Vashti Bunyan

"Hodge: Can i see some identification?

 Mulder: What for?

 Hodge: I just want to make sure we are who we say we are. That's me.

 Murphy: That's you. It's me.

 Hodge: It's you.

 Mulder: It's me!"

Hello! How are you all? (Don't respond to that, i can't hear you.)

Here's the playlist for last weeks show (15/01/08) :

1. Beirut - Bratislava
2. P:ano - The Snow
3. Marissa Nadler - Stallions
4. Band of Horses - Is There A Ghost?
5. The Shins - Sea Legs
6. Bjork - Domestica
7. Coco Rosie - West Side
8. Bat For Lashes - Horse + I
9. Vashti Bunyan - Winter Is Blue * X-file of the week
10. The Rachel's - Honeysuckle Suite
11. Animal Collective - Winter Wonderland
12. I Am Robot And Proud - Winter At Night
13. Camera Obscura - Country Mile
14. Vashti Bunyan - If In Winter
15. Iron & Wine - Faded From The Winter
16. Cat Power - Werewolf
17. The Innocence Mission - Lakes of Canada
18. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
19. Francoise Hardy - Il N'y A Pas D'amour Heureux
20. Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G Sharp Minor
21. Charles Trenet - La Mer
22. Sarah Slean - Eliot
23. Biirdie - Petals
24. Carissa's Weird - The Piano Song
25. Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C Sharp Minor
26. Judy Collins - Albatross
27. Josh Rouse - Winter In The Hamptons
28. Vashti Bunyan - Coldest Night Of The Year
29. Adam Green - Watching Old Movies
30. Vashti Bunyan - Girl's Song In Winter
31. Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter

Xtra Files

Vashti Bunyan - Fact File

Born - 1945

Hometown - England

Genre - Folk

Peak Period of Music - mild success in 60s, major success now

Interesting Fact - Devendra Banhart wrote her a letter in 2001 asking her for advice

Big Hit - Just Another Diamond Day

Influenced By - Bob Dylan

Album to Buy - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Singles and Demos 1964-1967

Where Are They Now - Has been working on a new album since January 2008

Recommended if you like - Joanna Newsom, Marissa Nadler, Devendra Banhart, Bob Dylan, Vetiver

Laura Marling

Scully: So what is our profile of the killer? "Indeterminate height, weight, sex; unarmed, but extremely attractive"?

Hello chickpeas! Here is the playlist for Tuesday 08/01/08, the first show of term:

1. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
2. Beirut - Postcards From Italy
3. Klaus Nomi - Wasting My Time
4. Kate Bush - Babooshka
5. Bjork - Domestica
6. Vanilla - No Way No Way
7. The Suzans - The Girls
8. Max Tundra - Lysine
9. Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
10. Lucia Pamela - Flip Flop Fly
11. Stereo Total - Plotzlich Ist Alles Anders
12. Animal Collective - Fireworks
13. Erase Errata - California Viewing
14. Liars - Lets Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
15. Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
16. Annuals - Carry Around
17. White Lies - Unfinished Business
18. Band Of Horses - No Ones Gonna Love You
19. Okkervil River - Unless It Kicks
20. The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual
21. Jackson + His Computer Band - Rock On
22. I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
23. The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
24. CocoRosie - Tekno Love Song
25. Laura Marling - Ghosts * X-file of the Week!
26. Francoise Hardy - Voila
27. Iron + Wine - Carried Home
28. Amelie OST - Sur Le Fil
29. The Mouldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You

Xtra X-Files

Laura Marling - Fact File

Born - 1990

Hometown - England

Genre - Folk

Peak Period of Music - Now!

Interesting Fact - Performed on Noah and the Whales album Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down

Big Hit - My Manic and I

Influenced By - Joni Mitchell

Album to Buy - Alas I Cannot Swim

Where Are They Now - In the studio recording her second album

Recommended if you like - Noah and the Whale, Florence and the Machine, Regina Spektor, Mystery Jets

Film

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Nominated for 3 Oscars (best director, picture, and cinematography), this charming comedy sees Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) tell his life story...to the devil in a bid to secure himself a place in....hell. Yup. Crazy man right?!! Not quite. The film documents his life through the events that take place on his birthdays, which apparently are very lively. On his 15th birthday he gets drunk and parties through the night with his naughty French teacher. On his 36th birthday he steals his cousin Albert's bride-to-be Martha and elopes with her in secret. On his 50th birthday he steals Martha from her parents home in a desperate attempt to save their frivolous marriage. I won't say much more about the plot, except that if there was ever a man worth making a film about, it's cheeky Henry Van Cleve.

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Another Oscar-loved picture, winning Hilary Swank Best Actress and nominating Chloe Sevigny as Best Supporting, this film tells the dark story of Teena Brandon, or Brandon Teena - a teenage girl who wants to be a teenage boy. Of course things are never as simple as that and when Brandon's neighbours find out, she is cruelly persecuted, humiliated, brutally gang raped, and later murdered. Based on a true story, this moving film really makes you think about societies attitudes towards sexuality. Definitely one to watch, but maybe not with your mum and dad...

Theatre

X-Files Improv, Trafalgar Studios

Starring Dean Haglund of X-files and Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame, this one-man comedy show consisted of a series of improvisations that followed the signature episode style of hit tv-show X-Files. Though entertaining, it's name was deceiving, there being little reference to the X-Files other than the geeky efforts of the audience* to redirect the show onto a Mulder and Scully track. Nevertheless, it was a brilliant show, highlights being the creaky door sound effects of Leon the IT man from Canary Wharf, and the final battle scene between Langley (Dean Haglund) and the Giraffe-Badger-Monkey. The really great thing about this show was that its progression was entirely dependent on audience participation, and there is no doubt that the show will have been different every night. I think all the London dates are finished now but if you do get a chance to go, take it!

*mostly me and my friends

Special Places

Ben's Cookies

Situated outside South Kensington station, this really is the best cookie shop in the whole wide world. Their freshly made cookies are crunchy on the outside, but chewy and cakey on the inside. My favourite is the White Chocolate Cookie because the white chocolate is melted mm mm mmm. Make sure you grab a cookie on your way to the museums!

X-files Episode of the Week

Gender Bender (Season 1 Episode 13) - The episode starts in a typical manner - there have been some unexplained murders and Mulder and Scully are set on the case to solve the mystery and such and such. Kinda like the Scooby Gang but without Scooby and the Shaggy one. All the victims have abnormally high amounts of pheromones in their bodies, and have died following a sexual encounter. The main mystery lies in the sex of the killer - video tapes show a woman entering the room where the murder takes place, but a man is shown leaving. This leads Scully to believe the murderer is a transvestite, and Mulder to believe they are looking for a super sex machine with the ability to change sex. As always, Mulder and his wacky theories are right. Turns out the killer used to belong to a cult called the Kindred live, who have found the key to immortality....through sex changes....I'll let you find out the rest :]

So that's it for this week! Come back next week for more X-files! 

Shadi-Sade Sarreshtehdarzadeh, Shadi's X-Files