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Sinister: would you get up and do the things you've been dreaming?
by amy.longcore＠ch.novartis.com 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

Hello sini-bunch. I recall having dreams all night. About frolicking at my computer. It made me a bit sad that these were not dreams of happy times wiff old Friends, of a trip to the market, or the odd walk through a lovely meadow Or something sweet like that. Instead, I get me. Sitting there. Giggling like a doofus and laughing and muttering With you lot. there's more, but that was the bulk of it. I don't remember dreams like I used to. As a child I quite often lived for dreams. Even the scary ones, 'cuz the feelings they brought out were So new. The feeling of falling. Waking up crying 'cuz someone in yr Black and white dream let you down. Seeing your brother absent-mindedly Walk over a pane of glass, and dreaming about that for the next 5 nights. Imagining a whole jungle of wild animals playing on your wall while yr half-asleep, Only to wake up after shooting them all down in a dream. (I had to, my dad wouldn't do it!) So, this dream last night. I'm listening to tigermilk?. "You're just an amy, amy girl So kiss me on the cheek and then go off to sleep?" I dream about a questionnaire I filled out for a friend the other day. On my list of hates were comments about "self-involvement". So, my self-involved self is currently dreaming about myself detesting My own self-involvement. Nice. my self-involved fingers are filling out questionnaires for others, as i've yet to compile yours. nice. "I could be an ordinary person chasing honey from town to town?" I also dreamt about something else that really happened at the computer. Please forgive, was it you, tulip? Anyway, someone exclaimed on #sinister that they were/wanted to write Honey an ode or poem. And I'll be damned if I wasn't sitting in a hot bubbly tub O' water, shaving my legs, and making up little honey inspired poems in my Head just an hour before that. I know this dream was trying to help me to recall them, Because they were fabulous. Anyway, I love honey, and it's manifested into my self-involved Dreams. this may not sound as pretty as a poem, but i think honey should know that honey is thought of whilst doing glammy girly things :) (even if honey doesn't read this for another month or so) "take a step to the discoteque..." i actually got out of the house saturday night. so, i dreamt about that last night as well. brought back to my head were images of the 4'6" wee man trying to breakdance alongside my friend rhonda and i all night. the caterpillar is not sexy when you smell like mad dog and body odor. it's also not sexy when you can't do it and trample over people's feet. and in my head flashed many times the tongue ring of my new friend, rossetta. she can knock a booty out! but her laughter is so big and often, that that tongue piece just takes over. rosetta can breakdance. and with sexiness. so, my dream let her :) and if you've been keeping up with amy, you'll recognize the name christina. christina in my dream didn't look half as beautiful as she did saturday night. never before had i seen her in *gasp* lilac. swoon city. i wish i could look that devastating in anything, let alone the simple hue of violet. "do something pretty while you can...." so, i'm the usual hostess of the after-bar party. it was lovely since there was no one "cruising" or anything. no pulling and what-not. my dream focused on the moment when christian, rhonda, and the rest of the girls piled up on my bed while my brother nick and our friend david sat in front of us. there was just a lot of nice cuddle energy remembering. we had good heart to hearts. these are important. for one of our girls, it was her first real night out in literal years, having just come out of a very difficult relationship. she made me very glad to be single actually, and i embraced myself for it in my dream. "maybe my baby brother too, yeah...." i love my brothers. i sing that to them often. just thought i'd share that. it has bugger all to do wiff my dreams. One wordish sini-wishes: Ken ? sex Honey - time Paisley ? adatewithme Danny ? hope Fruitloop ? more! Andy Capp - #sinister ('cuz I misses you) Rachel grapenut - genderlessnesshappiness Laurel ? blisters Dahling ? legality Jay ? pictures! Sweetie ? nomoremulletjokes Jimmy g ? vibratorlessness Arturo ? horizontalist! Alan ? someonelivingunderyourbed Sammich ? stories maddie - me vodkabird - birfdaycards w gneissy - crush songles - tapes llew - giftage everyone - stuff! i'm not a kid no, amy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: badly scanned pictures of our obsessions
by James Alexander Jackson 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

