I went and got the guys salads during headlines today…everytime I get salads…I screw it up.

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After the guys opened mail Harry Medved called in from fandango.com to talk about new movies.

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I have been recording conversations that Lazlo and Slimfast have ever since I started working with them. This is something called “This Is Why We Sue You Lazlo.

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Slimfast wanted us to tell some ghost stories, but I’m not sure if anything scary came out of this segment.

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Next was a game Slimfast called Halloween Theater.

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The movie is The Ninth Gate. Came out in 2000. Johnny Depp was in it. Roman Polanski directed it. Almost everyone I know of dismissed it….. When the credits rolled at the end my friends just groaned and got up to leave…. I sat still…. Felt like I’d just seen a part of the back of my mind projected onto the big screen…. I don’t have time to write more at the moment…… But more is coming………….

***days go by***

…..aaaaaaaaaaaand we’re back…..

….like I wrote in one of the comments below, it doesn’t surprise me that many people have such a low opinion of this movie… But it also doesn’t surprise me that I’m not the only who’s a fan… In lieu of an actual blog about it, I’ll just give you some bullet points…

1. What I thought this film did SO well was depict the experience of contact with something not human… So often, gods and demons and other supernatural forces are presented distinctly like us… In this film, the being in question is presented, subtly, as distinctly NOT like us…

2….and even when it IS kind of heavy-handed (morphing effect), there’s still a real kind of quiet about it… The eyes, for instance… It wasn’t obvious right away… And the floating was done so quietly, no big Matrix moment of heroic athleticism… Just matter-of-fact, as if this was simply what this being did… Finally, the posture and gait of this being… It was obvious that the body was being used as a vessel…. To me, anyway…. I thought it was a great touch…

3.  What makes The Ninth Gate so different than most other “supernatural thrillers” is that there really isn’t much effort made one way or another to characterize Satan, or Evil… No howling, fiery monsters… No brooding fallen angels… No vengeful rebellious figures… No debonair, darkly seductive men… No lusty sirens, either… In fact there’s almost nothing in the way of sadism present…

4… and I think that’s really the point… You can see it in Johnny Depp’s face towards the end… He truly has no idea what he’s gotten himself into, and he has no frame of reference whatsoever for what is sitting on top of him… Same goes for what he’s walking into in the last shot before the credits… That’s what I love about this movie… Its illustration of the moments leading up to contact with the unknown, and then when that contact is made… While Depp’s character’s motives are all too human, the motives and concerns he is unwittingly expediting are quite inhuman, and, inherently, therefore unknowable to us…

5…. so the only thing that IS knowable is the dread, the sensation that something is not quite right…. Though, for whosoever actually inhabits this pre-human (or is it post-human) realm, it is COMPLETELY sensible… There’s a big part of the musical score, one recurring theme, and it really reflects that “business as usual”, unassuming sense of evil… A lot of movie music gets in the way of the important themes, I think… This refrain makes sure you keep going in the same direction as the theme…

Lyrics(So You Can Understand it):
I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce
Don’t be frontin’ son no seeds on a bun
We be up in this drive thru
Order for two
I gots a craving for a number nine like my shoe
We need some chicken up in here
In this dizzle
For rizzle my nizzle
Extra salt on the frizzle
Dr. Pepper my brother
Another for your mother
Double double super size
And don’t forget the FRIES…

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So Light Is Her Footfall-Air
Lust For Life-Girls
True No.9 Blues-Golden Silvers
On My Shoulders-The Dø
Moving Clocks Run Slow-We Were Promised Jetpacks
Do You Remember-The Horrors

Chaka Demus-Jamie T
Walk Out That Door-The Ettes
Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)-Monsters Of Folk
Blue Skies-Noah And The Whale
Pieces-Dinosaur Jr.
Exploding Head-A Place To Bury Strangers

The Normal/Warm Leatherette
Cabaret Voltaire/Messages Received
The Human League/Being Boiled (fast version)
Depeche Mode/New Life
Yaz/Situation

Soft Cell/Tainted Love
Visage/Fade to Grey
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark/Electricity
Gary Numan/Cars
Heaven 17/Let Me Go
Blancmange/Game Above My Head
Fad Gadget/Fireside Favourite

Headlines came and went today…seriously…I don’t even remember what they were about…I was eating skittles.

