Hucklebug, Episode 114: shout-outs, movies (Bet: Helvetica, Lust for Life; Stennie: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, March of the Penguins, Forbidden Games), lowlights & highlights of the week, fuck-offs and you-rules, more questions and answers from The Book of Questions.
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I love how you wound up the “Shout Outs” with Frank Valli
Bet, no matter how many people defend VISTA, VISTA is well documented and rightly referred to as a piece of crap. That’s why MAC will always be the Holy Grail!!
Answers! We got answers here:
1959 I’m Gonna Get Married – Lloyd Price
How come my heart deserts me, burning full of love and desire?
How come every time she kisses me, it sets my soul on fire?
1960 In My Little Corner Of The World – Anita Bryant
Tonight my love we’ll share a sweet embrace
We’ll soon forget there’s any other place
1961 Hurt – Timi Yuro
You said your love was true, and we’d never, never ever part
Now you want someone new and it breaks my heart, oh
1962 You’ll Lose A Good Thing – Barbara Lynn
This is my last time, not asking any more
If you don’t do right, I’m gonna march outta that door
1963 So Much In Love – The Tymes (Stennie)
When we walk down the aisle together
We will vow to be together ‘til we die
1964 Everybody Loves Somebody – Dean Martin
If I had it in my power
I would arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then, every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your heart
1965 It’s The Same Old Song – The Four Tops (Stennie)
But the melody keeps haunting me
Reminding me how in love we used to be
1966 I Saw Her Again – Mamas & The Papas (Lily)
Every time I see that girl
You know I wanna lay down and die
But I really need that girl
Don’t know why I’m livin’ a lie
1967 Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Frankie Valli (Siskita)
Pardon the way that I stare
There’s nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
1968 Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream (Stennie)
Yes, I’m with you my love
It’s the morning and just we two
1969 Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town – Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (Bet)
She’s leaving now ‘cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I’ve heard one hundred times before
1970 Band Of Gold – Freda Payne (Bet)
I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon that you’ll walk back through that door
1971 Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight
You know I’d rather give my love to a poor guy that has a love that’s true
Than to be fooled around and get hurt by you
1972 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right – Luther Ingram (Bet)
And am I wrong to hunger for the gentleness of your touch
Knowing I got somebody else at home who needs me just as much
1973 Uneasy Rider – Charlie Daniels (Bet, Stennie)
I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
1974 Please Come To Boston – Dave Loggins (Stennie)
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there’s some stars that fell from the sky
1975 Midnight Blue – Melissa Manchester
For all the times you told me you need me
Needing me now is something I could use
1976 Love Is Alive – Gary Wright
‘Cause what I say may not happen the same way
Now could be forever
1977 Float On – The Floaters
Take my hand, come with me, baby, to Love Land
Let me show you how sweet it could be
Sharing loving with me
1978 Magnet And Steel – Walter Egan (Bet)
I can’t hope that I’ll hold you for long (ooh)
You’re a woman who’s lost to your song (ooh)
1979 Mama Can’t Buy You Love – Elton John (Sal)
Can’t you see that it’s love you really need
Take my hand and I’ll show what a love could be, before it’s too late
1980 Shining Star – The Manhattans
Feel so good when we’re lying here
Next to each other lost in love, yeah baby
Baby when we touch, I love you so much
You’re all I ever dream of, yeah baby
1981 (There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me – Ronnie Milsap
You can tell everyone that we’re through
And you might even believe it, too
1982 Take It Away – Paul McCartney (Stennie)
Some important impresario
Has a message for the band
1983 It’s A Mistake – Men At Work (Stennie)
Tell us commander, what do you think?
‘Cause we know that you love all that power
Is it on then, are we on the brink?
We wish you’d all throw in the towel
Fuck-off by proxy?
I’d like all the TV stations and networks to fuck off that can’t let you watch any thing without having some kind of banner message and their network icon on the screen.
I don’t know why they just don’t cover the screen with it and let the viewer guess what’s underneath.
I had no guesses on the songs – except for the ones you got, they were all over my head.
Really? Pop Tarts? I ate my first and only one a couple of years ago, and it tasted like rancid frosting. I’ll never understand their popularity.
I watched Helvetica and enjoyed it too! Nope. That’s not where you lost me at all.
Part II – foods I loved as a kid that I don’t like anymore:
Knishes. I had one for the first time in years last time I was in New York, and it was awful! I thought it was just the vendor, so I got a second one elsewhere – also nasty. Way to ruin a childhood memory.
Others: Grape Jelly, bologna – actually all meat products, but I used to LOVE bologna as a kid.
Betster, glad your computer woes turned out alright. Way to go Mr. M!
I only used pop-tarts as an example from the website. I always thought they were nasty. I didn’t mind them in college, but only the brown sugar cinnamon ones. However, I discovered even later that they’re slightly less cardboardy when you actually toast them. My big kiddie-food-hate is those Sno-balls. Boy, were they a treat when I was a kid, and they are inedible today. Also, many of the sugar cereals like Froot Loops. I can’t eat those at all now. Captain Crunch was something that I never tasted until college, and that was just nasty. I could feel the sugar on my teeth. Everyone else loved it, and was reliving their childhoods by eating it. I’m pretty sure I’d hate a lot of those ice-cream ‘treats’, like a bomb-pop, and the last time I had a strawberry shortcake and toasted almond Good Humor, they were really, really foul.
