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Never mind my dislike of Sting. You dig Django and Jerry Douglas. That's super-cool. I mean, you know who Jerry Douglas is!

I read Quarantine years ago. I remember little about it but the fat man and his timid wife. Most recently I read Arcadia and The Devil's Larder. It's been about a year since I read Being Dead. Why do I like Crace? I guess it's that he's essentially a writer of fantasy whose writing lacks a self-awareness of the fantastic within it. The bizarre and grotesque in Crace seems mundane. I find that and his prose style itself very attractive.

Loved Spinal Tap. Liked Best In Show very much, though I thought some of the best material was left in the deleted scenes. A Mighty Wind was good at times, though disappointing overall. It seemed to be trying to hard to be absurd. The strength of Spinal Tap is that all of the absurdity is plausible, as it is to a lesser extent in Best in Show.

Now Waiting for Guffman--that might be Guest's directorial masterpiece! "I hate you and your... ASS FACE!" That movie kills me.

[Edited on Dec 08, 2003 6:53PM]