Shows
Bittersweet RamblingsScooby Doo Gang - Livin' the Van LifeThe Scooby Doo Gang was just trying to do their own thing. Making it from day to day, livin' the van life. Solving mysteries others couldn't in towns across the country just to have a place to sleep and food to eat.
Can you run without being chased? I think not. What were they on the run from?
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
Soft and Furious - Hyper Staying (played 4 times)
Soft and Furious - I Love the Way You're Talking to Me
2021-03-2415 min
Bittersweet RamblingsPowerhouse - Early 80's Teen Mystery Solving TeamThis show helped to convince a young grade school me that teen mystery solving gangs were a thing. That somehow if you found the right group, you too to go around solving mysteries. As long as one member of the team had a van to drive, so that you could file out of the van like a team.
At the time, it did not occur to me that you needed both other team members, and some actual mysteries to solve. Also, if it were that easy, there would be about 10 vans loaded down with mystery solving teens.
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2021-02-0114 min
Bittersweet RamblingsFriday the 13th Part 2 - An Ode to MuffinThere I was, up watching yet another edited for TV horror movie late at night. Not wanting to go to bed, but not really feeling any interest in yet another teens in peril movie.
Until she came onto the screen. Hair flowing, bow neatly tied, charisma in spades. She was smart. She was sweet. She was a survivor. Her name was Muffin, and she may nip at you if you step on her paws.
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
TRG Banks - Chicken John
Loyalty Fr...
2021-01-0815 minBittersweet RamblingsWhen Marie Kondo Just Won't Cut It - Terrorize Yourself into Cleaning Your HomeWhen you need motivation to clean, because the piles keep growing, sometimes terror works better than aspiration. Turn on these TV shows, and scare yourself into scrubbing your home, and possibly your skin, down with bleach.
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
TRG Banks - Indian Pacific (3)
John Bartmann - Dubby Heights
2020-07-2815 minBittersweet RamblingsSelf Control - A Music Video I Probably Should Not Have Watched Over and Over When I was 9
When you are very young, and you like certain songs, sometimes you end up watching music videos over and over. And the video is kind of confusing, but you watch it anyway.
Then, years later, you look it up again, and you realize why it stayed with you all of those years. Self Control by Laura Branigan was a music video with a lot of masks. And a creepy doll. And mannequins, so many mannequins. Black Swan style makeup. There was also an orgy scene.
Then, sometimes you find out years later that the video...
2020-06-0420 minBittersweet RamblingsTucker and Dale vs. Evil - Tucker Got a Raw DealSay you buy a new vacation cabin in the woods. You got a good deal on it, but it is going to need a bit of work. And by a bit of work, there is actually a lot of work. And you go up to work on the cabin with your friend, who ditches work to play flirty time with someone with a concussion. And by the end of the weekend, everything is destroyed, and your fingers don't match.
Tucker deserves a little a little bit of appreciation and maybe a bit of justice.
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2020-05-0115 minBittersweet RamblingsGhost Stories - Ghosts Are Not Trying to Destroy You (Probably)Per the new ghost shows on Travel Channel or TRVL, ghosts have transformed from spooky mists with tragic backstories, to mind-controlling shadows that will destroy your life and try to kill you. Because a shadow can suddenly make you act like a jerk around your friends, you didn't just do that on your own.
Also, I think I need to take up looking for haunted items in people's homes. I'll just look for the most expensive trinkets, convince the homeowners that they summon demons. Then I will offer to take them to my super safe museum (i.e. m...
2020-02-1827 min
Bittersweet RamblingsHome Interiors and Gifts Inc - Everyone Wants More Gold ShrubberyIt was hubris to think that I could get another episode out in the time frame I gave on the last episode. I laughed in the faces of the podcast deities. They responded by bringing their wrath down upon my household and sending a plague of creepy door to door salesmen to my residence.
The salesmen did bring back fond memories of the Home Interior and Gifts parties that may mom was suckered into giving on a semi-annual basis. Explaining why my childhood home was filled with framed pictures of sad children next to wagon wheels, ceramic anim...
2020-01-0728 minBittersweet RamblingsI'm Free (Heaven Helps Kenny Loggins Break Out of Prison?)Sometimes you are looking for old songs, and you drift into rabbit holes of blissful nostalgia. Deep dark rabbit holes with songs by Kenny Loggins drawing you further into the dark. And you're thinking to yourself, wait, Kenny is leading you too far into the dark. Turn back before it's too late. But his dulcet tone draws you further in.
Then you watch a video starring a heavily bearded nearly middle-aged Kenny breaking out of prison to be with his teenage girlfriend (played by Virginia Madsen).
And also nunchucks are involved. Stay for the nunchucks.
