All entries for May 2005
May 31, 2005
Films and films and films and films…..
Writing about it's about films! from Tilting At Windmills
In an attempts to pump some much needed life into this largely comatose blog I belatedly take the baton from Han:
The last film I saw at the cinema: Star Wars III - Sin City and League of Gentlemen up next.
The last film I watched otherwise: Play It Again, Sam – one of the most watchable films ever but I was watching this for revision. Apart from that the last film I watched for leisure was probably Apocalypse Now Redux
Films I'm looking forward to seeing: Sin City and League of Gentlemen at the cinema and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory of course.
Total number of films I own: I'm not entirely sure but I have about 470 DVDs although not all of these are fillms.
Five films that mean something to me: Apocalypse Now, The Trouble With Harry, 24 Hour Party People, Pulp Fiction, High Fidelity
Honourable mentions: Dr Strangelove, The Wicker Man, The Odd Couple, Almost Famous (Directors Cut), After Hours, Some Like it Hot, Manhattan, A Matter of Life and Death, Lost in Translation, The 39 Steps, It's A Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, Mulholland Drive… Too many to name them all
Passing the baton: To anybody who hasn't done this yet
May 24, 2005
Blackout Setlist 23/05/05
Played at Blackout again last night. It was probably the quietest it's been and for the first 50 mins I had an audience of 3 and they were Han, Tom and James. Here's the set list:
- Pissing In A River – Patti Smith
- Venus in Furs – The Velvet Underground
- A Forest – The Cure
- Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
- See No Evil – Television
- (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea – Elvis Costello
- Gimm Shelter – The Rolling Stones
- All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks
- My Generation – The Who
- Crazy Horses – The Osmonds (requested by Tom and worth it just to see him dance like a loon on an empty dancefloor)
- Town Called Malice – The Jam
- All Mapped Out – The Departure
- Apply Some Pressure – Maximo Park
- Run to Her – Five O'clock Heroes
- Love Will Tear Us Apart Again – Joy Division
- Eye For An Eye – The Rain Band
- Sparks Are Gonna Fly – Catherine Wheel
- Club Foot – Kasabian
- Seven Days in the Sun – Feeder
- Parklife – Blur (for the ironic chorus)
- Boys Will Be Boys – The Ordinary Boys
- Jenny Was A Friend of Mine – The Killers
- How Soon is Now – The Smiths
- Why Don't You Do it For Me – 22–20's (r)
- Cannonball – The Breeders (r)
- Celebrity Skin – Hole (r)
- Deceptacton – Le Tigre (r)
- Helter Skelter – The Beatles
- Paranoid – Black Sabbath
- Back in Black – AC/DC
- Lyla – Oasis (r)
- One Armed Scissor – At the Drive-In
- Beautiful People – Marylin Manson
- Let the Bodies Hit the Floor – Drowning Pool (a girl tried to convince me and Tom this was by slipknot)
- Gouge Away – The Pixies (same girl asked me to fast forward this…)
- Poison – Alice Cooper (r) (...because she had requested this)
- Enter Sandman – Metallica
- Blackened Sky – Biffy Clyro (r)
- Give it Away – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails
- Back to School – Deftones
- Plug in Baby (r)
- BYOB - System of A Down (r)
- Breakout – Foo Fighters (r)
- First of the Gang to Die – Morrissey (r)
- Get Free – The Vines
- Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
- Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
- Should I Stay or Should I Go – The Clash
- Hate to Say I Told You So – The Hives
- Place Your Hands – Reef
- Jump Around – House of Pain
- Smack My Bitch Up – Prodigy (r)
- Fight For Your Right – Beastie Boys
- About A Girl – Nirvana
- Just – Radiohead
- Kinng in the Name – Rage Against The Machine (r)
- Fearelss – The Bravery (r)
- Fell in Love With A Girl – White Stripes
- Darts of Pleasure – Franz Ferdinand
- Helicopter – Bloc Party (r)
- Hounds of Love – The Futureheads
- Oh My God – Kaiser Chiefs
- Golden Touch – Razorlight
- Basket Case – Green Day
- Freaking Out – Graham Coxon
- Somebody Told Me – The Killers (r)
- Girl From Mars – Ash
- End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M.
All in all quite an odd night but it was still a lot of fun.
May 16, 2005
Blackout Setlist 09/05/05
If anybody's interested I've reproduced my set from last Monday's Blackout below:
- Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
- The Seeker – The Who
- Till the End of the Day – The Kinks
- Get Off – The Dandy Warhols
- Break on Through – The Doors
- Paint it, Black – The Rolling Stones
- I Will Follow – U2
- Going Underground – The Jam (r)
- All Along the Watchtower – Jimmi Hendrix
- Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
- Retreat – The Rakes
- Psycho Killer – Talking Heads (r)
- Run to Her – Five O’clock Heroes
- Rockin the Suburbs – Ben Folds
- Peaches – Presidents of the USA
- Hash Pipe – Weezer
- Deceptacon – Le Tigre
- Longview – Green Day (r)
- Goodnight Goodnight – Hot Hot Heat
- Oh Yeah – Subways
- Rip It Up – Razorlight (r)
- Helicopter – Bloc Party
- Honest Mistake – The Bravery
- Graffiti – Maximo Park
- Jerk It Out – The Caesars
- Dance Me In – Sons and Daughters
- Daft Punk is Playing At My House – LCD Soundsystem
- Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz (r)
- Insomnia – Feeder
- Ever Fallen in Love With Someone – The Buzzcocks
- Teenage Kicks – Undertones
- Panic – The Smiths
- End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M.
- Debaser – The Pixies
- One Armed Scissor – At the Drive In (r)
- Straight Ahead – Pennywise
- Give it Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
- The Ace of Spades – Motorhead
- Rock is Dead – Marylin Manson (r)
- Enter Sandman – Metallica
- BYOB – System of a down
- Coral Fang – The Distillers
- Killing in the Name – Rage Agains The Machine
- Back in Black – AC/DC
- Pain – Jimmy Eat World
- Just A Girl – No Doubt
- Celebrity Skin – Hole
- Sunburn – Muse
- She Wants To Move – NERD
- Diamonds and Guns – Transplants
- Bandages – Hot Hot Heat (r)
- One Step beyond – Madness
- Nite Klub – The Specials (r)
- All My Friends Are Metal Heads – Less Than Jake
- Take on Me – Reel Big Fish
- Rock the Casbah – The Clash
- One Way Or Another – Blondie
- Hounds of Love – Futureheads
- I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
- Chop Suey – System of A Down (r)
- No One Knows – Queens of the Stoneage
- Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
- Golden Touch – Razorlight
- Welcome to the Jungle – Guns 'n' Roses
- Can't Stad Me Now – The Libertines
- Song 2 – Blur (r)
- Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
- Fuck Yeah – Team America
- American Idiot – Greed Day
- Buddy Holly – Weezer
- Mr Brightside – The Killers (r)
- Tribute – Tenacious D
(r) = request