sinisteels, last night, by some stroke of luck i watched "the band who would be king", the documentary about Half Japanese. I know everyone's talking about high fidelity, which is *quite* a different film from this one, but getting down to music biz and pop snobbery and where ideas of good & bad art come from and all that, this is the movie to see. it's inspiring, genuinely inspiring, for music, for writing, for, well, life. but if you're familiar with Half Japanese, then you probably know all this. If you're not, then rent this movie and/or go out and buy their records ("charmed life" definitely). genius, honestly. it's different from belle and sebastian, yet there's obviously some kind of connection there, and it makes me feel just as good. you know, the way brilliant things do when they're just naturally brilliant. i'm just a little overwhelmed, i mean, i've been thinking about the kinds of things the film makes you think about - like when you're angry/disappointed that certain things exist and get too much credit and then you realize that you're just so glad other things exist you realize that it's better to be happy about these good things existing than waste your time being angsty about things like top 40 radio. putting this thinking into practice is the thing though, requires a lot of undoing of thoughts in some cases (i.e. mine), but once it happens... well, it's a lovely level of freedom, i mean, i can feel it even though i'm not quite there yet. mm. so, yeah... love songs and monster songs, Robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+