Episode 327: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie: The Last Metro; Bet: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone), New Favorite and New Favorite Update, What’s Up With That?, Pet Story, Video of the Week, Commercial, Surprising Fact, Light of the Week, Fuck Offs & You Rules, Scotty Dude’s Bowie Quiz.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “Movies” bumper by Duke, “New Favorite” bumper by Krizzer.
Video of the Week: Kid Snippets – this episode is called “Salesman.”
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I don’t know if Sharknado was technically a made-for-tv-movie or not. I know it aired first on TV, but supposedly it will be screening for a couple of nights in theaters around the country at some point soon, with more graphic footage included (read: more shitty CG shark footage). So, I suspect they shot it and cut it down for an R rating but then recut it for TV. Then they’ll release it on DVD with the extra graphic stuff. They’re doing the theater screenings only because everybody loved/hated it.
But what I just typed used up way more brain-power than Sharknado deserves. ;P
I’ve been feeling the urge to put on some MST3K just to get some humor back into my life. Some non-how-shitty-is-the-world humor, I mean. Sierra and I are both thankful for “Whose Line is it?” coming back on TV and just last night we saw “The Cornetto Trilogy” on the big screen. “Shawn of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz” and “The World’s End.” Sadly, “The World’s End” (while funny as hell) was not as good as “Shawn” and “Hot Fuzz,” but the theater had technical issues and ran them out of order, so we still got to start and finish on high notes. That said, I’m still jonesing for more humor, so it’s time to dig into our old MST eps! Maybe I should live tweet them! 🙂
Kid Snippets is very funny. I’m still partial to kitties falling asleep, though. THAT WILL NEVER GET OLD.
I did thoroughly enjoy the Bowie Quiz–thanks, Scotty-Dude!
The Flash is faster than Superman, Bet. You definitely don’t want to have sex with that guy!
Aaand if you needed more proof that Hollywood has lost its mind, Ben Affleck just got cast as Batman in the big Superman/Batman movie. Even Ben Affleck said “Daredevil” sucked bad. He also said, I believe, “I’ll never do another super-hero movie.” I’d love to find video of him saying that… What is your guy’s take on this? I know Bet may not care, but I’m still curious!
Aaanyway, I think that’s it for me this week!
I’m cooking dinner and just want a shoutout.
Cute video!!!!
I got nothin’
OMG, you guys nailed the Bowie quiz! I’m so impressed. I kind of thought I might fool you with Starman and The Man Who Sold The World, but I guess you know Bowie better than you thought you did. As I was making the quiz, and while listening to y’all take the quiz, I agreed with your comments that Bowie’s tunes are more familiar and memorable than most of his lyrics, which tend to be somewhat abstract and artsy. Even I don’t know – and don’t understand – all of his lyrics or the meanings of his songs. Bowie has said he likes to leave room for the listener to add their own interpretation to his music.
Here again is the quiz with the song titles included, plus I added links to the song videos for anyone who may be interested. Stennie, I strongly urge you consider using some of your iTunes bucks for Bowie’s most recent album, The Next Day, a brilliant return to form after a decade’s absence and it manages to sound completely modern while also serving as a retrospective of Mr. Bowie’s entire musical career. At the bottom, I’ve added links to music videos for the first four singles off the new album.
1. Space Oddity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY
Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do
hilarious original version, 1968 (a MUST see!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o
2. “Heroes”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever
3. Let’s Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA
If you say run, I’ll run with you
If you say hide, we’ll hide
Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall
Into my arms
And tremble like a flower
4. Fame
from the CHER show!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfeaNKcffMk
(Bet, it was this period ’74-’76 that Bowie says he was so out of his mind on cocaine the whole time that he has almost no recollection at all!)
what you like is in the limo
what you get is no tomorrow
what you need you have to borrow
“Nien! It’s mine!” is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
5. Changes
from Ziggy’s final concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE
I still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test
6. Oh! You Pretty Things
from the Old Grey Whistle Test TV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-S6njQQw
What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the Golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stay
7. Ziggy Stardust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sdsW93ThQ
screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick ’em by smiling
He could leave ’em to hang
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.
