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  • Year of the Weasel, Year Two Episode 10: The Curse of Inferno (1998)

    Year of the Weasel, Year Two Episode 10: The Curse of Inferno (1998)

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    Much like the year 2024 itself, we’re taking the Year of the Weasel into 2025 with the mandate “more of the same, but worse”! So in that spirit, here’s Pauly Shore doing some decidedly shaky accent work in a limp Coen Brothers imitation so obscure, we didn’t even know it existed until last November. But wait, don’t leave yet, the score is by legendary session musician Jeff “Skunk” Baxter!

    Video version below:

    00:00:00 Trailer for The Curse of Inferno (John Warren, 1998)

    00:05:04 Not gonna lie, we’d rather be watching this

    00:12:09 Trailer for Raising Arizona (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987)

    00:15:44 I Got the Hook Up starring Master P (Michael Martin, 1998)

    00:15:47 Repos (Sal Martino and Master P, 2006)

    00:17:04 2Eleven (Derek Scott, 2015)

    00:17:15 Sloppy Seconds (Lisa Brown and Anthony Williams, 2023)

    00:23:17 Major League: Back to the Minors (John Warren, 1998)

    00:25:31 “Freak-a-holic” Official Music Video by the Egyptian Lover

    00:35:01 Tuneland, another random media project where Skunk Baxter showed up in the late ’90s

    00:35:53 More on Shelley Duvall here

    00:37:35 Ah, what might have been

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    00:52:41 Email us (heybuuuddy@dystopiandanceparty.com)

    00:53:00 “Reelin’ in the Years” by Steely Dan featuring Skunk Baxter (Live on The Midnight Special, 1973)

  • Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: Memorial Day, 2015-2016

    With every passing week, 2016 feels more and more like a never-ending, real-life Grammy Awards tribute montage. We couldn’t even go the six days between recording and posting the podcast without losing another pop music icon: this time, Marshall Jones of the Ohio Players, word of whose death regrettably reached us only after we had finished editing. Clearly, this is a trying time to be a music fan. And, as I’ve found myself saying more than a few times in the past several months, the sheer volume of notable musicians’ deaths starts to feel overwhelming to a small site like ours. I’m not a full-time obituary writer, so even many worthy artists who passed away have inevitably gone unmemorialized.

    That’s why, in the spirit of the real Memorial Day holiday, we’re taking the time to commemorate those the music world has lost since last May. Unfortunately, this will almost certainly be a recurring feature: the cruel realities of the human lifespan, combined with the generational ebb and flow of American popular music, means that things are only going to get worse in the coming years. And sadly, even this tribute isn’t truly exhaustive–even aside from the aforementioned omission of Marshall Jones, we’re only really talking about musicians of whom we have some miniscule level of knowledge, so plenty of important people are still going unmourned (at least by us).  But we did our best, and we at least tried to do everyone justice. Here’s hoping we get a break, at least for a couple more weeks.

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