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Sinister: Purchased Experiences Don't Count
by trixie firecracker 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Look! It's a picture of me taking this picture! [How very post modernly self-referential and Eggers-ish.] I'm sitting on the brown couch in my apartment living room writing in my little black notebook. See those red and white stripey pajama pants I'm wearing? My sister made them for me last year, and I bought that pale green tshirt in New York. My hair is pulled back in pigtails. It's the longest it's been for a few years at least. I still can't afford to get it cut. My toes are curled on the carpet -- nails painted red -- and if you look closely you'll see the sleepyness in my eyes. � I was going to take a picture at my party, but then I just plum forgot. I think me-all-alone is a bit more poignant anyway. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that ink polaroids have a little bit of Coupland-esque Earth Memory-ness about them? love trixie.x _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Cin-ister-natti
by The Cat's Pajamas 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Hi Folks, I'm currently in Cincinnatti for some work related stuff and plan on being here until Friday. If anybody knows of anything to do in this town, or happen to live nearby and want to get together, let me know. Ta! Jason _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Ink photo album
by Retro^Sec 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

I bought it yesterday, from a craft shop just round the corner from work. It has black leaves inside, with bits of tissue paper that make a stealthy rustle when you flick over the pages. The outside is lilac velvet, and there are small red and crimson flowers embroidered around the corner. I had to buy proper little ink photo corners as well, so that I could sit here now, and go through the ink polaroids and put them into the album. I smile as I neatly align each one in, and write on a little sticker beneath, the name of the photographer and the date, in my neatest handwriting. ****** K x ===== <a href="http://retrosec.blogspot.com/">http://retrosec.blogspot.com/</a> thoughts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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: It was summer when she moved in, and it was winter when she moved out again.
by Jeremy Tweddle 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Um, where do I start after not posting for 8 months? Same as usual. Complaintsville. I'm shite tonight. As per. I found out that I didn't get into university. I knew I wouldn't, but secretly I hoped I would. I wanted nothing more than to find out where it is I belong in this crazy life. Unfortunately, now I know I have no place. At least not this semester. Earlier this week I extricated myself from the job(less) market by landing a telemarketing position. Yeah, I know...what a windfall! In doing so I think I debased myself as much as is metaphysically possible. If I scraped any lower I'd be humorous. But tonight I came to the realisation that I will never have *happiness* and *telemarketing employment* concurrently. It is most definitely beyond me. So, I've decided I don't need to be a martyr. I'm going to try my hand at unemployment again. Hopefully, not having a job will make me feel less awful than having this one. I had to go out to a family dinner tonight, so I kinda went out of the pot and on to the hotplate. Some were kind, others weren't, but that's how it is, right? I decided before I got there that I would be quitting tomorrow. I still had to go through the usual stories though. You know, the ones where the entire family (10 or so at the table I think) lean back in their chairs and cackle so loudly that you're sure the whole restaurant is muttering under their breath about how "loud and obnoxious those people are"? Well, that was my family tonight. I just sat at the end of the table (nearest the wall, out of sight) and ate my sundae in silence. I mean, what more can one do? Throw cream and nuts? What and waste my passable dessert? Frankly, they're not worth it. Anyhow, I know I didn't have a point here, so I won't bother trying to find it again. I'm somewhat safe in the knowledge that I was ranting even before I started this post, and I'm certain I'll be ranting long after I finish it. Um, I apologise to anyone that feels cheated that I didn't make this into an ink polaroid. However, I still don't quite get the idea of them, so I doubt someone as challenged as I would be able to get as far as actually composing one. Hmm, how did this self-referential voice get in here? Well, there's been a lot that's happened since last we spoke. I went into hospital for a while. Then I came out for a while. Now I'm doing my best imitation of a hermit. Although there is still one large hurdle between me and true hermitdom. I get lonely. Kind of defeats the purpose of being a hermit, no? In other news, I have a new website. Also, there are new songs and other stuff. Soon I'll have a forum about "stuff", to go along with all the other "original" things I've created that are inherently worthless due to their severe lack of originality. Um, yeah, I think I'll get back in my box now. Jeremy _____________________ http://www.breams.co.uk Home of all things breamy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: We were born before the wind
