From clj106 at xxx.uk Sun Sep 1 14:50:08 2002 From: clj106 at xxx.uk (mummy i've grazed my knee) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:50:08 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Do I love girls? Message-ID: <001201c251be$fc389d40$526586d9@chris> I felt tearful today - I was looking at beauty and I wanted to cry. The beauty was sinister and everything it stands for. I have neglected it for far too long. SHENANIGANS On Friday, I went to Feather Boa's birthday party. She was old, but I was older. It was in a very swanky gentleman's club (or that's what it looked like) and I wanted a pipe. Lots of people were in attendance, including some or more from this parish. Everyone seemed to be up to shenanigans and I felt old, but also like the geeky kid at the school disco who'd come along because his mum said it would do him good. Something strange happened to me at the party - nobody saw it, but now my head is confused - it made me think lots and lots about what I am. I think it will go away. When I felt a little more youthful I danced lots and lots. I showed Mr Walton how you can dance to 'Waking Up To Us' - It was a wonderful time and made up for missing the 5th birthday picnic. HIDDEN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA / BELLE AND THE BOY SEBASTIAN I shouted at Mr Walton. He told me that Storytelling was the best album. "Pish" said I, "it's not even an album - it's a soundtrack". We argued about it lots. He said it had 'recurring themes' which made it a coherent musical experience. I think he was confusing recurring themes with repetition. It has constraints which as the listener we cannot appreciate. A film soundtrack has to be written within the bounds of the story and atmosphere, providing a sort of artificially forced coherence which cannot be applied to a regular album. Anyhow, everyone knows 'Sinister' is the best album! I wonder when that video will come out? A good while back, everybody was talking about making video's, and then Mr Neil told us that they were going to release a video of videos, which excited me. And on the band site there used to be (it might still be there) something which said they were going to release sheet music of all the songs that weren't in the FISHYCLAPS book. Hmmm, I wonder if this will ever see the light of day. What's going to happen to Jeepster now? They've lost Belle And Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Looper and presumably the Gentle Waves. Salako don't seem to do anything anymore and Ian McCulloch has never released anything. I hope this isn't the end because I rather liked Jeepster. So many questions! CHICKFACTOR / CAMERA OBSCURA AND OOOOHH! You know that gentleman's club I was referring to earlier? (for those who skipped that bit because it was boring, refer to SHENANIGANS above) Well at the end of the month, Chickfactor are doing a weekend of gigs to celebrate their 10th anniversary (I think) and they include such luminaries as Camera Obscura, The Would-Be-Goods and some other bands I can't remember. There was an advert for it in the toilet, and I had to go to the toilet just so I could see it. The gentleman's club is called Bush Hall and it's very posh. This post was a mish mash of rubbish, pish, public service and childish curiosity - how utterly drab and worthless. Perhaps I should have stayed in my shell. Stay beautiful sinister people. Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From hoangmp at xxx.edu Sun Sep 1 15:58:16 2002 From: hoangmp at xxx.edu (Mai Hoang) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:58:16 -0500 Subject: Sinister: a break from exhausion Message-ID: <018b01c251c8$01edb5a0$c19ba7ac@VALUED2CAD4949> dear sinisterians- oh, its been so long since i've written! and i have had enough of being a lurker. although i feel like i got insight into some people like lindsay baker, ken chu, idleberry, archel, rachel footloop and all the others, i haven't really thrown myself out there. well. i'm back in ken-tuc-ky. (yes where they made the kentucky fried chicken). going for year 3 of uni and always writing for the school paper. i have jumped on the bandwagon and written a blog. http://mhoang.blogspot.com (it looks exactly like idleberry's actually.) its been a fun summer. milwaukee was the best. and i got to meet the famous kirsten kenyon. (but kirsten, i never made it to sendik's. next visit i guess! BUT i did get a cute pair of shoes at Mr. Shoe before I left! :) ) so now i'm back in the sleeper of a town that is known as bowling green. pop 50,000. now that i have a cd player in my car, i have been listening to the boy with the arab strap NON stop. today is september. man time flew by way too quick. i wish i had more to say. oh well, until next time. how do you (being sinister) get to know me. well i guess i'll just keep posting :) . love, mai :) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From fbrito at xxx.br Sun Sep 1 17:35:04 2002 From: fbrito at xxx.br (Fernando Brito) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:35:04 -0300 Subject: Sinister: How green was my valley Message-ID: Hello Sinister!!! Hope everything's alright! I'm OK, thanks! My friends gave me a surprise birthday party! I never had one, and it was really a surprise! It was soooo, soooo cool! I almost cried. It was the best party, it started around 23:00 when I got home and went through the night and the next morning until 15:00! And *almost* noone got tired! But it happened last week, everyone already knows it, right?! I had a dream last night, in which I found a skeleton on a beach. It came back to life and pursued me in a desert road, it was driving a convertible Mercedez and I was trying to escape riding on a bike... not that interesting anyway. A couple of weeks ago HUGO wrote about track lists... yesterday I watched Yellow Submarine and I was thinking about how Storytelling would be perfect on vinyl, just like Yellow Submarine, on one side you'd have the "typical" B&S songs and on the other side they could put all that instrumental music. I think they don't fit well the way they were arranged, even though Consuelo Leaving is a perfect opener for Wandering Alone. But what the hell is Fiction Reprise doing between Scooby Driver and Big John Shaft?! This would be my track list, if it was on vinyl: A Fuck this Shit Wandering Alone I Don't Want to Play Football Black and White Unite Storytelling Scooby Driver Big John Shaft B Fiction Freak Night Walk Mandingo Cliche Consuelo Leaving Consuelo Fiction (Reprise) See? No dialogues! Hugo also wrote about album openers, I agree about SOTAF not being a good one, I just couldn't find another song to replace it, perhaps Mayfly, but then it would be a too uplifting opening for a Sinister album... And the rest of the albums, well, they have quite good openers... The best sequence in a B&S album is, for me, A Space Boy Dream - Dirty Dream #2, it's one of those breathtaking sequences! And the best ending is The Rollercoaster Ride, sure it is. Was it a list?! Hmmm...Sorry! She speaks! Flora speaks!! I'm so happy, I met another sinisterete! Only for an hour or something because I met her in the airport, she was leaving the country, moving to Rome. She's from Brasilia and she had a flight connection in São Paulo. Flora is her name. She never posted to sinister when she was here... but now she lives in Italy! I wonder if I'm the only Sinistro who lives in Brazil who's not ashamed of my poor english! If so, well I'm not that shy after all! I wish there were more brazilian sinisters, I only met Ana, and she's great, so... Actually I think I'm the only non-european-american-australian resident who posts to Sinister, as far as I can remember. Do you guys know any method or medicine or anything that takes You Don't Send Me away from one's head? Or at least Mick's trumpet? Please, please let me know, I'm not sleeping well! Kisses and hugs, Fernando Brito +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From gummi at xxx.net Sun Sep 1 18:33:53 2002 From: gummi at xxx.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gu=F0mundur_J=F3hannsson?=) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:33:53 +0100 (GMT/BST) Subject: Sinister: Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:34:49 -0000 Message-ID: <000201c251dd$df6f97d0$6400000a@gummijoh> Hello all! Yesterday was dramatic allright. I went to see the first proper Mum concert that they have held in Iceland. It was held in the Icelandic National Theater, a great big old building all oozing with history. After a great intro Mum just kicked away with some great stuff. The only thing that troubled me was that I could never understand what the twins were singing. Not even when I realised they were singing in Icelandic. ;) If anyone would like to hear a cool new band then find stuff on the Net with Apparat Organ Kvartett. A great band with four organ players and one drummer. They really rock. Went to see them on friday and they blew me away. Hope you all had a great weekend. The news here are all warning of us a storm coming our way! Hurray for have to lurk inside because if I am outside I will blow all the way to Greenland! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!! Ble ble Gummi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From rob_brennan at xxx.uk Mon Sep 2 09:04:23 2002 From: rob_brennan at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Robert=20Brennan?=) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:04:23 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: south coast picnic not in brighton shockah Message-ID: <20020902080423.23101.qmail@web10507.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Apologies for the short notice but this is to let you know there will be a small Sinister gathering on me home turf of Southsea this weekend *so* for anyone who's already coming and for those who have just been made aware in the last 3 seconds... WHEN? Saturday 7th September @ 2:30pm - When the 13:08 from London Waterloo gets in. WHERE? Portsmouth & Southsea station before navigating out of the somewhat dull city centre and past Peter Sellers' birthplace to the far more pleasant evirons of Southsea common where there is bags of green space, a beach and D!D!R! within easy access. The usual pubbery and stunt drinking to follow in the evening - for the RAWK inclined there is the option of CHAOS and a chance for Ken to dance to Terrorvision. Trains back to London stop running at about half eleven but there is space and toast available at Robster Towers for the stranded and hungry. WHO? Any of you who can make it. ISN'T IT LIKE BRIGHTON BUT CRAP? Yeah but at least both its piers are still working. And it has sea forts - they rock! Mail me off-list with queries and complaints. Or just to let me know if you're coming. Robster __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From Stuart.Gardiner at xxx.uk Mon Sep 2 14:21:58 2002 From: Stuart.Gardiner at xxx.uk (Gardiner, Stuart) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:21:58 +0100 Subject: Sinister: That was the longest weekend on record Message-ID: <579C0CAF497CD511AD4D00508BBD7AAC641B72@pikachu.ntu.ac.uk> Sinister is five years old now, which can only mean one thing - tomorrow will be the list's first day at school. The uniform has been bought, the packed lunch is being made. Will mummy shed a few tears after dropping us off at the school gates? What will our teacher be like? I hope we don't get bullied... So we have another sinister marriage. Congrats to Colin and Amy. I've never met them, but it's certainly put a smile on my face this morning. That message probably scored a few hundred milisinisters. It's the new way of measuring postings, you see. In this modern scientific age, everything has to be measured and quantified. For example: Beauty is, as we all know, measured in milihelens. Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships, so one milihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. Computer software used to be measured in milihotmails - a program that breaks down one thousandth as often as hotmail. These days of course, people have realized that that is far too large a unit of measurement, so people prefer the microhotmail. Music quality is measured in repeats. This is the number of times you play a song / album before it leves your CD player (divided by the number of other CDs in a multiplayer machine, where applicable). (More observant readers will have noticed that I am using the old imperial measurement here. The metric equivalent is the milicocker, where a one milicocker song is one thousandth as good as Common People by Pulp. The metric system does have the advantage of being able to give negative scores to Nickelback songs; I leave the choice to the reader.) Happiness is, according to Dave Gorman and others before him, measured in happys; where one happy is equal to the amount of contentness a person gains when you give them a pound coin. Of course, this can be translated into other currencies; an American happy is the amount of contentness given by a dollar bill. This also explains why Australians are so cheerful all the time, because the Aussie dollar is worth bugger all. Now, there are 1331 members on this mailing list, of which a few hundred will be either people with two email addreses subscribed, or people on holiday not reading their mail; so there must be approximately 1000 people looking at each message. So, a one milisinister posting is one that makes one member of the list glad that they read it. The likes of Archel and Trousers can register a couple of hundred milisinisters very easily; I'm happy if I make it into double figures. Of course, that's not all that matters. Saying in a post that you love me and think I'm great might only score on milisinister, but it will give me personally about fifty happys. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From lleweth at xxx.com Tue Sep 3 08:25:38 2002 From: lleweth at xxx.com (Laura Llew) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:25:38 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Thus The Adonis Made Out (alive) Message-ID: Dearest Sinister, Three overnight guests, an unfortunate event, one dirty hippie, and a stilted roadtrip to Montreal were required of me to fill this post for your innocent entertainment. It has been a few days since I have last seen a Sinisterine. Things, since then, have not gone well with me. I went from a place with a lounging London boy to a place where there was no lounging London boy, and from a place with a full bottle of Scotch to a place where there is no Scotch. That is to say, from the comfort of my cozy home to a family vacation. Before I left, I had two weeks of sinister filled fun with guests including: *The Boy "Screw Jim Gilmer - I'm the one who is so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis & if I keep up this addiction to Fuddruckers' hamburgers I'm going to have trouble seeing over my stomach as I will be HOKEY CHUBBYLICIOUS, baby" G *Jay "Un(der)employed" Nagy *Kirk"mmm Cheerwine"Us and *Jay "All I want is a vaguely Byronic underwear model who can play Chopin and discuss Descartes while making a chocolate martini - Is this too much to ask?!" Eckerd. All but the latter allowed themselves to be lured into staying several days at my hostile hostel. It was a relief that I didn't have to resort to my usual threats of grappling hooks and truck drivers named Earl to convince them they really did want to stay. After three years on this list and reading a multitude of reports back from picnics and days o red knickers, I finally have been to such. I've met members from Sinister before. The first time I met someone from here I broke out in hives beforehand, the second I fell down a long flight of steps the day of and bruised myself over my entire body (many parts which I didn't know were in existence before the incident), the third meeting I hadn't slept for weeks prior and was reduced to incoherent drivel, the fourth one I spilled chemicals on my face leaving brutal marks and appearing as scarface, and after that I've blocked it out and it can't be recalled without the use of hypnosis and dancing midgets. Suffice it to say, I didn't think I would ever make it to a Sinister gathering without some accident occurring which would make me wish I had taken out that large insurance policy. It was lucky that I escaped unscathed. We had a smallish gathering at the bookstore in South Carolina on Sunday a couple of weeks ago. There were 13 in attendance (5 sinisters, 1 Miss Flannery, & variously imported bookshop girls and the like) , one tombstone cake, undrunk wine, suspiciously colored water, and plenty of pictures taken. However, I suck at websites so I haven't put them on-line anywhere. Mr. Un(der)employed has some photos of the surrounding areas at http://www.jaynagyphoto.com/North%20Carolina.html Sadly, the goat wasn't in attendance. Actual pictures of people have been cut up, made into terrifying collages, and used in puppet shows which are now touring the nation. My other thought concerning sinister gatherings was how everyone's post-posts always painted things and people as picturesque. No one ever has a bad time, was shamelessly hit on by some heinous halitosis pretentious prick, or couldn't get anyone to say more than two words to them. However, I - *I* was going to be the one to unveil the hideous underbelly of Sinister while employing hideous grammar no less. Oh yes. Show it as it really is - exposing the seedy side that everyone else keeps quiet. No such luck. Once I shivered and stated I was cold and one of the sinister boys fetched me (the supposed hostess) a blanket. Others graciously helped me out with moving things at the bookstore, one gave me an ace Johnny Cash record, and there were numerous other acts of kindness. Plus, I thoroughly adored all of them and thought they were neurotically charming and hysterically witty. The bastards! O Perfidy, thy name is sinister boys! I grow too faint with frustration to continue. It is a dreadful thing, at such a moment, to have absolutely no one at all to be irritate in such a manner, but I shall post this immediately and it shall be somewhat the same. I remain, in the meantime, Yours, as always Laura PS - Yes, along with Eugenides'"Middlesex", I read some Sarah Caudwell on my trip and it has affected me tremendously. Curse Laurel & Brian of the trendy New York set. Heavens knows I didn't need any more encouragement toward verbiosity. PPS - It is not my fault that The Boy G is addicted to Dennys as well so don't even try to blame me. PPPS - For those of you who didn't get to go to the Atlanta b&s gig just go to http://sorehead.org/jd/ and have a lookie at Bernard. Trust me, that's exactly how Stu-ey boy looked. He's *so* cabanaboyerrific. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From anakin_sky at xxx.net Tue Sep 3 11:06:27 2002 From: anakin_sky at xxx.net (anakin_sky at xxx.net) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:06:27 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Sinister: the polyphonic spree Message-ID: <17137.1031047587@www18.gmx.net> hello, can any of you tell me something about a band called the polyphonic spree? i´ve heard a song by them on a night radio show recently, and i had never heard of them before, so any info would be appreciated. thanks, love, anne. -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ianwatsonuk at xxx.com Tue Sep 3 12:15:15 2002 From: ianwatsonuk at xxx.com (Ian Watson) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:15:15 +0000 Subject: Sinister: the polyphonic spree In-Reply-To: <17137.1031047587@www18.gmx.net> Message-ID: 25 piece choral symphonic pop group from Dallas, Texas. They are fantastic. All wear white robes, sing homages to the sun and personal strength, sound like a cross between Beach Boys, Mercury Rev and The Muppets. Their website is at www.polyphonicspree.com - new album out in the UK at the end of Sept. It's great. Called the beginning stages of... Saw them play last Tuesday at the Union Chapel and they were excellent. There's a good review of the gig here http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,782113,00.html x > From: anakin_sky at xxx.net > Reply-To: anakin_sky at gmx.net > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:06:27 +0200 (MEST) > To: sinister at missprint.org > Subject: Sinister: the polyphonic spree > > hello, > > can any of you tell me something about a band called the polyphonic spree? > i´ve heard a song by them on a night radio show recently, and i had never > heard of them before, so any info would be appreciated. thanks, > > love, anne. > > -- > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ > To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe > send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to > majordomo at 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! +-+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From memolabels at xxx.dk Tue Sep 3 12:37:28 2002 From: memolabels at xxx.dk (John Hyllegaard) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:37:28 +0200 Subject: Sinister: Re: sinister: the polyphonic spree Message-ID: <009601c2533e$48643640$51a13e50@opasia.dk> The leader of tps is the former Tripping Daisy Tim DeLaughter. It's miles away from their planet, but this debut is anyway from a planet on it's own. The first 9 sections (the tracks is called section 1-10) is marvellous - beautiful popsongs... the last track is one of those tracks you would possibly delete forever, if your CD player had the option. It's 35+ minutes of keyboard sounds... like Metal Machine Music without metal (just my opinion). So my recommandation: Never let the monster out on random play... play it from the beggining stages and onwards: There's pure pop classics within. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mr_zarabowski at xxx.uk Tue Sep 3 16:48:36 2002 From: mr_zarabowski at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?stout=20robin?=) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:48:36 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Entirely music-based post (a bit boring) Message-ID: <20020903154836.24047.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> Hello folks I picked up a flyer in Cardiff the other day for a band called Joan Of Ass. I told the girl in the record shop that I already knew of a band called Joan Of Arse, which I thought was a much better name. She reckoned they're the same band, but I don't think so - she speaks sort of posh anyway so any ass is an arse to her. Does anyone know? Is Mr Moorkens still on the list? Are these people imposters or are Joan Of Arse just trying to broaden their appeal to the American market?? I'd like to find out in case I go and see them. The new Flaming Lips album is dead ace. You can listen to it here: http://www.warnerreprise.com/flaminglips/player/ You should do, too. god, I'm so bored, I want to go home... R __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From superh3 at xxx.com Tue Sep 3 13:06:32 2002 From: superh3 at xxx.com (paul hardman) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:06:32 +0100 Subject: Sinister: September spawned a Keano Message-ID: Alright kids. Just writing a short note in support of "The Stars of Track & Field". Hell of a song, not a good opener....?!*&?!£..you've gotta be kidding. We all can't like the same thing granted. Never used to like "Judy & her dream of Horsedick's", think that's the best finale, Rollercoaster ride....PAP!....nice slide though. I've almost completed my tape for the tree you'll be glad to know, just the one B & S song on there for you all. I know we were told to not bother but it's a beatiful live version of "Here comes the sun" from the Rotterdam gig. Whenever will Keano learn. United 4 Smoggyborough 2 Just a guess. Vines are playing 10th Oct in Amsterdam. Anyone up for it? Manics 5th Nov Let me know as i'll have to pick tickets up soon, think i'll be back in Warrington for the Manic's though. Tis my birthday week. 7th, just like Roger Moore. 'H'. _________________________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From dirtyvicar at xxx.net Tue Sep 3 22:14:42 2002 From: dirtyvicar at xxx.net (Dirty Vicar) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 22:14:42 +0100 Subject: Sinister: I just find them confusing Message-ID: Hello Sinister, a quick mail from the Dirty Vicar before I unsubscribe to pay a quick visit to the Netherlands. I've been to some interesting musical things. As you know I live in Dublin, and consequently I went to the first night of Wonky, which was this kind of festival thing in a converted industrial space that was once used to manufacture Guinness. The space itself was very striking - a huge industrial edifice from which you got wonderful views of the city at night. but also the music was top too, with local bands like the Dudley Corporation, the Jimmycake, and Large Mound turning in G*R*A*T*E performances. Best of all though were the Chalets. I mentioned them last time, now that I have actually seen them in concert they are truly the best band in the world that aren't B&S. They even include a former Sinister subber among their numbers so they have to be good. If you like the idea of a band fronted by two Betty Page lookalikes singing sharp boy-girl vocals and playing with xylophones you will like the Chalets. I'm hoping they go on to release some actual records before I lose interest. I also went to some world music shite which was T*O*P. Some brass band fellows from Rajastahn met with my approval, their blaring sounds calling to mind the Sun Ra Arkestra. And the Gotipua Dancers were also impressive. they were these boy dancers who dress like women and do dancing and stuff. the whole dressing like women thing was a bit bizarre, because it meant I was eyeing up people onstage and thinking "mmm, kinda tasty" and then remembering that they were i) male and ii) underage. ah well, beggars can't be choosers. And so I must leave you. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From kersy83 at xxx.com Wed Sep 4 17:28:57 2002 From: kersy83 at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kerstin=20Hammes?=) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:28:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Sinister: 3rd songs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020904162857.72551.qmail@web10708.mail.yahoo.com> hey hey aren't there a lot of good 3rd songs on B&S records ? Winter Wooskie and Photo Jenny and the wonderful making me cry Marx&Engels for example. There might be some kind of connection...however, I'm too tired to think hard about it. I've moved to Trier recently (actually the town where Marx was born), a nice city with a lovely river and lots of old Roman culture things. If anyone of you is near, like, in Luxembourg or wherever (people from Esch would be practical :-) - when is your next free festival ?) you should mail me. Actually everyone should. Last comments about Haldern: 1. Ian Brown was boring and no good at all. That surprised me because I quite liked Unfinished Monkey Business. 2. Belle and Sebastian were - I'm probably not impartial because it was the first time I've seen them, considering where I live it was the last - fantastic. Very charming people, and I loved their version of "Das Modell" by Kraftwerk. And Seymour Stein. And of course Dirty Dream #2 because that was my first B&S song ever and seeing it live was like a confirmation that it really exists. 3. You were perfectly safe all of the time, H !!! A tiring amount of words, I'll be off now. love to all whose posts I read Mrs H (thank you Chris *smile*) __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Möchten Sie mit einem Gruß antworten? http://grusskarten.yahoo.de +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From schteddy at xxx.uk Wed Sep 4 22:54:11 2002 From: schteddy at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sam=20Steddy?=) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:54:11 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: My little experiment Message-ID: <20020904215411.19438.qmail@web21308.mail.yahoo.com> This is yet another first post, well official first post (thank you to Honey for helping me previously) so I thought I should really send a message before my memory of Reading deteriorates. First of all I'll say hello to everyone who I met at Reading (I was dressed as a Hive on the second day and in a sheepskin on the third). Also I'll reply to that message about the polyphonic spree. I went to see the Polyphonic Spree at Reading as supposed to the bloody boring Strokes. They were rather amazing but I was so tired and that poor French horn player was so energetic that I couldn't help but feel guilty as he smiled and waved at us. They were very good, especially their cover of Bowie's "Five Years". I like the flute player, and the fact she was only in the band to make noise on a flute. They're worth going to see if you can, tickets are cheap I think. Finally, to my titular experiment. You might say I belong to two sorts of obsessive groups, but just to test something here, does the word "Shigsy" mean anything to anyone here? If it does, erm, find some way of notifying me I guess. Goodbye all. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From flynn60102 at xxx.com Fri Sep 6 07:15:37 2002 From: flynn60102 at xxx.com (howard shady) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: one final inquiry(for now) Message-ID: <20020906061537.95540.qmail@web12508.mail.yahoo.com> Good morning, good afternoon, good night...where ever you are. This is my last call out here before I take my little trip o'er the ocean. A week from now I will be droppin into London for 10days of screwing off and many other things that I will not disclose. I'll only be in London for a couple of days and then it's a bus ride up north the Sheffield for a few more days of dilly dallying and lollygaggin there. If any of you people are in those locations and are up for a drink or twelve I promise I won't bite, scratch or kick. Feel free to drop me a line off the list and maybe we can arrange something. Not too much else happening in the world of mr. Shady though. Last week was a milestone for me...another birthday that is. Some friends of mine gave me a great party, full of good cheer and all that other stuff that revolves around a possible midlife crisis. Many beers were consumed and things smoked in funny looking apparatuses(hmmmm). It was a great time indeed, even got a couple of nifty cds and other fun stuff. Oh and the best gift of all, some nutty guy gave me a nice big dent in the side of my car. What a guy....oh well, it's just a car. Still the nerve of some people just gets me sometimes. If any of you see this man(doubt ya will) but if ya do, kick him in the shins really hard hold him down til I get there. Thanx:) Well thats it from me. I'm gonna sit back and take in the new Doves cd and maybe have a glass of wine or something like that. Oh and curse the man who keeps cutting my hair....why is it everytime I get one of these damned haircuts I come out looking like I should be holding a book bag and waiting for my mommy to pick me up from school. The key to eternal youth....a cheap barbershop haircut. There ya go people another secret of the universe unravelled by me........Take care of each other. Mr. Shady...aka skinny hips rivers ===== I'm gonna be an international pop sensation __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From rob_brennan at xxx.uk Fri Sep 6 07:29:54 2002 From: rob_brennan at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Robert=20Brennan?=) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:29:54 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Oh we do like to b3 beside the seasidXoR Message-ID: <20020906062954.29077.qmail@web10502.mail.yahoo.com> Quick note for anyone coming down to the (not quite)English Riviera tomorrow: I'll be hanging round the concourse at Portsmouth & Southsea station (not Portsmouth Harbour so don't go there) from about 2:15. I can be mobiled on 07931870104 in case of difficulties. Looks like seaside weather. Bring a brolly. Robster __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ianwatsonuk at xxx.com Fri Sep 6 16:58:04 2002 From: ianwatsonuk at xxx.com (Ian Watson) Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:58:04 +0000 Subject: Sinister: photos!! In-Reply-To: <20020903154836.24047.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: hello! Just a quick note to say that I've finally added the photos from August's How Does It Feel? on the site. If you took any more on the night and can email them to me, then please do. I had to DJ on my own for most of it and didn't have much time to get out with my camera. There are also a few more links on the site and some more rambling from me in the weblog. Go to http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk The next club night is quite soon, as we've now gone monthly. It's Sept 19th, the Thursday after the two Morrissey shows at the Albert Hall, so the best plan to go see his Mozness and then come to the club the day after. Three days of fine music. Guest DJ is Harvey Williams again (at least I hope so - is that OK Harvey?), who will be spinning his usual mix of classic pop and indie magnificence. See you on the 19th! x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mail at xxx.uk Sun Sep 8 18:40:30 2002 From: mail at xxx.uk (Gordon) Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:40:30 +0100 Subject: Sinister: trains, tippi, tools etc. Message-ID: <000901c2575e$d6824880$44ef87d9@ivorsserver> Sinister, Salve!* y'know it's taken me about a month to work out what an 'ink polaroid' is. There hasn't been much posted in the last couple of days, so I thought I'd chuck in this lot: three T's, two thirds of Felix Culpa and some sad f*****s. Enjoy. TRAINS The bold old ‘70’s orange-coloured Strathclyde Passenger Transport electric multiple unit rumbles out of a tunnel into Queen Street Low Level Station. It is a damp 8.30am, and I am headed out of the city to my current job in Dumbarton, farther down the Clyde, close to where that river transforms to firth. Commuters disembark from the train; numerous,anonymous and weary, and I make to board noticing, on my way, a proud brass plaque adorning and somewhat at odds with my carriage’s smooth, modern flank. Cast in brass are the words GLASGOW FESTIVE ORCHID. Suddenly, I am transported to China, and the air is filled with the scent of lotus blossom. Why orchids should suddenly make me think of China I'm not sure, but it happens nonetheless. Images of orchids I try to conjure up, but being relatively unfamiliar with that species I make do instead recalling those fake plastic pot plants, in the mould of sunflowers that wear sunglasses and sway from side to side when elvis music is played. Ten of these in the mind’s eye, rockin’ in unison, seems suitably floral and festive. The morning’s looking up. TIPPI The singer songwriter Tippi pronounces her name ‘tippey’ with a hard ‘I’ as in ‘tippex’ rather than ‘teepee’. This said I’m still going to dub her, for these purposes, ‘the pritti weegie wigwam wumman’. She sang at Brel the other night, and I was there, sitting at a candle-lit table in the conservatory part of the establishment, for the most part reading the closing chapter of Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. (It’s about the last day on earth of an alcoholic ex- British consul in Mexico, by the way.) During the second of her two sets, Tippi was obscured behind several people standing in front of me, but for the first half I had an excellent, if gauzily short-sighted view, which was sufficient to notice that she was bouncing around zestfully to a simply but pleasingly strummed acoustic guitar. She has a new single coming out soon and if anyone’s interested, you can visit http://www.tippionline.com. That sounds like an advertisement, does it not? Well it does, but it isn’t ; ) TOOLS Man and his tools, eh? I was struggling with my busted umbrella this morning. It’s one of those ones with a telescopic stick, and the middle pole had become stuck in the base pole whilst the top one had detached ‘Help! Help! My stick is third-stuck and third-amok’ as one might appeal. Anyway, I decided I might be able to extract the middle bit by inserting my front door key into the cross-sectional void and wiggling it around a bit. As I was doing this I thought ‘hey, I’m practising the ancient art of tool-making.’ See, in short, I was using the key as an extension of my fingers. A tool is, I pondered, essentially an adaptive prosthetic; a specialised extension of the fingers. This particular tool was smaller across-ways than a finger, so it could get to places I couldn’t otherwise reach; it contained serrations, which could gain purchase on elements to be manipulated, much in the manner of a hook; and it was made of a material which in its rigidity could transfer a significant pressure from my hand to the point of contact between its tip and the element (s) concerned. Like all good tools it worked, and I remain dry. FELIX CULPA After all the fun with the umbrella, I did a bit of work then headed to Strawberry Fields in Glasgow to catch a band managed by a fellow sinisterian. The band is called Felix Culpa which means 'happy fault'. It arises from the tale of the Fall of Man: 'haha!' says God. 'It's just as well I chucked you out of Eden!' 'eh?' says Adam et al. 'Well, you see, now I can send bloke Jesus to go save you cos now you need saved but, more importantly, he needs the work.' One member of the band was in Dublin and was unwilling to shout that loudly, so the remaining member(?s) called themselves the Projeks and did something on their own instead. Sequencers were used as the engine behind some live sound manipulation and a guy joined in with some spoken vocals mainly about things burning. Jazzy soundscapes, yummm... With part of the evening still to go, I deftly skirted the city's red light district and over to Barfly there to stand, chainsmoking cigarillos, in front of some impassioned guitar rock. To be honest it was all high quality musicianship and very, very loud and so on but not really my cup of tea, so I booked a hotel room and went to bed. I suppose I could have caught the last train home, but did you ever camp out in the back garden as a kid? Well, it was like that: just for fun. And breakfast in the dining room on Saturday morning was ace, as were the bright orange walls in the bedroom, which is a scheme of decoration I've always aspired to. SFC That means Sad ******'s Club. We meet in a 70's theme bar and discuss corduroy with visual aids. This time around, these comprised a well-foxy long dark brown skirt with a lace-up arrangement at the waist, another skirt, some disco-tastic trousers in a maroon shade and a beige cord necktie. I only mention the existence of this elite bunch of sadnessss because it's a sinister spin-off, and a burgeoning rival to the Glasgow trendies, who I believe can now count spacy stacy amongst their legion and, soon, a guy called arik. Maybe one day we''l have a contest in Falkirk, to see who's cooler, with Sweetie as compere. Ok. Time up, I've got two things to go and enjoy. The first is Valvola and DJ Spectra from Firenze's 'Venus 69' Japanese Electronic Pop Art Music Museum CD and, to follow, eating scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream whilst watching College Girls on Ch4. Weyhey. Yeehah. I like Sunday evenings. Gordon *Or, bother and fiddlesticks, should it be 'Salve Sinister!'? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From lleweth at xxx.com Mon Sep 9 16:11:19 2002 From: lleweth at xxx.com (Laura Llew) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:11:19 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm nobody's little weasel Message-ID: Two posts in less than a week. Why Sinister hasn't heard this much response out of me since someone tried to field test the answer of "fire" to the question of "What's orange and looks good on Laura Llew?" I'll make this short and sweet (the antithesis of me really). With the help of that Boy G, (who downloaded Notepad on my computer after it's mysterious disappearance. Of course, the version which I now have is Swedish which made my progress on it a bit slower. That and the fact that he used old school full html to do it. Not that in and of itself is complicated or difficult. I just had to have time for my mind to boggle that someone actually isn't too lazy to be bothered with it. Much like how people usually can't be troubled with reading long parenthetical comments that go on for sentences and tangential thoughts on end.) I finally finished the website for the Unfortunate Event -otherwise known as Southern Sinister Massive Meetup Version 1.0. You too can view the photographic evidence of the event at: http://www.joannou.net/petullant/UEindex.html You just clicky clicky on the pictures to go to the next page. Naturally, no pictures of me are on there. Or at least not of my face. I think one or two of my fingers might have slipped in. At least, they're not making obscene gestures like a certain Australian's digits in past sinister photos. Ahem. I don't know about anyone else but I had fun. From Georgia Jay looking like a bible salesman to the other Jay in a seersucker suit with a panama hat to Heil Heydt doing Hitler impersonations to G occasionally letting out an English "eeek!" to me retreating to a corner to read at some point (you knew it would happen) to one of the bookshop girls remeniscing about her first day of work at the bookstore where I terrified her by reenacting the gay deceivers scene from the Glass Menagerie. Conversation topics ran from absinthe to porn (those two go hand in hand, yes?) to public masturbation (no hand comments here) to Sanford & Son originally being an English tv show to David Lynch to something which caused Jayward to break out into a Mark E Smith impersonation. If I keep up with porn and masturbation this not only will no longer be short, it won't be sweet either. So, I'm off (like any number of things in a porn flick). until supplies last, Laura 'meeting all your Laura Llew needs since 1977" PS - I caught a link from Bapps blog and stumbled upon pictures of Miss Fruitloop who is perhaps the cutest girl IN THE WORLD. She reminds me of Kelly MacDonald. *swoon* _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From jasonandreas at xxx.com Mon Sep 9 16:22:43 2002 From: jasonandreas at xxx.com (jasonandreas at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:22:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Dat's puir nectarist, mucker... Message-ID: <12523.1031584963141.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> The following is an extract from the Herald... Ned Gear Greg Seaton, who has worked in Sydney for some years, was curious to notice, on a visit to Glasgow, how many of the city's pasty-faced neds were wearing Burberry baseball caps. He tells us: "Every time I see this it cracks me up, as, I assume unknown to the wearer, in the rest of the world, especially Sydney and New York, Burberry hats are almost exclusively worn by gay men." Now there's an interesting point to make to the boisterous young chaps in caps when you meet them on a late night bus. Now that, my friends, is fantastic. :) - Jase +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From JENOWL22 at xxx.com Mon Sep 9 22:36:33 2002 From: JENOWL22 at xxx.com (JENOWL22 at xxx.com) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:36:33 EDT Subject: Sinister: Man's Pride Message-ID: <11c.16bd15ff.2aae6e61@aol.com> Hewwo, Nuts, I'm back in the UK. I didn't like America to be honest. Everyone was really mean. Actually, come to think of it, everyone's really mean here too. But at least the food has less chemicals. Someone said a grate thing to me yesterday about periods. "It's all blood and pain. It's just like Bosnia". At least, I think that's what they said. I haven't sobered up in 3 days. That's a lie. I sobered up for half an hour on saturday and decided I didn't like it, so I drank a quarter bottle of vodka and went back to being drunk. Man's Pride. Man's pride is where you be a R!E!A!L M!A!N which means you listen to thrash metal and ride a motorbike and women are only there to give you oral and bring you whiskey. And when you're drinking, if you throw up you're a poof and if you don't die you're a poof. Which means you have to swallow your vomit until you're dead otherwise you're not a real man. Man's Pride is the reason I have the worst hangover in the world. It is also the reason that I cried at Code:Veronica, because I got very emotionally attatched to some pixellated characters due to about 6 bottles of cheap wine. Today however, I am back to being a poof. I can't do Man's Pride full time. I don't really think it's in my genes. What with me being female. And an art fag allegedly because I own a beret. This is one of those really boring posts where I list how much I had to drink then tell you that I feel shit. I read Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters. It was bloody marvellous. Truly it was. I came to the conclusion that my life is in fact a cartoon. An anime one with bad animation and some rude bits. But mostly a cartoon. Or at least, it is now, cause I said so. Less than three weeks until I move out to learn how to be a dentist and don't come back. It's scary because I'm only little. I bought Hello Kitty plates for to use when I'm living on my own. Except my mum bought me vitamins, so if i take those then I don't have to eat, which means I can use my money to buy records and skirts instead. That's my grate plan. It's sure to fail, but I'll give it a shot. Luckily I'm only 16 so the bank won't give me an overdraft. Well I should go and hit my head repeatedly off a wall until it starts working again. I hate man's pride. Hugs, Jen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From theres_too_much_love at xxx.com Mon Sep 9 22:51:20 2002 From: theres_too_much_love at xxx.com (michael grant) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 21:51:20 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Q: did i tell you about my friend who fell in love with two schoolbags? Message-ID: A: he was bi-satchel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! anyway, hello folks. how is everyone doing? i just turned on the radio to be greeted with the sounds of rufus wainwright. what a marvellous surprise. Radio Scotland on a monday night really is quite good. :o) [midway through writing this post, the dj was talking about loudon wainwright III having written a song for his infant son rufus back in the day, called 'rufus is a titman'. the dj then came out with the line "and that turned out to be anything but true". comedy genius. i'm guessing you had to actually hear it, but i was wetting myself.] [the dj man is actually playing a set of related songs. rufus wainwright -> martha wainwright (sister) -> loudon wainwright (father) -> the roches (loudon had a child with suzzy roche after splitting from kate mcgarrigle). cool. and there may even have been more before i turned on the radio.] i have a flat now. should have the keys by the end of the weekend. fingers crossed. this does mean that i will permanently be saying cheerio to the glasgow sinister massive and joining the edinburgh sinister massive. will they be able to cope? i'm not really sure. it's a lot for anyone to take. miss stacey dahling arrived at the end of last week. at first, she seemed like such a charming nice little girl, american though she may have been. but now i just think she's a violent little bitch. she just keeps hitting me. it's not very nice, y'know. i'm only kidding. i do like stacey. cos she says i'm "street" and "ghetto", which is pretty bitchin'. i think i might be coming down to london village at the end of september to see the mighty camera obscura play chickfactor. which would be cool. they really are a great band. musically, at least. i think we're going to get the train. i like long train journeys. they're always good fun. like going on a road trip. or going on school trips when you were a kid. where all you did was eat sweets and chat to your friends for hours on end. and play the gameboy. family guy is one of the funniest television shows in the world. it has jokes about necrophilia, hitler, jewish people and catholics, a talking baby AND a talking dog. try and think of something cooler than that! i dares ya. everyone should read 'the troublesome offspring of cardinal guzman' by louis de bernieres. in my opinion, the best book of all time. it's hard to describe, either in terms of plot or themes. i'll just say that it stands for everything i find important in life. love, individuality, intellect, purity of heart, strength of mind and character. and it makes me smile, in the way that belle and sebastian do. in that indescribable way. (i just wrote that, cos i sat for about ten minutes trying to think of a way to describe that smile. and i can't. well, not in any concise coherent way. and probably not at all electronically.) take care of yourselves and each other, michael.xx ps- just a few music recommendations thrown in at the end for a larff. the danielson famile - the fantastic smith family from new jersey, making gospel music with steve albini. (http://www.danielsonfamile.com and also http://www.secretlycanadian.com/secretlycanadian/danielsonfamile). the polyphonic spree - a lot has been said about them on here before. just want to add my praise to that already given. orchestal, choral pop music. in robes. (http://www.polyphonicspree.com). ben kweller - ex-singer with teenage punkers radish. just released his first solo album at the age of 20. features moldy peach kimya dawson. very good. (http://www.benkweller.com). geographic records - pastels-runs, domino-affiliated label. release records by teenage fanclub and jad fair, maher shalal hash baz, nagise ni te, future pilot aka, bill wells and others. (doesnt really have a comprehensive website. there is http://www.dominorecordco.com/news/geographic/geographic.html, but i would just suggest going into your local record store and buying any cd or vinyl with a catalogue number starting in GEOG. there's a reasonable chance it'll have a member of b&s on there somewhere.) kimya dawson - of the moldy peaches. has made three solo albums, all of which will be coming out on rough trade in the uk in the next year, the first one (i'm sorry that sometimes i'm mean) is already out. lovely, simple, beautiful songs. go and buy, one and all. (http://www.moldypeaches.com and http://kimyadawson.diaryland.com) "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. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From daftpunk at xxx.au Tue Sep 10 07:45:42 2002 From: daftpunk at xxx.au (Kin WOO) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:45:42 +0800 (WST) Subject: Sinister: Sinister Perth Picnic lowdown:) Message-ID: Heya Sinisterinies Here's a rare-as-hen's-teeth email from moi about something vaguely Sinister/B&S related!:) what's the reason for this momentous occasion you ask? why it's the first Perth picnic to celebrate Sinister's 5th b'day! Picnic held on Sat Aug 24th in picturesque surrounds of King's Park. I brought homemade peanut butter choc squares and fizzies, Terry : white and milk choc cookies in letter form (to form "Belle and Sebastian" natch), and loadsa other delish delights like sausages, beer and (memory failing here) made cameos too:) Had to depart before soccer took place but apparently a gentle Perth winter drizzle cut short the game anyway. Picnic soundtracked by B&S, Lucksmiths and assorted indie bands. We had to wait a long time to use the barbecue equipment and despite the idea to play some Moldy Peaches ("WHO'S GOT THE CRACK?" specifically) very loudly to scare away punters, we politely waited our turn (like good little Sinisterinies). all in all, a very nice day out and hope all who attended will agree:) Hope to see some of y'all non-perthites at next one! "The trouble with the straight and the narrow is it's so thin I keep sliding off to the side" Jason Pierce +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From esme at xxx.com Tue Sep 10 21:07:53 2002 From: esme at xxx.com (ee fumblings) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:07:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: haikus revealed // weeks twentynine to thirtyfive // two thousand and two Message-ID: Subject: Sinister: Insensitivity a speciality. Ahem. Well, while so many of you have lost your smiles, I lost my voice. If you ever get out a map, you'll see it, its a place called Finmark. I resented the fact that really, there was no flush mechanism. But that was Silje. Going for the glamour puss knock-em dead approach. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that he was a con-man... The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Buff Medways, and other less well known bands. It's great. Then I found him. I spent a lot of the morning talking to the cops. But damn it! I /have/ actually been doing things. All week, in fact. Especially when the point was too help... sometimes those darts hit the deepest. Mr Cooke still gives good horn. And Stuart sounds a lot like Donovan. A recording with the vocal mixed higher would be fantastic, please. I moved them into a shady corner to start their spidery lives. Catchy tune, great words. They should copyright that one while they have the chance. The funniest bit is that my mom took away the drugs from my shrink. It's my dream to have a miraculously fast metabolic rate. Sinisterians. My name is Nathan and I am from Australia. I heard her voice. She was in her regular clothes, not her uniform. Firstly, this is the four-month anniversary of me not posting. It's a cultural smorgasbord here at Sussex Uni don't you know. I have Sinister to thank for nearly all of the bands that I love. I'm going to make him a red velvet tombstone birthday cake! Oh yes. Nothing smutty should be read into that last phrase. The smut comes later. I am writing this on an electrically powered plastic box. Anne was going to cry at one point, after the splashing incident. Ah, listalgia has been upon me like ink on a polaroid. I played "Fuck This Shit" at my church, and no one was any the wiser. He is the bane of my existence and he makes me want to kill things. Alan Titchmarsh "You've given a lot of women a lot of pleasure". The crazy churches, with foaming-mouthed members who hate the unlike. Paris is OK, I suppose, I am getting used to it again. Linda's been her own sweet self keeping everything going publically. I hope it will be said: 'OUR PANTS WERE SCARLET, BUT OUR POSTS WERE READ'. IT LIKE BRIGHTON BUT CRAP? Yeah but at least both its piers are still working. // ee // +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From kenneth.chu at xxx.org Wed Sep 11 10:02:00 2002 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:02:00 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Constipation can't make a poo of me Message-ID: Hello sinistees, It's been a while since I had a chance to post, this may or may not be because of the fact that I've recently bought myself a colander, which had inspired me to do all kinds of cooking that involve filtering out water/oil from things - it's hard work, you know, colanding - not only the cooking, but also the cleaning of it afterwards. So many things can get stuck in those little perforations, it just drains away all your energy just like it does to my pasta. But then, I think I still like perforations, as a whole, haha. My colander is quite sad - look! it's got a blog! LOOK! A BLOG! http://kenscolander.blogspot.com ----------------------------------- So now summer is almost over in the UK, does that mean that's where it ends? Do you think we can still be friends? Are you still looking for love? Well, look no further than THE LAST BUS OUT OF TOWN Before I got my colander, I've been going on night buses a lot after many a drunken nights out, where I got absolutely TROLLEYED, because I'm such a lad, and all. And if you guys are looking for love, I have a great tip. Take the N20 or N134 nightbuses that go to Highgate! *************************************************************** Almost everytime I get onto that bus, there seem to be pulling activities going on, I saw no less than 4 sets of people going from complete strangers, to chatting affectionately with each other, to walking each other home and exchanging phone numbers!! Winner, and even if you don't pull, you can stop off at Archway, which as well as being the way to Archel's heart, also has a KFC who serve 3 Hot Wings for 99p. Double winner. Failing all that if you're a girl you'll end up near my house, triple winner! ----------------------------------- I've discovered last week that being stupid is perfectly OK - in fact it's so much fun! I was at a McDonald's and in the McDonald's in the UK they have this new thing on their breakfast menu which is called the Big Breakfast Bun! A BBB consists of bacon and sausage and egg and spicy sauce inside a bun, a surefire winner for only £1.99 (I'm all about fast food prices), or £2.99 for a meal which has a hash brown (which always reminds me of Hannah Brown for some reason - maybe becuase they're both tasty), and a drink of choice. Ok, I was at the McDonald's and was waiting for my food to arrive, which is when this lady walked in. *pointing at the Breakfast Bun poster* Can I have a BIG BUN please? *ken giggles .. and a coke would you like the meal for £2.99? what's the meal? it's that and the drink and a hash brown but the poster says £1.99 no that's for just the bun what? So I don't get the fillings??! *ken laughs so much he had to leave the scene I really wished at that moment I worked at a McDonald's. ----------------------------------- okay, time for more serious things BOWLING Anyone in London up for going bowling this sunday? E-mail me please. ..end of serious things People always went on about how great Ken Chu is, Rachel Fruitloop being the biggest cultprit (before she turned her attention to Rampant Sex Rage with Ben Apps!) I could never see the fuss myself. But now I can see why! http://www.kenchu.com I LOVE KEN CHU! Ken +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From neil at xxx.net Wed Sep 11 16:09:11 2002 From: neil at xxx.net (Neil Robertson) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:09:11 +0100 Subject: Sinister: URGENT - ATHENS CHANGE OF VENUE Message-ID: <025e01c259a5$30da8b60$546b43d4@neil> Due to the severe rainstorms that have plagued Athens for the last couple of weeks, we've had to move Friday's show from the Melina Merkouri Amphitheatre to: KEIP GOUDI (horse training of Athens) 55 Mesinias str., Across Mesogion Avenue ATHENS - GREECE Tel: 0030-10-7473674 All tickets are fully transferable. Times are as originally stated. Bit of a pisser really. Outdoor show would have been nice. And now we've had to move the show it'll probably turn out lovely. Oh well, Neil +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From samwaltonyeah at xxx.com Wed Sep 11 23:11:29 2002 From: samwaltonyeah at xxx.com (Sam Walton) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:11:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Sini-history Message-ID: Hello Sinister. A piece of junk mail arrived in my inbox this morning, urging me to take a peek up some poor girl's skirt or something, and as I clicked delete, I noticed the date. It made me remember that this time last year, Sinister was going mental - I think there were about 70 posts in 24 hours. For those of you who've joined in the last year, and for those who want a memory freshner, have a sini-history lesson: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200109/date3.