Hucklebug, Episode 162: Intro, RIP Vic Mizzy, Collin Wilcox and Soupy Sales, shout-outs, movies (Bet: none; Stennie: Bananas, Paper Moon, Midnight Run), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Bet & Stennie’s Top Ten Films from 2000 – 2009.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
The episode 162 link takes me to episode 161. The 161 link takes me there too. My computer must be screwed up. Anyone else having that problem?
Whoops! Sorry about that, Duke—I accidentally used last week’s link. It’s fixed now.
ITunes pulled the wrong show too, FYI.
Yes, early podcastees grabbed a rerun of episode 161. Try right-clicking and choosing “update podcast,” it should grab 162 now. Sorry everyone. Technology is not my friend this weekend. On the plus side, we’re already way ahead for shout-outs.
The doc that Mike mentioned, VAL LEWTON: MAN IN THE SHADOWS airs on TCM Halloween afternoon, prior to CAT PEOPLE and CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE. Check your listings. Results, as always, may vary. I’ll be handing out goodies to critters in costumes at the time in an effort to stave off a house-egging.
The lowlights are pretty low. Thank god for pets! Good thoughts all around.
I think I’d like to personally apologize for that Kohler ad featuring “Jo” the Plumber. Went to high school about 10 miles from the Kohler HQ, and know several people who have worked there. They do make absolutely beautiful bathroom and kitchen fixtures, but they really missed the boat with that ad. I blame both Kohler and GDS&M, the ad firm that created the spot, as well as their new creepy and effed-up interactive site featuring a skanky plumber flushing random things you click: http://www.josplumbing.com/
My current Top 10 from the 2000s, not that anyone’s asking:
1. No Country for Old Men
2. United 93
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4. Lost in Translation
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Y Tu Mama Tambien
7. Amelie
8. Gosford Park
9. Sideways
10. In the Loop
Good top ten movie list! I would have found room somewhere for Bridge to Terabithia and Gran Torino but we all have our own spin on lists.
I’m outside the norm because I didn’t find United 93 so involving. Maybe I felt manipulated to a certain extent? Also movies are ultimately about making money and it bothered me they were trying to make money off 9/11. I would have been happier with a factual documentary. What those passengers went through on 93 was so heartbreaking I’m not sure doing a Hollywood dramatization about it was the best option, at least for me.
Cat People isn’t really a horror movie as we think of them today. It’s more an atmospheric suspense film and it’s expertly crafted. You should give it a watch.
Yep, it’s another long comment from ThePete!
No worries, Stennie! I trust that you guys read the entirety of the comments I leave. I just had a lot to say last week as I have this week. Just pick your favorite bits!
Unrelated to the Hucklebug: Sten, your TV husband is just as handsome in person as he is on TV. Seeing Colbert in person was a blast. Cornel West is an awesome character to see in person, too.
Related to the Hucklebug: Bet, Nic Cage was good in “Moonstruck” and, in the movie he played the loser weatherman in, he was perfectly reasonable. I know I’ve seen something older that he was in where he was good, too—“Raising Arizona” THAT’S the one I know I liked him in. But most of the time his movies are huge piles of steaming monkey dung.
Bet, I’m so sorry about Granny!! I’ve been through similar things with my various grandparents. It was not easy and I had a generation in between me and them, so I can only imagine what you’re dealing with. Positive thoughts being thought for you and your family!!
I think your attitude is perfect about hideeho (sp?), Bet. Just have fun. We all need to have more of that.
However, I think you’re both giving a raw deal to the guy in the commercial with the hot plumber lady. I haven’t seen the spot, but, as a married man, I feel compelled to point out that marriage doesn’t shut down your interest in all members of the opposite sex. Personally, I think his behavior is terrible whether he’s single or not.
Though, if the husband is slimy for trying to concoct a reason for the hot plumber lady to come by isn’t the single guy more slimy? The married man just wants to look. The single man is apparently too socially inept to carry on a reasonable conversation with a woman, so he has to resort to stunts to manipulate her into his life. A rational, single guy can have balls and walk up to hot plumber lady and ask her out. Or continue to live in quiet solitude like I did for YEARS.
Either way, both men have some serious issues and I’m a little surprised this kind of thing is used in advertising. How about selling Glad garbage bags with the slogan “She’ll be Glad while you’re out shtooping the babysitter.”
