WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 20, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:01pm RustyinBaltimore: Greetings fellow moviegoers! Excited for the results of the Jimmys tonight.
	6:01pm zachary: Good evening Jim the Poet! We're headed to the movies!
	6:01pm zachary: ↳ RustyinBaltimore @6:01 Can't wait for the Jimmies!
	6:01pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Jimm if you wrote a book, I'd buy it dude.
	6:02pm Listener Robert: The actor I used to joke about casting in every role was Alan Arkin.
	6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Nothing against Jim the Poet, but I hear he's all thumbs.
	6:02pm zachary: Do you take writing commissions, Jim?
	6:03pm chresti: Hi! It's 99 here!
	6:03pm Folsom: I vote for Larry Storch in every movie.
	6:03pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" That's enough. Lets talk movies.
	6:03pm Listener Robert: What's a vourdalak? I guess I'd have to see the movie, huh?
	6:05pm dale: get your jimmy thicker...
	6:05pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Folsom @6:03 I heard he has a very prestigous acting school!
	6:06pm goes211: “No one finds out and everything is fine.” Love it!!
	6:06pm Howard & the Cats: LA VOURDALAK is definitively one of the best this year! But I thought LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL was awful...
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: Shouda had a bigger piece of paper to write all this stuff down.
	6:08pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I think Brad Pitt was in some pretty awesome sci-fi movies, also Bruce Willis usually picks pretty good scripts. INCLUDING HUDSON HAWK!
	6:08pm Sean T-Rex: Hello All, Mr. Poet!
	6:08pm chresti: Hi since I haven't seen any of the movies up for the Jimmy awards, I'll nominate a movie with the best title
	6:08pm Brian D: Not eligible for a Jimmy, but watched the Banshees of Inisherin the other night. Very dark but beautifully shot and acted.
	6:09pm goes211: Penguin adultery should be a category.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Sigourney Weaver was nominated for best actress for Alien. That was a summer movie.
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: What people aren't talking about is how bad penguins smell.
	6:12pm chresti: My ex used to work on the academy awards show
	6:13pm UWS Joe: Made it to the movies! What are we watching Jim?
	6:13pm RustyinBaltimore: Sam Rockwell in everything, please.
	6:13pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Crispin Glover in every movie he ever made because he has so much riz.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ RustyinBaltimore @6:13 Good choice. He's great.
	6:15pm Count d'Al Dente: Yes to Glover. I haven't seen any of the nominations/nominees, but for youngish current directors, it's Dito Montiel. The movie, Five Corners, had a penguin. I think Turturro's character clubbed it.
	6:15pm Howard & the Cats: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @6:13 AGREED.
	6:16pm common: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:15 agreedx2
	6:16pm The Chief: Did not care for Longlegs (and I was really, really excited for it). Seemed like Perkins had a number of good images in mind and then he worked backwards to try and create a plot. Not that I need a plot but... it didn't cohere. Worked best when it leaned into comedy but it didn't do so until the last act and by that point I was already done.
	6:18pm Folsom: Is Jim going to have a red carpet next week?
	6:18pm The Chief: Have not seen Oddity yet (sadly missed it when it was in theaters). Late Night with the Devil was fun but felt like it was just on the cusp of greatness... reminded me of Ghostwatch.
	6:19pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Is Alien horror or sci-fi?
	6:19pm The Chief: Alien: Romulus was perfectly serviceable (if a bit anonymous)... wish it had an older, grizzled cast like the original instead of doing the Hollywood thing of stuffing it with Gen Z actors
	6:20pm Howard & the Cats: Colman Domingo and Jeffrey Wright seem to only be in good movies...
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @6:19 Alien: Romulus doing well at the box office. Deservedly so. Jimm didn't describe the movie very accurately. Both.
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Chief @6:19 But everyone loved Andy.
	6:21pm Howard & the Cats: ↳ The Chief @6:19 I really hated the "shoutouts" to previous movies, that was distracting and cheapening. But overall, I thought it was fun. It was better than COVENANT. But not as good as PROMETHEUS...
	6:23pm Franco Twinkie: Is that Sheldon!?
	6:24pm Sean T-Rex: Adore (2013) is what I think the caller was talking about.
	6:26pm Danne D: Looking forward to the 1st annual Thumbies
	6:26pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:21 You didn't like the easter eggs? They kinda explained all the previous movies. The ending was a bit much. But still... overall a good edition to the Alien franchise.
	6:26pm The Chief: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:21 The "get away from her" line was the worst part, IMO
	6:28pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Chief @6:26 C'mon! Andy said it. It was funny.
	6:29pm The Chief: Yeah, I just wish Andy had said some corny dad joke there. THAT is where that whole thing was supposed to pay off.
