January 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Trouser trauma/willie worries
by Gary Parkinson 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

Hello munchkins In response to the proposed B&S remake of Star Wars: 'Bra Wars' anyone? I think Jim Davidson made me say that. Whoever started this thread probably never realised the fascination without end that grundies/knick-knacks/bloomers/etc would have. Whilst we're (still) on the subject of nether garments then: boys, come with me now to the privacy of the changing rooms now where none of the young ladies can eavesdrop; boxers - does anybody else have this slight but potentially ruinous problem with them, that is, that the buttons (particularly if the shorts are a little worse for wear) often work themselves loose, the opening, erm, opens, and before you know it, you've got an escapee, erm, on your hands, so to speak? Just me? Urk. And anybody remember (of course not, you're all whippersnappers) the classic trolleys song by John Foxx, 'Underpants'? There's things about pants that you can only say in song. And yes, you me, the Beta Band's 'Patty Patty Sound' is a bit like Spaghetti Junction played on bits of rubbish, but 'Dry The Rain' off of 'Champion Versions' is a smasher, likewise pretty much all of 'Los Amigos...'. I better go now, or I might be taken in hand by Miss Honey for talking too much in class. 8) [thanks odeeeeeelia for showing me this smiley, it's now my favourite and I'll use it always 8)]. T'ra chucks, Gazzoid. omtpn: Caravan 'In The Land Of Grey & Pink'(where only Boy Scouts stop to think) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Underwear and white chocolate
by Stanley,L 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

Now I will post my underwear "requirements": Black. Usually (except under tight tops) no support needed. (I'm not exactly Melinda Messenger, although it hasn't done me any harm.) Silk/imitation silk: mainly the latter, but mum brought me back some proper ones from China two years ago; but I reserve them for when the weight is off and special occasions. I wear pyjamas in bed. Or a tight nightshirt I nicked off my sister (which is why it's tight, but that was the reason I stole it, because it enhances my feeling of comfort both in and out of bed, and as I said, the weight is considerably lower at the moment. I'm not a diet fanatic - quite the reverse - but I started walking all the Pringles and noodles off last year at school so I didn't feel like a whale and didn't get sly comments from my father.) Anyway, thought I'd contribute that, make of it what you will. I listened to "Dog on Wheels" on Saturday and that is what I call music. I've also got The Sugarcubes' "Best of..." album, which (judging by the album I've got) should be a real treat. Belle & Sebastian, Fairport convention and The Sugarcubes which, by no means all I'm into, are all the aural equivalent of eating white chocolate on a snow-covered winter day (not so many of those around London).... wonderful. I'm off home now before it gets even wetter, but I'll see you all soon. Louise Stanley l.stanley(a)lse.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: dogs got a bone
by you me 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

I heard someone mention the beta band the other day would you agree that that the patty patty sound ep is well a little excessive , it goes off and does its own thing, Have any of you heard the old jock radio sessions for the mary-ann hobbs show they are absolutly brilliant, oh no i am writing this at college just before one of my labs, and i am supposed to have a info apps test, so i am now offically writing an email in the middle of a test before i go my browser at the moment has no frames can someone send me the sleeve notes of lazy line painter jane off the website which i cant access at the moment thanks and bye ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the difficulty of thinking up an interesting subject-heading.
by weejay 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

hi again Sinisterines. i'm afraid that i've been ill and unable to read all your bizarre thoughts for the last few days. as you may have noticed, i have decided to give up using capital letters except for people/things i really respect. yes, i know who i nicked the idea off, thankyou verymuch. i wasn't ill on friday though, in fact i was having the pleasure of hearing B&S in a certain shitty s'ton club for the first time. it wasn't too bad actually, lots of nice indieish girls and boys who i had the pleasure of sucking my fingers at. can someone please explain to me the attraction of boys... all that hair and sweat and dangly bits. yuk. i've got a hopelessly short attention span, so let's pull out a recent query.... "who was Arthur Lee and what were his records like? I'm sure you can put me straight." who "was"? unless there's been any very recent developments he's alive, well, and incarcerated in los angeles for firing a gun through the ceiling. his records weren't half bad, i won't pretend to be an expert, but if you go out and listen to Love's last album (Forever Changes... no?) you'll be as well informed as is neccecary. oh, and if anyone's at all interested, we didn't have to sack out bass player 'cos she resigned before we could tell her. apparently she thinks dan is lacking in maturity which is true in a way but she's got a sort of conformist don't-make-a-scene 'maturity' which i approve of even less. i think B&S should re-make star wars... Steven Pastel could be the evil darth figure with his jeep-star, and luke would have to be Stuart, natch. me and my friends at sixth form wrote an embarrasing thing like that with ourselves in the main roles. i was james solo of course. the best thing was RUC-Thru who bleeped obscenities limited in rudeness only by your imagination. oh well, never mind, james xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx James(a)twopounds.u-net.com "My lover is inscrutable, in a stoic sort of way, Oh yeah my baby is as beautiful as a tourniquet" http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/cabaret/5523/ (Which will no longer crash your computer. Hopefully.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: little miss chatterbox
by AL Corby 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

