Hucklebug, Episode 125: Plaxico, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Giant, This is England, Dan in Real Life, The Cotton Club, A Fish Called Wanda; Stennie: Super Troopers, The Corporation), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, CD Mix Alternate Tracks discussion, 1-5.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): The Riptones, Chubby Checker, Billy Vaughn, Earl Hooker, Frank Sinatra.
Plax played for Michigan State in college, and the game we were watching on New Year’s Day 2000 was the Citrus Bowl, when MSU beat Florida 37-34. Plaxico had a huge game that day (13 catches, 185 yards, 3 TDs). The game is also notable for being the first game coached by Bobby Williams, who took over for that rat bastard Nick Saban, who himself had resigned from being the MSU head coach at the end of their regular season to go coach at LSU. There’s a special place in Hell for coaches like Saban, Bobby Petrino, and Rich Rodriguez.
Don’t know anything about Gordon Ramsay except that he screams at people. I’ve always written him off as an obnoxious ass. Does have a show where he just cooks? I like Nigella Lawson because she makes cooking fun and stress free and *I* can even do most of her recipes which is a miracle since I’m an awful cook. Making oatmeal that doesn’t burn is a major accomplishment for me. Except for my aunt, the women in my family do not have the cooking gene. We have the ordering gene. On the one hand, my feminist principles tell me that cooking should not be the sole domain of women (and it would be a cold day in hell before I cooked Thanksgiving dinner while the men only carved and ate), but, on the other hand, it would be nice to make something for myself rather than depending on restaurants. Do Bet, Heidi, and/or the Hucklebug listeners have simple recipes that I can use? If I made resolutions, my main one would be to learn how to cook something other than simple desserts and soups.
I was thrilled to see that Bet had watched so many films. I thoroughly enjoy the movie segments. An added bonus is that it’s one of the few segments that I can listen to without getting all the Hucklebug personalities confused. THIS IS ENGLAND is available as a watch instantly film on Netflix. I second Bet’s praise of the film and I would also offer BOY A as a recommendation. Emotionally harrowing with first rate performances.
I like that I have two competing introductory songs. They could be combined: And then came Crystal shouting, “Bailamos!”
This has NOTHING to do with the Hucklebug: our first snow was tonight! Yay! Happy dance in the snow!
Footage:
http://thepete.com/our-first-snow-in-nyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pOeaescFHY
Next comment will pertain to you gals, but as of now, I’m just giddy…
think fathers will always pay for their daughter’s meals. Mothers can go either way, but fathers won’t hear of it.
And I thought I was the only person who was underwhelmed by James Dean. I don’t hate him, but it always seemed like his credit should be: “The role of Mr. James Dean was played by a block of wood”.
You said two tags this week!
And my last comment is a plea—any websites for good Christmas gifts that aren’t food? I’m out of ideas for my family, and I’ve fooded them to death.
Should I even bother to mention that I’ve driven to Fairmount, Indiana specifically to see James Dean’s hometown? Nah, better not, as it’ll win me no favor in this crowd.
(Many of the “highlights” of Fairmount can be seen in Morrissey’s Suedehead video, where he makes a similar journey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR5LS_LAnWw)
Would it make any difference if I were to add that Garfield’s creator, Jim Davis, is also from Fairmount? It explains this somewhat disturbing image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/732mpd/2126221634/
I better not say much more, as I fear receiving Bet’s can of puke.
If you need still need a guest for the 12/17 episode, let me know. The following week may be a bit tricky for me as well as for you.
P.S. The LA Times and Chicago Tribune just declared bankruptcy. Too early to RIP the fishwraps?
Happy week after week after Thanksgiving and week before week before Christmas!
Zoe is was/is Elmo’s best friend – our household has moved past Elmo – sniff, sniff – but we used to be very close to Elmo & Zoe.
RIP Bentley – gosh, I used to remember watching that show and just could not believe that walking on someone’s back was a good thing. Memories.
I recently got a Facebook account – how do I go about adding people? I’ve gotten several requests from some long lost high school friends but now I’m paranoid and unsure of how to continue and I’m afraid to log in. Any advice about how to enter the world of Facebook and not look stupid??
Glad the tags are back!! Fun show!
Late Breaking Comments!
This is getting to be a bad habit with me. Oy.
Thank you for explaining Plaxico. I had no idea who that was or what had happened. I’m just not into football.
I am also very against the Big Three Bailout. They make a crappy product, we don’t like it, and we refuse to pay inflated prices for their crap. Improve your product or die.
And I would like a fuck off by proxy to Sam Zell – the real estate mogul that ran the Tribune Company into the ground. The quality of the paper has been declining for years, but has sped up the process. Even their website sucks! And if Zell sells the name of Wrigley Field to some corporation, he’ll have a riot on his hands.
* end of rant *
So few comments this week? Maybe it is my turn to write lots of short comments so you hit double digits?
Yeah, it is totally my job.
I have never even seen a live elk I don’t think, let alone eat a dead one. You said you liked it, but what was it like? Did it taste like chicken? Where did you get this elk? Did DFF shoot it himself, or can you get it at Piggly Wiggly?
I already let you know I could be in on the conversation with you. I hope Marla joins in on the fun though. MarlaMarlaMarlaMarla.
Now I’ve gone and lost track of how many comments I’ve left. *sigh* I should really learn to count or something.
