meat products, cheap beer (Can you say PBR?) and amusing local personalities. Come! Invite your loved ones! Gawk at Laura Llew! Get trashed and make a pass at a DJ! More info to come. Two -- and this is dedicate to the Folks in Scotchland -- Does anyone/ did anyone attend Glasgow University? Is it a Swell Place? Does it have Good Programs? I'm applying there for graduate school (In Dramaturgy) and wondered what the local Word about it was. That's all. Return to your regularly scheduled programs, GayJay *It has been noted (perjoratively) that I get crushes on girls, yet am a Poof. Umm, well. I do. It's not a /Romantic/ thing, and 'Crush' sounds much more pleasant than 'unhealthy obsession' doesn't it? **If pressed, my current boy-type crushes are on this Doctor named Coop on ER (whom, I might add, I'd punch in the puss if I ever actually met) and possibly on Brier Random. Has anyone actually SEEN this guy? If he seriously looks like the pic up on the Picture Page, I am *so* starting to pine for him as the moon does the sunset, but as someone once said "No-one on Sinister looks /that/ good****." ***Whose 25th Birthday is Saturday. I trust plans are afoot to celebrate in a Style She Can Become Accustomed To. My dear, the Hope Diamond was a bit pricey -- not to mention difficult to subtly procure -- but I felt it was appropriate. I'm sending it over in Joanna Southcott's box with a few stamps on. Let me know when it arrives. ****Though I'm not sure of that. I'll need to inspect a few people in person before I can issue that particular fatwah. Please make arrangements accordingly. -- "The Posby falls into a Trance In which it does a little Dance." Edward Gorey _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: London stuff this saturday & hello stranger
by jim taylor 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

It's been a while. Too long in fact. There's a lot to say. It would be good to say it face to face. If you didn't live so far away. I hope i won't get my wrist slapped for having forgotten to buy the album today. It's nice looking forward to it (new B&S) a little more than usual, having had so many of the sinister crumblies getting out their zimmers and springing into life with positive reviews. Thank you all for being better at posting than me. I'll be brief for once: There is as you probably know a sini-gathering this saturday in London: WHERE ? The Betsey Trotwood Pub Farringdon Road (by Farringdon Tube) http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub296.htm WHEN ? depends WHY ? Because it's better than the latest crap saturday talent show on telly. they do good ale. and it does you good to get out. and you get to see Carsmile, Ian Anscombe (From Birmingham, gasp) and lots of loverly other sinister types. and hear them dj. well not all of them obviously. 6-8pm England Vs Turkey on the Groundfloor if you are so inclined. Then 8-1pm upstairs, maybe a more mellow session before the fun frolics & dancing you so know and love as T*I*G*E*R*M*I*L*K*I*N*G http://www.undermybed.org/tigermilking/ So that's your London saturday night sorted. Sorry it's useless to all those elsewhere. Quite often i'd like to be elsewhere. But seeing as this is my 30th Birthday do, I'll be there with bells on. Well, with a beard on actually. Big Hugs and no politics* Jim * i lied. see http://www.controlarms.org/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 are you doing saturday, baby?
