From paulo_stinsoni at xxx.com Thu Jan 1 00:53:28 2004 From: paulo_stinsoni at xxx.com (Paulo Stinsoni) Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:53:28 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Message for the New Year Message-ID: Yo you lovely mo' fo's, Lie back and let the stream flow over you, but don't hide your head in the sand. Lots of very druken and naughty love from your Paulo _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 borokitty at xxx.com Fri Jan 2 15:43:22 2004 From: borokitty at xxx.com (Amy Skelton) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:43:22 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Wrapped up in Development Books Message-ID: Dear Sinisterites, HOLIDAY SEASON AND SARIS! Well, I shall start by wishing you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope you�ve all had great holidays � I certainly have here in Bangladesh. Plus, I get the added bonus of another New Year in a couple of months - the actual Bangladeshi one. It sure sounds like it's going to be one mother of a mela. I made a fair old effort with Christmas type activities, most of my spare time in December was spent, putting up decorations, singing carols, making mulled wine + mince pies and feeding the cake with brandy. For the day itself my friends and I actually had a big roast dinner and shared out stockings etc., it was great fun and surprisingly I didn�t feel all that homesick. It totally outdid any expectations I had of my first overseas Christmas. On a B & S note I did indeed get the new album for a present - months after the rest of you guys but better late than never. I really like it but as so many of you have already discussed the songs I won't bother now. After three months of Shalwar Kameez wearing I finally went the whole hog with six metres of material wrapped around me � yes my first sari! I was a bit naughty and threw caution to my volunteer allowance and used my credit card. It�s a beautiful design made of Tangail silk � I couldn�t resist I am a girl after all. This type of material is unique to Bangladesh so it had to be done really. It took two people to dress me � I haven�t quite mastered the art of putting it on myself yet. WHAT IF I WAS LEFT BLIND? Out of everything I�ve done this month the most enlightening thing was getting a taster of what it might be like to be a blind woman in Dhaka. Blindfolds weren�t required as I was taken into a pitch-black space � there wasn�t really any scope for your eyes adjusting. Then the noise hits you. I know that I said before that Dhaka is at least ten times noisier than cities like London but when one of your senses is cut off it�s even more intense. Walking just using the aid of a stick and your ears giving you a sense of direction definitely takes practice. I was exposed to issues such as groping by unidentifiable people along with being ripped off with goods and cash. If I had an accident that left me blind today it would take so much adjustment. Whilst I used to appreciate this before the exhibition my feelings are much stronger now. Disability is an issue that is not addressed a great deal in Bangladesh at the moment. Things are improving gradually, although it�s at an aste aste (Bangla for very slow) pace. I�m showing management at the NGO I work for the latest research on water and sanitation provision for physically disabled people. My aim is to show how simple it is to integrate better designs at the initial stage. With little or no extra cost you can benefit so much more of the slum community (where we work). Poor health from an unbalanced diet and not having money to treat an injury are some of the reasons why there are a higher proportion of disabled people in slum areas. This master plan of mine should hopefully be backed up when the peeps from Loughborough that did the work come over here this month. GETTING WET For international hashing I am no longer known as Amy but have been re-christened �Soggy Drawers�. This new name resulted from an embarrassing end to a run. A little wobbly bamboo plank with disgusting water below was involved. Thankfully my mouth didn�t go under though. I blame my lack of balance on the Christmas puds and listening too much to my hecklers. A soaking wet t-shirt in Bangladesh is not advisable. So if any of you happen to go to international Hash meets look out for me. GETTING MESSY Us VSO volunteers are now so adept at eating with our right hands that we managed to eat ice-cream cake without the use of utensils. It�s pretty easy really just use the thin but solid chocolate layering to scoop and anything that�s melted can be soaked up with a mince pie or two. THE CIRCLE GAME It�s definitely a case of out with the old and in with the new here. Several volunteers have come to the end of their placements � just as I was getting to know them. A new group should be arriving in a few weeks and so the wheel turns. Take care, Amy _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 jpayne at xxx.org Fri Jan 2 21:59:55 2004 From: jpayne at xxx.org (Jenny Payne) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:59:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: smashing dandelions with a stick Message-ID: I'd just like to take a few seconds to thank my SINISTER SECRET SANTAS.... both of whom came through (via New York and Australia) with lovely and thoughtful gifts! And of course, thanks are due to The Llew for organizing the grand scheme as well! My secret Santas received a copy of my latest winter mix. Anyone up for a CD mix trade? I hope you all had a good New Year's Eve. I went up to DC super last-minute and ended up having a blast at a party where it seemed all the boys were librarians and the girls, DJs. Lots of sushi, soul & indie music, window-markers, remote-controlled cars, Italian cookies, jackass noisemaker horns, monkey masks, and dancing all around! I've been reading Jack Kerouac haikus (the plural is technically 'haiku,' but JK preferred the 's' at the end) lately and have found them interesting, especially how he took the traditional form and ran with it. I'll leave you with a couple of my favorites: Those birds sitting out there on the fence - They're all going to die. You paid yr homage, to the moon, And she sank. Nightfall, boy smashing dandelions with a stick. Jenny +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 S.Hewitt at xxx.uk Mon Jan 5 12:11:03 2004 From: S.Hewitt at xxx.uk (Hewitt, Stephen) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:11:03 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Always put a temple in every town... Message-ID: OK, so I didn't go bowling, but there you go (I was in Cranfield, of all places). If I HAD, I certainly would have REPORTED BACK by now. Then again, I haven't even told you about the gig yet and that was agesandsges ago, mumble mumble, lots of work before xmas, mumble. Anyway, suffice it to say (this is Thursday at the astoria, by the way), they were good although S a little moody, lots of old classics (Beautiful!!! Dog on wheels!!!), the new ones sounding good too. And hey, franz ferdinand RoX0r also, which is nice. Also when they played DoW just for a second I got a whiff of the main room at Camber Sands, which, if you recall, stank of cheap pizza all weekend, which was very odd, I mean, I'm certain I've heard them play it live since then. Also youn said: I've been waiting, in vain, to hear reporting back from the Chickfactor shows, L'age d'or de pop. And daddymoore and ian did a bit, but just to add my tuppenorth: aluminum (sic) group are grebt, steven duffy was rub, and the pines were magnificent, as was the fashion show. On Thursday of this week I am going to see JUSTIN TROUSERSNAKE and am very excited. Also I thought struan was on my bus this morning, but maybe not (the bloke's nose was a little pointier). Also I got an ipod for xmas and it is fun. This also meant that I had to buy a new computer (well, I didn't *have to*, but it seemed like a good enough excuse), and, oh no! good bye life, oh no! it came with Civilisation III which has taken up most of my waking hours (and some of the non-waking ones as well, mmm, dreaming of computer games, niiiice) since then... Also evey time I hear about the beagle2 mission I start humming a song called beagle that I downloaded off t'internet about a million years ago. I knew it was sinister-related but couldn't remember why. Fortunately the archive search is a wonderful thing: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199909/msg00540.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199911/msg00189.html Unfortunately "sinister martin robinson's" site seems to have fallen off the interweb, which is a shame as it is a lovely little track, if rather heavily indebted to b&s (judy and her dream of horses in particular). Maybe if beagle had had that as it's tune rather than blur's noncesense it might not have fallen into a hole/been eaten by mars monster/worked... Anyway, stop hiding you lot, or I'll be round your house... xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 anders at xxx.com Mon Jan 5 12:50:23 2004 From: anders at xxx.com (anders) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:50:23 +0100 Subject: Sinister: the invention of ordinary everyday things Message-ID: <200401051350.AA3037331766@bakvendtland.com> sinister, last night when i went to bed, as i do every night, i did something i don't do every night, though i happens far too often. what i did was to find my walkman from wherever i put it down the last time i used it, probably by the bed, i only ever use my walkman by my bed, or, of course, at buses, but lately, due to it being christmas holiday, i've been in lack of reasons to take a bus. i've been riding buses sure, but not that often, so i guess i found the walkman by the bed. but still i got up i think, at least, in one way or another i had a certain record called dear catastrophe waitress in my hand, soon it was in my walkman. quite a lovely walkman by the way. a tiny walkman. cool. and i pressed the "play" button, heard the disc starting to spin and soon sound poured from my hearing aid, i laid back and "she called me up today" and i was off. for christmas i got a poster. the promo poster of dcw, and i put it up on a wall in my room so that i can lie down and see it from my b! ed, not on purpose, i didn't try to find a place where the waitress and the band would be the last thing i saw in the evening and the first thing in the morning, it just turned out that way, it was a free space. i was quite glad i did that yesterday because i quite like to have a look at the cover of the record i listen to when i listen to it, but sometimes, especially when in bed, i get tired of holding it so that i can see it all the time, in this case about 48 minutes, not that i would have, but it was very convenient having the poster to peek at instead. and so i just listened to the whole record. before i did that i'd read quite a lot. lots of reading. first i finished the hobbit, which i had to finish, we read it at school, well, at least those of us who'd already read holes by louis sachar. i have read both. i preferred to read the hobbit again rather than holes. and so i did. but i finished that, i've been reading like hell the last few days, mostly because i had to ! be done when we started school again tuesday, but also because ! when i finished that one i could finally focus on a book that i want to read, because it's just amazing, which is the house of the spirits by isabel allende, i've read most of it, but finally i can read that book without having the feeling of doing somthing i shouldn't. if you haven't read it you should. it's wonderful. though i'm not all the way through it yet, but the time will come. so will the time when i will be at b&s's gig at rockefeller. 26.03.04. doors open at eight o'clock. i'm.....excited. i guess i'm the only one here to see that gig, if no one fancy a trip to oslo in march, but frankly, the weather's usually terrible at that time of the year. today, though, the weather's actually lovely, no not lovely, but okay, now that i've realised that i love the snow. hit the snow. i went out yesterday and spent all day playing and fooling around. came in drenched to drink cocoa. lovely, but as i woke up yesterday and saw the snow i wasn't at all pleased. the snow totally r! uined my plans for the day which were to walk to a lake nearby and skate. for miles in one direction. it had been cold for a week but no snow, then when i would finally take advantage of that, the snow came, turned out to be quite a lovely day anyway. i had good company. still, imagine being able to put on your skates, and then get up, and just skate for miles and miles and miles.... i was so looking forward to it. i know it'll be a while until i get that opportunity again. pity. today though, i'm fond of the snow. it makes the world outside the window look so beautiful. if the snow was gone i'd have said the weather was depressing, when it's there; it's beautiful. both. and so was dcw when i heard it again last night. been a while since the last time, and i was reminded what a great album it actually is, not that it's their best, not even close, but it's just amazing, lovely pop. and i just lay on my back thinking about the world and things happening, quite much like you've! heard now, for all 48 minutes. when i went to sleep it was 01.! 00. thanks to allende and murdoch. i was supposed to go to bed early, and get up early. failure. a catastrophe actually. i got up at 10.15, to hear that my mum had arranged things so that someone would be expecting me at 11.00. this someone was the hair dresser. and there i went. i look better now than before i went so i can't complain. my plans for today was originally to do as little as possible as it is the last day of the holiday, but then i found out that i have to go to football training. yay. i don't feel like playing football when the snow is falling. i don't know if that's weird, but i don't. seems like to most norwegians that's no problem. i think football's to be played in the summertime. on a green field with good friends. but that's not what everyone here thinks. but norwegians aren't famous for their knowledge of football. knowledge maybe. in organising. but not in how to entertain. might as well do it on a rainy day in autumn or a snowy day in january. who car! es. as long as you learn how to "play". but i guess i have to go. i will. it's just that i'm totally in lack of motivation. moral is on an all time low. when it comes to football. but i'm not at all sad that school starts again tomorrow. moral is on an all time high. it'll drop quickly when things starts to happen sure, but in the end of my holiday, school is comfortable. naturally. but it was not natural what happened on the first day of the year. it didn't make any sense. it was surreal. surreal but nice. it was unbelievable. i don't know if most of you know about it, you probably do, but there was something called world idol on that day. and what happened. the world idol man: "the winner is kurt nilsen from norway!". oh dear. what...? i couldn't believe it. kurt nilsen. he looks, apparently like a hobbit, i don't think so, but i agree that he's not what most people would call good-looking. he is a plumber. a plumber! with a wife and two children. i thought it amazing that! he won in norway, but world idol... and he's from arna. a wee ! place not too far from bergen. bergen though has lots of great artists like sondre lerche, kings of convenience, royksopp, julian berntzen, nathalie nordnes and ralph myerz and the jack herren band, but still. it can in no way explain why a man from somewhere not very far from there, a plumber from not very far from there would win world idol. runner up being kelly clarkson. who's sold about 2,5 millions or something, of her record. surreal. but great fun. i love kurt. he's just a nice guy who can sing. that's all. well, except that he's world idol of course. the same day sigurd pettersen won some ski-jumping thingy too. big thing apparently. in garmisch partenkirchen.... erm, or something close to that. it's in germany anyway. good day for norway. and for me. most of the days these days are. how to make days good: -get up late -eat -drink -take a long shower -play a good record -do something good for someone else -do something good for you -think about things you SHOULD do -don't do them -laugh at people that has to do boring things -do something fun instead -forget all about your troubles -go to bed late -do most of this together with someone you're fond of there's one weakness about this list though, and that is that the things you should do, well, you'll have to do them later. so maybe it should be like this instead: -eat and drink and all that -do everything you should -try to do something you want to. if you've got the time -go to bed early, there's plenty to do tomorrow. sigh, i fear that'll be more like it when school starts again, but i hope it won't. neither do i think so. moral is high. hmmm. what else can i say. oh yeah, i can mention that i am now one of you. i've got hold of those badges, and they are now on my bag, upside down, some at least. the red and blue that says belle and sebastian is at least. i think that's enough. there's no one here to understand it anyway. well well. and i didn't go bowling, i'd have loved to, erm, not that i'm fond of bowling, it's yuky with those holes in the balls, all the burgers and fat food, eat with your fingers, and...yuk. it's not even that much fun, but still i do it sometimes, but none were in the mood on that day. sorry. so i will now go back to try and do as little as possible. i'll read. i'll drink tea maybe. if i feel up to it. lazy is the word. on a monday, the first of 2004. and now finally i'll come to the point: hope you'll all have a happy new year, and that you've had a wonderful christmastime. happy new year once again! 