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November 09, 2005
pink potpourri
The Office (American version) has been getting better and better with each episode. When I saw the first episode last season, which almost perfectly mirrored the first episode of the British version, I thought the series was just going to be a watered-down, lame, slang-translated copy. But after that first episode (and especially in this second season) the show has established its own particular storylines, dynamics, and strengths, quite separate from the pitch-perfect British version. Last night's episode was very good indeed, and actually featured two fantastic songs in the background: New Pornographers' 'Use It' (playing at Chili's, no less!), and Travis' 'Sing' (which is, by far, the best thing that band has done). Did anyone else catch that feature in Entertainment Weekly last week, or two weeks ago, when they interviewed John Krasinski (who plays Jim on the show), and he said he was trying to make a movie out of David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"? It'd be extremely difficult to translate Wallace's prose to the screen, but if he's successful in actually getting it made, it'll no doubt be a very interesting (and bizarre) film.
Music:
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (cover)
A cover of Carly Simon's James Bond theme that the band played back in the Bends/Ok Computer days. Thom Yorke has introduced this as 'the sexiest song that was ever written', and Radiohead do a pretty great job with it (especially Jonny Greenwood, whose guitar playing on this is as volcanic as ever). Phil Selway has said though that their version of the song doesn't quite pack the same punch as the original, and he compared it to the Lemonheads' version of 'Mrs. Robinson'. I don't know about that. In the hierarchy of their covers, I think this rates somewhere between 'the Thief' and 'Union City Blue'.
One thing about this mp3- for some reason it loops the ending twice, so it's about 1:05 longer than it should be. I would edit it if I could. But I can't (sorry).
Posted by Kevin at November 9, 2005 01:53 PM