From dahling007 at xxx.com Fri Oct 1 18:34:24 2004 From: dahling007 at xxx.com (stacey dahling) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:34:24 +0000 Subject: Sinister: farewells Message-ID: I was just perusing my favourite media site desperately seeking jobs, when I spotted this and thought of all of you: "Get a bunch of journalists in a room and the chat can be deafening. Certainly, there was plenty animated conversation going on at the leaving party for former Sunday Herald editor, Andrew Jaspan, on his way to edit The Age newspaper in Australia. Stuart Murdoch and another Belle&Sebastianer had been asked to play a two-song acoustic set. But the noisy hack crowd were for none of it. Eventually, after on-stage pleas from former business ed, Kenny Kemp, the crowd quietened enough for the band to play. But by the start of the second song, the crowd were blethering so loudly, the pair simply walked off." Aww poor Stu. But what was he doing playing a party??? I knew he was friendly with folks at the newspaper, but who knew it was like that eh? Hmmm... And journalists! How rude! Ha! Ha ha ha So yeah. I'm just bitter because I'm jobless and being forced to leave this lovely lovely place to return to the pit of despair - a place with the misleading name of Providence. Eeks! I swear I am the unluckiest girl in the world. Just last week alone there were two job rejections, one car vandalism and a FIRE! Even simple tasks, like renewing my car tax, somehow turn into two-hour sagas involving long hikes and pleading and tears. Why can't anything ever be simple eh? I just tell myself it's all a big test, and that eventually I shall be rewarded. I only wish it were sooner rather than later. Anyway, I'm going to cut this short before it turns into a rambling mess. I hope you all are well. And behaving. *hugs* stacey _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? 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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 o-lowery at xxx.com Tue Oct 5 14:36:21 2004 From: o-lowery at xxx.com (owen lowery) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:36:21 +0100 Subject: Sinister: the wages of sin are quite reasonable I assure you Message-ID: <80E6C488B2D91AB4FB04B0AFFF03C2EA@o-lowery.care2.com> Well hello there my sinister chums I'm bored at work and thought I'd try posting, not sure if this is going to work as I haven't been receiving all of your posts lately, I'm suffering from sporadic sinister service syndrome or something. I was thinking the other day about an old teacher of mine who was a good Christian (oxymoron anybody?), he always used to say that if somebody burst into the room with a machine gun and threatened to kill him if he didn't denounce his faith then he hoped he would have the strength to tell the truth and acceptept being murdered. This got me wondering if there was any belief that I would rather stand up for and die rather than denouncing. Quite frankly there isn't, either I'm a coward or I just don't value my beliefs enough. Luckily I'm morally weak enough to not be bothered about this character flaw. Then a really scary thought struck me What if the gunman burst in and said he would kill me if I didn't let him leave with either my record collection or all of my books. Now the question gets interesting, no longer is it a life balanced against something as flimsy as a belief, but, two things vital to my continued happiness balanced against each other. How do you balance a life without Joy Division and B&S with a life without Ray Carver and Haruki Murakami? Can he not just take my girlfriend instead? In the end I suppose I would have to keep music and wave goodbye to literature, in the final analysis nothing I've read can move me as much as Love's Alone Again Or and nothing will mean as much to me as B&S's Expectations. I guess that that's why every now and then I delurk and write to you lot rather than a site for people who consider Haruki Murakami to be the greatest living writer (incidentally, in my humble opinion, he is). I guess that that's why you guys get to put up with my rubbish (or at least have to delete it) and I guess that one of the reasons that you do put up with posts like this is that you wouldn't be on sinister if music didn't mean so much to you too. So here's to music, we don't value it more than life, but I wouldn't give it up for any amount of money. love'n'hugs to all the poster formerly known as the narrow wizard so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens (William Carlos Williams) Care2 Mail is new and improved - 100MB free storage! http://www.care2.com/go/z/100MB +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 andycapps at xxx.com Wed Oct 6 19:20:23 2004 From: andycapps at xxx.com (Andy Capps) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:20:23 +0000 Subject: Sinister: well hello again... Message-ID: i just wanted to put in my two cents about renewing some life into #sinister again. but hey, i'm not really doing anything else at the moment, so i should be posting again. some shows are coming up in the now chilly realm of toronto, i might be going to them. i'm going to see a band called crackpuppy on friday night but that is a different story all together. nothing like going to a show with trannies, indie boys, and where hell's angels are allowed to wear their colours. rock on boys. hello again to all of you lovelies...and yes, anyone can post these days. etta is sadly not on my lap for this post. she now lives with her grandparents in a space much larger than i have now. add a large wheel and we'd be two gay hamsters in a small cage with a kitchen and a loo. the early bird get's the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese... }:> _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft� SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN� Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Katia913 at xxx.com Sat Oct 9 06:40:47 2004 From: Katia913 at xxx.com (Katia913 at xxx.com) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 01:40:47 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Colors Bleed Message-ID: <5BEE5067.0EE6A2FC.0077470B@aol.com> Hello Sinister, my baby. This weekend comes a change, my loves. Its no longer summer. I wasted it away, as usual. Granted, it has not been summer for a few weeks, but it is just beginning to feel that way. Its that my-look-at-the-colors! time or the i-finally-get-to-wear-sweaters! time or the damn-its-no-longer-brisk-its-cold! time.... Ah, autumn is my ultimate favorite season. Its full of things....Like my birthday, cartigans, no more sandals, cordoroy and concerts. I feel like there are better shows in fall than any other season. For instance, I went to see Found's Fifty State Tour and fell in love with Peter from the Magazine. That was the night Davy was on Late Night TV so I got his shy, totally my style mousey brother. Fits well with that I-can't-barely-get-the-guts type of brown bombshell that I am.... for those of you who don't know, check out www.foundmagazine.com ok, good. I also saw the Faint. To be honest, I dont wear enough makeup nor do I dance like a raver enough to even think about liking them, but whenthey played "Psyco Killer" by the Talking Heads, I died and went to heaven!! What shows are you all going to soon? Or have you gone?? Love forever, Kate +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 sexychickswithheadwounds at xxx.com Sat Oct 9 18:31:29 2004 From: sexychickswithheadwounds at xxx.com (leyda campbell) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:31:29 +0000 Subject: Sinister: the fall is my favorite ( the season not the band) Message-ID: hello sinisters. i have to agree with katie, fall is the best time for shows. its my favorite time of year in general though. i love dressing all cozy and sipping cocktails while listening to records or watching a movie. its also a good time of year for makeing out since its chilly and everyone wants to leach some body heat. in two weeks the decemberists are coming here and i am so excited. if you haven't listened to them yet then go out and buy their records. it will be well worth it. the day after that mirah will be here too. yeah!! the arcade fire is on tour right now and im hoping that they will come to st. louis. they are one of my favorite bands right now. i am ordering each one of you to go out and buy their full lenghth album, listen to it all the way through and then i dare you not to tell me that their amazing. that's right, i dare you. and after you here their album, know that live, they are even more mind blowing. ok kittens, time for me to go. if there are any more cool shows that will be coming through the mid west, let me know. i think i'll eat then take a nap. xoxo, leyda _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? 