Episode 44: Intro, Bet’s birthday, shout-outs, RIP Robert Adler (inventor of the remote control), movies, lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Guilty Pleasures, another round of Guess What Stennie’s Saying.
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I want to thank you both for performing a vast public service. I used to feel really bad about my guilty pleasures until I learned Bet liked Wife Swap and Stennie loves Barry Manilow. I can cancel all my therapy sessions now. I’m just a piker.
My guilty pleasure is a German Goth-Horror, techno-dance band called 666. They perform upbeat club dance mixes while dressed as Night of the Living Dead zombies. Their music consists of 3 notes played over and over in a mind numbing pattern to a drum machine pounding away at 100 mph. It’s actually worse than I’ve described. The experience is like watching dominoes fall by the millions. It’s pointless and stupid but somehow fascinating.
Check them out here. They have some videos posted. They are horrible too.
http://www.myspace.com/666homepage
What makes them even better is although it’s a German band they do all their lyrics in Spanish. No reason, so don’t ask why. Yeah, I know, stupid. Maybe I shouldn’t stop the therapy so soon, huh?
What was Stennie saying to Bet during the voice blackout? Since Bet was talking about bluegrass music, 44 magnums, stabbings, and backwood hicks Stennie must have said “My daughter, my sister, my daughter, my sister, my daughter”
This was a very apropos episode, because I deep sixed three remotes yesterday. We got rid of our satellite cable system yesterday, so along with the two boxes I got rid of, there went two remotes. And as I was unwiring and deconnecting everything, I also disconnected and tossed my mostly broken VCR, plus it’s remote. I did remove the batteries, though and put them near where the living remotes are, so when they go weird, I can swap them out. I think I’m down to four remotes now. I’m practically a monk.
And Charla and Myrna are back? I’m glad I’m not watching. Please tell me Jonathan and Victoria aren’t there. That was network-abetted spousal abuse.
Okay, I can live with Neil Diamond, but I can’t, can’t, can’t stand Barry Manilow.
And I’m sheepishy raising my hand and admitting to be a Celebrity Fit Club watcher. Funny, Prelude to a Kiss—can’t stand it. You’ve Got Mail, however, and A League of Their Own and oh, my, god—Steel Magnolias. I hate just about every actress in there, except for Dolly Parton (and isn’t that a guilty pleasure unto itself?), but damn, I’ll watch it every time it’s on.
Why would corn chips be a guilty pleasure? I’m not the hugest fan, but I don’t think of them as trashy. I prefer the tortilla chip, because it’s a little less of a massive salt buzz when you bite into one. Now, bar-b-q pork rinds, that’s some serious trashy stuff.
I’ll try again on “Guess What Stennie’s Saying”. Stennie is praising Bet for her knowledge of the bluegrass lexicon. But why didn’t you offer to pay Bet’s bail when she uses the 44 to shoot the man who done her wrong?
Well, I just want you to know that The Inlaws just arrived today via Netflix. It will be watched this weekend.
Guilty Pleasures – The Young and the Restless. I was brought up on this stuff. My grandmother rarely missed an episode of her “story.” I can’t really watch the show because of my job, but on days off, if I happen to find it, I’ll probably watch it. Some of the same actors have been on that show for 30 years!
I’ll have to play the game later if I have time. My iPod is allll the way across the room.
So did you guys can the logo idea in lieu of the sock puppet?
I’m watching the news today learning all about how bad the storm damage has been. We’ve got quite a bit of flooding and power loss due to winds. Not the worst, but not fun. What is the worst weather either of you have been subject to?
Good morning! Thanks for double taping for us!! 44 already!!
Happy, Happy Birthday Bet!!
I love the real twanger of a Hucklebug song there around the last 1/3 of the show – very nice!
Of course, there’s also Twang, Twang, Twang, Stab!
Bet’sTough love – that’s a great idea. Live a real life for a while and be Bet’s maid and sober up!!!
