Episode 319: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Smoke Signals), Earworm, Just Askin’ Follow-Up, Watch Your Phraseology, Bet’s Weird Story, Thing That Doesn’t Fit, My TV Life, New Purchase, What’s Up With That?, Fuck-offs and You Rules, Movies About Food.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “Movies” bumper by Duke.
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THIS IS A TEST:
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favorite food movies…. Tortilla Soup… and Jiro Loves Sushi…
hands down
Hated the movie “Spanglish” but loved the sandwich that Adam Sandler makes in the beginning of the movie…
Trivia Quote: “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won’t win any way but my way! You’ve ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that’s always combed, your suit that’s always white, your car that’s always clean! I refuse to accept! I challenge you to another race!”
ANSWER: The Great Race!!
Love Love Love hearing you two sing my signature song!! More drive-in fun happening this summer! Wish you two could be here for it!
We’re baaaaaaaaaack!
Can’t say much about that other than we’re getting over jet lag, heading back into Marquee Five rehearsals, and finding jobs and other money-making opportunities.
When *is* the NYC Marathon? I don’t mind a Hucklebugger meetup, as long as I know when it is!
And Bet, Alan Arkin sighting if you haven’t seen it already: the comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”. Sweet and silly starring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, and Jim Carrey, but also has a wonderful role for Alan Arkin as a retired magician of yesteryear. See it just for Alan – he’s great!
Ciao!!!
We’re back!!
The final cruise and Europe was a blast! Sierra gave me my best birthday EVER in Venice. Soooo very thankful.
I usually don’t get earworms but during the first week of our Europe trip, I had the music from “Villains Tonight” in my head. If it wasn’t one of the songs from that show (in which Siskita played a certain sea witch) it was one of many Disney songs they used to pipe over the speakers aboard the Disney Magic cruise ship. I know, #1stWorldProblems.
“Smoke Signals” is one of my favorite films. Loved the relationships in that movie!! It’s probably in my top 20, if not my top 10, favorite movies.
Thanks for Googling Funchal, Medeira, Portugal all those episodes ago. It wasn’t an official request but I had never heard of Funchal or Medeira (though I had heard of the wine) and I’m sure many other folks haven’t either. The only thing I’d add is that it’s pronounced “Foonshall.” But you can check out some of the photos I took in Funchal here: http://thepete.com/?s=medeira I’ll be posting more at some point and including the best in a future issue of thepete.mag.
And yes, we did have a glass of Medeira in Medeira, my dear-ah.
I can’t believe that, in your topic of Food Movies, you didn’t mention “The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Her Lover.” That’s about food… sort of. I hated the movie, but it was memorable and about food… in a way…
I’m with you guys, I don’t get why so many people say “Saturday Night Fever” is so good. I hated it. I asked an old film school buddy of mine why he liked it and he shrugged saying he wasn’t “one of those people” who liked it. Then I mentioned how I disliked tremendously the scene that was, effectively, a gang rape scene in the back seat of the car and his jaw dropped. I clarified, saying it wasn’t *really* a gang rape scene (though, if memory serves, it was) but that all the guys were taking turns with her and I don’t recall her being happy about it. His jaw was still on the floor. Turns out, he had borrowed the film from the library which had, apparently, censored the shit out of it. >_<
Anyway, thanks for another great show! Hope you guys dig what we sent you!
When I think about a food movie, I actually think about “When Harry Met Sally” because of the famous (infamous?) scene in the deli but because of the deli. We have been to Katz’s Delicatessan which has the famous sign/slogan, “Send a salami to your boy in the Army.” It’s a fun place.
Stennie, love that you’ve started a Park Blog! A quasi-travel blog — yeehaw!
Zippy has “senior-itis…….you know, nothing that a time machine wouldn’t cure. He’s better than he was — thanks to some new drugs and very limited activity. Being the loyal dog that he is, he wants to go for a walk when Pinto does, but he doesn’t make it very far. The other morning he simply just sat down in the next door neighbor’s tall, healthy grass and just had a look on his face like, ‘that’s it; I’m just going to sit here for a while’…….and, we let him.
Janet and I sang at the DAR Constitution Hall in October 1996 in a concert called “GALA [Gay and Lesbian Association of] Choruses presents Music for Life: A Choral Tribute to the Quilt in the Capital,” which was the last time the entire AIDS quilt was displayed when it covered The National Mall. There was a Men’s Chorus, a Women’s Chorus and a Mixed Chorus, which is the one we sung in — the guest conductor was David Maddux. Stennie, you may or may not know of him as he has been affiliated with the Seattle Men’s Chorus for many years. He’s a great conductor, an even better composer and arranger.
Don’t hold your breath for anything musical from us. I am a great chorus member but not a soloist. Janet has had a few solos over the years. She portrayed John the Baptist & Judas in Godspell — an interesting twist having a woman with a British accent in that role but it worked! She was also in a play written by a local lesbian writer for a breast cancer fundraiser in which she acted, sang and tap danced!
Bet, sorry about your ordeal with the flowers at the cemetery. My aunt got mad at us when we bought Mom’s (and Dad’s eventually) tombstone because we didn’t choose to add those urns/vases on the sides of it. She’s one of those people who enjoys(?) going to the graves of family members and putting flowers on them. I just knew that Dad wouldn’t keep up with the flowers nor would even of us kids so nothing’s sadder than an empty vase or in many cases, broken vases, dead flowers or plastic flowers.