From stoutrobin at xxx.com Thu Feb 3 14:13:21 2005 From: stoutrobin at xxx.com (robin stout) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:13:21 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Unit Delta Bus Message-ID: Dear Sinister, My bus journey isn't what it used to be. The Mick Cooke lookalike who used to sit at the back has disappeared. The girl who looks like Stuart Murdoch has moved away, and the one who looks like Jarvis Cocker catches a different bus instead. Even Johnny Cash, the bus driver, is around less often, and I think he's cottoned on to me. Instead of appraising me with a warm but solemn eye, he just shakes his head like he knows I could never handle a gun. Not anymore. My friend got on and sat just across from me. He spoke to me, but never stopped looking straight ahead. After a while, I did the same. It must have looked very strange, like we were in a Northern sitcom. This thought, when it happened, gave some good vibrations, as New Year's Resolution Number One was to pretend that life was a sitcom. It seems that life takes care of this itself. The boy sat next to me texted: "I AM ON THE..." The bus stopped opposite the old Royal Infirmary. For the last few months this has been playing the part of the Albion Hospital, where Doctor Who has been vanquishing aliens. It's a terrifying building and I suspect it was built by ghosts, long ago. The sound of Harry Belafonte warmed up the January chill. While I walked up the hill, I thought of Delia Derbyshire. I'd just been reading an interview with her in which she talks about crying into the washing up. Then she says, "Those were the days when I used to do washing-up. I've perfected my minimalist living technique so it is no longer necessary." I gave this some thought. No washing up! That's quite an extraordinary claim! In fact, it's my dream of a modern future. But impossible, surely? I haven't stopped thinking about this ever since I read it. If there was ever a tale of suburban enlightenment, that would be it: No washing up! Domestic nirvana! Robin 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 kenneth.chu at xxx.uk Fri Feb 4 14:23:00 2005 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.uk (kenneth.chu at xxx.uk) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:23:00 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Reporting Back To Us (the Fat Man has arrived) Message-ID: <9D17C3BDDEAFD311AFD100508B5C529F143EA214@UCLHNHSM2> For some reason I thought of Carmen Sandiego just a few moments ago. And I thought of you guys. That's a bit weird I admit. I never realised this at the time but when I was a teenager I think I used to quite fancy Carmen Sandiego. I don't know what exactly drew me to her. Maybe it's her style, the long flowing hair, the angled hat. Maybe it's the mysteriousness, maybe it's her cunning, how does she always manage to escape? Where on Earth is she?? So, last night there was a bit of a Sinister gathering in London. At a public house called the Glasshouse Stores, who sold beverages with ridiculous names such as "Soverign", "Fat Man", "Whoopie Cushion" and "Gin and Tonic". We gathered because Miss Madeleine McNeil was in town, and in attendance were the following: Madeleine McNeil, Mark Casarotto, Sarah Garrett Sonner, Stephen Troussé, Marianna Longmire, Nicholas Passant, Elizabeth Daplyn, Robert Brennan and Kenneth Chu. The Sinister aspect of the meeting wasn't exactly intentional -- I think it was only halfway through the gathering when we noticed that all of us were indeed from this Sinister list. It was nice. Mark C even simulated swallowing semen with the use of this thing called "Drinking Jelly" that Elizabeth D had bought from Chinatown, just like old times. Apparently he now understands why girls don't always enjoy their mouths being ejaculated upon. And it* made me miss you guys, where on Earth are you, sinister peeps? I wonder if you, you, you or you are still subscribed to the list, if you are, I miss you and I hope one day you will write in to say hi. Because I like hearing from you. Ken *The gathering, not the drinking jelly ********************************************************************** 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 ann_septimus at xxx.com Sat Feb 5 10:23:17 2005 From: ann_septimus at xxx.com (Ann Foreyt) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:23:17 -0800 Subject: Sinister: meeting people is easy. Message-ID: 'allo, Sinister~ I never write... but now I feel compelled to ask for advice, for which I hope you will forgive me. This semester I have moved to Scotland from the States, to study at the Uni of Glasgow (yay English and Scottish Lit!), and am rather in love. This city is wonderful, and while perhaps I am still in that dreaded honey-moon phase, I think at least I've become more athletic at the sex: the love isn't so much new and strange any more, but rather it's become comfortable and I feel strangely at home in this new life. But... as I wrote to a friend a wee bit ago, Thom Yorke is a snarky bastard. How the hell do you meet people? I suppose part of it is that I've come in as a 3rd year student to 3rd year classes, where everyone already has groups and routines to which I am entirely foreign. I'm rather shy, and so I don't quite fancy going down to a pub and just waiting for someone to approach me... there must be a better way. Or is there? So, my lovely twee kids... what say you? How can an introvert integrate into Glaswegian life? Or is the highlight of my term going to continue to be wandering the streets of the West End alone, people-watching as from under glass? I don't think I would mind that... but one can't help but feel that there must be something more... And I must say: last night I watched "Fans Only" and it definitely warmed the cockles of my heart to see buildings and streets which before had been strangers to my eyes, and now I realize that I LIVE HERE! It is a glorious, bubbly feeling. cheers~ Ann Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. ~Catullus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Sun Feb 6 18:16:58 2005 From: mark_e_hester at xxx.com (Mark Hester) Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:16:58 +0000 Subject: Sinister: she thinks she's a mystery to all, but I've seen what's behind those eyes Message-ID: Hello everyone. Especially Ken, to whom I say, "Here I am! I'm still subscribed to the list! This is proof!" I read Stuart's diary today for the first time this year and I was particularly taken by this: "So I got this tune, and it�s kind of a Big Star thing. And a bit boogieish." I must say this all sounds very exciting - I love Big Star...the story of how they failed to get the success they deserved due to record company incompetence and general misfortune is a very sad one. If you - any of you - have not got their Radio City and #1 Record albums then put that right straightaway! The third album - variously known as Big Star's Third, Sister Lovers or Femme Fatale is in contrast a rather mixed affair - as befits an