Attack of Forecastle 2015!

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The live transmission has begun, and we're into the final hour of hell. What's up, and welcome to Movie Knockdown's Attack of a Killer Scientist. I am Brian, and with me is. Hi, I'm Carl. I would say you're introducing, but technically you were here a few episodes back when we hung out with Adam Burke.

That's right, and it was a good time. It was a good time. Very fluid. That dude knew a lot about movies. I was like, oh, just listen, because you don't know as much as.

This guy for a second. I believe we referenced the Kubrick deep cut. So, I mean, you know, when you got that going, you know you're talking to somebody who's a big movie geek. But somewhere around that time, I'm like, hey, we also do soundtracks, and we're going to be hitting this festival, and somebody got suckered into doing that. I said, did you say that festival?

You know, that forecastle festival that we're at right now. We are coming to you live via digital recording from Four Castle Festival here in Louisville, Kentucky. Listen to the crowd. It's all for us, people. It's all for us.

Nice. So, what's your take on this here festival so far? What year is it in? Do you know? It's over a decade now.

Yeah. It might be 11, 12. Past 10? Okay. Nice.

It's very well structured, in my opinion. That's my thinking. And I've thought that more and more every year I come here. I've been to a few that, you know, I've been to a handful of festivals. And sometimes when they're poorly laid out, it makes you just not want to go back the next year.

And it seems like they were maybe conscious of that continually, which is smart. Because this is a big place and a lot of people. And everyone looks good because they feel good. It looks like everyone is, you know what I mean? Like I don't see anyone who really looks bummed out.

That's what we were noticing last year. It doesn't seem like it falls into the weird pitfalls of some of those other ones. Like some of the really grungy underbelly of some of these shows that you like kind of see stuff and you're like, oh, yeah, you see some horrifying. So you want to throw a music festival. So you want to have somebody, you know, doing heroin in the bushes next year.

Headliner. Have you thought out what's going to happen in your bushes? Do you want to have somebody urinating next to the stage? You know, you don't see the underbelly on this one. It's a pretty tight ship.

No pun intended since they have an audible theme. But they do kind of run a. Tight ship as far as everything's kind of upbeat and cool. Oh yeah, this kid that just got busted? Probably.

They were on top of him. Probably. They weren't really slackers on that. Maybe with this. Extra drum beats we got going on the background here, we'll just cut straight to a song.

Do you have a soundtrack song that you would like to kick things off with? Oh, man. I know one. I thought of one. Okay.

You've got one. So I think it was Tarantino who said that if you use a song really, really well in a scene, that song will remind people of your scene for the rest of their lives. It's true. And, of course, he's saying that about Stuck in the Middle with You. Which is fucking obvious.

But of course, there's no way. Especially once he explains that to you, right? So then I was like, all right, so what other scenes do I know that I think are really well done? And honestly, whenever I hear everybody wants to rule the world by Tears of Fears, I think at least for a tiny second, I always think of that closing scene. On Real Genius.

Yeah. With the popcorn blowing the house apart. It's just really, really well put together. So... Once this truck goes by, let's listen to Everybody Wants to.

Rule the World. Welcome to your life Welcome to your. Life There's no turning back. Even while we sleep. We will find.

You acting on your best behavior. Turn your back on Mother Nature. Everybody wants to rule the world. It's my. Own design It's my own design.

Help me make. The most of freedom and of pleasure. Nothing ever lasts forever. Everybody wants to rule the world. There's a room where the light won't find you Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down When they do, I'll be right behind you So glad we've almost made it So sad they had to fade it Everybody wants to move on so so I can't stand this indecision Married with a lack of vision Everybody wants to know Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it What hell of why believe it Everybody wants to know All for freedom and adventure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody I'm home I'm home I'm.

Home Well, hello, boy. Now, what do you say? Let's make with the popcorn right away. Too much trouble and bother. Yes, indeed.

No, man. Heat's all you need. You need more than heat, boy. According to Hoyle, you need popcorn, salt, butter, and oil. And a frying pan ought to be completely proper.

You ought to have a popper. I dig it you ain't a hip old man. To easy pop pops in its own pan. You mean easy pop pops in its own pan? Now you're swinging, daddy.

Crazy man. Why don't you make it with me to the grocery shop? We'll both take a pan of this easy pop. What do you know? No muss, no fuss.

There's easy pop popcorn for all of us. All right. So as we're wandering around, we keep coming across different Meltdown characters. And now we have Josh. Hello.

So how have you found the festival? Oh, it's okay. I mean, I'm volunteering today, and there's really nothing specific I wanted to see. I just wanted to actually experience the event. It is an experience.

Yeah, and the band I wanted to see played first, so I got that out of the way. I got to see them and just kind of checking out new things here and there. And I'll hear my morning jacket, which I've never dug into, so I'll give them a shot, and I'll see their full show. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to choose from. Absolutely.

Four stages going at once. There's always something going on. So as we're building our soundtrack as we go this weekend, do you have your songs of choice for this soundtrack? Yeah, I'm going to do the top three that came to mind. I'm going to go three, two, one, my favorite last.

So one that really I loved was the use of the song. It was actually in Let the Right One In, the Swedish vampire movie with the kids. And it was a scene where she takes a shower after she kind of bleeds. And, like, there's this kind of tender moment where she comes out and she puts a dress on and all that kind of stuff in the bedroom. And it's a song that, it's just this, like, Swedish pop song from the year, like, mid-' 80s, early-' 80s.

And it ends up, it turns out it was the guy from, I think that was Roxette's. Yeah. Later on? The other half. And in the American version, they used, like, another kind of, like, similar song.

Yeah. The smell of your hair I don't want to hear But you can't be Everything. You said You have to give. Up Where is. My city?

On the seat back there A broken newspaper A dry piece of chocolate Hela mitt. Hjärta, krossat som glas. Snyggt när du sa du måste ge dig av. Where am I supposed to go? Where am I supposed to go?

The streets. Are filled with people everywhere. Because in my car. There's only me. And everything you said, you have to give me.

Yeah. So that was just like, that just really encapsulated that interaction between them. And the song represented that to me because he got a glimpse of her as she was changing and it kind of uncovered some things about her. Which is a whole other weird thing. Yeah, in the book it actually gets more into that.

Truthfully, I think doesn't. work in that movie. No in the movie it just shows that she had been damaged. But it yeah and to me it ends up opening up more doors than it needs to especially since it doesn't answer anything still the movie is impeccable I think the movie is amazing and truthfully I would have Trim to that part out. Like, had him see her. I think even.

Because I think it works better. Their relationship, I think, works just fine the way that it works in the film, which is different than the way the character setup is in the book. And, like, I think it's fine no matter what she is or has been through or whatever. Exactly. I think the relationship's awesome.

I like the innocence in the movie. Yeah. I kind of like it better than what I know goes down in the story. I think it does have a cool. Right.

Essence of innocence. That I think you're going to lose once you get into all the grimy stuff in the book. But it still works. It was definitely pushing that. My second one is Zodiac.

I believe it's the first scene when the first couple is killed or whatever. They use Hurdy Gurdy Man. And from what I understand, that's actually the rhythm section of that song is Led Zeppelin. So it's John Paul Jones and blanking his name. Why am I blanking the drummer?

John Bonham. Yeah, so, like, that song actually has, like, this, it kind of captures that era anyway, even though, I mean, the Zodiac's later on, but the way they use that song and the build-up and everything about it and that, like, the guy dressed as the cop coming up and everything, that, I just, I thought that was really effective. It just really had that kind of sinister impending doom kind of aspect to it. It's a weird song anyway, so to sort of, like, juxtapose it with that image and that action going on, like, it's, It's a really clever use of it. The song itself has a wonderful build just at that crescendo, which the movie's fantastic.

Yeah, it definitely is. It's, yeah. Thrown like a star in my vast sleep, I open my eyes to take a peek. To find that I was by. The sea Gazing with tranquility Just then when the hurdy-gurdy man Came singing songs of love Then when the hurdy-gurdy man Came singing songs.

Of love Hurdy-gurdy, gurdy-gurdy love Gurdy-gurdy, it's sad Histories of ages past, unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity, the crying of humanity. Tis then when the hurdy-gurdy man. Comes singing songs of love. Then when the hurdy-gurdy man comes singing songs of love.

Hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, girly sound. Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi. Hathi-gadi Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi, Hathi-gadi Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. Good summer. Here comes a roly-poly man, he's singing songs of love.

My favorite that just really came to mind was In Until the End of the World, which the soundtrack itself is phenomenal. And it was like, for the most part, curated by Vin Vendors. He kind of like commissioned all these different bands. And they did songs that were not even their common thing, like Talking Heads did a really interesting song that was outside of their comfort zone. But they used an existing Peter Gabriel song as Blood of Eden.

