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Metal and Curling
Feb. 16th, 2006 12:58 pmI think it was in the last summer Olympics that the American relay swimming team used "Liberi Fatali" from Final Fantasy VIII as their theme music. As further evidence that the world has gone insane, this time around the Swedish curling team are using "Hearts on Fire" by Hammerfall. Obviously not thinking this had gone too far already, the team and the band recorded a music video featuring them playing against each other. And I thought that Modern Talking would be impossible to beat on the video front.
I've also been watching Channel 4's "The IT Crowd" recently. The programme confuses me, not because of its content as such but because I find it impossible to decide whether it's any good or not. I watched the first couple of episodes not expecting much but got a few laughs out of them, and by the end of the third episode I had decided that it was a fairly mediocre program that happened to have one or two moments of genius per episode, for example the tape recorder and the "nice screensaver". But then I watched the first one again and it was a lot better than I remembered, so that theory was abandoned as well.
It's certainly not one of Graham Linehan's best works, though. After Father Ted and Black Books, where virtually every line was memorable in some way (ref. "I ate all your bees", "You should wash it, shave it off, nail it to a frisbee and fling it over a rainbow"), it seems a bit of a disappointment. I can't work it out at all.
I've also been watching Channel 4's "The IT Crowd" recently. The programme confuses me, not because of its content as such but because I find it impossible to decide whether it's any good or not. I watched the first couple of episodes not expecting much but got a few laughs out of them, and by the end of the third episode I had decided that it was a fairly mediocre program that happened to have one or two moments of genius per episode, for example the tape recorder and the "nice screensaver". But then I watched the first one again and it was a lot better than I remembered, so that theory was abandoned as well.
It's certainly not one of Graham Linehan's best works, though. After Father Ted and Black Books, where virtually every line was memorable in some way (ref. "I ate all your bees", "You should wash it, shave it off, nail it to a frisbee and fling it over a rainbow"), it seems a bit of a disappointment. I can't work it out at all.
