WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 6, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:01pm zachary: We love you, Jim!
	6:01pm zachary: Date night movies...let me think on that.
	6:03pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" Okay. Let's talk about movies already.
	6:04pm queems: hour 4
	6:05pm Kevin-san: Breaking Away
	6:05pm steveo: omg have you taken over the station and secured the perimeter?????
	6:05pm The Oscar: HELL YEAH AL KAPRIELIAN SHOUT OUT!!
	6:06pm The Butterman: You don’t know it was something romantic.
	6:06pm Sunny: I never knew what an absolute creep and abusive a-hole Bill Murray is.
	6:06pm wenzo: It’s not romantic… he’s whispering his 1-800 number to her
	6:07pm Deano de los Muertos: Natural Born Killers or True Romance..
	6:07pm Folsom: I figured Jim would show Human Centipede or the GG Allin documentary.
	6:07pm micah: August Underground Mordum
	6:07pm wenzo: Idk it’s about a married celebrity having an emotional affair with someone 20-30 years younger than them lol… not saying it’s a bad movie…
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Some Warren Miller ski films.
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:07 True Romance. Yes. Gary Oldman is good in True Romance.
	6:08pm zachary: ↳ Sunny @6:06 Familiarity breeds contempt.
	6:08pm The Butterman: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 Those are great! I’m coming over!
	6:09pm wenzo: And she’s also married. And he has small kids.
	6:09pm jeanli: Out of Sight by Steven Soderburgh, with JLo and Clooney BOOM
	6:09pm wenzo: Bob Harris?
	6:10pm jeanli: ↳ wenzo @6:07 "an emotional affair" !!!
	6:10pm Matt_E: He whispers "somebooooddy stooop me!"
	6:10pm The Butterman: He tells her that in 25 years he WILL be interested in what color schemes she wants for their drapes.
	6:11pm John Drake: I'm a creepy man macking on you, and anything nice- or profound-seeming that I've said to you was said in aid of fucking you twice then never seeing you again. Shun me, for the love of G-d, shun me.'
	6:11pm well well Vancouver represent! didn’t expect DOA : Punishment park - conversation is sure to follow. Worked for me I’m still with the same partner some 16 years later…
	6:11pm queems: i actually watched human centipede on a second date
	6:12pm wenzo: I mean. I prefer to think they’re just buddies. If he whispers something romantic at the end he’s kind of a creep imo. The
	6:12pm dale: date movie has to be something light and breezy. unless you're already screwing. then go really dark.
	6:13pm sinkhole near my home: What movie?
	6:13pm wenzo: Not kind of. A creep.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Nicholson plays the piano in Five Easy Pieces. On the back of a truck.
	6:14pm chresti: Bill Murray used reserve all the upper courts so he’d have them all for himself
	6:15pm wenzo: Nobody’s mad at you lol
	6:16pm wenzo: I’m not even talking about Bill Murray I’m talking about the character Bob Harris or whatever his name is.
	6:17pm frenchee: did you just call somebody a "goober?"
	6:17pm dale: phillip seymore hoffman was in twister?
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: Bill Paxton was the star in that shite movie Twister.
	6:18pm wenzo: Would Groundhog Day be a good date night movie? Meatballs? Nothing matters!
	6:18pm ??: in the movies, you almost never see a really good looking young man (the Scarlett Johansson) getting with an older, kind of not attractive woman (the Bill Murray)
	6:18pm wenzo: Giovani Ribisi? Is that the actor’s name?
	6:19pm ??: Bill Murray whispers, "please love me, I'm desperate and horny"
	6:22pm Deano de los Muertos: Harnett is only in the very beginning and end of Sin City, but they’re cool scenes, he does a spot on job.
	6:24pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ wenzo @6:18 Scarlett is crying because Bill's breath is so bad.
	6:24pm wenzo: I don’t remember her crying…
	6:25pm wenzo: In that scene anyway. She definitely cries earlier in the movie.
	6:26pm wenzo: I don’t think it’s clear she’s moping.
