Episode 283: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Contre-Enquette, 99 Francs, Ca$h; Bet Brave, Macaroni), Earworm of the Week, What’s Up With That?, Pet Stories, Bet’s Generic Review, Stennie’s Pre-Highlight, Late-Breaking Shout-out, Fuck Offs and You Rules, Would You Rather?
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “Movies” bumper by Duke.
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Heidi – it is really strange that your ear worm is That’s Not Cricket. The song that’s been taking up space in my head is “It’s So Dirty.”
Christ in a Sidecar, I am caught up. It took 3 trips to San Antonio and back, but by god I did it! 1) Still haven’t seen pics of your Big Bottom Pots, 2) RIP to both Sally Ride and Sherman Helmsley, thus leading to my GD ear worm of the week, for no associated reason, doing the George Jefferson walk while whistling the Sanford & Son theme. I am NOT at all right in the head.
I was traveling last weekend, so I again didn’t get a chance to comment since I was waiting for a very tall drink to be served to me at a restaurant after enduring a long cross country flight surrounded by loud children. I’m extremely patient with parents and their kids on flights, but that tested my limit.
Anywho…let me back up a podcast or two. H.A.T.E. the USA Olympic uniforms. Ugly. They look like French sailors. And they were made in fucking China. Don’t get me started. Ralph Lauren can kiss my America born ass. I still have both of my Team USA uniforms from the two World Baton Twirling Championships (it’s the Olympics in the baton community) I competed in. Yes, we won and I have two gold medals (plus, I got to stand on the podium the 2nd time since I was co-captain as they played our national anthem.) Well worth the 16 yrs of blood, sweat and tears and giving up all of my summers to practice 8 hours a day. I rarely talk about it anymore, but that was my life until I graduated college. How I managed to fit musicals, soccer, choir, etc into the rest of my youth, I’ll never know. God Bless my parents.
TV/Film characters I would most like to marry: I did want to marry Benson as a young girl (Robert Guillaume.) Don’t ask me why. I liked that show so much. And of course, Michael Knight from Knight Rider (I think I’ve professed my love for that show enough, right?) I wanted to marry the kid from an obsure Disney movie starring Scott Bakula called “I-Man”, whoever the kid was that played his son. And I wanted to marry Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG. Will Wheaton was the only celebrity I ever wrote a fan letter to. Plus, I wanted to marry cartoon characters too. Oh, I just wanted to marry everyone. I was marriage crazy as a kid. Funny, I’m still single today…who knew.
Bet – I solely went to see Brave because of Merida’s hair. Us big curly headed gals have to stick together. I liked the film a lot, but for some reason, thought it was going to be slightly different from the trailer.
Stennie – YES, we are going to watch soccer tomorrow!!! Hello, I played soccer from the age of 7 through college. I may not really watch it much on tv or follow any specific team, but I still love the sport. Years back, I actually tried to start playing again here in LA. I joined the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian League, but was so out of shape, I couldn’t keep up at practice, so I had to quit. Nice bunch of ladies I played with though. I’m going to wear my soccer jersey from high school tomorrow.
I’m catching up!
Ep 281: I have copies of both Murder One seasons and will watch them over the coming weeks/months. But in the Jumping-the-Shark context, I must be honest and say I can’t comment since I never saw the first series. I just felt compelled to defend season 2 since it’s nowhere near as bad as other shows, post-shark-jumping. And I feel bad for the actors in that second season whom I like quite a bit–most notably, Pruit Taylor Vince who was awesome in “Legend of 1900” and showed up all too briefly in “The Walking Dead” season 2.
Not sure if Sierra commented about this, but we didn’t care for the original “Bedazzled.” I think we might have been expecting too much based on your review, Sten.
Re: mascots. I would, in fact, run away, it’s true. Well, it would more of a brisk walk.
Just in case you ladies think I don’t like anything you like, I saw and liked “Matador” and “Brick” (actually, I loved “Brick” and really would love to see, not sequels, but movies from the same director along the same lines). And I definitely appreciate the rest of those recommendations. I could go on forever about this topic, so I’ll just suggest a Palestinian film called “Divine Intervention.” It’s a sort of absurdist comedy about the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It’s definitely a hit-piece, but an entertaining one. I have no idea if it’s available in the US, but it’s worth seeking out. As far as I know, the only people who have seen it are me and the people who I screened it for back when I still was a projectionist. The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQmSu7iVWrk
Ep 282: I’m hit and miss on Sorkin. He and I both went to Syracuse (I also went to high school with a relative of his), so I always feel torn. I am in agreeance with Sten re: her criticisms of Sorkin (rhythms, using the same cliches/figures-of-speech over and over). In fact, I’m almost done reading the Hunger Games books and that’s one of my complaints with them–too many present-day cliches for the very futuristic context of that story. Too many writers don’t think about how their characters speak (or how differently they should speak based on their context/background).
My TV Bride: Corine from “SOAP.” Dutch was a fool to pick Eunice. That’s all I’ve got because there aren’t *that* many women on TV I’d want to settle down with. I mean, there are plenty of hot ladies, but you can’t base a relationship on looks alone. They’d have to be geeks or have a space ship or something. How many women on TV have their own space ship? Yes, I’d go for Starbuck, on the BSG remake, but settle down with her? Apollo tried that–didn’t work out (no surprise).
Ep 283: Re: unsolicited people at the door: I just show my Caucasian face and say “hello” in English and 95% of the knockers apologize and leave.
All the eps were fun–sorry I couldn’t keep up! The only reason I listened to all of them today is because I am (still) laying out July’s thepete.mag and your show is perfect for keeping the other half of my brain busy while I try to figure out which pictures go where. Sorry for the longness of the comment, but hopefully you’ll be short on show (as if!) or maybe you can come back to this comment if you’re short on comments in the future (as if!).
Oh, forgot to mention, I’m following Donna’s Tumblr blog now. Anyone who wants can follow me, too, I’m at http://thepete.tumblr.com 🙂