Mini Crush #162

drum kid in here. And you know, I've been recording my own bands for for many years, and uh, I always ended up to make the final record going to a studio because I could just never get things like the drum sound to really slap the way you know, records that I listened to did, And so I would go to like the studio and Athenes called Chase Park Transductions, where I worked with this guy David Barbie, who I think you know the band Sugar and he produces all

the by Trucker's record So I learned so much from him just working in that studio. But I just got thanks to dear friend Stephen Banister at a place called Westlake Pro Audio in l A I got the most amazing deal on a Universal Audio Apollo, which is like the industry standard audio interface. It's got eight mic inputs. I've got my drums miked up, and I swear chuck, I have achieved that slapping drum sound that I have only thus far dreamed of or it felt like I had to go into a studio and pay lots of

money to achieve. So I love feeling pretty stoked. That's great. Noll you a good drummer. I'm not bad, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm competent. I can play with a click very well. I'm not like acrobatic, but I like and do a good backbeat and um and then I also like, you know, I like to make loops of myself and go in and kind of a jet time adjust things or make little you know, uh stutters and things in my edits. But yeah, I enjoy playing drums very much to have for I've had a drum kits since I was like, oh,

I guess, probably like twelve or thirteen years old. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, it's fun, it is. I'm not very card but I'm I'm I'm better than someone who's never picked up drumsticks. But um, I'm not very good, but I can do a basic little beat and you know, I can hold the fort down for a minute. How you like in that new uh, that new gifts and guitar you got, Well, I took it in to get

a pickup installed, so I haven't had it. I wanted to go ahead and just get it fully squared away, so getting a pickup installed and a strap button on the neck, on the base of the neck instead of you know, the tradition is to tie it over at the headstock on one end with an act of guitar. But I'm not a fan of that, so no, it feels weird. It like feels like it gets in the way of your hand even right like kind of just

I don't like it, so I am. It is definitely altering the guitar, which some people say is heresy, but I don't think it's a big deal to my guitar. Sure, try could do whatever you want, chuck. Uh, It's funny, man. There was a um, I was at the lake last weekend and I Emily went to bed super early because she had a rough day, and I was I found myself at like eight thirty at night, hanging out alone, beautiful woodland setting, feeling good, if you know what I mean. Yeah,

I had a couple of drinks. Some great things were happening. Yes, I know, these late these lake things, and I I told I got on Facebook and got you know, Ethan, you even one of our listeners who's been badgering me about Fish forever. I said, all right, yeah, and this is it. I'm ready to give Fish a fair audition. Where do I start? He kind of commented, too late,

A bunch of people said, here's what you should do. Um, I only wanted to hear from Ethan about this, So I never listened to Fish, But I did listen to The Dead Knel because I just, you know, I like a couple of the you know, the two big albums that were are known as like good studio albums. Sure, like The Empire of the Sun is one that people

always talk about as being a big psychedelic opus. Well, I know, as far as just accessibility American made and or no American beauty, and uh, what's the other one. I don't know. There's another one that's uh it's sort of you know a little more mainstream or whatever, not quite as like Jammie, but there's one with a very clever title. It has to be a live album. What

it's called Live Dead, which I think is very clever. Yeah, so I listened to some of that and then I was like, you know, I need to just dive in to what the Dead is really all about. So I listened to a thirty minute version of dark Star, which is their big you know, live jam you believe is off Empire of the Sun, one of the many. But it was like, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna really dive in there, and I'll tell you what, dude, in my head space, I really enjoyed it for a while.

It's very groovy and I got it, but I had to turn it off after like halfway, like fifteen minutes in. I stopped it. You know why, Well, here's what I figured out, and see if you agree. I don't know. I'm a rock and roll guy. I am used. I don't mind jamming, but it's something has to build to a musical resolution, and I felt like it never built

to a musical resolution. It would build and build, and then I'm used to the resolution happening, and then it would just start over with something kind of new and it just kept doing that over and over and I was like, I need that resolution. I think that's why.

