Hucklebug, Episode 120: RIP Levi Stubbs, Edie Adams, Neal Hefti, Mr. Blackwell, shout-outs, movies (Bet: The Novice; Stennie: Everything is Illuminated), highlight & lowlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Mike’s New Super-Hard Lyric Quiz!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Bill Black’s Combo, Quincy Jones, Kay Starr, Beau Jocque and the Zydeco High-Rollers, Frank Sinatra
Bet, how does your stomach gnaw? I thought when you chew on something to the point where there is nothing left was called “gnawing” as in: “gnawing it to the bone.”
I’ve never heard of stomach gnawing… perhaps you could try apples that don’t have teeth?
And I suck at Movie Mashups, I’m OK with it! I’m happy to know there is SOMETHING I’m not good at (aside from making money, I mean).
Yes, I hate iTunes.
I dream of a day when my iPhone is just a shell and the OS that runs on it can be without any iTunes involvement FOREVER. Plus iTunes is bloatware and yet they seem to keep adding more features to it, which just use more resources rather than streamlining it to use LESS resources. Does that make any sense?
Thanks for the tip on Zazzle, Sten. Will check it out for my blog.
A legal padawan is a Star Wars reference. NERD TEST—YOU FAILED.
A “padawan” is a Jedi apprentice. I don’t know why they’re not just called “apprentices”—I think it’s because George Lucas is just a fuckhead.
Hasn’t eastern Europe had the crap blown out of it? That might be why you think it’s bleak, Sten.
Bet, every cell phone should come with a “conversation record” feature—so when you call customer service you can record them making absurd promises and then play it back for them.
Sten, Best Buy makes a similar promise like the one Circuit Shitty makes (clever dig, by the way), but you do have to call BB on it, which I have done and they gave me the better price, so that was cool. I did have to go to the customer service desk though. That was lame but I still got the better price
Thanks for the tip on electoral-vote.com. I recommend http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ it’s kind of like a poll site on steroids. They give Obama 344 electoral votes (just 270 are needed) and claim to simulate the election several times a day using the latest polling data from all the different polls. They also claim to correct for polling companies’ errors, too. Have no idea how accurate they are. Of course, even if they are accurate, we may not be able to tell if we see another replay of the 2000 election (or something similar). There is already evidence that history is repeating itself along those lines, sadly. I’ve been blogging about it—we’re catching it early, thankfully.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was an Obama/Powell ticket? I wonder if it’s too late to swap out Biden…
Is there a version of “the Hucklebuck” sung by Joe Jackson? That would be RAD!
Padawan: Star Wars Universe lingo for “Student.”
Zazzle: I agree with Heidi. Zazzle makes it much easier to design for the design challenged. Luckily for me I had a logo to start with.
That will be my new slogan: My highlight: didn’t die. My lowlight: didn’t live very much, either.
Without taking up too much room in your comments, I’ll tell you what pissed me off about Joe the Plumber. It has nothing to do with the weird blog/commercial/media fixation on him, which is just a distraction. While I applaud his asking Obama a question that made him squirm a bit, the premise of the question is BS. Why should anyone feel sorry for someone who doesn’t want to pay taxes after making a quarter of a million dollars profit in a year? The argument that those taxes would stifle that business er…. doesn’t hold water. It just means that JtP wouldn’t own it and someone who is willing to pay those taxes will. On top of that, Obama’s tax proposal would benefit JtP today, not just some undefined future when JtP might be rich. Fuck off, JtP. Go whine somewhere else.
OK, I think that Bet got all of mine, except for 15. Frankly, I’m shocked Stennie didn’t get the Joe Jackson one. Isn’t that like picking “C” for all the SAT questions you don’t know (which would get you a quarter of them correct), and then choosing “B” just for kicks on the one answer that actually was “C.” 15 was Love will tear us apart by Joy Division. At first I thought 9 was Sex Master by Squeeze, but I was wrong. If it is Squeeze, my guess is that it’s off the Cool For Cats album, since that’s the one I never play.
I just realized that I have no idea what kind of music the Sauerkraut Band plays. Your story left me wondering what kind of class (college? high school?) requires oompah music for a dance routine, but I realized that couldn’t be right.
Greetings from Seoul. Congrats, you’ve cracked the Asian market, although you’re getting your asses kicked by all things Hello Kitty.
Man, I knew I should’ve invested in Zazzle stock. At the very least, those jerks should throw me a couple pennies for all the Hucklebug related stores being developed.
Finally followed the YouTube linky, and it’s official: Venice rocks. However, good luck escaping from copyright prison. Don’t let them take you without a fight.
Orson Bean: Alive!
Bet, I coulda predicted that Comcast would screw you again on the bait-and-switch, mostly from personal experience.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State Redux?
For your collective egos, The World’s Easiest Lyrics Quiz, Beatles Version:
1. We all live
In a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine
Yellow submarine
2. She loves you
Yeah (x3)
3. Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don’t we do it in the road?
An early Happy Halloween to all you Hucklebuggers. May this be the year the Great Pumpkin visits your patch.
You may not be able to say “Jenga” because of a copyright. Of course, you could come back and tell them it’s free advertising and they owe you.
