Sinister: the bad judgement of a mute can often lead to an endless rant. sorry.
oopsy. I've been out of the nursery for...oh, say...one year, give or take a day. And I DIDN'T REALISE IT. One year spent as a mute, wasted. The thing is, I subscribed at the start of '99 (oh, such a long time ago that was), then unsubscribed the same week that I was let out of the nursery in order to travel around Asia with my school's touring band, regretfully (not because of the trip, silly - because I had to unsubscribe). As soon as I returned and subscribed again, I must have been instantly out of the nursery! Oh, what a fool I was. I always thought that I must have been released already, but I suppose I'm such a sloth that I was too lazy to experiment and send anything to you lot. So now I write, and write a lot I shall, I fear. Scroll onwards... Well, my name is Aimee, and I'm 17 years old. I live in a place called Adelaide, Australia (does EVERYTHING in my life have to revolve around the letter A? Well...actually, no), and I'm doing Year 12 at school, which means I'm in my last year of high school, and I am very stressed out because of the pressure that it all involves. I shouldn't really be this stressed though, because I only want to get into Arts at uni next year, and we all know that that means I won't be getting a job. (: There must be something very wrong with me then, I hear you say. Hmm. NO! - I just want to get out of Adelaide and into Melbourne for uni, 'tis all!! Even though I'm SUPPOSEDLY on a two-week break from school at the moment, my horrible slave-driving school has decided to give us exams the first week back at school, which no other school in this ENTIRE NATION has decided to do! Can you believe that? Does that mean that my school is the scariest school in Australia? I think it does. I won't mention the name of my school though, just in case one of my teachers is reading this and then they'll give me evil stares when I go back. My English teacher loves me. Not LOVE loves me, no no, it's not that kind of a school, but I fear that I may be becoming the teacher's pet somewhat. All he's given me this year are 20/20s, and - don't get me wrong - I'm not COMPLAINING at all, in fact I'm almost inclined to love HIM relentlessly for the nice marks, but it's started to worry me. Even the things that I write which I think are complete crap he scribbles "absolutely breathtaking - brilliant, brilliant, profound, thought-provoking" in his red pen, and I sort of think that I should really be questioning his judgement, right? The problem is that he often yells these compliments across the classroom. For example, I am investigating the gothic and drug culture of this place here called James Place, a sort of alleyway/laneway thing for my English Major Investigative Study, in which you have to go out and interview at least four people. See, I often hang around people who are that way inclined - but no, I'm not a goth and I don't indulge in any thing stronger than aspirin - so I thought that interviewing them would be interesting for my private school chums to see. So, anyway, I handed up my proposal to my English teacher and he was reading through it while we read some poems (Sylvia Plath! Yay!), and suddenly, out of nowhere, he yells across: "Aimee! You've inspired me! This makes me feel like writing my next novel right away" (he's an author, see). So the rest of my class turn around and look at me, my reddening face hidden behind Sylvia's golden words and wondering what the hell he saw in my two par! ! ! agraphs. It's just a bit too much, see, and he never does it for anyone else - he's always reading my things out, and I'm sure that the rest of the class is starting to repress their hatred and jealousy. I DON'T WANT THE ATTENTION, OKAY MR...X...? Thankyou. ~~~~Martin said: "anyone wishing to carry on abusing me should write to me at toescantalk@yahoo.com. Anyone who knows where the toes thing comes from is a little bit special in my book." I know! I know! "Toes Can Talk" - that was a children's storybook, right? I remember reading that when I was a youngster. It was one of my all-time favourites! I thought it sounded so magical, all of those toes having a dinner party, and playing instruments and all. trés cute. I hope that's what you were talking about, or I'll feel silly. Ooh...would that make me "a bit special"? I hope in a good way. Anyway, that's all from me. I really only wanted to introduce myself to give my crush a chance to vote for me...hehe. Ulterior intentions and all that. Lovely. Oops, no b&s content, in my first post too! Uh...well, no one I know has even heard of them, except for my friends who are used to my constant b&s bantering and CD playing. I KNOW that there are a few Adelaidean fans on the list though, due to my year of getting to know y'all. Still, whenever someone makes a comment to me about my b&s bus t-shirt on the street, it's never because they've actually heard of the band. Oh well, them's the breaks. Jeez...this sure is a long post. I am so sorry, I couldn't control myself. Terima kasih for getting this far if you did (well, if you're reading this...duh...)! Hopefully I won't bore the pants off you next time... ~~aimee. x %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% You should have known That I'm a little despot, short and stout Here is my handgun, here is my crowd control When you tick me off then the bullets fly out Because free love is a whole lot of bullshit Free love is a whole lot of bullshit ~~Liz Phair, hello sailor %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Send someone a cool Dynamitemail flashcard greeting!! And get rewarded. 