Hi, well, just a short post really to say that I put up the pictures i took from the Belfast gig here: http://www.thebooklovers.fsnet.co.uk/ Some of them are even ok! :) Well, some of the Irish sinister group feature so that's never bad, and i put a photo of me to show what lurkers look like when given a digital camera to play with... could be a dodgy new photo spot for the sinister site! well, hope you're all keeping fine, thanks to Laura Llew for emailing me back about the Laura Laurant song, tracked it down it's just gorgeous. BUT big shouts out to Seamus, Laura, Ian, Ian DV, Rener, Grainne, Psi (I'll fix it soon Psi, honest), Darragh, Tim and all the other lovely people i met @ the gig, 'cos it wouldn't have been as much craic without you (showing my roots)! I hate the way my stuff isn't worth anything when i go to sell it! :( Damned CD's cost a fortune when i got them! Luv where applicable, James +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: salt grains from the dead sea, Enya Playing (if you can identify the source of that you win a prize)
by LilGrape25＠aol.com 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Hello,Lets all stop and commend kyla on her fantastic e-mail. Then lets all stop again and commend ME on being the inspiration for her e-mail. (man, I'm so self centered sometimes) To respond to your post breifly, Kyla, I agree that gender and sexuality are frustratingly over-defined by society. I am yet to get a clear grasp on sexuality as it is for other people, as I- a bisexual who has trouble differentiating between emotional and physical attraction in my own head- seem to be somewhat of an unusual case. In a way, I guess its lucky that I am attracted to just about everyone- regardless of gender or physical beauty..whatever the hell that is. But its terribly frustrating to love all your friends in a way that none of them ever love you. I can't understand why. It doesn't make sense that someone could not be attracted to me on the basis of my gender. It took years for me to learn and accept that this is really possible, that everyone who is not bisexual is not lying ! to themselves, that straightness and g ayness really do exist for some people. It still doesn't make too much sense, but I've come to accept it.I had a very strange day today. I woke up sick in the middle of the night, not surprising because my brother was sick and my father had just recovered from the same virus my brother had. My mother got it a few hours after I did, and the three of us- mommy, my brother and I- stayed home all day. I drank flat gingerale from the Minimouse sippy cup I used as a small child, and had toast with jam and tea sometime in early afternoon. I spent most of the day in my mommy's bed watching TV, and then at about 3 o'clock, after The Joy Of Painting ended, I took a cool and thorough shower in my mom's bathroom, which is much nicer than mine. I came out feeling much better, then drank a glass of iced tea and ate a mint and listened to Bjork and went online, to find that rachel frootloop had quoted me! yay!! I think thats three times now, I'm going to keep track. It makes me so hap! py. I feel almost completely well now, and will be heading back to school tommorrow. I can't afford to miss another day because exams st art friday. Well, much love to you all. Rachel Grapenut +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Lord of the Corduroy-Fellowship of the Flares
by Corduroy Boy 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

(Dispite the light-hearted title this post is too long so skip now to save time) Hello, you sinister people. This morning I succeeded in slaughtering my academic future by (inevitably) failing my physics paper. It felt like the worst I have ever done in an exam and my gibbers of hysteria and panic were most definitely audible in the exam room. But I cannot be persecuted, because be there a rule banning mobee phones and cheat notes, no restricting measures have been taken against gibbering. My friends, you are free to gibber. [As my glazed eyes showed no conscious thought, the sound of my black fountain pen nib scratching the paper was louder than any other. Those behind me look up, knowing from the motions of my arm (though they could not see what I wrote) that my paper is being filled with a bizarre mixture of scribble and cryptic symbols. The finishing bell rattles, and the other candidates file out in a quiet and controlled manner. One would think they would have found my situation and the subsequent facial expressions comical, but their expressions are humourless, showing emotions of pity and concern above all else. As they walk to the back of the hall to awkwardly collect their coats, bags, umbrellas and thoughts, my solitary figure can be seen to walk bouncily to the front to converse with the invigilator (with whom I am on friendly terms through a shared enjoyment of rock climbing). He smiles as I clutch my paper, look round as if searching, and relay to him my lucky escape from an unclassified grade... "That was OK, wasn't it? Shall I let you in on a little secret? I couldn't have answered one of those questions correctly, but luckily as I grew hysterical (and started to gibber, Tom, don't forget the gibbering...) a small