I was reading again "The Catcher in the Rye" a few days ago. This book is one of those I take everywhere I go, so that I can take a look at it once in a while. There are others in the same situation, like Joyce's "Dubliners" and Anatole France's "The Island of the Penguins". I'd love to do the same thing with "The Magic Mountain", by Thomas Mann, but I have to be criterious - it's hard to carry an eight-hundred paged edition in the bag. Reading "The Catcher..." , I reached that part in which Holden Caulfield, Salinger's alter ego, says there are books that make him want to know the author personally - kind of making friends with the author, talking to him, asking about his fears, his assurances, drink a beer... And it happens to me frequently, at different degrees. And that's what I call "holden caulfield's syndrome". I must admit there are lot of possible H.C.S.'s, because the character is so incredibly "overloaded" you can see yourself in many of his manners. There are probably another technical name for this will to know people who talks to you by movies, books and TV shows, but I don't know for sure. As I read Joe Vester's message, I must say: I have an incredible celebrity crush on Thora Birch too. Just like that: the will to, at least, talk to her and discover if she had something to do with the nice roles she played in "American Beauty" and "Ghost World". I left the projection room after "Ghost World" just wanting to meet her outside, or anyone like she was onscreen. Someone that confused, that beautiful, that lonely... Probably I'd have nothing deep to tell her (my english is far too poor), but at least I could recite a poem or something... don't know... My "crush on" Thora Birch, I guess, is more like a syptom of Holden Caulfield's syndrome in the movie style. I felt totally identified... P.S. There are not many goths in Brazil nowadays, but I have to agree that they are a little too pretentious, almost funny. Being goth in Brazil is a risk, because the make up melts quickly with the warm weather. Ana, from Brasilia, is not a pretentious goth. She seems pretty nice. She's more like... authentic. P.S.2 I have a crush on Shirley Manson.... oh-oh, that girl singing "send me an angel to love..."!... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+