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Current listening = the Delgados new record. No opinions forthcoming at this time. Not like me really, is it? No opinions I mean not the listening to the Delgados. My apologies to anyone dismembered by my barbs about sharing opinions on non-public-yet records. In the spirit of the times then, I made some notes on some things not-yet-public. Seasoned readers will want to press delete right now. The Visitors Miss album is a collection of little known pop, Im sorry, Pop gems that stab at the very heart of What It Is To Be Sixteen. Thats Sixteen, clumsy and shy probably or at least sixteen, angry and drunk. Perhaps both. Some songs are penned and warbled by some self-proclaimed fat, ignorant drunk. Top quality Not due for anyone to be hearing until at least June I expect. Who mentioned the Smiths and the Go-Betweens recently and suggested that they merely scratched at the nether regions of the charts? Pah. The Go-Betweens never so much as sniffed the charts, not even when Beggars Banquet tried silly marketing ploys like traffic light shaped packages or some such nonsense. Double pah. It just goes to show how stupid people can be (for not buying the Go-Betweens records I mean, not for suggesting that they sniffed the charts because obviously thats a question of interpretation and maybe Streets Of Your Town reached 41 or something ) And The Smiths? Well, hell, The Smiths were regularly top, top twenty (to be sung as in the Undertones tune ) tunesters, and didnt Panic go top five or something ridiculous? Its all so long ago and I know my mind is dulled by too much work and wine, as well as many other things. I dug out my old Smiths singles the other week and made up a tape for an ex-pupil who told me he saw them on MTV and remembered me saying how good they were and he was surprised I was right hmmm. The Smiths on MTV, how strange that would have sounded back in 1984 when we swore they were the very epitome of anti-chart pop. These were the days when the Razorcuts would write Top 40s not where its at anymore on their sleeves and we would jump up and down and say yessum, it is indeed so. For it was. I used to think that Belle & Sebastian were godlike in their rejection of all things rock and roll, that they were treading very strange avenues indeed with their refusals and perusals and odd meanderings. Then they seemed to grow up and become dull. Which is just my opinion. I feel kind of disappointed. Actually I feel very disappointed, but thats the prerogative of artists, just as it is the prerogative of other artists to do what the hell they like and not have to explain it all away to anyone like me. Especially if what they do seems to be a bit dreary and weak willed. Someone recently called me a bitter pill, which I thought was pretty spot on. Honey, my students call me worse than that all the time its true I must be picking up bad habits from them. I was talking about things that werent released yet, wasnt I? (Hey Aimee! Tell your English teacher to stick it up his bum. My students do this all the time and I dont even tell them they are great. In fact the exact opposite. The tears Ive had from being honest this is crap is always a good one for that. Its the new brutality ) well when the new Aislers Set album is released in a couple of months time you must all promise me that you will head out to the stores and buy it. Thats if you can find it I seem to have endless difficulties in finding ANYthing I want in the local stores. I want, and I mean I WANT the Stars record but has anyone even heard of it? No siree. I am driven to ordering it through CDNOW in the USA, who have it as an import so I am getting an exported import. Or something. That s if their back ordering service even works at all. Meantime anyone who can furnish more details (like record label?) much appreciated. Endless praises be to MP3s. And they do a storming cover of This Charming Man. Which is enough Smiths for one post by FAR. Ailsers Set yes, yes, and thrice YES. Theres a song by Wyatt that goes on about being drunk on the streets of Chicago for fourteen days on end and I tell you, it SENDS me every time. And another of Amys that says something about heading up to the New York border that is just sublime. Honest, I had a minidisk of the Aislers Set album, and one of the B&S album when I was on the plane to New York last week and do you know what? The B&S one didnt get a look in. But Im not telling you why not. Oh no. Theres a book that comes out next month and its called Powder and the NME says Read it. Of course you know by now to never trust the NME (unless you dont, in which case you are fifteen and thats understandable give it time) but really this book should be avoided at all costs. It is written by the bloke who used to be the manager for the Farm. Hands up who remembers THEM? No sniggering at the back. I mean it I wrote this book when I was 16. No really, I did. Some of it anyway. Ask my friends oh wait, I didnt have any. Which is why I wrote the book. Hmmmm. All of this says much more about the lack of quality in Powder than it does about any quantity of it my writing when I was 16. I mean, look at it now. How much better can it have gotten? Answers to be kept to yourselves especially Peter Miller, who I just mentioned because I know he loves to see his name in print. And hey, Miller, the fat ignorant drunk and I were arguing about which of us it was you were taking the piss out of in your recent Papercuts outing? I insist it was him because theres no way Id have said such things about Hip Hop. I am too ignorant And on that unarguable point, I shall withdraw, perchance to dream of seeing the Magnetic Fields in July what a super start to our summer hols! 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