Hucklebug, Episode 98: Happy birthday to Mike! Announcing CD Mix #7, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Fallen Idol, Donzoko; Stennie: The Great McGinty, Batman Begins, Chungking Express), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Commercials We Hate (Commercials We Love cut for time).
NOTE: If you want to join in on CD Mix #7, go here to sign up!
I’m here at my parents’, and downloading the podcast on their computer. Don’t tell them—they’ll never find it on their own. iTunes is completely unused here.
But I learned something interesting today—when I went to the iTunes store to get this podcast, they have the area “listeners also subscribed to….”
1. The Desci and Bob Show
2. Badguts podcast
3. podcast
4. The Davis and Droz show
5. thelongstrangetrip’s podcast
Are you familiar with any of these?
Happy Birthday Mike, Owner of YouTube
Hmm. I didn’t really think about this before, but perhaps it’s time to give cancer a new name. My child is not a tumor… (say that in the style of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarden Cop)
25 or 6 to 4 == according to the bandmember who wrote it, it’s the time of daybreak mentioned in the song. However, according to all the druggies out there, it’s something to do with the ratios involved in making acid.
Good horror movie (does this count?) “From Dusk Till Dawn”.
Okay, got ten minutes in. Someone’s hollering…
It would seem to me that you named your baby after Cancer. Maybe you could pick something different. The name is tainted now anyway.
Happy birthday Mike! Sorry I missed the happy day and the official chat party. I have an excuse.
More later…
HB Mike. Thou ownest YouTube.
Re: Danica. I don’t dislike her as a driver. I dislike the fact that she (or her handlers) have chosen to use the fact that she’s attractive to slut it up in order to get endorsements. Give me a Shirley Muldowney any day over my (surname) namesake. There, that’s the extent of my auto racing knowledge.
Um, I’m gonna guess Robin was in “Batman and Robin”, but I’ve never seen it. I think that’s the Joel Schumacher one, so yeah, there you go.
Re: Mr. M = Capt. A. Thanks! I knew that one, but feel free to dumb it down for me as you feel necessary, but not at the expense of overexplaining. I love a good mystery.
Commercials – Thank God for DVR. Although Bet’s right on about the Comcast ones. Just because you can purchase the rights to popular songs, doesn’t mean you should.
(Separate comment, because it’s really too long.)
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a recent Alan Arkin sighting. A few colleagues of mine were down in south Florida for work. They noticed a bunch of areas blocked off and asked around. Apparently they’re filming the story Marley and Me—incidentally, a book my 70+ year old aunt LOVED—featuring (Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and) A.F. Arkin.
So, later in the week, the two ladies are wandering through the hotel lobby and one of them freezes and smacks the other on the arm (as one is wont to do when a celebrity walks directly towards one). The other is kinda taken aback “Hey, what was THAT for?” and the first tries to mumble thru clenched teeth as they walk right past “…alan arkin…”
The second crinkles her nose and says louder, “What are you saying?!?”
Well, now everyone in the room is aware (including A.F.A.) of this little conversation. So the first lady says, “Nothing, never mind” until they can get around a corner or something.
When they finally do get out of direct sight, the first informs the second of her sighting. At that point, the second lady tries to be stealth and says loudly, “Well, I think I’ll go back and GET SOME COFFEE”…just so she can sneak a peek herself.
After she does, she announces just as loudly, “NO, ON SECOND THOUGHT, I don’t NEED ANY COFFEE”, and quickly leaves. As you can imagine, the first lady just about died of embarrassment.
Another true story: same two women were in L.A. and the second called the first into the lobby to ask “Who is this guy? He looks like a younger Dennis Quaid.”
The first lady looked and said, “That’s because it’s Dennis Quaid.”
The second said, “Wow, he’s looking good!”
I really think they need their own TV show, don’t you? I’d watch every week.
Late because I just discovered them in a txt file on my desktop…
Favorite Hucklebug Moments:
1. Origin of Hucklebug
2. Ya’ll reading your spam
3. Your 1-year anniversary “what I learned about you”
4. Stennie’s impression of Eddie Murphy’s impression of James Brown
5. Bet’s Tough Love for Brittany Spears
6. I also like it when Bet Haites something (thanks for letting me know how to spell that Michelle!)
Happy VERY Late Birthday Mike TheBlogless!
Stennie, you and CBA have an open relationship in that you can date whom ever you want and he is married to someone else 🙁 It does sound like this other guy’s economic stimulus package is a bit more ample… I mean daily? Talk about stamina!!
The original “Ring” was quite good, but I didn’t think that was horror. That was more a thriller with a body in it. “Saw” and “Hostel” are considered ‘torture porn’ which is a sub-genre of horror. Regular old horror would be something like the original “Halloween” or more-recent “28 Days”.
Hell, even “Shaun of the Dead” is technically a horror movie.
“Dead/Alive” is my favorite horror movie of all time and it is the single funniest horror movie ever. Perhaps Mike or Duke could back me up on this? I have a feeling they might have seen it.
Yay! I’m glad you had a good time Saturday night, Sten! I’ll be in touch shortly with info on our going-away thingy.
