From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #188 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, December 14 2000 Volume 02 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Couple of Dels Refs ["Jane Armstrong" ] OV: Ode to Exams (Nothing Ever Happens) [Leah D Schenkenberg Subject: OV: Couple of Dels Refs The BBC soap Eastenders has been known to play a number of Dels songs in the past - but not for a couple of years now, but last night they had "Roll To Me" playing in the background. Also, I got a book called "Furnace" from the library the other day by Glaswegian Muriel Gray (best known as a TV presenter - on the Tube amongst other things). It's apparently "deliciously creepy horror" and set in Virginia USA. I've not read it yet, but Eddie pointed out the following. On page 117 you can read: " 'Any music? Can I look at your tapes?' Josh pointed at the shelf above the dash. 'Sure.' She clattered around, fishing out tapes and discarding them until she found one she liked. 'Hey, this'll work. Del Amitri. Scottish, so of course they must be good.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah. You like British bands?' 'Yeah. Kind of. Not especially, It's Elizabeth's brother. He's into that kind of stuff.' Josh took the cassette and slid it into the player. As always he hadn't rewound the tape, and it came on in the middle of a track. The guy was singing a line about driving with the brakes on. Another sad one, about breaking up with someone, about no being able to say you loved a person. Or something like that anyway. He never could work it out. But although he liked this track a lot he was still anxious.... He let her pour, and they sat drinking in silence, staring at the grey velour drapes as the melancholy music competed for their attention with the drumming of the rain on the cab, .... There was an awkward pause, then she jumped in her seat. "Aw shit. This is my favourite. Listen to this guy's voice. Oh man. Turn it up. Turn it up, will you?' He leaned forward and turned up the music, and continued to look away as she swayed in the seat next to him as though at a gig." And then a steamy seduction scenario follows..... Good to know others are out there singing the praises of Del Amitri's music! I know our Lori credited them in her first book, Amethyst, and of course Ben Elton's lead character in Popcorn is called "Bruce Delamitri" - a recorded quote from this book was used to introduce the band during the 1997 tour. Any other literary Dels references out there? Jane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays (now with voice) on http://www.delamitri.co.uk~janea/chat.html Please note my new URL: http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong Del Amitri Pages: http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong/Delpage.html Join The Devlins Mailing List: http://www.egroups.co.uk/subscribe/TheDevlins ICQ # 34643730 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:43:04 -0600 From: Leah D Schenkenberg Subject: OV: Ode to Exams (Nothing Ever Happens) Many moons ago, when I was graduating from high school and did not yet know the horrors of finals week, the lovely Becksicola sent out this wonderful version of Nothing Ever Happens. By some divine feeling of "I need to keep this," I did. I'm not sure if the lovely Becksicola is still around listwise or if there are other students like myself on the list who could find this helpful, but my finals start today, and I felt compelled to share. I hope she doesn't mind my re-sending it out. Leah - --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "R.J. Payne" Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:49:51 +0100 (BST) Howdy all, glad to hear the concert rocked... hope the next one is just as good! Anyway... exams. We've all been there... they suck. I've been inspired to write my own twisted Dels song... this is the ode to my exams (otherwise known as Nothing Ever Happens) Faculty staff put up signs saying library closed And students sit down at exams desks and take off their coats And a lecturer padlocks the door So we're all trapped like prisoners inside And every law student suddenly knows That it's do our exam now or die And we'll all be failing tonight and failing tomorrow "Candidates time please, you know you can't write anymore" Those dreaded words make me stop, but I still want to go And by nine fifteen my brain is dead And every third thought's "this is bad" While ignorant people scribble away Like the science nerds in the college lab And nothing ever happens Nothing happens at all 'Til the minute hand reaches the top of the clock Then we scribble like never before And we'll all be failing tonight and failing tomorrow The cogs in my brain want to tick but there's nobody there The martians could write all my essays and no-one would care My brain cells have all turned to gravy from watching the same movies every day And the stars of those films can't rescue me now as I look at the questions and pray And nothing ever happens Nothing happens at all The minute hand reaches the top of the clock And not one case name can I recall And we'll all be failing tonight and failing tomorrow I've memorised textbook passages that nobody needs While Miss Perfect from Manchester just to my left writes of Parliamentary Sovereignty My stupidity's terminal, I'll never pass, the alarm bells are starting to ring I think I'll try suicide, spend a few weeks in a room in a hospital wing And nothing ever happens Nothing happens at all The minute hand reaches the top of the clock, And I scribble like never before And nothing ever happens Nothing happens at all I'll burn down the exam hall at six o'clock Then my paper won't be read at all Or we'll all be failing tonight and failing tomorrow I sincerely hope I#ve kept up the long and glorious tradition of the Dels by being as depressing as possible... Becksicola, The Ice Maiden ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:06:55 EST From: Moer4472@aol.com Subject: Re: OV: Ode to Exams (Nothing Ever Happens) ROFL!!!!! I LOVE IT!! I am (thankfully) not required to do exams anymore, due to graduation, but I can remember those times with no trouble. Thanks! moe ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V2 #188 **********************************