Hucklebug Episode 91: Shout-outs, including Kellie’s topic “Which celebrities could play the opposite sex”, movies (Bet: Chungking Express, Amarcord; Stennie: Palm Beach Story, Once, Mon Oncle), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Top Gear: The Official TV Show of the Hucklebug, household chores, Monopoly, Fact or Crap!
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Our Drive-in Tailgate Party night schedule for the summer 2008 season is now on our website.
Ok, here’s a topic. Someone asked “who would be good at playing someone from the opposite sex?”
So let’s explore this at a more personal level. If you were suddenly able to assume the physical form of the opposite sex, what would you be inclined to do or attempt or explore first?
Actually, the only reason I bowed out of appearing on alternate tracks talk this time was that I didn’t have the headphones yet, and we remember how it was last summer when I was screaming into a pair of earbuds last summer during the ‘thon. But I’m ready for next time.
I’m glad to see that we’re starting to agree on movies again. Chungking Express and Once were wonderful. There’s a scene in Once where he asks her a question in Czech and she responds in Czech, but won’t translate what she said. I thought it was pretty obvious what her answer was, but apparently a lot of people were left wondering. Did you guys pick up on her answer? And did you recognize Glen Hansard as the guitarist Outspan Foster from The Commitments?
Here’s a topic: would you rather be a Partridge or a Brady? Or alternately, would you rather be a Walton or an Ingalls?
Happy belated birthday, Bet. Sorry you didn’t have a bit more fun. Maybe the Hackensaws will be around soon to cheer you up.
I have to also belatedly compliment Dishy—a fellow Chicagoland Spoon fan? Kudos!—and Mr. Middlebrow on fine contributions to the ‘cast.
I’m pretty sure the Olsen Twins are against capital punishment. If that helps.
Adding Chungking Express to the queue. In my attempt to watch the quote-unquote Top 1000 movies, I’ve been hesitant in tackling the Tati films, as they seem to be pretty polarizing.
Topics: sheesh. I’m terrible at this stuff. Have you done the flight vs. invisibility topic yet? As in, which superpower would you rather have?
BTW, you know how you guys found all that unintentional humor in the doc Grizzly Man? I’ve got a movie recommendation for you—The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The only bad thing is that no-one gets eaten in this one. (Oops – Spoiler!)
Please don’t drop my child off a building. I live on the 9th floor and am afraid of heights as it is and have nightmares of him going over the edge of the balcony. Also he doesn’t have quite that much hair—it’s pretty fine. There are those babies that really have this huge head of thick black hair, and he’s not one of those. A friend of mine just sent me pictures of her newborn, and she’s one of those babies. But that baby was also much bigger than Nicholas. As my mother said “he looks so big in the pictures, but he’s really a tiny thing.” End of comment one—his majesty is chirping again.
I kind of checked out of the Hucklebug during the alternate tracks stuff, because I didn’t take part in the CD exchange. (Also a couple of busy weeks at work. Work can be like that sometimes.)
Congratulations, to Lily and Nicholas! Great news!
Hm. Redeeming qualities of the Olsen twins? Well, apparently Mary-Kate can summon assistance faster than 911, even when she’s across the country. The secret underground life of Mary-Kate and Ashley, where they wield this kind of power, may be one reason why she and her sister are always in the tabloids, when they don’t apparently do anything, or at least anything that we little people know about. So, do not fuck with Mary-Kate.
We’ve learned our lesson. We’ll give you topics. How about, in honor of the two recently uncovered fake memoirs (the Belgian Jewish girl who was raised by wolves and the gang-banger from Sherman Oaks who now lives in Eugene), what will your fake memoir be about?
I just typed in a whole big whopping comment, and when I hit publish, got an error, and now I have to start over.
I’m not happy.
What on earth did I even say? Well – one thing I remember for sure, is that I don’t jump off of buildings.
I didn’t know there was a shortage of yodeling pickles! At the store in Cleveland where I bought the kazoo, they also had yodeling pickles. I’ll pick up a gross next time I’m in town.
Yes, yes, I messed up the name of the AFA movie I saw. It was indeed The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and I gave it five stars. Awesome movie.
Personally, I liked your housekeeping discussion. I like cleaning, generally, but sometimes I get too lazy. I did laugh like crazy when I heard Bet say she doesn’t like to vacuum.You blog about your multiple vacuum cleaners, you chat about vacuuming, and you’ve even posted pictures, I think.
I have wooden floors and white tile in the bathrooms, so I vacuum 2x a week. I hate cleaning the bathroom though, so solidarity!
