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Wednesday Wadio: The Weturn!


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You asked for it back, and you’ve got it, babies. But before I strike out on new musical homages to my favorite songs, past and present, I’m going to give all the writing I’ve already done a new coat of paint – in the form of video additions. Below you’ll find liks to some of my favorite Wednesday Wadios from the past year, now with handy dandy video additions. Hear them, watch them, love them for all times. And with no further adue…

– The Doves – There Goes the Fear: The video for this song kind of sucks, so I’m including an awesome performance from Glastonbury 2004 instead.

– The Pogues – The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn: No proper video exists. This is a performance from Irish TV in the mid-eighties after which the host unsuccessfully tries to interview the eternally-shitfaced Shane MacGowan.

– Lush – Deluxe: Ripped from someone’s old 120 Minutes tape, the fire at the beginning brought back a wave of memories. Not for epileptics.

– Ed O.G. & the Bulldogz – I Got to Have it: Unequivocable proof that YT is the best website in human history. What a great find. An edited version I’ve never heard with some grimy Boston scenery and probably the worst choreography in… human history.

– The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again: I think this is from Top of the Pops, so it would have been 1986. An excellent live perfomance from a seminal band.

– The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster: Live in Detroit at The Fox Theatre on September 18, 2004. This is a clip from the fan produced DVD released through hipfans.com. Gord Downie at his insane best.

So waise a glass to a new ewa of Wednesday Wadio!

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Bon Voyage, Bruno.


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Everyone recognizes Bruno Kirby. A great character actor, he started working back in 1971 and had a long and memorable career. He died today from leukemia complications, and I felt obliged to give him a little tip of the hat, through the power of YouTube. Here he is arguing with Pacino and Madsen over Cadillacs in Donnie Brasco prior to being shot in the head and chopped up by Johnny Depp in a basement. Memories.

The list of flicks goes on – City Slickers, The Freshman, Spinal Tap and most noteably Godfather Part 2. Kirby was also on the uber popular Entourage this year, playing the movie producer that Dom stole the Shrek doll from. I’m glad he was able to fit in one last high profile job before his sad and untimely demise at 57. Read a better obit here.

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Splittin’ Skulls In Wellfleet Was A Rite Of Passage.


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Who else is going to the Frank Black show at the Beachcomber this Friday night? Let me know and we can all meet up beforehand at the, uh, Beachcomber I’d imagine. It’s either that, a dirty seagull nest or a sand dune.

Some biggish things are afoot here at PITF. First out of the gate, tomorrow will mark the return of Wednesday Wadio! I was sorry to see it go due to Radio.Blog’s bandwidth issues, but see no reason not to keep it moving using YouTube. Just about very music video imaginable is available on YouTube, and it doesn’t sap away my juice. So look for that, and when applicable I will include links to downloadable MP3s you can fire on to your desktop or iPod. No sense spreading the sonic gospel if the only place you can hear new music is by watching grainy, choppy videos online.

Also, Blogger is finally launching a categorization feature, which will allow you to, for example, click the Wadio category and see every single one of them I’ve ever written on one easy page. Also up for categorization – Quizzlet’s, Quotelets, Tall Tales, concert stories, etc. It’s a good way for people to find or revisit the 2+ years of content I have collecting dust in the database. It will also be good for SEO and site indexing.

It’s also high time for a redesign. While I’ve hacked into this template quite a bit (note my cute little face within the colored dots above, fundamentally it’s one of the standard blogger ones available to everybody. I’d like to spend a little money and have something completely unique created for PITF from scratch. If you know any good designers with Blogger template experience, send them my way. So I’ll be breathing some new life into the old girl, which she sorely needs, and I hope you’ll stay riveted to my silliness like it were a rickshaw/SUV collision.

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I’m Just Not That Prone To Eating Healthy.


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When the Pork Ass Challenge sputtered out, only a week before it was due to end on July 4th, I’d lost a reasonably exciting 10 pounds. In the meantime, I’ve packed 7 back on, and am currently having a fat day. Meaning my pants feel tight and I spent a good chunk of the morning crying whilst being coaxed out of a bathroom stall.

I have some social engagements over the next couple months, at which I’d like to appear a heck of a lot more svelt than I do now. My thoughts again turn to healthy ways to get that little bulge down. No, the other little bulge. I conquered the first one a long time ago when I taught myself to picture Jessica Tandy in that scene from Batteries Not Included where she’s bending over the little cheeseburger robot naked and covered in olive oil. Works better than thinking about baseball.

So I’m standing in the Au Bon Pain, staring at the yogurt, fruit cups, salads etc – and I realize I think I’d rather frigging starve myself. I honestly think it would be easier for me just to not eat, or subsist solely on shakes of some sort, than get through a bunch of watermelon or a rice cake. DVS and I hit the Sports Grille Friday night for some wing dings, buffalo tasties and my beloved poppers. It was heavenly. I look at a pineapple slice and I’d rather lick the razor I was threatening to slash myself with back in said bathroom stall.

So what’s the solution? Exercise obviously. It’s a simple equation – eat less, burn more, lose weight. But I can’t help but wonder, and I’ll be Googling this in a minute – is there, or has there ever been, a mayonnaise diet? That’d work for me.

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