Episode 226: Saturday recording, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: The Ice Storm, Exit Through the Gift Shop), New Favorites, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That? (memorial car window decals), Meal of the Week, fuck offs and you rules, Would You Rather?
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra.
Yes!! Let’s do bad movie night! It is too early to make suggestions though. Ill try to think of something
I also thought last week’s show was fantastic. I’m just too slow to comment.
Still listening to this week. More later. Maybe
Oh my Lord in Heaven how I would LOVE to be able to fly one inch off the ground! Think of the awesome possibilities! You’d never slip on ice, or step in dog poo, or get your feet wet. You’d be able to fake ice-skate everywhere you went. Not to mention the talk-show circuit! Damn, now I’m pissed I can’t do it.
I loved this week’s topic. And Soulful Hollow Eyes is a great title choice. But my other choice would have been “Ow, I got slapped by a bologna.”
ARG! So far behind again! Too many events distracting me–huge daylong thing at the Japan Society (http://j.thepete.com for the pics!) and then my dad and step-mom visiting NYC for the week (we saw Book of Mormon!! It was amazing!) and then the standard list of projects I’m always up to… which includes a new Japanophile podcast I’m doing with my friend Jeff in Japan! I’m so excited because it’s a great excuse to chat about Japan with someone who’s living the dream 🙂
…but I’m only a few behind and I’m catching up.
That said, “Dead of Night” is very hard to find–I had to buy a 2-DVD set of it with a movie called “Queen of Diamonds” (which was fine but meh). I found it at a Suncoast video. They don’t have any Suncoasts near me, but it’s definitely worth looking for the next time you’re at a mall that has a Suncoast or reasonable facsimile.
I disagree with you guys about cats. Our older cat acts guilty when he poops outside the box. :\ He knows better. And he knows we know he knows better. So… you know.
I like Subway restaurants. Their food is actually real food. Unlike the food-like substances at other fast food places. The sandwiches there aren’t to die for, but food elsewhere can make you die early. 😉
Here’s what I said in my Google Voicemail: Hello, Stennie-san and Bet-san! This is Pete–It’s ThePete! I’m doing well (genki). Your podcast is awesome (subarashi)! See ya! (“Ja, ne,” not “dotnet”)
It was a sucky message, sorry–shoulda taken some dialogue from the Seven Samurai or something cool like that.
I would LOVE to do a Hucklebug bad movie night, but I think we should use Skype since it, supposedly, allows conference calling. I’d TOTALLY do that. Tweeting/IRC/statusing is hard to do in a group since you have to follow other people’s posts while following the movie and posting comments, yourself. That said, I’d be willing to take part anyway.
Have you guys seen this manamana video? http://youtu.be/ELAFDkXog-s
Hey, Sten, if you hate Alec Baldwin, just do what I do and think of his “appearance” in “Team America”.
This is in regards to the “Would you rather” question about $500k to stop speaking. There was a Twilight Zone with a similar plot. A member of a gentlemen’s club is down on his luck and another member bets him a buttload of money if he can not speak for X-amount of days. The guy found a messed up way to win but it’s a Twilight Zone, so you know the joke is ultimately on him, anyway (not mentioning any spoilers!). So, it is feasible, but *I* wouldn’t go there for any amount of money.
I’m with Krizzer–that “flying an inch off the ground” thing is awesome. I totally want to do that. Hell, I’d settle for flying a centimeter off the ground.
Here’s a topic suggestion: have you ever found yourselves questioning your grasp of reality–like, have you ever thought you’ve seen a ghost or a UFO or anything fantastical or something you couldn’t immediately explain. When I was a kid I was *sure* I saw a man in a tri-corner hat in my dad’s house (which was built in the 1700s). I’m pretty sure it was just a trick of the light, but I was quite convinced at the time. There was also a time when I was on my way home from Anaheim, driving up the 405 and I was convinced someone had placed a brick wall across the highway. I knew it couldn’t be true, but my eyes were telling me there was a wall there. But as I got closer, the road dipped and turned long before I would have hit the brick wall. This is one of those optical illusions Neil deGrasse Tyson calls “brain failures.”
YAY! You’re taking the week off, so I’m all caught up! I thought I missed the window, but the window is bigger that I thought!
Ack — was commenting when Safari crashed and it ate everything. I was commenting that the game you were talking about on Coffeebreakarcade.com was probably Fowl Words (not Chicktionary), which I used to play all the time, and when I tried to open it, it cause my Safari to lock up and be unable to close the window. I might try to open in in Firefox and see if it’s still hinky.
I think I also mentioned that we probably did a virtual movie before on chat, but I can’t remember which one it was. I know we did virtual albums in the early days (“5..4..3..2..1…GO!”). IRC may be old, but you can still have a conversation with many people, unlike FB.
I’ve got to get some sleep, so I’m going to hit “post” before I lose this batch of comments as well.
Just a quick one — it did work in Firefox, but I just did something that I’ve never seen happen before — I came up with a word they didn’t have, and it’s a common word that absolutely should have been there (“yarn”).
I have never seen those memorial stickers before.
Is there any video of Scout and the catnip?
Thank you so much for my late-breaking shoutout! I feel the love.
I meant to say “oy” like an English person, not like a Jew – so you were right Heidi.
Too bad Scout had a bad trip on catnip. Most of my cats have reacted to it but no big deal. They just act a little goofy for 2 or 3 min and it’s over.
Sounds like we have enough takers for Bad Movie Night. Now we have to decide on the movie and a time. I can free up most any night so whatever others want is fine with me. Most movies are less than 2 hours so it isn’t like it’ll take up the whole evening.
I hope the Easter Bunny brings you both baskets. Here’s a question – how do you eat a chocolate bunny? Do you start with the ears or maybe the little tail? Do you nibble it into a round shape or just start at one end and eat to the other?
Never go to a movie again? Hell, I’m on the brink of doing that for nothing. For $20,000, I could build the mack-daddyest home thee-ay-ter you ever saw, stock it with a lifetime supply of popcorn and M&Ms, and have plenty left over.
The thing is, once you can replicate the big-screen/surround-sound spectacle of awesomeness in your house, that’s pretty much the ballgame. Because (and I hate to go all curmudgeon on your asses) the remaining rationale–the communal viewing / shared experience aspect of going to the movies–is essentially dead, or at least breathing its last, thanks to the proliferation of cell/smart phones, a lack of basic manners and general cluelessness as to appropriate public comportment.
As it is, I get to maybe one or two movies a year in the theatre. Yes, I’d miss the occasional (but mostly theoretical) visits to revival houses or restored movie palaces, but for that kind of cash, I could get over it.
So here’s my WUWT/FO for the week: Prince, for his asinine comments about other artists covering his work under compulsory licenses and how that means “[the songwriter’s] version doesn’t exist any more.” The hell? Hey Prince, you purple douche-nozzle, I got a tip for you. Taking your songs off YouTube contributes a hell of a lot more to the perception that they don’t exist anymore than them being covered.
I suspect that, given what covers (kick-ass or otherwise) mean to this show’s listeners, this might gallop right past What’s Up With That, and dive headlong into the deep end of the Fuck Off pool.