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Sinister: There's actually some content in this one. But it's not my fault.
by david hewitt 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

G'day Sinister: You might remember me from such emails as "Interminable Diary Post: Part XXIV" and "Quarter-Arsed Attempt to Make Myself Seem Witty and Interesting". But fear not! I'm merely popping my head in the door to hand-deliver a message from unquestionably our most sorely missed listee. Here it is: Good morning sinisterines, it's been a long time since I've spoken to you. The reason for this is mainly that the email address I was subscribed with disappeared, a sad prisoner of a server moving war. I hold out hope that it will be found alive, but it isn't looking good for jules(a)inebriated.cx. How sad, I was the only one subscribed to the list from Christmas Island. Anyway, the point of this post is that there's a Belle & Sebastian show in New York in May, and I think that calls for a picnic. After all, there will be several people from #sinister who will be in town that I've not met before, and I trust there will be several from the list too. I'd like to meet you. Besides, those Chicago kids are having a meetup and I'm jealous. Now, I need your opinion. My first instinct was to keep it in Central Park, but I do realize that this is inconvenient on a number of fronts. Prospect Park in Brooklyn has been suggested, due to 1) ability to place soccer there and 2) proximity to O'Connor's, a lovely bar, in the case of rain. Also, there is East River Park. Or some other park. My guess is that none of you will have an opinion, but as a hostess with the mostess it behooves me to try to get as many people to this damned picnic as possible. So if you're going to be in New York May 5 (for the show) and want to meet some truly lovely sinister people (myself included, but some even lovelier) and would like to meet up before the show, please email me and express an opinion on this mundane nitpicky matter! It's more than two months from the picnic, why am I stressing? Well I want everyone to be happy. Yes, I do. Please, email me at jules910(a)hotmail.com, and thank you for your attention. Rock on. xoxo Julie Oh, and I should add that it looks like I'll be able to be there myself, but don't let that put you off. I can certainly vouch for the loveliness of many of the local SiniSTARs you'll meet, and I'm very much looking forward to meeting YOU as well. I won't even bitch behind your back about that daft looking haircut, I promise. Well, not too much. What were you thinking, anyway? I'll be the mysterious stranger to whom you find yourself strangely attracted. Or the sweary drunken guy you're slightly embarrassed by. I can never remember which. Maybe I'll wear a badge of some kind. Bulk love, -David. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on.
by lindsey baker 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

hello sinister. i have always believed that everything happens for a reason. so. there is a reason i have become addicted to dashboard confessional. there is a reason that it was first the swiss army romance during the wait, and the places you have come to fear the most after it has ended. again. nebraska lost a championship game or something. the newspaper is dismayed. the chinese shop was out of rice with brown sauce. or rather, just the brown sauce. none of the messages i left with my loving friends have been returned. yesterday was warm, almost balmy, and today the frigid february winds have returned with a vengeance, reminding me that sometimes sunshine is only false hope and a prelude to ... yeah. but at least my hair looks good. there was another boy at the coffee shop to soften the blow after The Call. he had wandered over to me earlier in the evening, to ask what i was writing. sat down when i said poetry. and then he was off, and i found out again that i have killer eyes and hair, and a mouth to write home about. i think they must think it's sexy, taking the small black box of wooden sticks out of my pale fingers, striking the flame, feeling the glorious tension before the rounded tip of the two-inch rectangle bursts into flame. holding the little fire out, shielding it with a clammy hand, getting that close to my quivering, tear-stained lips. and then, watching me suck the life out of the momentary addiciton, reaching for another before i get down to the filter. watching my killer eyes when i realize that addiciton isn't the same as passion after all, and ignoring the aftertaste. i hate this town. xxx lou _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: are cushions really that frightening?
by Caitlin Pigtails 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

