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It’s a special #jhericurljune installment of the ol’ Book Club as we dig into 2019’s On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day with David Ritz–so, slightly less headbanging than normal, but don’t worry, there’s plenty of the important stuff (i.e., cocaine). We’ll be back in a couple of weeks with Part 2, at which point we’ll also announce our official HBC selection for July. Remember, don’t let us Meat Loaf!
(more…)This month’s official Headbangers Book Club selection is over five years in the making: Callie got her copy of Sebastian Bach‘s 18 and Life on Skid Row (signed by Sea Bass himself!) in late 2016, and we’re finally getting around to reading it. This episode covers the first half of the book, give or take, and so far we’re having a lot of fun with it! If you want to read along, there’s still time to catch up–we’ll be posting Part 2 by the end of the month! And if you want to get started early on next month’s book, we will be tackling Meat Loaf‘s To Hell and Back in April!
(more…)For the inaugural episode of the new and improved Headbangers Book Club, we decided to go big with not one, but two books on Led Zeppelin: four entitled manbabies and borderline sociopaths who just so happened to write (or, in some cases, steal) some of the greatest rock music of all time. Join us as we discuss the Great Dane incident, shitting incidents (plural), and all the other depravities in this 120 Days of Sodom for the hesher set. Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter, Instagram, or drop us an email; and remember to join us for our next book, 18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach! We’ll be reading the first half of the book by Friday, March 11.
(more…)We promised some exciting new stuff on the horizon, and here it is: We’re launching a new podcast! For those who have been listening for a while, the format should be very familiar–it’s an extension of our ever-popular Book Club podcasts, but with some tweaks to the format that we think will make things more interesting. We’ll be cross-posting on the DDP podcast feed for the foreseeable future, but please do give the new Headbangers Book Club a follow:
Also, check us out on Twitter and Instagram! We just launched and we’re lonely. That’s all for now–we’ll be back in just a couple of weeks with the inaugural Headbangers Book Club episode on Stephen Davis‘ Hammer of the Gods and Richard Cole‘s Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored!
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It might have taken us 14 months, but the long nightmare that was 12 Months of Mike is finally behind us–and, thanks to the final film in question (2010’s Shrek Forever After) it’s gone out with a whimper. Come hear why it took us two months to work up the enthusiasm for one last shrekquel… and, join us again in the new year for the long-awaited return of Dystopian Book Club with Stephen Davis’ Hammer of the Gods and Richard Cole’s Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored!
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The end of our year-long immersion in the filmography of Mike Myers is in sight; but hoo boy, is this final stretch a test of endurance. Our penultimate film is 2008’s The Love Guru: the movie that finally put Mike’s career out of its misery after The Cat in the Hat roughed it up and left it for dead. Join us as we discuss the unfathomable depths to which Ben Kingsley sinks in his performance, and repeatedly refer to Romany Malco as “Romany Falco.” But really, who cares? Nothing matters! God is dead, long live Pitka!
00:00:00 The Love Guru Theatrical Trailer
00:07:32 Entertainment Weekly: “Mike Myers: Man of Mystery”
00:12:28 WHO THE FUCK IS GRAHAM GORDY
00:14:41 Here’s the Love Guru/American Idol Cross-Promotional Tie-In, If You Dare
00:32:54 Yep, He Made That Joke in an Earlier Movie
00:38:15 Romany Falco
00:38:25 A Taste of Romany Malco’s Past Life as a Feline Rapper
00:41:52 A More Realistic Portrayal of a Man as Well-Endowed as Jacques “Le Coq” Grande
00:44:03 The First of, We’re Afraid, Several Interminable Hindustani Music Parodies in The Love Guru
00:49:55 The Love Guru‘s Obligatory Late-Career Mike Myers Nightmare Fuel
00:53:57 The Best 20 Seconds in The Love Guru by Default
00:57:27 We Guess We’ll Count This as a Catch Phrase
00:59:27 Seriously, What is Going on with Pitka and Rajneesh?
01:09:34 #StinkMop
01:12:59 (It was Rob Huebel, by the way)
01:19:09 The Last (Thank God) of The Love Guru‘s Interminable Hindustani Music Parodies
01:21:34 “Sexy Sadie” by the Beatles (from The Beatles, 1968)
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It’s an experimental episode this time around, as we try to kill two birds with one stone by watching Shrek the Third at the same time as we record the podcast. The results are… not great, especially since Zach sounds like he’s recording from a really large open bathroom (don’t worry, he’s not). Still, rest assured that the experience of listening to us watch Shrek the Third can’t possibly be worse than the experience of watching Shrek the Third alone! We’ll be back at the end of July with a more traditional (for better or worse) episode on The Love Guru.
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Well, folks, it took us nine months, but our year-long immersion into the filmography of Mike Myers has finally broken us, as evidenced by the uncontrollable fit of laughter Callie breaks into over the thought of Shrek and Fiona driving around in a giant onion. Listen as the last vestiges of our sanity finally slip away–and then come back in the first week of July when we do it all over again with Shrek the Third!
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