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Sinister: the library's the place to redeem ourselves
by Sarah Garrett Sonner 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Stylish sinners all, I don't raise my hand too often in class, but the days they are shortening. I hope all listees are having a pleasant week...herewith my once-a-season stammer. TIME IS ON MY SIDE I've heard part of Storytelling, and so far everything has reminded me of something else, whether that be the theme song to "Taxi" (which itself makes me nostalgic for the 70's--a decade I can't remember--is that possible?) or the 60's Rolling Stones, though that's perhaps because I've been playing them too often. (B&S cover suggestion: Play With Fire, or maybe Congratulations?) I think soundtracks are supposed to make you nostalgic though--for the movie itself or for how the movie made you feel, what it reminded you of, etc. Therein also lies the virtue of replaying old mix tapes. I refuse to see the film itself however--instead I'm going to see a movie about skater boys tomorrow, rowr etc. THE ONLY LIVING GIRL IN NEW CROSS Last weekend I attended an academic conference (professionalism--gasp!) for the first time ever. I actually managed to see Iain Sinclair speak, the man whose works I'm writing a dissertation about, and then lacked the guts to ask him a question. "uh, erm, what do you think about, uh, the function of decay, in the...urban?...environment?" would've been something like it, if only I'd been even that articulate at the time. Then afterwards a girl in a long polka-dot dress managed to approach him and start talking about her work, which I should've done had I the self-promotion instincts that every other human seems to have. Instead I ducked out of all social situations and jumped over the puddles that had meanwhile flooded Goldsmith's black and white floor tiles, then headed out and down to the tube stop amid blooming buddleia. Networking, feh. I ONLY BUY A BOOK FOR HOW HEAVY IT LOOKS It's (more or less) summer, which means I dust off my clogs once again. And they are very dusty, since I can't wear them as much in London (land of much more walking) as I did last year in Chicago (land where El stop and destinations were close enough to excuse the wearing of potentially awkward shoes). In her penultimate (sorry, I'm slow--but hey: I think technically, final punctuation should go inside parenthesis if parenthetical content is a stand-alone sentence) Robyn, and somewhere behind a fashionably turned-up acid-washed collar, the Boy G I'm sure, mentioned David Foster Wallace. The man pretty much owns the postmodern footnote (he got there before Dave Eggers after all), as well as the words "rictus" and "micturate." I sat at home last Bloomsday reading Infinite Jest and surviving only on cans of Dr Pepper--it was that good that I didn't need food. Infinite Jest (erm, not Expectations) inspired me to wear clogs in the first place, and if choice of footwear based solely upon a literary character isn't a high compliment I sure as fuck don't know what is. As for other attempted emulations of the PGOAT (for those in the know) I don't go so far as to wear a veil or smoke crack out of a Big Red Soda Water bottle. But there's time yet. D EQUALS R TIMES T...IT'S EDUCATIONAL... Further to verbal matters, Robyn, and no doubt others, said "blog" too and I will concur that I think it sounds almost as bad as "signage," perpetual bane of the chain bookstore merch employee, a role I once played. Blogging seems to be the new posting, which was the new lurking, which may have been the new having a life... I write this with full knowledge that I too am potentially locked into this evolution. Gack. I confess I had a zine in high school, back in the pre-internet days (double gasp!) so perhaps that's the cro-magnon ancestor of a weblog. "Blog" itself however connotes indigestion to me...I think it should count among Rachel Fruitloop's mantra of "crap hell doody boob on a shingle." And with that filth I end my intellectual niceties, rah! YOU THINK I'M DEAD, BUT I'VE SAILED AWAY... I gotta say my time in London has been made much brighter and more lovely due to the kind people from this list I've met/been shy around/bowled with/gotten tipsy with over the past 10 months. Mad props, y'all. I'm due to imitate Breams and Bappsy and head to another hemisphere before long. Before I could even suggest it, Ken's beaten me to the punch with a rallying call to the London Sinister Bowling League this weekend--can we get a t-shirt please? I'll also spread some homemade oatmeal raisin cookies around when I see some of you at the July 13th gathering...pretty soon Miss Mandee May in the environs of Denver will be the only fellow sinisterian upon whom I'll get to foist my baked goods...mayhap a Denver Massive is in my future, should a Massive be possible with 2. Certainly our 2 Simi Valley residents, and