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Sinister: I wonder if I know you...
by marisa stroud 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

I didn't just spend a summer wasting, I spent a whole year. Well, 10 months. I was in Glasgow from September to July. And I never knew you, sweet Sinister. Now that I've found you and am reading your posts, particularly those from the folk in Glasgow, I'm feeling more homesick than I think I ever have been. Except maybe during the few trips I've made to the States. For whatever reason, going 'down south' makes me desperate to get back to the wilds of Canada. But now my feet long to trip lightly down the cobblestone road of Ashton Lane and down a glass of orange juice in a oner at the Grovesnor. But I only had toast there. I didn't know any better, you see? I want to go back. I want to ignore the scary man who lurkes in the alleyway out to Byres Rd between Iceland and Roots&Fruits. I want to stand waiting for the train in the Hillhead underground and think about the story on the back of Tigermilk and smile. Do you realize that The Tap is less than ten seconds from my boyfriend's flat? Oh yeah. He lives on Radnor St, that little bit road that separates Sauchihall and Argyll. I sang 'Dyland in the Movies' to myself every time I had to go down Kelvin Way to get to his flat from the uni. Due to the mankiness of my flatmate, I spent most of the year there, walking from Havelock St through the hospital to get to his. I walked past you every day. Maybe I even squeezed by you to get a drink from the bar. But I didn't say hi. How could I have known? Ignorance is lame. I'm coming home. I decided I'm going back to Glasgow, one way or another. So please, please please keep the Winchester Club going until I get there! It'll be August at the latest before I can come. I've always dreamed of going somewhere I would actually want to dance! I want to see Struan flail his arms of sex and dance like no one's watching, especially not those with sinister intentions. That would very probably make my year. I found out about the Win far too late. I didn't hear about it till the B&S gig at the QMU in June. I was there. You probably were, too. But I didn't know you then. Mummy Honey (well, her computer, anyway) just gave me the nudge out of the nest, but I think it'll take awhile to get used to these wings. I feel like I should provide some content, at least the first time. So I'll talk about the new Reindeer Section album, although I know a couple of other people have already ventured on the subject. I may be biased, cause this is one of my new favourite albums. It's slower and sweeter than the first one, though. Broken hearts beware: there are a lot of "you packed your things and took my heart" songs here, but there are also some celebrations of love to keep the bipolarity interest factor up. There's even a very Arab Strap-y track, but he keeps his ramblings pretty well with the beat of the underlying melody. I like Arab Strap, but I also really like melody, so I enjoy this track quite a bit. If you liked Y'all get scared... this one's a pretty safe bet, providing you don't mind your songs a wee bit on the quiet side. It's definitely worth a listen, especially if you know someone you can nick it from for a few days. Content? Check. Hearbreak songs seem to be all the rage this year, when I'm finally in love. But Sloan's new(ish) album Pretty Together has something for everyone: Chris' 'man on the side' songs, Patrick's 'you love me, I love me, everyone loves me' songs, Jay's 'are you giving me back my love?' songs (such an important theme that he used that as a whole song idea/title), and Andrew's usual 'I've been dating Fi so long I don't write love songs anymore, even though I'm a dad now' avant-gardish tracks. There, now I promise not to mention Sloan again for a good while. I've heard some rumblings that Sinister isn't as twee as it used to be; some darker elements are starting to show beneath the happy bucolic veneer. But from what I've read (and it's quite a bit, I'm embarrased to say), it's better to talk and to disagree than to never have a voice. I can't wait to get back home to Glasgow, and already I think of you when I list the reasons why. I know I've just begun, but I feel like Sinister's something pretty special, and I'm glad I have a chance to be a part of it. marisa _________________________________________________________________ Internet access plans that fit your lifestyle -- join MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: ends "I can't go on, I'll go on"