I have finally given into temptation and I am now going to write about underwear and specifically my flatmate Emma's underwear. One of my other flatmates Bev had been telling emma for some time that she should get some G strings as you see her pants through her trousers. Emma generally wears m&s kiddies days of the week pants. Emma then informed us that she had bought some gstrings, only when Bev asked if her boyf could see them did we discover that they were bright pink with little miss chatter box on the front. She also informed us she has little miss shy and little miss sunshine as well. I hope you understand this complicated story and don't you think it's nice that we are all able to be open about underwear. Oh and does same colour count as matching BYe Andrea +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Johnny's Diets
by John Johnston 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

"This weekend I have been mostly listening to .... Lloyd Cole" and very nice it was too. But listening to "Are you ready to be heartbroken" prompted a question in my mind... who was Arthur Lee and what were his records like? I'm sure you can put me straight. I'm full of questions at the moment - why is the Art of Fishing not available in the Tyne Tees region? And I've got a bit of a competition, too. I can't think of a prize but maybe one will come to mind and anyway I don't want to appeal to your baser instincts. But I need a new word. It's all a propos of an historical conversation with a Canadian friend of mine many years ago. This chap [who once began a letter to me by saying that my last letter had been "without doubt been the finest contribution to Political Economy since Ricardo (Montalban)" - well it made me laugh but then that's the kind of highbrow gag that I enjoy, oh but I digress....] was wondering about what kind of a world it was in which so many people we being thrown out of windows that they thought - we need a word for this and thus "defenestration" was born. Well, recently I've spent a lot of time waiting for buses and I'd like a new word (a noun please) that when looked up in the dictionary would be defined as ... n. The sense of joy when long overdue public transport turns up. (Orig. obscure maybe Sinister 1999) I bet there's a word for it in German - I'd be interested to know it in any language - Thai, Oon? Don't send your answers to the list send them to me - johnj(a)intapps.com and I might send the winner something great! Or maybe not. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: [Fwd: "200 TROUBLED TEENAGERS"]
by Honey 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

Aww you lot. Here's a snippet for you for being so good. I don't know a single thing about this, so don't shoot the messenger if you go and it sounds like James Last. I'm sure it won't (gulp) :) honey xxx > ---------- > From: "Sarah Smith" <sarah.smith(a)guardian.co.uk> > To: sinister(a)majordomo.net > Subject: " 200 TROUBLED TEENAGERS" > Date: Mon, Jan 18, 1999, 9:25 am > > JE SUIS MUSIC PRESS RELEASE,JANUARY 1999. > "200 TROUBLED TEENAGERS" > When a Japanese tourist offered je suis MUSIC DJ Joe Egg £2000 for his > copy of "Tigermilk", the legendary first album by Glaswegian recluses > Belle and Sebastian, he knew the time was right to hold the first > evening dedicated to the first group since The Smiths that really > turned him on. > Fellow devotees and je suis MUSIC DJs Nervous Stephen and Agent Mike > will be joining Joe in co-hosting a special one-off night they're > calling "200 Troubled Teenagers" at The Paradise Bar in New Cross, the > home of their cult Sunday evening 20th Century Pop Music Club. > The title comes from a Belle and Sebastian song called "Beautiful" > which they'll be playing amongst a selection of the other 52 songs the > mysterious eight piece group have released, including those which only > featured on the aforementioned "Tigermilk" LP, of which only a > thousand copies were pressed. And yes, despite the pleas of that rich > Japanese tourist, Joe Egg does still have his copy , and he will be > bringing it along to"200 Troubled Teenagers".[The Paradise Bar will be > hiring extra security to guard this most precious piece of vinyl.] > The evening will also be sound tracked by other "related" records; > Nick Drake, The Pastels, Francoise Hardy, Stereolab, Nancy Sinatra, > Morissey, Momus, Scott Walker, The Pale Fountains, Weekend, Saint > Etienne, Sandie Shaw, early Pulp and others from the glorious je suis > Music under-ground record library and trumpet duo MAJORCA will be > performing live acoustic interpretations of songs made famous by Belle > and Sebastian and other people. So if you want to know why Belle and > Sebastian are the most important group since The Smiths, or you know > already, "200 Troubled Teenagers" will be thickly felt penned in you > exercise book diary. > "200 TROUBLED TEENAGERS" - an evening dedicated to Belle and > Sebastian, > THURSDAY MARCH 11, from 9pm till 2am at The Paradise Bar,460 New Cross > Road, > London SE14. > Entry is £3 or £2 with NUS card, UB40 or Belle and Sebastian t-shirt > or badge. > For further information please telephone Joe Egg on 0181-694-1376. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Crazy little party girl
by Mctaggart, Robert 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

