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Sinister: KENnymore than I'll be hosting the CHUby show
by Rachel fruitloop 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hello Sinister!!!!!! Guess what WE did yesterday!?!? We had a Southern-ish California Sinister Picnic on the luverly shores of Santa Monica. Of course, it was nowhere as grand as the Edinburgh Picnic, but then again, what is? The best part was that 5 of us showed up!!! Those in attendance were Sara Bus Stoppers, Ernie Sanchez, Adrian "Glurp" Rudloff, me and that boy Bapps. We started out not knowing if we would even be able to attend because of my horrendous illness, but Ben swore that he would have dragged me out no matter what because "he knows what's best for me"... of course, as I have reported before, my navigation skills are not the best even when not altered by cold medication. So I got us a little bit lost and besides that a mile and a half on the 405 takes a long time! Sara and Adrian were already waiting there under the Santa Monica Pier Sign for quite a while, unaware that they were both Sinister! An old Polish woman, man with an umbrella hat and beach balls, an imposter ben & rachel couple and ten zillion pigeons later, we arrived. We all introduced ourselves and Sara notified us that Ernie was "on his way". We made our way to a shady patch of grass nearby, unfolded our sheet and made ourselves comfortable. Ben chose the accompanying music and we offered sangria and bread and cheese and strawberries and cream and chocolates. In no time at all, it became apparent that Sara is indeed the perfect match for Ken Chu (she has been telling us this for a while, but now we know first hand!) And Ken, her shit don't stink! Sara, you are just lovely, ignore my Rachel slurs! Ernie arrived and seemed to just crash land next to me. It was great seeing you again Ernie, you are so sweet! Adrian is very engaging, and at no time at all, we all had an engagement with him at the Rose Bowl! The five of us left our picnic spot to meet up at Adrian's nearby apartment so we could caravan to the L.A. Galaxy soccer match. It was great because Ben and I had decided that if no-one showed up or if we could possibly encourage the attendees to go to the match then we would go. So it was perfect. The boys were really into the game. They pretend to be all sensitive and twee, but really they're just jocks! I was trying to translate the game into girlyspeak for Sara but we ended up just laughing hysterically at greasy mullets and a little kid dipping licorice into nacho cheese. Sara's favorite by far was when the Galaxy scored their 2 goals and they blew out confetti from the top of the stadium. My favorite part was that my hair matches the team's color. Ben's favorite part was that we get free KFC (because they did a draw and if Carlos Ruiz scored a goal in the second half then we'd get free chicken!) I don't know what Ernie's favorite part was, maybe the free soccer balls we got. Adrian's favorite part was probably that he went out to a Sinister picnic and walked away with 4 people to go see his team play, and Galaxy won! This could be a trend! Ben is muttering something about SinisterfitbaUSA.... So we need 22 of you at the next Los Angeles meet up for a proper kickabout! Or we could just go watch the pro's again, it was so much fun! Love to you all, Rachel fruitloop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.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: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
by Jonathan Skinner 28 Jul '02

28 Jul '02

Hello All i hope this finds everyone well and in a nice state of fettleness. I am really starting to feel my age for some reason and in my lofty and wise age of 18 i have come to the conclusion that the world has gone quite mad. I had a horrid suspision of it all along but something today within me snapped. I was watching a a no brainer music channel and on came S CLUB JUNIORS. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL. i have seen a lot of odd slightly fruity things on television but this has got to be the height of sickness. I really couldn't believe it. 12 bloody years old and prancing around as if they were adults. it was a bit worrying . Luckily i had the brain about me to flick on to VIbe TV(more on this one later) but police wonder why there is an increase in child pornography and paedophilia in general. I think i will go to town on this rattle a few cages and call the news stations the radio station AND the gas stations. Well actully i won't, i just roll it up into a bitter little ball and implant in my brain until a new therepy craze hits the suburbs of Cork. Young people were never like that in my day. we had decency. well probably not but who am i to talk for my day *desending of his highhorse* on a lighter note, has anyone in the UK seen Vibe tv. makes for a rather interesting 4 hours viewing if you can sit through it. i thank goodness haven't. i can only take 5 minutes of a dumb brum ( not to say that all Brums are Dumb) trying to sound deep and stuff. it is quite funny and if you haven't seen it go there. the channel was set up by some guy wanting to bed Angelle and mission accomplished. Paul king (PRAT OF ALL PRATS) looked uncomfortible interviewing the bint. I must say i did like all the new stuff that B+S played on the Radio the other day. I hate real player but it was worth it. I'm glad to see they still havent lost their steam or lost their bossa nova influences. Does anyone have it on mp3 form and have it up on a website? but *shhh* don't tell anyone. It is nice to see that people like Mr devaney still live. i had slowly come to the realisation that people were in general idiots but he and few other instances that i am not about to go into have in a way restored my faith in how people in general are good , it is just a shame that some wankers let the rest of humanity down. Poor Jay. It must be an awful thing to face and i don't actully know how i would deal with it. I don't suppose any of us would unless we were actully faced with a situation like that. I would like to try and think i could just let it go and try and regain normality but i don't know if i could. i would try to keep things in perspective but i don't think i could. For some reason i feel on abit of rant and a highhorse so i don't think i will go on any further. Any dubliner listees going to Royksopp? j +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Billy Bibbit
by Ann Foreyt 28 Jul '02