also I am sure those singular souls in more isolated locales, prove that they fucking represent. love and clogs, xox SGS PS: I still can't tell the story of how I found one of the obscure treasure hunt clues and how damn special it made me feel since the fucking answers will never be revealed for the goddamn peace of mind of my ENzyme crew that did search for them so ardently... Son of PS: Marianna gives good Reporting Back. When it's 11:30 and the club is jumpin' jumpin' she also makes it hott! hott! Bride of PS: my dearest JennPB when will you again grace our digests with your sparkly charm? PS, the Next Generation: Mad props and xxx's most of all to lovely listmums Honey and Linda! _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: the high altitude porno waikiki beach alien midgets
by Gordon 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

It's a tiny little golden compact disc wrapped in a yellow and green photocopied sleeve in a see-through plastic wallet, made in northern England by those pesky Alien Porno Midgets. What is? My subject, my fellow sinister sitizens. This information a propos of nada; duck-egg; zilch; nuttin, by the way, except by the way of an introduction to another garbled no-harm-intended blitzkrieg of a post from yours truly. That, and I just love the magical vibes of saying, and repeating, *the high altitude porno waikiki beach alien midgets*. Go on, intone it too. It's better than saying *gouranga*. the high altitude porno waikiki beach alien midgets yes! Don't track them down and buy into their sound, though, unless you want to listen to that which is weirder than weird and then some, with electronically strangled pedal steel guitar on top. Now onto being driven the wrong way down a motorway. Yesterday. It's today's anecdote. So, without further ado but much convolution involved: I was returning from a lamentably idleberryless sojourn in the big smoke London town and, by the only account offered, someone got shot on the M6 in the middle of the night. This, the driver told us over the tannoy later. At the time, all that was apparent was a general lack of movement in the traffic. I mean, hours, or so it seemed, of no motion whatsoever, which does not a proper journey make. I'm all for journeys involving getting places, not being still, even if it's nice 'n' zen now and then [!? yeah, me too, and I wrote it. Sorry]. Anyway, the bus eventually started up again, but in reverse gear along the fast lane, cranked into a U-turn then proceeded towards what I expected would be fast approaching headlights. At 140mph. Rather alarming and apt to be inconvenient. However, no such result resulted, thanks to the ministrations of a nice police person in a big chunky car with blue flashing lights parked at the nearest junction controlling things. So off we tootled as part of an increasingly long single file of juggernauts and suchlike down the deserted backstreets of somewhere like Wigan at 4am. We were late home. The end. My life is not like the movies. Of course, a fellow passenger announced she had a bomb and Elvis was seen driving a small apple green Fiesta GL down the hard shoulder singing 'I left my heart in Brondesbury' just after we re-joined the motorway but before the flying saucer landed at Charnock Services (Northbound), but I'm a bad liar. Can you imagine someone prattling on like this is capable of holding down a proper job? Well, I've not proved it. Actually, it's quite good fun not doing any work for a living, even if it does seem to be raining all the time. This morning, however, over a leisurely breakfast of sausages, eggs, fried potatoes and tomatoes with fresh basil, rhubarb from the garden with cornflakes, an aero mousse (fourpack for 99p, buy one get one free) and a pot of Earl Grey and, oh, just *lounging* around with a magazine, it was so sunny and warm it seemed in order to activate the patio fountain. I even had time to rummage around in the garage for the plastic attachment that converts the bluggubblegluggubble water non-jet into a priapic sixteen inch multiple spray! Hah! take that you labouring types in offices with carpet tiles that build up static and max-pax coffee from a silly machine in the corridor that also spews horrible soup! Take it from me, and my bike! Ok. Please ms/r. job-giving person (yes, you, the dynamic facilitator in the suit), I take it all back. Make me a productive member of society. I desire your sponduliks. And on our merry way, non sequitur stylee... People like getting name-checked in posts, Idleberry. They do indeed Caitlin. But what of the people who inevitably get left out Ken? Not chu, I'll wager, and not Mr. Cochrane Mr. Cochrane Mr. Cochrane. I'll make it simple. Name checks cost 5p each from now on, payable in Euros. That'll be 0.164 Euros Sgazetti, should you decide to take me up on this offer twice. Three name-checks, suitably couched in relevant prose, will set