Ken
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mine is looking for game not lifting fifty grandmothers
8:21am
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fred,
I didn't know that! So I just read about it: 16-page handwritten lyrics..McLean says "the manuscript will reveal "everything there is to know" about the cryptic lyrics."
Fantastic! I wonder if there is any evidence Andy's involvement in co-writing the song.
Wait..LFG? Oh, no, thanks, no. I thought you said 'MSG' as in Michael Schenker Group, the guitar-oriented hard rock band formed in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist, Michael Schenker.
ty les, mr. smith is giving me the scores right now
9:34am
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For all the Shipping Forecast fetishists out there:
"The only time that the shipping forecast has been read on both radio and tv as part of the Arena Radio Night in 1993".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ2Lk20n3U
It's selling pretty well Marcel. Not sure if it will sell out.
10:00am
Mark:
I wonder which "These Lips Are for Blowing" came first--the album or the Times Square (70s era) film? Enter the copyright lawyers.
10:00am
Mark:
Cambodian Rocks is gonna rock!
10:01am
Mark:
Speaking of dirty movies, will you be attending any of the "Sex & Broadcasting" screenings at the Montclair Film Festival, Ken? I mean, since you went all the way to England...
Yes Mark, I will be at both screenings of Sex & Broadcasting at the Montclair Film Festival, on May 6 & 10 - on May 6, Andy and I will be doing Seven Second Delay live from the line out front.
I thought that sounded like the sample Eric B. & Rakim used.
10:31am
Brendan:
Ken sorry was driving in and missed the dialogue. I understand you might have some sort of laceration. Butterfly closures are available in most drug stores, saving you from the risk of self suturing. Either way, suture self.
perhaps i missed the announcement, but where oh WHERE might i acquire a copy of Michele's splendid opus?
in the meantime -- i am going to look for that Anthony Newley song! (perhaps local libraries have it on CD?)
i found this -- the song titles alone -- !!! "I Flooded You with My Love" etc. -- although not as dirty as the other songs, as dale says? in any case, another MUST HAVE!!!!!! www.discogs.com...
how about the dude that picks up chicks? you know the one that picks out a see through blouse for the woman to try on because she's about the same size as his sister or some such rot? and then BUYS IT FOR HER?! THAT'S CREEPY.
You can see "Dept. S" episodes on YouTube (until they pull them). I told Damon Lindelof about that show that I liked so much, and then he used it largely as the basis of "Lost" -- put in tons of hilarious clues to the cx too.
10:56am
violet:
Yeah, Wyngarde is a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a novelist turned sleuth, in two TV series: Department S (1969–1970) and Jason King (1971–1972).
I do recommend Dept. S not only for its sense of humor, but also because it's such a great mystery series. In many ways it was precursor to "X Files", and I'm not the 1st to remark such. This was a team of quirky detectives, each with different approaches, whom Interpol called on to solve super mindfucks of mysteries. They operated under the handicap that they couldn't trust their own gov'ts to tell them the truth.
I can think of only 1 way that TV series has aged badly: It's from the era when still few people worked w computers, so the audience could be sold an exaggerated idea of what computers could do. Not as exaggerated as some shows of that era, though. That would all end in a few yrs.
11:16am
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Penis, Quinoa Vaginas...Vaginas Made of Glass!
Ken, someone is vandalizing your playlist!
Press all of your dump buttons!
I'm not supposed to read that!
11:16am
Brendan:
A great vagina song is Fresh by Kool and the Gang. That song is still fresh as a summers eve.
I'd say tech is still exaggerated and I think it has simply become one of those tropes that people will accept. I remember watching Burn Notice where every episode had at least one or two laughable 'facts' about cell phones.
11:21am
Brendan:
Great banjo strumming song. I understand Aztec Cam wear straw hats suspenders and drink lemonade on stage as they've aged
Any of your CBS crime dramas (CSI, NCIS, etc) horribly exaggerates computers abilities. One of my favorites was someone was trying to hack into NCIS, and two people were typing as quickly as possible on the same keyboard. Fortunately the boss of NCIS unplugged the computer. Thank GOD that solved everything.
My favourite Burn Notice moment is when Fiona was building a tracker so she put a discarded electrical component that had no wires attached hide inside a metal necklace.
11:23am
djelrock:
Nice set Ken. My lectric shaver is on the fritz. Any suggestions?
@ ᚑ߃ᚑ߃ (: -- one of my Instagram followees posted that one this morning, so I'm good.
Everyone: a wonderful exegesis of television computer tropes here. Warning: this site is way-addictive and tremendously time consuming: tvtropes.org...
I love that people have the courtesy to give a warning when linking to tvtropes these days. If only warnings were given when I started going there. I'd have so many hours of my life back.
By the way, if people have been following me around here & there "sliming..." right now, I'm just like oh look, someone attacking a vocal critic of the church of scientology. that's what i think right now. except i didn't mean to say sliming. that isn't where the tech attaches to that
Anyone listen to "In Our Time" with Melvyn Bragg? This week's show was about the California Gold Rush and Leland Stanford was profiled as getting rich selling shovels to prospectors.
OK, so the exaggerated computer tropes are still out there, but it's not like it used to be, when computers were routinely portrayed as psychic. Now that people are so much more familiar with them, you couldn't get away with that sort of stuff now. The portrayals bear SOME closer relationship to cybernetic reality.
I once went to an exhibit in DC - the was a sign on the sidewalk and it sounded weird enough that I went up. It was about German death camps I believe. Turns out it was scientologiists I was the only one there. Two people followed me around trying to convince me to join. One even followed me into the elevator. I was afraid they weren't goign to let me leave.
11:58am
djelrock:
I went to one in the late 80's and I felt like these testers were going to kill me if I didnt give them $500. Huh?
11:58am
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djelrock,
Yes! I have been to one! But I ended there because a street promoter deceived me into going to see the screening of a purportedly short film about a cool black satanic panther.
11:58am
Brendan:
Love what you've done with our ears Ken. Thanks.
11:58am
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Thank you, Kommissar Ken! Till next episode everyone!