POPCAST #539 TREATS THE FOLLOWING: Bad luck, bad weather, fender-benders, missing paychecks, taxes and sprained ankles.
RECOMMENDED USE: 2010 was supposed to be better than 2009. Sure, in many ways it is. Though every now and then a doozy of a week creeps its way in, disrupting all of our 'fresh new starts'. Maybe its the post-recession, maybe its a bad moon, maybe Scorpio's rising a little too much, maybe the dark cloud just isn't going anywhere for a little bit more. Whatever it is, while our luck is down let's listen to songs that make us feel good about feeling bad. (Note: songs 13 and 14 are specially formulated to get you out of any possible popcast-related funk and back into fighting shape.)
ADDITIONAL NOTES: You're probably thinking: "Whoa, a P&C video! What marvelousness!" Isn't it though? Super thanks to the star of the show, Lil Bruder Alex Z! He helped pick a buncha songs this week too! There's a pretty good chance there'll be more cinema shennanigans to come, so stay tuned P&C Popsters!
ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Hard Times: Run DMC
2. The Message: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5
3. Life is Shit: The Dead Milkmen
4. Novocaine for the Soul: Eels
5. It Ain't Easy: David Bowie
6. My Neighbor the Firefighter: uh..(?)
7. Why Took Your Advice: Grandaddy
8. All You Need Is Hate: The Delgados
9. Help: Deep Purple
10. It's All Over Now Baby Blue: Them
11. What's Happening Brother: Marvin Gaye
12. Think About It: Flight of the Conchords
13. A Town Called Malice: The Jam
14. I'm Not Down: The Clash
what i love:
a. i am sleeping the whole time this is happening
b. “howee do”
c. “you might want to start over”
d. the ending is perfect.
thank you.
YAY!! So glad you like it! I did consider filming you while you were sleeping but that would have been too cruel. Are you going to send in $15 for the prize..? I wonder who’ll be the first. I know everyone is scrambling for the Bone Phone.
how come i ALWAYS make spelling errors in my comments? i mean “HOWDEE DOOOOO”
and for any babies out there who need it super correct it’s really “howdy-do”
dude i OWN that bone phone. send that check to the mrs.
What I love:
a. Since leaving my reply, I find you’ve left 3 more comments, 2 of which are spelling corrections.
b. You own the bone phone.
c. People must really be wondering what a bone phone is.
This bone foen should really be renamed the bone funky clunker. I dunno if I was too small when I had one, but it’d really pound around my chest and once it clocked me in the belly. Sometimes the batteries would roll around in the socks part and then fall down when I was mowing dry dirt to get rid of the dry dog booboo for the old Russian ladies in Bryte. the lawn mower blade would hurl them all over the place and I just had this hot blue jello sock on my neck which would turn black from sweat and dirt. All of that for a quarter and it never impressed the ladies and I never found a porche speedster hiding in the driveway either. Usually there was a wheelchair I’d cruise around then get yelled at by some ole babooshka hag and she’d keep my quarter (Mrs. Lena you are a dooche). And batteries, it took a whol magazine of them, I think four, but if you didn’t have a 49 cent store nearby you had to getum at Bryteway market where they cost a whopping three bucks. I tried it all kinds of ways but the best way was to tie into a knot and put it on my head and have the speakers point in my ears, but they fell off alot and I tried to find a wig to put over it but these old ladies had um hid good. If I coulda hung out with the baptist babes I could get a veil but that’s like the west side story in bryte and they live in Broderick. then I got a bone phone for white christmas and I could smell it all over agian.
Don’t be fooled by the Mrs., she’s a wiley one, that bone fone is mine and it’s a prize to the first person that sends me $130.
I love this P$C. It’s magic!
L.B., I formally request you to start writing your memoirs detailing our life in Bryte. If “…hot blue jello sock” is any indication of your writing talent, then I REALLY need more. How do you do it!? I love it.
i love:
a. the price went up to $130
b. the best way was to tie into a knot and put it on my head and have the speakers point in my ears
a. $15 to win the prize, plus
b. $15 postage & handling, plus
c. $100 “cause he needs it”
Video has added a new, enjoyable layer! Brava!
Yup Mchl, that’s pretty much how the equation works. Glad you enjoy the vid! More to come!
All this talk bout the video, I forgot to add how AWESOMELY AWESOME they playlist is.
sidenote: When I was a wee baby stefka i used to stand in my bedroom and sing The Message to myself in the mirror. i had no idea what i was saying to myself either. I just thought it sounded cool.
i DID IT AGAIN.
i wrote “they playlist” instead of “the playlist”
oih.
Mrs. Z, where do I begin? The Message..? Lip synced? By Baby Stefka..? In the mirror? Seriously. Amazing.
ps: make as many typos as you want. P&C is a spell-check-free safe place.
Cute video! Now I remember you two. The guy with glasses in the video at Masullo… my buddy Rodney and he talking trash…blah blah blah…I keed, I keed! Thank you for modeling for Midtown Monthly Home tour cover. You clean up good! I can get you free ticket to home tour. Send email…
Dane
Hi Dane! Cool house! Looking forward to seeing how the photos turn out! Yeah, my crazy bruder sure likes to stir things up when he’s out on the town..
See ya at the home tour.
I also dig Swedish pop! I was a closet ABBA fan back in the early 80’s…when it wasn’t cool. I even bought some Sweden only solo records by Annifrid and Agnetha (the “A’s in ABBA) in Copenhagen. Their videos are so bad they’re good–some of the most gawdawful clothes in Pop history! Speaking of awful clothes I notice you had a Deep Purple song in your list… check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXcqxms3Bs
Abba is always cool on P&C. Especially their clothes! Now that hair in the Deep Purple vid, THAT is something else…
1) Scotch fixes allot of things.
2) Hard Times is a book by Stud Terkel.
3) Times suck, but just hearing Alex makes them better.
4) Alex has too many needs.
5) How does Dr Marnie not know who that is?
Oh Athol Fugard, Athol Fugard, I have so many questions…
Have you finished working on your latest novel? How would Dr. Marnie not know who who is? You seem to be familiar with my co-host, this intrigues me. Hmmm…
Dear Doc-Marn, from one “Doc” to another:
I suspect that Scotch would fix and answer each of your questions better then I could.
As such, I would still like to thank you for letting Alex stir this afkondig of Pop and Circumstance. Truly skitterend.
“…from one ‘Doc’ to another”
Docs I think you could be:
1. Dr. Phil
2. Dr. Dimento
3. Dr. Dre
Though really, I need more clues. Unless you really are the South African playwright Athol Fugard. In which case that would explain the ‘afkondig’ and ’skitterend.’ (though it would not explain that you mispelled ‘alot’ in the previous comment post.)
Marnie,
I know Alex and came upon your stuff via him. The video was fun as hell and that’s really all I wanted to post and thought things would end there.
So I’m gonna end this here (no offense intended).
Thanks for the responses though and the music too.
A. Fugard.
Haha good stuff! Sorry I turned into Nancy Drew there. What can I say, I love a good mystery! I’m a dork. Glad you enjoyed the vid and music, cheers!