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Sinister: what is that, a shrimp?
by Richard Pattison 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

Hey sinister, My name is Richard and this is my first post. On Saturday I attended the picnic of RAWK. It was my first sinister picnic and Id like to thank everyone for making me feel welcome: Jamie, Idleberry, Gayle, Keith, Thomas, Lucy, Jeremy, Caitlin, Stefano, Michel, Callum, Gordon, Ally, Beer and anyone else I cant remember because I may have been too drunk ( you know who you are even if I dont) Picnic of Rawk was an apt description by caitlin I think. The male policeman seemed quite nice but the female police lady seemed particularly evil. She subsumed herself to the myth/fact of sinister criminal potency and followed through with truncheons/affirmitive language. My last run in with authority was when the security guard at my uni halls told me to turn down the VU (apparently his life hadnt been saved by rock n roll). So I think the picnic wins the title of most rawk. Meanwhile whilst perusing guestbooks I noticed that Stuart Murdoch has finally reached the pinnacle of literary achievment (see Jan 27th) http://books.dreambook.com/ptpittman/sodastream.html Regards, Richard _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.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: on a recipe tree, would you like to be?
by terry underwear 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

Hello, Would anyone be interested in being in a recipe tree like thing? seeing as how i have a 5 week break from uni i thought i could even attempt to organise it. I thought it could maybe work by people telling me if they would like to participate (OFF LIST of course), then i would pick people (say, one person/week or fortnight)randomly to send me a recipe (maybe 2 recipes, one always having to be vegetarian), and i could then forward it to everyone who had registered their interest. That should be quite easy for me to organise (i'm not very good at organising - i seem to be quite good at using parenthesis but). Someone keen could even design a nice cover and everyone could make their very own Sinister cookbooks! i hope all that makes sense. So if you are interested please email me OFF LIST. everyone else seems to put that in big letters so i thought i should too. i am going ice skating tomorrow and shall be attempting to do a pirouette on ice. I think i will look like a fool rather than cool. And for some topical content, here are some B & S lyrics concerning food/drinks: "Not everyone's cup of tea she would admit to me" "Talking dirty, for a hobby it's fine So pour another glass of wine I'll think of England this time" "When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it" well, mainly drink related. i'm sure there are lots more. have a nice day. terry _________________________________________ Communicate with others using Lycos Mail for FREE! http://mail.lycos.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: S-A-T-U-R D-A-Y, HEY!
by Hewitt, Stephen 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

ello babies, my name's Steve and I like Belle & Sebastian. amykins was bigging up shirley beans' nite, yet seemed to have got the running order wrong, who is this fletcher woman? and this johnson bloke? to be headlining over our very own gail o'hara? what will the lumberjacks think? speaking of people we never hear from any more, I see chrys lynnyrd's movie career is going well, shame about the perm... it is him in thunderpants isn't it? also i was watching "would like to meet" on bbc2 the other nite and the single woman on the programme was advised to do some performance poetry to build her confidence. and where better to do this than scene of many a sinister love-in at the poetry cafe. good thing mr trousers has moved on, otherwise the programme would only have been half as long ;) caitlin whispered dark secrets about glasgae, contravening the strict rules of Reporting Back. we want names, places, events. David Moore wondered if he'd mentioned that eff this ess sounds like raindrops keep falling on my head, but a quick archival rummage produced only hopkins blathering on about mucky ska records and someone called "fluffy candarel", what kind of a name is that... anyhoo, it's GLASTO next week and lots of yr little sini-friends are going. are you going? are you on siniglasto? why not??? look, here it is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/siniglasto not that we've actually organised anything like a meet-up or anything yet, but i'm sure we'll get around to it before next thursday <ahem>... but before then on S-A-T-U-R D-A-Y (yes, i have been listening to the langley schools music project quite a bit) there is bowlinbowlinbowlinbowlin, which should clearly be at ROWANS by finsbury park tube, whoever it is that's organising it, anyone? anyone? bueller? hopefully i will not be quite as rub as last time but i fear i shall, so worry not people who think they can't bowl, you can stand next to me and look half decent... also on thursday the N london sinister massive (well, me, dappers, chu and marianne at least) will be representin' at "how does it feel...". just what you need before a 7.30am kickoff, drinking 'til 2... xoxo CarsmileSteve PS Why does nobody talk about the breakfast club and pretty in pink any more? **************************************************************************** For the latest City Lit news & information, please visit our website www.citylit.ac.uk **************************************************************************** The City Literary Institute Registered Office: 16 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LJ Registered in England no: 2471686 Registered Charity no: 803007 *************************************************** PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. *************************************************** This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information. The message and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the recipient or organisation to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, no action may be taken on the information nor may it be copied or shown to a third party and you are asked to notify the sender named above. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where specifically stated to be the views of The City Literary Institute. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sex continues to confound me.
by Ellie (loves red shoes) 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