	6:29pm The Chief: But Andy was the best, agreed
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: Watch Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks.
	6:31pm Sean T-Rex: Believe it or not, I love Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Not always the best but yea
	6:31pm swivs: Walken in Dune was weird.
	6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ swivs @6:31 I found it funny tbh LOL
	6:32pm The Chief: Bikeriders was good
	6:32pm Listener Robert: Isn't Kenny G. America's Poet?
	6:35pm swivs: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:32 Haha Chris Walken explaining to Paul Atreides that he hid his dad's ring up his ass for 4 years
	6:35pm Listener Robert: From the POV of the other characters, "Ground Hog Day" was nothing special. Remember, they experience it only once -- or if they do experience it over and over, they don't remember.
	6:36pm Purvis: https://boingboing.net/2024/08/20/documentary-highlights-the-men-that-abraham-lincoln-slept-with.html
	6:36pm Tom from Stirling: Florence Pugh and/or Rebecca Ferguson. Steve Buscemi
	6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ swivs @6:35 Haha! But I still love Chris Walken. He's older movies are great
	6:38pm The Oscar: This maybe says more about me than anything else, but I’d vote Kinds of Kindness for Best Comedy.
	6:39pm Sean T-Rex: Agreed with the caller and Richard Kind. He's good.
	6:40pm Danne D: Jim The Poet is America's Poet.
	6:42pm The Oscar: For the question I’d say Willem Dafoe and Lea Seydoux. Both are always great, both are in like 5 or 6 movies a year, and both are good at picking interesting films.
	6:42pm Pete from Hoboken: One vote for Harry Dean Stanton
	6:43pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Oscar @6:42 Good choices
	6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Pete from Hoboken @6:42 He's a great actor!
	6:45pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ The Oscar @6:42 Willem Dafoe is always fun too. Ever he his story of how to pronounce his name?
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Pete from Hoboken @6:42 First guy to get killed In Alien!
	6:46pm common: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:45 hell yes!
	6:49pm Sean T-Rex: I like the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer
	6:49pm The Chief: Cautiously optimistic about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice because they're using practical effects but Burton's track record over the past 20 years has been abysmal
	6:51pm Ike: The original Beetlejuice holds up for me, but I'm very, VERY concerned about this sequel because two of the three writers are the morons who created Smallville and were the showrunners of that very dumb show. Real dunces. Not to mention Burton has really gone downhill lately.
	6:51pm Sean T-Rex: Rom Com?
	6:52pm Tom from Stirling: Actually, every movie Michael Keaton is in is worthwhile. Knox Goes Away
	6:52pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:52 Yea, Michael Keaton is great. Also, Kurt Russell is another actor I'll follow.
	6:54pm Mia: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
	6:54pm Ike: ↳ Ike @6:51 (Smallville has a lot of defenders but they are largely people who were children at the time, or who have no taste whatsoever. Those two writers also created a very strange, all-over-the-place mess of a show called Into the Badlands, an AMC post-apocalyptic kung-fu show with the most absurd premise imaginable: there are no more guns in future post-apocalyptic America. The guns are all just... gone.)
	6:54pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:52 Yeah, but Kurt Russel always kinda does the same thing.
	6:55pm ultradamno: FWIW my pic for best movie would be Kinds Of Kindness at the moment
	6:56pm The Chief: Kinds of Kindness was great
	6:56pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:54 You think so? His John Carpenter movies he seems to do different things. The others one I can see the argument.
	6:58pm ultradamno: Hunter Schafer was really impressive in Cuckoo...
	6:58pm RustyinBaltimore: Thanks, Jim!
	6:58pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Jim The Poet! Great Show!
	6:58pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Though I don't know how they failed to use the Monks song Cuckoo in the film (it even fits the theme)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies	Kety Lied	Geffen*
Jim the Poet discusses	"My Penguin Friend"			Directed by David Schurmann Written by Paulina Lagudi Ulrich Kristen Lazarian Produced by Shaked Berenson Patrick Ewald Robin Jonas Jonathan Lim Nicolas Veinberg Steven P. Wegner Andreas Wentz Starring Jean Reno Adriana Barraza	0:07:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Alien: Romulus"			Directed by Fede Álvarez Written by Fede Álvarez Rodo Sayagues Based on Characters by Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett Produced by Ridley Scott Michael Pruss Walter Hill Starring Cailee Spaeny David Jonsson Archie Renaux Isabela Merced Spike Fearn Aileen Wu	0:14:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Rob Peace"			Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor Written by Chiwetel Ejiofor Based on The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs Produced by Antoine Fuqua Rebecca Hobbs Jeffrey Soros Simon Horsman Andrea Calderwood Kat Samick Alex Kurtzman Jenny Lumet Starring Jay Will Mary J. Blige Chiwetel Ejiofor Curtis Morlaye Gbenga Akinnagbe Michael Kelly Mare Winningham Camila Cabello	0:46:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Good Bad Things"				0:50:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Mid90s" ""Mid90s"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"			Directed by Jonah Hill Written by Jonah Hill Produced by Scott Rudin Eli Bush Ken Kao Jonah Hill Lila Yacoub Mikey Alfred Starring Sunny Suljic Lucas Hedges Na-Kel Smith Olan Prenatt Gio Galicia Ryder McLaughlin Alexa Demie Katherine Waterston	0:52:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Skincare"			Directed by Austin Peters Written by Sam Freilich Deering Regan Austin Peters Produced by Jonathan Schwartz Logan Lerman Starring Elizabeth Banks Lewis Pullman Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Luis Gerardo Méndez Nathan Fillion	0:54:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Devo	Big Mess "Big Mess" by "Devo"	Oh, No! It's DEVO	Warner Bros.		0:57:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm RustyinBaltimore: Greetings fellow moviegoers! Excited for the results of the Jimmys tonight.