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Then we played None Of Your Business…It made Slimfast uncomfortable right from the start and we learned a lot about Lazlo’s previous sex partners.

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Buck Wolf from weirdnews.about.com called in why Lazlo went for a smoke so Slimfast did the interview with him…they talked about Pet Costumes.

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Here at Entercom we have Thirsty Thursdays…Lazlo does not like them one bit!!!

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Cougartown recap was supposed to be short and sweet…

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Slimfast has a problem with an Illegal Alien Halloween Costume.

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Our favorite sleazy salesman Danny Borsow showed up and Lazlo yelled at him again about his yard.

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Our Lady Peace have been at it for 15 years, and while some say they kinda lost the plot somewhere early this decade, I give them tons of credit for sticking with it and surviving one of the worst cases I’ve ever seen of record label clumsiness  (no pun intended)…

…I’ve interviewed them twice… Once back in 1998 when Superman’s Dead was hitting, and then a few years later when Somewhere Out There came out… Both times, they were simply some of  the most down-to-earth rock stars I’d ever met… No different this time… Click below to hear my conversation with OLP’s bassist Duncan, and if you’re over 21 you better be down there this Saturday night at Power and Light for their free show…

SEGMENT 1: Duncan gives a few specific examples from every major label band’s nightmare….

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SEGMENT 2: …how a major band keeps perspective…

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He kinda already looks like he has an especially nasty case of swine flu, at least in this pic…

….while it’d have been oh-so-easy to zero in on the more outlandish claims he makes in this blog, I’m more interested in seeing the total picture… Enough sensationalism…

….with someone like Billy Corgan, someone who thinks a lot, feels a lot, processes a lot and then gives output, there are gonna be hits and misses… He is neither a “madman”, a “genius”, or really anything else… When Thomas Edison, after hundreds and hundreds of failures FINALLY got the light bulb to work, was he THEN, at THAT moment, a genius??… Do you assign those kinds of terms  based solely on achievement, or does it have more to do with potential and the inherent traits of a person??

Reading this blog of Billy’s (click on the pic to link), the question occurred to me… Because he says some very worthwhile and valuable things… He says other things that aren’t as well-thought-out… Other things aren’t very lucid at all…. But at least he tries………. And he IS unafraid…. Whether that stems from overconfidence or a sense of balance is another question entirely….

Economy finally back in gear.

Ummmmm… Sure.    Click on the graph, read the article…. And then ask yourself if the news media would ever put up a headline that said “Broadest Measure of Economy Showing Signs Of Crawling Back to Where It Was A Couple Years Ago…”, or if any of the goons you see on TV would tease what was coming up at the top of the hour like that…

Of course they wouldn’t… And therein lies the problem… The problem is they think you think their less-than-half-ass job is enough… And they think this because they are not given evidence to the contrary… They know you’re busy, and you just want the most important bits of a story… You don’t have time for the rest…

………..granted, this is familiar ground I am covering… But look at the graph… A quick glance might make you think that that blue bar on the right is IT, the sign that we’re getting closer to actually beginning to stand in the light instead of seeing it at the end of the tunnel… BUT…… Call me crazy, but it seems the sensisble thing to do would be to work backwards, right to left, stacking the red bars further down beneath one another… Unless the stats for each quarter are relative to a fixed point, like the stats from last year…. But even then, it is still pretty damn misleading to put that blue bar up there like we’ve come ALL THE WAY BACK…

Don’t know who he is?  We didn’t either…he’s the drummer for Skid Row!

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Headlines today dealt with God, Sex, and Palin’s retarded grandchild. We learned a lot about the world today.

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You can’t pee on Jesus’ face because Catholics will get offended…we’re looking at you Larry David.

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Name That Pop Song came up next and it was a doozy today…but the woman that played kicked serious ass.

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Nick Wright called in from his vacation in New York…it took awhile to get to sports, but when we did, a lovely argument broke out about Larry Johnson.

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