Of the bands that maybe get lumped in with this jam band category, Pink Floyd, to me is the one that really does it because they have these big long interludes or big long intros and these stretches, but it always builds to some like new idea and then like or or it goes back it yourself. Yeah, we're just all the silver like yeah, exactly, like like shine on you, Crazy Diamond. Every time. I know that Dark Star does

do that. It has a main theme that it kind of repeats, but it takes a real long time for him to get there. And I know that they, you know, have very very long, extended versions of that. I've I've never gotten to them myself, but I keep wanting to try Empire of the Sun and I keep saying that, but that's the one. Like bands like Animal Collective and you know, bands that I really respect reference that that

record a lot. So yeah, I mean, listen, man, I I love the Almond Brothers band a lot, and they are jammy as fun, but they I feel like, bring it around to a place there's more structure. It makes sense to me, And you know, it's a shame I tried it it. Uh. I did like what I was hearing, though, Like it's not like I was like, oh, I don't

like the sound of these notes. Like it was super fucking groovy and like kind of jasy and very mellow and cool, and I was digging it for a while and then it just I was like, man, I need I need the music to resolve itself. I'm used to things building to a place, Chuck, I, I feel like I've mentioned them on the show before, But have you listened much to the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Uh No, I know, I know I need to. I hate the name so much it is really hard for

me to get over it. I know that's a dumb reason to not listen. It's not a dumb reason. It's the reason I didn't listen to forever. And I maybe have told the story already. But like a friend of mine who was in town had extra ticket and like, I like to heard of this band. I was like, yeah, I've heard of him, but it sounds ridiculous. I don't want to go anywhere near him. And it's the kind of band that's so good you give him a pass

on the dumb name and all. Also the dumb name even starts to be feel a little charming because they're all really, they're all yeah, because they're just they're these like Australian kind of like they're very young. They're like in there, like you know, mid twenties. And they literally made like seven records in seventeen and they make them all themselves. They were why is that what? The fact that they're prolific and talented and young. Seven records in

a year seems a little much to me. But they're good. They're good, and they're each very different, and they produce them themselves and record them themselves, and they like own all their own means of production and like they have their own little label and you know, and they've year over year gotten more and more popular. But I mean, I'll try it. I'll send you a couple of res Okay. I think they're a band that you have. They have so much stuff out there, you gotta know where to start.

If you start the wrong place, it might be a turn off. You have this one record that's genuinely like an eighties Metallica thrash album and it's like just spot on but still very much them. So I don't know, big fan, Now, is this the kind of thing though? Where in? I mean, are they gonna keep doing this in eight years? Are you gonna be like, Yeah, the King Gizzard has you know, sixty seven albums. It's awesome. Now. To be fair, they only may six albums that one year. Okay,

that's what I was. It's not like this is a thing they do. They do make a lot of records. But I think this year they've made three. No, last year, excuse me, last year they made Last year they made three. This year already they've come out with two. This is a very skeptical moll. I gotta give it a try. I think you should go. I'm gonna I'm gonna make you a playlist, Chuck, let make you mixtape. I'm also skeptical with bands that are like, here's our metal album

and here's a bluegrass album. Like, is it like that? Chuck? This is me? I know, I know, I know, I know you're no Ethan. I don't. I don't fawn I don't, I don't, I really don't. But these guys are fawn worthy and in my opinion, all right, I trust you know. I'm a skeptical grump today. It's also less about their

albums than it is about their live show. I don't really listen to their albums a lot, but live they're one of the most spectacularly just like dynamic, and they just like it's like your why watching magicians or something like. They just have the like it's like they're sparks coming off of them, like you're seeing people in their purest form doing the thing that they were meant to do. And and it's something very special about seeing them live.