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2019-11-0620 min
Bittersweet RamblingsHereditary - a Pretty Package with a Gag Gift InsideYou know, I'm a calm person. Known for being calm and understanding and taking things easy. The picture of a calm breeze on an open field kind of calm.
Then I saw Hereditary. Weeks after watching this movie, there have been requests for me to stop whining about the ending. Those requests were denied.
Unless you want to see a bunch of elderly naked people acting weird, this movie is probably not for you.
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
Ian Sutherland - The Path
Co...
2019-09-2423 min
Bittersweet RamblingsCameras Lie - Especially When You Use 7 Photo FiltersMovies are just moving paintings with sound. They keep you very close to them, and away from the light of day. They lie to you. They tell you things only a moviegoer can understand. But they are really pretty beasts.
Stuff that I read before I recorded this:
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
https://www.mensjournal.com/features/building-a-bigger-action-hero-20140418/
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
Little Glass Men - Desert Castles
The Insider - Time to Move and Motivate
2019-08-0621 min
Bittersweet RamblingsUnder the Silver Lake - Is Basically Teenage Boy's Fever DreamUnder the Silver Lake is brilliant if you are a teenager who is obsessed with playing records backwards for secret messages. In other words, if you are looking for conspiracies everywhere because you are very, very, bored, you'll probably like this movie.
It's a really pretty movie if you turn the sound off, though. And your storyline is probably going to be better.
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
Nathaniel Wyvern - Sanctuary of the Sky Gods
James Pants - Tonight By The Moonligh...
2019-07-0809 minBittersweet RamblingsThe Kissing Booth - Yes My Niece Picked The MovieThe Kissing Booth is a Netflix film that was picked when my niece, because all my movie choices are "too old". Yes, she is 12. She is guesting on this episode because she told me that she was guesting, and I find it best not to argue with her.
We talk about which part of the movie to skip (the entire second half - spoiler), which animals she will allow to live when she is a veterinarian, and what human being she would be willing to feed to a hungry animal.
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2019-06-1839 minBittersweet Ramblings50 First Dates - Who would not want to relive a first date over and over and over50 First Dates is the story of a man who is obsessed with reliving the first date experience, and his dream girl who has head trauma, and can't remember any of their dates. Also looking at the other side of the coin with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, where the couple no longer wants to remember any of their dates. Which side do you fall on?
All songs from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org
New England Air by BOPD
Shuttleworth (Interval) by Marco Tovatello
2019-05-1524 minBittersweet RamblingsThe Money Pit - Yes, Your House May be Homicidal
The Money Pit is the story of a neglected house trying to use some Rube Goldberg style accidents to remove its current owners. They should have paid more attention to its needs. Also Wile E Coyote should have made lunch of that stupid bird.
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Steppin by Wake
Led By the Dress Colored Red by Augustus Bro and Gallery Six
Effects of Elevation (Citizen by Revolution Void
2019-03-1814 min
Bittersweet RamblingsAlien - Corporate Politics Gone WrongAlien is a movie about a Space Tug that was sent to do scientific research, because their power-driven manager was trying to hijack another department's meeting. Promising the moon and stars to the executives in attendance because the other manager took the last danish.
As a notice to all the space corporations out there, maybe don't send a space tugboat crew to do potentially dangerous space exploration. Maybe focus on their strengths, like space tugboating.
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Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
New England...
2019-03-0419 minBittersweet RamblingsValentine's Day - A Social Standing Strategy GameValentine's Day is not a holiday for expressing caring and devotion between couples and loved ones. It is a strategy game used to increase social standing, starting in elementary and continuing through your last years in a nursing home. Not that I have any resentment towards this "holiday". At All.
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Field & Strings by Ian Sutherland
Bridging & Mending by Jared C Balogh
whiffle whaffle by fascinating earthbound objects
2019-02-1318 minBittersweet RamblingsConstantine - Could Have Been Night Court for the SupernaturalThe club scene in Constantine could have been Night Court for the supernatural. The opportunities for petty grievances are endless. It really was an opportunity missed.
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Brazilian Rythym by Sunsearcher
Iron Shots (for Accuracy) by Hogan Grip
Disco High by UltraCat
2019-02-1215 min
Bittersweet RamblingsCruella de Vil - Lambasted for Trying to Prevent Animal Hoarding
101 Dalmatians is a story about a school chum who tried to step in and in turn had her good name tarnished when trying to prevent an animal hoarding situation. Beware of anyone who has walls full of pictures of nothing but random dogs, nothing good can come of it.
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Youngchen by Simon Mathewson
Cats Corp by Blanket Music
Ghost (Instrumental) by Forget the Whale
2019-01-2416 minBittersweet RamblingsWeird Science - 80's Attempt to do a Cinderella Role-ReversalWeird Science is an attempt to do a Cinderella story for the 80's boys. It is filled with a mutant biker gang, the 80's style computer sorcery, and a magic woman created by guys wearing bras on their heads. The description above makes the movie sound significantly better than it is.