you back nearly a quarter Euro [are there sub-denominations, a la pfennings, pennies? ] Hannah Brown, but you'd be better off saving them and making a trip to the next scotchpicnic in Edinburgh (date to be announced, but pencil Saturday 27th July into those furry covered little notebooks, people, and we'll see what happens). See! That was a picnic rumour slipped in there! Meanwhile, if I say deputy dubs b squared baker miss baker miss lindsey lou baker you won't get much change out of a dollar. [Come to think of it, maybe a Euro divided into a hundred bits is called 100 cents, assuming one were to divide one equally and figuratively rather than in any other way, especially literally.] It seems the latest Glasgow shindig went swimmingly without me, despite predictions to the contrary, which I'm sure were all just falsely modest negative hype on the part of it's organiser. She (I've named you twice already so I'm trying to save you some Euros here) didn't know where it was! Somehow *I* just knew that, with BGM Casarotto involved, so would a football match and hence West 13 must've been a field somewhere. As it turned out, a field next to a tap from which people were drinking and in which they were snogging, which sounds intriguing, as in WHO WAS SNOGGING? Did the tap drip seductively? I confess, I've been there before and am all too aware that this tap is in fact a public house and not some Claes Oldenburg effort [If you're not into modern art, Claes makes massive shuttlecocks and binoculars and possibly taps big enough to snog in, on, under, whatever, but don't ask me why. Check out his 'Study for Giant Chocolate', Laura]. Still. Erm, I seem to have forgotten what I was supposed to be saying. Ah yes. I remember now. THE HIGH ALTITUDE PORNO WAIKIKI BEACH ALIEN MIDGETS You know you want to hula koo maki saki, baby. Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: it's absolutely out, i know it's hippie shit
by rrrrobyn 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

sinister.,.,. though the medium of email does not convey it, i thought all these things at the *same time*: zzt zzt zzt: this is some kind of synth-noise i heard on a cd. it's good to say aloud while a friend goes 'untza untza untza' in the back of his or her throat ('the beat'). this kind of thought makes me want to mention: Steven Kado. and i will, if only because he is rad and from what i cannot help but believe has taken to riding around berlin on a folding bicycle, blasting beat happening on his boombox. to the sinister archives for kado-ness! far too much information about tea: i found some malaysian tea in the cupboard at work and on the label it says 'a masterpiece from the cameron highlands'. so true - the tea leaves are so small yet so full of caffeine, surely a master is at work here. there was a time when i didn't use the caffeine. then a couple months ago i went back on the stuff, but only in tea form. then the world cup hit and i started drinking espresso. aaagh. i'm back to tea now though and feeling much less 'on edge' as they say. anyway, since i'm the only one in the office who owns a teaball in which to put the loose tea, all the gold blend masterpiece tea is for me! and i am drinking it right now! but here's another thing: i've been microwaving my hot water b/c there is a microwave in my new office location and *no kettle*. at first i thought it just wasn't right, but now i'm all about the 4-minute mug of boiled water (it is a small microwave. but maybe i am over-cooking the water? is that possible?). but still, i wouldn't be doing this if i had a choice. stereo total: i have been listening to stereo total's musique automatique on headphones and therefore giving it a 'proper listen'. and loving it, of course. yeah! awesome. get some today! (and the subject heading of this email will be revealed in all its glory!) not actually a thought, but more of an addition i don't have the will to leave out of this email: haha, again, i bought new music on the weekend! the shock of it all. i bought camera obscura 'biggest bluest hi-fi' - a spanish import though for some weird reason! es beuno. i almost passed on it b/c i was having a moment where i wanted 'pop with guts', whatever *that* is. but then i knew that i really wanted fey scottish pop with strings and hurrah for that. and, in a sentimental moment, i broke down and bought the langley schools music project (hey, langley is only 30 minutes from here. and orff instruments were a big part of my childhood.) damn, this album is good. so good you want to scream! waah! if only for the whoo hoo hoo's on 'i'm into something good'. but really for so much more. it makes you love life, honestly. (thank you carsmile steve and the dirty vicar for writing to the list about it and reminding me to buy it :) ) robin stout: is rad. and not just because his 'hectic tourist schedule' involved 'atlanta's most notorious stripper'. but