album with 3 different titles - I think the band was on the verge of disintegration by then. For the record, the first ever fellow sinisterine I ever met, Rosamund, gave me a tape of Big Star singer Chris Bell's solo album. Anyway, enough Big Star stuff already! Stuart continues: "But then I had the notion that we might strip it back with the discipline of New Order type drums and choppy guitar. Then it might become something which you could dance to. Because that is important. We want to take you from your bed to the dance floor. If there was a ten-year plan for the original fan it was to take you from your bedroom to the floor. No question. But as with most ten-year plans you won�t find much mention at the outset of the ten years!" It just gets better and better doesn't it? The last time B&S sounded New Orderish must've been on "Electronic Renaissance" where the bassline and some of the synths sound suspiciously like "Procession". I have no qualms about B&S going in a more dancey direction...if there are two things that have perplexed me about attitudes to their recent material it must be: ~ All of the "Your Cover's Blown" hate that went around. Personally, I love it. It's much better than, say, "Legal Man", where I felt that the band knew what they wanted to achieve but somehow weren't quite able to pull it off. ~The fact that the startling Young Marble Giants cover the band did for one of the rough Trade 25th anniversary compilations passed without comment on this board. Have you noticed how lots of old bands are reforming and recording new material? Last night I went to see House of Love who were amazing. All those old songs I never thought I'd ever get the chance to hear live, "Shine On", "The Beatles and the Stones", "Christine", "I Don't Know Why I Love You", all performed to perefection. And the original guitarist, Terry Bickers, is back with them. In a few weeks I shall be seeing the Wedding Present at the same venue, but Pop Will Eat Itself aren't putting in an apperance here, unfortunately. Ann Foreyt, I can tell you that the Glasgow sinisters are an extremely friendly bunch and I am sure they will e-mail you with suggestions of things to do and places to go. Also, why don't you join this mailing list on yahoo groups http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_winchester_club/ it's the list for the Winchester Club which takes place at the Woodside Social Club. I went there after the Botanic Gardens gig last summer and had a great time. I really recommend checking it out. Robin wrote: "It's a terrifying building and I suspect it was built by ghosts, long ago. " about the Royal Infirmary. There's a very good track by Durutti Column called "Royal Infirmary". It's on Bread and Circuses, I think. Also, Robin's comment made me think of the brilliant, of rather long book I'm reading at the moment called "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell". by Susanna Clark. It's a book set in the Regency period but it's a regency period with a twist in that Magic Exists. Something tells me that Archel might like it, although she prolly shouldn't try to include it in the 50 Book Challenge she's doing as it might lead her to miss her target. Dirty Vicar mentioned the Chalets which made me think "Wonder if they're gigging in the UK?" and a quick look at the band's website reveals that YES THEY ARE! Also some of the pictures on their site our hilarious (e.g. http://www.thechalets.com/images/chalets_balmy.jpg). I'm sure they're going to be really fun live. Mark. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 elle_jane1 at xxx.uk Sun Feb 6 20:43:48 2005 From: elle_jane1 at xxx.uk (elle) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:43:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: still alive and reading Message-ID: <20050206204348.77757.qmail@web26401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> So, Ken wanted to know where everyone was and so I thought I'd drop you all a quick line for the first time in, like, ever. It's a bit scary now I'm writing, but it was my New Year Resolution in about 2003, so I've got to carry on now. It's amazing what I'll go to to avoid working. I'm meant to be marking a set of essays on 'Jaws' but the problem is they are so rubbish. They are totally ruining the film for me. The whole point of teaching it in the first place was I wanted to enjoy myself. I didn't think about this Bad Part of the whole thing. I might have to resort to Smarties Marking (where you put all the essays on the floor and tip a tube of Smarties over them - the reds get an A, the yellows a B and so on. THe oranges are always the lowest because I don't like orange Smarties). I have a great job. I've just finished reading a good book, a fast one for Archel, perhaps: 'The Whole business of Kiffo and the Bull-Dog' by Barry Jonsberg. I feel I should include some content but surely it's enough I'm posting? I'm listening to the new Mercury Rev CD and it's rather good. I love the way new albums grow on you (well, me). I listen to them in the background and slowly, but surely certain bits grab you and stop you and you just have to listen to them. My mum's just got a new car with a CD player (woo!) and she asked me to make her a B&S CD. That's really sweet of her, but I sort of don't want to. She'll want to talk about the tracks and all that. Am I a Bad Daughter? I might just copy her the rather fab CD Marisa made me. M, would you mind? Right, well done if you've got this far. Doubt I would have. love, L x ___________________________________________________________ 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 s.santabarbara at xxx.uk Mon Feb 7 08:08:14 2005 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:08:14 +0000 Subject: Sinister: standing on the shoulder of a cryostat Message-ID: <1107763694.420721eef2b11@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> hello my dear and darling, this is precisely when I am at the moment, supstened on the last step of a metal stair and hanging in between the microwave circulator line and the helium transfer line on the top of 2 feet hight bath cryostat: nice place to start the week, but if you're wondering what I am doing over there, I supopose you shouldn't really ask... well, also my supervisor, actually my former supervisor was a bit impressed when he walked into the room and found me hugging the big black tall cylinder, he wondered if I had any affective deficiencies, well, I surely do, I said, but I'm just checking if the theing is leaking, at least by now.. she walked off the dark room laughing, and well, yes, It would be probably look absolutely ridicolous to find somone cuddling a cryostat, that's what not enough love and tpoo much fluorescence makes of you, and is a warning. take care love 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 sftweeindieguy at xxx.com Mon Feb 7 14:41:21 2005 From: sftweeindieguy at xxx.com (Nick Davis) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 06:41:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sinister: [off topic] Elvis Costello in Edinburgh In-Reply-To: <001a01c4f3dc$29062600$1705140a@sata.com> Message-ID: <20050207144122.31887.qmail@web52104.mail.yahoo.com> If anyone could use a pair of very good tickets to see Elvis Costello in Edinburgh's Usher Hall on February 14, or knows someone who might, please contact me offlist at the above email or at ncedmunds at aol.com. B&S content: I use met Stevie and a baseball game, he was quite friendly. Thanks, Nick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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 charismarisa at xxx.ca Thu Feb 10 20:58:40 2005 From: charismarisa at xxx.ca (marisa stroud) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:58:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Being Helpful 2005 Message-ID: <20050210205840.6219.qmail@web60005.mail.yahoo.com> So, I wrote an email to you guys a few days ago in order to try and cheer Ken up, and juuuuuuuuuuuuuust when I was finished, I hit the delete key or my touchpad did something or whatever it is that makes my browser click back to the previous page, thus COMPLETELY LOSING EVERYTHING I WROTE!! and since it was the second time it had happened in two days, I tossed my stupid laptop onto my bed (as gently as possible under the circumstances) and went into a ginormous huff. I�m sure you�re all very gratified to know that. Anyway, I was trying to do Helpful Things. It wasn�t my New Year�s Resolution or anything, but since I don�t tend to make New Year�s Resolutions (mostly because I forget them a couple of weeks in, and also, I can�t be arsed) Being Helpful is always a good thing to try and do. So I wrote the email to try and Help Ken Feel Like Someone�s Listening, and in the email I will try to Help Lucy Give Her Mother Music. I make mixes to spread the love of the music I enjoy, and the more people copy those mixes (or songs from them) the more likely it is that someone else will hear a certain band and then really love them and help them rise to the top of the land! Cause really, I base my Do-I-Like-This-Music? determination around a) the tune, b) the words, and c) would I be friends with these people? Really, the last criterion is just icing on the cake, but wouldn�t you like a band whose music you enjoyed and whose members were (imaginary or not) friends of yours to rule the world (in music form)? almost sounds like content... But I am not that cool. One time Stevie gave me a hug, but I think it was because a) I was shaking like a leaf, and b) he plays guitar to get the ladies, no? Oh, it�s been far far too long since I last indulged in a lazy Fans Only afternoon... I am failing quite dismally at Helping Ann Find Cool Friends, however. I�d point you to some of mine, Ann, but then I remember, oh, I didn�t really have any. I had a) a terrible flatmate that never washed (I swear, she didn�t shower for six weeks. I counted) and who eventually drove me into the arms of b) a sweet boy, but who turned out not to be able to handle my ways (this is a boy who threw a little tantrum about having to go down with me to the DCW �cd release party� for B&S at midnight on a school night(!!) *gasp!* last October. �Can�t you go by yourself?� It�s in a scary part of town that I�ve never been to, at midnight, at a venue I�m not even sure I�ll be able to get into, in fucking ned-ridden Glasgow. Cheers, darling) Anyway, Miss Ann, perhaps as a result of your appeal, some nice Sinistrine will email you and say, Come down to the Winchester/a pub quiz/a picnic in a park, I�ll be the tall one in the blue shirt (*ahem hem*...nice Glasgow-based Sinistrines...organise and outing and wear a blue shirt!) or else join some sort of club or society at one of the unions (and as I know most of the GUU types, I�d say affiliate yourself with the QMU, love), just point out that you�re an international and they�ll forgive you anything, and anyway it�s not a team that you will have had to been training to join, it�s just a little club. I know these ideas are far, far easier to suggest than to do, but I guess I�m looking back at my time there and wishing I�d done these things. anyway. I am loving this winter in Ottawa, skating on the Rideau Canal at midnight when the city workmen are just surfacing the ice and it�s all perfect and glassy and the sky is clear and you can see so so many stars!! (a girl from Toronto is not used to seeing stars at night in a city), but I can feel my feet itching again for something new. I�m glad this degree thing is over in August (two-year degree in ten months...yeah, I guess you could say I�m under a bit of stress) and extra glad to be welcoming a very special Aussie to Canada next Friday night. Long dark February nights under the covers are so much nicer with someone to cuddle... marisa xo ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 ethan at xxx.com Fri Feb 11 00:40:28 2005 From: ethan at xxx.com (Ethan Gold) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:40:28 -0800 Subject: Sinister: meditation on lurkerdom In-Reply-To: <20050210205840.6219.qmail@web60005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello Dear Strangers, Because I am now an outer extrovert but an inner introvert I have been a lurker for years other than I think 3 posts. I chimed in for musical thoughts and then fled again into the wilderness. I always understood the lonely grey joy of early B&S and the like, but the social part of this mass group thing still baffles me... And anyway it is here, reading these posts, that I preserve my inner gawky self while I have outwardly adjusted to life in a megalopolis.* I can still come home and be a wallflower on my own computer screen, when in real life I have to be a quite a bit more aggressive. I suspect there are others like me? But Sinister, is there a there there? For some reason Marisa's (another stranger to me) email jostled me out of my computer haze and got me to post again... Why? The subjects: -Ken whom I've never met feels like the Justin Timberlake (or choose your flavor) of Sinister. He's always on the cover of the tabloids in the Sinister checkout line. A nexus? I met another sinisterette a while back (hi KK!) who said that she met him somewhere, somehow and felt like she'd met a celebrity. I could tell by her blush that she meant it. The guy has amazing zest and I bless him though he appears to live in an untouchable magic world called Sinisterland, or Scotland, or something. I find the role of "Ken" in my life as a lurker interesting and bizarre, but definitely not bad. I trust... in real life... he is a real person! -I really really wanna finish an album of my own. And Marisa's joy at the idea of a band of dear ones that will 'rise to the top of the land' is bittersweet for me, for if I'd made myself more known to this collective of loners for all these years, I'd have the friends in reality that I have only in 'fantasy', a fantasy that usually exists only in post-drinking, email-checking, Sinister-folder perusing stupor. But as Morrissey would tell us, shyness is nice.... I