Hucklebug, Episode 167: RIP Don Voegeli, Robert Degen and Ed Bronstein, shout-outs, movies (Bet: A Clockwork Orange; Stennie: Les Miserables), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Heaven’s Restaurant (Eat at Jesus’).
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
Heaven’s Restaurant sounds expensive. But I would totally drink at the Pearly Gates Pub.
I understand breaking up the CD mix thing. It’s a lot for people who didn’t participate.
Late to the game with 90s movies.
Top 10 (alpha order):
Boogie Nights
Election
Fargo
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Hoop Dreams
Quiz Show
Rushmore
Silence of the Lambs
Three Kings
Here’s the long list (alpha order) which could definitely get shorter.
Apollo 13
Barton Fink
Being John Malkovich
Crying Game
Eyes Wide Shut
The Fugitive
Get Shorty
Ghost Dog
Glengarry Glen Ross
LA Confidential
Magnolia
Metropolitan
Miller’s Crossing
Passion Fish
Rosetta
Schindler’s List
Smoke
Toy Story
Waiting for Guffman
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Awww…it was very nice of you to mention my poor blog. Thank you.
Slight correction on my movie list. Mulholland Falls is a neo-noir concerning the infamous LA “Hat Squad” of detectives that existed in the 1950’s. You two got it confused with Mulholland Drive, a David Lynch movie.
Here’s a question. What would cannibals eat in Heaven’s Restaurant? Could they get the leg of a hated ex-boss to gnaw on?
Some encouragement for ThePete. I can’t wait to hear you read your book. No one could do it justice like you. Don’t keep us waiting too long.
The Pearly Gates Pub must serve the greatest martinis around. And the Guinness is hopefully the real stuff.
I’ll clarify some of my movies of the 90s:
Hard Boiled: the main reason to recommend this one to the two of you is that it stars a young Tony Leung sporting a buzzcut. There’s also an extended shoot-out sequence that made me absolutely lose my mind when I first saw it. If that doesn’t do it for you, then there’s this:
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/hard_boiled.htm
Before Sunrise: It’s really just two people talking, which is probably where it loses Bet. Then there’s the thing about Bet having no soul. But it’s sublime, in my opinion.
Raise The Red Lantern: it’s from China, directed by Zhang Yimou (he’s great) and starring Gong Li (she’s lovely).
Fireworks: It’s a Takeshi Kitano film, this time about cops. He mostly makes movies about cops or gangsters. This is one of three movies he’s made that I’d recommend without hesitation, along with Zatoichi and Sonatine (that one’s about gangsters).
Clockwork Orange is great, but the book is even better!
My By Mennen story:
My friend/co-Caroler/co-Marquee Five member is Adam West Hemming – he’s our Tenor and I’ve been working with him over a year now on various projects. As a 16 year old, he was associated with a men’s choir hired by the Mennen group and was invited to sit in on the recording. They had an entire multi-part harmony “Mennen jingle” written, rehearsed and recorded. Adam was sitting on the couch, not a part of the choir outside the recording booth. After the other men recorded the minute-long jingle, the producers asked him his opinion, sort of randomly. He said “it should be cut except for the last three notes – that’s your tag. Simple, repeatable, memorable.”
The producers thought for a minute, then dismissed the rest of the choir (with pay), looked at Adam and told him to go into the recording booth and sing the new “By Mennen” tag in different keys and rhythms. That’s his voice you hear! 😀 I’m now a fan of the By Mennen tag, although you should thank him for cutting the jingle down to 2 seconds as opposed to 1 minute!
Did you hear Roy Disney died?