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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: paul on August 05, 2008, 10:29:31 PM
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tom's been trying to write a few of these:
styx
hanson
missing persons
any other ones i've forgotten?
also i was surprised to hear liam lynch/s&o mentioned on the air, even if it wasn't in a positive light.
ROCK!!!!!
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Kriss Kross -- Totally Krossed Out
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I still like S&O. On the other hand, the Tenacious D movie was incredibly disappointing.
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the only thing i respect about tenacious d was that they got neil hamburger to play madison square garden.
CRAAAAANBERRY SAUCE!
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Thank goodness no one's gotten to Snatch and the Poontangs yet!
I hope I have enough ribbon in my typewriter!
C
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Styx III totally rules. Aka the Serpent is Rising!
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the only thing i respect about tenacious d was that they got neil hamburger to play madison square garden.
CRAAAAANBERRY SAUCE!
I saw Neil open from them in Boston and the stupid meathead audience was booing him (but not as a joke). I thought he was great and did an amazing job with the hecklers. Now if he'd only stop appearing on Fox News' Red Eye...
If 33 1/3 let Carl Wilson from the Globe and Mail do a book on a Celine Dion album, Tom deserves his chance.
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If 33 1/3 let Carl Wilson from the Globe and Mail do a book on a Celine Dion album, Tom deserves his chance.
Wilson's book is great! It's basically the 33 1/3 version of "I Don't Get It".
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Spike should launch the 45 rpm series with a volume on the Marathons "Peanut Butter" 45.
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Outside support:
http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/47020679/people-that-publish-those-33-1-3-books-let-tom
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I want to see the 10" series that Tom has planned. I guess he's working on "Found All the Parts" by Cheap Trick.
I would like to see "In the Pineys" by the Strapping Fieldhands.
(also, someone MUST have posted this already, right? (where Aziz must have seen it): http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/just_let_tom_scharpling_write.html )
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The only 331/3 book that Ive read that was worth the price of admission was the Master of Reality one, courtesy of Mr. Mountain Goats.
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I've read most but not all of the 33 1/3 books and I've enjoyed most of them. Obviously it varies depending on the author and the album in question, but I think they have a pretty good ratio of success to failure. I haven't read too many on bands or albums I don't like, but I can only think of a few disappointments, and those tend to be the more dry, academic volumes (the ones that come to mind first are the volumes on the Ramones debut and Jethro Tull's Aqualung).
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33 1/3 weighs in!
http://33third.blogspot.com/2008/08/still-more-odds-and-ends.html
Hilarious that they reference L.A. Guns, which was one of my (semi-joking) suggestions for Tom ... I also plan to start charging people for reproducing my Kriss Kross image.
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Cripes. I would put a watermark on that image, Omar.
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Hey folks. My name's John Mark and I work at Continuum (we produce the 33 1/3 series). I found you because you linked to the 33.3 blog from here. Let me know who/how to give credit for the amazing Kriss Kross 33.3 cover and I'll give credit where credit's due. And just fyi, to make it more convincing and for accuracy's sake, beware the cropping. There's supposed to be a black border around the colorful parts.
I used to listen to Best Show quite a bit a few years ago, but it's soooo loooong, and I can't find the time to keep up anymore it seems. Keep me up to date with any developments: jmboling@continuum-books.com
ALSO, you should know that we actually have a 33.3 in process right now on Madness, inventors of ska. Unfortunately it isn't written by Ronald Thomas Clontle.
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Hey folks. My name's John Mark and I work at Continuum (we produce the 33 1/3 series). I found you because you linked to the 33.3 blog from here. Let me know who/how to give credit for the amazing Kriss Kross 33.3 cover and I'll give credit where credit's due. And just fyi, to make it more convincing and for accuracy's sake, beware the cropping. There's supposed to be a black border around the colorful parts.
I used to listen to Best Show quite a bit a few years ago, but it's soooo loooong, and I can't find the time to keep up anymore it seems. Keep me up to date with any developments: jmboling@continuum-books.com
ALSO, you should know that we actually have a 33.3 in process right now on Madness, inventors of ska. Unfortunately it isn't written by Ronald Thomas Clontle.
The Vulture blog originally grabbed that Kriss Kross image come from one my Best Show Recaps (I've been keeping track of Tom's various denied submissions):
http://www.recidivism.org/2008/07/the_working_man.html
I've been recapping most Best Show episodes since late 2005, and you can peruse them all here:
http://www.recidivism.org/tbsowfmu/
Thanks!
-Omar.
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Excellent. Fixed: http://33third.blogspot.com/2008/08/still-more-odds-and-ends.html
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Holy moly. You left out the best part for Tom:
"New 33 1/3 Reading Series in NYC
For all of you in the New York area, we're starting a very exciting new 33 1/3 reading series at Barbès, a bar and performance space in Park Slope, Brooklyn located at 376 9th Street at 6th Ave.
