Freaky Trigger On The Boombox
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koganbotFreaky Trigger in digest form:
12:00 Noon, Mountain Time. Some duck is trying to play bagpipe. "I'm Elisha Sessions." (That wasn't the duck, who continues playing in the background.) (By the way, Tracer, are you related to Ida Sessions, who impersonated the water commissioner's wife in Chinatown?) Introduces Tim Hopkins, Kat Stevens, Mark Sinker; foretells a perfume that smells like gin & tonic.
Pronunciation of "Lytton" debated.
Pub derided. USP = Unique Selling Point. "Everyone wore black." "Guns N' Roses on the wall." Pete snuck in and put up Busted poster, but pub employees took it down.
12:07. Kat says hi to her mom. Discusses gin-and-tonic perfume. "Wasn't even a slice of lemon to take away the edge."
Bit of Spanish drum 'n' bass. Spanish speaker mimics Japanese, while drums drum and basses go bum boom boom. Excellent bum boom boom.
12:13. Kat avers that she hates futbol. In tribute to Groucho Marx, Freaky Trigger chooses a Secret Word, but refuses to tell us what it is. Otherwise it wouldn't be secret. I look forward eagerly to duck descending from ceiling.
12:16. Mark tells us he's rereading horror stories he'd read when he was little. Tracer inserts reference to Muldaur and Scully. I mistakenly think he'd said Toody and Muldoon, get excited, then disappointed when I realize my mistake. Mark reads passage from the one Dorothy Sayers book I was able to get through (and which I've subsequently forgotten everything about), Murder Must Advertise. Then he discourses on panic attacks that occur owing to flutes playing when someone or something should absolutely not be playing flutes.
Seduction scene in Beatrix Potter.
Tim plays Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar." (By coincidence, just this morning I was listening to Toby Keith's White Tra$h With Money and trying to figure out how to wedge it into my Jackin' Pop top ten without dislodging any of the ten albums already on my ballot.) Toby likes girlfriend, loves bar. Tracer says song is from Toby's latest album; Tim corrects him, pointing out that it's from Toby's latest minus one. They are both wrong, forgetting Honkytonk U, but Mark is too polite to tell them so. Discussion of whether Toby should sue people or smash them with a baseball bat.
12:29. Pubs. I lub dis pub. Or not. Tim mentions disaster and ruin, vaguely alludes to Lindsay Lohan-sized consumption of alcohol, inexplicably doesn't mention Lindsay Lohan. There'd been an evening when Mark violated social mores by ordering a pint of water, resulting in his ejection from pub.
12:33. Tracer says, "Let me make one thing clear," unwittingly quoting Richard Nixon.
12:34. Bosh track of the week. Kevin Johnson sings "Never Gonna Give You Up," while synth imitates chipmunk.
12:40. Tim reads latest music bulletin from the National Weather Service. Forecasts boredom and adolescent self-loathing. Tanya Headon explicates Talking Heads. Tracer is speechless.
12:44. Tracer reminds us that there's a Secret Word.
12:45. Story of Norwegian explorer, as recounted by Kat. Norwegian explorer skis north. Wins Nobel peace prize. Figures out how to go to North Pole without moving. Discovers ocean current instead. Widely beloved.
12:49. Iranian hip-hop. Rapper says Secret Word, but no one notices, since he's speaking Persian.
12:52. Tim recounts a dispiriting convo on the subject of who was the best prime minister of the modern era. Notes that Harold Wilson was the last PM to smoke. Preferred cigars but smoked pipe because he believed pipe was more of a working-class signifier. No wonder he was defeated.
Statisticians taken to task for rubbish analogies. Secret Word yet to be uncovered.
12:57. Beth Ditto of The Gossip at karaoke. Tim recalls his own triumphant rendition of "Rainy Days And Mondays." Beth sings "Son Of A Preacher Man," thereby revealing the Secret Word to quick-witted members of the listening audience (e.g., not me). Tumultuous applause. Duck comes down.
