Hello all, I went to see Jarvis Cocker's thing the other night, he was singing disney songs with his mates. It was awesome, Nick Cave was there and everything! The only bad thing was that I heard Pete Doherty sing Chim Chim Cheree, and thought it was really good, and now I want to hurt myself. It's brilliant. I'm all about going to places, this summer, it's going to be the summer of festivally fun, I think. Tomorrow I'm off to Glastonbury! I wasn't sure that I wanted to see anybody apart from Chumbawamba, but actually, I want to see more than just that! E.g. They're showing Ghost Busters in the cinema field on Thursday night. It'll be brilliant. And then, after the Red Bull Dozers played an unbelievable gig at the Brixton Windmill last Sunday (which was out of this world), they're playing AGAIN on July 15th, at the Enterprise at Chalk Farm. I'm so going to see them. It'll be brilliant. All these, before Sinister 10th Birthday Picnic!! I hope to see some sinister offsprings there. It's going to be the brilliantest summer ever. Yours Brilliantly Ken P.S.: I haven't heard from "Faith" from myspace lately, I hope she's okay. Perhaps she's gone to facebook. I've pretty much abandoned all of the internet except for facebook. Except you, sinister, cos I like you x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hello you, You're looking mighty fine. We're both a little older, but it suits you. You've grown into yourself. There's a confidence there that's...well, its kind of sexy. What are you doing later? Oh, okay. No, its fine. I'll probably wash my hair too. What there is left of it. I've been meaning to write to you for a while, Sinister, but I've been avoiding the computer. There's one at work, you see, and the one at home feels too much like it. Also, when I turn it on and try and do things like type e-mails, there are these subliminal messages it flashes up to me. There's a really terrifying, dark dark blue one that shouts IF YO DON'T FIL IN APPLICATION FORMS YOU IS GOING HAVE NO JOB AND YOU IS GOING TO HAVE TO PIMP YO ASS ROUND BALSALL HEATH AND NO FUCKER IS GOING TO WANT TO BUY IT. NOT A GAY MAN LIKES AN OLD ASS. Very dark blue, dark, dark blue. Eyes, like the sunrise. There is an equally disturbing pastel pink one that whispers..."play online scrabble.... play online scrabble... meaningful and purposeful activity? Why do you need that....? (stop smiling, Taylor) triple word scors, triple wrod scros.... " But, for now, less of such frippery. Who needs triple wrod scros, when you have pICNICS! Oh how lovely! I've thought for so long how nice it would be to go to one. I mean, the Birmingham picnic mark II* and the Sinister Tallinn Jamboree** were great, but they don't match a TENTH BIRTHDAY. I think we all need to wear our best party outfits. Perhaps we could going in fancy dress. Perhaps we should dress as BEARS. We are no longer twee teddy-bear clutchers, now we are FIERCE BEARS who can take on the world!!! YES!!! Who is up for this?!? Speaking of meet-ups, I clicked on a message to reply to this, and it turned out it was Ken saying this:
I'm all about going to places, this summer, it's going to be the summer of festivally fun, I think.
which was kind of nice, really, because I didn't see most of you at Glastonbury, but I saw Ken, wandering up through a field, and we sat in the mud and listened to an imaginary disco and very nice it was too. Also, Ken said this..
P.S.: I haven't heard from "Faith" from myspace lately, I hope she's okay. Perhaps she's gone to facebook. I've pretty much abandoned all of the internet except for facebook. Except you, sinister, cos I like you x
Its a shame about faith. She always vanishes when you're expecting her to stick around. Perhaps you've been taking her for granted. Cherish her, bring her flowers. Send her your bank details. I find this last trick makes more friends on Myspace than anything else. I wondered if there was a facebook sinister group? Searching for Sinister on facebook brings up about 8908098 groups. It would be nice to belong to another facebook group I don't actually read. It would give me something to think about when not filling my pretend aquarium. Robin and Jim talked about the Green Man festival, which I wish I was going to. But I'm not. Bummer. I hope you have a nice Sinister meet-up though. On the up-side, I am going to the CONNECT FESTIVAL. Which is in SCOTLAND and has TEENAGE FANCLUB, amongst others, playing. I think there might be other Sinistereens attending too..apparently at least one member, of far greater Sinister Stature than myself....but hopefully they'll post about that... Is anyone else coming?? It'll be FUN, and not WET. It seems everyone is having BABIES. Well, big congratulations to all of you. I am hoping several of them will attend our picnic, and that at least one will bring a teddy bear. Which would be good, because then we will be people dressed as BEARS holding teddy bears, and it'll be DEAD FUNNY. Also, as Morrissey is now practically a member of Sinister (reflected glory is a marvellous thing), I suggest we invite him too. We can dress him up as a monkey. He'd enjoy that. So, babies, bears, monkeys and what else? I think we should have a COMPETITION! THE DESIGN-A-SINISTER-COCKTAIL COMPETITION!!!!!!!!! I was going to put instructions here, but they seem uneccessary. And we should all make one, and drink it in honour of the winner. Good idea?? Good idea!! GOOD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know, I think I've shot my bolt. There's no more e-mail left in this head. Trust me, I've looked for it, and I've got no idea where I left it. Perhaps it is too much EXCITEMENT. See you soon, folks. HURRAY!! xx Ian *The Birmingham picnic was actually 3 of us sat in a bar. But it was GRATE!!! Better than PEARS! Maybe we should have another one one day. **The Tallinn Jamboree was actually 3 of us sat in a variety of bars. One of these people was not, technically speaking, a member of Sinister. But it was GRATE!! Better than POMEGRANATES!! Maybe we should have another one one day. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Good day, Ian competitively wrote:
THE DESIGN-A-SINISTER-COCKTAIL COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!