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200109/date2.html We had a minute's silence in the V-Shop Crouch End this afternoon. We were playinng "Amnesiac" by Radiohead over the store PA, the music came off and everything stopped. That was a long minute. "Pyramid Song" broke the silence, beautifully. It gave me a sense of perspective, that minute - what with recent stuff that's happened in my life. But there's not much more I can say. This post is not all doom and despondancy though, for I have an amusing anecdote to relate to you all. Later on in the day, Fran Healy, from the popular rock'n'roll combo Travis, came into the shop to enquire about a certian PC game (we didn't have it). He asked me what was playing on the stereo. "Belle & Sebastian", I cheerily replied, thrusting the box to TWATTYBUS under his nose. "Jangly Scottish pop - you'd like it", I said with a smile, and he grinned past his beard and corduroy flat-cap and walked out. Well it made me smile, anyway. love Asm.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From boyincorduroy at xxx.com Thu Sep 12 14:34:53 2002 From: boyincorduroy at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Mark=20Casarotto?=) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:34:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: a new London TIGERMILKING - Saturday 5th October Message-ID: <20020912133453.11380.qmail@web10411.mail.yahoo.com> Whoot, Sinister! I have just booked Bar Oporto in Covent Garden for the next TIGERMILKING, which I hope you'll all be able to come to. If there are any sinisterines who live in or around London who are interested in coming, then the more the merrier - newbies particularly welcome, as it's basically like a private party but also features many of the STARS of the Sinister list! Like Archel! And Stevie Trousers! And Dimitra! (tbc) To recap - Tigermilking is effectively the Sinister in-house club night (slap my wrists if you think that's too presumptuous, Linda), which has been happening, on and off, for the last 3 or 4 years. We have them every 4-6 months, and basically play anything and everything the average B&S fan could possibly like. Unless you like the Stereophonics (shame on you!). So keep your diaries free for Saturday 5th October. We kick off around 8, and it goes on until 1am. Anyone up for (possibly the last) picnic (of the year) beforehand? You know you want to... Further details (directions, prices, music) to be posted anon. Feel free to email me for info, encouragement etc. :) Mark xxx __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From owlizthe5 at xxx.com Fri Sep 13 09:33:08 2002 From: owlizthe5 at xxx.com (owlizthe5 at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:33:08 -0400 Subject: Sinister: this line is empty for a reason. i just cant remember why. Message-ID: <6C6CE428.72007EF2.0343A8D7@cs.com> dear list, i know what your thinking.."great another crappie jaunt about some listee's boring ass life." if that is what your thinking,.... then your right. if that isnt, then you had better start young man/woman. for about oh... two years i havent posted . i think that the last thing i posted was a poem i wrote under my sister's email account, gelflingag at juno.com, and not a single reply. hmm. i wonder why. could it be that it was so wonderfully great that every one was in awe of my magnificant talent? probably not. i figured id strech my legs out a bit and do some chitty chatin since ive been sitting in the dark nether regions of the list. god has forsaken me to this horrible corner of the world where television gladly fluants the word "Bush" around and no one realizes how rediculous it sounds. i am also working on a stand up routine with my two friends. we plan to make complete asses out of ourselves by dancing and singing to a CD of music that we have specially prepared for this act. i plan on leaving the country afterwards to save my family from complete embarrassment god bless america. god bless that shit hard. my friend just left for rehab...for the third time. maybe it will finally have some effect on him. you know, since he has a kid and all. i think it would be nice if he could stay off the sauce for more then two days. me and my friend paul(one of two that i will be making an ass of myself with) made a bet tonight. we shall not shave for one full year. this way we look manly instead of geeky. its a futile attempt to attract the opposite sex. that would be...female...no......wait....ladies..hot ones too. so if you ladies are interested in one fiiiiiine rugged man-beast, just give ol' joe an email *wink* and ill be sure to send a picture right quick. i will close with a line from a song i wrote: "My Pa ate poo. My pa ate poo. He ate that poo and he pooed in his poo." Thank you >From your lonely friend who will never leave unless you ask him, joe. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From foranotherdream at xxx.com Sat Sep 14 08:36:10 2002 From: foranotherdream at xxx.com (bus stoppers) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 00:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: i saw the world crashing all around your face Message-ID: <20020914073610.76146.qmail@web12402.mail.yahoo.com> dearest home, i have been quite homesick this past month or so that i haven't posted. or read any posts. it was in-between summer school and the fall, so no internet access. withdrawls preceeded the pot and booze. i'm okay now though...but i did miss you and think of you often. how is everyone? i don't really know what to write. nothing new really. just the same old shit. shit, shit, and more shit. that's life though, right? it's what you make of it and i'm going for: fertilizer and maybe a compost heap for everything else that comes along. maybe someday i'll have a healthy, fragile yet firm garden instead of that stench (sp?) that follows you around on the bottom of your shoe... i guess there is something though that i have been thinking about. i miss hugging people. and no. not those little 'hi' and 'goodbye' hugs. the kind that you get to lean into and keep for a still moment. sorry. that was cheese. and yet, full of such sodium and stuff, i really mean it all. i hope this all doesn't sound too whiny because if i were to say it out loud to someone, i don't think it would be whiny...but i am unsure as to how it would read...hmm... the 'one who fucked me up' called me the other night. i hadn't talked to him in a while. i don't know if anyone remembers, but right before new year's this past year, he told me that he never wanted to talk to me or see me EVER again. he made it all very clear, even though my eyes were pretty cloudy. we will call him D for now. D was VERY drunk. it just made D very honest. so maybe it was a good thing too along with just being a....thing. D apologized for hurting me. said he was sorry for the things that he ever said that ever made me cry. said that he still reads my on-line diary to see if i'm okay, because if i'm sad, it makes him sad. if i'm happy, it makes him happy. ect. we actually talked things out (which had, obviously, never happened before) and admitted things and apologized. some might label this as closure? it was just nice. then D made the next wrong step...he asked to see me. he needed to see me, to see how i was doing. he wanted to hold me in his arms and tell me everything is, and will be, okay. i should have known better. i most certainly do now. so everyone. let me hold you in my arms for a lovely moment full of almost quick heartbeats and almost clammy hands. "everything is going to be okay. everything is okay." but, of course. you don't need me to. ..........it's just nice once and while. love, sara xoxoxox ===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From anakin_sky at xxx.net Sat Sep 14 13:23:58 2002 From: anakin_sky at xxx.net (anakin_sky at xxx.net) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:23:58 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Sinister: the butterflies... Message-ID: <31786.1032006238@www20.gmx.net> hiya, anyone going to see tompaulin + butterflies of love at the star & garter in manchester next wednesday? i'm "ze newie" in town... love, anne. -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mikey_richards at xxx.com Sat Sep 14 14:24:48 2002 From: mikey_richards at xxx.com (Mike Richards) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:24:48 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Twee wine Message-ID: Hello fans, I haven't written for a couple of years because I was too lazy to move from my university email account which I can't send from (at home). I finally bothered to move and wait around for the nursury time to expire (as I was too lazy to say the password). I've managed to stop being as lazy now, sorry about that. This rather lazy summer, I learned how to make wine. This was a sensible thing all round, as a) I drink a quite legendary amount of it. b) I'm not going to fork out �2.50 a bottle damnit. c) My wine tastes nicer than �2.50 bottles. Anyway, I made some wine from those kits you can buy, and they're nice enough. But then I thought: Hey! You can make wine out of just about anything if you add yeast and sugar, and I'm paying �5 for a tin of grape concentrate like a sucker. To cut a long story short I found a recipe for Ribena wine, which involved 300ml Ribena, 3lb sugar, water, yeast, nutrient, Campden etc. It's finished now, and in my fridge in one of those Ribena Fridge jugs. Ironic. It's incredibly sweet, and incredibly strong. I can only really drink 2 glasses a night at the most. Although this is largely due to the sugar content. I recommend anyone with winemaking know how tries to make it, I'll furnish anyone who cares with the recipe. Finally, I hope to drop the whole lethargic thing in time to book my own wedding in June, to which you're invited* as it's a Sinister wedding. There you go. I'll be off then. Right. Nice seeing you. Love, Mike x *Unless you're some sort of crazy person. ----------------- "We've got a blind date with destiny. And it looks like she's ordered the lobster" - The Shoveller _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From muck77 at xxx.com Sun Sep 15 05:54:15 2002 From: muck77 at xxx.com (Chris Howes) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:54:15 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Nashvillian Sinisters?? Message-ID: Hello all ... I was wondering how many peeps out there live in the Nashville or surrounding areas....perhaps a meet up of sorts? I know at least 3 to 4 people that might be interested. A picnic in the fall one Sunday would be grand. Let me know ... Muck AIM: shilohwaltz _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From rfadden at xxx.com Sun Sep 15 07:19:23 2002 From: rfadden at xxx.com (rrrrobyn) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: i don't want to look like an imaginary dork Message-ID: <20020915061923.23168.qmail@web11104.mail.yahoo.com> ah, sinister, whoa, check out that comma, its invitating swish, suggestive of oh-i'm-sure great things to come. mm, but yeah, it's possible too that it signals a massive list of more of the same, one big sentence, thesaurus-like in its running on, its over-explanation of what it is exactly that i'm trying to say if only i knew the word for it, dammit. oh, fuckit, i'll go back to the exclamation mark. i'm in montreal! it's faboolous! i've been going through the expected gamut of emotions for the past few weeks and wasn't about to subject the list to that. but now i've been to class, explored the city a bit, met some people, picked up all my stuff from the crazy industrial-area shipping company, and am almost but not quite at all settled in. hurrah! indeed! holy crazy industrial-area shipping company, by the way: so, i shipped my stuff from vancouver to montreal through a shipping company for cheap (b/c i gots the co-nections, yo), wherein one puts all their stuff (which is usually, like, books or engine parts or shampoo or things that are not the contents of robyn's apartment) on pallates/skids and wraps it all in twenty layers of cello-wrap and then puts it on a truck across the country so that when the stuff arrives at its destination it all smells like deisel and cardboard and maybe even a little like roadside diners. one also has to rent a truck to go pick it up. but usually one has some kind of trucking company do that for one b/c one is a company oneself and not robyn who has to rent a 14-ft cube truck and get her friends to help her. so i get to the depot and i'm, like, um, i have three skids to pick up. and they're, like, oooh, three, oooh. but they speak mostly french so it's more like, ooeeoo, trois, ooeeoo. but they were very nice about it really and let me walk around the gigantic warehouse searching out my three skids full of *all my worldly possessions*. i found them easily enough (ah, yes, the the futon frame sticking out of the cello-wrap gave it away.) but the cool thing was that a guy with a handlebar mustache and a jolly chuckle forklifted the skids directly into the truck! no unpacking! only expert forklifting! it made me really want one of those suits that ripley uses at the end of aliens. you know the one. with the forklift arms. (not to mention the welding torch.) then moving would be better. but then everyone would ask me to help them out. i'd be like the friend with the truck, except way more impressive and coooool. so now i have a desk to sit at and a comfortable bed to sleep in. of course, i put the nuts and bolts for my bed frame in the *stupidest spot imaginable though at the time i'm sure it made sense*. they literally were in the very last place i looked, i mean, i thought, "agh, i guess they're gone, that's it, i'm going to home depot in the morning to buy appropriately sized nuts and bolts. hm, oh, look, my big bag of shoes." where else but in my big bag of shoes?! (no, not the small bag of shoes. nor the laundry hamper full of shoes.) as if that would be the first place i'd look, as if somehow my shoes and my bed frame are connected. as if i would be rushing to unpack all my shoes before anything else. no, really, but i obviously had this thought while in a state of packing mania - "i will be living with only three pairs of shoes for two weeks, therefore the first thing i will need when i get my stuff will be a refreshing pair of shoes." holy. crap. i won't get into the wonders of school yet b/c it has barely started. it will be good though. i can tell. hundreds of pages of reading each week, mind you... yes, anyway, *so*, i got to see LE TIGRE again! and it was greatness, of course. the crowd was weirdly sedate, dancing-wise. i say, if the band is dancing, you dance. and if the band is playing 'deceptacon', you dance and hop up and down like a bluddy maniac. do it! do it now! regardless, it was a great show that inspired me to be creative and gutsy and such, and also made me happy to be a girl. whoo! i could go on about things like the metro, my metrocard, the coolness of the metro stations all deep underground but sometimes with windows waaaay up high so you can make *damn well sure* that you are deep underground, how underground transit makes so much sense and is so fast and weirdly comforting, even though people off themselves at least once a week in front of the hurtling trains, causing delays of approximately 20-30 minutes, mostly during rush hour. but yeah, the metro takes you where you want to go. other excited, less mundane news: blonde redhead is coming! they are good live. also sept 26-29 there is something called popmontreal going on, which is all indiepop goodness that causes me to do dances of joy and popitude. the almost instantaneous return of mundane: i bought a kickass screwdriver the other day. i wanna say that it's torque even though i know torque isn't really an adjective, but, man, torque is the new awesome, but with muscle power. dude, i totally put a deadbolt on my door all by myself and it is so *torque!*. and also you could lament as such: "ah, if only everything could be so very very torque..." that's sort of how i've been feeling today. wanting torqueness, but ending up with dorkness. (ooh, sorry, that's terrible. haha.) but hey, it's warranted: i had to restore my computer to its original state, reinstall windows, and *all that time-consuming crap*. it sucked. it made me yell "fucksticks!" more than once. but it's over now. and i still have the shiny new high-speed connection to brighten my mood. and curry, i've got curry too. the way it sometimes is, robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden at yahoo.com Montreal, QC __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pykachu100 at xxx.com Sun Sep 15 12:21:54 2002 From: pykachu100 at xxx.com (Kenneth P Y Chu) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:21:54 +0000 Subject: Sinister: London has gutter balled again (BOWLING TODAY) Message-ID: Okay this is the world's shortest ever notice of a bowling thing but BOWLING AT FINSBURY PARK THIS AFTERNOON! (sunday) 2PM at Rowens Bowling, at Finsbury Park, London N4 Come! It'll be fun, phone me 07967 755446 if you wanna chat. Sorry for short notice but I've had a rock and roll lifestyle this weekend of boozing and snoozing and hence lack of email access! And now I get to rock and roll bowling balls down the bowling lanes! And so can you! See you there. Ken _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ianwatsonuk at xxx.com Sun Sep 15 20:33:30 2002 From: ianwatsonuk at xxx.com (Ian Watson) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:33:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: how does it feel....to be andy warhol?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello! I've added another interview to the How Does It Feel site, this time one I did at the start of the year with John Cale about Andy Warhol and Velvet Underground. It's at http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk Also just wanted to remind you that this Thursday is the fourth How Does It Feel To Be Loved? clubnight. It's at the Buffalo Bars, underneath Famous Cock Tavern, outside Highbury & Islington tube, London, 9pm-2am, £3 in. Guest DJ is Harvey Williams again, he of Field Mice and Trembling Blue Stars fame The playlist is: The Smiths * The Supremes * The Go-Betweens * Dusty Springfield * Belle & Sebastian * Tammi Terrell * Aztec Camera * The Ronettes * Orange Juice * Beach Boys * The Temptations * Velvet Underground * Felt * The Shangri-Las * Primal Scream * Otis Redding * The Field Mice * The Stone Roses * Dexys Midnight Runners * The Four Tops * Dolly Parton * The Orchids We're starting a small guest list competition, so if you want to win a place on the list just email back saying "yes please, let me in for free". Ten places to be won. First come, first served. Just email by return to this mail. That's it. See you Thursday (or on Tuesday at the Albert Hall!) x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From clairk at xxx.edu Sun Sep 15 22:06:47 2002 From: clairk at xxx.edu (clairk at xxx.edu) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:06:47 -0500 Subject: Sinister: a dispatch from the north Message-ID: <1313856676.1032106007@RIVENDELL> hello sinister, It's been a while since I've written, owing to my lack of internet connection for more than like twenty minutes a day over this past summer. There wasn't terribly much to report, since I mostly worked in an office and did a lot of paperwork, and at night mostly played computer games and ate food I tried to cook before I went to bed at a reasonable hour to do it all over again the next day. I went to Minneapolis a couple of times, though, which is always a thrilling excursion for the destitute Minnesota college student. While there I made no trips to record stores of any sort, which was a disappointment, although I visited a number of Asian food stores and bought curry. There was much consumption of curry this summer in our house, which was good. Now I'm back in school again. There's a new flock of freshmen on the floor I live on; they seem well enough although my attempts to find the excellent ones by playing Lazy Line Painter Jane consistently have resulted in little success, as I dunno if anyone around so far are Belle and Sebastian fans. I did like when one of them asked me based on my one turntable and the mixer I use to hook it up to my stereo if I was a DJ. It pleased me, I guess, but also made me a little sad that I haven't ever gotten around to doing anything like that outside of the radio. I've been wondering over the past while, seeing other people on the list have picnics and such, if I'm the only listee from Minnesota. I guess I'm not _from_ Minnesota but I certainly have been spending most of my time here, and if not there's always December when I'm in Illinois again. Just a passing thought. I seem to have run out of things to say. Tomorrow I will be getting hopefully my tickets to see Beck and the Flaming Lips at the lovely Orpheum Theatre; I've never seen a show there so hopefully that will be a good time. Until next time... kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ArtsyDeco at xxx.com Sun Sep 15 22:55:52 2002 From: ArtsyDeco at xxx.com (ArtsyDeco at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:55:52 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Wandering around everywhere Message-ID: <6779D152.024D35D4.022DCCE6@aol.com> Hello, It's been awhile, I know. There are probably lots of new people here who don't know I am. Those who do probably remember me as being one half of the romantic Peter and Kara charade. That's ended. Almost two months ago now. I've had to admit to myself that I miss sinister, though I can never look at it the same way again. Anyway, I'll give you a quick overview. I've cut off nearly all my hair. I've been obsessed with the Pixies. I've adopted two plants, a mimosa named Margaret Yang and a Capsicum Annuum named Mordechai. I saw a shrink over the summer and I'm much better now. I bought a new bra yesterday and I like it very much. I'm shaking very badly from the caffeine in the cola I keep drinking and I'm having a very good time here. So now I have a few requests, if you don't mind. I believe there are those who crochet on this list, is there anyway one of you could show me how? I bought a book, but the diagrams aren't very good and I can't get beyond the double chain stich. Would anyone be willing to send me a pack of sweet aftons in return for, oh something that's not available over there or some origami or something? I really have missed you. So tell me, how are you doing? 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From shannonjeanmaney at xxx.com Tue Sep 17 16:08:52 2002 From: shannonjeanmaney at xxx.com (shanny jean) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:08:52 -0500 Subject: Sinister: if you've neglected sinister... Message-ID: i woke up one hour and seven minutes late this morning because my lovely boyfriend turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. he woke up in time to not be late for anything; i woke up in the middle of crummy english. a mixed blessing. not long following, i sat down and rediscovered the sinister folder in my e-mail account... long neglected. i haven't posted since may-june. it is now september (and Late september at that!). oh sadness. this is what has happened since: 1. i turned in my apron for a microphone. i don't wait tables now, but work at the radio station. apparently, i do this for free. 2. returned to school. while buying books, a worker girl had on a belle and sebastian t-shirt. i said, "i like your shirt." she said, "thank you." i said, "i have it. ...On." low and behold, we were wearing the same t-shirt, which is strange in normal, illinois, where people listen to a lot of rap. 3. i received an e-mail from a former teacher who is probably around the age of Gandalf. he asked me, "Are you ever online?" 4. i decided i might be an english teacher. i think i was caught by the glamour of teaching beowulf to unthankful 16-year olds... i mean, gosh. 5. i discovered ken chu's colander's blog page. incentive to read all the missed messages of the summer. i am sorry, everyone, for being a bad sinistress. i solemnly swear i will keep up better. for now, though, i best do my math homework. lovie, shanny jean _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ruthmaverick at xxx.com Tue Sep 17 19:13:43 2002 From: ruthmaverick at xxx.com (Ruth Allan) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:13:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: athlete's foot. Message-ID: hey sinister. why is no one posting today? is it the weather? this office is so grey/ Moira my left-hand-lady asked for the overheads to be turned out cos they make her anxious. I personally like anxious but she is a big cheese and I am not, so I am living in a darn den as bendy cone desk lights remind me of a horrible dream I had as a kid where the light took on a life of its own. It seems Manchester is starting to grown again somehow. Various people are arriving and leaving and the town is about to swell with students. I remmeber the first time I noticed it, when I'd stopped migrating forward and back with the terms and seasons and noticed the gaps inbetween. they're not bad or better they're just different. things change in subtle ways I hope. last week I was without a job in sweden looking for spiders on a balcony and only sitting down after a proper check, such classic holiday behaviour, and this week dammit I'm sleeping with the bastards in my bedroom, come and get me I say. Nibble my ears in my sleep see if I care. My house is lovely except for the spiders. Is it cruel to keep one under a blender for three days until your house mate comes home? My fear is that the spider mate will come home first but I think I'm just being paranoid. Some people love autumn. thank you for making me see the nicer sides to it. I like it a bit but can't ever get excited about putting my shoes back on. April to october feet should be exposed. ladies in this fashion avoid athletes foot. James Yorkson is fantastic. but really sad, and a secret sinister who is reading this likes him a lot too which makes me happy. ruthxx _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From esme at xxx.com Tue Sep 17 20:18:12 2002 From: esme at xxx.com (ee fumblings) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:18:12 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: haikus revealed // week thirtysix // two thousand and two Message-ID: I drank a quarter bottle of vodka and went back to being drunk. Actually, come to think of it, everyone's really mean here too. I think that's what they said. I haven't sobered up in days. That's a lie. It's finished now, and in my fridge in one of those Ribena Fridge jugs. Nathan R: you're right. But you can say "australya". Three syllables? hmm Nice seeing you. Love, Mike x *Unless you're some sort of crazy person. I've never seen a show there so hopefully that will be a good time. Sinister wedding. There you go. I'll be off then. Right. Nice seeing you. // ee // +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From idleberry at xxx.com Tue Sep 17 22:11:56 2002 From: idleberry at xxx.com (idleberry) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: Love Is... Message-ID: <20020917211156.6076.qmail@web14603.mail.yahoo.com> In the mornings, when I am dressed for work, and have a bowl of cereal in my hands, my soaking wet hair tied in a turban of a towel, I go to draw the curtains in the livingroom. And more often than not, I see Mick C. He sits in the street, watching the house. And as soon as he spots a twitch of the curtains, Mick runs over, and starts tapping at the window. Sometimes, I just watch him, and don't do anything, I just eat. Sometimes, I hide from his view. Sometimes though, he comes into the house in the morning. He heads straight to the kitchen, for a bite to eat. Then he follows me around, to the bathroom, while I brush my teeth, or sits, perched on the end of my bed, and watches me in the mirror while I dry my hair. Sometimes he watches me put on my make up, and he'll pick up my blusher brush and play with it for a bit. He waits for me after work too. He knows what time I get home, and hes there, standing in the street waiting for me. He knows what tme I usually get home, and if I am late, he gives me a really dirty look. Hes a bit of an odd one, Mick. We have this strange relationship. Sometimes we ignore each other totally. Othertimes, we lie close together, cuddling, and I might purr a bit in his ear. He likes to play with my nail files too. He'll scratch his nails along it - I think he likes the feel. When I finish my driving lessons, he waits for me, pacing impatiently up and down outside the car, glaring in the window, while I pay the instructor. I have to say, I did catch him in my brothers bedroom one day, sniffing his underwear. He won't appreciate me telling you that of course. I left him to it. He had a bushy eyebrow the other night. I threatened to pluck it. It made him look like Norman Lammont. **************** Theres another in my life too. Only, we've never actually met. Its an unrequited crush, on my part. All through the summer, when I take the train to work, it passes by these flats. And I've seen this gorgeous italian type by one of these flats, just outside, every morning. The italian must be over 40 years old, I think, and quite sexy, in an unconventional way. I often find myself gazing at him, fantasising about him. What it would be like to go out with him. What outfit I would wear. Out of my league, of course, but it doesn't stop a girl from imagining. Me and him, together, listening to Simon and Garfunkel maybe, on sunny afternoons, going to the beach. So I'm inexperienced, and maybe, hes had more women than I've had hot dinners. But I can't help but wish he was mine. Theres a song, which reminds me of him, and when I see him, the lyrics to that song get stuck in my head. The song irritated me so much so, that I actually ended up having to buy the record, and play the song over and over, until I was sick fed up of it, and could put it to rest. He wasn't there this morning. I wonder if hes got someone new in his life. Smitten style Love Idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From snowy_theband at xxx.com Tue Sep 17 22:34:11 2002 From: snowy_theband at xxx.com (snowy .) