Hello you all. This time I will try to write a better letter than the one I just finished off (this was a week ago. Well how time flyes). That wont be too hard really. Just keep it focused and we will be all right. I forgot to add in my latest letter how Valentines Day went. Or really, the day before Valentines Day. Well first I didnt get a flower. None. Zip, nada, ingen. Well I didnt expect one either. None at all. I mean since my friends didnt send one, the chance that I would get one was small. And really I dont feel so very bad about it. Just a little self pity, right? Ah, well. The hard thing is that every one else gets a flower. Or maybe Im wrong? Is it just so that you notice all those who gets flowers, but those who get none just pass by? I do think it is so, after a bit of thought. Well, I guess things are relative. Some things affect you. I had just bought Tigermilk, and I was off to a place where they show different older movies on big screen, like a movie club, to see a film, Trainspotting. Every one who has seen that movie, knows what I mean when I say it is a difficult one (or maybe you disagree? Maybe some people thinks it is hilariously funny. Well, I didnt). For all those who havent seen it here is a short basic story. The movie follows a group of drug addicted Scottish people. No matter what they do or try to stay out of it they get stuck to all kinds of drugs ("We would have injected vitamin C if they one would have made it illegal"). Well, it is a heavy movie with some lets say strange episodes. It gave me a dirty impression. Dont get me wrong here; what I mean is dirt, like mud. Let me explain. In the hotels the curtains where old and ugly, the streets where dirty, the people was strange and so on. Well, it really put me in a strange mood. What I would rather have wanted to see was clean nice things, a movie with important people doing important stuff and save the day in the end. The classical American thing. Well, the worst part of all this was that it reflected on my new Tigermilk record. It also felt dirty, out of date, strange. For a whole afternoon and night I felt like this. Trainspotting had made Tigermilk bad. After two days I put it in my CD player again. Well, I thought, none of them are so good really, and that Electronic thing is really bad. I thought; well, thank heaven they have improved. The third time I listened to it I noticed there was a song, that was better than the others. She was the reason for all the looks we gave. It was sang in a low, dark key and sounded really good. In listened to it again. Well that second song wasnt so bad after all either. The next morning or so, I found myself humming to the first song. After giving up I played it again. This time I liked all of the songs, except the Electronic Renaissance. I still dont like it much. I just accept it. Well, at least Tigermilk was clean. A bit of silly American programs did the trick. Nothing is so useful for starting to believe in the world again as bad American TV. Well, at least its good for something then. And also, I must beg the B&S; NEVER EVER do a Best Of record. Please, please! There are two reasons for that. The first is the same reason that makes it impossible, for me at least, to do a mix CD with B&S. I know when all songs are coming, and if they dont come in the right order I get furious. And secondly, a best of record marks that this is as good we get, now we cant get better, which would take out all of the possible fun out of it. Time is a funny thing. I realised a while ago, that before the last Sunday in September last year I had only heard The boy with the Arab strap and Legal Man of B&S. That Sunday I had thought to see a movie at the same film club as I mentioned above, but I was one week early and it hadnt started yet. So I went down to a local CD shop and bought Arab Strap. It was a sunny day, and I was carrying around my left arm in a bag while walking home. When I got home I put it on and played it again and again. Oh. It feels like B&S have been a part of my life forever. I guess B&S is one of the single things that have had the most impact on my life. Strange. Well, I better finish this letter of. I must thank Astrid, and congratulate her to a nice Valentines Day. Could it have been better? I do hope you all have a really nice time! Oh, and this upcoming week I have V-a-c-a-t-i-o-n, in the summer time! Well, not really but But Ah, well, you will be hearing from me quite soon, I guess. Johan PS. PLease don't mind spelling mistakes. 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