Incan monkey god descended to my desk and whispered the answers to me." As the invigilator gives me a quizzical look, he notices the relief of the symbols and scribbling on the inside page of my paper. He looks at me with the same concern as my fellow candidates... "Now all I have to do is find someone who can translate his beautiful language..."] No, unfortunately, that was not real. No Incan monkey god came to my aid, so I will definitely have failed. Moving on. I have acquired (through honest means) a copy of "Careless Talk Costs Lives". It is quite acceptable as music magazines go, and as music magazines go *today* it is quite edifying. However, as you would expect, some* (*replace with much or all as you see fit) of it is self indulgent to the point of being masturbatory. Also, one of my pet hates in pretty much all music media rears it's butt-ugly head... Why oh why, why why why do they hand even ONE of their pages over to some bloody cretin whose only qualification is that they know where the asterisk on the keyboard is? This allows them to speak in solid obscenities right the way through and bypasses the need to make any sort of logical, rational or even intelligent statement about the bands/artists in question. This is not some rant against offensive-ness or people expressing themselves through language, it's the complete lack of any new slant or descriptive opinion on the music. Fair enough, some musicians need a good slating, but no decent and well reasoned abuse is used to the point that-however shite the band- any judgement against them is lost and thus the sharp rocks of literate people are not thrown. NME has the "Angst" page in the back, which to be honest consists of letters sent in by the public, but Swells doesn't inspire intelligent comment so they reap what they sow with that one. However, the boring trying-to-be-offensive material referred to in CTCL is not the opinion of the general public even if a new guy does it every week (I can't remember who writes that page) andso unlike the back page of NME does not even provide the odd chuckle. The most excruciating fact is that I'm sure the guy writing it is probably doing it with tongue in cheek thinking, "boy, this'll really offend and shock people!" Yeah mate, about 25 years ago, GROW UP. You've had your fun, you've made people blush, time to think of another idea, this time one that *no on else has done.* Well, that's what I think anyway, I may well be wide of the mark. Aagh, this has turned into a bit of an epic, hasn't it? Sorry. Sorry. Tom XXXXXXX P.S. Props to ian for his consistency in making me uneasy about life with his posts to archel for reminding me about the poetry parrot I suspected him eaten by ken to the guys whose names elude me but who have been keeping us posted on the radio front Mr Moore and Neil I think and to Kirsten for the last subject line (don't let him eat the flower though, best draw him a box) and for keeping up the required level of sweetness and to vel even tough she hasn't posted in ages and HELLO to all the nice new people that have joined. Sorry. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: where the boys go with boys and the girls with girls
by Kyla Schuller 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

I liked Rachel grapenut's post about the girls in her art class acting all crazy and girly girl-like. Her frustration of the way girls get tracked into certain social expectations and behaviors at such an early age reminds me of my own feelings. It is also interesting to think about ways that girls perform the role of girlness, often understanding this to be different from the way they see themselves. It is significant that rachel's kids talk in high pitched voices and use lots of airheady slang when they're playing with dolls- and that they don't behave this way normally. Somehow, it seems they have a conscious or unconscious understanding that being a girl is a role, it is an identity to be performed, and it is also different from how they themselves carry out their lives. For really, the concepts of female and male do not work. Biological facts such as roughly one in two thousand infants born in the US undergo immediate genital surgery (sometimes unknown to the parents) to make them fit our conception of male and female bodies show us that the idea of gender is even more socially constructed than it may first appear. There simply is no way of being female or being male - they are abstract concepts that we have nonetheless ordered our society around. So really, all gender identities are performed. They are not essentialist facts: there is simply no way to define a woman. Legal systems have tried -- there are some amazing old European laws -- including Denmark's (i think it's denmark) that women with penises longer than 3 inches cannot marry men - that betray a discomfort with the lack of certainty about gender and sexual biology. It's similar too to the idea of gayness. For what is being gay, really? Is it sexual relations with someone