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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 2:03:56 AM
Any Steven Wright Fans?
Pretty tough to outdo today's quote of the day humour-wise but if anyone can it's Steve. Dedicated to anyone putting out new records in this period.
"I made a record in the late '70s but it didn't sell. They put it in the cut-out bin. Then I made another one and it sold even worse. I went to a record store and found it in the cut-it-out bin."
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srm
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3/21/2008 2:19:42 AM
Great stuff! My favourite is where he mentions having a light switch that apparently did nothing. He'd occasionally switch it off and on a few times, just to check. After a couple of months, he got a card from some lady in Germany, telling him to knock it off.
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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 3:47:03 AM
Yeah, the guy's got a million. I like the one where he suddenly asks the job interviewer, "Hey, if you were driving in your car at the speed of light and you turned on your headlights...would you see them?" The guy says he doesn't know and Steve tells him he doesn't want to work for him then. Classic.
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srm
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3/21/2008 4:02:20 AM
It's his delivery. I can't help but believe that a guy that sounds THAT 'medicated' actually has all those strange things happening around him. He and Emo Phillips tap that same kind of surreal humour, and do it in similar ways.
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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 4:14:55 AM
Yeah, it wouldn't quite be the same with Chris Rock or somebody saying those lines. Wright always struck me as someone who'd listened to a lot of mid-'60s Dylan. If you read the lyrics to "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" out loud in a monotone...instant Steven Wright!
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srm
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3/21/2008 4:18:38 AM
SWright doing Dylan, eh? It beats the living fecal matter out of 'The Shat' doing "Lucy in the Skies...".
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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 4:31:06 AM
Yeah....that's for sure. "The Transformed Man" is definitely a record that wound up in the cut it out bin! Have you ever seen the Bill Shatner "Se7en" parody on youtube? It's pretty good.
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srm
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3/21/2008 4:44:35 AM
I haven't seen the "Se7en" parody... yet. I HAVE seen the Star Wars version of "Who's on First" though. Yoda has great timing (I guess it comes with being a Jedi master).
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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 5:47:22 AM
I'll have to see the Star Wars one! Sounds good. in the other one Bill finally shows us what's in the (juke)box....won't say more than that. Good rappin' with ya (and congrats on nomination man!), anybody who digs Carl Stalling is a dude in my book :-) Better get some work done...cheers!
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srm
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3/21/2008 6:15:06 AM
Thanks, and congratulations to you, too. I'm afraid I haven't checked out your music yet, but this will be a 'listening' weekend.
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Hop On Pop
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3/21/2008 6:25:49 AM
Sometimes I like to stop, look up at the sky, and smile for a sattelite photograph.
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srm
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3/21/2008 6:38:39 AM
EXACTLY! I like that kind of joke that makes you look at something in a different way.
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Carl Schonbeck
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3/21/2008 9:38:59 AM
One just sent from a NY pal of mine here in Milan:
"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park NEAR the place."
Happy Easter maties!
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