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Sinister: I am not a rock band
by Daplyn Elizabeth 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

...but I R!O!C!K! the house. No, really, I do. Ask anyone. Anyone who was around these parts back in the days of yore when I occasionally posted, that is. I've been here off and on since before I was universally challenged, which is a good five years now. Crikey. Still, entering the ranks of (temporary) corporate whoredom (oo-er Ms) has the advantage of free email, as does having a desk at which no-one can overlook what I'm doing on my computer. So, emerging from the nursery once more like a sartorially-challenged butterfly, here I am. People who were loafing around Camden last Saturday will have seen me, myself and my big black jumper inhabiting the pub for a few hours. It's funny how recently I've been regressing to my adolescent practice of dressing nearly entirely in black, but with rather less of a crippling sense of self-consciousness. Still acutely self-conscious, just not crippled by it anymore - only mildly sprained, as Minnie Driver said in Grosse Point Blank. Anyway, good pubnic, y'all. I still want to know who was using yer man Ken's buttocks as a pillow later that night, though. Curse Shepherd's Bush and all its housewarming parties! Will Salt (or Salty Will - heh - an epithet surely applicable to an ancient bluesman of the highest stamp) = very blond, no? It occurred to me while supping a tasty pint of apple derivative on Saturday that (from my own observations) Sinister is predominantly brunette, unless there are hordes of platinum starlets out therre who haven't been showing themselves. After all, the best looking girls might _well_ be staying at home ;P However, this means that I call on Miss Juicy Lucy Alder to once again renounce her more-or-less natural hair colour and hit the bleach in order to redress this balance somewhat. I would, but my hair is alarming enough without making it light up at night. To segue non-secretarially: Anyone (with better-than-average taste) who heard tompaulin in session on John Peel the other night will have been thrilled by their wry loveliness. Is there *by any chance* anyone in the house who can tell us if there is any associated product available for us to waste our pocket money on? I have my suspicions... It's odd, but no matter what combination of twisty reggae, twee techno, and wailings of skinny boys lamenting their lovelessness that Mr Peel plays of an evening, I never fail to be soothed, unlike the effect of the medulla-crushing arse (now _there's_ an arresting visual, if you like) that is currently spewing out of the office radio. John Peel should be marketed as a comforting blanket. No, wait, he already is... Vandalised bus shelters are, conversely, not reminiscent of comforting blankets at all. They can be startlingly beautiful, though, what with scattered cubes of safety glass scattered around ('Hackney diamonds', I read somewhere) or crazed mandala patterns radiating from the focal points of not-quite-hard-enough blows and looking like imitations of gorgeous spiderwebs laid down by secret crafty hands. But it might just be me that likes them. I've spent considerably more than 15 minutes composing this, as I was dragged off to a BIG GROWNUP MEETING halfway through. Criminy! Deathless prose it ain't, but I'll inflict it on you anyway. Love and shenanigins, Liz D :x *i think that i shall never see a person lovely as a tree* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Champaign for my real friends...
by JAMES GILMER 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

...and real pain for my sham friends. To be brutally honest, I don't usually have much time for Thanksgiving. I'm not much of a holiday person to begin with, and Thanksgiving really doesn't have the same spark as Santy Claus day does, but what the hell. I got to spend today with my family, some of whom I don't care for much, and others that I couldn't live without. I got to see my niece today, and a more brilliant 12 year old I'd be hard pressed to name. We talked about music and Harry Potter and her track team and she beat me in a race to the end of the block. She also told me the card I sent her, a card with a sketch of Christopher Robin and Pooh on the cover I sent her from Belgium this summer, is proudly hanging in her locker at school. So, I suppose I do have a lot to be thankfull for. A brilliant niece, good family, patient parents, and the best friends I could wish for. I'd rather have them here with me, as I type this, my monthly cigarette dangling from my mouth and the buzz of a few RB&V's fading away. But some of them are at their families, and some of them are scattered across the county, and some of them are even scattered across the world. If there's ever a time I doubt myself, or feel a bit down, the one thing I can do is look around at my friends, and I know anyone who can have the collection of friends I have isn't all bad. If the measure of a man is his friends, then all I can say is that I must have done *something* right in a past life to deserve my friends, and not a day goes by when I'm grateful for the lot of them. So, if you'll forgive me a bit of a soft moment, I'm feeling extremely grateful to all the wonderful friends I have and I have made, and I don't say lightly that if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here. Anyways, a toast to all my friends, on the list and off, because it's the day to give thanks to the things that are important to us, and nothing could ever be more important than friends. A good deal of them aren't on the list, but to the ones that are, cheers. A tip of the glass especially to Laura Llew, Kirsten, Emily and Sean, Amy Longcore, Amy Bancroft, Sean and his sweetheart (the sister I *wish* I had) Elise Spry, ~stine, and to the whole bloody lot of you: Happy Thanksgiving. There, I promise the next post will see me back to my old cursing, cynical self. Cheers! Jim _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: what's new
by Kirsten Kenyon 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

