Bittersweet Ramblings

The 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  

This 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.     All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Loyalty Freak Music - Everyone (played 3 times)  

There 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 Freak Music - Hello Regan! Komiku - Friends (played twice)

When 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  

  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 was directed by William Friedkin, and your distrust of mannequins, cellos, and anyone wearing red gloves becomes clear.    All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Multifaros - The Boss P C III - Time Train

Say 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.  All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Marco Raaphorst - Au Coin de la Rue P C III - The Soft Approach

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. my basement), until they can safely be disarmed or destroyed (i.e. sold on Ebay).  It's my new business plan.  I don't see how this can go wrong.         All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Komiku - Tenacious incopetent honorous scientist bouffon evil side kick theme Komiku - Sad Walk with Sad Melodica Komiku - Ancient Heavy Tech Donjon Komiku - Pirates Libertaires Komiku - Save Me From My Prison Heroic Principal Character Komiku - This is Just My First Form Komiku - La Ville Aux Ponts Suspendus

It 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 animals that stared into your soul, and enough gold paint to bring tears of joy to a Magpie.   All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Jim Rooster - Is There Life in Here (played twice) Jim Rooster - Just My Luck (played twice) Jim Rooster - Skip to Kathmandu (played twice) Jim Rooster - Ecstasy is Not the Enemy (played twice) Jim Rooster - Last Round Didn't Last

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.   All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Meydän - Insomnia Pt. 1 Meydän - Insomnia Pt. 2  Meydän - Underwater Meydän - Insomnia Pt. 2  Meydän - Underwater

You 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 Coldnoise - Flowers 2013 Marco Trovatello - Shuttleworth Interval

Movies 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 Simon Mathewson - Tick Tock Cairo Braga - Goodbye, Outer Space

Under 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 Moonlight  

The 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.     All songs from the Free Music Archive:  http://freemusicarchive.org Drake Staff - Her mo-seph - Slow Decent  Psychadelic Pedestrian - Raindrops Drake Staff - Her

50 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

  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.   All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Steppin by Wake Led By the Dress Colored Red by Augustus Bro and Gallery Six Effects of Elevation (Citizen by Revolution Void    

Alien 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.    All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org   Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund New England is Insteresting by BOPD A BIRTH OF A PEACEFUL INTERNAL RENISSANCE by Trans Atlantic Rage Happy Song (Instrumental) by Pachyderm  

Valentine'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.   All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Field & Strings by Ian Sutherland Bridging & Mending by Jared C Balogh whiffle whaffle by fascinating earthbound objects

The 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.     All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Brazilian Rythym by Sunsearcher Iron Shots (for Accuracy) by Hogan Grip Disco High by UltraCat

  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.    All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Youngchen by Simon Mathewson Cats Corp by Blanket Music Ghost (Instrumental) by Forget the Whale   

Weird 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.    All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org 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.  

In 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.    All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Neogrotesque by Tortue Super Sonic Space Love Attack by UltraCat July.#4 by arizono kazuhiro I'm Fat by Blanket Music

The 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.      All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org 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 by Eve C  

The 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.    All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Its What It Is by Ian Sutherland Flowers by Coldnoise Psychic City Voodoo City by YACHT Note Drop by Broker for Free

ParaNorman 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.   All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org 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

Rumbleseat 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  All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org Veloma by Fabrizio Paterlini Mystery by The Lovely Moon Intolerance by Kosta T

How 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  

Sense 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

Dracula 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.     All songs from the http://freemusicarchive.org 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

Snow 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