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:34:11 +0000 Subject: Sinister: B&S on the weakest link Message-ID: Skiving off work has it's advantages. Not having to do any work being the main one. And I got to watch Ready, Steady, Cook and the weakest link. And there was a B&S question on the weakest link. "What is the catalogue number of the Dog on wheels 7" single?". Not really. It was (something like) "the link between a series about a boy and his dog and a Scottish band, Belle and....?". The woman frowned, shrugged and said "Arthur". Tsk. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From professorpaulo at xxx.uk Wed Sep 18 12:30:12 2002 From: professorpaulo at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Field?=) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:30:12 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Real erudition triumphs readily over sill emo children Message-ID: <20020918113012.48587.qmail@web20603.mail.yahoo.com> Hullo sinister, I was told that in the absence of presence of somebody (boss?) today I should occupy my time productively by mailing you lot, so here I am, doing as I am told for fear that otherwise I shall be struck down with the plague. The bad news is that I am writing this in the morning so there's a good chance it'll make no sense whatsoever. Mister C (Mark, not Vitamin) has made a winning move of Tigermilking which does deserve all of you London and southern England types to make every effort to get there. Simply because it's gonna be bloody cool. And you might even get a free flying saucer. He also came up with the idea of the last London picnic of the year, which I think is a fantastic idea. I think it should be just about fine so long as no Phil Collins fans turn up - jacket definitely required (HOHOHO!). I would of course love to offer to be picnic mummy but sadly I was born with the affliction of not having the ability to organise a barbecue in hell. There is somebody on this list though who was supposed to be last picnic mummy but had to back out at late notice (through no fault of their own I add) who has been known to organise barbecues in canada *water*, bermond*sea*. Which is pretty damn impressive and should make organising a picnic on a hill a complete cinch. Not that I am trying to push anybody. I just think somebody who lives in London and isn't me should do it. Maybe Bapps! He even has a picnic name. I personally also have a plan for the weekend after! Its not totally comfirmed as yet, but its 99% sure that I will be touring the pubs of Glasgow for a few days, arriving late evening Thursday 10th Oct, and leaving sometime the following Monday. I believe there's to be a winchester club too. I'd like to think it's in my honour, but given that this is the first most of you know of these plans I somehow doubt that. But anyway, I hope you Glasgow kids will all be around to show me a good time. Ahem. You know what I mean, filthy sods. I wish that I had a crush, other than velvet, who I saw every morning on my way to work. It never happens in London though. I guess it's the same in all cities of such size. You just don't see the same people on a daily basis. You don't catch the such and such a tube, you just turn up and jump on the first one. Or rather, as is often the case, squeeze your way through the mass of sweaty bodies onto the first one. I suppose it could work if your crush wasn't actually a person but a building or a lamppost or something, but that would be a bit weird. Has anybody heard of a fantastic new singer-songwriter called Gareth Gates? He does a superb cover of Paul Hardcastles electro masterpiece "nineteen" (such heartfelt lyrics). i have the afternoon off work to go and see him. Well, it does beat sitting in front of a computer I suppose. Why doesn't sublime mean beneath limes? Ok, time to go to the gee gees. I hope he doesn't resign like D has. http://www.theonion.com/onion3218/gaymuppet.html Bye! Foxy Field __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From Stuart.Gardiner at xxx.uk Wed Sep 18 13:14:43 2002 From: Stuart.Gardiner at xxx.uk (Gardiner, Stuart) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:14:43 +0100 Subject: Sinister: What was the greatest thing before sliced bread was invented? Message-ID: <579C0CAF497CD511AD4D00508BBD7AAC641BCA@pikachu.ntu.ac.uk> As the tumbleweed rolls past the Sinister list, an autumnal feel seems to have descended on the world. September's always like this. Very little happens. Even time can't be bothered to get out of bed at this time of year. People are getting used to being back at work, or back at school, after the holidays; the weather's dull and grey, and only going to get worse; sports clubs are all in pre-season training, waiting for the fun bit to start; and no-one's going out because all the money was spent on holidays. There isn't even anything good on the telly yet. The only activities going on are planning work / events / etc for the coming months. It takes the start of the university terms for people to start appearing again, ready to have a good time. I've not even touched a drop of alcohol all month (probably the longest time I've gone without drinking since I was about 15). It feels like life's on hold. And all the while, a mad egotistical dictator, detested by the rest of the world and by most of his own country, continues to build up his armies of suppression and weapons of mass destruction, intent on destroying other people's lives. But enough about George Bush. Actually, not quite enough about him, since I notice Stuart Murdoch (collective gasp as an attempt at content is revealed...) talking about Iraq in his latest diary entry at http://www.banchory.net/belleandsebastian/. Yet another person to add to the list of people who think the inevitable attack on Iraq is ridiculous (as opposed to, erm, not a single person I've spoken to who thinks it's a good idea). Unfortunately, much of the media reporting has been very poor (with the usual exception of the excellent Robert Fisk in The Independent - his articles alone make the paper worth buying, or at least reading on the internet...). Some of the points which seem to have been ignored: 1. Twice as many people have been killed by the American-led actions in Afghanistan as were killed in the WTC attacks (but that doesn't matter, because they're not American, right?) 2. The USA and Britain both have shedloads of weapons of mass destruction (but we're allowed to, right?) 3. When the weapons inspectors were thrown out of Iraq for spying for Israel and the CIA, they were actually spying for Israel and the CIA, as subsequently admitted by the chief inspector (but the fact that the places the US bombed a couple of years ago all happened to have just been visited by the weapons inspectors was a coincidence, right?) 4. Israel has nuclear weapons, and has ignored just as many UN resolutions as Iraq, and persecutes people living in it, and is currently illegally occupying another country (but you're not allowed to criticise Israeli policies, because if you do, you must be anti-semitic, right? Just like anyone who disagrees with US government policies must hate all Americans and the whole notion of freedom and democracy, right???) I could go on all night, but I'd better stop before I start punching the keyboard in frustration... Of course, the fact that I'm criticising the US means that the American spy-bases in Britain will intercept and read this email to check it out. Probably at the base that we're not supposed to know about at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. In fact, just to make sure, I'll say "Do the world a favour, assassinate George Bush". And all that in an email which says Sinister in the title. I look forward to the CIA turning up at the next B&S gig with sub-machineguns to investigate our extremist cult. That'll be some interesting publicity... I can just imagine the band being interrogated: CIA - "Tell us all you know, we won't let you go until you admit to your plans to take over the world" Stuart Murdoch - "Och, I don't know what you're talking about, we're just a band, you know?" CIA - "You can't fool us. We've been monitering you for months. Your internet propaganda, the mysterious disappearance of the twee, peace-loving Isobel..." Stuart Murdoch - "She left of her own accord. We couldn't have someone in the band who didn't like travelling around America. Oops, shouldn't have said that..." CIA - "Ah! So you admit it then. And we know all about the coded messages in 'The Boy With The Arab Strap'. And we're sure 'Shoot The Sexual Athlete' is about a plot to kill Bill Clinton." Stuart David - "This is pish, I'm leaving." Of course, it's not always so easy to see the 'right path' to take. I'm currently giving serious consideration to doing some volunteer teaching in Nepal this time next year. But I can't decide which is morally more important: teaching the young to help them develop, so that they can get better jobs in the future; or preserving their traditional culture, which has lasted hundreds of years and is in many ways better than ours (such as its peacefulness and lack of emphasis on money), but is being destroyed by Western influences? If you educate, you are necessarily changing their culture and making it more similar to our own. But it alleviates poverty. But poverty only means a lack of money, when there is so much more to life than that. What is a free-thinking liberal to do? Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From unloveable_ at xxx.com Wed Sep 18 18:05:08 2002 From: unloveable_ at xxx.com (angela _) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:05:08 -0500 Subject: Sinister: another boy and his dog Message-ID: hey kids, i don't know why it is, but something about cute boys and their dogs make for some great inspiration for fabulous music. witch brings me to the subject of this post: ever wonder about what ever happened to steve from blues clues? well i did because i still haven't decided weather i like the new boy on the show "joe" and i knew i defiantly love steve. i wish there were more guys like him , he has a certain twee-ness about him. any way i found out he's is putting together an album (for grown ups, but my kid likes it too, but then again she likes all good music) witch is due out this january and not surprisingly it is really good. http://www.steveswebpage.com/ so i just thought i would pass this info on to those of us who haven't grown up yet. you can hear 3 of his songs on mp3 format. well its time for so long, but we'll sing one more song, thanks for doing your part, you sure are smart! Angela _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From staralful at xxx.com Thu Sep 19 17:57:02 2002 From: staralful at xxx.com (Jonathan Skinner) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:57:02 +0100 Subject: Sinister: But i like girls who drop cups in cafes Message-ID: So how is every little thing. you probably won't have noticed my absence and i barely did. But apart from that how is every little thing with you? I am actully feeling in quite good fettle and am struggleing to settle into a post summer routine SO firstly- guided by voices were unreal- i really really really enjoyed that gig. They have such energy on stage and his voice (or memory) never gave up once despite the incredible amount of booze consumed even though the bassist looked like he was going to keel over at any moment. It was rather short though it was on 2 hrs and 45 mins and they only played 50 or so songs but i suppose begsy cannot be choosy. Anyway there is an incredible array of gigs coming to cork and the general vicinity. The frank and walters , teenage fanclub , supergrass ( to dublin but i can look past the money side and just enjoy them) and *Ahem* sugababes or however you spell it. AAAANNNNNNNNNYYYYWAY where was i. Ohh yeah i was just about to solve the last theorem but i forgot it. AHH yes onto the title. I had this huge conversation with someone i went to school with about girls in Cafes and the different types. 1 of them was like the soup nazi in seinfeld who could be and was in general a bitch. The second is the one that is just there to pay the bills and get by in life. This is the type i like , the type that drop cups and have a look verging on the embarrased side of *i really don't want to be here*. But speaking of Cafes it seems i am soon to be working in one. Since Java Joes (RIP) shut its doors and the Yumi Yuki club (Sushi bar) turned into a trattatoria we found that cork lacked a certain what is it the french say, i don't know. So one drunken evening a group of us decided that if we ever had the money we would open one in cork and make it a success. Well this was in a pub and there was plenty of beer taken but then the next morning in bistro over breakfast we spoke about it more and more and it has taken a hold over each of us, Separetly we have been scouring the shitty streets of cork for a nice enough venue. But the money was the all the important thing and we have a sniff of a silent backer so hopefully all will work out- keep as many extremities as possible crossed for us as we try to invigourate some cool into the crappy city ( think a cross between the cafe in so i married an axe murder and a normal cafe) it is a shame to see guy barker didn't win the mercury is it not and it is however (ooh content) it is nice to see an online blog by mr murdoch , speaking of blogs i should really get one together and put photos and stuff up considering i have a rather nice digital camera that is a lot better than the one i ordered even though it is a bit bulkier but what me worry? anyway i should really go. plays to go to. peoples asses to kiss plague and pestilence to you all jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From wpsalt at xxx.com Thu Sep 19 22:08:32 2002 From: wpsalt at xxx.com (Caitlin Pigtails) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:08:32 +0100 Subject: Sinister: More whine, vicar? Message-ID: <20020919220832.A19868@candle.btinternet.com> Sinister, I'm disappointed in you. When I joined you, all those years ago, I knew that it was easy to divide the world up. There are many ways to divide people. For example, everybody falls into one of three groups: those who can do maths, and those that can't. Similarly, I assumed the world could be divided into the people who were on Sinister and those who weren't. I was having a chat with The Boss the other day. The Boss used to be an anthropologist, and we talked about how anthropologists and computer people are similar in that both vocations tend to attract outsiders. Anthropology attracts outsiders because it legitimises the whole idea of being an outsider; you're hard at work studying and analysing all the normal people. Don't ask me about computing. When I joined, I assumed Sinister was a natural place where outsiders would congregate. And, primarily, it seemed to be. There are lots of reasons why I'm not normal, but the one I want to concentrate on here is relationships. Normal people have relationships like they drink water. They meet someone, and suddenly, bang, they're going out. They know what to do to get from Point A to Point B. It all happens naturally; they don't need to think about it. It's in their blood. I'm one of those people who can't do that. It doesn't happen. The bridge between my mind and another's never appears. And I kind of assumed that most of Sinister was like that too. Recently, though, I've found that I got it all wrong. All B&S fans except me are deep in "loving relationships". Nearly everyone on #sinister, it turns out, is seeing someone. They can just chat to each other a couple of times and suddenly know that they love each other, that they are made for each other, that everyhing will be all right. That just doesn't make sense. I've even seen people being all romantic and couply at sinister picnics. It's a horrific, awful sight. Holding hands and looking at each other starry-eyed and everything; it makes me shudder. What am I missing, that stops me from being with someone? Why can't I form any sort of contact with the normal people out there? So now, I think I'm the only single person left, and with no hope of that ever changing. It's a lonely place. xx caitlin -- More whinging like this at: http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ The Sinister Recipe Tree Archives, at: http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/sinifood/ "When life gives us lemons, we just sit there and sulk about it, in the corner of the room, in a fetal position." - Matthew Henderson, on the Sinister mailing list. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From idleberry at xxx.com Fri Sep 20 01:22:50 2002 From: idleberry at xxx.com (idleberry) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: abstract thoughts Message-ID: <20020920002250.74387.qmail@web14601.mail.yahoo.com> I lay on the bench, and she pulled the bow of the cord of the lace up panel of my skirt. I wriggled a bit, and pulled my skirt down to my hips. She pushed her fingers, her middle finger and index finger, over my belly. Somehow when she did it, it felt soft, my belly. Cool, and soft. She pressed down, and tapped her fingers. "Is this ok? does this hurt" "no. its ok". Behind the curtain, I could hear the sound of a lawnmower, being driven up and dow outside on a strip of grass next to the footpath. She kept the curtain drawn until I had time to pull my skirt back up again. She gave me a script anyway, in case everything was normal. I could just start again. *************************************************** I haven't cared. I haven't cared about anyone really. Thats a lie. I have cared. Just on a smaller capacity than usual. *************************************************** I viewed the world differently. Four weeks. Each day, was different. The level of paranoia would rise or fall, depending on circumstances. I tormented myself sometimes. I tried to avoid confrontations. I avoided talking, for a lot of time. Other times, I picked fights. Look at *everything* around you - take off the blinkers - music isn't important - arguments aren't important - art is not important - its the joy of a society with too much time on its hands to have the luxury to be selfish in its thoughts. I withdrew. I pushed out. I was alone. I was lonely. I was strong. I didn't need people. I didn't need the trivia of every day flutterings. I had something. A stone in my life as solid as I have ever felt, with fuzzy edges of uncertainty. If this was real. If it is real. Its the biggest deal in my life, and I didn't have time to listen to people. I didn't have time to be compassionate if they had bickering arguements and wanted me to listen and tell them they were right, so-and-so is a bad person, you were misunderstood and hard done by and you have your cross to bear and I don't blame you. Stuff that. I needed someone. Some reacted with compassion. Others without. I know who they all are now. ********************************************* At first, I told nobody. I put it to the back of my mind. Ah well, I thought. A few days is ok. It gives me a few days to relax before it arrives. I don't need to suffer just now. It can wait. I don't mind. In fact, I'm a bit glad its not here. Gives me more time. More time before the outbreak of spots, and pains, and aches, and tears and emotions going haywire. *********************************************** A week passes. I'm getting a bit concerned, but i put it down to one of those things. I'm on the pill afterall. Maybe, this is just one of those things. So its late. It'll be here soon, right? Stay off the pill for a few days more. Let my body catch up. ************************************************ Two weeks. It really should be here by now. Thats when it starts. And I tell someone. I tell someone else. Dare I buy a test? No. I can't. Theres too much against buying one. It'll be here soon, maybe. ******************************************* Options. Choices. Do I believe I can handle this, and if so, how much can I handle? ******************************************* Week three. I call the doctors and make my appointment. I live in a daze for days. I snap at people. I cry. I feel trapped. I panic. I worry. I cry. I snap at people. I forget things at work. I sleep. I sleep. I sleep. I don't care about other peoples situations right now. Who said what to whom, who hates who, nip nip nip. I see women with kids. Oh god no. I don't want to be a Pauline Quirk typecast character. Save me from a BBC stereotype. I imagine her. I give her a name. She falls asleep to certain music. She cries. Her nappy smells. I can't buy a test kit. Too much... too much surrounding me. I need privacy. I had to make the doctors appointment through a cunning cloak and dagger manouver. They always ask, at the recepiton what its for. The prospect, of sitting there at work, or at home, saying "Oh, my period is late, so yeah can I find out if I'm pregnant" really doesn't appeal. I hate the receptionists at the doctors. They do it on purpose. They have no thought, no consideration. *************************************************** I like the name Sofia. *************************************************** Week Four. Days to wait til my doctors appointment. I won't take a self test kit. How would I dispose of the evidence? just throw it in the bin? What happens, my folks spot it when they go to throw out something else? At work? ********************************************* The doctor spoke to me. I told her I wasn't worried. I was. Of course I was. The odds were against it, but the chances are always there. She told me to get a tube from the reception, and gives me a note. I need to take the sample first thing in the morning, after I've been asleep, and its all concentrated. If I was to do it now, she says,. i might get a false negative result. Bring it in during the morning, she says. And then they can give me the results in the afternoon. I hadn't been in a blur, not for a week. Post appointment, I walk past the chemists, and newsagents, stuffing my little clear bag with the tube in it, deep inside my handbag. I listen to music, and find myself drifting in thought. I can't imagine.. the reality. The worst scenario, of course, in three years time, and thats ok. But the immediate worst case scenario, in the short term. ************************************************* I'll wait until the weekend, I decide. Less suspicious then. Two doctors appointments in a week? People will wonder. No wondering until I know. ************************************************* I was going to ask if you knew anything, had any ideas. *********************************************** I feel the same. My body doesn't feel bigger. I've not been throwing up. My belly is soft. *********************************************** Theres a woman and a tiny baby in the foyer. I watch them. ********************************************* I smile. I grin. I want to sing. I skip out. Almost five weeks. But eventually, like Norman's bus in the film Ghost World, it arrived. I grin. I smile, I laugh, I email my friends. I text others. ********************************************* Sofia, I'll be your mother when I'm ready. ******************************************** Love Idles x ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From kittenmouse at xxx.com Fri Sep 20 04:15:55 2002 From: kittenmouse at xxx.com (Andrea Kittenmouse) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:15:55 -0700 Subject: Sinister: nyc, j.c., wfmu, ballboy Message-ID: hello, i'm visiting nyc. trying to decide whether i want to move here or not (and go to f.i.t. for further career-minded education). i'm at a hostel and someone behind me is talking about having sex with someone she broke up with last summer and her diarrhea. it's a little distracting, so i'm sorry if this seems short and nonsensical, and not very full of pertinent facts. argh, can't concentrate. i saw a great radio station that i might try to get a show on if i move here, wfmu in jersey city. their studios are soooo nice. so i haven't done my show for a week, won't be back til the 30th of september, whichever monday is closest to that. and i think ballboy of scotland is going to be on my show that day, so maybe if you like them you should check it out in realaudio if you aren't in portland, oregon. maybe i'll ask them the current glasgow gossip. hehe. your friend, andrea kittenmouse radio (mondays 9.00-10.00 pm PST) kpsu 1450 am portland, oregon kittenmouse at hotmail.com www.kpsu.org http://web.pdx.edu/~andreay _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From decsnspace at xxx.com Fri Sep 20 05:27:22 2002 From: decsnspace at xxx.com (Declan Haskins) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: Hey now it's the sun, and it makes me smiiiile, all around... Message-ID: <20020920042722.99912.qmail@web80314.mail.yahoo.com> bah dah dum bah dum, bah dah dum bah dum... Sorry that this email doesn't have anything to do with what's going on in my life or any of that kind of stuff... because frankly, I don't have much that's all that interesting to write about at the moment aside from a little bit of ocasional drama here and there(well, that and the fact that I mostly keep that kinda stuff to myself anyways, so sorry about that). Ok, back to my point, the main reason I'm writing is just to leave everyone out there with those wonderful lyrics printed above in my subject heading from a band I just heard for the first time the other day... I know many of you are familar with them, because it was here too that some of you mentioned them in your posts (thanks!). The band I'm refering to is a +25 member group from dallas, texas who dress up in full white robes, gospel revival garb and sing beautiful, powerful, and touching pop music (not to mention super uplifting and happy stuff), that sounds like a combination of the beatles, the flaming lips, b&s, spiritualized, and the langley school's music project all mixed up together... So to those of you out there that haven't heard of this band or don't recognize the lyrics... I would have to implore you to not let another day pass by without at the least checking out a couple of there mp3's... who know's it might be a life changing experience (if you can't tell I think it's having that affect on me) Maybe someday they'll share the same stage as B&S... now that would be an amazing show not to be missed!!! Oh, the band's name is 'the polyphonic spree' and I hope this isn't list abuse... 