Episode Forty
Episode 40: Shout-outs, more on great songwriters/great singers, RIP's (Art Buchwald and two locals), rock-paper-scissors, fuck-offs, corrections to last week's show, lowlights, movies, highlights, the coming of hucklebug.com.
posted by stennie @ 10:25 PM
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DAMN, I wanted to see those Kurosawa films at the Aero!! I've actually never seen Throne of Blood (in my pants or anywhere else) and I really liked High and Low.
I drink corporate coffee because it tastes better than coffee I make at home, also there are no non-corporate coffee places left in Westwood. :( And I have the best travel mug in the universe, so, there's the other reason. I also drink iced coffee a lot, which comes in it's own cup. At Starbucks or the Cofee Bean I usually only drink regular coffee, iced coffee or espresso for the caffeine hit. I'm not into the "Hollywood" drinks like Latte's and whatever. I do love the Turkish Coffee, but they don't serve that at corporate coffee places, so I go to Turkish/middle eastern restaurants in my area for that.
Sten, you should just update your Feedburner feed with the new Atom feed and no one will miss a beat.
Do you guys hate people? I do! Today, while listening to the HB, I got yelled at by the bus driver for taking the front exit. Then I saw a 65+ year old man in a suit winking at 13 year-old girls in the food court at lunch. After that in the parking lot of the mall some lady tried to get me to do a "work at home" scheme and then my supervisor, back at my cube, decided to regail us with the tale of her daughter wanting to move out. My supervisor is a nightmare on feet--THAT'S why her daughter wants to move out!
OK, I've vented. Now I must go.
GREAT SHOW! Always fun! Good work!
Add in another one for the "I Hate Kate Bush" club.
Re: The State of the Union. Just like you guys don't give a crap about us East Coasters for the Oscars and realize that we have to get to work in the morning, we're not going to stay up any later for the SOTU than we already have to. Besides, they don't actually care if anyone actually watches it. It's really only for the talking head windbags, and politicians to make faces at each other.
And you and I are dog people, Betster. I also get hissed at. And this is by cats I go to visit because their owners are out of town. So I took to walking in, announcing my presence, cleaning the litterbox, changing the water and food, and yelling at the cat that I'm going to sit down and watch a half hour of TV and if he wants any human interaction for the next 24 hours, he better get his little fuzzy butt out there. Nope. Just the hissing.
I'm not sure if dressing like a Klingon gets you of testifying. Just jury duty.
Regarding the RSS feed -- I know what it is, and in theory I could sign up for it, but I just click every Wednesday or Thursday to find the blog part. iTunes takes care of automatically finding the Hucklebug. Put me in the "don't care" column.
One more RIP: Denny Doherty. Now there's only a Mama left.
Only Angels Have Wings: I like it a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen it referred to as one of the all-time greats. A great Hawks movie, sure. The thing about most Hawks movies is that they're mainly big ol' dude fests. Even Ball Of Fire has the group of professors writing a dictionary together. So there's definite male-bonding, keeping one's reserve even after a pal goes down in an air crash, and sing-a-longs. About the only unrealistic thing is how the pilots go nuts for Jean Arthur when she shows up, but when Rita Hayworth comes along they're all on their best behavior because she's married.
Not that I'm trying to change your minds. It sounds like you feel about this movie the way I feel about The Women, which I guess is appropriate.
High And Low: I think this is one of Kurosawa's best, maybe among his top 5. The story really gets going for me when they break out of Gondo's home and go out into the naked city. Because really, how good can a movie about a shoe tycoon be?
You had to like the presence of color, though, in the otherwise b&w movie. That scene is just magnificent. And the ending is really stark and piercing.
Note: the literal translation of it's Japanese title, Tengoku to jikogo, is Heaven And Hell, which is probably a bit more appropriate.
More Kurosawa movies that take place in contemporary Japan: Ikiru, which you have to see; I Live In Fear, which is kinda tough to find (I have a VHS release of it); Drunken Angel, the first Kurosawa-Mifune teaming; The Bad Sleep Well, a forgotten masterpiece among his many masterpieces.
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