Gosh! Mr FP asked where the angel-and-demon-on-your-shoulder trope comes from, and I'm just the person to elucidate! Its most direct source is Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus that have a "goode angell and euil spirit" that come out together from time to time to either cheer for or against the good Doctor's repentance. [It comes from older English mystery plays that feature good and bad angels talking to a given soul -- like in the Castle of Perservance -- but in none of the Medieval plays do they come out and bicker with each other directly, like they do in Faustus.] I also quite like Mr FP's sitcom idea -- especially the portraits. I think somebody should try their hand at it. As you can see, I'm struggling to come up with some actual B&S /content/ but I seem totally strapped. Following on from others talking about Camera Obscura, I saw thier show this weekend in NC. It was keen. And they played "Eighties Fan", and that had Stuart on guitar when they recorded it in the studio. See! Cotent! They also played "Franch Navy" and "Razzle Dazzle Rose" which was quite nice, but I pine for the day they play "Roman Holiday" live. Has anyone seen or heard them do that? --GayJay -- "If you can't be great you may as well be bright..." Sodastream "There's more to life than books, you know/ But not much more..." The Smiths "The natural state of the theatre is that of insurmountable obstacles on the path to imminent disaster." Phillip Henslowe _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutoria... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+