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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 loulouhex at xxx.com Sun Oct 10 04:40:58 2004 From: loulouhex at xxx.com (Vilkas D'Angelo-Horvath) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 23:40:58 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Colors Bleed Message-ID: Mmmmm Autuuuuuum. The Fall. I love the season because I can wear makeup again. Lipgloss doesn't melt off. Eyeshadow doesn't mix with sweat and run into your eye. Today it was face powder with black glitter liquid eyeliner and tinted nude lip balm. You can wear your nice clothes again. It's the season for making out as eveyone looks fab in their stylee clothes but after all the goal is to get under all that stylee clothing. Mworw. Yeah, the Fall fucking represents. Both the season and the band. Sparta FC anyone? We live on blood indeed. Yeah when i was in high school, make that prep school; we had a Field Day at the end of the year. It was Hell On Earth. The school was divided into two teams, the Athenians and the Spartans. The Spartans won every year as they wore all red. Y'know how red make you excited. Like a field of bulls acting out Lord of the Flies. The Athenians wore all white. I was always the on Athenian team. I think that all those who were crap at sports were made Athenians. I enjoyed sports that were not Dumb As Shit, but I was still crap at them. As I am now too. I played badminton with the MunicipalWaste/VCR crew the other month. It was Fun As Hell. But as I am me, I am crap at actually hitting the birdie. One of my teammates, a crusty punk with big dreads and a studded belt and the patch vest got all pissy cause, in his eyes I was making the team lose. Fucking loser go put your braided belt and pleated khakis back on you fucking jock. In a moment of What The Fuck, I ended up hit the winning stroke. Nyah nyah. One year at Field Day, I think I was 14, with the permisison of one teacher, I wore a white rock T (The Creatures tour T) inside out. The Latin teacher said she didn't care what the english Teacher said, it was not allowed. So what I did as punishment, was scrub desks with scouring bleach poder for the whole fucking day. I am so glad to 30 and not 14. Are you like me? Are you amazed you survived high school? Seems all the folx who are amazed they survived high school are the amazing leaders, artists, musicans, writers and bitches who are generally ruling the joint. So kids, what have you been doing? Me, I've been dancing, arting, working. Working a ridiculous job involving lots and lots of hours doing loads and loads of spreadsheets. And getting paid. I'm not getting PAAAAAID, but getting paid at all is certainly better than not getting paid. And now I've got internet radio in my office. Hurray! I've been DJing more which has been fucking brilliant. Been xperimenting a lot with dub and beat destruction. It's nicer than you think. I have a hindi cover of Dancing Queen by ABBA which i layered 5 times on itself. And no I didn't do this live. I did it at home and jacked in my minidisc to the mixer. The melody and flow stayed but got tangled up together; the beat was oblitereted and the vocals were like a choir singing the same song at the same time in 5 differant languages. Yeeeahhhh. But I fuck up a bit too, sometimes you can call it glitchtronica. :-). The bit I tried with Freda Payne's Band Of Gold with dubbing a clean copy with a fucked copy, did not work due to fucked volume levels and fucked starting times. The goal was undulating dubby soul. D'oh! Now I have the decks at home so I can practice. Gasp! Shock! Practice! Yep. Practice practice practice. I've been showing my art and instigating a zine collective. Does anyone work in a record store or bookstore or club or infoshop etc. where we can send you zines for distro in your flyer or zine area. What we would send would not really be sold. We raise monmey so we can gie away our product. Most of what I do personally is not really sold anyway; I produce them cheap aka free enough to give away...the new issue is about siamese cats, friends, large bottles of malt liquor, orange juice, satan, the devil, the solstice and beltane. We're rvazines on livejournal (I'm on too if you wanna...I'm the same name as this email addy)...we have not updated this in a while...but we're fucking awesome anyway! Modest? Aw helllll no. Love exciting and new come aboard it's expecting you, VW >From: Katia913 at xxx.com >Reply-To: Katia913 at aol.com >To: Sinister at missprint.org >Subject: Sinister: Colors Bleed >Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 01:40:47 -0400 > >Hello Sinister, my baby. > >This weekend comes a change, my loves. Its no longer summer. I wasted it >away, as usual. Granted, it has not been summer for a few weeks, but it is >just beginning to feel that way. Its that my-look-at-the-colors! time or >the i-finally-get-to-wear-sweaters! time or the >damn-its-no-longer-brisk-its-cold! time.... Ah, autumn is my ultimate >favorite season. > >Its full of things....Like my birthday, cartigans, no more sandals, >cordoroy and concerts. I feel like there are better shows in fall than any >other season. >For instance, I went to see Found's Fifty State Tour and fell in love with >Peter from the Magazine. That was the night Davy was on Late Night TV so I >got his shy, totally my style mousey brother. Fits well with that >I-can't-barely-get-the-guts type of brown bombshell that I am.... for those >of you who don't know, check out www.foundmagazine.com ok, good. >I also saw the Faint. To be honest, I dont wear enough makeup nor do I >dance like a raver enough to even think about liking them, but whenthey >played "Psyco Killer" by the Talking Heads, I died and went to heaven!! > >What shows are you all going to soon? Or have you gone?? > >Love forever, > >Kate >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ > To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe > send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to > majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister > +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ > +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ > +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ > +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ > +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ > +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ > +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From stoutrobin at xxx.com Tue Oct 12 17:53:30 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:53:30 +0000 Subject: Sinister: PEDIGREE CHUM WITH GRAVY CHUNK Message-ID: Hallo, I have been meaning to write to you, oh dashing Sinister one, for such a long while. You see, while you have been off in the hills, standing in the stirrups and squinting through your pocket telescope, I have been writing a Sinister post. The trouble is that I began writing it so long ago, and have got through so many quills and sealing wax during the course of it, that it's all become completely out of date. I once had a conversation with one of you which went something like: Him: How do you decide which posts to read and which ones not to read? Me: Oh if I see it in my inbox and it's over five kilobytes big then I just delete it. Him: Oh. Mine are always over five kilobytes. Me: I see. Who are you again? But, fearless chums, I am afraid that I have become rather rambling myself of late, presumably due to deterioration of the brane, and am as much likely to commit the shameful sin of writing too much as anyone else. So, I have today decided to be succinct. MY SINISTER WEEK BY ROBIN STOUT 1. The other day I went into the cafe, and ordered some lovely hot chocolate from the australian girl who works there. She was squinting into the sun, which had settled on a rooftop over the street, so I positioned my fat head in front of it, forming a total eclipse of the head, if you like, and shielding her from the hazardous rays. I stood there for quite a while, and as I did so it dawned on me that she was wearing an upside-down badge belonging to a certain Glaswegian band. I thought of saying something like, "Cripes, your badge is upside down! That's rather sinister!", but then I thought better of it. 2. On Sunday, I was in Birmingham the land of the beautiful and free, and who should I run into buying haircare products but our own dear Ian Anscombe! It was quite a turn up for the books, I can tell you. I told him I usually buy the styling cream for straight hair. I presume he bought the one for gay hair instead. 