I’m looking forward to this week’s show!
Don’t worry, Patrick, you run for it and I’ll draw their fire: I actually kind of like Nicholas Cage—at least for Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. “Now GET in my bed!”
And now for something completely different: ‘scuse me while I whip this out . . .
Important to note regarding Prop 8: Same-sex couples in California have and retain domestic partnership rights and responsibilities that are the functional equivalent of a marriage. Pretty much all the incidents of marriage except for the ability to call it a marriage—though that is actually a big deal. In fact, the Calif. Supreme Court decision last summer wasn’t about whether gays could be married in a general sense, but whether it was unconstitutional to prohibit some group from the use of the term “marriage.” Essentially it was a “separate but equal” question, where the Cali SC found that using different terms for the same thing are—surprise—not equal. They reasoned that calling straight unions marriages and gay unions “civil unions,” “domestic partnerships,” etc., diminishes the value of the same-sex union, and makes it seem like a lesser example, a knock-off. Gay parents shouldn’t have to explain to their kids why the Cleavers across the street are “married” but mommy and mommy are civilly united or somehow less legitimately a couple. So while I join in denouncing (fucking off) everybody who lobbied (cough*fucking Mormons*cough) and voted in favor of Prop. 8—because, honestly, who the fuck are you people to decide how others can describe themselves and define their relationships?—I did want to point out that if something happens to Ellen, Portia can still come see her in the hospital and inherit all her stuff if, god forbid, something happens. The really fucked up thing about the religious right is that, as same-sex marriage gains social and political acceptance, they’re opening a new front in the culture war by bemoaning the loss of their “religious liberty” – essentially, they can’t bear the idea of a world where institutionalized approval and protection of the “gay lifestyle” means they have to send their kids to school to be taught “tolerance” of conduct they consider immoral: like, say, two people loving each other and wanting to profess that to the world.
To Bet’s point, I agree—the only way paradigm shift w/r/t civil rights or individual liberties/privacy ever gets done in this country is through the courts (See Brown v. Board of Ed. (segregation) Roe v. Wade, (abortion), Loving v. Virginia (inter-racial marriage), Romer v. Evans (gay anti-discrimination protection) and Lawrence v. Texas (outlawing state sodomy prohibitions)) —state referenda and even legislation invariably result in a tyranny of the majority. For all our progressive advancement, I can’t think of a single instance in our history when a minority groups rights were recognized and protected simply by virtue of the common Joes (messrs. Plumber and Six-Pack) one day realizing that things were fucked up for somebody else, and that we ought to do something about it, by gum. Especially not with the machinations of ass-clowns like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell (may he rot in pieces). Whether or not homosexuality is a choice (it’s not) is irrelevant: we give deportable aliens amnesty if they can show a well-founded fear of persecution for their sexual orientation if they’re deported to their home country—and we define refugee status in part as something someone either can’t or _shouldn’t have to_ change in order to avoid persecution. So it’s pretty goddamned hypocritical to protect someone for being a gay on one hand, then deny them basic civil rights, on account of their sexual orientation, on the other.
Re: episode 124:
Glad you liked “Out of Sight.” Four stars is enough for me to feel vindicated, right?
Oh, and I’d love to do alt tracks, but I’m happy to yeild my time to anyone else who’s inclined. And, the later the better—the 12/23 show (or the weekend before) would be good.
I’m late again 🙁
I too am not great with people I’m a fan of—sometimes I rationalize this behavior away by saying something like “Well, I don’t want to infringe on their normal lives.” Which works for people who get hounded by fans a lot. I saw both hosts of MST3K in person and only spoke with Mike because Joel was at a Godzilla convention as a fan of Godzilla and Mike was at a screening of the MST movie, so I felt like Mike was on the job while Joel was just enjoying his hobby.
I really should have said something to John Phillip Law, though. 🙁
As for Bond, I think the films are of value as historical markers. You can watch culture evolve through them—remember in “Goldfinger” when Bond swats one of his girls on the ass and says “Run along Dink! Man talk”?
The odds of Daniel Craig saying that are pretty slim, I’d say. But I do think the concept of Bond movies has run its course. The Cold War has been over yet Bond can’t retire or find something better to do with his time—he’s still running around finding excuses to kill people. Lovely. (Not to mention boring.)
I do disagree that “Moonraker” was one of the “bad” ones. Really, they’re all bad—I mean, a good looking spy who gets to have sex with hot women? That’s the most absurd premise ever. Putting a(n arguably) good looking spy in space and having him have sex with a beautiful woman is not that big of a stretch if you’re already believing a good looking man could be a spy at all.
“View to a Kill” was one of the bad ones. “License to Kill” was one of the bad ones. Both because they’re almost completely unremarkable/unmemorable.
How ironic that cooking sites should have RSS *feeds*.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
The lack of tag on the outtakes show was DEVASTATING.
I did not care for the “Noah” movie Steve Carrel (sp?) did. Was it “Evan Almighty”? Bleh… just felt bad for Steve the whole time.
YAY, Stennie watched The Corporation!
I’m so glad you liked it!! I saw it at the NuArt when it played there years ago (twice). I have a 3 hour version of it that aired on Canadian TV. The activism thing lasted longer than 30 minutes for me.
nudge-butt vs. kick-ass very cool, Sten!
Sorry I is late! 🙁