paranoid links

---J. Hoberman on Jean Cocteau's Orpheus

---Monty Python's meaning of life song

---the irony of Elizabeth and Darcy's dance

---"Money" by the Flying Lizards

---"The Future's So Bright" by Timbuk 3

---the first scene of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

---"Candy Everybody Wants" by 10,000 Maniacs

---"Mayor of Simpleton" by XTC

---"New Year's Day" by U2

---a brief golf scene in Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola

---"The Trick Is To Keep Breathing" by Garbage