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Re: Sinister: minette
by Ian Watson 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

I used to have a cat called Minette. It is French for kitten. There's logic in there somewhere. ---------- >From: "chippy eileen" <chippyeileen(a)hotmail.com> >To: sinister(a)missprint.org >Subject: Sinister: minette >Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2002, 10:56 pm > > >her name is michelle, but she likes to be called shelley. >her mother picked the name, because she thought it was exotic ('i wanted to >call her MINETTE but bill wouldn't let me') >i am supposed to talk to her while her mother, who is named mary but calls >herself maria, talks to my adopted mother, margaret. > maria roves east langerston and the surrounding area cutting the hair of >various women of leisure. those women that are available between 9 a.m. and >3 p.m. at 3 p.m. maria has to go home and put bill's dinner on. bill likes >his dinner on the table as soon as he returns from the factory. > >this is my first day off from the chippy for a while, but i have little to >do with it. it is taking some courage to face the village again. >so i am spending the day in my bedroom, with shelley, who doesn't like me. > >shelley is wearing a denim jacket and a ck t-shirt. she dropped out of >sixth form last year and now accompanies her mother as her 'mobile hair >service' services the world. or, at least, that part of yorkshire that is >ready for her. > >shelley is looking through my cds > >"what's this shit?" (it is teenage fanclub) > >i think about defending my musical taste, but decide not to waste my time. >i look at shelley, and wonder how minette would have turned out. i imagine >a waif-like french girl, clutching her satchel and running up the steps of >the Sorbonne, beautiful brown hair flowing behind her in the wind. > >minette, in real life, is a little different. she was in the year below me >at school. she tells me she remembers me 'because you do remember all >the.........' >she looks at herself in my mirror, scraping a lock of newly-permed hair to >the back of her head, where it forms a pile and cascades to her shoulders. >she looks at my short red hair with distaste > >"who did that?" > >"my hair?" she puts a stick of gum in her mouth, not offering me one, and >wish i could think of something clever to say to her 'i err.... i...i cut it >myself'. > >the only response is a nod and a barely suppressed smirk. > >i can feel her eyes on me as i pretend to study my duvet. i think minette >wants to tell me something, and i try not to be interested in what it might >be. eventually, there is a sharp intake of breath and i decide to get in >before she does - > >"shelley.... do you listen to music much?". she seems taken aback. "have >you ever sat in the dark, and just played and played and played a record >until you can feel it seeping in through your pores, and mingling with your >thoughts and feelings, and becoming part of them" > >minette looks at me as if i had just asked to have sex with her mother. > >"no". she shuffles, and turns away. > >"have you ever shut off your mind completely, and only let the music in? >has a record ever become such an important part of you that you change >forever?" > >"are you on drugs? mandy althorpe said you were. she said she saw you in >leeds one night and you were on drugs" > >"shelley... just try something." > >i don't know why i did it. i wanted her to shut up. i wanted her to >understand me. i think i wanted her to like me. i looked through my >records, and tried to find something that shelley macdonald wouldn't think >was "shit". in the end, i decide to put on something i like instead. i put >on "geometrid", because i have been listening to it a lot in recent days. i >draw the curtains and turn the speakers toward her. > >"now sit very still, close your eyes, and empty your mind. think of >nothing, and try and imagine the music. try and feel it, as it enters your >ear, and follow it through your body, and see where it stops, and tell me >how it feels." > >at this point, i expect her to leave. but she suprises me. perhaps it is >because she is interested. she would never do this sort of thing with her >real friends. she would never do this in front of anyone whose opinion >interested her. she would only do it with someone who she regards as an >outsider. and, in this small village, there aren't many of those. i think >she wants something exciting to happen, although she may not know it. > >i switch on the album, setting it to skip certain songs (i don't want her >telling people i listen to songs about drinking piss. i have to face them >again at some point) and i sit back, with my eyes half shut. > >i can see minette is concentrating. she is holding her breath, and biting >her lower lip. she never smiles, but looks as serious as i have ever seen >her. and she is mercifully silent. i am regretting my musical choice. i >wish i had picked something less fey. i can't imagine a situation where >minette would choose to listen to 'these things'. but i'm amazed to see her >fingers starting to twitch, her head to wobble a little, and a smile come to >those permapursed lips. her fingers twitch again. she's feeling something. > >maria's voice floats up the stairs "shelley, time to go" > >shelley snaps out of her reverie. she doesn't look at me. she picks up her >coat, and heads for the door. but then she realises she's forgotten the >bombshell > >"i saw andy the other day down the bull.............. he's gay now" > > >as i write this mail, minette - or shelley as i will try and call her - has >just left the house. she came back at half-past seven and sat, watching >eastenders with margaret whilst i taped the copy of "geometrid" that she had >requested. i asked her to say hello to andy from me, and watched her smile >to herself, nurturing her new-found knowledge. > >i wish i could see her face when she realises stuart david is singing >"drink piss to cool down your brain". > >i wish i knew what she was going to do with that tape > >eileen > > >_________________________________________________________________ >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. 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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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Re: Sinister: Picnics and Birthdays (London), Picnics and Gigs (Edinburgh)
by Dimitra Daisy 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Yes, I know. I got Sweetie's adress wrong. I was bound to get something wrong with the computer crashing 4 times. I'm sorry. Anyway it is something_sinister(a)hotmail.com and I'm sure about it this time. Apologies to everyone and a thank you to Andy for spotting it, Dimitra xx _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: Yelling at Stuart when the Asian Girl passed out
by Dennis Trading 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Newbie here finally finishing up my probationary period... Oscar just wanted to say that i am or was or oscillating Morrissey fanatic as well...but it has waned a great deal. I did see B&S at the Wilshire back in September and thought my GOD this has got to be one of the greatest bands around and one of the best all time shows i've ever seen...eventho they didn't cover a Smiths song or do an encore..nevertheless they rank right up there with any Morrissey, Suede or Radiohead concert I've ever been too. As for the Coachella bit you are going to...I was tempted but I highly advise you to just save your money...but then again...Oasis and the Strokes are playing the same day B&S are so it maybe worth it but I still think those KROQ dweebs are the scum of the earth >From: Oscar Vivanco <cinemaone(a)earthlink.net> >Reply-To: Oscar Vivanco <cinemaone(a)earthlink.net> >To: sinister <sinister(a)missprint.org> >Subject: Sinister: Yelling at Stuart when the Asian Girl passed out >Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:28:54 -0800 > >So there I am. At my second B&S show in a row at the Warfield in San >Francisco, when this tiny Asian girl just ups and passes out. People >scatter and the band stops playing. Stuart edges up the crowd. "What's >happened to her?" The band is at attention. She's passed out is the >general consensus. Security carries her off and I yell out, "You made her >pass out with that purty voice of yours." He looks at me and nods his >head. >Silly Americans he must have been thinking. >Those two nights they did a Smiths cover, the leader of the pack song, Sly >and the Family Stone. >At that point there I decided on my new favorite band. It had been >Morrissey. Forever it was Morrissey, no question. But B&S did it for me >that night. And now I contemplate lyrics being tattooed on me. >"We know you are soft cause we've all seen you dancing >We know you are hard cause we all saw you drinking from noon >Until noon again" >Not really, but its obsession. I even sent away for a tea towel. I live >in >America, where I've never even heard of a tea towel, but I have a B@S tea >towel, and a mug and a mousepad and three shirts and all the posters and >the >postcards and everything on vinyl and everything on CD. >And I'm the boy with the filthy laugh who's flying to Los Angeles and paid >$143 for a two day festival to see B&S play for an hour or two. $100 for >the plane, $75 for a rental, $100 for a hotel, $8 a bottle for water and >you >have the happiest boy for just under $500 for a two day weekend, not to >mention that I only work on the weekends so blaggh. >So I will confess to you >this is my first post ever and I don't know how much longer I can hold no >one's attention. >Oscar Love > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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! +-+ >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________ 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: minette
by chippy eileen 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