by Kieran Devaney 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Dear Sinister, How are you? I shall start as the custom dictates and explain my protracted absence from the list of late. No I wont. I was reading all summer I did write a long thing about a pub in Birmingham which I thought about sending but I went off it before I had chance. Alas. Sinister has been a tad dreary in recent times, no wait, thats unfair. I have greatly enjoyed posts by I wont embarrass them by mentioning names but there have been a fair few now that I think about it, and also if I mention someone then any omitted names might feel that I disliked their recent posts when perhaps I liked them and just forgot or was merely indifferent to them. Still, there was one post of fewer words than I have even yet expended which openly poured scorn on another member of the list not to be encouraged, one of the beauties of Sinister is that its relatively sedate pace gives us fair chance to fully work through our viewpoints oh I dont mean we have to indulge in tawdry, strung out dialectics every time we want to say something, but if I were to have an opinion, then Sinister provides both the space and the place for me to extol the virtues of said opinion, perhaps even to play devils advocate, for good and bad can be found in all things. More important than what the opinion is, and more interesting to me and probably the rest of the list is how that opinion is justified and explained, for only then can you be vindicated in having it in the first place. Certainly, if you arent keen on something that someone has said on the list, then no matter how far the extent of your annoyance runs it will still seem crass to resort to base, crude ejaculations of that annoyance. But I wont preach. I dont know how. Given that I asked how you are in my first sentence it only seems fair for you to return the question. Ok. I moved away from seclusion in Birmingham to study English Literature at Sheffield University in September and have since been doing just that, amongst other things. I quite like Sheffield its fairly similar to Birmingham though, to be honest, which is a mixed blessing (cue misty eyed false reminiscences about when places looked different from one another, when regional identity meant something (oh, it does), coincidentally I was in Leeds at the weekend and it, too, looked pretty similar), Sheffield does, however, seem much safer, I have wandered about on my own at 3am and only been threatened by a double-decker Jesus Army bus looking even more lurid in the orange streetlight (please if you have stories or statistics relating to horrendous street crime in Sheffield then please dont send them to me, I wish to remain complacent for as long as possible). I could now go off into a lengthy report on the relative merits and shortcomings of Sheffield and its amenities, but Ive no doubt there are already dozens in circulation which detail things much more accurately than I ever could. I should probably mention Offbeat though, which is a fun place to trot along to every other Friday, and certainly better than any of the clubs in Birmingham, not that I ever went to them I suspect a fair few of the people there are on Sinister, Im too timid just to go up to people there and ask, but I imagine theres at least one or two. For anyone there last Friday, I was the one wearing the lemon yellow tshirt which said Rachel on the back. Thats another thing, actually (I dont know what the first thing was, no) and this is the reason I dislike the people I live with here, Im in Halls of Residence and the people on the same floor as me have taken aversion to the fact that I have committed such heinous crimes as: occasionally wearing girls clothes, occasionally wearing makeup, wearing beads, just dressing like a weirdo, being vegetarian, being teetotal and having a strange taste in music; oh my heart bleeds etc ok so its not really that bad, and Im exaggerating because there are one or two people that I get on fairly well with, but some of the others think its hilarious to get up to such kerazee antics as moving the fridge into the corridor, breaking ceiling tiles by punching them and blasting Eye of The Tiger five times in succession at 2am and thinking that theyre justified simply because theyre students. Nonetheless, and so this doesnt turn into another doom-fest, I am, as I said, quite enjoying Sheffield, I like the freedom of being able to go for an aimless walk whenever the fancy so takes me without having to explain myself to anyone. If anyone is familiar with the poetry of UA Fanthrope, then I would say that life at the moment is a bit like that. Or perhaps Im just inevitably romanticising the situation but who amongst us can honestly say theyre not? Admittedly, Im not much of a people person, in fact Id go as far as saying Im completely inept at conversation and this sentence was definitely going somewhere when I began