walk across the room, stay awhile

[burntcopper]

Things from Hub3 : Ways we'd like Ianto back : Harkness and Jones (deceased).

Torchwood conventions have two barometers : The Barrowman Line and the Roderick Culver Scale. One is a measure of bad taste and filth, and the other is how shite a guest is.

Note to self : if you can only remember a couple of songs from a soundtrack, there is a *reason*. The rest were shite and/or unmemorable. See True Blood, which is 99% average/shite country, 1% awesome title track.

Question for the colonialists : at what point do the radio stations start switching to country music? Still traumatised by that time we drove Denver-Vegas-California.

And curious : If you had to cast me in a tv show or genre, what type of role would you cast me in? (AUs are also permissible)

Comments

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

"Swampblood" is far from the greatest thing the Legendary Shack Shakers have done, and every right-thinking person, including most of the country music industry, hates Ryan Adams, so I am willing to grant you unmemorable, but I like a lot of the True Blood soundtrack!I wish they'd included, like, "Lullaby", though, because that's one of the Dixie Chicks' best. And ooh, apparently there's a score out! I definitely need to get my hands on that.

As for the question...IDK, it depends a lot. There are stations for it everywhere, but I don't know that you could point to a specific place and say "that's it, that's where there's more country than anything else". It's as much to do with the makeup of a specific state/region than anything else (I once heard someone say that the way people talk about country music is loaded with class issues like the way people talk about rap music is loaded with race issues, and there's a lot of truth to that).

As for the role: hm. Closest comparison I can think is Hardison on Leverage. One of the research/tech/geek people in the supporting cast.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I meant to mention back when you posted about it, Torchwood 3 sounds like it was loads of fun! I'm glad you had a good time.

as for the country music, I've no idea.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

In the 90s, with the growth of ClearChannel, country music expanded throughout the US and now it's everywhere, extending into Canada.

here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-BLYacRq0Q

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

I'd put you in 'Chuck' as one of the Nerd Herd. You could be a spy in disguise if you like :-)

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Driving through the stretches of farmland between cities in the midwest, radio stations fade out unless you're near a small town. We get about five, four of which are country when I my brother and I drive for a visit home.

[gmh.livejournal.com]

If you had to cast me...

Erm... Daisy Duke?

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

I'ds probably cast you as the tough, no-nonsense, gets-things-done type. If I had to be specific, I'd cast you as Nicole Noone from a little film called 'The Librarian: Quest for the Spear'. Because she was tough, and sensible, and awesome.

I like the idea of Harkness and Jones (Deceased). I now have the urge to re-watch some of the original Randall and Hopkirk episodes.

[eggblue.livejournal.com]

Awesome post. :)

Yeah, the stations in the western states and driving through Texas are all pretty lame country. It's either popular country music, or Mexican radio. That's it. But if you are driving in, say, the northern California coast in redwood country, you can catch some amazing indie music channels. The same here in Arizona, assuming you can get good reception there might be one or two worth listening to, if you're driving near a college town. I remember when my iPod broke in Vancouver, and driving through California it was indie hippie radio, country, and then teen pop as I traveled south. All in all though, the state of U.S. radio sucks. I avoid it.

[cynicalcylon.livejournal.com]

This is why I only have that one song.
Mind you, I've had it forever with no idea whewre it came from, but so not the point :)
I did check out the soundtrack a while back, but there wasn't anything on it I was really bothered about, so never bothered procurring it.