From itsbeenabloodystupidday at xxx.ca Sun Jun 7 23:31:19 2009 From: itsbeenabloodystupidday at xxx.ca (layla) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sinister: Mont Royal, or Perfection as a Hipster Message-ID: <994025.35100.qm@web34704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sinister! Summer is upon us. I have scrubbed down my modest balcony-cum-fire-escape, installed a table and chairs, and filled the remaining space with plants. I was never much of a plant person before, but now... Now I walk around the Jean-Talon market positively transfixed by flowers and herbs and vines whose names I don't know or particularly care to know, just wallowing in the untrammelled sensory bliss of it all. (Oh, winter was long.) I have been thinking about picnics. I have been trying to recall the last picnic I attended, but I can't. This strikes me as a situation that needs rectifying. And so I propose a Montreal picnic to all you lurking listees, whose paths I perhaps unknowingly cross en route to the metro or the bakery. Let us gather one Sunday and break baguette together. I don't own a football, and if I toss a frisbee it is likely an excellent indication to duck, but such pastimes would of course be welcome. Or we can while away the afternoon with generous quantities of wine, nostalgia, and tinny Belle & Sebastian on portable speakers. (God help this girl.) Layla P.S.: Is anyone going to see Camera Obscura on June 26th at La Tulipe? Their latest album has a metallic Scandinavian sound that I can't quite coordinate to any given mood, but I still plan to attend and wouldn't mind company. __________________________________________________________________ Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! 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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 forestpines at xxx.com Mon Jun 8 00:21:18 2009 From: forestpines at xxx.com (FP) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:21:18 +0100 Subject: Sinister: Chuffing in the silence (between laughter tracks) Message-ID: <1f3ef9770906071621m88499eds44cc5b93146fcca@mail.gmail.com> Hello there, Gosh, Sinister Action. People posting once more. It almost tempted me to throw an oar or something in Sinister's direction. The Pinefox recently said that he's not in a sitcom. I was slightly disappointed. A Pinefox-based sitcom would be excellent BBC4 material; I can easily imagine 6 episodes of the Pinefox getting into classic comedy scrapes. Episode 1: the Pinefox mislays his favourite purple jumper. Episode 2: something involving shocking indiepop gossip. The season would culminate in a struggle for control of the North London James Joyce Society (Correspondance Committee), with a Comedy Nemesis introduced earlier in the series. Are there any commissioning editors on Sinister any more? (I should add - because it confused people the last time I posted - that there's no connection or intentional name-similarity between me and the Pinefox. I stole my name from a hotel-cum-golf-club-cum-spa just outside Scunthorpe. A lovely part of the world, beautiful when the fires of the steelworks light up the night sky, blighted only by the fact that it is now represented in the European Parliament by a former National Front member who was also a self-professed National Socialist. Not a good reflection on the region.) On the subject of telly, why hasn't anyone suggested a B&S sitcom? That would work quite well, if we could imagine them all living in a giant shared house a la The Monkees. There could be a running joke about Sarah's Englishness; and portraits of Isobel and Stu D looking down on the living-room,* positioned so that when someone was standing in the main "giving a speech" spot on the set, the two former members look down on them like angel and demon on the shoulder. The band themselves should choose which would be which. Alasdair Gray would hopefully be willing to play their upstairs neighbour, a bearded artist in smock and beret who regularly gets annoyed at the noise coming from downstairs. I wonder where that "angel and demon on the shoulder" trope originates. Everything in iconography originates somewhere - the Christian halo, for example, comes from depictions of the Unconquered Sun, from the Roman cult of the same name. Of course, you probably all already know that; it's hardly an obscure fact. Angels and demons (not the book or film) are presumably a little more obscure. Someone also mentioned Camera Obscura recently. I've been out of the loop a bit recently, but I *assume* Sturan is still intimately associated with T. Campbell of that ilk. Given CO are playing Indietracks this year, it would be nice to get Sturan, a camera, and a big hulking great steam engine in close proximity. I've only been to the Christmas Indietracks - that time that the King of Partick did a DJ set in the brake carriage, setting up that whole CO-Indietracks relationship - but I did manage to get on the footplate of one of their engines, the unique British Rail Standard 5 with Caprotti valve gear. I'm glad I did, because it was bloody cold on the platform and toasty-warm on the footplate. Not being a trainspotter, I forget the number of the thing. The ATP people are missing a trick now they're over at Minehead, if you ask me; they should be calling up the WSR and get some sort of Great Western Indietracks Rip-Off Event going. The WSR goes right past Butlin's after all. That's all from me for now: I even managed to get some B&S-related content in. Let me know if there's any part of this post you didn't understand. -- - FP - http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/ -- * much as, if you go to the Granada TV studios in Manchester, they have a haunting painting of Tony Wilson, in stark but touching black-and-white outline, overlooking the reception desk. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 jayeckard at xxx.com Mon Jun 22 19:46:25 2009 From: jayeckard at xxx.com (Jay Eckard) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:46:25 -0400 Subject: Sinister: Dramaturgical Assitance! Stat! (Well, sort of) Message-ID: Gosh! Mr FP asked where the angel-and-demon-on-your-shoulder trope comes from, and I'm just the person to elucidate! Its most direct source is Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus that have a "goode angell and euil spirit" that come out together from time to time to either cheer for or against the good Doctor's repentance. [It comes from older English mystery plays that feature good and bad angels talking to a given soul -- like in the Castle of Perservance -- but in none of the Medieval plays do they come out and bicker with each other directly, like they do in Faustus.] I also quite like Mr FP's sitcom idea -- especially the portraits. I think somebody should try their hand at it. As you can see, I'm struggling to come up with some actual B&S /content/ but I seem totally strapped. Following on from others talking about Camera Obscura, I saw thier show this weekend in NC. It was keen. And they played "Eighties Fan", and that had Stuart on guitar when they recorded it in the studio. See! Cotent! They also played "Franch Navy" and "Razzle Dazzle Rose" which was quite nice, but I pine for the day they play "Roman Holiday" live. Has anyone seen or heard them do that? --GayJay -- "If you can't be great you may as well be bright..." Sodastream "There's more to life than books, you know/ But not much more..." The Smiths "The natural state of the theatre is that of insurmountable obstacles on the path to imminent disaster." Phillip Henslowe _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo at missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From ianwatsonuk at xxx.com Thu Jun 25 11:22:53 2009 From: ianwatsonuk at xxx.com (Ian Watson) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:22:53 +0100 Subject: Sinister: RIP Steven Wells In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Steven Wells, the former NME writer responsible for some of the quotes in the Sinister signature, died of cancer on Tuesday. I know he railed against B&S and their fans, but I like to think it was done with affection and with a lot of humour. Especially this line: "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" He was a great writer and a lovely man by all accounts, and exactly the kind of adversary a "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" would want. RIP Swells. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 javiersorribes at xxx.com Mon Jun 29 21:05:58 2009 From: javiersorribes at xxx.com (Javi Sorribes) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:05:58 +0200 Subject: Sinister: So, I guess I shouldnt ask for this, but anyway.... Message-ID: Well... I'm going to london in about a month or so, and I'm hoping to get B&S bootlegs and all that stuff... can anyone help with record shops? thanx a lot! -- Javi Sorribes javiersorribes at miperronotienenariz.com http://www.miperronotienenariz.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+