it hmn - so, which Belle and Sebastian album do you think is the most twee? No wait, dont answer that. No, actually, do. The people on my course? They seem remarkably badly read, for English students, as it goes, no one I have spoken to has yet even heard of, let alone read Pynchon, Naipaul or Perec, though I havent mentioned those three to everyone Ive met and obviously Im horribly elitist as well. Then again I wouldnt exactly regard myself as being well read either, who would? This post isnt really going very far at the moment. Was there anything else? Oh yeah, if anyone in Sheffield wants to meet me (and after this scintillating little whirl who can honestly say they wouldnt?) then thatd be lovely, just form an orderly queue behind the bikesheds, or email me, whichever is the more convenient. I suppose it just remains for me to apologise for not turning up at the Birmingham picnic(s) a couple of months ago, if I havent already, but I think I actually developed an aversion to people during the course of the summer. But. Even catatonia has to duet with Tom Jones every now and again. 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Sinister: habibi, habibi
by Dirty Vicar 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

hey hey hey, C'est moi, le Sal Vierge, qui à vous parle. Myself and special friend Rener are back now from our fab holiday in the Fucking Lebanon. The Lebanon is not a very indie country, in fact non-stop pop music is the order of the day. But it's really good pop music, not like the shite you hear in the charts over here. Still, Rener did meet someone who recognised her Study In Stow t-shirt, but sadly he was American. She also met a nice taxi driver who wanted her to stay another two weeks in Beirut with him, but for some reason she choose to come back to dreary Dublin. And it's so dreary here. I mean, I know it's always nice in the winter when you get to wrap up warm and stuff, but does it have to piss rain all the time? that's what I want to know. Meanwhile I'm all excited at some upcoming gigs here... next week Luna are playing here, and this pleases me because I enjoyed them at the Bowlie Weekender and like their cover of the mighty Serge's 'Bonnie & Clyde'. A few days after the Jimmycake (who are very good) are playing a gig supported by THE CHALETS (who are the best band in Ireland). This will kick arse, let me tell you. Beyond that we're drifting too far into the future to know what will happen. Over in the world of the Bowlie Forum, there is a monster get together planned for Manchester in a few weeks. I think nearly everyone from These Islands is going. We're all going to stay in the same hotel and have key parties and riots and stuff. It will be cool, much cooler than anything this list has done in my time on it. that's enough for now. Smash Imperialism. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Isthmusology: what would Joyce listen to if he were alive?
by Kevin Hyde 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Hi-ya sinisterets, In reference to the subject line, I'd like to submit that Joyce would probably listen to hip-hop, probably of the so-called underground variety (I'd think he'd be a huge fan of the Def Jux guys, because, well, why not), pulled in by the wordplay and wrapped-up like in ouroboros prose. But that's just me. So Stuart's selling his car. I hope the money he gets from this makes certain that the next record is not the aural equivalent of a three year-old with a plastic sword who is banging you repeatedly on the shins and screaming the word 'subtraction' at the top of his lungs. That would make me happy. Not that any of the other records have been like that (i.e. bad), but hey, there's always a chance. It seems like there's just a hint of hostility in the air (or whatever) with Sinister. It's kind of nice actually. I'd grown so used to the pseudo-bucolic daze I got from reading the posts that I took it for granted. Just like the Godspeed you black emperor mailing list- it functions simply to make me feel lucky that I long ago lost my desire to write sarcastic and angry things to people with whom I will never meet. I definitely think that B&S should release, a la Dismemberment Plan, the backing tracks to their albums, and then let the fans do remixes. I would kill to hear a DJ Chu or Llew remix of just about any track- first choice would be Boy with the Arab Strap, or maybe even Loneliness...Runner. I doubt that would happen though. Maybe we could do an all-emeritus remix instead, of only Isobel and other-Stuart songs. The new Dave Eggers book is good. less good than the first though. more slippery. thanks, and now, I die, Kev +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: of things to come and things to go...