of the same sex? This leads to several problems: what exactly are sexual relations, what exactly is the same sex, and that plenty of people who identify as straight nevertheless fool around with same sex lovers from time to time. As for me, am I gay now? I've dated women for years, but now I find myself dating a boy. Am I still a dyke? How do I perform my dykeness while walking hand in hand with a hetero boy? And what about the fact that the girls iv'e dated are in many ways more traditionally masculine than this boy? What about the girl I've dated who wants to undergo gender reassignment surgery to be a boy? How then would we be gay? There are plenty of boys who are lesbians - transgender and transsexual dykes are largely accepted in urban Gen X queer communities. So then, what is gay? Is it performing a divergent sexuality? A breaking down of traditional sexual and gender barriers? Yet it often doesn't feel divergent at all. Many queers, myself included, are guilty of thinking of queerness as somehow cooler than heterosexuality. There are many reasons for this, most especially that the need to affirm ourselves in spite of numerous pressures and disgust from family, peers, society at large - why even comments like "being gay is ok for OTHER people but I would never want to do that" can feel really uncomfortable - create a need to unequivocally equate gayness with goodness. Which accomplishes some extremely necessary work toward self-respect and pride, but also, sometimes gets silly. On Friday night I was at a benefit and got to meet Dorothy Allison, one of my favorite writers. As I approached her she turned and grabbed me at the waist, saying, "oh hi there baby." My heart fell. How could someone I respect so much treat me as a sex object? We had a picture taken - she saying we should press our faces real close, cheek to cheek. We talked a bit, she had her hands on both my hips - I took my Polaroid and was off. So this is transgressive sexuality? Am I supposed to feel differently about this situation because she is a girl and not a boy , and somehow it's cool and crazy and new for women to treat each other this way? Is this really performing a divergent sexuality? Or a very tried one with different players fulfilling its roles? Because really, it doesn't feel that much different than Thursday night, when a car of guys stopped to yell and cat call at me as I crossed the dark parking lot, alone. The trick I think is understanding and accepting that we are always performing various identities and not to find this really nihilistic and depressing. Also, it's not that I'm saying we should stop playing and just "be ourselves" - for it is exactly my point that this is completely impossible to determine. Nothing is static, nothing is given. It's depressing, but also potentially freeing. One of the reasons I so liked eXtreme elvis was the way he consciously plays with identity performance. We're the audience, he's the performer - so really, it makes no difference if he's calmly singing a ballad or shoving a used tampon up his ass while pumping his legs into the air like a tempermental baby having its diaper changed. He performs the role of crazy performance artist, we perform the role of audience, expecting, paying, to be shocked. And he takes it a step further -he sung about fear and went so far as to explicitly bid people not to fear performance artists. He flaunted and exposed his role - he named it for us, he gave us instructions - I perform the role of crazy, you perform the role of audience. It doesn't matter that I'm raising the stakes, it doesn't matter that I'm rubbing my huge filthy naked body all over you - this is my role, that is yours --- that's what it's always about, like it or not. There's no reason to be afraid - you knew this anyway, I'm just here to illustrate it graphically. DILDOS!!! kyla __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: sad day
by stacey dahling 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

hello my lovely lovely sinisterenes today is a very sad day for me very much indeed i was planning to write a mega post going into great detail about the whole thing, but realized i cannot until the whole thing is over because it involves (il)legal stuff which would probably not be best telecast to the entire online community, including greek government officials but basically i resign as athenian picnic mummy cause i will not be in greece much longer i'm not sure where i will be come march, or even in two weeks. i may be in the uk i may be in the u.s.a hmmm... anyone interested in more than this cryptic craziness, send me an email or track me down in chat (tho i dunno how much i will be there, considering i will be extremely busy in the next 10 days). i have emailed some of you, and thanks to everyone who i talked to yesterday. thanks to all of you, actually. you are fab. i'm sorry that i won't be reporting back with fun tales of wacky greek adventures. or at all, actually. i doubt i'll be near a pooter much in the near future. big HUGE MWAHS to one and all, ~dahling ps; wow. i think that was my shortest post ever. kev, you should be proud. _________________________________________________________________ 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: rock action