am trying to dig up those last weeds of shyness so I can just put them in a scrapbook, with the title: For Rainy Days Only. -I still like Canada, and the Scotland I've never seen. So there it is. I guess my real question is: do you guys all know each other? -Ethan *(I live in a place called Los Angeles - Koreatown)** **(I like asterisks) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 jackflaps at xxx.com Tue Feb 15 15:18:02 2005 From: jackflaps at xxx.com (kevin jackflaps) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:18:02 -0500 Subject: Sinister: here it rains in february Message-ID: <8dc9ee5005021507182c30996@mail.gmail.com> Dear Sinister, Hi, Ken! I am still subscribed to the list, &c. &c. I am quite pleased to see lots of mail from it again, I might add! Yesterday I decided it would be fun to shuffle all the Belle and Sebastian songs on my iPod to see what would happen. Mostly this was at work so nothing particularly out of the ordinary transpired, but when I left I had a few interesting moments which would have been less interesting without a soundtrack. In particular, I was sitting at the bus stop waiting to go home; it being Valentine's Day, there were a fair number of couples walking down Franklin sharing umbrellas and whatnot, and I'm standing there watching people walk by with "Nice Day For A Sulk" playing as all this is happening. I still don't think I've put that scene together yet. For my next trick I will drive to the ocean and watch the sun rise, and I will play nothing but Lightning Bolt and the Blood Brothers whilst doing so. I don't remember the last time I wrote to you but it was almost certainly before I moved to North Carolina and became a library student. I moved to North Carolina and became a library student! School is easier now than it used to be, and I haven't gotten used to there not actually being winter where I live anymore. I guess there was that one day, but I was in Chicago for that. Have we already discussed how many librarians or librarians-elect are on the list? It seems like there are a lot. Do you guys like cataloging as much as I do? I think it's the best thing ever. Ethan wrote a post, and to it I would respond that I think I used to know more of you than I maybe do now, since I've been away for eight months. How are you all doing? I would like to hear from you. Also, do you think the Go! Team are way awesome, or just totally great? -kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From softbollocks at xxx.com Wed Feb 16 16:47:14 2005 From: softbollocks at xxx.com (davie kerr) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:47:14 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Good Books Message-ID: HowDo Peeps? Yup, you guessed, 'tis me, the fella none of you know from the sheer lack of posts due to the fact that i'm a diffident ginger(well, according to my friends anyways) fellow. But since i'm bored and extremely restless i thought i'd drop you all a wee line. firstly lets get the content outta the way. would any of you fine peeps happen to know the running order for the bands at this weeks up and coming tsunami benefit at Glasgows SECC? read in a few articles different commence times and what not so there's a little confusmentizationism goin' on. really lookin forward to this benefit gig and the mad dog 20/20 that will accompany me on the way to the venue. mm mmm mmmmm, mad dog!!! and on a totally unrelated topic..................i was wondering if anyone would be able to recommend some truly grim and depressing novels that would be worth reading? books along the same lines as 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', 'Requiem for a Dream' or similar writers to Hubert Selby Jr. i'm not what you would call an aavid reader, i think high school put me off reading for too many years. the fact that you had to read a book every two weeks just for the sake of reading and then to write a report on the fecker really got on my nipples. i'm currently reading 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts and i'm only a hundred or so pages shy of the end. the book is based on the life of the author at the time when he was australia's most wanted man after a daylight break from a maximum security prison. he ends up in bombay living in the slums and eventually starts working for the mafia doing counterfeiting and gun running and much more. i'd definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys reading or even if you dont you will after this, that i promise!!!! anyhoos, feel free to email me off list with any suggestions. thanks for your time and for reading if you managed to get this far. take it easy davie 'that's what so illogical about being a smurf, you know. what's the point of living if you dont have a dick?' - donnie darko +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 heath_v_gray at xxx.com Fri Feb 18 00:01:53 2005 From: heath_v_gray at xxx.com (Heath Gray) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:01:53 -0500 Subject: Sinister: Regional Fans Only Message-ID: Hello Sinister folk. I am just out of the nursery and excited as hell about it. I am also excited that I was finally able to watch the "Fans Only" DVD. I ordered the damned thing the second I became aware of its existence. The two weeks that passed between the time I sent in my order and the time my precious package arrived seemed to me like a year. I came home for lunch one day and made my daily route to the mailbox. It arrived! I cancelled my appointments set for the afternoon. The rest of the day would be a personal holiday. The disc was in the DVD machine before the tossed packaging hit the floor. Seconds passed. Then a minute. And another. It was clear there was something wrong. Then the error message. "Check Regional Code" I had never heard of regional codes and I had worked in a video rental shop for two years. How could I have remained so ignorant? It didn't matter. They existed anyway and I was not going to get to watch "Fans Only". I tried the other two DVD machines in my house and learned that changing the regional code is not an option. Had the manufacturers not thought that an American might want to watch a foreign DVD in America? I was put off in anger for the rest of the day (and the subsequent two). I held on to this DVD for months. Occasionally, would pull the insert out and look it over like it was a letter from an ex-lover. By now, all of my friends were well aware of how I had been so stupid as to buy a DVD that I had no way of watching. One day fortune smiled upon me. My good pal, Jake, emailed me to tell me that he had discovered how to change the regional settings on his IBook's DVD player. I thought that was great. It was great that he lived five hours away and that I didn't own an IBook. It was nice of him to let me know, nonetheless. Three weeks later I am the proud owner of an IBook and "Fans Only" is great. Hosannah! Also, I am looking for an international pen pal. I want to write to someone on real paper. If you are interested, email heath_v_gray at hotmail.com. <3 Heath. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 cjf111 at xxx.uk Fri Feb 18 18:10:29 2005 From: cjf111 at xxx.uk (CJ Field) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:10:29 -0000 Subject: Sinister: If you're seeing Slint mister, go on and email me off-list...er....ATP next weekend! Message-ID: <000001c515e5$2132ab30$ee162090@csrv.ad.york.ac.uk> Hello sinèstré Are any of you 1468 cherubs going to All Tomorrow's Parties this next Friday 25th february 2005 the year of our lord? I think there must be more than one! If so, adhere to the subject title and we shall rendre near the swings/ crazy golf/ front of mùm set/ sand dunes/ beersticky floor/ hot-dog stand/ etc etc. say, I went last year and it was pure vybz flava scandalous I thought mis-teeq were gonna play y'know. *thankyou* Christopher Ps. I may have waylaid my upside down badge but I do have a snazzy Dexy's one instead PPS. Hello gillian! PPS. I Veritably hope someone emails, do , do, do. http://www.threegoodsongsandaheroinaddiction.tk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 elle_jane1 at xxx.uk Sat Feb 19 00:59:03 2005 From: elle_jane1 at xxx.uk (elle) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:59:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Sinister: don't leave the light on, baby Message-ID: <20050219005903.41603.qmail@web26405.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> So hello again. Thought I'd keep the list going and achieve my New Year Resolution 2003 by mailing once again. Don't really have any content, so hit that delete button NOW! I went Speed Dating on Wednesday. It was fun. But for all the wrong reasons. I went with three friends. We laughed at boring boys. I asked one what he did when he wasn't working and he looked really shocked and told me 'Engineering is my life'. I didn't tick him as a date. Or even a friend. How scary. One guy told me he liked travelling. He cited London as an example of the type of place he enjoyed 'travelling' to. That is ok if you're a Sinisterette living in a place far, far away from London town. I live in Woking. It's a 20 minute train journey to the big village. He didn't like me laughing in his face. I am a horrible person. All in all 10 guys (out of 20) ticked me. I feel slightly sad about that as it suggests I'm attracting the wrong type. I only liked one, and he was about 12. He understood when I said I'd named my cats Ben and Sebastian. He played in the football match after the London gig a few years ago (when was it again?) He had a ticket to see The Killers tonight but wouldn't poison his mate so I could go as well. He was a nice person. I hope to see him here soonish. BabyPaul: the sooner you get in the nursery the sooner you get out. I got Valentine's Card on Tuesday (a day late but who cares). It's the first time I've had one for years. I got really excited. All wobbly tummy and everything. I hoped it was this boy I've been lusting after. I kept the wobbly feelings for three days and then another 'friend' admitted he'd sent a load of 'comedy Valentine Cards'. I could have killed him but didn't as blood is difficult to get out of particularly lovely suede boots. I just got a bit sad. I went out with afore mentioned lovely boy tonight. I sort of knew it was a 'friends' going out, but I'm now gutted that I'm home alone. I hinted as much as I could that I didn't want the evening to end and shouldn't we go back to his for coffee. He didn't bite. I was pretty sure he didn't fancy me. Now I know.I should be pleased that it sorts everything out but I'm gutted. poo poo poo. I'm going to go and answer LOADS of questions on okcupid.com now. That'll find me someone. Been listening to Nick Cave's 'THe lyre of Orpheus'. Fab. Someone wanted a depressing but great book to read: try 'A fine balance'. Outstanding. Moving. Breathtaking. Read it. L x ___________________________________________________________ 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 borokitty at xxx.com Sat Feb 19 17:39:45 2005 From: borokitty at xxx.com (Amy Skelton) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:39:45 +0000 Subject: Sinister: DV's power of persuasion - The Chalets Message-ID: Hello all, Hope everyone is well. Flicking through my Guardian gig guide I noticed The Chalets were on in Manchester tonight. Even though I'm not supposed to go out until after pay day next week (self-imposed ban)* I'm going to have to go and see them really. Many years of hearing how good they are via Sinister. So if you're at The Roadhouse look out for a young lady wearing an upside down Offbeat badge, MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY white bands and deshi anklets and come and say hello! * I didn't even go to the Boro v Bolton football match last week opting for the free activity of walking in the local countryside. Even though I've been in lovely Lancashire for almost four months now I still haven't found people that are in to going to these kinds of gigs. Ah well some fellow real ale aficionados are talking about taking me to one of the Smiths special nights soon. It's a start. You never know I may end up weakening and going to Smile at The Star and Garter after the gig tonight (knowing me I probably will - once I'm out I'm out). The first time I ever went to this was for a B&S aftershow party a few years ago and I am pretty fond of it. Trouble is the last couple of times I've been I've left a bit distressed. Getting chatted up, whilst flattering does make you feel more alienated and lonely when you're boyfriend who you're utterly faithful to is on the other side of the world. Then the nice people you've had normal conversations with earlier in the night think you're a freak for (what they probably see as) randomly crying. I do wear my heart on my sleeve a bit I've learnt it's better than bottling it. Others will just have to deal with it I'm afraid. Dance Therapy - when I'm busy dancing in my flow (and people can't hold a conversation with me) I'm alright. Let's hope I stay chirp, besides great strides are being made towards my boyf and I both being in at least the same country again. Maybe even better than that. Anyway, I have to confess I need to do a big catch up on what's going on in the Sinister world. The last message I read was from Marisa talking about her favourite month of the calender year which was some time ago. I'll probably set some time aside to do some Sini post reading tomorrow. Then I may even do a proper catch up post myself. To those of you I owe individual posts to they should be on their way fairly soon. Hope those of you going to the Tsunami fund gig in Scotland have fun and raise some serious cash. Take care, Amy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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.uk Mon Feb 21 11:08:18 2005 From: kenneth.chu at xxx.uk (kenneth.chu at xxx.uk) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:08:18 -0000 Subject: Sinister: Tennis: too much love Message-ID: <9D17C3BDDEAFD311AFD100508B5C529F143EA288@UCLHNHSM2> Hellol!! That