Barry & Neil – gotta love them!! Guilty Pleasures for me – Lick-a-stick where you eat that sugar off of a sugar stick you’ve licked. That’s just nasty – but I was SOOO excited the first time that Ervin got one of those!! TV shows – I’ll watch anything with Chevy Chase if it is on when I’m flipping around – I’ve seen those Vacation movies so many times…..I just love the christmas lights and him trying to get out of that round-about and dead gramma on the roof and Wally World, etc.
Stennie: Welcome everyone, it’s show 44.
Bet: 44 – just like the gun. If you listen to blue grass, no one gets killled with anything except a 44 gun.
Stennie: Would you say that this is true for men and women killers.
Bet: yes
Stennie: Now, I seem to remember a lot of songs with Stabbings. Remember “Twang, Twang, Twang Stab?”
Bet: Stabbings are popular, but when your shot it’s with a 44.
Stennie:There’s also that one “My Dog Died, My Truck Crashed, I Got Stabbed.”
Bet: Yea, what I’m saying is when you’re shot, it’s a 44 gun. Then you go to jail and you have no friends or relations to pay your bail.
Stennie: I wonder what the best order is for the bad things that happen to you in a bluegrass song in order to maximize sales. Do you start off with something really bad, then moderately bad, then end on a happy note. Or start happy and then get progressively worse – ending in the stabbing or shooting??
Bet: When you study Bluegrass 101, you will learn that.
Stennie: Would you be qualified to teach BG 101 online for the masses one day?
Bet: yes
Have a lovely week!!
I have a remote for the DVD, DVR, LaserDisc, and for some reason, three remotes to the VCR. That makes a measley six, though I do have a remote for our air purifier, but I wouldn’t count it. (My wife messes with the batteries from time-to-time and it drives me nuts.)
On Guilty Pleasures: I agree with all of yours—you should both feel guilty
My only true guilty pleasure are bad faux-T&A movies like “DOA” (NOT the classic thriller or the Dennis Quaid remake) and “The Champagne Gang” (a film about a gang of Canadian guys who went from two bit heists to high class heists almost over night—of course, the film changes things, movie the events to San Diego and making the gang be all women—you can see why I watched it and why it’s a *guilty* pleasure).
OK, I’LL have you know that FRITOS ARE THE HEALTHIEST JUNK FOOD OUT THERE. The ingredients in Fritos are as follows:
Corn
Corn Oil
Salt
BOOM! That’s it! That’s all that’s in them. Show me another example of junk food that has that few ingredients, let alone ingredients are that healthy. I’m with LilyG on the pork rinds—very white trashy. I know, I used to eat ‘em
I do find it disturbing that Stennie knows me as well as she does. If I had only listened to the HB on Friday instead of today I’d have been chowing down on a big-ass bag of Fritos at the exact moment she mentioned that I’d be offended. As it was, I ran out of Fritos on Friday. 🙁
Hey, what do you guys think “Hucklebug The Movie” would be like? I imagine that it would be a caper movie that take place in a resort town filled with aging teen movie stars from the 1960s. The film would be filled with cameos of Frankie Avalon, Tommy Kirk, Jim Begg, Little Richard and MORE! And John Agar, though I think he’s dead but maybe he could be CG’ed into the film.
Special thanks to Duke (above) for mentioning that 666 band. They’re pretty hilarious, actually, though I’m going to stay away from them. I love *good* techno, which is why I’m going to avoid them. However, I’d like to recommend a band that I enjoy for it’s badness check out http://www.myspace.com/dimmuborgir to, uh, check them out. They’re not techno, they’re industrial, but just as weird, musically as 666.
I am looking forward to a HuckleBug.Com sticker/t-shirt/mug (yes, I’ll pick up a frackin’ mug!) But I want to help spread the Good Word about the HuckleBug, so make sure the full domain is on there!!
Thepete has a real winner with the band Dimmu Borgir. Watch the video for Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse. What an award winner. They even found Uncle Fester to star. I thought he was dead. I especially liked the nude girl being led around on a chain wearing a dog collar. That band knows entertainment when they see it.
I still think 666 might have the edge but its close.
Glad you enjoyed them, Duke! Yeah, they’re quite a kick.