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Gone Baby Gone review (right click, save as)

Zack, Austin, and Ian discuss the thematic aspects of this rather good new crime picture from the Afflecks. Bump Musics:
John Coltrane – Blue Train
9 Laxy 9 – Take Nine

Woo Ends (right click, save as)

The conclusion to the “Woe” Saga. Now, I’m going to go have a turkey sandwich and watch True Romance.

bump musics:
Björk – Hunter
nine inch nails – Heresy (version)
Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination – Restless
Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love Is
Radiohead – Just
Secret Machines – All at Once (It’s not Important)

podcast 20 (right click, save as)

We discuss stupid comedies like Airplane!, The Naked Gun and we discuss the evolution of parody films into the detritus that they’ve become today. We talk about Top Secret! and Super Troopers. In keeping with stupid comedies we talk about some of our favorite comedy moments in TV shows including Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Sealab 2021. We are watching Alienator and trying to figure out what that 3rd weapon on Airwolf is … join us won’t you. Send grievances and obscure hate mail directed at other people to futilepodcast@gmail.com
Bump musics*:
The Chariot – Back to Back
Zao – 5 Year Winter
Every Time I Die – She’s my Rushmore
At the Drive In – Sleepwalk Capsules
Between the Buried and Me – All Bodies
The Carpenters – Top of the World

*Zack was guest music editor for this one.

podcast 019 (right click, save as)In this one Zack, guests, and I discuss “dirtbag” characters and compare them to scoundrels and uncharismatic protagonists. We talk about Billy Zane’s character in Titanic and we talk about how reality shows on TV are replete with these dirtbag types . . . but why!?!bump musics:
T.V. on the Radio – The Wrong Way
Beck- Elevator Music
Bravery – Tyrant
Tom Waits – Drunk on the Moon
Tool – Vicarious
Cure – All Cats are Grey

Spiderman 3 review

We have Austin and Gerrald as guests while we discuss Spiderman 3 which I thought was okay. Then Zack talks about Eli Roth as a “smart Horror” director. Austin asks Ian about Stanley Kubrick and so we talk about him for a bit.

Bump Musics: Squarepusher- Squarepusher theme
AFX- Crying in Your Face
Aphex Twin- Icct Hedral (Glass Orchestration)
Album Leaf – Lounge Act

Podcast 018 pt. 2 (right click, save as)
We continue our discussion about “Andersonesque” movies including Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming and The Squid and the Whale. Zack and our guest Blaine talk about Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa and Ghost World. Then we do our pitches for self aware ironic drama comedies about failures.

podcast 018 pt. 1We review Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited and begin a discussion about Anderson’s films and films we feel deal with similar themes of self aware ironic comedy, etc. Blaine wins the gold star for this one as he is very prepared with notes and research after watching most of Anderson’s films prior to the recording. Then for a few minutes Zack feels like talking about Love Actually. We’ll return to these offbeat themes and talk about Terry Zwigoff and the Coen Brothers in part 2.

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bump musics: David Bowie – Little Wonder
Walkmen – French Vacation
Beck – Round the Bend
Zero 7 – Distractions
Air – The Vagabond

Woe returns (right click, save as)

Go to
coffee shops
exude confidence & charm,
while being funny
but not flippant.

music: Animal Collective – Mouth Wooed Her

podcast 17 (right click, save as)
For our Halloween episode we talk about monster movies. We review 30 Days of Night. Zack talks about how the film measures against the graphic novel and our guest Blaine talks about how it felt like a zombie movie. Then we talk about a handful of other monster movies including George Romero’s Land of the Dead, Silver Bullet, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, Ridley Scott’s Alien, and the Mel Brook’s comedy/monster movie Young Frankenstein.

Blaine points out that my pitch is vaugely like FLCL episode 6 and Zack’s is like an episode of Scary Door from Futurama. Then we philosophize about what it is people like in monster movies: the violence, the voyeurism?

The pumpkin’s name is Corky. Send your grievances and pitch votes: futilepodcast@gmail.com

bump musics: John Williams – Dracula main title theme
Mogwai – Friends of the Night
Dead Can Dance – Advent
Amorphous Androgynous – Liquid Insects
Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral

Bump Music: Cannonball Adderley – Know What I Mean (re-take 7)