This is why I stopped watching TV. I haaate advertising like Bet hates Green Acres.
Sten: “Spirited Away” is one of my faves, too. Hayao Miyazaki directed it. He’s the Anthony Hopkins of anime. You can pretty much watch *any* of his movies and be entertained. I’ve never seen nor have I heard of a Miyazaki film that did not please. My favorite from him is probably a TV series he did back in the 70s called “Future Boy Conan” which will probably NEVER be on DVD here in the US because it’s a kids show about a boy surviving after the apocalypse. It’s not full of zombies, but it ends up being a very pro-communist story of how good people work together to work in harmony with nature and bad people who are corrupt use technology to expand wealth and manipulate others. I disagree with the sentiment (I use technology and I’m poor as a rock!), but ironically, the storytelling is just so damn good it won me over.
As with Patrick, I’m offering up my top 10 from the 21st C in no particular order:
1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Downfall
4. Watchmen
5. Wall-E
6. Batman Begins
7. Michael Clayton
8. Good Shephard
9. Syriana
10.Idiocracy
There are more… but these are the first ten I could think of as my faves of the aughts (oughts?).
So, what happens if, God(s) forbid, the number of RIPs exceeds the number of comments/shout-outs? Does the universe implode and reform as a Bizarro-world incarnation of itself: “I’m Stet, and I’m Bennie. This is the Bucklehug, episode 261…”
At a minimum, to put it in Spenglerian terms, “that would be bad”; certainly on par with crossing the streams.
Hi Girls!!!
Shocked, I know, right?
Don’t you hate when people say “I know, right?”
Two things, first of all, let me rant on a little about FuckedupBook..
My photos disappeared, my friends disappeared, my links, everything. Then I couldn’t log in. Then I could, but had no friends. Then I could log in, had friends but coudn’t post to my wall.
You know I actually had to open a new page, re-solicit everyone in my e-mail list and explain to EVERY PERSON why this was another page and why I was keeping the other page. Confusing, right. Then, the original page started working. Then, the six people who were “friends” on the new page and not on the old page had to be “Invited” and then FuckedupBook told me I was “doing too many transactions too closely together too quickly” and was in jepordy of being in violations of the terms of agreement blah blah blah fuck me.
All this, just because I didn’t want to re-upload all my photos I have added in the past year.
So, for now, I am only using the old page, but still have to check the new page because I don’t want to piss people off and have them not want to be friends with me at all.
Of course, there are hundreds of people who were not even aware any of this was happening on my page in the first place.
Every day is a crap shoot. but for today, I have a facebook page, actually, I have two…thank you very much.
Second, I have made a short list of movie stars and directors who would keep me OUT of the theatre..no matter what, I would have to be dragged to see a movie they were in, and would not feel any hesitation to get up in the middle and go to the bathroom or get a refill on my popcorn.
1. Hilary Swank…I don’t care if she’s from Bellingham
2. Adrien Brody….he is stupid. I have that on good authority from the guy who “bread and roses” is about. And I loved “the dummy” but fast fowarded through scenes he was in by himself. I watched it for Mila…
3. Roman Polanski..I have a problem with child rapists…I don’t care if they are “forgiven” by their victims
4. George Clooney I can look at his picture all day. I just hate his smarmy “I’m hot, I know it” face.
5. Renee Zellweger…I have issues with actors who don’t move their lips and squint all the time.
There are many more, but these are my top five. Who are yours?
Have a good week, happy halloween and hang in there Granny!!
Marla
I want to get my comment in before I go incommunicado for a while. Apparently, in 2009, you can’t arrange to move your phone service 20 feet next door with the same company and same number, without having to completely disconnect your phone, get another party involved in turning it back on (%$#! Verizon), and then getting my phone and internet hooked back up. It could be up to two weeks. Of course, they can’t tell me when my phone will be cut off, they’ll get me a dial tone back next Friday, and then it will take a week to reconnect to Earthlink, because they can’t start service until I get the dial tone next door.
I hate moving. How do those of you who do it frequently do it?
Crap. Kevin Spacey is in a new movie. That’s not bad. I love Kevin. The bad news is that he is in it with…wait for it…….George Clooney.
FML
I actually did think you both were going to put Shaun at the top of your movie lists. Woops.
Other than that, I got nothing for this week. Oh yeah, the instrument on The Addams Family theme is a harpsichord. As played by Lurch.