3. On the way to work this morning we passed a Reliant Robin, a green one, which was driven by an old chap. In the window was a humourous sticker which said "My dick isn't the wrong size - I was supposed to have been born a dwarf". FIN _________________________________________________________________ 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 borokitty at xxx.com Wed Oct 13 16:02:48 2004 From: borokitty at xxx.com (Amy Skelton) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:02:48 +0100 Subject: Sinister: When north-east meets north-west Message-ID: Hey Sinister, ME � REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK? NO WAY! Well I�ve been back on home soil again for a couple of weeks now. I must say that I�ve been finding it a bit more difficult settling in again this time. I think it�s because it�s now all VERY final. My volunteering stint in Bangladesh is well and truly over (although I am going back to visit the boyfriend for Christmas/New Year - he he)*. Seeing family and friends again is great and is definitely helping me settle back to life in the UK. * Ian. You�re right I�m not American � but my boyfriend is. Hope that clears any confusion. ANYHWERE TO RENT IN GREATER MANCHESTER? So, I start my full on paid first graduate job on Monday. I�m very excited. Accommodation hunting is still underway. The only Sinister picnics I ever made it to were in Manchester so it�s nice to be moving to an area I�m fond of. A plea to Greater Manchester sinisterites � know anyone with a room/place to rent? Pref. in Heywood, 2nd pref Bury but will consider Manchester itself. I�ve been quite steady in settling back to the UK � no kayaking or dragon boating or canoe polo� since I�ve arrived. I guess they�ll be good ways of making new friends. A YEAR OF GIG DEPRIVATION After a year of cold turkey with no full on gigs I did treat myself the other week. My mate David and I went up to Newcastle to watch the return of The Delgados with support from Sons and Daughters*. A first class way to get back into the fray. * I�m cheating and saying this is content because of associations with B & S Well I�m saying the first gig since I got back because I�m discounting being dragged to see the oh so ordinary Ordinary Boys the night before � truly boring in my opinion. People are trying to re-educate me with bands that I�ve missed over the year. Sadly, they got it wrong that time. I�m up for suggestions of bands I should listen to/go and see. LAUGHTER YOGA Does anyone else here remember David Devant and his Spirit Wife (most famed for their You Must Be Ginger song)? I saw them on Sat after a hiatus of ? years. I went along because they always used to put on a good show with ultimate audience participation regardless of what you thought of their music. Like some other punters I was bitterly disappeared because the show had albeit disappeared. Taking growing up too far � eh. Childish humour still has it�s place some of the time �laughter yoga and all that. Anyway, as I�m on some sort of a money-saving regime I have not been travelling to London for gigs (not leaving the north-east can be restricting in terms of choice). To those of you who�ve been going to see Le Tigre, Jonathan Richman etc. hope you all had fun. I was very pleased to see an article in The Guardian last week about laughter yoga sessions before work being all the rage in certain regions of India. Ever the advocate of the benefits of a good chuckle I wish they were brought in here. Ah, well. I�d better go and enjoy my last couple of days of freedom before 40 years of (mostly) hard grind! Scary when you think of it like that. Take care all, Amy _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.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. 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.santabarbara at xxx.uk Thu Oct 14 14:41:01 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:41:01 +0100 Subject: Sinister: ATP2005-get together already? In-Reply-To: <006101c4a64e$149d0070$6401a8c0@KRISTIN> References: <006101c4a64e$149d0070$6401a8c0@KRISTIN> Message-ID: <1097761261.416e81ed963fa@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> Dear Sinisters and sinistrines, hope you all doing very well. I know it sounds like a long way ahead, but, wow, not completely recoversing from almost fainting, SLINT, the sublime squirrel bait sprouts who first open the door to a sping of uselessly labelled kind-of-music-genders are organisng the first week end of All tomorrows Party, next year. And playing. The band split in 1991, after the release of that (whith a few years of delay) and never enough hailed as a masterpiece, Spiderland. After that a short EP (untiltled or self titled according to the sources) and a dodgy live hav been the only chance to hear anything from then. the EP is fantastic. I'm goçng to buy my tickets straight away this week end when they go on sale, if anyone fancy joining, is absolutely more then welcome, as some of you might know, the chalet go on 4/6/8 people options... oh well, and after then I will camp permqntly in camber sand relying on fishing of plutonium enriched cod from the nearby nuclear plant.... and finally instituting the reformed church of holy slintian, that by the strength of his post crusade will one day invede with pain and sadness the heart of humanity. substantially, you got the option of vote for G.W.Bush, but we won't bomb you. (gold and silver is the autumn) I do agree that autumn is probably the most colorful season. Although, utill now, i don't share much of the problem with the make up. Although I don't know if it is my favourite season. I think I've got a favourite season for every different place, or town. I've been working in Paris lately and yes, it is definitely an Autumn city. I always find the place as beautiful as cold. As if it were cisseled out from a enourmouse ice block. Most of people seems to associate the town with the idea of romantic, i would say is more something of a subtile melancholy. Might be I can't just see the romantic side. haven't got rally any reason for anyway. However, all the white and cold stone, and copper turned green roofs melts perfectly with the leaves turning in all a possible spread of metallic colours. I propobably prefer my hometozn in autumn as well, or might be winter when the lakes freeze, if they do, and one can go skating or just walking on the icy surface. once i crossed all the lake and was almost frozen as well. is not a big lake, but might take hours to go all the way around. obviously where the car was. obvioulsy. but it looked a good idea; it looked. when we start walking. is almost always a good idea when you start. However I tend to associate London with the summer. Don't quite really know why. but, do I know anything? for exa^ple there is something i don't know: have you ver wondered why tomatos are red? goddammit lycopene is orange in any solvent, BUT not in there... bizarre... you'll be surprised to know how much money the goverment wast on such interest research topic, but, with the assistence of the BIG god of Raman (there are rare report in the ancient sources about how he(-she? raman spectrometers are temperamental... should be a lady) might look, but apparently eveyone is convinced he's got a big big beard. if a lady, not extremely attractive. Raman, bond lengeth and coniugated double bonds anzamani' anzamanera love (even if quite unvaluable.mine.your surely is:valuable) stefano +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Oct 14 15:16:40 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:16:40 +0000 Subject: Sinister: My favourite abbreviations Message-ID: As Jarvis once helpfully explained, Cocker is short for "A sucker of cock". Apart from this, my favourite abbreviations are: flu which is short for "influenza" pram, which is short for "perambulator" and soccer, which is short for "association football" I like it when people add all of the abbreviation marks into words that no one else does anymore. Occasionally I'll receive correspondence at Stout Towers in which someone tells me how they 'phoned the 'bus company 'cause it was late, or some such, and I'll get excited about all of the completely unnecessary apostrophes that they've scattered all over. The other day I received a document from the inventor of a television aerial, and whenever he referred to a television he called it a "TeleVision", including quote marks, as if this was some wonderful new word that he'd coined last Tuesday instead of in 1908. This also made me unfeasably happy. I saw someone in our car park here at work the other day who was wearing an "I'm a B&S Bookworm" t-shirt. I imagine he must have been wearing it all day. I stared at him somewhat, mostly in shock, and he looked quite scared like i might murder him. I'm not so sure about "fall", but my favourite season is autumn. It's a treat being able to wear your hat, gloves and long coat while the sky is still clear and blue. People always look so much better dressed in their winter clothes, I think. Robinx _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger 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 s.santabarbara at xxx.uk Thu Oct 14 16:23:15 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:23:15 +0100 Subject: Sinister: My favourite abbreviations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1097767395.416e99e3509a6@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> my