her name is michelle, but she likes to be called shelley. her mother picked the name, because she thought it was exotic ('i wanted to call her MINETTE but bill wouldn't let me') i am supposed to talk to her while her mother, who is named mary but calls herself maria, talks to my adopted mother, margaret. maria roves east langerston and the surrounding area cutting the hair of various women of leisure. those women that are available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at 3 p.m. maria has to go home and put bill's dinner on. bill likes his dinner on the table as soon as he returns from the factory. this is my first day off from the chippy for a while, but i have little to do with it. it is taking some courage to face the village again. so i am spending the day in my bedroom, with shelley, who doesn't like me. shelley is wearing a denim jacket and a ck t-shirt. she dropped out of sixth form last year and now accompanies her mother as her 'mobile hair service' services the world. or, at least, that part of yorkshire that is ready for her. shelley is looking through my cds "what's this shit?" (it is teenage fanclub) i think about defending my musical taste, but decide not to waste my time. i look at shelley, and wonder how minette would have turned out. i imagine a waif-like french girl, clutching her satchel and running up the steps of the Sorbonne, beautiful brown hair flowing behind her in the wind. minette, in real life, is a little different. she was in the year below me at school. she tells me she remembers me 'because you do remember all the.........' she looks at herself in my mirror, scraping a lock of newly-permed hair to the back of her head, where it forms a pile and cascades to her shoulders. she looks at my short red hair with distaste "who did that?" "my hair?" she puts a stick of gum in her mouth, not offering me one, and wish i could think of something clever to say to her 'i err.... i...i cut it myself'. the only response is a nod and a barely suppressed smirk. i can feel her eyes on me as i pretend to study my duvet. i think minette wants to tell me something, and i try not to be interested in what it might be. eventually, there is a sharp intake of breath and i decide to get in before she does - "shelley.... do you listen to music much?". she seems taken aback. "have you ever sat in the dark, and just played and played and played a record until you can feel it seeping in through your pores, and mingling with your thoughts and feelings, and becoming part of them" minette looks at me as if i had just asked to have sex with her mother. "no". she shuffles, and turns away. "have you ever shut off your mind completely, and only let the music in? has a record ever become such an important part of you that you change forever?" "are you on drugs? mandy althorpe said you were. she said she saw you in leeds one night and you were on drugs" "shelley... just try something." i don't know why i did it. i wanted her to shut up. i wanted her to understand me. i think i wanted her to like me. i looked through my records, and tried to find something that shelley macdonald wouldn't think was "shit". in the end, i decide to put on something i like instead. i put on "geometrid", because i have been listening to it a lot in recent days. i draw the curtains and turn the speakers toward her. "now sit very still, close your eyes, and empty your mind. think of nothing, and try and imagine the music. try and feel it, as it enters your ear, and follow it through your body, and see where it stops, and tell me how it feels." at this point, i expect her to leave. but she suprises me. perhaps it is because she is interested. she would never do this sort of thing with her real friends. she would never do this in front of anyone whose opinion interested her. she would only do it with someone who she regards as an outsider. and, in this small village, there aren't many of those. i think she wants something exciting to happen, although she may not know it. i switch on the album, setting it to skip certain songs (i don't want her telling people i listen to songs about drinking piss. i have to face them again at some point) and i sit back, with my eyes half shut. i can see minette is concentrating. she is holding her breath, and biting her lower lip. she never smiles, but looks as serious as i have ever seen her. and she is mercifully silent. i am regretting my musical choice. i wish i had picked something less fey. i can't imagine a situation where minette would choose to listen to 'these things'. but i'm amazed to see her fingers starting to twitch, her head to wobble a little, and a smile come to those permapursed lips. her fingers twitch again. she's feeling something. maria's voice floats up the stairs "shelley, time to go" shelley snaps out of her reverie. she doesn't look at me. she picks up her coat, and heads for the door. but then she realises she's forgotten the bombshell "i saw andy the other day down the bull.............. he's gay now" as i write this mail, minette - or shelley as i will try and call her - has just left the house. she came back at half-past seven and sat, watching eastenders with margaret whilst i taped the copy of "geometrid" that she had requested. i asked her to say hello to andy from me, and watched her smile to herself, nurturing her new-found knowledge. i wish i could see her face when she realises stuart david is singing "drink piss to cool down your brain". i wish i knew what she was going to do with that tape eileen _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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Sinister: I know you will forgive me for my honesty
by sgazzetti 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

