iPoding Jesus Christ Superstar and tv stuff

[tenaya]

I was downsized from work after four hours. At 10:30pm not much is open. So, I watched the Tuesday shows (The Mentalist is getting better with more empathy from the main character and less smirking. A really good direction for it.) NCIS was good as usual. I didn't find Ducky referring to one of the cast as a Narcissistic personality offensive at all, but I'm not all that crazy about that character. And I'm still getting caught up on Without a Trace. Can LaPaglia play Jack any more creepier than he is doing? This character bears no resemblance to the guy that was in the first season. Blah!

So, I went back to downloading music. Tonight's big conundrum is trying to find the right version of Jesus Christ Superstar. I suppose the right version is the version one first hears. It turns out I own three copies of JC, SS and none of them are the right one. I suspect that the one they played on the radio was the first one, the concept album they made before they put together the musical. Isn't that strange to think? Andrew Lloyd Weber didn't get a blank check to do the play right off. But it was pretty radical for the time--rock music sullying religion. Horrors!!

Another odd thing was that it took my sound track of Local Hero by Mark Knopfler and split it into 7 different albums. Very odd.

Comments

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I was looking for the "right" version of JCS, too, and I think I finally ended up giving up at the time. Which one is the "right" one? Is there a soundtrack to the movie with Ted Neely? I'm not sure if that's the version I want or not, and I'm not even sure how to tell which is the version that I want. hehe

I'm liking The Mentalist, too. I recorded the first episode, but didn't watch it right away, and by the time I did, I'd missed other episodes, but I've seen the last two and liked them.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that's how I ended up with three and then stopped, frustrated that I would probably end up buying all of them eventually!

There is a Ted Neely movie sound track--a double CD. It's good.

My issue is that there is a particular Judas that just sends chills down my spine, an awesome performance. Ben Vereen on the Broadway cast is close enough but it's not the one I'm thinking of.

The first ep of The Mentalist was pretty rough in my opinion. I hated the smirk. I did like the Asian detective. The newby female officer is getting better--I was afraid she was going to be there just to be pursued but I liked her in the last ep. The guy that wants her...that's too heavy handed and kind of icky in the first ep. They've toned it down to a simmer and that much better. The lead female detective is too world weary for me at the moment.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure if I liked the first episode of The Mentalist, but I liked it enough to start recording it and actually watch it. I liked that last scene of the first episode, though. I don't really like or dislike any of the characters yet, but the smirk doesn't bother me as it seems like a front--a sort of carryover from his previous life.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I've gotten fed up to here with the Republican Smirk that Bush popularized. It's a button with me now, unfortunately.

Pilots are pretty rough so I do cut slack on shows at that time. I think the smirk was just shorthand for him knowing he was superior to everyone else and letting the viewer know that. I'm finding that now that we're in on how sharp the character is, they don't feel the need to be obvious about it. He can glance at a ipod and we now know it's a valuable clue.

That previous life...was devastating what happened to his family. Something like that does humble a person.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I have long made it a point not to watch or see or listen to anything that man ever did or said (yeah, seriously! LOL), so I didn't even know there was a Republican smirk. heh But that's like me an "the internets." I just cannot stand to see or hear that because of the association. The idea that anything that man said is now considered cute or part of popular culture...grrr... I just can't stand it. I won't even read that article at The Hathor Legacy because I try to pretend it doesn't exist. hehe

That previous life...was devastating what happened to his family. Something like that does humble a person.

Yeah, that's the impression that I got--that up until that point he actually *was* smirking with superiority and did feel himself above it all, but now it's sort of a defense mechanism. I didn't now of the association, so I didn't pick up on that.