Hi Sinister, Yeah, so you might say "indie schmindie" about independent films, too, but Todd Solondz does a much better job satirizing American suburban family life in "Happiness" than the director of "American Beauty" does. That film was creepy cos, even though it was supposed to be satire, it was more like Hollywood taking itself seriously as being really superficial but trying to laugh ironically about it at the same time. So it was no surprise to see the daughter's girlfriend in the film posing on the cover of some women's magazine weeks later. Did anyone see "Ratcatcher"? Gosh, it would have been nice if Belle and Sebastian did the music for that film, esp. since it takes place in Glasgow and all. The boy who drowns in the beginning looks like a younger version of the male cover star of 3,6,9..., so Stuart I guess. And when the film opens with the boy twisting himself 'round in a gauze curtain, the end of "You Made Me Forget My Dreams" - when the music seems to be spiraling madly - could be playing. And the end of "LLPJ" should be playing when the main character is running through the fields surrounding the new housing project. Or maybe the Foxgloves could contribute a speeded up version of "Daystar" then, with loud guitars. But the boy probably would be too young to relate, so there would have to be another scene when he's older and is visiting his old neighborhood... They do have interesting shoes in the film: the mother of the boy who drowned buys these sandals for him, which remind me of shoes from Stride Rite when I was young, and she gives them to the main character - his mother forces him to take them and say thank you. I guess they'd be considered sort of sissy, but they're really nice. I got the Relict/Clientele split single and another single by the Relict. Gosh, 7"s are the perfect format for highlighting individual songs. There's something about having just the amount of space you need. And the homemade look of the split single is really pleasing. On "(i can't seem to) make you mine", I love Pam Berry's voice when she sings 'GARden' and Alasdair's when he sings 'aWAY'! Her voice really reminds me of pines - something fresh and green - delicate but strong at the same time - there's a quality that I can only describe as 'reedy' to her voice. Alasdair's is more like the heavy perfume of flowers and dew and intoxication. I was spying on lacewings again and Joey Sweeney, who's a writer for the Philadelphia Weekly now I guess, had a metaphor involving the smoothness of absinthe and crushed velvet sofas for their duet, if I remember correctly. (Joey Sweeney's solo album "Heartache Baseball" is really nice.) So with Alasdair and Pam, it's more how differences in their voices are brought together, but when Joe and Pam collaborate, it really is a perfect match, as the writer of the tangents article pointed out. Matching voices for duets would be fun. I think Harriet Wheeler would sound nice with Alasdair, too. Cheers, Youn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+