I sat opposite the man, and tried to explain about my finances. I tried to explain why I've not had a job for months, and I tried to make him believe me. I don't think he cared. He didn't seem interested in anything apart from going through his how-to-talk-to-clients script. He had someone watching him, which can't have helped. A visiting woman, looking over us and checking that he was doing his job properly. I was trying to sign on the dole, you see. It isn't easy. It involves filling in an incredibly long form, practically a book. They still haven't written to tell me if I am going to be given anything, but in the meantime i have promised them i will go out and look for things. I don't have a bike to get on, though. Sometimes life seems all coherent, as if all the little patches have come together and are making sense. Sometimes, though, everything is broken up into parts and nothing gets done. My life has things in it, but none of them are important, and none of them fit with the others. Just, little episodes. I saw a family of deer the other day. That was one of the episodes. I was zooming out of Glasgow on the train, through all the lovely tower blocks. Just as you start to come into the countryside, there is a bunch of little-used railway sidings; and the other day, four deer were stood about there at the edge of the track, not at all bothered. At least, they didn't seem bothered as I flashed past at whatever miles-per-hour. Freeze-frame. I told the man I want to be a photographer. He said: "it's very hard. No jobs in it. Everyone and his dog wants to be a photographer." The other day I woke up at 4am, terrified. Next to me on my bed I keep a big furry cushion, with a brown-and-cream cowhide pattern. Sometimes, the cat sleeps on top of it. I woke up at 4am, terrified, because I knew that this cushion wanted to attack me. Well. It didn't *want* to, but it was going to do it whatever. The cushion was going to jump on top of my face and stop me breathing. I sat up in bed so that I didn't go back to sleep and give it another chance to get me. I told the man I wouldn't mind working with computers. "Ooh," he said, like a repairman making that sucking-in "this is going to cost you" noise. "lots of people want to do that. You need qualifications. You need career history. We don't see many job opportunities like that." I saw a fox, too, but it wasn't snowing. I was looking for some stuff, out of a shed. I opened up the shed, and inside there was a fox, climbing high up on top of cupboards and cabinets. he didn't run away in a panic; he gently let himself down to the ground, and wandered behind a pile of old electrical cables. I assume he had tunnelled under the walls; that shed had no proper floor. We have to just assume, I think, that our friends aren't going to let us down. Today's "Observer" had a big long profile of Helena Christensen. It contained this quote: "to this day, she can pontificate at great length on the relative merits of Arab Strap vs Belle & Sebastian," and I couldn't help thinking of Celebrity Deathmatch. Maybe I won't ever manage to get a job. I just want to do something I'm going to enjoy doing. It's time for bed. Hopefully, the cushions won't have that attack urge again. love xx caitlin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Fanzines, Utterances, Cigarettes, Ken.
by idleberry 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

well, hello! Fancy seeing you here, long time since I've posted. I'm about to Finish working this Friday for the Financial services company I've been with For the past six months. I've become chummy with the IT bloke, and tried to convince him to get "Take your carriage clock and shove it" as the phone thing when you know, people are waiting for the phone, and they go on hold. The hold music, I think its called. But it didn't work. ho well. UsUally I come home from work and fall asleep for a few hoUrs. But I've been making an effort and going on sinister chat. we have sUch smUtty fUn. Its not big, its not clever, bUt it makes me laUgh. Ken will be Upset I'm sUre saying its not big. oops. Cigarettes have found their sneaky way baCk into my mouth again. I don't know why or how, just one day, I was sitting there, and boof, there was a Ciggie hanging from my lip. Never leave your lips unattended. I've also deCided to Continue writing my fanzine. I was going to throw it all in and Concerntrate on sleeping, but I got an interview out of Camera ObsCuras Gav, so thats inspired me. Its hard you know, keeping it going. I mean, SCotland has a handful of good fanzines already. and when theres this slight deterioration in the interest in the loCal sCene, how Can anyone keep it alive? its tough work you know. Knowing though, that there is very little in the mainstream publications for people liKe me, helps. I mean, all I have to do is picK up a copy of the NME and froth at the mouth at how rubbish it is. And when its got Kylie on the cover, you Know that there is no hope of them actually having some unKnown talent between the pages. Lets face it, there is no competition for indie fanzines. The NME is not an indie/underground/alternative publication. Its like being little saplings in a big forest. And theres a huge gap in the folliage above. The toughest bit, is Keeping up the determination, and just worKing away, and loosing money. Maybe you agree with Me. Enough alrEady. love, idles ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.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: New photos... Black & White Brighton Funs
by Robert Brennan 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Fans of poor quality black & white photography might like to know that there are some photos of the recent Brighton shindig - as well as last year's November piss-up at the Spread Eagle - now lookable here: http://robster75.tripod.com/sinister.html Yes Ken is sat on my knee. No I can't remember why. Robster http://robster75.tripod.com __________________________________________________ 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: Important Message: Strange Fruit
by Petit Oiseau 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Hi there This will mainly be of interest to those who were subscribers to FruitBowl, the Strange Fruit mailing list, and UK Sinister members, so apologies to those of you elsewhere. Over the weekend, someone logged into the Strange Fruit 'FruitBowl' moderator's Yahoo User ID and deleted all of the mailing lists and memberships. So FruitBowl (the Strange Fruit information service) was deleted (along with the charity Group, LondonIndieUSA). Yahoo have said that they cannot get anything back, so FruitBowl has lost all of its 600 members. So, if you used to be a member of FruitBowl, and wish to rejoin, or else if you were never a member and want to join anyway to get our newsletter and announcements, then you need to rejoin. Either do so through YahooGroups, searching for "fruit_bowl", or go to: www.strange-fruit.co.uk/subscribe/subscribe.htm At the above link you'll find a sign-up box and you can get back on to FruitBowl from there. Alternatively, just respond to me at this email address & we will add you to the list. Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested. Sincere apologies if this has inconvenienced anyone and thank-you to Sinister for posting this message. Thanks for your support, Julia on behalf of Strange Fruit _________________________________________________________________ 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: 'CHU' are 'KEN'stantl'Y' updating your hit 'P'arade of your 10 biggest puns...
by Richard Cottyn 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

