on the subject of sad stuff. i think the saddest thing i ever saw was a section of the John Lennon documentary 'Imagine.' John hears that there's some chap's been camping out on his lawn for a couple of days (he's living in a mansion/stately home type rich person's abode so he hasn't noticed the guy on the grounds or anything). so John gets someone to call the boy up to the house. The next thing you see is the boy standing outside the house with John talking to him...giving out to him really. John is trying to explain that there's nothing godly or even interesting about himself...he's just a man...those songs he wrote are just words, they weren't written for the boy - they were written only with John, or maybe even Yoko in mind. The little camper just looks slightly stunned, and very bedraggled from sleeping rough in his idol's garden...he's also trying not to cry next scene, john and yoko and the boy are sitting around a table eating lunch...the boy is obviously starving cos he's eating really ravenously with his hands and the other two are just looking at him...John keeps repeating what he's said...he's being pretty harsh but i guess it's a real pain for him to have people following him all the time(see Mark Chapman for details)...the sad thing is the look on the boy's face. it's a mixture of feeling stunned and euphoric to be inside John Lennon's house, actually in the company of the person who he's loved for years and years and who's company he probably always imagined being in, and then sadness because he's realising that the dream he had was exactly that and his whole world is collapsing...he's still fighting back the tears...makes me cry every time... but then again i have a very bad record for crying at films...see "The Land Before Time" for details...bear in mind that my mum used to turn on "Lassie" when visitors came round so that they could laugh at me crying...that show killed me every time...it got to the point where i started crying at the sound of the opening notes cos i just kept remembering all the times when Lassie nearly died...or saved that poor deaf child from a burning treehouse etc.... of course now i've grown into a hardened cynical old hag and these things don't effect me at all anymore...no really...sob. nickie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------