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Sunday Sept. 7th @7pm Elisabeth Vincentelli on Abba's Abba Gold "
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For all of you in the New York area, we're starting a very exciting new 33 1/3 reading series at Barbès, a bar and performance space in Park Slope, Brooklyn located at 376 9th Street at 6th Ave.
There hasn't been a street fight in Park Slope for years, but I think an ABBA reading is a great place to pick up where they left off.
ALSO, you should know that we actually have a 33.3 in process right now on Madness, inventors of ska.
Madness: Inventors of Ska. They also invented mis-matched wardrobes. Perhaps the book for Kriss-Kross will wave a nod to them.
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I used to listen to Best Show quite a bit a few years ago, but it's soooo loooong, and I can't find the time to keep up anymore it seems.
In addition to the Baby Steps podcast, maybe there could be a "Best Show On the Go: Wit and Wisdom from WFMU's Tom Scharpling for the Busy Professional" digest put out.
I've contacted the people at http://www.bizsum.com/ and http://store.audiotech.com/.
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At least you got a credit there.
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Holy moly. You left out the best part for Tom:
"New 33 1/3 Reading Series in NYC
For all of you in the New York area, we're starting a very exciting new 33 1/3 reading series at Barbès, a bar and performance space in Park Slope, Brooklyn located at 376 9th Street at 6th Ave.
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Sunday Sept. 7th @7pm Elisabeth Vincentelli on Abba's Abba Gold "
Wow, I hope that is Time Out New York columnist and The Determined Dilettante (http://determineddilettante.blogspot.com/2008/01/villainy-within.html) blogger Elisabeth Vincentelli!
latest blog post: January 25, 2008. Zero Comments.
that's some writerly cred she got there.
*admittedly, I haven't really done shit all year.
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Come on, she's got more blog posts that that: http://determineddilettante.blogspot.com/
Not that I am generally in favor of people blogging more.
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Why? I love it when people introduce themselves as A Blogger. I don't get to laugh enough these days. I need those people.
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I like it when someone introduces themselves as a "Blogger." It's like saying they're "on the Myspace."
Total embarrassing-dad move.
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I like it when someone introduces themselves as a "Blogger." It's like saying they're "on the Myspace."
Total Twix commercial move.
Fixed.
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These are challenging "I'm a blogger" for the SFW crown:
"I'm a life coach".
"I'm a personal branding consultant".
"I help companies use Twitter to achieve their goals".
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For all of you in the New York area, we're starting a very exciting new 33 1/3 reading series at Barbès, a bar and performance space in Park Slope, Brooklyn located at 376 9th Street at 6th Ave.
There hasn't been a street fight in Park Slope for years, but I think an ABBA reading is a great place to pick up where they left off.
ALSO, you should know that we actually have a 33.3 in process right now on Madness, inventors of ska.
Madness: Inventors of Ska. They also invented mis-matched wardrobes. Perhaps the book for Kriss-Kross will wave a nod to them.
Were they the inventors of ska in the same way the Beastie Boys invented rap?
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Were they the inventors of ska in the same way the Beastie Boys invented rap?
PLEEEEASE...NO MORE SKA POSTS!!!!
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Oh, hang on, no more. My bad.
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"Ska Band Outnumbers Audience"
One of my favorite Onion headlines.
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Kriss Kross -- Totally Krossed Out
I'm doing my part to get Kriss Kross the cultural respect they deserve:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2009443474867918/ (http://www.zshare.net/audio/2009443474867918/)
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Awesome
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Elisabeth was/is indeed the TONY writer (and a longtime friend of mine). As Tom once spent an entire paragraph of Eighteen Wheeler criticizing her writing, this must have been a bitter pill.
Come on, she's got more blog posts that that: http://determineddilettante.blogspot.com/
Not that I am generally in favor of people blogging more.
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The ABBA GOLD book is maybe the best of the series as far as the ones I've read. Elisabeth knocked that book out of the park. My opinion of some of her writing back in the early 90s has nothing to do with what I thought of that book. In fact, that ABBA GOLD book made me want to do something for the series.
But now they cannot have me. They had their shot, but they missed it. Now I am Too Big For Them.
I'm a Big Stager. And those are not Big Stage Books.
Tom.
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But Teddy Rockstar NEEDS you!
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If 33 1/3 let Carl Wilson from the Globe and Mail do a book on a Celine Dion album, Tom deserves his chance.
Wilson's book is great! It's basically the 33 1/3 version of "I Don't Get It".
I loved this book, especially the parts about how Celine is perceived abroad.