And it's that pivotal moment in the movie when they're in the airplane and the nuclear bomb goes off, essentially. In the airplane, they're in this little Cessna thing. engine turns off and it just goes dead quiet there's no sound at all and then Blood of Eden just fades in and they glide down and have like this rough landing or whatever but the way they look at each other everything about that scene I like I got goosebumps I mean I get goosebumps but this was like such a memorable scene It's just so beautiful and so melancholy. ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶. I caught sight of my reflection. I caught it in the window. I saw the darkness in my heart.

I saw the signs in my underwear. They had been there from the start. And the darkness still has work to do. The knotted cords untying The heated and the holy Oh, they're sitting there on high So secure with everything they're buying In the blood of Eden Lie the woman and the man The man. And the woman and the woman and the man in the blood of Eden.

Like the woman and the man, we want in a union. Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man. My grip is surely slipping. I think I've lost my hold. Yes, I think I've lost my hold.

I cannot get insurance anymore. They don't take credit, only gold. Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see? Poured so tightly in your hand And all the while the distance grows between you. And me.

I do not understand. In the mud I feel. Like a woman. And a man With the man and the woman And. The woman and the man In the blood of Eden Like a woman and a man We wanted.

The union. Oh, the union of the woman The woman and the. Man Of my request What a moment this is. I can hear the. Distant thunder Of a million unheard souls Of.

A million unheard. Souls Watch each one reach for creature comfort For the filling of. Their holes In the blood of Eden. Like a woman and a man, with the. Man and the woman, and the woman and the man, in the blood of Eden.

Like a woman and a man, we want to leave you. Like a woman. And a man, in the blood of Eden. And I, the woman and the man Are feeling. Mad in the woman And the woman and the man In the blood of Eden And I, the woman and the man Are feeling mad in the woman And the woman and the man In the blood of Eden We have done everything we can In the blood of Eden.

And that's. What I keep coming back to on this show, and specifically this variation of the show, it's like, you get those moments in movies anyway when it's just so well put together that it affects you. Oh, yeah. And then I think, especially putting these soundtrack shows together, I'm like, it works so well when you tie music in. Like, you can have those moments without it, but when you get that perfect mix of the story going on and the cinematography, and then the perfect song kicks in, like, it is a magic thing.

Like, it really is. Yeah, and they enhance each other. I mean, that song from now on... That moment in that movie is solidified, and that moment in the movie would not have been that without that song. And vice versa.

Every time you hear the song after that, you think about the movie. Absolutely. And I think that's, in some cases more than others, I think the ones I listed, those are the ones that made such an impact, and that's probably why they came to mind first. I mean, there's other stuff. I mean, there's great scores out there.

So those are my three. Very cool. Thanks for working them in today. Anything else to pass along? Can't think of anything.

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Hey. This is the one. You're listening to Movie Meltdown. All right, so back on track for us. Should we get on to another song?

Yeah, do you have a good idea for a song? Yeah, I was trying to. I did a little of this last year. I started looking at the people that were at the show that we were going to see, and then I was like, well, I'm sure everybody kind of has a soundtrack tie-in. So then I started going through, and yesterday I saw Cold War Kids over at the Boom stage.

Nice. It was awkward, and I had to stay in the whole time, but that's okay. That's how many a concert is, so it's cool. But I did see Cold War Kids, and then going through, we have Romance Languages, which is actually uncredited in Dallas Buyers Club. So it's like a secret hidden track.

If you haven't seen that, get on it. It's a good movie. So this is Romance Languages. I have never had a devastating loss. Watch over me when my bell rings.

I would rather be lucky than smart. Throw me a. Rope so I can blow rings. I'm exhausted by rope. I was lost in the languages I was lost in the languages I'm.

Exhausted by romance I was lost, I was lost in the languages. I'm exhausted by romance I'm exhausted by romance. I'm exhausted by. Romance I'm exhausted by romance. I'm exhausted by romance.

I'm exhausted by romance. As we're hanging out here, do you want to recap last night? Because you came in just under the wire last night, and that, I think, was an interesting scenario. Good call. Well, I mean, I had to work, so I don't want to do a podcast as much as I would just want to see it.

You know, this headliner. Oh, first and foremost, you wanted to sit here and talk to me, but then, you know, and that Sam Smith guy, he's all right too. Well, but we had, yeah, we had two days. So I was like, yeah, I'm just going to run to get to Sam Smith. Well, and I also like, it was a good day to fill out the space and see like where the, what the layout was and how far away my walk really was from parking, which was a good walk.

Yeah, it was, it's a stretch, um, which gets even more interesting depending on the weather. So yeah, I'm sure the end of the story will be different, but go ahead. I'm walking in and, you know, I have like my bag with my umbrella and my water bottle and all this stuff. And I'm like, and then I get really conscious of the handle of my umbrella sticking out the side of my bag. So I'm like, oh man, I'm like the only person here with an umbrella.

But then I was like, I don't care. What a loser. Nobody needs an umbrella at a show. I'm not punk rock enough. But then I was like, wait a minute.

I just moved to this town and I still don't trust it. I don't trust it. I don't trust the weather. I've lived here my whole life and I don't trust them. Yeah.

Well, and that last winter hurt my feelings so bad that I'll probably never not bring it up. So this is for all the people that know me and know how much I fucking hated that winter, last winter. I have not been thrilled with the last several winters, but that's just me. And I'm poor and I live in a house with no insulation or windows. Some locals are like, oh, it's no big deal.

And some people are like, no, that one was really bad. What's happened before is indifferent to me. That one, I will never get over. Anyway, so... Yeah.

I'm like, all right. So I'm the old guy with the umbrella. And we, you know, we listened to Sam Smith, who his show was really impressive. He's really good. And he's got a hell of a voice.

Yeah, for sure. And his range is sweet. Like we were walking up and I was like, does he have a woman singing with him? And then I was like, I don't think so. But, I mean, he did have backup singers.

He did have backup singers. But I don't believe it was the backup singers. They were pretty solid, too, but they were a very different style. Yeah, totally. And it didn't seem like, you know, it wasn't like, oh, you have backup singers for what you can't do.

No. Like, he was definitely the dominant sound in every song. But he, so, I recently saw the Amy Winehouse documentary, and I'm totally bandwagon. Like, I didn't even, I mean. I remember living in Austin at the time when that album came out, and I heard it around me a lot, but I didn't really jump into it, even though it was probably some of the best shit that I'd heard in a long time.

Yeah. And so it wasn't until she was dead and then it was all over Facebook that I asked my neighbor if he would burn me a copy. And he did, and I was like, okay. So I was convinced right away. So when that documentary came out, I went to it.

Because honestly, if you're a music lover in any way, Like, it's a fucking tragedy that we only got a couple albums. Out of that girl. Yeah, but I mean, that's so many artists over the years. Yeah, it's true. It's just kind of a continuing cycle.

I mean, it's not cool to get on that list, you know, of like, man, they died fast. It's like. Some people think it is. It's not, but some people still kind of give them this weird cred. If you listen to Amy Winehouse, there's no way you can't want more of that.

Definitely. And there's a very limited number of songs we have by Amy Winehouse, which is too bad. The documentary led me to... the opinion that I think her dad's a piece of shit. Not to like, you know, get sued or call him out or anything, but while I was working the other night, I had this anecdote in my head come up that I was like, I think that the sentence for Amy Winehouse's father being such an asshole and contributing to her downfall, I think he should be required to legitimately learn some form of music like an instrument if it's got to be for him but and he should give us at least two more albums and i don't mean of like bullshit like he's got to reach a caliber that he didn't respect in his own daughter.

In my opinion court ordered learning of music and other artistic endeavors yeah this is an interesting way i think we should go with this. Yeah i and you know i don't think anyone would argue against it like if we got like if we got a court of a lot of actually take on this bullshit idea, I think people would get right behind it and be like, yeah, for real, man. Give us the albums that we weren't ever able to get out of her because you let her run herself into the ground because she wasn't ready. Not respecting the true talent and not having any himself, probably. Maybe if he honed that a little bit, he'd change his tune.

Literally. Well, there's that on that note, and I just think it's a tragedy. But beyond that, It's pretty undeniable that the best stuff is very. Limited, you know. Like, because it doesn't get time to mess itself up.

So, yeah. So, this made you think of Sam Smith. Because he sang a cover. Thank you for the. I was bringing this back around.

I was like, I knew we were heading down that. So, I'm sitting there listening to him, and I'm excited. And then he's like, he asks if we know Amy Winehouse. And I was like, he's asking me because he knows I watched the movie three days ago. I know her personally now because I saw that documentary.