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

more wisdom about Careless Talk.../Everett True from the dirty vicar - very accurate appraisal. i think i'll stay loyal (as far as my loyalty to any music magazine goes) to Uncut, flaws and all. (though i suspect that some of the really good writers from melody maker didn't even end up there, but retired gracefully when they realised that slagging things off for a living made them depressed.) ian wrote: "archel said something interesting but i can't remember what it was." i can't remember either. he then wrote "DILDOS!" but i don't think there was a connection. rachel fruitloop tickled my vanity and spoke wisdom when she said i would show you a good time in brighton. (she also made me swoon and sigh at a great sinister romance. though i am ever more glad that my beloved lives in the same country, town, and now house as me...) half of another great sinister romance also tickled my vanity re. my website, even praising something i'd written myself. so he's welcome in brighton anytime :) speaking of which, james danson hatcher suggested 31st february for the meetup. when i worked out what that meant i was quite offended - just what is wrong with brighton that we can only meet there on a non-existent date? although in a way it would be cool to commandeer the town for sinisterines in a bizarre lapse of space-time and rampage through the amusement arcades in our flares and cardies... though brighton can be quite bizarre anyway. as our flat is on the top floor of our building we have a birds-eye view of the street below, and the things which go on down there would fill a novel (or a post from kirsten at least). there's the old man who keeps a stash of coats and furniture behind some boards on the new building site - sadly busted a few days ago. there were the two teenage girls on the porch steps across the road, drinking cider and self-consciously playing hissy speed folk (at least that's the only way i can describe it) at top volume from their ghetto blaster. the bmx stunt guy risking life and limb by the parking bay at all hours of the day and night, and the skate kids teaching younger skate kids kerb tricks with surprising care and patience. the woman screaming into a mobile phone, the man asleep on the pavement next to her car. i love it all. this is for rebecca: someone *has* invented a backwards dictionary for you - it's called 'descriptionary' and it's by a guy called marc mccutcheon. 2nd edition out now, rrp �15.99. luv archel xxx ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.org.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords(a)bigfoot.com <nb: site undergoing maintenance> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A public apology
by Rebecca Wright 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Oh dear this appears to have back fired on me a little, I'll be more careful not to cause upset so easily in future. I admit I am surprised by how seriously offended some of the folk are, is this really how you see the feminist mind as working? To clarify lions, like most members of the Animalia kingdom, lack the pre-frontal lobes of their human counterparts and are subsequently devoid of the area of the brain responsible for the consciousness of 'self'. Thus to impose notions of good & evil on lions of either sex is both wrong & silly and I am heartily ashamed. Blondes are prudent Essex girls are chaste Craig David fans have legitimate taste and yes it is my time of the month!! To change the subject I just watched 'Withnail and I', I'd taken the title for its phoenetic(*) face-value and it took me a while to adapt but I'm now going around shouting 'SCRUBBERS!!' to anyone who'd care not to be insulted. Jules Markham was Marwood the name of the other guy? (*) Cheers to Will for remembering the word for me. Someone should invent a backwards dictionary so instead of finding a word & learning its meaning you give a vague kind of description as I did "what is long word which means to be spelt as it sounds, think it starts with p?" & boom! well boom second time 'cause the first answer was onomatopaeic. Not much else going on in my life at present. My jasmine plant has been bamboozled by global warming into thinking it's mid-May and has started making flowers. Only two have opened so far and there's already a heady perfume in the air, eight more are on the way and in a couple of days my room'll only be accessible with a gas mask thanks to nature's equivalent to mustard gas. Either it's gonna go outside which'll probably kill it what with it being Winter 'n' all or there'll be some brutal fleur decapitations at 3 in the morning when I can take no more. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "If you please--draw me a sheep!"
