Oi Sinister! Outside! Now let's rhumble! Aside from the toxic fume outbreak at work and spending four hours in casualty, what has really been getting my mountain goat this week is the fact you all hate me. I know, I know, you all /pretend/ to enjoy my company at soirees and the like, but I'm simply forced to deduce that this is a conspiratorial façade, given that no one has sent me a crush vote. I dunno, you spend time relaying extraordinary adventures, witty conversations and intriguing observations and no one bothers to even TRY and get into your pants.* Pah. So just for that, you're getting an awfully random, babbling post from me. Revenge, mua ha ha. Take that! And, err, party. Sinister fun fact #82. Ken Chu is smutastic. Even in his sleep. Speaking of bad posts, Andrew Churchman posted about leaving Sinister. "I just wanted some of the new listees to know that this list wasn't always this boring." Indeed, there has been a lot of talk about the decline of Sinister recently. Dudes, if you think the list is boring, then erm, CONTRIBUTE and try and raise the standards.Or just fuck off quietly and read ILE. Warning, cliche: The list is what you make it. And as for discussing the intricacies of the songs, well it's been done. We've moved on. We may be a "legion of bedroom saddo devotees", but our obsessions aren't limited and fuck it, Belle and Sebastian can't be on our record players all the live long time. I WANT people to think, rant, tell stories and confess their sins. This, for me, is what makes Sinister so great. Of course, the occasional bitch-fest about Isobel or communal swooning over Stevie should always be encouraged. However, because I'm occasionally lovely and want to appease those who insist on each post containing at least some content, bite your teeth on this: B+S are playing with Ms Dynamite in Burnley, UK. Can you say, random but brilliant line-up? Sinister fun fact #83. Vanilla David tells the BEST animal sex stories, ever. He's also the only person I've heard convincingly argue the merits of Adelaide. During one of many drunken strolls through the streets of London at 1 in the morning, the young James Franco confessed he used to believe Madonna was in the original line up of Bananarama. "It made sense at the time", he claimed. I like this mix up. A lot. Firstly, because it very loosely foreshadows a Bis lyric by about 10 years, and secondly, because it's kind of like lyric mishearings, but relating to band members instead. And it reminded me of the time I thought Skeletor was simply a drag queen extra in the "Wannabe" film clip. Incidentally, for a good two years I swore the line in Bananarama's Love in the First Degree was "guilty as a cocoa bean" and was an obscure homage to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. How exactly it was an homage I'm not entirely sure, but I stood by my mishearing and my random justification. Even after my brother told me to stop being silly and put me in the stocks at Elizabethan World. Miss Marianarama Longmire P.S. Reggie Whitecastle's back. Whoot! *And it seems this post isn't going to do much to persuade you otherwise, now is it? Sigh. I give up. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+