Leisure

Sitting in Starbucks with my friend Stuart this afternoon -- an outpost of the evil empire, perhaps, but still a handy venue for a drink and a sit down -- our talk eventually came around to Alias. Possibly because I was looking forward to finding episode 416 bit-torrented to menelaus on my arrival home; which I did, though I haven't watched it yet.

As with most friends, me and Stuart have oddly-overlapping tastes, sometimes coinciding exactly (we seem to be almost the only two people in the world who really don't like The Royal Tenenbaums, for example), other times quite at odds. As I've mentioned before, we do share a predilection for trashy movies and trashy TV.

In any case, he mentioned how much he liked the music in Alias -- not the show's own theme, but the scene-setting stuff in those ridiculous nightclubs Sidney always seems to be sashaying through in low-cut dresses and implausible wigs -- and singled out an instance early in season 2, set in Helsinki. Now, it's quite some time since I've seen that episode -- almost a year, in fact (I can place the date and circumstances rather precisely, as it happens; I think it even got a mention here) -- but I knew immediately which scene he was talking about; and which song. Whipped out the iPod to play it to him, and bingo.

There must be a hundred tracks he might have picked on, of which I reckon I could identify and play just two. And what I know of Stuart's music preferences is that they are quite a bit different from mine. So it was pretty charming to be so unexpectedly in sync on this occasion :)
Posted by matt at April 23, 2005 11:32 PM