We had our friend Adam as a guest expert on various subjects. It was a really beautiful day outside and we wanted to be out in it, but our devotion to this show kept us indoors for an hour. As always, click on the picture or here to listen.
As usual, we covered a wide and disparate set of topics. We discussed newspapers and the problems inherent in them, the future of news media and the suicide of Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh.
Since Jake and Adam both complain if I tell them even the smallest plot detail of a movie they haven't seen, I wanted to talk about that with them. We discussed how I "ruined" Planet Earth for Jake, How a guy ruined Fight Club for Adam, How the ads on TV and the title of the movie ruined "Throw Momma From the Train" for me. I tried to ruin the news for them.
Our downstairs neighbor (and probably the smartest man in San Francisco) Moazzam Sheikh. has a book coming out next month. Jake and I argued for a bit about who was a better friend of his. I proposed my new idea for a book and this led into more talk about sampling vs plagiarizing vs fair use.
We talked a bit about Shakespeare remakes like Forbidden Planet and West Side Story (but somehow left out Strange Brew) and how they don't have to clear anything with his estate. I talked about The Stars Tennis Balls as an homage to the Man in the Iron Mask, when in fact I meant the Count of Monte Cristo. We discussed NWA's Express Yourself and Charles Wright's and the song by the Killers that sounds like Bruce Springsteen.
We got into and bigger discussion about originality and creativity in general.
Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers. Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's vs Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence. Homer's copyright lawyers in ancient Greece (although they say that Homer didn't really exist),
We talked about Superman & Mickey Mouse, Snow White, The Brothers Grimm, the Catholic Church's ownership of Jesus & God, Wal-Mart & the smiley-face, Charles Darwin & the theory of evolution, Little Red Riding Hood vs Freeway, The Wolf in Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood, (one of the greatest cartoons ever made by the way) and the ownership of Happy Birthday.
We then changed the subject to the future of the music industry. There was a general consensus that lasers would be involved. We discussed bands as brands, Myspace, Soulja Boi, Sean Kingston, Lily Allen and the standard refrain about what's wrong with culture these days and how things were better in our time.
After closing the show we went outside like regular people.
We talked about Superman & Mickey Mouse, Snow White, The Brothers Grimm, the Catholic Church's ownership of Jesus & God, Wal-Mart & the smiley-face, Charles Darwin & the theory of evolution, Little Red Riding Hood vs Freeway, The Wolf in Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood, (one of the greatest cartoons ever made by the way) and the ownership of Happy Birthday.
We then changed the subject to the future of the music industry. There was a general consensus that lasers would be involved. We discussed bands as brands, Myspace, Soulja Boi, Sean Kingston, Lily Allen and the standard refrain about what's wrong with culture these days and how things were better in our time.
After closing the show we went outside like regular people.
6 comments:
Thanks a lot for ruining Fight Club for me.
i like that you guys post on the description of the podcast what you talk about because sometimes when i listen i can't understand what song or book or movie title you just mentioned, and i like being able to not have to hunt for them. so far i've really liked the movies you've talked about. i consider them recommendations to go check them out myself.
also, where was adam when you were talking about andy warhol? it seemed he was there for some of it but when phil mentioned marilyn monroe and adam responded "she's dead", it sounded like he was in the bathroom.
oh and the topic about the music industry came up. you should check out the documentary "Strong Enough to Break" it kinda has to do with the telecommunications act of 1996. the documentary is available for free download on itunes or on youtube. the act is pretty boring, but i'm doing my thesis on it for my bachelors' degree, and getting societal background on it helps.
"what can a tree do? All it can do is fall!"
My favorite quote thus far from very serious. Totally made me lol all the time.
sean kingston and lilly allen both had connects to the music industry before they became big hits on the myspace. lilly allen's dad is keith allen, a pop culture icon in the UK who's recorded with the dudes from blur and new order. sean kingston grew up with buju banton as a family friend
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