so i was reading the thing about safe and velvet goldmine and all this. and i agree that those two movies are good, but you forgot to mention why. they were beautiful. i had heard a lot of things before seeing velvet goldmine, most were negative. but when i saw the movie i was so surprised. it was wonderful, the shots were beautiful, they lingered and flowed into one another. it was like watching a dream, or remembering a feeling that you thought was gone. i saw it as being about david bowie and iggy pop, though i know nothing of glam rock really, so i can't guess what was real and what wasn't. but it wasn't really important. it's like, rock and roll creates superstars. jonathan rhys-meyers was beautiful, he glowed. he was a star, a totally unattainable person, some combination of sensuality and cold perfection. it's the idea of having this person who is totally unattainable and completly desirable. no one can possess him. and as the movie changed, it said a lot, well, to me anyway. about how meaningless appearances can be, and how sad it is when an idol falls. and of course, there was full frontal ewan. ;) but really, i was in love with this picture. when i make films, i want to create that sense of space. it's hard to explain what i mean by that. i guess it's just something that i can sense in some movies, this space between the characters, between the audience and the actors, and the space that surrounds each moment that allows it to last just the right amount of time, so that it doesn't fade away too quickly. i don't like classifying movie makers together based on how they live. all the ones mentionned here are good. some people will see what i saw, and others will be determined that i was smoking crack. i loved todd solondz's films. too bad i can't spell his name though. welcome to the dollhouse is so how i remember junior high to be. luckily i wasn't dawn werner (thank god) but i had some similar experiences. so that's completely removed from anything having to do with belle and sebastian. i was looking for b&s mp3's of unreleased stuff but couldn't find any. poo. xoxox megan mkl206@is8.nyu.edu who are magnetic fields? http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ updated 4/26/99 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+