feeling splendidly grubby and depressed this morning after finally seeing storytelling. i must say though that i strongly disapprove of the whole fiction/non-fiction split. i didn't think that fiction was remotely strong enough as an idea to be a section in its own right - it felt like maybe a scene from another film altogether, yet to be made. and the juxtaposition didn't really have any underlying significance that wasn't imposed by the title/sub-titles. this is just LAZINESS on solondz's part, surely? he had two ideas, neither of which were quite feature-length, and instead of being patient and waiting for two mighty oaks to grow from tiny intellectual acorns, he made one mostly average, disjointed film. grr. however, i did do a crazy dance to 'scooby driver', so it wasn't an entirely wasted evening. i am looking forward to receiving my inexpensive prize for successfully being a sad geek (and hoping that terry underwear is a millionaire to whom a gamecube is an inexpensive prize...) good to hear that another sinister picnic maintained high levels of smut. of course, we southern picnickers are actually hardcore sports mentalists, rather than sex-crazed slackers. football, bowling, AND i might be bringing *shuttlecocks* to the next exciting adventure on saturday, with who knows what HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES. so, i will see some of you then. high noon: you, me, racquets at 10 paces. your red bull won't save you now chu... and now i must go and recover from that Robin Stout Gets Fat! shockah. luv archel xxx ps. anyone who is not up to the high standards of athleticism demanded by a london picnic, or lives towards the north end of the british isles, should go to the winchester club on saturday instead. i hear it's not half bad, if you can't have huge quantities of bouze on top of a hill that is. ****************** http://archel.blogspot.com Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+