12:00 Noon, Mountain Time. Some duck is trying to play bagpipe. "I'm Elisha Sessions." (That wasn't the duck, who continues playing in the background.) (By the way, Tracer, are you related to Ida Sessions, who impersonated the water commissioner's wife in Chinatown?) Introduces Tim Hopkins, Kat Stevens, Mark Sinker; foretells a perfume that smells like gin & tonic.
Pronunciation of "Lytton" debated.
Pub derided. USP = Unique Selling Point. "Everyone wore black." "Guns N' Roses on the wall." Pete snuck in and put up Busted poster, but pub employees took it down.
12:07. Kat says hi to her mom. Discusses gin-and-tonic perfume. "Wasn't even a slice of lemon to take away the edge."
Bit of Spanish drum 'n' bass. Spanish speaker mimics Japanese, while drums drum and basses go bum boom boom. Excellent bum boom boom.
12:13. Kat avers that she hates futbol. In tribute to Groucho Marx, Freaky Trigger chooses a Secret Word, but refuses to tell us what it is. Otherwise it wouldn't be secret. I look forward eagerly to duck descending from ceiling.
12:16. Mark tells us he's rereading horror stories he'd read when he was little. Tracer inserts reference to Muldaur and Scully. I mistakenly think he'd said Toody and Muldoon, get excited, then disappointed when I realize my mistake. Mark reads passage from the one Dorothy Sayers book I was able to get through (and which I've subsequently forgotten everything about), Murder Must Advertise. Then he discourses on panic attacks that occur owing to flutes playing when someone or something should absolutely not be playing flutes.
Seduction scene in Beatrix Potter.
Tim plays Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar." (By coincidence, just this morning I was listening to Toby Keith's White Tra$h With Money and trying to figure out how to wedge it into my Jackin' Pop top ten without dislodging any of the ten albums already on my ballot.) Toby likes girlfriend, loves bar. Tracer says song is from Toby's latest album; Tim corrects him, pointing out that it's from Toby's latest minus one. They are both wrong, forgetting Honkytonk U, but Mark is too polite to tell them so. Discussion of whether Toby should sue people or smash them with a baseball bat.
12:29. Pubs. I lub dis pub. Or not. Tim mentions disaster and ruin, vaguely alludes to Lindsay Lohan-sized consumption of alcohol, inexplicably doesn't mention Lindsay Lohan. There'd been an evening when Mark violated social mores by ordering a pint of water, resulting in his ejection from pub.
12:33. Tracer says, "Let me make one thing clear," unwittingly quoting Richard Nixon.
12:34. Bosh track of the week. Kevin Johnson sings "Never Gonna Give You Up," while synth imitates chipmunk.
12:40. Tim reads latest music bulletin from the National Weather Service. Forecasts boredom and adolescent self-loathing. Tanya Headon explicates Talking Heads. Tracer is speechless.
12:44. Tracer reminds us that there's a Secret Word.
12:45. Story of Norwegian explorer, as recounted by Kat. Norwegian explorer skis north. Wins Nobel peace prize. Figures out how to go to North Pole without moving. Discovers ocean current instead. Widely beloved.
12:49. Iranian hip-hop. Rapper says Secret Word, but no one notices, since he's speaking Persian.
12:52. Tim recounts a dispiriting convo on the subject of who was the best prime minister of the modern era. Notes that Harold Wilson was the last PM to smoke. Preferred cigars but smoked pipe because he believed pipe was more of a working-class signifier. No wonder he was defeated.
Statisticians taken to task for rubbish analogies. Secret Word yet to be uncovered.
12:57. Beth Ditto of The Gossip at karaoke. Tim recalls his own triumphant rendition of "Rainy Days And Mondays." Beth sings "Son Of A Preacher Man," thereby revealing the Secret Word to quick-witted members of the listening audience (e.g., not me). Tumultuous applause. Duck comes down.
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Date: 2006-12-13 10:54 am (UTC)While everyone was awesome, hearing Tanya in person was particularly special.
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Date: 2006-12-14 03:16 pm (UTC)I will never be able to look Toby in the face ever again.
bopkids.