HEY SINISTER! it's 2am and i feel like staying up late, so you're probably gonna get a long rambling post out of my insomnia, (is it still insomnia if you've just finished off a 2litre bottle of coke? didn't think so). i shall try my best to have headings where possible so you can skip parts that are of no interest to you. ISOBEL ------ nobody seems to be missing her much. which is bad. she was lovely. i liked her voice. i loved her cello. i urge you all to go back and play your b&s records, and try and imagine them without the cellos pieces. the songs would be much less without her, and although i'm sure they will continue to make great music without her, i for one will miss her presence greatly. *sniff* and damn, is she sexy?! ;-) BIG BROTHER ----------- Kieran Devaney said: "Another thing which has been puzzling me .... is the continuing popularity of that ‘Big Brother’ show" sorry. im an addict. i do admit that it's less entertaining than the previous two series, but i still watch it. i like to laugh at stupid people. i like to bitch about people i'll never meet. i like to watch kate in her bikini. i like to shout abuse at tim. and jade. and adele. and tim some more. (the ginger, arrogant twat.) i don't watch eastenders, or hollyoaks, or any of that crap. big brother is the same sort of thing, except you dont have to put up with the shitty acting. it's trash tv, but it's addictive because over the 64 days you get a feel for these people. you dont have to waste time judging different people every day (like trisha, for example), you can just pick up your ill-formed prejudices from the day before. oh, and i AM allowed to be nasty to these people, because they put themselves in there, knowing the public scrutiny that comes with it. if i was to meet them on the 'outside', id probably give them a bit more of a chance, but i will never meet these people, so i shall continue to judge them and laugh at them and shout hateful slogans at them. that's the point of the show. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - vilkas talked about lots of things. one was rediscovering albums. i did that this week with stevie wonder's talking book. i used to dismiss it as 'superstition' [which mister john played at nationalpopleague yesteday. marvellous.] and some other songs, and it was neglected many-a-time in favour of innervisions. but, having regained both albums last week, having been on-loan for quite a while, i have been totally overwhelmed by the brilliance of the songs on talking book. go buy it. it's simply outstanding. i believe, you and i, blame it on the sun, are all fantastic tunes. stevie wonder is a gifted crafter of songs. she also talked about being a 'socialite' and a 'serial flirter', but still not being able to find a honey. "Fuck all that. Meeting people is easy. Teehee. But when it comes to l-o-v-e, I shrink back into my turtle shell. Why do i do this? It drives me up the fuckin wall!" i know exactly what you mean. i am THE serial flirter. take last night at pop league for example. i licked miss juicy lucy's sweat right off my pint glass, (you don't want to know how it got there, trust me), i played footsie with miss carey, i got hip-shakingly funky with mister ally cook, and i even got the dj to strip (slightly). and it doesnt stop there. gav was so infatuated with me, he even drew my portrait, and lord keith of edinburgh kept writing down his phone number for me. ;o) but even with all this major flirting action, there's still no 'proper' action for ickle mikey. so if there are any hot sinister ladies (or former members of glasgow indie bands with ample behinds and lots of newly-found spare time) who want to instigate some inter-list smut action with my good self, drop me a line. thanks. otherwise, this massive flirt-a-thon will just keep on going, and i dont want to know what'll happen if it's still here when 'big, hot' mark casserole gets across the border next week. finally, vilkas said: "Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt." i like that word. it's possibly the only swear word that still retains that sense of taboo. which is the whole point of swear words, surely? it's still the only word i can't say in front of my mum. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ------------------- that huge vomit-inducing shitbag of a cuntmonkey, mister robertson said: "Our heroes Stuart and Richard will be guests on BBC Liquid News tonight on BBC Choice at 8PM." so, anybody see it? can't seem to find any mention of it on the bbc website. i missed it and was hoping to find out if it was going to be repeated, but cant find a darn thing. and did anyone actually record it for our favourite foul-mouthed management guru? or have we finally reached our limit, and are refusing to do favours for that horrid, rude little man? :o) FUNNY THINGS ------------ marriana's www.theonion.com link was hilarious, especially.... "In 1982, the company introduced "Shakes McJunkie," an emaciated addict who robbed characters of their possessions, which he then sold to buy McDonald's shakes. He was later reworked as "The Machead," a homeless, wild-eyed Big Mac addict who turned to panhandling and gay prostitution as a means of supporting his severe burger habit." flippin' genius. as is this.... http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199804/msg00003.html just clicked on the search button on the sinister homepage 'cos i was interested by the word 'porn'. i love those random search words. you find such gems in the dark distant vaults of the sinister archives. you don't want to know what comes up if you enter 'stuart murdoch' and 'leather'. but just in case, you better know that one of the entries that appears is by a certain miss genevieve. hmmmm..... there are LOADS of fun things i want to say. more about pop league, about the belle and sebastian gig, about me, about books..... and so on, but it's now 3.30 and im going to bed. i shall probably return tomorrow if i can't think of anything more fun to do, and bore you to tears once again. but before i got, i think i have earned the right to do some shameless promotion, on behalf of others, all of this parish though. if you live in (or near) glasgow, and you like indie, go here: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie if you like the national pop league, and perhaps want look at a blurry photo of me dancing, or maybe play five-a-side football, go here: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalpopleague if you would like information about the winchester club, go here: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_winchester_club right, goodbye. stay smutty. michael.xx ps - a quick get well soon shout out to miss idles and anyone else suffering in the summer weather. i like your idea of popping off to alaska for a month. think the nhs would pay for it? always worth a try. "get out of your apartment. meet a member of the opposite sex. stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. quit your job. start a fight. prove your alive. if you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic." - tyler durden. _________________________________________________________________ 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@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. 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