I saw Storytelling last night. Would you like to hear about it? I'm not much of a film reviewer, so don't pay too much attention to my opinions. Go see it yourself. For those of you who dont know yet, Storytelling is actually two films called Fiction and Non-Fiction, which are directed by Todd Solondz, and are only related by their common theme of being about storytellers and storytelling. A large part of the film is supposed to have been cut, exorcised by the studio for being a little too shocking, and amongst the dead celluloid must have been a few Belle and Sebastian songs, because only four are left in the final cut. The film wasn't amazing but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The first was a neater, better reasoned film than the second, but suffered from the short film's curse of being a film with a punchline. The second was more muddled and tried to make similar points to the first but in a more ungainly way. It does contain a few very funny parts, though, especially those involving Scooby or his little evil brother who always says exactly what he shouldn't. The Belle and Sebastian songs were in the second film too, and to me (I might be a little biased of course) sounded better than the film. So it's a shame the songs and the film are so closely linked. The songs are; The State I Am In I Don't Want To Play Football Scooby driver Storytelling They all sounded good - I liked Scooby Driver a lot. The lyrics and the titles sound like they're closely related to the film. This means it could be difficult to put those songs (or the cut ones) on another album than the Storytelling one. That's not such a bad thing, but it might be hard to listen to these songs without thinking of the film, and in my opinion Murdoch's a far better storyteller than Solondz anyway, so I'd rather hear his version of a story than watch anyone else's. It sounds like Stuart's a little annoyed with Solondz about the way their songs were treated too. But now the film's been made it's difficult to escape this. I hope the songs work as well by themselves and some good songs aren't blurred by an average film. That's all. Very factual today. More of the old nonsense next time I'm sure. Hey, Robs and Robyns - do we have a mix tape team or not? Robin (with an i) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+