favourite abbreviation is CIDNP, pronounce kidnap, essentially, because is scary, chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation. Don't ask me what it is though! I also like ZFS; ZPL, which is almost NPL; and FWHM... all terribly entangling my tongue and two of them contain the world zero, which is, as far as in know almost universal so zeo field splitting, alas national field splitting can be a national coutryside protest; mh..and zero phonon line; again with national phonon line, probably involving the mobile phones owner {isn't it one of the most useless device ever reached such a popularity, it might reflect my presonal allergy to phone, but the mobile one is definitely definitely surely qt the bottom in the list. well well, wait a minute, not, the fake X-ray pen is, sorry. I have received 1 phone call on the thing in the last 6 months, i haven't try to learn how to use the pen in the last 18. which proves I'm scarily old, and my deskmate at the lower higher school bough some dodgy magazine. actually i think he did use to nick them from the newsagent}. some people like to call it zero zero phonon line, which increases the number of zeros, but not much than that. suspiciously you can have an estimate from hole burning measurements. {however if i burn q hole in a mobile i doubt it will work afterwards}. full width at half maximun, hadly applicable units for humans as is generally given in cm-1. but can i suggest it will be accepted as a unified standards for defining the dress size, medium large small extra small huge large are auite anbiguouse. if you noz they are 254876 cm-1 FWHM you would just need q ruller to knoz if it will fit you or not, and avoid the very annoing practice of try on clotes, that is why I don't buy them and still recicle the same stuff for the last almost 18 years. which proves I havn't grown much since lower hi-school. but, it is falling apart. elastic and analistic scatter salutoni stefano Quoting robin stout : > As Jarvis once helpfully explained, Cocker is short for "A sucker of cock". > Apart from this, my favourite abbreviations are: > > flu which is short for "influenza" > pram, which is short for "perambulator" > and soccer, which is short for "association football" > > I like it when people add all of the abbreviation marks into words that no > one else does anymore. Occasionally I'll receive correspondence at Stout > Towers in which someone tells me how they 'phoned the 'bus company 'cause it > was late, or some such, and I'll get excited about all of the completely > unnecessary apostrophes that they've scattered all over. The other day I > received a document from the inventor of a television aerial, and whenever > he referred to a television he called it a "TeleVision", including quote > marks, as if this was some wonderful new word that he'd coined last Tuesday > instead of in 1908. This also made me unfeasably happy. > > > I saw someone in our car park here at work the other day who was wearing an > "I'm a B&S Bookworm" t-shirt. I imagine he must have been wearing it all > day. I stared at him somewhat, mostly in shock, and he looked quite scared > like i might murder him. > > > I'm not so sure about "fall", but my favourite season is autumn. It's a > treat being able to wear your hat, gloves and long coat while the sky is > still clear and blue. People always look so much better dressed in their > winter clothes, I think. > > Robinx > > _________________________________________________________________ > Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger > 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! +-+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.santabarbara at xxx.uk Fri Oct 15 15:02:13 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:02:13 +0100 Subject: Sinister: For those about to rock... In-Reply-To: <1097767395.416e99e3509a6@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> References: <1097767395.416e99e3509a6@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> Message-ID: <1097848933.416fd865a39be@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> ....I salute you my sinister for those of you who might be interest in the ATP festiva this year the tickes are already on sale and are going to be sold out faily quickly. The first slot of chalet for 4 person already is... bigger one are more expensive to book, but i would say they are going to go rapidly as well. amazingly enough bands are not announced yet, but the legendary slint have instigated a proped responce to many with a heart for music. I was thinking abit more about abbreviations, and quite get to the conflusion that i like the one whihc contains the same tems a couple of time, the create havoc, EEDOR for exmple is horrible. electron electron double resonance. horrible. they had to ad an 'o' because hoz the hell can one pronounce EEDR? the one with many E are cool as well ESEEM electron spin echo envelope modulation magnetic spectropist apper to me for having a taste on such thing. take HYSCORE hyperfine sublevel Correlated electron spin echo does it mean they score on a high? and high on what? they are gonna soon introduce drung tests at the entrance of the institute, this way, or simply go for DONUT Double Nuclear Coherence Transfer nutters. or if you fancy the rather sinister: electron-delectron delayed luminescence detected magnetic resonance EEDeLuDeMaR or the simplier DeLuDeMaR (deludeè muà? se pa possible) which is sinister enough because *I* did actually dvelopped the tecnique (Submiited and rejected by Nature, we all knoz they are crap, and no handeled in in Jornal of Physical Chemistry A, if they'll ever reply) I can send you a reprint. or, if your not so scared, I'm a notorius mentalist but rather inoffesive, after all, you can actually give yourself a copy if you intend to assist at all tomorrow part or being intereted in scaring a chalet... I think, at present, i am scaring with myself, which gives me a fare scare of space. Not that i need it BUT... microwave pulse sequences and zero field EPR (electronic paramagnetic resonance; or elctronic poetry review, your choise) circo pace amore e fratellanza stefano PS havig akeybord witha Q instead of and A is the devil work (does it make it any content, suppose not) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Oct 15 17:10:36 2004 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.org (kenneth.chu at xxx.org) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:10:36 +0100 Subject: Sinister: I don't want to play foosball Message-ID: Hi dere! Whoosh! Look it's October already! Time flies, doesn't it? Even when it isn't May. Writing from my work is always fun, because the view outside never really changes, it's just a courtyard and all you can see are reflecting office windows and a big tall new hospital that's almost completely built. There's a gap of sky through where you can see clouds and the occasional aeroplane flying by. Seeing an climbing plane always fills me with thoughts and I'd always imagine each one of them to be flying to somewhere really far away over oceans and land and a couple of thousand houses, and that half a day later this plane in front of me is going to be the other side of the world. It's kind of exciting but also kind of sad. The view from land to plane is nowhere near as exciting as from plane to land, though. There was this one time I think I was on a plane that was flying above Siberia, and I looked down even from that high up you can see a lot of details on the ground that you try and make out as roads or trains or rivers or a little house. I never really know whether I got it right or not. But I always wish it was actually possible to just get ejected from the plane then and I can parachute down to have a look, and then get picked up by a helicopter when I get bored of it. I think the closest I got to any kind of wilderness was on some roadtrip to Ben Nevis, which isn't really that wilder, and I didn't even climb it. I went to stay in this small town called Drumnadrochit, by Loch Ness. I was doing to trying to find the monster thing, without realising that Loch Ness was bigger than a Hassid's beard. That place was nice though. I told a walk into the woods there, and the locals told me that there were foxes. I didn't see any though. I saw a lot of highland cows instead, I think they tried to attack me. It snowed, and I wrote "Fox in the snow" on the ground. I tried to take a picture but the picture turned up really crap because of bad lights. Frozen fingers all for nothing. ---- That's what I meant, I always derail to different things when I write from work, even though the view is exactly the same. Does anyone know of a band called the Dance Hall Crashers? I searched the archives and it was only mentioned once, right next to the word "Belle and Sebastian", in fact, for a flyer for a club. They have a song called Whisky and Gin.. I have never heard them. They are from California, yet they drink Whisky. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions also once sang about Whiskey and Gin, too. They drink Whiskey. Does anyone know of this band called Lloyd Cole and the Commotions? There are others, too. A band called Pasty White, whose website is titled "Pure Original Rock Music", also have a song called "Whiskey and gin". The lyrics of the song went "I sip my whiskey and I drink my gin I'm never coming down again" So they copied B+S, and also The Verve, and combined it in one song. That itself is an original concept, I suppose. Theirs is "Whiskey" too, with an e, perhaps they sip their whisky and they take their e. I could go on, but last but not least.. There's country singer Catherine Britt, who drinks whiskey and gin to wash her pain away of having to listen to merle in her hit single "Hillbilly Pickin' Rambling Girl". See here for more http://www.catherinebritt.com. Apparently she duetted with Sir Elton John! I'm proud of her, and it's so good to see that the superstardom doesn't mean that she had deserted her country roots. That's it that's it that's it 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 s.santabarbara at xxx.uk Fri Oct 15 17:35:11 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:35:11 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Go bring me whisky baby In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1097858111.416ffc3f3f801@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> go bring me gin me and room service honey me and room service and living a life of sin. Blues Run The Game (Jackson C. Frank) so ken's said > "I sip my whiskey and I drink my gin > I'm never coming down again" ther's a quite stunning version by Nick Drake on the tanworth in arden bootleg and other rarities home recording. Now i should pay some more respect to the old bearded God. wisky and soda and rock'n'roll stefano though the view is exactly the same. > > Does anyone know of a band called the Dance Hall Crashers? I searched the > archives and it was only mentioned once, right next to the word "Belle and > Sebastian", in fact, for a flyer for a club. They have a song called Whisky > and Gin.. I have never heard them. They are from California, yet they drink > Whisky. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions also once sang about Whiskey and Gin, > too. They drink Whiskey. Does anyone know of this band called Lloyd Cole > and the Commotions? > > > > So they copied B+S, and also The Verve, and combined it in one song. That > itself is an original concept, I suppose. Theirs is "Whiskey" too, with an > e, perhaps they sip their whisky and they take their e. > > > I could go on, but last but not least.. There's country singer Catherine > Britt, who drinks whiskey and gin to wash her pain away of having to listen > to merle in her hit single "Hillbilly Pickin' Rambling Girl". See here for > more http://www.catherinebritt.com. Apparently she duetted with Sir Elton > John! I'm proud of her, and it's so good to see that the superstardom > doesn't mean that she had deserted her country roots. > > > That's it that's it that's it > Ken > > > ********************************************************************** > This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to > whom it is addressed. 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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! +-+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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_e_hester at xxx.com Sat Oct 16 17:48:20 2004 From: mark_e_hester at xxx.com (Mark Hester) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:48:20 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Just another list of consequences of things that we do Message-ID: Hello! Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal Audio by the Delgados. I've no idea exactly when this album came out (other than "sometime this year") but I bought my copy last Saturday and it's rarely been off the stereo since. I was forewarned that this album doesn't have the epic strings that were found on Hate and the Great Eastern and so could be reasonably described as a more conventional album than either of these, but wow does it have tunes! Everybody Come Down and Girls of Valour are amazing songs! I think this is the strongest Delgados album lyrically as well - I wanted to have "Every single person who has told you that you couldn't lives in fear that you'll achieve the things in life they think you shouldn't" as my subject line, but it was too long to fit in the Subject box! Which is a shame, as it's a great line and one I broadly agree with. I'm going to say something vaguely sacriligious now - Keep on Breathing reminds me a bit of Sweet dreams my LA Ex! I'm sure this is just a bizarre coincidence - I doubt if the band intended it as an homage to Ms Stevens. Someone at work who has met the band tells me that they are not keen cyclists as I'd always assumed, having been named after a cyclist and having 2 cycling related album titles. Not that this matters mind, apparently the Beach Boys didn't like surfing, either! I'm going to be in that London for a few days, fom tomorrow (Sunday) until Tuesday. Tomorrow is my birthday (yay!) so I shall prolly be relaxing at my Mum's house and then on Monday I'm going down to Brixton to see Kate St Claire (ex-Lollies)'s new band the Kissing Time, who are playing at the Windmill. So should you. I can really recommend them - ok, so i've only heard mp3s so far, but it's sure to be good. I hear that Simon Aurell is back in town, too, which is excellent news. bye for now, Mark. _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.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. 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 kittypower6 at xxx.com Sat Oct 16 18:28:03 2004 From: kittypower6 at xxx.com (Alyson virdell) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:28:03 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Fancy a picnic? [November 6 - Austin, TX] Message-ID: Sinister! It's been almost a year and a half since I've last written to you; I do believe it's past time for my annual post. This time, I'd like to invite you to a picnic. I think it's about time we had one down here in Texas, and since it's not so blazing hot out, why not? So, this time instead of gauging interest and then deciding not to do it (like last year), I will tell you where to go and when to be there, and even if it is just myself and my dashing friend Bruce, so be it! TEXAS SINISTER PICNIC Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 2:00 P.M. Mountain View Park in NW Austin Bring your friends and picnic food! R.S.V.P. to Alyson at kittypower6 at hotmail dot com or 512-659-4640. I can give you directions, if you need them. It's a very nice park, a little hidden so it's not completely crowded on weekends (a la Zilker). I will be making lovely sweet things and cider for everyone. See you then! Love, Alyson _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 o-lowery at xxx.com Mon Oct 18 16:52:08 2004 From: o-lowery at xxx.com (owen lowery) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:52:08 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Slinted and Enchanted Message-ID: <10AF1F4ECBFBA664C92C893208186E37@o-lowery.care2.com> Well hello there Big news of the week is that Slint are playing ATP, this means that I need to go, therefore if anybody needs an extra body to fill a chalet then drop me a mail and you can have me (so to speak). I promise I'm clean, tend not to get too drunk and my days as a legendary womanizer are probably at an end. Thanks to all the people who replied off list to my last post (especailly the adorable girl with the coolest email address around) it's really good to know that people do read this stuff and bother to have an opinion about it. It all got me thinking about Sinister which scared me a bit 'cos I realized that I've been on here for over 5 years now. In that time I've met loads of cool people from the list (and even kissed a few of them), I've urinated next to Stuart Murdoch on a night out with the sinisterines, I've chatted in nonexistent spaces with foreign folk and I've went to see lots of bands that I otherwise never would have got to see. When I first joined this list I kind of figured that everyone here had been listening to the band far longer than me but now I feel like listening to them since 1996 probably makes me some sort of boring old fart who could bang on about the good old days and how the list was so much better then (it wasn't it was just different, livelier, more volatile, less international). So I've spent 8 years loving B&S and 5 years loving Sinister and at some point turned into a sad old git but what the hell, B&S still have a strange appeal for me and even if I don't think later albums have been lyrically as good as the first two I still think they're pretty special. Well time for me to get back to work Thanks for listening (for all these years) Owen so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens (William Carlos Williams) Support Care2 Email: 1,400 whales may be killed this year. 