Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sweeps Week (recap)

Heard in this show:
  • TV PARTY - Black Flag

  • Thracian Dance - Andreas Brunn, Vladimir Karparow,

  • Pigs with Wigs - Caleb Bullen

1-900-con-tract - This came from a real advertisement on an adult dvd for a 900 number where the young lady said, "Hi I'm Porn Star, (whatever her name was) and I liked to get fucked!" For good or ill my first thought was not of fucked in the most pleasing sense but in the pejorative business sense.

Tune in, Turn on, Drop out - I know I'm far from the first person to make this joke but it did seem to fit the theme and when you think about it, that is exactly what most of us do when we watch TV. By the way, I wanted to use some Lord Sitar on this but couldn't find any on line. Any tips on tracking down Big Jim Sullivan's more entertaining work, would be appreciated.

Zom-B-Gone - came from a mixture of 118migration and somebody's terrible cologne.

Lead - I'm sorry to say that although I did sensationalize a bit of this, its all true, just over emphasized.

Pigs with Wigs - is one of those weird things that came to me as I was waking up one morning

Sexy Shoes - I have this one shoe that I shouldn't be trying to use as a slip on and one morning when I was trying to get the wall over the heel to straighten out, I found myself making curious noises. I just took that one step further.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Commedigentsia

Coming up on this weekend's show, we put a little lead in your pencil.

Just a quick little very partisan thought:

A lot of people think that comic left such as SNL, Jon Stewart etc. are biased against Obama. I don't actually believe that and that's a big part of what inspired the rant last week about the stupid bias.

But if there was such a bias, is it possible that the bias exists because a Clinton Presidency has more comedic potential and so the comedigentsia wants them in power to make fun of? Even I can appreciate that it's going to be hard to make fun of President Obama without being accused of racism (also because he has fewer comedic foibles).

Sure, there will be some people who will think that anyone making fun of a President Clinton is sexist but lets face it, she's not that likable to most people and there's still all the blow job jokes from her husband's presidency. So she'll be comic fodder way before Obama would.

McCain is just another slightly out of it ancient white guy; nobody will hesitate from making fun of him, if he wins, until he turns things over to Vice President Rice after whichever illness takes him in his old age.

Like I said, the above theory does not reflect my actual views. I think the perceived bias is mostly illusory and what bias there is, is just a stupidity bias.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WTF POV (recap)

Sorry this one is so late but life continues to rocket on ahead without pause for station identification.

Heard in this week's show were:
Happiness Saturns Rings - Martin Jensen
I Dig Chicks - Jonah Jones
Boogie Stop Shuffle - Charles Mingus
Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson
One Eyed Monkey - Combustible Edison

Crush Toothpaste - Came from hearing an ad for tomato paste

Vote Mars - This came from some of the issues I've been having where office politics shift under my feet. It occurred to me that I could use a zeitgeistometer to clue me in to what is happening behind the scenes when I walk in the door each morning. Then the Clinton/Obama fights provided the rest of the sketch... as usual.

Firefly - The blog that this was edited from was forwarded by a friend. Daphne Abernathy of course kicked ass on this one.

The Media Makes Reality - I know, this is essentially stolen right from Paddy Chayefsky's Network. But the more I try keeping up on the pseudo-news the more aware I am of the stupid bias. Plus, I keep hearing from everybody about the other bias that mostly isn't there but, of course, is there just enough that you can't write off everyone who thinks they see it.

John Wayne - I spent all Sunday trying to watch either damned movie to write the counterpoint to Firefly. I consulted the Oblique Strategies deck and although I don't remember the advice it gave, it made me think I should just tell the story behind the non-story.

Iraq - I don't mean this quite as bitterly as it sounds. Obviously we didn't kill most of the civilians (perhaps not any) and without us there, that cost in blood might still be paid. We did, however, set that scene into motion and it costs us a billion dollars a week for the pleasure.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Stinky (recap)

Heard on this week's show

  • Les Yeux Sans Visage - Combustible Edison

  • Terrazza -Ennio Morricone

  • Piggies - Beatles

  • Early Dusk - Ivor Slaney

  • Ghetto Defendant - The Clash

  • We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn

Arid - well obviously this is just one of many bits of found audio this week. I got a whole mess of these and I just have to say once again, where are the stories about how THIS war is impacting relationships? Where are the war shortages? Where is the war effort? Does anyone believe that the American Public would willingly agree to parting with ANYTHING for this war... besides their liberty that is. feh!

Push Polling - Yes, I really did this at one point. More people than you'd think asked, "is this true?" it said an awful lot about people as to how they answered that question. I took the time to look up whether the assertions I was making were true or not and told them, "no. it's not true"

Ipanema - sometimes you have to let go with an extended fart joke.

Camel - Not only does smoking stink but doctors selling cigarettes really stinks

Technical difficulties - Obviously this is just a way to point out the cost of the war in blood and treasure, as they say, in a less heavy handed way.

Lobbyists - I don't need to tell you how much lobbyists stink. Thanks as always to Jonathan Swift for his Immodest Proposal. This idea actually came to me in a dream.

Duck and Cover + We'll Meet again - we started in WWII why not end with Strangelove?