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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 Mon Jan 5 13:40:29 2004 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:40:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: the BOWLS are back in town (aka I'm a cuckoo/turkey) Message-ID: Helloooo there! Ken's back! And his front's not bad either! I've been away on a couple of weeks of over-indulgence of various substances, and now i'm FAT! Hence the now not-below-average front that i just spoke of. How are YOUs? I went to a club the other night, and due to having so much to eat and drink, and bad planning, I ended up needing to have a poo!!! And my goodness, toilets in clubs are grim. But anyway! Whilst I was at the shitter, the DJ put on BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! >From the new album, and all. At the time I was about 3/4 through with my business, and the song had only just started, so I thought, if I strained a little and get a decent lap time, and not wash my hands, I'll make it out in time to DANCE to B+S. AND I MADE IT!!!!!!! The song was just about half way through, but THEN! just as i was about to throw some shapes, THE DJ CUT THE SONG OFF SHORT AND PUT ON SOME SCHIDTTY ARSEWIPE OF A TRACK ON INSTEAD. AND SPEAKING OF ARSEWIPES oops I had better go back to wash my hands. There's an anecdote for ya. Anyways! Just wanted to REPORT BACK on the INTERNATION SINISTER BOWLING DAY (LONDON BRANCH), mind the gap. The Cast (in WORLD DARTS stylee) ------------- Archel 'Fore' Playforth Sam 'Boy' Walton Liz 'Dappers' Daplyn Ken 'more than you can' Chu Mark 'The Jester' Hester Paul 'Sexual' Healy Lucy 'L' ElleBelle Sally 'Mustang' Lucysfriend The Event -------------- Waiting outside Finsbury Park station was potentially a bad idea considering that it is the middle of Winter, however, the weatherman was kind to us, as was the weather, which was mild and non-threatening. I was a lazy gett and didn't get there until 10 minutes later than 2:00. And was warmly welcomed by a by then slightly-chilled gang of AP, SW, MH and PH. LD was to arrive a little later, just to be fashionable. And the six of us braved the 30 seconds journey into Rowan's Bowling, and bowling soon commenced. The first game was an all round high-quality affair, with the game going to the wire and had to be settled on the last frame. And FOUR bowlers were within 10 points of each other in the race for second place. Half way through the game LE and SL appeared, coming all the way from , in a gruelling expedition that saw them through all the way to North Finchley, to come back to Finsbury Park!! The committment is honourable. And they were to join in on the Battle Royale that the second game turned out to be... First of all there was the obligatory "SPELLING SOMETHING WITH OUR INITIALS ON THE SCOREBOARD", and K-SAMPLES was the result. What a k-sample is, one would never know, K-SAMPLES, however, was a group of people who were up for a top notch, final end-game game of bowling. Through the gauntlet of screaming kids and kids who drop their bowling ball backwards whilst bowling, the eight soldiers bowled, hauling the gigantic rocks down the road to oblivion, destroying everything in its path. Okay, fuck this, I just want to say I SCORED 219 IN THAT GAME FUCKING HELL YEAH! YAY! YEE-HA! WOO-HOO! etc. so there was the bowling. And later on we were involved in a POOL TOURNAMENT, and the champions league trophe were handed to SW and LD after a nail biting final round victory over KC and PH. And after that, it was to the World's End for BEER and BURGER and CURRY and ANECDOTES and FUN and STUFF, and then we all went home, fitter, happier, more productive, etc. Wasn't that great?? I wonder if there are any other reporting backs......... Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator at uclh.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 idwiggerts at xxx.nl Tue Jan 6 08:59:03 2004 From: idwiggerts at xxx.nl (Imke Wiggerts) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:59:03 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Whoopie! Message-ID: First of all my excuses for my rediculous subject but hey, that's how I feel right now. I don't know if you really can feel whoopie but I do... The reason why?? Well, I'm sitting here, wearing my really cool Stressee moi? tee and it's my birthday! Whoopie! So everybody who's in town (=Holland) come to visit me..! Friday I'm giving this really cute birthdayparty and it's gonna be great so... you're invited (hmm, don't think you all going to make a boattrip or going to step on an airplain just for my twentieth birthday but I can ask it anyway. But that's not the reason I'm sending this mail to ya'all. The reason I'm sending this is that I want to wish you the very best for 2004. Make it a year worth living for!! With love, birthdaygirl imke +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 pass_the_peas85 at xxx.com Tue Jan 6 16:31:48 2004 From: pass_the_peas85 at xxx.com (hannah brown) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:31:48 +0000 Subject: Sinister: what,will,i,say,the,next,day,to,whatever,i,drag,to,my,hotel,tonight Message-ID: hello strangers, This Christmas was quite exciting, mainly because my flat mate bought me the new B&S album on vinyl. It was most unexpected and much appreciated. when i came back from the festive jovolities i had a listen to it. Now, i am going to have to admit that i haven't had much faith in old B&S of late, i really didn't like Storytelling and decided to put off buying the new one in fear of more disappointment. However, i am REALLY impressed with the new one, at first i thought it was slightly over produced but when i listened again to FISHYCLAP i decided that it isn't, it is infact brilliant. I think it works very well as an album and they appear to have found that perfect B&S sound. It even has slight elements of Feeling Sinister in it. My faith in them has been restored. And the last track is F@@@@@G cool!!!! That's all i have to say really, wooohoo hannah b _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? 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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 pass_the_peas85 at xxx.com Tue Jan 6 17:04:42 2004 From: pass_the_peas85 at xxx.com (hannah brown) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:04:42 +0000 Subject: Sinister: SUDDENLY AN ANGRY FAN Message-ID: I'm sure none of you give a monkies about this but i have got to have my say. About a year ago i got an e-mail asking for merchandise ideas for B&S. I sent off some designs and didn't hear a sausage from anyone. I have just looked at the merchandise site and THEY'VE NICKED MY BLOODY IDEAS. I feel like an angry Cartman. Some of my designs included FLIGHT BAGS with COLOURED TRIMS that look very similar to the ones on the site. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, i feel cheated.I am going to go and eat the TV now, ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 eccolafilosofiadelpedale at xxx.it Wed Jan 7 21:33:21 2004 From: eccolafilosofiadelpedale at xxx.it (Simon Bateson) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:33:21 +0100 Subject: Sinister: happy birthday imke Message-ID: from a fellow sinister-ette(a silent one, until now)....happy birthday imke!! in one of your previous messages, you talked about wanting to "feel lonely and happy at the same time", well, in those words i found the perfect expression of all the vague thoughts and feelings about how i want my life to become in this year. no more long nights of chemical and dance music enduced feelings of togetherness, i'm going to find fulfillment on my own, in my room, listening to music, in a cafe, drinking tea and watching the rain fall, walking around the park and daydreaming, and be alone and happy. and maybe i'll find some other people like me. peace and love, simon ********************** "there's more to life than books you know, but not much more" ********************** +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Wed Jan 7 21:48:24 2004 From: gummi at xxx.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gu=F0mundur_J=F3hannsson?=) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:48:24 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Appa Appa hey Message-ID: <002a01c3d567$fa976740$0a01a8c0@gusldih85rscgp> Hello fellow sinistereens! Happy New year, happy hannukah and all that stuff. I am going to see B&S in concert at last, again. I just booked the flight to Copenhagen too see them play on the 24th of march in Vega.In 2002 I saw them at the same place and that concert was great, I´ve been waiting for a chance like this for a long time. Now I only need b&s to come to iceland... someday.. someday it will happen. Just wanted to brag :) cheers, Gummi iceland +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Wed Jan 7 23:20:57 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:20:57 +0000 Subject: Sinister: stop, look and listen Message-ID: I used to be scared of speaking in front of people. Then, when I was fourteen, I found myself elected class representative and had to attend meetings in the technology block with the other representitives and the head of year. We'd talk about stuff - skirt lengths, cigarettes, communal showers, all the sweaty pink obsessions of teenage playgrounds. Then came the meeting when I was to be secretary, and I was feeling a little nervous. I had a bit of a cold and I'd thought of staying at home, but I'd missed Doctor Who to write up notes the night before so I scuffed my toes up to the school gates. My agenda was spot on, and mostly centred on the lack of dustbins and lack of cherry coca-cola in the drinks machine. But I was dead nervous, and as I read it out, I trembled. I finished Item One with no problems. "Any questions?" I asked. But there was silence. As I looked up to our head of year, a territorial with a moustache to match, I could sense something was a little wrong. I sniffed. I sniffed a little harder. But the big bogey that had snuck out of my nose just hung there, bouncing a little. I shut my eyes, and for a moment the room completely disappeared. When I opened them, bogey still in mid-air, all my nerves had vanished. The looks of horror on the faces all around me seemed to have absorbed it. The head of year's moustache wilted. I carried on with Item Two, and no one said a thing. I had another meeting today, ten years later. Things like that don't phase me anymore. Once you've hit rock bottom the only way is up. I think it was about something important, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was more interested in the sprinkling of Christmas jumpers my colleagues were wearing, and the crumbs in the chairman's moustache. Some things never change. Some people looked at their fingers, some at the ceiling, some at their shoes. Then a magpie flapped onto the windowsill outside and for a brief moment everyone looked in the same direction. +++ Have you all been reading Stuart's Diary recently? It's pretty great. He's letting it all come out. It sort of makes me want to follow Jesus, but I wouldn't know where to go. I gave up on Jesus when I was seventeen and started following pop music. Perhaps that's where it all went wrong. It's also good to read about someone who's given up the booze. I've given it up for one of my many New Year's Resolutions. Not that that's a major event, as I don't really drink much anyway. I'm only giving it up for a month, too. I'll be having different resolutions every month, and I'm going to be Zen about it: giving up the negative; taking up the positive. January: drink less alcohol; eat more spinach. February: don't watch telly; grow a beard. That's the idea. If you haven't read his diary, you should have a look. If you're a fan of Rhoda, too (Casarotto take note), you might be in for a treat... I'm sure the Red Bull Dozers are already limbering up. B+S are on the radio on Friday, as well. I'm sure banchory will send out an email about all of this, anyway, but just for the record have a look at: http://worldcafe.org/comingup.php . hejd�, Robin x _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 lizdaplyn at xxx.uk Thu Jan 8 09:50:32 2004 From: lizdaplyn at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Liz=20Daplyn?=) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: What has Roland Orzabal done for me lately? Message-ID: <20040108095032.41107.qmail@web86101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Eep the first time I tried to send this it was in HTML format, which makes me a VERY BAD PERSON. Just goes to show how little I post, eh? *And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad* Coming back to work after a holiday sucks like a Dyson, especially when you have to go home after a hard Tuesday and take the lovely twinkly fibre-optic Christmas tree (with mini mirrorball baubles) down because it's Twelfth Night. If I'd had a company of rude mechanicals handy I'd have laid seige to the fairies in pique, but luckily it turned out that there was none available, so I could veg out in front of Property Ladder instead. Still, it's not as though I've got very much work to do at the moment, which is not actually that much fun if you're a temp stuck with a Christian Finn in a boring poky room in a hospital medical secretariat. I pass some of the time reading free e-books from Project Gutenberg and have just finished Roald Amundsen's account of his journey to the South Pole today, after which I moved straight on to the Wizard of Oz. Ah, but nothing, not even ruby slippers, can compare to Sinister International Bowling Day's glory of coming second in two games to the whirlwind B!O!W!L!I!N!G! sensation that is Mr Kenneth Chu. OK, so the margin between him and the rest of us was over a hundred points in the second game, but I was still in the silver medal position, right? After that there was rubbish pool playing, DDR stardom for Lucy English Teacher and the lovely Miss Sally (soon to be drawn into our web of intrigue, hopefully) and lots more drinking and talking rubbish, hurrah. *The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had* So the bleedin' gas people started (with the charming assistance of big loud pneumatic drills) digging up the pavement right outside my house at past midnight on Tuesday evening, shortly after I'd gone to sleep. This was pretty annoying, as you can probably imagine, and so, in a mildly sleep-deprived rage, I've written a snippy letter to the appropriate authority. It's not often that I do something quite so Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells, but hey! Everyone needs to be small-minded and petty sometimes, and I try to make up for all the saints who are no doubt milling about the world with the rest of us. After I eventually got to sleep, however, I dreamed that the flatmate who's shortly moving to Clapham or somesuch bastion of respectability had suddenly announced that she hated me and all I stand for utterly. In the dream this didn't bother me overly, as I managed to remember in that dreamy sort of way that she's moving out soon. However, when I woke up far too soon, I became slightly perturbed in case it was an sign that I had been laughing too loud at the random Rumiko Takahashi manga I got out of the library yesterday, which had annoyed said flatmate enough to send bad vibes into my dreams. She is a lawyer, after all, and I suspect them of occult powers, what with being in league with the Dark Lord and all. My mum's chilli con carne just before Christmas gave everyone who ate it weird cheese-dreams as well. Are there any psychoactive agents in chillies or kidney beans? Biochemists in the house? *I find it hard to tell you 'Cos I find it hard to take* I really am a terrible correspondent. I should make it a New Year's Resolution to actually keep in proper contact with people I should keep in proper contact with. Of course, transferring email addresses from the accursed Hotmail to this more congenial provider has made it easier for me to look into my inbox without wincing at the horrible spam content thereof. Despite the aforementioned weeny HTML format error. But anyway, here's a half-arsed gig review. *When people run in circles It's a very, very Mad World* It was pretty strange being on stage at the Astoria, still more so doing indie karaoke to a bossa nova beat with several porn-'tached men. Still, Johnny 7 did the job, more or less, but I think Stefano fared a little better than I did, although they did start playing entirely the wrong song (i.e. not Can't Get You Out of My Head) at first for him. It would also have been better if I could have remembered all the words to Heart of Glass instead of having to refer to a sheet of paper clutched in my sweaty palm several times. Bah. But enough about me. The gig was really enjoyable after my adrenaline rush had subsided enough to allow me to enjoy my overpriced and rather warm beer. From a can: I'm a classy lady, you know. I completely fell in love with Mick when he did his shy Sinatra impression. Aw bless. Nice suit as well. Stuart did seem a little lackadaisical at first, but maybe he was merely pooped from compering the wondrous karaoke support when he would rather have been backstage snorting crack off whores. Diamond-encrusted mud-wrestling midget whores. Still, he perked up a bit for the latter portion of the show, and they played some of my bestest favourite songs, although I can't remember exactly what now. People who can reel off set lists after stepping out of the heady (sweaty) atmosphere of a venue into the cold clear night air amaze me; I couldn't tell you what a band played if they had the titles tattooed across their fetching abdomens and wore crop tops. I kind of wish they hadn't done Piazza, New York Catcher, though. It seemed a bit wrong to have something that intimate displayed with ten different coloured lighting gels on the stage and a hobnobbing London audience. Not so much chitchattery as usual from the metrosexual crowd, however, which can only be positive, although I suspect that this is a symptom of the prematurely middle-aged coming to enjoy B&S as an alternative to wearing uncomfortable footwear and going out on the razzle. For instance, I and my companions went for a nice companionable curry afterwards, rather than fighting our way through the headscarfed and bebadged masses to squeeze into a tiny club in order to appreciate Chris' doubtless flawless skills on the wheels of steel. Ack I'm such an old lady now I'm 25. I really REALLY like Dear Catastrophe Waitress (the album not the song, although that's errr OK, nor indeed the Rrrriot TweeGirl on the cover, who's a right little madam in my opinion and would be much better for a slap and a spell teaching Brownies to crochet boiled-egg cosies). Late news, I know, but it rocks so hard it inevitably makes me happy. I wish there were more hours in the day or I needed less sleep [was less lazy] so I could listen to it more often. Bless Trevor Horn for his encouragement of the shiny, sparkly bitchiness that enlivens this S Club 8 stylee New Direction of the biscuit-nibbling, cardigan-wearing aesthetic etc. that we know and love no end. Enough! Have yourself a merry little January, kids. Love, Liz :x p.s. Someone remind me to dis' Fans Only (in a thoroughly affectionate manner, understand) next time I crawl to a keyboard in Sinister composition. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 lulou at xxx.org Thu Jan 8 15:23:00 2004 From: lulou at xxx.org (Linda Kerr) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B & S Mailing List - "I'm A Cuckoo" single and Euro tour dates. (fwd) Message-ID: Happy New Year everyone. Please see below from Katrina. Linda xx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:47:34 -0000 From: band at xxx.net To: list at banchory.net Subject: B & S Mailing List - "I'm A Cuckoo" single and Euro tour dates. Happy New Year to you all! Belle & Sebastian kick off 2004 with the release of the second single from "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" and the announcement of European shows in March. February 16th is the release date for "I'm A Cuckoo" on Rough Trade Records for the UK and Europe. The single comes out on three formats:- * 7" single featuring "I'm A Cuckoo" and "(I Believe In) Travellin' Light" * Enhanced CD single featuring "I'm A Cuckoo", "Stop, Look and Listen", "I'm A Cuckoo (by The Avalanches)" and "(I Believe In) Travellin' Light" as well as the video for "I'm A Cuckoo". * DVD single featuring "I'm A Cuckoo" video, a weird kind of hybrid between photo gallery and video, which you'll have to see to understand for "Stop, Look and Listen", "I'm A Cuckoo (by The Avalanches)" audio and "(I Believe In) Travellin' Light" audio. The "I'm A Cuckoo" video stars Stuart as a budding athlete torn between the demands of his coach (played by Alan Wells, winner of the olympic gold medal over 100m in 1978), band politics and the women in his life. It was directed by Blair Young - who edited the "Fans Only" DVD - and Stuart Murdoch. "I'm A Cuckoo (by The Avalanches)" is B&S' first ever remix, which has taken so little of the original we didn't think the title remix did it justice. So we've just called it their version. Very exciting! The band have also announced the following European tour dates for March 2004. March 8th PARIS, Grand Rex March 10th MADRID, Divina Aqualung March 11th MADRID, Divina Aqualung March 12th VALENCIA, Palacio de Congresos March 13th BARCELONA, Razzmatazz March 14th BILBAO, Teatro Arriaga March 16th CLERMONT FERRAND, La Cooperative De Mai March 17th MILAN, Alcatraz March 18th MUNICH, Muffathalle March 20th HAMBURG, Docks March 21st COLOGNE, Live Music Hall March 22nd BERLIN, Columbiahalle March 24th COPENHAGEN, Store Vega March 25th GOTHENBURG, Tradgarden March 26th OSLO, Rockefeller March 28th STOCKHOLM, Munchenbryggeriet March 30th BRUSSELS, AB Club March 31st UTRECHT, Vredenburg You can get details of where to buy tickets and prices from the B&S website at http://www.belleandsebastian.com/tour.php There will be more euro shows announced for the first half of this year, especially for those living in France, so please be patient! Lastly, just before Christmas we made some spiffing new B&S flight bags, button badges and mousemats which we forgot to tell you about, but are all still available at the Banchory Online store at http://www.banchoryshop.net/ We're also helping out our mates Franz Ferdinand and snowpatrol by stocking their merch, so check out their wares from the shop too if you've got extra Christmas money to spend. Cheers, Katrina & Neil @ Banchory. http://www.belleandsebastian.com http://www.dearcatstrophewaitress.com http://www.banchoryshop.net To unsubscribe from this list send a blank email to list-off at banchory.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 daisychain.amz at xxx.net Thu Jan 8 18:38:52 2004 From: daisychain.amz at xxx.net (Amy Baggott) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:38:52 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Edinburgh (belated) reporting back Message-ID: <200401081838.AA963845406@keysurf.net> Hello all, Well, nearly a month after the event, I finally decided to do some reporting back from Edinburgh, partly because nobody else has yet and partly because it is something to do that is more appealing than the work I ought to be doing. My good friend Heather and I were front of the queue to be let in, like true geeks, and managed to secure ourselves a spot on the front row. I didn’t really get Scatter, though Heather found them so awful that they had the bizarre and unfortunate side effect of making her physically sick. This put a dampner on the evening somewhat for poor Heather, and indeed for the rest of the week that she had to spend ill off work. Damn you, Scatter! As a little aside, I thought that the guy playing keyboards and bass in Scatter was a member of Franz Ferdinand (guitarist?). I was pretty certain, having seen FF just the other week at the Venue. However, Heather was equally certain that he was someone else entirely, having also seen FF as support at the Sheffield show just the other week. Hmm. I was pretty adamant that I was right, but lost the heart to argue with Heather being unwell and everything. If anyone could clear the matter up for us, it would be much appreciated. (Especially since I’m right, Heather!) Anyways, B&S were amazing, gush gush gush etc etc. Can’t remember the exact setlist, though it was along the same lines as the other UK shows. A nice touch was playing She’s Losing It and You’re Just a Baby back to back with each other. In fact there were a fair few Tigermilk songs there, which sat quite nicely in amongst the newer stuff. I got my wish for a Christmas song granted when they did O Come, O Come Emmanuel. I really only noticed Isobel’s absence then, because the girl who they got to sing her part got it all wrong and ran off the stage looking horrified. I think she may have been a Maisonette, though I felt very sorry for her whoever she was. Sarah picked up where she left admirably, but I do feel that Isobel sang that part better than anyone else has done since. Tracey-Anne Campbell from Camera Obscura did it quite nicely last time I saw the band at Christmas, but it’s just one of those things I’m a bit nerdy about. Stuart was chatty and so were the audience. There was one particularly vocal person who had some interesting ideas on the liberation of Saddam Hussein, as I recall, though I can’t remember much of the banter, amusing as it was. The highlight of the set, for me, was Lazy Line Painter Jane. The band started playing it and I was wondering who was going to sing the girl’s part. When it came to it, Monica Queen herself sprang out of the wings, to do the job as no one else can. “Huzzah!” we all cheered. Twas truly great. The encore was Judy and the Dream of Horses followed by Sleep the Clock Around, a nice combo indeed. My only gripe (apart from that with Scatter) was the lack of dancing. Is it impolite to dance like a loon when all around you are standing stubbornly still? I felt a slight pang of guilt as I trod mercilessly on the toes of all around me, but I just couldn’t justify remaining motionless when the music was so very danceable to. Personally I think it is ruder to go and see a band and not dance than it is to stop dancing because nobody else around you is moving. The people around me certainly did not appear to be very elderly or disabled, so I cannot see that they had any reasonable excuse. Tsk. We proceeded on to the aftershow party where Chris was DJing. Unfortunately Heather, still suffering from the adverse effects of listening to Scatter at close proximity for an unsuitable length of time, had to retreat home early. However, I stayed on with some other friends and smiled shyly at Chris lots. Starting university in a new city is a strange business. One of the girls I was with I had met only a few weeks ago at a clubnight where we were both DJing. She played SIMOB in her set and I played Pastie in mine and we got talking about the band. It was odd because when we met I had the weird feeling that I had seen her before, though I couldn’t place her or remember actually meeting her ever. You meet so many people in your first term, and forget or half-remember the majority, that I just dismissed it as being one of those incidents. However, on our way walking home from the aftershow party, we were talking about when we’d seen the band play before. She happened to mention that she’d danced on stage with them the last time she’d seen them live. Suddenly, it clicked. “Was that at Coachella?” I asked, “to ‘Boy with the Arab Strap’?” “Erm, yes,” she replied, looking somewhat surprised. Where had I seen her before I ever met her? Yup, that’s right, on the flipping DVD. I had the weirdest sensation that my sad little life was eating itself, or inverting or imploding or something along those lines. Oh well, back to that sad little life. Love, Amy 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 rlorenson at xxx.net Thu Jan 8 20:54:47 2004 From: rlorenson at xxx.net (Rob Lorenson) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:54:47 -0800 Subject: Sinister: Woo! I'm seeing B&S in Tokyo! References: Message-ID: <000a01c3d629$aa62a2e0$0200a8c0@sbcglobal.net> Dear Sinistereenites, I'm a little excited right now (read: extremely ecstatic). I received a card/Xmas present from my friend who lives in Japan. She got 2 tickets to see B&S in Shibuya on 29 January -- one for her, and one for me. I was travelling to Tokyo at that time to present some of my paintings to various galleries in/around Tokyo and Osaka. I was trying to have a gallery interesting in doing a show. I was in Osaka and Sapporo in December, but the galleries that I visited haven't gotten back to me yet. :-( My friend is a B&S junky because of me. :-P Now back to running around in my underpants screaming "woo hoo! woo hoo!" Daffy-duck style. p.s. if anyone's in the LA area in mid-March and wants to go see my exhibit opening at the Jazz Bakery in March, please drop me a mail, or stand outside my window with a Megaphone, or skywrite, and I'll give you details. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 stoutrobin at xxx.com Thu Jan 8 23:24:44 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:24:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Stop, Look and Listen (Part II) Message-ID: Hello again :) << * Enhanced CD single featuring "I'm A Cuckoo", "Stop, Look and Listen", "I'm A Cuckoo (by The Avalanches)" and "(I Believe In) Travellin' Light" as well as the video for "I'm A Cuckoo". >> Stop, Look and Listen? Apparently they played it in Detroit this year, and, taking a trip on the Infobahn, I came across this interview with Bobby by a Croatian magazine: http://www.dopmagazin.com/interview_strani.asp << All the previously unreleased stuff is slowly making an appearance. 'Lord Anthony' and 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' from the new album are old songs. We just recorded a tune called 'Stop, Look and Listen' which is coming out on the b-side of the next single, and that pre- dates 'Tigermilk'. Stuart's trying to be a bit more economical and trying not to let too much go to waste. A lot of the fans exchange bootlegs of old tunes anyway, so a lot of that stuff is already out there. >> Aww, they do treat us well, don't they? R xxx _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. 