If only because thats playing just now, rather than it's being apt, or not, for what follows. Hello all (or maybe only some) To borrow a term from Renaissance bronze sculptors, this is what we might call the Lost Wax approach to to writing a content-based post; that is, there is no content, but I *am* going to actually mention the band, since I am beginning this post about mid-way through a chronologicathon with all their discs, including The Black Sessions and Bowlie Weekender tapes and everything Ive got. Apart, sadly, from the latest, since I cant locate Im Waking Up To Us in the former Yugoslavia nor convince any reputable concern (other than a friend, made through this list, who knows who she is, and that I love her) to ship it to me here. *Sigh*. I will just have to wait two weeks to buy it in Edinburgh, and see for myself. Thats it for the content, folks. Delete now, if you dont want to read more support for the (apparently) ad nauseum-type diary entry-type posts, so vociferously under attack in recent weeks. On that by-now overtired thread, David Hewitt recently wrote, >>>I've >>>probably got more to apologise for than most, so I'll do so now. Sorry.>>> Shame on you, Mr. Hewitt! Youve always written from the heart, and thats what I come here for. Remember: Sinister Means Never Having to Say Im Sorry! Much more to my liking was this offering from Lindsey Baker: >>>***i am not, nor will i ever, apologize for the post that is to follow. and on that same note, i heretofore take back any apologies i may have made for any posts i have written, am writing, or will write. i love each and every one of my posts, even if you lot don't. so deal with it. thank you.***>>> (asterisks hers, little wedgie-thingies mine) Thats it! The gauntlet has been THROWN DOWN or something. I know, as do so many better posters before me, that we dont talk about The List on The List. But I want to go on record as stating that the reason I come here is to learn about other people like me; because even if other B&S fans are not like me in terms of sex, race, nationality, job, haircut, shoe-size, savior-faire, I know that they ARE enough like me that I will want to read about details of their day. Because people who love B&S also love words, and they value the power and beauty that words can carry when wielded properly, as we all see every day (I hope) in the music that unites us, that brought us here in the first place. So, while I understand that some might find the diary entry sort of post boring, I and obviously many others feel its anything but. I come here to feel the *amae*, to see that other like-minded people have similar trivial concerns, fixations, maunderings, worries, and can write about them with passion and feeling and humor and joy (and sometimes despair--as Billy Bragg said, youve got to take the crunchy with the smooth) and artfulness. To those who dont value this, I say, delete me, delete all of us. They just did. I feel better. I love that I can peer in all of your windows, invited, even, and see what youre studying (Greek? Really? Why?) and eating (toast? Again? But youre a stick!) and listening to (Low? Sign me up!) and reading (The Great Big Book Of Women Who Were Great--is that a *real* book...?). Checking my Sini-Digest is so much more rewarding than spending equal time staring out my rear window hoping to see if theres anyone interesting in the opposite flats (although when I do see someone like that, guess who wins? Sorry). But the odds are a lot longer out there than in here, and I value the intimacy that only personal, so-called boring posts can muster IN HERE. Thanks to everyone whos ever posted for sharing your lives, interesting all, with me. Can we please call this thread dead and get back to business? I hope we can. sgazzetti Conectate a Internet GRATIS con Yahoo! Conexión: http://conexion.yahoo.com.ar +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Picnics and Birthdays (London), Picnics and Gigs (Edinburgh)
by Dimitra Daisy 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Hello! London: After much research, some hesitation and some procrastinating, here are London Picnic details: Date: Sunday 24th of March, i.e. this Sunday (apologies to those who think a Saturday picnic would be better, but Ill only turn 21 once and it happens to be on that Sunday. I am almost guilty for my selfish reasons. But anyway.) Time: 2 pm Place: If sunny, or otherwise nice enough, meet on top of Primrose Hill. If rainy or otherwise too bad, meet at the SpreadEagle, (no one I asked remembered if it is one word or two so take my guess). If you have any queries about how to get there before Sunday, email Greg at gpallis(a)eidosnet.co.uk, he promised hell help you out. If you have any other questions, email me (though I cant see why you would. You can complain about the picnic being on a Sunday when you will be hangover from Tigermilking and about having to work on Monday.) If Sunday comes and you get lost/have other questions, you can call or even text Greg (07903097867) or me (+30932757685). Bring any crazy kind of stuff you feel like bringing to a picnic. What else there will be cake and candles, a football game, and Greg teaching people to play Mao (I think). Tip: If you dont want to be hangover on a picnic day, try drinking but not too much. It works. Edinburgh: After much hesitation and confusion and the suchlike, Sweetie decided to save us from ourselves and take control. So she asked me to tell you there will be a pre-gig meet-up in Edinburgh on the 1st of April. The general plan is: meet at 1 pm at the Scott Monument (very easy to spot), have picnic in Princess Gardens, go to a pub, go to the venue. If youre coming, please email sweetie_something(a)hotmail.com and let her know. Bye, see you on Tuesday or on Saturday or Sunday or whenever, Dimitra _________________________________________________________________ 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: guilty as a cocoa bean
