The Dude on the Right could really use a nap before this podcast about, mainly, going to see “The Swell Season,” especially since getting back home was past his normal bedtime, but that’s not important because this podcast isn’t a full review of the show, just a quick blip at his still liking the folks from the movie “Once.” The Dude also talks about some BFF family stuff, he’s still watching “The Bachelorette,” and is bummed he missed the premier of “America’s Got Talent” where some dude did a great version of “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot, complete with Jerry Springer interrupting it, because, well, it’s on TV.
Category: General Musings
A “The Swell Season” Preview, Meeting Family, The Bachelorette, and Missing “Nessun Dorma” on “America’s Got Talent.”
By:
The Dude on the Right
My nephew might be a guest podcaster guest next week, but today I’m
flying solo for this podcast where I talk about seeing an Oscar winning
group called "The Swell Season," with
the likes of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova,
the duo from the movie
"Once," as I try to get back into the concert reviewing
scene. And what a great concert it was, and as the folks are leaving the show,
what better song than "Love Me Sexy" by Jackie Moon to lead people into the
night.
The full review for that concert will be coming soon, but this podcast
also lets me trepidate about seeing most of the balance of the family of my BFF
(I hope the first half of the family will have my back!), I think I have some
ideas about how to have my BFF visit the old country to visit my family, and I’m
probably one of the few people left watching "The Bachelorette," but I’m so
wishing one of the dudes would just star crying instead of the dudette.
I also
can’t figure out how I missed "America’s Got Talent," especially, since, during
the premier for the summer, they had a dude do a fantastic job of "Nessun Dorma"
from Puccini’s "Turandot." Yes, I admit it, I like some Opera, though I’ve
never actually seen one.
Your new movie choices for this weekend are
"The Love Guru" and
"Get Smart," but, if either of those movies give you pause, and you want a
big blast of action-enjoyment, at least at the movies, and if you haven’t seen
it yet, go and see
"Iron Man" while you can, on the big screen, while you are just waiting for
"Hancock" to come out over the 4th of July weekend.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Meeting the Parents, Minor League Baseball, Movie Talk, and a Dirty Health Scare.
Suddenly both Stu Gotz and The Dude on the Right have a lot to talk about for
their "Weekend Wrap-Up" podcast, complete with an exciting topic like doing
some painting in the garage for The Gotz family. The Dude gives Stu his
movie recommendations, and there is also talk of a skin blotch scare. Stu
blew out another hard drive on a computer, Stu also re-remembered how much fun a
minor league baseball game could be, and The Dude tells Stu the tales of his
meeting some of the family of his BFF, and how a Father’s Day gathering for his
BFF family is way-different than any family gathering at The Dude’s family
household, both being good in their own kind of way.
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Meeting the Parents, Minor League Baseball, Movie Talk, and a Dirty Health Scare.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Sometimes Stu Gotz and I struggle to find anything to talk about because our
weekends, respectively, are boring, but for whatever reason the cosmos’ collided
and
suddenly we generated a 20+ minute podcast about our past weekend. I
mean, who knew doing some painting in a garage could be so exciting over the
entire weekend, and so full of stories, at least for Stu & Mama Gotz? Stu
also re-remembered the joy of attending the Kane County Cougars – minor league
baseball in a western suburb of Chicago, and found a new/old Jimmy Buffett song.
There was also a health scare in the Gotz family, but happily all is well!
Me, I gave Stu my take on seeing
"The Happening," mostly wondering why myself and Richard Roeper seem to be
liking some of the same movies lately, even though sometimes for different
reasons, and let Stu know that even though
"The Incredible Hulk" marketing is in full force, much like
"Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" it might just be best
to buy the little Gotz’s the Hulk toys for them to create stories with their own imagination,
rather than give them nightmares by seeing a giant, green dude beat the
daylights out of numerous people on the movie screen.
For me, though, my
largest portion of the podcast gives Stu my tales of meeting some of the family
of my BFF, but most importantly her Mom and Dad. It was a Father’s Day
celebration for her family, but, for me, it was part "inquisition" (as it should
be) and part "Norman Rockwell Family Gathering," and way different than most, if
any, of this Dude’s family gatherings, especially since no one went to go and
see a movie after dinner. But, to all of the members of the family of my
BFF that I did meet and might be reading this, I want to give all of you a
shout-out for making me feel welcome, and hopefully my right wrist will heal by
the next family gathering so I can play some guitar, although I have a feeling
I’ll have some kind of finger ailment on my left hand by then, and maybe
laryngitis!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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What’s New? A Podcast of: I’m Done with Digital, Dr. Drew v. Tom Cruise, Golfing Where Tiger Wood’s Golfed, No New iPhone for The Dude, and Movies Galore!