Thanks, but I decided to listen to the Hucklebug without a child present. I’m tired of Nick being sick.
Since I don’t think I’ll get through the whole thing before Monday—From Venice’s comment, you didn’t get number nine—it’s Night Ride by Squeeze. It’s from Packet of Three, which I think Bet should have. At one point we completed each other’s collection of b-sides and others. Bet provided me with the Amazoooooooooooon. Why don’t you recreate that wonderful song for the listening audience, Bet?
Off to go buy the boy more stuff. When do I get more stuff?
I’m working on my own version of the Hucklebuck, and with Venice’s approval maybe we can co-mingle our music to make some crazy trans-state version. I’m not a musician past my voice, which means I have to rely on a piano player/guitarist to play for me, so I’m a bit behind 🙁
I’d like to yell a particular fuck off to Ashley Todd and any McCain supporter who thought to make her initial claims a fear-mongering point against all Obama supporters. Thank you. As an Obama supporter, I would not stoop to such cowardice. I would throw molotov cocktails at my opponents out in the open. ha ha.
Oh, and apologies on behalf of my husband, who ended his last comment by using the word “RAD”. Part of him is still stuck in the 80’s.
A quick quiz schedule: there’s another 76-82 quiz in the books which I assembled at the same time as the one given last week. It’s like how they filmed the 80 Lord Of The Rings movies all together and released each one separately. I’ll shoot that at you at a later date, then it’ll be something a little easier, along the lines of Patrick’s Beatles quiz.
And now, it’s the answers. At some point midway I stopped keeping score, since it was just getting too embarrassing for Stennie. But needless to say, Bet smoked her ass again.
1 Strict Time – Elvis Costello
2 (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear – Blondie
3 Rockin’ Around In N.Y.C. – Marshall Crenshaw
4 Spanish Bombs – The Clash (from the fifth greatest album evr)
5 Amplifier – The dB’s (since Bet is the “she” in the song)
6 God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols
7 New Rose – The Damned
8 Get Over You – The Undertones
9 Night Ride – Squeeze (apparently only Lily is a fan anymore)
10 Senses Working Overtime – XTC
11 Hearts In Her Eyes – The Records
12 Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
13 It’s Different For Girls – Joe Jackson (since I’m The Man is a better album that Look Sharp!)
14 Start! – The Jam
15 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
16 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend – The Rubinoos
17 Save It For Later – The English Beat
18 Too Much Too Young – The Specials
19 Playing Bogart – Any Trouble
20 I’m On Fire – Dwight Twilley Band
21 Rockaway Beach – The Ramones
Hear the songs! Download them here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?n11izoz0dam
I’ll give you a break on lyrics this week, but watch out later on! Prepare for doom!
Btw, I share the You Rule for Letterman. If McCain thought he was going to put on a fluff piece (“well, I had to pick Sarah because you turned us down, ha-ha”), he really got what he deserved. Nailed, in the Colbert parlance.
I found electoral-vote.com during the last Presidential election. Now THAT was riveting. It had Bush with an 18-20 point lead about 10 days before the election, then suddenly Kerry shot up into the 280-290 range with a few days to go, and it became a near dead heat two days out. Ooh, that was exciting.
Let’s hope things are a little duller this time out and everything plays out the way it’s been going the last few weeks.
How will we keep Patrick down on the farm, now that he’s seen the ROK* (Republic of Korea)?
That Beatles quiz made me spray beer on my screen. Through my nose.
BTW, Bet, no one has yet prevailed in showing that playing or copying a single note is infringement. In fact, you’re probably in the clear for up to three notes. See _Newton v. Diamond_, (9th Cir. 2003)(holding that the Beastie Boys’ digital sampling of a three-note sequence was ‘de minimus’ and thus not actionable.)
As for the consequences of saying “Jenga,” that’s really more of a trademark question. I’m taking that next semester—I’ll get back to you then. I suspect that if Paul Simon can get away with “Kodachrome” and the Beach Boys can sing about riding their Honda, you should be ok (though the usual disclaimers apply). If you’re using Jenga to promote the podcast, (The Hucklebug: it’s Jenga, all day, all night, in stereo!) you might have a problem.
*ROK = G.I. slang for South Korea, at least when I was stationed there in ‘85
Here’s what I’m actually quite impressed with, Mike—you were able to interpret the lyrics of “God Save The Queen”. I’m sure that’s what it said, but it could just have easily said “God Save the Queen….asfkhtsy79gahjkadfs [thanks, Nick].. naaaah futcha naaa futchaaaa” and you would have been just as correct.
iTunes Genius has become my new favorite toy. It doesn’t just try to sell you music. It also makes playlists from your library based on a single song. So far it has made some fun lists.
ThePete – I suck at Movie Mashups even more. At least you tried!
I can’t believe I missed the Marshall song. When Bet started singing some of these I recognized them. Now song lyrics I’m generally good at, provided I’ve heard the song. I must have just had an off day.
Nyssa – AGREED! Also – while I’m not a fan of paying taxes, I don’t understand how anybody is planning on tackling the debt without them. Printing money isn’t getting us anywhere, and since nobody has figured out how to make it grow on trees…