28 Jul '02

S-s-s-s-s-inister~ I was reading an old Ann Landers column today... and stuck in the middle of some petty family arguments was a letter about stutterers. In nice, politically-correct words this writer talked about (can a writer talk? oh, well) this "affliction" and how others are supposed to "deal with it". For some reason, that just absolutely drove something deep and painful into my heart. I have to be 'dealt with'? Yes, I know how it feels to be caught in public, on the phone, in front of someone you love/respect/fear with your mouth open and a word 25 seconds in the making, but I never before knew that I had to be 'dealt with'. The wording of that hurt. Worse than the clumsily helpful teachers, friends, and telemarketers who try to finish my sentences and put words in my mouth (or would that be pull words OUT?). It's already painful enough for me to understand that I will never be comfortable on the phone, that I have aimed my college choice (life) in such a way that I may find a job in which I will have minimal contact with real people, and that the written word is my only semi-eloquent method of communication; that teachers ignore my hand in class and boys just ignore me wholly (the spasmodic jaw look is not exactly worthy of many lustful gazes heh heh heh). It's not so much that the topic was talked about, brought to the forefront (if only for an Ann Landers section), but that it was done so bloodlessly. It's not an animal you are 'dealing with'... it's a person... and no matter how embarrassing it may be for you... you can bet it's worse for the girl or boy standing there with a simple word strangling them. To just speak of handling the immediate problem isn't going to do anything... except make the listener more aware of the problem and the speaker more self-conscious. It's funny how one word, one phrase, can so acutely wound. Especially when the point was too help... sometimes those darts hit the deepest. Forgive me. I am depressed and angry and sensitive and should not be writing letters. Ann "What was your favorite color? What was your favorite poem? What would our children have looked like? Where would our lives have taken us?" Photographing Fairies _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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: "Put the finger in the freezer and bring me a diet coke."
by Miss Marianna Longmire 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

