Episode 237: Shout-outs, the whole Netflix thing, movies: (Bet: White Lightnin’; Stennie: none), Pet Story, YouTube Link o’ the Week, New Favorite, What’s Up With That?, Fuck offs and You Rules, Favorite songs by random bands.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “New Fave” bumper by Krizzer.
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So, I owe yall a story. About The Averter! Gather ’round children (as Ferd says)….
We decided to do kazeeing songs as our topic. I’d much earlier put my three legal-paged list of artists in the top drawer of my computer desk. When I went to find it – it was GONE!
I got hinky (I know, hard to imagine), and started looking everywhere else in the world for that list. It was nowhere to be found.
Finally, I got to thinking.
Seems my list had migrated to the back of that drawer, out the end, and to the floor of wherever desk drawer things go. I started looking at the bottom of all three drawers and found some yellow paper.
I McGyvered myself, and only with the aid of some kitchen tongs and a lot of effort, I pulled that list free so we could do a kazeeing version of Fave Bands! The Averter!
(PS – in a most embarrassing admission, my favorite Carpenters’ song is actually my second most favorite Carpenters’ song I kazeed – “It’s Going to Take Some Time This Time.” It’s just that Dishwalla’s version is so different I forgot. OK, so I’m lame – what of it?)
The Hucklebug.com comments still won’t remember my info 🙁
And yes, Stennie, NYC is plagued with tourists who think every building is important. It’s funny, they say you can always spot the tourist because he/she is staring blankly up at things while locals are just going where they need to go. I am a mix of both since I don’t ever want to get bored of looking around this amazing city.
I think you guys are too easy-going on Netflix. It’s not “myself” I need to get over. I think you guys have steady employment and $5 is no big deal for you, but I watch almost every dime I spend and Netflix is our main channel of entertainment. Sure, we have other ways to get entertainment, but Netflix was the last good deal out there and now they’re just another greedy corporation like so many others. To me, charging for something that was once free is the old bait-and-switch. If you guys are fine with that, then that’s your right, but I think it’s lame. So, maybe don’t judge those of us who do care. Thanks for apologizing about the “get over yourself” line.
I don’t watch any show with the word “star” in it these days. I can’t remember when I’ve watched any of the “Star Wars” movies and the last Trek I saw was the remake which I found shrugworthy. The “Battlestar” finale sucked so bad I haven’t watched anything related since. So, no more stars for me. 🙂
YAY FOR GRANNY!!
That’s it from me this week!
Oh and I forgot to mention–Stennie, you may be thinking of “Ronin” with Robert DeNiro from a bunch of years ago. This is “The Last Ronin” and is a sequel of sorts to an actual historic event in Japanese history. 47 samurai got revenge for their master who was forced to kill himself by another warlord (thus leaving them ronin) and they all died in the attack. Except one, who lived on to tell the tale and to provide aid to the 46 ronin’s next of kin. This movie begins at the end of the 47th ronin’s journey.
But “Sword of Desperation” is much heavier–it’s about a samurai who, seemingly without cause, kills the emperor’s girlfriend (it all goes downhill for the samurai from there).
Hey Stennie! Hey The Averter!
I agree with Pete (I have to, it’s in my contract) that Netflix’s action of basically DOUBLING the price of their DVD-and-streaming service is crappy. It’s just a crappy move. If Starbucks suddenly doubled the costs of all its coffee, there would be an outright uproar. Netflix does the same and people shrug? If anything, Netflix should stop the bait-and-switch tactic, and offer this new price gouge to NEW customers only. It’s still a good deal and it won’t offend those who have been using/paying for the service and budgeting appropriately.
I’m off my soapbox now.
I ask for “The Apple” to be done by a certain date because…I booked a Show! “City of Angels” at Goodspeed (a really good theater company in Connecticut…Annie and Man of La Mancha did their pre-Broadway run there). I leave on August 22nd, and I would love to watch The Apple with Pete. So GIT ‘ER DONE!
And I’ll add to Pete’s recommended movies we are seeing at Japan Cuts – Haru’s Journey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1418796/) We just saw it last night, and it’s sweet, emotional, funny, and is shot without multiple cuts – you really get to watch the acting and emotion and “landing” of moments. It takes patience to watch this movie, but if you let the acting and the moment-to-moment work of the scenes play out, it really is marvelous. It’s hard to get, but keep an eye out for it if it becomes available.