For this podcast The Dude on the Right is upset because he might have deleted his only proof that he played golf, or at least hit a little, white ball, or at least was at a course that Tiger Woods plays at, because he can’t find his picture of the 3rd hole at Torrey Pines anywhere on any of his hard drives. He knows that if he had that picture on film, well, he could put his hands on it instantly. His hating technology is now filtering from digital cameras to the latest 3G iPhone, because, go figure, the new phone won’t have enough memory to hold his 6400+ songs, and he wonders who would win the boxing match of Dr. Drew Pinsky v Tom Cruise (or, most likely, one of Tom’s lawyers). And in other boxing news, June 20th brings the match of Steve Carell v Mike Myers, with their movies, “Get Smart” and “The Love Guru.” The Dude isn’t really a fan of boxing, but he is a fan of big, green dudes, so he hopes to see “The Incredible Hulk” sometime, this weekend.
I’m Done with Digital, Dr. Drew v. Tom Cruise, Golfing Where Tiger Wood’s Golfed, No New iPhone for The Dude, and Movies Galore!
By:
The Dude on the Right
That’s it! I’m done with digital cameras, I’m going back to film!
Why? Because somewhere there was a digital picture showing that I actually
played golf, if you want to call it that, but I was at a golf course that Tiger
Woods plays at, namely Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, and it was a really
nice picture of the third hole on the south course, (very scenic), and if I
remember right, I got a hole-in-one. Okay, I didn’t get a hole-in-one, but
if my rented putter wasn’t crooked I would have gotten par! The thing is
that, as I was frantically "searching" my hard drives for that picture, I fear I
might have deleted it, in a mad rush to free up some disk space, and now the
picture is gone forever. That has never happened with any of my old
pictures I have on film. Ugh!
But this podcast isn’t all about golf, nope, the latest war of words
involves one Dr. Drew Pinsky and one lawyer for Tom Cruise, and I put them in
the boxing ring. I also put Steve Carell and Mike Myers in the boxing ring
with their latest movies, "Get Smart" and "The Love Guru" coming out on June
20th. And I’m also looking more forward to seeing "The Incredible Hulk"
rather than "The Happening," and as much as I like to be on the cutting edge of
technology, I will not be standing in line this year, to get the 3G iPhone,
mostly because it doesn’t have enough memory for my 6400+ songs. Maybe
Apple will have a 64 gig version come Christmas-time! Hopefully, though,
with the new iPhone release, someone comes up with a nice application to
organize, and save, your digital photos, so you don’t do something stupid like
delete them when they might be perfect for a podcast you do nearly 5 years
later.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “Echoes,” Movies, T-Ball, an Attic, and a Tornado!
They may do their podcast a day late, but The Dude on the Right and Stu Gotz are back for a “Weekend Wrap-Up!” podcast since The Dude got home from his visit to the old country late on Monday, so what better day than to do it than on a Tuesday! They talk about “Kung Fu Panda,” “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” kids playing T-Ball, a tornado, a hot attic, Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel, and Mama Gotz hating The Dude. Underneath it all is “Echoes” from Pink Floyd, they also talk about Lake Delton not being a lake anymore, and a dog that got transported a couple of blocks thanks to the same tornado that Jim Cantore warned Stu about.
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “Echoes,” Movies, T-Ball, an Attic, and a Tornado!
By:
The Dude on the Right
Sure, we’re a day late and a dollar short, but Stu Gotz and I are here for
our "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast! It was sort of a weird weekend for the
both of us because, for me, I went home to
visit Mom in the Old Country, while Stu, hanging with his Gotz family, saw
"Kung Fu Panda" and hunkered down in his basement following a call from Jim
Cantore from The Weather Channel. Me, at home, I helped clean out an attic
in oppressive heat, saw
"You Don’t Mess With the Zohan" solo (It’s just not the same seeing a movie
without your BFF! Sorry, I digress!) toured some cemeteries, and ate some
ribs, while Stu, well he realizes a little Gotz might not be the baseball star
he was hoping he would be (who knew that T-Ball can’t keep a kid’s attention?),
almost saw a tornado (although our grave-digger friend was a couple of hundred
yards outside the path of it), and Mama Gotz now hates me thanks to Stu Gotz’s
choice on his Netflix queue of
"Walk Hark: The Dewey Cox Story."
The both of us also talk about a
disappearing lake named Lake Delton, a flying dog, and the upcoming
"The Incredible Hulk" movie. Through it all we listen to "Echoes" from
Pink Floyd, – it is, after all, over 15 minutes long, and if you strap on some
headphones during this podcast, you might hear the song as well, because, well,
it is a "Headphones Only" kind of song.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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Back to Our Normal Programming, Almost.
By:
The Dude on the Right
Normally
there would be a new “Weekend Wrap-Up!” podcast posted, with me and Stu Gotz, but as I am
now just settling back into the dude-pad, and sure, the both of us could have done a
podcast across the magical land of the internet had I really wanted to, I just
wanted to acknowledge that maybe you noticed a subtle lack of postings since
last Wednesday, with only our review of
“You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” getting reviewed. With that, I’m not blaming
taking a visit to the old country to visit my Mom as an excuse, but, in a good
way, to be detailed in later conversations with Stu and some blogs, I’m blaming
a visit to the old country, okay, it’s just Lorain, o HI o, to visit my Mom, for
those lack of postings. But you know what? – Chicken butt! The thing is that
visiting Mom is always much more important than posting stuff on my web site,
and the weird part is, even though I am 41 years old, I still asked Mom for
permission to go and see said “Zohan” movie when I was at home. She told me to
go and see the movie, but “Don’t be late for supper.” I wasn’t.