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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 neil at xxx.net Fri Jan 9 12:15:31 2004 From: neil at xxx.net (Neil Robertson) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:15:31 -0000 Subject: Sinister: "I'm A Charlatan" Message-ID: <021601c3d6aa$48ead600$0700a8c0@LAPTOP> Yes, sorry. My mistake. I put 1978 instead of 1980 in the Alan Wells spiel. I was thinking, at the time, of his gold medal in the 1978 Commonwealth games 100m (he also won silver in the 200m at these games), and my mind may also have been distracted by his gold success in both the 100m and 200m at the 1982 Commonwealth games in Brisbane. Also worth bearing in mind is that Alan's winning time in '78 was the fastest competition time in the world that year. It is easy to get confused with all the glory this man has had. It's worth noting that despite the presence of "Team USA", a Trinidadian claimed gold in 1976, a Briton in '92, a Canadian in '96 and if poor old Ben Johnson hadn't had his drink spiked in '88, "Team Canada" would have won then too. So it would be erroneous to assume that "Team USA" just have to turn up to win the sprint, given they only won two of the six between '76 and '92. 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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 neil at xxx.net Fri Jan 9 12:56:21 2004 From: neil at xxx.net (Neil Robertson) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:56:21 -0000 Subject: Sinister: AARGH Message-ID: <02e001c3d6b0$225f6090$0700a8c0@LAPTOP> Sorry, every time I go to write 1980, I write '78. Except for this time. What I meant to say was that Alan Wells' winning time in 1980 (not '78 as stated) was the fastest time run by anyone that year, so despite what anyone says, he was obviously a worthy winner. It maybe wasn't a vintage age of sprinting, but he was the fastest that year. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Fri Jan 9 20:11:34 2004 From: dirtyvicar at xxx.net (Dirty Vicar) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:11:34 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I am a bad vicar Message-ID: hello again Sinister, I hope the new year is treating you well. For me there is the excitement of repenting of sins and turning over a new leaf, for I have just this evening put my Sinister Christmas Presents in the post. They should reach you in time for the start of the Chinese new year. I am determined that I will never again be late with the despatch of Sinister Christmas Presents. meanwhile I read in an e-mail that Belle & Sebastian are on another European tour, but sadly are not playing Ireland. One of the annoying things about Ireland is that bands don't play here when they're on their UK tours, because it's not in the UK, but they don't play here when they're on European tours either, because it's on the other side of the UK and no where near the rest of Europe. I have applied logic to this question, and have resolved that if B&S won't come to the vicar then the vicar will have to go to B&S. Accordingly I am going to time my long postponed trip to Berlin to coincide with their gig there. I am bringing someone very special with me, and we are applying a lot of thought to the question of who will support the B&S in Berlin. I think SCOOTER would be a good choice. Maybe B&S and SCOOTER could join each other onstage and the whole gig could turn into a totally mad for it happy techno rave. That would rock. Failing that RAMMSTEIN would be good too. Actually, what would really rock would be if B&S covered a SCOOTER or RAMMSTEIN song at the gig. I'd love that. Special friend Irene has the idea that bemulleted sex siren PEACHES is currently resident in Berlin, so maybe they could have her on the bill too. I'd buy that for a dollar. Beyond that I've been listening to a lot of electropop and post punk. Ladytron are currently rocking the rafters here in the vicarage. I wish they would come and play here in Dublin, I really do. moving along, moving along, moving along I go, bless you all, 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 kermit_the_frogh at xxx.com Fri Jan 9 20:49:54 2004 From: kermit_the_frogh at xxx.com (Froggy Frogh) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:49:54 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Isn't that just wrong? Message-ID: Isn't that just wrong? Here I get a message from bandochry saying that B&S is going out touring again. I look at the dates and yell to no-one in the empty room. Not only are they coming to sweden, stockholm, it's really on my birthday! Would be a great way to spend your birthday woudn't it? So I forwarded the message including a small personal note to my sister and parents. The whole day I was singing inside and hoping that I could get tickets. Well it was my sister who gave me the first warning. She told me that the place where the concert was going to be was sometimes giving out beer and therefore somtimes had an age restriction. I cheked out the site that was selling the tickets and yeah, right is was from 18! When they finaly come here they have to let the drunkos come, and just cause they buy lots of stuff and they make mony on that! 18! I am for separating kids and alcohol but this time... Do you have to have stick, long beard and be almost deaf to get into a softmusic consert? Yeah, 8 year old can look at Maiden, but people below 18 can't se B&S? Do you have to be like 40 and been with from the start to listen? What a fun birthday I now will have, sitting at home thing of what i could have done if not everybody over 18 was permanently addicted to alcohol. Oh, I can promise you that it will take a great deal of time before I can listen to B&S again, if ever. Isn't that just wrong? _________________________________________________________________ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Sat Jan 10 12:27:27 2004 From: staralful at xxx.com (Jonathan Skinner) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:27:27 -0000 Subject: Sinister: go on- give yourself up to the allure of it, you know you want to Message-ID: dear sinister i hope this finds you in fine fettle. i am not, my head is all blocked up , i can't think straight and on top of it all i have a cold. i hope you all had a merry christmas , happy Chanunkah , a krazy kwanza or a solemn dignified ramadan. in the irish tradition my was "quiet thank god"just back from 3 days in paris which was nice. i saw the eiffel tower once and that was a mistake , i got out at the wrong metro stop and bang there it was. needless to say i turned my back on it immedietly. well not exactly i looked at it , saw it then turned away walking up a street that had a load of rich people waiting "patiently" to get into the gucci sale. i saw some hoving but not nearly enough hair pulling or screaming. i suppose french rich people are a bit more dignified than the Irish noveau riche. Had a great couple of days though despite the fact that all of our colds broke on the plane out there. hung out in cafes , had picnics in a park even though it was freezing cold , went around outdoor food markets and got free tea and waited by the ice rink by the hotel de ville waiting for someone to fall on their arse. mission accomplished. there was one minor difference with this trip however. there were no instances public urination. another highlight ( despite the lack of public urination) was the art squat on rue de rivoli, which although slightly more gentified than its ********** counterpart where kilometer/zero was/is published from , was still great and am glad i went. so belle and sebastian are releasing i'm a cuckoo , why exactly? i was hoping for passion fruit to be included in the b*sides but i suppose i will have to wait for singles #3 #4 or maybe #5. further to ms brown's ( is there an 'e' at the end?) i think my brother has a similar gripe. when stuart was asking for things that people found sexy he wrote in about a catastrophe waitress that he knew in paris when he lived there that had this look of annoyance on her face whenever she dropped anything, this was 2001 and then that thing was in 2002 when the sexy thing ( can't you just hear hot chocolate) came out. he swore he would never buy another belle and sebastian cd again. that went out the window along with the dishes. right i'm off to practice my affectations ta ta jnthn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 mark.hester at xxx.com Mon Jan 12 19:09:43 2004 From: mark.hester at xxx.com (Mark Hester) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:09:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: so this is the new year and I don't feel any different Message-ID: <20040112190948.9107.h010.c000.wm@mail.nme.com.criticalpath.net> Hello! Those of you who read my blog (aw c'mon there must be at least two of you) will know that I had a spot of bother with the free pc I got from work before Christmas. Well, thankfully things seem to be sorted now so I'm at the stage of actually buying new stuff for it rather than just making sure what should be there is working properly. On Friday I learnt that the machine does contain a soundcard (contrary to what I thought previously) and so I just needed some speakers. So off I went to the other side of Oxford where apparently there was a rather good computer shop. I was quite looking forward to the journey as involved using one of my favourite Oxford bus routes which took me up Headington Hill. Those of you who know Oxford will know that it isn't exactly well-endowed in the hill department. However, Headington Hill is actually quite steep and it also has a lot of very nice ivy-clad trees on it to create one of those "ooh I'm in the country" sensations that are always welcome in cities. When boarding the bus I had to squeeze past the rather rotund driver who was TALKING VERY LOUDLY ON HIS MOBILE PHONE in the doorway, rather than occupying his accustomed place in the cab. It seemed rather odd for the bus driver to do this for he seemed to be making no attempt to take fares or check people's bus passes and although I did try to show him my bus pass, I can't help wondering whether he was so engrossed in his conversation that I could have had a piece of paper with "Hey you! I'm travelling for nothing!" and he would have been none the wiser. The shop was really tiny but it was packed out with people and the shelves were absolutely chock full with electronic goodies of all descriptions. There was a real sense that here was a place with a genuine expert ready to answer one's questions and be truly and properly helpful, unlike the planks who work at a slightly larger, more famous shop advertised on the telly. And it was at such an unlikely location, in a very ordinary looking row of shops, sandwiched between a newsagents and a hair salon on one of the busiest road junctions in Oxford. I was able to pick up a really decent pair of speakers for £11, which means that I can now watch the video and listen to Step into my Office at the same time, rather than separately as was the case previously. After making my purchase I had a wander around Headington Quarry. It's odd when cities expand and they engulf previously (semi) rural places in an amoebic fashion (well, that's not how it happens at all, but it is fun to imagine that it does and the grey blobs on maps do look like ickle protozoa extending their pseudopodia. Maybe). Apparently the quarry itself had always been a bit crap and there wasn't much stone to be found there and it was only suitable for making stuff like kerbstones that didn't need to last for hundreds of years, but it still left a whacking great hole and the best suburb name ever, so that's alright really. It's quiet and looks like it hasn't changed for centuries. As I was wandering around I saw three people in succession whom I thought I knew all of whom turned out to be strangers when they got closer. I thought this was very strange. It's not unusual for this to happen once in a day, but three times??? Fortunately, I realised each time before saying hello. Later on, I went to a couple of record stores and bought the Fans Only DVD and albums by Ballboy, Husker Du, Yo La Tengo, Julian Cope and Death Cab for Cutie (the last of whom are playing here v. soon). In one of the shops I finally met someone from work whom I really did know. I then met my ex's housemate who was really excited coz she'd just bought her *first ever* mobile phone. Are there are any of you out there who are yet to make this step? Finally, I met a girl whom I used to work with three years ago who didn't recognise me at first and said I'd changed a lot. I found this difficult to believe at first as I don't think my appearance has changed in the last SIX years...oh well. Anyway, it was like the earlier tripartite experience was merely a precursor of what was to come. I watched the Fans Only DVD in its entirety last night and I have a number of questions: The girl on the cover is reading a book which features a number of b&s song titles on the cover. The first is Lisa & Chelsea which of course isn't actually what the song is called, coz it's She's Losing It. Was the song originally called Lisa & Chelsea? Why is there no video to Waking Up to Us, seeing as it was a single? Was no video ever made, or was it just thought that the Later With Jools was better and more deserving of inclusion? Could someone help me find sinisterines featured? I spotted Big Stu of course and I think Lucy Alder is in the background at bowlie when Stevie's singing Rhinestone Cowboy through the loud hailer, maybe she can confirm or deny. I was going to keep watching the glasto bit over and over to see who I could spot in the crowd, but in the event went to bed instead, coz I was knackered. My only gripe is that it would be good to have seen the FISHYCLAP press launch in its entirety, but then I suppose if everyone thought like that kind of thing then we'd have a DVD which was ten hours long. The video to LLPJ is probably what I will end up watching most. I think I only saw a snippet of it when it came out seeing as it was on The Chart Show (which must have been close to its swansong) and they had to hurry on to Oasis or the Longpigs or someone. Does anyone here remember AR Kane? I've been listening to their "I" album a lot recently, probably as a result of hearing A Love From Outer Space at the Strange Fruit New Year's do. well, that'll do for now, Mark. http://grandpontgenie.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname at nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 stugardiner at xxx.com Sun Jan 11 21:01:18 2004 From: stugardiner at xxx.com (Stuart Gardiner) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:01:18 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I never should have settled down, hanging round in a one horse town... Message-ID: So I'm not hanging around any longer. There's only so much time a man can cope with his parents for, and I passed that amount of time about three months ago. It's finally gone far enough, so I'm leaving tomorrow. For Thailand. OK, so it's not really just the parents that have made me want to leave the country for a while. The sun, the beaches, the temples, the jungle, the mountains, the trekking, the food, the people... All perfectly good reasons to head to Asia for a few months. Am I running away from real life? Possibly. But what's the point of working your arse off for years, caring about nothing more than getting a slightly bigger house and car? That's not the life for me. So I'm not as rich as some of my friends who've been working as investment bankers or something for a few years. But I've had what I consider to be a much better life. Doing a job I enjoy for the last few years, and working hard enough at it to get the money to pay for this. My life never has been, and hopefully never will be, ruled by making money. I've got the chance to spend the next few months having the experience of a lifetime; it would be immoral to turn down that chance, wouldn't it? It's weird, when I tell people I'm planning on going travelling for a while, I get two responses. Either they say I'm wasting my life (hardly, I've had more of a life than anybody devoting their life to an accountancy firm will ever have); or they say they're jealous (in which case, get off your arse and do it yourself! Saying you've got to keep your job / house / money whatever is just an excuse. If you really want something, go for it!). I'll be thinking of you (not least when I'm A Cuckoo becomes B&S's first top ten single next month... And why not? It's their best, and most radio friendly, single for years). And who knows, maybe you'll think of me, when you look out of the window at another winter's day, and I'm living in a beach hut off the coast of Cambodia, or trekking in Nepal. And you'll decide, sod this, I'm going to do the same. Because you can, you know. Don't dream it, be it. Right, I'm leaving first thing in the morning, and it's now 9pm. Time to start packing... 