'cause I still think B&S are "the bomb" bah dah dum bah dum, bah dah dum bah dum... -Declan :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From foranotherdream at xxx.com Sat Sep 21 10:08:36 2002 From: foranotherdream at xxx.com (bus stoppers) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: just please slap the crap out of me!! Message-ID: <20020921090836.53408.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com> dearest dears, so... well, first of all, here's a hug for ms. pigtails. i know exactly what you mean. last night i had (yes, yet another) epiphany. i think i actually, finally, like a nice boy. is the sky falling on my head? have all previous notions and/or ideals been knocked out of my head by that piece of the sky? i think i like him. i really do. we had plans to go out tomorrow, to an art show in santa monica. i thought i was going to be able to get someone to take my shift, but alas, no one could. i was actually super disappointed. i was upset, actually. and then i was talking with him last night and he was going to to his friends' birthday thing. with a friend that is a girl. and guess what. i actually got jealous. i have never been jealous before. this is just fucking scary. i have spent the greater part of the most recent past killing time falling for poop-head boys. that way, no one gets hurt. it's not like they were mean to me, it's just that nothing ever got serious. which i like. it works, you know? but this boy really kinda likes me. and i kinda like him back... that means this isn't going to work. or will it? isn't that the whole point of why i'm freaking out? sara is finally ready to confess! i'm a committment phobic. why can't i just 'go with the flow'? how come i have to think about it so much that i almost cry because i'm so scared? why am i even going on about this? fuck. i'm sooo sorry. sometimes i just wish that my life was different. that i was a different person who wasn't a fraidy-cat who insists that i want to take risks to be happy. oh man. just fucking stop. ......love, sara ===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From billrogers_1 at xxx.com Sat Sep 21 11:13:59 2002 From: billrogers_1 at xxx.com (Nathan Reader) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: "You have turned me into this..." Message-ID: <20020921101359.53502.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> Hello all you fine figures, There have been alot of posts pretty much concerning nothing of great importance lately, so I'll add to them. ****************** I just discovered today that a best friend of mine used to live next door to Mel Gibson...the REAL Mel. I don't know why I didn't find this out until today, I mean it's pretty big-exciting-hunkey-dorey news. Anyway, apparantly he worked really hard to get into acting, it didn't just fall into his lap like you hear about. His wife payed for him to go to NIDA (an acting college) and he went to audition ofter audition after crappy audition until he finally worked his way up the acting ladder. And now he's rich and famous with about 9 kids or something. It makes me wonder what I'll do with my life- definately not acting though. I've always wanted to do medicine, but now I think I could just settle for being a nurse or a paramedic. It will be cheaper and shorter study wise. I think I've had enough of studying for the moment. I'm in year 12 (final year) of school, and there is only two months of school left. I have come to the conclusion that although I was once good at maths, I now officially suck. I do think it is possible that I am the worst mathematician on this list. I probably shouldn't have chosen to do it in my final year... I don't dwell on what I don't enjoy though, there are many other good things in life to think about- such as music. Tommorrow night I am seeing a band perform. The band is a far out Australian band called 'Machine Gun Fellatio.' I have seen them twice before, and LOVED it both times. Here's a small list of the types of things you can expect at a 'Machine Gun Fellatio' concert: - a little Winnie The Pooh strapped on Chit Chat's peenie. A shaved penie at that. Thats all he wears. - a topless girls with tassles on her nipples roller-skating around the stage. - funny lyrics. - free condoms. Each with a little strawberry flavoured sachet of lubrication (it tastes like absolute crap. I didn't try it THAT way(not that there's anything wrong with that(but i'm not)), I just ate it straight from the sachet. for fun. - a solo with a hair clipper buzzer thingy. - band members to crowd surf, and deliberately piss off the security guards. - other cool stuff. As you can see, they are a super-dooper performance. But whats better is that I get to go to their shows for free! I have a connection, so whenever they play in sleepy ol' Adelaide, I get on the guest list. That means I can get there late, and then walk past the hundreds of people in the line and walk right in. Smashing hey? Well, if your still with me, I'll let you go. I'm sure there are many other 'slice of life' posts waiting in your inbox. I'm going to wait for Mum to bring home Indian food...Mmmmm. bye bye. Nathan RR-W ****** I couldn't think of a title for this post, so I'll just put Radiohead lyrics, because I'm listening to 'The Bends'. Song: Bulletproof Lyric: As displayed after 'Subject: Sinister........' at the top of this e-mail. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mail at xxx.uk Sat Sep 21 12:26:44 2002 From: mail at xxx.uk (Gordon) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:26:44 +0100 Subject: Sinister: chanson Message-ID: <001401c26161$c528c2a0$a5cb87d9@ivorsserver> I've been reading sini posts. It's not good for one's health, really. I think Idle's one was quite sexy but 'the girl is in love with several others' and Will: yer not alone at all here: join the club, pal. I must also make a disclaimer. I am VERY drunk. So much that way that I'm drinking straight off a bottle of the Balmoral Hotel's so-so southern Scotland's blended whisky and lapping up the dulcet tones of 14th Century music: when these kids started to sing this shit their brothers were building the cathedrals of Europe. Which makes me rather in admiration of their hocketing tones. I'm not exactly sure how to do a 'crie de cour' but for sure they're generally embarassing: one puts one's life on the washing line. Therefore my reckoning was to not do it. But here I am, doing it. I can tell it'll take all day to write this. Sometimes it would be easier to draw pictures but one is after consistency of tone. The sun is shining through the staircase window. Madame est ... jooliest-so comme erste ci; madamo that, by the way, is not supposed to make sense in any language; it just sounds nice Call and response, call and response: that was the root of music: I say, you say... and then, once we got the tune, we sing in harmony. The golden octopus was used as a dress ornament. Octopuses were a frequent decorative device in Aegean art; this one is novel, however, in having ...only seven tentacles. Human beings are complex, huh? Maybe we just love one another in order to put aside our fear of each other. I'm not sure I have more to say here but I suppose it would be decent to offer an image of something; something dreamy... you are in a field in spring; a high alp where the flowers are blossoming. The air is clear, and the gods are calling down to you 'come hither, come hither'. You can see the blue, deep blue wantonness of the whole world waiting to take you up in its arms.... 'come hither, come hither' Gordon xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From adevens at xxx.edu Sun Sep 22 06:23:22 2002 From: adevens at xxx.edu (adevens at xxx.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 06:23:22 US/Eastern Subject: Sinister: i just don't know what to do, or what to think, i just want to curl up and cry and i can't even do that Message-ID: <200209221023.g8MANLC10034@college.antioch-college.edu> so i'm so mad right now, and i don't know how to even write this email but i don't have anyone else to talk to right now cause it's 3 in the fucking morning so you all are all i've got where to even start. about 3 weeks ago i met a girl, i knew i was only going to be home for a few weeks and that it couldn't really be anything real but she was cool and i liked her and i haven't liked anyone in a pretty long time she likes me too. we've been "hanging out" since then, not a couple, certainly not, but fairly couple like. she's told me that if i was staying she would want to date me, and i think i believe her, i think i do, maybe anyway, i know that she makes out with other people, i sort of knew that anyway, vaguely, and it didn't really bother me cause afterall we aren't dating anyway and i'm leaving for scotland in like 8 days anyway but, fucking but, fucking fucking fucking but she invited me to a concert tonight, sort of, and her friend invited me to a party after it, aparently she didn't want me to be invited but she sure as fuck didn't do anything to stop me from going, in fact it seemed to me in some ways like she was happy i was going so i went to the concert and had a good time, tracy + the plastics, great band/chick, afterwards we went to the party and for awhile had a good time there then i saw her making out with some random guy while i was five feet away, then pull him into the makeout room, then come out and start making out with someone else that i later found out is her ex-boyfriend, then i went outside and stood near them and she took him off across the street to keep making out i don't know what to feel... i know i don't have any um hold over her, that's not really the right term cause you don't own people, i just mean that we are not comitted in anyway, far from it, but we've spent the last 3 weeks seeing each other every few days and there has been a far bit of kissing and the like and i guess i just thought she liked me more than that it's just so fucking inconsiderate, so finally we talked and i said that and she said that she liked me alot and that if i was staying she would want to be with me but because i wasn't she couldn't get attached to me, which i fucking understand, it makes sense, and i told her that i was cool with what she was doing, which i sort of am, maybe, but that i just didn't want to have to see it and she apologized and told me that she hadn't meant for me to see it, and i told her that for the 8 days we had left i would just like it if she would try harder, at which point we left the party she left the party with him, holding hands, i started to walk back with them cause she was going to the same place as my car but when i realized she was taking him back with her i wasn't going to, i said i would call her the next day and she asked me why i wasn't walking with them so i fucking did, and she held his fucking hand the whole fucking way back, didn't say a fucking word to me and when we fucking got back to my fucking car she was like, are you leaving, and i was like what else am i gonna do and she was like well i'll see you later to which i just left maybe i'm just drunk, which i am, but it just seems so fucking inconsiderate, are they back together, i know she wants that, are we done? we were supposed to go to a show together tomorrow, are we not now? i think i will be ok with what happened tomorrow but i'm not sure there is a tomorrow, at least not for me and her i fucking hate this, i fucking hate this stupid fucking bullshit, what am i supposed to feel, what am i supposed to think? what happens now? i'm not going to sleep that's for sure .. arik p.s. sorry, sorry for making you all have to deal with this. tomorrow i will write a much happier message where i beg you all to let me live in your houses in scotland for a brief time, really i'm usually much nicer and ok then this, i promise +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From psi_fla at xxx.com Sun Sep 22 16:05:24 2002 From: psi_fla at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Simon=20Fallaha?=) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:05:24 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Gemma Message-ID: <20020922150524.61232.qmail@web13808.mail.yahoo.com> Wow. Well everyone, I saw Gemma Hayes last night and it was more than just a pleasant surprise. Her only stop in Northern Ireland on her current tour is the Nerve Centre, in Derry! Amazing. Especially considering that I now live in Belfast on weekdays (I'm now working up there on placement, until next September). There was a good crowd at the Nerve Centre last night (eventually - most were not there to see the supporting acts). I was there for the whole running length, and here's my view... The music was of a generally high standard throughout. We'd two supporting acts. Firstly a pair of unknown middle-aged guys who sounded like Simon & Garfunkel wannabes. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing - their songs had good harmonies and were fun to listen to on the whole. Secondly, an Irish singer/guitarist called Ann Scott took the stage. Previously unknown to me before this, she's actually released an album down south. Her style is pretty much like Gemma's, although maybe a little more downbeat. Her first EP is actually out now - it's called the Pauper Tiger EP, and it's released on her own label, Raghouse Records. She's also recording an album at the minute. I'll tell you what, she has the potential to go far. But what about Gemma herself? Well, she arrived on stage looking quite stunning and to a really loud cheer from the crowd. Right from the opening number you felt this was going to be a good night. More than any other artist I've seen, she attempted to make herself feel at home with us, the audience. Her first question: "Does anyone know how the United game went?" (I did stick my hand up, but she never noticed). Later she commented "We lost". Does this mean she's a Spurs fan, by any chance? Also, she gave out some of her plectrums to some of the crowd. In fact, I picked up one from her, but gave it away to the guy who'd asked for it in the first place (sigh...). Nor did she mind posing for photos demanded by many over-enthusiastic fans. (One of her poses echoed one of Audrey Tautou's funny faces from Amelie). Calls of "Marry me!" rang from quite a few of the lads in the crowd throughout the concert. She took them all with a nod and a wink, and praised us for being such a great audience. It seemed that she was enjoying the concert as much as we were, if not more. The songs she sang were some of the best ones from her album, Night On My Side, and a few from her first two EP's (including 4:35 a.m., the first one I ever listened to). The album's had plenty of praise and success, but many have been surprised by its Mercury nomination. None more so than Sunday Times critic Mick Heaney - he claimed that not only do many Brits not know much about her (no one at work in Belfast had remotely heard of Gemma, and it was only on the bus back home that I found someone remotely interested) but her album was not "new" enough, too obviously influenced by alternative rock. I don't see that as a handicap though. This "influence" may be noticeable sometimes, but her songs do have a certain freshness to them, especially in the lyrics department. Besides, it's a style that's likely to win over many new fans. Yet to be honest, I was actually quite divided on Night On My Side before last night. My opinion was that the first six songs are brilliant but then it kind of meanders after that. Four of those first six songs were in the line up: Hanging Around (probably her most famous song, and a very good one at that), Back Of My Hand (a very catchy and upbeat love song which everyone should almost certainly love), Let A Good Thing Go (here, she ventures into heavy metal territory, and with considerable success. The crowd seemed to love this one more than the others; she even let us sing one line. Admittedly it was deafening, but then that's the idea) and Ran For Miles (slow, but pleasant). Sometimes she wandered into the land of strangeness. Before the song Lucky One, she said "It works best if you close your eyes and pretend you're a bird". Huh?! Nevertheless, I tried it - it was effective, sort of. Ironically, the song is subtitled Bird Of Casadaga, so I shouldn't have been too surprised about that comment. There was also a song called I Can't Find Love ("Awww!" cried many of the fans, until she told them it was about a friend of hers). She did three encores; 4.35 a.m., Tear In My Side and Evening Sun. The first two were pleasant to listen to, and the final song was especially moving. The only complaint that I have is that the concert was too short. At the end, there was a real feeling of anticlimax, and there was no merchandise to collect. Still, you can't have everything, and the concert as a whole is probably the second best one I've seen (behind Belle & Sebastian). I doubt that I was the only one who felt it was all over too soon. Take care all, Psi __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ruby_flux at xxx.com Sun Sep 22 17:08:51 2002 From: ruby_flux at xxx.com (kate cusack) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:08:51 +0000 Subject: Sinister: new to glasgow Message-ID: hey kiddies, sorry about the list abusey nature of this email - i've lurked on the list of a couple of years but am making my debut for un-b&s reasons (selfish ones at that). i moved to glasgow from australia about a month ago with my best bud and her boyfriend, and i'm starting to get depressed that my daily fun starts and ends with a viewing of 'flog it' while they're working. so basically this is a desperate plea for some glaswegians to take me/us under their knowledgable wings and show us the yays and nays of the city. any offers would be muchly appreciated! contact me off the list at ruby_flux at hotmail.com or on my mobile: 07811696811 cheers! luv kate _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From cheesebunhead at xxx.uk Sun Sep 22 17:53:02 2002 From: cheesebunhead at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?eric=20the=20half=20a=20bee?=) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:53:02 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Norwich, anyone? Message-ID: <20020922165302.98698.qmail@web10303.mail.yahoo.com> Heya, I haven't written to you all in quite a while, mostly because I was quite busy finishing school. Nothing interesting has happened anyway, apart from B&S releasing Storytelling. That was quite good. Anyway, are there any sinisterites in Norwich that might like to show me around or get a coffee? All I've seen of Norwich so far, really, is the union bar, and that's not good enough for me. Cheers, Eric __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From javiersson at xxx.com Sun Sep 22 18:39:52 2002 From: javiersson at xxx.com (Javier Garcia) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:39:52 +0000 Subject: Sinister: =?iso-8859-1?B?U2FsdWRvcyBkZXNkZSBFc3Bh8WEh?= Message-ID: Hi Sinisters! My name is Javier, and this is my first post. I just wanted to introduce myself, and give a short-but-interesting review of B&S's concert at Benicássim. Well, as you guess from reading the subject I am spanish. I joined the list about three weeks ago, and since I haven´t read any post from Spain. Is there any spanish sinister on the list? (other than me, obviously ;-) I remember there was a girl studying swedish. Well, I've been learning swedish too. I really like, and there's a lot of interesting music sang in swedish. If you want to know some bands just ask me. I know the state of the swedish scene ;-) At last, my short review. The concert was held in Benicássim (Spain), the 2nd of August. There were 15 musicians on stage (the band and a string arrangement), and the sound was pretty good! They invited some girls to the scene, and even Monica was there to sing "Lazy Line Painter Jane"!!! Simply great!! The whole concert was brodcasted by Radio 3 (the "pop station" of the spanish national radio), and I got a copy of it. So if you are interested in trading, just write back (it's the only thing I have to share, at the moment) and we'll try to do something. Well, I think that's all. Best regads to all of you! //Javier ----------------------------------------------- "Make a new cult everyday to suit your affairs" _________________________________________________________________ Charle con sus amigos online usando MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From matt at xxx.uk Sun Sep 22 19:27:13 2002 From: matt at xxx.uk (Matt) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:27:13 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Yeah, Norwich? Message-ID: <20020922182713.LCKZ25864.fep08-svc.ttyl.com@localhost> Just returned to Norwich after a year in leeds doing an MSc. But i am returning to Leeds for one week to move worldly goods back to Norwich. But glad to show anyone round this 'Fine City' when I return next Monday. In the meantime places to checkout, St. benedicts street, you've got Sounclash records for new stuff and Circular Sounds by the pelican crossing for second hand records (buy and sell), there's also The Arts Centre (NAC), I'd pick up a programme as there's a bit going on there too. Indie gigs are generally put on by a group of people calling themselves Wombat Wombat. They have a web site - probably www.wombatwombat.co.uk or something? They put gigs on at The Ferryboat on Kings Street which is near The Waterfront on Kings Street which also put on gigs, but not by Wombat wombat. Wombat wombat also put gigs on at the Arts Centre. Another place, although I've never been to it myself is the Underground club which is held on the last Thursday of each month in Mojo's down Prince of Wales street/road on the way down to the station. The lead singer from Kaito spins the records evidently. Playing music like BS2000, Pavement, Belle and Sebastian, The Pastels, The Pixies and similar. there is a poster on the window. I presume that there will be on of the evenings this coming thursday given it's the end of the month. As for bands to check out: Magoo, PostaLowa, Kaito, Bearsuit, Fiel Garvie and others... Matt www.spiteful.i12.com _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From municipalpool at xxx.com Sun Sep 22 19:37:48 2002 From: municipalpool at xxx.com (patrick doyle) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:37:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: "I'm going overboard, with a capital, Oh" Message-ID: Hey ho sinister So my friends have left for uni and I�m stuck at K.G.S for another year. A year without the people who share my crappy sense of humour, and childish sarcasm, a year sharing a common room with stinky boy racers and self obsessed girls, who seem to be constantly straightening their hair. It didn�t look so bad when Jenna was still at school, my best friend for goodness knows how long, who took about as much shit from the others in my year as I do. Fair enough, I chose to have friends in the year above me, and pretty much distanced myself from the people of my year completely � forgetting that they would, inevitably, have to leave for uni at some point. I always assumed, however, that Jenna would be there till the end � so you can imagine my dismay when she announced, somewhat out of the blue, that she was going off to study at uni in Aberdeen, thus leaving me with my, you-won�t-get-into-uni-with-those, grades from last year. So there we have it, having isolated myself from my year group entirely, I had gone from having the best friends into the world, to having little, or no friends at all. This has meant a lot more use of my minidisc player, and hence, and increase in battery usage (note to self: buy rechargeable batteries). Because I used to use Jenna�s cable for recording my minidiscs, I now have no means of recording new ones until I can be bothered to get a myself cable, although I cleverly used my last few days with the use of her cable to make some compilations, which should keep me going for a wee while ;) Having no friends to talk to also means I have had more time to read, although this is something we are not allowed to do in the common room, as the common room is used to listen to dance music and talk about cars (sigh) and the library won�t let me listen to my minidisc player...what�s a boy to do? I have started trumpet lessons, and have had four so far, I have mastered the funeral march (always useful), and can do the trumpet part from the Wrong Girl quite well � one day I�ll be as good as Mick.... they refused to give me lessons at school, so I had to bribe someone to teach me in their free time � and it worked. Hmm, so tomorrow is the start of a new school week Monday�s minidiscs shall be �the Ramones � Pleasant Dreams -Belle and Sebastian � Tigermilk -the Smiths � Meat is Murder and a Hoagy Carmichael compilation (great) cheerio Patrick x _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From fbrito at xxx.br Sun Sep 22 20:57:08 2002 From: fbrito at xxx.br (Fernando Brito) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:57:08 -0300 Subject: Sinister: Party party party... party all the time Message-ID: Sinister! So.... Last thursday I went to this party. They only played old songs, lots of b-sides of famous brazilian artists from the 70s, some of them kinda kitsch, although it was quite good music. But it was mainly brazilian music, no reason for comments about it in this list. But what was more noticeable about that party was the level of liberalization of the use of drugs. You know, if you want to do drugs in a party it must be something that noone can see you doing... some "toilet-drug". In the end you never know how many people are really stoned in a party, or just drunk. But now people are smoking joints among waiters and doormen, and they don't mind at all! Not that I'm complaining, but... I mean... this is strange, isn't it?! And I went to another party last night... weird party! It was like a selection of the worst songs in the last 20 years! And people loved it. And I loved it too! It was weird but it was fun! Speaking of bad songs... I don't know if this is happening only here in Brazil, but now we have a wave of revivals, everywhere you go they play all those kitsch hits from the past, songs that once made me want to puke (and everyone else with the slightest good taste), are now "good" music and people dance it like they had always liked it! And in fact I too dance and act this way! What the hell is going on?! The world is turning upside down or what?! You see, even this pulling thing is inverting. It seems like girls are now more "active" than blokes! Last night it wasn't me who pulled a girl, but a girl who pulled me! And she wasn't even drunk... I guess! And she wasn't ugly either! I know... I never pull girls because I'm too shy... but now it seems that it won't be a problem anymore! How weird is that?! Well, actually... How great is that?! For a shy guy like me, it's WONDERFUL!! But I'm still worried about where this subversion wave is going to take us... the way things are going I think I'll have to move to Afghanistan! I went to another party last saturday, not yesterday, the other saturday (yeah, it's way behind now, it's not news anymore, I know...). It was Ana's birthday. I have already told you about Ana, she's from Sinister, that's how I met her. She never posts! Good party, more weird people and stuff. I managed to break a table in her aunt's house, where the party took place, and also almost killed two guys... but it was cool anyway! I don't know if I should write this here... erm... I hope Carl Brown won't to get mad at me! It's just that Flora told me that she went to the B&S's Rome gig and met Carl Brown there. She said he's a very nice, inteligent guy, etc... but when she told me his name it reminded me a chocolat drink we used to have here called Brown Cow! You know, Carl Brown - Brown Cow... Oh, boy... how silly is that?! Sorry, Carl! Possibly you think my name is a hundred times funnier than yours! Ok. I have to say something about Belle and Sebastian, right? Well... then... let's see... oh yeah! Good idea the Q&A section! I have a long list of things I wanted to know, maybe now... Although our shallow needs for gossipy stuff will certainly not be fulfilled this way... I guess we'll still have to keep checking the Sun's headlines to find something new about them everyday! Ok. That's all for now... Just wanted to say one thing to Caitlin: Caitlin, you're not alone. Surely not. And Arik, I know how you're feeling. Actually I felt sort of the same way last night. It would be easy for me now to tell you what to do, to tell you to say "fuck her", etc, but I won't, simply because I myself never do that. I always do the same thing you do, and always feel the same way. And I'm tired of listening to people come and tell me things like "you have to play the game", "do the same things she does" and so on... I don't do that. I can't. I just get home after hanging out with her and go to bed feeling like a piece of shit or something and even wish I had a gun to blow my head. Fortunatelly I don't have a gun, and I wouldn't have the guts anyway... It's just drunkenness, and in the next morning it's gone. Kisses and hugs, Fernando +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From adevens at xxx.edu Mon Sep 23 05:18:18 2002 From: adevens at xxx.edu (adevens at xxx.