Sinister: All wrapped up...

[Robyn Fadden]

Hello you lot,

Death and Smiths and drinking and appearances.
Sometimes I am overwhelmed with all the topics, but
isn't this life? I would rather be overwhelmed and/or
confused than bored - and boring this list is not. I
read it all and I am happy.

Well, I found and bought Belle & Sebastian live at the
bowlie bbc cd. I think I can hear some of you yelling
and whooping it up. Ah. This cd makes my heart flutter
like I've got a crush on someone. Occasionally, it
fools me into thinking I really do have a tangible and
here crush, but I don't. Maybe it's just Stuart's
voice, the way he says, "(flaming) lips".

I haven't yet seen American Beauty or anything else
"mainstream" because the Vancouver Film Festival has
been going on and, being the poor/cheap bastard I am,
I volunteered (free movies!). By Sunday I will have
seen 15 films in about 2 weeks. Yow. Only price to pay
was that of having to deal with self-important
film-school types. Anyway. I saw "Get Real", a British
film about a 16 year old boy who is gay and wants to
fall in love and be loved, like all teenagers (and
everyone?). That's an over-simplification of the plot,
but I don't want to give anything away. This film is
so good and sweet and smart. Makes me want to be in
super-love. Everyone who is sinister should go and see
it.

I also saw "The War Zone". Bleak. I'm not quite sure
what I think of it. A lot of rain and wind. A messed
up family.  Made me feel like something terrible had
just happened in my family and I'd just gone and sat
in my room in the middle of winter for days on end,
blocking thoughts and stagnating. I don't know whether
this is good or bad, just that it is something that
happens in life. Of course, the film did not last for
days on end, but for only about 2 hours. 

The Netherlands' "One Man and His Dog" was good
(though no Arling and Cameron in the soundtrack). As
was Canada's "4 Days". And lots of others. So many
movies. It puts me into a bit of a state, very
visually oriented and always thinking that I am being
entertained or merely an observer rather than actually
*in* my life. Levels of reality.

I did the Keirsey test. I am labeled as an INFP.
Pretty bang on. The descriptions of personalities are
quite good. I never want to fall for believing it all
though, like I wouldn't want to accept the facts of my
fate if they became known to me. 

On that strange note, 
infp (in nothing for parentheses) yours,
Robyn

P.S. Thank you Laura for putting your lit list up on
the web. My film-strained eyes await its launch. 
P.S.x2 I don't know why I'm speaking in such a weird
tone today. Maybe it is because my hair is extra messy
- must be the rain. My hairdresser (sorry, "stylist")
calls it "a controlled mess", but today I forgot the
control part.


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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright
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Robyn Fadden    rfadden at yahoo.com    Vancouver, BC
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