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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 kristinssmitchell at xxx.uk Mon Oct 18 21:03:10 2004 From: kristinssmitchell at xxx.uk (KMitchell) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:03:10 +0100 Subject: Sinister: I close my eyes.... Message-ID: <000b01c4b54d$7e6abc50$6501a8c0@KRISTIN> ...and wonder if this works. So here I am again. I had this idea, with Sprouting Robin, to email sinister more often. It never actually came to be, but nevermind. You still all missed my birthday. As did the folk at work. I dunno. Not that it matters. Much. Robin emailed me and asked me to return to the fold of Sinister chat. I did, after my initial request, but there was nobody there. As is so often the case with Sinister chat. What's wrong? Said all you need to say, now? Surely not. So I am going to be in London on Wednesday, given I have decided that the country's second favourite capital will do fine as a nice place to go and stretch my legs. And I'm going to be meeting up with some Bowlie types on Wednesday evening, and thought, hey, why don't I invite my sinister lot along too? I hope this time I might see Marianna. So I'm sitting here, and I'm not afraid to tell you I've turned gothic for the night. I'm practising for Hallowe'en. Unfortunately, there was little I could do when the milkman came to the door, to get his weekly money, and I just tried to hide my face, with little success. "Goin' out somewhere?" he asked. "Yeah" I lied. "where?" he asked. "um, Embra" I said. "drinking?" he asked. "maybe" I said. Gave him his money, and then after a prompt goodbye, I shut the door. He looked startled at first, then amused, and had tried to keep the conversation going (I think for his own sense of amusement if nothing else) if it wasn't for my unusual desire not to continue talking. Love idles 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 jlhill81 at xxx.com Tue Oct 19 19:32:25 2004 From: jlhill81 at xxx.com (Joanne Hill) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:32:25 +0100 Subject: Sinister: the Boston Sinister Massive Message-ID: Wow I don't think I've posted here properly for like a year nearly. Finishing uni and getting jobs takes up a lot of time. I don't have anything much Belle and Sebastian related to say *wracks brains* um, nope. Fans Only is sitting here on the desk waiting to be watched but the computer needs fixing first. So I just wrote to say that I've recently moved from glorious Coventry, England to glorious-er Boston, Massachussetts. I have been lured here by a boy, my internet boyfriend yeah whatever. All my friends who don't have internet social lives don't understand...nor the people I met through work - when I told them I was moving to the USA to be with my man all they did was laugh incredulously, ask had we already met (yes, we met first in real life before we really spoke on the net) and say 'wow long distance...how do you know he's not cheating on you?' Yep that was the number 1 question. Well maybe some of you lot understand a bit more. So I'm here and very happy, but me and him can't spend every second together - especially when he's at work and I can't (legally) work - though we'll see about that and I'm looking for some DJing at a club or bar... It's hard for me to meet people, an English girl in big scary America. And coming from a house filled with 6 or 7 people, and having two jobs, and loads of friends living nearby (hi Dave), all of a sudden I've got just one person to speak to and it's weird. But I'm happy here. I've been here a week and didn't think til now to ask if there are any Sinisterettes in Boston and if any of you would like to meet for a drink or whatever. Let me know! Hopefully there's loads of you and I just haven't paid enough attention. Bye for now Joanne DV - thanks for the birthday email! _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Wed Oct 20 15:12:03 2004 From: anakin_sky at xxx.net (anakin_sky at xxx.net) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:12:03 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Sinister: Just another list of consequences of things that we do References: <12408.1098281296@www9.gmx.net> Message-ID: <30406.1098281523@www9.gmx.net> hi... > Hello! > > Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think > about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll > hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal > Audio by the Delgados. ...is that a thread, because nobody's answering... anyway, my favourite album of the year is by that amazing band called !!!. not just great music, but also fantastic lyrics, a kick-ass live show, and they seem like the nicest/craziest/most confident guys without even being the slightest bit pretentious or arsy. yeah, so that one and the new pinback album "summer in abaddon". they are always amazing and one of my favourite bands ever. i saw that thing on british television yesterday, where a pregnant woman complained that hardly anyone on buses or trains gets up and gives their seat to pregnant women anymore, and then there was this guy saying that it's because men nowadays are really scared of women barking in their face "no thanks you wanker, i'm bloody well able to take care of myself and certainly don't need a MAN's help" like ALL women do nowadays when men are nice to them and show good manners. and he also said that they are so scared, because when this happens to a man (a woman barking at him), he loses his faith in humanity completely and has an emotional breakdown, because women already gave him a really hard time at work, and then when he comes home, there's the missus to face, who, again, set out to make his life really miserable... how sad is that. as for content: sorry, i can't really think of anything except that i listened to "dear catastrophe waitress" yesterday for the first time in a long time when i was on the phone to my friend for an hour and he had it playing in the background. love, anne. -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 s.santabarbara at xxx.uk Wed Oct 20 15:40:58 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:40:58 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Just another list of consequences of things that we do In-Reply-To: <30406.1098281523@www9.gmx.net> References: <12408.1098281296@www9.gmx.net> <30406.1098281523@www9.gmx.net> Message-ID: <1098283258.417678fa8b2b4@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> hello, ah, so favourite albums of teh year...mhmmh.. has been quite a dull one. I ahven't heard of the new pinback one that anne suggested but the previous EP "off cell" was fantastic, and the 'zak' (the bass player) of pinback and previosuly 3 mile pilot system officer (S/t) is also extremely good... i would say that is probably my favourite of the year. I had the pleasure to play in support of them a couple of year ago and they really nice person as well... might not of the most comunicative, but neither am I, hence I didn't find it suprising at all. obscure album of they year, ONQ "canzoni tutte eguali", debut in italian, for the italian finest band in over a decade. I guess is impossible to find on the record shop shelves, but you can contact the man direcetly. take care stefano Quoting anakin_sky at gmx.net: > hi... > > > Hello! > > > > Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think > > about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll > > hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal > > Audio by the Delgados. > > ...is that a thread, because nobody's answering... > > anyway, my favourite album of the year is by that amazing band called !!!. > not just great music, but also fantastic lyrics, a kick-ass live show, and > they seem like the nicest/craziest/most confident guys without even being > the slightest bit pretentious or arsy. > > yeah, so that one and the new pinback album "summer in abaddon". they are > always amazing and one of my favourite bands ever. > > i saw that thing on british television yesterday, where a pregnant woman > complained that hardly anyone on buses or trains gets up and gives their > seat to pregnant women anymore, and then there was this guy saying that it's > because men nowadays are really scared of women barking in their face "no > thanks you wanker, i'm bloody well able to take care of myself and certainly > don't need a MAN's help" like ALL women do nowadays when men are nice to > them and show good manners. and he also said that they are so scared, > because when this happens to a man (a woman barking at him), he loses his > faith in humanity completely and has an emotional breakdown, because women > already gave him a really hard time at work, and then when