Episode 256: Shout-outs, Pet Stories, movies (Stennie: The Limey), Bet’s Story, Surprising Fact, You-Rules, Holiday Humdingers!
Music: “Jingle Bells,” Frank Sinatra.
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LOL, I just knew that the comment about “Explosive New Year” would draw a direct correlation with diarrhea. HA! OK, if I may I would like to offer a “fuck-off” to myself for staying away so long. What the hell is wrong with me?
Re: Xmas music, listening to this episode I’m having Caroling DDTs. Apparently, after singing all day at various Christmas caroling/Midnight Mass gigs on Saturday night, I was audibly singing “Carol of the Bells” in my sleep. Pete found that highly amusing 🙂 I know one of you hates that song, but at the Midnight Mass our music director, Mark Janas (who is also Marquee Five’s pianist) arranged a gorgeous “Carol of the Bells”/”Silver Bells” mashup – maybe if you heard it, you might like it.
Good King Wensislaus (spelling?!?!) was so nice and saintly, he told a poor man (who was walking outside in the snow) to step into the footprints that the King had already created, and the heat from the King’s footprints kept the poor man warm in the bitter cold. I like the last few lines, since it reminds me of the whole 1% vs 99% OccupyWallStreet issues: “Therefore, Christian men be sure / Wealth or rank possessing / Ye who now will bless the poor / Shall yourselves find blessing.” Basically, if you’re rich and powerful, but you are nice to the poor, you’ll received superpowers like leaving warm footprints for the poor people to step in. At least that’s my interpretation of those lyrics…
I can’t wait for Definitely Dickens NYC to learn “Melekelikimaka” (spelling!??!), which we sang in Definitely Dickens Los Angeles. And YOU two are the only people I know who know “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”…until last year, I never heard that song!
Wishing you two best holiday wishes & happy new year 2012!!!!!!!!!!
Just got back into town and haven’t listened yet, so I don’t know if there’s going to be a year-end extravaganza. However, while driving around this week, I found a song that’s worse than Honey. Seriously. And it’s meant for this upcoming holiday! So a “put this on the worst song ever list” to …”Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. Bah.
Very little time, but if I go two weeks in a row w/o a shout-out, a part of my soul dies.
The Limey – LOVE that movie, although, unlike Stennie, I’m very much a Soderberg fan and that flick has Soderbergian touches in spades. Also, here is the thumbnail synopsis I once used to describe The Limey on my blog’s list of overlooked/underappreciated films: “Terrance Stamp kicks nine kinds of ass. The end.” Pretty much all you need to know.
I DO remember the Hall and Oats “Jingle Bell Rock” version and video. In particular, G.E. Smith unwrapping his new guitar (a Telecaster?) just in time to play the solo.
I still want to address your question about Graham Norton, “Would You Rather,” and the implication of copyright and/or trademark law–and I will–but I can’t really do it justice here. I’m actually going to work up a post for my law blog about the common (pervasive) confusion between attribution and license. Namely, that just because you acknowledge someone else is the author or the owner of the copyright in a work, you may still be on the hook for infringement if you use the work without getting permission (a license). In fact, attribution without a license actually works as an admission of liability, because you’re saying, in effect, Yes, I used your copyrighted work.
Anyway. Happy New Year to my favorite podcasters and dearest virtual friends. Wishing you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. I’m calling 2012 the Year I Get My Shit Together. (A guy’s gotta dream, right?) And, if you can get HuckleCon into NC, I’m there.
Also (forgive the Cliff Clavin) I think Siskita meant DTs (delerion tremons), not DDT (a pesticide with a long-ass name) with respect to her sudden caroling moratoriam. Clavin out.