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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 a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com Wed Jan 14 14:16:25 2004 From: a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com (a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:16:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Turn on the bright lights Message-ID: <20040114141628.18877.h005.c000.wm@mail.nme.com.criticalpath.net> Yo Sinistah, what have you been up to? I've been having a lovely Christmas, an okay new year, and even started exercising. Oh God. Exercising sounds very grandma-ish to say, but I have. We're actually getting a new flashy thing at home today, a crosstrainer or something. You have this puls-measuring-thingy on you and because you will have put in some personalized settings, it will measure your pulse and then make the exercising so that you stay on a certain pulse... or something like it. I am a little scared of it, since I am a bit scared of machines that, um, know too much. hello paranoid. Really though, I blame it on Anders. You heard me! Well, ok, I don't blame it on you, Anders, directly. You see, Anders, a sinisterbite for those of you who haven't read any of his posts or something, who lives in Norway came to stay with me for five days this summer, and we watched this really weird movie one night, called Christine. It was a Stephen King movie. It really did SUCK. I'm not fond of that expression, but it really did SUCK. At first, there was this nerd guy with big glasses and converse shoes. We laughed and said that he seemed like a typical B&S fan. Then he bought this freaky old car, called Christine, and it was a car possessed by.... the devil? Someone evil, though. And he dropped the glasses and got a popular girlfriend. Then the car tried to kill his girlfriend. It really did not make any sense at all. They're showing it again on Saturday. I won't be watching it. What makes me a little sad is that I only got one sini christmas gift, from the lovely Gràinne, but not from my other secret santa. I was thinking, maybe my secret santa is very late. Maybe. I don't know.But it happened the last time as well. I had a dream about sinister. There were secret posts going around, that everyone really hated me and wanted to get rid of me, and so, everyone kept ignoring me and then I realized what was going on. I don't know why I dreamt of sinister, it was just part of a big dream of lots of scenarios which made me feel really bummed out, but you know. I hope there are no secret posts of Astrid-scorning. Can't wait for Damien Rice to come to Sweden again, I got great seats this time on the 5th row, so I'm really, really excited. Someone called Josh Ritter is supporting. Apparently he's doing really well in Ireland. I heard a song called Kathleen yesterday. Seems fine by me. If anyone knows more about him (that's not the website) send me an e-mail. Belle & Sebastian are coming here as well, but since it is an 18-age limit, I'm not even going to bother. It really annoys me though, since I in March will be 17 and 8 months old. But I've seen them before, at least, and I can go and say hello around soundcheck time and just talk a bit, because that always makes me super happy doing, even when I can't go to gigs that are in clubs and stuff. Last night (she saiiiid... no, stop, wrong artist) I watched David Letterman, eagerly anticipating the Ryan Adams performance. I LOVE Ryan Adams. People who say that he makes shit music right now can just sod off, because it is still so true and beautiful. There ARE some weird stuff on Love is Hell Pt 1 +2, but I don't care. I know what he's doing, sort of. He was tired of what he was known for. Country goth, as he called it himself. He wanted to have fun. When he performed So Alive on Letterman, he was lovely. He sang like nothing else mattered, and I cried a bit because I had sort of gotten convinced he was going downhill and then I saw him and the song evoked the same feelings in me as Oh My Sweet Carolina, New York, New York, or any other critically acclaimed song of his. I have to go home from school now, urgh. it's cold and snow outside and I am as always in a skirt. Why, why, why? Because I am wearing my Clarks and none of my trousers go with them. Except for two pairs that makes me feel like a man. So that's why. Well, so long people. Astrid x P.S. My best quote: "DUDE! I just realized who I really am!" - Fabrizio Morretti, the ever so lovely drummer of the Strokes. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname at nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 hellocaptain at xxx.uk Wed Jan 14 15:00:01 2004 From: hellocaptain at xxx.uk (Jen) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:00:01 +0000 Subject: Sinister: What Jenowl did... In-Reply-To: <200401092050.UAA00592@missprint.org> Message-ID: Hullo, Well, I know everyone probably doesn't 'member me, but I used to be on sinister when I was 15 or so, and my name is Jenowl. I'm 18, now. It's very scary. I do very adult things like pay bills and call people who are younger than me "kid". So...I hear you all not cry, "what have you been up to in your almost three year absence from sinsterville."? Well, it's funny you should ask, because it's a tale to rival the Boxer and then some. (It's not really, but there were a few come-ons from whores). Well, I left home at the tender age of 16 going on 17, fresh faced, with a binbag full of vinyl records and hopes, to fulfil my lifelong dream of becoming a dental student. I decided that the best place to do this would be Dundee, because London was too scary, and Glasgow had all the hard kids. I stayed in halls, where I didn't get on too well with my brand new flatmates, because they were posse girls, and I had bessie the tarantula too, and they were arachnaophobic, and also I blew up the cooker once. Besides, they kept trying to make me over. I'm really messy and they were really tidy, and they liked to have loud parties and I like to curl up with a good book. That was my first year of uni, which sort of passed in a state of nondescript poverty and the neverending sound of Craig David floating through from the common room. But on the whole I didn't get beaten up, much, so I decided that leaving high school early had been a good choice in the life of me. Bessie agreed, so that was that. But the other thing that happened I looked up from my books long enough to see a boy who was waving frantically and shouting 'pay attention to meeeeee'. He had the looks of a catalogue model, and I respected the fact that he's the only person other than me who I've seen take out Nemesis with a beretta in Resident Evil Three. So we moved in together. The flat is nice; the heating doesn't really work, and there's not often hot water. Our neighbours are horrible, and hard kids come and bang on the windows sometimes, but it has a purple bedroom. Bessie loved it. She's dead now, Bessie. She died last night. I'm not sure how it happened, because I took really good care of her, but she died anyway. She was only 3. I think she was sick. I really miss her, she was really sweet and friendly. I went in to say goodnight to her, and give her some water, and normally when I do that, she goes for a little paddle, but she didn't. And she was all floppy. I don't really know what I'm going to do without her to talk to, she was a good listener, and she only ever bit me a couple of times. I played her Dear Catastrophe Waitress last week, and she really liked it. Her favourite song was You Don't Send Me. I don't like it though, it gives me a headache, but I might play it for her sake. I hope she's up in spider heaven, and that she doesn't hate me for not being a better mum. I ride a motor bike now. It's a Honda CG125 and it's blue and green with L plates and it is my pride and joy. It was all beat up when i got it, but me and my dad fixed it all up, and now it runs like a gem. And I've got a helmet with a Rainbow Brite sticker on it. I've been in a couple of crashes, but I think I must be quite tough deep down, because I've never been seriously hurt, even when there was this one time and I went over some ice and crashed into a ditch and the bike landed on top of me and I got big holes burned in my trousers, but I was ok, and i laughed about it, and the people that saw thought i was nuts. Although, to be fair, they might have been right. But I like eccentric better, I'm less likely to get sectioned that way. What else has changed? Well, I don't wear fairy wings any more (well, sometimes, around the house...) and i've developed a fondness for grey jumpers. I'm listening to FISHYCLAP right now. It's pretty mokeish. I keep skipping songs to get to The Model and There's Too Much Love. I don't think it's actually crap, I think it might just be that I spent Christmas at my friend The Lieutenant's house, and we listened to Anal Cunt a lot. Isn't that just the most non-twee name for a band you can get? They have a plethora of wonderful song titles too, like 'I Got an Office Job for the Sole Purpose of Sexually Harassing Women' and "I Sold Your Dog to a Chinese Resturant". If you like good music, I wouldn't recommend them. They're mokes. Lately, I've been listening to an awful lot of Handel. I like Messiah. And Ooberman's Magic Treehouse, but that record always makes me feel a bit sad, for some reason. Maybe I'm getting nostalgic in my old age. I really hate the song Blossoms Falling, it's rubbish and everyone says it's good. I used to like it years ago, but now it makes me feel like everyone is on acid except me. But I love Sur La Plage, that makes me bounce about all over the shop. And I downloaded Heavy Duty from somewhere, and that is nice and bouncy, like Bees. My christmas present this year from my mum was the Fans Only DVD. It was ace. Did anyone else cry when they watched it? I did but I'm not sure why. The Brit Awards bit was great, I'd forgotten all about that. I think I was 13 or 14 when that happened, and I remember going to school so happy and proud the next day, until I got beaten up by some Steps fans. This is fast becoming the longest e mail I've ever made. I should go, I think. It was nice catching up. I think I might be around, depending on how often I get to use the computer. *waves* Hugs, Jen(owl) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Jan 14 16:37:49 2004 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:37:49 +0000 Subject: Sinister: i'm a moo-foo Message-ID: TIME TIME TIME SEE WHAT'S BECOME OF ME Aw, reading jenowl's post brings a tear to my eyes, all growed up and everything. (That's jen, not my eyes, my eyes are still as ungrowed up as before, fixated to girls' boobies and stuff). aw. i still remember the day when she gave me 2 hugs, and now she's blowing up cookers, and a dental student and everything. And one day the hard kids will have teeth trouble and they shall fear when Jen is upon them, with a drill. "You may start to taste blood in a minute, but don't worry as you'll pass out soon enough MWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA". And Neil Robertson returns, too, apparently. However I am suspecting this to be an imposter, a quick analysis on his email. The search for the word "fuck" produced 0 result(s). The search for the word "fucking" produced 0 result(s). The search for the word "prick" produced 0 result(s). The search for the word "cunt" produced 0 result(s). The most expressive word on the two recent emails was "AARGH". Am I the only person disappointed? DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE, IT'S BOUND TO BE A BETTER RIDE THAN WHAT YOU'VE GOT PLANNED It was really cool the other day, I wasn't hungry at lunchtime so I thought I'd spend the hour on going for a walk - just an aimless wander - and for some reason all of a sudden the fact that there was nobody who knew me on the street and there was nowhere in particular that i had to go made me feel inordinately happy. CARRY A CUP IN YOUR HAND Another happy thing this week was the purchase of "WWE SMACKDOWN - HERE COMES THE PAIN" for the Playstation 2 - oh my god, a game involving muscular blokes hugging each other and sitting on each other's faces has never been so much fun! And what's more, there's a special mode where you control all these girly wrestlers and they have to rip each others' clothes off to win!!!! What a great game! HANG ON TO YOUR HOPES MY FRIEND, THAT'S AN EASY THING TO SAY, BUT IF YOUR HOPES SHOULD PASS AWAY SIMPLY PRETEND THAT YOU CAN BUILD THEM AGAIN Yay. New single and stuff out but unfortunately it'll be out the week when I'm off to the Far East, so i might have to wait until I return to listen to this. I wonder what the REMIX is gonna be like, i hope it will have lots of drumbeatz in it like.... "DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH i'm a cuckoo DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH Harajuku DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH, DUSH" and then go straight into Blue Monday by New Order. "dup dup dup dup dup dup dupdupdupdupdupdupdupdup DUSH DUSH DUSH, Crash! I'm a cuckoo!" That'd be mental! ------------------ Season change with the scenery weaving time in a tapestry won't you stop and remember me at any convenient time? Funny how my memory skips Looking over manuscripts of unpublished rhyme. Possibly the best bit of lyrics ever written that doesn't involve the fact that a woman needs a fish like a man needs a bicycle, which of course makes for the best lyrics. 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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 anders at xxx.com Wed Jan 14 19:58:57 2004 From: anders at xxx.com (anders) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:58:57 +0100 Subject: Sinister: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=92d=20swallow=20chalk=20and=20swear=20it=20was=20cheese?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?!?