Sinister: the Stars of Soundtrack and Blackboard

[Arantxa Sanz]

Earlier in the week,the only subject I could think of it was' I have never
tasted Ribena and here I am',and later,'Blue veins,blue (no bread for me
neither,please)'.The first one had a certain Nancy Reagan quality to
it,all American princess saying 'NO' primly and with a degree of hairspray
on the top of her bun absolutely environmentally unfriendly;the second was
somehow false.No bread required but feta if possible.


Wednesday night arrived in the shape of a content refuge. After a somehow
disastrous evening, I quit my bedroom for more relaxing landscapes,seeking
inspiration.That is, I got the table disposed in parallel with our TV
set,armed with pen and paper in order to do some work combined with
clandestine spotting of the screen,which involves from that angle a twist
of my neck which if repeated too often probably gives me a crick.


And here it is , that advert someone mentioned with the instrumental part
of 'TBWTAS' in the background. I have been flicking through the latest
msgs from UK listees trying not to provide right the same info as the one
posted inmediately before,and could not find anything about it,sorry if it
has been said...It is some C4 new series by the name of 'Teachers'.Despite
that very original title,it does not take place in a whisky (or in
Finnish,viski!)distillery,but portrays some struggling comprehensive,I am
afraid, with that guy called Egg in 'This Life' in the main role.Against
all odds,I would say he will be a troubled but
brimming-with-good-intentions individual,showing some interest in that
feisty but not too new feminist English teacher.


It will take the current 'Sex and the City' slot.Substituting the weekly
fix of glamour sex in lofts inequivocally styled by Starck's disciples by
the misadventures of a lot earning 20000 a year if lucky, flirting in the
grim common room not done up since the 1976, perhaps bumping one into
another unexpectedly  at the bar of the local Starbucks sipping caffe
latte providing the most sophisticated touch of one episode, is somehow
methadonically curious.


The use of TBTWAS in the promotional campaign could try subtly to lure
SATC regulars into watching that very different product.However orangey
and scruffy the common room carpet, and however IKEA the futons in the
bedrooms, hardcore action happens there,as this tune
suggests...etc,etc.


>From one school to the next.I zapped and click, there was Hal Hartley's
short film inaugurating the new genre of martial arts mathematical
musical.If the general conclusion about Belle and Sebastian providing the
score for his new movie proves true, I wonder if it will also involve mock
kung-fu choreography.In a more personal level, mock revolutionary
equations, as so far, my most remarkable contribution to the cinematic art
consisted of 
splashing an old-fashioned blackboard,not unlike the one in 'The New
Math(s)') with
token equations to be wiped out furiously in an out-of-focus shot very
similar to some in Hartley's work.Only that my equations were not actually
a bag of rubbish as those, they were just a pile of nonsense.Fiona, did
you see THAT?


I was due to send a covering letter to Mr Hartley offering myself as
'Token Equations Provider' in his future works.It was a bit dissappointing
to read the credits and discovered that no explicit mention of the author
of such was to be seen.


Not that I care much about the mathematical quality of the props, I just
want to fly free to NY, and hang around with soundtrack composers and
drink Manhattans in Manhattan and perhaps seduc some of those Strokes
boys who are both punks and heirs to fabulous fortunes,somehow an
extremely appealing combination.


Today in the morning on my way to work, I crossed recklessly and found
myself suddenly in a traffic island.Don't know if it was a happy one.Can
anyone tell me if they have read Dawn Powell and if it is worth to spend
my meagre graduate budget on it,by the way?


x A.


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