I don't know if you people have heard about this, but I will shortly be leaving TLOBF to go and work on my movie project. I wrote a script, and sent it to all the top Hollywood studios, and got accepted. Pretty easy, really. But then again everything's easy when you've got a script this good. If I do say so myself. The project is called 'Blister In The Sun' and its about two best friends, who were brought up in a weird bunker-colony, and then one day get discharged and sent out into the regular world. Throughout all their lives, they have had their behaviour continually disrupted by sequences of open rebellion in which they smash a window or something in defiance of a long-overbearing authority figure, every time to the soundtrack of 'Blister In The Sun' by the Violent Femmes. This happens to them about every two minutes or so, and they consider it completely normal, because it happens to everyone around them. But then they get to this new school, and they realize that only they are subject to these continuous Violent Femmes-soundtracked sequences of rebellion. Anyway, it transpires that the bunker-colony they were living in was actually a secret base for a project by the US military to breed new stars for mainstream indie flicks. The soundtracked rebellion sequences are in fact genetically triggered. But the two main characters weren't considered gawky enough, so they were discharged. Anyway they decide they have to make the sequences stop so they can fit into mainstream society, and resolve to assassinate Gordon Gano. Which they do, in fact to the soundtrack of 'Blister In The Sun' (hence the film's title). But then two minutes later they get the same regular sequences again like they have every other day of their life and realize that killing has done nothing to help them. The End.If Mat Riviere wrote a film script though, it would probably be nothing like this, because judging if this record is all we have to go by then he inhabits a gloomy, frightening, half-lit world where the only piece of music punctuating the action every two minutes is Ivor Tarsky's 'Riga Death Waltz in G'. A lean wolf of a man from Norwich who used to be in a band called 'The Bells, The Bells' and who always plays on the floor, often accompanied by the grisly siren-call of Grace from the Middle Ones, you certainly wouldn't bet your apples on the other team when Mat is the room (I mean if the bet is who would make the best music). If Ian Curtis punched the guy from Casiotone for the Painfully alone in his doughy, bearded face, then Mat Riviere, if watching, would later be able to do a pretty convincing impression of the whole fiasco all by himself.Highlights include: FYH, Pause, Castroreale, Take My Sums and Add Them, Evening Drive, Slugs and the Dust, Godless Girl, Curse These Eyes, The Give In, Out of 3, Lamplight, and Never Rest Again. Oh wait that's the whole record. (this was a joke though because some of these songs are actually better than the others, only I'm going to let you play a fun game where you have to guess which ones I am referring to).[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/10016380[/vimeo]

answers: FYH, Pause, Castroreale, Slugs And The Dust, The Give In