top 25 rejected titles for my radio show
- Office: Submarine
- AT&Love
- Mr. T's Be Somebody
- Alterior Motives
- Section 6
- No Patience
- Professor Zazzo's Mystery Discovery Hour presented by Post Toasties
- The New Woman
- The Guitar's Alive
- Learn to Drive Fool
- Perfect Timing!
- Mystery Hours
- Letter From an Occupant
- Natural's Not in It
- Deep 13
- Live From Deep 13
- City Limits
- Red Medicine
- Familiar to Dozens
- The Gizmonic Institute
- You Set the Scene
- The Story of Ricky
- The Avril Lavigne Fan Club
- Junk Bond Trader
- Idiot Wind
I was thinking of having you all guess where these names came from, but a few sprang from the not-quite-right minds of me and my friends.
1 & 2: references to Kids in the Hall corporations.
3: The video of this same name captivated me the first time I saw it this fall.
4: The name of the only movie my friends and I completed.
5: A playground in my neighborhood from the same movie. According to the sign, the park and its facilites were available for "Section 6 residents and guests only." My bit in that scene was to walk up to the police chief and say "Sir! You're not... Section 6!" Then I got stabbed.
6: From Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'".
9 and 10: Both titles from early solo material by my good friend and ex-bandmate Sean Chandler.
11: The name of the game created and marketed by my old high school physics teacher.
12 & 13: New Pornographers song titles.
14: Gang of Four song title.
15, 16 & 20: From Mystery Science Theater 3000, the best television show ever. Ever.
17: A movie lampooned by MST3K, starring James Earl Jones, Rae Dawn Chong, and Robbie Benson.
18: Fugazi song title.
19. Modification of an Oasis album title.
21: Love song title.
22: Title of the most fantastically gory, and therefore the best, martial-arts movie I've ever seen.
24: Elliott Smith song title.
25: Bob Dylan song title.
7, 8, and 23 were my ideas.
Project A, my favorite Hong Kong Jackie Chan film, finally won out. But it was a tough choice.
Mystery Hours all the way. That would be my radio show,and I'd open it with a Mr. Rogers song and close it with Inch Worm.
In fact, I'm now going to have to make a mix tape called Mystery Hours. If only I had my records with me.
well, let me know how the mixtape goes. sounds like a cool show...
Mystery Hours reminded me of Mystery Dance by Elvis Costello.
Which version of Inch Worm?
You have a radio show? Is there a web-radio version we could download/stream?
Y'know I just saw Project A. Fun movie, although the US DVD sucks (no outtakes!). Your note makes it sounds like your favorite Jackie Chan movie is one of his non-Hong Kong ones. If so, which one?
Actually, yeah, my favorite Jackie Chan movie, hands-down, is Project A. I just mentioned Hong Kong cos I thought some people are only familiar with his U.S. fare.
Among his American output, I'd probably go with Rush Hour 2. I guess.
Yeah, my radio show can be streamed at kanm.tamu.edu on Saturdays from 3-6 PM, Central Standard Time.
I can play whatever I want, so long as it's "non-mainstream". Which is nice.
Cool! I rarely turn my computer on Saturday afternoons, but I will try to catch your show.
As for Chan, I'd have to go with Shanghai Noon. The fights were merely fine (sadly the beginning of him phasing out the action), but they finally found him the perfect comic foil in Owen Wilson.
Owen was a pretty affable co-star. I think when I saw Shanghai Noon in the theaters, I thought Wilson was too subdued, like he was toking between takes or something. Having seen the Wes Anderson trilogy, it makes more sense now; Mr. Wilson seems more natural to me. So yeah, Noon was a good flick.
I assume you're being ironic about "The Avril Lavigne Fan Club"?
ahh... sorta. her music is dumb fun, to be sure. nothing really creative or innovative (or even markedly different from other teen pop, for that matter). but she seems so insistent that she's an individual, not a Canadian cog in the music machine. I can't get over her blind adamance that she's completely unlike Britney et al.