by s. lord 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

yesterday i went outside to go to class - it was a wonderful sort of day where the sun doesn't shine and there are only gray clouds everywhere - it looked like it could snow at any moment - secretly i wished it would - but friends of mine do not think things like that are fun - so i kept it to myself - as i waited outside for the bus to pick me up i noticed three girls walking to the stop - i had never noticed these people before - where had they come from - as i remembered it from the past mornings - i was then only one getting on the bus at nine in the morn - i waited outside by my lonesome - in the cold and rain - but who were these people - what hole did they crawl out from - i suddenely wanted to yell at them to find there own bus - this one is mine - it has been mine at this time since - well um - late august - yes - and i should remain mine - but then they got closer to me and i lost all ambition - so we waited - the four of us - i was in the back - in my black wool coat - and i couldn't help but notice that they kept turning around and staring - especially the one in the front - she kept turning and looking at me - trying not to be completely obvious - but still obvious enough - like she was staring at the tree behind me - and then she suddenly lost interest when i looked at her - but it did not bother me - i decided they could ride my bus - it was not a problem - yet - if they try to do it again on wednesday i will make them speak to me - i will not be ignored on my bus - - luv to you all --s. _________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access for only $21.95/month. Try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: thank fuck for this shit
by Kenneth P Y Chu 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

I am a bad boy. Or a "bad person", if I'm being non-sexist, or Liz Daplyn. But unfortunately I'm neither of those. Yeah, so I tried to send this e-mail earlier on, from my work address, and it didn't let me, and told me that my e-mail contains "Pornographic Contents"! And I read it, and it said that my e-mail was pornographic because it had the word "fucking" in it. Fucking hell. So I guess now I'm just going to talk about actual porn instead, if I'm going to be accused of something I may as well be actually guilty! People get angry with me a lot like that, just the other night I went back home to my flat, and my flatmate left me a message asking me that "If you want to cook at 1 in the morning can you please be quiet?" I wasn't even hungry. But then I sent him a message back (a pretty grumpy one, actually) about some other things and things got a little hot, and so we took off all our clothes, and made some sweet loving all night. And afterwards we were friends again. I guess I can Thank Fuck For That. That didn't actually happen, by the way, well the hate messages did, but not the fucking. Thank fuck. I did actually watch some porn though that night, it was "Debbie Does Dallas", apparently a classic, a porno with an alliterating name is hard to beat. I bet Mark Casarotto can though, in 60 seconds. Fucking hell. The movie was sexcellent, it was about college cheerleaders having to go to Dallas for some reason but didn't have the funds, and so all went and got themselves part-time jobs. Not BLOW jobs, mind, not yet, they came later, and the girls liked it. However, they were all good girls who never go all the way. Except Debbie, whom Mr Greenfeld, on the promise of paying for the Dallas trip for the whole cheerleading band, fucked the pants out of, or he would have, had she been wearing any. Thank fuck for that. I think if I say Thank Fuck anymore I might turn into Chris Evans, and that'd be bad, with him being an anagram of "no bend" and all. Fucking Hell. Ken _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I've forgotten how to post
by Mark Casarotto 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

I'm breaking the 15 minute rule because I've got to start work in 15 minutes, and I obviously need coffee and toilet-break beforehand. You know? It's been a long, long time since my last Sinister confession. I can't remember what I said then, though it was probably something to do with http://www.joannou.net/biondino - it has, shamefully, taken away my focus from entertaining 1300 close friends and placed it on a marathon ego-wank over the sticky pages of the modern interweb. I'm so sorry! However, it seems I'm not the only one to have neglected a certain List in recent months. Perhaps some of our regulars could make a bit more of an effort, hmm?? Sinister is like a bowl of cherries. Dark red, circular with a sizeable stone in the middle, attached to a hard stalk. And we're here to proverbially tie that stalk into knots with our tongues. So if, say, you're not happy with how Sinister's going, it's up to YOU to make it so. And if you just want to insult someone in front of 1300 people, then, um, go and watch Exeter City. Otherwise, and this is the ironic bit, you look like a real cunt. Ian, Tigermilking is on hold at the moment - it needs a bit of a refit. Feel free to give suggestions, anyone! I was going to post content and interesting stuff, but I'm too pissed off. Bye y'all. Markx __________________________________________________ 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: only slightly, only slightly less than i used to
