Thank God! ABC has put Alias out of its misery. It’s been going downhill since the first year and I stopped watching past the first episode this year. Worryingly, all the things that went wrong with Alias have been happening with Lost this year, so the much-hyped island tale might soon lose its sparkle if history repeats itself, as it seems to be doing.
Year: 2005
A brief history of Munch
Slate has a brief guide to Edvard Munch today. If you’re in New York, MoMA has an exhibition of his work at the moment; if you’re in London, the Royal Academy of Arts has an exhibition of his self-portraits; and if you’re in Oslo, you’ve probably already seen enough of Munch’s stuff to last a lifetime. But now’s as good a time as any to nip on over to Slate to find out more, and to whet your appetite for the real thing.
CSI: Miami’s getting stupider
Monday’s anti-video game episode of CSI: Miami was even stupider than usual. There was actually some character development in it, so it wasn’t irredeemably bad, but you could tell just about everyone involved thought it had been licking the lead paint off soldiers most of their life. Slate gives a longer review, if you want it.
More theme tunes
Turns out, people want to know even more theme tunes. Okay, here’s a few more, they’re all by The Who and all the links will take you to the iTunes Music Store:
- CSI: Who are you?
- CSI: Miami: Won’t Get Fooled Again
- CSI: New York: Baba O’Riley
If you want all of them, they’re available on My Generation – The Very Best of The Who, available from Amazon.co.uk and the iTunes Music Store.
The F-Word theme tune and others
Since a load of people seem to come to my blog to find out the theme tunes to popular TV programs and adverts, I thought I’d post an entry with the most common ones:
- The F-Word (Gordon Ramsay’s food show): The F-Word by Babybird
iTunes: The F-Word - The Orange ad with the couple dancing: 1/1 from Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
iTunes: 1/1; Amazon.co.uk: Ambient 1: Music for Airports - T-Mobile: Ooh la la from Supernature by Goldfrapp
iTunes: Ooh la la; Amazon.co.uk: Supernature - House, MD: in the UK, no one special; in the US, an instrumental version of Teardrop, from Mezzanine by Massive Attack
iTunes: Teardrop; Amazon.co.uk: Mezzanine
Hope that’s helpful!