Hucklebug, Episode 73: On quitting smoking and hobbies, massive amounts of shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Lies & Alibis, The Jungle Book, Roman Holiday; Bet: The Red Shoes, Gaslight), highlights & lowlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, CD Mix #5—alternate tracks 1-5.
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Because Elvis is such a prolific writer, I have found his song titles fit so many categories. So I try to use no more than one per mix. But I remember when we had the challenges with math, his were all over the place—only way I could survive.
I have been loving everyone’s comments that their CDs were ‘obvious’. I always try to fill in the track names when I get them, and I think I rarely put in more than four songs before I get the track lists. But I also do suck when it comes to titles and band names.
So, hopefully my CD has reached everyone. Did anybody remember my bonus track or are there some who had never heard it before?
Hey, maybe Stennie could get a job doing voice-over work for Jodie Foster movies. She’s prolific again these days, so the money could be good.
Btw, “Pipettes” is with a short i sound, as in Gladys Knight and The Pipettes. Between that, “Rom-jin,” and “Yo-himbo,” I think we need an intervention.
Sal, I definitely remember it and, in fact, I still have the 45 sitting near me (Cash Records, Irv’s Theme as the b-side). A while back a friend of mine sent me a zip file full of those break-in records that Dickie Goodman did through the 70s and with Bill Buchanan in the 50s. When Dickie did the topical stuff in the 70s (Watergate, the energy crisis, Superfly meets Shaft, etc.), the results were hit or miss (Mr. Jaws was obviously a hit), but the parodies they did back in the day (like The Touchables) were hilarious. You almost can’t find them legitimately anymore, because of the music rights issues that plagued hip hop records later on. Most of the things that are out there feature recreations of the songs, rather that the original recordings. That sucks because part of the fun of listening to those was hearing snippets of songs that the local radio station wasn’t playing.
Uh, that was probably more than anybody wanted to know about Dickie Goodman’s records.
Law school is…uh…highly stimulating. It’s a lot of reading, lots of analysis, lots of new and heretofore alien (or at least obscure) concepts, all at a rather relentless pace. But I rather enjoy it.
As heaven is my witness, (up) I will not let it corrupt my middlebrow sensibilities. With that in mind, I try to give myself a little mind-cleansing serving of Hucklebug sorbet every so often.
Also, if there is any heightening of the brow, it hasn’t happened yet, as evidenced by my unabashed cartwheeling over the prospects of The Jungle Book finally—finally—coming out on DVD.
I don’t know if it’s nostalgia (TJB was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre, according to my mother) but for me it ranks right up with the finest of the Disney animated canon. It’s from a time when Disney was at the top of its game not only technically, but also in terms of pop-culture hipster cred. I mean, Louis Prima and George Sanders—come on! Speaking of which, I don’t know if you recall, but Sanders was one reason I felt compelled to include it on my “The Circle is Now Complete” list of 100 connected movies. He was the link that got me from Rebecca to The Jungle Book.
Also, for the record, I’ve been referring to my son, at least in the third-person, as “the man-cub” pretty much since the day we brought him home from the hospital; needless to say, I feel a certain ownership of this movie.
Bet, a word of advice from a shameless praise/comments whore: make each blog entry about one thing. Organize it around a “single-minded proposition,” as we used to say in my former career. Also, pimping your blog every chance you get certainly helps. In fact, I’m going to add you to my blog roll, but don’t say I didn’t warn you: be prepared for a fusillade of referrals from my site (http://www.adrinkingsong.blogspot.com).
I’m with Mr. Middlebrow—making each post about one thing will not only allow people to focus on each issue but will also allow your posts to be shorter and, therefore, more consumable to a culture ever-so-short on time.
Just suggesting!!
Bet, I also agree with you on the whole “hiring non-Americans.” TheWife and I just saw “Michael Clayton” Friday night and as much as I think Tom Wilkinson is a great actor, I just couldn’t accept him as the American character he was playing. There was another foreign actor in there playing an (I assume) American—Tilda Swinton. Also, a very good actor, but she just didn’t nail the accent. While I do recommend the movie, I wish they had cast more American-sounding actors for this story of American corruption in American business.
Oh and Sten, did you know that the guy who plays Apollo on BSG is British? Sierra heard him do a radio interview and couldn’t believe her ears and when I saw him at the big BSG event in June I was surprised to hear just how British he is—answer? VERY.
Although, I don’t mind him with an American accent—he’s a good actor and he can nail the American.
Is there a reason TiVo makes those stupid beeps and boops when you use it? I’d be much more inclined to pick one up if it didn’t make me feel like a 2-year-old. I mean, R2-D2 has a more masculine voice than the friggin’ TiVo.
I have a DVR which works just like a VCR only it’s got a hard drive in it. It also doesn’t sound like a Fisher-Price “My First Recorder”.
And Sten, tell me you don’t like those damn stupid TiVo commercials with the grown adults with the antennae. What’s next? Cavemen selling insurance?
…oh wait…
I must partake in the next CD mix exchange. The only problem is—I haven’t bought blank CDRs in ages…