Gin with Ginger Beer with a Ginger Wine chaser. It is called SALAD OF ALL THE GIN. Om nom nom! Can I have my prize yet? He also mentioned:
*The Birmingham picnic was actually 3 of us sat in a bar. But it was GRATE!!! Better than PEARS! Maybe we should have another one one day.
Indeed - people were setting fire to drinks! And there was unexpected orange peel all over the shop! Very confusing to a simple bitter (drinking) lass like me. Ken said:
Do we just BRAVE the rain and sit up the hill or will we Spread Eagle it? If only I didn't leave the > Gazebo at Glastonbury, we can set it up and be all poncey.
We go up the hill and go under SOME TREES! The rain will cease, and even if it doesn't, we could probably do with a wash, couldn't we. Some of us had a picnic in Greenwich Park in the rain on Bloomsday. We took refuge in a bandstand and it all ended up being quite smashing! I might recommend bringing along a blanket and maybe one of those compact little umbereller eller ellers wot you can slip in your handbag, or manbag just in case :) HOWEVER, it will NOT RAIN so I don't know why I am even bothering to say this actually :) Bring beachballs, frisbees, foopballs, ping pong tables, teddy bears ect as is your wont. This makes me recall a pome: "I hugged two teddies/With Chris Geddes". Yrs Sarah +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
There are days that catch the light,....days like diamonds. A wise man said that once. He also said "drink piss, to cool down your brain", but the less said about that the better. I've probably lost half of you already. Come back - I'm hoping the above will make sense later on. So - I was going to write this in the style of a thank you note, but it was too hard. But thank you, Sinister, for being ten, and for being here, still, after all this time. And thank you Uncle Steve for organising it all, because I guess I took it for granted and didn't really think how much work it must have been until the next day. And thank you sun, for shining, and if you'd like to do some more of that, maybe right after I've finished this mail, that'd be great. So - I'm finding this harder to write than I thought I would, I guess because I've decided not to gimmick it, or try and make it funny. Somehow, there's been this bond over the years, and it can be a strange one, because so much of it is through a computer screen - which means a lot of the time I see an edited you, and you see an edited Ian, and I try and plan the me I present... Can I say something Sinikids? This isn't a come on, well not really, well, p'raps a bit, but... you're far more beautiful in the flesh. Tell you what, there's a park on a hillside, in a little British city...I'll meet you there in ten years time, if they haven't made meeting in parks on hillsides illegal. We can sip tea, nibble on scones, and discuss how much better the last ten years were than the ten years before that. And then, when we're done, you can try and teach me how to cartwheel, because I still won't be able to do it, or you can try and show me how to play football, because I still won't be able to do that either, and I can roll down the hill, because that's pretty easy and anyone can do it, although not ending up on the pavement under people's feet is harder than you'd think. When I look at these reporting back posts, there's always a bit of a thrill when you see your name - it means someone actually cared that you were there - and yet there's also that feeling when you don't, especially when the poster has written a long, long list of names...so, with the state my memory is in, I'm not even going to try that. It was great to see you, all of you: those I'm priveleged enough to call my friends, those I get to know a bit more every time I meet them, and like, but time somehow sort of slips past, those I always seem to upset without really trying, those of you who have just been born and probably won't be reading this and the new friends I made that day, who I hope weren't too pissed off with my drunken ramblings towards the end of the night (I hope you'll stay in touch!). I know a lot of you meet under different auspices these days but for me these kind of events stay really special. This e-mail was meant to be longer, and a different shape, but Birmingham calls, right now. I feel like posting it anyway, incomplete as it is. I'll be back with some ink polaroids later, and I'm going to continue being horribly earnest, because, well, I am horribly earnest underneath it all - but I think, hope, you knew that really, and that, in many ways, you liked that more than the drunken twat who's too pissed to operate a dj-thingy and walks barefoot through dog shit without even realising. Don't get me wrong, that twat has served his purpose, and I'm grateful to him, but its time to let him go now. Far too cryptic, probably, and no comment about diamonds. Hell, start with a twee song quote, don't justify it, just put it there, why not? Come back when you've taken your anti-depressant and try again later. Yep, those polaroids. They're still developing. Some of them are great. I hope we can picnic again soon. If nothing else, I've got some pictures, in my head, to show you. xx Ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
participants (3)
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Ian Anscombe -
kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk -
Sarah J Clarke