Episode 288: Shout-outs, movies (Bet: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, In the Shadow of the Moon; Stennie: Four Lions, High Anxiety), Pet Story, What’s Up With That?, TV Commercials, Thing That Doesn’t Fit, Highlights of the Week, Fuck Offs and You Rules.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “Movies” bumper by Duke, “New Favorite” bumper by Krizzer.
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Well, it’s not that I don’t like the Beatles, it’s just that I don’t care for them. Which… now that I think about it, is the same thing.
What music do I like? I don’t usually like to answer because I’m all over the map. To me, music is like religion, it’s very personal and I don’t expect anyone to like what I like so why bother talking about it? But since it’s me, and since you asked: I like all kinds of different stuff. I love Queen, but I also love ELO, RJ-D2, Orbital, Bowie, NIN, Van Halen, A Perfect Circle, some: Mindless Self Indulgence, Muse, Radiohead, Tool, but my favorite band (mainly because it was important to me during my formative years) is Pink Floyd. I also enjoy a LOT of movie scores of different styles ranging from early John Williams to the techno/ravey stuff in “Moulin Rouge” to now semi-cliched stuff like the scores to the Bourne movies and the BSG remake. There are also a few Japanese bands/artists I enjoy, but I’m pretty sure you won’t know them.
I’m glad I’m exceptional, Sten 🙂 I mean, an exception.
Yep, it was Disneyland. Thank you both for validating my reasoning for my distaste of costumed characters. My mom’s explanation to me as to why Winnie went wild on my head, was that my hair had lightened a lot because we had been spending a lot of time in the sun living in SoCal for a while at that point. So, I’m supposed to believe that my hair lightened up so much it looked like honey.
My mom also told me Ben Kenobi would beat Darth Vader the first time I saw “Star Wars”. So… …yeah…
Don’t quote me on the Taylor-Hicks-isn’t-a-rightwinger because I haven’t had time to research it any further, but I know I saw a headline some place making the claim. That said, there’s nothing good about him singing that song at the RNC… IT WON’T LEAVE MY BRAIN…
It’s not an iPad–it’s DiGiorno–I mean, it’s a Nexus 7. Sorry, I’m a techhead, I can’t help but correct people.
Bet, Si and I have seen that ridiculous Skittles ad. We don’t watch broadcast TV anymore, but we also got a Roku and watched “The Last Dragon” on the “Crackle” channel which claims their programming “is unedited and uncut.” Despite that claim, they interrupt each movie every 20 minutes with a single commercial. That night it was that stupid Skittles thing. It made us so fricken angry!! I think we tried fast-forwarding but I don’t think it let us so we just muted it and checked our social networks. Maybe we could get a Fuck-Off for Crackle for lying about their content being unedited and uncut?
Crap…I’m going to have to reexamine why I love “Field of Dreams”. I do remember Quayle admitting he loved “Ferris Bueller” back in the day. I remember everyone making fun of him for it. I mean, it explained a lot about his time in office, didn’t it?
…takin it to the streets!
Movie Quotes Quiz – Back-to-School Edition
1. Do you have a kiss for Daddy?
2.
M: You drink?
C: No, thanks. I’m cool.
M: I’m not offering. I’m asking you if you drink. You think I offer alcohol to teenage drivers taking my daughter out?
C: Hey man, the protective vibe. I dig.
3. He said the lady had knowledge. And he was glad to get that knowledge. Because college girls can smell ignorance—like dogshit. So, where you goin’ to school next year? Wisconsin? Big school . . .
4. Look at you: member of the honor roll, assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater. I’m tellin’ ya, Rat, if this girl can’t smell your qualifications, then who needs her, right?
5. I am sick of your foul language, your crude behavior and your sluttish manner. There are certain things a decent woman keeps private, and only a filthy slut would have done this and those who stood by and encouraged her are just as bad. I don’t care who’s responsible – you’re all to blame. Now, I am going to leave this room for five minutes by which time that disgusting object had better be removed and the windows opened to clear away the stench. If you must play these filthy games, do them in your homes, and not in my classroom!
6. [Pushes protagonist a little bit] You got a real attitude problem, [protagonist]. You’re a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too.
7. Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
8.
Lloyd: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you’re here at like the Gas ‘n’ Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
Joe: By *choice,* man.
9. That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
10. Maybe I’m spending too much of my time starting up clubs and putting on plays. I should probably be trying harder to score chicks.
Not fully done listening to this week, but I will be, goddamnit, by the time you go to air. Anyway…I have a Just Askin’ for you: Les and I were talking about Mitt Romney, the Dog-On-The-Roof incident, and the Cutting-Off-The-Suspected-Gay-Kid’s-Hair incident. We both thought both incidents were utterly appalling, but I draw the line at the dog thing, while he thought the hair thing was worse. (and him a total dog-lover!) Which incident do YOU think is worse? AND if YOUR candidate of choice was found guilty of whichever incident you think is worse, would that change your vote? If Obama had put his dog on the car, or if he’d held down a kid to have his hair cut off, who would you vote for? For me, the dog thing is all I need to know (not that I would have voted for Romney anyway) but what about you?
Also: about the Beatles episode, which was awesome by the way. The line “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man,” is actually a quote from an Elvis song. So the song may have sprung from that line, and therefore maybe isn’t actually autobiographical, which maybe makes it less disturbing. Or not. But I love that song.
Also, Stennie. I think you’re wrong. Help! is a much better movie than Hard Day’s Night. And I just watched both of them recently, so I feel I can weigh in on this. Yes, Help! is silly and kind of weird. But I like it because we see our boys having FUN, which is how I like to think of them. Plus it has that wonderful Ticket to Ride scene where they’re all playing in the snow that I love. In Hard Day’s Night, they spend the whole movie complaining and being dissatisfied. And that “clean” old man is really annoying. And he has distractingly bad teeth.
Oooh – another Just Askin’: Which Beatles album has the best cover?
Of course, I will post here (or you can always email me) and let everyone know what my discount power is re: cruise and DisneyWorld tickets! In the meantime, you can check out what route the Magic (my cruise ship) will take at http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/ships/magic/ Isn’t she purty? Apparently my cast (the 29th) will be the last cast before they do some major refurbishment, so it’s the last time she’ll be in classic mode.
And to add to ThePete’s comment, yeah I remember that ugly ugly ridiculously bad “French kissing a Walrus” ad…I tried to forget about it, but you two ladies made me remember it again!!! Damn you!
My (unintentionally cryptic) comment was an attempt to riff on Stennie’s softball story by referencing what I thought were fairly well-known artifacts of hipsterdom (poo-pooing anything mainstream; ironically quaffing Pabst Blue Ribbon). https://www.google.com/search?q=hipster+pbr&aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Regarding the Beatles, I have a confession. Throughout my childhood I was a pretty decent member of what the kids today would call “Team Paul” (as a post-Beatles solo act). But when I met my wife and she told me she was a huge Beatles fan, I actually said I thought they were (wait for it) “kind of overrated.” I got better.
Anyway, your Beatles-ranking show came at a very good time; I expect it will be a big help in moving me beyond my singles-level appreciation of the Fab Four’s discography. Oh, and BTW, Stennie, I think “Two of Us” is a pretty spectacular song. I guess you’re not a fan of silly love songs (or “Silly Love Songs”).