Let’s Hear It For The Gorch

Oh lord. Why must I be so broke?

This is the special Best Show premium for listeners pledging a minimum of $60 to WFMU during the show next week:

8 PM – 11 PM

Tom Scharpling’s The Best of the Best of the Best Show Volume One: A laff-packed compendium of The Best Show on WFMU! Tons of super-exclusive never-before-aired hilarity! Highlights include The Gorch’s audio tour diary and Soundtrackappella live at Maxwell’s! It’s The Best CD of the 2003 WFMU Marathon! Full length CD.

I think I may skip out on my movie weekend to have the cash handy for this. I’ve got to do it for The Gorch. If I had a steadier source of income right now, I wouldn’t think twice about this – I’d give WFMU a lot more than $60 if I had the money.

Automatic Bzooty

Well, I’m boring today. What are other bloggy types up to lately?

* Chris has written a post about Morvern Callar, which is a film that I’d really like to see. Unfortunately, the only place currently showing the film in NYC is a tiny theatre which only shows it in the late evening, making it very difficult on my schedule. However, MoMA is screening Citizen Ruth as part of an Alexander Payne retrospective, and I’d like to see Far From Heaven, so I think I may bite the bullet and just go in and see all three on Saturday. Maybe.

* Big Sunny D has written quite a bit about New X-Men #137

* Oh my God! Dan Emerson hates About Schmidt! Wait…maybe not?

* Kevin Keenan writes about the possibility that Jack White is wronging a copyright holder by quoting a section of Citizen Kane for the lyrics of “The Union Forever”. I’m not certain, but I think that Citizen Kane is technically in the public domain now, though most copyright privileges are claimed by the owners of the rights to distribute the film on DVD. It’s a tricky issue. I think that Jack White may be able to make a good argument for fair use, though.

* Nate Patrin defends himself from the scary zealots over at Popjustice. Seriously, those Popjustice kids seem to have absolutely zero grasp on reality. Can’t they just enjoy their pop music without the bizarre persecution complex?

Let’s Hear It For The Boy

Since I’m not very happy with the quality of the Jicks MP3s on offer in the previous post, and because Mike B of the Acid Casualties Jicks site is promising higher quality MP3s of the show next week, I’m not going to bother with the last two songs of the set. I’ll keep the MP3s of the show here til Mike gets his version online.