My
weekend, though, was kind of weird, but leaving Illinois towards Ohio always
goes through Indiana, sometimes leads to meeting up with some old friends from
Lorain (but not this time), and even though I wasn’t the prepared Boy Scout
that, well, I am not, when I went home, namely not bringing my camera gear,
Lorain almost has some sparks of niceness getting back to it (I like the
pavement of downtown Broadway), but if they end up defeating the “Oh my God, how
am I going to afford the extra $15 for my license plate so that our roads are
better” issue, I will then know that there really isn’t any hope for my
hometown, and I will be sad (and more might be written about that later).
I
did take some crappy photos of my lilac bush, tree, or whatever the thing has
grown to be, but sadly, my lilac bush, tree, etc, lost most of its blooming with the
oppressive heat Lorain was getting, just before my arrival.
Last night, though, I got back in the Chi-Town area, missing the numerous storms
that have rumbled through over the weekend, with a slight power outage impacting
me while I was gone, as far as I can tell, but a summer of discovery is ahead of
me, and don’t let me even get into how I’m trying to transplant a rose bush!
That is definitely a story for another day!
Normal Internet programming should be returning this week!
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
Hannah Montana. Who Knew?
By:
The Dude on the Right
I hate to sound like Andy Rooney, but did you ever get to the end of the night,
tired and ready for bed, but then decide that you should send an e-mail?
And did you ever type that e-mail, attempting to be creative, sure, maybe
addressing something on your mind, but missing a larger point? And then,
did you click on the "Send" button, groggily think to yourself "Did I just write
that?", so you check your "Sent" folder, re-read the e-mail transporting through
cyberspace, and say "Oh, that probably just comes off so wrong."? Yup, I
did that last night, and now you are probably wondering "Dude, what the hell
does this have to do with Hannah Montana, and you do know that she’s a fictional
character played by Miley Cyrus, don’t you?" My answer is that "Yes, I do
know Hannah Montana is a fictional character," but be patient, because how "she"
equates to a late night e-mail will be fully explained.
So, yea, last night I
sent off an e-mail that, after re-reading it, after I had already sent it, I
pretty much figured there was only one way to interpret a portion of it, and
really wished someone would invent, you know what, never mind the invention
thing, I think I’ll keep that to myself, but my options were to attempt, still
being tired, sending off an e-mail saying "Please don’t read my previous
e-mail," that, of course, the person will, faster than the speed of light, open
the other e-mail and read it, or try to send an "Okay, let me explain the
comment in my previous e-mail better," but being tired, needing sleep, and with
the e-mail already on its way, my last option was to just head to bed, going to
sleep saying "You know better than to send an e-mail, and try to be creative
with it, when you are tired." And eventually I fell asleep.
Then, of
course, morning had broken, or rather my alarm went off, I woke up, instantly
remembering the e-mail from the night before, and then kept kicking myself in the
ass for sending said e-mail, much as I was kicking myself in the ass before I
went to bed the night before (I so over-analyze things a lot). But it was
time for exercising, hoping that maybe it would take my mind off the e-mail for
a bit before I might get a reply, so I’m into my shorts and t-shirt, the
heart-rate monitor is fired up, the earphones are plugged into my iPhone, I
select my "exercise" mix, and then, because I think Apple has put a cyber-brain
into their products at times, giving them a life of their own, my iPhone
"exercise" mix started to hit me with every song on it that screams "What the
hell did you do?" An Offspring "Why Don’t You Get a Job,"
Evenescence’s "Going Under," "3 AM" from matchbox 20, "Folsom Prison Blues" from
Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond’s "I Am… I Said," and "My Last Yeehaw" from Cowboy
Troy kept infiltrating my music mix, which on any other morning would just keep
my exercise-bicycling fired up, but this morning, just kept me thinking about
the e-mail I sent the night before.
So I was about 20 minutes into my planned
45 minute exercise biking when I was close to bailing on the exercising,
especially since my iPhone seemed to just want to torture me, and just getting
on with my day seemed just a challenge enough. But then, low and behold,
came bouncy girl-pop music, "Don’t let no small frustration, ever bring you
down," and yes, as I am comfortable enough to say I liked the "Sex and the City"
movie, yes, I have Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus on my iPhone. There it was,
singing through my earphones, the song "Life’s What You Make It," and as I
turned my focus to the lyrics, I started to realize that fine, my e-mail might
not have been exactly how I wanted to word things, but I couldn’t let it ruin my
day, because life is hard or it’s a party, the choice is up to me!
My
exercising done, and Hannah Montana (yes, I know it’s Miley Cyrus) singing in my
head, there it was, an e-mail for me, pretty much stating exactly how I figured
she would have interpreted the e-mail from the night before. I still have
to reply, but I suppose I won’t try to get make it all "creative" and stuff, and
not send the e-mail when I’m tired and groggy.
My day had a lot of potential
to be crabby, at least in my head, but a fictional star snapped me back to
reality.
"Life’s what you make it, so let’s make it rock!" Hannah
Montana. Who knew?
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!