by ian 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

hello, my little shivvers of gorgeousness, i swear you look different every time i see you. i do wish you'd wear a proper skirt, though. you'd look so PRETTY in a dress. like a real girl. anyway...err...what was i going to say... oh yeh, that was it. on SATURDAY, there will be some TIGERMILKING in LONDON, above the betsy trotwood pub at some point. perhaps you already know this, because someone has mentioned it on the list. i know it from somewhere, but it might not be from here. my brain isn't what it could be lately...if nobody has posted details, i'm sure someone will soon anyway, there's MORE to saturday than just the expression of udder-related fluid from those of a large feline persuasion.. because, on saturday, a certain purple trousered sinisterine will be celebrating rather a special birthday. i'll give you a clue: its jim taylor (was that clue too subtle, do you think, jim??) and its one of THOSE birthdays. but i'll say no more, incase he's feeling coy. surely that's worth making a special trip to the south/north/east/west (delete as appropriate, depending on where you live) for, isn't it? does anybody fancy pre-tigermilking shennanigans? apparently, some people will be watching football, but it'd be nice to meet someone who wasn't, too. god, i haven't seen you lot in SO LONG. okay, i was going to try and write witty things, but i'm not up to it tonight.. so i'll just close with a few random things. hannah...onion songs - how on earth could you forget 'the world is just a great big onion' by marvin gaye and tammi terrell (quite possibly misspelled)? its a CLASSIC OF OUR TIMES...even if it is confusing.. having established that the world is an onion, marvin and tammi then go on to contemplate appropriate ways of solving the problem..one of which is 'get rid of the great big onion', by planting 'loves seeds until it dies'. now there's a problem there...if the world is an onion, and you get rid of the onion, you're in a bit of a quandry, aren't you? unless you happen to own a spacecraft. there's another bit of the song which tells you to 'knock on every door, tell them love is the answer'. having tried this, i don't recommend it. at least, not in wolverhampton. especially not in certain parts, where its known as 'soliciting'. anyway, i'm going off the subject. now, does anyone know of a song with 'parsnip' in it? that would be REALLY impressive. people have been talking about the new album, and its acronym. various permutations on the letters DCW have been suggested. laura has complained there isn't enough wanking. well, hell, when have we ever be bound by convention? let's just call the album 'jismstain' (capitalise if you wish) and be done with it, shall we? thus satisfying laura llew, and ending the whole controversy. kieran devaney wrote a post mentioning more areas of birmingham than i've EVER managed. i'm not even going to try and compete: selly oak, balsall heath, moseley, bordesley green, winson green, green green green, northfield, harborne, bearwood.. okay, yes i am. but maybe not on this list, cos you'll get angry. speaking of which, though... how come sinister has a york 'our cathedral is not as nice as lincoln cathedral' massive and not a birmingham one? its a poor show, kiddliwinks. even a west midlands one would do. me, robin stout, and some geezer that's defected to sheffield aren't a massive in ourselves, yknow.. i want to be able to write things like SHOUT OUT TO MA WEST MIDLANDS POSSE at the end of posts and not just be talking about my cats. this has possibly been my most random sinister post ever. if it gets one reply, that'll be more than the average of late.. i wanted to talk to you about the feeling of losing a band, because you've talked about that, and its how i feel... or, not so much the feeling of losing a band, but the feeling of losing something unique and special of which you were a part. not so much the band, as what they symbolised to us, once upon a time. but they didn't form to be symbolic, they formed to make nice music, and perhaps to be successful. looks like they're managing the second, at least. this weekend, i would like to see you discussing: bananas, and amusing things we've done with them the joys of talking to cats moments of inner quietness, when you realise you're connected to something bigger than the everyday swirl around you. and wind-up nuns. but i'm sure i won't. look after each other. or, at least, look after yourselves. SHOUT OUT TO MA WEST MIDLANDS POSSE! meow xx ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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'm a little lost sheep. I need my bo peep
