Hello again everyone. Clever phrase you used Ben, I saw fit to use it as my title. Well, everything's pretty quiet on the Psi-front. I'm still looking for a placement for next year (I have until October) and whilst doing so, am keeping myself occupied in many ways. One is of course searching for a holiday, but there are more. For all you literature addicts, I've started reading Cold Comfort Farm. It wasn't long ago that I realised it was the inspiration to the famous Divine Comedy song Something For The Weekend (one of my all-time favourite DC songs). Neil Hannon claimed it was inspired by Kate Beckinsale's lovely face, and then I discovered she was the star of the film version of Cold Comfort Farm. Thought I'd try the book out first though, and so far, it's very good (I'm some 70 pages into it). Sat through Live And Let Die last night. It was one of the few Bond films I hadn't seen, and it was good. Speaking of films, I'm assuming most of you have already seen Spider-Man (which, if you haven't, I'd definitely recommend). However I was recently reminded of the blantant product placement in the film (Carlsberg, Macy Gray). Did anyone spot it? Mind you, at least it wasn't as obvious as in Josie and the Pussycats. I also saw the Final Fantasy film recently, which I know a number of people have avoided cos of the "all animation, no plot" rumours that most critics have been spreading. Actually, the plot's not too bad, even if it is overly familiar. What struck me was how real the characters in the film looked sometimes. I remember in my "Stuff" post earlier this month, I talked about how exciting the World Cup was. Now I'm beginning to wonder if the critics were right about regretting the loss of France, Argentina and Portugal (of course when they wrote those articles I totally disagreed with them). I mean, I was happy so long as England, Ireland, South Korea and Japan were still in. Now they're all gone, what's left? A Brazil team that's nowhere near as good as their predecessors versus the "robotic" Germans. Someone wrote yesterday that it'd have been ridiculous if Korea had made the final - I don't think so. They were exciting to watch in nearly all of their games, even if they don't have players as gifted as the so-called "big" countries. Yes, they were lucky to get past Spain, but it's always a welcome sight to see a "small" country reach the final. Let's just say I really don't think the final will be that entertaining... I'm off to listen to the Gemma Hayes album again. All of you who are off to Glastonbury, enjoy yourselves. Take care, Psi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+