Hucklebug, Episode 131: Happy Last Day of the Bush Presidency, RIP Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Rocco and His Brothers, In Bruges, The Naked Spur, Out of Sight; Stennie: Wall-E, Trouble in Paradise, Shut Up & Sing, Ghost Town, Shaun of the Dead), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, special guests ThePete and Siskita, live from Bethesda, MD on Inauguration Eve!
For those of you who are not familiar with ThePete’s pal Jay, here’s a photo. Also, check out exclusive footage of ThePete and Siskita at the Inauguration at thepete.com, and photos at Siskita’s flickr account.
Music: “Time to Change,” the Brady Kids, “Change Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke, “Changes,” David Bowie, “Goodbye to You,” Scandal, “The Hucklebuck,” Frank Sinatra.
Somehow I thought the hucklebug would be interested in this. Problem solved:
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/rsc/in-pictures-italian-job-entries/
Wow! Siskita and I are listening to the HB this week TOGETHER. Awwww…
I think Wall-E is my favorite Pixar movie. I still think it would be a great third-movie in a marathon of “Silent Running”, “Idiocracy” and “Wall-E”.
I agree with Bet—I didn’t like it as much when the humans showed up.
Yeah, I wish more of us lived our lives like today would be our last—I do my best, but this whole “bill-paying” thing makes it hard. 🙁
I think George Bush should still get a fuck off even though he’s left power. Just cuz.
Yay, Jay sounded cool, but still too much like me—he’s still a very “young” character. Need to really push his voice more.
I like both of those Bush Fuck-Offs both the high-end one from Siskita and the low-end one, too.
Thanks for the blog plugs!
That’s thepete.com & sierrainnewyork.blogspot.com !!
Whahoo!!
Thanks for having us on, Bet & Stennie! It was a blast!
Can you isolate that “Fuuuuck oooff, George Buuuuuush” into it’s own mp3 for us, Sten? Jay wants to use it for his ringtone
131 is the greatest hucklebug evah! One for the books.
Should you all ever be face w/ the odious task of fucking off Barak, you have to preface it with, “Now, Mr. President, this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you . . . “ It’s in the Constitution, Article II, I think . . .
Siskita—I know it violates every tenet of professionalism, but you the only proper way to fuck off GWB is by singing off key.
Joe Biden, I love the guy, but . . . well, I just love him. Though we have to agree to disagree on net neutrality.
This week has been an adjustment: I didn’t realize just how strongly conditioned my pucker response was by the last eight years: every time I heard something on the news about the president, the white house, the administration, I got a little crick in my neck, maybe an eye twitch . . . now, contentment, happiness, elation. Little birds dart around and cartoon hearts waft out from the speakers.
The Pete: great cautionary-tale film fest idea. I loves me some Silent Running
Ole Johnson-Middlebrow is right: best. Hucklebug. ever.
It was great to hear from ThePete, Siskita, and Jay and it looks like they had an amazing time at the inauguration. Actually, it seems like Jay may have enjoyed it all even more.
Can we send Siskita’s song to the Bushes?
Something I was just thinking of this morning, and I’m probably not the first:
Biden was the senator from Delaware. Obama was born in Hawaii. That makes 1 and 50 in the White House. Cool fact, or utterly meaningless?
Mr. MB: I’m the same way—I hear the word “president” and cringe, but then hear the word “Obama” and relax. Not that I’m not keeping my eye on him, but at least I don’t have to worry about Obama saying something absurdly stupid.
My name already has a song…it’s sung to the tune of “Thriller” “You know it’s Krizzer, Krizzer night…”
I watched WallE last week, and I was actually pretty disappointed. I thought it strayed from the magic pixar formula. You know, someone gets lost and spends the rest of the movie trying to get home. Also, the “WallE” “Eva” dialogue relly got on my nerves. And frankly, I was just kind of bored. Andy-man actually fell asleep. And we’re normally big Pixar fans. Finding Nemo is by far my favorite. Now THAT would be good to watch in Blue Ray.
Bye-bye Georgie-Bush. Won’t miss you a bit. Loved your “don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you” remark, Stens. That was hilarious!
Did you see Eric Estrada playing the Kazoo on Earl??? Do you think YOU could do it with a cannon ball heading your way??
Bet – your memory is amazing but mine is fleeting! Yes – LuLu did live on our street – we DID buy a kitten – I think for $4 – from them. I named her Shoestring, for the record, because she was the first cat I had that had a tail (my first had gotten her tail caught in a coon trap before I was born and the second cat we had was a siamese with no tail). Love it when you guys have guests!
I guess I’m the only person who hasn’t seen Wall-E. I’m sure it will be on the DVD player in the next few years. Maybe it will make Nick-the-child-not-the-cancer fall asleep, in which case I will put it on now. He’s not fond of the whole sleeping thing tonight—he’s kind of “been there, done that”. I keep telling him that it happens every day.
I’m still having a hard time hearing “President Obama”—I always do a double take. It just sounds odd, for some reason. I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
It was a real treat to hear thepete and Siskita. I always enjoy their 30 to 60 second phone reports. thepete looks like someone in a rock and roll band. Does anyone know who I mean? The resemblance is quite strong.
I am so thrilled Bush is gone, but his 8 years were so catastrophic to me that I can’t trust Obama. I’m prepared for the worst. The good thing is I can now read the newspaper without a sense of dread.
PErhaps, the Hucklebug can start a film club where every two to three months, the ladies and their listeners watch the same film.
Fuck off to Ciitbank for taking a bailout and then buying a private jet. Fuck off to the auto industry bigwigs who are such arrogant and dishonest assholes that the public does not want to help the people who actually work and stuggle to make ends meet. Of course, how do you help them without helping the assholes?