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:18:18 US/Eastern Subject: Sinister: um important scotland question and some more about last night Message-ID: <200209230918.g8N9IIC11785@college.antioch-college.edu> hey, so i'm alot better, thanks to everyone who's written or said something. i went over to some friends of mine's house and we talked for a long time and then they went with me to the concert that i was supposed to go to with the girl and she was there but i just pretended i didn't care and was friendly to her but spent my time with my friends. interestingly enough the person who was weirdest to me was the girl who had invited me to the party, very strange indeed anyway we are done, she is back with her ex and i am leaving and i don't really care much anymore, as morrissey said i'm not happy and i'm not sad but that all brings me to the point of this, hopefully nicer email, which is that i am coming to scotland, which many of you already know, and i am coming a week from tuesday + the day it takes to get there, which means i will be in edinburgh on wednesday october 2nd so.... i am going to glasgow eventually but i have to be in edinburgh for a few days (1 to 3) doing orientation and stuff and i was hoping that someone on this list could let me sleep on there couch or what have you cause hostels are expensive and scary and i'm nice and not scary, if someone could i can pay for whatever and promise to be out in really 3 days at the most also, i'm coming to glasgow for a few months and i am certainly going to get a place to live but if anyone can let me sleep on a couch there for a few days while i get a place that would also be great, i promise to be out of your way as quickly as humanly possible thanks all, and even if you don't have a place i can stay i would love to meet you and i promise to try my best not to be shy arik p.s. sorry for two off-topic posts in two days, honey you can kill me in person when i get to edinburgh :-) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pykachu100 at xxx.com Tue Sep 24 15:50:26 2002 From: pykachu100 at xxx.com (Kenneth P Y Chu) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:50:26 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Songs for idiots (round 1) Message-ID: Any of the nine people in the studio here today could win up to ten-thousand pounds. They don't know each other, however, if they want the prize money, they'll have to work as a team, but! eight of them will leave with nothing, as round-by-round, we lose the player voted... THE WEAKEST LINK! Welcome, to THEWEAKESTLINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... Let's meet the team. DUM! Hi my name is Stuart and I sing in a world-touring pop band. Hi my name is Stevie and I play guitar and sometimes sing in a world-touring pop band Hi my name is Mick and I play trumpet and bass in a world-touring pop band. Hi my name is Sarah and I play violin and sometimes sing in a world-touring pop band. Hi my name is Richard and I play drums in a world-touring pop band. Hi my name is Chris and I play keyboard in a world-touring pop band. Hi my name is Bob and I play guitar and bass in a world-touring pop band. Hi.. my ..name is Isobel and I used to .. * isobel catches breath play cello and some... times sing in a world-touring pop band. *Isobel catches breath Hi my name is Peacock Johnson and you are all bawbags. In each round, the aim is to answer enough questions correctly to reach your thousand-pound-target within the time-limit. The fastest way is to create a chain of nine correct answers, get your question wrong and you break the chain and lose all the money in that chain, but if you say "Bank!" before your question is asked, the money is safe, however, you start a new question from scratch. Remember - at the end of the round, only money that has been banked can be taken forward. We'll start with the person whose name is first alphabetically, and that's Bob, let's play.... The Weakest Link! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM! Bob, what is the capital of Northen Ireland? Belfast! Correct! Isobel, what 'H' is the term used to The apparent intersection of the earth and sky as seen by an observer? Beyond the Sunrise! Er.. NO! The correct answer is Horizon. Peacock, if someone describes you as being on the Sinister side, which side would you be on? Freaky. No, the answer's the left side. Stuart, what are the answers to the clues to the treasure hunt? not telling ya. No, that isn't the correct answer. Stevie, in the book of bible 1 Samuel, how did Jonathan, the son of King Saul and friend of King David, die? He fell off his wooden horse for two. No, he died in battle, Mick, what is the name of the chemical that has the formula C9H13N and is sometimes used as a central nervous system stimulant? Amphetaminies! No, the correct answer is Amphetamine. Sarah, named the season that should come next in the following logical sequence: spring, winter, and what? Morning. It's AUTUMN! Richard, during one of the songs by Squeeze, everybody told the singer that it's cool to be a what kind of domestic pet? Cat! Correct! Chris, what word can come after both the following words: Jumping, and Baked? Beans! Correct! Bank! Bob.. wha.. DUM.. DUM... DUM DUM! The time is up, and you have managed to bank a PATHETIC �50 pounds, who puts the Trash in Trashcan Sinatras, the Bellend in Belle and Sebastian? It's time to VOTE OFF, the WEAKEST LINK! Statistically, Bob is the strongest link, having banked money and answer all his questions correctly, Isobel is the weakest link, having answered all her questions incorrectly and lost the team the most money, but will the voting follow the facts? Time's up... it's time to reveal who you think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM! -------------------- (...To be continued) Ken _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From JENOWL22 at xxx.com Tue Sep 24 17:30:43 2002 From: JENOWL22 at xxx.com (JENOWL22 at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:30:43 EDT Subject: Sinister: Girl pop never stop Message-ID: <166.14599452.2ac1ed33@aol.com> Hewwo, Well my preparations for being at uni are almost complete. I am ready to rock and roll armed with my Dangermouse folder and my Hello Kitty student planner to go and learn stuff and hopefully avoid liver failure and STI's and all the other things that I've been told to watch out for by the 6million student survival guides I've been sent which are basically just one page of "yeeah you're a student go get ratarsed and steal a traffic cone" and ten pages of adverts for bank accounts. Not that I can get an overdraft anyway. I went into the bank a few weeks ago to ask for one and they laughed at me cause i was 16. But a radical change has happened since then. Oh yes. I have become 17. And what a bizarre birthday it was, involving death and mental breakdown all round. But I did acquire a massive (!) Resident Evil poster for my wall. The zombies are coming. I didn't believe it at first but they really really are. That's why I hope my room at uni isn't on the ground floor cause then it would be harder for them to get in through the window. I wonder if I'd be allowed to keep a chainsaw in my room, just in case. Prolly not. So also I wanted to ask: does anyone who lives in Dundee know of anything good to do/places to see hip and out there pop bands/vegan places to eat? Cause if you do I'd be super grateful. I was trying to explain the sex appeal of Serge Gainsbourg to my friend but it was hard because he is very very ugly, but very very very scrummy at the same time. Maybe it's cause he's got the whole sleazy french thing going on. We'll never know. Whenever people ask my name and I say Jen they always call me Jane. Maybe I should get a new name. Like Jenny-Lou for when I feel inbred. I got Storytelling thanks to Melissa so big fat hugs and a mix tape is in the process. It's swell you know, but Night Walk sounds like the bit in Final Fantasy 7 where you're outside Aeris' adoptive mum's house. I think. Anyway I really have to go now, because I have many interesting tasks to complete in my cartoon life. Hugs, Jen(ny-Lou) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From shiplore at xxx.com Tue Sep 24 19:50:00 2002 From: shiplore at xxx.com (Jeff Burke) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:50:00 -0400 Subject: Sinister: More whine, vicar? Message-ID: Has anyone out there on sinister heard from Caitlin Pigtails since here last list message? it was very sad... and I want to know that her mind is in an okay place... ship. _________________________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From jason.cochrane at xxx.com Tue Sep 24 18:58:17 2002 From: jason.cochrane at xxx.com (jason.cochrane at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:58:17 -0400 Subject: Sinister: You bawl like the baby in Eraserhead Message-ID: <2F96BE4C7CC6D211A55F0008C7A4397604F1E8E7@OHSC-EX4> Hullo sinisters it's been a while.... a very long while... So how is everyone?... I'd like to say that I've been keeping tabs but really I have no idea. School has started again... and yet again I am couped up in a cubicle watching life pass me by through my window. They always told me "drop out and you'll never go back" and they were probably right. It's too hard to walk away from the bling bling if you know what I mean. Could I go back to buying records every other week from buying them every day? Could I sell my car and television set for a new life of futons and pita's.... i'd like to think so... but we all know that it won't happen. Things are good these days.. if not a bit confusing. An ex girl has pushed the next girl from my mind... but sadly she won't consider me further. Which is killing me... It's like she's purposely messing with my mind... which wouldn't be all that surprising considering all that I've done to her in the past... distant past but who knows how long these grudges last. She's constantly telling me that she would marry me... or that she loves me... etc etc. But if I try to initiate something towards getting together... I'm shut down... she doesn't call me for a week.. Oh well, like the man says.. "you're still a young man baby". Anyone feeling old Tower of Power these days? hehehe I DJ'd a very cool party last weekend in London(Ontario... keepin it real b), I was all over the map and nobody seemed to care, they danced to anything, I did ridiculous jumps in genre and mood, I was so drunk I put on anything that came into my mind. i love house parties... i played the Dead Kennedy's Too Drunk to fuck and followed it with Band on the Run... a couple ironic hipsters thought it was a well executed joke and told me so.... but they understood it all much better when I attempted to string a sentence together. I even played Legal Man(how's that for content) to the applause of one shy girl in the corner.... I made sure I got her number... I wonder if she gave me the right one.... considering the state I was in. So any listee's in Toronto these days? I've never actually met anyone from Sinister before... but I had a close call once. Anyway... I'm all over the place.. so if you go to a university somewhere in southern Ontario, you can be sure that at some point I will be there... unless it's queens... I dont' have any friends there and what's in Kingston anyway? So a drop me a line... we can go catch some dinner or something. Well I guess I better get back to work, have a nice day, Jason +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From velocity_girl_is at xxx.uk Wed Sep 25 14:02:35 2002 From: velocity_girl_is at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?velocity=20farewell?=) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:02:35 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: paRadise iS foR the bLesseD noT foR tHe sEx-oBsesSed... Message-ID: <20020925130235.30482.qmail@web10007.mail.yahoo.com> Hello the sinister, How are you all? it's been a while... a long while... I wonder what's been happening to all my friends, the ones i've not been in touch lately... so many things have happened, so many things have changed... From London and with a ticket for Glasgow - where i was supposed to move in with Ruvi and Paul and later on, StayC - i ended up with a ticket for thessaloniki, greece, on the same day i was supposed to be on the plane to glasgow; instead of flying north we were flying south... We looked at each other, Ruvi and I, smiled and held hands.... it'd be alright, we'd be fine... we came back here, pennyless, dissapointed, but optimistic nevertheless... we had each other and my job at the university was still waiting for me due to some schemes of mine... What we hadn't taken in mind was the tricks life plays sometimes, all these turns... we're coping though... I came back to work here and Ruvi's going to teach english and go to the uni here... spooky-the-dog is very happy in our new house overlooking the river and she's going to have puppies since we found the right husband for her... I still ride on my scooter everyday to come to work, listening to music and observing people as i ride by them... Belle and Sebastian played in Athens... we didn't make it as we couldn't really afford it and i wasn't well enough to go all the way to athens... unfortunately, as from what i've heard it was a bloody amazing gig! I don't know... my most fave gig is still the one in RAH even tho some people might not agree... mmm I was thinking today as i was riding here that there are some great houses in Volos... an old house with ochre painted walls and dark green windows... beautiful... I was thinking of Idles' post... I liked it... it was honest and touching, especially if you're a girl since every girl i know has been through an ordeal like that at least once in her life... I was thinking of Sally Moore... HaPPy BiRthDay SaLLy!!! Belated, i know, but happy many returns nevertheless!! I was thinking of Elena and how we've drifted away through distance and some stupid misunderstandings... I love Elena... I was thinking of the PF and that i'm missing his posts... where are you the PineFox? I've been missing you... I was thinking of daddyMoore and his posts... I was thinking of StayC and that she's finally made it to Glasgae... I hope you're all settled my StayC and you'll visit us so we can RaP together again my hommie, ghetto bitch, man!! I was thinking of IF, my most fave film and how this magazine - how is it called, i forgot - this music magazine anyway, had an article about it and about the whole trilogy: If, Oh Lucky Man, and Hospital Brittania! Who'd have expected that! You know how you feel once one of your most favourite things, that you thought only you and some other few knew and loved, gets all this attention and publicity... you feel robbed... I saw that bloke at the street the other day and thought it was Robert B.! where are you Rob? I was thinking of Carey and that "when your life is kits you're a PUNKA"... my Carey's hits, though, don't miss... but she's still a PUNKA!!P-U-N-K-A- And I'm thinking that I owe Paulie an email so i'd better bugger off and go write to him... sorry my Paulie-Canelloni! Ok... I'd better go now... HoNeY!! I bloody MISS YOU!!! I'll call soon... take care the lot of you... and remember, Autumn is the best season of All... Vel xxx "the new creation will rise from the ruins of the old world", IsidoR Isou "WaR is the last possible cReative act", Mick Travis, "IF" __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pykachu100 at xxx.com Wed Sep 25 16:20:17 2002 From: pykachu100 at xxx.com (Kenneth P Y Chu) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:20:17 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Songs for idiots (round 2) Message-ID: (Previously, on Belle and Sebastian on the Weakest link...) Time's up... it's time to reveal who you think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM! --- Isobel Peacock Peacock Peacock Peacock Peacock Peacock Peacock Cunts Stevie, have you ever been to church? No I spend too much time at the playground. No time for going to a hair-stylist's then? I go to the same one as you Anne. I doubt that.. So stuart Yes Anne Why Isobel? She won't send me, anymore! Riiight... Isobel, can you spell the word "Beyond" for me? B.. E.. *isobel catches breath Y.. DOES THAT BEGIN WITH AN "H" ISOBEL? ..no Anne. Why peacock? He got all of his answers wrong I believe. And you got all of yours right did you? Well I can't vote for myself can I? Well, statistically, Isobel you were the weakest link but Peacock, it seems that everyone wanted to get rid of you, and it's the votes that count so you ARE the weakest link GOODBYE. *Peacock does the walk of shame, with two fingers stuck up in the air (..Inside interview room) Buncha cheatin' cunts, when I get my hands on those fuckin' retards I'm gonna ##censored## them up the ##censored## with my ##censored##. (..Back to studio) Round two, you have so far managed to bank �50 in your kitty, we're now going to take 10 seconds off the clock, I'll start with the strongest link from the last round, and that's Bob. Let's play... THEWEAKESTLINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... start the clock. DUM DUM! Bob, the Naval Cruiser launched on St. Patrick's Day in March 1938 that served in the second World War, but is now a part of the Imperial War Museum on the River Thames is named HMS what? Belfast! Correct! Isobel, what is the family name of Napoleon? Smith! No the correct answer's Bonaparte. Stuart, what are the answers to the clues to the treasure hunt? Not telling ya. No, that isn't the correct answer. Stevie, in Mathematics what is the term used to describe the greatest natural number that can exactly divide two or more given numbers? Chickfactor? No, the answer is Highest Common Factor, Mick, the slang term used to describe someone sticking out his tongue and blowing out a sound is known as blowing a what? Trumpet! er.. Raspberry! Sarah, on the Equator, the sun rises from exactly which direction? Behind my shoulder! Eaaast! Richard.. Bank! What word in the dictionary can mean either "to compress" or "one's romantic partner" and uses both of the two highest valued letters in the game of Scrabble? Squeeze! Correct! Chris, in computing, portable, platform-independent component models written in the Java programming language are sometimes known as Java-what? Beans! Correct! Bob.. Bank! What is the ... DUM... DUM... DUM DUM That was the end of round two, after getting rid of who was allegedly the weakest link, you STILL ONLY managed to bank �50 pounds, who is one syllable short of a pretentious wank post-rock band title? who has got more bum than brain? It's time to VOTE OFF, the WEAKEST LINK! Bob is once again the strongest link and Isobel is again the weakest link, but will she survive the voting for the second time? Time's up, it's time to reveal who YOU think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM! --- (to be continued...) Ken _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From bellezc at xxx.com Thu Sep 26 12:38:43 2002 From: bellezc at xxx.com (zoe charaktinou) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:38:43 +0000 Subject: Sinister: a hello to all :) Message-ID: hello all!!! I think it's time for me to write again after aaaalll this time. Anyway, I finally read THAT Sinister questionnaire...thank you Miss Llew!!! OK...history repeating and once again I'm in another city and I had just discovered an EXCELLENT night for all you Brummies -and not!- out there.. Anyway for all of you who live in the UK. I know this is horrible but please it's worth it! Every Thursday at The Chameleon Bar in Ludgate Hill (I think), St. Paul's Square (for sure), THIS IS NORMAL, 9pm-1am. GO GO GO!!!!The people who organise this are excellent and unfortunately not many people know of it and it's such a shame because they might not be able to continue for long. I had the best time in a bar in the UK ince I came here 3 years ago..for further detals go to www.thisisnormal.co.uk and read their playlist-which OF COURSE- includes B&S and YES!!! they did play B&S when I went there because THEY ALWAYS DO SO!!!!! They are the first EVER people in the UK since I came who actually played B&S. And OH YES!!! I danced to it...so there! AAAAAAAAAAANYAWY!!! LEEDS HERE I COME... I have finished the first degree, yes I am a BAHONS now and I am moving on to do an MA this year in Leeds University. I live in a little old flat behind the Leeds Uni Business School-for those who know- and I pay �400 ^&*(*%$*(!@ for just 2 rooms-bedroom/kitchen...sniffles... so...i am all alone here-i probably shouldn't say that but...- and I was wandering if there are any Sinister people here in Leeds- which is Tropical in its own way... Not being poetic or anything, these were my news... Lots of love and sinister kisses... Z ----------------------------------------------- " Passivity in life, in politics, is problematic: it means acquiescing to a status quo that damages people along class,gender, racial, sexual and other lines." R. Dyer _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From bellezc at xxx.com Thu Sep 26 12:54:55 2002 From: bellezc at xxx.com (zoe charaktinou) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:54:55 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A concise dictionary/assistant/HELP! to my ramblings... Message-ID: hi...again...you know...I just read what I had written...I am so silly at times...I never re-read my mails and I just noticed that I wrote : "I know this is horrible but please it's worth it!" What was I thinking??? (ehem...) Anyway, what I meant to say was that I know I shouldn't really 'promote' things on the list but the THIS IS NORMAL people could do with our help because they are not a fancy goup of djs they just want to listen to some good music and they want to play some good music and it's very sad that so few people know about their gigs in a big city like Birmingham.... Also, this: "I had the best time in a bar in the UK ince I came here 3 years ago." meant that their gig was so good that it's the firts time after three years of living in the UK that I had such a great time in a bar/club/pub... these are all the points that were problematic from what i have noticed but anyway who am i to say what's ok since i wrote the previous email in the first place. I'll go now.. bye.. z ----------------------------------------------- " Passivity in life, in politics, is problematic: it means acquiescing to a status quo that damages people along class,gender, racial, sexual and other lines." R. 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From javiersson at xxx.com Thu Sep 26 13:53:28 2002 From: javiersson at xxx.com (Javier Garcia) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:53:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A question about B & S.... Message-ID: Hi my dear Sinisters...., I have a question for you all! Has any member of the band joined the list? By the way, did you know that Isobel left the band? :-( A great loss, I think... Well, that's all by now. Take care and, please, listen to (at least) one B&S song every day. That will probably make this world a bit better. Regards, //Javier ------------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________________________ Charle con sus amigos online usando MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From geoff_sheridan at xxx.uk Thu Sep 26 14:40:11 2002 From: geoff_sheridan at xxx.uk (Geoff Sheridan) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:40:11 +0100 Subject: Sinister: A question about B & S.... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Questions about belle and sebastian are off-topic for this list. But just this once... >I have a question for you all! Has any member of the band joined the list? Mick Cooke used to be on the list, mostly to promote his piss-poor Ska band, The Amphetameanies. Ain't seen much of him lately. And no, I haven't ever heard them. >By the way, did you know that Isobel left the band? Yes I did hear this. My eyes still well up whenever I hear 'Beyond the Sunrise' > :-( A great loss, I think... Not so. The band have decided to replace her voice on tour by feeding ferrets tail-first through a mangle. So in fact the aural experience should be about 16.3% richer. >Well, that's all by now. Take care and, please, listen to (at least) >one B&S song every day. That will probably make this world a bit >better. Indeed. What I would give to have a time machine - I'd go back to 1934 and play young Adolf 'Dirty Dream #3'. Perhaps if we all listen to more B&S records now, then fewer of us will turn out to be ruthless dictators. g __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! 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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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From shannonjeanmaney at xxx.com Thu Sep 26 16:23:37 2002 From: shannonjeanmaney at xxx.com (shanny jean) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:23:37 -0500 Subject: Sinister: jeepers creepers Message-ID: so, the other day i visited the doctor. she told me to return when i was no longer in my Woman's Season for a pelvic exam. she is sort of like the american-woman-doctor version of the crocodile hunter, except she is mellow and looks for "ovarian cysts" instead of "wild crocs." same difference. i am very very nervous about having tools shoved up my uteral cavity. actually, i am very very very nervous. i keep imagining that i get there, spread 'em, and the following occurs. DOC: (in a horrible austrailian accent) Holy crap! Would you take a look at that one! (she reaches in (up?), and pulls.) SHANNY: Ow. DOC: Well... ummm... SHANNY: . DOC: I think we're gonna have to remove it. SHANNY: ...is it really that bad? DOC: Well. Umm. Yes. (pulls out a chainsaw. that's okay, though, because it's Pink and says "Gentle" on it.) SHANNY: !!!! DOC: (Pulls chainsaw cord.) CHAINSAW: Vroooooom! SHANNY!: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAINSAW: SHANNY!!!: @!!!!!!!!!!^!!!%#&)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!### DOC: There we go! (Turns off chainsaw...) CHAINSAW: awww... (gentle) DOC: (...reaches into my cavity. pulls out a Tricylcle.) SHANNY: >!