by Laura Llew 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Part I: The Gorey Garroting "If Ben had turned down her proposal she would have garotted him with a nearly invisible strand of fishing line which she keeps hidden in her brassiere. Then, she'd dispose of the body in a brisk and efficient manner leaving enough time for an afternoon at the races." The above was the comment my friend made after I showed him a picture of our sweetheart Rachel Fruitloop Apps looking smart in a corduroy jacket with a tie with a sharp short haircut. Oh yes, if you have never seen pictures of her, then you're probably ignorant to the fact that she can change in a blink of an eye. She goes from sweet innocent faced smiling angel who sends out lonely lasses sugar cookies on Valentine's Day to EMMA PEEL'S ARCHNEMESIS. And who isn't a sucker for a girl who keeps fishing line in her bra to mangle boys with? You'd best listen to her when she calls you to arms in showering me with gifts (which it's never too late to do so). And, yes, I'm only bringing this to your attention because I care about your welfare and not for any reasons of personal selfishness. Though to be honest, I don't need as she already gave me by best birthday present this year (BY FAR). Plus, I had birthday candles which were little magarita glasses - like anything could top that! Part II: The Catatonic Catapostrophes You know, my dear sinisterines, just because the album is now available to be purchased everywhere and those who got promo copies or those who live where there was an earlier release date can no longer properly lord their experience with it over others doesn't mean the reviews have to stop. Look, there's still poor forlorn Kevin out there in Ottawa or wherever in the middle of no where he is still pining for a copy. Cheer up, you can always taunt him some more! C'mon, make the midwesterner cry! Or at least whimper. He's not an actual Cubs fan so there's no reason to take too much out on him. Oh, and this time when you do reviews be sure to tell us the important things this time. I've noted that NOT ONCE has anyone mentioned whether DCW has any masturbation references. We ALL know that's what was missing from and the real flaw of Fishyclap. Part III: Minxalicious Meetups Last time I posted, I believe I was in the midst of a heartbreak. Turns out the boy didn't reject me at all he was just "nervous." At least the faux-rejection was a reason to eat ice cream for breakfast for days on end. However, it's the last time I pick up a boy at a Belle & Sebastian show! >From now on, it's metallica fans all the way. Oh sure we might not have anything in common but I have enough socially neurotic awkward tendencies for three people. Though.. seeing as I'm going to both the Atlanta and Durham show (let's have a Sinister bbq!) I might make ammendments to this declaration. Ahem. Pre-show meetups anyone? I'll be there with my gay deceivers - who'd want to miss that? Part IV: Heartwrenching Heartbreak Goodbye Miss Maddie Minx. Goodbye my beloved list crush Ullastrator. You both are among my favorite girls ever and I already miss you too much as it is. Part V: The Patronizing Parrot Will Porter protested, "I think someone better fess up to not having passed it on, or Laura Llew might just throw the Sestina Weasel at you. I think it's a safe bet that nobody wants that." I don't know - after Kevin Hyde boasted to having a buick between his legs I don't think it's safe to draw limits about what a boy will do these days just to get a girl's attention. I mean, do you know the trunk capacity of a buick? My hokey. xo, Ll _________________________________________________________________ Instant message with integrated webcam using MSN Messenger 6.0. Try it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.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: Sweet things...
by Nathan Reader 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Do you all also think that the Shantha Roberts girl in the liner notes is just as cute as the little guitar solo in 'Stay Loose'? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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: There were no bell(e)s
by Michael Vance 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Well, I leave to get married and then I come back to 82 messages. You people. At the reception I played The Boy With The Arab Strap for my friend Rob, stuck somewhere in rural southern Japan teaching English (maybe) with no Internet access. He was the only one of our merry band from high school and university who didn't make it. And we all know his heart... I also played Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner because it is a beautiful, beautiful song. Haven't heard the new album, but if Mrs. Apps likes it, I'm on board. I beat Mrs. Vance will be, too. Regards, m. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: if find yourself caught in the socio-cultural construct of 'love'*
by rrrrobyn 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Hello hypermediated subjects of sinister, i have: The New Album. a new penchant for rawk. an early springtime plane ticket for london (!). new black leather boots that draw glances. a le tigre ticket (can't see them enough, can one?). a giant pot of freshly made chili (with crazy stuff like cumin and cocoa in it.) cold hands. i don't have: a b&s ticket for toronto. c'est trop cher pour moi. triste stuff. a whole bunch of new albums that i'd really like to have. a boyfriend. that elusive 'calmness of the soul' i keep hearing about. i don't mind what i don't have though. i'll live. (and, eesh, i've got *boots*!) i'm pretty happy to have this flutter in my heart that 'dear catastrophe waitress' is directly responsible for. i was a bit mopey today and then i bought the new album and came home and listened to