= Message-ID: <200401142058.AA4091216068@bakvendtland.com> Hola Sinisterinos y Sinisterinas, One thing that has been bugging me lately; In, for instance, a book called "Vidas", which we use in our Spanish classes, how do they manage to write the upside-down question marks? I manage when I do hand-writing, sure, but by typing? Anyone who knows? I'd be thankful if you told me. Every time I see one of them I wonder how on earth they managed, and it's hard to focus. please help! :? (upside-down) Another thing that's getting on my nerves is how, every single time I intend to write the word "mail", I write "mial" Every time! Except just now, but this time i used one finger and was typing carefully so that it'd be correct. Mial. To me it sounds a bit like what the cat says. "Miaaal" said the dyslectic cat. Have you seen Finding Nemo? It is amazing. It's the funniest film I've seen in a while I think. One of the best Disney films ever. This was the best since Lion King, and you don't know how much I love Lion King. And I won't tell. Just that I am, still, close to knowing it by heart. In Norwegian of course, but still. To most of you I guess that's even more impressing. "Norwegian! I can't even say Hello in Norwegian!" "Hei onkel Scar!" says Simba, trying to say "Hi uncle Scar!" And we learned something today as well. Lion King is still The Best, but Finding Nemo is runner up, and chasing the lion's tail. Go to the cinema! But don't you blame me if you feel sorry when you see a fish, or if you’re, with whom you’re going, sneaks into your house at night to free your beloved friends. They even kiss you when you stick one of your fingers into the water. They like you. They enjoy being in your imprisonment. Tell yourself. See the film. Free them. Let the wee, coy one back in the corner meet his dad again. Don’t blame me. Do not visit the elephant churchyard without leave. Stay out of Mirkwood at night. Do not leave the path. Remember who you are! And don’t blame me if you go insane. As some might do. I am no movie. Neither the oh so lovely Finding Nemo nor the oh so SUCKing Christine. Though I’d rather love to be The Return of the King, or Gandalf at least; Anders the White. Nice. Mr. Grey/White should have been Person of the Year, instead “the American Soldier” grabbed the award. Brave as he is. I’d rather give the price to “the average Iraqi” if they absolutely had to give it to someone that abstract. Christine was one freaky old car. Freaky as hell. First she was hardly more than a heap of metal. The nerdy guy then made her become a more or less “cool” (but oh so dangerous) car. Condolences to the murdered girl and her family. Though; I can’t say I remember how it ended. If you’re in Sweden, or within the range of the Swedish broadcasting-thingy (as I am!) watch it on Saturday! Just so that you can appreciate good films even more on an other occasion. I’ve seen one film with living hands. One with giant under-soil creatures killing lots of decent gentlemen. And I’ve seen Deep Impact. Tomorrow I am to have a wee play at school. The script written by me. I had help though, from Tolkien because it is a scene from The Hobbit, when they are captured by the wooden elves. And I am a dwarf; Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror King Under the Mountain! (in fact!) My 12 fellow dwarves are teddy bears. I am 1.87m (?). But we have the nicest costumes you could ever imagine! Paper hats for all dwarves, and nice wool costume for the biggest. I have to go practice. Machines are nice. Don't blame me. They do what you want. And if they don't; it's not my fault. I hardly hear from you these days, Sinister. At your service, Anders Ps. a.s.t.r.i.d: I am waiting in anticipation . In other words: Hurry! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 e.brasure at xxx.net Wed Jan 14 21:56:44 2004 From: e.brasure at xxx.net (Eric Brasure) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:56:44 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Absolute Beginners Message-ID: <001901c3dae9$4cc2dd20$74fea8c0@joshua> Dear Sinister, Last night I stayed up until 5:30AM watching the film Spanking the Monkey on digital cable. Please don't think it was porn, although porn is lovely and you all should go watch some. No, it was some film from the early '90s where everyone was depressed and listening to grunge music. The main character couldn't masturbate in the bathroom because his father's dog would come to the door and whimper. Oh, and he had sex with his mother. The boy, not the dog. It was a wonderful use of my time. Some of you may remember my job search from a few months ago. It was put on hold because I'm a flake and I took three months longer to finish my thesis. Then it was Christmas, and then it was 2004. I honestly don't know what I've been doing since I moved back home in June, but I know it's involved a lot of DVDs. I applied for a job last night at a horridly large corporation where I would take phone calls from people. The company is sort of brainwashy and gross, but I can do anything for a few months. I finally got my hands on the new single, and it's actually pretty good. Desperation Made a Fool of Me sounds like a lost Magnetic Fields song, although I don't rightly know why I think that. I'm done, I think. Love, Eric P.S. Jenowl posted. My fucking god. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 stephanowic at xxx.it Thu Jan 15 16:14:19 2004 From: stephanowic at xxx.it (Stefano [Steady-State]) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:14:19 +0100 Subject: Sinister: so this is the new year. and I've got no resolution Message-ID: The moon was low over the horizon, laying over the bridge, almost unreal, brighter then any lamppost. So close that I felt like it was starring at me. So close that it might have whispered something. So why didn´t she said a single word? A word, which can break the silence, made up of car traffic, people walking down the road carrying shopping bags, raindrops, chicken burgers, wrapping paper, railways, cigarette lighters, neon lights in the Chemist´s window. Then the door opened, and I stepped inside, and that glance too close and pin potting was gone. I´ll never never know what she might have said. For what it means. The rain is still falling and the grass in the garden greener then ever. The days are getting longer. I suppose I smoke too much. I wonder if I´ll understand the rules of the game. Love stefano #~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# When you sleep do you see an angel in dying light Or can you see someone standing outside trying to set you alight Or maybe you've seen someone somewhere before that I might have loved if i'd never loved you but you only see me in bad dreams +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Thu Jan 15 22:58:27 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:58:27 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Shall We Dance? Message-ID: Hello Sinister, long time no see.. The record I've been listening to the most recently is called "Shall We Dance... by Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra"; a selection of foxtrots, quicksteps and other dance-hall classics. Every tune is a warm clarinet-led instrumental number, except for track Four on side B, which is a cover of "Let's do it (let's fall in love)". It comes on unexpectedly while I'm reading a book and I end up wiggling my toes along to the tune. It's a very peculiar song, though. Apart from all the birds and bees and educated fleas, who are all doing it, perfectly legally it seems (though the bees must find it rather tricky with those big thorny stings sticking out of their bums; you wouldn't want to get things muddled up if you were a lady bee). No, that's all perfectly reasonable, and I don't mind about the Dutch, the Finns, the Lithuanians and Letts. I'm even prepared to accept that in Boston even beans do it. Honestly, I am. No, what i don't understand is why literally half of the song is preoccupied with SEAFOOD. Heavens to Betsy! You're halfway through the song, you haven't even started to explain WHAT they are doing. Half your audience think it's about DIY. Maud nudges Harold, "You see, Harold. THEY'RE doing it. Why don't you? It's about time you got up the loft and tackled the stop cock. Go on, cock". No, instead, while domestic strife is breaking out left, right and centre across the land, you start singing about romantic SPONGES, and fucking SHADS for heaven's sake! I mean, what IS a SHAD??!! "That reminds me. You could fix the door on that shed, Harold, while you're in the mood." Do you see what you've done?? It started off on such a good note, and ended up squelching about in oysters, clams and jellyfish. A tragedy! Quick! Bring on another foxtrot! I wonder. I've just come off the phone to a friend of mine who lives in Leeds and we were talking about spending next weekend there and seeing Camera Obscura on the 24th. Have you heard of them? Apparently they're rather splendid. Maybe some Sinister people are going, too. Hmm, you never know! Au revoir, Robin _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 hazey_jane_is at xxx.com Tue Jan 20 01:19:06 2004 From: hazey_jane_is at xxx.com (Das Mädchen mit dem Messer.) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:19:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Wrapped Up In Books...in Starbucks! Message-ID: <20040120011906.67762.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Sinister! I hope everyone is well. I, myself, have a tiny cold. It mostly is affecting my nose and my non-existant sense of smell, so I think I'll live...not that I have a choice - finals are this week. Fun, fun, fun! Anyway, my friends and I met for a "study-group" today at Starbucks. We actually did get some work done, though not as much as would have justified our being there for three hours. Anyway, in the midst of one of our discussions, what song should I hear playing not-so-softly in the background, but Wrapped Up In Books by our very own B&S! My friends thought I was crazy, because all of a sudden I shouted with uncharacteristic enthusiasm, "THIS IS BELLE AND SEBASTIAN!!!" and proceeded to sing along. Needless to say my friends were a bit stunned. That's when one of the girls and I decided to get some over-priced hot chocolate. I asked the woman at the counter who was responsible for the music at Starbucks. It turns out that it's some corporate bigwig who gets to pick the music. They put it on a CD and play it in Starbucks around the country. So the next time you go to Starbucks, you might hear it, too. Anyway, that about made my day. I have to say, though, that I always thought that if I ever did hear B&S in a public place, it would be a record store, where I can actually go up and say hi to whoever chose the music. Like in High Fidelity. I never thought it would be Starbucks. Then again, who does? ("Oh yes, I love this band! Someday, I'll hear them in a Starbucks.") Anyway, I'm bad at ending things (stories, essays, e-mails) so um...this is the end. Just thought I'd share this news with all of you. -Holly __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 anakin_sky at xxx.net Tue Jan 20 09:37:29 2004 From: anakin_sky at xxx.net (Anne Walter) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:37:29 +0100 (MET) Subject: Sinister: no hope for the states Message-ID: <17774.1074591449@www47.gmx.net> hi sinister, i hardly ever post, but... i think i'm probably not going to see belle & sebastian on their european tour this year, because the first time they are actually coming anywhere near where i live (berlin) i'll be in bloody england. bah! and this time i suppose i can't afford travelling to another country to see them again. although we were thinking about going to copenhagen, but... so, i heard about the hope of the states guitarist yesterday, and i think it's really sad. the english hype machine aside, i think they are a great band. i saw them last october in manchester, and i thought they were absolutely amazing. i even kept a plectrum (you say that in english?) from that show (cheeseball, i know), and i was really looking forward to their debut album... a lot of people probably don't know what i'm talking about, well, the guitarist of that band hope of the states killed himself last week. very very sad. so, yeah. it's all good going to manchester again for 2 months though, since i'm going to go and see loads of amazing gigs. no, not belle & sebastian. hmph. but my other favourite band called explosions in the sky, from austin, texas. and death cab for cutie. and... okay, this is probably boring for everyone except me. that's why i never post, i suppose.. british folks, do you remember "the young ones", this f**king great comedy from the 80s? i'm doing this class at uni called "linguistic formats of television comedies" and me and a couple of friends are doing a presentation on "the young ones". i think this show is absolutely hilarious, one of the best comedies i have ever seen, also one of the most absurd. which is a big part of why it is so funny i guess. okay, well i really don't have that much to say, so i stop now. lots of love, anne. ps: hi paul, sorry for not being in touch! pps: a.s.t.r.i.d., keep posting, you're great! -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Bis 31.1.: TopMail + Digicam für nur 29 EUR http://www.gmx.net/topmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 teacandlelight at xxx.uk Tue Jan 20 16:44:13 2004 From: teacandlelight at xxx.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Aurora=20Borealis?=) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:44:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: just like you said it would be.. Message-ID: <20040120164413.32863.qmail@web86101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> so i'm not entirely sure if a few decades later head-down-shuffling-melancholy is still the new cheery but i'm doing my darnest to keep this particular flag flying... seems so much better suited to my/my mates music tastes anyway and with this in mind...(cut me some slack here coz i came into the world of music a little late but on the off-chance that anyone on the list has a musical ignorance to match my own i need to spread the joy..or melancholy, i should say..) got stopped in my tracks by music i was given by friends twice in one month and the songs doing all the damage were Damien Rice..'the blowers daughter'..dont ask me the meaning but absolute genius i thought/think...and from the archives (do the 90's count?)..Spain..Spiritual..wow. if it gives anyone else a bloody huge reason to be cheerful then the mail is well worthwhile..i hope take care from the land of snow and ice x ________________________________________________________________________ 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 john at xxx.uk Tue Jan 20 21:14:22 2004 From: john at xxx.uk (John Jennings) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:14:22 +0000 Subject: Sinister: *blinks into the light* Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20040120211422.0036f618@merlin2.lamp.ac.uk> Sinister sinister sinister, Where have you been? SHAMELESS ADVERTISING Ack hang on, you've been here all along. I, meanwhile, have been trying to get a degree, and getting myself into all sorts of hilarious situations along the way. It is, it seems, becoming common practise to plug blogs to sinister so I feel that its necessary to mention that you can read all about it in my shiny livejournal. Some of you have. Yes. THE NEW ALBUM: ME RAMBLING So, lots of stuff has happened since I last posted. I'm sure you don't want my commentary on it all, so I'll keep the majority of my inane ramblings to myself (or *ahem* my livejournal *ahem*) but I will say that I like the new album very much. So much in fact, that it had the honour of being ripped immediately onto my pride & joy iPod, and is thus following me around in all i do and everywhere I go. I was listening to Stay Loose (is that what it's called?) on the way to the computer room that I am now posting from, and it is, disappointingly, a little too fast to walk in time to. Its still rather good though. Yes. THE NEW DVD: ME RAMBLING SOME MORE The DVD is a strange strange thing. Friends who have never heard of b&s seem to think its the bees' knees - they huddle around my ibook and sway, giggling at the absurdity of the videos. From those who love b&s like me though, it elicits grimaces and sounds of pain - 'if I saw this before I knew them, I would never have bought the album', one person told me... twee, alack, isn't the flavour of the month, but the dvd is... well... twee as fuck. Its true. THE LEICESTER SINISTER MASSIVE The Leicester sinister massive did once exist. It did. Honest. It was a long long time ago though. Such a long time, in fact, that for many it has become a thing of legend. But lo! What is that on the horizon? Is it the phoenix, rising from the... Ok I'll stop. There is to be another sinister meeting in leicester though, and I'm going home especially for it, because I'm just so darned exited. On Sunday March 7, Yo La Tengo and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci are playing at the DeMontfort Hall in the aforementioned midlands city. One or two of us are going, and to celebrate 'one or two' sinister-ines being together at the same time, i'm think a sinister picnic on the sunday afternoon before the gig, so we can all get to know each other, is in order. Good idea, huh? To be honest, if you're in leicester, you don't have to be going to the gig to go to the picnic (or pub trip, if its too cold for picnic-ing), but I thought I'd give you a wee bit of context ;) You'll notice that this date is a fair distance in the future, but I'm giving you plenty of warning so you can fit it into your busy schedule, and also buy tickets for the gig itself