robin very kindly forwarded my initial response to the plane crash in new york, and i repeat the sentiments today. hope you're all ok. meanwhile, i thought i'd belatedly add to the love debate with a nice quote from kurt vonnegut: "Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.'" it's true that love is too often used as an excuse for cruelty, hysteria, violence etc, as if it makes it ok. a crime of passion is still a crime. however, vonnegut's vision of a world where relationships are based on 'common decency' sounds a bit boring for me... i went to see harry potter on saturday. and it ROCKED like a gigantic... rocking horse. or something. a feel-good movie without the slightest recourse to the easy comforts of romantic love. matt and i are slightly worried about the trend towards all things childish, though. on our way back from the cinema we saw several large groups of youths dressed in school uniforms, going to school disco type clubs. they were about 18 - ie. it was 2 years max since they'd been wearing those uniforms for real. seems that nostalgia now sets in before we've even finished with the direct experience. does it all mean that the world as it is is just too horrible to contemplate living in fully? well, whatever, i think harry potter will go down as a classic of family cinema to rival the never-ending story (which let's face it looks a little naff now). i was pleased to see that the creators of pop idol (on which a friend of a friend appears) felt that a good sesh on the DDR machine was valuable training for the future rich and famous. so you're already half-way there, ken... i wonder what chart position Waking up to us will reach? b&s might be worried to learn that dannii minogue is amongst the competition that week. luv archel xxx ps. the crunchy library book seems ok now. pps. glad you liked your tape, arik. i hope my contribution to the mighty rachels effort will be as successful :) *************************************** archel@iname.com For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+