Lovely Sinisterians, Given my somewhat unfortunate history with relationships, you could say I was a girl looking for love in all the wrong places. You could say that, that is, if you are one prone to hackneyed clichés -- as I occasionally am. After making an impetuous declaration to no longer date the types Id been dating, I was plunged into six months of tortured celibacy. I finally sought to rectify this situation last Friday in that Holy Grail of swingerdom: the no-strings attached [assumedly] emotionless casual sex. Never being one to get something right the first time, however, I give the activity absolutely no forethought and ended up selecting the housemate of my best friend as my mate. (Mistake, especially since I am temporarily living in said house.) In short, I think I am simply not emotionally equipped to spend the day following my first sexual encounter with someone utterly alone. In an act of unintentional abandonment, he went off for the weekend and I spent the day paying bills, reading every old Newsweek in the house, and skimming a rather boring book of Celtic fairy tales. When he finally returned (disinterested in anything Id cooked in my bout of domesticity) we exchanged only the most cursory greetings (most of which consisted of me relaying his phone messages, anyway) and he went downstairs to play bass, making the whole house vibrate with Weezer chords. I wanted nothing more than someone to talk to, but instead had to settle for sitting on the porch railing, alone, with a mug of hot cocoa, and watching the pedestrians. In those several hours I had to contemplate Grand Things on our dingy porch across from an even dingier motel, the only thing I could think of was, If I cant have relationships and I cant have casual sex, what can I have? (if the answer is a one-woman Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sing-a-long on a rainy summer evening, I suppose Ill just have to settle for that.) Ellie. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Glastonbury Warm-Up
by Neil Robertson 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

It is with great pleasure that I can announce Belle & Sebastian will be performing a special Glastonbury warm-up show at Glasgow QMU on Thursday 27th June. Check www.banchory.net/belleandsebastian/news.html for ticket details. If they're not there now, they will be in a couple of hours. You will also find news of the band's Greek debut (Athens, Sep 13th). Rock on, Neil +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 am a silly dummy
by bus stoppers 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

here''s the real e-mail...i pwomise! okay, here are the songs for my ex-boys so far: side a chris-(crazy for you but) not that crazy ronda-the death of ferdinand de saussure eric-underwear dave-punk love dominic-it's a crime mike-absolutely cuckoo side b ty-love in the shadows ryan-if you don't cry luke- very funny jonathan-let's pretend we're bunny rabbits steve-all my little words sean-the things we did and didn't do so when i was writing up my list, i found that i really am bad with song titles. i never know what they are. i will admit to knowing a slim few, but it can still be safely concluded that i am shit when it comes to naming a title at the sound of a certain song. such a shame. all those clever spurts of words and i don't know enough of them! how frustrating it was to know the song and the words, but have to look at the paper, the pen, the booklet, the cd player tract number...back and forth back and forth...whew...i almost went cross eyed. but all is said and done now. love, sara ===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.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: Go Stuff Yesterday
by David Moore 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

Hi All You Sinister Foxx, Sadly its not possible for me to make it up for the gig at the QMU, but I wish everyone who is lucky enough to be able to go a wonderful time. Best wishes for a grate time also to the Sini-Glasto mob. Caitlin Pigtails is a pricknick teaser: we want to know more! Why did the Glasgae pubnic have to be broken up by the polis? What were all you lot getting up to? Drinking under age, or something? I know that a lot of you out there love Isobel, & care as little for that "sound of a hamster asphyxiating on a furball of its own fluffiness" stuff as I do. Well, her new album with Bill Wells, of little known Billie Holliday covers, is out today. See http://www.creepingbent.org/artists/view_artist.asp?id=11 for details (and a marvellous Beauty & The Beast pic as well.) Apparently there's a gig on Friday at the CCA too.* Oh, Stevie plays harmonica on one track. I haven't had time to listen to it , so can't offer an opinion on its artistic merit yet. Everyone has their own criteria for judging value for money, but the only point I would like to make before you rush off & buy it is that it clocks in at exactly one second longer than .... .... 19 minutes, so please be careful how much you end up paying for it. * What a bummer for Glasgow residents, for this clashes with the second outing of the Wonderful Winchester Club (at the The Woodside Social club, north Woodside road - which is just off great Western road at kelvinbridge) featuring mad axeman Malcolm Middleton of quietly violent Arab Strap. Er, what else? Nothing really, except I may finally get to meet the the Sinister person I most want to encounter in person later this summer. Yippeee! That'll be wonderful! Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: will 12 songs = 60 minutes?
by bus stoppers 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.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: Does anyone want to live with me at Glasgow Uni this coming fall?
by Ramesh Srivastava 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