I'm quite impressed with this pun actually. I've been sat at my computer for the last week and a half thinking it up, with only a fake Jimmy White autograph and a piece of green plastic shaped just like Stuart Murdoch (b&s content!) to keep me company. Looking through recent sinister posts it is quite surprising how many possible puns there are to be made out of the lovely Mr Chu's name. I bet Stuart Murdoch and co do it on purpose to amuse us. I bet in their next album they will try to include a ken pun in every track. Try and find some b&s puns for my name! I gave up after a fw hours. I must tell you this extremely funny story. Well, it really wasn't that funny i'm sure for the person/people involved, but I laughed for a long time, even though I perhaps shouldn't have! Apparently it is tradition for a bride to eat a quails egg on the morning of her wedding day. Well anyway, a girl I know did this and got salmonella from the said egg. She puked as she got to the church and started suffering from a nasty case of diarrhoea. The wedding had to be called off, as did the honeymoon and everything else. All because of a quails egg. So, ladies, the moral of the story. If you ever get married, DO NOT eat a quails egg on the morning of your wedding day.Oh, and for those who wish to know, she did get married in the end :) Can I just boast about my magnificent pun one more time before I end this post?! Thanks! *boast* *boast* etc... Richard (looking very smug) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: p.s.
by sophia katrina 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

day two of a hideous hangover... on friday night i picked up the phone and called london. no, said the woman, we don't have you on our list of interviewees. thanks for checking, i said. i'm sorry, she said, and i'm sure she was. i wanted to say that it was the best news i'd heard all day but she might have taken it badly. i put on my best 60s op art skirt and diamante earrings and left for the party. outside, the wind was blowing off the bay and i could taste salt in my mouth. i could smell rain. at the tram stop a cricket was singing very loudly. near the plant where the cricket was hiding were two syringes. they had been plunged considerately into the earth so no one would prick their fingers on them. they looked as though they were about to flower. i feel as though i've been granted a stay of execution. an absolution. sophia X _________________________________________________________________ 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: who loves irony?
by Joey V Lawton 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

i got tickets to see Belle and Sebastian on May 4th at the Orpheum and they're actually really good seats. hooray for me and everything. and an ultimate bit of irony: it's the same night as my junior prom. i haven't been to a school dance in years, but i actually was planning on going to this one. it's not too bad for me, but i'm going to the show with my friend spencer who's been dating this girl for a year who's actually really excited about going to the prom. it's like some episode of "growing pains" -joey ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: stuart dancing on danish tapdancetables..
by Astrid Wiezell 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

Heeeey. It´s been a while, to quote one of the most tedious songs in history. I haven´t read like the last 200 posts because of my lack of internet at home. So I might have to delete all that because there´s no way I´ll be able to read them. Sorry... DREAM!--NOT TRUE!--DREAM!--NOT TRUE! Had a dream about the B&S-concert I`m going to. It was at a large arena, almost no one there so I had a great view. Stuart comes out with the rest of the Belles. He gets this table up on stage and then he declares that it is, in fact, a danish tapdancetable, which he´ll tapdance on. He steps up on it. And he tapdance on it. Yes, a quite remarkable sight. The other belles are behind him, standing in a square jumping up and down and tapdancing. Then he jumped off the stage and down to the audience. Everybody starts grabbing him. I get him up, give him a kiss on his cheek and say "You´ll have to get back up there, or you´ll be killed" and then I help him up. I woke up. One of the strangest dreams I´ve ever had.. _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Skicka gratis SMS på http://mobil.spray.se +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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