This week, people have been mostly asking me what I've been up to. My responses have, rather disappointingly, gone something along the lines of, "Erm, stuff. I think. I'm not sure." * But damn it! I /have/ actually been doing things. All week, in fact. And some of them were truly, properly entertaining. There was that time, when I met up with a really old friend who was in town for the night and watched a midnight screening of "Blade 2". It made NO sense at all, but was totally fab because: a) Luke Goss from Bros was in it. b) Danny John Jules (Cat from Red Dwarf) was in it. c) There was eye candy in the shape of Norman Reedus d) There was random Powerpuff Girls footage e) And, most wonderfully, there were hidden Bis references. Secret Vampires! Wesley Snipes quoting Sci-Fi Steven! "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Incidentally, Luke Goss' maybe girlfriend was in a film called "Frankenhooker". Tagline: A terrifying tale of sluts and bolts. I MUST SEE THIS FILM. Also, there was that time, at work in the Hand Therapy Department when I was idly reading through patients notes, snickering at their ailments and vomiting at the sight of Polaroid images of their wounds, when one of the therapists came up to me with a bag of home made sweets. "Here, try some," she said. Obligingly, I took a bight. It was a disgustingly sweet piece of sugary fudge, covered in chocolate and coconut and tasted, well, it tasted as if detergent was a secret ingredient. "Umm, it's a bit funny," I said. "Did you make it?" "No, a patient brought it in for us," she replied in between bites. "Right. So a Hand Therapy patient made us food, presumably using their, err, hands. Just what exactly is their condition at the moment? And is this really coconut?" Silence. Followed by a dash to Tescos for toothbrushes and half an hour's worth of scrubbing. Mr Selby Longmire: "Marianna, how's your hand job going?" Miss Marianna Longmire: "!" The Hand Therapists are a lovely bunch, really. Despite being the type of people who feel developing relationships outside of work would really help the vibe of the department during working hours, and are still upset that I didn't invite them to come to Popstarz a few weeks back. But, you know, there's far too many forty year olds pogo-ing to Wham! as there is. Best cull the numbers when you get the chance. Out of guilt however, I did loosely tell them about the occurrence of Track and Field on Friday eve. They politely declined attendance on the grounds that they probably wouldn't look indie enough to be granted entry. This was arguable on a number of levels, but frankly, I had tired of the conversation and left to explore the eerie basement tunnels instead. And so it was Friday and, joined by the inimitable Miss Susan Le May, it was off to Track and Field for dancing and shenanigans. And it promised to be great, as Track and Field is always great and I was surrounded by some of my favourite people in the world, all sparkling wit, stylish outfits and cutting one liners. Ooh, and Miss Sarah Garret Sonner gave me a brown corduroy skirt, simply because she's ace like that. Disappointingly, once actually making it upstairs and paying admission, my heart sank. There was no room to dance and the entire place had become as appealing as a gigantic sweaty armpit. And whilst this wasn't a deterrent for most (smiles and jumping about seemingly in abundance), I was rather pleased when someone walked past and mentioned we should leave. It was Mr Greg Pallis, in acid wash. And so we did. And so we walked down the road and stumbled across a building site. And broke in. And accidentally scared the inhabitants of the adjacent apartment building. After promising not to kill them (chic sophisticates in mistaken identity shock!) we proceeded to scale five floors worth of scaffolding to sit and admire the view before pouring droplets of water on random passer-bys down below. It might have been evil, but, in our defence, it was terribly, terribly entertaining. Babbling, as ever, Miss Marianna Longmire xx *I really, really hate it when someone asks me a question, or enquires as to the details of a particular event I have partaken in, and I'm so stunned as to be even considered worthy enough of entering into a conversation with said person that I jumble up events, forget the important details and then, tiring of the tale myself, stop halfway through and ask a question in return. Conversations would be much easier if you could conduct them entirely through correspondence on headed notepaper. At least then I'd have a half decent chance at making myself understood. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sinister, benicassim
by Peter Stiff 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

hi there good people of the sinister list my names Peter im from around Ipswich way in suffolk and ive been a b+s fan for quite some time now i guess, they are probably one of my favourite bands i suppose. ive been on sinister for about a year now i think, however this is my first post! i always try and read other peoples messages when i get the time and it seems like a pretty cool thing thats going on here... lots of nice people sharing stories of their lives n things. the reason ive suddenly decided to participate in actually mailing to sinister after so long is that im going to the Benicassim festival in Spain next week, where b+s will be playing as im sure your aware. is there going to be some meet up of some type? id like to meet some more people going and hang around n that. i went to benicassim last year and saw b+s and had a great time. i met a few people along the way that were on sinister, they all seemed very excited about it so thats when i joined up, see what all the fuss was about. i met a boy and a girl from leicester and london i think who i saw a few times around and i met a girl from scotland on the festival bus who seemed nice and very excited about the fact i might have been on sinister... alas i wasnt - at the time. but yeah, back to the point is anyoen going to arrange some kinda meet up or whatever then in Benicassim?, it'd be pretty cool Peter. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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: Re: Sinister LA Meetup - potential list abuse
by Jose P 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