was me saying hello and also laughing out loud at the same time. Last night I fell asleep with the TV on, and in my dream I was The Undertaker from the WWF and I was using this crazy special move on this Mexican guy, the move involved me putting this dude in a headlock, whilst breathing toxic gas out of my mouth that slowly debilitates him. All the while I was bending his neck backwards and slowly breaking it! That was crazy. I woke up just around when it got too gory, and I realised the TV was on and true enough "WWE: No Way Out" was on, with the Mexican guy on it, and also they were talking about The Undertaker. So there you go. Tonight I'm putting on some steamy hot sex video on TV before bed. How is the weather for you guys? Last Thursday lunchtime, I stepped out of the office, and thought it was going to snow. The sky was grey and the temperature was just around freezing, I didn't have a thermometer with me but I could tell it was just at the freezing point, there's this particular chill that feels exactly 0C/32F. Apparently tonight in the UK it's going to start snowing properly because some cold wind will be blowing from mainland Europe, and David Husselhoff isn't going to be touring this week to warm up the icy air with some of his Hoff Heat. So I hope you guys are all wearing your warmest coats, I don't want you to catch a cold. Talking of cold, so who here has gone to see Belle and Sebastian and co. for the charity gig in Glasgow? I look forward to some REPORTING BACK. I'm looking forward particularly to reports of Texas, who said in one interview that they were going to be really showing off at the show, because that's what happens when musicians meet musicians, and I like it when bands are showing off. Last time the Red Bull Dozers played was two Christmases ago in Glasgow, it was against 8 other bands, I think we managed to hit the highest note (please note that this was very literally the Highest Note, rather than the possibly more desirable highest metaphorical, atmospheric, note) of the evening, so that's showing off in one sense, maybe. Anyway, I like writing you guys on Monday mornings, it's an otherwise lonely time. Maybe I'll write you guys again next Monday, but then you know of course there's no guarantee. For those who care about minute details of other people's lives: I just went downstairs to get some breakfast. I was 5 minutes late for the McDonald's breakfast cut-off time, but they still let me have a Double Sausage And Egg McMuffin Meal, except they had run out of hash browns so I had to have fries instead. So the trip was bitter-sweet. 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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 Feb 23 12:16:44 2005 From: s.santabarbara at xxx.uk (s.santabarbara at xxx.uk) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:16:44 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Psychedelic Flu Message-ID: <1109161004.421c742c634a3@webapps.qmul.ac.uk> my dearest Might be I spent too much to long hugging the cryostat as I found myself in bed and couldn’t remember precisely how and why I’ve heard (and tested) that helium makes you speak like Donald Duck but I’ve never knew it can cause hallucinations and other kind of sixties style trip related effects: if so I wouldn’t have missed the chance. Getting back to the time I used to be a student, which is now quite a long time ago, ah, yeah, before becoming a sad old git, we used to sniff Ether and other rubbish straight from the solvent bottles, that together with alcohol from the Winchester flask, a sort of Winchester club [drink, not sniff.. no point sniffing alcohol even if is 96%], if you wish, but again the main result was feeling a bit dizzy and generally more stupid than before, which took a bit of effort, pretty much as that special flu feeling or something like that. Disappearing from the lab, right after having se up again the microwave delay line was a geniuses move, by the time I was back it was dismantled again, and someone even ‘borrowed’ a travelling wave tube amplifier, which, I ensure, is a heavy and massive bit of equipment. But the most disconcerting thing was that absolutely no one had even noticed I didn’t show up for essentially an entire week: brilliant! Staying in the ‘house of the research assistant’ is that much fun ehm well, apparently the exciting event of the week is when people bake same bread well, yes exciting good enough I’ll be back soon, not that anyone notice if I’m at work or not, which is brilliant, as I can spend the day in the pub and I get paid anyway at the end of the month, which is what I called be a professional ‘student’ the bad thing is, that the pub over here are shite and the beer is even worst, so what’s the point going to pub? There’s not even someone to play 3-7 with, for goodness sake, what is the blissful slacker generation up to? However, in during the flu, I’ve been illuminated and sort of discovered how to get rid of it, you need two things apparently, a kind of black sausage, I can’t remember how it was called, but I guess something like the infinity element, or so, memory faded away with the secret and the other thing was like a metallic-blue box, kind of an engine starter, and all had to go into an intricate system of pipes and junctions and blots and knots but no clockwork. This is surprising as clockworks and the Nabla operator are quite recurrent in my dreams. that is pretty much all I can dream about gradients, the Jacobian matrix, Chebishev polynomials and the Hermittian operator: that’s what it gets when the psychedelic flu is on its way, yeah, not bad, even better than bread. [put the book back on the shelve] Being back home have some slight advantages, one of those is that I can access to my book collection, which is not that wide, but still there are a few volumes I bought when I used to read four books per week and have taken dust till those days. Amongst those was “La cognizione del dolore” by C.E. Gadda (The recognition of sorrow, I guess it should translated like that, or so). I have read ages ago another book by the same author, “Il pasticciaccio brutto di via merulana” (An awfull mess in merulana road), which was great, but I haven’t fully appreciated it, which undoubtedly proves I am a full idiot, if you haven’t guessed it yet. Gadda is probably one of the most under-rated amongst the modern Italian novelist. Can be because of it extremely unusual way of sentencing and the use of many “northern dialectal” forms. However, I am northern, and it is extremely funny and fluent to read such a sharp and incredibly powerful book taking shape into a pseudo-colloquial form, that actually makes it flow, and I’m absolutely loving it for what it matters so much I’m pretty much temped to read it again which is something I haven’t done (to read a book back to back) in ages might be I’ll find a copy at the airport bookshop, but are not generally that well furbished, we’ll see in the mean time I’m still pretty much into the (auto)bibliography of the (in)famous