Yeah. He must know I've been listening to Amy Winehouse Pandora for the last three days straight at work. So then he goes into a, I don't even know. See, this is what kind of a poser I am. I don't even know what song it is, but it's that song about the responsibility, and it's got that really great snappy snare tiki-tac opening, which I didn't, this is even more poser, I didn't realize was like a sampled loop from a Tina song.

Nice. I'm pretty sure. Slightly old school. From Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Whether I'm wrong about this or right He started with that song And just made me go so awesome Way to give it up Because I believe he's English too He's a Brit.

Yeah he definitely had a very noticeable accent During the speech Again like most of the time You don't notice so much during the singing But in between songs He's like put your hands together He's very proper British Put your hands together. Which might be why he's so good I'll tell you what British music man We're lucky that we're a little more exciting to a lot of other countries because all the good ones start in Britain and end up coming over here to live. But they all stole their genres from us. Oh, that's a good point. We made up all the music genres.

They just got kind of good at them. It's kind of true. There's not a lot of touring British hip-hop that I can think of over here, in my opinion. But anyway, so he goes from an Amy song into his backup singers doing the... Tina song and then back into the Amy song with the same like hook or loop or whatever the whole time.

That really impressed me. Aside from the fact that the sound was really well engineered, you know, it was traveling well and his light show was pretty sweet. I thought. Yeah, he had a pretty high tech setup going there. And he had pretty good I call it mic banter, like between songs, like just stuff you talk about.

I will say this. I heard his story about how he wrote this album based on this crush he had on someone who didn't reciprocate the crush. Yep. I heard that a while back on NPR and last night he, he said it again. And then at the end of it, he said, I'm totally over it.

And in my head I was thinking, you're, you're not over it. If you're still standing on the microphone, buddy, that's just me. I think this is part of the process. Cause I'm like, I'm thinking to it and to me, I'm like, the whole thing is like a cathartic thing. And like, so the process of saying that and, and, doing these songs over and over and over again, like, wears it down and gets it to the point where probably now he can say that and be almost legit.

But, like, two years ago when he started telling that story, I bet he was still pretty busted up. But I'm like, you know. Well, and he had never been... I heard on NPR he had never been in a relationship before. Yeah.

They take their toll on you. When he recorded that. They take their toll. Yeah, and... I'm still bitter about it.

No, he, like, wasn't, like. He wasn't even in this relationship because he presented... his feelings to this person and they just denied it and he was heartbroken without ever even having been in the relationship and it was cool because terry gross shout out to terry gross sorry she's really good at what she does she uh she was like that's amazing because the sound the songs are so emotional like the song sounds so like pure and like like they come from wisdom and if you you know haven't lived that you haven't how did you replicate that experience and he just I think he was just really good at going, well, I mean. This is just the process. Well, see, it's funny that that word came up because that's what I thought.

As soon as you said that, I was like, well, that's why it's so good. It is completely pure. It has not been. Sullied by years and years of. Bad relationships and bad breakups and people cheating on you and lying to you and all this stuff that builds up this resentment in you that when you go in as a teenager, that's why you get so messed up for those first few weeks because you go in completely clean and.

You're just like, your heart is just completely... bear you know you don't have scar tissue. Yet so like she was out of control by the time she was starting her 20s you know what i mean yeah i'm thinking about my 20s and i'm like geez i'm lucky to have that kind of discipline and not have been that famous. And he's pretty young himself right he's like. 25 i think he's like mid-20s yeah he's still pretty. Young so if i think of all the heartache i still had to go through at that age that's pretty significant man.

I'm still there now yeah So I was, yeah, it was an impressive show. And then. And then we had a grand finale. I don't think he could have planned the big finale. Yeah, right?

Well, when we were storming out, I just turned to you and I was like, this is unforgettable, dude. It is. Oh, right? Storming out. So, I don't know if you, you were over, I don't know if you felt it, because I felt that moment.

Oh, yeah, the cold burst of air. When it just. Like, I've never, I've stood around in weather my whole life. Yeah. I have never felt anything like that.

Yep. It was like, it has been hot and sweltering all day long, and we bitched about it, and it. Was freaking hot all day. Yeah. And it's still, like, it's dark already, but it's still pretty damn hot outside.

Yeah. And on a dime, like, it wasn't like, oh, it started to get, no. It turned like that. 20 degrees in a heartbeat. It dropped.

Yeah, for sure. And I was like, it was, it was like some weird, like, internal thing like some primal part of your brain went uh oh it was physical at. First but everybody's brain did it everybody. Had that shift of like whoa something's going on everyone who I brought it up to totally agreed yeah I was like it was funny because it was the point where like his set was pretty good and I felt like everyone was really satisfied yeah I don't know how much more of it he had to do. I feel like he got through most of it he was also.

In the middle of what he said was kind of the epitome of the whole album based on the feeling so he was really getting into that song. And uh. That breeze came through, and I feel like everybody's heads went up for a second. And then they all kind of went, okay, this is cool. We know what's about to happen, but we're having a great time.

It's cool. And no one started scattering yet, but the wind came out of nowhere, and it was like Jaws. It was like that scene in Jaws. And then someone came up behind Sam Smith, And sort of put their hands on his shoulder and led him offstage. Yeah, dude.

And the lights went off? And I was like, oh, what just happened? It was like something. Like in the middle of a song. Yeah.

He just kind of walked up. Had he passed out, it would have been like James Brown. He brought up his cape and he took him offstage. At first I was like, is this? No.

Because it was like one, two with the breeze. And I was like, something ain't right. Well, he seems really, really professional. And so to me it made sense that whatever company he's with. Would be like, Nope, you're too valuable.

Get them out. It doesn't matter what the crowd goers know. And honestly, everyone sort of understood that. Because the next thing that happened was in a do not take the brown assets style announcement, across the PA. Came the promoters or whatever, and they're like, I don't even think they apologized.

They just said. Well, see, here's the thing. I was talking about this with somebody earlier. I was like, I was standing there. I heard it come on.

And I'm listening, and I'm like, again, more power to them. They put together such a good show. And the fact that even as this goes down, everything was cool. Everything was well run. Props to the production company for handling that so quickly, too.

That was real professional. The guy comes on mic, and he said exactly what you're supposed to say. He's like, head to the exits, orderly fashion, nobody run. Quickly but calmly. He said like six words.

He said, everybody quickly but calmly move away from the stage and to the exits. The words that he said were exactly as you should have said them. No offense to him. Dude sounded like he was scared out of his mind. Like there was something in his voice.

That was just probably because they were like, Fred, you are so good with words. And they handed him the mic. Yeah. Because he just, and maybe that's what he was petrified was, was he just realized I'm on top of the mic in front of, you know, thousands of people now. Well, he was a winner.

So he got everybody out. But I was like, that's what I think worried me more than anything at the time was I was like, you can hear this like quiver in his voice. And I was like, we might all die right now. What was funny was when after we'd separated as I was walking my direction, right after that, this person looked over and they went, you know, there's worse ways to die than this. Right.

There was definitely a feeling in there. Everybody had a good time today. Yeah. Because they were ready to die. Yeah.

If it was coming, they were prepared. But I don't know if you've ever been in like a sort of a mob mentality crowd, like hair trigger situation like that. But you can feel when you're like, okay, let's just ride this out. Like here's hoping that. Somebody doesn't freak out, and it just spreads.

I've seen shit go down. I've seen fences just get torn down. Shit just gets torn down by crowds when they want to. There were all these people walking orderly, and then there were those group of three people that ran past us. And I was like, that's how that shit's going to start.

You don't start doing that without a reason. That was kind of punk rock, though. I mean, again, I wasn't worried about it. It was fine. We survived.

But I was just like, I saw it happen. I went. Now, if that chain reaction kicks in, we're all in a lot of trouble. Luckily, that didn't happen. Nobody got hurt, I feel, because we would have heard about that.

On the news. It was all really smooth, surprisingly. Sam Smith sold me, man. He was really impressive, as I expected him to be. On that, we can go with our Sam Smith tie-in.

Yeah, there you go. Now, it's not his voice, but looking into it, I. Was thinking it's got to have to be something pretty recent because he just came out in the last two years. On the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack, the song Flashlight is co-written by Sam Smith. Nice.

When tomorrow comes, I'll be on my own. Feeling frightened of the things that I don't know. When tomorrow comes, tomorrow comes, tomorrow comes. And though the. Road is long, I look up to the sky.

And in the dark I found, I stop that I won't fly. And I sing along, I sing along, then I sing along. I need when I got you and I I look around me and. See the sweet life I'm stuck. In the dark but you're my.

Flashlight You're getting me, getting me. Through the night You're the gift of my heart when you shine it in my eyes. I can't lie, it's a sweet. Life I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight. You're getting me, getting me through the night.