I would really like to avoid living in another dorm this coming school year and I'm pretty collected and clean. At least we would have one thing in common. This is a tacky solicitation, but it's a last desperate attempt. I am supposed to send in my housing form tomorrow. In other news, I'm still a construction worker, but my parents have left me with the house for three weeks, so life is grand. I watched Hilary and Jackie tonight, which I like, and I still have Breathless to see... Yeah! THis might not be the best way to find a roommate, but no harm in trying, eh? Sorry for the list abuse (I know everybody always writes that and it's starting to lose meaning) and it won't happen again. PS THanks for all the New Order reccomendations. That band is fucking brilliant. Cheers, Remy _________________________________________________________________ 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: put me in a frock and leave me to recite.
by lindsey baker 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

hello sinister. i bought knee socks today. white with cable stitching, from the little girls' department at j.c. penney. they were 20 percent off, and i got excited, picking out the package from the rows and rows of pink and white and lavender anklets and tights and crew socks. i bought navy knee socks without cables, and enjoyed my dorky purchase, swinging the bag as i walked, imagining myself in the knee socks. i put some on about an hour later. and i looked at myself in the mirror, liking the socks and the way my twenty-year-old legs looked in them. and i wondered what i was doing, who i was kidding. and then i remembered i was just playing a part, after all, of the girl who never loses the flowers she was born with, only the ones she picked up along the way. *** i think living alone is getting to me. i have started to do everything with a solitary sense of self, going shopping and eating and walking alone. i sit somewhere for hours, with a book or a cigarette or nothing else at all to keep my hands busy, and just watch things happen. watch people holding hands or riding a bike down the street or making a call on a pay phone. i try to remember what it was like to look like i had someone, and i can't. but then i never really had anyone, i finally remember, and i start wishing a song could follow my footsteps. a soundtrack for me. a theme song. but i don't know what the song would be anymore, and i can't think of anyone who would particularly care to hear it, or change the undoubtedly lonely lyrics. so i keep walking, trying not to stare and trying harder to ignore the people leaning out their windows to shout through the summertime that i shouldn't be so down. *** tonight i was walking to get a sandwich, and a woman approached me. she looked lost and a little frantic. to be fair about it, she looked a little like a crazy woman let loose on the streets of lincoln. and she came up to me, wearing a matching red shirt and short set. her face was very tan, and i wondered if she was native american. i looked at the deep and many pock marks on her face, surrounded by a mass of tangled black hair, as she asked me for help. she was in a domestic violence situation, she said, and could i give her some kind of help. i stood there, a little girl in her knee socks, and said the only thing they teach little girls to say to strangers who might be transients. "no, i'm sorry. i can't." walking on, i wondered why i hadn't told her to go to the ymca two blocks down the street. why i hadn't taken out my spoiled suburbian cellular phone to call the police for the name of a shelter. why she had to keep walking to find an elderly couple who gave her what she needed. someone to help her. i thought maybe i hadn't because i was starting to get scared of everything. of everyone. maybe i hadn't because i went with my knee-jerk reaction. maybe she hadn't been telling the truth, was pleading for something else. but in the end, i knew i hadn't helped her because i didn't know how. i didn't know how to help a woman when i was already being asked to save another, one i couldn't save, either. one who was me. and i kept moving forward and tracking back, retracing the same path i have walked so many times, looking at my feet making the pavement disappear. what kind of person am i? i should have helped her. i should have been able to. but instead i was infatuated with myself and a love i will never have. because i am not brave enough to love. i am not brave enough to help. and i am not brave enough to be myself. not anymore. *** someone told me it must take courage to dress the way i do. and i laughed, because i am not brave at all. i told the girl that all it took to wear rainbow-striped knee socks and patent leather shoes in the middle of june was a tiny bit of chutspa. a tiny bit of self-assertion. this boy named austin gave me a bit of advice, and, upon looking at my quivering bottom lip, decided i really wasn't that brave. and told me as much. and somewhere in the back of my mind i remembered something someone wrote to me once. in the middle of may. lou = brave. and i had cried then, and i cried now. lou doesn't equal very much some days, and the days she does she seems to stay inside. maybe if i call her and let the phone ring long enough, she will wake up again and come outside. into the summertime she hates so much. maybe i can learn to be brave. to be me. to help. to love. and to not be scared anymore. maybe i can learn to just be. no matter what kind of socks i have on. love, lou xxx ------------------ 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!!! _________________________________________________________________ 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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