geez, wow. grammatical quandry: here's my little quandry of the day. when i edit papers and such (which i do all the fuckin' time), i put the punctuation inside the quotation marks, yet when i write email i always put it outside. it feels wrong, but i do it b/c it looks better. or does it? is it a medium thing? or am i just subconsciously rebelling against traditional editing style?! you can see how exciting it is to be me, really. even the editors need editors, robyn p.s. i've decided that though weblogs are the 'dark side', i do not have the 'force' to resist. right now i'm just treating it as my brain's recyling bin: full of garbage that might one day be reconstituted into a shiny new pop can! p.p.s. welcome to molly who seems very sinister indeed with her purported shyness and penchant for perscription drugs and vibrating beds. a-hrm. 'teaching english in china', my ass. :) ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden(a)yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.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: coming, coming, come
by Mark Casarotto 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Hi Sinister. I wouldn't recommend using any masturbatory technique to time eggs, unless you are Tom and like them extremely hard boiled. This whole one-minute thing was the result of a bet I rashly made once upon a time that I could, um, achieve from a standing start in 30 seconds. I was wrong by a factor of two. It's not that I didn't fancy you, etc. etc. Apologies to Sweetie for hurting her ear at the Glasgow picnic (don't ask) and losing her pills (ditto). Thanks to Sweetie for providing much of the day's entertainment, though :) It was a smashing picnic, so mad props to Idleberry for organising it and Lucy for filling in the gaps... I am ageing, and muh eyebrows are sprouting bonkers hairs. Sigh. Mark xxx __________________________________________________ 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: magic fingers
by molly due 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

hi, i'm a little shy so be nice. i guess you could say i'm a lurker. i've been so good at lurking that i was off the list for awhile. i originally joined sinister in Oct. '98. i only wrote to the list once and it was uneventful and anticlimatic. you see i find all you to be hopelessly cool and fabulous and i am quite intimidated. anyway i dropped off the list due to increasing school demands. then after i went to see b&s in detroit the flames of love for b&s and sinister grew again. so now i'm back and i didn't even have to go to the nursery again, i feel so special. i decided to crawl out of this nice hole of mine and say hello because i almost feel like i have something to say that might be of some interest to a few of you. i have graduated from college and in Aug i'm going to china to teach english for a year. anybody living in China? well i'm full of nervous excitement. i have read that some of you are also changing countries and changing your life. good luck to you. i got an e-mail from someone you will also be teaching at the same school. she mentioned that she's 64 and has spent the last few years teaching and conducting bridge games on luxury cruises. she sounds like fun and hopefully i will meet more exciting and interesting people. if you like i can let you know about the people and events of interest that occur while i make my journey to the other side of the world. i suppose i should talk a little about b&s for good measure. i was first introduced to b&s in the summer of '98 when a friend of mine from out of town played if you're feeling sinister. he was sure i'd like them and he was right, i immediately fell head over heels. well you can imagine the rest of the story, i went and got all the b&s i could get my hands on. well that's that. i should be going now because i'm at work. first though i'll tell you a little more about myself. my hobbies are in no particular order: drinking, watching simpsons, reality tv and baseball, prescription drugs, reading, and sleeping. other bands i like alot are figurine, field mice, david bowie, de la soul, unrest the list is endless. another thing i think you should all know is that i have an old 60's magic fingers vibrating mechanism (from an old motel) attached to my bed. it still works, you have to put a quarter in to start it. there's a series of round robin wrestling matches going on between my friends to see who gets to borrow it while i am in China for a year. thanks for reading my post and maybe you'll hear from me again. -molly due __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.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: sexual athletes
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