Hello Poopy-pants, I'm glad Leslie-Jo liked my little questioannaire. Some sensitive little souls didn't and wrote to tell me so. Just to clear matters up, one of my new year's resolutions (OK, so I did make some) was to be nicer on Sinister. I was such a grouch last year, I was getting a reputation. So the quiz...it was just a little bit of fun, no malice intended, I promise. I was alarmed to find that my girlfriend's score means that she is in fact Keith, but impressed by Kevan Cooke's pedantry above and beyond the call of duty. Of course, there are TWO mistakes in Question 8. One was deliberate, the other was me getting Belle and Sebastian song titles wrong. I hang my head in shame. Kevan, you're a prince. Or a Duke, at least. Are we still discussing underwear? I'm wearing Wumpkinny's today. Out of loyalty, you understand, not because I get off on the sensation. I offered her mine to wear in return, "It's not an offer be sniffed at", I said. Strangely, she agreed, although not to the offer. Oon talked about football: >Mr.Miller, Peter Withe is really Thailand football coach. >he was our big hero back when we beat Korea. since >then i've never heard of him again, so i take it our team >never win anything ever since that. is he still your hero? >i'll get his autograph for you if i ever run into him. Whatever happened to Jimmy Rimmer and Nigel Spink? Oh, how we laughed at their funny names. Perhaps Villa Miller can enlighten us. Oh and Peter, I don't suppose you taped that thing about Lulu and France Gall, did you? We don't get enough of that here, I'm petitioning for them to show the Francoise Hardy show on Channel 4. I'm having another one of my girl group frenzies right now, after I bought another swell compilation at the weeekend. People say it's not rock enough, but the Shangri-las kidnapped someone once and kept him as their slave. I think that makes Lemmy look like a big Nancy, and I'm going to tell him to his face. Cheerio, Love tag xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: weird people out there
by Tesch, Thomas 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

This underwear debate seems to go on and on... and everybody seems to enjoy it. That's why I wanted to introduce myself by telling you what I wear: white APC jersey boxers. Like them a lot and always order them in 3-packs. My name's tom, I'm living in Vienna and work as a copywriter at an upstarting international mobile phone company. Talking bout something more interesting: Spent most of my recent new year's eves in Rome and always wore red underwear... well up until the recent one. According to some old Neapolitan superstition, wearing something red underneath - preferably underwear- is a good omen for your upcoming sexlife. After I wore those red ones several years in a row and my sexlife didn't improve, I changed my habit recently and thought to myself: Well, if Italians are supposed to wear red to improve their sexlifes maybe foreigners should rather stick to white? So I'm still curious what the outcome of all of this might be. According to B&S: Austrian's FM4 broadcasted the black session in the middle of last december ... it's rather amazing that Austrian radio is once in a while broadcasting something prior to the U.K. :) tom +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ye-ye girl from Misery
by rebelstrange＠ldd.net 18 Jan '99