Siskita introduced me to “Coupling” which I’ve already admitted my love for, so she won’t be alone in the upstairs HB-TV room.
True about Pretty Woman, but the lamest lame in that movie is the ending because originally, it ended with them apart. The original ending would have made it less lame, but still wouldn’t have saved it.
But I’m glad you feel that way about Roman Holiday—I get it, I can agree with y’all.
You romantically want them to get together, but rationally, you know that would be lame. I’m down with that. I felt the same urge when I watched.
I used to be a total font junkie. Had so many fonts it took close to 30 minutes to copy them over every time I got a new computer. Not sure what happened, but I eventually stopped caring. Still quite fond of Courier New, though.
Your extended conversation about “Helvetica” did enhance my enjoyment of scooping the cat litter, BTW. Take that as you will.
Bet: Do you use Firefox as your browser? If so, you can install the Foxmarks add-on on your old machine’s browser—head over to Foxmarks.com and sign up. Then you can sync your bookmarks with the Foxmarks server and then do the same thing on your new computer and then the Foxmarks plugin will sync with the bookmarks on the server and download your old bookmarks to your new computer. I use foxmarks and love it.
Sten, the reason McCain sounds like he’s talking to kindergartners is because, to McCain, the WORLD looks like a kindergarten! If elected, he would be the oldest president to enter the office. Turns out he’s a shitty pilot (he was shot down multiple times), graduated near the bottom of his class at the academy and it will have taken him longer than any other successful presidential candidate to get into the Oval Office.
I don’t know what all this talk is about him being a maverick is. He’s a loser. Consistently. All honor and respect to him for what he went through in Vietnam, but it doesn’t mean we should overlook everything he’s screwed up.
Oh and some people had even more trouble with that ad you mentioned, Stennie—some people say he included something kind of snide in there when he says “how perfect that this historic day falls on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.”
I still can’t decide if it was an honest attempt at dickishness, but I can see how people would feel that way. “How *nice* for you that your big day falls on the same day that *other* dark-skinned-fellow gave his big speech! It’s like you *planned* it or something!”
Of course, if that’s what he was saying, he’d be right. But after watching both national conventions I’d say the Repubs are in no position to pick on Obama for taking advantage of a scheduling coincidence.
Obama’s speech was pretty good—especially compared to McCain’s. McCain’s made Lord of the Rings seem tightly edited and short.
So you have to be more than a good speaker to be president? I dunno—after 8 years of Bush, I’d say you can be substantially less than a good speaker and at least get into the White House.
How do they get away with selling barf in a can? Wasn’t Bet’s puke in a can a Hucklebug prize not to long ago?
I think I agree with Sal on the whole “Mac” thing. You know what antivirus program I use? Yeah, I bet you can guess.
However, I do use an eee pc (very portable, cheap laptop) for when I am out and about and it runs both XP and Linux and when I’m in XP I use either Zone Alarm as a firewall or Threatfire for antivirus (both are free). But, since it’s Windows, I can’t use them both at the same time as they conflict with each other.
Stennie, have you tried Chrome yet? I dig it a lot, but it occasionally locks up on my somewhat low-powered eee pc.
Oh and just so I can save face and not come across like one of those annoying Mac elitists, I must say that there is PLENTY to complain about regarding Apple, too. Their OS is definitely superior to XP, but there are things they get seriously wrong. iTunes is a truly, truly sucky app on ANY platform… oh and saying the out-of-the-box iPhone is hobbled is an understatement. Though, I hacked mine and it rocks now.
Wow, I didn’t realize there were limits to how long these comments are because I just passed it! That’s OK, I’ll just post a second comment! HA!
I have a confession to make to Captain A. My dad was the guy who developed the very first logo-in-the-corner when he worked at CBS back in the early 1990s. I don’t think he had an idea it would get so crazy. Talk to him now about it and he will apologize and say “It’s OK, you can hate me for it. I don’t blame you.”
🙁
But I agree with you. The excessive graphics are absurd. I think the idea is to force us all to get bigger TVs.
I’d also like to request a fuck-off be given to the mainstream news. I watched every night of both cons and on the first night I went with PBS to avoid the loud mouths everywhere else. However, even they weren’t showing the whole con—some speakers didn’t get shown—I wanted to see everyone talk—not hear from some dipshit talking head moron who thinks he knows what’s going on. I wanted to see every damn speech!
So, I switched to C-SPAN after the first night and got to see it all. Of course, I hated life after that, but at least I didn’t want to set myself on fire and run through the mainstream news studios first to bring them with me. 3 cheers to C-SPAN for giving us the cons straight. We can handle our own spin, thank you very much!
Another great HB, ladies!
You’re an inspiration to humanity!