it does feel good to be brave. yes, and sometimes people surprise you.....sometimes you're expecting a scowl and a red face and a loud voice, and what you get is someone who listens and asks questions quietly....and calls you "pumpkin." oh yes, pumpkin. no pie for me... thanksgiving....i came down with a bad headache around three o'clock and took to my room for the remainder of the evening. around five, my sister and my cousins and my puppy came pouring in and jumped on me in my bed and tried to wake me up, and i tried to be fun but my neck hurt just horribly so i stayed there under my blankets and had a strange dream about a white- haired girl who was constantly powdering her face. i think i went to high school with her, but never really knew her. it's funny, the things lodged in the back of our minds...i can't imagine why i dreamt about that girl. when i finally woke up, it was dark outside. i went downstairs and the relatives were all sitting around the big table in tweed trousers and wool sweaters, laughing and picking at the remains of the evening's feast...butternut soup and roasted potatoes, brined turkey...the candlelight reflecting off their rosy faces, off the wine bottles, off the windows. if i'd had a camera, i could have taken a nice photograph for an eddie bauer catalog. or bon apetit. something. i ate some green beans and a slice of bread and i had another beer, and then i was very full and the relatives all went home, and i thought about how holidays used to be such a big deal. i think they probably still could be, but not because they're holidays....you know? i don't know. today wasn't the best, but things are looking rather good. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: This is just a hello e-mail anyways...
by Ana Ribeiro 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

Or at least I'll try to. Hi sinister people, I'm Ana, 18-years-old brazilian girl (hmn, what else??)... I love belle and sebastian (well, that's pretty obvious...), even though I like many other stuff, sp. metal, people think it's weird to love the sweetest thing, B&S, and at the same time love really hard songs, reeeeeally hard. But that's me.... I do economics at University of Brasilia, it's lovely and boring and exciting at the same time, well, this is just a weird course but...... hmn... I'm doing this french play "Les fous du paradis" (the mad people of paradise, or something like that) that really takes all my free time, but that's good... going to present it this december, think it's december 4, 5 and 6, but I'm not sure ... got my driver's licence two days ago and I'm driving all the time, love to. I thought it would be cool to introduce myself, so when I want to post something you won't be all like "who the hell is she anyways?"... Hmn, I think that's it, I feel like asking if I'm the only brazilian here (or the only one from Brasília), yes, it's asked then, even though it's nothing but this-second-curiosity... of course I'm not the only one, 'cos Fabio is from Brazil too... and I must agree with him that Multishow (the TV station that broadcasted B&S's Rio's concert) sucks... and Stevie's portuguese isn't only funny... rather cute, he really tried to do something pretty good, that was sweet. Take care, Ana PS: Wrote that listening to Jonathan David, it's lovely. "You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be" (Rush, Anthem) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Question: A I allowed writing for the list?
by arlequim＠osite.com.br 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