All right. Uh and by the way, looping back to the dead and the Fish, who haven't heard a little bit of By the way, I think I've said this before though. My other issue with these bands is I am very much into singing and vocalists, and none of those groups have good singers that they all are adequate and you know, and can do okay, but widespread panic. I mean, if we're being honest, none of them have like consider like great vocalists. And Fish for me is

it's always been too jokey. I just don't like it. They're they're it's like they're too silly. Hung in cheek or or like, you know, not clever, not in a wien way at all. Uh, even though they are largely and I know you know that's largely responsible for why Ween became so big in the hippie set. And then the jam band said, I always thought Ween was so weird and edgy and strange, and then all of a sudden, when I went and saw them live, I'm like, what

are all these wooks doing here? I don't understand. What's what's going on? Well, the wook is as they call hippie type crunchy folks, wookies or wooks. Okay, I didn't know that. I wouldn't have known that term at the time. Is it because they smell like wookies? I don't know why they call him that, Chuck, I don't question it. It just seems to apply. It just seems to make. And again with Almond Brothers, they had a great vocalist, Greg Allman, one of the great blues singers in rock history.

Big time, so big time. That's where I stand. I'm with you to where we're not. We're not that far out of each other's garages. I am going to give the fish to try, though because Ethan finally did comment the fish gonna try I'm gonna try the fish, and uh, I'll take the I'll take the fish. I'll have the fish, please. So I'm gonna get with one of his recommendations. But I'm always a little leary when people are like, oh man, it's studiobums aren't so good, but you gotta see him live.

I'm like, if you're a good band, you should be able to make a good album. No, No, I agree the people's people say, Billy. I saw a friend of mine who's a metal guy or like kind of more of like he does all kinds of stuff. He's got this project called dream Tent that um is very like Tears for Fears, kind of like gothy new wave. It's

really good. I think you dig it. But he used to be in like more hardcore, punky type bands and he was literally the quintessential athens hipster sound guy who like you know, looks at you pissy when you asked for more guitar in the mom I'm kidd he's he's the best. But you know what I'm saying, That guy um And he recently posted about how he listened to the album Billy Breathes by fish and and un ironically really liked it. And this is a dude that is

the grumpiest of curmudgeon ley type music snobs. Uh. So I was very surprised to see that, and it it made me kind of want to check it out. I'm like, wow, what is what does jeans seeing this? That was one of the records that a lot of people recommended as a good entry point. By the way, Billy breaths h and No, before we get going on the actual movie content, I do want to commend you. I was really listening to an episode from a couple of weeks ago with you and me, and you made a really funny joke

that went right over my head. But I must commend you on it's when you were talking about uh, your um ex wife's young daughter. Yeah, talks about spooky uh instead of spooky. And then you were saying, and I just didn't get it at the time. You were talking about Atticus Ross I think in and Trent Resiner and their scores. Instead of saying spooky scores, he said spooky spores were great, And I just went by me and then I heard it in the car and was just

like legit, laughing out loud. Spooky sports. Spooky Sports is fun to say, isn't it. And I feel like that should be a band name. It should be like, you know, Spenny's Spinkleton and the spoopy Sports. You know. Now see, you're going king Gizzard just less is more less, all right? So we're gonna move on to the crushers page because old pal Joshua Fish not fish with a p pH, God forbid, He's He's the real deal. He's a real fish. Uh. He says, this an a little twist on an unpopular opinion.

What movie do you really want to like but don't? And he said mine was what about Bob? I love Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. My family thinks it's hilarious, but it just doesn't land for me. I think we all have those movies that, by all accounts, we should love that we don't. Yep. I I've made mine very clear, and it's just the one that comes to mind immediately, and uh it's uh la la land I was. I had all the right things for me going in. I love musicals, I love Los Angeles, I love that cast,