	6:01pm zachary: Good evening Jim the Poet! We're headed to the movies!
	6:01pm zachary: ↳ RustyinBaltimore @6:01 Can't wait for the Jimmies!
	6:01pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Jimm if you wrote a book, I'd buy it dude.
	6:02pm Listener Robert: The actor I used to joke about casting in every role was Alan Arkin.
	6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Nothing against Jim the Poet, but I hear he's all thumbs.
	6:02pm zachary: Do you take writing commissions, Jim?
	6:03pm chresti: Hi! It's 99 here!
	6:03pm Folsom: I vote for Larry Storch in every movie.
	6:03pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan" That's enough. Lets talk movies.
	6:03pm Listener Robert: What's a vourdalak? I guess I'd have to see the movie, huh?
	6:05pm dale: get your jimmy thicker...
	6:05pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Folsom @6:03 I heard he has a very prestigous acting school!
	6:06pm goes211: “No one finds out and everything is fine.” Love it!!
	6:06pm Howard & the Cats: LA VOURDALAK is definitively one of the best this year! But I thought LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL was awful...
	6:07pm Tom from Stirling: Shouda had a bigger piece of paper to write all this stuff down.
	6:08pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I think Brad Pitt was in some pretty awesome sci-fi movies, also Bruce Willis usually picks pretty good scripts. INCLUDING HUDSON HAWK!
	6:08pm Sean T-Rex: Hello All, Mr. Poet!
	6:08pm chresti: Hi since I haven't seen any of the movies up for the Jimmy awards, I'll nominate a movie with the best title
	6:08pm Brian D: Not eligible for a Jimmy, but watched the Banshees of Inisherin the other night. Very dark but beautifully shot and acted.
	6:09pm goes211: Penguin adultery should be a category.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Sigourney Weaver was nominated for best actress for Alien. That was a summer movie.
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: What people aren't talking about is how bad penguins smell.
	6:12pm chresti: My ex used to work on the academy awards show
	6:13pm UWS Joe: Made it to the movies! What are we watching Jim?
	6:13pm RustyinBaltimore: Sam Rockwell in everything, please.
	6:13pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Crispin Glover in every movie he ever made because he has so much riz.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ RustyinBaltimore @6:13 Good choice. He's great.
	6:15pm Count d'Al Dente: Yes to Glover. I haven't seen any of the nominations/nominees, but for youngish current directors, it's Dito Montiel. The movie, Five Corners, had a penguin. I think Turturro's character clubbed it.
	6:15pm Howard & the Cats: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @6:13 AGREED.
	6:16pm common: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:15 agreedx2
	6:16pm The Chief: Did not care for Longlegs (and I was really, really excited for it). Seemed like Perkins had a number of good images in mind and then he worked backwards to try and create a plot. Not that I need a plot but... it didn't cohere. Worked best when it leaned into comedy but it didn't do so until the last act and by that point I was already done.
	6:18pm Folsom: Is Jim going to have a red carpet next week?
	6:18pm The Chief: Have not seen Oddity yet (sadly missed it when it was in theaters). Late Night with the Devil was fun but felt like it was just on the cusp of greatness... reminded me of Ghostwatch.
	6:19pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Is Alien horror or sci-fi?
	6:19pm The Chief: Alien: Romulus was perfectly serviceable (if a bit anonymous)... wish it had an older, grizzled cast like the original instead of doing the Hollywood thing of stuffing it with Gen Z actors
	6:20pm Howard & the Cats: Colman Domingo and Jeffrey Wright seem to only be in good movies...
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @6:19 Alien: Romulus doing well at the box office. Deservedly so. Jimm didn't describe the movie very accurately. Both.
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Chief @6:19 But everyone loved Andy.
