WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 27, 2024

Listener comments!
	5:52pm Jim the Poet: Jimmys Ballot: www.wfmu.org...
	5:56pm Sean T-Rex: Hey Jim! & All! I'm excited for today! Love what the actual awards look like!
	6:00pm Joey C: I’m ready I’m ready. I’m ready.
	6:01pm common: james! all!
	6:02pm Folsom: Is there any red carpet?
	6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Buttoning up dinner jacket. Straightening bow tie.
	6:03pm alanSixº: i'm just here for the popcorn and milk duds
	6:03pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:02 It's just Bucci in a bucket hat...nothing exciting
	6:04pm zachary: Good evening James the Poet!
	6:04pm HyperDose: ↳ alanSixº @6:03 Trade ya some Junior Mints for a couple Duds!
	6:04pm Folsom: I assume Jim is wearing the tux t-shirt.
	6:04pm UWS Joe: I didn’t get the chance to vote but got all dressed up for the JIMMYS! Let’s go
	6:05pm alanSixº: ↳ HyperDose @6:04 i don't need no junior mints but it u got any reese's pieces
	6:06pm Devin B.: I wouldn't want to rewatch the Newsroom but Studio 60 holds up
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: Knox Goes Away starring Michael Keaton who also directed.
	6:09pm Bob from Middle TN: The movie I’ve seen from 2024 is Maestro so my vote is for that. It was fine.
	6:10pm Sean T-Rex: Is he Verified?
	6:11pm zachary: Hmmmm. Bucci uses an iPad for his samples?
	6:11pm C: My 79 year old dad cried streaming Hillbilly Elegy, I want to put a pillow over his head while he sleeps. AND all of his ol'lady friends made him watch Wicked Little Letters, so 2023. Thankful for Rochester Independent Theatre- The Little and Dryden home to George Eastman.
	6:11pm tom tom the pipers son: torn curtain/newman
	6:12pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Jim! Michael Caine was creepy in "Frenzy", one of Hitch's creepyist.
	6:13pm tom tom the pipers son: frenzy great last line....you're not wearing your tie mr rusk
	6:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ alanSixº @6:03 You have electricity again after last night's lightning strike?
	6:13pm tom tom the pipers son: barry foster...strangler
	6:14pm common: think michael cane got interviewed for frenzy and turned it down
	6:14pm tom tom the pipers son: billie whitelaw in frenzy, beckett's favorite actor
	6:15pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: ""Frenzy"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Is that the one with the tie pin?
	6:15pm dale: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:13 we lost power outside middletown when that storm blew through - a pole couple houses up the road came down
	6:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:15 the potato truck scene
	6:16pm Ochre Ogre: Oh, actor memory trouble for me today. Haven't seen it in years.
	6:16pm zachary: Jean-Pierre Melville.
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:16 sounded familiar.
	6:18pm wild Neil peace: SNL is not funny. madtv. was funny.
	6:21pm zachary: ↳ wild Neil peace @6:18 There's good and bad sketches in every series. I always enjoyed In Living Color when I was young. Haven't seen too much now. Kids in the Hall is great. I enjoyed MadTV, too. Chapelle Show. Monty Python's Flying Circus. Key and Peele.
	6:22pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:21 Agreed. All good ones too!
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: How much is the popcorn at the Film Forum?
	6:23pm Ochre Ogre: Not released this year, but gotta go with, "Don't Look Up"... Meryl Streep. (Michael did appear in this movie either)
	6:26pm Sean T-Rex: KEEP IT OPEN!
	6:27pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:23 *not
	6:27pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:22 I also enjoyed some of Baroness von Sketch Show. Haven't seen all of their shows, though.
	6:28pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I Loved both Kinds of Kindness and I Saw the TV Glow
	6:28pm zachary: COUP!
	6:28pm Sean T-Rex: COUP!
	6:28pm Tom from Stirling: What about Alien: Romulus? No fair!
	6:28pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: Oddity was also great (by the same director as Caveat)
	6:29pm Folsom: Jim should give Micah an award at the end of the show
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: ""Coup!"" by "And the Jimmy Award Goes To" Billy Magnussen is from Queens? Didn't know that
	6:30pm dale: alien must have impregnated a few people he wasn't married to.
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:29 For Best Lead Cult Leader in a radio program?
	6:31pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:30 Yeah, good point.