I only know “Half a Boy and Half a Man” and “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” in all those titles you spoke of.
Going back to last week, I wanted to say that Lily’s comment about DC tourists made me think about that moment in IN THE LOOP when Malcolm is walking by the White House and screaming invective into his mobile phone and a tourist says, “Hey, Buddy. Enough with the curse words, all right?”
To which Malcolm responds, “Kiss my sweaty balls, you fat fuck!”
There’s something about being delivered in that Scots burr that makes his insults all the more potent.
Note to self: have to purchase IN THE LOOP DVD.
Re: Netflix. I urge the people dropping NF in droves to find a better deal for the same amount and quality of flicks elsewhere. Well, a better LEGAL deal. #whistling #nuthintoseeherefolks
Thanks for the mention of our kid-vids. Thanks for also noticing that I am selective about the stuff I share. If a video doesn’t pass the litmus test of making me laugh or say “aww”, then it’s shelved forever in a vault deep inside the earth’s crust. Seriously though, I love my kids, but I don’t expect every single MF that follows me to do likewise. P.S. On your recommendation, I did share the Tom Lehrer elements song, and he worked on it a bit, but I’m not sure he’s ready for that mouthful.
Best Carpenters song? For me, it’s “Superstar.” The creepy Sonic Youth cover (from the same If I Were a Carpenter compilation) reinvented this throwaway song for me. Sad and beautiful. Long ago, and so far away… I also dig “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft,” cos you can’t believe it’s a Carpenters song.
The headset sounded better this week.
I never joined Netflix, but one of these days might and get the streaming service. The problem is that I don’t get around to watching anything, but to be able to call something up on demand when I have some time would be nice. But so far, I call stuff up On Demand from Comcast or watch Hulu. I have the option to rent one-offs from iTunes, but have never done it. I’m starting to be tempted to get AppleTV, but my TV is so old that it can’t take the AppleTV, so it will wait until I have some reason to get a new one.
But here’s the real reason I don’t have Netflix — when I do finally get around to seeing something, I’m profoundly disappointed. I’m not going to pay for it. Last week I got Inception from On Demand. On the grand scheme of things I’d give it a five or six (out of ten), but it gets a one on the “movies people said were great and groundbreaking and turned out to be obvious and pedestrian” scale. I was watching after midnight on a night after being kept up by NTCNTC (so my overall brain capacity was down) and I didn’t have any trouble following who was where, and I kept waiting for something to go sideways and be surprising. This had a plot mapped out from the beginning of the movie, and followed it. Oh yeah, and lots of explosions. Oooh.
Although one thing I may do this weekend is head to my local Borders to see what they’re going to be selling off. Like I need more books…
Also–was this week’s Kazee-off sponsored by K-Tel? It totally should have been. Can I also add that while rainy days and Mondays always get me down, “Rainy Days and Mondays” always perks me up with a nice little (if slightly guilty) surge of nostalgia?
I owe you an answer about the “page 3” girls. I don’t know if they still do it because when I was home recently I don’t recall seeing any in the papers that Mum gets, The Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror. Back in the ’70’s, The Sun (which is a Murdoch paper) always had a topless model with bikini bottom on page 3. The Mirror’s model (not sure if on page 3) had on a bikini bottom and always posed as to cover her nipples.
And to clarify, Anderson Cooper wasn’t just on The Mole. He was the host for the first two seasons and then Ahmad Rashad succeeded him.
I concur with Stennie about the water issue. Get a Brita filter or put one on your faucet. Donna says she still drinks the Bluefield water out of the tap and still thinks Bluefield water is good. Go figure.
And as far as Premier League football (fka Division One) teams having nicknames, the teams didn’t have nicknames but one would identify teams by where they played like here when you hear Shea Stadium, you know it’s the Mets. From Wikipedia, “The supporters who sing on Liverpool’s Kop helped make Anfield famous for its atmosphere. “Kopites” is a collective name given to the supporters of Liverpool Football Club.” (Stennie, go on Wikipedia and search for “spion kop.” Very interesting football history — especially now that you’re a Liverpool fan.) There’s not a more stirring sound than the male voices on the Kop singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”