he comes home, > there's the missus to face, who, again, set out to make his life really > miserable... > how sad is that. > > as for content: sorry, i can't really think of anything except that i > listened to "dear catastrophe waitress" yesterday for the first time in a > long time when i was on the phone to my friend for an hour and he had it > playing in the background. > > love, anne. > > -- > GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail > +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ > > > > -- > +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ > Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ > To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe > send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to > majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister > +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ > +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ > +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ > +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ > +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ > +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ > +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pdlngsp at xxx.pt Fri Oct 22 17:08:13 2004 From: pdlngsp at xxx.pt (Bruno Gomes) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:08:13 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V4 #1197 References: <200410202121.WAA17361@missprint.org> Message-ID: <001701c4b851$5fcf4f20$1705140a@sata.com> > From: "KMitchell" > Robin emailed me and asked me to return to the fold of Sinister chat. I > did, after my initial request, but there was nobody there. As is so often > the case with Sinister chat. What's wrong? maybe the end of the world as we know it? > From: anakin_sky at xxx.net > ...is that a thread, because nobody's answering... > anyway, my favourite album of the year is by that amazing band called !!!. i'd rather go for elliott smith's "from a basement on the hill". by the way, did you guys notice that it was 1 year yesterday? :-( > From: "Peter Miller" > comics and B&S! struan was featured as the "cartoon of the week" in a music related newspaper here in pt (isobel had that same "honour" some time ago) ttfn ps - sorry for this crappy ramble (?) but i'm going down with a flu and the clock here at the office seems to be stuck :-( +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Katia913 at xxx.com Sun Oct 24 05:48:06 2004 From: Katia913 at xxx.com (Katia913 at xxx.com) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:48:06 -0400 Subject: Sinister: All Souls Day Message-ID: <73BAF6B5.12E512FB.0077470B@aol.com> Hello my sinister! its getting close to Halloween. Do all of you have your costumes picked out? I sure do, and am mighty excited by it. True, it will be hard to top the success of Pippi Longstocking from last year (those braids are hard to pull off!) but I think that my lovely brunette self dressed as a Freudian Slip will take the cake by narrow margins (and I do adore a yummy cake). I've got a cute creamy slipdress and a picture of freud to pin to my chest. Can you beat it?? Lets have a costume contest! Tell the list what you're being this halloween. Last year was quite a success for me. I happened to have a great time at a party with some fantastic friends at a gay party (which meant good music, good drinks and boys to dance with). I have no plans as of yet. I visited home this weekend from university. My little bitty sister's birthday was this weekend and I took her out to a movie and thai. Saw I heart huckabees. One of those frustrated comedy types, loved it by the end. Went and got some coffee and listened to B&S in the cafe. The coffee man told us stories of regulars and a good time was had by all. Going home is a currious event. I've done it a lot over the past few years, but it never seems the same. its not my room, not my fridge, not even my cat anymore. You can't make phonecalls to friends at three a.m. and cant come waltzing for fear of waking momma. Its just a different thing. Like starting all over and finding your new, revised place within this group of people you sort of know outlandishly well and at other times, you are on the outside of the inside jokes... Challenging. I always feel at home with Sinister. When you write at least... Love and Candy Apples, Kate +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.santabarbara at xxx.uk Mon Oct 25 12:55:37 2004 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:55:37 +0100 Subject: Sinister: you'll never know what I'm thinking of Message-ID: <1098705337.417ce9b9e7861@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> My Dear Sinisters and Sinistrines I have been travelling a lot recently. That was one of the things I really used to enjoy about the work I do, forget the awful number of pencil I chew, the chalk dust on dark jumpers and people who think they do understand what they do, but actually do not, as long as sometimes I am part of that, at least I can travel and see new places and meet new people, I though. To be honest, that was the only reason why I don’t entirely regret in having spent three years doing a Ph.D. is that I managed at the end to escape from my home country as settle at least for a few years in England, where my life has been, for some spell at least, better then it has ever been. And still managed to travel around Europe doing some obscure experiment of rather dubious utility to put on masquerade or an excuse for a holiday. It seemed a nice plan until I didn’t really want to travel anymore and really had to go here and there to finish, or try to finish, what I had allegedly started. And when I could stop that spinning around, more than Kylie, or 10 downing street does, was quite to late to enjoy the staying: it is always a matter of timing. However, thing sometimes don’t come to end and have been rose to a higher excitonically delocalised state again, generally dominated by exchange interaction. Or lack of exchange interaction, mhmhmh those transition aren’t in principle allowed, but mixture of wavefunctions can occur, then that’s allowed. Also to keep some sort of consistency, I couldn’t have choose any better country that those in which I couldn’t understand a world on the local language, i.e. French, in the last couple of months and German next one, if I’ll live again I will buy one of those whatever language in three weeks, and by then I hope they would be good enough to ensure one could buy the things he actually wants from the shop or ask things to people on the way, in a language they can understand. I was actually a bit surprised that in Quebec French is greatly dominating over English as the common language being the ignorant that I am however I have seen some whales there, and that was rewarding and met some people from this very list that have been fantastic taking me around in Quebec city and surroundings the English speaking borderline apparently there is only an English enclave, New Carlisle, through which I just went on the bus at something like 2 am or so, hence without no many chances to stop despite the wishes to exchange a few word with someone and some remote sentimental affection, but that’s another story. France was guys with gun machine, retina scans and similar stuff in the suburbs of Paris. However at the local bar, quite self-explanatorily called ‘the Christ’ had a quite fabulous dish, called Chicoute, or something like that, involving any sort of sausage you can think and some more, I didn’t had one (even if I would have been in principle allowed) but I’m sure it would cure the hangover from hell with ease: gnammy. Back in the town where I live for the week end, I had a phone call at something about seven o’clock on a Saturday, asking if I’d liked to join some sort of ‘friends’ birthday party. Actually I’ve never really seen this person that frequently, but I remember I helped move her couch into her new flat about one year ago, and should be the reward for the effort. In fact, I quite blessed the call as the idea of spending another week end sheltered in my room, listening to radio 5 and having not much more to do, wasn’t quite so appealing. Although I’m quite safe in my room, there are plenty of dangerous object in the house. And I have almost explored the place inside out. I suppose that is what lonely people do. However I do not know what people that are not lonely do, because I have essentially never been one, but, I can see is definitely more fun, otherwise everybody would opt for the loneliness options. Of course excluding monks, but they have seen some sort of light, and bless them, can take my place if they wish, but I won’t take their. So, generally I feel rather sinister at week ends. Actually I generally don’t hate things or person, but I do hate week ends let’s say that I don’t like them someone once tell me I should learn how to hate people and things, probably she was