	6:33pm Sean T-Rex: Jim: "In Slovenia, Serbia, Ethiopia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Poland and Lebanon, it is customary to "kiss three times, on alternate cheeks"." Just a heads up
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: What about Despicable Me 4? No fair!
	6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:35 I'm shocked Garfield isn't being presented
	6:38pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:36 (we're trying to forget that thing)
	6:40pm Ochre Ogre: Oh, I forgot "Poor Things", for the surreal award! And cuz dam, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: Tucks? Oh, tux. Nevermind
	6:43pm Sean T-Rex: Nick Cage triggers me in a good way
	6:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:40 If there is a surreal award?
	6:43pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Winnie the Pooh movie has a Tigger warning.
	6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: ""Blink Twice"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Jim, say it like it is!
	6:46pm Kat: Nick Cage was barely in the movie
	6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sixty years ago today: Mary Poppins debuted. Is there a Jimmy for Dick Van Dyke tonight?
	6:47pm HyperDose: oh yeah baby!
	6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "Nicolas Cage" by "And the Jimmy Award Goes To" HELL YEAH!
	6:48pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:47 Honorable mention maybe?
	6:48pm dale: liked nicholas cage in renfield.
	6:50pm common: humanist vampire...was my fav this summer
	6:51pm Sean T-Rex: lol, Franco.
	6:52pm Sean T-Rex: Burger talk
	6:53pm dale: old town bar used to have the best burger.
	6:54pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I was honestly so disappointed in Longlegs. I thought it was goofy as hell
	6:55pm DjLorraine: !
	6:55pm Mare: Well, it is IN and OUT Burger! First he was in an apartment then he was out an apartment.. it’s in the name … expected lol
	6:55pm UWS Joe: Sing sing for the win!
	6:55pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I loved Nic Cage in Mandy and Pig, though
	6:56pm Tom from Stirling: Not one word of protest for the lack of recognition for Alien: Romulus!?
	6:56pm HyperDose: Thank you Jimothy!
	6:57pm Sean T-Rex: Thx Mr. Poet!
	6:57pm UWS Joe: Thank you Jim! Love the show and enjoyed the summer
	6:57pm Mare: Great fun show!!!
	6:57pm C: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:56 y
	6:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: <thumbing a ride home>
	6:58pm ultradamno: Longlegs was good, Stopmotion and Maxxxine were better
	6:59pm zachary: Thank you, Jim! Great show! Good to hear from Franco! I was worried since I haven't heard him in a while.
	7:00pm ultradamno: (I know Stopmotion is called 2023 on IMDb, but that's because of three film festivals in three different countries)
	7:01pm ultradamno: Going to see Blink Twice soon, looking forward to The Monkey (by Longlegs director Osgood Perkins) too...
	7:03pm ultradamno: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:40 My favorite of the year

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August 27, 2024: THE JIMMY AWARDS! "The Becomers", "Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'", "Blink Twice", "Strange Darling", "Between the Temples",

Question of the Week: What's your favorite movie of the summer (streaming or in theaters?)????

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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	"Frenzy" ""Frenzy"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"			Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Anthony Shaffer Based on Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern Produced by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Jon Finch Alec McCowen Barry Foster Billie Whitelaw Anna Massey Barbara Leigh-Hunt Bernard Cribbins	0:08:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"The Becomers"			Where to see "The Becomers" NOW - 8/29 — Cinema Village (New York, NY) 9/6 - 9/8 — Spectacle (Brooklyn, NY) Live Music from Composer Fritz Myers Preceding Film / Filmmaker Q&As 9/6 + 9/7 9/11 — Roxy Cinema (New York, NY) Live Music from Composer Fritz Myers Preceding Film / Filmmaker Q&A 9/23 — Nitehawk Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY) Live Music from Composer Fritz Myers Preceding Film / Filmmaker Q&A	0:09:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Strange Darling"			Directed by JT Mollner Screenplay by JT Mollner Produced by Bill Block Steve Schneider Roy Lee Giovanni Ribisi Starring Willa Fitzgerald Kyle Gallner Barbara Hershey Ed Begley Jr.	0:23:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	"Coup!"	directed by Austin Stark	Best Adultery Movie		0:27:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Between the Temples"			Directed by