Allergy to the Fans

Ricky Schroeder breakdancing on his show ‘Silver Spoons’. Watch this and think about the fact that this is time you will never get back.

The Calgary Flames shot a music video in 1986. This is the result. The Found Footage Guys asked for a copy when they were in town this past weekend and were rewarded. Someone found a copy at a thrift store in NE Calgary and gave it to them. This video is, well, RED HOT!!

Items to look for include:
- Mike Bullard’s caterpillar. This ’satche is wicked.
- The double-riser keyboards. Prism must be soooo jealous!
- The Brass Horn section. One question - why?
- Brett Hull before he turned into a lazy pylon.
- The duet of Neil Sheehy and Tim Hunter. Goons never sounded so good!
- The nice golf shirts all of your favourite Flames are wearing. Fashions By Bearcat?

Before you get too excited about the copper shortages and the fact that if you could melt down your pennies you would make more money per pound of copper ($4.16 per pound) than a pound of pennies, here is a few points to consider:
- Where are you going to get a smelter?
- Pennies are not pure copper. There is close to 90% zinc and other bits of metals in a penny.
- Pennies and fountains. A match made in heaven really.
- Penny. A nice name indeed.

A story on this penny shortage can be found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/us_nm/usa_pennies_shortage_dc_1

The nutty math on pennies is found here:
http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/trivia.htm#pennybulk

xo
- Scrooge mcDuck

The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is presenting The Found Footage Festival this Saturday January 20th. It is a live comedy event and screening that compiles over an hour’s worth of footage from videotapes that were found at garage sales and thrift stores, and in warehouses and trash bins throughout the USA.

Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher will be attending the Calgary screening and will provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively 90-minute celebration of all things found.

Check out the preview linked here:

http://www.cine-magic.com/fffQ.html

Saturday January 20th, 2007
Engineered Air Theatre (205 - 8 Avenue SE)
Two Screenings (Sorry kids - you have to be 18+ to go):
3:30 P.M – FBI Warning - $11
7:30 P.M. – Bad Tracking - $14

THE FOUND FOOTAGE FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.cine-magic.com/foundfootagefest.html
Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher in Attendance !!!

And tune in on Friday January 19 at 3pm to CJSW 90.9 for a chance to hear from Nick Prueher live on ‘Allergy to the Fans’.

Sorry Gang - Left my playlist at the ol’ CJSW last night… Oh well - time to get caught up on last weeks songs…

Brian Jonestown Massacre - I Fought The Law

Tuff Darts - All for the Love of Rock N’ Roll

Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United

Richard Hell and the Voivods - Blank Generation

The Zippers - You’re So Strange

The Sunhumans - Firing Squad

Nervous Eaters - Loretta

Johnny Cohen and the Shoetrees - Addicted to Chapstick

The Lyres - I Want to Help You Ann

The Beat - Work-A-Day World

Del Fuego - I Always Call Her Back

Los Straightjackets - Surf Rider 

Delta 72 - Go Go Kitty

Trotsky Icepick - The Light Pours Over Me

Man or Astroman? - Drumulator is Boss

Johnny Dowd - Hell or Highwater 

Bare Jr. - Guitar Playin’ Woman

Lounge Brigade - IronMan

The Motors - Dancing the Night Away 

Immaculate Machine - Numero’ de Telephone

Minutemen - Ain’t Talkin’ About Love

Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol

Girl Trouble - Cold Shoulder

The Von Zippers - Kill That Guy

Mr. T Experience - King Dork

The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Track

Dolemite (from the Dolemite soundtrack) Theme

Japanese baseball. I show you this because the stadium looks like the Big O in Montreal - at least from the camera angle showing the pitch. Oh how I miss the Expos…

Best sports announcer? Howard Cosell (No - not Mister Ski)

Best TV show? SCTV

Battle of the PBS Stars is one of my favourites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW34sA5EsKI

Mister Rogers versus Julia Child…in boxing. Watch out for the crooked antics of King Friday - the royal bastard!

Remember those great Canadian Hinterland ‘Who’s Who’ that the CBC used to use to fill in time due to the lack of commercial airtime? no - Check it:

Snowy Owl!

Racoon!

Buffalo! (”Non Bill MacKay. Bison. Bison Bill MacKay”)

And the best for last - Spiders on Drugs!!!!

Only a week into the year, Dallas Star Patrik Stefan has the biggest choke of the year - missing the empty net and watching as the Oilers charge back and tie the game with only two seconds left in the game:

I thought this sort of thing only happens in street hockey…

Van Halen was just inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. Rad-ness!

Check this out - A British interviewer hooks up with the Monsters of Rock tour, asking both AC/DC and Van Halen to find out who is the most supreme in rock. Is there a rivalry between the two bands? A Battle of Giants you might say? Jolly good - Let us find out! Look for the following gems:

- Van Halen’s choices of sunglasses and beverages, as well as Alex Van Halen’s suit.

- AC/DC’s choices of sunglasses and beverages, as well as Brian Johnson’s lid.

- David Lee Roth’s voiceover “modulation”.

- The book titled ‘The Complete Air Guitar Handbook’ - If you see this, pick it up!!! I am looking for this book and will not trade a kidney for it.

Rad-ness dudes!