You Guys. What You Got Against Benedict?

Someone who’s better equipped to deal with these things – Douglas, perhaps? – should work out the spread of things that’ve been infected by David Holmes’ soundtrack for the Ocean’s movies. Maybe it says a lot about the television I watch for fun (As opposed to Smallville, which really feels like work on the occasions I tune in for io9), but I feel like Holmes’ music for those three movies (Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12 and the “I want to watch it again to see if it’s underrated or really just getting to be schtick by this point” Ocean’s 13, in case you didn’t know what I was talking about) – which is itself just an amalgam of old soul and funk tics with a new lick of paint and some wonderful execution, for the most part – has clearly become the musical model of choice for shows like Leverage, White Collar and Burn Notice (Why, yes, I do watch a lot of crime shows with a fondness for comedy on cable. Why’d you ask?). Not that I’m complaining, really; it makes for better listening than the equally overfamiliar Lost-inspired string stings on many other shows. But, still. Do you think Holmes knew what he was creating when he thought “Let’s do a funk version of Elvis’ ‘A Little Less Conversation’ and call it ‘$140 Billion Chinese Man’?”