Your Best Sinister Post

By one of life's funny little ironies, the first post I clicked on was the Pinefox's report on the Sinister vs ILE football match.

IMO

...Arab Strap was released in Sept '98. The EPs to which you refer were released in 1997. Sinister started around the time of the second of those three EPs.

sorry. coincidence between start of Sinister and Belle and Sebastians Losing It retracted.

but TBWTAS....what are the good songs? It could have been a brilliant career? Ease your feet into the sea? The rollercoaster ride???

Is this the place for this?

my B&S days are probably over for ever. even IYFS is still listened to through a filter of 15/16 nostalgia when it was thee most perfect music.

XPOST

hey! i've not got anything against them, this is just the bitter wail of a disappointed fan...

and liz: x it's not a problem with the titles it's a problem with the tunes and (especially) the arrangements.

To people who have not been on sinister, I will repeat once more something that I said above: This thread is mainly for people who have been on sinister. (Happily, other threads abound for people who have not been.)

no, I will not bother seeking more mots injustes.

Baffling.

Probably my best post.

i say 'had', though i still like them. the b&s of today are a different band. nice, in their own way. probably more 'grown-up'. less 'pathetic'. less interesting, for that.

x-post: liz - i think the rollercoaster ride is about a bit more than that. illness, both mental and physical, for example.

yes, ILX can be very selective, often appearing as though there are only 5 or 6 people on the entire internet whose ideas are worthy of digestion. It is wise not to waste time with it. In fact those who do deserve congratulations.

http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/mhonarc/200203/msg00205.html

and BWTAS's the greatest record ever, except for "step into my office baby". (No...)

my apologies for my ignorance...

I don't think we should use the word 'Cunts' on sinister. Save it for I Love Comics.

Cheers to Amanda for pointing us towards something interesting by her.

The level of inanity - or is it just venom? - on this thread continues to surprise me.

I'm just ppulling your pigtails really though

& did it fit well?

I think this thread should be revived as often as possible, because it makes us look like complete spanners.

i would have liked to say that since all of my posts were made in the past 3 years the best one must have been with those 3.. but i just realised it's actually now 4 and a bit years woops. will report back.

if I had to choose one person who has influenced my life more than any other at
all. I would choose myself. if I had to choose another that has changed the
course of my life. I'd have to choose someone else. if I had to keep choosing
more and more people. I might, eventually, choose macauley culkin. yes. it
is amazing, yet it is also sort of true: macauley culkin has affected my life
to an extraordinary degree.

it all began when I saw the cover of this month's FACE. or maybe it was
earlier. maybe it was when I saw 'home alone.' or maybe 'uncle buck.' or
maybe when I heard he'd got married. or when I saw 'home alone 2: lost in new
york.' or when I saw 'my girl 2' and wondered why he wasn't in it. or when I
thought about it and remembered he'd died at the end of 'my girl' or some shit.
actually. I haven't seen 'my girl 2.' have I? but when ever the fuck it
happened...it made an impact.

yes. a hero of our time. of our time. I suppose it's the only something
something something. and for all the masses he something something and what
for something he had something of something something. he is/was/something: a
hero of our time.

or a hero of his time? whatever, something.

but seriously.

M.C. [as I would call him if I were his friend and he let me call him M.C.] has
been present or a part of some of the most momentous moments in modern history.
indeed: perhaps not HIStory. yes, maybe not, but DANGEROUS-for sure. mac [as
I might call him too and yeah] appeared in michael jackson's 'black or white'
video for that song. he was a kid on some stoop someplace and rapping and
wearing a cap and I think michael was smiling at him, maybe. and I seem to
remember his mum and dad were played by, like, some famous people too? or
maybe they weren't. actually thinking about it I recall that his dad's VOICE
may have been provided by dan castelaneta and checking for how I should spell
his name I find that it's actually spelled dan castellaneta. and that I'd
almost got it right. but that I don't know how to spell the other…it is, in
fact, macaulAy. Not macaulEy. haha. but: yes. dan castellaneta didn't
provide the voice of culkin's father at all. he provided home!
r simpson's voice AS ALWAYS. but why there? no. the father was potrayed by
george wendt of NORM! cheers fame. [whatever.]. now, his mother was played by
norma jennings from 'twin peaks.' isn't that interesting?
http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0317313 you'll see that adolf hitler and wesley
snipes and magic johnston and iman also appeared. what a coup! I've
pronounced that differently there so that is sounds like a sort of an insult or
something.

yes, at the age of seventeen [maybe] macaulay married rachel miner [I think]
and then they split up a couple of years ago.

a couple of years ago too, but unconnected, perhaps, , macaulay played a guy
called michael alig in a film called 'party monster.' I saw a documentary
about the stuff that michael alig did. I saw it about five times, I think. he
died and something else. like, he killed a guy. and had some drugs. I
haven't seen that film, though. haha, checking my facts on this one too; I
find that that wasn't a couple of years ago but, actually, next year. oh well.

believe it or not: macaulay culkin is only seven months older than I am. it is
up to you.

