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Letters! We get letters! For those of you who dont want to search south for the details, we here at Motherbox have received some excellent comments of late -- nice to know somebody besides family and friends are reading....for those of you scoring at home, here's what we've learned...

Iceland Rocks Dept. Simon was nice enough to comment on the recent blurb on Icelandic atmosphericists Sigur Ros with some suggestions of his own: "At the moment I'm really into atmospheric nordic folk-band Gjallarhorn, one of the members plays a large 'contra bass recorder', which sounds like an electronic didgerydoo, and the noise is reminiscent of parts of Sigur Ros. I'm also listening to a band called Bazar Bla, which features nyckelharp, and they play a mix of folk-styles which they call 'trip folk' - really worth a listen." Thanks for stopping by, Simon, and we will seek your suggestions out shortly on the Information Superhighway.

Oh, Yeah, Them Dept. A couple of anonymous posters reacted to my own effusive, hyperbolic and poorly-thought out comment regarding H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds", to wit: What other story can you think of that a hundred years later it has not one, not two, not three, but four major retellings / reworkings, all of which are classics in their own right? Well, my anonymous friends were kind enough to gently remind the Mole about a few other - ahem - apparently significant writers like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Arthur Conan Doyle whose creations have been interpreted and reinterpreted successfully. I'm sure there are more...I stand corrected.

(Apparently there is a new Sherlock Holmes with Rupert Everertt playing up the "stoner" version of Holmes premiering on PBS Sunday night -- they will have to go a long way to replace Jeremy Brett in my mind but it is an interesting premise. We shall see.)

Thanks to all our readers -- we're in touch, so you keep in touch. TTFN.