it while making chili. i heart the new album, i do. of course, it really makes me want to go see b&s now... why no montreal show? why? but hey, i got to see the aislers set yesterday with yo la tengo. i mean, you can't shake a stick at that, can you? it was *great*. they teamed up with ylt for 'nuclear war', and, i mean, you haven't seen cute/excellent until you've seen all members of the aislers set singing 'gonna kiss your ass goodbye goodbye, you ain't got no ass' etc. and banging on drums and shaking tamborines. re: rawk: lately i'm really loving: the kills and the dirtbombs. man oh man, so great. the pop montreal festival was last weekend too and i got to go every night (it lasted 4 nights - by chance i met a guy who had to go out of town for le weekend and gave me his festival pass for the last 2 nights. wow, eh? luck. and boots. hahaha. all above board, people, above board.) so i got to see some great bands: metric, stars, washington social club, andrew vincent and the pirates, the unicorns, soft canyon, the eaves, aspera, julie doiron, and swearing at motorists. yes, so much music, so much fun! i'm not so much loving the totally sudden and painful descent into *cold*. literally, one day i was wearing a skirt and sandals and the next it was pants and a scarf. (and accompanying other coverings, of course, smutsters - it's called synecdoche. maybe.) and if you haven't yet seen 'Lost in Translation', please do so as soon as possible. go, go now, go. go. love, handknit scarves, and maybe even someone else's hands to keep your hands warm, robyn *that subject heading is me making fun of school. and, therein, making fun of myself. ohmygod, my aspirations *are* all wrapped up in books. i should switch my thesis to erotica. or plain old smut. it's not too late... p.s. roy walker and my fleetwood-mac nostalgia = hand in hand. rad. bit of The Who hanging around the album's parts too, i believe... and, i mean, if The Who were a boy, or even a girl with a turkey baster full of The Who chromosomes, i'd totally marry him/her and have a lot of really cool babies (who wouldn't look like any members of The Who proper but would just look like 'cool'. you know what i mean. or do you think we can make them in a lab out of old Who records and parts from radio shack? maybe?) ===== 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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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: existential angst
by kevin jackflaps 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD I think for all the trouble I've had to go through for the sake of this new album, they should give it to me for free. First I have to not see the band when they come over here later this month, as they're going from Chicago straight to Texas and skipping this particular corner of the country entirely. I still think there's plenty of time in that three-day window between shows to play a surprise concert at, say, Carleton College, but I'm not going to get my hopes up or anything. It's too bad that the Chicago show isn't over a weekend or I could just ride a bus like I did last time and not have to drop out of school or anything. Today I went to go buy the album, but no one had it. Northfield has two record stores - the indie/collector one downtown and the big faceless chain south of town. I walked to both - it was a nice day out and I don't have anything better to do. The one downtown said that his distributor was all out and I couldn't get it until Thursday; the Sam Goody said that "we probably just haven't unpacked the box it's in" and I should come back tomorrow. This is where I wish I could drive someplace, but what can you do? Apparently I can wait until tomorrow to finally own the album. Sadness. WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE I've been meaning to write for a while. People kept bringing things up that I was like "oh, I have something to say about that!" And then I would say nothing for a long time. Now I've forgotten what most of those things are. Although I distinctly remember agreeing with Ken that a Belle and Sebastian game like that Wu-Tang Shaolin whatever game would be the Best Thing Ever. Except for that Wu-Tang Shaolin whatever game. There ought to be a crossover. FUNNY LIST NAMES I have one now. Isn't it clever? I don't really think it is, because I have to explain it and anything you have to explain isn't terribly clever. CALL AND RESPONSE Miss Lou said this: "i am certain i have admitted my love for steve burns, former host of blues clues, at an earlier time." I agree. On my radio show we play his song that they have on the computer like every week. It'll be the only song we do that to for like the whole of fall. OH YEAH, THE BAND I listened to DCW on that link that got passed round a few days ago. It's pretty good. I won't review it any more than that until I own it and have the chance to listen to it 755 times in a row. But when will that be? Intrigue. down and out in minnesota, -kevin http://www.jackflaps.net - a product of rural america "You should never wear your best trousers while going out to fight for truth and freedom." -- Henrik Ibsen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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