Italian “bandit” Renato Vallanzasca, a book called “Il Fiore del Male” (The Flower of Evil, I don’t believe is translated): well, you can tell many things of this man, but if I ‘d only had half of his guts, flipping hell once he managed to evade from the noise and distraction of his prison cells [he didn’t missed the bus, surely] and came back to set his partners in crime free he was shot in the head but survived “somebody’s born a policemen someone’s born as a bank robber” ... talking about colloquialism, underrated northern Italian writer, if there was someone to whom a statue should be erected in each main square of any village (together with nick drake, surely) well that’s Guido Gozzano. If in high-schools instead of all this rubbish about neo-realism and bla bla bla which has infested our literature would make pupils read ‘la signorina felicita ovvero la felicita’ [Miss Felicity hence happiness] not the usual five verses, the same one all the time, “il suo buon padre in fama di usuraio”, which by himself is purely fantastic) but all if it and his blue eyes, ma azzurri d’un azzurro di stoviglia ah god knows how to translated it. I’ve always been very proud of my poetry collection, and this is one is one of my favourite together with a rather old edition of Palazzeschi’s poems, which should be nearly original but I got it nth handed and is almost falling to bits (pretty much as his owner, aging is not a bad thing, aging and having done the bugger all of all bugger alls well, yeah! Great!) clof clop cloc cloppete clocchete cloppete chhhhhhl Oh mia povera fonte malata col male che hai finisce lo sai che uccidi me pure oh my poor fountain /the illness you’ve got/ one day you know/ will kill me/ as well [pseudo-ritmic in English ] ah well, the glory, a corridor, a branch of cherry and beneath the name of Torquato Tasso but women come and go talking of Michelangelo and if lady do, so can I. [self crowed with cherry branches pretty much as Napolepon] Together with the pleasure of reading Gadda, Gozzano and Palazzeschi, I’ve realised I had totally forgotten how nice it was to play in a real band with other people and crank up the amplifier as loud as possible when one of my friend phoned me up and asked me if I wanted to play a ‘gig’ with him two days after with a single rehearsal I thought he was a mentalist, but, hey, why not, haven’t played in damned ages in practise the ‘rehearsal’ was 24 hours long, which was quite amazing, but understandably as apart from one song, on which I had only played the saw before I didn’t have any clue on how to play the other ones not the other ‘member of the band’ secondly the ‘gig’ in practise was a ‘hi-school garage party’ for 10 people, so no much worries of making a whole fuck up, just If I had know I would have avoid to travel 300 km with the equipment, however the joy of using my 60’s amp as a preamp for that two mule that are the Sovtek MIG-100 and set it all up pretty much to 11 was quite rewarding, also operating the lake’s land branded coffee machine for most of the times made me feel 10 year younger at least ten years ago wasn’t any better whatsoever but doesn’t really matter I have no clue how it sounded outside. I felt as being in a hi-speed-spin centrifuge of a 90 degree washing run still I wished I had a little bit more volume, but is never enough, is it? An anthological and I suppose absolutely planned bugger all: how could have done it without myself? Anyway we had fun and apart from the people who was there, who were there already, who else would have been interested in the ‘show-case’? In fact, I don’t know how, but they even liked it, we surely did. And by the way, we rose founds for ‘Associazione Plinio Fernando per la Conservazione della Crudelta’ Umana’, which we felt was a quite a worthwhile charity in fact we played tsunami by sonic youth as a cover. And “Il ballo del qua qua” as well as, but with the kazoo only. The beer was finished by the time which was the only slightly unpleasant thing of the evening, ignoring a phone call from the police and then from the Carabinieri threatening to bring the whole buck in the local jail, which would have possibly been more comfortable that the sofa I spent the night one. Almost surely, to be frank! Getting close to deadline is not scary, is kind of liberation. I can do pretty much what I like because I do not have to care for consequences, is brilliant! Supercar gattigher was my favourite cartoon when I was something year old how about yours? I’ve seen a model of the thing in a second hand shop, but, sugar, it was Sunday and it was closed I nearly assaulted the shop well, a Gattigher with all the five cars, I’d say in a 1:24/1:32 scale would have been fully worth it Take care Gira l’elica romba il motor Stephano [The Journal of Fucked-up Gourmet] http://ilsantuzzari.splinder.com [Stay Indie get Eaten by Squirrels] http://www.eatenbysquirrels.org +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Hugo Johan <12813249 at xxx.za> Fri Feb 25 13:08:36 2005 From: Hugo Johan <12813249 at xxx.za> (Hugo Johan <12813249 at xxx.za>) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:08:36 +0200 Subject: Sinister: pretty in pink Message-ID: dearest sinister how are you all today? (especially you, stefano: are you feeling better yet? hang in there: spring is almost here!) *like a 10-year old pretending summer isn't really ending* well, for most of you anyway! here summer is just ever-so-faintly starting to lose its grip - nothing more than slight chillyness at night - and i am happy happy happy because autumn is my favouritest season of all - bring it on, i say! and it somehow makes me want to hang onto the last days of summer a little bit more too - though it's been terribly hot and dry and i don't like summer at all - but then there is something to be said for endless sunny days, too! *maggie may on the jukebox fading to okay* what makes me happiest of all though, is that i've rediscovered the joy of the crush! oh, does it make me feel like a schoolboy again (well, no, not really, because i went to an all-boys school and so didn't really HAVE all that many schoolboy crushes, but you know what i mean, right? and i am happily regressing. and just went in to buy a record just because it has the unplugged version of maggie may on it - which has to be THE nostalgic-for-high-school-crush song doesn't it? and i know rod stewart is supposed to be gross and stuff, but i can't help loving it. even the video, where he and ron wood seem SO delighted to be playing together again. well, it makes me happy and you can't knock that! so... crushes, hey? what's up with that? well, for one thing, having had a rough time with relationships recently i don't really feel up to that - but it's so nice to know there're are some people out there who just seem perfect, and makes you happy every time you see them or think about them - without feeling how fragile it is. there's one girl around specifically - we dated a few times, i fell head-over-heels, she didn't and we don't really talk