BJ News

[brainfiber]

GM taking strategic look at the hummer

headline on CNBC...gotta love it...and gotta love everytime the lady anchor says "hummer"

and now for something completly different...


BJ McKay and this is my best friend bear...

[Bizarro]

You know I tired to find a picture of BJ from BJ & The Bear, but all I typed into Google Image Search was bj and I have safesearch off. So I think I burned my retinas.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm gay now. 

[bebopbalogna]

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm gay now. 

if you have to ask, it's a pretty safe bet. 












 

[Tripp]

ugh.


so Bobby is most likely right now being sequestered with the jury on a murder trial so we won't see him til saturday.
Last night he came over then dragged me out to the Hi-Tone to see Greg Ginn play. I got home about 2:30. NOT good for a Monday night. I'm paying for it now.  But it was kinda worth it to see Bobby get to meet one of his rock heroes.
The greg ginn band  did two sets. One completely improvved and the second one kinda had songs though it still sounded like they were improvving a bit.  the first set was better.   I need sleep.

[Tripp]

I would like to thank my good friend Chad for discovering Spinal Tap's original appearance (1978!!??)  and sharing it with me.
twas truly a revelation.   I tried to find it on youtube but to no avail.  Apparently it was on the criterion dvd set. the song was Rock'nRoll Nightmare and they appeared on a mock version of the Midnight Special on a show called The Show.  You gotta see this.

[Tripp]

In 1978, Rob Reiner, fresh from a long distinguished stretch in series television, put together a special called The TV Show. It spooved (yes, that is the correct word) network and local television, satirising a full viewing day's worth of crap in one hour. It was very funny.

I knew Rob, and several of the writers were old friends of mine. One of the proposed pieces was a parody of a show called Midnight Special, a rock'n'roll concert/variety show, hosted by the late Wolfman Jack. Christopher Guest, who would go on to play the Tap's Nigel Tufnel, suggested that a pea-brained English rock band be featured in the sketch. Chris and I had played a couple of road-weary Britrockers in a short piece he had directed so I became involved in the project. Chris, Rob, the show's producer Harry Shearer (who would play Tap bassist Derek Smalls) and I wrote the song Rock'n'Roll Nightmare and its accompanying visual foolishness. After some groping about for a suitably duff name, we settled on Spinal Tap.

About a year and a half later, Rob was looking to direct feature films, and the notion of doing a fake documentary about this awful band snowballed. Rob pitched the idea and got a hearty "maybe" from Sir Lew Grade's US wing, Marble Arch. In early 1980, the four of us began meeting daily to furnish Spinal Tap with a believable past. We watched a lot of rock'n'roll concert and documentary film, and noted the recurrence of an interesting theme: the survivor - the yeoman road warrior who never says die, no matter how clearly the market suggests he do so.

We had no intention of writing a screenplay. The idea was to construct the history of the band and the characters, set the general story elements and improvise the dialogue, having hired actors we knew could play the game. We shot a demo in four days and Rob assembled the piece over the next few months. In the interim, Marble Arch had released Legend of the Lone Ranger and Raise the Titanic (right boat, wrong direction!) in rapid succession and slipped quietly out of the Big Tent.

We assumed it was not going to happen. We all went back to our day gigs and night sweats until Lindsay Doran, a fan of Rob's and a bright light at Embassy Pictures, suggested they just make the damn thing anyway. Jerry Parenchio and Norman Lear, dean of Reiner's alma mater, All in the Family, were running Embassy, and things fell gradually into place. We began writing, casting and crewing in the spring of 1982.

[Bizarro]

Bad: my car is in the shop.
Good: I get to stay home for now.
Bad: It's not like someone else is out there getting my work done.

Hrmph.

[captqitn]

Jimmy Winchell is track one in this week's Out of 5. Next week is songs about Jesus (reverence optional).

 

[captqitn]

sheesh.. its a muxerrific day for me.

Home shows up on a bloggy mixtape today also...

[bebopbalogna]

I would like to thank my good friend Chad for discovering Spinal Tap's original appearance (1978!!??)  and sharing it with me.
twas truly a revelation.   I tried to find it on youtube but to no avail.  Apparently it was on the criterion dvd set. the song was Rock'nRoll Nightmare and they appeared on a mock version of the Midnight Special on a show called The Show.  You gotta see this.

i don't know if it was on the criterion version BUT, it is on this 6 hr VHS of spinal tap extras i got on ebay about 9 years ago.  along with 6hrs of unreleased spinal tap footage including early demo takes (sets/costumes/wigs/dialogue changes, and completely discarded scenes/really must see stuff for fans/etc).  i loaned it to shane "i blow blasts" langseth a few years ago, and he finally returned it to me a couple months ago.  but now i can't find it.  but i'll look for it and maybe we can watch some of that when y'all come down.   frickin great stuff.  basically it contains every bit of known spinal tap related footage NOT in the theatrical release.    if you haven't seen any of the early takes, here's a sample.  even the songs are different recordings....


[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=YT7lDXYL7LM[/youtube]

[bebopbalogna]

also, I tired to find a picture of BJ from BJ & The Bear, but all I typed into Google Image Search was bj and I have safesearch off. I think I spooved all over myself.

[bebopbalogna]

i'll believe it when i see it.

[captqitn]

Its definitely close to over.   When your top aides are giving conflicting reports DIRECTLY to AP, you are officially imploding.

She'll be effectively out by morning, but framed in a such a way as to make sure she gets a good seat at the table.

[bebopbalogna]

i would not be upset if he wants to give her a cabinet position. even something as lofty as secretary of state.  she'd be better than condi, for sure.  and it will give her a chance to show off all that foreign policy experience  .  but a big ole "OH HAIL NO!" to the vp slot. if her argument that the racist white voters will not support obama in the fall is true (duh.) combine that with her other argument that obama is only winning because of the sexist pig voters that refuse to support a woman.  unfortunately, there's some truth to both arguments.  and it would be suicide.

[captqitn]

Total agreement.  She has something to offer.   But VP would be a terrible idea.  (and I'm pretty sure that both of them know that).