Friday, March 16, 2012

HOW TO SPEAK IRISH 101




I first saw this in high school on a TV show called Mike Nesmith's Television Parts. To this day I still find this one of the funniest sketches I ever saw on TV. This is by a comedy duo known as the Funny Boys. Jonathan Schmock is the Irish instructor and James Vallely is the dumb jock. I might ad that Jonathan Schmock is also in one of my favorite teen films of all-time, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He is the snooty waiter at the restaurant. 

Friday, March 2, 2012

IS RADIO OFFICIALLY DEAD?


Robert Feder has a Chicago based media blog. This article points out problems with the current radio and how it handled the deaths of both Whitney Houston and Davy Jones. It also mentioned that social media and Internet became a better source of information about these two music legends than radio, which helped make them famous in the first place. I didn't hear any mentions of Davy Jones death on local radio nor did I hear any of his music. The national radio shows were more interested in the death of Andrew Breitbart, who probably only about one percent of the population had even heard of. Breitbart was never in an episode of Scooby Doo or the Brady Bunch so his is irrelevant to most people.

In a blog post April 2009 (The most popular post ever - it gets about 20 hits a day), I said that radio's popularity died with Kurt Cobain. Unless things change, I think Whitney Houston and Davy Jones may have been the nails in the coffin. This Monkees song may sum up the state of radio.


Thursday, March 1, 2012

THE MONKEES DAVY JONES DIES AT 66



Even though I took quite a bit of flak for it (from stupid people who liked Hank Williams Junior and Alabama, of all things) I have always liked the Monkees. Sadly, Davy Jones passed away yesterday at age 66. Here is the obit from the Los Angeles Times. Above is a scene from the Monkees film Head with Frank Zappa.
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