JUNO PODCAST

JUNO - Peter's Review

Yes, I reviewed the new US hit comedy Juno on the show. If you missed it, or want to hear it again, get the download from the shiny link below.

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It's been edited slightly to make it sound good, and the background music is an instrumental version of Belle and Sebastian's Funny Little Frog. Check it out...

Oh, and is anyone else with me on the Michael Cera front...
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New year, new shit...

Hello bloggists.

2nd show of new year on Tuesday, and I've jazzed up the blog. It now features;

A snazzy new colour scheme!

A bitchin' selection of downloadable MP3s, courtesy of everyone's favourite music blog aggregator the Hype Machine!

And a HOTTT selection of music, film and entertainment news, direct from my favourite music blog Stereogum, the ubiquitous-in-their-field NME & Empire, and the BBC news entertainment department!

Cool cool, I'm sure you'll agree. Now you never need go on another internet site again. True story.

Listen up on Tuesday at 2:30, where I'll be running the rule over Juno, playing some lovely music, and soliciting e-mails about Valentine's Day in all its weird glory.

YEAH!

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Kanye West & Chris Martin – Homecoming
OH CHRIST! EGO! EGO! For a 1st song back, I couldn't have got 2 people who think more of themselves. And between you and me, I'm not convinced that Kanye really needs those glasses...

Jack Johnson – Middle Man
Everybody's favourite ex-surfer-cum-acoustic-songmeister has a new album out (it's called Sleep Through the Static) . I haven't heard it. I have heard the debut though, so that's why I played this one.

Van Halen – Panama
Partly inspired by the sweltering heat in the studio, but mostly played because it rocks. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the leader of the country of the title. Find out about him here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega)

I Was A Cub Scout – Pink Squares
The youngest member of IWACS drunkenly tried to bonk a Fresh Air DJ once. They told me so. Also, they occasionally don't turn up to gigs, and don't give any explanation (see the whole Minus the Bear-support situation). IWACS, not getting the best write up from Fresh Air at the moment. They're playing Cab Vol on the 10th, so go down and ask them just what their game is.

Peter Loves... Curb Your Enthusiasm
Frolic (Curb Your Enthusiasm theme)- Luciano Michelini

Pedro the Lion - A Mind of her own

Another band off Jade Tree (http://www.jadetree.com/bands/artist/pedro_the_lion) that I like. Jade Tree = Peter's favourites. MP3

Lightspeed Champion – Dry Lips

Ex-Test Icicles front-man, with beard and glasses. True story.

Blitzen Trapper – Summertwin

Good name. Whistling. Hoorah!

Thom Yorke – Reckoner (Live and Acoustic)
Acoustic version of the track off the new album. Taken from Jonaffan Woss' Radio 2 show. MP3

Peter Simpson’s Lessons for an easy life - Always back your data up, as shown by... Chris Walla – Sing Again
Guitarist from low-fi indie/emo/pop munchkins Death Cab for Cutie's first solo single. Got fiddled with by the man (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572048/20071016/death_cab_for_cutie.jhtml). Horrible stuff. Hmmm...MP3

2008, an apology, and Hugh Fearnly-Wearnly

Hello all. It's 2008. and I'll hopefully be back on the radio, bothering you all to listen again in February. Bitchin'

Just a few things for now;

Apologies to Carolyn Mearns, indie rockers the Futureheads, and all the residents and those associated with Sunderland, the surrounding area, and ex-Republic of Ireland midfielder Roy Keane, for incorrectly stating that said 'Heads were from Sheffield. Turns out they are not. Relevant entries have been changed, and I shan't do it again. On the plus side, good to see I have people reading this. Bitchin'

Also, my favourite telly of the year so far - Hugh's Chicken Run on Channel 4. It could have ended up as a horrible mess of "no, you'll bloody well eat this free range chicken you 'orrible slag" like the whole of Jamie's School Dinners, but in the end it came out nicely. We learned;

a) Intensive chicken farming is grim, but the mechanics are to be admired
b) Free Range chickens are good, but they get the cold a lot more often
c) Weakness in chickens WILL NOT BE TOLERATED - and this can be hard to take if, like HF-W, you are used to being lovely to animals
d) Some people just can't afford free range chicken, and HF-W accepts this, thus making him a benevolent kind of food overlord.
e) Most importantly, if you help them out, anyone can rear chickens. It looks like a right larf.

Basically, this was information-packed, had enough emotion to keep you caring, had enough swearing to remind you this was Channel 4, the home of TOUGH cooks, and was genuinely interesting. Plus it had hilarious talking heads from the townspeople that Hugh was trying to make free-range, saying things like "e'll never make me eat a 'appy chicken, e's a con-maan". See, even some comic relief...

Peter talks movies...

The art of film criticism comes to the blog, as I review/preview the hot films of the festive season. I run the rule over Fred Claus, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Bee Movie, The Golden Compass, and Enchanted. Download from the shiny text below.


WARNING - May contain ill-informed bullshit.

Christmas Mural

Here is the Peter Simpson Show Christmas Mural, feel free to print out and colour it in at your leisure. Click on't to get the full-size view.
It features from L to R:

A christmas tree, a floating monkey head, an Enoch Powell/Neville Chamberlain snowman, a weird-looking Santa, Jerry Seinfeld circa Bee Movie, present with bow and that, a skateboarding robot, another tree, Chris Rock, a reindeer running over an old man, a generic man wishing you a merry Christmas, and a oddly-faced Santa Claus that looks like a smashed bear.


Enjoy.

11/12 Tracklisting...

These Arms are Snakes - Big News
Continuing this radio show's association with bands featuring ex-members of Botch.

Prince - Guitar
Everybody's favourite rock-god midget, off his new album 'Planet Earth'. However, if you've seen the "Priest and the Beast" episode of the Mighty Boosh then the line "I love you baby, but not like I love my guitar" carries unintentional but hilarious weight.

Duran Duran - The Reflex
Continuing this radio show's association with "na na na na"-type vocals.

American Football - Honestly?
Seminal emo from Cap'n Jazz/Joan of Arc/The Promise Ring members. Nice guitars. Listen to it, get it off http://www.download.com

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
One half of Simon and Garfunkel. Guess which half? And also, good video. Chevy Chase and that...

The Beatles - Back in the USSR
It's the Beatles. What should I say? John Lennon invented Yakult back in 1979, but Dr Shiroto had him offed to protect the yoghurt-based secrets. Also, George Harrison once knocked out Muhammed Ali in a bar-room brawl in Chepstow in the late '60s. Used a brick. It got a bit messy.

Sufjan Stevens - That was the worst Christmas ever.
Sufjan 'Dude, it couldn't hurt to tie my metaphorical hands together by promising to make an album for each of the 50 states of the USA whilst spending 7 months writing an album about a MOTORWAY and making a 4-disc compendium of Christmas songs, could it?' Stevens here, with a nice mellow Christmas number. Wunderbar.

These ones didn't go out, but they still deserve the PSB treatment;

The Go! Team - Ladyflash
The UK's answer to Moby, vis a vis sample-happy dance-pop.

Incubus - Wish You Were Here
Mellow and ocean-y rock. Discuss.

David Bowie - Let's Dance
Recently nicked by Craig 'Proper Bo' David, who's proper buffed up. He's away to kick the shit out of Avid Merrion, I'll bet.