Hucklebug, Episode 142: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Ghostbusters, Ruggles of Red Gap, Bet: Enchanted, The Visitor), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, CD Mix 9, Alternate tracks 6-10.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Frank Sinatra, Radiators, Doc Severinson Orchestra, Frank Sinatra again. Also: “Wicked Game,” Chris Isaak.
Hello! Glad you two are still banging the drum. Stennie, I may have two extra tickets to “The Shark is Still Working” screening this Saturday night. Interested?
The comment I wanted to make last week would have combined at least two things covered on the show:
I have to strenuously resist the urge to correct people who use Romanes when what’s clearly and obviously called for is the vocative plural Romani. It’s all I can do not to threaten castration. (Which is, of course, pronounced ‘castwaysun’)
Can I take the Hucklebug internally?
What about while handling cutlery?
Ah! Alan F. Arkin Movie Mash-Up!
Little Miss Sunshine Cleaners!!
Did that one suck less than my previous movies mash-ups?
The Republicans DID tell us to fuck-off over the last 8 years in the form of them questioning our patriotism. Now we have Glenn Beck crying to us about how America is in danger. 8 years late to the show, bro! (And I don’t even believe America is in real danger—maybe in danger of being lame, but our country isn’t going anywhere—sheesh!)
That’s it from me this week! Show seemed to zoom by!
I don’t understand liberals who feel they need to go out of their way to be accommodating to conservatives/right-wingers. It drives me insane. The Republican party goes out of its way to silence any difference of opinion. I’m so sick of the double standard. Another thing that gets me is that conservatives are allowed to spout racist, homophobic, and sexist rhetoric because liberals don’t want to take away their free speech rights. Bigotry of any form is not a free speech issue.
P.S.
re: broken ribs
It happened last Wed—the 22nd. I fell against the protruding end of a shelf in the store. I’m feeling much better, and I don’t hurt that much unless I forget and move my arms or turn too quickly. Thanks for the best wishes.
re:emotional vampire (mother)
The calm didn’t last long. She’s still the same way, but I just change the subject or ignore her. I’m not going to participate and I’m not going to feel guilty about putting my needs first. I look at it this way: would I put up with this behavior and treatment from a friend or acquaintance? If the answer is no, I don’t tolerate it from my my family. My new stance is rubbing off on others. My grandmother finally had enough of my mother’s drama queen routine and told her, “Go home! You’re getting on my nerves.” I started laughing which didn’t help matters.
Heidi, was the guitar playing the once a month new activity?
If you have not seen Bet’s films on Youtube, go see them. They are just delightful, and my niece adores them.
I’m glad the recommendation for The Visitor worked out, since I……oh wait, I haven’t seen it yet.
My CD mix disc alternate tracks:
1. No real alternates.
2. I had Pink Green by Yeah Yeah Noh, but I couldn’t remember how that song went and I was too lazy to go get the CD (even though it’s only about 2 feet away). I also had Green Suede Shoes by Black 47, which I didn’t use only because Brown Eyed Son was so much catchier.
3. Nothin’.
4. The first song I thought of was It’s Too Bad by The Jam, which borrows the “yeah, yeah, yeah” melody from She Loves You for one of Weller’s guitar licks. But it didn’t seem to be enough of a steal. Later I thought of a great Nat King Cole selection (which I’ll use on the next and final mix), and I would have used that if I hadn’t been so overachieving and finished the mix a week before the deadline.
5. I got nothin’ here.
6. Of course I had thought about using the Kinks here, but it seemed to be too easy of a choice. I also thought of Split Enz (I see red, I see red, I see red), and nearly brought out the Paley Brothers.
7. I used most of what I came up with here, with only Grudge F*** by the Scud Mountain Boys left on the cutting room floor. I left it there just because it’s too pathetic of a song (not as in quality, but more in content: a guy begs his ex-gf once more, while stoned).
8. I believe Siskita used a version of the first song on my list: Quizas Quizas Quizas, by Nat King Cole (from the soundtrack for In The Mood For Love). I thought Stennie had used it on an earlier mix, which is why I skipped over it. Also had the song Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah by the Pogues, though I really hope the Yeah Yeah Yeahs get a hold of it some time. Also had the Eddie Cochran song Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie on the shortlist.
9. Nothing here.
10. Pretty safe to say that any radio hit from 1982 or the mid 70s was considered. Also, I can remember the exact month, town, weather, time of day, and vehicle I was in when I first heard Thomas Dolby’s She Blinded Me With Science.
(May 1983, Garmisch, Germany, it had rained that morning, mid afternoon, shuttle bus.)
Hi! Loved the show, but it was so long ago since I listened, I that I don’t remember what I loved about it.
Not sure if you’ve already started, but just wanted to say hi.
Oh yeah, and hide under the desk because of the Swine Flu! which is everywhere. I expect you to be Hucklebugging in a mask.