One thing I hate doing is ironing. That was my big chore growing up – I had to do ALL of the ironing, including my dad’s shirts. Yeah, I grew up in a sweatshop.
I had some topics earlier, but now I can’t remember for the life of me what they were. I’m sure they were kick ass though.
I’m with you Bet on “Baby Daddy” and “baby bump”. “Baby bump” is a cutesy way to say something that has a perfectly good name to it. “Baby Daddy” is a way to deal with some post-modern situations in paternity and child raising, of which I know absolutely noth…oh wait a minute, nevermind, but I also find it grating. I didn’t have a “baby bump”, I was pregnant, and it was more like a baby boulder, anyway. And as for “baby daddy”, Nicholas has a father. I just happen to not be married to him. We’re both way the hell too old, and neither one of us wears that level of shiny gold jewelry.
You do realize that the Olsen twins could buy and sell all of us ten times over? You may want to be careful about talking about them out loud—they’ll hear you. The Hucklebug could go “pfftht” in an instant. I will say they don’t annoy me anywhere near as much as the Spears girls. At least the Olsens had smart parents, smart managers, and seem to have taught the kids something about a work ethic. They could have been a train wreck along the lines of the Spears clan.
I don’t like dusting because it’s the most futile household chore—in half an hour, the dust has settled again. I enjoy doing anything I can clean with windex. There’s something satisfying about getting something clean and sparkly.
Actually, the traffic is surprisingly unblocked on Oscar Sunday in H’wood—I was part of a protest back in 2003 and Sunset just south of the Chinese, and despite the Oscars and the anti-war protest, Sunset was wide open to traffic. You’d think they would shut down all of H’wood, but they don’t seem to.
Fredthewebsite.com—awesome! I shall check it out!
Thanks in advance for emailing me about that song (even though you have yet to). I like the song, in general, but that version was particularly cool.
When is the next CD mix exchange?
In the Nude for Love—best title ever.
Sorry your birthday wasn’t BETter! (Get it? BETter?) I’m with you—as Stennie knows, I like my bday’s pretty low-key—just a handful of friends—and that’s when I get crazy!
I want to see DISASTER! The Musical. Get writing it and I’ve got the perfect female lead!
Sorry your post-prod for last week’s HB didn’t go well, Sten…
We had a great time with you, too, Sten! Glad we could be part of your rollercoaster week (in a good way).
Congrats on the Flip! Camera, Bet! Is it very easy to upload videos to the ‘net from it? I’ve heard it comes with software that uploads automatically—just plug it in and it goes.
I HATE babybump. Seems to completely trivialize pregnancy. It’s a future human being in there, man!! The quality of journalism is going down, even further.
As for “Baby Daddy” it just seems like another shortcut to describe what Lily was talking about above. Both phrases are just a “cute” way to trivialize the importance of each. Of course, trivializing everything is what our culture seems to do best these days. It’s not like having a baby or being the unwed father of a child are serious things in the least! They’re both much more adorable if we use cutesy phrases to describe them!
Dude, putting dishes away does nothing for me either. Though I would LOVE a dishwasher.
I find your discussion of cleaning house to be RIVETTTTING! (No, seriously.)
OMG, I’m THE CAR EVERY TIME! I used to LOVE Monopoly as a kid. My grandfather had an original set from when the game first came out.
Dude, the yodelling pickle rocks! I have things that talk, but none so interesting.
I like the SFX! Just don’t turn into Mad Money with Jim Kramer.
Topic suggestion: if you HAD to pick a nickname for yourself, what would you pick and why?
What would be a good subtitle for your name? Like “Mike, the Blogless” or “Bet, the Brave” or “Stennie: the Kazooed One.”
I sign all of my official emails with: “-Pete, The”
Maybe that’s why I don’t have a job right now…
Kristin Scott Thomas – that’s a good one.
Olsen twins – I was also impressed that Mary Kate got the body guards there before the police – impressive! Scary!
I haven’t dusted “properly” (picking up things) in years.
I loved your ending this week – very poetic!!
Ooooo – I like Venice’s topic – do that one!!
And “Baby Mama” – how redundant can we be? I mean – isn’t that just a mom?? Bet – I’ve seen a lot of “Baby Bump” written lately – I also am not sure how this became OK to say??
Great show ladies!!
Can we please add the hypocrite Eliot Spitzer to the Fuck Off List? Good lord, why can’t political figures just keep it in their pants?!
Oh ThePete – please don’t get all worked up about Fredthewebsite before you get there. It is kind of crappy because I don’t give it the time and attention it needs.
I appreciate the article, but they weren’t the first. WE were the first.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23579062/