Cause you're my flashlight In my flashlight In my flashlight I see the shadows long beneath the mountain top I'm not afraid when the rain won't stop Cause you light the way You light the way You light the. Way I got all I need when I got you and I I look around me Sweet love I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight You're getting me, getting me through the night It's. All my heartbeat. Light, light, you're. My flashlight, light, light, light, light.

You're my flashlight, you're my flashlight, oh. I got a money when I got to the night. I got a money. When I got to the night. Thank God.

Thank God. . . You're my flashlight. For now, why don't you go ahead and get yourself a flashlight and a can of pesticide. Okay, so I think we left them hanging. As we went to the song there, the storm was coming in.

We were about to get killed. We better at least finish it out so they know. We didn't actually die. Oh, no, yeah, we're alive. This isn't a ghost podcast.

Honestly, that was the cleanest, calmest evacuation of us. youth-infested music festival that I've honestly ever seen. Surprisingly well evacuated. It wasn't even a tornado or anything cool. It was severe weather. I looked up the official status.

Severe weather. And then I was like, it was funny because they said there was a really sad picture of Sam Smith on his Instagram. And he was like, his post was, this just kills me because you guys were so loud and incredible. So even as he got. Shut down, he was kind of a class act.

Yeah, I was wondering if how he would... I mean, you know, you got to save face for PR and stuff. But I was curious as to how it seemed like he would take the whole tap on the shoulder and duck into the bus situation. Yeah, he seemed like he was having a good time and was upset that it got shut down a little early. But what are you going to do?

He is British. And I don't know if you've noticed, but the Brits are actually. talking to a few Brits myself, they, they will quote that they're polite, polite, but not nice. We are polite, but not nice. Yeah. There's a hard edge to a lot of what goes on in Britain.

Yeah. I think, you know, I'm sure there's a few. Here's to hoping that he was nice. I'm sure there's a few British listeners out there right now. And I'm sure you will attest that, yeah, people can be quite rude in your, uh, your homeland.

Polite, but not nice. But also polite and, When need be. But I'm sure you guys know the real story. I just heard an NPR piece on something about Britain where it was common to be able to keep your job in Britain. Yeah, Britain.

On the fact that your boss was afraid to hurt your feelings by firing you. It was some survey they did, and one of the biggest challenges of the workforce, especially for bosses, was the trouble of being impolite. And firing somebody so I just think that's funny because. That's not we do not have that in this country yeah not American idea it's not how we operate I can attest. Alright well I was going to roll into another band from this weekend and I did Friday night I saw Gaslight Anthem and I'd heard them a little bit beforehand and I was listening to them and I was like man I wonder if they know what a Springsteen vibe they're tapping into I was like they have to kind of know right And then I looked up some more information, and I'm like, oh, they're from Jersey.

Yeah, I'm guessing they know, and it's ingrained. Growing up Springsteen. Yeah, I was like, it's ingrained in your DNA at that point. Either that or Bon Jovi. Something in the water.

I mean, they all kind of have that Jersey sound. That's the question, I guess. If you're going to grow up in Jersey, are you going to grow up Springsteen, or are you going to grow up? Jovi jovi. But yeah if you're if you're not familiar with them yeah definitely check it out because this one i'm about to play is not the most springsteen-esque but listening to some of them even as they played i was like man they and and they're obviously very self-aware because as i was listening they busted into a cover of i'm on fire and i was like it's funny the springsteen cover was the least like it did not sound near as much springsteen like as their own song so definitely they have They have that sound.

So if you're between Springsteen albums and looking for something else, this might scratch the old school Springsteen itch. So go check into the Gaslight Anthem. But this is the song Howl from the 21 and Over soundtrack. Hey, wake it up. Shake it out.

Does anything still move you since you're educated now and all grown up and traveled so well? Do you still hear the. Sound of thunder while you lie. Up by yourself? And there used to be a movement in the way.

Your dress would wear from your hips someday. Go Friday night. See if you wanna, you can find me on the hood under the moonlight. Radio. Radio.

Do you believe there's still some magic left somewhere inside our souls? Like I waited on your call. And made my plans to share my name. And I love the. I found you in hell.

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We've run into not just someone who's been on the show, but if you're listening in order. You were just here last week. Yeah, that was a pretty good time. Talking about the Comic Con, we weren't too happy with the Superman vs. Batman coming at us.

I have questions. Possible issues? No, I think if... Anthony, by the way, is your name. Oh, Anthony Nall here.

That's right. I'm that guy's. You know, I was talking to somebody the other day and Not to go back to Batman vs. Superman. We hit on that already.

But you love it so much. I love to hate on it. It's really easy. It's accessible for some reason. But why couldn't we have just had Ben Affleck by himself as Bruce Wayne in a movie and see how he does handling that role?

Again, I think that probably would have happened had there. Not been all the Marvel stuff. I think. The Nolan Batman had done so well, you knew they weren't going to let it go very long without bringing Batman back. They were either going to hand it over to Robin from, you know, I was waiting to see if they were actually going to spin that off and like maybe not even be directed by Nolan, but let Joseph Gordon-Levitt like take it over, give it to a new director so it'll have a different visual style, different lead and like see if that, in a way, I'd kind of like that because Joseph Gordon-Levitt's awesome.

So like I'd be cool with seeing what he would do in something like that. He definitely isn't quite as iron-chinned as Affleck. He's a little more of a scrapper. But again, it'd be interesting to see what he did with the property. Yeah, picture this.

Nightwing starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. That I can see. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Okay, you might have lost this. No.

Although as much as I've given him over the years, I have also heard a lot of stories that the studio screwed him over. Like, he came in with the Happy Meal deals already in place. They were like, you're making these toys, you're putting these references in, your characters have to do this. As much as he's a hit and miss director. Anyway, there was a lot of stuff that was really out of his hands on that deal.

But I'll still bitch about both of his Batman movies. Yeah, I mean, it's just hard to imagine the guy who directed St. Elmo's Fire taking on the Dark Knight, the winged assailant. That's what we got. Flatliners is awesome.

I don't know what you're talking about. That's true. Flatliners. But no, I think had there not been the stuff going on on the Marvel end of it, had it just been like Nolan's stuff did really well, they decided they weren't going to hand it over to Levitt, so now they're going to go a different direction, you know it would have been five years at the most. Before they turn around and do another Batman because it makes too much money. so it might have been affleck and i think it would have been a solo.

Thing except avengers made a lot of money and got a lot of acclaim you know even just from fan service and a decent amount of critical acclaim so it's like i think they wanted to put it on the fast track and be like nope we got to get this going so we can't just do separate movies you know they already had superman in the work so they were just like we could do another batman or let's. Just cram them all together so I guess you never know. Maybe we'll get a quote-unquote leaked trailer for a Nightwing movie, but only time will tell. I think you should just make it yourself. Maybe I'll just make a fake trailer and quote-unquote leak it.

Anthony is Nightwing. The leaker. Oh, wait, that's a different superhero. Oh, yeah, that's right. All right, so since we're building our soundtrack this weekend amongst all the craziness, as we're sitting here looking out on all the people milling about... buying their tacos and rocking out.

And whatever all they're doing. I've seen a lot of sweating going down over the course of this weekend so far. I'm going to hand it over to you now to make your musical choices. Well, after some thought, I decided to go with the movie Dope that just came out. See, it had wide release, what, about a month ago or so?

Yeah, something like that. Big hit at Sundance, and it has one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a film in a while, and it's All of these great rap songs from the late 80s, early 90s. You got a Tribe Called Quest in there at one point. And the way that it's edited to go alongside Tribe Called Quest songs. See, what was it?

Buggin' Out. That's what it was. They do this split screen showing action happening at two different spots. And it's sensational. If you guys haven't seen Dope, you should all go check it out as soon as you can because you will walk away pleasantly surprised just as I was.

Saw the trailer right before, like the week or so before it went wide and it looks really good. So yeah, I'm definitely interested. It's definitely, it's very aware of itself and the soundtrack is as well. You know, it doesn't try to get too deep into, you know, odd rap from that period that people might not have heard of. It's an accessible soundtrack where you listen to it and you're like, oh, you know, that was in a Tony Hawk game.

Like, that's how I recognize that, but This. Is how we process music now. Yeah. Soundtracks and video games. That was a Nintendo 64 video game.

That's all right. But, yeah, you guys, dope is awesome. Dope is dope. Soundtrack is dope. I knew eventually it was going to come to that.

I was trying not to be like, so you'd say the movie is dope. So I was trying not to lead into that. But I figured eventually it would have to come back around. Yo, microphone check, one, two, what is this? The five-foot assassin with the roughneck business.

