All entries for May 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

: 31 May 2005 16:28 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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:

1. Pissing In A River – Patti Smith
2. Venus in Furs – The Velvet Underground
3. A Forest – The Cure
4. Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
5. See No Evil – Television
6. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea – Elvis Costello
7. Gimm Shelter – The Rolling Stones
8. All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks
9. My Generation – The Who
10. Crazy Horses – The Osmonds (requested by Tom and worth it just to see him dance like a loon on an empty dancefloor)
11. Town Called Malice – The Jam
12. All Mapped Out – The Departure
13. Apply Some Pressure – Maximo Park
14. Run to Her – Five O'clock Heroes
15. Love Will Tear Us Apart Again – Joy Division
16. Eye For An Eye – The Rain Band
17. Sparks Are Gonna Fly – Catherine Wheel
18. Club Foot – Kasabian
19. Seven Days in the Sun – Feeder
20. Parklife – Blur (for the ironic chorus)
21. Boys Will Be Boys – The Ordinary Boys
22. Jenny Was A Friend of Mine – The Killers
23. How Soon is Now – The Smiths
24. Why Don't You Do it For Me – 22–20's (r)
25. Cannonball – The Breeders (r)
26. Celebrity Skin – Hole (r)
27. Deceptacton – Le Tigre (r)
28. Helter Skelter – The Beatles
29. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
30. Back in Black – AC/DC
31. Lyla – Oasis (r)
32. One Armed Scissor – At the Drive-In
33. Beautiful People – Marylin Manson
34. Let the Bodies Hit the Floor – Drowning Pool (a girl tried to convince me and Tom this was by slipknot)
35. Gouge Away – The Pixies (same girl asked me to fast forward this…)
36. Poison – Alice Cooper (r) (...because she had requested this)
37. Enter Sandman – Metallica
38. Blackened Sky – Biffy Clyro (r)
39. Give it Away – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
40. Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails
41. Back to School – Deftones
42. Plug in Baby (r)
43. BYOB - System of A Down (r)
44. Breakout – Foo Fighters (r)
45. First of the Gang to Die – Morrissey (r)
46. Get Free – The Vines
47. Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
48. Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
49. Should I Stay or Should I Go – The Clash
50. Hate to Say I Told You So – The Hives
51. Place Your Hands – Reef
52. Jump Around – House of Pain
53. Smack My Bitch Up – Prodigy (r)
54. Fight For Your Right – Beastie Boys
55. About A Girl – Nirvana
56. Just – Radiohead
57. Kinng in the Name – Rage Against The Machine (r)
58. Fearelss – The Bravery (r)
59. Fell in Love With A Girl – White Stripes
60. Darts of Pleasure – Franz Ferdinand
61. Helicopter – Bloc Party (r)
62. Hounds of Love – The Futureheads
63. Oh My God – Kaiser Chiefs
64. Golden Touch – Razorlight
65. Basket Case – Green Day
66. Freaking Out – Graham Coxon
67. Somebody Told Me – The Killers (r)
68. Girl From Mars – Ash
69. 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.

: 24 May 2005 15:48 |  Comments (6) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Blackout Setlist 09/05/05

If anybody's interested I've reproduced my set from last Monday's Blackout below:

1. Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
2. The Seeker – The Who
3. Till the End of the Day – The Kinks
4. Get Off – The Dandy Warhols
5. Break on Through – The Doors
6. Paint it, Black – The Rolling Stones
7. I Will Follow – U2
8. Going Underground – The Jam (r)
9. All Along the Watchtower – Jimmi Hendrix
10. Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
11. Retreat – The Rakes
12. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads (r)
13. Run to Her – Five O’clock Heroes
14. Rockin the Suburbs – Ben Folds
15. Peaches – Presidents of the USA
16. Hash Pipe – Weezer
17. Deceptacon – Le Tigre
18. Longview – Green Day (r)
19. Goodnight Goodnight – Hot Hot Heat
20. Oh Yeah – Subways
21. Rip It Up – Razorlight (r)
22. Helicopter – Bloc Party
23. Honest Mistake – The Bravery
24. Graffiti – Maximo Park
25. Jerk It Out – The Caesars
26. Dance Me In – Sons and Daughters
27. Daft Punk is Playing At My House – LCD Soundsystem
28. Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz (r)
29. Insomnia – Feeder
30. Ever Fallen in Love With Someone – The Buzzcocks
31. Teenage Kicks – Undertones
32. Panic – The Smiths
33. End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M.
34. Debaser – The Pixies
35. One Armed Scissor – At the Drive In (r)
36. Straight Ahead – Pennywise
37. Give it Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
38. Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
39. The Ace of Spades – Motorhead
40. Rock is Dead – Marylin Manson (r)
41. Enter Sandman – Metallica
42. BYOB – System of a down
43. Coral Fang – The Distillers
44. Killing in the Name – Rage Agains The Machine
45. Back in Black – AC/DC
46. Pain – Jimmy Eat World
47. Just A Girl – No Doubt
48. Celebrity Skin – Hole
49. Sunburn – Muse
50. She Wants To Move – NERD
51. Diamonds and Guns – Transplants
52. Bandages – Hot Hot Heat (r)
53. One Step beyond – Madness
54. Nite Klub – The Specials (r)
55. All My Friends Are Metal Heads – Less Than Jake
56. Take on Me – Reel Big Fish
57. Rock the Casbah – The Clash
58. One Way Or Another – Blondie
59. Hounds of Love – Futureheads
60. I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
61. Chop Suey – System of A Down (r)
62. No One Knows – Queens of the Stoneage
63. Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
64. Golden Touch – Razorlight
65. Welcome to the Jungle – Guns 'n' Roses
66. Can't Stad Me Now – The Libertines
67. Song 2 – Blur (r)
68. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
69. Fuck Yeah – Team America
70. American Idiot – Greed Day
71. Buddy Holly – Weezer
72. Mr Brightside – The Killers (r)
73. Tribute – Tenacious D

(r) = request

: 16 May 2005 14:32 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem