Right, I’m off now.

A Mandingo is a person from the upper Niger Delta in West Africa, apparently. So really it’s another reference to “the myth of Black male sexual potancy” in the clip.

Have you seen the film? It’s deverstating! Honestly, you’re appalled and horrified and can’t take your eyes off the screen. By the end you’re questioning the motives of all the characters. It’s brilliant. (Sorry, that was a really vague description wasn’t it!)

Bye then,
S.

You’re right of course. As Morrisey sang, we hate it when our friends become successful. It sounds bitter but it’s not. the cycle goes (or went - i seem to have slipped out of touch, bands creep up on me now) like this. Find band. Love band, buy everything. Get annoyed because no-one knows/has heard of band. Get frisson (on a different note one of my favourite words. up there with idol) of excitement cos their single is heard on John Peel. get proud when they make top ten for the first time. get depressed when you see the guy in the oasis t-shirt buying their album at the same time as a r**b*e w**li*ms cd.

thats the way it goes. I could list you bands it happened to with me. stone roses. bjork. there’s more. i came late to b&s - bought If youre feeling sinister just before the boy with was released. You know Matthew Dale? His track record is phenonemal. He played me surfer rosa about a month after it was released, went to see Nirvana when they toured smells like teen spirit cos he liked bleach, and told me about the white stripes almost 3 years ago.

Then theres the others. The ones who didn’t make it, but you love em still. Levitation. Best band i’ve ever seen live. swerevdriver, who i hold responsible for my mild tinitus. Two/three years ago i’d have said Nick Drake, but the last two years, he’s been there in almost every documentary. Not bad for someone whos been dead 30 years. My Bloody Valentine might break late, if Lost in Translation scoops an Oscar, tho I doubt it.

(Incidentally, if you don’t want to hear I’m a Cuckoo-style overkill, probably best to avoid the Radio 2 playlist shows. Though they seem to be the only place I ever hear music that I like these days….)

Ah yes, well, I had a quick trawl of the net, on the vague premise that your question might come up in a hypothetical future pub quiz, and I think I have an answer(!)

Mandingo is a book (seemingly out of print), of which a film and play were made. It’s about slavery, and, somewhat “sensationally”, depicts several interracial relationships between the masters and the slaves. Presumably that would be the clich?.

Storytelling (a film I enjoyed thoroughly, though far less B&S than you might expect, considering they released the soundtrack), is a film in two parts. In the first, “Fiction”, a student, played by Selma Blair, has a brief affair with her esteemed English professor, played by Robert Winston, who is black. She then uses the encounter as the basis for a short story, which is reviewed by his class, and the dialogue in the track is one of the students tearing it to pieces.

It’s just my opinion. I mean - what do I know?

Cheers,

Derek.

Sorry I have been quiet. I have been moved to a more public work at desk, so internet browsing is more out of the question.

Good work Derek though.