I float like gravity, never had a cavity. Got more rhymes than the one that's got family. No need to sweat, I'll send the oats to gain some type of... No shame in my game, cause I always be the same. Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have.

You want it just to fight for, but you still don't know the half. I sport new balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path. Messing around with discs against the size of the. I never have stuff, cause I'm not a half-stepper. Drink a lot of soda, so they call me Dr.

Pepper. Refuse to compete with BS competition. I just try my best to, like, go all out. Somebody even said, yo, shorty, back your bucket up. Zulu Nation, mother's last creation, minds get flooded.

Ejaculation right on the two inch tape the abstract poet in cockato runs the cape not the best not the worst and occasionally i close to get my point of course so bust the force as i go in between the grit and the dirt listen to the missionless and missings i do work um as a crack for monotone chilling up the jazz so get your own smoking r & b cause they try to dupe me of the best of the bad but they can't do that for it's abstract Original. You can't get your own and that's pitiful. I know I'd be the man if I cold yanked the plug. On R & B, but I can't and that's boring. Yo, when you bug out, you usually have a reason for the action.

Sometimes you're doing this just for mere satisfaction. People be hounding, always surrounding, pulsing, just like a migraine pounding. You don't really fret, you stay in your sense, come apart, you're feeling. Of absolute tense. You're soft to another world deep in your mind, for people seem to take that as being unkind.

Oh, yo, he's acting stank. Really on a rebuke? A man of the fame, not a man of the people. Believe that if you wanna, but I tell you this much. Riding on the train with no dough sucks.

Once again, a case of your feet. In my Nikes. If a crowd is in my room, I'll. Say, Mike, please. Hip-hop is living.

Can't yank the plug. If you do, the result will end up kind of low. I am not an invalid, although I used to smoke the weed out. Ali Shaheed Muhammad used to say I had to be out. Steaming on the 50s with the crazy booming back buns.

Pushing on them real hard just a week. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. I just love being the rap king of Arizona. And, of course, being the fan of the Big Lebowski that I am, I got to put my two cents in there.

I got to see what condition my condition is in and say the soundtrack for the Big Lebowski will always have my heart. I mean, even just opening credits there, like Tumbleweed coming through. Them tumbling down pledging their love to the ground lonely but free I'll be. Found drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed cares of. The past are behind no where to go but I'll find just where the trail will wind drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed I know when night has gone that a new world's.

Born at dawn I. Keep rolling along. Deep in my heart is a song Here on the range I belong. Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed. I know the night has.

Gone, that a new. World's born at dawn. I'll keep rolling along. You get the. Chills when you hear that music and it goes along with everything, the mood.

It sets the mood of that movie perfectly. And the Coen brothers have always done a great job of. Yeah. Utilizing their soundtracks to either. They curate a soundtrack.

They really do. It's a character in and of itself. Raising Arizona, another excellent instance of that. That yeah that music for that one like it can't exist. In any other way like it is the Raising Arizona theme you know it's just yeah.

And I know you and I had spoken briefly about it you gotta always throw Goblin in there you know As. Yeah, you mentioned that when I first threw this out here. And I was like, you said it, and I was like, how have we made it this far? And I don't think we've played Goblin at all. Like, I'm a big Goblin fan.

Misty's a big Goblin fan. Like, how we've made it this far into the soundtrack show and not played Goblin is just wrong. So let's fix that right now. Which one do we go with? Oh, my God.

Suspiria's always pretty. That's kind of your, yeah, that was your go-to. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah, always an easy one to go to. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Which?

Which? Which? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Pretty much unique. Like, there's a couple full. Cheese that they're in.

The Beyond. Oh, man, The Beyond is.... Soundtrack there i remember watching that movie back in middle school and it actually giving me an appreciation for sound and film so that i can attribute to goblin like goblin set me up to start listening as well as watching films and they were sort of on. The forefront of that you know it's like at that point you had a lot of old school like you know orchestra pieces. That were your main soundtrack.

And that was it. And like, they were sort of that new wave that came in that were just like, yeah, we're classically trained and we're bad-ass, but we're also going to do things a little. Different and weird. And they were kind of on the cutting edge of like being in with all the horror directors. So it's like, they, they did kind of bring something new and different to soundtracks at that point.

And they've continued to do that. And I think they kind of pay, pay homage to, you know, the twilight zone, um, The Twilight Zone music, just that recognizable sound where you hear Goblin and immediately I associate it with Fulci, Argento, just those awesome bright red horror Italian films from late 70s, early 80s on through till today. It's bright red because that makes the blood really show through. Even though it's just a can of paint anyway, usually depending on how far back you go. I'd say the brighter the better for those.

Definitely. All right. Anything else to pass along? Words of wisdom from this weekend? You know, if you guys are out of forecastle, thanks for making it out here.

You know, it's a great thing for Louisville. Stay hydrated. And thanks for having me on again, Brian. I look forward to coming back. These are the words of the day.

Stay hydrated. Stay hydrated. In hard times, you best throw away your knickers. And your dimes. Throw them all around you.

This is Zach and Shane from Howlmouth, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown. Movie Meltdown. Shane's got a really good movie announcer voice. Welcome to Movie Meltdown, in a world of total darkness. Yeah, there was some guy, there was some guy who was like playing, who was playing with the levels.

I could tell whoever was engineering the sound was just utterly incompetent because... Like the guitar would just like swing up, suddenly get really loud. The vocals would swing forward. It was like the most schizophrenic sound design I've ever heard. That's what we're looking for.

Yeah. Because ultimately what. We want to do is keep the music fans on their toes, never knowing when they're going to be deafened and when they're going to be straining to hear. That's true. Got to keep them on top of things.

So are we recording right now? I believe we are. Are we? Can you check the little dial there? It looks functional.

Everything looks functional. So we. So, okay, so that means that, okay. Sorry, I just have to every now and again remind myself to be circumspect when I'm recording for posterity. Is it really any different than the rest of your ramblings?

I don't really think so, because I've noticed that when I'm actually careful about what I say, I tend to fuck up more often. Um, in fact, like, you should see me at, like, a black tie event. Oh, God. Walking around trying to be nice to people. I can only imagine.

I was like, wow, hey, you've got an old person face. I mean, nice to meet you. I mean that in the nicest possible insulting way. I mean, you look really experienced. I mean, geez.

No, never mind. Never mind. I'm going to go over here and drink more. Speaking of insulting, hey, guess who we ran into? Who did we run into?

It's Sterling. Oh, hi, it's me, Sterling. It's good to meet you. You're back on the show. I am back on the show.

It's been too long, I say. I say so as well. Yeah, because you know how much I enjoy hosting these shows with you. I mean, of course, I'm not hosting right now. I'm more of like a guest type character.

You're a floating co-host. Floating co-host. I think that's how I refer to everyone else on the show at this point. Well, I was going to say, because I mean, like, I have yet to meet a friend of yours that isn't a co-host on your show. Well, it kind of comes with the territory at this point.

If you know me, eventually you're going to end up. On the show. Honestly, I really think that you're just trying to be like, I think that you're trying to give us something since you don't pay us to be on this show. So calling us co-host is like. I'm waiting until my checks start rolling in, and then.

I'll divvy it up a little bit. Yeah, because you know I ain't going in the hole with you on this. I'm already in the hole with too many of my own projects. Tell me about it. I love being an artist.

So as long as, yeah, we start getting those huge endorsements... I will bring in some full-time co-hosts. Awesome. All right, so we got about 10 minutes, I think, before I have to run off and go listen to Portugal the Man. All right.

How has your weekend been? My weekend's been pretty okay. I've been volunteering with the Alley Theater, which is the theater that I typically work for as production manager. At the Bourbon Slushy Tent, where we have been serving these mysterious concoctions made out of bourbon and Red Bull. Because, you know, bourbon, by the way, does not freeze.

As I've been told by a guy... Magical drink that it is. Yeah, yeah. As I've been told by a guy who has a can of nitrogen in his backseat for the purpose of bourbon freezing... Bourbon does not freeze, so it's the Red Bull that's actually making the slushy happen.

It's tropical Red Bull. Apparently, they're trying to find a market for, you know, those yellow cans of Red Bull that they sell? Apparently, people drink the blue for some reason. They drink the red for some reason. They drink the silver for some reason, as though Red Bull in any other color is any better for you.

But the gold, they stay the hell away from. I don't know what it is. Because we're not pitching it. I mean, I'm trying to get a hold of them now and be like, Red Bull has tons of money to throw at something. Why not our show?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This could be sponsored by Red Bull. Red Bull, get a hold of us. In fact, it could potentially be sponsored by pretty much anybody who sponsors a soccer game. So, you know, if you want us to, like, host the podcast while wearing, like, those NASCAR outfits with all the different, like, I mean, no one will see them.