	6:21pm Howard & the Cats: ↳ The Chief @6:19 I really hated the "shoutouts" to previous movies, that was distracting and cheapening. But overall, I thought it was fun. It was better than COVENANT. But not as good as PROMETHEUS...
	6:23pm Franco Twinkie: Is that Sheldon!?
	6:24pm Sean T-Rex: Adore (2013) is what I think the caller was talking about.
	6:26pm Danne D: Looking forward to the 1st annual Thumbies
	6:26pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:21 You didn't like the easter eggs? They kinda explained all the previous movies. The ending was a bit much. But still... overall a good edition to the Alien franchise.
	6:26pm The Chief: ↳ Howard & the Cats @6:21 The "get away from her" line was the worst part, IMO
	6:28pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Chief @6:26 C'mon! Andy said it. It was funny.
	6:29pm The Chief: Yeah, I just wish Andy had said some corny dad joke there. THAT is where that whole thing was supposed to pay off.
	6:29pm The Chief: But Andy was the best, agreed
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: Watch Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks.
	6:31pm Sean T-Rex: Believe it or not, I love Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Not always the best but yea
	6:31pm swivs: Walken in Dune was weird.
	6:32pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ swivs @6:31 I found it funny tbh LOL
	6:32pm The Chief: Bikeriders was good
	6:32pm Listener Robert: Isn't Kenny G. America's Poet?
	6:35pm swivs: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:32 Haha Chris Walken explaining to Paul Atreides that he hid his dad's ring up his ass for 4 years
	6:35pm Listener Robert: From the POV of the other characters, "Ground Hog Day" was nothing special. Remember, they experience it only once -- or if they do experience it over and over, they don't remember.
	6:36pm Purvis: https://boingboing.net/2024/08/20/documentary-highlights-the-men-that-abraham-lincoln-slept-with.html
	6:36pm Tom from Stirling: Florence Pugh and/or Rebecca Ferguson. Steve Buscemi
	6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ swivs @6:35 Haha! But I still love Chris Walken. He's older movies are great
	6:38pm The Oscar: This maybe says more about me than anything else, but I’d vote Kinds of Kindness for Best Comedy.
	6:39pm Sean T-Rex: Agreed with the caller and Richard Kind. He's good.
	6:40pm Danne D: Jim The Poet is America's Poet.
	6:42pm The Oscar: For the question I’d say Willem Dafoe and Lea Seydoux. Both are always great, both are in like 5 or 6 movies a year, and both are good at picking interesting films.
	6:42pm Pete from Hoboken: One vote for Harry Dean Stanton
	6:43pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ The Oscar @6:42 Good choices
	6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Pete from Hoboken @6:42 He's a great actor!
	6:45pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ The Oscar @6:42 Willem Dafoe is always fun too. Ever he his story of how to pronounce his name?
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Pete from Hoboken @6:42 First guy to get killed In Alien!
	6:46pm common: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:45 hell yes!
	6:49pm Sean T-Rex: I like the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer
	6:49pm The Chief: Cautiously optimistic about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice because they're using practical effects but Burton's track record over the past 20 years has been abysmal
	6:51pm Ike: The original Beetlejuice holds up for me, but I'm very, VERY concerned about this sequel because two of the three writers are the morons who created Smallville and were the showrunners of that very dumb show. Real dunces. Not to mention Burton has really gone downhill lately.
	6:51pm Sean T-Rex: Rom Com?
	6:52pm Tom from Stirling: Actually, every movie Michael Keaton is in is worthwhile. Knox Goes Away
	6:52pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:52 Yea, Michael Keaton is great. Also, Kurt Russell is another actor I'll follow.
	6:54pm Mia: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
	6:54pm Ike: ↳ Ike @6:51 (Smallville has a lot of defenders but they are largely people who were children at the time, or who have no taste whatsoever. Those two writers also created a very strange, all-over-the-place mess of a show called Into the Badlands, an AMC post-apocalyptic kung-fu show with the most absurd premise imaginable: there are no more guns in future post-apocalyptic America. The guns are all just... gone.)
	6:54pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:52 Yeah, but Kurt Russel always kinda does the same thing.
	6:55pm ultradamno: FWIW my pic for best movie would be Kinds Of Kindness at the moment
	6:56pm The Chief: Kinds of Kindness was great
	6:56pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:54 You think so? His John Carpenter movies he seems to do different things. The others one I can see the argument.
	6:58pm ultradamno: Hunter Schafer was really impressive in Cuckoo...
	6:58pm RustyinBaltimore: Thanks, Jim!
	6:58pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Jim The Poet! Great Show!
	6:58pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Though I don't know how they failed to use the Monks song Cuckoo in the film (it even fits the theme)

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 20, 2024

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