We talk about hard-hitting issues, then we conclude our Christmas In July Contest.
Links:
- There Will Be Blood (buy the DVD
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- “WKRP In Cincinnati” (buy the DVD
- “Battlestar Galactica” (buy the DVD
- “Lightning causes three fires in San Luis Obispo County this morning”
- “Ex-fast food worker: Sorry for sink bath”
- The New Classics: Music
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re: sink bath
the video is on youtube here
“Burger King Cleans Itself of Bathing Employee”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_Fi8RuCIQ
Valerie is originaly a song by The Zutons, you can hear their version on their myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/thezutons
or watch the video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYtU8i1TPk
Loved that Thunderstorm we had yesterday. Very cool when some fun weather happens in SLO.
Disturbing on many levels. Ew, ew, EW!!
* Woo Hoo! Congrats on the completion of your dental work Jen! We call them Dental Nurses down here in Australia.
* There are so not enough battle scenes in BattleStar Galactica! More! More! More! I tell you! Mmmm. Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer) makes robots/cyborgs/androids look oh so sexy! Mind you, I’m a big fan of Kera “Starbuck” Thrace (Katee Sackhoff), she can be my wingman or better yet, my bunk mate any time! :o)
* Thunderstorms are awesome. We get some cracking good one down here!
* Cool! I’m looking forward to seeing the Ant Video!
* I’m doing my best to get on the blasted Feedback Leaderboard!!!
* Lauren Hill #2? WTF?!?! Oh puh-lease! U2 Joshua Tree is also an awesome album! Kayane West #4 WTF?!?!? Jay Z #7 WTF?!?!? Paul Simon Graceland should be up a lot higher. Amy Winehouse oh puh-lease! Why isn’t AC/DC in that top 20 list!?!?! I agree Shawno, REM should be higher on the list. Alanis should’ve been higher on the list too!
* Educate Shawno and Jen! Bjork: Born 21 November 1965 in Reykjavik, Iceland
* Nice one Nath! You didn’t mean to enter and you win the contest!!! Now Shawno will have to spend money on postage to Australia!!! LOL!
I think that “new classics” list is based more on political correctness than anything else, it’s even more obvious in the movie list. Although i’m a bit surprised there are no Hispanics on there, guess they don’t read EW. And Nevermind by Nirvana - the Sgt. Pepper’s of the ’90’s - isn’t on it, but Kelly Clarkson is? Smells like, eh, ya know.
The thunderstorm story was funny, next time you get one i wanna see a picture of Shawno holding a TV antenna like Pugsley Addams did.
So many potential comments!
It was an interesting music list. I agree with Dave about Nirvana, Nevermind is 20 million times the better album than the Unplugged album.
I had a laugh at Shawno’s thunderstorm effort. Do you shop at Acme, Shawno?
Beep beep!
I had to laugh also when Shawno was talking about bands and the difference between him and Jen when certain songs/albums came out. When he said “When I was that age, I wasn’t interested in …………. ” and before Shawno could say the next word, out loud I’ve completed his sentence and said “girls” because at that age, I know I wasn’t!
And it was also funny to learn about the winner of the competition. I had no idea about who was going to win and had a laugh when Nath won. After all, he didn’t even know that he entered!
I hope you can both make the Round Table on Friday night your time, guys!
Totally off-topic, but can someone - maybey someone from down under - explain this to me?
“Stonehenge is a prehistoric sandstone rock circle located in the English county of London, about 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of Adelaide and 1,333,345 kilometres (828,502 mi) north of Sydney.\” It\’s fucking hilarious!
@Dave Calderbank
your link is broken. ::confused::
Sorry, the anti-spam word and i didn’t get along and i screwed up the posting. Here’s the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
Ah crap, the link works but someone took out the joke. It was:
“Stonehenge is a prehistoric sandstone rock circle located in the English county of London, about 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of Adelaide and 1,333,345 kilometres (828,502 mi) north of Sydney.”
Haven’t listen to the show yet but I’m watching There Will Be Blood right now! Coincidence? I think not.