by David Hewitt 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

GREETINGS Hello there Sinister. Contact from me has been sporadic at best recently, which is (I suspect) just how you like it. Still, Im overtired and feeling somewhat contemplative today, so I thought Id drop you a line. Just for the heck of it. WHAT'S YOURS? Someone said something about Sinister feeling like home. I thought that was interesting. Im not sure I agree with them entirely perhaps it feels a bit more like the local. Except, you know... bigger. I seem to think of and refer to Sinister interchangeably as something, someone and somewhere. If it were really one of the latter two, I dare say many of our lives would have been a little less confusing of late. NEWS Whats new? Im in a new city, in a new job, living in a new flat. I have a girl with whom Im involved newly living with me, whos new to the country. So, in summary, a fair bit. CONTENT Fairly obviously, I havent any. Im not particularly sorry, but I can pretend to be, if you like. CONTENT? Sometimes I think about happiness. It doesnt make me any happier, though. You know, Im pretty sure I can remember a time when if youd have asked me what I needed to be happy, Id pretty much list off all the things I have now: a place of my own, a decent job with decent pay, and someone to love. Despite life having been strange, unpredictable and bumpy of late, things seem to have come together surprisingly well. I wonder, then, why theres still so much to worry about, and still so much left to do? Does anyone ever get there? I could convincingly describe myself as either a reasonable success or a dismal failure, depending on my choice of terms. Some nights I cant sleep for worry, and tear myself apart for all the things Ive done or havent done. Other times I stop and look around me, and feel this quite genuine thankfulness for whats there. I dont suppose this is either interesting or unusual. Think of when youre running an errand for work on a sunny day. You dash past the people in the park, the people sitting outside restaurants sipping at things. How nice to sit there in the sun and just rest, you think. And you envy them. Then on your own day off, you sit and watch the people pass by, and your head is full of the things you have to do, and how far behind you are, and you shuffle in your seat and look at your watch, your diary, your phone. And you go. Or you go and drink. You wish you were doing less, but you wish youd done more. EXCUSES Sinisters been sort of quiet lately, so I thought itd be okay to ramble a bit for now. Ive been head down, bum up in this new job (no, its not THAT sort of job, you dirty perve), so I havent been pestering you lot very often, or hanging about being foul-mouthed in #sinister all that much lately. Things have changed an awful lot around me, but you know I still read your messages every morning. Some of you make me think, some make me smile, and others make me grind my teeth. I wouldnt have it any other way. MUSIC I ordered that Polyphonic Spree record about a month ago, and it still hasnt arrived. Bugger. Has anyone heard the new Delgados or the new Apples in Stereo? Are they any good? Someone said that the new Reindeer Section record was good, but I dont believe them. SPORT I think every pub in Melbourne has a Galaga machine, but I'm yet to find one with a dartboard. Has the world gone all topsy-turvy? I'm not dissing Galaga, mind, but I've got a hankering to drunkenly lob sharp projectiles across a crowded room, and without the proper facilities, that usually ends in tears. Mine, admittedly, but tears nonetheless. SHOUT-OUTS To Stevie T and Mark C (ask them about their new neighbour), and to Will Porter. Just because they're a bunch of handsome devils. Bulk love, -Vanilla Flavoured David. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re: Glasgow
by C.C.S.Crone 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Greetings to Kittenmouse. I'm going myself to Glasgow next wednesday, and according to Lucy Alder there's a national pop league on october 25th. She even sent me a link: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague/ And it leads you to: http://www.geocities.com/the_winchester_club/ at Woodside Social Club, 329 North Woodside Road, Glasgow Duh, perhaps not the right link. Let's try: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague/files/playlists/ Yes, yes, that's close. But a time, not a place. Perhaps http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague/cal///,,,/group/nationalp opleague/YYY,44015/srt,1/?v=1&t=1035241265 ("Kathy, I'm lost" I said, though I knew she was sleeping) or http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague/messages (This world was made for men, not us) One last try (Penso che la sigaretta abbia un gusto piú intenso quand'è l'ultima) http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague/message/170 Damn damn damn (Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Traeume erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuheren Ungeziefer verwandelt) My god, why hast thou forsaken me? Quia Jehova sustebat me. But relax, if you understand the music, the meaning, you don't need to know the language. If you don't, knowing the language won't help you. And so I'll point my bird's beak to the air and stroll through the bleak house of Glasgow, between endless rows of blackened housing estates, riding city buses in search of eternity, and finding myself at every corner, but believing that epiphany is around the next corner, allways around the next corner. Allways around the next corner. But the real epiphany is in the anticipation, you know what I mean? ccs +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: in the roaring traffic's boom--in the silence of my lonely room