If they're cool looking patches, you know, I'm on board with that. Yeah, yeah, no. But yeah, so we could be like a bunch of NASCAR drivers, except we're doing a podcast. That's what I think it will be at some point. Obviously.

I was discussing yesterday what the road to podcasting is looking like the further we get down it. So I think it's. I think it's going to change as time rolls on. I think in the next five years it will be a whole different scene media-wise. Well, you know, I mean, most people talk about the fact that things start out genuine and then they devolve into crass commercialization.

We, on the other hand, I feel, strive to achieve a level of crass commercialization. And people are fighting us every step of the way. Yeah, exactly. I mean, no matter how hard we try, crass commercialization eludes us. We remain cutely.

You know, sort of plebeian peasants, no matter how hard we try. So I guess we'll never lose our local flavor. Our cast is cute, though. We've got that going. Yeah, we are.

Speaking of which, Marlena, I hear, is in Europe right now. Oh, Europe live in fear. Yeah. Because Marlena is on the loose. Yeah.

And Marlena is, she's a catastrophe waiting to happen on like a normal day. But now that she's been unleashed upon Europe. I mean, we're waiting to hear the destruction reports out of Switzerland any day now. Yeah. Or wherever the hell she is.

I think Romania. Of course she's in Romania. She just posted pictures outside of Vlad's castle, I believe. Oh, nice. And I was going to correct her because I think she was referring to what she was in as a guillotine, but I'm pretty sure it was just stocks.

Unless there was something else to widen out and there was actually a blade involved. I think she was just in stocks. I'm going to call her out for that when she gets back. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Hicks are nitpicky.

Yeah. Well, and also, no one looks forward more to returning from a voyage to Europe and then having all their friends correct them on everything they said on Facebook. Well, I mean, the rest of us didn't get to go, so that's all we have. Well, exactly. I was going to say, we have to bring it back down to our level.

Speaking of our inability to reach crass commercialization, which is why we're bashing all the crassly commercial movie blogs out there. Yeah, I don't even bother doing that. Yeah, right. I stick with what I do, which is yammer on about movies and music. Yeah.

So what else you got? How has your weekend been? Good stuff. We were just, as I ran into you here, I was discussing, I just left Diarrhea Planet. Oh, yeah.

Not the medical tint. It's not an actual medical condition. For those of you who aren't familiar, which I would say at this point. A lot of people are. No.

I've been hearing about them for like a year now. No, it's true. I mean, it seems to me every time I turn around, diarrhea is given to people by some other kind of food. It used to be, I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, that no one ever got diarrhea unless you were a small child and you ate too many cookies. As a small child, you would talk about it all the time because you were amused by the name.

And again, I think that's what led to the naming of this band. Yeah, but now it seems that everyone has a different kind of food allergy. We can't get away from this world of food allergies. Yeah, I was there with you at Diarrhea Planet, Food Allergy Planet. And I got to say, I kind of liked them.

I don't know if I'm getting older or if music is getting worse or some combinations. I mean, I know that's the typical old band complaint, right? We do a lot of that old person complaining on this show. But to be fair, I think that maybe they were scraping the bottom of the barrel with the lineup this year a little bit. Because I look around, and this is no offense to the bands here, because a lot of them... have, from what I understand, been pretty alright to see.

It's just, I've been looking. Around and I haven't seen any bands that I really care much for. No bands that I really know about or are excited about, except I saw Diarrhea Planet and I was like, oh shit, a band called Diarrhea Planet. I have to go see that. My inner 12-year-old rejoiced.

That's right. And so I headed out and I gotta say, I thought they were okay. I thought they would have been better in a bar. See, that's what I was, as I sat there, like, again, I had this goofy grin on my face watching them. I'm like, you don't always get that with a band.

Like, usually there's a lot of like, you know, well, depending on the type of band, pretentious head nodding. Yeah. Or like, you know, out of control dancing or something. But this was somewhere in the middle where I was like. Man, this is fun.

And I think what was so fun for the audience was these guys were on stage having fun. They kind of seemed like, not that they didn't care about the music, but they didn't care about the bullshit that comes with the music, and they were just up there to play. Well, to be fair, I think... Four guys with a guitar, so who the fuck cares? Well, something to say about them might be that they were a true garage grunge type band.

Yeah, definitely. And remember, one of the things that led to... We characterize grunge back in the day, these days, as being this overwhelmingly, obnoxiously bleak, you know, form of music. But the truth is when grunge first hit up, one of the things, uh, one of the things that really made people excited about it was that for once people were just dressing like normal people and they were, and they were, they didn't give a shit. Yeah.

They weren't, they weren't like, In some hyper-pretentious electro band. They weren't wearing lots of eye makeup. They were just showing up. They didn't come out in costumes, and they all have their own character that they have to fall into when on stage. Exactly.

It was just them playing music about ordinary stuff again. And again, that's not something that was totally absent from the 80s, but it's something that was always kind of pushed to the background in the 80s. Violent Femmes were big in the 80s, but they were kind of a surprise hit, you know? Yeah. So there was a lot of, and there was a lot of other music along those lines.

Like, you know, so they weren't a skinny tie band. They weren't anything like that. These guys had no persona other than their beard doused bar band from Nashville that they totally brought on stage. I didn't love everything they did, but it didn't really matter because they were clearly having a good time, and I appreciate seeing that in a band. I kind of enjoyed pretty much everything I heard, but I have to say that's what I was thinking as I was staying.

I was like, this works so alive. Yeah. I haven't really heard much of them recorded. I wonder what it sounds like coming out of an engineering booth. They work so well as a live band.

Oh, no, absolutely. This is the kind of band who you skip their release albums and you go straight to their concert albums. Go right now and check their website and find out if they're coming to your town because you need to see them in person. Yeah, and preferably in a small Smokey Bar. Well, I don't think we have Smokey Bars anymore because Smokey is illegal in most places.

That's the way of the 80s right there. Yeah, but. But in any event, though, yeah, so go to a small bar show if you can, and if you live in the Nashville area, don't miss. A chance on seeing Diarrhea Planet. Most definitely.

Okay, so I've got about two or three more minutes before I'm going to have to head over there and listen to Portugal the Man, my favorite band that's playing here, which I'm actually already late for. All right, so is there anything you want to play as far as a. We're assembling a soundtrack from movie songs this weekend, so. What is a song that you love from a movie? Song that I love from a movie.

Well, since we were just talking about the 80s, I'm going to mention one of my favorite music movies from the 80s, which is also one of the original films I saw when I was a kid, and I was like, this is a work of genius. and that's Transformers the movie. That's the real Transformers movie. The real Transformers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Michael Bay movies.

This is the thing. This is the problem with the Michael Bay movies is that for me, I already met the real Transformers movie, and that was that work of genius produced featuring the cartoon characters where Optimus Prime actually dies in a scene that to this day brings tears to my eyes. It's one of the most tragic character deaths ever. It traumatized kids for years. To this day, if you meet a kid of that generation and bring it up, they'll be like, shut up, man.

You don't know what it's like to watch your favorite cartoon character lose all of his colors. Or they just won't speak, and they'll just sit there and nod their head. Yeah, well, that movie was filled with cheesy 80s music that was awesome in almost every way. You've got the touch. Classic.

Yeah. Which resurfaces in the 2000 era. Yeah, you've got Instrument of Destruction, which is where you first actually see Autobots and Decepticons fight, and people die. You see Autobots get shot, and they just fall dead on the ground. The afternoon cartoons, you never get that.

There's a whole lot of laser blasts flying past people and everybody meets up at the end and talks about what a great episode it was. You don't get that in the movie. No, no, no. In the movie, people get shot and then robot smoke comes out of their mouths and they fall down dead. Now, of course, this was just a cheap ploy to replace some old characters that no one cared about with some new ones.

And new toys to buy. But nevertheless, it made the movie suddenly feel so much more intense, especially when... Optimus Prime saves the day and promptly dies. So I'm going to mention You've Got the Touch. Classic.

As my 80s movie choice. 80s epic. You've got the touch. You've got the power. Yeah!

Yeah! You've never walked, you've never run, you're a winner. You've got. The moves, you know the street. Break the rules, take the heat, you're nobody's fool.

You're at your best when the door gets shut. You've been put to the test, but it's never enough. You've got the touch. You've got the power. When our hearts break and.

Lose, you'll be right in. The eye of the storm. You got the motion. You know that when things get too tough, you got the touch. You never bend, you never break.

You seem to know just what it takes. You're a fighter. It's in the blood. You got. The touch.

