Hucklebug, Episode 78: speed shout-outs, movies (Bet: Slaughterhouse 5, Crazy Love, The Lives of Others, Shaun of the Dead, Into Great Silence; Stennie: No Country for Old Men, Brief Encounter, About a Boy, Asphalt Jungle, Family Diary), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, Bet’s interest in Stennie’s Dad, Topic of the Week: Top 5 Movie Props We’d Like to Own.
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Bet… 1978, I have two guesses. Either “We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye” – England Dan & John Ford Coley or “Just The Way You Are” – Billy Joel
Stennie… 1986, “That’s What Friends Are For” or “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off”
I have a question. Now I know how much crap gets dumped on the 1976 remake of King Kong but it holds a warm place in my heart. Ok, here’s my question the movie aspects of this film aside, don’t you agree that John Barry’s music for this film is FANTASTIC. If you don’t recall it, rent the latest DVD release.
Javier Bardem was the dude in Collateral.
Movie props we’d like to own is a great topic. Here’s mine.
I totally dig the motion tracking that the colonial marines used to track the missing colonists or the incoming Aliens in James Cameron’s ALIENS. Or The watch that wakes up James Coburn in the FLINT movies. Or the flash guns used by the sandmen in LOGAN’s RUN. Oh man I could go on and on.
But along those lines here’s another topic but it may be a little off topic. It’s about music.
What record (song)would you have loved to be present during the recording sessions?
After thinking about it for a while, I’ve narrowed my list of most wanted props down to these five:
1. The monolith from 2001
2. The flag from Seven Samurai (can’t find a decent picture of it online, but Criterion’s newest release of it uses its design on the cover)
3. Zatoichi’s cane sword
4. Otto the autopilot
5. The ark from Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Honorable mentions:
Clothing – James Dean’s red jacket from Rebel Without A Cause
TV prop – The Zuni fetish doll
Accessory – Chaplin’s cane
I know what Stennie’s song is, because it was EVERYONE’s song in 1986, including mine. “Forever Young” by Alphaville. Bet’s, I’m not so sure of.
Okay, who’s worse—Billy Mays, Matthew Lesko (the guy in the question mark suit saying he can make you rich), Kevin Trudeau, or that always-shouting guy with the almost-Australian accent who does a bunch of these, including the Magic Bullet chopper thingy, or the male and female hosts of those penis extender informercials? (Can you tell with my current sleep patterns I’m up at 4 am a lot?). Billy only barely makes my top three most evil with this list.
I can’t really think of any movie props I want—I’m busy getting rid of stuff in the condo right now. It’s killing me—I’m discarding my magazine collections (if I’m not reading them now, when would I?), but the hardest are the 90s editions of Q and Mojo. I know someone might want them, but I can’t deal with e-bay, boxing, shipping, etc. I can’t even carry them to the trash room (unless I go two at a time), let alone get to the post office.
A few guesses for bet’s hi skool song:
Bluer Than Blue – Michael Johnson
Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione
Goodbye Girl – David Gates
Still The Same – Bob Seger
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Anything by Andrew Gold
Hey, just catching up on the Hucklebugs—I got a bit overwhelmed over Turkey Day and after with National Novel Writing Month. I did manage to hit 60k and finished a day early ^_^ but at the cost of blowing off my podcasts. 🙁 But, I blew off chores, so I’m catching up with the Ladies of HB while doing the dishes and vacuuming! WAHOO!
So, great lost episode, just wanted to point out that there was a bit of controversy regarding that Ken Burns docu on WWII. Seems he didn’t interview any Mexican Americans for it. Also, it’s been reported (I haven’t seen it) that in his mega-hour docu on Jazz he only included twenty minutes with Mexican American jazz musicians. He says when he “puts out the call for stories and interviews” regarding a topic that Mexican Americans just didn’t respond. I wonder how he did his Civil War docu—can’t imagine many people answered his call for interviews then… o_O Anyway, there’s no such thing as unbiased, but it seems odd to cut out the Latino population in something about *World* War II. I agree about Burns’ hair, too. Every time I see him on TV, I wonder what keeps him thinking “yeah, that’s my cut!”
re: quiting smoking: having quit sugar back in 2003, I know how hard it is to stay off something that you’re addicted to—in fact, I quit refined sugar once a month and that should say something.
Fry’s sucks, Sten! You can’t expect any kind of good service from those assholes. It’s just a sad fact of life. Well, for shoppers of Fry’s anyway. Too bad they have everything gearheads could want. 🙁
I enjoy listening to Stennie crocheting. I could listen for hours.
Kissinger won the nobel peace prize in 1973 for ending the Vietnam war (which ended in 1975). I don’t have a lot of respect for the Nobel prize.
TheWife and I went shopping on Black Friday and it was a blast. It was a MAD HOUSE!!! A MAD HOUSE!!!
And I saved $15 on 8 gigs of flash media! ^_^
Now onto this week’s ep:
I understand now about Captain A. The ‘A’ could stand for Anything, though.
HA!
Bet, the monk docu sounds fascinating, though I don’t think I could make it through without some sort of medial (??) stimulation beyond the visual.
And yeah, Shawn of the Dead is a brilliant movie.
Damn—the mp3 cut off again! My podcast aggregator SUCKS. Must find a new one…
Just an FYI if anyone is interested in One Laptop Per Child XO laptop sales, they’ve been extended until December 31. So, if you want to help a 3rd World kid get a cheap laptop, get one yourself and get a year’s worth of free T-Mobile HotSpot service for $400, please check out http://XOgiving.org or my website, ThePete.Com where I post regularly about OLPC and the XO. My XO should be arriving in about 11 days or so.
I’d like some of Gus’s horse dung, but of course you guys don’t think that Lonesome Dove is a movie, so I’ll settle for some of W.C. Fields’s molasses.
click on my name and check out the clip!
movie prop: light saber
But only if it really works. If not, I already have a toy one that suits me just fine, thanks. So, then I’d probably the headpiece to the Staff of Ra from Raiders of the Lost Ark.