hello everyone. i apologize in advance for this potential sinister list abuse and overall bad mass email. i'm really bad at these things. anyway, this is for anyone in the LA (and surrounding cities) area. groophug ( http://groophug.originalfools.com )is having a meetup and ALL are invited. the theme is hawaiian luau, so come dressed if you can. and if you can't, then come anyway... should be fun. three bands are playing: a Surprise Guest, also Greg Doyle (of Hipsun) and local solo act Jeremy Stilgenbauer. drinks and food are are byob... however, the usual beer runs are expected, so bring some cash just in case. for more info: http://groophug.originalfools.com/fest0727.html hope to see you there! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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: A strange note from the guy at the back of the room
by Paul McPherson 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Hello: I'm am one of those notorious lurkers. I hide in the shadows, letting your messages brighten my days. I imagine I'm quite a bit older than a lot of you, not that it really matters. Like Christopher Devaney's friend I had a decently substantial meltdown awhile back. I applaud you for hanging around Christopher. I now visit with a psychiatrist who could really care less about me except when I'm late. The medication I take makes me sick but it keeps me from wanting to drive my car into a light pole anymore. I figured that if I could make my self termination look accidental then my corpse wouldn't have to continue showing up at that dreadful job to pay off my debts. I suppose I feel lucky that I've managed to pull it together enough, so to speak, to work and the way my family looks at me now makes me feel like I'm the subject of a made for TV movie. I wonder who will be playing me? As I've been reading this I feel even more dreadful about myself realizing that someone would have to find me like poor Jay. I hope my blathering hasn't brought everyone down too much. I really just wanted to say thanks. You've reminded me that sometimes my life isn't that bad. By the way, I went to see B&S in Toronto. It was the best night I'd had in years +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the doctors told her years ago that she was ill.
by lindsey baker 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

hello sinister. i thought for a moment there about how much those two words have become a part of my life. of me. hello sinister. and the melodrama begins again. *** i stared for a long time at the dinosaur wallpaper border, tilting my head and shifting my eyes, trying to make the two rows -- one real and one some kind of refraction of reflection or distortion or something -- converge back together as one lumpy row of pink and green and orange t-rexes and brontosauruses. double vision seems like a good name for a story to me. it has a ring to it. all double things do, really. doublemint. double wide. double happiness. the mirror across from me showed my fifteen-minute morning preparations; my dad had said the doctor worked me in for 11:30 at 11:00, and i threw my standard bobby pins in. no eye makeup. i managed to put on my favorite patent leather mary janes on before i left, thinking my favorite shoes could combat the doctor and the rain in one big swoop, leaving me with some stress to reduce in order to regain solitary sight and a day left empty and open for sitting on my bed at home doing nothing. i was wrong, all things considered. *** they always make you read the letters at eye appointments. and since i still go to a pediatric eye doctor, i also got to track a plastic cartoon character. the doctor selected one of his rubbery finger puppets from his drawer and began moving it back and forth and up and down, watching my eyes following. i don't remember now what the puppet was. he got out a box of clear plastic squares and held them up to my eyes, asking me to look for a letter 'h' projected on a screen across the dim room. and he called out numbers to a nurse writing things down on a clipboard. and then he said we had to call my primary care doctor. we had to call the hospital. i had to get an mri. today. *** the floors in the children's hospital have this wavy section of color that flows into all the rooms. the whole place has fish tiled on the ceilings and floors and walls. blue and green and purple, and it's kind of like being underwater in a disney movie. i stared at the fish on the ceiling as the doctors wrapped a big piece of medical tape across my forehead so i wouldn't move my head once i was inside the big metal tube. my mom had hold of my hand, and the nurses asked me if i wanted ear plugs or headphones. i vouched for ear plugs as soon as i realized i had left my bright eyes cd in my sister's car rather than my handbag. if i couldn't have conor at that moment, i didn't want anything else. when i was in eighth grade, i had paul and john singing into my ears for some outpatient surgery i had. through my haze, i could hear the doctor singing along with across the universe, and i fell asleep somewhere around penny lane. but today. without cds or mixtapes. it didn't matter. as soon as the clanking and buzzing and beeping started at two-minute intervals all around my head, a song came anyway. i hyperventilated and cried claustrophobic tears into the cloth covering my eyes, in time with a tempo and words: and everyone she knew thought she was beautiful. *** i put my bobby pins back in at home later, after i washed the hospital smell out of my hair. i ate for the first time all day at 3:30. cheese and tomatoes. and at four, the phone rang. everything was normal. nobody knows why i see two people, but they assume it will go away. go to the doctor on monday, miss baker, and maybe we'll figure it out some day, they may as well have said. and so i nodded, and got in a fight with my sister. apparently the cripple is too tired and too sick to go out with my sister tomorrow as planned, so i shall stay in. thank goodness everyone knows what's best for me, even if they don't know what's wrong. even if i don't know what's wrong, and i do, and i don't, and i do. *** i had a glass of wine tonight. it's been that kind of day. *** jay eckard: i'm hugging you. can you feel that? xo love, lou ------------------ THE FOLLOWING IS AN ADVERT FOR EXCELLENCE: never learned how to ride a bike? merely flailed helplessy in a chlorine-laced pool when trying to learn to swim? come to Camp Kids Who Gave Up 2002, sponsored by lindsey baker, dave snyder and conor oberst to learn to ride and swim like nobody's business! while you're temporarily residing on our beautiful, secluded island paradise camp, enjoy lessons from friendly guest instructors such as mandee wright and listen to a different live band every night (we feature saddle creek gems and omaha rapists)! dating lindsey is also an available option, so long as conor is off-island. SIGN UP TODAY!!! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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's been a bloody stupid day
by Jay Eckard 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Oh Sinister. It's been an odd day. Usually I spend my time pestering people off-list (Laura Llew = saint) but today I had a very funny turn. Somebody killed themself in the parking lot where I work. And I was the first person to find them. I had to be at work sehr early -- 6 am. As I was brewing coffee and tea, I heard a big 'boom.' I went outside and saw a little coupe crashed against a streetlamp. There was blood all inside. Before I went outside, I called the police to come and help, since I didn't know what else to do. When I went to see if the driver was okay, I found a thing like a football/soccer ball in the parking lot. It was the dude's head. He had offed it by tying piano wire around his neck and tying the other end to a streetlamp in the parking lot, then taking off in his car. He decapitated himself almost instanteously. Then I found him. I spent a lot of the morning talking to the cops. They were all concerned, but I was pretty numb. The boss wanted me to go home and relax, but all I wanted to do was go on like nothing had happened. I was pretty weird all day, all glassy eyed and all, but I made it through my shift. Does that mean I'm sick, working after somebody offs themself? I didn't know what else to do, and to work seemed the most obvious amd useful thing to do. I'm really quite poor. Officer Chris was the first one on the scene, and I know him and I work with his brother, and he was okay with me working. Everybody -- customers and staff -- was disturbingly nice, like I was crazy, but I was still pretty sane, all things considered. I don't know what to think at all. I don't really want to sleep, so I'm going to a late night show of Gold Member, after midnight. Please, somebody, offer some suggestions. I'm REALLY confused. Laura?! Jay -- "Knowing? That's easy. Everyone does that ad nasueum. I just sort of hope." Dr. Who _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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: Indie Sweets
by Sam Walton 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