	6:27pm wenzo: She looks like she’s on her way to try out a great Ramen place she heard about
	6:27pm Tom from Stirling: Any Florence Pugh movies coming out this year? She's my favorite.
	6:27pm Sunny: Lost in Translation is a creepy movie about a creepy dude
	6:28pm frenchee: ↳ ?? @6:19 speaking of Bill Murray, BROKEN FLOWERS is a reasonably good date movie. Jim Jarmusch's last good movie maybe.
	6:28pm goes211: I don’t think they walk off together. I think one watches the other melt into a crowded street.
	6:28pm zachary: ↳ wenzo @6:24 Here's the scene from Lost in Translation: www.youtube.com...
	6:28pm wenzo: They never hook up! You don’t remember this movie at all! 😂
	6:28pm wenzo: He hooks up with the cheesy lounge singer
	6:30pm dale: andy warhol's frankenstein is a good one for this lad to see.
	6:31pm Bill: He whispers, "me too"
	6:31pm wenzo: Is Aguirre Wrath Of God a good date movie?
	6:31pm Tom from Stirling: Is this kid related to someone on the station?
	6:31pm dale: he'd say 'go see abbot and costello meet frankenstein.'
	6:33pm zachary: ↳ Sunny @6:27 I haven't seen it in a long time. What did you find creepy about it and Bill Murray's character?
	6:33pm wenzo: Yea Young Frankenstein would be good
	6:34pm dale: ↳ wenzo @6:31 when kinski beheads one of his party and the head finishes it's sentence lying on the ground - COMIC GOLD!
	6:34pm Lauren: The best date movie and/or staying at home movie is Moonstruck.
	6:35pm Bill: Best date movie is Antichrist, duh
	6:36pm dale: guy was a gym teacher. he'll tell america 'take a lap and hit the shower.'
	6:36pm Ike: Walz might've gotten it by making the funniest viral videos with his daughter.
	6:38pm Ike: Funny for a politician, I mean.
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: Alien: Romulus opens next week. That's gonna be good.
	6:42pm dale: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:41 what happened to the predator movie with the indian girl? never found it streaming.
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:42 Oh, it was pretty good. Saw it on Netflix last year. Think it was Netflix.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: ""The Instigators"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" The Town was pretty good. The actress was Rebecca Hall. She's always good.
	6:50pm dale: situation room?
	6:50pm dale: wine cellar?
	6:52pm HyperDose: I had a CSI Miami phase. Love me a good ginger
	6:52pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:50 Yes. The situation room. en.wikipedia.org...
	6:53pm Listener Robert: I'm not familiar with the movie in question, but if I were making it the script would just say, "whispers something in her ear", let the actor ad lib it, and try to shoot it so even the best lip readers couldn't figure it out. Just to get viewers to have discussion like this one.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: My friend Ralph wanted to go on Jan. 6, but his wife, my friend Kathy, advised against it.
	6:57pm HyperDose: You rule, Jim!
	6:58pm Tom from Stirling: Next week will be better.
	6:59pm zachary: Great show, Jim! Thanks Callers! Thanks commenters! Thanks listeners!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 6, 2024

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August 6, 2024: "The Crossing", "Great Absence", "Following the Sound", "Trap", "Coup!", "The Instigators", "War Games"

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: WHAT MOVIES WOULD BE GOOD FOR A DATE NIGHT OR AN EVENING TOGETHER AT HOME? NO XXX RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE.
SUB-QUESTION: WHAT DOES BILL MURRAY WHISPER TO SCARLETT JOHANSON AT THE END OF "LOST IN TRANSLATION"???

