Hi there, This list reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie. Well, not really. But there is a movie called Heartbreak Ridge and it's about a bad-ass sergeant who's known to everyone as Gunny. This character is of course played by Mr. Eastwood. Gunny gets a transfer to a new "boot camp" (I believe that's what they're called, but I wouldn't actually know as I managed to cheat my way out of military service) and here he's assigned to train a bunch of lazy-ass men who's used to never doing anything at all. But Gunny of course isn't going to let them fail to become hard-ass army chaps (tm. Damien Hirst/ Keith Allen) so he bad-asses them around for a bit. BUT the lazy-asses have a secret weapon, THE SWEDE. The Swede is apparently the mutha of all bad-asses and as soon as he get's out of the "army jail" (I'm sure there's a proper word for that) he's going to kick Gunny's arse BIG time. So much of the first part of the movie is spent hyping the Swede (much in the same way they did with Godzilla in that movie, or so I heard, I haven't seen it myself, being the intellectually elitist snob I am). There's so much talk of the Swede that you think you're going to have to be let down when you finally see him. I've seen the film a few times, god knows why, and every time I think "the Swede can't possible be that tough...." and every time I end up pleasantly surprised that he is rather mean. But then of course Gunny beats him up with no problems whatsoever. Umm, the point of this story was that it reminded me of the current Hopkins Hype (tm old listees). A friend of mine ALMOST met a celebrity the other day. Mr. Tommy Lee was apparently walking around Oslo and my friend spent rest of her day asking the customers of the coffee house where she works if they'd seen Bruce Lee earlier on. There's a song on TBWTAS that (to my musically untrained ears) appears to contain the riff from Omar's "There's Nothing Like This". I'd check which song it is, but I can't find my sister's copy of the album. I also heard my first ever Tigermilk song the other day, don't know what the song was. It was on national Norwegian radio, I think it's our equivalent of Radio 3, but I'm not completely sure. It's the sort of station that usually plays horrible "adult-pop" (you know.....the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle etc.) and occasionally Something For The Weekend if they really want to ROCK OUT!!! The radio presenter talked about Tigermilk being rare and that and I could just picture thousands of Norwegian 40 year olds sitting in their cars wondering why the bloody hell they were being told this shite. Tomorrow at 7.00 p.m. I shall be seeing my all-time favorite movie on a big screen for the first time in my life. The movie in question is the divine Withnail & I. Depression Music: So Hot - Spacemen 3 Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley The Eternal - Joy Division Nothern Sky - Nick Drake Cantos For Benjamin Britten - Arvo Pärt In A Lonely Place - New Order I find that particularly that last one is almost impossible to listen to, not only because of the lyrics, but because of how it was Ian Curtis' last song and so on. Oh, one more thing, "Today" from Surrealistic Pillow is one of the best songs EVER!! And another thing, I'll be well impressed if anyone can tell me the author of today's fine subject line. Erlend (who is going to listen to the 40 minute version of "Blue Room" by the Orb now, slightly upset that he woke up too late to catch today's Home And Away re-runs.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+