I love the idea of it. I love some of the songs, but as a whole it did not hold together for me and had some good sequences. But I'd love to give another chance. But I remember being really kind of uh just I was. I was surprised at how little it connected with me, and I really wanted it to and I really disappointed, right, very disappointed, because I was like, this looks so cool, a magical l a musical romp, you know, with like flying around and

dancing and Buzby Berkeley kind of choreography. Everything about it like hit from me. But I just I just didn't do it for him, do it all right? No, we're gonna start out with old pal Caroline Guest and says, I wanted to like Pixar's Soul. I still haven't seen that, by the way, a lot more than I did. I was expecting to have some sort of earth shaking existential crisis at the end. Well, people overhyped those movies, and people talked about that one as though that was going

to happen. That one hit for me because it is about like it's about following your dreams and maybe letting them go. Wow, It's it's kind of it's a big deal. It's very human, real stuff, especially with like what's going on in the world right now. And it's also about, like, you know, a musician, like do I choose music as a passion career, like you know, I'm gonna be a professional musician, or do I choose the job that pays

the bills? And maybe it isn't the thing that I thought I was destined for, but maybe really is the thing that I was destined for. And then and then they're like, uh, and I'm not even that good of a singer. And someone said, we'll just be in a jam band exactly, Chuck, what's a movie like this for you? I'm trying to think, man, uh, nothing's coming to mind. I'll see if one of these something, yeah, because I

really can't think of anything. Um. Shannon Panell Carter though, says Lord of the Rings, any of them duck and cover, like she's afraid that people are going to come after and you know it's not loving them. There you go, Yeah, it's it's a thing. I was actually on The Daily's I iced yesterday as a guest and it was great. Um. They do a thing though, where you have to talk bring in something you think is overrated and something you

think is underrated. And I had a hard time coming up with something overrated because I didn't want to like, you know what, is it yuck? Anyone's yum? Well, that's sure, but I didn't think of it until now. But my friend, uh, who's a real professional curmudgeon, recommended James Cameron, and I realized, I absolutely feel like James Cameron is overrated. So we had a discussion around that. I agree. David Hook to

b r Old pels Is The Matrix. Tried it three times and it still bores me, all right, not for everyone. Rochelle Bracy says The Big Lebowski. I don't know at the time. It just wasn't able to hold my interest at the time. That's a movie that changes with age. Let me tell you, like, I think you can come back to that movie a little later in life, maybe you've lived a little more and seen some ship and then and then you go back and that one. Because I'm telling you I didn't get it when I first

saw it. I was too young. I did not get it. I'm not presuming to know the age of this person or their experience, but I swear that movie really aged well for me personally, and now it's like, you know, it's cannon for me, all right, Brent A Price, one of her old prince says, Big Trouble in Little China. My friends won't let me off the hook for this one. I know you love that one, Chuck, and I still have yet to see it. I mean, I love it, but it's certainly a movie that I get not being

everyone's cup of tea, you know. But you know, if Brent is playing by the rules here, then uh he he should like it, you know. Kurt Russell, sorry about that, and uh. In The Gang Kitchi eighties m hm, David Wilder says, it's not that I don't like it, but can't figure out why. Every time I's wry, I went Spiderman into the Spider Verse, I fall asleep. That's an interesting movie to fall asleep too. Yeah, it's really kinetic, like kind of like you know, what's the word, like

sensory overload totally you know, yeah, interesting? All right. That's another one that got a lot of big hip though, but I personally felt like it lived up to it, if not exceeded it a little bit. I thought it was wonderful. This is a good one here. James Taggert says, The Godfather didn't see it until later in life. It was already accustomed to more modern mafia movies like Casino and Goodfellows. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've barely made

it through the whole movie. I'm sorry, Internet. Yeah, I mean the Godfathers did of the slower burn. Not. Actually I rewatched it very very recently, and I just thought it it utterly held up. It's it feels real. It feels like you're watching real life, and real life is long takes. That's what real life is, you know. Oh interesting hot take here, Absalom Bittner, I don't believe we

met you, Absalom. Welcome, good morning, he says dni Villa new movies in general, but Arrival specifically, the twist was really obvious and ham fisted. Me. All movies are manipulative, but I could feel the manipulation in a way that maybe not enjoy it. Interesting. Yeah, I mean you, I get it totally with that one, for sure. I do think that saying his movies in general, they're so varied. I don't think he even has like one thing that he does, so it's interesting to throw them all in