You got the power. When all hell's breaking loose, you'll be right in the eye of the storm. You got. The heart. You got the motion.

You know. That when things get too. Tough, you got the touch. You're at your best when the door gets rough. You've been put to the test, but it's never enough.

You've got the. Touch. You've got the power. Yeah! You've got the touch.

You got the power. Although, honestly, a close second on that one would be the Unicron theme that was composed originally for the. Movie. Every now and again, I go online and I search out another 10-minute version of that because it's such a hauntingly beautiful piece of music filled with such Cthulhu-level horror. a Lovecraftian symphony about a Lovecraftian robot from the most Lovecraftian of giant robot movies. With the possible exception of Pacific Rim.

I think you need to go on that kick and just assemble your Killer Five. We'll bring you back and we'll start with that one. Then you can pick several other songs that sort of fit in that mode. Awesome. I'll be thinking about that when I go see Portugal the Man.

Which, as we roll into that, we'll play their tie-in. Again, trying to find cool tie-ins from films that have come out in the last few years with a lot of these bands. There are kind of a lot of up-and-coming bands that are hitting this year. So, Portugal the Man was featured in 2013's Carrie with the song. Hip Hop Kids.

Wow. Didn't know that. Yeah. Didn't see Carrie. Carrie, not bad.

I mean, it's one of those I don't know how necessary it was. That's always arguable with remakes. But, like, director did an interesting job. She kind of did some original things. We get sometimes a little too close to the original De Palma version.

Right. But still, like, I don't know. It was worth seeing. I wasn't upset that it was made. Well, I'll see it if only to continue to document the career of Chloe Grace Moretz.

Definitely. Who is an incredibly talented young actress. She really is. I thought that about her when I first saw her in Kick-Ass. Much like I thought about a young Ellen Page whom I first saw in Hard Candy.

Oh, yeah. When it came out, if you recall that. There's a lot of really talented young actresses in this last generation. Like, there's so many. Like, I don't feel like there's that many young actors that are near as talented.

No, it's very true, actually, speaking as an actor, as though that gives me any kind of authority to speak on the matter. Yeah, no, aside from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who's already a little bit older. Like, he's in his 30s. Yeah, he's of that past generation. But, like, all the Haley Steinfelds and, like, the girls coming up that are, like, you know, both of the fannings, you know?

Because as good as Dakota was, like, I watch Elle and stuff now, and I'm just like, holy shit. She's just as good. We've even got an Olsen twin who can act now. Oh, she's amazing. So yeah, every actress that kind of comes up and kind of breaks at that 11 to 13 in range, I'm like, oh shit, we've got another 10 years of amazing indie films coming out of her.

Yeah, and it makes me happy in a weird way because of course this might prompt Hollywood to put out more female-centric films focusing on female characters who go through a variety of... possible relationships and conflicts, et cetera, that are not connected to their male co-stars. But it also kind of bums me out because, of course, like any young man, you know, I guess I still qualify as, I do look to the films to give me a, yeah, I do look to the films to give me a sense of catharsis in male roles as well. And it bums me out that I don't have any real actor heroes right now. Again, I mean, it's been so overwhelmingly male-centric for it. Yeah, and don't get me wrong.

Up until this point, I'm glad that we have that many talented young actresses, and I hope that does spring into acting roles and directing for them. I do hope we get this new wave that continues to bring us really good female roles. Absolutely, absolutely. I'll let it be that way. I'm cool with it.

Well, and in the end of the day, I am too. We wind up being part of the generation that didn't produce a lot of great male actors. I can live with that if it meant that we produced twice the number of great female actors. I'm up for that. Okay, I'm going to leave you be here, and we'll hook up again later on tonight and talk some more.

In the near future. We will see you somewhere. All right. We'll let you go see Portugal the Man, so we'll go out with hip-hop kicks. I went out to take a walk with my baby daughter Grabbed a coat from Paris, the one I bought her And we got some bread To feed the swans But they were already gone They were already gone Yeah, yeah, the puns are done Fuck those rockin' boys All the hip hop kids Think we give a shit when We don't, we don't, we don't We don't when We don't, we don't, we don't.

We don't, we don't, we don't. I'm your mother's son, that fucking And I just stand still, watch. The world go colder. And I can't change, I can't change. Yeah, yeah, the puns are tough But those rock'n'rollers All the really hot kids Think we give a shit Well, we don't, we don't, we don't We don't, we don't, we don't.

And I got work to do. But you all play with your head in your hand. I'll just play with my head in my hand. I'm not afraid to die. Don't care if I get older.

Why, why, oh why don't I? I just take it over. I just take it over. All right, so we are back from Portugal the Man. Now Carl is with me.

Hi. They were pretty good, I have to say. Yeah. Sterling was right. They were a solid band and did some cool stuff.

So I was glad to catch a little of their set. As we're rounding things out here, do we want to cover some things we've seen, what we've learned this weekend? Yeah, sure. I mean, the only thing I saw today was the end of Diarrhea Planet, which I guess they were about what I expected. I don't think I knew what to expect, and I was more than pleased.

Yeah, I was looking for some rock And they brought the rock. What I liked about them was I heard, like, they had a real kind of generalized, like, it was kind of aggressive, but it was still pretty accessible. Still really fun. Like, very upbeat for the style, like, for the subject matter of the, you know, the hardcore guitar rock that they're doing. It seems like it could be super heavy and take itself very seriously, but they don't.

Like, they're so relaxed about it. Yeah, it was fairly poppy, yeah. It's really fun. I was just excited. The way I was watching them was I was like, I'm really interested to see how they mature.

You know what I mean? Like looking forward to what is possible with them was what excited me. And I loved their drummer. The one guy without a guitar on stage. Yeah.

About 40. He was really effective. I thought it was not overly complicated. Like I liked that, you know. It was real basic, but he didn't seem to be going too crazy, but it was really what the sound needed.

Definitely. That was my favorite part of it. I was going to hit a few other non-band related things, just more people. I spent equally as much time this weekend people watching, which I'm prone to do. I don't know how to act with the humans, but I like to observe them for science purposes.

I've been writing down the commoners like all. all weekend in my journal. What there were several moments when i'm like people you're just doing it wrong at one point and this was another band i didn't want to touch on i did see hound mouth their set was awesome but at one point our friend of the show shane who was on here last year if you want to go back and listen to him uh shane was just making some sort of random comment and kind of joking the fact that you know there aren't as many lighters out in the world now So he was like, hey, hold up your lighters or cell phones or whatever. Like, he was just being kind of a smartass about it anyway. So then, of course, everybody in the audience has a cell phone, obviously, and people go to hold them up.

There were not just one. There were several people that were holding up their phone, but with the screen facing them. Like. if you were going to hold it up to show him that they had a phone, wouldn't you put the bright screen out? Like, otherwise you're not lighting it up and going, Hey, here's my phone. It's like, he's not doing a cell phone inventory.

He didn't just want to see what model you have. Like pretty sure he was like, light up your phone, idiot. So I was like several people. I was like, even if you are drunk, you're still kind of an idiot. I'm like, just what are you doing?

Put it away. It's probably akin to like when I grab my phone and I'm not thinking at all. I'm just grabbing my phone, and I directly open Facebook. Like, my brain goes straight to, like, what's the purpose of me grabbing this phone right now before I even really think about it, and I open Facebook. So I wonder if people are just turning on their phone and facing it toward them like straight selfie mode.

Getting ready to take a selfie. Yeah. Not awake selfie mode. Yeah. That's pretty sad.

There are also, we've got these little walkways in between these sections here that run over a nice fancy waterway. So you've got these little bridges. Nice. They're pretty tight when you have this many people in there. You've got to kind of.

Follow the system. There's people going one way, people going the other. It's relatively organized. I'm going across, and there's three kids pushing their way through the wrong direction. I'm like, stop the drop-off, moron.

Somewhere my dad got that reference. But, yeah, I'm like, you know, this is just basic common sense. You're in the wrong lane, dudes. I'm like, what the hell are you doing? I, uh.

Whenever I notice people doing that, I make sure to check their age in my own head just because I remember being kind of an anti-systematic punk. Eh, it's not punk rock. You're just a moron. Right. I'm like, come on, kids.

Before somebody throws you off the bridge. Sometimes I stop and try to look them in the eye and be like, are they conscious of what they're doing? They didn't seem like they were doing it to be rebels. They looked like they just did not know what the hell was going on. That's, yeah.

Which happens a lot. Welcome to American youth. Really? Currently. The other thing I noticed a lot this time around, the sparkly little fake tattoo things, the as seen on TV version.

And I know it's as seen on TV because I watched Graveyard Girl do a video of it on YouTube. Sparkly tattoos. It's basically like if you had a cheesy armband or tribal or something. But these are like silver and gold. And it's like an overpriced sticker that you stick on your arm.