< DOC: (nonchalantly) That'll do it! No wonder you felt strange! SHANNY: (a bit sore) (rides tricycle home, dinging the little bell all the way.) i am not a healthy girl. poo poo. love, shanny jean _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pykachu100 at xxx.com Thu Sep 26 18:13:23 2002 From: pykachu100 at xxx.com (Kenneth P Y Chu) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:13:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Songs for idiots (round 3) Message-ID: (Previously, on Belle and Sebastian on the Weakest link...) Time's up, it's time to reveal who YOU think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM! Isobel Stuart Sarah Mick Stevie Sarah Mick Richard DUM! We have a two way tie team... Stuart! Yes Anne. Why Isobel? Well, It's because grrr I think I'm WAK-ING UP TO US!! ahh... so not voting in the interest of the team then? Isobel, why Richard??? Hehehehe he tried to bank when there was no money, and that's so silly!! hehe. But he answered all his questions correctly! how many questions do you think you've got right Isobel? hehe.. None. Correct!! Well at least you can count! I did Chemistry Biology and Maths Anne. Did you have a calculator then when you were in school? Yes Anne. Did you buy it from WH Bonaparte?? No Anne. Maybe you should have studied History instead. Well, when the votes are tied, the strongest link has to cast the deciding vote, so Bob, who do you want to get rid of? I have to stick with my original vote really so it's gonna be Mick. Well Mick, it seems that Bob doesn't like you very much, you ARE the weakest link GOODBYE! * Mick does the walk of shame, blowing a raspberry at the camera (..Inside interview room) Ahh, if I were sittin' at home I would have answered that question right straight away, but I just couldn't think when Anne was staring right at me. Ack well I guess I won't be blowing my own trumpet in front of my friends for a while aye. (..Back to studio) Round three, over two rounds you have managed to bank the PITIFUL �100 out of the possible �2000, and we're taking a further 10 seconds off the clock and we'll start with the strongest link from the last round, and that's Bob. Let's PLAY.. THEWEAKESTLINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... Start the clock DUM DUM! Bob, Queen's University is situated in which city in Northern Ireland? Belfast! Correct! Isobel. Scott Joplin was a famous composer of a particular kind of music known as Rag-what? Rags that make me pretty by design! No the correct answer is Ragtime. Stuart, what are the answers to the clues to the treasure hunt? Not telling ya. No, that isn't the correct answer. Stevie, in music production, what is the term used to describe the sound effect created by continuous echo? Reverb! Cor-rect! Sarah, if there is a train B that always leaves a train station exactly 10 minutes after train A, then if the time now is 8:30am and train A is due to leave in 20 minutes, at what time will train B be leaving? It won't be leaving for a while. No, the answer is 9am. Richard, which Squeeze single was released in March 1979 and was the first Squeeze single to have reached #2 on UK charts, held off the number 1 spot only by Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes? Cool for Cats! Correct! Chris Bank! The actor Rowan Atkinson played the character of a strange man in a hit TV series and a movie of the same title, the character in question is called Mr what? Beans! The answer is Mr Bean, but I'll accept Beans. Bob.. DUM... DUM... DUM DUM The time is up, and in that round you have beaten your own SPECTACULAR record LOW by banking only �20 pounds. Who is witless in Seattle? Who is the lord of the dunce? Team, I URGE you to VOTE OFF the WEAKEST LINK. In this round Chris was the strongest link, having banked the most money. For the third round in a row, Isobel was the weakest link, but will the voting follow the facts? Time's up, it's time to reveal who YOU think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM --- (..to be continued) Ken _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From purpletrousers at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 02:41:58 2002 From: purpletrousers at xxx.com (jim taylor) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 02:41:58 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Content, of the Political variety + London-centric Message-ID: Please read the below quote from http://www.banchory.net/belleandsebastian/180902.html , or skip it if you - as i expect - have been to the B&S website recently... from: Stuart's Diary 16th September 2002 - athens & rome "Brian (lighting, philosophy, Ranger's fan) suggested that if Britain went to war on Iraq, he was going to leave the country as the only thing he could do to prove that he in no way supported what was happening. I could see his point. It would be a complete sickener. Who the hell do we think we are? The five permanent members of the security council have already split the Iraqui oil share between them, pending a new US friendly Iraqui government. Makes you want to sell your car as well. They can keep their stinking oil. Well, they can wait till I've sold Max then they can keep it. I'd feel like getting out of here aswell if we go to war. Trouble is, I'd probably fancy going to New York or somewhere. And there's the lazy hypocrisy. America, great place, but run by a load of tossers. Come on, spread the wealth! And Europe is definitely as bad. Or would be if the world paid as much attention to it. I mean, I'm sure they're not all tossers if you met them, politicians that is, but really, they are all so mean! Nobody is prepared to give an inch. It's like, you take a decent person and put them in a car, they start to act sometimes in a way towards others which they would never do if they were walking down the street. Put someone in charge of a country and it's the same thing. They'd do to a million people on the other side of the world in a stroke what they would consider barbarous if they just met someone in the street, or in the pub or something. I don't know if I'm making great sense here.." until now, i missed big stu referencing this http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200209/msg00045.html, as i've been mainly off-line, away to America. Fact: this was the first time Iraq has been referenced on sinister since May, when Dean said http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200205/msg00283.html "dubya just itching to get into Iraq for ignoring the UN, developing weapons of mass destruction, appropriating money away from health and welfare towards a huge military machine and refusing to allow inspectors to examine their chemical weapons. Certainly not charges you could accuse the US of. hmmmmmm." he followed that with an apology to Americans, also commenting that this is not the place for such stuff. Well, i do neither, as, with careful consideration, i do not feel the need to. reason 2) This is a B&S + B&S lifestyle list. B&S are political as i have commented briefly before. ( http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200005/msg00035.html ) It's not why i love them, and it appears i still do after all these years, but it is what i expect of them. reason 1) I just flew (glossing over enviroment-damaging hypocrisies) back from the US, not my first visit. I like a lot about the US. It seems to be a true meritocracy, *unlike* the UK and many other places. It is many things. I am simultaneously ashamed and proud about things British, and would be the same if i were an American. The list didn't ignore 9/11, and neither should/could it. Neither should it ignore what is going on in the world around us, particularly when we have crucial opportunities to influence this. I do not ask or expect others to agree with me. I do not suggest polticisation of the list. I'd hate that. But there are certain things i have to do, to be myself. One of these is remind/inform you of saturday's demo. I'd happily make this a walking pic-nic should anybody care to join me. I'm confident that if one more body from this list (after it's owners mind has of course carefully considered the issues and decided it aligned) chose to put itself on the street to display opposition to the threatened military action (and it's up to you if you feel ok about multi-lateral UN approved, but unilateral... ???) then that would stir some positve feelings in B&S towers. This list if anything is about sharing. If anybody would like to give me a call on 07816 290 077, and arrange to meet up for the 1pm-ish start at London's embankment to 'march' (or tweely shuffle) to Hyde Park, then please do. If anybody hasn't done anything like this before, and is unsure about it, feel free to give me a bell, and of course i can happily look after anybody if they felt a little anxious. I am at least tall and hard to loose in a crowd. I certainly won't be trying to convert anyone to any cause, so have no such fears, but i do not apologise for showing my face at events like this, and encouraging others to do the same, or at least being comfortable in themsleves at not doing so, having considered the facts. It would be a rather wonderful thing to have a bit of the sinister massive in full effect on the odd occasion such as this. Pic-nic in hyde park after even??!!! ************DON'T ATTACK IRAQ ( www.stopwar.org.uk ) DEMONSTRATE SAT 28 SEPTEMBER, ASSEMBLE 1pm EMBANKMENT march to Hyde Park. Called by Stop the War Coalition, backed by CND.************* I leant the lady in LA my FAVOURITE B&S T-SHIRT that amidst the odd old band t-shirt redistributing phases (try it - stuff you don't wear ever, makes other people incredibly happy) i've been offered cash for a few times. That must mean i like her a lot. Anyway, skimming over the fact that she's a big B&S fan and members of the parish are linked to our having got to know + spent time with each other, oh and that i also went to the pub in LA with the lovely Rachel Fruitloop... she is not *the* lady of course. Cos that would mean Bappsy boy would be unhappy. and this i believe, is not the case ;) Also skipping over the fact i've had (and still do have) a half written sinister post in my draft folder for longer than i remember... I had been considering how i'd go about writing this. Encouraging any of you lot to come on the demo on saturday in London. Well those of you in the UK or rich enough to be travelling at least. So to end, as started, with somebody else's wise words. I remembered Ian sticking this on the Parish noticeboard ( http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200201/msg00101.html ). I look forward to having him stay this weekend. "everybody's playing a brand new game, now (come on baby, do the armageddon) stockpiling their weapons, apportioning blame, now (come on baby, do the armageddon) using racist rhetoric, fuelling unease its easier than learning your ABCs so come on, come on do the armageddon for me you gotta arm them ships, now c'mon georgie kabul iraq well you'll never bring them ba-ack woah oh woah oh now that you have started, events make a chain, now (cmon baby, do the armageddon) stigmatise the brown folk, call them insane, now (cmon baby, do the armageddon) pick a starving country, a nice sitting duck it'll make it easier to bomb it to fuck c'mon, c'mon do the armageddon for me just blow that mosque to bits, now cmon baby fly out fly back and destroy that peasant's sha-ack move around the floor in the armageddon (cmon baby, do the armageddon) there's not a muslim country we haven't dropped lead on (c'mon baby, do the armageddon) play it nice and easy now, don't lose control where once there was a city there's a gaping hole cmon cmon watch the armageddon with me." love (+ peace) jim PS just to break any other taboos i can think of, i'll mention religion. The London Buddhist centre attempts to defend it's national inter-FWBO buddhist centre six-a-side footy title on sunday, so i'll try not to kick/deflect the ball into anybody's glasses (sorry Stevie T & Ken Chu). See anybody else in London @ London Chickfactor :) PPS i have of course attempted to obey list rules and have not provided a link to an anti-war petition, and kindly suggest comment on in/approriateness of this email be directed to me off list. ta. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From terryunderwear at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 08:06:43 2002 From: terryunderwear at xxx.com (terry underwear) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:06:43 +0700 Subject: Sinister: the bells of st catherine Message-ID: hello, mums are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my mum and dad (they live about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and got a cup of tea in bed every morning. my mum and i always have good chats and she enjoys having me around to pack the dishwasher and get wood for the fire, and to talk to i guess. she said she liked that band i always played and asked where they came from. i said scotland, and their name is actually Belle and Sebastian, not The Bells of St Catherine. She laughed. We're lucky to have Mums. cats are interesting creatures arent't they? i just got back from visiting my cat (Puss Puss lives about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and Puss Puss slept on my bed every morning. my cat and i always have fun together and he enjoys me patting him and following me when i get wood for the fire. I had a Leonard Cohen best of, TBWTAS and Deserters Songs in a random shuffley type thing, and every time a B&S song came on Puss Puss pricked his ears and appeared to listen intently. He cleaned himself to Mercury Rev and Leonard Cohen. People say cats are lazy, but i think that they must be very motivated to clean themselves so often. If i were a cat i would just let myself go and hang out with the feral types. but Puss Puss is a bit of a looker and he intends to keep it that way. We're lucky to have cats. little brothers are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my little brother (Craig lives about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and Craig and I had a game of indoor soccer every evening. My little brother and i always have fun together and he enjoys beating me up, playing drums while i play guitar, playing guitar while i play drums, and roughing me up when i beat him at indoor soccer. he makes me proud cause he is good kid and he doesn't care what other peole think. he is even starting to write songs and i said they were okay. We're lucky to have little brothers. belle and sebastian are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my mum and dad and cat and little brother and i saw my older brother too (they live about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and listened to B&S every morning. They write such damn fine music and they appear to be genuinely nice people too. Stuart Murdoch is my favourite and I hope he wins the weakest link. We're lucky to have Belle and Sebastian. terry ____________________________________________________________ Tired of all the SPAM in your inbox? Switch to LYCOS MAIL PLUS http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From boyincorduroy at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 10:58:11 2002 From: boyincorduroy at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Mark=20Casarotto?=) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:58:11 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Tigermilking - help urgently needed Message-ID: <20020927095811.34171.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> Whoot Sinister! First off, Kieran Turner, are you there? I ned to speak to you urgently! Like, today! Please! In the off chance I don't speak to Kieran, can anyone on Sinister in the UK help me? I need someone with a 21st, 25th, 30th, 40th, or 50th birthday between now and mid-October who can provide me immediately with a copy of their passport. It will SAVE Tigermilking, potentially,and my gratitude will be unrivalled... If you can help, please get in touch with me off-list and I'll fall, prostrate, at your feet. Cheers :) Markx __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From misguidedtrousers at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 12:40:43 2002 From: misguidedtrousers at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dean=20Gillon?=) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:40:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: spanish girls with eyes like chocolate Message-ID: <20020927114043.72398.qmail@web14402.mail.yahoo.com> Hello sinister. Just to fit in with the pack, here I go. I haven't written for ages and I've done loads of stuff. (tm) Ah, I feel conformed - sigh. well crikey, it's all been happening hasn't it. One thing I'm not happy about is Gaby Roslin on BBC Breakfast. You don't need incessantly chirpy people when you've just woken up, do you? No, I like my morning news to a be a sombre affair, preferably read by a stern-faced old man in a black suit and a conservative tie. Hearing about tragedy and stuff first thing sets you up for the day I think (or is this just me?) You don't feel so bad trotting off to work if you've just heard about some nasty story from some nasty bit of a nasty city. Hmmm, I better be quiet I think.... Who invented mozzarella? it's rubbish. I have to say I agree with Jim entirely on his message earlier today (yesterday?)and I will be trying to go down to Laaarrnden on Saturday. I'll probably send you a message or give you a bell me old mucker. Not to bang on too long about this, but the word 'oil' has hardly been mentioned in the press/tv at all. The only time I remember it being said was when they had a go at Russia for not wanting a war to 'protect their oil interests in the region.' I dunno, our media makes me want to puke sometimes. However, I can't remember anyone saying it in Kuwait or Afghanistan either though so I shouldn't really be surprised. Did you hear about Cheney's company building that massive oil pipe from the last really big untapped oil reserve (um, near the Caspian sea I think) to the America's client states in the region. Twat. AAAAANYWAY. my life in 30 words or less. I moved house and didn't have any furniture. I got a new job that I started last Monday. I've cut down the booze & crap food. I'm pisces (still). Top update eh? Anybody on the list live in Lincolnshire? It's been a bit quiet on the B&S front lately eh? I must admit I haven't played storytelling in, oooh, about two months. Pretty surefire sign that it was a bit of a non-event musically. Apart from Big John Shaft of course :') Oh well, if anyone fancies some gin, chess, cheese, mud wrestling, rocky horror or discussing the role of the earwig in popular fiction in the years 1932 - 38 please get in touch. Loads of love to all Dean XX __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From helentheaker at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 13:49:27 2002 From: helentheaker at xxx.com (helen theaker) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:49:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: A question about B & S.... Message-ID: >>Well, that's all by now. Take care and, please, listen to (at least) one >>B&S song every day. That will probably make this world a bit better. > >Indeed. What I would give to have a time machine - I'd go back to 1934 and >play young Adolf 'Dirty Dream #3'. Perhaps if we all listen to more B&S >records now, then fewer of us will turn out to be ruthless dictators. Saddam could probably do with a bit of that. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From marcbots at xxx.nl Fri Sep 27 14:02:11 2002 From: marcbots at xxx.nl (marc bots) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:02:11 +0200 Subject: Sinister: A question about B & S.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <85LJIDOJQLHGKIZTPL652YURLGD82VSN.3d9456d3@poppy> >Saddam could probably do with a bit of that. and what about george w? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From stoutrobin at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 14:03:38 2002 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:03:38 +0000 Subject: Sinister: You cheeky, cheeky monkey Message-ID: Hello everyone, old and new Jim was a bit apologetic about getting all political on our asses. Don't be Jim. I'm sure Stuart M would endorse the march, which makes it content enough. The political side and religious side of Belle and Sebastian isn't discussed enough on this list, I think. Most of their songs have some sort of political or spiritual perspective. It's not all clogs and bus tickets you know. I'd go on the march myself if I didn't live in the Land of Whales. They don't march about anything here really. I suppose so long as the whales have their krill -PLANKTON! - everyone's happy. oh, what else was I going to say? Has anyone mentioned the Question and Answer page at http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/ ?? I'm going to write a question asking what happened to the Songbook they were supposed to be bringing out ages ago. It was going to be my excuse to start playing my trombone again. The old bone hasn't seen much action recently. So it would be a shame if a promising career as a trombonist (Sounds a bit like an orthodontist or a chiropodist or something, doesn't it? Are you looking for a little tromboning today, madam? Anyway, I digress. My mind's been wandering ever so much today. I'd better find another bracket I suppose. Can't parenthesise for ever. I bet you can't even remember what I was saying now, can you? I know I can't. Better read the first half of the sentence again. Deep breath...) was dashed simply because the B+S songbook never came out. If I knew it was *never* going to come out, I'd go and buy a copy of The Fall's Greatest Hits For Brass, but at the moment I just don't know. Geoff, were you being sarcastic?? It's the lowest form of wit you know. Yeah, like, I REALLY think so. Mark, I'd offer you my passport, you know, but I'm twenty-three so I don't think it would be much use. Have the Italian army finally tracked you down to do your national service, then? I don't think you'd fool them with my passport in any case. The photo's from when I was fifteen and I just look like a cheeky little monkey. BYE Robin x :ps: if you want to you can have a look at my new website. It's in a state of huge uncompletion, or mild barely startedness, however you want to look at it, but it's going to be quite top really. I'm trying to make it like those religious leaflets I keep finding in the bus stop down the road but just with lots of *really bad advice*. At the moment it's, well, just a bit crap really. www.superatomic.co.uk xxx. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From hobart at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 14:32:33 2002 From: hobart at xxx.uk (ian) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:33 +0100 Subject: Sinister: first dog in space Message-ID: <011201c2662a$aaf15f00$9416883e@default> fame, at last. they say dogs don't dream of fame. but 'they' are all human beings. those that say things. what do they know of canine fantasy? of course, world wide recognition comes at a price. they put electrodes in his skull, they put instruments in places where a dog doesn't want instruments, they dressed him up in a space helmet. dogs look silly in space helmets. but heroism beckoned. and those that see it beckon and turn away spend the rest of their lives dreaming of where it might have lead them. they told him: 'cmon, big fella. an intergalactic pilgrim; a missionary for our planet; the embodiment of the human..er that is... earthling hope for better things' (they said this in russian. because they were russian. which is a good reason to speak russian). and they gave him steak. the finest steak. 'plenty more where this came from.. no more scavenging around dustbins for YOU, big guy. the best restaurants; the hottest bitches; the comfiest sofas; the fastest cars - and you can stick ya head out the window any time you want to..' they told him this was just a preliminary. the next time the rocket flew, it would go to the moon. and it would be on the television. (at this point they showed him a television, because he didn't know what one was. being a dog, he wasn't all that impressed by it, but that didn't stop them trying). the humans would love him, they'd tell their dogs about him. he'd be the first Living Animal Legend. the world would be his! and, above all this, he was doing the earth the greatest favour any living being could do it. he was helping the scientists look for The Answer. the scientists told him this, although they had all read their darwin and they believed they already knew what The Answer was. he was acting for the good of his fellow beings. the politicians told him this, because they had all read their marx and knew he sounded like he had The Answer. if the priests had been allowed near him, they would have told him he was getting closer to god. they had all read their bibles and knew they really knew what The Answer was. none of that means much to your average dog, but then, this wasn't your average dog. this was a Canine Hero. his mother told him to bark, loudly, when he got to the moon, so she'd know he had got there okay. his personal trainer reminded him of the importance of exercise - to make sure he lolloped around the space-ship at least three times a day. his friends looked a bit sad, and said they hoped he wasn't gone for too long. they were all invited to watch him depart, as he climbed up to the cockpit. the russian space-agency clapped and cheered as he was strapped in. the american space agency growled and jeered, and wondered why THEIR dogs weren't this brave. the general public were told to be impressed, and, before long, were impressed. and the rocket left the earth. and the rocket entered the void. david bowie once wrote a song: 'floating in a tin can far above the moon' of course, this was years later, and it was never a Top Dog Tune anyway. so it didn't occur to our hero to reflect on the song, and conclude that whoever had written it had no idea.- there is a loneliness that is not quantifiable in words. there is a loneliness that stems from the feeling of being somewhere that nobody else has ever seen. there is a loneliness that comes of drifting away from what you've been assured is real, never knowing if you'll come back into contact with it again. there is the loneliness of finding out you've been lied to. these are the causes, not the feeling itself. if words could befriend the feeling through expression, it would no longer be so lonely. a tiny capsule. easily forgotten about. a point was proved. the scientists and politicians felt happier. the priests shuffled uneasily in their seats and muttered about Divine Glory. the dogs of the world were told little about it. it isn't always wise to inform the masses. a tiny capsule. the occupant puts his head on his paws, trying folornly to scratch out the electrodes, hoping for the sanctity of either sleep, or madness, and finding neither. not yet. not until the final sleep which, even now, reaches out a solitary finger.. a tiny capsule. perhaps it fell back to earth, at some point. into the sea, or at a place where only poor, foreign, expendable people lived. the human race moved on. it dreamed new dreams - some of which were constructed on this first, original, dog's dream; some of which were more about destruction than construction. if this were a film, this would be the point where the camera pans out, and does a 180 degree turn, up towards the stars. a distancing shot. away from the sorry carcass, consumed by the flames that rise from crumpled metal, and up to better things. every hero must fall. so it is written, by those that write things. nobody told him that. nobody said that, when the hero falls, another will be sought to take his place. truth is expendable, when dreams are at stake. every night, though she is long dead, his mother howls at the place where she thinks he has gone. you can see her, sillhouetted on the cliff-top, face angled up towards the moon. perhaps she tells him to beware the dreams of others perhaps she tells him not to trust people that promise him the moon. perhaps, like every mother, she hopes he's safe, and happy, and a good little soldier. the moon watches her, unfeelingly. the planets care little for these beings that scurry across them. there will be more heroes, more soldiers, more liars, and she'll go on, regardless, till the day all the planets fall, crashing into the sun. ---------------------------------------------------------- on a somewhat different note: CHICKFACTOR. that'll be nice, won't it? anyone up for a bevvy before/after/at some point over that weekend? should there be a picnic on sunday? should someone (not me) organise it?? should we accept that its nearly october and the best place to meet might be a pub? sort it out, please, boys and girls, and report back to me. xx ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From rob_brennan at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 14:45:42 2002 From: rob_brennan at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?robster?=) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:45:42 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: She don't CHUse jelly Message-ID: <20020927134542.70998.qmail@web10507.mail.yahoo.com> Yo! Velocity said: "I saw that bloke at the street the other day and thought it was Robert B.! where are you Rob?" I have no idea whether or not she was talking about me but I'm here anyway. Hooray! It probably wasn't me on the street though. Velocity also said: "paRadise iS foR the bLesseD" If paradise is only for Brian Blessed then I assume it must contain impossibly high mountains inside huge echo-y theatres so Brian can indulge his passion for climbing halfway up mountains and PROJECT HIS *BOOMING* VOICE whenever he feels. I miss Brian Blessed. Any idea what he's doing these days? I can't help you either, Mark although I am really intrigued by all this passport business. Does the future of Tigermilking depend on some international spying? Is there a rich megalomaniac (other than George W.) threatening the twee world? Is there a giant laser aimed at Hello Kitty as we speak? Has anyone started betting on the outcome of B&S Weakest Link? If I were a gambling man I'd put my money on Murdoch: His policy of non-disclosure seems to have done him no harm thus far and nobody would dare vote him off in case he boots them out of the band or writes a song about them. Obvious innit? So... Yeah. Robster __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From kenneth.chu at xxx.org Fri Sep 27 15:37:27 2002 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:37:27 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Mel and Sue Lesbians Message-ID: A lot of quotes. Robin Stout said >>... I'd go and buy a copy of The Fall's Greatest Hits For Brass<< And my ears perked - metaphorically, since i was reading, i guess my eyes may have perked, i'm not sure couldn't see, but anyway - but then my ears unperked in disappointment when I realised that Robin didn't actually write "The Fall's Greatest Hits for Bras". For a moment I thought technology of personal audio has climbed to a new peak, or two even. Walkman Bras - what can we call it? Titsman? Walkwoman? Mind you it can be confusing if you're a 36DD, is that just the cup size or do you have surround sound? If you have a tune with a good beat playing you can really "bust a move". You can be the girl next door who's famous for loud speaker breasts. etc. Helen Theaker said: >> >Indeed. What I would give to have a time machine - I'd go back to 1934 and >play young Adolf 'Dirty Dream #3'. Perhaps if we all listen to more B&S >records now, then fewer of us will turn out to be ruthless dictators. Saddam could probably do with a bit of that. << ...Which reminds me.. Do you know where Saddam Hussain keeps all his CDs? In A RACK! haha A RACK, geddit? Haha. THEN... Marc Bots said: >> >Saddam could probably do with a bit of that. and what about george w? << Which reminds me.. if George W were a farm sheep, then he'd be a SHEPHERD'S BUSH! Haha SHEPHERD'S BUSH, geddit? Haha, I hilariorise myself sometimes. Mmm I am the weakest link goodbye. Ken x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From EvKatz at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 17:30:46 2002 From: EvKatz at xxx.com (EvKatz at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:30:46 -0400 Subject: Sinister: who took over Isobel's vocals? Message-ID: <62D757AD.55B92C93.00049B35@aol.com> After Isobel left the band, does anyone know who took over her vocal parts for live shows? I heard a show that had been on the radio that was from April 6, 2002, after she left the band, and someone is doing a pretty good job of it. Although some of the parts are a bit flat. Is it Sarah, or did they draft someone else? Evan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From EvKatz at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 18:46:51 2002 From: EvKatz at xxx.com (EvKatz at xxx.com) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:46:51 -0400 Subject: Sinister: who took over Isobel's vocals? Message-ID: <7E0BD285.1005FDC2.00049B35@aol.com> voAfter Isobel left the band, does anyone know who took over her vocal parts for live shows? I heard a show that had been on the radio that was from April 6, 2002, after she left the band, and someone is doing a pretty good job of it. Although some of the parts are a bit flat. Is it Sarah, or did they draft someone else? Evan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From geoff_sheridan at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 19:54:14 2002 From: geoff_sheridan at xxx.uk (Geoff Sheridan) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:54:14 +0100 Subject: Sinister: who took over Isobel's vocals? In-Reply-To: <7E0BD285.1005FDC2.00049B35@aol.com> References: <7E0BD285.1005FDC2.00049B35@aol.com> Message-ID: I told you. It was the fucking ferrets. Their terminal screeching can hit most of the notes she used to sing. Only trouble is they get through a sackful every gig. Oh the senseless waste. At 2:40 pm +0100 26/9/02, Geoff Sheridan wrote: >>By the way, did you know that Isobel left the band? >> :-( A great loss, I think... > >Not so. The band have decided to replace her voice on tour by >feeding ferrets tail-first through a mangle. So in fact the aural >experience should be about 16.3% richer. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From schteddy at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 23:05:59 2002 From: schteddy at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sam=20Steddy?=) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:05:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Is there life on Mars? Message-ID: <20020927220559.48497.qmail@web21303.mail.yahoo.com> Hullo all, this is my third post, so I'm getting in the swing of things now. Well, I need a bit of help, and thought this place might yield some answers. I'm a piano player studying Music As level, (I didn't want to put that s there I promise) and want to do "Life on Mars" by Bowie. Anyone got the score? Please, if anyone has they can choose the next Belle & Sebastian we're going to do at the next school concert. Also, here's a useless piece of advise: Never raise your hands to a child, it leaves your groin unprotected. Thank y'all P.S any more Shigsy fans out there make yourselves known! __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From idleberry at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 23:14:12 2002 From: idleberry at xxx.com (idleberry) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: i love my (dual-control) car Message-ID: <20020927221412.24659.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com> in less than twelve hours i will know if i can legally terrorise the streets of west lothian in a 16 year old sierra, on my own. Driving test tomorrow. Fuck, how do i do reverse to the left round corners again? I so can't remember........ L(for learner) o v e idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From idleberry at xxx.com Fri Sep 27 23:14:10 2002 From: idleberry at xxx.com (idleberry) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: i love my (dual-control) car Message-ID: <20020927221410.2509.qmail@web14612.mail.yahoo.com> in less than twelve hours i will know if i can legally terrorise the streets of west lothian in a 16 year old sierra, on my own. Driving test tomorrow. Fuck, how do i do reverse to the left round corners again? I so can't remember........ L(for learner) o v e idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From hobart at xxx.uk Fri Sep 27 23:04:31 2002 From: hobart at xxx.uk (ian) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:04:31 +0100 Subject: Sinister: sunday frigging picnic Message-ID: <000201c26672$89c09600$bbf5193e@default> 2 mails in one day. i'm sorry. this one, however, is for the good of US ALL. err... well those of us who will be in london, englishland, over the weekend anyway. i was hoping somebody else would organise a picnic on sunday, for those moments in between chickfactor balls. or (for those who aren't going to bush hall) for that last chance to catch the september before it slips away and leaves us with only october to shivver through. nobody has done this so far, so i'll make a start. 2 o'clock. in a suitable park. how about st james's park? if it rains, we'll go somewhere else. i don't know london, and which parks are suitable for bush hall. if you have a better idea, take things from here and plan them yourself. no, i'm not being arsey, i really REALLY want you to do it. i am from the MIDLANDS, and therefore technically unqualified to do this anyway...go on, DO IT! okay, i have it on good authority that saint james's park is NICE, so that's a good place to start. if somebody can select a monument we can meet at, that would be nice. (err..it doesn't have to be a monument, actually. just something that's easy to find) if it rains, there will be a plan B, involving a PUB. perhaps somebody who knows that area would like to suggest one. so... 2 in the afternoon, somewhere in saint james's park, sunday. bring a frisbee, or some balloons, or just something wonderful* or, just bring yourself, and a smile (and a bottle, preferably). here is my telephone number. you can ring it, if you want to ask me what the fuck is going on (bear in mind that i don't always know what the fuck is going on. some would say 'never''. stop lauging, dimitra) or just if you want to sing me songs about cats: 07967 302614. DON'T email me for information, cos i'm leaving birmingham tomorrow, and heading south. email me to tell me stories and spread rumours instead. i know you can do that. so, like bongwater once said 'that's our manifesto, pencil in a date. let me know when something gives, i hope its not too late' not very relevant to this mail, but i do like that song. see you there. ian *examples of something wonderful: an amusing sex toy that we can all laugh at; a dancing elvis doll; a friend who nobody knows but has hidden secrets; a signed photograph of lorraine kelly; HARD DRUGS..oh no, scrub that bit. how untwee.. ps. gordon said: >I'm not sure I have more to say here but I suppose it would be decent to >offer an image of something; something dreamy... you are in a field in >spring; a high alp where the flowers are blossoming. The air is clear, and >the gods are calling down to you 'come hither, come hither'. You can see the >blue, deep blue wantonness of the whole world waiting to take you up in its >arms.... 'come hither, come hither' and if this isn't a sign that EVERYONE should turn up, i don't know what is. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pah6211 at xxx.com Sat Sep 28 03:18:54 2002 From: pah6211 at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?paul=20healy?=) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:18:54 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: RE:sunday frigging picnic: I'm the Daddy now Message-ID: <20020928021854.11644.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> I would suggest meeting by the Band Stand(yes I have checked there is one) 2 in the afternoon in st.James's park, sunday. tubes short walk away: St.James's park Westminster Green Park or Victoria Charing Cross my mobile 07984579335 Paul Healy P.S. I saw Tompaulin this week thought they were I very pale imitation of you know who. __________________________________________________ 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 at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mail at xxx.uk Sat Sep 28 05:43:32 2002 From: mail at xxx.uk (Gordon) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 05:43:32 +0100 Subject: Sinister: all the girlfriends I haven't had Message-ID: <000901c266a9$9add5d60$f0c087d9@ivorsserver> *** off topic alert *** *** diaryesque alert -this man should get a blog *** end of disclaimers It's 00:58 here. That would make it nearly an hour into Saturday 28th September 2002. That's what day-meetings in psychiatric units begin with, read out by one person in the room to the circle of other patients, so that everyone gets a daily orientation point. I'm beginning to get the clarity of mind back together myself to dispense with such things, but it must be said that as of about a fortnight ago, the day or time was of diminished visibilty. As of two days ago I've been thanking god I have a diary, so that I can just about piece things together. My problem has for some time been an alcohol one and, whilst having read up a great deal about the symptoms of manic depression; enough to know that I get them, I am forced to conclude (well, after many to-ings and fro-ings to a variety of experts, the top expert at the Edinburgh Royal forced me to admit) that if I do indeed suffer these symptoms, then it is the result of a chemical imbalance from a chemical I swallow rather than a chemical imbalance resulting from the harshness of nature. And I sort of have the proof of that. I stopped drinking and, for six months or so everything was cool, and on the up and up. ...but then on a saturday, in the not too distant past... I was rounding the late afternoon off in a certain hotel bar. So far, it had been a magnificent day and, although the company I'd been keeping had just left, I fancied holding onto just a little bit more of the city atmosphere before heading home to my parents, in the country. I'd ordered a coke to drink. I like the barman there: we chat about architecture, and he knows some interesting bits and bobs about the subject. Enough to suggest that it might be a past-time of his to read up about it and so on. So I usually sit at the bar itself. It's also become my custom to relax with a cigarillo or ten, so I ordered a cigar to go along with the coke. However, there's some new European Directive that's come in, to the effect that smoking at the bar is prohibited. Obviously not one that's taken effect in all the other bars I know, but still... there were plenty of armchairs around and I was welcome to sit down and he'd bring my cigar over to me. Seated, I read, puffing away, sipping the coke. As I stashed out the final embers of the Davidos my thoughts turned to what to do next. By this time sick of the taste of the smoke and sick of the taste of coca cola and still not quite wanting to leave, I had a thought. I'll sit at the bar there, have a wee chat, and have a proper drink. Just this once, for old time's sake... Laphroaig, please! Coming right up! I was expecting to retch at sutch a strong taste assaulting my senses after such a long absence but no: it went down like water. In large, glorious gulps of water. The water of life. So I had another, and then left. At the station, I stopped to purchase a couple of those wee bottles of Traquair Ale, to enjoy back at home in front of the computer. Maybe I could have a bit more fun than usual on internet chat. In fact, I decide, once back at the ranch, everything's going swell: I'll make use of this dutch courage to throw a few ideas around that I haven't really been willing to raise when sober... This was a bad mistake, as it turns out. Maybe not irresolveable, I hope, but let's just say ... well I'd rather forget the episode. I'm making it sound rather over-dramatic here too. Anyway, there followed a fine enough Sunday and then to work for two days, but this time with a bottle of wine when I get home, cos, well, it's a bit of fun. There was nobody else at home for a week to see me uncork a bottle at the dinner table and, it must be said, there were still some unresolved issues in my mind from the Saturday. Maybe I could go on internet chat and cure those, in a relaxed, post-prandial fashion. I didn't, partially because I was now beginning to feel a mixture of paranoia and jealousy. I was also, quite possibly, beginning to mis-understand things a little. For someone who's been off the booze for a long time I suppose a bottle of wine's actually quite alot. I slept in Wednesday morning, so I 'phoned the office to take the day off, explaining. They know how long it takes me to travel there every day, so the idea that it might be a bit silly doing 5hrs commuting in order to be there for four hours or so is an eminently reasonable one. Then I go do something stupid. I wasn't under the influnce at this point, just high on the freedom of possibilities so ...through to Edinburgh, city of most of my favourite experiences of late. But what to do here in the middle of the day? Start a PARTY, of course, and I know a bar that consists of fast cars and dancing girls and guys you can chat with, all propped up around the wee old wooden bar, just like in a wild western whorehouse. The afternoon goes on, on, into night and as soon as you realise it the pianist at the Sheraton is thanking you for enjoying his music, he leaves, the folks around that bar are beginning to bore one and one is soon into a concierge-organised tour through the top hotels in Edinburgh. Of course! Nothing but the best for me. No room at the ..., but there's one at the ...: shall I order you a cab for there, Sir? But there is a booking error at that one (what kind of an error, exactly? one is aware of euphemisms: they result in paranoia, and I hate them ), so the man at the desk offers to phone around a few others, but he starts mentioning the names of establishments I don't recognize so I stop him there. 'Just check the... ' 'They've only got a suite, Sir' OKEY DOKEY! Order a cab, right away! So the next two days were spent living out of a mini-bar, padding around the rooms, gazing at the view, chuckling when I found that there were two bathrooms. Listening to music, reading from a book of Francis Bacon interviews... room service arrives, uncalled for, to re-stock the mini-bar (it has an electronic sensor in it which sends down to room service for the missing bottles, evidently). But would I call up anyone to say, 'come join me here'? Was I really enjoying all this absurd luxury? Nah. I was on the spirits, finding oblivion... thinking about stuff like Does anyone love me? Well, hey, that's a bit tin pan alley, says I back to myself. After all, my parents love me. Through everything they have made it so abundantly clear. I know some people have had the terrible misfortune of having one or other or both of their parents not loving them, or not demonstrating it enough or not even being there to be able to demonstrate anything at all. I have had 2no. parents all my life who have always loved me. For the sake of completeness on the family front my brother does too. Ditto grandparents (deceased), so: Does anyone else love me? The answer to that is no. There are a very few; a couple of old friends, maybe, who I don't really keep in touch with, for reasons of international distance, who are very fond of me, but ... I realise I asked the wrong question because the above is all, of course, about Platonic Love. Yeah, I knew it would take that next half bottle of gin to get to the point: Carnal Love. Maybe that's an expression I could use. Does anyone love me carnaly? Well, I sure don't think so. The problem with me in that respect is not than anyone loves me carnally at the moment. My problem is that I don't think any one has ever loved me in that sense. And at the age of 31 that really begins to bug one. It's enough to turn one to drink. Have I loved and lost via marriage? Nope. Have I loved and lost via some long term loving relationships? Nope. Have I loved and lost via one long term relationship? Nope. Does anyone like me carnaly? Does anyone fancy me? Not that I'm aware of it. Did anyone, ever fancy me? Well yes, they did. Quite a few. But that was a long, long time ago, when I got to meet plenty of girls. The only way I know how to meet plenty of girls now is in, hey, you might have guessed it: BARS. ...next bottle Do I know anyone who would come up and FUCK me, right now? nope. Ah well... So a few days later I'm back off the booze, and thinking of places to meet girls that doesn't involve bars... Of course there are possibly a few other places one could hang out. But really, I've tried quite a few of them and it really doesn't work for all sorts of reasons. Take for example, the 'special interest group': a gym, say, or a writer's group, or a fan club (that's not a dig at sinister, btw), or a political discussion group. How many of these things can you stand to go to before you really have to admit that a) you're not a thematic anorak and you're fed up doing the necessary tedious research to keep up with the scene; that b) you don't fancy anyone at any of them anyway? That, not least of all because all the eligible girls are out there, having fun, not stuck in some hired room. So I figure I'll just have to find away to hang around bars, tolerating the taste of cola. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From foranotherdream at xxx.com Sun Sep 29 02:58:46 2002 From: foranotherdream at xxx.com (bus stoppers) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 18:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: carry me away from here... Message-ID: <20020929015846.23901.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com> ...please? : alright. last night, i saw "spirited away". and so now, i can recommend it. please. go see it!! i am a new anime watcher, and i have only seen this movie and the neon genesis stuff. that boy that i think (thought) i like(d), and i went out last night. i cried the whole damn movie...such the girlie girl sometimes. the little girl in the beginning in the movie (i can't remember her name) reminded me of my a bit when i was little. i won't spoil it, but it brings back a bit of that stomach sinking feeling when you feel lost. or maybe just that little kid feeling when what is familiar is all of a sudden gone and you simply feel scared. i was a bit of an over-dramatic fraidy-cat back in the day, yo. plus it's funny. and super cute. also, to make amends and beg for forgiveness for my previous post. (rachel fruitloop has recently helped me to find that i can write haikus! :) so here is my 'amends'. i used to be scared... all the time, everyday. but now i'm happy! i want to also talk about something else that makes me feel like a human again. FinallY! bought the flaming lips, yoshimi battles the pink robots. i heart it so much. and i can't stop listening to it. this is basically the first i have heard of the flaming lips......but a co-worker informed me of some exciting new news for me. which means it's probably old hat for you guys. i guess, if i remember correctly, that they have like 4 albums that were created to be played simultaneously...? how beautiful is that? more good and loverly things to say... can you believe it? i was once told that it is hard to find the just a modern rock song ep thingie. but at work, my friend erika found it and ordered some up for us. i introduced her to b&s right before storytelling came out. i loaned her tigermilk and told her if she didn't absolutely love it, there was something wrong with her. a little tyranical? yes. a little truthful? yes. am i a snob now? how sometimes i find myself becoming one of those music-snobs. fuck. i hate that. and i love it. feeling so passionately about a subject that i have made so personal gives my opinions such pride and motivation. but like i am entitled to my opinion, so is everyone else that has bad taste... i guess i have temporarily returned from selfish-pity-party-land and have once again remembered what it is like to feel like a person. love and japanese-ish tear stained cheeks, sara ===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From mikelsen at xxx.nz Mon Sep 30 08:53:42 2002 From: mikelsen at xxx.nz (Lawrence Mikkelsen) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:53:42 +1200 Subject: Sinister: Attention Brisbane and Sydney listees ... advice sought Message-ID: <002901c26856$e8912e20$836237d2@computer> hello, and sorry to everyone who doesn't live in either Sydney or Brisbane. This is blatant list abuse. My wife vanessa and I are are heading over from New Zealand to Brisbane to see Morrissey at Livid, and I was wanting a few recommendations ... a) Aside for The Lucksmiths (who I love), what other Australian bands playing at Livid might appeal to a B&S/indie fan like myself. b) Which are the good record stores in Central Brisbane and Sydney. (ie. shops with good selection, lots of indie albums, imports etc.) I'm a big fan of Candle Records and need to stock up on a bit of back catalogue stuff, so anywhere that stocks that sort of thing would be appreciated. c) Is anything by The Sugargligers (Australian band from the early 90s) available on CD in Australia? Thanks ... Lawrence PS - anyone who feels like taking me on a tour of record stores in either of these cities and is willing to put up with a 27 year old music trainspotter for a few hours will have lunch/drinks bought for them :) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pykachu100 at xxx.com Mon Sep 30 15:54:19 2002 From: pykachu100 at xxx.com (Kenneth P Y Chu) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:54:19 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Songs for idiots (round 4) Message-ID: (Previously, on Belle and Sebastian on the Weakest link...) Time's up, it's time to reveal who YOU think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM Isobel Stuart Stuart Sarah Stuart Sarah Sarah DUM! We have another two way tie. Stevie. Yes Anne. Why Stuart? Well I'm after Stuart and I don't seem to remember there ever being any money for me to bank. Stuart! Yes Anne Why Isobel? Becuase she was the one love of my life but she SHOWED ME THE ROAD! mmm riight.. Isobel, why Sarah? Sarah was mean and in one of the albums she wrote a song about how someone must have put self-raising flour on my bum! They should have put some on your brain too. Chris! Yes Anne! Why Stuart? He hid my beans the other day and wouldn't tell me where he'd hidden it! Has he hidden all your smart clothes as well? ... Well. When the votes are tied, the strongest link will have to cast the deciding vote, and that's you Chris. I voted for Stuart but I think I'm gonna switch to Sarah, cos us boys have to stick together don't we? Oh! Wellll Sarah, Chris doesn't want you to play because you are a girl, so you ARE the weakest link GOODBYE! * Sarah does the walk of shame (..Inside interview room) I am appalled by the blatant tactical voting, Chris voted me off because he knew that I was a stronger link than him and he just wanted to get rid of me. I hope he'd choke on his own beans. (..Back to studio) Round four, you have banked �120 in your kitty out of the possible �3000, we're taking another 10 seconds off the clock and we'll start with the strongest link from the last round, and that's Chris. Let's PLAY.. THEWEAKESTLINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... Start the clock DUM DUM! Chris, when someone is disclosing a secret they might be described as spilling the what? Beans! Correct! Bob, in sports, Windsor Park, the national stadium of Northern Ireland is situated in what city? Belfast! Correct! Isobel, in Wrestling, one of the signature moves of "The Rock" is called the what-bottom? Big Bottom! No, the correct answer is the "Rock Bottom". Stuart, what are the answers to the clues to the treasure hunt? Not telling ya. No, that isn't the correct answer. Stevie, a trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers is more commonly known as a what-man? Legal Man! No the correct answer is Middle man. Richard, The Original West End Production of which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical opened at the New London Theatre in 1981, starring Elaine Paige as Grizabella, and Brian Blessed as Old Dueteronomy? Cats! Correct! Chris, in cooking, black, chilli and soya are all different types of what? Beans! Correct! Bob, in music, the lyrics "Deep inside my soul fights a war. I can't explain, I can't cross over any more" was from a song by Elton John of what title? Belfast! Correct! Isobel.. Wiggly Piggy Bank! DUM... DUM... DUM DUM! The time is up, and in that round you have managed to bank �100... whose sewing machine is out of thread? whose IQ's below freezing? It's time to VOTE OFF, the WEAKESTLINK! In the last round, Bob was the strongest link as he had banked the most money throughout the game, Isobel is once again the weakest link, but she did bank money for the team, will this fact save her from the votes? Time's up, it's time to reveal who YOU think is the WEAKEST LINK! DUM DUM DUM DUM... DUM DUM --- (.. to be continued) Ken _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ianwatsonuk at xxx.com Mon Sep 30 17:56:26 2002 From: ianwatsonuk at xxx.com (Ian Watson) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:26 +0000 Subject: Sinister: how does it feel photos added!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello! Well, what do you want first? The good news or the bad news? The good news? Oh, OK. I've posted the photos up from the last How Does It Feel on the site - http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk - another fine night captured in glorious black and white! I've also updated the weblog, with a few rambling words about the evening and a plea for you to fill in the gaps. It you were there, I have a question: what happened? I can't remember. Hang on, I remember something now: I played "Into Your Arms" as the supposedly last song, and then when Stacey said I could play one more, spun "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me". At which point Stacey, who runs the Buff Bars and is quite easily the nicest club promoter in the history of club promoters, said "I've just worked your club out. You play really depressing music!" She's right. That's what I like about it. What's that? The bad news? Oh yeah, that's right. I'm afraid to say there isn't going to be a How Does It Feel in October. I'm going to be in Iceland (well, I should be, it's not quite confirmed), so I can't do it. If there's anyone in Iceland who'd like me to DJ there instead, I'd be more than happy to oblige. Normal service resumes in November and then in December for the Christmas party (break out your Phil Spector Christmas albums now!!) If you can't live without dancing to the indie pop, may I recommend Tigermilking. It should be on this Saturday and I've heard it's excellent. Go along! That's it! See you in November. x ps - any chance of some Great Lost Singles for the page? My Jesse Garon effort is looking mighty glum there on its own. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From esme at xxx.com Mon Sep 30 21:58:23 2002 From: esme at xxx.com (ee fumblings) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:58:23 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: haikus revealed // week thirtyseventhirtyeight // two thousand and two Message-ID: I'm sleeping with the bastards in my bedroom, come and get me I say. Nearly everyone on #sinister, it turns out, is seeing someone. Who said what to whom, who hates who, nip nip nip. I see women with kids. Oh god no. I don't want to be a Pauline Quirk typecast character. They have no thought, no consideration. I like the name Sofia. Pooh strapped on Chit Chat's peenie. A shaved penie at that. Thats all he wears. As displayed after 'Subject: Sinister........' at the top of this e-mail. I play guitar and bass in a world-touring pop band. Hi.. It's too hard to walk away from the bling bling if you know what I mean. Ok... I'd better go now... HoNeY!! I bloody MISS YOU!!! I'll call soon... Isobel, can you spell the word "Beyond" for me? B.. E.. Puss is a bit of a looker and he intends to keep it that way. I'm sure Stuart M would endorse the march, which makes it content enough. Geoff, were you being sarcastic?? It's the lowest form of wit you know. Have I loved and lost via some long term loving relationships? Nope. I might purr a bit in his ear. He likes to play with my nail files too. // ee // +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+