like a bucket. Like that. Joel Krantz says everything by mel brooks. Okay, there's an interesting thread here about Greta Gerwigs Little Women here and in another post. This is from Sarah Irons and I think Sarah actually instigated a post or not instigated, but posted a post on the Crusher Spades about Little Women and how much she wanted to love it, and uh, quite a few people agreed. I mean, have you seen the new one? I really really want to um it seems right up my alley,

but I have not yet. I enjoyed it, but it does a time jump thing that is a little jarring, I will admit, especially if you don't know the material as well like I did going into it. I did end up liking it, but I definitely see why people may have more love for the Winona writer verse and a little more true to the source material, right, I think as far as just the linear quality of the story, I was I read a lot about the credit Girlwig one and and and uh it seems like people either

loved or hated whatever stylistic choice she made. That that was different. But you know, aside from that, it's wonderful acting, beautiful costuming, like everything about it was really top notch. And Emily and I saw in the theater, and uh, we don't get to a lot of movies together. It was a movie night date and that can influence you. Like we had a drink beforehand. We had a really

good experience with it, you know. The googe David Gooch says, I really want to like Blade Runner, but just couldn't get into any version of it. This souf. It's almost like you're a soprano hitting a high note but kind of faltering castrato. YEA, yeah, I can understand that. I mean, to me, the original Blade Runner is kind of boring. It's just so stalistically important and beautiful. I found the second one, that the Villeneuve one, to be more engaging

in terms of story. Uh, and it really expanded that world. So I have said it before. I think the second one is a better movie. The first one is just so important for so many things that came after it. You know. Yeah, I mean I like them both. I haven't seen the I only saw that second one once. I need to see that again. I saw it in the theater, but it gave me away. Uh, Karrie v mcquaye had one of our oldest friends, says Citizen Kane.

I love a lot of old movies, but yeah, no, I thought it was dumb and I just hated that character. He's a she's he's he's to be hated. Isn't the point? Karen Patrick, It's not like groundhog Day and likes loves all things Bill Murray ordinarily. Yeah, I didn't love groundhog Day. I watched it with the family recently, and I thought it was cute, but he's such an asshole and he really is like gas lighting the ship out of hers a little aggressive. It's like, dude, she's not interested. Back off. Uh,

It's okay. I mean I like I like groundhog Day a lot, but is it's not like one of my favorite all time movies like it is for a lot of people. I did like what about Bob though? What about Bob? I have? I like? I have? I saw that in the theater when I was Yeah, Josh Taco not Taco Toco to c c O s talk Taco

could go either way. Super bad not the biggest fan of that Riff comedy and Jonahill and Seth Rogan that they made so popular thinking at some funny moments like most of the actors, but it just never landed like it did for literally everyone else that saw it. Riff comedy. I've never heard that before. Is it just like snappy kind of like I'm clever dialogue kind of thing, or I guess, like you smart alacky smart ALACKI maybe, or it seems like they're improving and just sort of ripping

on stuff. Who knows? Interesting? Gil concernled pal the danger of and says, uh, the Lighthouse, I hate that movie. Well, I mean, it's not a pleasant movie, but it's I get it well executed, you know, I mean, we both love that movie. But if there ever is a movie that you get that people can't sit through, it's The Laightouts. Yeah, or Mandy is another one on the people that love it love I know you were a little on the Fencer in the middle, but people that love it really

love it. And then there are people who I know have great taste of music who just fucking hate that movie. Yeah, and there's uh, what's his name? Your ghosts the most and the most like a lot of people have a hard time with the lobster and killing the sacred deer and I get it. I loved him, but I get it, well, he has this like unease about his work that is just like you're always kind of on the edge of your seat, but not in like a suspensey way, more in like I'm about to crawl out of my skin

kind of way. You know. Yeah, um, Karen, avoid and all. This is a hot take, Karen Dromboski says mad Max fury Road. I thought it was so boring. I couldn't even tell you the plot. Well that's okay. I'm not gonna say anyone's opinion is wrong, but I just boring. That's weird. That sonalized interesting. Not for Karen though, That's fine, you know, and you know, uh, Karen had Petra Caitlin said same. So you know, when people agree, some people