feeling splendidly grubby and depressed this morning after finally seeing storytelling. i must say though that i strongly disapprove of the whole fiction/non-fiction split. i didn't think that fiction was remotely strong enough as an idea to be a section in its own right - it felt like maybe a scene from another film altogether, yet to be made. and the juxtaposition didn't really have any underlying significance that wasn't imposed by the title/sub-titles. this is just LAZINESS on solondz's part, surely? he had two ideas, neither of which were quite feature-length, and instead of being patient and waiting for two mighty oaks to grow from tiny intellectual acorns, he made one mostly average, disjointed film. grr. however, i did do a crazy dance to 'scooby driver', so it wasn't an entirely wasted evening. i am looking forward to receiving my inexpensive prize for successfully being a sad geek (and hoping that terry underwear is a millionaire to whom a gamecube is an inexpensive prize...) good to hear that another sinister picnic maintained high levels of smut. of course, we southern picnickers are actually hardcore sports mentalists, rather than sex-crazed slackers. football, bowling, AND i might be bringing *shuttlecocks* to the next exciting adventure on saturday, with who knows what HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES. so, i will see some of you then. high noon: you, me, racquets at 10 paces. your red bull won't save you now chu... and now i must go and recover from that Robin Stout Gets Fat! shockah. luv archel xxx ps. anyone who is not up to the high standards of athleticism demanded by a london picnic, or lives towards the north end of the british isles, should go to the winchester club on saturday instead. i hear it's not half bad, if you can't have huge quantities of bouze on top of a hill that is. ****************** http://archel.blogspot.com Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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: B & S Cryptic Challenge Answers and Winners
by terry underwear 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Hello, Here are the answers: 1. Stuarts confounded rams are sexy (4). ARMS 2. Go out on a wing before June (6). MAYFLY 3. The list is feeling this (8). SINISTER 4. A jumbled main test I hate, so I'm not happy for a day (3,5,2,2,2). THE STATE II (as Jim pointed out, a letter so nice it prints itself twice) AM IN 5. Everyone measures the place of learning (2,4,3,6). WE RULE THE SCHOOL 6. My friend and I are the opposite of you and the underage kid (2,3,3,5). ME AND THE MAJOR 7. 100 pretenders (1,7,2,6). A CENTURY OF FAKERS 8. Initially, my alligator rarely yelled jovial offerings at this girl (4,2). MARY JO 9. Similar to Bob at the cinema (4,5,2,3,6). LIKE DYLAN IN THE MOVIES 10. Sounds like you are talking about what the boy does for Liverpool and Widnes (6). DISCUS 11. Evil sin band tease label. But aren't they why we are all here? (5,3,9). BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! 12. When told this story you get grey. (5,3,5,5). BLACK AND WHITE UNITE 13. Past the dawn? (6,3,7). BEYOND THE SUNRISE 14. Screw this poo (4,4,4). FUCK THIS SHIT 15. Getting messed up helps Tim sing, but only for the easy bits. (6,6). SIMPLE THINGS 16. Somewhere in the mistaken churchgoer lies a cult figure (3,3). KEN CHU 17. This sinister person likes small lazy fruit (9). IDLEBERRY 18. Everyone loves this paltry picnic game, especially the birds! (4,4,5). DUCK DUCK GOOSE 19. Doze all day and all night (5,3,5,6). SLEEP THE CLOCK AROUND 20. Sounds like I am finished thinking (2,8,4,3,4). MY WANDERING DAYS ARE OVER 21. Terry and Julie form a new band somewhere in the waterloo period (6). LOOPER 22. Winnie the Pooh loves our mummy (5). HONEY 23. Roll Lassie forwards? God no, backwards! (3,2,6). DOG ON WHEELS 24. This is a gorgeous song (9). BEAUTIFUL 25. Groucho and what sounds like trigonometry (4,3,6). MARX AND ENGELS And here are the winners. Everyone who replied got all the correct answers, so you are all winners! But the following people were super quick and have won small inexpensive prizes. Come on down........Richard Gillanders!........Jim from Perth!........Sam Walton!........and Archel Playforth! If you could all email me your postal addresses i will send you all small inexpensive prizes. terry PS. The recipe tree will be getting underway very soon. _____________________________________________________ Supercharge your e-mail with a 25MB Inbox, POP3 Access, No Ads and NoTaglines --> LYCOS MAIL PLUS. http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Wandering alone in G12
by paul healy 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Sorry for the silence, Anyway I had a good time the two nights I spent in Glasgow, going to QMU gig and NPL. Cheers for the offers of drinks most of which I turned due to feeling slightly ill, must have been the fresh air. What's up with CHU, I'm getting tired thinking about playing footie on Saturday and he suggests bowling on Sunday. Looks like I'll have develop a liking for Red Bull fast. See some of you at the weekend, I'll might less hair by then. Paul H P.S. Isn't everyone on SINISTER a psycho-mentalist? No, just me then. P.H. : What do think it of shit? Sinister: ILE! P.H. : What do think it of ILE? Sinister: Shit! P.H. : Cheers Sinister: Thats alright __________________________________________________ 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: Guitar 'dooshing', Transvestite tennis, and Mick's nice shirt