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The League of Mice by Dee Zee
Gemini Instrumental by Pipe Choir
Road Hazard by Blue Wave Theory
I will be back on schedule next week. Probably.
2019-01-2118 minBittersweet Ramblings80's Anti-Drug Commercials - Because Kids in the 80's weren't Traumatized EnoughIn the 80’s kids were traumatized by threats of an possible impending nuclear missile, by the threat of being kidnapped, or by not being close to a pay phone. So why not add to the trauma with an anti-drug campaign that was as uninformative as it was terrifying.
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Neogrotesque by Tortue Super Sonic
Space Love Attack by UltraCat
July.#4 by arizono kazuhiro
I'm Fat by Blanket Music
2019-01-1116 minBittersweet RamblingsThe Birds - Terror in the Skies Before the Bird FluThe Birds is a suspense movie about crows having a really bad day and the people who got in their way. Also yet another movie showing that nature is out to get you. Probably because it is out to get you.
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Aria by Kimiko Ishizaka
Andrew Bisset: cultural Dis-Ease by Sergey Schepkin
Danzi: Wind Quintet Op 67 No 2 In E minor, 3 Menuetto Allegretto by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
The Tea Party by Dexter Britain
Dystopie en voie d'extinction pour rien b...
2019-01-0321 minBittersweet RamblingsThe Matrix is Social Media on SteroidsThe Matrix is like social media algorithms piped directly into people's brains. In The Matrix, it was done to hide from people that they were part of a power grid. Social media is definitely not a way to hide everyone that we are being used as a power grid. Probably.
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Its What It Is by Ian Sutherland
Flowers by Coldnoise
Psychic City Voodoo City by YACHT
Note Drop by Broker for Free
2018-12-2721 minBittersweet RamblingsParaNorman - It Is Possible to be Too NormalParaNorman is a beautiful movie about a small town going into attack mode at first sight of zombies. Seems reasonable, but the movie begs to differ. Also small towns are hornet's nests.
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Call for Surrender by Jesse Spillane
Once Tomorrow (Instrumental Version) by Josh Woodward
Mariachi Bandits of Gatling Gun Ridge by krackatoa
Indian Summer by Zero V
2018-12-1920 minBittersweet RamblingsRumbleseat - What You Leave BehindRumbleseat is a beautiful little short video, about some guys who probably rev their engines in suburban neighborhoods, and would be really annoying in real life. Also looking at when you need to let go.
Link to Rumbleseat: https://vimeo.com/27831940
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Veloma by Fabrizio Paterlini
Mystery by The Lovely Moon
Intolerance by Kosta T
2018-12-1221 minBittersweet RamblingsCooking Shows - Presentation is a Cover for Bad CookingHow can there be multiple networks fully devoted to cooking shows? Are the people who watch cooking shows masochists who enjoy watching others smell, taste, and touch food they themselves will not have? Does it all taste like chicken, and they are just lying to us all?
All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org
Final Flight by Chronox
transpanda by Thunder Panda
Flight of the Birds by Psychadelik Pedestrian
Happy Song by Pachyderm
2018-12-0517 minBittersweet RamblingsDon't Wait for a Prince, You Might Not Like What You GetSense and Sensibility is a lovely story of an old guy who got into the good graces of a down-on-their-luck family, and weaseled his way into marrying the daughter he stalked since she was a teenager. Also about viewing a beauty pageant horror story.
All music from http://freemusicarchive.org. The song in order of play are:
Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster
Sentinel by Antethic
Flying Alaska v. 2 by Everlone
2018-11-2814 minBittersweet RamblingsDracula is a Monster, Not a Romantic LeadDracula is the story of an old monster who gets bored, finds a way to move to London, and destroys the lives of Jonathan, whose main obsession seems to be food, and Lucy, who is more interesting than the lot of them put together.
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Cute Percussion by Lovira
Curious by Jon Luc Hefferman
Eternity by Stellardrone
Like Starlight Through a Veil by Phillipp Weigl
If Nothing Changes by In Closing
2018-11-2117 minBittersweet RamblingsSnow White - The Victors Tell the StorySnow White - the tale of a cute, singsongy princess in distress; looking to be saved by some random prince. Or a tale of a queen trying to train her step-daughter to take over leadership, not realizing the danger emanating from the expansionist neighboring kingdom.
All music from the http://freemusicarchive.org. The songs in order of play are:
Peaceful Mind by Borrtex
Curious by Jon Luc Hefferman
y by Gallery 6
Mountains by Cellophane Sam
2018-11-1521 min