if you fancy going. Yes yes, I'm so organised. Also, I fear I'll forget if I don't post whilst I'm thinking about it. Ok I'm going to cut this post short now, because I'm not sure if this will get through. I'm posting from a computer room at uni and I had the fiddle a bit with the email programme to get the right email address and everything. I'm aware that that information is hugely irrelevant. Tum te tum, See you kids JP 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 stephanowic at xxx.it Wed Jan 21 18:44:46 2004 From: stephanowic at xxx.it (Stefano [Steady-State]) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:44:46 +0100 Subject: Sinister: People are like seasons, they change. Message-ID: Dear Sinister [These days last year] I wasn’t exactly this day, the same week either, but more or less. I was just back from the Christmas and the New Year eve holidays spent back where I was born and grew up. Before leaving this country I wasn’t sure I were going to get back permanently, or either move back so-called-home. I’ve never missed so-called-home really. It might be due to the fact I’ve never really felt it as it were my home. I hade to make a choice, and for sort of puzzling it might have been, and for how undecided I might have been, at last I listened to the mermaid singing, and pointing towards this place, telling it was the safe shore I could finally call home. The shore wasn’t safe, I think, but I was prepared to ignore the warning. And I wanted to be brave, for once, in my life. Forget about the past, forget about everything, choke it into the rubbish bin, turn the page, or keep on writing a paragraph which sounded so much better then anything else’s been written before. But sometimes happen p! eople turn the page for you, might want it or not, and there’s nothing much to do then start to write a new one. If one is strong enough. Or simply put down the pen. The memory will shine. Eventually. These days, last year, I’ve noticed that people working with me, in the same building was actually glad to see me wondering around the hallways eating pencils and mumbling to myself. Sort of unpleasant behaviors I still find hard to get rid of. It must have been these days, we all went down to pub, just be nearby channel, another of my favorite wondering location when it is not pouring rain, (I’m actually wondering I’m employed for wondering around) and they were all cheering up because I have decided to stay in the country. I wouldn’t have expected that. Which proves even further more I lack any sort of sensibility for what is going on around me. It made me feel like I were really finally home, and I was right to listen to mermaids and that I had possibly done one of the best things in my life. I think I did. Anyway. I wish thing might have looked clearer in my heart sooner. Not even that. I wish I could have washed my fears away earlier. Strangely enough we ended up in t! he same place, same people, same random talks, a few days ago. And it all seemed so surreal. With this people, who I came to know better, as much as they have come to know me better, and felt like a total stranger. So the same question again, is this my home? [Sitting in the pub with Nobel prices] Someway that reminded me of a something happened a few months ago, and, such a bizarre circumstance, it also involved having some pints in the pub. With Nobel prices. Not that many, two. And one stayed barely for a single drink. Know it can sound strange. But don’t even think I am a sort of well know personality in the field I am. Actually people won’t even bother to cite any of my paper, for what It matters. Actually most of the other people there on that days were quite well known in the field, as opposite to me. But, good enough to be in Lundun, a few students were allowed to take part in this sort of round table, about weirdy thing I won’t bother you about that is fairly irrelevant anyway. I haven’t been much into what I am doing for a while, But I can’t think at any other job that I can do and that I would enjoy more, so I spend my day fuffing around and often being in the library, taking a nap or reading about something completely irrelevant to my job. No worries I have not such great result. Anyway, one day, I clearly realized that my career was of completely uninteresting to me, in reality. Is just about transient satisfaction which fades too soon nothing worth, I think, now, spending a life on and had a few meters from me, these people, having gained a Nobel price, still wanting to talk about which experiments to do to prove this and that, and how this guy was right and the other wrong and blah blah blah I was just drowning my drink trying to look at the bottom of their eyes, if they really meant that or if it had become a sort of mechanical maniac habit. They didn’t seem to have any shine in their smile. I think they are not too dissimilar to me at the end of the day. It made me feel better. When we left the pub and had Chinese food. Take away. Nice. [White rabbits, White heath] At this time, last year, I’ve also learnt that the new month is introduced by white rabbits. When I worked in the nuclear station we use to say that the rabbits were glowing at night. And someone claimed he could really see them glowing in spring. I suppose he was just a bit too enthusiastic about the effect that, some of them rather old, nuclear reactor would so on living things, including us, working within the barbwire fence. I’ve never seen them glow, but must admit I have seen then become many, with fluffy jumpy little cottoned things jumping all around the field some season. I guess they don’t give a damn about the uranium pile next too them, and would rather be busy in more entertaining activity which would lead them to a quite fast expansion of the species. Must admit that how exactly they do that, is still quite a matter pretty obscure to me. But guess I got it. In theory. Might be if they get too enthusiastic, they glow then. Chewing pencil could be nice. Got a new blackboard in my office, I’m very proud off. And I’ve already half filled with trigonometric function with imaginary arguments. Nice. But I am stacked there. Might go for wonder. Yours, rather steady, Stefano #~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# When you sleep do you see an angel in dying light Or can you see someone standing outside trying to set you alight Or maybe you've seen someone somewhere before that I might have loved if i'd never loved you but you only see me in bad dreams +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 adrian.evans at xxx.uk Thu Jan 22 17:38:18 2004 From: adrian.evans at xxx.uk (Adrian Evans) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:38:18 -0000 Subject: Sinister: FW: CD WOW! - an Important Announcement Message-ID: <01C3E10E.8666C660.adrian.evans@blueyonder.co.uk> How f***ing outrageous is this? Sorry to get all contentious on you, but I'm sure I'm not alone on this list in being a very regular customer of CD-Wow. Does anyone with half-a-brain know why this isn't perceived as price-fixing? This bunny ain't smiling. Ev. |<>| CD WOW! - An Important Announcement Dear Member, The UK Major record companies through their mouth piece the BPI* have unfortunately restricted the UK and Irish consumers right to enjoy the freedom of the World Wide Web. As from this weekend, any CD ordered for delivery to the UK and Ireland will incur a surcharge as we are only able to deliver CDs manufactured within the EU (more expensive). Delivery to the rest of the world will not be affected. You only have a few days left - so order now! Be quick to make the best of our current low low prices while you can still exercise your right to choose. We will of course still be supplying UK and Irish customers but as of Sunday 25th January 2004 a surcharge of ?2.00 (3.00 Euros) per CD will apply. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 innerlemming at xxx.com Sat Jan 24 02:55:37 2004 From: innerlemming at xxx.com (laurel lemming) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:55:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: Coachella? Message-ID: <20040124025537.76430.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> hi, sinifriends ;] it's been awhile and all I have is a silly question but I figured since everyone's more tuned in than I am...has anyone heard any whisperings of whether b+s might play the Coachella Festival again this year? the cure and the pixies are both playing, and I would already die to go for that and neutral milk hotel, and if b+s played I might be able to rationalize the expense ;] thanks! lem ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiercecupcake/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 benapps at xxx.com Sat Jan 24 13:28:14 2004 From: benapps at xxx.com (Ben Apps) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:28:14 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm Count Dooku Message-ID: Bloody hell, it's a bit quiet round here innit? So the Fans Only DVD has *finally* arrvied in the US, and I anticipate spending many hours looking into Stevie Jackson's come to bed eyes as he tells the story of Jonathan and David. While flicking through the Discography pages of the DVD, I realised, (only 5 and a half years later), that it's Chris "beanz" Geddes on the cover of TBWTAS. I am dumbfounded as to why this nugget has eluded me this long, what a tool I am! In less than 3 months now I'm gonna get all "Londoned Up" for the second time in my life. The other day I got a sudden yearning for Vimto and Jammie Dodgers. I hope they're on the menu at the first sinister picnic of the year on Primrose Hill. Hope to hear some reporting back from Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo in the next few days! ttfn Bapps _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 mark.hester at xxx.com Sun Jan 25 00:39:10 2004 From: mark.hester at xxx.com (Mark Hester) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:39:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: I've found a place to live - I got it the hard way Message-ID: <20040125003912.23976.h007.c000.wm@mail.nme.com.criticalpath.net> Hello, I learnt quite a lot from the Fans Only DVD. I didn't know, for example, that the Maisonettes had existed as a group (or at least group of backing singers) prior to Legal Man. Well, I knew that there was another lot of Maisonettes, who did Heartache Avenue (which sounds a little bit like You Don't Send Me in places, if I'm not imagining it). Anyway, landslide, landslide, landslide....I was singing and/or humming this for a couple of days, having not heard it before. Of course, this is a song unlikely to ever see the light of day release-wise, but someone has covered it haven't they (Evie sands?). It's hardly ever been mentioned on sinister....a quick search of "landslide" revealed far more references to election victories ;) Stefano's mention of nuclear power stations and glowing bunnies makes me visualise him in an episode of The Simpsons. how would he feel if Mr Burns was his boss? He also complains that no-one is citing his papers - possibly coz he's getting them published in the wrong journals (not that I've got any professional interest at all, hee hee). I'm going to Belgium at the end of next month. I'm visiting Brussels and Bruges having obtained a very cheap Eurostar ticket. According to Honey's list-everyone-by-domain-type list, there are 5 of you there, so maybe we could have a little sinister meet-up, though it'll prolly be too cold for a picnic..... ....Which of course it won't be by the time BAPPS comes over (yay! etc). Mark. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname at nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 mollerenshaw at xxx.net Mon Jan 26 20:05:54 2004 From: mollerenshaw at xxx.net (Mark Ollerenshaw) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:05:54 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Righty tighty, lefty loosy Message-ID: Hey hey hey, Well doesn't time fly - looks like it's time for my regular bi-centennial post! Since you last heard from me I'm all grown up, with a degree, a big old flat to myself, and the somehow inevitable tedious office job, which for the sake of my mental well-being I'd really like to escape from - if anyone fancies joining me in my plans for an international disco ice-cream van operation (possibly involving airborne acrobats and dancing dinosaurs) then I'm looking for a partner... Actually, I was considering a trip to Sweden recently, and a friend told me that there's a disco train, with an actual dancefloor and everything, to while away the long tedious dark train-journeys. Can this be true? If it is then it may well be The Coolest Thing I Ever Heard Of. Really looking forward to Glastonbury again this year. It's going to ROCK. Imagine QUEEN, selling sticks of ROCK on Brighton pier. To GEOLOGISTS. In the middle of a FLAMING METEORITE STORM. While sucking on PEBBLES. About that much ROCK, I reckon. It was great meeting people last year (Hi Amy, Hello Carsmile, Hey Robin, Greetings DV) and finally putting faces to names, and I hope lots of you make it there this year too... Although I was disappointed that I somehow managed to miss Mr Chu, and hence still believe he's nothing more than a figment of our collective imagination. I was very sad to have missed the latest tour. The nearest concert was Bath, and all my friends are too stupid to both own a car AND want to drive me all the way to a B&S concert. And back. Curses. Although, with an album AND a DVD out this past 12 months, it'd be rude for them not to appear at Glasto, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? Hmmm... I'm personally looking forward to seeing James Brown stepping into Monica Queen's shoes for a surprise sexy funk rendition of LLPJ... I've STILL not made up my mind about DCW. Every time I put it on I really start getting into it, and then of course the next day I hear Tigermilk and all my hard work's ruined. Although Stay Loose is obviously a work of monumental genius from which I fear the band may never recover :) And it has most definitely the cutest of all the B&S covergirls yet. The DVD is pure condensed circular wonderfulness, too. Who'd have thought South American TV was so much crazy crazy fun? By the by, if there are any San Franciscan sinisterines that are looking to put off their annual address-book rationalisation/silverware polishing session/root-canal surgery in late April and fancy joining a lost-looking British listee and his mate for a drink or two, then I'd love to hear from you. It'd be great to have a friendly face to keep us company for an afternoon :) One final thing: as a serial lurker I thought I'd remind you all that you're wonderful people, each and every one of you, and touch me, or cheer me up, or both, without fail whenever I check my email. Yay for Sinister! Keep up the good work. The safety of the universe depends on it... That and superman of course. Anyway, must dash - I've kept you long enough. Look forward to my next post in 2204 - it'll be a corker, I promise :) Bye for now, Mark O +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com Tue Jan 27 08:39:56 2004 From: a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com (a.s.t.r.i.d at xxx.