Nathan Silver Written by C. Mason Wells Nathan Silver Produced by Tim Headington Theresa Steele Page Nate Kamiya Adam Kersh Taylor Hess Starring Jason Schwartzman Carol Kane Caroline Aaron Robert Smigel Madeline Weinstein Matthew Shear Dolly de Leon	0:30:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	"The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed"	directed by Joanna Arnow	Best Comedy		0:34:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	"Longlegs"	directed by Oz Perkins	Best Horror Movie		0:38:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Frenzy" ""Frenzy"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"			Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Anthony Shaffer Based on Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern Produced by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Jon Finch Alec McCowen Barry Foster Billie Whitelaw Anna Massey Barbara Leigh-Hunt Bernard Cribbins	0:40:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	"Blink Twice"			Directed by Zoë Kravitz Written by Zoë Kravitz E.T. Feigenbaum Produced by Bruce Cohen Tiffany Persons Garret Levitz Zoë Kravitz Channing Tatum Starring Naomi Ackie Channing Tatum Christian Slater Simon Rex Adria Arjona Kyle MacLachlan Haley Joel Osment Geena Davis Alia Shawkat	0:40:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	Nicolas Cage	"Longlegs"	Best Actor		0:47:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	Sara Monpetit	"Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person"	Best Actress		0:50:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	"Sing Sing"	directed by Greg Kwedar	Best Movie		0:55:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Devo	Big Mess "Big Mess" by "Devo"	Oh, No! It's DEVO	Warner Bros.		0:58:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
And the Jimmy Award Goes To	Michele with one L	Best Person Forever and Ever			1:07:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:52pm Jim the Poet: Jimmys Ballot: www.wfmu.org...
	5:56pm Sean T-Rex: Hey Jim! & All! I'm excited for today! Love what the actual awards look like!
	6:00pm Joey C: I’m ready I’m ready. I’m ready.
	6:01pm common: james! all!
	6:02pm Folsom: Is there any red carpet?
	6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Buttoning up dinner jacket. Straightening bow tie.
	6:03pm alanSixº: i'm just here for the popcorn and milk duds
	6:03pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:02 It's just Bucci in a bucket hat...nothing exciting
	6:04pm zachary: Good evening James the Poet!
	6:04pm HyperDose: ↳ alanSixº @6:03 Trade ya some Junior Mints for a couple Duds!
	6:04pm Folsom: I assume Jim is wearing the tux t-shirt.
	6:04pm UWS Joe: I didn’t get the chance to vote but got all dressed up for the JIMMYS! Let’s go
	6:05pm alanSixº: ↳ HyperDose @6:04 i don't need no junior mints but it u got any reese's pieces
	6:06pm Devin B.: I wouldn't want to rewatch the Newsroom but Studio 60 holds up
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: Knox Goes Away starring Michael Keaton who also directed.
	6:09pm Bob from Middle TN: The movie I’ve seen from 2024 is Maestro so my vote is for that. It was fine.
	6:10pm Sean T-Rex: Is he Verified?
	6:11pm zachary: Hmmmm. Bucci uses an iPad for his samples?
	6:11pm C: My 79 year old dad cried streaming Hillbilly Elegy, I want to put a pillow over his head while he sleeps. AND all of his ol'lady friends made him watch Wicked Little Letters, so 2023. Thankful for Rochester Independent Theatre- The Little and Dryden home to George Eastman.
	6:11pm tom tom the pipers son: torn curtain/newman
	6:12pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Jim! Michael Caine was creepy in "Frenzy", one of Hitch's creepyist.
	6:13pm tom tom the pipers son: frenzy great last line....you're not wearing your tie mr rusk
	6:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ alanSixº @6:03 You have electricity again after last night's lightning strike?
	6:13pm tom tom the pipers son: barry foster...strangler
	6:14pm common: think michael cane got interviewed for frenzy and turned it down
	6:14pm tom tom the pipers son: billie whitelaw in frenzy, beckett's favorite actor
	6:15pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: ""Frenzy"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Is that the one with the tie pin?
	6:15pm dale: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:13 we lost power outside middletown when that storm blew through - a pole couple houses up the road came down
	6:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:15 the potato truck scene
	6:16pm Ochre Ogre: Oh, actor memory trouble for me today. Haven't seen it in years.
	6:16pm zachary: Jean-Pierre Melville.
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:16 sounded familiar.
	6:18pm wild Neil peace: SNL is not funny. madtv. was funny.
