Half time hero

I remembered that Heather actually posted the show that we did before she left, so I'll post the tracks I've been playing over the past couple of weeks. Did two shows in a row today, which was pretty dull and tiring. Anyway, here you go:

Show 1 (broadcast 14/9/09):

1. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap

2. Roy Orbison - In Dreams

3. Yo La Tengo - Sometimes I Don't Get You

4. Bob Dylan - From a Buick 6

5. Health - Death+

6. The Stooges - Search and Destroy

7. A Place to Bury Strangers - In Your Heart

8. The Specials - A Message to You Rudy

9. Tune-Yards - Sunlight

10. Nick Drake - Parasite

11. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

12. Women - Black Rice

13. Sonic Youth - Mary-Christ

14. The Mountain Goats - Psalms 40:2

15. Patrick Kelleher - Coat to Wear

16. Pavement - Heaven is a Truck

17. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

18. Tall Firs - Loveless

19. De La Soul - Tread Water

20. - Connan Mockasin - Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend

Things that were planned but didn't make it:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Satan Said Dance

Boris - LaserBeam

There's the first one anyway, I'll post the others another time.

Got Condemned today, it's pretty scary stuff. Been playing it a little, but I was also watching LOTR on channel 4 for a while, which was strangely both quite engrossing and laughable at the same time. Merry and Pippin are two of the most annoying fucking characters in film history, not only to the audience, but to the other characters as well; you almost start to think that they are agents of Sauron, they do such a good job of fucking things up. Sam isn't much better in terms of dumbness, but is equally irritating, due to his near willingness to actually commit suicide rather than allow Frodo to go off on his own, and his melodramatic, "I'm just a simple lad really" bullshit, like the part where he holds Frodo up in a field to tell him that if he takes one more step, he'll be the furthest away he's ever been. So fucking what? That's not in any way significant.

However, check this shizz:



For all that people (myself included) grumble about CGI, and how silly some of the acting is, and how ridiculously some of the characters are portrayed, I can't help preferring Peter Jackson's version over the animated one, in this scene at least (I haven't seen all of it, although I should, for kicks). Despite being animated, the Balrog still looks like a guy in a suit. How is that even possible? Plus it looks like he's seductively dancing towards Gandalf, rather than actually attacking him. As for Gandalf, he sounds almost nonchalant about the whole affair, even when he says "fly, you fools". Ian McKellen is pretty awesome though I guess, it'd be hard for him to be topped by a cartoon version.

Fly, you fools!