Phil - In regards to 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, I do agree that "She's Lost Control" would have gained in power just from HEARING the thing better, but I otherwise thought that particular scene seemed so emotionally right and free of the idiocies and myth-making nonsense you would normally get in a scene of that type. I love the way Curtis at first squirms over the sound of it (presumably over the sound of his own voice)--comparing it disdainfully to Bowie--but how he's eventually convinced, based largely on how everyone else (especially Wilson's wife) responds. Of course I agree with you about Happy Mondays--I understand the "impor- tance" of rave culture and all that, don't really care for any of it--but I thought that part of the movie was loose and enjoyable enough on its own terms (though the inevitable drug slide was dull): it could've been about the Committments for all I cared. And I wish I knew the cue line so I could quote it back to you, but the biggest laugh in the movie for me was when Wilson was trying to explain to the competing label owner about how serious the Mondays were, at which point there was a brief cut to them walking down the street imitating chickens or something. It was fast and maybe kind of obvious, but I thought it captured something. Scott