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies	Katy Lied	MCA Records		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Jesus & Mary Chain	Just Like Honey	psychocandy	Reprise Records		0:04:31 (Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Coup!" ""Coup!"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	no album	No Label	Directed by Austin Stark Joseph Schuman Written by Austin Stark Joseph Schuman Produced by Brian Levy Harris Gurny Warner Davis Molly Conners Amanda Bowers Jane Sinisi Starring Peter Sarsgaard Billy Magnussen Sarah Gadon Skye P. Marshall Faran Tahir Kristine Nielsen Fisher Stevens	0:08:03 (Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Trap" ""Trap"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	no album	No Label	Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Written by M. Night Shyamalan Produced by Ashwin Rajan Marc Bienstock M. Night Shyamalan Starring Josh Hartnett Ariel Donoghue Saleka Night Shyamalan Hayley Mills Alison Pill	0:16:55 (Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"The Instigators"	no album	No Label	Directed by Doug Liman Written by Chuck Maclean Casey Affleck Produced by Matt Damon Ben Affleck Jeff Robinov John Graham Kevin J. Walsh Starring Matt Damon Casey Affleck Hong Chau Michael Stuhlbarg Paul Walter Hauser Ving Rhames Alfred Molina Toby Jones Jack Harlow Ron Perlman	0:44:26 (Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	War Games "War Games" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	no album	No Label		0:47:52 (Pop-up)
Devo	Puppet Boy "Puppet Boy" by "Devo"	Shout	Warner Bros.		0:57:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm zachary: We love you, Jim!
	6:01pm zachary: Date night movies...let me think on that.
	6:03pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" Okay. Let's talk about movies already.
	6:04pm queems: hour 4
	6:05pm Kevin-san: Breaking Away
	6:05pm steveo: omg have you taken over the station and secured the perimeter?????
	6:05pm The Oscar: HELL YEAH AL KAPRIELIAN SHOUT OUT!!
	6:06pm The Butterman: You don’t know it was something romantic.
	6:06pm Sunny: I never knew what an absolute creep and abusive a-hole Bill Murray is.
	6:06pm wenzo: It’s not romantic… he’s whispering his 1-800 number to her
	6:07pm Deano de los Muertos: Natural Born Killers or True Romance..
	6:07pm Folsom: I figured Jim would show Human Centipede or the GG Allin documentary.
	6:07pm micah: August Underground Mordum
	6:07pm wenzo: Idk it’s about a married celebrity having an emotional affair with someone 20-30 years younger than them lol… not saying it’s a bad movie…
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Some Warren Miller ski films.
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:07 True Romance. Yes. Gary Oldman is good in True Romance.
	6:08pm zachary: ↳ Sunny @6:06 Familiarity breeds contempt.
	6:08pm The Butterman: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 Those are great! I’m coming over!
	6:09pm wenzo: And she’s also married. And he has small kids.
	6:09pm jeanli: Out of Sight by Steven Soderburgh, with JLo and Clooney BOOM
	6:09pm wenzo: Bob Harris?
	6:10pm jeanli: ↳ wenzo @6:07 "an emotional affair" !!!
	6:10pm Matt_E: He whispers "somebooooddy stooop me!"
	6:10pm The Butterman: He tells her that in 25 years he WILL be interested in what color schemes she wants for their drapes.
	6:11pm John Drake: I'm a creepy man macking on you, and anything nice- or profound-seeming that I've said to you was said in aid of fucking you twice then never seeing you again. Shun me, for the love of G-d, shun me.'
	6:11pm well well Vancouver represent! didn’t expect DOA : Punishment park - conversation is sure to follow. Worked for me I’m still with the same partner some 16 years later…
	6:11pm queems: i actually watched human centipede on a second date
	6:12pm wenzo: I mean. I prefer to think they’re just buddies. If he whispers something romantic at the end he’s kind of a creep imo. The
	6:12pm dale: date movie has to be something light and breezy. unless you're already screwing. then go really dark.
	6:13pm sinkhole near my home: What movie?
	6:13pm wenzo: Not kind of. A creep.
	6:13pm Tom from Stirling: Nicholson plays the piano in Five Easy Pieces. On the back of a truck.
	6:14pm chresti: Bill Murray used reserve all the upper courts so he’d have them all for himself
	6:15pm wenzo: Nobody’s mad at you lol
	6:16pm wenzo: I’m not even talking about Bill Murray I’m talking about the character Bob Harris or whatever his name is.
	6:17pm frenchee: did you just call somebody a "goober?"
	6:17pm dale: phillip seymore hoffman was in twister?
