Now Listening…
I went on a music buying frenzy last night…
It all started because I watched the pilot to that new cop procedural Body of Proof with Dana Delaney and there were a song on there that I really liked. Now I did not know that ABC has what they call a “music lounge” online where they list the soundtracks of various popular shows. It was probably safer that I didn’t, but the cat’s out of the bag now. Anyway, I found what I was looking for and in the mean time found quite a bit more after checking out the selections for Castle. I didn’t buy everything offered, and in fact those lists led me to some other music that I discovered while browsing. So far it’s been enjoyable tunes and music that’s both consistent and very different from my usual tastes. Fun!
Here’s what I got (links included for your audio browsing pleasure):
The Albums:
- Pink Martini – Sympathique
- Florence + The Machine – Lungs
- The Constellations – Southern Gothic
- Clif Lin – And Your World Will Burn
The Singles:
- Uncle Lucius – A Million Ways
- The Seventeens – Anywhere With You
- Sarah Vaughn – Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
- Laura Jane Scott – The Librarian
- Latch Key Kid - Got to Be
- Junior Senior – Can I Get Get Get
- Jules Larson – You Know It’s True
- Dragonette – Get Lucky
- Dragonette - I Get Around
- DJ Dimi – River To Your Soul
- The Daylights – I Hope This Gets to You
- Citizen Cope – Healing Hands
- Carney – Think of You
- Beautiful Small Machines – Super Conductor
- Beautiful Small Machines – Counting Back to 1
- All Night Chemists – Whole Again
- Actionslacks – We Are Not the Losers (Anymore)
- Aceyalone – Workin’ Man Blues, feat. Bionik
About the show, Body of Proof: I liked Delaney’s character, she’s complicated, but there’s also a certain brusqueness about her that, well, has been done. She’s a new addition to the Bones/House/Lie to Me cadre of frustratingly brilliant but loveably flawed protagonists that seem to show up in many shows lately. What I did like about her (and found different from others) is that she’s aware of those flaws through what was probably a pretty brutal experience. Now she finds herself in a position where she is still the “shark in heels” that built her professional reputation while also trying to rebuild that part of her life that reputation helped destroy. I found her apparent frustration interesting and her observation that “a woman working 18 hours a day is an absentee mother, but a man working 18 hours is providing for his family” was refreshing in a realistically cynical way. For that, I’ll give the show a chance.
