Hucklebug, Episode 128: RIP Majel Barrett, Sam Bottoms, Mark “Deep Throat” Felt and Robert Mulligan, shout-outs, movies (Bet: O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Stennie: none!, fuck-offs & you-rules, CD Mix 8 Alternate Tracks discussion, tracks 16-20, with special guest Marla! Happy Holidays, everybody!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Bill Black’s Combo, Randy Van Horne Singers, Frank Sinatra. Also: “Fine & Dandy,” from the musical Fine & Dandy.
Of course I had to listen to this right away. I laughed all over again at how badly I Kazoo…I think I need to take lessons. And the “wind” is from the fan on my computer. I think I need a whole different mike setup. Oh well, by the time you get around to me in the rotation, it will either be fixed or I’ll have a different computer.
And Stennie, I knew you were going to use that piece of audio for the tag, you are so predictable…
Thanks ladies, it was the most fun I have had, and a perfect way to spend Chrismukka, laughing with and at my friends. Happy new year to you both.
I made up my best and worst list of the films of 2008 so I thought I’d paste it here for those who may be interested:
The top ten:
10. SUMMER HOURS
9. FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON
8. THE LAST MISTRESS
7. THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
6. MY WINNIPEG
5. I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
4. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
3. LORNA’S SILENCE
2. LOVE SONGS (GARREL)
1. A CHRISTMAS TALE
THE WORST FILMS (in no order):
STOP-LOSS
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
IRINA PALM
MOTHER OF TEARS
CASSANDRA’S DREAM
TRANSSIBERIAN
VANTAGE POINT
SMART PEOPLE
TROPIC THUNDER
BLINDNESS
MOVIES I ENJOYED/WOULD RECOMMEND:
BOY A
UNDER THE BOMBS
THE POPE’S TOILET
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
THE WRESTLER
DOUBT
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
LOSS
EINSTEIN AND EDDINGTON
THE WAITING ROOM
ASHES OF TIME REDUX
XXY
UP THE YANGTZE
SOOM (BREATH)
TELL NO ONE
THE CLASS
THEN SHE FOUND ME
FROZEN RIVER
THE DUCHESS
MAN ON WIRE
THE WITNESSES
It was so fun to hear Marlamarlamarla!
Hey – I’ll have what Bet was having when you were recording this episode. She sounds like she’s having a mighty fine time.
So Crystal is the reason it has been taking so long to get my Netflix movies? Shame on you Crystal. Shame.
I would like to fuck off all of the reporters hanging around on my block trying to get an interview with Rod Blagojevich. He lives around the corner from me, but yet, nobody has paid one iota of attention to this neighborhood until now. Quit blocking access to my street reporters! You’re not going to catch him with messy hair.
I’d also like to send a hearty fuck off to his father-in-law Dick Mel, my alderman, who has had nothing to say about this except that his precious daughter the potty mouth is innocent. While we’re at it, fuck you, Patty.
Since when does Wal-Mart have a bakery? There aren’t any in the city limits here, but I’ve been to ones in the suburbs, and I don’t think I’d buy a cake from them.
Ok, here come the Hitlers?
Now Stennie – I’m not overestimating your guitaring. You are underestimating. You could totally do Hendrix.
Was Marla perchance playing her Kazee backwards?
Happy New Year Y’all!
Oh Michelle, you totally have me pegged. I am severely Kazoo-challenged and have been humiliated beyond repair. I can’t even talk about it without PTSD symptoms.
OK, I’m off for my evening Xanax….
I think we need laws in the US like they have in France where the state can go “eeeeeh, no” when you want to give your kid a really weird name. I’m all for freedom of expression, but when you’re naming a child, it’s not actually your freedom of speech. If the young man wants to grow up and change his name to Adolph Hitler, understanding all of the connotations of that, then you could make a case that it’s freedom of speech. Until then, it’s child abuse. “I didn’t think anyone would care” indeed. Morons, the both of them.