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: Bill Paxton was the star in that shite movie Twister.
	6:18pm wenzo: Would Groundhog Day be a good date night movie? Meatballs? Nothing matters!
	6:18pm ??: in the movies, you almost never see a really good looking young man (the Scarlett Johansson) getting with an older, kind of not attractive woman (the Bill Murray)
	6:18pm wenzo: Giovani Ribisi? Is that the actor’s name?
	6:19pm ??: Bill Murray whispers, "please love me, I'm desperate and horny"
	6:22pm Deano de los Muertos: Harnett is only in the very beginning and end of Sin City, but they’re cool scenes, he does a spot on job.
	6:24pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ wenzo @6:18 Scarlett is crying because Bill's breath is so bad.
	6:24pm wenzo: I don’t remember her crying…
	6:25pm wenzo: In that scene anyway. She definitely cries earlier in the movie.
	6:26pm wenzo: I don’t think it’s clear she’s moping.
	6:27pm wenzo: She looks like she’s on her way to try out a great Ramen place she heard about
	6:27pm Tom from Stirling: Any Florence Pugh movies coming out this year? She's my favorite.
	6:27pm Sunny: Lost in Translation is a creepy movie about a creepy dude
	6:28pm frenchee: ↳ ?? @6:19 speaking of Bill Murray, BROKEN FLOWERS is a reasonably good date movie. Jim Jarmusch's last good movie maybe.
	6:28pm goes211: I don’t think they walk off together. I think one watches the other melt into a crowded street.
	6:28pm zachary: ↳ wenzo @6:24 Here's the scene from Lost in Translation: www.youtube.com...
	6:28pm wenzo: They never hook up! You don’t remember this movie at all! 😂
	6:28pm wenzo: He hooks up with the cheesy lounge singer
	6:30pm dale: andy warhol's frankenstein is a good one for this lad to see.
	6:31pm Bill: He whispers, "me too"
	6:31pm wenzo: Is Aguirre Wrath Of God a good date movie?
	6:31pm Tom from Stirling: Is this kid related to someone on the station?
	6:31pm dale: he'd say 'go see abbot and costello meet frankenstein.'
	6:33pm zachary: ↳ Sunny @6:27 I haven't seen it in a long time. What did you find creepy about it and Bill Murray's character?
	6:33pm wenzo: Yea Young Frankenstein would be good
	6:34pm dale: ↳ wenzo @6:31 when kinski beheads one of his party and the head finishes it's sentence lying on the ground - COMIC GOLD!
	6:34pm Lauren: The best date movie and/or staying at home movie is Moonstruck.
	6:35pm Bill: Best date movie is Antichrist, duh
	6:36pm dale: guy was a gym teacher. he'll tell america 'take a lap and hit the shower.'
	6:36pm Ike: Walz might've gotten it by making the funniest viral videos with his daughter.
	6:38pm Ike: Funny for a politician, I mean.
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: Alien: Romulus opens next week. That's gonna be good.
	6:42pm dale: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:41 what happened to the predator movie with the indian girl? never found it streaming.
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:42 Oh, it was pretty good. Saw it on Netflix last year. Think it was Netflix.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: ""The Instigators"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" The Town was pretty good. The actress was Rebecca Hall. She's always good.
	6:50pm dale: situation room?
	6:50pm dale: wine cellar?
	6:52pm HyperDose: I had a CSI Miami phase. Love me a good ginger
	6:52pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:50 Yes. The situation room. en.wikipedia.org...
	6:53pm Listener Robert: I'm not familiar with the movie in question, but if I were making it the script would just say, "whispers something in her ear", let the actor ad lib it, and try to shoot it so even the best lip readers couldn't figure it out. Just to get viewers to have discussion like this one.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: My friend Ralph wanted to go on Jan. 6, but his wife, my friend Kathy, advised against it.
	6:57pm HyperDose: You rule, Jim!
	6:58pm Tom from Stirling: Next week will be better.
	6:59pm zachary: Great show, Jim! Thanks Callers! Thanks commenters! Thanks listeners!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 6, 2024

Listener comments!

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