by Richard Cottyn 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

Helloey, Guess who was on television during BBC'S Glastonbury footage?! Woohoo. During our beloved Belle and Sebastians set (John Peels highlight of the weekend no less), as 'Wandering Alone' comes to an end with a nice little 'doosh' on the guitar from Stevie, the camera pans over a close up of the crowd for about three seconds...and there I am at the front! Although my friend (who was stood right next to me) only has his hat visible! I think the cameraman decided not to show any more of him because he isn't REALLY a fan. I dragged him along though, and needless to say he was very impressed. I could delight you with tales of my exploits (like wandering into the backstage area of the acoustic stage)...but I guess you had to be there. David Kitt played a superb set on the acoustic stage and I was impressed with Tompaulin in The New Bands tent. Gummi mentioned The Leaves in his last post-saw them too, they sounded very good. It was interesting to see that they had replaced the Wimbledon ladies doubles final with 'men masquerading as women doubles final'. I have never seen so much testosterone on a tennis court. Can we wish for a 'women masquerading as men doubles final' next year? Much more fun. Or even a transvestite championship? Maybe by imagination is running a little awry here... Got B&S's autographs too from the signing tent! Stuart talked the most, I didn't realise how deep his Scottish accent was. Mick didn't use a permanent marker so if I rub it it begins to fade! I forgave him though because he was wearing an absolutely marvellous shirt during their performance. Here's an amusing conversation I heard: Random woman: Who are they? Security Guy: Belle and Sebastian Random Woman: But who are the others? Security Guy: Belle and Sebastian Random Woman: Eh? Security Guy: They are a band. There are more than two of them. Random Woman: Oh! Weird. (Walks away) I bet she went to see Roger Waters instead! Reggies post about Denise the waitress was real sad. Not really a 'crying' sad, but a 'sighing' sad. Oh, I know what I mean! Welcome aboard Reggie and other 'newbies'. :) Sam Walton mentioned Championship Manager. Dearie me, how many hours, days, months, years have I spent on that damn game?! In the version before last I eventually won the Premiership and Champions League with Brighton, after about 20 seasons and lots of hours in front of my computer. I haven't been on it since, so maybe my achievements finally exorcised the 'Champ Man' demons as it were. Ciao for now, Richard X PS Mr Watson, I loved the twee test! Especially the question about playing marbles at gigs...Apparently I'm 62% twee (and I doubt the test will be the slightest bit wrong). That's pretty twee really :) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: now we only need one thing
by Guðmundur Jóhannsson 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Hi all!! I was the only one that attended the icelandic sinister picnic. oh it was so much fun! :) Travis was here on the 4th of july. A great Icelandic band called The Leaves opened the gig and did it well. You lot will probably hear from them in the near future. They cant perform in Iceland without the regular crowd from Q, NME and MTV raid the gig. Travis were a little dissapointing. I was expecting more, they are Travis after all. They took a whole different setlist then they are used to playing in recent gigs probably because the didnt know what the icelandic crowd knew. They probably didnt notice that the crowd whent nuts when they played Happy from Good Feeling their first album. A album that went nowhere and died the same day it was released. People really love them here. I thought that the gig was a bit short. Coldplay are the live kings at the moment. They came here last fall and played an amazing gig. Everybody loved it. Nothing exciting happening here in the summertime now that Travis have gone. The Hives and White Stripes are reported to come here in the fall but thats not confirmed. We never get any good band because its probably expensive to come with all the gear here on our little island. Now I only need B&S to make a trip here. :) Gotta go play with me friends now!! The sun never goes away in the summer here so you can imagine how much fun it is to play football all the night. have fun! Gummi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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