give hearts, some people give gasping emoji faces. There was a thread on the Crushers page about people who were mad about in and of itself, which you and I both thought was like life changingly wonderful. So it just goes you know, it's everything's not for everybody. Yeah, here's my take on that. And that's not to say that people can't not like it. Even if they do invest. But it's one of those that you really have to. I mean they even say at the beginning, like run

off your phone. And I made the comment on the page. I was like, if your second screening or cooking dinner and trying to watch this thing, it's going to be lost on you. Like you, you really have to block everything out and really kind of give some thoughtful attention to uh. And if you do that and you still don't like it, fine, but you're certainly not gonna like it if you're half casually watching. It's just not something you can have casually watch and get all the down.

You gotta really do the buy in, you know, at least let you know, treat it like it's intended. Treat it like you're in that theater and then you and you and you're a captive audience and you really, you know, need to just sit there. And it's not that long. And and I actually found that it just it felt even shorter than it actually was, you know, because it just moves from me. But yeah, I give another shot.

I think if you found that you were casually watching and or watching while doing other things, it's not gonna make sense because so many things connect over time, you know, and totally you want to hear Schnide's hot take. We loved it. We were texting about it because you kind of up an NPR interview into my text with UH with Derek Uh, and I was like, well, did you

watch it? And he said I did. And I was like, this is like when someone doesn't text you back after you recommend something to say, Oh man, I loved it. It was like, so Schnides has got an issue and he said, there's a lot I liked about it. The bit where he goes through the audience at the end, that was great. I really like the narrative with his mom. But his sad guy shoegazer I'm not performing performance style was weird for me. And by weird, I mean I

didn't like it. And I was like, I was like, dude, I love you. I said, that's so funny and he said, but hey, I applaud anyone who writes the show and performs it. Discipline is more important than talent, and boy, that is a great piece of advice from a professional actor, like, if you don't have discipline, you have all the talent

in the world. You're not gonna go anywhere, Absolutely no, And you just have to keep doing it, like I mean, luckily we're in it, said Stuation with you know, podcasting onever whatever you think that requires talent or whatever it requires. Where we do it every single week without fail, we are going to get better at it. We have gotten

better at it over time, dude. It's because we do it every single week, twice, three times, four times, five times a week, and it just happens to be built into our life and our schedule and our delivery thing because of our jobs. But yeah, I look back years ago and listen to my stuff and I just didn't have the same level of confidence or or whatever. And it's because of what you're saying, you know totally. I mean, you're you weren't making you weren't dropping jokes like spoopy

spores five years ago. That's a that's an even newer development, spoopy sports, the whole other ball game. I texted Schneider, he's that knows you mean. Schneider sort of had a little text friendly text exchange about music and stuff, and I I texted him I was going to send him some tracks I was working on that were kind of in the vein of the stuff he was recommending, and he goes, yeah, man, i'd love to hear something. I've got a few auditions that I'm got to knock out

and then I'd love to hear it. And um, I had to break a leg. And I also mentioned that I had no idea he was in this show that I really love but didn't finish, called Tales from the Loop on Amazon. It's like a sci fi dystopian thing with Jonathan Price. He was he's in like a later episode. It's a it's a mini series anthology or each episodes kind of its own thing. And I just didn't get to his and I realized he was in and I told him and I was like, oh, and I can't.

I just realized you were in the show that I love, but I didn't get your episode. I'm gonna try to get to it immediately get back into it. And he just was like, yeah, cool man, things, Yeah, I heard that show was great. I needed Uh, it's nice to check that out. It's nice. It's it's the kind of dystopian sci fi future thing that isn't like mean spirited in the way that Black Mirror is. It's a little

kinder and gentler. There's definitely weird things happening beneath the surface and kind of sinister stuff at play, but it's a lot less like, oh God, I want to kill myself, you know, I hear you. All Right, We're gonna kind of just buzz through some of these here to finish up this thread. Old friend Genevan Valence as Midsummer pretty visually all right. She said it was like an influencer influencers insta feed, but mostly I hated everyone in the film.