Hello Sinister. I just read Christopher Devaney's post, and I feel I should offer my services, not as a purveyor of advice, but of bootlegged music. See, I managed to record the Peel Acres session last night on my computer. I have all the songs on mp3, so I can burn/email them to anybody, really (although I am a little on the skint side until I get paid, so any US residents might have to wait for a week or so if they want a CD). I even spent some time afterwards editing them, professional like. I was trying to set up a website where I could put them up, but nowhere seems to want to hold files greater than 1MB. Man, I sound like a nerd. But if anybody has any ideas where I could put them, then please tell. In other news, I'm 67% twee, according to that test on HDIFTBL. I don't understand how, though, because the only twee thing that I said was that Slow Graffiti was my favourite B&S song. It asked me what my favourite Primal Scream album was, and I told it that I like Vanishing Point best. The first Scream album I can actually remember coming out was Give Out But Don't Give Up, but I didn't get into them until after that one. Perhaps I should've put Give Out... as my favourite - it's not very twee, more Rod Stewart than Stuart Murdoch. I offered someone at work (my work = V-Shop) a Haribo the other day, and he turned it down, saying that he didn't like Haribo because they've "done a Walkers" on the sweet world. It occured to me though, he's got a point. You can only really get Walkers crisps now, and everybody knows that Golder Wonder were far tastier. But when was the last time you saw a packet of Golden Wonder? Exactly. "You've got to support the underdog, y'see", he said to me, and explained that he often craves a good INDIE PUNK RAWK piece of confectionary - something with a bit of kick and flavour, none of this tasteless commercial bollocks. I smiled and sold another copy of the Gareth Gates' single to a small girl with a bag of Haribo in her hand. I felt dirty and longed for one of those horrible gobstoppers I used to get out of a machine in the swimming pool for 10p. There are rumours of a Brighton shindig on the weekend of 10th August, but I'll leave someone bigger and cleverer to give you the news. love, Asm.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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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