18 Jan '99

hey-oh, i love the Ye-ye thread. I was vintage shopping yesterday in belleville at the vintage shop(go figure) and i looked hard and long for a ye-ye dress, but i didnt' find anything that even remotely resembled one. it was very upsetting, all the dresses were far too long to be ye-ye, but i did get a lovely knitted dress of navy blue with sleeveless styling, patterned v-neck and little bordered pockets on the front, it was very Amelia Fletcher somehow. Last night i fell asleep listening to France Gall, after a long struggle, and dreamed of possessed witch girls who helped me murder a cult member boy and then when i was trying to save her sanity, she became a snake like witch woman and her purple tongue flicked on my arm and it burned me. but i think i eventually shook her back to consciousness after she threw the magic fairy down the stairs for the 3rd time, and the horse came back as a robot to assist her in saving the world. I was about to write a book about it all but it had a very improper scene in it i'm not sure would be healthful. So where did all these new kids come from? 1999 explosion anyone?? what up wit dat? Listen and gather round, tender young shoots! and pay an ear to Honey. Very soon, you'l learn to welcome his posts as the guiding hand of a caring mum who loves you. I did! Now take your scarf when you go out, you'll catch your death of cold. thanks for the quiz, tag. i had to call a neutral on teh question about clubs, as i am a shut-in, and hypothetically predict the sinister get together question, but i came out with a nine. i'm not sure what that means. but i love quizzes. Hello, hope you'll all excuse my gushing here, but i've just been listening to all my new live things, the NY shows and some radio show things, and i was just all excited about how amazing it is, and how lucky i was to be able to see them play. It's so beautiful when Isobel sings harmony in "Belle and sebastian" and her and sarah's string bit in the live "seeing othe rpeople" and when weechris gets down and funky on the keyboards, go man go! the wrong girl is a little lame, the words are silly, but the chorus thing is nice, when stu sings back up and they get their motown groove on, dirty dream style, I do enjoy that, however i'm not sure if it ttoally redeems the song, but it's pleasant enough. poupee de cire!!! say no more. *shudder pleasantly* I finally got my Tiggerjam for my birthday prez. i'm just relieved to have it in my hands. how could you all dis the gate like that? It's so lovely and sweet and SO true. and it has banjo in it, fer cripes sake, what more can you ask? the uh, melody of slow graffiti is sublime. that's all i have to say no more boring for you. (!) you may enjoy knowing i've been updating the b/s and wee world pages, the wee world is also looking for your input if anyone would be pleased to do so, any remarks on why isobel is groovy, to add to the obsessiveness. nothing like "isobel is God"---cos she's not! (shock, gasp, surprise) just anything nice, maybe you met her once, maybe you just think her voice is purty, anything that's not vulgar, cos i wont' be held be responsible for that sort of thing, you naughty boys know who you are! even little drawings you have or isobel related scribbles or oil portraits in gilt frame, or a velvet isobel, or life size models in clay. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4967/isobel.html (so you wont' have to ask me later) >From the Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, new edition: twee (twe-) adj, Chiefly Brit. affectedly dainty or quaint: "twee writing about furry little creatures". (1900-05; appar. reduced from "tweet"{perhaps via pronoun "twi?}, mimicking child's pronunciation of "sweet") and that is verbatim. i recalled soemone asking about the etymology of Twee, so i found that interesting. t genevieve, your last post had me rolling. "on your extrodainry genes that gave wee stu such a fine..err what is the term.. gluteus maximus?and i just want you to know that if Stuart Murdoch and James Van Der Beek,aka Dawson ever got into a fight,i would so be on Stu's side to kick the shite out of Dawson,wheee!) and Stuart David can leap into the crowd and give everyone purple nurples and Stuart Murdoch can lick his finger and touch his belly button and make that 'sizzzzzzle' sound and cry out 'DAMN i'm hot!it's all good,from the front to the back,and I get down with my badself' and then collapse in a heap and have to be removed by a stretcher.." I must admit i'm not sure what all of that meant, and i'm troubled by any mention of Dawson's Creek, as well as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" which is a crap show i have to admit but i digress....but I can attest to the quality of said gluteus maximus, with appropriate um, authority, and objectivity as well. i think if they win the Brit award, they should be on there live and play the show, and look all confused by the lights and stuff and stu would be staring at the floor, but during the bits where isobel doesn't play cello, she could be on a lifting platform wearing a ye-ye dress and go-go boots and glittery fake eyelashes, and go-go dance like Edie with the Velvets. that's what Jess and I have decided anyway. Oh, and who is Billie? do we not have her over here in the states? we have Brittney spears, thought, at least i think that is her name. Thankyou Michael "cheeky rake" Barrett, for the lovely imagery of isobel getting her groove thang on with pants halfway down her arse infront of a lycra dancing line. Yum! Next I assume we can see Stuart and wee Chris with adidas track suits and 50-pound gold chains, smoking Philly blunts in a jumping street machine filled with jheri-curl honeys. Mackin' it! sarah m, a woman after my own heart: hey all, i cannot seem to get 'the gate' out of my head. isobel has such a mesmirizing voice, its so very beautiful. when i saw b&s, she looked like a doll!.......... isobel dolls anyone? ....actualy y'all can see the isobel doll, very soon arriving at the wee world, get ready. I'll have jess pick up some more and i can sell them to gullible obsessives for exorbitant prices. mmm....fraud.... I'll stop here before i harm anyone. lesleyjo http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange No bachelor has ever experienced such desolate loneliness as does the spinster; for the bachelor is a man, and the older spinster but a male-like woman. --Dr. Joseph Tanenbaum, _The Riddle of Woman_, 1936 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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