Thought it was long and boring. Dave Taylor says The Godfather. Joseph Bell says the Original Dune. Sarah Stanislav says Casablanca interesting still, I haven't seen it, uh, And Sarah also says I love anything old and or World War two adjacent, so uh interesting. Another vote for Citizen Kane from Shane Hill. Grant Woody says, Gone Girl. It's my least favorite Fincher film, but I really wanted to like it. Afflecks performance didn't go over well for me. I like Gone Girl. I

liked quite a bit. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I mean yeah, no, I think it was it was a combination you know the source material and the directing. Oh the score is so good too, like the there it was spooky as spuck. I read that book to actually done. Girl, that's good reading a book, Chuck, what's it like reading a book. I'm about to start the Sammy Hagar book. You know, I'm buddies with online, buddies with Sammy Hagar son. Aaron, you told me that, and so we text and stuff and uh, I had his

dad's book delivered. He was like, you're gonna love it, and he said, it's pretty fun read. And you read the Eddie van Halen biography prior to that just recently, didn't you. Well, there is no Eddie van Halen biography that I know of. This is uh. It was a book called van Halen Rising, and it covered van Halen from there, you know, pre van Halen days up through their first album, but in a great, great detail. It

was really pretty intense. Did they step backyard parties and pasted DNA when they were you know, playing in the early days of in Halen with like three thousand people at these mansions that the cops were shut down, like full on concerts with piro and spotlights and ship that crazy burned down the whole neighborhood like they were a well honed band by playing these parties before they even started to play these dive bars. Really amazing. Um, I

think this is an offline conversation. But Sunset Sound that that that really storied reporting studio in Los Angeles. They have a really good Instagram account where they're always posting like archival pictures. It's been around since like the I think the fifties at the very least the early sixties, so like you know, Frank Zappa Hot Rats was made there. A lot of early Van Halen stuff was made there. It's like they're in the control room like smoking cigs.

You know. It's like stuff that like would make an engineer clutch their pearls today. But really cool, um, slice of the past and in that Instagram feed. Highly recommend if you're into Sunset Sound Records. Sunset Sound Records, Yes, sir, all right, final right now and all better be good?

Okay now I'm just kidding. Um, all right, let's finish up with a little stream this we watch Spirited Away that was our second uh studio is it Ghibli or Ghibli Ghibili is what I've heard Americans say, Okay, so that was our first second venture uh into that with our daughter, and I gotta say it was a little more intense than I thought it would be. Yes, Uh, some of it was sort of nightmare fuel ish. Yes,

But she's cool, man, she can handle hit. Um I did mention that, didn't I that it was a little so you know, we dove in and she she was she was fine with it. Um. She's always been good with with content. I think I've said this before about not getting super scared or freaked out or knowing that it's faker real Like I've always explained to her that like, people make these movies and that's all it is. And uh,

it was. It was good man. I mean, ultimately I liked uh Totoro better as far as just you know, a sweet, fun family movie to watch, but um, I certainly loved Spirited Away. It was complete crazy dude. Yeah, dude. Yeah, it's very through the looking glass right, It's very like very druggy, very druggy, like the way that Baba Yaga which morphs in her fate like I mean spirit and that whole it was. I mean there's a lot going on,

Familace and Yeah, it's great, man. It's a special stuff and um I would yeah, there's a there's a lot of good stuff in that cattle is next for us. Panio is not that Panio is My kid like loved Panio when she was like six, I mean really really truly loved it. So yeah, I can't wait. And I bought Ruby a Totoro love e um who she now just like sleeps with and cuddles with. It's very good. That's Are you familiar. Are you aware of these things

that the kids are into these days called squish mellows. Nope.

They're basically stuffed animals that are stuffed with like memory foam, so they kind of squish and then expand slowly, and it is it is all the rage they sell them at like CVS and Walgreens and places like that, and they're like they're becoming a commodity like beanie babies, where the kids are like buying up all the limited edition ones and then like reselling them on eBay and you gotta run and get them before they get all bought up.

