Hucklebug, Episode 127: RIP Van Johnson, Bettie Page and Floyd Ackerman, shout-outs, movies (Bet: That Thing You Do!, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Stennie: Top Hat, Remember the Night), fuck-offs & you-rules, CD Mix 8 Alternate Tracks discussion, tracks 11-15, with special guest Dishy Michelle!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Otis Redding, Floyd Cramer, Annette Funicello, Frank Sinatra. Also: “Cigarette of a Single Man,” by Squeeze.
Happy Holidays my beautiful, funny and wacky girls. I suggest you two try and get the great Cozzalio to join you as a special guest. I’d buy that for a dollar.
Also, if you two are into cute little sappy holiday movies I suggest you rent a film called “One Magic Christmas” with Mary Steenburgen.
Plus, I thought I’d share this little goof of a vid I made starring my daughter and her doodie laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1neHwwvsoeo
In closing, something you might not fully embrace but it’s a little slide show I made about reconnecting with my old grammar school mates. You get to see me as a young lad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR4yyHF49Po
Watch it in high quality.
PUSHING DAISIES ROCKED!!
Ooh—Shakespeare that’s modernized can be nasty. I’m thinking of that Richard III set in Nazi Germany. Really, really bad. And Kenneth Branagh, god love him and lord knows I do, has made a bunch of rotten casting decisions. Forget Alicia Silverstone—he cast Keanu in Much Ado About Nothing. Michael Keaton is also bad in that, but that came as a surprise, because I didn’t inherently know that he would be bad, which couldn’t be said for Keanu.
In the next few days, you both should be getting a little something from “Santa” that you could use here. Unfortunately, the North Pole doesn’t seem to have gift note tags, so I hope you’ll figure out what it is and who it’s from. They’re not the same, but they’re close.
Happy holidays, everybody! If you’re tired of the same old Christmas music played anywhere you go, I’ve got the alternative for you. My 2008 holiday mix disc has landed:
Part 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dddtzdzmwnu
Part 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3rjjz3y2jm3
Enjoy!
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Stenns, you should have put the SpecEd of That Thing You Do! on your wish list. I definitely would have bought it for you for X-Mas. (Side note: there’s a radio ad here for some car dealer where the supposedly professional voice guy says “boughten.”)
I’d also recommend Taxi To The Dark Side. Not that I’ve seen it, though I’d like to, but a friend of mine was involved in a lot of the editing of that one. I don’t believe she received on-screen credit, but she definitely put in a lot of work on it.
How about a F-O to Circuit Shitty for their ads where the guy is about to have sex with his tv? I don’t watch enough tv to have a list of most hated commercials, but that would be right up there.
“Honestly, who throws a shoe?”
I Love The Night Life – Alicia Bridges
Big Time: I didn’t like the song initially, but maybe after 3-4 years I’d warmed up to it and I think it’s just fine now. I still wasn’t fond of the video, but then I thought the vid for Sledgehammer just looked like a lot of work.
The Nitty Gritty: Gladys Knight and the Pips did that, but I know it better by Shirley Ellis, from the early 60s. Actually, I don’t know Gladys’ version all that well.
Great job, Mitchie! And I’m looking forward to the lovely Marla next week!
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Hucklebug. It’s been an odd experience though. It’s like being invited to a murder mystery weekend where you create your own character and motives. You come to the party dressed as the character, and you’re interacting with the partygoers as if they’re a potential killer or victim. It’s only until the end of the night when you realise there’s no killer, no victim, and there was no murder mystery weekend. It was just a masquerade party, and the people really do talk this way. I’d like to say I’m not still confused, but the relationships still bewilder me. Perhaps, Heidi and Bet can introduce each person (for just one episode) by describing who they are—“We now have Siskita who is married to thePETE…”
Bet’s laugh is so infectious that my cat goes crazy when he hears it.
No casting is as absurd as Jack Lemmon in Branagh’s HAMLET. Awful. At least Keanu Reeves was sexy and bad. Lemmon was just wretched.
Heidi was right. I am not a fan of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Too much of it is hampered by overwrought acting—the courtroom scenes are laughable—and simplistic views of racism. I know it was made in 1962, but that’s no excuse for the poor direction and acting.
FUCK OFF to Obama for choosing Rick Warren to give the invocation.
Sal, PUSHING DAISIES did rock, and I’m going through a mourning period. Why can’t there be shows that treats the viewers as if they have brain cells? I’m dealing with my depression by sending YouTube clips of the show to friends.
My family treats my home like a hotel since I’m the only one with enough rooms to accommodate the family. My aunt has been here for nearly two weeks and if it weren’t below zero with treacherous road conditions, we’d be having words about her getting her ass home. I love my family because I have to, but I’d love them a lot more if they were in their homes.
How long do you keep Netflix discs before you give in and send them back? I had THE FURIES for four months before I decided I was never going to watch it.
Happy Holidays to everyone. Be safe and warm.
Can I just say that I feel like I have to step it up here to be worthy of being a guest, so that even if I’m not invited back, I can keep up with you two. The trick will be getting my family to leave me alone for 30 minutes or so….I did buy myself a new Kazoo while in Portland last week…in honor of my guest-dom. When/if I have a chance to Kazoo for you, it will be the first time I have played it. I thought you’d want to be there for that special moment.
Think good thoughts of Hazel the cat, she has been missing since the first freeze, over a week ago, and since then, we have had almost a foot of snow… We have done it all, Craig’s list, local e-mail of the neighborhood and checking the humane society every few days.
The prodigal daughter is home from her first semester at school, and she and baby brother settled in to a nice pattern of bickering already. All this snow is not helping…
Chappy Chanuka to all, check out Erron Baron Cohen’s Hanukkah Album, yes he is Sascha’s brother. It’s awesome!!
Here we go again…
I liked Alicia Silverstone in “Blast from the Past”; or maybe I should say I really liked BFTP and she happened to be in it. Brendan Fraser is the heart and soul of that movie, with great support from Dave Foley, Nathan Fillion, Sissy Spacek and the great Christopher Walken. Please don’t tell me you don’t like Christopher Walken…
Just have fun, Marla. You’ll be swell, you’ll be great…