by Christine Irene 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Yesterday was odd. There was a layer of fog over the area. The sort of fog where, if you extended your arm in front of you, you would be hard pressed to see it. Whilst driving through this starnge and misty haze, I had "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison, playing in my car. Though it wasn't intentional, I don't think I could have chosen a more perfect song for the weather as well as my mood. It honestly felt like a scene in which unicorns should be floating overhead. Very bizarre. Very lovely. That reminds me, I once convinced this boy from Ireland that Van Morrison was in the Chieftans. :o) I was so proud of myself. Today is very cold. bitter cold. my 2 year old associate is pretending that the mouse is a telephone. this sounds like a surprisingly interesting idea to me. I have really enjoyed reading the posts of late. I love when everyone is in a posting mood. Then I don't feel so badly about taking up list space. That reminds me of something. I vehemently hate online journals. Dead Journal. Live Journal. Whatever. I guess I just have a problem with friends saying "I want you to be interested in what I do. I am so amazing. Please, go out of your way to read about my life, even though I have no intention of spending time to inform you of the goings on in a more personal manner." I have many friends who deemed it appropriate to use an online journal in lieu of actual human interaction. Then it occured to me that sinister is very much like that. But then I determined that sinister is better. I mean, yes, we all post...some of us really personal things, some of us just everyday meanderings, others just sort of go on about various things. But we don't use this list in lieu of actual conversation and "real life" friendships....at least not the friends I have from sinister. All of my sinister friends and I communicate off list more than on list. Weird. I still hate online journals. Oh well. I just got an email from this man on my James Joyce mailing list. I joined with the notion that I would read these amazing conversations about Ulysses and it would give me the impotus to read the book, so I could get involved. I just got invited to lead a page by page analysis of Ulysses with this man.... I haven't the heart to say I haven't read it yet...... Grrrr. Why oh why did Mr. Joyce have to make that book so long? He should have kept it nice and short, like Oscar Wilde did. By June I will have read Ulysses. I promise. Yes, June. It's official. Celine Dion is from mars. ~stine __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.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: its music moves, as if always back to a first love
by Genevieve Wesley 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

(couldn't send these last night, so am a day late...tsk) click! monday morning, 3 February 2003 While at the sink in the kitchen, I look out to see that skinny black cat staring at me through the window. Poor neglected thing! His head is too big for his scroungy body. I've nicknamed him Fang, due to his lower gnarled tooth. He sees that I see him and lifts his head in acknowledgement. I go outside, still in slippers and pyjamas, careful not to lock myself out (it is still cold after all) and give Fang some food. I bring water too, which he probably doesn't want. It is not as cold as it has been. Even though it is still ages away, I can feel a hint of spring in the air. sometime in the summer, 2002 Walking in Edinburgh down some particularly lovely street with Honey, Linda, Oon and Keith. No cars can use this street and all the houses are beautiful, with front gardens full of beautiful flowers, fragrant in the early evening sunshine. Slightly drunk, and it is summer, and I am abroad! Indulging in fantasy that when I am a wealthy and successful something or other I will live in one of these houses, and always have friends over, like some artsy commune. We will have freshly squeezed orange juice for breakfast and stroll about the garden, arms linked. later summer, 2002 Sitting on a sofa with Ally, Lucy and Dave. Have finished ice cream and my cheeks are flushed because I keep making myself irn-bru and vodka drink. There is some low-budget Northern Soul video on with a man and a technicolour changing coat, "special" effects. Lucy is trying to do an updo in my hair, fastened with a pencil, but it just isn't sticking! Feeling cozy and happy. Apparently if you are looking at someone's lips that means you want to snog them. I try to avoid looking at lips, which is near impossible. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: an ink polaroid. [rather bucolic though].