I do know that macaulay likes sonic youth or pretends to. I do too. maybe
macaulay is a fan of belle & sebastian and their music. maybe he's lurking
here right now. reading this. etc. maybe not. but if he is…if you are,
macaulay: thank you.

love,
richard.

[this post was not about that funny film with a funny alien in it called 'mac
and me' but, rather, about the movie star and actor MACaulay culkin and about
me too. read it again, please.].

if you'd like to write to macaulay, you can reach him here:
mister macaulay culkin
124 west sixtieth street
new york city
new york state
10023

Hmm. I am sure that I have seen posts on Sinister from MarkH, ken c, PJ Miller, the bellefox (& even me) in the last few days!

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I thought about doing an experiment a while back. I think when I'm asleep I almost certainly shout out my best art. This is based on little more than a hunch, I'll grant you, but I like hunches. I'm a hunchie kinda guy. Oh, and a little twinny.

So I went to the local cheap store for whatever and bought, you know, mic and tape recorder. It ended up like this.

DREAM SLEEP ART EXPERIMENT

Day 1

Wake up with a tingle of anticipation playing on my tongue. TO SILENCE. CURSE MUH MUTE SELF. I AM AN ANACHRONISM! Ah no, have forgotten to switch tape player on.

Day 2

A strange humming invades the room when I 'playback'. Sounds exactly opposite to a keyboard whirr on the first day of sexual awakening. Of course! It is the wheat germ cycle. Nothing more. Noting more, I note.

Day 3

Only a 6 day week, for summer solstice. Traditionally, day 3 is omitted.

Day 4

Day four is JOCUND day! I am so happy I think I will puke! I can clearly make out a poem on the tape, I'm sure it must be great. I will now go away and listen more carefully.

Ok. I can't quite make it all out, but here's the gist. I shall title it 'Almost....'

Lentil, oh, startling Anna
(inaudible) abblers! Kind, and always
Just die, pulled from the
Well (inaudible) dove me
fraught in your anteater frenzy
Lazing out to sea.

It is everthing I had hoped for and more! My dilapidated mind is kindled once more. I believe that tomorrow I will naturally fill in the blanks.

Day 5

Have filled in the blanks. With more blanks. DAMN THE MOON.

Day 6

Interesting tension between silence and lack of noise. Then! Something akin to rambling ingenues playing with wambling engines. It says 'PoStAl InCreASe'. I think it is the title of a future painting. All capital letters are spoken as such. Later, my snoring has an overwhelming feel of melancholy.

Day 7

Tape player ignites mid-night. My screams as the fire approaches the guitar on the other side of the room are lost in the hubbub of water and sand. Where the sand came from, I cannot be certain. So many wasted words. I could have driven a truck through their preconceptions and prejudices, made a statement to last the ages. I eat egg to cheer my spirits.

Until,
Alasdair xx

I could have driven a truck through their preconceptions and prejudices, made a statement to last the ages.

J. Ally Prufrock

Sinister: Ode Dear
L*** A****
Wed, 18 Jun 2003 03:34:59 -0700

Stuart Murdoch

We can withstand the arms of sex
And shirt stretched tight on rounded pecs.
What sends us ladies in a trance
Is catching sight of silver pants.

*************************

Sarah Martin

Of all the places to lay one’s head -
Chaise longue, four poster, futon, bed -
The one where I’d like most to rest
Is Sarah’s well-upholstered breast.

*************************

Stevie Jackson

A country lad is Stevie J,
He tramps through fields of corn all day,
He splashes in streams and climbs hayricks
And his songs sound like the Mavericks.

*************************

Chris Geddes

Demon fingers, all a-blur,
Make the hammond organ whir.
What metier is more carefree
Than all day tickling ivory?

*************************

Richard Colburn

Mr Colburn’s drumming face
Makes him look like a mental case.
I’d rather walk across Death Valley
Than meet him down a darkened alley.

*************************

Mick Cooke

When the final trump is sounding
And our world comes to an end,
God’s musician must be astounding
To outshine our brassy friend.

*************************

Bob Kildea

“What this band needs,” said Stu one day,
“Is a gen-u-ine hearthrob.”
“I know this chap who’s new in town,”
Said Mick, “and his name’s Bob.”

Juicy Lucy

(which is saying something from me, because normally I can't get past the first paragraph of a Pinefox Sinister post)

(* - Not true, I've read everything since early last month).