At 12:16 PM 10/12/98, Tara Widmer wrote:

<<Courtenay turns up again in a similar film of that time,"Billy Liar">> I think Yo La Tengo wrote a song about him? Anyway, this film, along with

actually, the song is called "tom courtenay". i'm not entirely sure that it's about billy liar, it probably isn't per se. it seems to be about julie christie's either on or off-screen relationship with tom, not sure whether there was an offscreen one. i know little about the behind the scenes stuff. there's a beautiful version sung by georgia that *someone* recently taped for me, and it's become one of my favorite songs of late. and when georgia sings, the lyrics are even decipherable!!! i don't really have a lot to say right now. i'm doing a lot of filming for classes, and that seems to be ruling my life. my first one was based on an idea from photo jenny, though i'm not sure that anyone who knew the song would be able to recognize it from that. ;) last year i was walking home from class one day and i got the idea to film something having to do with lonliness of the middle distance runner. i wanted to use it as a soundtrack for a film, as it'd be much easier than doing sync sound. do you all have any idea how hard it is to sync sound up to lip movement? i get the feeling my films just will feature ventriloquists. on a related note, that isn't at all related, i love the tindersticks. i finally bought the first cd and the new b-sides collection in the past couple weeks and they're wonderful. it's like waltz music. well, to me. i seem to be the only one to get that impression, but it sounds like the music to a sort of modernist musical. i'm trying not to mix up my -ists. sorry if i sound pretentious, but i'm a college student, so i think a degree is taken care of in the tuition. xox megan mkl206@is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+