Episode 53: Intro, RIPs, shout-outs, movies, a teaser for next week’s At the Movies With Bet & Stennie, lowlight & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, why we love Cash in the Attic (BBC version).
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Ok, Ok, on advice from my Japanese legal consul, Sosumi Areti, I dropped the libel charges on the basis it was a misunderstanding.
I love Cash in the Attic. It’s my favorite show. I also love Bargin Hunt with the slightly sleazy David Dickinson, who appears to be channeling Richard Dawson. Too bad that show got canceled. Only reruns now.
It’s autoharp.org actually
Sten is right—I am aware of the Google and the Wikipedia. I just wanted to hear you guys explain what it was. I was feeling VERY lazy, all right? Sheesh! And I’d love to hear Bet’s rendition of ANYthing on ANY instrument! 
I can’t believe Sten just spoiled BSG for anyone who hasn’t been watching! But yeah, it’s a bit of a surprise that Tie (Tye? Tai?) is a skinjob, but I have faith in the writers. It’s the first show in a long time whose writers I’ve had faith in. They’re not perfect but they’re better than most on TV. Have either of you watched Heroes at all?? Sheesh. Anyway, I, too, was pissed that BSG isn’t coming back until NEXT YEAR.
I agree with you, Sten, I think Bet is a closet scifi fan, too. There are some really great stories in scifi movies and I’d be surprised if she would poo on them just for being scifi.
DEATH TO LUCY!
In “Last King of Scotland” the lead character (not Amin) was completely fictional. Check out the wikipedia.org page for the book the film was based on for more about who Garrigan was based on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_king_of_scotland
Thanks for the invite on the CD mix challenge! I’m so lame for not checking your blog more often. 🙁
Thumbs up to Roger Ebert! He does rule! I disagree with him often (and agree sometimes) but the guy’s got class—despite the fact that he wrote “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.”
The RIP that got me the most this week was another Tom, Tom Poston. I was surprised to find out he was 85—I knew he was no spring chicken, but I didn’t think he was that far along. I guess that makes me feel a little better, as you really can’t call it “well before his time”. But I always liked him.
Oh lord, I shouldn’t admit it but—there are two episodes with Spock playing. The one with the leaves on his head, but another one where he’s calming down some space hippies and brings out some “Vulcan” instrument which may be close to an autoharp—it’s a boxy thing with strings on it—and they groove together. I suspect he’s thinking about the second episode, and given the late 60s “vibe” of that episode it may well be an autoharp. I am on purpose refusing to access the part of my brain with the episode titles or google the episodes.
I saw “The Queen” on the airplane recently. It was better than I thought it was going to be BUT, with what turned out to be about five minutes before the movie ended, they “ended the entertainment portion of the flight”. About fifteen minutes before we landed. Why the hell do they do that? We’re still cooped up, bored, and actually watching the damn movie. So let it go until we pull up to the gate and so we can see it end! Here’s a special pet peeve subcategory that I’m sure you can riff on forever—annoying things about the airlines.
And Bet, if you were a big fatty fat fat, The Company You Work For would be handing you a pamphlet. Have they? I’m thinking not. And I’ve had that blimp day too—many times. I go from thinking I look like skeletor to thinking I’m the Michelin Man.
And don’t forget Joy Behar in the collective View fuckoff. We watch it because it’s the ONLY thing on at 11 am when you’re home sick, and then for ten minutes. I watch it just long enough that I get annoyed at them enough that I no longer feel quite so sick. I usually catch it when I’m doing the perpetual channel flip and I pass over a clip of a guest star that I don’t mind seeing and say “oh look, there’s someone I don’t mind watching and it’s not sport fishing…” So I stop the flip and start to watch then within a few seconds I’m like “oh DAMN, it’s the View – no no no no no!”
And I don’t care who pays me, bu I’m still waiting for my million billion dollars for sitting through Kingpin. So can I get in on collecting for Ebert?
Cash in the Attic: It’s just Antiques Road show on steroids and you get to see more bad decor in people’s homes. The jugs you were talking about are usually called Toby jugs. And I bet in the US version they have a buyer sitting there to drive up the price in case the money ain’t flowing. And what the auctioneers are doing when they won’t sell is they’re refusing to sell for the reserve, and you see him afterwards to make an offer. I think the Brit version doesn’t discuss the reserve as much as the US version.
And I LOVE Bargain Hunt—talk about shows made on the cheap. Dickinson is the cheesiest ‘expert’ I have ever seen. He always struck me as a used car salesman and I don’t get how anyone would ever want to entrust high ticket items to him or buy them based on his judgment. And Stennie, it also gets on some PBS stations too, so flip around those on weekends to see if it’s on.
Okay, I’ll shut up now.
Bet:
Request – don’t wait until the 100th!!! Please, please play. What about Mary don’t you weep or Goodnight Irene – even Three Blind Mice!! I know you’ve got your autoharp close by there – c’mon – we’d love it – we won’t judge!! Do it – do it – I’m doing the CD Mix!!
Also, do you get TV guide?? I was so sad that I didn’t while watching “Earl” last week. I felt most left out!
Now 53, wasn’t that the number of Herbie the Love Bug?
Can’t wait for “At the Movies” this week.
Topic: Favorite thing to read in the waiting room (Dentist, doctor, hair place) that you don’t normally read.
I have another Fuck Off By Proxy:
People who interrupt face-to-face conversations with you to talk on the telephone! These people expect you to stand there with your thumb up your…nose until they finish.
HOW RUDE!
What’s worse, most of these conversations are inconsequential,…and are followed by even more calls.
I don’t know what everyone else does, but I give ‘em one minute, then if they’re not finished, I walk away.
Captain A. I agree with you, but I also think it goes both ways. I find myself on my cell phone when random strangers walk up to me and ask me for things like directions, a cigarette or change and it makes me want to smack them on the head with my cell phone just to make sure they realize I’m in the middle of a conversation.
I do understand emergencies in both circumstances. However, it’s not often when those occur, damn it!