So Eden is obsessed with them, and they're really you can put them on the couch and use them as a pillow. They're so comfortable. Actually squish mellows like a marshmallow, but squish squish mellows. Oh look at those coming all all shapes and sizes and creature types. And yeah, very very Japanese Kawaii influence. Yeah, yeah, I love it. Uh So the other thing we've been watching is uh and I posted about this today, Bluey. Have you ever seen Blueie?

I don't know Bluey Blue as a kid show, but if you the post I made today was like, you don't need kids to watch Bluey, Like, please understand that people. It is Australian. It is a cartoon. They are seven minutes long. It's about a family of dogs, a mom and a dad and two little girls named Mingo and Bluey. And uh. It is profound and sweet and hysterical and clever.

And I just can't speak highly enough of Bluey. It is really really great and it is a Emily and I watched one every night before we go to bed, and Ruby's already watched them all, so we watch them on our own. Um, it's just great. What's the target audience? Like? Little kids? Five six year olds? Got it? Oh? It's interesting, But I mean so many of the jokes are aimed at adults. Uh, it's you know, it's it's clearly a

very clever show. It looks cool like Eden's baby sister, you know, is that well she's a little younger maybe, but like it looks something she's three, she'd like Blueie. Yeah, and you know, some of the jokes she wouldn't get. But it's very, very cute. The visual style is very cute. I mean I like it already. Yeah, it's cool. I

love it. You would like it all. It is a very profound show, like every episode almost And you know, I read some back background articles about the guy who made it, and another one about how Blue's dad, bandit Um is a really great TV model for a father, and you don't see a lot of those usually. I love Homer Simpson, but you know, that's sort of the model in cartoon Land is the father. The father is a bumbling idiot and can't do anything right, whether it's

Family Guy or the Simpsons or whatever. And in this case, Bandit is like a good dad. And they're like great lessons and parenting lessons to be learned too. But again, I don't have to have kids. It's really wonderful no, you gotta have kids first. You can't watch You gotta go get the pregnant immediately so that you can watch Blueie gilt free. Uh what. I finally got around to watching the new Miranda July movie Cajillionaire. Have you seen this? I have not seen that yet. I do love her

though I love her too, if I'm not mistaken. It's the first one of her films that she herself has not been in. Um. Uh, Me and You and Everyone We Know was like a really formative movie for me. Another really great l a movie. All her movies are very l a. Um this one. It's got Rachel Evan, Rachel Evan Woods, Chel Evan, Rachel Wood. Yeah, excuse me. Um. And she obviously is a very beautiful woman. Um and uh plays the like most awkward uh just kind of gangly,

very just like socially bizarre character in this movie. Um. And it's just wonderful. Her performances incredible. Uh. Deborah Winger I didn't even recognize as as as her mother. So it's Deborah Winger. And um oh, the guy who played the father in six Ft Under, who's a great character actor. Who's Richard Jenkins. Richard Jenkins, and they are basically this

is not spoilers, the basic set up. They are just these lifelong grifters who have raised their daughter to be there like assistant and and and they've done it in a very specific way so that she's just like so socially stunted, but like everything she does is just about these different grifts, these very elaborate grifts. They live in a rented room that's attached to a car wash that the wall leaks pink sudsy foam at a certain time every day and they have to like scoop it up

with buckets, and it's just it's very Miranda July. It's very whimsical. It has a really beautiful suite ending. Um, I can't recommend it. It's the kind of you gotta sit with and it's sort of like weeds its way back into your thoughts or you sort of learned things about it after, like when you've thought on it a little bit, HI recommend I am. I'm gonna watch that, uh next week. It's a rental It was one that was originally like released for like full movie price. Now

it's down to just Amazon rental price. I think it was like thanks for the Emily. We we both, like Miranda July said this one. You guys will love this movie together. It's very good, wonderful. Alright, dude, Well that's it for this week. We are going to morph ourselves into next week in just a minute. That's editing. That was the sound of us morphing into next week. And

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