by richard john gillanders 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

hello sinister, I WISH THIS WAS A WORK OF ART. THE FLAMING SCHLEPS 'jase' andreas said. something. he advises getting girls drunk so that they won't notice/remember you doing things to them? haha. think he shouldn't have sent that to a large mailing list. can't think what he should've. sometimes I wish I was subscribed to a large mauling list. and then. someone else seemed glad that ken's 'the weakest link' thing ended. I can't decide if he was being haha or whatever. either of them... uh. I enjoyed it. ken's 'the weakest link' thing. it was funny and really funny and I awaited each installment: I had to. I want him to do a 'the chair' parody now. but, since I've never seen a full one of the shows, I don't know if/how that could work. I WENT TO AMERICA FOR SEPTEMBER AND OTHER STUFF AND HAD LOTS OF FUN I went to america for september and other stuff and had lots of fun. I was introduced to blatz beer and to 'american movie' and to, like I said, other stuff. 'american movie', though. yeah. there's a website for it here---> http://www.americanmovie.com I'd never heard of it before. but it's really good. funny. the people in it. yeah. funny. two of the people in it were in 'storytelling' too. this was really funny to me when I found out. oh well. it's senseless. things continue as they should. AND THEN I WENT TO LONDON yeah. so I left america at the end of september, not really wanting to. after long flights and a five hour stop in the amsterdam: I was in london and ready to go to the chickfactor black & white ball thing. well. I was going. all the people that lucy mentioned were there. plus me. and david moore and sally moore. and maybe some others. but she knows this. in fact. it was her who told me we were there. I had had a suspicion. it was really good. yeah, the pines especially. especially since I hadn't seen them play before. and pipas were good. even though I only caught the end of their SET. and the future bible heroes were good too. even if the g*ns*n and m*rr*tt insisted that the curtain to the almost balcony be drawn and the g*ns*n told someone to switch their video camera off and the m*rr*tt stole my [/an] ashtray. well, jeez, he didn't even have the GUTS [/need] to do that; he got someone else to steal it for him. "is anyone using this ashtray?" we were asked as the ashtray in question was lifted and its contents emptied into another not so close to where I and the people I was sitting with were sitting "well..." said someone I was sitting with. "it's for st*ph*n m*rr*tt." said the emptier and looked like they almost wanted to shrug and scampered off to PANDER SOME MORE. but, yeah. I met some nice people that I known of but hadn't met and now I have--they were nice. and I saw some people I hadn't seen for a good while--they were pretty good too. and the ones I'd seen most recently--yeah. THUNDER ONLY HAPPENS WHEN IT'S RAINING haha. okay. I remember hearing a rumour that jim kerr owned the oko sushi bar on ingram street in glasgow. and then I remember hearing that it WAS a rumour. like, one that wasn't actually true. and I thought it was funny. a funny rumour to make up. so I made a game in which you choose a piece of property in glasgow and a glaswegian 'famous' person and make a new rumour. there's no real outcome. unless you count the satisfaction of making a LIE. we only ever played the game once though. we said that ricky ross had bought bonkers. [ricky ross was in deacon blue and bonkers is a bad club]. we even thought up something that he was going to rename it. I don't know. I also don't know why we haven't played this game again since. oh, but since. like, last weekend. I found out that jim kerr part-owns the oko sushi bar on ingram street in glasgow. so. NO TITLE c'mon kids. it's been really quiet around here. I know I haven't done much to, sort of, help. but. C'MON. KIDS. I remember sam walton posting a link to a page that had a lot of posts from a while back on. there were some good posts then!! not that it's just bad posts now... I'll stop that. I didn't mean it. I mean: to do it. I know I haven't not got worse... I WAS GONNA MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT MIKE SCHANK BUT I DIDN'T THINK YOU WOULD HAVE APPRECIATED IT. love, richard. __________________________________________ Join http://www.toast.com today for your own free, flash-based webmail! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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