It's it. Roberto +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: for which we are truly thankful
by Bdh52983＠cs.com 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Well the one good thing that came out of this Thanksgiving day already is that I have pulled out my copy of Tigermilk which has been sitting getting badly scratched up for the last several months :D So far so good there are no major skipping problems... I'm going out for a buffet lunch/dinner thing today at this local catering place. Some of my friends work there maybe they can slip me some pumkin pie "under the table" or something. This year I suppose that all it would take to make me truly happy would be an east coast B&S tour, but since that's already been discussed here to some length I'll let it be. Have a nice Thanksgiving day everyone even those not in the U.S. yeah +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: offtopic: tape requests
by Snoozer/ Maíra Ezequiel 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Sorry to bother you Sinister List, but this way is easier to get in touch with everyone. The thing is: I Need Help!!!! There are 16 addresses so far and perhaps i'm going to receive more. Some lovely people offered me the greatest trades i could ever get, but the fact is: they're too many for me to send. I've sent a mail to a friend who works in the Central Post Office and i'm still waiting for a reply, but i don't think it will be cheap to send all these tapes. Still, I DO want to send tapes to everyone. ;) But I need some kind of help. For example, there are some people from same countries (Sweden, US, Scotland) and even some from the same States (Texas, Michigan,...), so if some of you could also copy the tapes for yourselves it would leave one tape for me to send to each region of the world. Another important thing is: some of you gave me the tip of the video format used in Europe, that are different from the US. Well, i really need more information on that, because brazilian VCRs come with both formats: NTSC and PALM. But are you from Europe, Japan and New Zealand really sure you'll be able to watch the tape??? Please, if you know anybody who deals with electronics, get some info about these formats. And last, but not least, for the ones who asked about how to send money (this way you don't need to send anything in return of course): you have to find out if there's a Banco do Brasil agency where you live, or, if your bank has some conection with this federal brazilian bank. I know that there's plenty of agencies around the world, but i don't know where. If you find out, i'll pass the numbers and then i can send the tapes immediately. Woof! I don't wanna sound like everything's too difficult. I'll stick to the Beatles: WE CAN WORK IT OUT! :.)))) Here are all the people who sent me addresses. The complete address is not here for obvious reasons (you didn't allow me to). i promise i'll keep in touch and until the end of this month (it means next week) i'm sending at least 2 tapes for two different region. bye, Fabio Snoozer, listening to new Stereolab!!!!!!!! David Clark Auckland New Zealand. Daniel Cederberg Stockholm SWEDEN Carmel Wright Seattle, WA 98136 USA Lisa Holton Austin TX 78757 USA Megan Irwin Seattle, WA 98125 USA SANTI TRULLENQUE BARCELONA SPAIN yumiko yokoo nishi-ku, fukuoka japan Astrid Wiezell Nacka Sweden Jamie Gray SCOTLAND KY12 0XF Shawn Krueger Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Amy Longcore Newaygo, MI 49337 USA Patrick Doyle AB55 5AR Scotland Ernie Sanchez Country CA 91351 USA andrew churchman Manasquan, NJ 08736 ALAN WHYTE SCOTLAND(UK) KA20 4EZ Sulman Mirza Texas 77379 USA +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Some thinking going on
by Mark Casarotto 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Hey up sinister. Things have changed a bit round here since I last posted properly, which is probably why I fancy having a go. I'm not really the type to be struck with random thoughts, and I haven't had a Sinister dream in a long time. sinister dreams I can do - there are shadows ("on me lungs?") on the ceiling which are decidedly non-scary but my mind fucks shit up and I wake up, staring at the shadows, and my bedroom becomes a place of terror and loathing (as any girls who've been in there would agree, boom boom). Only for a few minutes. Though. I've developed permanent neckache from using my computer while lying on my bed. I have to stare perpetually to the right. Can you get RSI without moving? I can, but then I'm an old fucker. Gosh, it feels good to swear today. Though I did call Jennifer Lopez a cunt earlier without meaning to - it just slipped out. I meant to say "cow". No-one heard. They seldom do. I followed Daf's link to Stuart's writing, and while it's not the most profound thing I've ever read (cf. the sleevenotes to the records - verging on the twee, but nice all the same) there's a cosiness about them which makes it a pleasure to spend a few moments perusing, and coming away feeling like one more decent thing has happened in the world. I'm looking forward to reading more. It's a really sound website they've got there now - it makes you feel good, it's unpretentious, and it's Belle and Sebastian. A big plus in anyone's book. This kind of lazy Sunday writing style I seem to have picked up is probably a result of Stuart's prose influencing the subconscious. Writers do that to me - Stephen Fry the most obviously, JK Rowling not at all, Joseph Heller affects my thinking processes rather than the way I speak. Still, lazy Sunday is better than moody fucker, which is how the rest of the day's been spent - now that blessed redundancy is in the offing (a Sinister disease, that redundancy), I'm Not Working Hard Enough, as the piles on my arse, erm, desk make evident. Not working hard makes me sad, but as with so many things, only I can sort it out. What a con. I used to do the stream of consciousness thing a lot on Sinister, but nowadays I just lurk. Still, I'm only a dozen digests behind now, so maybe things are taking an upturn. I even socialised the other day! Chu was there, of course. As was the flighty Ben Apps, the sultry SGS and the exquisitely cheekboned JDH. And Paul and his midfield Skeez. Sinister's still the place to be. Bye friends, Markx ********************************************************************** HIT Entertainment PLC, Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500, Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e-mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e-mail; please notify us by telephone on +44 (20)7 554 2500, and delete this message from your computer system. This e-mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e-mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.com www.hitwildlife.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:08:00 -0000
by Doyle Patrick 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Hello everyone Patrick here, Sorry but this is the last time I will be able to reply to any e-mails that anyone sends me until Monday, as that is the next time I have a free period and can get on to the computer again. I cant wait to read them though!!!! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Slap the Clowes around
by Robert Brennan 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Hello... Melmoz from Texas said: "please, don't sing the theme song to the show 'Dallas'" 'Dallas' was a pile of poo (unlike the city of Dallas which I'm sure is fantastic) and was always imported into the UK on very poor quality tape. I hated that show but the theme music is one the grate-est theme tunes ever! Right up there with the Rockford Files. People have been talking about teachers who liked B&S. While living in various shared houses I would often find myself under the same roof as a teacher. The majority of them seemed to like B&S except for one I REALLY fancied. But that's another (unhappy) story. On a lighter note - Robin with an 'i' said: "Jonathan King's being sent to prison! Hooray!" Should've happened years ago - No Limits was a crime against humanity. Robin with an 'i' and a few other people also said: "Ghost World" I do sooo want to see this. I love the comic book. Terry Zwigoff's film 'Crumb' is well worth a look too. Robyn with a 'y' said: "i think the roberts & robi/yns should *team up*. and forget all this mix tape stuff; we're more the hand-to-hand combat types" I'm a lover not a fighter. I'm all for ditching mix-tapes though. CD burning's the way to go kids. Let's start by burning any remaining recordings by Jonathan King. Robster http://robster75.tripod.com PS... The lyric competition from several posts ago: Jason McKinnon got the correct answer (Piece of dirt - TMBG) first. Prizes are delayed due to my pooter being poorly. __________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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