And it's supposed to last for a week or some nonsense, which I'm sure. Actually, some of them were already falling off before. The weekend was over. It's like henna for tweens. Yeah, I guess.

It's like a bad, as seen on TV, sales pitch version of getting yourself a henna tattoo. Henna for tweens. Yeah, I was just like, hadn't noticed those. I've seen them before, but I haven't noticed them here as much in the past year. So that was like, for some reason, I saw a lot of them this weekend.

So that was interesting. Yeah, I noticed those too. I didn't realize they were expensive stickers. It's an as-seen-on-TV kind of thing, which now is available in stores in the as-seen-on-TV section. Right.

It's sad, the world that we live in. Also, a lot of body glitter. And I have to say.... On both of them, the fancy shiny stickers and the body glitter, almost equally as much guys and girls, which I thought was interesting. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think a few years back, you probably wouldn't have seen near as many guys glittering themselves up. But, you know, good for them for doing whatever the hell they want to do. Well, yeah, it's a music fest. But even then, I feel like. If you're feeling there's live music, then do whatever you want.

I wouldn't have seen that years ago. I think we're moving into new territory where people kind of don't care anymore, and that's awesome. I'm okay with that. But, yeah, just any of the other bands and whatnot. Houndmouth was awesome.

So, definitely. We've had half of the band on last year. I'm working to bring them back because, yeah, they are very cool. So, definitely go find more. Houndmouth.

So, they're locals. Yeah. They're semi-Louisville, technically. I think they're all New Albany, pretty much, is what they said last year. Okay.

We'll call that local. I don't know if Louisville will call that local. As we discussed last year, I was like, well, we're at war with each other. But we kind of team up because we're close enough. It's like that Christmas where the Germans and the Americans stop shooting at each other and.

Just play soccer. Occasionally, yeah, we get together and we play music. But for the most part, we just hurl insults back and forth across the river. We don't talk about it amongst our neighbors. No, no.

But if we like you, we'll bring you into the embrace and be like, no, you're kind of part of our town now. It's cool. Regardless, Houndmouth is awesome. So go check them out. And I did see Over the Rhine today, who are very good.

And another one that I'm talking to them, they're heading back this way towards the end of the year. So I'm trying to convince them into just sitting down for a whole episode. So look forward to that. So anything else to pass along? No, I only saw the one today, but Should we jump into the clothes but to to my morning jacket should we get.

Into that if you want to i've seen them i'm familiar with them yeah what was your take you had not seen them before. It's like uh it's probably like dessa in minneapolis like she's brilliant but we don't care anymore you know um I don't have all of their albums or anything like that. I did notice many people walking toward and away from them. They did, what, like a three-hour set? They did a really long set, I have to say.

I melted my fucking face. I was falling asleep, like, in a good way. I was worn. They were lulling you into a sense of security, and you were ready to nap right there on the ground. But then they would, like, they would just, like, blow me.

Like, granted, I was pretty smoked out, but they were just, like, they were like waves in. The ocean at night. They just kept, you know... smashing me back in a lovely way. Yeah, there were several times I was like, okay, and they're done. Oh, no, wait, they're back.

Oh, and a whole other song. Oh, and another 15-minute song. Like at the end when you were like, oh, they just don't want to stop. They just don't want to... We were like wandering around.

By then it was kind of like they were dragging out some... It was like jazz or something. They were just dragging out the drum or something like that. I mean, by then we were walking out, so that was cool. But honestly, it didn't really get too exhaustive.

Before that, it was like they would go. Make you feel really cozy and then they come out with the next track would just be like slamming yeah yeah. That's that's the thing like i i've i've been exposed to them so much now i'm kind of numb to it they play them a lot here so it's different if you're from their town. Well i remember when i moved here and i was like you know i was asking around i was like so what's going on with music here and they were like some you know right away someone's like well my morning jacket's from here and i was like oh i i didn't know that i love them but So then, right away, I. Drew the little box in my head.

I can make you a list. And I was like, okay, so if I'm going to see my morning jacket, the way to see them is in Louisville. Yeah. And then, you know, I wasn't even thinking about at Four Castle on headlining night, closing night, to their own hometown for free. That's a pretty big, big check mark.

I was talking to Anthony earlier today, and I was like, the thing I will definitely give Jim James is, like, for the status that. They are now... He still takes a lot of weird risks. Like, he will be very artistic-minded and just do something really unusual. And sometimes, for me, it doesn't even work.

But, like, I will give him credit for taking the gamble and, like, doing... Again, that's a little more artistic than a lot of bands are. But, like. He's a rocker. What I loved was that it was apparent that he was a rocker.

Like, the songs I know are mostly from Z, and a lot of those songs are real droney and kind of lowing and... And they get a little new wavy and kind of soft hippie. But, man, he was like. He does go through really different waves and sounds and, like, periods of each album kind of changes. And there was a few moments that were kind of punk rock.

Yeah. They were kind of abrasive. And I was like, if I wasn't who I am, I might be. Offended by this. But, yeah.

Yeah, for having a lot of different stuff to work with. Yeah, it was cool. It was a great experience, man. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Well, if nothing else, we want to thank 4Castle for letting us come here and supporting our show and letting us be part of the festival this year. Thanks, 4Castle. Yeah, that was really cool. And, again, not everybody goes out of their way to support our show.

So I do appreciate when somebody comes on board, especially somebody as, like, huge in operation as this has become over the years. Kind of a big deal now. Kind of a big deal. But if nothing else, go to forecastlefest.com, and you can start planning for next year and be part of all this craziness yourself. Honestly, probably the more you plan, the better off your festival is.

Going to be. Definitely. You can start planning your hotel room super early and probably get a way better rate. You can figure out exactly what you want to do. So, yeah, forecastlefest.com.

You want to do another soundtrack? You got another soundtrack song? With that, I was going to go out on one. And I had one only because I think it's maybe the heaviest one or at least one of my favorites. And we hadn't done anything by Cage the Elephant.

And I had to say yesterday I kind of caught bits and pieces as I was wandering around. And this was fun because this was my favorite song of theirs. But I also had. They're local as well, not to interrupt you. They are Bowling Green, I believe.

Bowling Green, that's right. Yeah. They'll call that local. So this one, you know, you're hanging out. You're usually trying to make your way through this place and figure out, well, definitely go get more water.

That's what we've learned. Water. Stay hydrated. Use sunscreen. Water is like 85% of existence or something.

In this scenario, yes. That's not a, I mean, metaphorically speaking and also physically legitimately reality. But also where. You're going to get that meal because you've got to figure out exactly what you want. So I opted for tacos.

So I'm hanging out on a bench out front. Eating My Taco, listening to this song we're about to go out on. So we will go out with, obviously, their biggest song, but also my favorite, Ain't No Rest for the Wicked. Oddly enough, from the Bounty Hunters soundtrack. Oh, well, you take it where you can get it.

Otherwise, I guess that about wraps it up, and I will remind you, Get a Life will provide the soundtrack. I was walking down. The street, went out the corner of my eye, saw a pretty little thing approaching me. She said, I've never seen. A man who looks so all alone.

Could you use a little company? If you pay the right. Price, your evening will be nice, and you can go and send me on my way. I said, you're such a sweet young thing. Why you do this to yourself?

She looked at. Me, and this is what she said. Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked. Money don't grow on trees. I got bills to pay.

I got miles to feed. There ain't nothing in this world for free. I know I can't slow down. I can't hold back, though you know I wish I could. I know there ain't no rest for the wicked until we close.

Our eyes for good. Not even 15 minutes later, I'm still walking on the street when I saw the shadow of a man creep out of sight and then he swept up from behind he put a gun up to my head he made it clear he wasn't looking for a fight he said give me all you got i want your money not your life but you try to make a move i won't think. Twice i told him you can have my. Cash but first you know i gotta ask what made you want to live this kind of life he said there ain't no rest for the wicked Money don't grow on trees. I got bills to pay.

I got mouths to feed. There ain't nothing in this world for free. I know I can't slow down. I can't hold back, though you know I wish I could. I know there ain't.

No rest for the wicked until we close our eyes for good. Well, now a couple hours passed and I was sitting in my house. The day was winding down and coming to an end. And so I turned to the TV and flipped it over to the news. And what I saw, I almost couldn't comprehend.

I saw a preacher man in cuffs. He'd taken money from the church. He stuck his bank account with righteous dollar bills. But even still, I can't say much because I know we're all the same. Oh, yes, we all seek God to satisfy those thrills.

You know there ain't no rest for the wicked. And they're like, I fuck. No, I don't even know. I never even look. I never even look at what direction the mic.

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