OH yeah, TheWife’s site is http://SierraRein.com she’s got all sorts of clips and stuff you can check out. You can also search for her on MySpace and Facebook, too. My favorite clip on her site is probably one of the clips from “Mulholland Christmas Carol” where she actually gets to sing operatically with a sense of humor. Here’s that clip:
http://sierrarein.com/sierra/video/SierraReinMCC.mov
Bet, Donzoko will have to go in the queueueueue—with a build-up like that, how can I not? I love movies that dare me to finish them.
Stennie, just an FYI, “Batman Begins” has nothing to do with those other Batman movies. Those, uh, *sucked*. This one is much more true to the spirit and the story in the comics. Christian Bale is on my “Guys I’d Fuck Were I Gay” list. There’s a sequel to “Batman Begins” coming out this summer, but I’m sure you know that.
I don’t think you should tell the LA Free-Clinic to fuck-off—they do a lot of good work (I went there once) and LA’s medical facilities (well, the ones that aren’t UCLA) are underfunded, from what I’ve heard. Like Bet said, it’s the health care system in this country that deserves a fuck-off. That’s what I’m looking forward to in Japan. I heard someplace that we are the only 1st World country that doesn’t give universal health care. Condolences to Scotty-Dude, though. As a fellow healt-coverage-free person, that kind of thing scares the shit out of me. I hope he heals well!!
Bet, my condolences on the loss of your iPod. I’m with you on watching videos on the Nano—it should come with a microscope. I watch some stuff on my regular-sized iPod, but only because I don’t have time to watch it any other way.
I hate any commercials that think I’m an idiot.
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN MAKE-UP!! IT’S TRUE!
STROKES ARE RACIST! IT’S A FACT!!
What’s the emoticon for rolling eyes?
Car commercial piss me off because they try to convince us boring-as-fuck cars are actually awesome great cars. No. They suck. They’re bars of soap on wheels.
OH and I hate Apple commercials—Mac and iPod ads, alike. And I’m an Apple guy. I own two Mac laptops and two iPods and two shuffles. I still hate Apple ads. I do love John Hodgman, though. He fucking rocks. He ends all of his Twitter posts with “That is all.”
No, Sten—that was fake puke. Just saw that spot last night. Faaaake puke.
I seriously don’t watch TV enough to have any most-hated TV ads or any likes.
Sorry I’m late this week—I’m preparing to move to NYC, so I am a wee bit swamped. Also finishing a novel I started ten years ago. Gotta finish that shit off!!
Ah! I forgot about TheWife’s short film—written and shot all on her own—no help from me:
http://sierrarein.com/sierra/video/SierraReinUnPetitReve.mov
It rocks. 😀
If I could do a CD mix now, these would be my choices:
1. Kick-ass cover – well, I don’t know previous mixes, so I’d have to say “Hi De Ho” from “The Mask” soundtrack. Rap & Cab Calloway big band!
2. …goose bumps.- “Gold” as recorded by Linda Eder
3. …the state you live in.- Previous state (California) would be “California Dreaming”, while future state (New York) would be “Arthur’s Theme (Best that You Can Do)”
4. Parenthetical— wow, uh would the above work too? Another one would be “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” what a strange 180 degree turn that title is.
5. Therefore I Am – “Think of Me” from “The Phantom of the Opera” … but I can sing rings around Ms. Brightman, so neahhhhh!!!
6. Alliteration — sorry, gotta do another musical theater reference “Somebody, Somewhere” from “The Most Happy Fella”
7. …year you were born. – Does the Star Wars theme count? If not, “Nobody Does it Better”.
8. …animal – “Barracuda” by Heart
9. …non-traditional musician – My choice has to be Eddie Murphy’s “Party All The Time”. He has good pitch, but no tone.
10. Grammatically Incorrect — “My Mama Done Told Me”, great blues song.
11. …favorite guitar/instrumental solo.- Easy one to say “Bohemian Rhapsody” then imagine some UCLA a cappella girls singing a shortened version of the guitar solo in an a cappella group version. That was so much fun!!!
12. Song about war – “Mama, Look Sharp”, from “!776”. Heartwrenching song about the destruction wrought by the War of Independence, told from the POV of a dead soldier in the field.
13. …about Sex – I’m rather fond of “Meet Me In the Red Room,” although that’s also about prostitution. The fact that the lyrics use the metaphor of allowing a man to “wear her ring” is amazing.
14. …about Drugs – “I Want a New Drug” by Huey Lewis & The News.
15. …about Rock ‘n’ Roll – “Johnny B. Goode”, the story of a poor boy who uses his god-given talents to rise to the upper class and be the leader of a “big old band”. Inspiring.
16. ..about the blues – “Down in the Depths”, Cole Porters most brilliant music and lyrics. Imagining the line “but how strange the change/from major to minor” gives me chills.
17. Bonus/hidden track — “Bite Me” at the end of Weird Al’s “Off The Deep End”
18. Perchance to Dream – “Chick A Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It),” “Last night I had a crazy dream /
About a chick in a black bikini” Craziest lyrics ever.
19. Famous title — “The Invisible Man” by Queen.
20. Amnesty song — as this is my first mix list (albeit imaginary) I will just say “Over The Rainbow” and have it at that.