	6:21pm zachary: ↳ wild Neil peace @6:18 There's good and bad sketches in every series. I always enjoyed In Living Color when I was young. Haven't seen too much now. Kids in the Hall is great. I enjoyed MadTV, too. Chapelle Show. Monty Python's Flying Circus. Key and Peele.
	6:22pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:21 Agreed. All good ones too!
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: How much is the popcorn at the Film Forum?
	6:23pm Ochre Ogre: Not released this year, but gotta go with, "Don't Look Up"... Meryl Streep. (Michael did appear in this movie either)
	6:26pm Sean T-Rex: KEEP IT OPEN!
	6:27pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:23 *not
	6:27pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:22 I also enjoyed some of Baroness von Sketch Show. Haven't seen all of their shows, though.
	6:28pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I Loved both Kinds of Kindness and I Saw the TV Glow
	6:28pm zachary: COUP!
	6:28pm Sean T-Rex: COUP!
	6:28pm Tom from Stirling: What about Alien: Romulus? No fair!
	6:28pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: Oddity was also great (by the same director as Caveat)
	6:29pm Folsom: Jim should give Micah an award at the end of the show
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: ""Coup!"" by "And the Jimmy Award Goes To" Billy Magnussen is from Queens? Didn't know that
	6:30pm dale: alien must have impregnated a few people he wasn't married to.
	6:30pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:29 For Best Lead Cult Leader in a radio program?
	6:31pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ dale @6:30 Yeah, good point.
	6:33pm Sean T-Rex: Jim: "In Slovenia, Serbia, Ethiopia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Poland and Lebanon, it is customary to "kiss three times, on alternate cheeks"." Just a heads up
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: What about Despicable Me 4? No fair!
	6:36pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:35 I'm shocked Garfield isn't being presented
	6:38pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:36 (we're trying to forget that thing)
	6:40pm Ochre Ogre: Oh, I forgot "Poor Things", for the surreal award! And cuz dam, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe
	6:41pm Tom from Stirling: Tucks? Oh, tux. Nevermind
	6:43pm Sean T-Rex: Nick Cage triggers me in a good way
	6:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:40 If there is a surreal award?
	6:43pm Ken From Hyde Park: The Winnie the Pooh movie has a Tigger warning.
	6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: ""Blink Twice"" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Jim, say it like it is!
	6:46pm Kat: Nick Cage was barely in the movie
	6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sixty years ago today: Mary Poppins debuted. Is there a Jimmy for Dick Van Dyke tonight?
	6:47pm HyperDose: oh yeah baby!
	6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "Nicolas Cage" by "And the Jimmy Award Goes To" HELL YEAH!
	6:48pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:47 Honorable mention maybe?
	6:48pm dale: liked nicholas cage in renfield.
	6:50pm common: humanist vampire...was my fav this summer
	6:51pm Sean T-Rex: lol, Franco.
	6:52pm Sean T-Rex: Burger talk
	6:53pm dale: old town bar used to have the best burger.
	6:54pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I was honestly so disappointed in Longlegs. I thought it was goofy as hell
	6:55pm DjLorraine: !
	6:55pm Mare: Well, it is IN and OUT Burger! First he was in an apartment then he was out an apartment.. it’s in the name … expected lol
	6:55pm UWS Joe: Sing sing for the win!
	6:55pm The Robot From Bicentennial Man: I loved Nic Cage in Mandy and Pig, though
	6:56pm Tom from Stirling: Not one word of protest for the lack of recognition for Alien: Romulus!?
	6:56pm HyperDose: Thank you Jimothy!
	6:57pm Sean T-Rex: Thx Mr. Poet!
	6:57pm UWS Joe: Thank you Jim! Love the show and enjoyed the summer
	6:57pm Mare: Great fun show!!!
	6:57pm C: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:56 y
	6:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: <thumbing a ride home>
	6:58pm ultradamno: Longlegs was good, Stopmotion and Maxxxine were better
	6:59pm zachary: Thank you, Jim! Great show! Good to hear from Franco! I was worried since I haven't heard him in a while.
	7:00pm ultradamno: (I know Stopmotion is called 2023 on IMDb, but that's because of three film festivals in three different countries)
	7:01pm ultradamno: Going to see Blink Twice soon, looking forward to The Monkey (by Longlegs director Osgood Perkins) too...
	7:03pm ultradamno: ↳ Ochre Ogre @6:40 My favorite of the year

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 27, 2024

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