by Stefano [Steady-State] 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Dear Sinister Sitting by a train window the images are fused and confused. The speed is confusing the shapes and they are being transformed into something new. Slice should be taken only in between the blinks of the eyes. Like catching up a fast bouncing ball you didn´t expect was coming towards you. Hills softly covered in snow on the background. Far enough to be unreal. And a morning sky of pure blue. A kind of colour that can be there only after a storm, cleaned up by the winds blow. Nothing is really happening. Things are frozen in the wait for the next photograph to be taken and stored. The sheep can hardly be seen and some cows in black and white are grouped in corner and keep company and worm each other. This is my snapshot, which has vanished, in a deep long awaited sleep Take care, your Stefano ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* I'll be careful when I drive 'cause I want to see her once before I die. ONQ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Stefano [Steady-State] 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Dear Sinister Sitting by a train window the images are fused and confused. The speed is confusing the shapes and they are being transformed into something new. Slice should be taken only in between the blinks of the eyes. Like catching up a fast bouncing ball you didn´t expect was coming towards you. Hills softly covered in snow on the background. Far enough to be unreal. And a morning sky of pure blue. A kind of colour that can be there only after a storm, cleaned up by the winds blow. Nothing is really happening. Things are frozen in the wait for the next photograph to be taken and stored. The sheep can hardly be seen and some cows in black and white are grouped in corner and keep company and worm each other. This is my snapshot, which has vanished, in a deep long awaited sleep Take care, your Stefano ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* I'll be careful when I drive 'cause I want to see her once before I die. ONQ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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!n!k! p!o!l!a!r!o!i!d!
by Mark Casarotto 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

--------------------- A bijou coffee table in Walthamstow, Sunday. It has been cleared of the usual debris, though a speck of mashed potato still lurks viscously on the edge nearest the camera. The table itself groans under the weight of the day's purchases at the local cash and carry, all stacked up with the precision of prototype skyscrapers at an architects-on-LSD convention. There's 10 tins of mackerel, looming over the militaristic rows of deodorant and shaving cream. The soft lines of half a dozen stacked cans of tuna are offset by the neo-futurist form of 4 and a half litres of scarily blue Fairy liquid. A massive monolith of fabric conditioner dominates the image, and in its shadow scampering bags of stuffed pasta cavort innocently with shiny new razor blades. A receipt lies on top of the impassive and unliftable roll of black binbags, already fraying and unravelling. On a sofa in the background there's the blurred shape of a girl, looking slightly embarrassed at her ex-boyfriend's concept of bargain hunting. --------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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: ink polaroids
by Annie Tremp 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

better late than never... *** this one's a bit dark because it is nine in the evening, and the flash didn't work. on the left you can see a girl, wrapped up in her winter coat, trudging through the snow. she's staying away from the boys on the right, because they've been throwing snowballs at each other and she doesn't want to get caught in the middle, she's feeling cold enough as it is. one of the boys is at this very instant jumping over a hedge, he's about halfway over. he doesn't know yet that on the other side of that hedge lies a big puddle of icy water, and that he will fall right into it, making a big cartoony *splash* noise. he'll be dripping wet. the girl will giggle, then feel bad about it. *** *** the inside of a car, seen from the front window. outside there's only miles and miles of road, and desert. it's obviously summer, and it looks like it's very hot, you can see the air shimmer in the distance. the car doesn't seem to have air-conditioning, because all the windows are open, and the two girls inside still look very sweaty, even though they're only wearing shorts and tops. they must be going camping, there's a tent, clothes and food lying in the backseat, it all looks very messy. the girl who's driving has jetblack hair, and is loudly singing along with the radio. the blonde girl sitting next to her has put her feet up on the dashboard, and is looking out the window. she's just spotted her first ever roadrunner. she's smiling because it doesn't even remotely resemble the roadrunner from the wile e. coyote cartoon. *** annie xo +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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