8. The Man Who Sold The World
Live at the BBC, 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0e1m9T9HQ
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
9. Rebel Rebel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtfpsLmmdVI
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they’re playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I’m wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on
10. Young Americans
from Dick Cavett show, 1974: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLcs4VrjZQ
(note saxophone by David Sanborn and backup vocals by Luther Vandross!)
They pulled in just behind the bridge
He lays her down, he frowns
“Gee my life’s a funny thing, am I still too young?”
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she’d have taken anything, but
11. Ashes to Ashes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0
They got a message from the Action Man
“I’m happy, hope you’re happy too
I’ve loved all I’ve needed to love
Sordid details following”
The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
Ain’t got no money and I ain’t got no hair
But I’m hoping to kick but the planet it’s glowing
12. Starman
Tops of the Pops performance which made him a household name in England: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5zmDz4vR4
I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that’s far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don’t tell your poppa or he’ll get us locked up in fright
13. China Girl …not China Doll, remember Stennie?! (^_^)
Bowie’s sexiest vocal ever IMO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8IXx4tsus
You shouldn’t mess with me
I’ll ruin everything you are
I’ll give you television
I’ll give you eyes of blue
I’ll give you a man who wants to rule the world
14. Jean Genie
Recently re-discovered “lost” live Top of the Pops performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe6q_UpHzYQ
Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile
She loves him, she loves him but just for a short while
She’ll scratch in the sand, won’t let go his hand
He says he’s a beautician and sells you nutrition
And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear
15. Suffragette City
live 1990 with Adrian Belew band plus wild dancing by La La La Human Steps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhfMvh6Em0M
Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place
From The Next Day album, 2013
Where Are We Now?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtsV50_-p4
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) starring Tilda Swinton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH7dMBcg-gE
The Next Day (starring Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard and denounced by the Catholic League!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wL9NUZRZ4I
Valentine’s Day (about a school shooting): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4R8HTIgHUU
FUCK!!!
Sorry, I just spent over an hour writing a detailed response with all the answers to the Bowie lyrics with links to the videos if anybody wanted to listen and then I posted it and…..it all disappeared! Wah!! 🙁
Anyway, I thought I could fool you with Starman and The Man Who Sold The World, but you ladies are both too brilliant! You nailed the quiz. Here are the answers below. Feel free to search Youtube if you want to hear the songs or see the videos. Stennie, I recommend you spend your iTunes money on The Next Day, Bowie’s newest album which is not only a fine return to form but also an audio survey of the man’s entire career. He has also returned to making music videos. Check out Where Are We Now?, The Stars (Are Out Tonight) starring Tilda Swinton, The Next Day starring Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard, and Valentine’s Day. Cheers!
1. Space Oddity
Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do
2. “Heroes”
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, forever and ever
3. Let’s Dance
If you say run, I’ll run with you
If you say hide, we’ll hide
Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall
Into my arms
And tremble like a flower
4. Fame
what you like is in the limo
what you get is no tomorrow
what you need you have to borrow
“Nien! It’s mine!” is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
5. Changes
I still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test
6. Oh! You Pretty Things
What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the Golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stay
7. Ziggy Stardust
screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick ’em by smiling
He could leave ’em to hang
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.
8. The Man Who Sold The World
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
9. Rebel Rebel
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they’re playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I’m wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on
10. Young Americans
They pulled in just behind the bridge
He lays her down, he frowns
“Gee my life’s a funny thing, am I still too young?”
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she’d have taken anything, but
11. Ashes to Ashes
They got a message from the Action Man
“I’m happy, hope you’re happy too
I’ve loved all I’ve needed to love
Sordid details following”
The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
Ain’t got no money and I ain’t got no hair
But I’m hoping to kick but the planet it’s glowing
12. Starman
I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that’s far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don’t tell your poppa or he’ll get us locked up in fright
13. China Girl …not China Doll, remember Stennie?! 🙂
You shouldn’t mess with me
I’ll ruin everything you are
I’ll give you television
I’ll give you eyes of blue
I’ll give you a man who wants to rule the world
14. Jean Genie
Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile
She loves him, she loves him but just for a short while
She’ll scratch in the sand, won’t let go his hand
He says he’s a beautician and sells you nutrition
And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear
15.Suffragette City
Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place
P.S. I LOVED the Kid Snippets videos! So funny. 😀