John Simm + Monday Morning Music Post

[charloween]

I'm using that lovely UK-only torrent site to watch, like, everything John Simm has filmed. Everything that I see shows me just how cool his work on Doctor Who really was. He's tended to play sensitive working-class poet-type guys who're either insane, accused of crimes or otherwise hard done by or oppressed. F'example: he played Van Gogh in The Yellow House and the main character in a version of Crime and Punishment.

It's all very epic. There's little comedy in all the other things of his I've seen and his characters tend to be moody losers* who have no personal power. Even Sam Tyler from Life on Mars isn't much of a chucklepuss and has to bow to Gene Hunt's authority. On DW he still played a doomed moody loser, but he was a cool one, and one who'd laugh and... dance to Scissor Sisters. His van Gogh, if confronted by Scissor Sisters, would probably start to cry and then paint some flowers.

*Okay, in The Yellow House there's one great deadpan scene where he holds up a dead chicken and proclaims it to be a carrot.


In other news, here're a few mashups (remember those?!) that I've been dancing to while getting ready this morning.

1. Justin Timberlake + AC/DC = "Sexy Hell", as in "Hells bells, they're bringing sexy back". YEAH! Trucker rock meets club land and I'm loving every minute. If this doesn't end up a SPN vid I'll be surprised. Sendspace link.

2. A great use of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab", mixed with that Four Tops song "I Can't Help Myself". It's quite cheeky and the beats mix really well. Sendspace link.

3. The mashed track is called "Millionaire Galang" and I'll confess I don't know any of the source tracks. But I like this quite a lot. Sendspace link. EDIT: guitarromantic identified the constituent parts as MIA and Kelis/Andre 3000. Since I don't know either track I can't really tell how this mash can be separated back into its parts, but that's okay. I think...?

Comments

[pyratelady.livejournal.com]

Rehab/I Can't Help Myself is really fun!

[deleriumd.livejournal.com]

I get ready in the morning listening to 'Dick in a Box'.

[guitarromantic.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to it yet but I'm guessing #3 is a mix of Kelis/Andre 3000's "Millionaire" (awesome track!) and MIA's Galang, also good. I better download this bad boy!