right, although I still haven’t learnt. Actually receiving a phone call was in itself an event, so I shouldn’t miss the chance and, because of rail replacement work between here and there, I take the bus, which we know if you do it for fun, is sad, but was because of the underground, and that’s alright, I’m allowed. The party wasn’t really a party, actually when I arrived at the place, it was substantially empty, not even the birthday lady there. After all, it looked more or less as being in my room again, just, I had a bit of entertainment from the public transport system. And in this place as in many other they have the bad habit to sell alcohol, they are allowed. So I sat in the corner on a couch, but not the one I helped to move, and have a couple of drinks in magnificent company of myself and my evil twin who start arguing about the fact that the boozes were expensive. In fact they were. Sometimes even the evil one is right. The less scary one was complaining about me smoking too many fags instead, I suppose he is right, but I’m allowed. So I decided not to listen to anyone and have sever drinks and several more fags, which meant, I was quite perfectly drunk when they finally arrived, almost three hours later, but they’re allowed and I’m allowed as well. Well, the music that was alright. Few hours later, after many more cigarettes and beers and without essentially haven’t said a single word but the courtesy of hello, how are you doing and fine thanks [if it were true], when leaving the place walking on my way home, somewhere in between Islington and Angel, or about there, I saw this lady, sitting on the pavement, all on her own, broken in tears, next to a bus stop. I just kept walking. Was feeling like going and ask if she were alright. Quite a silly question, she obviously wasn’t. was feeling like going there and give the person a big cuddle, but just walked by, as nothing was happening. Jus a few yard away I start thing, why have I done that, and couldn’t find an answer, but then it was just to close to my bus stop at 3 am to get all the way back and she might have taken her bus home, or to anywhere, already. Still I don’t know why I didn’t stop, but I fell like I have become what I despise. Am I allowed? Take care stefano +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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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 Tue Oct 26 15:28:03 2004 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:28:03 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Bad sad news Message-ID: Dear all, Awful news about Peel. One of my heroes, completely unique, cooler than anyone really. He died suddenly, on holiday in Peru. Not a bad way to go, all things considered. It's just a complete shock, isn't it? I mean, he was 65, but I kind of figured he'd just always be around. Radio 1 may as well close down now: I don't really see the point of it anymore. Robin _________________________________________________________________ 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 rob_brennan at xxx.uk Wed Oct 27 07:30:37 2004 From: rob_brennan at xxx.uk (robster) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:30:37 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: Bad sad news In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20041027063037.28105.qmail@web25707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> * Pete Wylie's 'Sinful' fades out * "And if that doesn't get to number one, I'll come round and break wind in your kitchen." A genuine love of music, incalculable influence on the P!O!P landscape and a warm, witty and engaging personality. And, of course, the best TOTP presenter EVAH! The World feels like a greyer place right now. I'll miss you JP. robster ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From samwaltonyeah at xxx.com Wed Oct 27 07:53:04 2004 From: samwaltonyeah at xxx.com (Sam Walton) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:53:04 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Bad sad news Message-ID: "A great man is dead. The news shocked. So young - well, 65 is not quite young even now: but it needn't be a dying age in the millennial developed world." These, dear Sinister, were the words (albeit with the age changed) of the Pinefox, 22 months ago, when writing his wonderful obituary of Joe Strummer. They still ring true today, but with a different man. To a few people John Peel wasn't necessarily a favourite DJ, largely due to his frequent and uncompromising penchant for submitting them to a record that would never find a place in anybody's ears, let alone mine. However I returned to him more than I ever did to anybody else. Fads and personalities came and went, Peel remained � he was a cornerstone of my musical education. And for all those 20-second Japanese noise-core bursts of feedback or impenetrable glitchtro workouts ("rather good, I think you'll agree" was normally the growly description, and one to which I often came to concur) there was a guarantee of stone cold brilliance at a far more frequent interval than during any other programme you'll ever hear. My overwhelming feeling tonight is one of guilt and regret for all those times I never listened. The clich�s were of Peel�s unmistakable voice as the nation�s favourite old sweater or much-loved uncle, as a universal source of fondness shared by all. I can do a mean Peel impression, and indeed the vocal delivery by Messrs Radcliffe, Lamacq and the like owes much to the great man, who seemed to be the first to um and ah whilst being equally equipped with a killer turn of phrase. But the fact remained that while every competitor's failings eventually irritated, Peel's foibles became the very things I adored about his programme, and the trademark that kept me tuning in. He enticed listeners to his endure his butchered pronunciation of a German techno groups, or to abide one more seven inch played at 33rpm � �John would�ve liked a minute�s silence but he'd probably have played it at the wrong speed� somebody suggested on the Radio 1 tribute tonight. He was scratchy and unpolished � a fact that he frequently and genuinely lamented, but which made him irreplaceable to me. When he spoke into a microphone, he was speaking to me, individually, with all the nervous inflection that inevitably comes with telling somebody about a newfound love, and I felt almost honour-bound to embrace his choices. He was not a musician, but reminiscing over the greats of 20th century music - yes that includes Lennon, Presley, Rotten et al � I can�t name anyone who has altered my musical taste more, directly or not. He was an innovator and an explorer, and his death leaves me wondering what uncharted waters he has left permanently unmapped. In today�s radio schedules there is simply no space for a programme as frankly random as The John Peel Wing Ding, and without him there will be nobody to enforce its existence. John Peel was not my favourite DJ, but there is no other of whom I am fonder. Stronger, deeper fans will pay more attentive tributes, but I�m afraid I listened to Mark & Lard more religiously, or the Evening Session, or latterly the Breezeblock and Worldwide. Strip that all away though, and Peel was always there and always reliable; he was the best and most dependable DJ I will ever hear, and for that I am truly thankful. ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 the_sad_witch at xxx.com Thu Oct 28 00:35:32 2004 From: the_sad_witch at xxx.com (Gillian Kirby) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:35:32 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sinister: re: RIP Peel Message-ID: <20041027233532.20388.qmail@web51407.mail.yahoo.com> This just brought tears to my eyes, despite all the kids runnign around the library looking for Harry Potter: > >" And his strong sense of right and wrong, his hatred for bullies and charlatans and his humanity shone through all his work and came through the radio with every word and every record he played. The Monday evening show the weekend after the Hillsborough tragedy was a piece of broadcasting I'll never forget. He said nothing at the start of his show. He just played a record. A long slow record. It was Aretha Franklin's heart breaking gospel version of You'll Never Walk Alone. I looked through the glass from my adjacent studio and John was just weeping. Silently. So were all of us - his listeners. Nothing more needed to be said. " (from the R1 website) > > I feel sorry for the listeners of the future who'll never get to hear the glorious music that made my teenage years bearable. > > Love and it's on the wrong speed... > > -Gillian ===== "Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, tea time. Mind you, I had a late tea." - John Peel, 1985 Take off that unbecoming frown: www.livejournal.com/users/mippy Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. 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