(My anti-spam word is ‘Chillaxin’. You’ve broken the internets…)
Dylan ‘Black Books’ Moran is indeed a stand-up. He’s won the Perrier Award, which is the biggest accolade for British-based comedians. Bill ‘The One With The Beard’ Bailey is a much bigger star here though. He’s one of the team captains on a very funny music panel show called Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Lauryn Hill was in The Fugees not Wu-Tang Clan. Not that anyone here cares… (#2 WTF?????????????????????)
‘American Idiot’ is a very important album in a social context, but I think there’s little debate that the more influential album of Green Day’s on the music industry at large was ‘Dookie’. Before ‘Dookie’ Punk was a dead musical style with no-one paying attention to it, after ‘Dookie’ Punk was the most popular genre in the post grunge era. Without ‘Dookie’ we would not be talking about Green Day and we wouldn’t have bands like Blink 182, Offspring and even Good Charlotte.
Mark Ronson actually produced the majority of ‘Back To Black’ by Amy Winehouse so she was basically repaying the favour with ‘Valerie’. His cover version of ‘Just’ by Radiohead is absolutely brilliant.
My personal choice of REM album would be ‘Automatic For The People’, but as far as influence goes ‘Document’ would be the choice.
I LOVED The Sugarcubes. One of my clearest memories of watching Top Of The Pops back in the day was seeing The Sugarcubes performing ‘Hit’. This was in an era when acts like Rick Astley were all you saw on TV, so seeing The Sugarcubes was not simply a breathe of fresh air, it was a hurricane. (For you American peeps TOTP was a weekly chart show that ran here in the UK from 1964-2006. The internet came along and everyone stopped watching it so a British institution was taken off the air.)
If that was a British list of albums ‘The Stone Roses’ would have been #1. The Stone Roses released their debut self titled album in 1989 and kick-started the brit-pop generation. SOOOOOOOOOOO many bands followed them that it is not an exaggeration to say that the British music industry would have been seriously damaged by ‘The Stone Roses’ not coming out. On any British list of ‘Best Albums Ever’ the three records that are always #1 are ‘The Stone Roses’, ‘Revolver’ or ‘Sgt. Pepper’.
Hope that’s enough music geekery for you…
PS Dave & Erk are absolutely right about ‘Nevermind’
“Stonehenge is a prehistoric sandstone rock circle located in the English county of London, about 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of Adelaide and 1,333,345 kilometres (828,502 mi) north of Sydney.”
There is NO way that Sydney and Adelaide is 1 309 652 km apart! The distance between the two places is more like 1500km.
Erkster,
None of the distances quoted are even remotely correct. All part of the joke, I’m sure. Seriously, over 1 million kilometres from Sydney to the UK???? I mean the Moon, on average, is 382,500km (237,674mi) away from Earth.
Anyway, by air it is 21,689km (13,477 miles) between Sydney and London.
The distances were part of the joke. 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of San Luis Obispo would’ve worked too, although it would be real easy to trace that back to Shawno
I used to work at KFC and I know that I never had time to f**k around like that guy was doing in the BK video.
Thinking while listening to that list that the only record on it that I have is Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and maybe some singles from Purple Rain, Madonna, and Graceland. I’m about the same age as Shawno and when I was in middle school I also remember the hoopla about Guns and Roses, but I just got into jazz music like Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald and dixieland jazz of Pete Fountain. I was a band nerd, I guess. Also listening to Top Gun soundtrack and Ghostbusters soundtrack.
Hey, kids. I hadn’t thought of WKRP in a while, but, Shawno, I think you may have video and film mixed up, because that show was videotaped, as were shows like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, etc. These shows have that flat, videotaped look to them, whereas shows like Charlie’s Angels, Mary Tyler Moore and Eight is Enough were shot on film. The look is richer, there’s more depth of field to the shots.
Maybe you’re a bit younger than me, but the Norman Leer sitcoms were the groundbreakers in terms of dealing with social issues, especially if you think of Archie Bunker’s bigotry, his daughter raising a child as a single mother, etc. That, of course, does not mean that WKRP wasn’t a good show.
Thanks for the clarification, Drew. What threw me about “WKRP” and film/video is the fact that we’re watching it via hulu on a TV set. hulu’s digitization makes everything look a little different from the source. So, the older shows that were shot on tape look more like film. At least, they do to me. Of course, I don’t see so well to begin with. Still, I should’ve known that, especially considering the time period when the show was made.