On April 2 Tag wrote:
Pretentious is just a word used by some people for things they're too fucking ignorant or lazy to understand. Don't listen to these people, they are wrong. Incidentally, I'd recommend you go and see "Happy Together", Wong Kar Wai's (Chunking Express) new film. The bloke in "Uncut" likes it and so do I. Stylish, moving, lovely photography, romantic ... dammit, it's got the lot. I think I waffled on about "Chunking Express" before, but that rules too.
>> Yes Yes Yes, I second both the Wong Kar Wai >>recommendations. For maximum effect, see Happy Together >>while you are Sad Alone. (Um, that sounds sarcastic but >>it's not!) I just missed seeing WKW's Fallen Angels in the >>theater so will have to try to find it on video. I also >>recommend another film out of HOng Kong called "Comrades: >.Almost a Love Story" -- cheesy title, but good film, and >>somewhat reminiscent of Kieslowski, my favorite director. On March 31 Tara Widmer wrote:
most people get completely wrong impressions about what people are going to look like before they see their picture/meet them. So, has anybody ever been pleasantly surprised in this regard? do tell... I'm curious
>> Mmmmm, yes, very pleasantly surprised upon receiving a >>photo. I can't report on the first meeting part for >>another 9 hours or so, when he gets here. He's in a plane >>crossing the Atlantic as I write this. GULP! > B&S content? Um, the boy on the plane is the person who >introduced me to B&S and a list member, does that count? > -> Nicole .>. who also votes for the return of the happy bunny statement
which she had successfully begged HoneyP for in the first place! :-)
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i've concluded once again that i'm too fickle for a signature file.
yeah, you are all astonishingly wet and sad... and I have lost all faith...if ever there was a time to bow out... Marcus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (129.215.72.168) by csu_mail2.napier.ac.uk with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 0002792B; Thu, 2 Apr 98 22:03:12 +0000 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA23097; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:13 +0100 Received: by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (bulk_mailer v1.9); Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:09 +0100 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA23080 for sinister-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:03:06 +0100 Received: from drizzle.com (nicolina@slug.drizzle.com [207.207.67.200]) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA23076 for <sinister@majordomo.net>; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:02:45 +0100 Received: from localhost (nicolina@localhost) by drizzle.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA31894 for <sinister@majordomo.net>; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:02:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:02:54 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Elger <nicolina@drizzle.com> To: sinister@majordomo.net Subject: Sinister: Subtitles and pleasant surprises Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980402120616.26937A-100000@drizzle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: Nicole Elger <nicolina@drizzle.com> X-List: Sinister