by Kirsten Kenyon 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

ian never made it to work yesterday. his mom managed to stop in for a few moments, sobbing hysterically and chewing on her bony fingers and looking quite like the women who frantically scan lists posted on doors in old war movies. i couldn't bear to look at her, so i slid out back into the alley and sat on a milk crate and smoked my last cigarette. the wind picked up for a moment, bringing to my feet a black and white photograph of two boys looking silly. i studied it for a few seconds. from what i gathered, i was looking at a photograph of two mildly-intoxicated young men who had finally succumbed to the exasperating people who had been trying all night to drag them onto the dance floor at a friend's wedding reception. don't you just hate people who try to make other people dance? i would never do something like that. ken chu wouldn't, either. don't worry. anyway. the photograph was just fantastic, and i started to reach for it when i got to thinking. i thought about how i would feel if some strange girl happened upon a photograph of me looking like an idiot...dancing...and found it to be so terrifically funny that she just had to pick it up and adhere it to the cover of her sketchbook with paper cement. i mean, i would probably never know. but still....just thinking about it...i turned over the photograph with my toe and headed back inside. there was a phone call later, and apparently ian was safe and sound at his grandmother's house. he'd bumped up his car a bit, but that was the extent of it. so...ian is alive and well. but his death's been bothering me since yesterday morning. it was a strange day, anyway. craig, who normally hops about like a fourth-grader at a slumber party, sulkily retreated to a corner table with a latte, a pile of saltine crackers, some honey packets and a big bowl of tzaziki sauce. he sat there for a while, sighing, looking bored and half-heartedly nibbling at his peculiar lunch. i tried to ignore him...when craig starts up with the blasé thing, it's best to keep busy. i must have been giving him a strange look, because he got up quite suddenly and grabbed my arm and said 'smokey.' and we went outside. my next last cigarette. we were standing around talking, and he mentioned how he missed his long hair. i said i couldn't picture him with long hair at all, so he ran out to his car for his portfolio and sure enough...he looked like ricky martin when he was on that soap in the early 90s, and a little bit like fabio only not in a scary way. i was just staring in disbelief and craig was looking a little wistful, and said something else about missing his hair. and then i remembered something i had overheard...about chemotherapy. at the time i'd heard it, i wasn't sure who....well, i know now. i knew. and he knew that i knew, and i think he knew i didn't know what to say, and i knew he didn't expect me to say a thing. knew know knew know. yeah. i think today's his day off. speaking of which, i should have started getting ready for work ten minutes ago. it's not coyness, it's discretion. love kirsten Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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by Mark Casarotto 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Hey up sinister, (and Mr Pettinger, I'm not nicking your moniker for my email address, I've had it for years, it's just I've left work and become unempl*yed. Hence change of email address) How are you all? I wonder if I'm going to be posting more now that I have things like job-hunting to avoid? I expect so - I've only been job-hunting for 5 hours and already the kitchen is spotless (apart from the floor - something else to do later, bonus!). Carsmile Steve's post and wonderful Madeleine's post sort of got together in my mind and set me off ruminating on Sinister ancient and modern. But it wasn't very coherent, so I won't bore you with it. Perhaps I shouldn't bore you with this post at all, as it's really only a practice one to get me back into the swing. If several old friends want to greet my return with a few virtual slaps on the back, that might encourage me to post again :-) XFM, eh? Other London listees will be able to confirm how crap it is, which is a bit ironic considering one particlar post of mine a few years back. I've got it on in the background as I type, and by gosh it's poor. Not quite as poor as the website, where I notice they're making a big thing of the fact you can buy bargain Lighthouse Family CDs! Well, woo. Before I go, props to Kirsten for being so lovely and Mr Gillanders for being so lucky :-) Alla prossima, Mark xxx p.s. now that I'm out of work, I have more time for personal emails. This is a hint. __________________________________________________ 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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