anymore, but she's so perfect that's fine. it feels like my whole world's changed just because i know there's someone like her in it, regardless of whether i even hang out with her or not. and THAT'S the beauty of a crush! i think i've had a crush on you for YEARS sinister - i've kept my distance; you've kept your promise... i think it's also related to my rediscovery of a deep-seated love for baby-pink. everything form falling half in love with every girl i see wearing just a smidgeon, to gulping down taramasalata, mostly due to its wonderful colour! *fox in the home* i was also thinking about you when i read this little article in the newspaper about how scientists (why is it that scientists always seem to have all the fun? though i'm sure stefano will set us straight on that...) have bred a race of domesticated foxes suitable for household pets! now, despite being a life-long and confirmed Dog-Person, and despite the fact that some people (and maybe me too!) will think that this is in fact horrible and sad... i WANT a little fox to be my friend! oh, i SO want one! and while we're on the subject of animals... any news on the whereabouts of the poetry parrot? well, just wanted to say hello really! and thanks for everyone who's posted. love to you all! JohaN ps. none of the lucksmiths quotes would have been possible but for dimitra's wonderful tape. thanks (again!) pps. and anders - i WILL still write you properly to say thanks - i promise! i'm just very very bad. but i thomas dybdahl, and the kaleidoscope and everything very very much, thanks! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 lisa at xxx.com Fri Feb 25 19:42:12 2005 From: lisa at xxx.com (Lisa) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:42:12 -0600 (CST) Subject: Sinister: fresh out Message-ID: first post... what to say... hmm. i was on this list sometime ago, but dropped off...began dating a fellow listee (how quaint). now, four years later, i've decided to join again, but with considerably less vigour. i enjoy reading the posts. they're comforting and witty, though fewer and more far between than i remember. they make me miss real mail. letters from far out of this country, based on quality music and idle meanderings...the idea of that kind of sentimentalitity has had overwhelming appeal lately. the kind of appeal people doze off to. hm. pretty poor first post. perahps you'll excuse it. -l +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 ailsa_watson72 at xxx.com Sun Feb 27 11:12:40 2005 From: ailsa_watson72 at xxx.com (Ailsa Watson) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:12:40 +0000 Subject: Sinister: Back in the SECC Message-ID: Ken wanted some reporting back from the Tsunami Benefit gig. I'm a bit out of practice at this here posting malarkey, but here goes... We saw Stuart walking to the gig on his own, which isn't terribly rock and roll. He was dressed as the Dog on Wheels video (black hat, tartan scarf) and striding purposefully through the tunnel that goes from the train station to the SECC. I missed the first bit of the gig, which was Stevie Jackson, Norman Blake, Eddi Reader, Eugene Kelly and "someone else" (Ally Cook really needs to practice his own reporting back skills) singing the Proclaimers' 500 Miles. I heard it from the WH Smith outside the hall where the mister was buying sweeties, it sounded ace. Some bands played, and they were mostly very entertaining. Deacon Blue were, no joke, utterly brilliant. A room full of people belting out Dignity, it just doesn't get any better. If you don't agree, you are wrong. Very wrong indeed. I almost had a tear in my eye, and I haven't had that since the Royal Albert Hall gig. And I was younger and drunker and less cynical then. Mogwai provided the perfect accompaniment to a trip to the bar, and Braithwaite is massively hugely bald and fat. Hahaha. Teenage Fanclub ruined the singalong fun by debuting some new stuff, Travis are hugely entertaining (given the theme of the evening, it was just as well they didn't play Driftwood...), Kevin McDermott now looks like the kind of guy you would avoid in the pub and sounds like a fourth-rate Bob Dylan, the Trash Can Sinatras were, as always, wonderful, Idlewild sound like REM and I didn't like them very much, Eddi Reader was quite entertaining, but I was getting quite drunk by that point (I was ceilidhing a bit, hence drunk), Sharleen Spiteri is very self-indulgent and not very good, Franz Ferdinand rock like you wouldn't believe and are almost as good as their hype, and, er, some other people were on. Gary Lightbody was, um, there. As special guest go, it was as special as getting that bloke who busks the Fields of Athenry outside of Markies on. Not very, then. The build-up he got, you would have thought it would have been someone good. We had been hoping for Ivor Cutler, or maybe Fran and Anna. Ooh, Simon Pegg was there too. And Robbie Coltrane. Just introducing bands, like, but, y'know, proper celebs. Coo. Oh, you want to know about Belle and Sebastian? They played The State I Am In (lovely!), The Boy with the Arab Strap (jaunty!) and I'm A Cuckoo (lovely! jaunty! kept the Radio Two crowd happy!). That was it! EXCEPT FOR THE MOMENT WHICH WAS THE BEST THING OF THE WHOLE NIGHT. Given that it was being filmed, there were two big screens up at the side of the stage showing footage from the stage. And they had a huge close-up of Richard gurning which was the funniest thing ever. Maybe you had to be there. Maybe you had to be party to many conversations which reflect on the similarity of Richard's face while drumming to that of a man trying to oust a particularly unpleasant poo. Whatever, this was the face projected onto a huge TV screen in front of me, and the end of my ability to watch the rest of the gig, given that I was bent over double and gasping for air. I hope they showed it on the telly. Er, that was about it then. I hope you are all praying for Edwyn Collins. It's because of people like him that people like us have people like Belle and Sebastian. Kind of, anyway. It's all connected, and he's a hero of mine, and I don't have too many of them left these days. Ailsa xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From jpayne at xxx.org Mon Feb 28 21:45:41 2005 From: jpayne at xxx.org (Jenny Payne) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:45:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: Sinister: Good Books In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, davie kerr wrote: > and on a totally unrelated topic..................i was wondering if anyone > would be able to recommend some truly grim and depressing novels that would > be worth reading? Dear Davie - I'd suggest "THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF DREAMS" (GNOD) to find some novels you like. It also is good to find bands... and the more people use it, the more it 'learns' from suggestions it receives. http://www.gnod.net (Sorry if this has been posted before. I'm not around much.) Jenny +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+