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:39:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: May I punch you? Message-ID: <20040127083959.3558.h000.c000.wm@mail.nme.com.criticalpath.net> Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with people. In the computer room, there are four good computers that you can play mp3s on. I'm on one of them. I was here first. I, for once, started playing MY music, first some Josh Ritter and now, because of my wrath, Interpol. Quite obviously, you don't start playing on one of the other computers when someone else is already playing. But someone is. I am in this moment getting Interpol's PDA ruined by background sounds from crap 70s cockrock. AH! SOD OFF EVIL PERSON PLAYING CRAP MUSIC! I WAS HERE FIRST! DON'T YOU KNOW THE UNWRITTEN LAWS?! I am in quite a mood today, you see. I missed my bus first, so I was too late to actually attend my organisation and leadership class, when I got here I realized I had forgot my keys at home. This was also the day that I brought the seven books with me that I have to go to the library with. Good things: I listened to B&S on my way here, and that made me feel good and twee and happy. I am buying a nice sweater on sale today. I end at like 12:30. Last night I made a life improvement list. It included things as sleep more, read more, clean more often, exercise more and some rules for shopping. I don't know what good this list will do me but it was at least something to do. I dreamt really weirdly, I danced a "naked dance" (it was called that but when I danced it in my dream it felt more like some sort of rain dance) for people in my school, fully dressed. It sounds like it'd be a pervy thing but it wasn't. I was wearing a gorgeous sort of 50s dress though. And Posh n Becks were getting married (again?) in the school gym. They were wearing something that seemed like some sort of scuba gear, but Becks had holes made along the side, so you could almost see his arse. It was strange. Speaking of arses, this weekend I had a disturbing experience that will scar me for life. I had had a nice evening with Amanda at my dad's. We had danced around in Caled Followill and Justin Hawkins-masks that we got with the Xmas NME. We had been singing and playing some and rehearsed a bit. We had even played some very hilarious Mickey Mouse's Racing or whatever it's called, it's a video game. We had had a GOOD TIME. And then. We put on the tv. Amanda starts sulking when I don't want to watch what she wants to watch, so I change to the "Open Channel" where people can do whatever they want, sort of. It's just local. This guy, i think he was from Kenya, stood there, against a cheesy background, with a synthesizer and sang and played piano to a pre-done background with crap drums. it was quite funny. We like that. Innocent. But then we switched to another channel. And there was Bruce Willis, just finding a rattle snake in his mailbox and we said to each other "Ah yes, haha, must be that erotic thriller they've shown commercials for all week" and kept watching because it was the best thing on. And then. THEN. the lurrrrve-making in the pool! AH! BRUCE WILLIS' PRIVATES! FILMED UNDERWATER! AHHHH! We laughed so hard we had to keep watching because it was so terribly awful and made us CRINGE, and,ah, yes, Bruce Willis' arse pressed against the shower glass wall, thanks a lot. Disgusting man. They showed this movie at prime time on probably the biggest channel in Sweden. STRANGE. And gross, gross, gross beyond words. I've given up on competing with the EVIL EVIL EVIL person playing crap music on her computer. Play Queen or whatever, I don't care. Argh. By the way, mine and Amanda's band have changed our name now. From The Phoners via The Delays (we had it for about a week, until we realized it was taken by a really great new band signed on Rough Trade) via The Vanities (no, a LA band had that name it turned out after browsing through the five first pages of google results) via our new name: Kit. It might be shite, it might be nice, but we like the feel of it so this one is a keeper. Yesterday I felt like fighting someone all day. My friend Sanna did as well. I was walking around saying things such as "I might just punch someone, just because I feel evil" and I still do. Maybe it's because i've never hit someone or recieved a punch from someone else. It would just be interesting to see how it'd feel. But I'm so weak, I know I'd be a lost cause in a fight. But still. Oh well. The demo is coming out well for us, we have still "just" done Hit it, Raoul! but we are trying to get back in the studio ASAP. In the meantime, we have done some background vocals on Martin Gordon's (ex-Sparks) new record. Take care people, and please say hello once in a while. My inbox is lonely. 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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 stephanowic at xxx.it Tue Jan 27 10:13:03 2004 From: stephanowic at xxx.it (Stefano [Steady-State]) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:13:03 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Tiger, Bunnies, Gnu: mammals. isn't that what we all are? Message-ID: Dearest Sinisters It snowed this week last year in Lundun and people were trapped on the motorway and sort of skating on ice back home when the underground stopped. The weather forecast said is going to snow again and the roads are spread with salt. They are taking it seriously! Snow Puppets tomorrow and snowballs; Lovely! There must be a reason for all the looks we gave and for the weather as well! Must be because I have won my usual inertial laziness and updated the photographs from the last Tigermilking night in December. http://www.undermybed.org/tigermilking Talking about [Tigermilking] If you fancy like coming over for the next one... well it is the 14th of February: yes, My Bloody Valentine Day! It will be a special theme night, obviously, following the suggestion of Paul the Gingerfox... see him behind the wheels of fire together with other people on the list possibly including Myself and Jim Purpletrousers in a broken hearted session introduction: I´ll move myself to tears. Not such a hard task!... That of course before dance my shoes off, which, in turn, proves I´m clearly schizophrenic. Wondering if anyone would fancy bowling in the afternoon: Cheesy! But the main reason for the forecast snow prediction should be me playing a gig this Friday. I think I´ll bring glowing bunny on stage as well, and might be wearing a Simpson T-Shirt as Mark H. suggested my boss might have looked a bit as burns. Actually He looked a lot like Osama Bin Laden, which later caused him a few problems getting into work. But he was a very nice guy, though I can´t comment on Osama having never met him before. Upstairs at the garage is a nice venue, I think. Mostly because I have seen some nice band over there, and spent some lovely night at the Silver Rocket club, which I really recommend because is ace, and it damn rock. The first time I played there, I´ve been in England for only two days and it looked like a complete dream, supporting one of my favourite band and everyone being so friendly I could not even believe it. Forget about the things people says about Italian being friendly, is all b******s! Now is about two year exactly I´ve been playin! g there and I am a lot less disenchanted about things, but still feel extremely pleased I moved in this country. ...And again, one bloke in on of the band I am supporting was in the line up of my favourite Mogwai album, which is not Come on Die young! (it could have been though) but Young Team. But if you feel like going a lot more indie pop, he was in Teenage Funclub as well... Bandwagonesque tells you anything?... I´ve got quite a few reason to be excited... haven´t I? I´ve ownloaded some of their stuff... they sound a bit metal too me though, but, should I mind?* The first person I ever met in this country is called Ian. He is GREAT, and he plays in a few very nice bands One of his last creatures is HEY COLOSSUS. They rock. An awful lot. Self-defined, horrible kraut stoner rock: says everything. They have a got a record out, is on vinyl and comes for only 5 quid at the gig. And I think is good, very good, plus more fun that you can ask for at a concert. Can you ask for more? Today I feel rock´n´roll. I am sorry Have a great one Love Stefano *if you want to come over email me of line, I can put a few ppl on the guest list, saves some pounds! #~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# When you sleep do you see an angel in dying light Or can you see someone standing outside trying to set you alight Or maybe you've seen someone somewhere before that I might have loved if i'd never loved you but you only see me in bad dreams +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 benapps at xxx.com Fri Jan 30 04:52:52 2004 From: benapps at xxx.com (Ben Apps) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:52:52 +0000 Subject: Sinister: it's not as if they're paying you, it's not as if it's fun Message-ID: Aaaarghhh!!!! Who else is addicted to the I'm a cuckoo game, in a ...MUST.....GET.......ON........HIGHSCORE.......TABLE........DAMMIT!!! kind of way? It's just so gosh darn frustrating!!! I see the boy Chu is at number 3, oh wait a minute make the number 4 on the leaderboard. I haven't even made 100,000 yet, but you just keep an eye out over your shoulder Ken, cos I'm gonna get you!!!! Grrrrrrr love Ben http://www.imacuckoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Jan 30 10:49:57 2004 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:49:57 +0000 Subject: Sinister: I'm too cuckoo for school Message-ID: Hey there sinistees, Hope you're all doing well. How's everybody's January been? It can be quite dull sometimes couldn't it, when everybody seems to be recouperating from the damages done in December. International Bowling Day was only a month ago - seems like ages now. It doesn't help either that it is freezing, of course, it's snowing and everything and if you are like, twee, or something, or just have a knack of reciting lyrics of vague relevance you might go "aww, fox in the snow", except then you realise that you live in London and if there are indeed any foxes in this Max Surban Urban city, they're likely to be flat after being run over by cars, which then estate agents will pick up and sell to you for £923,893 ono and you get all depressed about house prices. Fortunately, the boredom of January is finally over! Firstly in two days it won't be January anymore, but instead February, it's a great month because it only lasts for 29 days! So it's over more quickly. And ALSO - It's a month for playing the I'M A CUCKOO game!!!!! Never had there been (yes there has, but still) a flash game you can play that ACTUALLY WINS YOU THINGS. And I'm on the leaderboard! Yay! I was in 2nd place at some stage until some rascals got higher scores - but I'm still 7th. I don't know why they bother though, since I so obviously am going to win this. The game is pretty easy in a hard kind of way - it's like super mario bros - you can win but try and play a PERFECT GAME it becomes colossal. And if you're like, twee or something you'd even go "aww the cuckoo thing goes 'cuckoo' when it lands an egg", except then you get reminded of the polystyrene containers for eggs in Safeways, and you start cringing as you imagine the sound when you touch polystyrene things.. EEP i just imagined it ARRRRRRRRRRRGH. Added bonus of this game is it has a KARAOKE version of I'm a cuckoo (the song without the main vocal) playing in the background.. I wonder if it's a hint that there'll be a KARAOKE MODE on the DVD single?!?!??!?!?! *salivates* Now back to playing game er *ahem* work ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator at uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 lulou at xxx.org Fri Jan 30 16:36:09 2004 From: lulou at xxx.org (Linda Kerr) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:36:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B & S Mailing List - Cuckoo Competition addendum!! (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:58:33 -0000 From: band at xxx.net To: list at banchory.net Subject: B & S Mailing List - Cuckoo Competition addendum!! Hello, We've just been made aware that one of the dates we mentioned in the last message was incorrect! So please note that competition entries for the trip to Barcelona will be accepted up until 12 noon GMT on Monday March 1st 2004. Join in now at http://www.imacuckoo.com Cheers, Katrina @ Banchory. http://www.imacuckoo.com http://www.belleandsebastian.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank email to list-off at banchory.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 lulou at xxx.org Fri Jan 30 16:35:53 2004 From: lulou at xxx.org (Linda Kerr) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: B & S Mailing List - "I'm A Cuckoo" competition! (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:26:02 -0000 From: band at xxx.net To: list at banchory.net Subject: B & S Mailing List - "I'm A Cuckoo" competition! Hello all, First up, our friends at smalloranges.com have created a fabulous new game for "I'm A Cuckoo" which you can play online at http://www.imacuckoo.com The first prize is a trip for two to see Belle & Sebastian play in Barcelona on March 13th 2004, and there are 15 randomly chosen second prizes of signed records and various other goodies. The winner of the first prize will be the highest scoring eligible entry for the game and will receive two return flights FROM THE UK to Barcelona, two nights accommodation, tickets for the show and £200 spending money. The competition is running from NOW until 12 noon GMT on Monday 30th February 2004. Even though it is pretty likely that the winner will be from the UK (unless you can get yourself here at your own cost) please don't let that put you off entering the competition as everyone is eligible to win in the random second prize draw. Continuing with the "I'm A Cuckoo" single, we've reached number 7 on the MTV2/NME chart in the UK, thanks to everyone who's been voting for the Cuckoo video. Please continue to vote online at http://www.mtv2europe.com/nmechart2.jhtml to keep it in the Top 10! Further to the last Mailing List message, the "I'm A Cuckoo" will be released by Rough Trade America on enhanced CD single and (imported UK) 7" on February 24th. There won't be an NTSC version of the DVD single as previously mentioned at present, sorry, but we are working on remedying this situation soon. The enhanced CD single will also be released in Japan by Labels JP on February 18th and in Australia by Spunk Records on March 1st. Lastly, we'll have two new t-shirts in the online shop tomorrow, one for the "...Cuckoo" single and the other an old poster design from the past, which we think looks rather groovy on a t-shirt. Take a look tomorrow at http://www.banchoryshop.net to see what we're talking about. Good luck to you all in the competition! Cheers, Katrina @ Banchory. http://www.imacuckoo.com http://www.belleandsebastian.com http://www.banchoryshop.net To unsubscribe from this list send a blank email to list-off at banchory.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 lucyalder at xxx.com Sat Jan 31 10:57:34 2004 From: lucyalder at xxx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Lucy=20Alder?=) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:57:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: Faggy but nice Message-ID: <20040131105734.9977.qmail@web14208.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Sinister I have come to the conclusion that there are only two games I will ever be any good at. One is Snapper, the Acorn Electron's crappy rip-off of Pacman. The other is GTA3, but only if I have a flatmate who is always a step ahead of me to tell me how to beat the SPANKED UP MADMEN! I will never be any good at the Cuckoo game. After several attempts, my highscore is 12,500. How will anyone ever beat Chu? And, more importantly, shouldn't he go out and do something less boring instead? Eh? I was listening to John Peel's other show this morning and there was a lady who had given her son the name of Kevan. I was hanging on to see if she was a Missus Cooke but she wasn't. It was a bit of a disappointment. It's snowing again in Glasgow this morning, but it's a highly unsatisfactory half-sleet kind of thing. I have my thoughts set firmly on spring, though. This afternoon I will sow my sweet peas and possibly book tickets to New York to go to a Sinister Wedding! Wow. How many sini-weddings have there been so far? I wonder what Miss Honey's recommended apparel is for spring in Central Park. All the shops seem to be full of babygirl pink at the moment, but it's also the nedgirls' couleur du jour. Of course, I wouldn't be wearing a pink trackie jacket with BEAR emblazened on the front, but it's still a shade with... connotations, you know? I can't think of anything else to say. Juicy Lucy ===== The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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