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:
- The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
- Beirut - Postcards From Italy
- Klaus Nomi - Wasting My Time
- Kate Bush - Babooshka
- Bjork - Domestica
- Vanilla - No Way No Way
- The Suzans - The Girls
- Max Tundra - Lysine
- Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
- Lucia Pamela - Flip Flop Fly
- Stereo Total - Plotzlich Ist Alles Anders
- Animal Collective - Fireworks
- Erase Errata - California Viewing
- Liars - Lets Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
- Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
- Annuals - Carry Around
- White Lies - Unfinished Business
- Band Of Horses - No Ones Gonna Love You
- Okkervil River - Unless It Kicks
- The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual
- Jackson + His Computer Band - Rock On
- I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
- The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
- CocoRosie - Tekno Love Song
- Laura Marling - Ghosts * X-file of the Week!
- Francoise Hardy - Voila
- Iron + Wine - Carried Home
- Amelie OST - Sur Le Fil
- 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
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