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

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

The first one and the film one I like, but they're too 70's to my taste. I favor the 1996 recording cast, and the 2000 version, which is also the one they filmed (I own the DVD).

[deej1957.livejournal.com]

I guess the fact you were sent home early is a good thing for the babies --that means they're all doing well enough?

You'll have to bring the Ipod with you in December, I'm curious now. I think my eReader can download music, too, but I haven't explored that. Don't know if I will.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Aaaaugh! I missed the Mentalist! AGAIN! And our wonky DVR system won't let me record the series until the schedule moves on to next week.

It's much more interesting than Heroes is this season. What's with Heroes, anyway? Bad is good and good is bad and gray is simply a color?

[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]

And I'm old enough that the 70s was when I really got into music. *g*

Are you referring to the London versions? There are so many versions!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are doing well. There's one that is a week old and is now 30 weeks gestation. She's so tiny and breathing well on her own! Amazing.

I will bring the ipod so you can play with it, too. *g*

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I've got all of this season's Heroes on the other Tivo but haven't watched any of it. There are a couple on my flist that like it, but most do not. I don't care for shows that make radical changes to characters just to open up more plot possibilities. That's just lazy writing and how can I bond to characters who change so much?

Yep, try to watch the Mentalist; each ep seems to be getting better.

[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.

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Yes. If I'm not wrong, it's the same production that ended up being staged in different places and different recordings.

Look for Glenn Carter or Steve Balsamo as Jesus.

[sheepsclothing.livejournal.com]

I listened to some of them today (who knew there were so many!) but I can't escape from the movie version. Carl Anderson's version of Judas is so amazing, that I just can't imagine anyone else singing that role. He sends shivers down my spine....surely that's who you mean?! I have the movie version and watch it once in a while. In fact, after reading your LJ the other day, I had the 'Herod' song stuck in my head, you know the one, "walk across my swimming pool"!LOL.

[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.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Now I got that stuck in my head. Oh well, I've only got myself to blame.

I'm rotating the versions through the car so can re-listen to each one. :)

[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.