by Miss Marianna Longmire 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

I was a tap-tap-tapping away at work today when I was suddenly struck down by the urge to post to sinister. Alas, having no net access on my stupid computer meant I couldn't write nonsense and get paid. Although, frankly, some could argue that's exactly what I do every day. But I digress. I really wanted to write to you of the tales of weeks gone by, of strange thoughts in my head and even stranger encounters with peoples in the street. But now, now that i'm here in tottenham court road's easyeverything listening to daniel beddingfield and the smell of rotting armpits is invading my nostrils, i'm stumped. although i will say this. sinister is great. moreover, sinister people are great. there. oooh! and i'm very excited about a couple of things. firstly, spearmint are playing in london. not once, not twice, but three times in april. Y.A.Y! and then my beloved sweet hometown boys sodastream are gracing this fine city as well. what a great month. except for the fact my b+s ticket was (long story) stolen. curses. CURSES! thankyou and goodnight. marianna x _________________________________________________________________ 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: les pastiches de la bourgoisie
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

we trawl the archives, so you don't have to... for all you fans of cheeky parody and self-referential rewrites, there is now an easy way to revisit examples of sinister's favourite pastime: http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pastiches there should be a link from the main sinister page at some point. in the meantime, please email me, preferably with URLs, if you know of any more of these things from our dark and distant past. thanks to all the authors and to H!O!N!E!Y! sorry about the short, uninteresting post. if it helps, i've been stuck in a training seminar all day. so there. luv archel xxx ps. see YOU at tigermilking/camera obscura/brixton/the april brighton picnic/some unspecified future event (delete as applicable) :) ****************** 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: Losing my post-virginity
by The grass is always greener on the other side of the iron curtain 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Eep!, what a scary thought, finally opening my too big mouth and saying something. Well, I suppose I would have tried earlier, if it hadnt taken me 3 months to figure out how to work it. How appropriate that the last post before I broke my silence (by Madeliene) was on the subject of flares. After my first year here in sunny St Andrews, I just didnt feel like a student, so I too invested in a wonderful pair of stupidly flared green chords. Man, these things are just fine, it makes you look like you are floating down the street, cos your feeties are hidden under large raggedy areas of dirty green cordurouy. Here unfortunatley, most people are attempting to look like a Calvin Klein home shopping catalogue, with baseball caps, puffa body warmers and overly tight jeans the order of the day, topped off with a ridiculously large pastel coloured scarf (Pashmina dahling) and some designer underwear hitched up so that I can see where your pants come from when I walk behind you down the street. That is of course, if you havent joined the 'alternative' bat-biters or skateboarders of the "deviant noise society". Gigantic jeans hanging round your arse with the aid of a piece of bike chain are standard issue there, along with a Linkin Park hooded top. Anyway, I'm a fine one to talk, im just a scruff with an obsession for chords. Its nice talking to yous, one of these days I'll pluck up the courage to say something else. Peace, love and kings of convenience all round, Andy X P.S, round our way a Snakebite is called diesel, and you can get it up to a Turbo-diesel by putting a shot of vodka in. Of course, none of that is as foul of the perrenial favourite, guiness and blackcurrant. ARGH! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Norway Festival Confirmed
by Katrina House 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Belle and Sebastian have confirmed their appearance at this years Quarts Festival which takes place from the 2nd to 6th July in Norway. The band appear on the Bendiksbukta stage on Friday 5th July. Tickets can be purchased via the festival website at http://www.quart.no or direct from Billettservice at http://www.billettservice.no Cheers, Katrina @ Banchory. banchory press - management - merchandising po box 25074 glasgow g2 6ld scotland email: shop(a)banchory.net http://www.banchory.net http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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