Speaking of child abuse, I’ve left Nick-the-child-not-the-cancer in NY with my parents for a mini-vacation. In theory it’s for him, but I’m having a blast—I can turn on the lights in my own bedroom whenever I want. I can clear the kiddie stuff up off the floor so it looks like I live in grownup world. I’m looking forward to getting a full night’s sleep without someone singing at me at 2 am. (Okay, the singing is cute, but not at 2 am). Of course, I should be out partying right now, but all I want to do is fall asleep on the couch. Do they do happy hour at 2 pm?
I want to wish everyone a safe and prosperous New Year. May we also have less R.I.P.s. It seems like we’ve lost so many especially in the last month.
Bet, have you seen the reality show, Ruby? It’s about a nearly five hundred pound woman who is documenting her weight loss journey. She’s from Savannah, and the little details in the show fascinate me since I no so little about the Southern lifestyle. I keep a notebook of all her colloquialisms.
A Fuck off to websites that have intrusive music and graphics so cumbersome that you can’t even find the information you want without getting angry or giving up. Why make a website so unwieldy?
A You Rule to my family for being on their best behavior and making this an enjoyable holiday dinner. No past hurts were mentioned, no complaining about gifts, etc. It was just a fun time.
I feel properly shamed about holding on to discs for months at a time. I’ve put my Netflix account on hold until I can be a good customer and watch the films on a timely basis. Too often it feels like homework to watch the discs.
Marla Joy, have you found your cat?
P.S. This is probably for Bet, but what is the difference between bluegrass, country, hillybilly, rockabilly and mountain music?
Response to Crystal ….no, Hazel has still notw found her way home, but the snow is recently melted and we hope she surfaces soon.
Thanks for asking Crystal, that was very sweet.
What I want to know: Who is the mysterious, enigmatic Crystal? What’s her (or his) story?
Great job, Marla (marla marla)! Next CD mix, you should send Stennie a CD consisting entirely of “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks and “Here Comes the Sun” alternated ten times each. That’ll show ‘er.
Going back a few episodes: I’m relived to hear that generally no one (at least not B or S) was necessarily listening to or appreciative of good music (e.g. Elvis Costello) when in high school. It’s gratifying to think that it’s never too late to have a happy childhood or a retroactively cool soundtrack for your adolescence.
What would you like to know about me, Mr. Middlebrow? Or would you prefer me to remain mysterous, enigmatic, and surprisingly (to me) gender non-specific? You can always contact me via email if you wish.
Great job, Marla! And I’m glad you were able to hide the ugliness from the children (i.e., Bet).
So Crystal is a fellow Buckeye?
Mr. Middlebrow, I’ve known a few people who were listening to the “right” stuff in high school and ended up as (reasonably) happy adults, but I’d have to guess they’re the exceptions. You gotta have something cool to discover later in life to make your existence at all meaningful.
Late again!
I actually really liked “Richard III” set in Nazi Germany. Also, I really like the idea of setting Shakespeare in modern times even with the original dialog, but it can be done really poorly. I really didn’t care for Baz Lerman’s R&J, but like I said, RIII (I thought) was a blast.
I hope your heat got turned on by now, Sten! It’s around 42, here in NYC, too. What’s up with Burbank??
Marla you were great and you sounded great, too—I heard no wind. What kind of mic did you use?
Sorry for the lateness! Hope you all had a brilliant holiday season! Happy New Year everyone!!
Crystal,
I should have been more specific*—I’m just wondering what your connection is to the podcast; where do you fit into the who’s who of Hucklebugdom? When and how did you become a regular listener? Everybody else’s story I know at least a little.
In the interests of reciprocity and full disclosure, I can tell you that I had been a sometime reader of Stennie’s movie blog and one day noticed that she did a podcast. I tuned in for the first time around episode 60-something and have never looked back. (Not that I have a choice; I believe they put something in it that causes you to crave it fortnightly.) I think that was around the same time as CD mix #4, which was the first of the CD mixes I participated in.
*Note to self: MUST start composing HB comments sooner than Mondays at 10 pm…
Big old “You Rules” to Hucklebug podcast for distracting me between pukes during my bout with stomach flu/food poisoning last night. Kept my brain full of kazoo music, thoughts of To Kill a Mockingbird, and whether it’s a hard “J” in Majel or not. I always thought it was a hard “J”…
In any event, you guys kept my brain occupied while my stomach was doing jumping jacks. Let’s just put it at that.